Tumble Tunes: Top Ten Albums of 2021

Episode Transcript

[0:00:01 – 0:00:01] UNKNOWN: 🎵 🎵
[0:00:21 – 0:00:23] Erik: Anything more than 20 seconds and we’ll get in trouble.
[0:00:23 – 0:00:26] Erik: Welcome to TumbleTunes, a holiday special.
[0:00:28 – 0:00:36] Erik: My name is Eric, joined by my best friend, Adam, next to a very cozy fire.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:37] Erik: Hello, Adam.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:42] Adam: Hello, damn cozy here in Studio K2 with the night view.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:46] Adam: It is the winter solstice, the darkest night ever.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:49] Adam: The darkest, longest night.
[0:00:49 – 0:00:51] Adam: The longest night of the year.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:52] Adam: And it’s damn cozy in here.
[0:00:53 – 0:00:55] Adam: It is pretty cold.
[0:00:55 – 0:00:58] Adam: We got a surprise 12 inches of snow today.
[0:00:58 – 0:00:59] Erik: Yeah, just a surprise foot.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:00] Adam: Two to four inches.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:02] Adam: Good luck with all that.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:03] Adam: It’s the winter solstice.
[0:01:03 – 0:01:04] Adam: It’s a solstice surprise.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:08] Adam: It was really nice, so I went home after work.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:19] Adam: Blowed the snow with the old John Deere and then made my way down here to the heated, fully heated Studio K2.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:20] Adam: Had to abandon the shed.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:20] Adam: It’s quite cold.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:23] Adam: Shed days might be behind us for a little bit.
[0:01:23 – 0:01:27] Adam: I had to go retrieve the mics from the shed and they were very cold.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:28] Adam: I was
[0:01:28 – 0:01:52] Adam: concerned i might damage some of the chords uh so but we made it all in one piece here and uh we’re talking tonight uh we’re talking about our favorite music this is more of a tumble tunes but it’s gonna be on the regular feed i think it’s coming out as a holiday surprise merry christmas happy holidays hanukkahs the kwanzas the new year’s
[0:01:53 – 0:01:54] Erik: Best wishes to you.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:59] Adam: The moon worshippers, even the moon worshippers can get in on this.
[0:01:59 – 0:02:01] Erik: Any rainbow queens out there?
[0:02:01 – 0:02:02] Erik: Kings?
[0:02:02 – 0:02:03] Erik: Queens of the rainbow?
[0:02:04 – 0:02:09] Erik: We also wish you a happy whatever it is you want to be happy about.
[0:02:10 – 0:02:12] Adam: I just love the, I like the solstice.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:14] Adam: I’m an old pagan at heart.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:17] Adam: We’re three years older.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:20] Adam: I guess, but if you’re a sun worshiper, I think you’re also a moon worshiper.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:22] Adam: Just by association.
[0:02:22 – 0:02:23] Adam: You have to be.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:24] Adam: You gotta.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:25] Adam: It’s all the same light.
[0:02:25 – 0:02:25] Adam: Right?
[0:02:26 – 0:02:27] Adam: It’s all the same light, buddy.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:30] Adam: We got our top 10 albums of the year.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:31] Adam: Don’t know.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:33] Adam: I don’t know what Eric’s picked.
[0:02:33 – 0:02:35] Adam: I suspect there will be overlap.
[0:02:36 – 0:02:38] Adam: Got a few honorable mentions in here.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:42] Adam: We got some extra special treats on the table here.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:48] Adam: And we’re going to be just barely getting away with pirating a lot of music here.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:53] Erik: Well, if you talk enough, you’re making it your own thing.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:57] Erik: But yeah, we always talk if it was just a perfect world.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:03] Erik: In a perfect world, basically, that means we can just do whatever we want.
[0:03:03 – 0:03:04] Erik: Exactly.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:05] Erik: But we don’t live in that world.
[0:03:05 – 0:03:15] Erik: But we always do talk about how fun it would be to just have a full-blown podcast where, yeah, we just play music for as long as we want because…
[0:03:17 – 0:03:18] Erik: I think we both love music.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:20] Erik: We love sharing it with people.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:24] Erik: And yes, this is a Boundary Waters based podcast.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:25] Erik: Not tonight.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:32] Adam: Talking with, well, we were talking with Michael out on the, in the Boundary Waters, ice fishing in the fog this week.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:33] Adam: And we’re,
[0:03:34 – 0:03:55] Adam: talking kicking around the idea of getting the triangle table show back together on wtip will that happen i hope so i do too uh so michael’s trying to re-engage into the uh the wtip volunteer system yeah and uh snag us a few shows so we will keep you posted on that if we ever do get a full radio show back
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Adam: I still know how to run the board.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:58] Adam: How hard can it be?
[0:03:59 – 0:04:00] Adam: We’re all boosted.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:02] Adam: Let us in the studio, WTIP.
[0:04:02 – 0:04:02] Adam: Come on.
[0:04:02 – 0:04:04] Adam: We’re all boosted.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:10] Adam: But, yeah, we can’t play the full songs tonight, but we’ve got a lot of good music for you.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:15] Adam: Eric, overall, I believe you feel like this is a strong year for music.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:15] Adam: I do.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:17] Erik: 2021, I don’t know.
[0:04:17 – 0:04:20] Adam: A lot of angst and heartache and pain.
[0:04:20 – 0:04:21] Adam: I mean, a lot of people.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:22] Adam: Some beautiful music this year.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:29] Erik: have been forced to stay inside wherever they might be.
[0:04:30 – 0:04:38] Erik: And I think that that can create… And, you know, I think we’re going to prove that tonight.
[0:04:38 – 0:04:40] Erik: Can prove… Great art.
[0:04:41 – 0:04:42] Erik: And make great art.
[0:04:42 – 0:04:45] Erik: But it also, you know, it can also not be great for people.
[0:04:45 – 0:04:45] Erik: I get that.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Erik: Yeah, no, it’s going to be fun.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:49] Erik: I look forward to it.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:50] Erik: I…
[0:04:51 – 0:05:02] Erik: I think I’m probably borderline obsessed with music and we’ve talked about this mostly on the, if you’re not a $5 a month patron, that’s fine.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:10] Erik: We’re not doing this to drum up any more service and amazing support on the Patreon page.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:17] Erik: But we have had a few episodes specifically on there about music this year and some of the talks that we have.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:22] Erik: on there are kind of about just the…
[0:05:25 – 0:05:25] Erik: I don’t know what it is.
[0:05:25 – 0:05:30] Erik: It’s like the hunt and the addiction for…
[0:05:32 – 0:05:58] Erik: finding something that you’ve never heard before finding something that like speaks to you in the moment uh it’s not one of those things that i don’t know i don’t know if anybody else has had that thought but i thought for a while i was like i’m probably just gonna eventually like age out of listening to music no like new stuff i’m just gonna be like yeah those albums that bopped in 2004 i’m just i’m just gonna be uh just gonna be uh
[0:05:59 – 0:06:00] Adam: Still listening to cake.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:02] Erik: I’m just going to be a cake guy.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:03] Erik: I’m going to be a love the hives.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:08] Erik: Like, no, it’s not that at all.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:09] Erik: Love Moby.
[0:06:09 – 0:06:10] Adam: Only Moby.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:12] Adam: My boat.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:13] Adam: My big boat.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:16] Erik: I was going to say the Strokes, but that’s not a good example.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:16] Erik: No, they’re still there.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:17] Erik: They’re still bopping.
[0:06:17 – 0:06:18] Erik: Because they’re so very relevant.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:43] Erik: unfortunately no 2021 albums from them just bought some uh vinyl some strokes on the vinyl i wish i’d see that’s the problem like i want to but it’s like i know if i crack that seal on like record player speakers vinyl you can get a yeah all of a sudden i’m just in that world got pretty basic setup but yeah the vinyl itself is very expensive
[0:06:43 – 0:06:43] Erik: No, I know.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:46] Erik: I’m not saying that you’re like a fucking audiophile.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:46] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:49] Erik: Also, spoiler, this is going to be listed as explicit.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:54] Erik: So, boys and girls, Santa’s coming down the chimney.
[0:06:54 – 0:07:01] Erik: Maybe tuck in for the night and hope that you get what you asked for because he’s a coming.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:04] Erik: And you’re not going to hear us say good words.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:07] Erik: But we are going to talk about our top ten…
[0:07:08 – 0:07:31] Erik: best albums of the year and since this is coming out as a full-blown tumble home network podcast on the main feed we have to be sponsored we are yeah and what a better sponsor than the one we’ve got sitting here specifically the sponsor makes sense and who it’s from i think also makes sense i have no idea but
[0:07:31 – 0:07:35] Adam: It makes sense on every single level and in all dimensions.
[0:07:35 – 0:07:36] Erik: We’ve thought this through.
[0:07:36 – 0:07:40] Erik: From top to bottom, we’re playing for… We planned this.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:41] Adam: 48D chess.
[0:07:41 – 0:07:42] Adam: That’s right.
[0:07:42 – 0:07:55] Adam: When I rolled up here today, this fine old thing was just perched in the snow, the fresh fallen snow, just beckoning me to the door of the studio.
[0:07:56 – 0:07:57] Adam: It’s a beaut.
[0:07:57 – 0:07:58] Adam: It’s a beaut, Clark.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:01] Adam: It’s the gift that keeps on giving all year round.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:05] Erik: And we do have two of these, so if you do hear the… We have two of them?
[0:08:05 – 0:08:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:06 – 0:08:09] Erik: Well, I mean, we can drink the second one, but it’s from a second sponsor.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:13] Erik: I don’t know if it would be healthy for us to drink two.
[0:08:13 – 0:08:14] Erik: That’s prudent, I would think.
[0:08:14 – 0:08:17] Erik: But we’ve got a barrel-aged…
[0:08:19 – 0:08:44] Erik: bottle big boy bottle that was dipped in wax i don’t even know how to mad like thirsty boy i don’t even know i’m a thirsty boy i don’t even know how to deal with the wax topping on this thing the wax off there but it’s a surly darkness dipped in wax so dark so dark so what do we got here
[0:08:45 – 0:08:45] Erik: 12%.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:49] Erik: You ready to drink some wine, my friend?
[0:08:50 – 0:08:50] Adam: Chug-a-lug.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:51] Adam: Chug-a-lug.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:53] Adam: Happy holidays.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:56] Adam: From our good friend.
[0:08:57 – 0:08:58] Adam: Are you using the real name here?
[0:08:59 – 0:09:01] Adam: The name that’s written on there is the real name.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:01] Adam: Matt.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:03] Adam: Not a username.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:10] Adam: That’s a real name given by the sun god Ra at birth on the solstice.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:12] Adam: This is Matt.
[0:09:13 – 0:09:14] Adam: Expert in chiptunes.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:15] Erik: Are chiptune artists?
[0:09:16 – 0:09:18] Erik: I thought it was fully appropriate.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:20] Erik: A. Solstice.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:21] Erik: Darkness.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:22] Erik: You following me?
[0:09:22 – 0:09:22] Erik: Everybody at home?
[0:09:22 – 0:09:23] Erik: Are you following?
[0:09:24 – 0:09:24] Erik: B.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:26] Erik: Talking music.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:27] Erik: Why not the…
[0:09:28 – 0:09:36] Erik: The chiptune man himself sponsoring the episode where we talk about 10 of our favorite albums of the last year.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:37] Erik: Tunes.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:38] Erik: Tunes.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:39] Erik: Tunes.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:41] Erik: Do you want to dig into that wax?
[0:09:41 – 0:09:45] Adam: These are the tunes, Eric, that made the year.
[0:09:45 – 0:10:04] Erik: Yeah, if you hear me wincing in pain, it’s because I’ve done something to my back and it feels like there is a majority of a javelin coming in from an angle and poking me in the spine.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:08] Erik: Even at the slightest of turns.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:15] Erik: I can assure you, Adam is doing a fine job on the wax cap over there.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:18] Erik: Is there a trick to these things?
[0:10:18 – 0:10:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:21] Erik: I think you just got to get up under, get into the metal.
[0:10:21 – 0:10:22] Erik: I got under it.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:23] Adam: You got to get leverage.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:25] Erik: Leverage.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:26] Adam: It’s all about leverage on these wax things.
[0:10:26 – 0:10:27] Erik: Leverage is key.
[0:10:30 – 0:10:33] Erik: I mean, at the end of the day, I think the wax is all show.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Erik: Right?
[0:10:34 – 0:10:36] Adam: I think it’s sealing something in there.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:37] Erik: Extra flavor?
[0:10:37 – 0:10:38] Adam: It’s not the thing we thought it was.
[0:10:40 – 0:10:40] Erik: There it is.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:43] Adam: To find vintage.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:45] Erik: It’s early darkness.
[0:10:45 – 0:10:46] Erik: Thank you, Matt.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:47] Erik: Thank you for all the chiptunes.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:58] Erik: You’ve paid your patronage in more ways than additional beer sponsorship made necessary, but we will drink it
[0:11:00 – 0:11:01] Erik: All the same.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:06] Erik: And yeah, at the end of the day…
[0:11:08 – 0:11:09] Erik: Appreciate everybody out there.
[0:11:09 – 0:11:10] Erik: This is just for fun.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:11] Erik: If you’re here for…
[0:11:14 – 0:11:16] Erik: Lake reviews, Bungie Waters content.
[0:11:17 – 0:11:18] Adam: Probably not been your month.
[0:11:18 – 0:11:20] Adam: Probably not been the right month.
[0:11:20 – 0:11:22] Erik: Well, I mean, up to this point, we’ve been okay.
[0:11:23 – 0:11:29] Erik: But this episode in particular, yeah, we’re doing our own thing, which we rarely do.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:30] Erik: Come on.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:31] Erik: Rarely.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:33] Adam: That’s how we’ve always done it.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:36] Erik: We’re taking this one for ourselves and we’re taking it to the streets.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:56] Erik: And we’re essentially going to try to do our best to not get fully copyrighted by any of the… We don’t want to get copyrighted and we don’t want to get, you know… We don’t want to get too wild, but… We don’t want to get too wild.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:57] Erik: I mean, I’m getting wild.
[0:11:57 – 0:11:58] Adam: I’m getting wild.
[0:11:58 – 0:11:59] Adam: I’m going to work till late tomorrow.
[0:12:00 – 0:12:02] Erik: Yeah, me as well.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:03] Erik: Cheers, my good friend.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:04] Erik: Good man.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:05] Erik: Tally-ho, Eric.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:18] Erik: That is… That’s a barrel of flavor right there.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:19] Erik: Holy moly.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:20] Erik: Hot.
[0:12:22 – 0:12:22] Erik: Mmm, yes.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:23] Erik: Dog.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:29] Adam: There is no round share out to our calendar fact of the day tonight.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:33] Adam: It’s the solstice, and the sun has been set for a long time.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:36] Adam: It’s gonna be dark, and suns might never come up.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:41] Adam: I’m gonna give this 10 out of 10 darknesses.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:45] Adam: It’s real good.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:47] Erik: Yeah, it’s complex.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:48] Erik: Boy, oh boy.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:52] Erik: This is like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie in a bottle.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:54] Erik: You could spend five minutes with each sip.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:56] Erik: It’s so good.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:00] Erik: Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and have to…
[0:13:00 – 0:13:01] Erik: I will also give…
[0:13:01 – 0:13:03] Erik: I’m going to give it 21 out of 21 solstices.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:04] Erik: I love it.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:06] Adam: Yeah, solstices.
[0:13:06 – 0:13:07] Adam: Solstices.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:09] Adam: All right.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:12] Adam: Not going to screw around too much here tonight.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:13] Adam: Got to get into it.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:14] Adam: We got a lot.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:17] Adam: Got a lot to talk about, so should get into it.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Adam: Got a few honorable mentions.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:24] Adam: I feel like we should start with the honorable mentions, not just the Vince Guaraldi trio.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:24] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:13:25 – 0:13:26] Adam: Great one.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:31] Adam: Love to listen to that album about 100 times in the month of January and December.
[0:13:31 – 0:13:31] Erik: Yep.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:52] Erik: you know year round i’ll listen to that one year round but listen to it a lot pretty much daily listen to that vince gerald daily this time of year i listen to it on the way to work in july just this time of year yeah no this time of year yeah it is like yeah popping up like today it barfed a foot of snow on us out of nowhere and i was just like well
[0:13:53 – 0:14:14] Adam: i got a christmas honorable mention we can start with maybe sure you got the any of that uh this is off of the lo-fi christmas uh so you’re familiar i’m sure the the evan rosa yeah can you get that evan rosa going i don’t even know how to spell it it’s uh evan rosa spelled the usual way
[0:14:15 – 0:14:37] Adam: i love that that’s how you decided to spell it for me evan rosa eve ivan it’s a i v a n even rosa this is off the uh lo-fi christmas playlist that uh we featured uh eric featured some lo-fi christmas as uh intro or outro music on a couple episodes back
[0:14:39 – 0:14:42] Adam: I like the Silent Night one, but this whole thing’s in Espanol.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:46] Adam: It’s very rich and dreamy.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:48] Erik: This is a 2021 album?
[0:14:48 – 0:14:49] Adam: 2021, brand new Christmas.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:51] Adam: It’s my new favorite Christmas album of the year.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:55 – 0:15:16] Adam: it’s a lot of this um so i have a ongoing christmas playlist that i i roll this time here just full albums of my favorite christmas albums and this one was the first one i added this year after i listened to the lo-fi christmas playlist i said who is this evan rosa
[0:15:17 – 0:15:19] Adam: Otra Navidad lo fai en Mexico.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:20] Adam: In Mexico.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:24] Adam: I looked and you cannot find this on vinyl.
[0:15:24 – 0:15:25] Adam: Does not exist.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:26] Adam: Not in this country at least.
[0:15:27 – 0:15:28] Adam: Maybe in Mexico.
[0:15:30 – 0:15:36] Adam: Melequiliquilaca is the way to say I love this album in Mexico way.
[0:15:40 – 0:15:41] Adam: Yeah, I like it.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:43] Adam: It’s real chill.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:46] Adam: Lo-fi Christmas.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:50] Adam: Perfect album to wrapping presents while inebriated.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:53 – 0:15:54] Adam: It’s just most of the activities that occur.
[0:15:54 – 0:15:57] Adam: That’s when I like to wrap most of my presents is late at night.
[0:15:59 – 0:16:01] Adam: But I might wrap some presents after the show.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Adam: Who knows?
[0:16:02 – 0:16:03] Adam: I got a few to wrap.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:04] Adam: Who knows what’s going to happen?
[0:16:04 – 0:16:08] Adam: I probably have a few up at the house to wrap when I get home.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:10] Adam: This is my first honorable mention.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:12] Erik: Your first honorable mention?
[0:16:14 – 0:16:14] Erik: Big fan.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:17] Adam: Yeah, check it out if you’re looking for a new Christmas album.
[0:16:17 – 0:16:21] Adam: And just go for that lo-fi Christmas playlist that Eric tuned me into.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:23] Adam: It’s solid.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:28] Erik: Actually, the geologist’s wife, Tori, hipped me to it.
[0:16:28 – 0:16:29] Erik: Low fidelity.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:30] Erik: I’m not going to lie.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:34] Erik: I came home, whatever it was, two weeks ago, and that playlist was on.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:37] Erik: And I just pulled out the field mic and shoved it right in the speaker.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:39] Erik: And that’s how we got the outro.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:41] Adam: That’s how they make the magic happen.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:47] Erik: Yeah, they just stole somebody else’s hard work, but I gave them credit.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Adam: We’re giving them props now.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:57] Erik: Yeah, and we’re going to talk about all of the other music from this year and give them proper flowers, credit, and love.
[0:17:00 – 0:17:01] Erik: Do you want some honorable mentions from me?
[0:17:02 – 0:17:03] Erik: Sure.
[0:17:03 – 0:17:04] Erik: Shockingly.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:10] Erik: The Bo Burnham Inside album did not make my top 10.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:10] Adam: What?
[0:17:10 – 0:17:12] Adam: You told me it was going to make your top 10.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:13] Adam: I did not say that.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:17] Erik: I said it was eligible to make it because you were questioning whether or not.
[0:17:17 – 0:17:20] Adam: I was like, is it a film?
[0:17:20 – 0:17:21] Erik: Is it a film?
[0:17:21 – 0:17:22] Erik: Is it an album?
[0:17:22 – 0:17:26] Erik: And I think at the end of the day, it’s meant to be.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:29] Erik: And it’s not like I’m not like defining terms or anything here.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:39] Erik: But when I sit down and like think about what I get out of that music, I get the most out of it when I’m watching the film, the movie.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:40] Adam: You can say that about any music video.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:42] Erik: It’s a really good music video.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:50] Erik: There’s no other album in my top 10 that is like better if you watch an entire movie based on the music.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:54] Erik: Some music videos don’t improve the music, don’t improve the sound.
[0:17:54 – 0:17:55] Erik: They do nothing.
[0:17:55 – 0:17:55] Erik: It’s just like,
[0:17:56 – 0:17:59] Adam: You know, I’ve been meaning to go back and re-watch the film.
[0:18:00 – 0:18:03] Adam: You know, Brother Andrew was the one that got me to watch this the first time.
[0:18:04 – 0:18:05] Adam: She’s like, just don’t read anything about it.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:06] Adam: Just watch it.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:07] Adam: Watch it.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:08] Adam: I was like, that’s amazing.
[0:18:09 – 0:18:11] Adam: And then I found all the music from…
[0:18:12 – 0:18:13] Adam: It’s basically a musical.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:14] Adam: I didn’t even know this.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] Adam: He was like, just watch this.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:16] Adam: Don’t even look it up.
[0:18:16 – 0:18:18] Adam: It’s basically a musical slash film.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:25] Adam: Probably one of the things on Netflix that had the most views this year, I would guess.
[0:18:25 – 0:18:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:25 – 0:18:42] Erik: I mean, the production value is so interesting because the value is actually high on its face, but the value in terms of what produced it is extremely low.
[0:18:43 – 0:18:48] Erik: Like flashlights, colored paper, disco balls.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:49] Adam: Yeah, it’s super lo-fi.
[0:18:49 – 0:18:52] Erik: It’s super lo-fi, but it’s got high production value.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:54] Erik: It’s like, I don’t know, it’s the…
[0:18:54 – 0:18:55] Erik: It’s well thought out.
[0:18:56 – 0:19:03] Erik: Yeah, it’s like, I don’t even know what the best example of the most upsold drink at a bar is.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:04 – 0:19:13] Erik: It’s like the… Like Manhattan of music…
[0:19:14 – 0:19:21] Erik: documentaries or whatever, where it’s like, yeah, you throw a bunch of like basic ingredients in, but then you sell it for like $15.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:24] Erik: That’s kind of what it’s like.
[0:19:24 – 0:19:27] Erik: But it’s like also, it still tastes amazing and it’s great.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:28] Erik: But…
[0:19:29 – 0:19:30] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:36] Erik: It was in the mix for a little while, and then when everything shook out, I’m like, I just don’t have the room for it.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:43] Erik: There’s too many other things that I have to say about these other albums, and maybe it’s just one of those things that I was like…
[0:19:43 – 0:19:48] Adam: I was trying to cheat on and feel you out a little bit, like what’s Eric going to put on his list?
[0:19:48 – 0:19:50] Adam: Maybe I can get away with putting something on there or not.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:57] Adam: I mean, I assume we’re going to have some overlap, but I mean, I was in the back of my mind making this list over the last week.
[0:19:57 – 0:20:02] Adam: Like, I don’t want to just put everything on here that I think I know Eric’s going to put on here.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:04] Adam: So then I was like, what do you think?
[0:20:04 – 0:20:05] Adam: Does this count as an album?
[0:20:05 – 0:20:06] Adam: It did come out this year.
[0:20:07 – 0:20:31] Adam: yeah i think it does i i watched it once on netflix and then i listened to the album on spotify 110 times so i think you know in the way i actually enjoyed it this year it was as the album just purely for the music but as you’re hearing those songs you’re picturing the the film that you saw to start it all and like i said i i would like to go back and re-watch the entire film so
[0:20:31 – 0:20:38] Erik: Well, and there’s so many little moments and parts in between the songs that I think make it much more enjoyable.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:40] Adam: What do you think Socko’s doing on the solstice right now?
[0:20:41 – 0:20:45] Adam: Probably living in a liminal state of consciousness.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:47] Adam: Not quite dead.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:48] Adam: Not quite alive.
[0:20:48 – 0:20:49] Adam: Happy solstice.
[0:20:50 – 0:20:51] Adam: Brought to you by Surly Darkness.
[0:20:52 – 0:20:55] Adam: All right, well, that’s a pretty good honorable mention.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:56] Erik: I’ve got one more.
[0:20:56 – 0:20:58] Erik: Well, I’ve actually got two more.
[0:20:58 – 0:21:00] Adam: I’ve got a couple extra honorable mentions.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:03] Adam: We can’t talk too much about the honorable mentions.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:10] Erik: The Sufjan Stevens and Angelo D. Augustine, A Beginner’s Mind, was on the list back and forth so many different times.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:18] Erik: Surprisingly sneaky album that I didn’t think I liked right away and just kept growing on me and just kept growing on me.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:21] Adam: I may have to give it a little bit more time.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:26] Erik: No, it’s one of those things where you hear it and you’re just like, eh, another Sufjan album.
[0:21:26 – 0:21:27] Erik: But I don’t know.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:30] Erik: There’s something about it that’s so re-listenable.
[0:21:31 – 0:21:41] Erik: For a while there, for two months straight, it was just my morning coffee slash tea album that I would put on and get through the first six tracks and then go on with my day.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:44] Adam: I feel like Sufjan lost me at Carrie and Lowell.
[0:21:45 – 0:21:46] Erik: Oh, I love that album.
[0:21:46 – 0:21:46] Erik: What?
[0:21:46 – 0:21:46] Adam: I know.
[0:21:46 – 0:21:47] Adam: I know.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:52] Adam: But, like, I guess it was because, you know, there was the whole, like, I’m doing an album about every state.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:53] Adam: And then it’s like.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:58] Erik: Oh, you’re so bitter about the fact that he ended at Michigan or whatever.
[0:21:58 – 0:22:01] Adam: A big ambitious thing and then just quit after two states.
[0:22:01 – 0:22:02] Erik: He quit at Illinois.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:03] Erik: He did two states.
[0:22:03 – 0:22:04] Erik: Two states.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:07] Adam: You got two states in out of however many states there are.
[0:22:07 – 0:22:08] Adam: Nobody even knows anymore.
[0:22:08 – 0:22:10] Adam: Hopefully there’s more.
[0:22:10 – 0:22:14] Erik: The Lorna Del Rey albums and Villagers’ Fever Dreams.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:15] Erik: Those are my honorable mentions.
[0:22:15 – 0:22:18] Adam: I thought maybe you were going to put the Villagers in your top 10.
[0:22:18 – 0:22:20] Adam: I didn’t include them.
[0:22:20 – 0:22:21] Erik: It was close.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:26] Erik: It was one of those things where every time I would put on any of those albums, I was like, got to be in the top 10.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:29] Erik: But then I would get to some of the other ones.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Erik: We could have easily done a top 15.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:32] Adam: I know what this is.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:34] Adam: You got to go to my next honorable mention.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:38] Adam: It’s the Fleet Foxes Lonely Solstice album.
[0:22:38 – 0:22:43] Adam: Can you go ahead and put on Not My Season, please?
[0:22:46 – 0:22:47] Adam: Off the Lonely Solstice.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:52] Adam: I’m not my season.
[0:22:53 – 0:22:55] Erik: Well, that’s going to start all over.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:56] Adam: Fleet Foxes.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:58] Adam: Did that come out this year?
[0:22:58 – 0:22:59] Adam: It came out this year.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:03] Adam: The recording is from 2020, the first months of the pandemic, New York City.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:10] Adam: And anybody listening to Tumble Home at this point, I assume knows I love Fleet Foxes.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:11] Adam: Eric does as well.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:17] Adam: And when I went back in my Spotify rap this year, it was like, you listen to Shore a lot.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:19] Adam: Like, a lot, a lot.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:20] Adam: Shore came out in 2021?
[0:23:20 – 0:23:22] Adam: Shore did not come out in 2021.
[0:23:23 – 0:23:25] Adam: It came out in 2020, which is when this came out.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:26] Adam: When this was recorded…
[0:23:29 – 0:23:36] Adam: But so this is like recorded in a cathedral or something in Manhattan during the pandemic.
[0:23:36 – 0:23:42] Adam: The first parts, the first year of the pandemic way back when you’re going to tell your kids about it someday.
[0:23:43 – 0:23:44] Adam: The original pandemic year 2020.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:46] Adam: This was recorded.
[0:23:46 – 0:23:51] Adam: Robin just recorded this with an acoustic guitar and a church.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:57] Adam: It’s a whole live set, one set, like just sat down and played all the hits.
[0:23:57 – 0:24:01] Adam: Mostly songs off of Shore and some other stuff and a few covers.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:03] Adam: It’s really good.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:10] Adam: And, you know, it’s kind of like just a, hey, greatest hits album done with an acoustic.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:17] Adam: Not really that special, but when you’re talking about one of my favorite bands, it’s an album that did come out this year.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:20] Adam: It gets in on Technicality as an honorable mention.
[0:24:23 – 0:24:39] Adam: love this line and on the winter solstice I mean come on yeah I could listen to this guy sing all day big honorable menchies so
[0:24:42 – 0:24:44] Adam: I love this song.
[0:24:44 – 0:25:08] Adam: There’s, you know, not all Fleet Foxes songs can be done in this way, but most of them can be, and it’s a pretty incredible album, and especially since once I realized we were going to be recording this episode on the solstice itself, I was like, all right, it’s not going to make my top ten because it’s not a really new music kind of thing, but I think this deserves an honorable mention.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:10] Erik: Yeah, sorry, I didn’t mean for it to abruptly end there.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:11] Erik: We had some A.V.,
[0:25:11 – 0:25:13] Adam: I have one more honorable mention.
[0:25:13 – 0:25:14] Adam: Ooh, one more.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:14] Adam: One more.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:17] Adam: You don’t have to play any of this on the show.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:17] Adam: You probably shouldn’t.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:18] Adam: Very explicit.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:23] Adam: Honorable mention based alone on… Well, the music’s good, but…
[0:25:23 – 0:25:24] Adam: The music’s really good, but…
[0:25:24 – 0:25:28] Adam: This is an honorable mention for my favorite album artwork of the year.
[0:25:29 – 0:25:31] Adam: Makhami, Pray for Haiti.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:33] Adam: Have you listened to this?
[0:25:33 – 0:25:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:39] Adam: Yeah, it features a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, like kind of messed with it a little bit.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:45] Adam: Features a crazy-looking dude with a fishing pole and a very mysterious artist.
[0:25:45 – 0:25:53] Adam: If anybody out there is not familiar with Mark Homme, you like rap music, go ahead and give that one a listen.
[0:25:53 – 0:26:00] Adam: Not really top 10 worthy for me as far as the music goes, but it was definitely close.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:04] Adam: I would say it’s in my top 20, and I really…
[0:26:04 – 0:26:05] Adam: I like Criminal.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:07] Erik: I really like Criminal.
[0:26:08 – 0:26:09] Adam: Yeah, no, I mean…
[0:26:11 – 0:26:12] Adam: Pretty great album.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:14 – 0:26:14] Adam: Highly rated.
[0:26:14 – 0:26:17] Adam: It’s been on a lot of top ten lists I’ve seen.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:19] Adam: Yeah, I’ve seen that too.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:22] Adam: I enjoyed this when it came out and been listening to it on and off.
[0:26:23 – 0:26:29] Adam: Nobody really knows anything about this guy, which is my favorite part.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:33] Adam: Andy apparently has been selling albums for obscene amounts of money.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:35] Erik: NFT albums?
[0:26:36 – 0:26:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:36] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:41] Adam: Guy’s a bit of a wild card with Haitian descent.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:52] Adam: And any album out there with multiple languages mixed into them and unusual beats, big fan of that.
[0:26:53 – 0:26:55] Adam: So anyways, Makami.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:58] Adam: I had it as my number 10 for a long time.
[0:26:58 – 0:27:02] Adam: And ultimately, I just like the music on other albums more.
[0:27:02 – 0:27:03] Adam: So I kicked it out.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:05] Adam: But I was like, I love this album artwork.
[0:27:05 – 0:27:07] Adam: Well, obviously, who’s not going to love Basquiat?
[0:27:08 – 0:27:16] Adam: If this painting came up at auction on Antiques Roadshow, if this album artwork, like the original Basquiat came up, it would probably be a million dollars worth.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:16] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:27:17 – 0:27:19] Adam: Nobody’s selling Basquiats these days.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:23] Adam: Am I saying that right?
[0:27:23 – 0:27:29] Erik: The deep, weird singing voice on this song is like troublingly beautiful.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:34] Adam: Yeah, this is a good album, though.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:34] Adam: It is.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:39] Adam: I just wanted to make sure it got a shout out because it’s good, good.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:44] Adam: But anyways, Makami.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:45] Adam: Check them out.
[0:27:45 – 0:27:46] Adam: Check them out.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:47] Adam: Should we get into it?
[0:27:47 – 0:27:49] Adam: All right, so that concludes our honorable mentions.
[0:27:50 – 0:27:52] Adam: The Surly Darkness is going down wonderfully.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:53] Erik: It’s going down surprisingly smooth.
[0:27:54 – 0:27:56] Erik: We might need to open that second one of them from a second.
[0:27:56 – 0:27:57] Erik: Is it in the snowbank?
[0:27:58 – 0:27:59] Erik: No, it’s not.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:01] Erik: We could throw it out in the snowbank.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:06] Erik: But you’ve got the second personal sponsor there.
[0:28:06 – 0:28:08] Adam: We do have another personal sponsor.
[0:28:08 – 0:28:10] Adam: We’ll get to that later in the show.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:11] Adam: Maybe a pick five or four.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:12] Adam: We’ll see.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:13] Adam: Ten.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:13] Adam: All right.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:15] Adam: Moving on to the actual top ten.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:16] Adam: Where are you going?
[0:28:17 – 0:28:20] Erik: I’m going to start with my ten because I’ve got it queued up.
[0:28:20 – 0:28:27] Erik: All right.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:32] Erik: Yeah, my number 10 is Hand Habits Funhouse.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:33] Erik: Beautiful.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:37] Erik: The McDuffie Project.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:39] Adam: Talking like a real… We’re not going to…
[0:28:41 – 0:28:45] Adam: We’re not going to jump on each other’s picks, but my number 10 is also hand habits.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:46] Adam: What?
[0:28:46 – 0:28:46] Adam: Yes.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:48] Erik: Okay, that’s the only time we get to do it?
[0:28:48 – 0:28:49] Erik: Yeah, I know.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:49] Erik: Is it for both?
[0:28:50 – 0:28:50] Erik: That’s insane.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:51] Adam: If we’re on the same.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:51] Adam: Okay.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:52] Adam: We’re on the same page.
[0:28:53 – 0:28:53] Adam: Are we hilarious?
[0:28:53 – 0:28:54] Adam: Are you playing Aquamarine?
[0:28:55 – 0:28:55] Adam: This is Aquamarine.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:56] Adam: That’s the pick I have.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:57] Erik: Hell yeah.
[0:28:57 – 0:28:58] Adam: Aquamarine.
[0:28:58 – 0:28:59] Erik: We did not plan this.
[0:28:59 – 0:28:59] Erik: No.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:04] Erik: Maybe one of my, it’s, I mean, one of the best songs of the year for sure.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:12] Erik: I love the dark synth breakdown that happens at about, like, almost the two-minute mark.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:15] Erik: It gives me fucking chills every time.
[0:29:15 – 0:29:15] Erik: It’s already giving me chills.
[0:29:15 – 0:29:19] Erik: It’s like that, like, the way that it drops.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:26] Adam: Honestly, you know, we’ve seen Meg play the guitar live.
[0:29:29 – 0:29:31] Adam: And one of the few concerts we’ve been to together.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:35] Adam: And she stole the show.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:38] Erik: Yeah, she was the basis for that Kevin Morby.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:40] Adam: Meg Duffy’s thumbs up.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:43] Adam: Carrying Kevin Morby to greatness.
[0:29:44 – 0:29:47] Adam: I was expecting that thrashing, like, electric guitar.
[0:29:48 – 0:29:52] Adam: Previous album, the name of the previous album is escaping me.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:58] Adam: It was a little bit more of that hard guitar work, which I liked.
[0:29:58 – 0:30:00] Adam: This is a little bit more of this, though.
[0:30:00 – 0:30:14] Erik: Yeah, I wrote, it’s an introspective indie rock slash folk art album that regularly walks firmly up to the line that would cross into full-blown pop, but always turns back at just the right moment.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:16] Adam: It always does, yeah.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:19] Adam: At first, I listened to this, and I was like, hmm.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:44] Adam: no yeah this is one of the albums of the year where i i did not like it at first right away crazily you know i was like no yeah the placeholder i believe placeholder was the previous album placeholder is amazing oh man that change yeah i love it i don’t understand those kinds of changes but i love them
[0:30:50 – 0:31:00] Erik: Yeah, it’s a snappy, circling synth catch with perfectly dark lyrics that suggests something more sinister, especially on this track.
[0:31:01 – 0:31:02] Erik: But she does it throughout the whole album.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:04] Erik: I also love the next one.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:05] Adam: Golden Rust, man.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:06] Adam: Golden Rust.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:07] Adam: Oh, I was going to say.
[0:31:07 – 0:31:12] Erik: I’ve got, so yeah, I kind of tried to highlight like two to three songs on every album.
[0:31:12 – 0:31:13] Erik: And since we’re both…
[0:31:14 – 0:31:15] Erik: Highlighting this album at 10.
[0:31:15 – 0:31:26] Erik: If we go through and it goes banger for banger, 10 down to 1, I will shove myself into that fireplace like a trash compactor and just burn myself.
[0:31:26 – 0:31:29] Adam: I’ll poison you with mushrooms and shove you into the trash compactor.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:32] Erik: I’m shocked that we both had 10 as the same.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:36] Erik: Well, I’m not surprised.
[0:31:36 – 0:31:37] Erik: It’s a great start.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:41] Erik: It’s funny that it’s the first one that we started with.
[0:31:42 – 0:31:51] Erik: Yes, the three tracks that I had fully highlighted were Aquamarine, Just to Hear You, and Gold Rush.
[0:31:52 – 0:31:53] Erik: Gold Rush.
[0:31:53 – 0:31:55] Erik: Gold slash rust.
[0:31:55 – 0:31:57] Erik: Yeah, Gold Rust is so good.
[0:31:57 – 0:31:58] Erik: Not Gold Rush.
[0:31:58 – 0:32:06] Erik: It’s just the Notes app is the worst thing to type into because it will never let you type a word that’s misspelled.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:07] Erik: Right.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:08] Erik: It’ll always change it.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:12] Erik: So since we’ve got two votes for 10.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:18] Adam: This is my favorite new one where, like I said, I didn’t like this album at first when it came out.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:20] Adam: Kind of buried it.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:27] Adam: And then I came back to it a couple weeks ago, and it’s been one of the ones I’ve been listening to the most lately.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:29] Adam: So glad to see you had it on there.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:31] Adam: I wasn’t sure if you were going to.
[0:32:31 – 0:32:34] Adam: I thought you might, but not surprised at all.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:35] Adam: We’re on the same page here.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:37] Erik: Ooh, can’t get there yet.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:39] Adam: What are you doing next?
[0:32:40 – 0:32:41] Erik: No, I was going to play…
[0:32:42 – 0:32:48] Erik: I’m just playing Just to Hear You featuring Perfume Genius just to continue the conversation.
[0:32:48 – 0:32:48] Erik: Love it.
[0:32:48 – 0:32:50] Erik: If you want me to put on another song, I can.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:53] Adam: No, this is good.
[0:32:53 – 0:32:55] Adam: These two are back-to-back on the album, too.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:56] Adam: It’s a great 2-3.
[0:32:56 – 0:32:56] Adam: It fits together nice.
[0:32:57 – 0:32:58] Adam: I like that a lot.
[0:32:58 – 0:33:05] Adam: When we used to do the radio shows, I would often play two songs in a row from the same artist back-to-back on the album.
[0:33:05 – 0:33:09] Adam: I tend to prefer the first tracks and the last tracks on albums.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:16] Adam: This is like tracks 3 and 4 or 2 and 3 on this album, which is a good spot for them, too.
[0:33:17 – 0:33:24] Erik: I also love one of the few featured artists on the album, Perfume Genius.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:26] Erik: A.K.A.
[0:33:28 – 0:33:28] Erik: What is his name?
[0:33:30 – 0:33:32] Adam: Paul Tregertha, I’m pretty sure.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:33] Adam: Paul Tregertha.
[0:33:33 – 0:33:35] Adam: Big Paul, they call him in Cleveland.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:36] Erik: Michael?
[0:33:36 – 0:33:37] Erik: Hadrius?
[0:33:37 – 0:33:37] Adam: I have no idea.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:37] Adam: Hadrius?
[0:33:38 – 0:33:38] Adam: I got nothing.
[0:33:38 – 0:33:40] Erik: I think it’s Mike Hadrius.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:42] Erik: Nailed it.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:43] Erik: I love his voice.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:46] Erik: When he comes in in this duet…
[0:33:48 – 0:33:50] Erik: Hey, it’s supposed to go up.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:19] Erik: Yeah, the gold slash rust track, though, has got some serious Big Thief vibes.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:21] Erik: It does.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:25] Erik: It’s like the dichotomy of the beginning of that song and the end.
[0:34:26 – 0:34:30] Erik: And that guitar riff is so slick.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:31] Erik: I love it.
[0:34:32 – 0:34:37] Adam: Yeah, well, McDuffie is a genius when it comes to the guitar.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:40] Adam: And I guess everything else, it was…
[0:34:43 – 0:34:46] Adam: Pretty fun to see McDuffie play live.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:50] Adam: This album is really something special.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:51] Erik: Yeah, it is.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:55] Adam: Honestly, probably when I drive home tonight, this is going to be the album I put on.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:57] Adam: That’s where I’m at right now.
[0:34:57 – 0:35:02] Adam: Had I given myself another week, this one could have been higher up the list for sure.
[0:35:03 – 0:35:04] Adam: This one’s on the rise.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Adam: You know how music goes.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:09] Adam: It’s always going up and down in the…
[0:35:10 – 0:35:33] Adam: in the uh how excited are you listening about this when you get in the car and go in places so hand habits fun house gotta love great fucking album easily could have been number one i would say i think that i would almost say that is true for every album that you’re you’re gonna hear about tonight on the show but uh it is at number 10 and that’s a good spot to be it’s on the list
[0:35:36 – 0:35:38] Adam: Are you going to nine next then, or am I doing nine?
[0:35:39 – 0:35:40] Erik: I started with my ten.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:41] Adam: My ten was the same as your ten.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:43] Adam: If our nines match up.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:44] Adam: I doubt it.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:45] Adam: I’ll go with my nine.
[0:35:47 – 0:35:48] Adam: Or do you want to listen?
[0:35:48 – 0:35:49] Adam: We should listen.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:50] Adam: I mean, how long can this show go?
[0:35:50 – 0:35:52] Adam: Can we listen to more and more?
[0:35:52 – 0:35:54] Erik: I mean, we can go for however long we want.
[0:35:54 – 0:35:57] Adam: I really don’t want to skip ahead too fast because I want to listen to Gold Rush.
[0:35:57 – 0:36:05] Erik: Yeah, I mean, the full appreciation of this song, though, is one that incorporates an entire four-minute experience of listening to it.
[0:36:06 – 0:36:09] Erik: Headphones always help.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:12] Erik: I’ll tell you right now, my number one album is a headphone album.
[0:36:12 – 0:36:13] Adam: Yeah, okay.
[0:36:13 – 0:36:15] Adam: What is your best headphones right now?
[0:36:15 – 0:36:19] Adam: My iPod things.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:20] Adam: Earpods.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:22] Adam: What do you call them?
[0:36:22 – 0:36:23] Adam: AirPods?
[0:36:23 – 0:36:25] Adam: My AirPods are driving me nuts right now.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:30] Adam: No, I can’t do in-ear for really good music.
[0:36:30 – 0:36:31] Adam: It’s got to be over-ear.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:33] Adam: Yeah, it needs new over-ear, I believe.
[0:36:34 – 0:36:38] Erik: Get those Sony noise-canceling ones I got on the chair over there.
[0:36:39 – 0:37:01] Erik: i literally take those on walks and i’ll put a full beanie over the whole headphone so i can stay well the thing at work is i always have to have one year like free so i can’t work yeah no i guess you couldn’t kind of wear them askew yeah i can do that for like with like podcasts and stuff i can’t do the one ear for music though
[0:37:08 – 0:37:09] Erik: Are you ready?
[0:37:09 – 0:37:13] Erik: Are you ready to get copyrighted?
[0:37:13 – 0:37:14] Erik: Ah.
[0:37:14 – 0:37:15] Erik: Now what?
[0:37:37 – 0:37:43] Erik: That is such a perfectly slick electric guitar that comes in there.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:48] Adam: It’s a master.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:49] Adam: Well, I started it with my 10.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:50] Adam: It’s a master.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:51] Adam: I work nine.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:51] Adam: Nine.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:55] Adam: Roosevelt, Polydance.
[0:37:56 – 0:37:57] Adam: I’m going with Sign.
[0:37:58 – 0:38:02] Adam: It’s the final track on Polydance.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:07] Adam: Roosevelt previously came out with an album self-titled Roosevelt.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:14] Adam: It’s pure electronic music.
[0:38:15 – 0:38:16] Adam: It’s candy.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:27] Adam: It is pop music, and it is something I would love to dance to in a field on the solstice.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:29] Adam: You listen to Roosevelt at all?
[0:38:30 – 0:38:31] Erik: Not really, no, actually.
[0:38:32 – 0:38:33] Erik: Multiple Dans, though?
[0:38:34 – 0:38:35] Adam: Poly Dans.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:36] Adam: Poly Dans.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:37] Adam: So many Dans.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:51] Adam: I hesitate to make comparisons when it comes to electronic music.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:54] Erik: But do it.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:56] Adam: Is it just electronic music?
[0:38:57 – 0:39:01] Adam: I hate even the term electronic music because it’s still music.
[0:39:02 – 0:39:04] Adam: Instruments are instruments.
[0:39:04 – 0:39:08] Adam: This one takes a bit of a slow build here.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:16] Adam: I mean, my favorite dance album of the year, for sure.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:21] Adam: Polydance, if you will.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:23] Erik: Multiple dance.
[0:39:24 – 0:39:26] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:33] Adam: So I don’t have a ton to say on this one other than highly recommended.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:35] Adam: Get yourself some Roosevelt in your life.
[0:39:37 – 0:39:38] Adam: Polydance.
[0:39:39 – 0:39:54] Adam: is uh you know there’s like eight to ten tracks on this one i could have picked they’re all essentially what you’ve just heard and uh honestly go ahead and give them a try there we go
[0:40:10 – 0:40:13] Adam: It’s like a mix between Daft Punk and Bjorns.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:18] Adam: If anybody out there is a Bjorns fan.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:21] Adam: Am I saying it right?
[0:40:21 – 0:40:21] Adam: Yeah, I am.
[0:40:21 – 0:40:22] Adam: Bjorns.
[0:40:23 – 0:40:24] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:40:24 – 0:40:25] Adam: It’s wild stuff.
[0:40:25 – 0:40:27] Adam: I don’t know if it’s wild.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:28] Adam: It’s fun, though.
[0:40:28 – 0:40:29] Adam: It is fun.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:34] Adam: There’s a reason it’s at nine, though.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:37] Adam: Like I said, it’s kind of candy.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:38] Adam: I mean, nine?
[0:40:39 – 0:40:39] Adam: Nine.
[0:40:39 – 0:40:40] Adam: It’s still top ten.
[0:40:42 – 0:40:45] Adam: Yeah, this is one where I listened to it a lot early in the year.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:46] Adam: Oh, yeah?
[0:40:47 – 0:40:50] Erik: That was hard to go back and be like, oh, yeah, I listened to a bunch of this music.
[0:40:50 – 0:40:53] Adam: I had this vibe going with this album for a while.
[0:40:53 – 0:41:16] Adam: four months out of the year and then you’re like oh now it’s december and it’s we’re trying to make a top 10 it’s like i want to have some fun stuff in here not just this depressing sad folk music and uh i really i really did love this album when it first came out it was early in the you know the spring of the second year of the pandemic
[0:41:19 – 0:41:24] Adam: But, you know, I haven’t honestly listened to it a ton lately, but I wanted to put it in here.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:26] Adam: It deserves a spot in the top ten for sure.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:32] Adam: So, thank you to Roosevelt, and we will move on at this point.
[0:41:32 – 0:41:34] Adam: What is your number nine, Eric?
[0:41:56 – 0:41:57] Erik: My number nine.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:03] Erik: Little Sims, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:07] Adam: It’s so good.
[0:42:07 – 0:42:08] Adam: Nine?
[0:42:08 – 0:42:09] Adam: Nine.
[0:42:10 – 0:42:11] Adam: Wow, this is nine.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:13] Adam: I can’t wait to hear what your top eight are.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:20] Erik: It’s a sprawling journey of an album.
[0:42:20 – 0:42:21] Erik: It’s cinematic.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:22] Erik: It’s grand.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:25] Adam: This is the phantom thread of albums.
[0:42:25 – 0:42:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:26 – 0:42:28] Erik: At the same time, though, it’s super personal.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:30] Erik: It’s introspective.
[0:42:30 – 0:42:31] Erik: It’s self-referential.
[0:42:32 – 0:42:40] Erik: It speaks to me, but I also can appreciate the woman that’s putting out an album of such magnitude.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:42] Erik: Like…
[0:42:44 – 0:42:44] Erik: It’s…
[0:42:45 – 0:42:45] Erik: I love it.
[0:42:46 – 0:42:52] Erik: I loved it from… And it’s not one of those things that I love to like…
[0:42:52 – 0:42:58] Erik: I appreciate people that review albums and music and a lot of times that’s how I hear about things.
[0:42:58 – 0:43:04] Erik: But this was an album that just like came out on the first day of my road trip.
[0:43:04 – 0:43:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:05 – 0:43:07] Erik: And it was like, oh, there’s this new album.
[0:43:07 – 0:43:08] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:08 – 0:43:14] Adam: Have you heard of Little Sims before you made off to the Dakotas?
[0:43:14 – 0:43:15] Erik: Never heard of her.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:23] Erik: Downloaded it, put this on, and probably listened to it 20 times over the course of 10 days.
[0:43:23 – 0:43:28] Adam: Yeah, I found the album later, and then I was like, Eric, have you heard of this Little Sims?
[0:43:28 – 0:43:30] Adam: That’s the one from American Campground.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:32] Adam: I’ve been listening to it the whole road trip.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:36] Adam: And then I went back and listened to those, and they’re like, yeah, you sure are listening to it.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:37] Erik: Yeah, it’s so good.
[0:43:38 – 0:43:45] Erik: So, yeah, the song that was started with Introvert is the opener, which I think could read as a thesis for the album.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:47 – 0:43:57] Erik: But I think my year’s favorite trio of songs is kind of towards the back half, which it starts with the –
[0:44:04 – 0:44:33] Erik: glammy bouncy boogie that is protect my energy which is I think applicable to any human these days um and then before getting to the near perfect back to back point and kill and fear no man which those three in a row and sandwiched in there is like the 42nd just never make promises never make promises never make promises ah ah
[0:44:34 – 0:44:36] Adam: Yeah, that’s such a great part of the album.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:36] Adam: I just love it.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:39] Adam: I love those little, like, fairy tale interludes.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:40] Erik: Yeah, the fairy tale interludes.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:42] Erik: Do you know who voices those?
[0:44:42 – 0:44:43] Erik: Have you ever seen The Crown?
[0:44:43 – 0:44:43] Erik: No.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:45] Erik: Have you ever seen The Crown?
[0:44:46 – 0:44:47] Erik: Yeah, yeah.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:48] Erik: So, you know Princess Diana?
[0:44:48 – 0:44:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:56] Erik: That’s who voices the, she’s like the fairy godmother or whatever personified person.
[0:44:57 – 0:45:02] Erik: It’s always like, do you want five minutes or five years or whatever?
[0:45:02 – 0:45:06] Erik: That’s apparently, what do I have in the notes here actually?
[0:45:07 – 0:45:09] Erik: That’s Emma Corrin.
[0:45:09 – 0:45:10] Erik: Emma Corrin.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:13] Erik: Yeah, Emma Corrin who plays Princess Di in The Crown.
[0:45:15 – 0:45:26] Erik: Is the, like, yelling all of the interpersonal, like, princess feelings.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:31] Erik: In another world or on another album, I can imagine those not working great.
[0:45:32 – 0:45:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:33 – 0:45:34] Erik: And they don’t really do…
[0:45:37 – 0:45:42] Erik: Sometimes I’ll find myself skipping them.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Erik: I don’t.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:46] Erik: On any other album, I would for sure skip them.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:49] Erik: But I mostly listen to them at this point.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:52] Erik: I’ll almost always put them on and listen to them.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:55] Adam: Yeah, like I said at the top, I generally just put an album on and let it run.
[0:45:56 – 0:46:01] Adam: For me, those are a feature, not a thing to get out of the way.
[0:46:01 – 0:46:04] Erik: I don’t think that those would really work in very many other albums, though.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:10] Adam: Yeah, it’s unusual, for sure, and I generally agree with you.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:14] Adam: That wouldn’t be something I’d be excited about, but in this album…
[0:46:15 – 0:46:16] Adam: Quite good.
[0:46:17 – 0:46:20] Erik: I’m assuming then at this point that you must have her a little higher on your list.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:21] Adam: I do.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:23] Adam: I have Little Sims higher.
[0:46:23 – 0:46:25] Adam: We will eventually get there.
[0:46:26 – 0:46:28] Adam: Coming up at number eight.
[0:46:29 – 0:46:32] Adam: So now I’m going to eight.
[0:46:32 – 0:46:33] Erik: No, it’s your nine.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:39] Adam: No, Roosevelt was my number nine.
[0:46:39 – 0:46:40] Erik: Oh, sorry.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:40] Erik: You’re right.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:43] Erik: What is your eight?
[0:46:43 – 0:46:44] Erik: Let me queue it up here.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:48] Erik: If it’s her, I can just play another one of hers?
[0:46:48 – 0:46:50] Adam: No, if it was, I would have just said that.
[0:46:51 – 0:46:54] Adam: Little Sims is farther up, so I can’t just jump to it.
[0:46:54 – 0:47:01] Adam: Coming up next on TumbleToon’s Top 10, 21, 22, 12.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:02] Adam: That’s the solstice.
[0:47:03 – 0:47:03] Adam: That’s it?
[0:47:04 – 0:47:07] Adam: It’s Lil Nas X, Montero.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:36] Adam: um nice probably you know the the most fun album of the whole of the whole gd year yeah uh what are we playing off of this i was gonna play the miley cyrus song at the end because that’s not the most fun one it isn’t uh void i like void if you want to go the void i’d be fine with that um yeah voids voids pretty uh pretty uh pretty goddamn great um
[0:47:38 – 0:47:42] Adam: It’s not like, I don’t know, it has all the elements of the album to it.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:47] Adam: The Miley song, I like a final track.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:51] Adam: It’s a good album.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:53] Adam: It’s so good.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:56] Adam: I guess this is kind of a guilty pleasure album.
[0:47:56 – 0:47:58] Adam: I didn’t think I was going to like this one that much.
[0:47:58 – 0:48:03] Adam: And then I started listening to it and listening to it and listening to it and listening to it.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:07] Adam: This one was definitely stuck in my head for a good month.
[0:48:08 – 0:48:08] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:08 – 0:48:09] Adam: Whenever it came out.
[0:48:10 – 0:48:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:12] Erik: I don’t know what it was.
[0:48:12 – 0:48:13] Adam: I think it came out late.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:16] Adam: It was like, this is the one that should have been the album of the summer.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:16] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:18] Adam: It was like in the fall.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:23] Erik: I have my what should have been the album of the summer album on my list as well.
[0:48:24 – 0:48:28] Erik: It’s not this, but there was some, I don’t know what it was.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:41] Erik: about this album that it was it was like a Bunsen burner where you put like the little strip of
[0:48:43 – 0:49:09] Erik: lithium or whatever on it and it just flamed for like a hot second and then it just completely dropped off i don’t know what it was i can’t explain it but i listened to it for about a solid two weeks every day and then i just i haven’t listened to it since when it was out i don’t know it’s just yeah i guess i haven’t really listened to it a lot lately there’s not that there’s anything wrong with that like
[0:49:09 – 0:49:15] Adam: This is, I guess, a lot like Roosevelt, and probably why it’s at the top end of the list and not the bottom.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:20] Adam: Because it was an album that I listened to a lot when it came out, and then it was a ways back.
[0:49:22 – 0:49:24] Adam: This one, I believe, came out in the fall, though.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:26] Adam: We were like, where was this one in August?
[0:49:27 – 0:49:34] Erik: But surely, it should have been an earlier release for the kids to have a fun summer.
[0:49:34 – 0:49:35] Adam: They were working on the music videos or something.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:36] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:36] Adam: The…
[0:49:38 – 0:49:42] Adam: The little, like, you know, things that play on Spotify when you’re playing the song.
[0:49:42 – 0:49:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:49:42 – 0:49:44] Adam: These little, like, video clipettes.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:49] Adam: But, yeah, I was going through this album last night.
[0:49:51 – 0:50:16] Adam: and i had like three other tracks in mind and ultimately i was like i don’t know i’ll just go with like the the miley cyrus guitar track at the end that’s a good that’s a good track it’s a good track you know you know me i love miley well there’s an entirely different list that is albums of the year versus songs of the year no doubt because there’s so many songs of the year that aren’t on my top i hit this song last night i was like
[0:50:17 – 0:50:20] Adam: I don’t remember this song being this good.
[0:50:20 – 0:50:25] Adam: And I listened to Void like three times in a row, and I was like, this might be the track of the whole album.
[0:50:26 – 0:50:28] Erik: Oh, yeah, it’s up there for sure.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:30] Erik: I also love Lost in the Citadel.
[0:50:31 – 0:50:34] Erik: And Scoop, but that’s for personal reasons.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:35] Erik: Scoop, you know, yeah.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:36] Adam: Everybody loves Scoop.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:38] Adam: That one’s a little too much candy, so.
[0:50:39 – 0:50:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:50:40 – 0:50:42] Adam: I don’t think we need to give it too much of a plug.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:44] Adam: Let me check my notes.
[0:50:45 – 0:50:48] Adam: Lil Nas X. Yeah, everybody’s heard of him.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:54] Adam: Maybe somebody’s heard of him, but I think this artist is going places, Eric.
[0:50:54 – 0:50:58] Erik: Yeah, you might hear from this guy a little bit going forward.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:00] Erik: If you haven’t heard of him yet, you’ll hear about him.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:01] Erik: Don’t worry.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:03] Erik: This album’s pretty damn good, though.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:03] Erik: It is good.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:06] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:09] Erik: I had to make a bit of a conscious decision.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:25] Erik: between this one and the other album that were kind of the same in like you know the lady lady justice out in front of the courtroom weighing they were kind of the same album in my mind and the one that I decided to choose
[0:51:27 – 0:51:31] Erik: Made it all the way to farther up my list, we shall say.
[0:51:31 – 0:51:32] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:32] Erik: Wow.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:40] Erik: But it was specifically because of this album that led me to listening to the album that made it as far as it did.
[0:51:41 – 0:51:41] Erik: All right.
[0:51:41 – 0:51:43] Erik: But that’s not where we’re going next.
[0:51:43 – 0:51:46] Erik: We’re going to my eight.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:48] Adam: Eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight.
[0:51:48 – 0:52:05] Erik: Yeah, and I think this is probably, if I were to glean a little bit from the comments you made about the Hand Habits album, one that is slowly climbing yours, I think for the most part, most of the music that’s on here is like,
[0:52:06 – 0:52:14] Erik: Maybe one other album, I guess, is one that kind of got added a little bit late where it’s like, yeah, maybe in a month I could feel completely different.
[0:52:14 – 0:52:16] Erik: But right now, it’s on the list.
[0:52:16 – 0:52:17] Erik: I’m feeling it.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:24] Erik: And this one has been slowly climbing, and that is the Magdalena Bay album.
[0:52:24 – 0:52:53] Adam: album i’m glad you had this mercurial world you put this one in my mind and i love it but i i couldn’t bring myself to put it on my list because i just i haven’t listened to it enough yeah this is a eric exceptional gotta we just gotta go to the the banger on the album and this is taking away from the first three tracks on the album that lead up to this point yeah uh i mean go watch the music video for this also watch the music video for this
[0:52:54 – 0:52:56] Erik: I mean, what do you say about another synth-pop album?
[0:52:57 – 0:52:59] Adam: We’d never have enough synth-pop albums.
[0:53:01 – 0:53:04] Erik: But it’s steeped in like an odd nostalgia.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:06] Erik: Like a…
[0:53:08 – 0:53:11] Erik: Remember when CDs used to come in the mail with internet on them?
[0:53:11 – 0:53:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:12 – 0:53:13] Erik: That’s what this music is.
[0:53:14 – 0:53:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:14 – 0:53:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:18 – 0:53:21] Adam: AOL internet CDs when nobody had the internet.
[0:53:21 – 0:53:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:25] Adam: They’re like, me and my buddies are trying to hack the internet.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:29] Adam: We don’t have, nothing’s plugged into the wall.
[0:53:30 – 0:53:31] Adam: It’s a Dell.
[0:53:32 – 0:53:33] Adam: Windows 3.0.
[0:53:34 – 0:53:36] Adam: You get hooked up to nothing.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:37] Erik: Dude, you’re getting a Dell.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:41] Adam: I love it.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:41] Adam: I love it.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:44] Adam: I love it.
[0:53:44 – 0:53:47] Adam: The saxophone playing through the field of green at the end.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:56] Adam: I love how the guy in this band doesn’t seem to know where he is in the entire video.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:57] Erik: No I know.
[0:53:58 – 0:53:59] Adam: Does he even know he’s in the band?
[0:54:00 – 0:54:01] Adam: Magdalena.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:15] Erik: Consistent vaporwave beats and just enough experimentation.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:29] Erik: It is quickly growing on me, and this track is a light club dance hit with its pianos swirling in and out of the void.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:38] Erik: Galactic distortions all cut through perfectly by the treacly vocals of Micah Tenenbaum.
[0:54:38 – 0:54:39] Erik: Treacly?
[0:54:39 – 0:54:40] Erik: Treacly.
[0:54:41 – 0:55:03] Erik: i love that’s my like new go-to adjective is treacly yeah it was overly sweet make me a little hotter under the collar with that which i also like have recently i’m hotter they call that’s what they call molasses in the uk treacle but then we also have sherry
[0:55:05 – 0:55:12] Erik: Which is an ominous, droning, ever-bass-dropping banger.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:15] Adam: You should probably go do it.
[0:55:16 – 0:55:18] Adam: It’s so Chromatics-esque, though.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:20] Adam: Chromatics, there we go.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:21] Adam: What are they up to?
[0:55:22 – 0:55:22] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:25] Adam: We need more kinds like that.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:27] Adam: Cherry.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:27] Adam: Cherry.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:40] Erik: Yeah, this one, if you’re listening to this through the microphone that we were recording in, you’re definitely not getting the full experience of the bass line.
[0:55:42 – 0:55:48] Erik: And this one just continues to build and breaks down in an excellent way.
[0:56:09 – 0:56:12] Adam: I honestly thought this might be your number one.
[0:56:13 – 0:56:15] Erik: He thought this was going to be all the way at number one.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:17] Erik: It’s been skyrocketing.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:19] Erik: You can see the twinkle in your eye when you listen to this.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:20] Erik: It’s been skyrocketing.
[0:56:21 – 0:56:29] Erik: I mean, it’s also got Hysterical Us, Prophecy, and The Beginning, which is the last track on the song.
[0:56:29 – 0:56:32] Adam: I’m excited for this album because I’m just getting into it now.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:35] Adam: And it might be number one for this year.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:38] Adam: If you ask me in a year, probably not, but it could be.
[0:56:39 – 0:56:40] Adam: I mean, it’s that good.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:44] Erik: No, it’s right in my wheelhouse.
[0:56:44 – 0:56:50] Erik: It’s right in my soft, pink, little, easily accessible wheelhouse.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:58] Erik: It’s like the little hole in Star Wars where it’s like, why’d you build a whole Death Star if you could just easily be penetrated by that one spot?
[0:56:58 – 0:57:05] Erik: It’s like, if you could make an album that sounds like this, yeah, you’re going straight to my heart.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:08] Erik: You’re going to destroy the Death Star that is my body.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:11] Adam: You’re going to knock Bo Burnham out.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:57:13 – 0:57:27] Adam: no there’s only 10 spots in the top 10 well we can’t just sit here and listen to the entire magdalena bay album good though we could good though next up on the show my number eight
[0:57:28 – 0:57:29] Adam: Are you ready, Eric?
[0:57:30 – 0:57:30] Adam: I am.
[0:57:30 – 0:57:31] Adam: I’ll search it immediately.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:37] Adam: I believe you already shouted this out as an honorable mention, but I’m going with Blue Bannisters.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:39] Adam: Ah, Lorna.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:40] Erik: Lorna.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:43] Adam: Lorna Del Rey, Blue Bannisters.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:50] Adam: Every single place I looked at had chemtrails over the country clubs rated higher.
[0:57:50 – 0:57:56] Adam: I don’t know what the fuck they’re smoking, but Blue Bannisters is better in every way.
[0:57:57 – 0:58:06] Erik: Yeah, I would agree with that, but I would say White Dress from Country Club is probably in my top five songs of the year.
[0:58:07 – 0:58:09] Adam: Yeah, well, that’s the thing with Lana Del Rey.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:11] Erik: But nothing else on that album, really?
[0:58:11 – 0:58:14] Adam: Who puts on two full-length albums in one year, for one?
[0:58:14 – 0:58:16] Erik: Really speaks to me that much.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:17 – 0:58:24] Adam: I’m going with Dealer, though, if you want to get to the real banger.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:25] Adam: I mean, the whole album’s a banger.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:30] Adam: But Dealer is my favorite, and the whole album’s really good, though.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:35] Adam: Yeah, you got to play this because it’s the scummers.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:39] Erik: I was going to say, we should probably just wake up Tori with this.
[0:58:43 – 0:58:48] Adam: Yeah, we were driving back from Duluth, and Natalie’s like, there’s a new Lana Del Rey album.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:50] Adam: I was like, put it on.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:53] Adam: We were getting around Beaver Bay, and this came on.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:55] Adam: I was like, what?
[0:58:56 – 0:58:56] Adam: What is this?
[0:58:57 – 0:58:58] Adam: It’s just an interlude.
[0:58:59 – 0:58:59] Adam: What?
[0:58:59 – 0:59:01] Adam: This should be a full song.
[0:59:01 – 0:59:03] Erik: Why is this not a full song?
[0:59:03 – 0:59:06] Erik: I was like, I want it to be like, come on, Lorna.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:13] Adam: So yeah, anybody who listened to the White Fishing episodes will recognize that was the start of all the White Fishing season.
[0:59:15 – 0:59:17] Adam: That’s about when the album came out.
[0:59:17 – 0:59:18] Adam: Dealers, so good.
[0:59:19 – 0:59:24] Adam: I could listen to this song a hundred times a day, every day, and never get sick of it.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:30] Adam: I love her voice, and I just love the way this…
[0:59:31 – 0:59:37] Adam: Please don’t try to follow
[0:59:39 – 0:59:48] Erik: It doesn’t even, like, it doesn’t sound like her kind of music, really, but it is at the same time.
[0:59:48 – 0:59:49] Erik: It’s so weird.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:51] Erik: I totally agree with you.
[0:59:51 – 0:59:56] Erik: I feel like Blue Banisters is the superior album of the two.
[0:59:56 – 0:59:57] Erik: It’s so much better.
[0:59:57 – 0:59:58] Erik: It’s way better, I think.
[0:59:58 – 0:59:59] Adam: That’s just my opinion, but…
[1:00:00 – 1:00:19] Adam: i listened to them both and we were listening to this i was like this is this is the one yeah i feel like chemtrails was like a joke album compared to this and then that shocked to find that all the other any website you could find that rates albums is like chemtrails is so good yeah i don’t know what the story is like she should have just taken um
[1:00:22 – 1:00:45] Adam: parts from both and i don’t know whatever yeah do you shout out for having two whole full-length albums on one year yeah you’re insane what are you and big thief doing that give me all my money this is another one famous this one was definitely uh big in the fall for me
[1:00:49 – 1:00:52] Adam: I find myself, like, singing this song.
[1:00:53 – 1:00:55] Adam: I actually find myself singing this song more.
[1:00:55 – 1:00:56] Erik: Oh, you can, yeah.
[1:00:56 – 1:00:57] Erik: Because I know the words.
[1:00:57 – 1:00:59] Erik: Because you can actually sing it.
[1:00:59 – 1:01:00] Erik: I can actually sing it, you know.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:02] Erik: Which is the most ridiculous thing about it.
[1:01:02 – 1:01:09] Adam: I find myself doing weird things like, Give me all your money, give me all your money, give me all your money.
[1:01:10 – 1:01:10] Adam: Oh.
[1:01:12 – 1:01:13] Adam: Just slowing it down, speeding it up.
[1:01:14 – 1:01:15] Adam: For nothing.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:23] Adam: One strand of my man.
[1:01:24 – 1:01:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:26 – 1:01:31] Adam: I’ve always been a big fan of Larna Del Rey.
[1:01:31 – 1:01:34] Erik: Larna.
[1:01:34 – 1:01:38] Adam: This one’s right up there with Ultraviolence for me.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:40] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know if it gets that far for me.
[1:01:40 – 1:01:44] Adam: If you were going to get a Larna Del Rankers.
[1:01:44 – 1:01:45] Adam: A Larna Ranker?
[1:01:45 – 1:01:46] Adam: Larna Del Rankers going.
[1:01:47 – 1:01:49] Adam: I still think Ultraviolence would be top.
[1:01:51 – 1:02:18] Adam: but I think Blue Banisters would be probably number two for me which is the same a lot I don’t think I like this better than Lust for Life Lust for Life is right there too I mean prolific songwriter Jack Antonov I believe is the producer on this sounds about right they’re one of those combos you don’t find very often in music between the talent and the production yeah
[1:02:19 – 1:02:20] Adam: Love it.
[1:02:20 – 1:02:21] Adam: Everything they do.
[1:02:22 – 1:02:23] Adam: Give me all your money.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:25] Adam: Give me all your money.
[1:02:25 – 1:02:26] Adam: Give me all your money.
[1:02:27 – 1:02:27] Adam: Eric.
[1:02:33 – 1:02:34] Erik: Nailed it.
[1:02:35 – 1:02:35] Adam: You did.
[1:02:35 – 1:02:36] Adam: You really did.
[1:02:36 – 1:02:37] Adam: You carried that very well.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:39] Adam: I wish I could sing that.
[1:02:39 – 1:02:42] Erik: I wish I could sing that well to white dresses.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:43] Erik: Yeah, well.
[1:02:44 – 1:02:45] Erik: Or white dress, sorry.
[1:02:46 – 1:02:47] Adam: So, yeah.
[1:02:47 – 1:02:49] Adam: Anyways, yeah.
[1:02:49 – 1:02:50] Adam: Big props to this album.
[1:02:50 – 1:02:53] Adam: Double shout out to having two full-length albums out in one year, though.
[1:02:53 – 1:02:55] Adam: That’s a feat in its own kind.
[1:02:55 – 1:02:55] Adam: It is.
[1:02:56 – 1:02:56] Adam: Love it.
[1:02:59 – 1:03:00] Adam: That was seven for me.
[1:03:00 – 1:03:01] Erik: Seven for you?
[1:03:01 – 1:03:04] Erik: Seven for… Oh, seven for me is coming up.
[1:03:04 – 1:03:06] Erik: I may need a bathroom break.
[1:03:07 – 1:03:08] Erik: This is going to be a… Time out.
[1:03:08 – 1:03:10] Erik: This is going to be a big episode, people.
[1:03:10 – 1:03:10] Erik: Time out.
[1:03:10 – 1:03:17] Erik: Are you ready for this holiday miracle of a three-hour episode where we talk about our favorite music?
[1:03:18 – 1:03:18] Erik: And our feelings.
[1:03:18 – 1:03:27] Erik: And you kind of lightly get to listen to it and hear me whinge, whinge, whinge getting up off of the sofa because my back is…
[1:03:28 – 1:03:30] Erik: It’s destroyed for no reason.
[1:03:31 – 1:03:32] Erik: We don’t know why.
[1:03:32 – 1:03:34] Erik: We’ll be back in just a second.
[1:03:39 – 1:03:42] Erik: Goodbye.
[1:03:45 – 1:03:46] Erik: We’re going.
[1:03:46 – 1:03:47] Erik: We’re back.
[1:03:47 – 1:03:48] Adam: We’re back.
[1:03:49 – 1:03:49] Adam: Oh, boy.
[1:03:49 – 1:03:52] Adam: The stars are out tonight here on the solstice.
[1:03:53 – 1:03:54] Adam: It’s a beautiful night here on the hill.
[1:03:57 – 1:04:08] Adam: And next up on the show, not Eric’s number seven, but first, yes, that is coming up next on the show, but first, you couldn’t have said that any more confusingly.
[1:04:08 – 1:04:13] Adam: We have another show sponsor for the darkest night.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:15] Erik: Personal sponsor.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:15] Erik: We need more.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:16] Adam: I brought this one.
[1:04:16 – 1:04:18] Adam: Yeah, we have too many sponsors in the fridge.
[1:04:18 – 1:04:19] Adam: Who cares?
[1:04:19 – 1:04:20] Adam: It’s really darkness.
[1:04:21 – 1:04:21] Adam: Pretty good.
[1:04:22 – 1:04:23] Adam: Put that thing down.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:26] Adam: Put that thing down.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:26] Adam: We put her down.
[1:04:27 – 1:04:32] Adam: You sound like you’re on FM radio broadcast out of Ashland right now.
[1:04:33 – 1:04:36] Adam: Next up on the show, it’s the Cadence Special.
[1:04:36 – 1:04:40] Erik: I don’t even know what that means, but I’m assuming it’s some kind of a wine.
[1:04:40 – 1:04:44] Adam: Every year that I’ve lived here now, I’ve made the Cadence Special.
[1:04:44 – 1:04:45] Erik: Every year that I’ve lived.
[1:04:46 – 1:04:47] Adam: Here in the Cadence Valley.
[1:04:47 – 1:04:47] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:50] Adam: We can’t disclose those locations.
[1:04:52 – 1:05:11] Adam: uh rhubarb it’s basically rhubarb wine okay and uh mixed with whatever else i’ve got around this year i believe we have some uh blue valiant grape and uh raspberry i want to say sounds right the best i’ll have any jam you have not strawberry though
[1:05:13 – 1:05:13] Adam: Raspberry?
[1:05:13 – 1:05:14] Adam: Raspberry’s good, yeah.
[1:05:14 – 1:05:17] Adam: That’s what we’re going to put in the Cadence Special this year.
[1:05:18 – 1:05:25] Adam: Generally, it’s an 80% rhubarb blend with whatever you got around, and it always works out seasonally.
[1:05:25 – 1:05:31] Adam: This is the fourth iteration, I believe, of the Cadence Special, Eric.
[1:05:31 – 1:05:31] Adam: This is the 21th.
[1:05:33 – 1:06:01] Adam: might want to hang on to a couple of these put it in the home cellar but i do have some in the crawl space don’t worry this one we’re gonna eat uh we’re gonna eat this one fresh we’re gonna eat this one let’s eat it we uh oh my god it’s fine nothing happened everything i see i feel like everything happened is everybody okay i mean axel seems fine the fire’s still burning
[1:06:03 – 1:06:04] Erik: I think we’re good.
[1:06:04 – 1:06:05] Erik: Rhubarb wine.
[1:06:05 – 1:06:07] Erik: We’re going to go ahead and pour it.
[1:06:07 – 1:06:10] Erik: Are we pouring that right into our mouths?
[1:06:10 – 1:06:14] Adam: I’m just going to put it in the glass with the whatever residue of the surly.
[1:06:14 – 1:06:15] Erik: The surly residue?
[1:06:15 – 1:06:16] Adam: Sure.
[1:06:16 – 1:06:19] Adam: It only seems appropriate at this point on the solstice.
[1:06:20 – 1:06:21] Adam: This is such a dark night.
[1:06:22 – 1:06:23] Erik: It is dark.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:23] Erik: It’s windy.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:34] Erik: I don’t know if there’s maybe been some light attempts at the microphones picking up the winds that are literally rattling my house right now.
[1:06:36 – 1:06:37] Erik: That’s the one nice thing about the wine, though.
[1:06:38 – 1:06:39] Erik: You don’t got to be fancy with the pour.
[1:06:40 – 1:06:41] Erik: Just chug it in.
[1:06:41 – 1:06:43] Erik: It’s just dropping right in.
[1:06:43 – 1:06:44] Erik: You’re not going to overflow the body.
[1:06:44 – 1:06:47] Erik: You’re not going to build too much head.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:48] Erik: It’s just wine.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:48] Adam: Right.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:53] Adam: Pretty much since I corked this beautiful vintage, I’ve been doing it the French style.
[1:06:54 – 1:06:54] Erik: Yeah.
[1:06:54 – 1:06:55] Erik: Everything so far.
[1:06:55 – 1:06:59] Adam: Everything about this show, oh my God, is French.
[1:07:00 – 1:07:00] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:00 – 1:07:00] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:01 – 1:07:04] Erik: Everybody also drinks pint glasses full of wine.
[1:07:05 – 1:07:06] Adam: Well, it’s a home wine, you know.
[1:07:06 – 1:07:08] Adam: This is like 3%, Eric.
[1:07:08 – 1:07:09] Adam: Don’t get too carried away.
[1:07:09 – 1:07:10] Adam: I mean, is it, though?
[1:07:10 – 1:07:11] Adam: It’s rhubarb wine.
[1:07:12 – 1:07:12] Adam: Is it?
[1:07:12 – 1:07:14] Adam: Yeah, I’ve learned my lessons, all right?
[1:07:14 – 1:07:15] Adam: This is in 2016.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:16] Adam: When did you learn that lesson?
[1:07:16 – 1:07:17] Adam: Because I swear…
[1:07:17 – 1:07:18] Adam: Probably about 2017.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:29] Erik: Last year, you came over here on New Year’s and pumped a bunch of homemade blueberry wine down me and my wife’s throat, and we both basically got wasted…
[1:07:29 – 1:07:32] Adam: You guys got poisoned by mushrooms, actually, is what happened.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:33] Adam: Oh.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Adam: It’s a phantom thread scenario.
[1:07:37 – 1:07:37] Adam: Yes.
[1:07:38 – 1:07:42] Adam: I believe what you had was the old, that was the old one, though.
[1:07:42 – 1:07:46] Adam: See, I still have a bunch of the olden wines in the crawl space.
[1:07:46 – 1:07:47] Erik: A bunch of the olden wines.
[1:07:47 – 1:07:50] Adam: Yeah, you probably had, that was probably a 2017 or something.
[1:07:50 – 1:07:51] Erik: I don’t make them like that anymore.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:52] Erik: That’s ridiculous.
[1:07:52 – 1:07:53] Erik: Let’s see.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:55] Erik: Cheers.
[1:07:55 – 1:07:55] Adam: I trust you.
[1:07:55 – 1:07:56] Adam: I trust you.
[1:08:00 – 1:08:00] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:01] Adam: Don’t worry.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:02] Adam: This one’s nice and light.
[1:08:03 – 1:08:03] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:04 – 1:08:05] Adam: This one’s real sippable.
[1:08:06 – 1:08:07] Erik: A little bit more manageable.
[1:08:09 – 1:08:11] Adam: Yeah, you gotta watch out on those old wines, though.
[1:08:11 – 1:08:12] Adam: Those were like 15 percenters.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:14] Adam: Yeah, some of those old ones.
[1:08:14 – 1:08:16] Adam: Those were some real psycho wines right there.
[1:08:16 – 1:08:17] Adam: I didn’t know what I was doing back then.
[1:08:18 – 1:08:19] Adam: Yeah, those are some real old…
[1:08:19 – 1:08:20] Adam: I didn’t have a hydrometer.
[1:08:20 – 1:08:24] Erik: Yeah, those are some old… Those are liver-clogging wines.
[1:08:26 – 1:08:29] Adam: There’s only a few of those still around.
[1:08:29 – 1:08:30] Erik: All the sediment.
[1:08:30 – 1:08:33] Adam: I can feel it getting caught up in my… Those are in the back part of the cellar.
[1:08:33 – 1:08:34] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[1:08:37 – 1:08:42] Adam: Next up on TumbleToon’s Top 10 2021.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:43] Erik: We’re only on to seven.
[1:08:43 – 1:08:45] Erik: This is going to be a big show.
[1:08:45 – 1:08:49] Erik: A Christmas gift and or miracle to you all.
[1:08:50 – 1:08:53] Adam: Every life is precious and gifts are a miracle.
[1:08:56 – 1:08:57] Erik: Gifts are a miracle.
[1:08:58 – 1:08:59] Erik: This is my seven.
[1:09:03 – 1:09:05] Erik: It’s the album that I put in.
[1:09:07 – 1:09:11] Erik: Instead of Lil Nas X, it’s also the most loon-heavy album.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:14] Erik: Yeah, I picked that up.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:21] Adam: Oh!
[1:09:24 – 1:09:24] Adam: Copyrighted.
[1:09:24 – 1:09:26] Adam: You can’t play that much.
[1:09:26 – 1:09:27] Erik: You just got copywritten.
[1:09:27 – 1:09:29] Erik: Wait, let’s put on the next song.
[1:09:29 – 1:09:30] Erik: See if you can notice something.
[1:09:31 – 1:09:33] Erik: A through line of sound effects.
[1:09:54 – 1:09:59] Erik: Number seven, Doja Cat’s Woman.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:00] Erik: Sorry.
[1:10:01 – 1:10:05] Erik: That’s the first track off of the Little Sims album.
[1:10:05 – 1:10:07] Erik: Talking Doja Cat’s Planet Her.
[1:10:10 – 1:10:12] Erik: Filled with loon calls.
[1:10:13 – 1:10:15] Adam: Yeah, somebody knows the value of the loon call there.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:38] Erik: yeah it’s not honestly it’s not really the real reason it’s just weird that there are so many loon calls on so many so many curse words yeah you know so many curse words gotta loon them gotta loon call those things yeah the this is an impeccably produced cornucopia of pop rap gems my god
[1:10:40 – 1:10:44] Erik: I learned about Doja Cat from the Lil Nas X album, to be honest with you.
[1:10:45 – 1:10:49] Erik: And since starting in on this album, I have not stopped listening to it.
[1:10:51 – 1:11:02] Erik: Yeah, the Loon Calls slash Loon Bleeps are just an added bonus that somehow oddly speaks to this podcast.
[1:11:02 – 1:11:03] Adam: It sure does.
[1:11:04 – 1:11:06] Adam: I gotta say, I have not listened to this album.
[1:11:06 – 1:11:07] Adam: Oh, really?
[1:11:07 – 1:11:07] Adam: Really?
[1:11:07 – 1:11:10] Adam: So I was kind of hoping I was going to get one of these.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:16] Adam: This is probably, I’m going to guess, a pretty popular album.
[1:11:16 – 1:11:17] Erik: I think so.
[1:11:17 – 1:11:18] Erik: A lot of people know about this.
[1:11:18 – 1:11:19] Erik: Yeah, in the grand scheme of things.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:22] Adam: Somehow I don’t know about this, but I’m okay with that.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:24] Adam: I’m okay being late to the party.
[1:11:25 – 1:11:30] Adam: But the recommendation at number seven, plus the loon calls themselves.
[1:11:30 – 1:11:32] Adam: Plus the loon calls.
[1:11:32 – 1:11:33] Adam: I’m all in.
[1:11:33 – 1:11:34] Adam: Now I’m changing my answer.
[1:11:34 – 1:11:36] Adam: This is what I’m going to listen to on the ride home.
[1:11:37 – 1:11:39] Adam: And can’t wait to hear more.
[1:11:39 – 1:11:40] Adam: Sounds fun.
[1:11:41 – 1:11:44] Adam: Especially the comparison to the Lil Nas X.
[1:11:44 – 1:11:46] Erik: The relationship there.
[1:11:46 – 1:11:49] Adam: That sounds like something I would listen to a lot of.
[1:11:50 – 1:11:56] Erik: Yeah, I think every track on this album is one I could put on.
[1:11:57 – 1:11:59] Erik: And I played, I think, two of the more catchier ones.
[1:12:00 – 1:12:07] Erik: The only other one that I would shout out would be the Ain’t Shit album, which is the soulful bop.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:16] Erik: And probably is a little bit outside of my realm of full understanding, but musically, I love it.
[1:12:17 – 1:12:18] Erik: And that’s my seven.
[1:12:19 – 1:12:23] Erik: And there’s so many more tracks off of this album.
[1:12:23 – 1:12:28] Erik: I wish I could just blast for us right now, but…
[1:12:30 – 1:12:37] Adam: Listen to your friends when they say Niggas ain’t shit, niggas ain’t shit
[1:12:46 – 1:12:49] Adam: All right.
[1:12:51 – 1:12:53] Erik: Your number seven coming up next.
[1:12:53 – 1:12:54] Erik: What do you got?
[1:12:55 – 1:12:55] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:12:55 – 1:13:01] Adam: And this is the one I’m picking a remix off of an album that did come out this year.
[1:13:01 – 1:13:02] Adam: Change Phobia.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:04] Adam: Rastam.
[1:13:05 – 1:13:05] Adam: Change phobia.
[1:13:05 – 1:13:08] Adam: But I want the remixes.
[1:13:08 – 1:13:08] Adam: Hold on.
[1:13:09 – 1:13:10] Adam: I’m going to have to pull it up.
[1:13:10 – 1:13:12] Adam: I want to play Forerunner, though.
[1:13:12 – 1:13:13] Adam: The first Forerunner remix.
[1:13:14 – 1:13:14] Erik: Wait, wait, wait.
[1:13:15 – 1:13:16] Erik: You want to play some remixes?
[1:13:16 – 1:13:18] Erik: You don’t want to just play OGs off of the thing?
[1:13:19 – 1:13:20] Adam: No, I want the remix on this one for sure.
[1:13:21 – 1:13:22] Erik: Where do you find those?
[1:13:22 – 1:13:23] Adam: You gotta search it out, I guess.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:29] Erik: So your seven, just to be clear, your seven is Rostam’s Change Phobia, but the remixes?
[1:13:29 – 1:13:30] Adam: No, that’s my six.
[1:13:31 – 1:13:35] Erik: Six, but you’re specifically wanting to play remixes off of that album?
[1:13:35 – 1:13:38] Adam: Right, as the example, yeah.
[1:13:38 – 1:13:39] Erik: I don’t know…
[1:13:39 – 1:13:42] Adam: I think it’s legal because both the album and the remixes.
[1:13:42 – 1:13:43] Adam: Well, if it’s legal.
[1:13:43 – 1:13:48] Adam: The album and the remixes both came out in 2021.
[1:13:48 – 1:13:51] Adam: And I like the Baby Jesus.
[1:13:51 – 1:13:53] Erik: The backyard version of Forerunner?
[1:13:53 – 1:13:55] Adam: Yeah, I want the backyard version.
[1:13:55 – 1:13:57] Erik: Or the Easy Fun remix.
[1:13:57 – 1:13:59] Adam: No, I want the backyard version, please.
[1:14:01 – 1:14:04] Adam: That’s honestly superior to the original Forerunner.
[1:14:04 – 1:14:07] Adam: I’m sorry to say it, Rostam, but you fucked up.
[1:14:08 – 1:14:10] Adam: You should have put the backyard version in.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:18] Adam: So it’s just slower?
[1:14:22 – 1:14:22] Adam: Yeah, and better.
[1:14:23 – 1:14:24] Erik: Yeah, and better.
[1:14:26 – 1:14:27] Erik: So I can’t tell.
[1:14:27 – 1:14:30] Erik: So Change Phobia Remixes is your album at six?
[1:14:30 – 1:14:32] Adam: No, no, just regular Change Phobia.
[1:14:32 – 1:14:35] Erik: Okay, but we’re playing a track off of a different album.
[1:14:35 – 1:14:36] Adam: It’s the same album.
[1:14:36 – 1:14:38] Adam: It’s just a couple remixes, Eric.
[1:14:38 – 1:14:38] Adam: Okay.
[1:14:38 – 1:14:39] Erik: Okay.
[1:14:40 – 1:14:40] Adam: It’s 2021.
[1:14:40 – 1:14:43] Erik: Why do you have to be so confusing all the time?
[1:14:45 – 1:14:49] Adam: Change Phobia is my pick at number six.
[1:14:49 – 1:14:50] Adam: Rastam.
[1:14:51 – 1:14:55] Erik: It was on my list of albums to pick from.
[1:14:56 – 1:14:57] Erik: It was definitely in my top 20.
[1:14:59 – 1:14:59] Erik: Didn’t make it.
[1:15:00 – 1:15:02] Erik: Not to spoil anything for you, but didn’t make it.
[1:15:02 – 1:15:04] Adam: You kind of had to know I was going to pick it, though.
[1:15:05 – 1:15:07] Adam: I’ve been listening to this thing like crazy.
[1:15:07 – 1:15:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:08 – 1:15:10] Adam: I assumed you were going to pick it.
[1:15:10 – 1:15:11] Adam: The original was amazing.
[1:15:11 – 1:15:12] Adam: I listened to it a lot.
[1:15:12 – 1:15:15] Adam: It was in the Spotify rap.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:16] Adam: Yeah, no.
[1:15:17 – 1:15:18] Adam: I mean, I loved it.
[1:15:19 – 1:15:24] Adam: But then, Rastam re-released the remixes from the same album.
[1:15:25 – 1:15:28] Erik: From the Back of a Cab is still probably one of my favorite songs of the year.
[1:15:29 – 1:15:30] Adam: Yes.
[1:15:30 – 1:15:32] Erik: Like, that’s a classic song.
[1:15:32 – 1:15:33] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:33 – 1:15:37] Adam: So then the remixes came out, and then I started listening to it all over again.
[1:15:37 – 1:15:40] Adam: I was like, oh, this is so, so good.
[1:15:40 – 1:15:40] Adam: I love this album.
[1:15:41 – 1:15:43] Adam: So I had to make the list, of course.
[1:15:43 – 1:15:45] Adam: It ended up coming in at number six.
[1:15:46 – 1:15:47] Adam: I’m pleasantly surprised.
[1:15:47 – 1:15:47] Adam: I loved it.
[1:15:49 – 1:15:50] Erik: Yeah, no, it’s good.
[1:15:50 – 1:15:52] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:59] Adam: The remixes are not for everyone, I guess, but I do think this is the better version of Forerunner.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:01] Adam: Sorry, I did say it.
[1:16:02 – 1:16:02] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:16:02 – 1:16:03] Erik: Forerunner.
[1:16:03 – 1:16:05] Erik: I’d need to listen to them both back to back.
[1:16:05 – 1:16:08] Adam: The Easy Fun Mix, though, Eric, you wouldn’t like it.
[1:16:08 – 1:16:10] Adam: If you haven’t listened, don’t listen to the Easy Fun Mix.
[1:16:11 – 1:16:12] Adam: It’s a little too weird.
[1:16:14 – 1:16:15] Adam: A little too fast.
[1:16:18 – 1:16:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:16:19 – 1:16:20] Erik: I like it faster.
[1:16:20 – 1:16:21] Erik: I think I like it a little faster.
[1:16:21 – 1:16:22] Erik: Oops.
[1:16:23 – 1:16:24] Erik: I just paused it.
[1:16:24 – 1:16:24] Erik: Sorry.
[1:16:25 – 1:16:25] Adam: That’s okay.
[1:16:27 – 1:16:32] Erik: My big old hurt back thick fingers don’t know what they’re doing.
[1:16:45 – 1:16:47] Adam: Where do you think Rostam lives?
[1:16:47 – 1:16:49] Adam: It’s got to be like California.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:50] Erik: Where do you think he lives?
[1:16:51 – 1:16:52] Erik: He seems like a New York guy.
[1:16:52 – 1:16:54] Adam: I thought he was a New York guy.
[1:16:54 – 1:16:56] Adam: This album just seems like he’s in California now.
[1:16:58 – 1:16:58] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:17:00 – 1:17:01] Adam: West Coast for sure.
[1:17:03 – 1:17:03] Erik: Oregon.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:06] Adam: Anybody out there?
[1:17:06 – 1:17:08] Adam: Anybody listening know where Rostam is?
[1:17:09 – 1:17:10] Erik: Anybody know where Rostam lives?
[1:17:13 – 1:17:13] Adam: Rostam.
[1:17:13 – 1:17:14] Adam: If you’re listening…
[1:17:17 – 1:17:20] Adam: If you’re listening to Rastam, we should go on a Boundary Waters trip.
[1:17:20 – 1:17:20] Adam: Call us up.
[1:17:22 – 1:17:23] Adam: Tumble Home Outfitting.
[1:17:23 – 1:17:28] Adam: I mean… Get a hold of us at TumbleHomeCast at gmail.com.
[1:17:28 – 1:17:29] Erik: TumbleHomeCast at gmail.com.
[1:17:29 – 1:17:30] Erik: Rastam.
[1:17:31 – 1:17:34] Erik: From the back of a cab is a very New York song.
[1:17:34 – 1:17:38] Adam: Yeah, that is a New York song title for sure.
[1:17:38 – 1:17:40] Erik: I do like the banjo on this version.
[1:17:41 – 1:17:42] Adam: Yeah, see?
[1:17:43 – 1:17:44] Adam: I knew you’d come around to the backyard version.
[1:17:44 – 1:17:45] Adam: Slow it down.
[1:17:45 – 1:17:46] Adam: Slow it down.
[1:17:47 – 1:17:47] Adam: More banjo.
[1:17:47 – 1:17:57] Erik: Put some banjo in it, and that’s any… See, and I knew you’d heard the original, and maybe you hadn’t heard this, so I wanted to play this.
[1:17:58 – 1:18:00] Erik: That’s a basic remix.
[1:18:01 – 1:18:06] Erik: Slow it down, but then also add a little bit of some banjo.
[1:18:06 – 1:18:08] Adam: Just a little bit of extra banjo on there.
[1:18:09 – 1:18:18] Adam: yeah they go all right so that’s six what’s your six my six do you want to play some more rostam i’m fine with that we just sit here and listen to music all night couldn’t we we could
[1:18:19 – 1:18:21] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:18:21 – 1:18:21] Erik: No, let’s move on.
[1:18:22 – 1:18:30] Erik: This is the one album that I was the most interested to find out where it ended up on your list, and I guess it’s going to just end up being…
[1:18:31 – 1:18:31] Erik: Your six?
[1:18:32 – 1:18:33] Erik: It’s my six.
[1:18:34 – 1:18:37] Erik: It’s going to end up being me who breaks the…
[1:18:38 – 1:18:38] Erik: I’m a little scared.
[1:18:38 – 1:18:39] Erik: You’re scared.
[1:18:39 – 1:18:43] Erik: You’re scared to see where this album ends up?
[1:18:44 – 1:18:45] Adam: No.
[1:18:45 – 1:18:45] Adam: No.
[1:18:56 – 1:18:59] Erik: Is it the beginning of a Tim and Eric sketch?
[1:19:00 – 1:19:01] Erik: No.
[1:19:01 – 1:19:05] Adam: It’s the beginning of one of the most…
[1:19:05 – 1:19:06] Adam: I’m just smiling over here.
[1:19:06 – 1:19:08] Erik: One of the catchiest songs of the year.
[1:19:28 – 1:19:44] Erik: The straightforward yet near perfect synth pop album doesn’t break down any walls of genre, but it’s tops from start to finish.
[1:19:48 – 1:19:57] Erik: You never quite know where it’s gonna go based on its simplistic, almost sometimes childish starts to songs.
[1:20:03 – 1:20:06] Erik: But it’s all held together by that fucking bass.
[1:20:08 – 1:20:11] Erik: That bass line I would die for.
[1:20:13 – 1:20:14] Adam: Ooh!
[1:20:16 – 1:20:17] Adam: I just now took a breath.
[1:20:18 – 1:20:19] Erik: Yeah.
[1:20:19 – 1:20:22] Erik: In my little review, I wrote, I want to put it on right now.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:23] Adam: Yeah.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:25] Adam: I always want to put it on.
[1:20:25 – 1:20:26] Erik: And just leave it on.
[1:20:26 – 1:20:32] Erik: If I’m ever in a position where I just don’t know what album to put on this year, I’m like, throw on Nation of Language.
[1:20:33 – 1:20:37] Erik: Throw on the Nation of Language a way forward, and you’re going to be happy.
[1:20:38 – 1:20:39] Erik: You’re going to be happy for 45 minutes.
[1:20:57 – 1:20:59] Adam: I’m like speechless and breathless right now.
[1:21:00 – 1:21:01] Adam: Sounds really good on these speakers.
[1:21:01 – 1:21:01] Adam: Damn.
[1:21:02 – 1:21:03] Adam: These are nice speakers.
[1:21:05 – 1:21:06] Erik: Yeah, we’re sitting in a good spot.
[1:21:13 – 1:21:15] Adam: I looked it up the other day.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:17] Adam: You can get this on vinyl right now for like $23.
[1:21:18 – 1:21:19] Adam: Nice.
[1:21:19 – 1:21:26] Adam: If I have any living relatives left who send me cash for Christmas, this is what I’m going to buy first.
[1:21:26 – 1:21:31] Adam: This is number one on the list of things to buy with my Christmas cash is this on vinyl.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:33] Erik: Christmas cash.
[1:21:34 – 1:21:39] Adam: This whole album is Christmas cash money in Music Farm right here.
[1:21:40 – 1:21:40] Adam: So good.
[1:22:00 – 1:22:04] Erik: I’m assuming we’re going to get to listen to more of that because you’re going to have it.
[1:22:04 – 1:22:06] Adam: Next up on the show, number five.
[1:22:08 – 1:22:09] Adam: We can save a little bit of that.
[1:22:09 – 1:22:11] Adam: We can save some of that.
[1:22:11 – 1:22:19] Adam: Number five on my list is Little Sims, which Eric had her at eight, seven.
[1:22:21 – 1:22:21] Adam: Nine?
[1:22:22 – 1:22:30] Adam: I can’t believe it, but I’m surprised I have Little Sims higher than you, but not surprised we both had Little Sims in the top ten.
[1:22:30 – 1:22:31] Adam: I want to listen to Speed.
[1:22:31 – 1:22:32] Adam: Can we listen to Speed?
[1:22:32 – 1:22:33] Adam: Yes, I was going to say.
[1:22:33 – 1:22:38] Adam: It’s one of the only songs you didn’t mention, and it’s the one I wanted to listen to the most.
[1:22:38 – 1:22:41] Adam: This is the one where I’ve really got to get my shit together and go.
[1:22:41 – 1:22:43] Adam: I put this on.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:46] Adam: I’ve so many times started my morning with this.
[1:22:47 – 1:22:48] Adam: This is a crazy thing.
[1:23:00 – 1:23:02] Music: You just should try that shit on someone that isn’t me in the crevice
[1:23:10 – 1:23:21] Erik: Yeah, my description of this when I was writing out my little descriptions of songs and reviews of albums is a jangly, Tune Yards-esque pop rap jam.
[1:23:21 – 1:23:22] Adam: Super Tune Yards-esque.
[1:23:22 – 1:23:23] Adam: That’s spot on.
[1:23:24 – 1:23:24] Adam: I love it.
[1:23:25 – 1:23:28] Adam: Yeah, there’s got to be some sort of connection between Sims and Tune Yards.
[1:23:28 – 1:23:29] Adam: There has to be.
[1:23:29 – 1:23:31] Adam: Yeah, we’re just like… Or one listen to the other.
[1:23:31 – 1:23:36] Erik: It comes in on the back end of a guitar riff and just…
[1:23:39 – 1:23:39] Erik: I love that.
[1:23:39 – 1:23:41] Adam: It’s a tinny, like… Yeah.
[1:23:43 – 1:23:43] Erik: It’s a keytar.
[1:23:44 – 1:23:44] Erik: What is this?
[1:23:44 – 1:23:45] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:23:45 – 1:23:48] Erik: It’s like the afterthought of a guitar riff.
[1:23:50 – 1:23:51] Adam: Yeah, I love it.
[1:23:52 – 1:23:54] Adam: One of my favorite songs of the year, for sure.
[1:23:56 – 1:23:59] Adam: I literally heard this, and I was like, Eric, Eric.
[1:24:00 – 1:24:02] Adam: You’ve heard of this Little Sims?
[1:24:03 – 1:24:06] Erik: I remember I came over to the shed one night, and you were listening to this.
[1:24:08 – 1:24:11] Erik: And I was like, oh, you’re listening to the Little Sims album?
[1:24:11 – 1:24:11] Erik: That’s crazy.
[1:24:11 – 1:24:13] Erik: Like, what’s your favorite song or whatever?
[1:24:13 – 1:24:14] Erik: And you’re like, I love Speed.
[1:24:15 – 1:24:16] Erik: And then we talked for like a half a second.
[1:24:16 – 1:24:17] Erik: I was like, you know what?
[1:24:18 – 1:24:23] Erik: Like, this is prominently displayed in the American campground.
[1:24:23 – 1:24:25] Adam: You’re not… No kidding.
[1:24:25 – 1:24:26] Erik: I guess we had never really talked about it.
[1:24:26 – 1:24:27] Adam: Yeah.
[1:24:27 – 1:24:30] Adam: I had listened to all the American campgrounds at that point, too.
[1:24:31 – 1:24:33] Adam: And as soon as you said it, I was like, oh, yeah.
[1:24:34 – 1:24:35] Adam: Maybe not prominently displayed, but…
[1:24:40 – 1:24:43] Adam: I can’t imagine being in the Dakotas listening to this.
[1:24:44 – 1:24:45] Adam: Hey.
[1:24:46 – 1:24:50] Erik: I started listening to this while I was still heading west.
[1:24:50 – 1:24:52] Erik: I hadn’t even turned around.
[1:24:52 – 1:24:57] Erik: I think the first time I listened to this, I was like, I think I was in Idaho.
[1:24:57 – 1:24:57] Erik: For sure.
[1:24:58 – 1:24:59] Adam: Definitely in Idaho.
[1:24:59 – 1:25:09] Adam: … … …
[1:25:10 – 1:25:10] Adam: Yeah.
[1:25:10 – 1:25:11] Adam: This album’s…
[1:25:11 – 1:25:13] Adam: This album’s really something.
[1:25:13 – 1:25:13] Erik: Yeah.
[1:25:13 – 1:25:19] Erik: No, the grandeur, the… Like I said, like… Yeah, this.
[1:25:20 – 1:25:21] Erik: It’s, uh…
[1:25:22 – 1:25:26] Erik: It’s very, like, early 2000s… Like, late 90s, early 2000s Jay-Z.
[1:25:27 – 1:25:30] Erik: Like, so…
[1:25:30 – 1:25:34] Erik: Heavy, aggressive, thematic, cinematic.
[1:25:34 – 1:25:35] Erik: Yeah.
[1:25:36 – 1:25:37] Erik: But she’s always…
[1:25:38 – 1:25:39] Erik: Explaining herself.
[1:25:40 – 1:25:41] Erik: It’s not just…
[1:25:41 – 1:25:43] Erik: It’s not just the sound.
[1:25:43 – 1:25:46] Music: So is it my number five?
[1:26:05 – 1:26:07] Erik: Yeah, that was my five.
[1:26:07 – 1:26:08] Adam: That was the five.
[1:26:08 – 1:26:13] Music: Speaking of… favorite trios of songs…
[1:26:13 – 1:26:16] Music: There’s a certain part of this album…
[1:26:31 – 1:26:40] Erik: That when it gets into it, there’s no differentiation between the songs.
[1:26:40 – 1:26:41] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[1:26:42 – 1:26:48] Erik: On the album lists, they come down as a certain like, okay, that’s track five.
[1:26:49 – 1:26:50] Erik: And then there’s track six.
[1:26:50 – 1:26:56] Erik: But in my opinion, when this song starts, I’m into it for the three songs.
[1:26:57 – 1:27:24] Erik: and it doesn’t matter how long they are doesn’t matter what their track listings are this is essentially one song in my opinion and it’s yeah i wish it was more accepted to have like a 15 minute long song well that’s why they all have to get broken up i know it’s tracks and oh you see like 20 you see a 20 minute track you’re just like streams there’s no way i could listen to that but it’s like well wait you’re listening to whole albums
[1:27:26 – 1:27:27] Erik: What’s the difference?
[1:27:29 – 1:27:43] Erik: But what I’m about to play next is, oddly enough, considering the same exact thing that I said about this album, which has great sets of three songs in a row.
[1:27:44 – 1:27:46] Erik: I think I know what you’re going to play.
[1:27:46 – 1:27:47] Erik: This little Sims album.
[1:27:48 – 1:27:50] Erik: But what I’m about to play next, I can’t wait.
[1:27:52 – 1:27:54] Erik: I think it’s a front-to-back explosion.
[1:27:55 – 1:28:08] Erik: Of continuously… Genuinely… Joyful, connected music.
[1:28:08 – 1:28:10] Adam: Oh, I like the way that sounds.
[1:28:12 – 1:28:16] Erik: And it excels… As a full album experience.
[1:28:18 – 1:28:22] Erik: But… You could put on any of these songs individually.
[1:28:23 – 1:28:24] Erik: I think for most people…
[1:28:26 – 1:28:27] Erik: And they would appreciate it.
[1:28:30 – 1:28:33] Erik: Blue Morpho.
[1:28:33 – 1:28:34] Erik: Starting with Interior People.
[1:28:35 – 1:28:38] Erik: Interior People, Catching Smoke, and 2.02 Killer Years.
[1:28:38 – 1:28:41] Adam: You could start with Blue Morpho, though, as a four-pack on this.
[1:28:41 – 1:28:42] Erik: You probably could.
[1:28:43 – 1:28:43] Erik: That’s the thing.
[1:28:43 – 1:28:47] Erik: You could start it anywhere, and you get the full package.
[1:28:48 – 1:28:52] Erik: And this is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards, Butterfly 3000.
[1:28:55 – 1:29:00] Erik: Obviously, if you’ve been following along with Tumble Home up to this point, not a surprise.
[1:29:01 – 1:29:03] Erik: I’m imagining Adam also has this.
[1:29:03 – 1:29:04] Erik: I do have this.
[1:29:04 – 1:29:05] Erik: I will confirm.
[1:29:07 – 1:29:11] Erik: I didn’t see this one on any end of the year lists by any of the big wigs.
[1:29:13 – 1:29:13] Erik: Missing out.
[1:29:13 – 1:29:14] Erik: I think they’re missing out.
[1:29:14 – 1:29:15] Erik: They don’t know.
[1:29:18 – 1:29:25] Adam: You watch the music video for this?
[1:29:26 – 1:29:27] Erik: Obviously.
[1:29:28 – 1:29:34] Erik: You know, I actually have not gone searching for any King Gizzard music videos.
[1:29:34 – 1:29:38] Erik: This was recorded COVID style, where they were all at home.
[1:29:41 – 1:29:42] Erik: Zoom recordings.
[1:29:42 – 1:29:46] Erik: So I can’t imagine that they have really extensive…
[1:29:48 – 1:30:09] Erik: access to a production company that can make it there’s a weird like animated music video of a moth flying for this yeah check it out yeah oh yeah well this is probably one of the albums if anybody’s been paying attention that they would not be surprised to find on this list
[1:30:12 – 1:30:29] Erik: five for me we talked about this i think even on the on the on the main show oh i i believe there might have been like one whole episode there’s a whole episode called or something there’s a whole episode just called the album of the summer it was about this kind of talk about this album yeah
[1:30:32 – 1:30:55] Erik: yeah honestly i guess it was the album of the summer you know i love the callback sorry but like i love the fucking callback to the second album the second track shanghai just occasionally yes it’s like lightly like what is that i don’t know what that is yeah this is maybe the first four dimensional album
[1:30:58 – 1:31:00] Erik: How is this not my number one?
[1:31:01 – 1:31:03] Adam: I don’t know, but it is higher up on my list.
[1:31:03 – 1:31:05] Erik: Well, it’s got to be five or higher.
[1:31:06 – 1:31:07] Adam: Obviously, it is.
[1:31:07 – 1:31:14] Adam: According to Spotify, I have a problem when it comes to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, specifically Butterfly 3000.
[1:31:14 – 1:31:17] Adam: Literally, Spotify on my wrapped was like,
[1:31:18 – 1:31:18] Adam: are you okay?
[1:31:19 – 1:31:20] Adam: do you have a problem?
[1:31:22 – 1:31:43] Erik: two of my year end artists and albums were from last year I would at this point just be talking about Tierra Whack but that’s a 2020 album and I haven’t had enough time with the new little EPs that she’s come out with to even consider putting on the 2021 list but
[1:31:49 – 1:31:59] Erik: neither here nor there glad to get some time with this album again i’m glad it’s still here
[1:32:01 – 1:32:07] Adam: All right, I’m going to have to take the long way home tonight because I have a lot of music I need to listen to loudly in the car.
[1:32:07 – 1:32:12] Adam: This is my favorite spot to listen to music is just driving.
[1:32:13 – 1:32:15] Adam: Yeah, for sure.
[1:32:15 – 1:32:18] Adam: I’m always like, what am I going to listen to next in the car?
[1:32:19 – 1:32:20] Adam: And usually it’s this album.
[1:32:21 – 1:32:22] Adam: I’m driving somewhere.
[1:32:23 – 1:32:28] Adam: Get the feeling of the road beneath your wheels, Eric.
[1:32:28 – 1:32:29] Erik: Oh, I know.
[1:32:31 – 1:32:34] Adam: The rumble of the road on the steering wheel.
[1:32:34 – 1:32:42] Adam: A little King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard blast on the speakers in the car.
[1:32:44 – 1:32:45] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:32:45 – 1:32:48] Adam: Actually, I’m shocked this is not my number one album.
[1:32:48 – 1:32:51] Adam: Well, that’s the thing.
[1:32:52 – 1:33:00] Erik: Obviously, it wasn’t a thing that I put together or you put together just out of listening to albums in the last week.
[1:33:01 – 1:33:05] Erik: So these are all things that we have been listening to over the course of the last year.
[1:33:05 – 1:33:07] Adam: That’s the whole point of the show, yeah.
[1:33:07 – 1:33:08] Erik: Some of them new, some of them old.
[1:33:09 – 1:33:16] Erik: But every time, I was kind of like, alright, so I’m not exactly sure where I should put this album.
[1:33:16 – 1:33:16] Erik: I’ll listen to it.
[1:33:17 – 1:33:17] Erik: I’ll put it on.
[1:33:18 – 1:33:21] Erik: For the last two weeks, I’ve been like, just at the end of the night…
[1:33:23 – 1:33:43] Erik: I get an hour to myself to just put some headphones on and listen to music and every one of the albums that are on this top 10 list and probably even a little bit beyond that top 10 when it’s on, when it’s in my head and when I’m fully engaged with it, I was like convinced I’m like, this is the number one album.
[1:33:43 – 1:33:45] Erik: This is the, this is the best one.
[1:33:46 – 1:33:46] Adam: Yeah.
[1:33:46 – 1:33:47] Adam: These transitions.
[1:33:48 – 1:33:49] Adam: Yeah.
[1:33:49 – 1:33:49] Adam: Um,
[1:33:51 – 1:34:02] Erik: The transitions are one of the primary reasons I have an album ahead of this listed in the way that they transition from song to song.
[1:34:03 – 1:34:06] Erik: But like I’m saying, like… Ooh, now I have a guess.
[1:34:06 – 1:34:07] Adam: If I’m just sitting…
[1:34:07 – 1:34:09] Adam: I’m wondering right now, like, what is your number one?
[1:34:10 – 1:34:12] Adam: If it’s not this… We’re only at five.
[1:34:12 – 1:34:15] Adam: If it’s not National Language, what the hell do you have as number one?
[1:34:15 – 1:34:16] Adam: Nation of Language is out.
[1:34:16 – 1:34:18] Adam: Yeah, what do you have left?
[1:34:18 – 1:34:22] Adam: I have one left that could be year number one, but it could be something off my chart.
[1:34:23 – 1:34:25] Adam: And that’s what I’m pretty excited about.
[1:34:25 – 1:34:27] Erik: So it’s year four then right now?
[1:34:28 – 1:34:28] Adam: Right, all right.
[1:34:28 – 1:34:29] Adam: We’re moving into my number four.
[1:34:29 – 1:34:30] Adam: Okay.
[1:34:30 – 1:34:31] Adam: And it’s Bo Burnham.
[1:34:32 – 1:34:33] Adam: You’ve got to play Bezos.
[1:34:33 – 1:34:34] Adam: Come on.
[1:34:34 – 1:34:36] Adam: You’ve got to get Bezos on here right now.
[1:34:36 – 1:34:40] Erik: Yeah, if it was me knowing what you knew, I would have had it backed up and ready.
[1:34:41 – 1:34:42] Adam: I don’t want to hear Problematic.
[1:34:42 – 1:34:44] Adam: We’ve heard that enough on the show.
[1:34:44 – 1:34:47] Adam: I want to hear a different song next.
[1:34:50 – 1:34:50] Adam: Ah.
[1:34:54 – 1:34:54] Adam: Catching Smoke, though.
[1:34:56 – 1:34:58] Adam: I hate to just leave him behind, but we can’t play.
[1:34:58 – 1:34:59] Adam: We legally can’t.
[1:34:59 – 1:35:02] Adam: We cannot play that much King Gizzard.
[1:35:02 – 1:35:04] Erik: You’ve played too much.
[1:35:04 – 1:35:06] Adam: We’ve played your limit.
[1:35:06 – 1:35:09] Adam: You know, I always would love to hear that funny feeling.
[1:35:09 – 1:35:13] Adam: But Bezos, though, I mean, Bezos is so good.
[1:35:15 – 1:35:17] Adam: So you had this as an honorable mention.
[1:35:17 – 1:35:17] Erik: Yes.
[1:35:18 – 1:35:18] Erik: I…
[1:35:26 – 1:35:26] Adam: Oh, oh.
[1:35:26 – 1:35:27] Adam: Come on, Jeffrey.
[1:35:27 – 1:35:28] Adam: You can do it.
[1:35:28 – 1:35:29] Adam: You can do it.
[1:36:09 – 1:36:10] Erik: Well, I’m glad that that made the list.
[1:36:11 – 1:36:16] Erik: Most definitely was in the serious conversation on making mine.
[1:36:16 – 1:36:16] Erik: I questioned you.
[1:36:17 – 1:36:18] Adam: Yeah, you got to throw that.
[1:36:18 – 1:36:19] Adam: Get that funny feeling on there.
[1:36:19 – 1:36:22] Erik: Yeah, I’m surprised that that just ended so abruptly.
[1:36:22 – 1:36:23] Adam: Oh, it does.
[1:36:23 – 1:36:25] Adam: Yeah, it wants to go into sexting.
[1:36:25 – 1:36:47] Adam: real quick there um but i don’t want to listen to the sexting it’s funny but uh i can’t really i want to play like a serious song yeah no i feel like one of the better real songs on this funny album or whatever no i think it’s i think a show there’s something about it that because it’s so associated with the
[1:36:49 – 1:37:12] Erik: the special that the fact that it also i think exists very plainly as an album gets a little bit lost and i even was subject to not taking it as seriously as an album because of that yeah but it’s still like as an album better than the vast majority of the ones that came out this year
[1:37:13 – 1:37:42] Adam: yeah I guess it was like one that grew on me quite a bit uh Phoebe Bridges just like covered this oh this song and then you knew like you knew it was like a real album yeah cause it was like I knew it was so like musically good but it was catchy and it caught myself just like singing these songs in the middle of the day out of nowhere yeah there’s something about hearing other people listening to this album out in the wild too that is like
[1:37:43 – 1:37:45] Adam: No, it’s damn catchy.
[1:37:45 – 1:37:51] Adam: And I guess it’s just like this album more than anything catches not just this year, but the last couple of years.
[1:37:53 – 1:37:56] Adam: It makes sense to me having just lived through what we just lived through.
[1:37:57 – 1:37:58] Erik: We haven’t lived through it.
[1:37:58 – 1:37:59] Erik: We’re living in it still.
[1:37:59 – 1:38:01] Adam: We’re still in the goddamn pandemic.
[1:38:01 – 1:38:03] Erik: Yeah, that’s the craziest part.
[1:38:04 – 1:38:08] Adam: And so, yeah, the longer this goes on, the more this album speaks to me.
[1:38:08 – 1:38:08] Adam: Yeah.
[1:38:10 – 1:38:13] Adam: It’s a pandemic album, the first one, the original.
[1:38:13 – 1:38:34] Erik: There’s so many things about it that transcend music, though, that don’t… A lot of times when I hear albums that are so good and just beyond anything that I can come to even terms with capably trying to produce, there’s something about this album that is so DIY and…
[1:38:40 – 1:38:47] Erik: positively encouraging for somebody to do the same thing.
[1:38:48 – 1:38:50] Erik: He says it at times.
[1:38:50 – 1:38:54] Erik: He’s like, hey, next time I want to watch you do this.
[1:38:55 – 1:39:05] Erik: Not that I’m sitting around doing that, but it’s very positive in a way that’s like, yeah, I know that this probably comes across as
[1:39:07 – 1:39:22] Erik: hard to comprehend like I know I’m being very aggressively creative right now but you can be too and like I love that I think that’s the that’s what I take away as the message from this
[1:39:24 – 1:39:28] Erik: Not from this song specifically, but from the whole inside project.
[1:39:28 – 1:39:29] Erik: As the whole project goes, yeah.
[1:39:30 – 1:39:33] Erik: I mean… And you don’t need to have money.
[1:39:34 – 1:39:37] Erik: You don’t need to have all of the fancy… You don’t need to have anybody helping you.
[1:39:37 – 1:39:39] Erik: He did it all himself.
[1:39:39 – 1:39:40] Adam: Yeah, but he still had Bunny.
[1:39:41 – 1:39:42] Erik: Well, yeah, sure.
[1:39:42 – 1:39:46] Erik: But the music, and also at the end of the day, the songs are great.
[1:39:46 – 1:39:47] Adam: They are, though.
[1:39:47 – 1:39:48] Adam: I mean, they do speak for themselves.
[1:39:48 – 1:39:52] Adam: If somebody just knew who came along and released this, I assume it would get picked up because it’s that good.
[1:39:53 – 1:39:55] Adam: Yeah, maybe.
[1:39:55 – 1:39:57] Adam: I had never heard of the dude before.
[1:39:58 – 1:40:01] Adam: And my brother was like, you gotta check this special out.
[1:40:01 – 1:40:06] Adam: I just assumed it was a comedy special or something, the way he described it, but it’s a musical.
[1:40:07 – 1:40:08] Adam: And it really did.
[1:40:08 – 1:40:13] Adam: It’s one of the things in a real weird year that I will remember as a positive.
[1:40:14 – 1:40:15] Adam: And, uh…
[1:40:16 – 1:40:17] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:40:18 – 1:40:19] Adam: I hope he can somehow make a sequel.
[1:40:19 – 1:40:24] Adam: But I feel like this is the kind of project where it’s like a one and done.
[1:40:24 – 1:40:32] Adam: You can recreate the energy of the moment that Inside came out in.
[1:40:33 – 1:40:34] Adam: Pretty damn good.
[1:40:34 – 1:40:38] Adam: In a year where everybody’s like, what’s up with that Tiger King guy?
[1:40:39 – 1:40:42] Adam: Inside ended up being much better in the long run, I would say.
[1:40:43 – 1:40:43] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:40:43 – 1:41:13] Erik: yeah I would say I would agree with you in the terms of like capturing magic in a bottle for the current zeitgeist or whatever like if you were going to rank an album that captured a moment in time probably close to number one then
[1:41:13 – 1:41:21] Adam: Yeah, I guess at this point, I just consider it an excellent album with a very, very good music video that goes with the whole thing.
[1:41:22 – 1:41:25] Adam: But it did come out as a film first.
[1:41:25 – 1:41:26] Adam: Check the film out.
[1:41:26 – 1:41:30] Adam: If you somehow have listened to this and not seen that, get it.
[1:41:30 – 1:41:31] Adam: That would be crazy.
[1:41:31 – 1:41:33] Adam: What’s coming up next for you?
[1:41:35 – 1:41:36] Adam: I mean, you can’t turn this off.
[1:41:37 – 1:41:38] Adam: We’re going to have to, though.
[1:41:39 – 1:41:40] Erik: We’ll slowly…
[1:41:41 – 1:41:44] Adam: I’m going to have to go back and re-watch it.
[1:41:45 – 1:41:52] Adam: The fact that I’ve only seen it once at this point, I need to go back and re-watch that before I re-watch Phantom Thread.
[1:41:53 – 1:41:54] Adam: Check that out on Tumblr.
[1:41:54 – 1:41:55] Adam: I’m sending my classics.
[1:41:56 – 1:42:03] Adam: You’re going to have to get on the Patreon, I believe, to get those if you have any interest in London fashion.
[1:42:05 – 1:42:15] Adam: dressmaking, breakfast sausages, and the true nature of reality, check out our review of Phantom Thread, Tumble Home Cinema Classics.
[1:42:28 – 1:42:30] Erik: Thanks for coming on this journey with us.
[1:42:32 – 1:42:39] Adam: Happy winter solstice.
[1:42:41 – 1:42:45] Adam: This is Brother Andrew’s favorite track.
[1:42:45 – 1:42:49] Adam: Glad you played it.
[1:42:49 – 1:42:52] Erik: I’m still shocked it didn’t make my top ten.
[1:42:52 – 1:42:54] Adam: I can’t believe…
[1:42:54 – 1:42:56] Adam: Triple shout-out to Brother Andrew.
[1:42:56 – 1:42:57] Adam: Are you listening?
[1:42:57 – 1:42:58] Erik: Triple shout-out?
[1:42:59 – 1:43:03] Adam: I can’t believe that Brother Andrew is the one that turned me on to Bo Burnham’s inside.
[1:43:03 – 1:43:06] Adam: That’s not throwing shade on Brother Andrew.
[1:43:07 – 1:43:11] Adam: He’s a genius, but if you knew him, you would make sense.
[1:43:13 – 1:43:14] Adam: God bless you, Brother Andrew.
[1:43:16 – 1:43:17] Adam: Happy New Year’s.
[1:43:18 – 1:43:19] Adam: I love you, Brother.
[1:43:19 – 1:43:20] Erik: Happy New Year’s.
[1:43:20 – 1:43:25] Adam: I wish you could have been here for Christmas and the solstice.
[1:43:26 – 1:43:29] Erik: Is there another log in that basket?
[1:43:29 – 1:43:30] Erik: I’ll go throw one on.
[1:43:31 – 1:43:32] Erik: You should go throw one on.
[1:43:32 – 1:43:33] Erik: My back’s all shot.
[1:43:33 – 1:43:33] Erik: I can’t move.
[1:43:33 – 1:43:36] Erik: I’m in the Abraham Lincoln position.
[1:43:36 – 1:43:38] Erik: The Abraham Lincoln Memorial.
[1:43:39 – 1:43:40] Erik: Two arms.
[1:43:41 – 1:43:42] Erik: Is there not a thick one in there?
[1:43:42 – 1:43:44] Erik: I think there’s one more thick boy in that basket.
[1:43:47 – 1:43:48] Erik: And I did!
[1:43:56 – 1:44:00] Erik: You should flip that damper over too.
[1:44:02 – 1:44:02] Erik: There you go.
[1:44:04 – 1:44:07] Erik: Start with it sideways.
[1:44:09 – 1:44:10] Erik: Yeah, go in sideways.
[1:44:13 – 1:44:13] Erik: There you go.
[1:44:14 – 1:44:15] Erik: And now go up.
[1:44:17 – 1:44:17] Erik: Nice.
[1:44:21 – 1:44:22] Adam: Re-enter.
[1:44:22 – 1:44:22] Adam: Re-enter.
[1:44:22 – 1:44:23] Adam: Re-enter.
[1:44:26 – 1:44:28] Adam: Re-enter.
[1:44:30 – 1:44:31] Adam: Funniest thing happened.
[1:44:31 – 1:44:31] Adam: Give a shit.
[1:44:55 – 1:44:57] Adam: Alright!
[1:44:57 – 1:45:11] Adam: I don’t know how that one’s not number one, but it is not.
[1:45:11 – 1:45:12] Adam: It’s not.
[1:45:14 – 1:45:15] Erik: What’s your number four, Eric?
[1:45:15 – 1:45:18] Erik: My number four is an album I never thought would have ever…
[1:45:21 – 1:45:24] Erik: Existed in… My world.
[1:45:25 – 1:45:26] Erik: I don’t even know…
[1:45:26 – 1:45:28] Erik: It’s…
[1:45:29 – 1:45:35] Erik: It’s probably the surprise album of… Oh, it’s very easily the surprise album of the year for me.
[1:45:35 – 1:45:43] Erik: But it’s close to the surprise album of maybe the last… Like, since I graduated high school and didn’t listen to music like this anymore.
[1:45:45 – 1:45:47] Erik: Shocked that this kept…
[1:45:49 – 1:45:52] Erik: My finger just kept scrolling to this.
[1:45:52 – 1:45:54] Erik: And I don’t know why, but I do.
[1:45:55 – 1:45:56] Erik: It’s just something about it.
[1:45:57 – 1:46:10] Erik: It’s a borderline, undefinable, hardcore album that at moments when I’m listening to it, I question myself.
[1:46:11 – 1:46:12] Erik: Like, why?
[1:46:13 – 1:46:15] Erik: Why am I listening to this?
[1:46:15 – 1:46:17] Erik: This doesn’t seem like music that…
[1:46:19 – 1:46:21] Erik: 36-year-old Eric should be listening to.
[1:46:21 – 1:46:22] Erik: This is 16-year-old Eric music.
[1:46:25 – 1:46:26] Erik: And I think it had a lot to do with…
[1:46:26 – 1:46:28] Adam: There’s a couple of albums that are still to come.
[1:46:28 – 1:46:30] Adam: Hey, 16-year-old Eric probably knew some things.
[1:46:30 – 1:46:31] Erik: Probably knew…
[1:46:31 – 1:46:36] Erik: He knew a couple of things, but there were a couple of moments when…
[1:46:38 – 1:46:47] Erik: I’m sure the speakers in the CRV on the road trip were questioning their existence.
[1:46:48 – 1:46:48] Adam: What is this?
[1:46:49 – 1:46:49] Erik: What is this?
[1:46:50 – 1:46:50] Erik: Who is this?
[1:46:51 – 1:46:52] Erik: Who is my owner?
[1:46:55 – 1:47:15] Erik: and yeah i don’t know it’s the uh turnstile glow on album that i know i don’t think i will ever be able to convince you that is an album worth sitting down and listening to yeah but there’s something still so like
[1:47:17 – 1:47:20] Erik: There’s a nerve that this album touches on me, and I don’t know.
[1:47:20 – 1:47:21] Erik: I don’t know quite what it is.
[1:47:22 – 1:47:24] Erik: It could maybe still just be my angsty…
[1:47:27 – 1:47:29] Adam: Probably a part of your old reptilian brain.
[1:47:29 – 1:47:31] Erik: It’s probably just part of the reptilian brain.
[1:47:32 – 1:47:34] Erik: There’s also a part of me that’s like…
[1:47:37 – 1:47:39] Erik: I wish my fucking speakers went to 11.
[1:48:07 – 1:48:09] Erik: It’s also like a great road trip album.
[1:48:10 – 1:48:12] Erik: When all of the windows are down.
[1:48:12 – 1:48:13] Erik: Yeah.
[1:48:14 – 1:48:16] Erik: And it’s 95 degrees outside.
[1:48:17 – 1:48:20] Erik: And there’s no other vehicles in sight.
[1:48:21 – 1:48:26] Erik: And you can see like literally 40 miles in either direction.
[1:48:27 – 1:48:28] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:48:30 – 1:48:31] Adam: Makes you feel not so alone.
[1:48:31 – 1:48:39] Erik: There’s something about like, so yeah, there are these individual songs on this album that are just like fists pumping bangers.
[1:48:39 – 1:48:47] Erik: But there’s an indescribable like juxtaposition.
[1:48:47 – 1:48:49] Erik: It’s like bass egg soup.
[1:48:50 – 1:49:13] Adam: where you wouldn’t think it works but somehow it does i’m still not clear if bass egg soup is bass eggs in like a vegetable broth or if this is bass chowder with no i think i think we got we did get a response of lemon it’s actual bass eggs oh no yeah bass eggs answer i wanted
[1:49:13 – 1:49:14] Erik: No, no.
[1:49:15 – 1:49:17] Adam: No, I don’t like that at all.
[1:49:17 – 1:49:17] Adam: Maybe I do.
[1:49:18 – 1:49:18] Adam: Who knows?
[1:49:19 – 1:49:20] Adam: Remain open-minded.
[1:49:20 – 1:49:22] Adam: That’s the key to life, I would say.
[1:49:23 – 1:49:28] Adam: Flexibility, open-mindedness, the ability to rock out.
[1:49:58 – 1:50:25] Erik: also helps that I was listening to this on holiday and I could sail in any direction but I think what truly makes this album is the or are the in between more subtle connective tissue tracks like Underwater Boy which is in the background right now
[1:50:30 – 1:50:43] Erik: like not so like in your face alien love call
[1:50:45 – 1:50:57] Erik: And No Surprise are just perfect balancing acts to the kind of music that makes you want to punch through your own windshield.
[1:50:59 – 1:51:05] Erik: But then there’s stuff like this that’s like… Also in that same…
[1:51:10 – 1:51:13] Erik: It’s that same vibration of an era…
[1:51:14 – 1:51:21] Erik: It’s like, it reminds me of being in high school, but it’s so applicable still today.
[1:51:21 – 1:51:26] Erik: Like, it doesn’t sound out of tune or out of date.
[1:51:26 – 1:51:31] Adam: Yeah, I want to say something, and it’s that this reminds me of high school.
[1:51:32 – 1:51:32] Adam: Yeah.
[1:51:32 – 1:51:38] Adam: Driving in a white Ford Probe with my buddy Travis, and…
[1:51:39 – 1:51:41] Adam: I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing.
[1:51:41 – 1:51:42] Erik: That’s what I mean.
[1:51:42 – 1:51:43] Erik: Like, that’s what it makes me feel.
[1:51:44 – 1:51:52] Erik: It’s like, it’s a oddly, it’s even more nostalgic than that Magdalena Bay album, which is like nostalgic to a technology.
[1:51:52 – 1:51:58] Erik: This album is nostalgic to like an actual time and actual music.
[1:51:59 – 1:51:59] Adam: Yeah, it’s…
[1:52:02 – 1:52:05] Adam: Yeah, it’s a very bizarre thing.
[1:52:05 – 1:52:10] Adam: It’s not music I necessarily think I like now, but it is music I liked then.
[1:52:10 – 1:52:10] Adam: Yeah.
[1:52:11 – 1:52:12] Adam: In a modern way.
[1:52:13 – 1:52:22] Erik: No, there was a period of time where if somebody was like, you like music that sounds like this, I would have been embarrassed for them to be pointing that out.
[1:52:23 – 1:52:25] Erik: Because it does sound like an outdated…
[1:52:26 – 1:52:27] Erik: It sounds like outdated…
[1:52:28 – 1:52:40] Erik: You know, like you were saying, high school, college music, everybody’s kind of jamming to this same easy riff.
[1:52:41 – 1:52:51] Erik: But there’s something about this that takes it to the next level and mixes it with genres of music that I actually do enjoy.
[1:52:51 – 1:52:57] Erik: That makes me actually question whether or not I really even care about what the genre is.
[1:52:57 – 1:52:59] Erik: As long as it’s got the…
[1:53:00 – 1:53:09] Erik: If it’s got those juicy, juicy hooks that make my brain and my ear say, yes, this feels right, then I don’t really care.
[1:53:10 – 1:53:12] Erik: And this album… Yeah, if it’s got the right energy…
[1:53:13 – 1:53:30] Erik: Yeah, and there’s some tracks on this album where I’m listening to it, and I’m getting a great amount of satisfaction out of listening to it, but I’m still also in the back of my head, like, kind of wondering, is this music that I’m really enjoying right now?
[1:53:31 – 1:53:32] Erik: This is weird.
[1:53:32 – 1:53:35] Erik: This does not seem like music I should be listening to right now.
[1:53:36 – 1:53:43] Adam: Yeah, that’s one of those situations where you got to listen to your heart and not your brain.
[1:53:45 – 1:53:47] Erik: Yeah, whatever sounds good.
[1:53:47 – 1:53:48] Erik: I think at the end of the day, that’s…
[1:53:48 – 1:53:54] Adam: Sometimes it’s weird because your brain is actually what’s telling you you like the music, but you have to not listen to your brain.
[1:53:55 – 1:53:55] Adam: Right?
[1:53:57 – 1:53:58] Adam: Yeah, whatever, I mean…
[1:53:58 – 1:54:01] Adam: Turn off the big brain, turn on the little brain.
[1:54:01 – 1:54:03] Adam: You need to get back to the lizard brain, Eric.
[1:54:04 – 1:54:21] Erik: Yeah, there’s so many times, like, this track is a great example where it starts and continues in a line that it sounds like something you should have heard on, like, 93X down in the Twin Cities back in, like, the early 2000s.
[1:54:22 – 1:54:25] Erik: But there’s parts of it, like, when this little…
[1:54:26 – 1:54:51] Erik: that little piano keyboard comes in that super catchy like that is such a mixing of genres that you would never hear in any kind of music like that that’s a good point Eric you could also still jump off of a fucking stage and do a mosh pit right now feel free to do that as well
[1:54:54 – 1:54:57] Adam: First episode where people were moshing to tumble on.
[1:55:10 – 1:55:12] Erik: Again, still, still shocked.
[1:55:13 – 1:55:19] Erik: By the fact that this album is at number four on my top ten of the year.
[1:55:19 – 1:55:21] Adam: Not on my list at all either.
[1:55:21 – 1:55:22] Erik: I just couldn’t.
[1:55:22 – 1:55:23] Erik: I could not get.
[1:55:25 – 1:55:25] Erik: I couldn’t get over.
[1:55:25 – 1:55:29] Erik: It was on constant rotation.
[1:55:29 – 1:55:31] Adam: I’m shocked you put this above Nation of Language.
[1:55:32 – 1:55:33] Adam: A month and a half.
[1:55:33 – 1:55:34] Adam: It’s got its own thing going on here.
[1:55:36 – 1:55:37] Adam: All right.
[1:55:39 – 1:55:40] Erik: Holy smokes.
[1:55:40 – 1:55:42] Erik: Holy moly hot dog.
[1:55:43 – 1:55:44] Erik: You’re number four.
[1:55:44 – 1:55:46] Erik: Let me search it so I can get it up here.
[1:55:48 – 1:55:49] Adam: Inside was four.
[1:55:49 – 1:55:51] Adam: I’m always off on that.
[1:55:51 – 1:55:53] Adam: It’s your three.
[1:55:53 – 1:55:59] Adam: I can be sneaky about it.
[1:56:07 – 1:56:07] Adam: Oh.
[1:56:08 – 1:56:10] Adam: This next album is…
[1:56:13 – 1:56:23] Adam: Again, all these ones in the top five for me, I’m kind of surprised they’re not number one because of how much I listened to these albums.
[1:56:24 – 1:56:31] Adam: This was my number one, shout out, number one album for weed whacking this year.
[1:56:32 – 1:56:43] Adam: This one came out nice and early in the season, so I was able to put on the earbuds and the little earmuff things over the top and go weedwack.
[1:56:43 – 1:56:49] Adam: I listened to this album probably 118 times this year.
[1:56:50 – 1:56:51] Adam: It’s a lump.
[1:56:52 – 1:56:53] Adam: Animal.
[1:56:54 – 1:56:57] Adam: And this is paradise, baby.
[1:56:58 – 1:57:04] Adam: This has got the sickest fucking drop and bass bullshit in the background.
[1:57:05 – 1:57:08] Adam: This song makes me want to run through a forest at full speed.
[1:57:09 – 1:57:09] Erik: This is Gamma Ray.
[1:57:10 – 1:57:11] Adam: Oh, is this Gamma Ray?
[1:57:11 – 1:57:12] Adam: I thought we were listening to Paradise.
[1:57:13 – 1:57:19] Erik: Oh, we’ll get there because this is still on my list as well.
[1:57:19 – 1:57:22] Adam: We’re in the top three now.
[1:57:22 – 1:57:26] Erik: If we’re both on the list, we get to listen to two songs from the album.
[1:57:27 – 1:57:27] Erik: That’s true.
[1:57:35 – 1:57:39] Adam: This one has got to be the best headphone album of the year.
[1:57:40 – 1:57:40] Erik: No.
[1:57:41 – 1:57:43] Adam: I know you said your number one is, but this is.
[1:57:44 – 1:57:46] Erik: My number one is a full headphone album.
[1:57:54 – 1:58:07] Erik: This is the one album that, because I tried to go through, which I had a really fun, I had a really good time with, taking the ten albums that I thought were my ten favorites.
[1:58:08 – 1:58:14] Erik: And it was a weird juxtaposition between the, you know, because there’s always the
[1:58:16 – 1:58:39] Erik: the whole spotify end of the year well these are the albums you listen to the most i was like well that might not necessarily mean that i think that those those were the best five or ten or also the years like there was two albums on my end of the year spotify album that were not from this year
[1:58:44 – 1:58:52] Erik: but the impactfulness of like this album
[1:58:56 – 1:59:08] Erik: as the way that it specifically occurred to when I listened to it made a major part of my decision to put it where I did.
[1:59:09 – 1:59:13] Erik: But it’s also not an album that I can…
[1:59:17 – 1:59:33] Erik: really describe very well which is what I originally started trying to say is that I went through and tried to like write a little bit about each album that was on this list yes and this was the one this lump album was the one I had the hardest to
[1:59:36 – 1:59:57] Erik: actually say anything about i couldn’t i mean it’s so it sounds like everything but it doesn’t sound like anything this is uh it’s ultra dynamic i love the way that the i don’t know what to say about it either it’s um
[2:00:00 – 2:00:06] Erik: It was on a near, I’m just going to like, so mine, I had this album at number two, my number two.
[2:00:07 – 2:00:07] Erik: Okay.
[2:00:08 – 2:00:12] Erik: And so we’ll just keep playing Lump and we’ll keep talking about them for a little bit.
[2:00:13 – 2:00:15] Erik: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsey.
[2:00:16 – 2:00:17] Erik: The Animal album.
[2:00:19 – 2:00:22] Adam: What do you think lumps all in caps, but it’s not an acronym?
[2:00:22 – 2:00:22] Erik: I don’t know.
[2:00:23 – 2:00:39] Erik: Mike Lindsey originally started the band Tung, which was also in all caps, T-U-N-N-G. See, I’m a lowercase kind of guy, and I still love this.
[2:00:40 – 2:00:41] Adam: Use me.
[2:01:07 – 2:01:09] Erik: Yeah, it was on an ear constant rotation for me though.
[2:01:12 – 2:01:19] Erik: The problem, maybe it’s not a problem, but in regards to rating an album,
[2:01:21 – 2:01:47] Erik: it was at a near constant rotation during one of the most tumultuous moments of my life like, one of the most tumultuous times of my life so the… the tendrils of emotion were open and ready to accept anything
[2:01:49 – 2:01:57] Adam: Sounds like there’s a nuclear reactor going on in the background and wind chimes in this album.
[2:01:57 – 2:01:57] Erik: Yeah.
[2:01:58 – 2:02:03] Adam: So this album itself is on every range of the spectrum you could ever emotionally be on.
[2:02:04 – 2:02:08] Adam: And then, yeah, got you in the getting times.
[2:02:09 – 2:02:17] Erik: Right, yeah, but one of the sentences I wrote here was, when does an album speak to you, and when do you speak to it?
[2:02:18 – 2:02:27] Erik: Allowing the lyrics and the feelings to infiltrate and present clear meanings that speak directly to your current thoughts.
[2:02:30 – 2:02:38] Erik: And what I mean by that is, like, so many times people, it’s like the dumb thing with pets, like, who rescued who?
[2:02:40 – 2:02:45] Erik: Where it’s like, well, yeah, this album, it stands in a place.
[2:02:47 – 2:03:04] Erik: With such ambiguous lyrics and music that anybody that is experiencing almost anything can seem to apply their shit onto it to make it meaningful for them.
[2:03:06 – 2:03:09] Erik: And I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but you know what I’m saying?
[2:03:09 – 2:03:11] Adam: This is like a little Cleo kind of thing.
[2:03:13 – 2:03:14] Adam: Hey, brother.
[2:03:15 – 2:03:16] Adam: Going through some hard times.
[2:03:19 – 2:03:20] Adam: The spirit is with you.
[2:03:20 – 2:03:21] Erik: The spirit is with you.
[2:03:22 – 2:03:22] Erik: Yeah.
[2:03:22 – 2:03:24] Adam: You know, it’s just, it’s affirmations.
[2:03:25 – 2:03:25] Erik: Yeah.
[2:03:25 – 2:03:26] Adam: Vague affirmations.
[2:03:27 – 2:03:28] Erik: Yeah, like… Is what you need to hear.
[2:03:28 – 2:03:32] Erik: Yeah, and at the time…
[2:03:33 – 2:03:35] Erik: But also, I don’t want it to…
[2:03:35 – 2:03:48] Erik: I don’t want that concept of me being in a very vulnerable and raw emotional state to take away from how good this album actually is.
[2:03:49 – 2:03:51] Erik: I think it just happened to be a perfect storm.
[2:03:52 – 2:03:52] Erik: Like…
[2:03:54 – 2:03:57] Erik: Any album could have come along during this time if it was good.
[2:03:58 – 2:04:06] Erik: And I remember listening to some maybe not so good albums around this time when I had been leaving Clearwater, the thing that I had known for 15 years.
[2:04:08 – 2:04:09] Erik: And they didn’t catch as much.
[2:04:09 – 2:04:12] Erik: But this one, for whatever reason, was the…
[2:04:13 – 2:04:22] Erik: This album is the soundtrack of a tough-ass summer, which is the summer of 2021.
[2:04:24 – 2:04:29] Erik: And it’s got some… fucking… catchy bangers.
[2:04:31 – 2:04:35] Erik: But it’s also got these moments of great depth.
[2:04:36 – 2:04:38] Erik: And great, like…
[2:04:39 – 2:04:44] Adam: There’s several to five layers on every song.
[2:04:45 – 2:04:46] Adam: Yeah, and… At least.
[2:04:47 – 2:04:51] Erik: One of the things that I wrote to was the way that this album breathes.
[2:04:52 – 2:04:54] Erik: The way that each song…
[2:04:55 – 2:05:06] Erik: When each song exhales its last breath, the next song picks it up with an inhale and turns it into something new.
[2:05:06 – 2:05:08] Adam: That’s a very good way to put it.
[2:05:08 – 2:05:09] Adam: For sure.
[2:05:09 – 2:05:10] Adam: Every song does it.
[2:05:10 – 2:05:11] Adam: I understand exactly what you’re saying.
[2:05:12 – 2:05:13] Erik: Yeah, it’s crazy.
[2:05:14 – 2:05:31] Erik: And then by the time you kind of think about it as it’s happening, the more you listen to the album, and the way that the album ends too with Oberon and Phantom Limb, it’s like those two tracks to finish up an album are the most like…
[2:05:33 – 2:05:59] Erik: depressingly uplifting tracks of the whole year and the way that I love the way that the that she sings the credits kind of like lightly robotically sings the credits at the end of Phantom Limb need more of that like Red Snakes literally makes like 50% of the time makes me cry
[2:06:01 – 2:06:05] Adam: Yeah, that front end of the album is insane.
[2:06:05 – 2:06:07] Adam: It kind of bangs in the back end.
[2:06:07 – 2:06:09] Adam: It’s a weird reverse on this album.
[2:06:12 – 2:06:13] Erik: I mean, the album…
[2:06:16 – 2:06:25] Erik: There’s so many albums, especially in the bottom five here, that specifically focus in on a feeling, a thing.
[2:06:26 – 2:06:30] Erik: But this album, the Lump album, it runs…
[2:06:32 – 2:06:58] Erik: highs lows of emotions top to bottom so that was your four three three three that was my three and your two I guess
[2:06:59 – 2:07:01] Erik: I love the whispers on this track too.
[2:07:03 – 2:07:04] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[2:07:04 – 2:07:16] Erik: Yeah, there’s so many lyrics in these next few tracks where it’s like, yeah, I can fully take those and apply them to my life.
[2:07:16 – 2:07:16] Erik: Yeah.
[2:07:17 – 2:07:17] Erik: I’ll do it.
[2:07:27 – 2:07:29] Adam: I should move to northern Minnesota.
[2:07:30 – 2:07:31] Adam: I should.
[2:07:39 – 2:07:40] Adam: Climb every wall?
[2:07:41 – 2:07:45] Adam: Pretty sure that’s the sign that I need to leave St. Paul.
[2:07:46 – 2:07:47] Adam: Move to northern Minnesota.
[2:07:49 – 2:07:51] Adam: Get a cabin near Toft.
[2:07:54 – 2:08:21] Erik: maybe sleeping aloft number three I mean this is probably the one album that was the hardest for me to place it was the one that most consistently ended up on the honorable Menchie list
[2:08:24 – 2:08:43] Erik: But then I just listened to it one more time and realized, yeah, I’m currently living during a time when this band will be looked back upon as easily one of the greatest acts of our time.
[2:08:43 – 2:08:44] Erik: All right.
[2:08:45 – 2:08:46] Erik: I don’t know how they won’t be.
[2:08:48 – 2:08:50] Erik: I’ve been listening to them for over a decade.
[2:08:51 – 2:08:54] Erik: It is… the band that…
[2:08:57 – 2:08:57] Erik: I think…
[2:08:59 – 2:09:00] Erik: I listen to the most.
[2:09:02 – 2:09:03] Erik: Just generally.
[2:09:04 – 2:09:08] Erik: And I’m gonna go see them live in February, and I can’t wait.
[2:09:14 – 2:09:25] Erik: There’s a part of them, though, that’s becoming a little sneaky in like, you guys might be too good.
[2:09:27 – 2:09:28] Adam: Nah, no such thing.
[2:09:29 – 2:09:30] Erik: But you know what I mean?
[2:09:30 – 2:09:31] Erik: Yeah.
[2:09:31 – 2:09:35] Erik: It’s all kind of starting to blend.
[2:09:36 – 2:09:41] Erik: Where it’s like, you’ve got this figured out too… You’ve got it figured out too well.
[2:09:41 – 2:09:42] Adam: This is the modern Pink Floyd.
[2:09:45 – 2:09:47] Erik: So maybe a little bit of light modern Pink Floyd.
[2:09:48 – 2:09:53] Adam: Just in the sonic landscape they paint.
[2:09:53 – 2:09:54] Adam: I wanna wait…
[2:10:06 – 2:10:25] Erik: yeah it’s the war on drugs what do you know eric loves the war on drugs i fucking love the war on drugs and this album is a full final that final who knows they’ll probably come up with something the next time that does it even better but this is their like this album is their sound
[2:10:29 – 2:10:30] Erik: Yeah.
[2:10:30 – 2:10:31] Adam: It’s not songs.
[2:10:33 – 2:10:34] Adam: It’s the sound.
[2:10:34 – 2:10:36] Adam: It’s like a song weather.
[2:10:37 – 2:10:38] Adam: It’s tighter.
[2:10:39 – 2:10:40] Adam: It’s synthier.
[2:10:42 – 2:10:43] Erik: It’s cleaner.
[2:10:44 – 2:10:48] Erik: Everything about it is like it’s primed.
[2:10:48 – 2:10:49] Erik: Yeah.
[2:10:53 – 2:10:57] Erik: I mean, if this music would have come out 30 years ago, they would have been…
[2:10:57 – 2:11:01] Adam: I mean… Elected president of Egypt.
[2:11:01 – 2:11:02] Erik: Yeah, basically.
[2:11:19 – 2:11:20] Erik: I mean, that lyric right there.
[2:11:20 – 2:11:26] Erik: It’s like, every lyric is essentially a variation on that.
[2:11:29 – 2:11:32] Erik: Like a snowflake dancing down an empty road.
[2:12:14 – 2:12:16] Erik: I mean, there’s really nothing to say.
[2:12:16 – 2:12:21] Erik: There’s nothing that anybody can say that’s new about a War on Drugs album.
[2:12:23 – 2:12:24] Erik: It’s a War on Drugs album.
[2:12:24 – 2:12:25] Erik: What are you going to say?
[2:12:25 – 2:12:31] Erik: They’re continuing to improve on a sound that’s…
[2:12:33 – 2:12:33] Erik: Near perfect.
[2:12:34 – 2:12:35] Adam: Almost too good.
[2:12:36 – 2:12:42] Adam: I would say if you’re going to see a red orb while camping in the next 20 years, you’re going to be listening to The War on Drugs.
[2:12:44 – 2:12:45] Adam: That’s my prediction.
[2:12:46 – 2:12:49] Adam: This is a timeless sound.
[2:12:51 – 2:12:57] Erik: Yeah, it’s troublingly timeless, though, where it’s almost like suspiciously timeless.
[2:12:58 – 2:12:59] Erik: Did you go…
[2:13:04 – 2:13:13] Erik: 55 miles per hour under a power line when Doc was working on something there.
[2:13:14 – 2:13:15] Adam: Have you been to the future?
[2:13:17 – 2:13:17] Erik: It’s true.
[2:13:19 – 2:13:21] Erik: Do you know what music is going to sound like in 10 years?
[2:13:24 – 2:13:25] Erik: That’s what I’m suggesting.
[2:13:28 – 2:13:29] Adam: Yeah, good pick, man.
[2:13:30 – 2:13:37] Adam: I don’t have them on the list, but I figured you had them, so I’m glad it’s on the list.
[2:13:37 – 2:13:39] Adam: I fucking love War on Drugs.
[2:13:39 – 2:13:40] Adam: Yeah, I mean, Jesus.
[2:13:42 – 2:13:43] Adam: It’s the beauty of a band.
[2:13:43 – 2:13:44] Erik: I always have.
[2:13:44 – 2:13:45] Erik: I always will.
[2:13:45 – 2:13:46] Erik: I’m going to see them.
[2:13:47 – 2:13:51] Erik: Hopefully, if I can in February, I’m probably going to cry.
[2:13:53 – 2:14:22] Erik: you’ll probably laugh just as much as cry well yeah I’m sure I’ll have all the emotions I’ll probably cry if I can’t go I’m sure that’s a very real potential at this point yeah it truly is it was one of those albums that like right away when I knew it was coming out I’m like yeah it’s probably gonna be one of my favorites of the year
[2:14:23 – 2:14:23] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[2:14:24 – 2:14:25] Erik: I mean… Just right away.
[2:14:26 – 2:14:28] Erik: It’s one of the problems with it, though.
[2:14:28 – 2:14:28] Erik: It’s like, well…
[2:14:29 – 2:14:30] Erik: It’s gonna be so good.
[2:14:30 – 2:14:31] Erik: It’s gonna be great.
[2:14:31 – 2:14:32] Erik: And it was.
[2:14:32 – 2:14:33] Erik: And it was, but it’s like…
[2:14:34 – 2:14:34] Erik: It is.
[2:14:36 – 2:14:41] Erik: my whole goal in life is to explore and be surprised.
[2:14:41 – 2:14:41] Erik: Yeah.
[2:14:42 – 2:14:44] Erik: But like, that’s the problem with it though.
[2:14:44 – 2:14:46] Erik: It’s like, it’s, I was still surprised.
[2:14:46 – 2:14:47] Adam: That is the problem.
[2:14:47 – 2:14:54] Adam: It’s like an amazing war on drugs album to me is received as well as like a mediocre mock homie album.
[2:14:55 – 2:14:55] Adam: Sorry.
[2:14:55 – 2:14:55] Adam: Sure.
[2:14:57 – 2:15:22] Adam: a great Makami album but still not even close to a War and Drugs album and it’s cause it’s like oh yeah I’m used to their sound it’s this new sound I want to hear what’s the new thing I don’t know we’re all I guess susceptible to that yeah no I get it but yeah damn pretty good album
[2:15:23 – 2:15:24] Erik: It’s an amazing album.
[2:15:24 – 2:15:27] Erik: I’ll be listening to it for…
[2:15:28 – 2:15:29] Erik: It’s one of those things that I know, too.
[2:15:30 – 2:15:31] Erik: Some of the bands that are even…
[2:15:32 – 2:15:40] Erik: Some of the albums that I’ve even mentioned tonight, I won’t be listening to for nearly as long as I will be listening to that War on Drums album.
[2:15:40 – 2:15:42] Adam: I didn’t realize they’re playing in Thunder Bay.
[2:15:43 – 2:15:43] Erik: Are they?
[2:15:44 – 2:15:45] Adam: Yeah, you’re going to see them in Thunder Bay.
[2:15:46 – 2:15:46] Erik: No.
[2:15:47 – 2:15:47] Adam: Heard.
[2:15:48 – 2:15:50] Adam: At the pavilion in Thunder Bay.
[2:15:51 – 2:15:52] Erik: No, we’re down to our twos.
[2:15:54 – 2:15:56] Adam: This is not the tickets you have?
[2:15:57 – 2:16:02] Adam: My number two, I’m down to, I have no new stuff at this point.
[2:16:02 – 2:16:07] Adam: My number two is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
[2:16:09 – 2:16:13] Adam: And I believe we’ve already listened to all the good songs off that album.
[2:16:14 – 2:16:15] Erik: They’re all good songs.
[2:16:15 – 2:16:17] Adam: Probably don’t need to add any more.
[2:16:17 – 2:16:18] Adam: We could add maybe one more.
[2:16:22 – 2:16:23] Adam: Yeah, Blue Marfa.
[2:16:23 – 2:16:24] Adam: Yeah.
[2:16:25 – 2:16:25] Adam: There you go.
[2:16:26 – 2:16:27] Erik: The mildly…
[2:16:27 – 2:16:28] Erik: The set-off.
[2:16:30 – 2:16:31] Erik: It’s the…
[2:16:31 – 2:16:33] Erik: The mildly racist track?
[2:16:33 – 2:16:34] Erik: Is it?
[2:16:34 – 2:16:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[2:16:36 – 2:16:37] Erik: I don’t think it is.
[2:16:37 – 2:16:39] Erik: I don’t think music can be racist.
[2:16:40 – 2:16:45] Erik: Well, who knows?
[2:16:46 – 2:16:47] Erik: Unless the track title is Shanghai.
[2:16:47 – 2:16:48] Erik: Shanghai.
[2:16:48 – 2:16:49] Erik: Shanghai.
[2:16:54 – 2:16:56] Adam: Yeah, this is track one.
[2:16:57 – 2:16:58] Adam: Two.
[2:16:58 – 2:16:58] Adam: Two.
[2:17:00 – 2:17:04] Adam: And it was somehow like my eighth most listened to track on the whole album.
[2:17:05 – 2:17:06] Adam: Crazy.
[2:17:06 – 2:17:11] Adam: Oh, baby, let me taste it.
[2:17:21 – 2:17:26] Adam: Yeah, I mean… Is your number one the Go team?
[2:17:27 – 2:17:29] Adam: As I’ve said before, this album is the one I listen to.
[2:17:29 – 2:17:33] Adam: I listen to this album more than every other album put together for the year.
[2:17:34 – 2:17:34] Erik: Yeah.
[2:17:35 – 2:17:36] Adam: Obviously number two.
[2:17:36 – 2:17:40] Erik: I mean, sometimes you just have to give the credit to what your fucking ears want.
[2:17:41 – 2:17:54] Adam: yeah don’t overthink it like what did i actually listen to this is what i actually listened to this song the whole album on repeat for months and months so good so not gonna argue with it
[2:17:57 – 2:17:58] Adam: Oh yeah.
[2:17:58 – 2:18:05] Adam: So we’re down to our number ones tops.
[2:18:27 – 2:18:28] Erik: You’ve already…
[2:18:30 – 2:18:33] Erik: The number one album on your list has already been mentioned?
[2:18:33 – 2:18:34] Erik: It has.
[2:18:34 – 2:18:36] Erik: So it’s the Nation of Language.
[2:18:36 – 2:18:36] Erik: It is.
[2:18:36 – 2:18:37] Erik: Yeah.
[2:18:37 – 2:18:38] Erik: Nation of Language.
[2:18:40 – 2:18:41] Adam: A Way Forward.
[2:18:42 – 2:18:43] Adam: A Way Forward.
[2:18:44 – 2:18:48] Adam: Had this come out earlier in the year, I’m sure it would have been my most listened to album.
[2:18:49 – 2:18:55] Adam: As Eric said earlier, it’s whenever you get in the car or you’re doing something, what do I want to listen to?
[2:18:55 – 2:18:56] Adam: You just put this on.
[2:18:58 – 2:19:02] Adam: It’s so damn tasty.
[2:19:05 – 2:19:07] Adam: I don’t know what their story is.
[2:19:07 – 2:19:08] Adam: It’s brand new.
[2:19:08 – 2:19:09] Adam: I mean, I know.
[2:19:09 – 2:19:12] Adam: And then they have an earlier album, too, which I didn’t know about.
[2:19:12 – 2:19:14] Erik: You haven’t gotten into that one still?
[2:19:14 – 2:19:14] Erik: I haven’t still.
[2:19:14 – 2:19:15] Adam: Oh, my God.
[2:19:15 – 2:19:17] Adam: Eric hasn’t read, like, half the Steinbecks.
[2:19:17 – 2:19:18] Adam: He’s like, I’m saving them.
[2:19:18 – 2:19:26] Erik: No, I’m just, I’m only saving the one where the old lady sits on the chair on top of a big truck.
[2:19:26 – 2:19:28] Adam: I’d like to listen to The Great Commute.
[2:19:29 – 2:19:33] Adam: And then we’ll go from there, but…
[2:19:35 – 2:19:42] Adam: I don’t know, the time of year I found this, and then it was like a foggy day driving into work, and Eric’s like, check this out.
[2:19:42 – 2:19:43] Adam: Eric sent me this.
[2:19:44 – 2:19:45] Adam: Like, put it on.
[2:19:45 – 2:19:48] Adam: Mmm, it’s pretty good.
[2:19:49 – 2:19:53] Adam: It just fit the day perfect, and like the rest of the ads, they say it was history.
[2:19:57 – 2:19:58] Erik: Yeah, I love this song.
[2:19:58 – 2:20:07] Erik: This is the one, I think, when I was going through the album, when I got to this one, I was like, let’s go.
[2:20:07 – 2:20:09] Erik: I’m down.
[2:20:13 – 2:20:16] Erik: Bouncy, oh so difficult to sing along to.
[2:20:16 – 2:20:18] Adam: Yeah, you can’t sing along to it.
[2:20:18 – 2:20:20] Adam: You can maybe dance to it.
[2:20:39 – 2:20:44] Adam: So away from home
[2:21:09 – 2:21:12] Adam: I mean, so the guy looks like David Byrne quite a bit.
[2:21:13 – 2:21:14] Adam: Yeah, a little bit.
[2:21:15 – 2:21:17] Adam: There’s a lot of talking heads in this group.
[2:21:18 – 2:21:20] Adam: But there’s a lot more to him as well.
[2:21:21 – 2:21:21] Adam: And…
[2:21:53 – 2:21:56] Adam: He can’t carry it
[2:22:47 – 2:22:49] Erik: Well, we just listened to that entire song.
[2:22:51 – 2:22:52] Erik: That ain’t legal.
[2:22:52 – 2:22:54] Erik: Well, it’s probably not, but whatever.
[2:22:54 – 2:22:55] Adam: We’re gonna do it.
[2:22:56 – 2:22:57] Erik: We’re listening to it.
[2:22:59 – 2:23:00] Erik: Yeah, no, I mean…
[2:23:02 – 2:23:04] Erik: This album was on my top ten as well.
[2:23:05 – 2:23:06] Adam: Yeah, it’s a beauty.
[2:23:06 – 2:23:08] Adam: I thought for sure this was gonna be your number one, too.
[2:23:09 – 2:23:10] Adam: But, uh…
[2:23:11 – 2:23:15] Adam: It’s my number one and I am getting this on vinyl for sure.
[2:23:15 – 2:23:16] Adam: This has got to be a keeper.
[2:23:17 – 2:23:19] Adam: I’m going to call it a tumble home keeper.
[2:23:19 – 2:23:24] Adam: Put that thing on the stringer, take it home, show it off.
[2:23:26 – 2:23:27] Adam: Maybe fright a little panko.
[2:23:28 – 2:23:29] Erik: It’s a keeper.
[2:23:29 – 2:23:32] Erik: It’s a perfect, it’s a
[2:23:32 – 2:24:00] Erik: god damn perfect synth pop album yeah you really can’t beat it beginning to end so many different times where you think you might just be well I’m kind of over this learn how to play the keyboard it just keeps coming at you I love the back half of that album the last three tracks are gold yeah every damn track on the album is a keeper for sure
[2:24:00 – 2:24:04] Erik: Yeah, there’s no sleepers at all.
[2:24:06 – 2:24:12] Adam: The wind’s roaring outside the studio, and the fire is still roaring.
[2:24:12 – 2:24:14] Adam: We’re closing in on Eric’s number one.
[2:24:15 – 2:24:15] Erik: Still crackling.
[2:24:16 – 2:24:17] Erik: Do you have any idea?
[2:24:17 – 2:24:19] Erik: Do you think you know what my number one is at this point?
[2:24:19 – 2:24:20] Adam: No, I really don’t.
[2:24:20 – 2:24:22] Adam: I have no idea what you’re doing.
[2:24:22 – 2:24:24] Erik: No, my number one is my headphone album.
[2:24:25 – 2:24:26] Erik: Uh, low.
[2:24:27 – 2:24:27] Adam: Ah, yeah.
[2:24:27 – 2:24:28] Erik: Hey, what?
[2:24:28 – 2:24:29] Adam: Yeah.
[2:24:29 – 2:24:29] Adam: Okay.
[2:24:30 – 2:24:30] Adam: I’m not surprised.
[2:24:31 – 2:24:31] Adam: No.
[2:24:31 – 2:24:32] Adam: I mean, that makes sense.
[2:24:34 – 2:24:40] Erik: Uh, easily my favorite headphone and just generally album of the year.
[2:24:42 – 2:24:46] Adam: Isn’t the whole thing supposed to just cyclically flow?
[2:24:46 – 2:24:51] Adam: I mean, there’s a… You just keep listening to it on a loop and you wouldn’t know where you were in the album?
[2:24:52 – 2:24:52] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[2:24:53 – 2:24:53] Erik: There could be that.
[2:24:53 – 2:24:56] Erik: I think I’ve read that somewhere.
[2:24:56 – 2:25:03] Erik: But it definitely has one of the best songs of probably the last 10 years on it, I think, in my opinion.
[2:25:04 – 2:25:05] Erik: But the sounds of it…
[2:25:06 – 2:25:07] Erik: I mean…
[2:25:13 – 2:25:18] Erik: It brings me to places that not really very many albums have ever taken me.
[2:25:19 – 2:25:25] Erik: They don’t take me to a happy place, but they just take me away from here.
[2:25:27 – 2:25:56] Erik: and there’s something about that and the way that their voices work together I don’t even know like I’ll just put on I’ll just start the album and we’ll probably end with a few of my thoughts on it and we’re at a two and a half hours two and a half hours uh yeah I mean I love ambient natural happy new year happy new year
[2:25:57 – 2:25:58] Adam: Happy solstice, folk.
[2:26:00 – 2:26:03] Erik: Yeah, there’s something about their voices together that are magic.
[2:26:05 – 2:26:06] Adam: How long have they been working?
[2:26:06 – 2:26:08] Erik: This is like their 30th album.
[2:26:08 – 2:26:09] Adam: Yeah.
[2:26:09 – 2:26:11] Adam: Seasoned prose.
[2:26:14 – 2:26:22] Erik: Yeah, there’s something about having this… Just fill your head.
[2:26:23 – 2:26:24] Erik: The sounds…
[2:26:27 – 2:26:28] Erik: are incredible.
[2:26:31 – 2:26:36] Erik: And their voices together, again, probably saying the same things over and over again.
[2:26:36 – 2:26:37] Erik: But…
[2:26:37 – 2:26:55] Adam: Though it’s impossible to say I’m alone Still my horses take us home
[2:27:06 – 2:27:25] Adam: Walls of seemingly incomprehensible sound.
[2:27:36 – 2:27:38] Erik: I don’t want to take it too seriously.
[2:27:40 – 2:27:42] Erik: But it’s shit I’ve never heard before.
[2:27:45 – 2:27:47] Erik: And that’s what I’m always searching for.
[2:27:47 – 2:27:50] Erik: You can keep walking away.
[2:27:52 – 2:27:52] Erik: That’s fine.
[2:27:56 – 2:27:57] Erik: There’s a snap.
[2:27:59 – 2:28:04] Erik: That finger that sneaks up from behind and flicks your ear.
[2:28:05 – 2:28:10] Erik: That slow build that you don’t notice until it’s on top of you.
[2:28:12 – 2:28:12] Erik: It’s a drug.
[2:28:14 – 2:28:15] Erik: It’s the best drug.
[2:28:20 – 2:28:26] Erik: More than anything, though, I love the feeling of hearing a musician discover a new sound.
[2:28:28 – 2:28:39] Erik: Even though I am not a player of music, I feel a connection and appreciation and wonder if they hear the song as I do.
[2:28:43 – 2:28:44] Erik: I get lost in this album.
[2:28:45 – 2:28:46] Erik: It’s new and it’s old.
[2:28:46 – 2:28:47] Erik: It’s a space.
[2:28:48 – 2:28:56] Erik: It sometimes sounds like the loud parts of maybe operating a submarine or something.
[2:28:57 – 2:29:01] Erik: At others it sounds like the sounds heard from outside.
[2:29:03 – 2:29:04] Erik: The tube of life.
[2:29:09 – 2:29:15] Erik: This rarely sounds like an album that you could really sit down to and listen with another person, though.
[2:29:16 – 2:29:17] Erik: I think that’s the problem with it.
[2:29:17 – 2:29:19] Erik: It’s not a party album.
[2:29:20 – 2:29:24] Erik: It’s not a workout album.
[2:29:26 – 2:29:29] Erik: It’s an album you put on with headphones and go for a walk.
[2:29:32 – 2:29:32] Erik: Like,