Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Embark on a sonic journey with us as we unravel the tapestry of sound in Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." We dissect the album's groundbreaking use of sampling, a wild fusion of genres, and the profound themes that ripple through its tracks. Prepare to have your mind expanded and your musical boundaries pushed as we rank and reflect on this audacious work of art.

Strap in for an electrifying discussion that leaps from the reverent tones of "The Jezebel Spirit" to the rhythmic pulses that made the '80s so unforgettable. We tip our hats to the maestros—from Michael McDonald's soulful croons to Brian Eno's production wizardry with Talking Heads—that continue to influence the soundscape of today. It's an episode peppered with cultural nostalgia and brimming with anecdotes that connect the dots between the music we love and the memories we cherish.

Wrapping up, heartfelt thanks are in order for Tim, whose eclectic taste brought us an album that enriches and challenges the listener. This episode is a testament to the joy and enlightenment that come from stepping outside our echo chambers of familiarity. Tune in for a ride that's not only a celebration of musical diversity but also a reinforcement of the bonds created through shared experiences in the vast world of tunes.

Transcript

Eno and Byrne's Album Analysis

Speaker 3 0:17

Alright , thank you for listening to the Greatest , Not Hits . I'm Chris and playing a little ditty from Tune Regiment from our album today's my Coast Tim . We're gonna be listening and rating some songs on my Life in the Bush of Ghosts . That's the second collaborative album by Brian Eno and David Byrne . Now , if you recall and if you haven't listened to it , check out season one , episode 23 . Tim and I did a podcast on Remain and Light from David Byrne's band Completely forgot the title of Talking Heads , of course , and you know this is the follow-up . That album was produced by Brian Eno , who was a master with the ambient movement , roxy Music . You got to start there . We did a Roxy Music episode last year as well . Check that one out . But you start to see a pattern and you start to see the evolution of Brian Eno , who has later been the forefather of electronic music , edm , techno , all of that . He started it really and it's on full display here with this album Again , my Life in the Bush of Ghosts . It's not really talked about , it's almost kind of . At times it's hard to listen to , but when you look at little pieces of it and you hear bass lines , you know you think of songs that you've heard of . You know , keep forgetting . Not in Love anymore , hypnotized by a biggie Smalls . That bass line is totally in both of those songs and they both came after this one . So there's a lot of themes throughout this album A lot of references to a lot of biblical references , a lot of references to spirituality , buddhism , all of the different religions . There's a lot of sampling too . That's the innovative part of this album is they're sampling a lot of vocals layered over the different types of sounds that you hear on it . There's a lot of nature sounds . There's a lot of synthesizers . There's a lot of sampling . The genres that this album is associated with are just crazy . I mean psychedelia mixed with funk , Funkedelia . There's pop , there's rock , there's even there's , like , I think , an exorcist sample that they wanted to use what they had . I think they had some sort of issues with that , but nevertheless they did a lot of experimentation on the album and you can see the contribution to music that it's provided . Even though the album on its own never really made it big , I think it was very critically acclaimed as a whole , as a group . And yet at the same time , it's almost kind of hard to listen to you from beginning to end , unless it's kind of like background music and a little bit at a party or something like that . But nevertheless we're gonna listen to it . I listened to it today and it was . It just astounded me how it just the creativity .

Speaker 3 4:09

Nevertheless , there are 11 songs on this album and I would say one of them was listed there was released as a single , the Jezebel Spirit , released as a single of May 29th 1981 . So maybe three or four months really released as a single after the album was actually released , which is February of 81 . So not a lot of time either between remain in light and when this was released . Think about how . Just tons of outtakes . I think they just did a lot of recording , they were listening to a lot of different things and they just it's sort of like a collage in a way . Tim's big into that , so , and I am to , I'm becoming more . That's that's really what art is , that's what life is , that's what music is Drawing influences from unlikely places , putting them together you know , so that they work .

Speaker 3 5:07

There's another couple of songs . Regiment what Tim is playing right now . There is a Lebanese mountain singer .

Speaker 4 5:17

I'm not sure what her name is , but she , she does a lot of the , the .

Speaker 3 5:22

You know the layering on that song , and I think also not the carrier , a secret life , samira , the two thick . Anyway , we'll , we'll listen to them or listen to all the songs , and we can leave the Jezebel Spirit out , I guess I mean , even though I wasn't big on my radar before we decided to do this one , but we'll rank them all and we'll put it .

Speaker 3 5:51

We've got our top three , I think , in place . I think I'm wavering a little bit on a couple of songs , but I I know what they are . I think I know what the three are . I just don't know what up where I'm gonna put it in . I think Tim is a little bit more firm on what he's gonna , what he's gonna choose . Typically his , the song that he plays is a foreshadowing of things to come later on . He's gonna . He's gonna join me in a second .

Speaker 3 6:22

Before he does , I just want to thank everybody for continuing to listen , continue to download us wherever you get your podcasts , continue to support us in any way Paypal , all that , you know . Thank you , you know . Thank you for that . Your feedback is always appreciated . Please , you know , feel free to email us at the greatest nonheads at gmailcom . And and I know Tim is excited for this one he's just he can't . We've got sound clips . He's . He's got a big grin on his face . He's like Mike McDonald . Yeah , that was his . Why I didn't play that before when you were playing , I don't know , but how's it going , man ?

Speaker 5 7:08

It's going well , it's going real well .

Speaker 3 7:22

You know it's gonna sound cool . When you can , you do it over biggie , I think .

Speaker 2 7:32

Yeah .

Speaker 3 7:35

Okay , how you been .

Speaker 5 7:39

I'm Ben . Well , you know , brian , brian and David . What can I say ? You know , those two together they're a little , they're a little rebel rousers . They really are .

Speaker 3 7:50

They're your idols . You love them , don't you ?

Speaker 5 7:52

I mean kind of Just their fingerprint is on everything , it's just yeah , I'm clever . Music . They're just for if the forensic on all these you know , like a crazy tack board with lines drawn and you know Charlie from Always Sunny smoking a cigarette like freaking out like homeland . Yeah , it's like he's there , he's there . Right .

Speaker 5 8:15

And he's there , it's an iron horn , he's everywhere , finkle , you almost have to call the fire department . But there's so much going on , there's so many samples . You know , as a person who has seen a ghost and felt it , I wasn't in a bush , it's more an abasement .

Speaker 3 8:38

But Wait , wait , wait . Can we go there ? Yeah , is this at home ?

Speaker 5 8:46

Yeah , okay , where parents had a roommate and it was . It was . Did the roommate die or something ? My dad came back because he loved the basement he was there .

Speaker 3 8:58

Did he stay in the basement Like before ?

Speaker 5 9:00

Yes , oh yeah , there's better in the basement . You know , never see it , never seen him since . Maybe ghosts travel internationally , maybe to Eastern Eastern Europe , maybe to India , wherever you know . They get in there a little ghost helicopter and they go .

Speaker 3 9:17

Well , there's all kind yeah , I mean , this is maybe we're channeling this guy or something . I don't know .

Speaker 2 9:23

Take it easy , champ . Okay , why don't you stop talking for a while ? Anyway .

Speaker 5 9:27

Maybe sit , the next couple plays out . I don't know if that was for you or for me . That was for I did it for myself .

Speaker 3 9:31

Yeah , well , I probably could use it to you .

Speaker 5 9:34

I think , Brian , when he did at least the David Bowie album , he did the flashcard technique when they're hitting a roadblock of creativity and one of the notepads said repetition is a form of creation . And I , I dig that . You know it's , it's sort of . You know that's what this is . They're kind of going with these samples , that Evan flow and , yeah , like the baseline of regimen you know do do , do , do , do .

Speaker 3 10:10

Yeah , it's it . Doesn't try to be , something that's not you know , they're not trying to compose these .

Speaker 5 10:17

Like you know , the , basically the song structure , is broken down completely into whatever they feel is you know needs to be recorded , I guess it is , it's good stuff .

Speaker 3 10:28

Anyway yeah , no , I get where you're coming from . I mean a lot of you , a lot of songs , like the very first song America is waiting . We're gonna listen to this one now . We're gonna cue it up and , you know , try to think . Well , this is the one with like Willy Wonka , but like the Gabstopper machine .

Speaker 5 10:44

Oh , the gabstopper do we have . Yes , america is waiting for just us to be kicked in the boot . We have the gobstopper machine .

Speaker 1 10:57

All right .

Speaker 3 11:00

The cops stubborn machine okay , this is the song .

Speaker 5 11:03

This is we're gonna layer so many samples that you're not gonna know what is real .

Speaker 3 11:10

But so America is waiting for a message of some sort of a number . Get your rifles .

Speaker 2 11:18

It's do the grab the rifle by the bottom thing .

Speaker 5 11:25

That was Steve Martin in Sargent Bilko .

Speaker 3 11:31

That do . The base on this is awesome oh . Here we go . Yeah , here's the , here's the God stopper machine . That's good , I think we got it .

Speaker 5 11:56

Oh , it's good .

Speaker 3 11:59

It's almost as if , now that I think they took this sample , kind of it's like an infomercial now . Oh , no , no , no . I ought to be mad at the government , not mad at the people .

Speaker 5 12:15

What's it do ?

Speaker 3 12:25

Wow , there's like .

Speaker 5 12:27

A little wonka , little wonka in there . Charlie Nice , we got some staccato like Guitar with some creepy , yeah , creepy keys going on .

Speaker 3 12:48

Yeah , yeah , it's like Like an organ sin .

Speaker 5 12:55

We're gonna occasionally turn the music a little down . Play with the volume here . Yeah , what are they talking about here ?

Speaker 3 13:08

They're just talking about disgust in politicians .

Speaker 5 13:12

It's the American way , just that we believe we're free , but you know , or just second classes and politicians Going to crazy parties and shit .

Speaker 3 13:26

I think that they're kind of also poking . There it's a , there it's a criticism of the voter .

Speaker 5 13:37

All time I'm not going left or right here . Is it like a carousel , kind of carousel , samples , and voting yeah , round and round A little Alan Watts in there . Good old Alan Watts . I wonder what Alan Watts would say about the American democracy .

Speaker 3 14:04

He was more of like a Buddhist Taoists kind of yeah , yeah , but also like a entertainer at the same time . It's like a philosophical image entertainer .

Speaker 5 14:15

He was .

Speaker 10 14:18

It's like Waking up from a dream . He's asked our ones experience begins to have what I would call I . Haven't we been here before feeling ?

Speaker 3 14:30

Yeah , I can nice , all right , so America's waiting as the first song and me copa , which means in Latin I'm sorry , I'm the culprit of my own , something like that . I made a mistake .

Speaker 5 15:00

It's . This is not really radio friendly here . Yeah , it's not podcast friendly either , for that matter , but you know .

Speaker 3 15:04

Shout out to the shout of the listeners . We might , yeah , skip through this one a little bit .

Speaker 5 15:11

We go round and round .

Speaker 10 15:16

What I ? I don't know what they're doing here .

Speaker 3 15:19

This is like almost the A sample machine that they're working on here .

Speaker 5 15:24

It's peak floydish . This some pink Floyd would do , you know , was like you know , you know .

Speaker 3 15:29

David , we're gonna do this , and and he's like , oh man , come on .

Speaker 5 15:32

And then he's like you know , affirmative day , I'll read you it's okay , we'll do it .

Speaker 9 15:43

Dave's like , come on , we're doing that me a culpa thing .

Speaker 5 15:48

I .

Speaker 3 15:51

I'm not , I'm not , I don't know , I Don't know . It is like sorry , dave , I can't do that . Affirmative day .

Speaker 5 16:18

It's too . It's so trippy , I'll , let's just we skip ahead a minute and see where we're at here .

Speaker 3 16:25

Yeah , let's go , let's do it . So let's go right here .

Speaker 5 16:30

Now are the two things . Nothing has changed here got a little bit of like Different key key format here .

Speaker 3 16:41

Oh , the drums are getting better , yeah where's it going ? Where am I going ? I Open the pod bay doors . Sorry , dave . Open the pod bay doors .

Speaker 7 17:31

I'm sorry , dave , I'm afraid I can't do that .

Speaker 5 17:36

I never did it before , never going to do it again .

Speaker 7 17:39

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do .

Speaker 3 17:45

Yeah , there's , this is all we got for this one , I mean .

Speaker 5 17:51

Yeah , it's

Discussion on Various Songs and Artists

Speaker 5 17:52

kind of anite . Next we're , we're over it , yeah . All right , yeah , we're here , we're gonna come the come , the turn of the volume . Yeah , get the griddle out for this one . Turn up the volume .

Speaker 3 18:05

That's right , turn up big oh . Yeah , oh .

Speaker 5 18:17

You hear it same baseline Remix . Oh , keep looking .

Speaker 7 19:26

I'm sorry , Dave .

Speaker 3 19:40

Shout out to Michael McDonnell Rest in Peace , biggie . That would have been a good day . That would have been a good collaboration . Biggie and Michael McDonnell Agreed .

Speaker 5 19:53

It does really go soups around .

Speaker 9 20:24

That is nothing more to be added to it . Who was that ?

Speaker 5 20:28

That's an O-show .

Speaker 3 20:29

Oh okay , We've got some O-show . Shout out to O-show . Where am I going ?

Speaker 2 20:38

Call the fire department .

Speaker 3 20:41

Shout out to Don Knot .

Speaker 5 20:44

An old man . What's his name ? This one's out of control .

Speaker 3 20:49

From Billy Madison steps in the dog . You know , what it's a flaming poo .

Speaker 5 20:55

We're all just flaming poo . You know , we're all just flaming poo that are super special .

Speaker 1 21:00

He's like oh , he called the show . Well , it's not special .

Speaker 5 21:09

Get your Eno regimen . You're getting it here . We gotta heart this song while we're listening to it . Sure , this is like a I don't know , empowering sort of international feel . It's gritty . It's got that burst of holistic energy . For me it's just so special . This is such a good song I'm going to go with . This is one of the most unique , weird 80 songs that we've ever covered . Honestly , oh yeah , we have Indra , let's do the uh .

Speaker 3 21:43

What was Indra ?

Speaker 5 21:44

Every corporation here , let's do uh .

Speaker 3 21:54

Oh yeah , there you go . Yeah , see , this song's got a lot of different things . I'll let him to my presence . A little Jeffy Joffer , A little segue into the next one . This is Help Somebody .

Speaker 5 22:12

Okay .

Speaker 3 22:13

Help Me Somebody . Okay , here's the next one , here we go .

Speaker 5 22:21

That was , that was fun , that was a good regiment . I like that little roadie regiment here the road day . All these colorful buttons we're playing with here Little coming to America . Oh , not a little to my presence .

Speaker 7 23:10

Yes , it helped Daniel get out the lines .

Speaker 5 23:17

Now it's turned like super positive . It's happier now .

Speaker 7 23:23

It helped you again Get off the island . Come on , get off the car , follow that car .

Speaker 5 23:32

It's a good car chase song . Oh , I think this stretch of songs Regiment helped me somebody in Jezebel's spirit or special Just they are .

Speaker 3 23:49

It really , it's the heart of the album , right there .

Speaker 5 23:52

Also this from Remain and Light , with Talking Heads , there's a fellas riff . This is exactly the same without any lyrics . Just check out fellas riff if you want something similar . It's the same . Done that sort of bongo-y King it around him . Open the pod bay doors Help .

Speaker 3 24:21

Help me , somebody Help me somebody , help me somebody , help me somebody , help me somebody .

Speaker 7 24:33

Help me somebody . Yes , it helped Daniel get out the lines .

Speaker 3 24:43

You see what we're doing here . We're sampling .

Speaker 5 24:47

We're sampling on sample . It's a sample on a sample on a sample .

Speaker 3 24:51

They influenced us .

Speaker 5 24:57

Help me . Somebody Everywhere Shout out to the island dwellers Get off the island . Yeah , come to us on the mainland . America's waiting , america's waiting . The car , pull on that car , help me somebody Help me .

Speaker 3 25:20

Where am I going ? On the round and round the car .

Speaker 10 25:24

pull on that car On the round and round .

Speaker 1 25:38

Where are you going ?

Speaker 5 25:43

I'm following some car . I got some guy ordering me in my Uber to follow some car . It's so Hollywood , I know . It's like I think it's some ex-wife , some cheating , spousal thing here . I'm like I need a destination , sir . I need to know where am I going ? Where am I ?

Speaker 3 26:07

going , throwing a little gobstopper machine in there For good measure .

Speaker 7 26:23

Can't you see ? It makes everlasting gobstoppers . I can't .

Speaker 3 26:29

I can't , I can't . Tim likes those .

Speaker 5 26:34

I can forget about gobstoppers .

Speaker 3 26:37

They were good .

Speaker 5 26:38

Oh God .

Speaker 3 26:39

There's a jazz bell spear . This is the single .

Speaker 5 26:44

I guess I guess this is Wait . Are we putting this one in ? No , I don't think so .

Speaker 3 26:49

We don't need it , it's on .

Speaker 5 26:52

There's a . The listens on this are just so low . I mean , none of these were hits in their day .

Speaker 1 27:02

So we are going to put it in for consideration yeah , okay , all right .

Speaker 3 27:08

Well , we can put it at the top , I mean , if we want to .

Speaker 5 27:12

Yes .

Speaker 3 27:13

It's up for consideration .

Speaker 5 27:16

It's got to be . I've got some feedback . I think we have a lot of stuff going on . You know is the master of little knobs and little Sound samples . He's probably just bossing David Burnaround , to be honest .

Speaker 3 27:41

Is that how it done ? I think .

Speaker 5 27:43

Is he the alpha in it ? I thought it was just the controlled madman and David's like the doer , like slash , like Like sort of like disassociate from your body kind of thing , where he know is like all in the mind . You know what I mean . He can , david can , let go of the body and sort of go and make these fill in the gaps .

Speaker 3 28:03

Yeah , yeah , exactly , but during the recording though , I mean . I imagine that's how he's dancing around and trying to get a feel , because I think they also do these things so that they can produce , reproduce them in live . Yeah , they recorded with that in mind .

Speaker 5 28:20

This sounds so much like a Romanian light .

Speaker 3 28:23

Yeah , this is . This is very similar .

Speaker 5 28:32

Little . Whatever happened to baby Jane . She also Joan .

Speaker 3 28:36

Crawford for . Rest in peace . Rest in peace , joan . Now , this is like , this is biblical . There's a lot of biblical themes in here too . Like are just spiritual , religious themes . David's yeah Well , her , not withstanding , she's spiritual . She seemed to be agnostic to me , or secular , I don't know Secular humanist .

Speaker 5 28:57

All of Hollywood is agnostic . Back then .

Speaker 3 28:58

Yeah . But Jezebel , yeah , she was a wicked queen . Okay , she was a wicked queen . Old Testament , they were heathens , you know , promiscuous , okay .

Speaker 5 29:12

I was just , I was just Start blowing out sister these creepy keys here . Triplets these keep little triplets here . Yeah , so good . So good , Jezebel go ahead .

Speaker 1 29:29

Sister , keep life . Jezebel , I beg you the car Sorry .

Speaker 3 29:34

Yeah , we just we have these lights and these things , these pads . We've got to press them . Leslie Nielsen is just Wants to be on this from naked gun . When you realize it's him saying it , it's a lot funnier .

Speaker 5 29:51

This is so good . How can you not love this ? Imagine this is just your permanent walking around music , just walking around town , always looking behind you . It's kind of freaking awesome . It's kind of freaking out there's a lot .

Speaker 3 30:10

Yeah , there's a lot going on . I don't suggest you listen to this . Actually Shout out to the runners . But I don't know , can you run with this ?

Speaker 5 30:18

Yes , yes .

Speaker 3 30:19

Actually , yeah , maybe this is good . Just keep your mind distracted from helping .

Speaker 5 30:24

In a really dark place , just really dark , running , you know , not a well lit area , just put this on .

Speaker 3 30:34

Close your eyes .

Speaker 5 30:36

Yep Go to the construction zone , run all over the place .

Speaker 3 30:41

Keep the construction zone . Yeah , make sure that the pavement on the sidewalk is nice and bumpy . Put this on and just dig out .

Speaker 5 30:51

Put the lotion on the skin .

Speaker 3 30:56

Yeah , we were listening to this . Robin was going . She's like no , you got to turn this off . She's like what ? The she couldn't ? Oh , no , I know , this is , I get it .

Speaker 5 31:06

I love it . I don't know , it's just .

Speaker 3 31:09

I like the parts in the background . Yeah , is that what those words ?

Speaker 5 31:14

See .

Speaker 3 31:19

Okay , well , that was Jezebel's spirit .

Speaker 5 31:25

Wait , should we have a Moss Guard in our mood here ?

Speaker 3 31:27

Yeah .

Speaker 5 31:32

You know , produce this too , okay .

Speaker 3 31:35

Oh , thank you , that was helpful . We need the , we need this , the meditation guy .

Speaker 5 31:45

Oh , you know we do . It's on the first one .

Speaker 3 31:49

Oh , we don't have it here . That's her .

Speaker 2 31:54

Just acknowledge that all that shit is fucking bullshit .

Speaker 3 31:58

Okay , yeah , we need a pallet cleanser after we're good . No , thank you . That was what we knew , all right , all right . Next one Very , very hungry . This is a good one .

Speaker 5 32:16

And watch out with that other crowd you're running with . Don't think I haven't noticed .

Speaker 3 32:24

Thank you , football coach from the infuse .

Speaker 5 32:45

This is like a step squad feel to it . What's steps it's like when people tap , dance and rhythmic .

Speaker 1 32:55

Oh .

Speaker 5 32:55

OK , stomp really . It's like stomp class .

Speaker 3 32:58

Yeah , just a squad of people stepping yeah .

Speaker 5 33:10

It's sort of an island feel to it .

Speaker 3 33:13

Yeah , that's it . Yeah , it's like it's . It's a regga dalia , it's like reggae and psychedalia . Is that , is that , a genre now ? It is now because I Fit those two words together Regga dalia .

Speaker 5 33:32

Regga dalia , I love that . You're a pioneer , sir .

Speaker 3 33:36

No , it's probably in here somewhere . I want to Google it .

Speaker 5 33:44

We have some Wonka over this God stopper machine .

Speaker 3 33:55

There's no regga dalia , there's regalia . Maybe I invented a genre . That is not to work for the edit . So it's Willy Wonka , layered over Osha , layered over Very , very hungry .

Speaker 10 34:20

Hung around and round .

Speaker 5 34:23

It's Alan Watts .

Speaker 3 34:25

Shout out to Alan oh , he's dead . Oh no , no , rest in peace . I'm sorry I didn't . That sounded very nice . Yeah . Yeah , he could travel to humanity in some way or other .

Speaker 5 34:45

I mean , it's all less stressed maybe . Yeah , find your own meaning , you know . Yeah you don't have to go with the system you don't want to . Yeah , he philosophizes and made it fun yeah grow your own damn vegetables , yeah , make your own ginger , ale Do whatever the fuck you want .

Speaker 3 35:09

Well , I'm . Inspired .

Speaker 8 35:12

Where am I going ? You go in the store because your vegetables didn't grow .

Speaker 5 35:15

Yeah , and your ginger ale sucks .

Speaker 3 35:22

That was very , very hungry .

Speaker 1 35:26

Oh .

Speaker 3 35:29

Moonlight and Glory is the next one . This is King Jaffa Joffa . Rumor of Zamunda . Yeah , this is coming to America-ish . It is . Ruler of Zamunda is for his son , akhi . It's revenge of the nerds too . We're Lambda , Lambda , Lambda , and Omega Move . They're all God-destroyed .

Speaker 5 36:23

He won the board with an axe . What In Afternoooorl do you- ? I really like this one , though I believe it's all . Lord of the Rings , the drums are the cowbell .

Speaker 3 36:38

And they must change everything . Yeah , well , when you listen to this one after the last one , come upon them and destroy it . That's not us . By the way , that was their sample . I don't know what happened .

Speaker 5 36:51

I'm gonna zap I understand that somebody began to re-unit-suck . Your guess is good to know what they're saying . The song began to move off A song . He began to move off what ?

Speaker 3 37:13

I don't know . That's the Labidese singer again what ?

Speaker 6 37:21

I don't know , I don't understand my presence , I don't understand , like this , what ?

Speaker 7 37:31

I don't know . I don't know . I don't know , I don't know the sound , I don't know . I'm sorry , babe , I'm afraid I can't do that .

Speaker 5 37:42

Hello Alert .

Speaker 3 37:47

We haven't talked a lot about the bush Life in the bush of ghosts . That's sort of like a big-book reference , like the burning bush kind of thing . Is that bush of ghosts Like some things in the Bible somewhere ? I don't know ?

Speaker 5 38:04

A lot of more reeded men and women believe that the prophets talking to burning bushes were just on psychedelics , like natural psychedelics so big a tide has come down . I think that I didn't know that Maybe when we take psychedelics , we're more aware of our spirit , which is a future ghost .

Speaker 3 38:37

So where future ghosts , is that a part of doing the psychedelic being able to see your future ?

Speaker 5 38:46

Maybe your fate .

Speaker 3 38:50

Seeing the afterworld , so like a spirit in the afterworld , so that you can find your path in life , kind of a thing .

Speaker 5 38:58

Or show up in your parents' house in a basement , freak out their son .

Speaker 3 39:07

Yeah , I mean it was part of God's plan .

Speaker 5 39:09

Yeah , all part of the plan , right yeah .

Speaker 3 39:18

Did that guy hang out with you ? Did he have a beer or something like that ?

Speaker 5 39:23

No , no , he wasn't talking to you , was he ? No beer ? I didn't have a beer with a ghost . I should have called it my life in the basement with ghosts .

Speaker 3 39:31

Oh , that's a good album name . You know , I didn't even tell my parents about ghosts to deal with it myself .

Speaker 5 39:39

Oh , not alert him to my presence , I shall deal with him myself . His name wasn't Dave , was it or Jaffe Open ?

Speaker 3 39:48

the pod bay doors , Hal Ah . No . Okay , the carrier . This might be the creepiest one of all . Yeah , this is it .

Speaker 5 40:23

Maybe some harmonics A little bit of a .

Speaker 3 40:30

Is this the right time to bring up the packaging ? I don't know , by Peter Seville , who did the cover , I mean there was one , the one that has images like . They're like cut out , images of people , right they ? Cut out and pay small , cut out humanoid shapes onto a monitor and point a camera at it to create video feedback , infantely multiplying the shapes . Oh , wow , that's , that's very RIT . Oh , didn't they get a RISD ?

Speaker 5 41:01

Avant-Garde .

Speaker 3 41:02

Yeah , avant-funk .

Speaker 5 41:04

This is no Barbershop Raga . This is Avant-Garde Raga . Yes , yeah .

Speaker 3 41:19

There is a lot of Raga on this . These things are supposed to be the ghosts , I think . Oh , I think it's probably so echo-y and so ethereal .

Speaker 5 41:45

Got the expansive gibberish .

Speaker 3 41:47

Yeah , eastern .

Speaker 5 41:51

Yeah , the Middle .

Speaker 3 41:52

Eastern's here from Regiment Same . It's like chanting , it's like spiritual chanting .

Speaker 1 42:10

There is nothing more to be added to it . There is nothing more to be added to it .

Speaker 10 42:35

It's like waking up from a dream . After a while , one's experience begins to have .

Speaker 3 42:44

Oh , the Levitating Singer is Aetunia Eunis , aetunia Eunis .

Speaker 5 42:55

Excellent voice , yeah , I mean .

Speaker 3 43:04

So she was unaware that this was used on the album until 2017 . So this song in Regiment was taken down from the streaming services after a family representative contacted the duo a year later , and the songs were later reinstated when the issue was settled amicably on the court there .

Speaker 5 43:38

Shout out to all the Lebanese out there , the Lebanese Blondes .

Speaker 3 43:44

And Lebanese Brunettes .

Speaker 5 43:46

Let's not forget that Lebanese Redheads they are the best .

Speaker 3 44:08

Alright , so we're getting into the homestretch here .

Speaker 5 44:11

Oh you skipped Secret Life . We got .

Speaker 3 44:20

Okay , here we go .

Discussion on Favorite Songs

Speaker 5 44:21

This one .

Speaker 3 44:24

Yeah , this is the German .

Speaker 5 44:25

More vocal samples here . God is not a secret German , I guess it's .

Speaker 3 44:36

God is kind .

Speaker 5 44:37

I mean Michael McDonald needs to be on this one .

Speaker 3 44:57

Yeah , he would be a great . This would be a great duet with him .

Speaker 5 45:02

I would never dare him speaking German you know Clearly not on album that's us . Oh gosh .

Speaker 3 45:14

This would be a fusion with this in Yacht Rock the car . I think Michael's part would go like some of it .

Speaker 1 45:36

I guess something like this I'm sorry , Dave .

Speaker 2 45:51

Keep forget , I keep forget . We're not in love anymore .

Speaker 3 46:07

All right , it's like they're . Is that a violin ? They're like .

Speaker 5 46:18

Yes , let me go with . Yes , a sample of a violin from somebody . Somebody there went cassette fishing in Morocco . Is that Extracted a ? No , I don't know , you're just making this up .

Speaker 3 46:38

Yeah , it could be . It seems like I was believing it . I mean , it's a mystery , honestly , I don't know . But one of the things is , you notice it gets it kind of like gradually becomes more and more downbeat as we listen to songs , kind of like remaining light was that way too , was like super up and energetic in the beginning .

Speaker 5 47:01

Positive yes , the album has a crazy flow .

Speaker 3 47:06

This album kind of has a similar flow . It just gets weird . We like crazy and crazy here . Yeah , this is .

Speaker 5 47:31

I don't know if I want to come with you . Okay , can I make a quick collect call here before I come with you ?

Speaker 2 47:39

I don't know , I want to go there , take it easy champ , just take it easy , champ come with us , learn the truth .

Speaker 3 48:03

We will appear to you from time to time well , isn't that special church lady does not approve of this yeah , yeah , she didn't like jazabelle too much there is nothing more to be added to it . Yeah . I think I like this . Come with us like aliens coming to earth and yeah , like if this is why I'm here and yeah , I'm not gonna come with them well , I want to clear a little bit .

Speaker 5 48:41

Let me check my calendar before I come with you on the little spacecraft there yeah , I mean , do they give you a stronger option ? I've got a serious shift . I got a 12-hour shift at the gobstopper machine . Yeah , oh , I can't call it out sick couple times . On that , though , the wankas are kind of pissed off at me because they keep calling out and you're supposed to feed the little delupas ?

Speaker 3 49:06

how are they gonna make the candy if they're not eating ?

Speaker 5 49:14

it's yeah oh , that was , that was something else and this is a palette cleanser for the end of the album here .

Speaker 3 49:46

Okay , yeah , we're in the last stretch last song , thanks , thanks for sticking with us . You're doing great .

Speaker 5 49:51

You're doing great , we're just gonna this is some serious barbershop raga we have some other clips to splice and come in and out of here , shout out to the those who listen to . This is like a massage parlor . You radio head , radio heads influence by you know , and David burn , I believe we have .

Speaker 3 50:35

Yeah there's a little radio head , except from kid a kid , a tree fingers yeah , last garden yeah , this is like massage music more months garden shout to masseuses out there if you're looking for new jams to play during your massages .

Speaker 5 51:22

You just radio this one out off mountains of needles , maybe the act shout . To the acupunctureists I should say easy for me to say yeah , acupuncture arrests shout out to the happy endingers fucking bullshit and watch out , but that other crowd you're running with don't think I haven't noticed .

Speaker 5 51:55

Yeah , I don't know , if this is so hard to be , what like the greatest non-heads of this is gonna be , because , well , I want to go for the sort of more upbeat songs , but I also really like that one as well , and well , I think that that's an ending that we can all be happy with . You know , it's like are we happy with that ending ?

Speaker 3 52:26

yeah , I don't , I mean this is not what you get at the end of a massage . I don't know , I mean , this is my immature mind nothing more to be added to it okay , so I'm gonna skip that yeah , no , we're done . That's like this comment . Reaction to that comment well , the whole happy ending thing , yeah , just it's yeah , it's empowering , it's kind of international feel .

Speaker 5 52:52

Yeah , no , I mean , I'm not , I don't I don't condone that , I didn't it's .

Speaker 3 52:57

It's a net negative for society , like the more yeah , michael McDowell gets it .

Speaker 5 53:06

He keeps forgetting though . Yeah , let's see top three , top three start with number three . I guess , shout out to mountain of needles , and you know I really did like the carrier as well those , if there's almost a top three , that's , you know , the low-key , more mellow , come with us , could be on there as well but what's the number three ? I'm going Jezebel spirit , you know okay , all right , those are all .

Speaker 3 53:41

Those other three were honorable mention , honorable mentions .

Speaker 5 53:44

Okay , got it right because they're down downbeat . I'm feeling , you know , like I like a more gym work outie , like droning songs that really go on a good running playlist , so got you Jezebel spirit would go on there number three . What's your number three , mm .

Speaker 3 54:08

Jezebel spirit . I think I'm gonna go with that as well okay yeah , it's a yeah for all the same reasons too . It's it's upbeat and it's it kind of cuts through you know some of the other stuff .

Speaker 5 54:20

So it's the bridge between when it gets , you know , when it's a little bit more upbeat and experimental , to just kind of down in the gutter , you know , like towards the end there , so creepy avant garde-gutter yeah , but it's , it's all good okay , then I'm gonna go with help me somebody number two , you know , jericho David lines lines then just yeah , get whatever that lion's den is in your life , get out of it . Just , you know high karate , chop that lion and get out of that den , do whatever you want , okay that's right what's , what's your two ?

Speaker 3 55:05

I'm gonna go , man , I don't know .

Speaker 5 55:13

I seriously you're at a loss for words yeah this album has , is it ?

Speaker 3 55:18

remnant what's ?

Speaker 5 55:19

the regiment regiment .

Speaker 3 55:20

I'm gonna go regiment number two . Okay , I mean it's , I don't know it's it's . It's got so many different elements of a bunch of songs that came after it that we all have heard so many times that , yeah you , you can't leave it out , you know . But as a song it's only like number two , even though it's probably like the most . It contributed the most to to music later on okay well , number one , where am I going ?

Speaker 5 55:53

where am I going ? We know regimen as well , you know mm-hmm , of course but it's a great song .

Speaker 3 56:01

I mean , I get it it is .

Speaker 5 56:05

You gotta get your David Vernon , brian Eno regiment in . Get it in weekly . Folks listen to one of these artists , combination of the artists , something Eno's produced weekly . Okay , it's good for you , it's true remaps your brain to be less angry and less patterned maybe , yeah , more fulfilled . I guess it gets you out of your regular pattern . We all need routine , but we also need to break outside of the pattern . You know , I'm right take it easy champ no , but seriously , yeah , it was , you're right .

Speaker 3 56:46

Yeah , I'm gonna go number one , help me somebody nice , because it was just so much fun , because I just had a blast , you know , doing the whole Joshua Feth fought the battle Jericho with me , with the preacher , from coming to America , so there's a good song too , and with that , the actual preacher , you know , laid over that , you know , cool funky music in the background was awesome . So yeah , I like the funk part of this the funk part is great the funk part was the best , the funk of Delia .

Speaker 5 57:19

I like the eastern Lebanese yeah that , yeah that don't yeah . Eunice and all that stuff . I hope she got some some money or family got some .

Speaker 3 57:31

Oh , totally yeah , that's what they alluded to then .

Speaker 5 57:34

I hope so . Yeah , I mean , that's just like they worked it out it's the same deal with the singer , you know , on dark side of the moon or whatever yeah , it's a yeah , you're right , but well , that's a good way to end , I think it is we ? Yeah , we , we came , we conquered .

Tim's Song Recommendation and Appreciation

Speaker 5 57:49

Yeah , this one's . You know , maybe outside of most people's wheelhouse , but here we are yeah , I know we got through this one .

Speaker 3 57:56

This is a tough one , but it deserved good . Call Tim . This is a . This is a Tim selection yeah and I'm a better music listener as a result of it . So thanks , bud , and we're all set . Take care yeah right later guys .