The Greatest Non Hits

Weezer: The Blue Album

β€’ Chris & Tim β€’ Season 3 β€’ Episode 17

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Take a nostalgic trip with us back to the '90s as Tim and I, your rock-savvy hosts, crack open the story behind Weezer's iconic Blue album. From their raw Los Angeles beginnings to their polished rise under the guidance of The Cars' Rick Ocasek, we're peeling back the layers of their musical evolution. Get ready to rank deep cuts and laugh along with our personal anecdotes, all while uncovering the quirky trivia that makes Weezer's world so fascinating.

Our banter leads us through the cultural fabric of the era, as we poke fun at the dated yet earnest themes in tunes like "My Name is Jonas" and "No One Else." Tim's spot-on Fran Drescher impression might just steal the show! We also share a contemplative moment reflecting on "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here," blending our insights with the kind of humor that would make Rivers Cuomo himself crack a smile.

Wrapping up, we pay homage to the harmonies that defined a generation. Ever wondered about the unforgettable riff in "Buddy Holly" or the get-up-and-go energy of "Surf Wax America"? We're dissecting the elements that continue to influence our own musical tastes, all with a backdrop of international vacation dreams and a nod to garage rock's enduring legacy. Tune in for a session that's as much a celebration of Weezer's sound as it is a trip down memory lane.

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Speaker 1:

One two, one two, three.

Speaker 2:

All right. Thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris, and playing Weezer's Say it Ain't so from their debut Blue album is my co-host, tim. Thank you so much for listening, as always, and continue to download our podcasts wherever you get your podcasts and we've got a great one this evening. This is the debut album from the band Weezer. This is the debut album from the band Weezer Started out in Los Angeles and made this album, produced by Rick Ocasek, who was the lead singer of the Cars.

Speaker 2:

Yeah huge popular band from the 80s, and this was released in April or May of 1994, just after the death of Kurt Cobain on April 5th of that same year. So from my point of view, to me it feels sort of like a post-grunge album. To me it feels sort of like a post-grunge album and, incidentally, the members of the band, from what I'm reading and this is just through reading Rolling Stone, Wikipedia, Weezerpedia- I didn't even know. That was a thing until I started researching. But, yeah, this is released on May 10th 1994.

Speaker 2:

And it feels to me like this is post-grunge because it's released shortly after the death of Kurt Cobain. So it was a little bit heavier and I think that the band, from what I'm reading, started off as having a heavier tone to them, and what I mean by that. I think it really starts with the lead singer. His name was Rivers Cuomo. He, I think, from Connecticut, started a band like a few other big name bands started with their band and they travel to LA with their band.

Speaker 4:

break up while they're in LA meet other musicians from other groups Make up while they're in LA.

Speaker 2:

Meet other musicians from other groups. Click with a few other musicians and sort of like the rest is history, so they move out there in 89. Make some connections, meet other band members, practice a lot, decide to make a studio album but in a garage, you know low budget, and then send it out to producers, and that's what they did. I think around you know the era of 1992, I think they were getting some sort of a following with in the la area I think their first gig was also the the first gig of the band dog star, which was headed by keanu reeves.

Speaker 2:

So they're I think that they're they followed that band like I mean they were the keanu's band played and then they played afterwards. But there was a buzz after that, I guess, and so they received a lot of positive feedback and eventually Rick Ocasek replied back to them, said that they liked it the band was floored, kind of a thing.

Speaker 2:

I'm reading this from Weezerpedia and kind of paraphrasing what I'm reading as I go along, but anyway, it's sort of a background into what led to this album. And so they hit it off with Ringo Kasich. He chooses to re-record the album and all the songs that they had written at the Electric Lady studio in Manhattan. So fly out to Manhattan, hang out with Ringo Kasich. Record this. Run into some drama at the Electric Lady studio in Manhattan. So fly out to Manhattan, hang out with Ringo Kasich. Record this. Run into some drama. I think the bass player I think it was Jason Cropper was the name of the bass player at the time who was replaced by Brian Bell towards the end of the recording. He was another rhythm guitar player. Who he was?

Speaker 2:

And they call up Brian Bell, who they had met in LA and were really buddies with him and asked him what action figure he liked from Star Wars and he said this is my favorite thing, hammerhead. And he's like do you want to be in the band? He's like hell, yeah. So, not to upset the record company, they replaced Cropper with Brian Bell and they didn't miss a beat. They finished up the album and it's got some classics on it, you know, and it's widely considered their best effort.

Speaker 2:

They go on to make a lot of really great records after this and they kind of title them after different colors. I think there's like a black album at some point in time there's a teal album, but anyway, this is the first one. This was the blue album. This has Say it Ain't, so that was a big hit. It's got Buddy Holly, it's got Undone, the sweater song. That was the first one. I remember that coming out and, yeah, I remember this album really well at the time and I liked it. I liked all these songs, even though I never I never bought this album and I never listened into the songs that are deeper it's just those three songs that I've come to know, but all these are fairly new to me.

Speaker 2:

So we're going to do what we always do on all of our episodes Listen to all the songs, rank the top three of the non-hits and put a bow on it, but of course, along the way as we always do, we're going to yuck it up. We've got a bunch of song banks, uh, or sound banks, I should say, and that now that that was fonzie, I don't know if you remember, in the buddy holly video, at the beginning of the video or I think, during the video, they show fonzie during the the marathon dance or the the dance-a-thon marathon, kind of a thing that he agrees to do for Shortcake. Even after walking his bike for 19 miles or something like that, in the cold, he still makes his promise and just to spite the couple that was still in it, at the end he does this thing to Hava Nagila. He's doing this dance move. Anyway, that's the background of our intro.

Speaker 2:

Tim's going to wrap up. I'm going to look at what else do we got here. There's some other interesting little tidbits. We'll cover those along the way once we start getting into it. My Name is Jonas is the first one.

Speaker 2:

Anyway, other band members Brian Bell, jonas no, not Jonas, that's the name of the song. Well, tim's kind of a fan. He can probably rattle off some of these guys. Tim, how you doing bud? You're a little rocky, carpet is a little snag. Getting fixed up, getting it together, work it, own it, little pretty woman action. Come on, don't tell me you don't like this chair. There he is he's getting settled in, you feeling it Getting the headset on, all right. There he is how you doing, bud man.

Speaker 3:

You feeling? All right, I'm less blue after listening to this album. It's got its ups, it's got its downs, it's got its all around. It's like a carousel. You got to work it. That's right. You got to work it. Um, any shout outs today? You want to shout out to ross, uh, who wanted to do this album, wanted us to this album, all right, shout out to cousin lindsey, who, uh ross lindsey.

Speaker 4:

What's up what?

Speaker 3:

else. What else, Cousin Adam? These are people that like Weezer and they have an off-putting charm. You know, they really do.

Speaker 2:

Kind of like the band itself. Yes, what's off-putting, what's charming? Can I ask? I don't know.

Speaker 3:

It's a nerdy charm.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

It's like a non-confident charm even lindsey, even cousin lindsey no, the band, oh man, oh okay, you're talking about your cousins.

Speaker 2:

I was like are you sure you want? Okay, I'm glad I clarified that.

Speaker 3:

Then the cousins have their own charm, that's right, independent of weezer. Um, really, this is just some raga. You know it's some LA raga and it is raga, but it's, you know, it's our raga and I'm this is one of those crossover bands where both of us dig them, I think yeah, I my music tastes evolved to sort of, I guess, hedge out weezer in my band travels and conquest of music, but I still have a place in my heart for Weezer. I haven't evolved.

Speaker 2:

I love them. It's just fun, because it's fun music.

Speaker 4:

They're not trying to expand the curvature of music or anything.

Speaker 2:

They're just trying to have fun.

Speaker 3:

I agree. I think it's a lightheartedness.

Speaker 2:

Nothing was really lighthearted back then either, even though there wasn't really war going on. It was like things were not bad, I mean domestically. Yeah, I think things were kind of like you know, Hanson. Yeah, there was like racial tension.

Speaker 3:

Hanson was a band. I mean, come on, yeah, the jonas brothers weren't, but jonas is in the.

Speaker 2:

My name is jonas. It sounds like my name is luca. Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know you want to get into it or uh Are we? Ready. Yes, you got some clips.

Speaker 3:

I don't know what I'm trying to say. What's the central focus of this album? The hell are you even saying? I don't know, let's just get into it.

Speaker 2:

All right, so this is my Name is Jonas. This is the first song.

Speaker 4:

Work it.

Speaker 2:

work it, baby. This is the first song. Work it Work it baby Work it Work it, own it. Yes, you can handle this I sound like a ghost in the wind. First to hear someone.

Speaker 4:

My name is Jonas.

Speaker 3:

I'm carrying the will, carrying the will. Thanks for all you've shown us. This is how we feel. I mean the will. Rock, quiet, shout out to the tea drinkers here.

Speaker 1:

We can beep too.

Speaker 3:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

So nice.

Speaker 2:

They're all singers. Yeah, Now it gets quiet.

Speaker 1:

What happened to soda? I thought we all agreed on soda. The name is Wakefield.

Speaker 3:

Shut up soda drinkers. Got a box full of your toys.

Speaker 1:

Fresh out of Baton Rouge, but you're still making noise, making the noise. Tell me what to do Now. The tank is dry.

Speaker 2:

Now this wheel is flat. There's a lot of really good songs.

Speaker 1:

There are no solos. Really there's nothing. That was in 1996.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

The building's not going as he planned.

Speaker 3:

The foreman has injured his hand. Chef Construction workers out there, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Sure have construction workers out there. Mathematicians Go home. That's your home. Are you too good for your home? Answer me Workers are going home.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, work it, work it, baby, work it work it, own it.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I got In a nickel.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to the workers.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the commuters Going way back from work their songs about me, kind of way back from where her song's about yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

The harmonica here Yep.

Speaker 2:

Nice, I kind of like that.

Speaker 3:

Going back to the acoustic is a nice set here.

Speaker 1:

I like it. Going back to the acoustic is a nice set here. My name is Jonas.

Speaker 2:

When did the Jonas Brothers come out? This? Is like pre-Jonas Brothers, isn't it?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2:

Something like that. I don't know, but post my Name is Luca. I think about the Jonas Brothers and then Suzanne Vega, I don't know. Strangely, this is sort of an intermediary, so, but in the form of a song yeah, all right, all right, all right, all right now all that weirdness is out of the way. Let's go to the next song. Nope, all right, this one is no One Else, no One Else.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to Fran the nanny.

Speaker 1:

Dress room. Dress room, it is.

Speaker 3:

We're used to something about it. Oh yeah, got to get the US makeup to the European standards here. Not that I wear makeup, but you know hey, not that I'd be judging if you did I want my ladies, to have you know the best formaldehyde-free makeup out there. Makeup. You don't need the makeup. You know she's on her own. I guess after that that's right, we get that every time.

Speaker 2:

That's right, yep, we can't leave it. Every time it's his laugh.

Speaker 1:

I don't know your very own Big Girl fan Big Girl 5. All right, shouts out to Jesse. Shouts out to Chelsea and if you see her, don't let it ever now. Oh, I get it, nanny.

Speaker 2:

Spank, spank, that should have been it.

Speaker 3:

I get it. Nanny, spank, spank. Ah, shut up. Oh, there's a little solo there. Cut and dry More feedback. Yeah, there's sort of like the big heads with a lot of stork Watch her. Oh, sort of like the big heads with a lot of stork, watch her. You're breaking up with her now. You want to watch her? I'm confused yeah he's kind of her unlocker.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, this one's a little possessive. Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 2:

All right, a little dated, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Pretty good.

Speaker 2:

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, this one's called the World has Turned.

Speaker 1:

It left me here. It left me there, just where I was before you appeared, and in your place an empty space has filled the void behind my face. I just made love with your sweet memories.

Speaker 3:

I like one Diggity, all right.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the big fakers out there, every day it's talking. Big Bang over here. No, we're not talking Big.

Speaker 1:

Bang Shut up and in your place an empty space has filled the void behind my face.

Speaker 3:

I talk for hours to your warning. Oh to God.

Speaker 1:

It's a little Def Leppard.

Speaker 3:

Chef John, ah, or maybe you did.

Speaker 1:

You remain tons away, turning forever. Every day the world has turned and love is here.

Speaker 3:

This is catchy. It's very catchy.

Speaker 4:

It's very catchy. We'll be right back, turned away, turning further Than every day. But if you don't change your face, I'm gonna change it for you. Love me here.

Speaker 1:

Just where I was Before you appeared In your place An empty space, a school for boys.

Speaker 4:

If you don't change your face, I'm gonna change it for you. The world has time.

Speaker 1:

And I'm not ashamed To swear all I've seen Before you appear and in your place, an empty space, a school for boys, behind my. Do you believe what I sing now? Do you believe what I sing now? Do you believe?

Speaker 2:

Do you believe? I think that's really really good harmony.

Speaker 3:

With the acoustic, the links of them in the background.

Speaker 2:

I just like the different voices of the guys singing in harmony together. It's excellent it's good I'm going to be good credit for that.

Speaker 4:

Excellent it's good I'm gonna get credit for that and well produced by rick of case too gradually let the horseshit of the external world fade from your awareness.

Speaker 2:

All right, Is that a little palate cleanser there? Oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

The world didn't leave you anywhere. You're just where you are, that's right.

Speaker 2:

All right, so next one is going to be a hit, buddy Holly, but enjoy. Oh you got a front full. Woo. I don't care what they say about us anyway, I don't care about that, All right. This one was the second hit after the sweater song. This also had a supporting video. This is the one that has Bonzi doing that dance at the end. It's kind of cool. This is ranked number 484 on Rolling Stone's list of greatest songs of all time.

Speaker 3:

Sure it's a Mary Tyler Moore, fred Astaire, you know. I guess this is written by Rivers also oh Rivers is on everything, oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

I guess his friends were making fun of his girlfriend at the time. So he read it Something in relation to that. In the book Rivers Edge, a case that gets quoted as saying I remember at one point he was hesitant to do Buddy Holly and I was like Rivers, can we talk about it? Do it anyway. If you don't like it when it's done, we won't use it, but I think you should try. So it was Rick O'Pasick that convinced him Buddy Holly.

Speaker 1:

Oh, oh and no, mary Tyler Moore, I don't care what they say about us anyway, I don't care about that.

Speaker 2:

I don't care about that. I don't care about that, I don't care about that. Alright, all right, we're good right.

Speaker 3:

All right, let's go.

Speaker 2:

All right, this is Undone the sweater song. Did we miss anything? Yeah, we're on track.

Speaker 1:

You're my boy boo. Hey bro, how you doing man?

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the bras.

Speaker 3:

See bro Asking me what a trigger warning is. It's great, it's one of my triggers, bra. She's so stoked I feel traumatized. Bra, and now I'm tweeting about you, bruh.

Speaker 4:

And now you're trending bruh.

Speaker 2:

Oh much Shout out to bras again.

Speaker 1:

I really like it.

Speaker 2:

Mary Tyler Bordiou leads the party.

Speaker 1:

I really like it, really, really. And now your life is ruined, brah. The search for God is at the street To God. Shout out to El Guapo from.

Speaker 2:

The Three Amigos. It's done. Shout out to El Guapo from the Three Amigos. It's a sweater.

Speaker 3:

It's a sweater, it's a sweater.

Speaker 2:

Can't forget about Mr Rogers.

Speaker 1:

Let's get him at the end of the song Just saying let it out, give it to him, let those sweaters breathe brother.

Speaker 3:

Let those sweaters breathe brother. Let those sweaters breathe brother and now you're fired.

Speaker 1:

Brah, I was lying. What happened to brah? I was lying in it In a beautiful garden Stretch stretched out naked in the sunlight. I watched him to see you lying there, your superman chair, lying on the floor. Lying on the floor, I'd come undone.

Speaker 2:

What's your favorite of the three hits?

Speaker 3:

I'm kind of curious um out of Sweater Sweater Buddy Holly and uh yeah, Say it Ain't so. Say it Ain't so. Sweater song. And Buddy Holly okay, buddy Holly's three, yeah, okay, I, buddy Holly, just doesn't do it for me anymore anymore. Okay, it used to be a good song for me, gotcha.

Speaker 2:

I would put it in the same order Call the fire department.

Speaker 4:

This was out of control.

Speaker 2:

No, I think the Sweater song is my number one, and then Saving.

Speaker 1:

So Saving, so is a cooler song.

Speaker 3:

That was the feedback sorry Feedback from my opinion. You said what?

Speaker 2:

I said Undone is my number one. Yeah, say anything, so is my number two.

Speaker 3:

I think you're saying so is your number one, right, or yeah, say that, so is my number one. Yeah, that's right, so it's cooler what? Is I'm scared right now but this is still undone.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I never knew that weird stuff they always cut it out I really like it really I like that.

Speaker 2:

All right, surf wax america. We got some.

Speaker 1:

Uh, just smack the lip Whore bag, get the best barrels ever.

Speaker 3:

All I need is some tasty waves, cool buzz, and I'm fine when you're out of fuel, I'm still up low. The barrel gets pitted, so pitted my buddies and the honeys are floating on the ground. The honeys? These guys are so nerdy that, like I can't even see them surfing, or they moved to LA from Connecticut. It's like, yeah, they're not surfers, no, no.

Speaker 1:

You take your cardamom, I'll take my board.

Speaker 3:

And when you're out? This is kind of punk punky proggy it is.

Speaker 1:

The undertow, strengthening its hold.

Speaker 3:

I never thought it would come to this, the little melody of the singing, is very unique. It juxtaposes the heaviness of it. It really does.

Speaker 1:

All right, we're getting down down dirty Light of my life. You take your car to work, I'll take my board, hey brah, and when you're out of fuel I'm still afloat you take your undertoes. Where'd you get this jacket? I got this in the network. Let me.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to St Pete Beach All along the undertow. Shout out to the undertow lounge. You never go home. You take your car to work.

Speaker 3:

I'll take my business. Well, I'll tell you, Stu, I did battle some humongous waves. I'll take my voice. Let's go. All right, let's go. Headed over to the Australian and the Hawaiian internationals.

Speaker 1:

Me and Mick are going to wing on over to London and jam with the Stones. You guys are invited to all right, that's awesome I love this.

Speaker 3:

I I think we all know one of my top threes, of course, even though they're not surfers really this is a big, big hit for them. Oh, this one.

Speaker 2:

This is such a catchy yeah.

Speaker 3:

It is very catchy that open-ended it's tuned a half step down.

Speaker 2:

I like how they play the bass on this one too. It's real reverberating.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you can really add the E7 or take away. Make it a little more jazzier on the chords. For this one too, it's good.

Speaker 4:

Oh yeah, all right, all right, hamilton, oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

Alright, alright, hamilton, alright.

Speaker 1:

Just get out of here, man.

Speaker 3:

This is played at like All the weddings. This one's big yeah, at least in my friend groups. I would rock out to this at a wedding. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, your drug is a heartbreaker.

Speaker 1:

It's a life taker. How much more black could this be?

Speaker 2:

And the answer is none. This could be blacker. You're right, you're right.

Speaker 1:

But I like the placement.

Speaker 3:

Try and be cool. Everybody messes that line up, I did. I didn't know what they were saying, kind of just mumble. Pretend like you're You're singing.

Speaker 1:

A water slide away from me. I like you, you're singing.

Speaker 2:

The water slide away from me Takes her further every day.

Speaker 3:

What kind of drug, I wonder.

Speaker 1:

You got good stuff in Class.

Speaker 2:

A chip, maybe drug is a metaphor for his love.

Speaker 3:

That's from Jesus. She's like a drug. What Bottle of Stevens?

Speaker 1:

Whoa this bottleottle of Stevens? Whoa Just bottle of Stevens.

Speaker 4:

Changing feelings Like gosh.

Speaker 3:

Flood Wow.

Speaker 2:

A lot of biblical references.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, double solo overlay and then they come together at that little yeah, oh, good production there, my love is a heartbreaker, say it ain't so.

Speaker 1:

My love is a life-taker.

Speaker 2:

Like father. Stepfather, the sun is drowning in the flood. Stepfather, the son is drowning in the flood.

Speaker 4:

It's kind of like Jesus and God and Joseph is just at the stepfather and oh wow, now maybe I'm just reading into too much that's good.

Speaker 3:

No, I didn't know let's see.

Speaker 2:

I don't think it has anything to do with any of that, but but You're getting biblical.

Speaker 3:

I like it. This is family frustrations maybe, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I just I went there, it went too far.

Speaker 3:

Anyway, oh you know, he went and set Father's refrigerator and got a beer. Someone's henny is crowding my ice ice box. He stole a beer from his father. He has abuse. Uh, his father was an alcoholic. Left his family when he's four. Oh oh, so I was way off.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm sorry to even go there. I don't know how I feel about the song anymore.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Next.

Speaker 1:

Alright, let's party.

Speaker 3:

Let's party, let's party. Going from server songs to like this is back to server.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, to his messed up family Girlfriends. He's a heavy metal guy too, but Rivers.

Speaker 1:

Shout out to Ace.

Speaker 4:

Hey, hey, hey, bring the bag over here. Where's the bag?

Speaker 2:

Like Ace had kind of a high voice. He would cackle when he laughed.

Speaker 3:

A place where you can get away just play some music. Got fuzz bass on this Helps give that garage rock song yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yep, yeah, we've seen the fuzz bass a couple times. Yeah, I think it was fuzz bass a couple times. Yeah, I think it was used a lot in the during this era.

Speaker 3:

The garage is in Amherst Avenue, West Los Angeles, California, the one that they're referencing. I see Okay, this is specific here In the garage, one car garage laundry room, converted into a practice and demo recording spot. The landlords in the main house are rightly confused, having been told the guys were UCLA film students. Not no film music. That's right no film Music.

Speaker 2:

That's right, mike Eagle's right. This will blow away that it's Garage Rock. They're a garage band.

Speaker 1:

They're the garage band. Wait a minute. What did you just say? Say that again.

Speaker 3:

Light by fire.

Speaker 1:

What do you say, kiss?

Speaker 2:

not greet it Shout out to the club.

Speaker 1:

Single successful guy, I feel safe.

Speaker 2:

I feel safe. I like the simplicity of this. It's just fun. It is fun.

Speaker 1:

I really like it Really.

Speaker 3:

I like the fade out there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that was cool, wasn't it? You like this song, don't you? Uh, yeah, it's good, I'm thinking tolerable at least for me. I would say I don't know, man, I mean, what do you think? I mean, it was more than just tolerable to eat, right.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean, it was the lightheartedness, the jokiness of it was. What is it?

Speaker 2:

the fact that what do you think? It was michael richard's uh it's tolerable.

Speaker 3:

Okay now I'm sorry, continue. Yeah, he's vulnerable. You know he needs his little space.

Speaker 2:

It's kind of cute yeah, it is sing song and yeah it's a little droney at the end it is, is yeah. But, I've come around from, you know, not liking a song like this and dismissing it to like okay, you know this is kind of nice, it's a run up a hill, you know, after some strong Earl Grey kind of day song.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, shout out to Makoko. Yeah, our sponsors, happy Magic Fun Ball Still legal to Makoko. Oh yeah, our sponsors, happy magic fun ball Still legal in 16 states yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

All right, this is called holiday.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to you on holiday here, that's right. Hopefully you have some of the coins of whatever village you're visiting.

Speaker 1:

Thank you a lot, who knows, nicola, of whatever village you're visiting. I go out to Nicaragua, you and I, to a strange and distant land when we speak no word of truth, but we don't understand it.

Speaker 3:

Kind of like the airy slopes of Mount Nicaragua, all natural cocoa beans Best, the best cup of coffee I've ever had by far. I would drop tea in a heartbeat with that kind of cup of coffee. I swear to you.

Speaker 2:

A shout out to everybody out in Mount Nicaragua. Yeah, if that's actually the place, which I don't think so.

Speaker 1:

External world.

Speaker 2:

It's talking Big Bang over here.

Speaker 1:

Any Big Bangers out there? Big Bang Theory.

Speaker 3:

You're going to watch TV on a holiday. What are you doing? That's a crime. That's a crime.

Speaker 1:

Do you want it? No, do you want it.

Speaker 4:

No.

Speaker 1:

Nanny Banger's over here.

Speaker 3:

This part's weird.

Speaker 1:

Is this some Buddy Holiday?

Speaker 3:

stuff.

Speaker 2:

On the road with Kerouac Free verse.

Speaker 3:

Free verse Free verse.

Speaker 2:

On the road, we'll never die. Yeah, there's a lot going on here, man. It's kind of crazy. Listen to the words. It's like whatever platform you listen to, just read it, it's just like what's going on.

Speaker 3:

It's a lot of words, yeah.

Speaker 4:

Far. Away.

Speaker 3:

Where would you want to go on holiday? Anywhere, any faraway place, switzerland, switzerland.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Nice. They have good banks there. Yeah, good banks in Switzerland, I'm going to say Hungary. Why is that? I hear they got some good food over there and hungry Shout out to the Hungarians out there.

Speaker 2:

A little goulash, a little paprika, a little paprikash.

Speaker 3:

Popper Paprikasher Shout out to the Hungarians, of course they get so pitted.

Speaker 1:

The baron get pitted.

Speaker 3:

That's right, all right, hamilton.

Speaker 2:

This one's called Only in Dreams.

Speaker 3:

It's a dream. Really, you can't resist her. She's in your bones, she is your marrow. Look at that. I picked them up from the printers yesterday. Good coloring, that's bone.

Speaker 2:

Shots of Patrick Bateman.

Speaker 3:

He's got to return some videotapes.

Speaker 1:

Here it is Boner Jams 03. It's a mixtape, I think. Reach out our hands, Hold on to us.

Speaker 3:

But when we lose it's a weird little key change yeah.

Speaker 1:

And so it seems.

Speaker 2:

I kind of liked it when it went up like that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, only ten bones more for a quarter. Okay, here it is, boner Jams 03.

Speaker 1:

Mixtape unmade, so what? So let's dance.

Speaker 3:

Get up there, brah, ask her to dance. Put down your Dungeons and Dragons cards and get out there.

Speaker 4:

Oh jeez, let it out, put down your Dungeons and.

Speaker 2:

Dragons cards and get out there.

Speaker 1:

Let it out, just saying let it out. Give it some air, man, play it. See what it means. Reach out our hands, hold on to hers.

Speaker 4:

But when we wake, it's all that remains, because she decided to save the magic. Wake up, sisters. Is this heaven? It's Iowa.

Speaker 3:

It's just Iowa. It's just Iowa.

Speaker 4:

There's only a dream. Who the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking about? Who are you?

Speaker 3:

talking to the dream Really.

Speaker 1:

Where did you get this jacket I got. I'll tell you, surfing's not a sport, it's a way of life, no hobby. It's a way of looking at that wave and saying, hey, bud, let's party.

Speaker 3:

Oh man, this last song is Gonna skew everything here, as the last song usually does. Well, yeah, it's kind of long.

Speaker 2:

It's like almost 8 minutes. It's still going, but it's good. Everything here, as the last song usually does. Well, yeah, it's kind of long, it's like almost eight minutes. It's still going, but it's good. I kind of like this.

Speaker 3:

It's nice.

Speaker 2:

It adds some touching appeal to it. There's a little Siamese, there's a little Smashing Pumpkins in this. Now that I think about it, now that I listen to it, this has Siamese Dream written all over it. This part.

Speaker 3:

It's about a girl he wishes to be with. He doesn't want to mess it up with her in his dream because of this unavoidable love he has for this girl.

Speaker 2:

Oh, who was it, I wonder? I'll crush your pretty toenails into a thousand pieces, but only in dreams.

Speaker 3:

This is also River's favorite solo. Is this a solo? This is his favorite personal solo here. All right, alright. He says this is a rare solo People don't play solos like this anymore. Give it a try. Wow, okay, yes, wow, okay, yes. Well, I'll tell you still, I did babble some humongous ways. These are some humongous sounds here. That's a humongous riff, at the very least Simple, but it's unaffected, I agree. You can call it a solo, but it's like a band solo, it's a build-up jam. Yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, build-up jam.

Speaker 1:

Be still darling Light of my life.

Speaker 2:

I'm not gonna hurt you. You didn't let me finish my sentence. There's kind of a psychotic thing. He's like crushing toenails into a thousand pieces. That's very like wendy light of my life light of my life, oh so pitiful, oh, so pitted. All right, that was nice. All right, that's it. Yeah, that was a pretty brief, relatively speaking. So what are we thinking here in terms of, uh, top three non-hits? Um, what's your number three? What do you? What do you? Where are you gonna go with it?

Speaker 3:

where am I gonna go with this? The nostalgia for me of my name is jonas. It's one of their more melodic. It has the acoustic. I'm going with that number three. My name is Jonas, got it, yeah.

Speaker 2:

All right, I didn't put a ton of thought into this, but Surf Wax America was kind of a goofy song to me. I kind of like the way it had so many different surf references. I like the fun that we had, you know like yeah and that yeah, for that reason I'll make that my number three okay, well, I'm going in the garage.

Speaker 3:

I like the safest cubby of you know, matching them in some LA cul-de-sac or whatever that was a good, that was good. Hanging out in the garage Number two for me Good, good selection.

Speaker 2:

I'm thinking only in dreams is my number two. Oh wow, I liked the instrumental. Um, I liked the how it all built up the crescendo at the end and it had that, and then it finishes up with that single little bass and it's probably something that's overlooked, and just the fact that it was his uh his favorite solo, kind of like, nailed it for me and and got me there, so that's gonna be my number two. That's my number one, I think. All right, yeah, nice, what did you like about?

Speaker 3:

it, the fact that it just went into this opera mode of a composure like a composition of his own making. He dreamed these sounds up with his buddies and they're doing it. So, regardless of the chick, that's supposed to be the the main focal point.

Speaker 2:

Um oh yeah, so you got into the storyline of it too, yeah yeah okay, good storyline right now yeah, I think I'm gonna make my number one in the garage Nice. There was a lot to like about that and I liked how they kind of worked the word garage into the chorus. They just call it garage Garage and that was kind of what we said back in the Midwest garage Garage, you just kind of run it all.

Speaker 4:

It's garage rock yeah.

Speaker 2:

So that gave me a little bit of nostalgia. This is very nostalgic. It has a feeling of nostalgia throughout the album and it was that part of the song that I liked and it jammed from going in and out of the chorus and it was well-crafted, well-done, yeah.

Speaker 3:

I made that my number one. It was nostalgic, you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean I like my Name is Jonas. That was good, I could have put that in there and I guess blue is a good color.

Speaker 3:

You're my boy, blue it is For this album.

Speaker 2:

You're my boy.

Speaker 3:

It's a great color. Yeah, the green is good. Green's a good it's a great color.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, the green is good, green's good album as well you know, yeah, the teal album. I think there is a teal album, I think, like in the 2000s or 2010s that they made.

Speaker 3:

That's later on or maybe even 2016, yeah, they they've got a few more so anyway, great color.

Speaker 2:

Yeah Well, we'll put a bow on this one and uh well, we'll see. We'll see y'all on the flip side. Take care Woo.

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