The Greatest Non Hits

Cake: Fashion Nugget

• Chris & Tim • Season 3 • Episode 18

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When Chris and I first stumbled upon Cake's "Fashion Nugget," we had no idea how deeply this quirky alt-rock ensemble would burrow into the soundtrack of our lives. Fast forward to today, and we're still uncovering layers in this aural feast that mixes jazz, hip hop, country, and rock with a side of dry wit courtesy of frontman John McCrea. Our latest jam session isn't just a trip down memory lane; it's an invitation to those moments that resonate with us all, set to the comforting strum of Cake's idiosyncratic tunes.

This episode isn't just about "The Distance"; it's about the journey through the album's less celebrated masterpieces, where we reveal our top three tracks that never made it to mainstream radio fame but still hold a treasured place in our hearts. Vince DeFiore's trumpet melodies weave through our discourse, as we share personal stories tethered to the band's unique sound, from the subtle Moog synth lines to the cleverly crafted lyrics that transport us back to simpler times. Our conversation turns into a celebration of sounds, from the muted trumpet's evocative power to the comforting thrum of the Vibra Slap, proving music can truly be a warm blanket for the soul.

Wrap your ears around our creative musings as we draw parallels between Cake's songwriting and the artful dance of novel crafting. You'll find us chuckling over the peculiarities of life, from foam rolling to movie theater etiquette, as we revel in the oddball ideas that enrich our daily existence. Whether you're a die-hard fan of Cake's distinctive stylings or just looking for a nostalgic escape, our auditory feast of music, memories, and quirky banter promises to be the perfect soundtrack to improve your day. So tune in, kick back, and let us serenade you with an episode that's as comforting and familiar as your favorite pair of worn-in headphones.

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Speaker 1:

entire confection. See you at lunch. Thank you, cookie rotten kids, you wanted cake, you got cake, now eat it all right, thank you for listening to the greatest non-hits.

Speaker 3:

I'm chris and playing the song nugget from fashion nugget. Cake's second album is my co-host, tim we. Uh, we both want to thank you for listening, as always. Keep, uh, downloading us wherever you get your podcasts and, um, we're gonna be. The subject matter of our podcast today is Fashion Nugget. It's the second studio album by the alternative rock band. Cake. You could say they were alt-rock 1996. They really experimented with a lot of different genres, though A lot of jazz.

Speaker 2:

Interestingly it's a jazz flute.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, interestingly it's a jazz flute. Yeah, exactly, a lot of jazz, a lot of other genres mixed in, and their big song was the Distance. She's going the distance, you know. So, anyway, this is a band from Sacramento, california. They formed in August of 1991. I think the original members were John McCree, who was the vocalist, or is the vocalist, trumpet, vince DeFiore, I think, zan McCurdy, todd Roper, daniel McCallum those are the current members on this album. The personnel was John McCree, lead vocals, acoustic guitar and keyboards. Greg Brown was electric guitar and keyboards, vince DiFiori, trumpet and percussion, victor Damiani on bass and then Todd Roper on drums and percussion. So relatively, you know, a low-key band. I mean their music, pops, I love their songs, great, great stuff. The guys, they're sort of just, you know, just run-of-the-mill, you know they don't really have like an image and that's probably kind of their image, best known for their again their song the Distance.

Speaker 3:

It epitomized the postmodern irony-drenched aesthetic of 90s geek rock. I'm reading from Wikipedia, or not Wikipedia, but this is from their Spotify profile, which is written pretty well actually, and I kind of agree with some of it. They describe the genres as like white boy funk I didn't know that that was a thing Hip hop country there is some country in there New wave pop, jazz, college rock, guitar rock. Society has a lot of genres nowadays. It was just either rock or this or that.

Speaker 3:

Now everything's a lot of Well. I mean mean, it's good, though it's good to have so many descriptors, uh, their lyrics filled with lyrical non-sequiturs, pop culture references, tons of pop culture references, um smirky satire, all delivered with bone dry detachment by speak singing front man john mccree. I've heard he's kind of, you know, yeah, he's, he's a little, uh, he's a little bullish on himself. So, uh, it's a good thing, yeah, um, what I like about his style is that he speaks from this monotone and it works in the distance and it's for effect and a lot of confidence in this album and the non-hits are great I, in my opinion, from listening to it several times quality stuff for sure.

Speaker 3:

so there's 14 songs in all and then I think Tim and I we're going to exclude the distance and, uh, the remake of I will survive. So it's the other Gloria Gaynor song, written by Freddie Perrin and Dino Ficaras.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to those guys. So, but there's some other good songs in here.

Speaker 3:

I think I kind of liked Frank Sinatra.

Speaker 2:

That was good.

Speaker 3:

Stick Shifts and Safety Melts is kind of cool. I don't know Nugget's good, he's playing.

Speaker 2:

But we'll see.

Speaker 3:

I'm going to give it another listen. I'm going to try to give all the songs a fair shot and then at the end, when we're done, we're going to give it another listen.

Speaker 3:

I'm going to try to give all the songs a fair shot and then at the end, when we're done, we're going to rank our top three non-hits. So I'm expecting at least one of those three that I just mentioned to be in my top three. But stick around In the meantime. Tim's going to wrap it up shortly and then we're going to yuck it up a little bit, play some sound clips, listen to the songs. We've got some more banks in between the songs. So we're going to have a good time. We're going to hang out, we're going to get silly and it's going to be a good time.

Speaker 3:

So, yeah, while he gets settled, this guy Vince DeFiore the trumpet. I think that's the one unique thing about this band. The rest of the, the members very adequate musicians in their own right. Songs are well written. Um, it's the. A lot of the lyrics are super cool, um, that the trumpet stands out too. There's um sort of like a break in between songs with the, with the uh trumpet solos, etc. So, um, nice ebb and flow to it. But, uh, with that uh in mind, we're gonna give the musician uh a shout out. Tim, how's it going bud?

Speaker 3:

and we're going to florida yeah well, you can see here. If you're a regular listener you know the surfer sound clips are coming up. So that's a little tell.

Speaker 6:

Or the Howard Dean. What is it? The president?

Speaker 1:

And we're going to California and we're going to Oklahoma.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, there's going to be some Keith Jackson and Surfer Dude. Surfer Dude Mixed in it's going to be some Keith Jackson and Surfer Dude mixed in. It's going to be kind of cool.

Speaker 6:

The lead singer always just loves to do that. Yeah, and I love that about this band they just bring it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they do, they do bring it.

Speaker 6:

It's already been brought. We have some cake. It's here.

Speaker 3:

You were saying it was a verb well, I guess it's not about the, the dessert cake, that, from what I've read, they named it based off of any type of substance that collects and cakes on to something like mud cakes on to the bottom where you shoot, kind of thing that's so he's using it in the verb sense If, if, that is, if it is used as a verb in that way.

Speaker 6:

I think that's okay. Yeah, so well, these guys are moving and shaking. I mean, there it's a lot of cake.

Speaker 3:

It is a lot of cake.

Speaker 6:

And it's, it's all, it's all caked up. This is a college rock. I mean, this is like really, that they've got such a chauvinism about them. That's just almost you know like they are. They want to be so many things and you're right. The confidence in this album is top class because it's so many genres in one and they have an obsession with race cars. So they're just like regular dudes.

Speaker 6:

They're just like let's get a van and get chicks and talk about race cars and stuff that's right, we'll layer a trumpet on top of it yeah, and they've got the david byrne thing with the weird lyrics, except they're like even more sort of sarcastic yeah, so I'll talk in a monotone and kind of like a dick yeah, yes, exactly, yeah, a little bit of that comes out a little father john misty thing going on Sort

Speaker 4:

of yeah.

Speaker 6:

But I mean it is a great album.

Speaker 3:

Are you ready to get into it? Do you have any last thoughts? What are you thinking?

Speaker 6:

Well, we got talent. These guys have talent.

Speaker 2:

You don't need the blue stuff, kid, you got talent.

Speaker 6:

They got talent.

Speaker 3:

Kind of like Frank Sinatra, right, yeah Well, that's you got talent, you got talent. Kind of like Frank Sinatra, right, yeah Well, that's the first song. So let's get ready to do it. We're going to play the first song. This is called Frank Sinatra. Chairman of the Board. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 6:

I've listened to this album so many times Do you know what they're playing Like.

Speaker 3:

This is sort of like the mini Moog or something.

Speaker 6:

I don't know A Hohman Hohner.

Speaker 3:

Okay, we know of an ancient radiation that haunts dismembered constellations.

Speaker 6:

A faintly glimmering radio station Shout out to the radio stations out there AM.

Speaker 2:

You don't need the blue stuff, kid, you got talents.

Speaker 5:

Take the high road, baby.

Speaker 6:

Excellent trumpet here. Sometimes they put a little toilet plunger on the trumpet to muffle the sound a little bit.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, it's like a makeshift yeah.

Speaker 6:

It's the actual. They just take that right off.

Speaker 3:

Oh, okay, that is their tool.

Speaker 5:

A clean one, hopefully, yeah.

Speaker 3:

I think they sold a ton of albums. I think it went platinum.

Speaker 5:

Oh, come on, swing baby, you're platinum.

Speaker 6:

An ancient radiation. It's just a microwave at GoBliotechy.

Speaker 3:

We've unearthed it. We remember the bibliotech.

Speaker 6:

Oh, don't do the bibliotech Take the high road. Take the high road, baby To the bibliotech. Oh, don't do the bibliotech Take the high road.

Speaker 5:

Take the high road baby To the bibliotech.

Speaker 6:

Take your bike.

Speaker 3:

You can shake and bake, but that's for another song.

Speaker 6:

Oh, we'll be shaking and baking this whole album. We'll be calling the fire department, of course.

Speaker 3:

I think we'll call.

Speaker 6:

We have a double solo Just a minute, just a minute. Oh, we had a double. Solo Just a minute.

Speaker 5:

We've got a double solo right here. We've got a double solo right here Flies and spiders.

Speaker 3:

It's a cool line Flies and spiders get along together.

Speaker 6:

It's got a sing-songy kind of feel to it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I like the rhymes too.

Speaker 6:

And the sad trumpet.

Speaker 3:

There's a line. It's sad but it's nice and clear and crisp.

Speaker 6:

I like that. This album is like a warm blanket for me. I used to listen to this all the time when I was in eighth grade high school, college. Just all the now, right now.

Speaker 3:

I can imagine, yeah, this would be a great. This album is right in that wheelhouse.

Speaker 6:

It's got some weird. Is he yelling in the background? Did you hear that?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's very faint, faintly glimmering radio station, I think is what it is. Oh, it's trying to project, you know. That's the cleverness of it About non-set, whatever it is. That's the description.

Speaker 6:

Well, there was a fly in my apartment earlier and it was in the right place.

Speaker 3:

Was it getting along with the spiders? Was it getting along with the?

Speaker 6:

spiders. It was getting along with the spiders.

Speaker 3:

That's good.

Speaker 2:

Before we get on with the big one, I'd like to take this opportunity to level. You might say.

Speaker 3:

Alright, yeah, that was Chairman of the Board right there, frank.

Speaker 4:

Sinatra.

Speaker 3:

And his infiniteness Shout out to reluctantly crowd. So this is the distance engines pumping and thumping.

Speaker 5:

in time, the green light flashes, the flags go up. That's right. There's a lot of course, racing stuff.

Speaker 3:

There's tons of football stuff. The distance he's going, the distance, oh Nelly.

Speaker 5:

Oh, nelly, one man still driving and striving as fast as he can. The sun has gone down.

Speaker 2:

Right in.

Speaker 5:

On a reverse and long ago somebody left with the cup. But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns and thinking of someone for whom he On a reverse Gets a block on the corner and breaks into the open.

Speaker 3:

Oh wait, just a minute you got to get that one in there.

Speaker 5:

That's a nice nonsense and biting on his horse and I am a racing car driver just like you, except I am from formula here's that jazz he can't define it Bowel, a little colon blow.

Speaker 6:

I listened to this on the John.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, a colon blow would be a good sponsor for us. We can get them. Happy, fun Ball Makoka. Shout out to all three sponsors. Especially Happy Fun Ball Still legal in 16 states. It's happy, it's fun. It's Happy Fun Ball yeah.

Speaker 5:

All alone.

Speaker 3:

But I mean with Speed, with speed, nascar, you can't. You can't play jazz. Nobody plays jazz.

Speaker 6:

Nobody plays jazz flute.

Speaker 3:

We need a little Daylight before we play that one.

Speaker 2:

We play jazz here at Pit Stop okay.

Speaker 1:

We'll have an ex coming at you. Hold on, people, we've got your gritties Nice.

Speaker 6:

Amazing, I love the vocals Boom, boom, boom, blam, blam, blamed into the racetrack.

Speaker 4:

Amazing, I love the vocals, boom, boom boom.

Speaker 5:

All right now it sounds like the Wall, oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

Pot.

Speaker 5:

Nice to me coming from you, friend, is a four letter word yeah, I think I had an episode of Daria too this was wasn't Daria this is on one of the episodes that I heard call me morbid or absurd, but to me coming from you.

Speaker 6:

Nice, sorry. Yeah, that was me playing, that was good.

Speaker 3:

And this is like Matt War Pigs Black Sabbath.

Speaker 6:

They cover War Pigs actually yeah.

Speaker 1:

You're the one that bailed on us. You're the one that ran the moment. Things got just a little rough, that's.

Speaker 4:

That's what that is, neither here nor there, okay, well, here.

Speaker 6:

Little trumpet, little Ross, little Rachel.

Speaker 3:

This is already up at my number one right now, oh my God, now that it's starting to sink in, like the different influences this song has. Now I'm just, I'm digging it. End is the only part of the word friend that I heard.

Speaker 6:

So catchy.

Speaker 3:

Coming from you.

Speaker 2:

That's real clever. You're counting Jesus.

Speaker 5:

When I go fishing for the words I am wishing you would say to me. I am really only praying that the words you'll soon be saying Might betray the way you feel about me.

Speaker 1:

I couldn't invite you, I had to pretend to be plastic Buddy. You're not pretending anymore, you're plastic, cold, shiny, hard plastic. Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha Ha.

Speaker 6:

Oh, goodbye student loan payments, you'll be sure, unless you have another piece Top off To me.

Speaker 2:

It's hard for me to remember.

Speaker 6:

But to me, coming from you.

Speaker 5:

Friend is a four-letter word.

Speaker 6:

Wow Gosh.

Speaker 3:

Good stuff, I'm loving that my gosh Hold. Good stuff, I'm loving that my gosh Hold on a second. I'm sorry.

Speaker 6:

We need to. That was just. I know that doesn't really. That hit me there.

Speaker 3:

And this is a song that's kind of Not up near the top of the pack in terms of place.

Speaker 1:

Are you crying? What's that? Are you crying?

Speaker 3:

I want to cry.

Speaker 6:

I want to cry with that one, but I'm not All right. God bless you, buddies. God bless you, buddies.

Speaker 3:

All right, so we're going on to song number four. Open book. You ready, oh are we ready?

Speaker 6:

Let's see here, let's get ourselves ready. How are you ready?

Speaker 1:

Let's see here let's get ourselves ready how you coming on that novel you're working on.

Speaker 3:

Alright, brian Griffin.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, brian, this is open book. This is open book, I mean Huh.

Speaker 1:

Huh, Got a big stack of papers there In the page they're like the corral and the words are my wild horses.

Speaker 6:

Oh yeah, cool drums. Very like minimal, but like Wicked.

Speaker 3:

This is Zeppelin-y. Oh, wow, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Got a nice little story you wrote. Come on, man Thickens.

Speaker 6:

You can't put it down. I love a good book. Laura, you working on that, dickens?

Speaker 5:

I love a good book.

Speaker 6:

This is very similar to the Distance also, too. It could have been a hit like the Distance, but it's not.

Speaker 1:

You think it'd be a good novel you've been working on for three years, huh.

Speaker 2:

Got a compelling protagonist.

Speaker 3:

She's got a good baseline too. Oh my God, oh my God.

Speaker 1:

Got a little bit of obstacle for him to overcome.

Speaker 5:

Do you think she's a bad girl, but you don't know which page to turn to.

Speaker 1:

Words are my wild horses. It's my job to break those word horses and ride them off into the green pastures of prose and poetry.

Speaker 6:

Sir, all I said was your Discover card was declined. Ooh Dennis, you know Dennis.

Speaker 1:

Huh, the story blue man.

Speaker 6:

I love this one.

Speaker 3:

I like the pace.

Speaker 5:

Confront her.

Speaker 6:

It's a relationship book, okay.

Speaker 5:

Want it.

Speaker 6:

Confront it just open your window guitar, rhythm guitar here working on working on that for quite some time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, talking about that three years ago. Yes, I'm working on that the whole time. Nice little narrative beginning, middle, middle and end Some friends become enemies.

Speaker 6:

Polished hardwood floors. You don't know Off-culture lyrics here. They sing it out of rhythm At a certain point. Hold on.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, because the instruments are too it's all on purpose, though, do you.

Speaker 1:

Enemies become friends. At the end, your main character is richer for the experience. Yeah, yeah, you deserve some time off. Do you think she's an?

Speaker 2:

old bangle, but you don't know which page to turn. To Do you, do you?

Speaker 1:

In the page. Do you to turn to do you? Do you, do you?

Speaker 3:

in the page. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, you gotta love that. What do you think, man? God that's wow, I need that's gotta be up. But then this is coming up too, man, and then you got, I'm telling you.

Speaker 6:

This is a really great album.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I know, now I'm still having a hard time, so this next one is daria yeah there we go all right, as I'm not interested in you and I'd be stabbing my friend in the back if I even considered it, dare you.

Speaker 5:

It's kind of a funny part.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, and what? What kind of a jerk would that make me?

Speaker 6:

Tom.

Speaker 4:

Exactly.

Speaker 3:

All right then.

Speaker 4:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

And then they start making out, of course.

Speaker 6:

Oh, icing on on a Cake. I've always loved that, yeah.

Speaker 3:

This band's personality is like Daria, the cartoon character, I think.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

There's a parallel there. Yeah, that really stinks, daria. They're admitting, they're like guy Darias.

Speaker 6:

They are guy Darias, frat Darias.

Speaker 1:

We tell you over and over again that you're wonderful and you just don't get it.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to Daria's mom Something she would say I was cleaning oil from beaches.

Speaker 6:

That's bad what.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, not every lyric is on point, I guess. No, I was cleaning oil from beaches, seeing only what was bad.

Speaker 6:

Hey, Brian, and you told me to get out Now it's a little Psychedelic, even it's a little psychedelic. It's got that Barbershop raga. Yeah, it is very barbershop.

Speaker 5:

This is getting barbershop. I won't be soothed over like smooth.

Speaker 3:

Barbershop raga. That is very barbershop. This is getting barbershop A little milk. I still like it.

Speaker 6:

It's kind of cool On a cake. Serene at Transfersent Lake.

Speaker 1:

What's wrong with you? Is she going to have like a breakdown or something? Cause that could really mess me up with my new friends, don't worry.

Speaker 4:

I don't have low self-esteem. It's a mistake. I'll say I have low esteem for everyone else.

Speaker 3:

Ah, she got it now.

Speaker 6:

She's so smart, she knows words. Okay, yeah, people that speak in fewest words are probably the smartest people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 6:

Like the chorus in Nugget, we should also probably take heed to that yeah. Well, sometimes more is more More is More can be more yeah like 70 of all communication is non-verbal anyway, so that's true, but on a podcast, though. That's all that's all out the window. That's all out the window.

Speaker 3:

So but yeah, oh, for now out of nowhere.

Speaker 6:

I just got slammed with the tune, oh yeah, here we go Jeff. What happened Jeff?

Speaker 3:

Jeff Gordon.

Speaker 6:

He got slammed.

Speaker 5:

He was not happy. And it cut my left rear tire and he's just a dipshit. Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to the yagas out there.

Speaker 4:

Really fast. We're like forward and you know, dave, I'm just not wrecking enough people. I need to wreck more people so they'll stop throwing bad blocks, and that's what's happening to me on the plate track.

Speaker 6:

Bad blocks.

Speaker 4:

You know everyone that's watching all them drivers out there throw another bad block. I'm just going to drive through you and wreck you. So look out Talladega, look out.

Speaker 6:

Oh, look outs. Did he say, look out Tubby.

Speaker 3:

Tall, talladega, talladega. Oh, that's right. Yeah, he did.

Speaker 5:

Race car Yayas Look everybody.

Speaker 6:

Yaya.

Speaker 2:

Look who's back again it's Yayaya, yayaya, sit down, yayaya. Very good, too loud All right.

Speaker 3:

A little shout out to the Greek Yayas out there Downers. Okay, all right. So we shout out to the Greek guy who's out there. Downers.

Speaker 6:

Okay, all right.

Speaker 3:

So we're getting up to. I Will Survive. This is the remake. Yeah, call this a hit. We're taking this off.

Speaker 6:

Taking this one off. It's a cover too, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Their own take on this.

Speaker 6:

Great cover band. Oh yeah, do their utmost.

Speaker 5:

The bass man.

Speaker 2:

Just can't get enough of the bass.

Speaker 6:

Like Aretha was asked uh, it's the hardest thing about being famous. She's like whatever about being or being successful. It's like the hardest thing in life is putting dinner on the table every night and figuring out what to eat, or something like that was a common sure, common Sure. She's so Down to earth, down to earth, thank you. She's not in outer space, she's right in your kitchen and she's on the stage To put food on her table.

Speaker 5:

Okay, yeah, it's good stuff Full circle.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, this is Gloria Gaynor who sang this one, and then I think the guys that wrote this, freddie Perrin and Dino Vicaris, shout out to Freddie and Dino too Look at that.

Speaker 6:

Sort of a discordant guitar playing style. It's very boxy, you know what I mean. It's not very fluid, it's like, yeah, it's kind of staccato a little yeah punk-esque it's featured in the 1998 french film those who Love Me Can Take the Train.

Speaker 3:

Oh, and it was also in the 2004 Japanese movie Survive Style 5+, the 2002 film Secretary, the 2003 German movie Air Laman and the 2003 Canadian comedy Mambo Italiana. I don't think I've seen a single one of those movies, but still Victor Damiani is crushing the fix.

Speaker 5:

Oh, so many nights just feeling sorry for myself. I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high and you see me with somebody new. I'm not that stupid little person still in love with you. And so you thought you'd just drop by and you expect me to be free. But now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me. Oh, now go, walk out the door, just turn around.

Speaker 3:

Self-produced by the band. No producer, really yeah.

Speaker 5:

Weren't you the one who tried to break me with desire. Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? It's pretty rare. Anyhow, if you think that.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to sit around and wait for you. You can forget it.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2:

That looks a lot better. Another coin bowl all my life to live, I've got all my love.

Speaker 6:

oh yeah, again, black Sabbath-y.

Speaker 3:

Right and that little thing that was like the Viberslap.

Speaker 6:

Oh yeah, I love the Viberslap Probably John McRae.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's John McCrae.

Speaker 3:

Greg Brown's crushing on guitar too.

Speaker 2:

Flam, flam, flam into the racetrack.

Speaker 1:

Dear tiny Jesus, your golden fleece diapers with your tiny little fat balled-up fist pawn.

Speaker 5:

He was a man. He had a beard.

Speaker 1:

I like the Christmas Jesus best and I'm saying grace.

Speaker 3:

Cool.

Speaker 6:

Wow.

Speaker 3:

That was a nice little thing at the end there. Good cover. Here's the country. Western stick shifts and safety belts Yeehaw.

Speaker 6:

Rockabilly.

Speaker 5:

Stick shifts and safety belts, Bucket seats have all got to go when we're driving In the car. It makes my baby seem so far. I need you here with me Not way over.

Speaker 3:

We need a fire department thing. To sum it up, Call the fire department.

Speaker 2:

This was out of control.

Speaker 6:

An oval and a bucket seat. It's not PDA. If you're in a Chevrolet, that's right.

Speaker 5:

It's easy to get right next to you. I say, baby, scoot over please.

Speaker 6:

Follow that car. A bucket seat is. Why is it called a bucket seat Is?

Speaker 3:

it large. It's kind of bucketed a little bit, but yeah, well, you don't want it could have. Yeah Well, you don't want to call it a toilet seat.

Speaker 5:

What's more like in the analogy?

Speaker 6:

Yeah, a lot of good cars are Japanese, that's baby making music.

Speaker 5:

That's what that is. I need my baby. I need my baby next to me.

Speaker 1:

That's baby making music. That's what that is.

Speaker 5:

Well, stick shifts and safety belts.

Speaker 6:

Bucket seats have all got to go.

Speaker 5:

When we're driving in the car. It makes my baby sing so far. I need you here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.

Speaker 3:

I need you to be here with me, not way over in a bucket seat. There is nothing more to be added to it. Passive-aggressive.

Speaker 6:

It could be country, it could be anything.

Speaker 3:

It was catchy. I liked it. There is nothing more to be added to it. Perhaps, Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Let's name this one.

Speaker 5:

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. This is a catchy one. This is very catchy.

Speaker 3:

It is. It's featured on the soundtrack of the movie's dream for an insomniac, and welcome to Whoop Whoop.

Speaker 5:

Not know that Perhaps insomnia, and welcome to whoop. Whoop not, no doubt. If you can make your mind up, we'll never get started, and I don't want to wind up anyway do you mind? Broken hearted. So if you really love me, say yes, but if you don't, Dear.

Speaker 6:

This would be cool and a cover too. Oh yeah, people would dig. Just dance and have fun. This is such like Zoot Zoot Riot almost Like Squirrel Knit Zippers, all that stuff it's With like bar chords. Zoot, zoot Riot almost like Squirrel Nuts.

Speaker 3:

Zippers, all that stuff it's with, like bar chords and a vibra slap, and some downers, downers, downers.

Speaker 2:

You learn something about yourself. Get started.

Speaker 5:

And I don't want to wind up being parted Broken hearted. So, if you really love me, say yes, but if you don't, dear confess and please don't tell me. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, all these are written by John McRae, it says, except where it noted. Actually Greg Brown wrote the distance, that's interesting. This was Perhaps. Osvaldo Perez and Joe Davis wrote this one Interesting. They're jazz musicians, oh yes.

Speaker 1:

It's some jazz flute.

Speaker 3:

Hey, this is called. It's Coming Down. Downers we're doing all this. Trumpet vibra slap Buzz bass no.

Speaker 6:

We're making it rain, it's coming down.

Speaker 5:

It's raining outside. You have nowhere to hide. She's asking you why. You think it's funny it's coming down, it's coming down.

Speaker 6:

Any good mattress sales going on.

Speaker 3:

I haven't checked the circular.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, circular bin. Yeah yeah, junk mail just keeps coming.

Speaker 5:

I tell you, I know.

Speaker 3:

I don't even get those anymore.

Speaker 6:

You can make a mattress out of junk mail. Yeah, I did not know that you could. It wouldn't be very soft, pretty messy. But you could do it. Just weave like Some plastic bags as a border and put junk mail in it and fluff it up, you know in a pinch. And some effort, some solid effort, maybe some pallets, some wood pallets in there, you know, a sleeping bag or two, you're good. Yeah, shout out to the underpass livers out there and you just lie on the floor.

Speaker 3:

Just lie on the floor If you learn a little something about yourself. I used to lie on the floor with my back. It actually helps out, man.

Speaker 6:

You foam roll, you gotta foam roll.

Speaker 3:

I should get one man, you foam roll.

Speaker 6:

You gotta foam roll.

Speaker 5:

I should get one. I love foam rolling.

Speaker 2:

Downers Greg is in the background like it's coming down.

Speaker 6:

Greg is in the background like it's coming down.

Speaker 2:

She's a light on the floor.

Speaker 5:

She's slamming your door, she's gone and she's wearing your red sweater, not my red sweater.

Speaker 2:

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

Speaker 4:

It's coming down. She wouldn't make a sweater. It's a sweater she would make a sweater.

Speaker 2:

I never fucked anybody over in my life, didn't have a coat.

Speaker 3:

How are you?

Speaker 6:

telling Tony Montana and Mr Rogers yeah, who would win in the fight?

Speaker 3:

Mr Rogers, here's Mr Rogers. She would make a sweater every month Tony Montana comes in. She would make a sweater every month Tony Montana comes in.

Speaker 6:

I never fucked anybody over in my life Didn't have a couple, mr Rogers is like. Well, thanks for coming, tony, have a good day.

Speaker 3:

Our guest today is Mr Tony.

Speaker 6:

Montana Mess with the bull get the horns.

Speaker 3:

Maybe you'll learn a little something about yourself. All right, shout out to the principal of Breakfast Club. All right, this is Nugget, this is.

Speaker 1:

Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

Speaker 3:

I'm hearing your.

Speaker 6:

A little forecasting oh.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to my creative vibe, the Viberslap.

Speaker 6:

He's Viberslapping so hard.

Speaker 3:

There's a lot of Viberslapping. Is it a good band without a Viberslap? All the best ones usually incorporate somehow it used to be in like 1970s like car chases.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

And crazy train from the beginning.

Speaker 3:

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 5:

I have no idea, jamal. I'll shut up for you, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Let's get a little tense in here, that's baby making music.

Speaker 1:

All that shit is fucking bullshit.

Speaker 3:

Alright, now I'm starting to get sick of the Viper slap that's baby making music A little bit, I mean.

Speaker 5:

Shut up and stop kicking the seats. You'll beat your children and steal your thunder. What a great line.

Speaker 2:

I'm trying to watch the movie.

Speaker 1:

Shut the fuck up and if I have to tell you again, we're going to take it outside, and I'm going to show you what it's like Shut the fuck up. You understand me. George isn't playing. Shut your mouths or I'll shut them for you. And if you think I'm kidding, just try me, try me.

Speaker 6:

Because I would love it Fuck off George.

Speaker 3:

That was sick.

Speaker 5:

George is not playing around Now. Simple feet that flicker like fire and burn like candles in smoky spires do more to turn my joy to sadness than somber thoughts of burning planets. Oh gosh.

Speaker 3:

Somber thoughts of burning planets.

Speaker 6:

This is my favorite lyrically.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I like it Shut the fuck up. Donnie.

Speaker 6:

I don't wanna.

Speaker 1:

Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

Speaker 6:

I haven't heard any too bad of altercations between people lately. I mean, either people are being nicer to each other or like just parking lot etiquette has gone up maybe.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, well, there's so many of these canons out there. I just think everybody who's left over is just sort of like shell-shocked. I don't want to set anybody off. I always eat leftovers.

Speaker 2:

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 3:

Like set himself up for that. Yeah, wow, that's underrated song for sure. Here's another country song She'll come back to me Gotta go let her go Another quite little chicken alumbic. Yeah, Nice, I like that was well placed. Something, something for that, oh, tony.

Speaker 6:

Yeah lots of new clips this week.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, you did your homework Because we, we love our listeners.

Speaker 6:

Last night I said to her I didn't want to. I love her More than she wants to. Let this be.

Speaker 3:

She'll come back to me.

Speaker 5:

She'll come back to me. She'll come back to me. It does Re-examination.

Speaker 3:

It does. There's that steel guitar. I think they had a guy come in for that.

Speaker 5:

Oh, greg Vincent.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to Mr Dancing.

Speaker 4:

Anyhow, if you think that.

Speaker 6:

I'm going to sit around and wait for you forget it. Is that Greg? Yeah, the 24-year-old, when she was in high school. Like what?

Speaker 3:

Even then there was Doug. No, I think it was Doug. Well, I think the first guy like in the dugout was with that was a different girl though. That was Brad Hamilton's sister, really A sister that she ended up in the dugout with a 24-year-old but she lied about her age and he was like. It was just really uncomfortable.

Speaker 2:

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 3:

He butt-hooked me there. I didn't know you were going to butt-hook me.

Speaker 6:

I'm getting too good for my britches. Here you are Good trumpet again here. I think this should be the last track. Maybe I think the track order is a little wrong. I know they produced it themselves, but like I think this one would have been a good, tasty little number to end on. Instead, they did the well.

Speaker 3:

We'll hear soon, but Okay, well, we got two more, so this is 12 of the 14. So we've got this one's called Italian Leather Sofa.

Speaker 6:

No doing quaaludes on the Italian Leather Sofa, okay.

Speaker 3:

Is that what that noise is? Okay?

Speaker 6:

No, looting yeah.

Speaker 3:

Okay, yeah, the guitars. It's kind of Bo Diddley-ish, a little barbershop.

Speaker 6:

It is a little rock as long as issues coming in. She doesn't care. No, the next song is by Willie Nelson.

Speaker 5:

Oh is it? I don't know Money A gold watch Hi.

Speaker 1:

New in the building. Yeah, I just moved in Monday, oh you like it so far, mm-hmm, everybody's been real nice.

Speaker 3:

Well, that's because you have big jugs.

Speaker 5:

I mean your boobs are huge, I mean I want to squeeze them. Whether or not he's a good man, she doesn't care, just as long as she still has her friends. Mama, mama Money, they got her cold. Watch A silk dress and healthy breasts that bounce on his Italian leather sofa Dancing.

Speaker 2:

And dancing.

Speaker 3:

Get the elevator in there, that's right oh, what that was what I forgot that they did that oh yeah, this is that song where they're all kind of playing out of turn. Yeah, on different time, signatures or something. I don't know Definitely Well, tempo, different tempo.

Speaker 6:

Bass and trumpet.

Speaker 3:

Interesting combo. Bass and trumpet interesting combo guitar comes in it's a little blam blam say brah and they're all kind of like soloing a little bit, except the bass player, but even he's kind of trying to come out a little bit.

Speaker 2:

Right in On a reverse, gets a block on the corner.

Speaker 3:

Oh, Nelly.

Speaker 2:

Oh Say bye Right into the 45.

Speaker 3:

He's gone Bye.

Speaker 6:

Nice.

Speaker 3:

Nice, that was pretty nice.

Speaker 5:

That solo. There she's got a serrated edge that she moves back and forth. It's such a simple machine, she doesn't have to use force.

Speaker 1:

When she gets what she wants, she puts the rest in her tray in a Ziploc bag.

Speaker 5:

Like what.

Speaker 3:

These harmonies are a little tighter.

Speaker 5:

She wants to put the rest on a tray In a Ziploc bag In the freezer.

Speaker 6:

This is cake for you.

Speaker 5:

She doesn't care whether or not he's an island. She doesn't care, just as long as his ship is.

Speaker 6:

This is one of the longest ones on the album. Here it's six minutes.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's one of the longest.

Speaker 6:

They snap back into the those quick hitters. It's kind of got like a jam band quality solo to it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I was just thinking about how good live they would be. Yeah, live in person.

Speaker 5:

It's hard for me to remember a specific cake.

Speaker 1:

This one was mine.

Speaker 3:

Alright, we're on the home stretch. That was an Italian leather sofa. Now we're going to the last one. Sad songs and waltzes.

Speaker 6:

Oh God, Getting a little bit of a glimpse.

Speaker 3:

Talk amongst yourselves.

Speaker 6:

Oh God.

Speaker 5:

Playing the trumpet like it's like a taps kind of somber yeah you're right, they should have made the other one the end, but they wanted to go with it. Now I'm getting a little bit clamped.

Speaker 6:

They should, yeah it should have wanted to go with it. Now I'm getting a little bit glib. They should. Yeah, it should have been the flow of it Kind of just.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, this is Willie Nelson. Shout out to Willie. Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, this is Willie Nelson. Shout out to Willie All about how you cheated.

Speaker 5:

I'd like for the whole world to hear. I'd like to.

Speaker 6:

I guess it does add a nice somber wrap up instead. I take it back.

Speaker 5:

I could be they had a better purpose.

Speaker 6:

She'll come back to me a little more upbeat.

Speaker 5:

You're not a star, you don't know how lucky you are. Though my record may say it, no one will play it. Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year, all right.

Speaker 2:

Oh cool, I like that little part yeah it's kind of interesting, like Les Paul-y.

Speaker 3:

Well, like I said, it was my two times platinum here in the US. Yeah, I mean, this is a remake, I'm just and it's a great version of it at the same time it kind of takes away from the creativity, the originality of some of the other songs Agreed, they're just trying to get songs out there.

Speaker 5:

I guess, I guess, yeah, they don't really.

Speaker 6:

I don't think they have that many songs, even to this day, so it's like it could be a band, that Just kind of peaks and has their songs. This is definitely their peak.

Speaker 3:

This is their big one. This is their big album. Set them up Forever. Probably. Alright, we'll wind this down. Yeah, okay, whew, so that was all 14. All right, we'll wind this down. Yeah, okay, whew, yeah, so that was all 14. So we ready to get into it, ready to hash it out the top three.

Speaker 6:

Well, okay, what is yours? So let's see, I'm going to go Italian Leather. So sofa three, because it had that cool breakdown part and it really it's not one of my favorite, but it's got that jam.

Speaker 3:

So, yeah, that jam deserves some recognition, so I'm.

Speaker 6:

I'm glad it's going to the depths. It's going deep, it's getting deep in there. So exactly way down, way, way down, I'm going to the depths. It's going deep, it's getting deep in there.

Speaker 3:

So exactly, way down, way, way down, I'm gonna go. My number three is gonna be nugget nice yeah, because of that cool riff and all of the, the, the wordplay combined with like soloing on top of solos and there's like a lot. You know, there's just a lot of music there and so and it's catchy. So that was my number three.

Speaker 6:

Okay, yeah, all right, this is tough. I think surprise number number two is going to be. It's coming down. Oh, yeah, it's coming down. Is that your number two?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's my number two, that is a great song.

Speaker 6:

I do love you know, frank Sinatra friend is a four letter word open book dark. I do love you know. Frank Sinatra Friend is a Four-Letter Word Open Book Dart all those songs. I don't know. Yeah, what's your?

Speaker 3:

number two. I'm going to go with Open Book as my number two. Okay, cool, yeah, I just thought that. I mean, it was the great, it was just like a great comeback to Friend is a Four-Letter Word, okay, and it followed it. It just kept up the intensity and jammy in a way.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, lots of four letter words on this album.

Speaker 3:

But very clever, et cetera. Okay, you're with number one.

Speaker 6:

Well, speaking of four letter words, I'm going to go Nugget. The bangers on the album, the bangers and the jam yeah, together, uh. The bangers on the album, the bangers and the jam yeah, uh, together. I really, really want to say that on a different day, though. Frank sinatra friend is a four-letter word open book, and daria could be my top three. So yeah, they were so good I think I'm just going it's so trivial my, my three, because it could be the whole rest of the album.

Speaker 6:

Well, not the ones I didn't really like Stick Shift Safety Belts. She'll Come Back to Me and just because I'm not really country and rockabilly, I'm not a country rockabilly fan, yeah, but they couldn't sell it either.

Speaker 3:

It just didn't seem like it was in their wheel. And then with that monotone with the rest of it just didn't fit or suit what his strength.

Speaker 4:

Kind of mocking.

Speaker 3:

It was kind of mocking yeah.

Speaker 6:

Well, it's music. Art imitates art imitates art.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, okay cool, I'm going to say. Friend is a four-letter word.

Speaker 6:

Oh nice, I'm going to say. Friend is a Four Letter Word. Oh nice Okay.

Speaker 3:

That was just. I don't know. It just hit me all of a sudden. Complete from top to bottom. That song was better than the rest of them and I didn't really have anything. It was like the perfect song for them to me, wow.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, okay, I liked it a lot and it had that. Is there anybody out there?

Speaker 3:

yeah, it had that. Is there anybody out there you love the the black sabbath? When connections are made like that, yeah, yeah, when they do it really well reminiscent yeah, yeah, but they make it their own at the same time.

Speaker 3:

They're they're being very deliberate and obvious about what they're copying, but they just sort of it's like this the way this sounds is better. Yeah, if you take this and that and then put this thing on it, layer these things on top of it, let's make it better. But also, kind of our thing, and, yeah, these two songs mash together, it sort of paves the way for the jam band movement a little bit later on, which kind of came after late, you know mid 90s I agree, I agree, but uh, yeah, it kind of puts a bow.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, tight album, great album all right.

Speaker 3:

Well, everybody, thanks for listening. Uh, we'll touch base soon.

Speaker 4:

Let you know what's going on take care.

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