Arcade Fire: Everything Now

Everything Now feels like a party you can’t leave and that’s the point. We hit play on Arcade Fire’s 2017 dance-rock album and let it wash over us: drum-machine pulse, glossy synths, hot horns, and that extra spark from Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk in the production mix. It’s a record that people love, hate, or love to hate, so we slow down and actually talk through what it’s doing and why it still feels uncomfortably current.

We get into the album’s big themes: hyper-consumerism, attention overload, and the weird feeling that every song and every ad is happening at the same time. From the title track’s maximalist message to Infinite Content’s not-so-funny mirror of subscription life, we connect the lyrics to the daily reality of screens, scrolling, and the urge to fill every empty moment. We also dig into the darker corners, like Creature Comfort’s take on fame and self-image, and Peter Pan’s fear-of-growing-up energy that ends up becoming our shared favorite deep cut.

Then we make it a game: we call the singles the “hits” and rank the best non-hits at the end. We talk wordplay, sarcasm, religious references, and how real-life controversy can change the way you hear a song like We Don’t Deserve Love. If you’re looking for an Everything Now track breakdown, an Arcade Fire deep cuts guide, or just a lively conversation that treats pop culture and meaning seriously without getting stiff, you’re in the right place. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review, then tell us your top non-hit from Everything Now.

Transcript

Welcome And Arcade Game Chaos

SPEAKER_08 0:38

Okay.

Album Facts And Producers

Marketing Irony And Media Distrust

Tim Joins With Barcade Stories

SPEAKER_03 0:38

Ah, jeez. Crazy. Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non Hits. I'm Chris, and playing uh the song Electric Glue on the Everything Now album by Arcade Fire is my co-host Tim. And as you may be able to hear in the background, I'm attempting to play Galaga, which is, of course, an arcade game from early 80s. It's an obsession of mine as a kid, of course. Thought it would be apropos for our podcast. Um we're gonna be gonna be listening to Everything Now, which is a 2 2017. Yeah. 2017 mix. Uh we're gonna stop the fire here in a second. Alright, there we go. A little too much going on there. Alright. So 2017, uh, Everything Now by Arcade Fire. Fifth studio album. In the midst of some controversy with uh Wynne Butler being a bad boy. Uh married to Chassain, Regina. And uh anyway, that's in the background, but uh good album, a little bit polarizing. It's uh some critics liked it, others didn't. Uh some interesting facts about the album, of course. Uh I would say well, where where where should we start? Um well one interesting fact about the album is that uh the guy from Daft Punk did produce uh some of the songs. I think in fact Everything Now, I think was one of them. And uh a few others. Um I think it was on May 31st. Uh it was released on vinyl. Uh it was originally released uh in in pr at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, which they headlined. Uh the band released a music video for Everything Now that was shot in Death Valley, which I think was the backdrop of the cover art for the digital version of the album, where it just in Neon has like an Everything Now sign with some uh mountains in the background. Um and the recording started in September of 16, went through April of 17, actually released on July 28th, 2017. So it's a dance rock album primarily um produced by Arcade Fire, but also uh Thomas Bangalter and uh Steve Mackey. So a number of different producers were involved in the making of the album. Steve Mackey, Thomas Bangalter produced everything now. Signs of Life. The song's third song on the album, Signs of Life, was Mackie and Bangalter as well. Uh Jeff Barrow was involved in Creature Comfort, Mark Marcus Drabs uh was involved in Peter Pan as well as Chemistry, Infinite Content by Arcade Fire. And Put Your Money on Me was uh Mackie, Arcade Fire Mackie, Bang Alter, Eric Heigel. So anyway, a lot of different people. Um but the the primary lineup of the band continued. Earlier um in uh well did a couple was it last year? Yeah, well, we did the 2000s. We we uh did an episode on the album Funeral, which is their debut album. This is the fifth album, so uh this is a little bit more uh approachable to the the average fan. Uh there's there's some hot horns, there's a pan flute, uh synthesizers everywhere. Uh there's a there's a pedal steel guitar, and uh all kinds of stuff. There's some kongas. Um the Daft Punk guy is big on the drum machine, so you're gonna hear a lot of that. And uh we're gonna play all the songs, and we're gonna rank the top three non-hits at the end. And leading up to the recording of this, uh Tim and I were talking about which songs we're we are gonna consider to be hits or non-hits because there were five singles released from this album. Um Title Track, Everything Now, Um, Creature Comfort, Signs of Life. Song Tim is playing right now is Electric Blue. And Put Your Money on Me. Personally, these are the best songs on the album, but I'll give the others a chance. I think what we're gonna do, and I don't know, maybe as we go along, maybe we'll change the rules a little bit, but uh we're gonna go. We're gonna say all these five songs that were released as singles will be the hits, and the rest of the songs are non-hits. I think there are 13 altogether. A couple of them sort of uh repeat in some way. Um one interesting fact about this album is it's on a it's on a loop where uh the orchestral arrangement at the end leads into the beginning. So, like if you were to pay play the album on a loop, the very last song, as the very last song ends, it it kind of picks up where it starts at the very, very beginning. So that's kind of a cool uh little thing there. Um like I mentioned before, the the cover art of the album is a picture of an art installation in Death Valley, and it was created by uh the artist J.R. Uh so it depicts the mountain range placed in front of the actual mountain range on the billboard. Um I get conceptually, I I think that they're going for this. I don't know, I guess they they're they're a little bit disillusioned with I don't know, pop culture. Not pop culture, but just the media. At that point in time, this is when you know people started to become aware of disinformation online and how uh I don't know, just you know, negative marketing or cheap ass marketing, you know, from a superficial standpoint. I guess they the fidget spinners, I guess they released a or gave out a bunch of those with the everything now logo on it as part of their marketing toy in irony kind of a thing. So anyway, yeah. I I don't r I I particularly don't remember it. I'm not I I was I'm not a pop culture guy and a lot of these songs seem to be written for uh like not my generation or my demographic, but uh that isn't to say that there isn't value in this album, of course there is, it's just not never been on my radar. But uh after listening to it a few times it it it brings you in. I I really like Electric Blue, I'll I'll tell you that's a good song. And uh a couple of them are are are growing up, so uh anyway. Tim's gonna join us in a second. He's got some strong opinions about the M. I think he's uh he's a big fan. He's he'll he'll go into that once he uh he packs up. But uh uh again, thank you so much for listening. We we really appreciate I don't say that enough lately, but uh we really appreciate all of you supporting the show and listening to the show. And uh we've been doing it for five years now, and uh Tim lives across the street, he just comes over you know when we're ready to do this. We try to do it every week, but obviously we haven't been uh doing it as much. We were trying to do things more frequently and on schedule. So uh thank you again for listening. And Tim is with me. How's it going, buddy? It's going good. You ready for this? Uh you're a fan, Archie. You love this album.

SPEAKER_10 8:45

Everything everything is everything. The barcade, the arcade tapper. Always waiting for the tapper. Tapper's a good game.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Early eighties was incredible.

SPEAKER_10 9:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then I go to the I go to the bartender and I complain when I lose, and she has no sympathy. It's just put another quarter in pal and shut the hell up.

SPEAKER_03 9:41

But uh we've got a barcade down the road. It's within walking distance. We can walk down there. Tim goes in there a little bit more than I do, I guess. But it's good. Wait there a couple weeks and a little bit.

SPEAKER_10 9:50

It doesn't have everything. No, no. And don't expect a drink now. But it's a good place.

SPEAKER_03 9:57

Okay, I guess really, okay. Service a little slow there. Yeah, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_10 10:00

Service is excellent. Yeah. But uh you should wait.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Yeah, just be patient. I'll get to you. Well, uh without further ado, what do you say we uh get into this on? Any comments about uh what we're about to listen to? Any three on me?

SPEAKER_10 10:21

I think this is an album that sunk me as uh a pseudo arcade fire fan. It's got a cohesive structure that I really like. Technical. Let's get a new version.

Everything Now Kicks The Door In

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Alright. Alright, here we go. Well the first song. First song is everything now, right? It's it's everything now. Is this it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 11:07

That's it. Okay, here we go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:11

I'm in the black again. Can make it back again.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

Here we go.

SPEAKER_06 11:25

We can just pretend.

SPEAKER_12 11:28

How much more black could this be?

unknown 11:31

We'll make it home again. From everything.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

So I I think we're gonna have to. But at the very end of this, we're gonna have to remember how it ends so that we can think back to the beginnings. Yeah. Make it no other way.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

You want it now!

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Okay. Here we go. This is it. This is everything now.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

Not pretending anymore.

SPEAKER_17 12:15

What what is it all about?

SPEAKER_04 12:19

It's gotta stop.

SPEAKER_06 12:21

Every skin gotta stop. Just you've got everything now. Every space in your head. Filled up with the things that you read.

SPEAKER_10 12:37

Shout out to your neurons. Got everything.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Shout out to the dreamers.

SPEAKER_17 12:54

Oh that you're now can be what I consider the past, or your boy.

SPEAKER_09 13:00

This is the same thing.

SPEAKER_10 13:10

I had a girl screaming the national anthem, because we get it over the loudspeaker. Downtown, she was just screaming the national in her apartment. Yeah. The other day. I don't know. It's good. She was tripping? It's a weird thing to do. It's just not a one loud. I don't know. Every song is going on at the same time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 13:40

What a freak!

SPEAKER_10 13:45

Oh, Coffee Cola. Francis Bebe there.

SPEAKER_08 13:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 13:50

That's uh a song about Africa's exploitated uh saga. More or less. And now this is they're kind of capturing that same theme here. Well they sampled the p the pamphlute from that song out of this one. Yeah. I knew I. Francis Baby. I only learned that just now, but. The pamphlet. You've heard the song before.

SPEAKER_09 14:31

There we go. That was ten years ago! I still saw it!

SPEAKER_11 14:46

These cuts were left. Shout out to the asteroids players. Well, it's one lap, isn't it?

SPEAKER_10 15:04

Just you know, storage containers, right? That's uh Carlin skit. We all just live in storage containers, glorified storage containers that with windows. I like that. I love that. You know, with amplifiers.

SPEAKER_11 15:24

Well, it's one out of two tapper machines.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

Yeah, I miss Tapper. I probably haven't played that in about 15 years. They have that game on?

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Shout out to Game Ops thing.

SPEAKER_10 15:56

Now that I have your attention, we're gonna go into the black and the white, okay?

SPEAKER_03 16:14

The the alpha and the omega. The everything and nothing.

SPEAKER_10 16:20

Everything and nothing, all at the same time.

SPEAKER_17 16:27

What what is it all about?

SPEAKER_07 16:46

Can make it back again.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Alright, yeah, so yeah, that's that's the hit. So that won't be it won't be in the top three. Let's get a little fire going.

SPEAKER_06 17:12

Call the fire department. This one's out of control.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

This is daft pump. This sounds like it. You can hear the influence in this. This is science of life. Yep, science of life released as a single on June 30th, the 27th. Third single released.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Say we do it again.

SPEAKER_07 18:12

Let's get taste like cigarettes.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Taste like cigarettes. Now that to be uh around and around the gump heads up.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Round around. Get in apartment together.

SPEAKER_18 18:29

I think you and we should get an apartment together.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Taste like cigarettes. Month, do it. Do it, do it again. Month, do it.

SPEAKER_07 18:49

Every night.

SPEAKER_19 18:52

I can't do it.

SPEAKER_07 18:54

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, sometimes Sunday.

SPEAKER_15 19:04

Now that I have your attention.

SPEAKER_19 19:12

I can't do it. Come on, do it.

SPEAKER_10 19:19

Layon, right here, do it. We've got a lot of naws in this too. Keep uh keep your head on a swivel for the naws.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Taste like cigarettes. Who did you ask?

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Wow, does he really live here? I thought he just flew in for game.

SPEAKER_18 19:56

Charles Jefferson, Earth Wind and Fire, and Little Brother.

SPEAKER_10 20:03

Alright. Come on, do it. Go to Earth Wind and Fire. Do it. Do it.

SPEAKER_06 20:09

Woo-hoo! Call the Fire Department.

SPEAKER_10 20:13

Looks like they already are on it calling the Fire Department on this. Their own song. Yeah. This is very daft punky. Definitely. Stall, how you doing on this one?

SPEAKER_07 20:35

I have a phobia.

SPEAKER_10 20:36

Okay. Um, just hang in there, pal. Nigel Tutno, how you doing?

SPEAKER_11 20:44

Well, it's one laptop.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Don't we do it again?

SPEAKER_06 20:52

Don't do it again.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

What it now!

SPEAKER_03 21:04

Yeah, Chaz Ringold, what do you think of Wim Butler?

SPEAKER_15 21:07

Now that I have your attention, now that I have your attention. Oh.

SPEAKER_18 21:17

What a freak!

Creature Comfort And The Price Of Fame

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Okay, that's what I was looking for. All right. That was a fail. All right. I should have yelled doo. Okay, here we go. This is creature comfort. Okay, whoa. This is the second single. So we haven't even gotten either the songs yet.

SPEAKER_18 21:50

I think you and me should get an apartment together.

unknown 21:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 21:58

Yeah, sure. Just talking to myself on the sound clubs here. That's good. Now this one. What do you think? Makes you makes you think. Yeah, this is. We all want fame, but why? Or is that what this is?

SPEAKER_06 22:19

Some boys hate themselves, spend their lives presenting their fathers. Some girls hate their bodies. Yeah, this is just like about self-blooding.

SPEAKER_10 22:39

I like the synth piano on this a lot. It is tolerable. So they've got some fan mail, I'm sure, that they're taking and making songs with potentially. That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 23:03

Put on her first record. Like, hey, like, I'm not doing well. I'm cutting myself in the bathtub listening to your records. And they're probably like, uh. Maybe I should write back to this.

SPEAKER_04 23:17

I don't know if I want it.

SPEAKER_10 23:20

That sounds horrible. I think that's that's what I think about this. I'm like, oh, this is tripped out shit, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

It's tripped out. I think that's like a trapping of famous uh. Yeah, having all that coming at you, you know, like cut themselves, end of the mill help, wait for the feedback. Of course, if you're gonna write a song about this, I don't know if it's gonna help. It's probably just gonna perpetuate it even more.

SPEAKER_06 23:50

Well creature comfort makes it.

SPEAKER_10 23:56

I don't think they care.

SPEAKER_06 24:00

Born in the diamond line. It's all around you, but you can't see it!

SPEAKER_10 24:04

It's more like yeah, born in diamond lines. Everybody's harvesting the stuff that's around you, and you can't even see it because you were born in the mind.

SPEAKER_06 24:15

But people are coming to I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

Yeah, when you're born in a diamond, you've got you get everything that you need at your fingertips and you don't realize it. I feel like I'm not getting it. Maybe creature comfort.

unknown 24:42

On and up and I don't know if I want it, on and up on I don't know what I want, on and up, and I don't know if I want it.

SPEAKER_06 24:57

Well, if you're not sure.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

People's obsession with fame. Right. And like that's the only thing either fame or suicide.

SPEAKER_10 25:27

The white Y of American prosperity. That was yeah, they're maybe it's just general like that. Or when you get famous, you have to make a sacrifice to get famous. You ever heard that?

SPEAKER_03 25:46

Yeah, what's the price of thing?

SPEAKER_10 25:48

Is it worth it? The literal price.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Well, maybe that's different for everything's personal. Some people do it the right way, some people do it the wrong way. There's no there is no right.

SPEAKER_13 26:07

Well, at least no right way.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

So getting the you know, getting to fame for it uh in a ethical and there is no way, ethical way.

SPEAKER_10 26:15

Really? I don't think so, personally.

SPEAKER_03 26:19

No.

SPEAKER_10 26:19

Because there's gatekeepers.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Yeah, but there's No. Well, the Pope is famous. But then you have like the Pope. You got you know, other people. Not gonna name names.

SPEAKER_06 26:36

Are you crying? I just wanna live for you. Keep my promises, keep it together. In my dreams you're living.

Peter Pan And Fear Of Growing Up

SPEAKER_03 26:46

So this song, what is it? Peter Pan. Okay, this is a non-hit. So this is gonna be.

SPEAKER_10 27:10

I've had this song stuck in my head for come on big a while.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

It's got a little reggae, little bit. In my dreams we're kissing. It wakes me up, but you've gone missing. Balls are close, but we grow apart, and all the sickness starts around.

SPEAKER_18 27:46

I think you and me should get an apartment together.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

It's a ticket easy chance.

SPEAKER_10 27:56

American dream.

SPEAKER_14 28:06

Oh serious, Peter.

SPEAKER_10 28:12

Fear growing up. Yeah, eating cereal all the time. Oh, that'd be awesome. Not committing to relationships.

unknown 28:21

Thin the blood. How can I live?

SPEAKER_10 28:24

Thinning your blood all the time. What the fuck is that about?

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Yeah. Be my Peter Pan, fly us out of here.

SPEAKER_10 28:34

Ain't nobody coming to save you, princess.

SPEAKER_14 28:36

Using your imagination, Peter.

Chemistry And High School Flashbacks

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Very experimental. This is a good song, I think. Yeah, this is good. Now I didn't get it that first couple times. It's starting to sink in. Alright. That was a good one. Yeah, that was good. Real catchy. Alright. This is chemistry.

SPEAKER_06 29:07

I got the money and I got the time. I gotta think of gonna make your mind. I can't feel gonna make an eye.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Sounds like that song Walk On. This reminds me. Kind of ska. It's got hot horns for you.

SPEAKER_10 29:31

It's got some arcade clips too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 29:38

My heart city you're out to destroy. Tell them you really, really love this song. Close your eyes, me and gonna see. Ain't no way to make it.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

Yeah, it's really Scott. This isn't like this. Something like this. I think this is a song that some of their fans don't like. It's got like a little bit of a rock sound to it right now. It's laying it on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

Lay it on right here. Do it.

SPEAKER_06 30:33

Oh yeah, motherfucking make an excuse.

SPEAKER_10 30:38

I'm gonna have you, baby, or your baby. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Discuss. Well, what's the deal with this chemistry, this chemistry theme?

SPEAKER_10 30:55

Going back to science class. Yeah. Shout out to Mr. Leitner. And his stupid little corn snake. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

Alright, yeah, shout out to Leitner.

SPEAKER_10 31:08

And his stupid little corn snake.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Shout out to Mr. Shower. 9th grade. No, 11th grade. Chemistry. 9th.

SPEAKER_05 31:21

Around that time. You know me, the guy.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

I'd be shocked if he was still alive. He was really, I mean, he was a great guy. I liked him. He was very overweight. Super, super smart. I hope he's okay.

SPEAKER_06 31:37

Baby UMB. Chemistry. Baby UMB.

SPEAKER_10 31:47

A lot of hand clapping.

SPEAKER_06 31:48

I'm gonna say it again.

SPEAKER_10 31:52

Yeah, it gets a little. It's a little weird. Stomp clappy, sing along in here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:59

Baby UM Me UM Me.

SPEAKER_10 32:04

It's like jock jams or something.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Yeah, you're right. It's kind of cheerle, it's like a rabah kind of song.

SPEAKER_10 32:21

This was tolerable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:31

Chemistry. Maybe you have me.

Infinite Content And Subscription Rage

SPEAKER_03 32:37

Okay. Alright. So what do we got going on next? Oh, this is infinite content. Like one of the iterations. There's like two, right? Yeah, this is like the speed metal version. Shout out to Peter.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

So much fucking money.

SPEAKER_10 33:09

These subscription services. I tell ya. Cancel them all.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Money is already spent.

unknown 33:18

Infinite content.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

I know, I only damn it into the hundreds, man. Almost a thousand subscriptions every year. That's up.

SPEAKER_10 33:27

Every month. Nickel and dime, yeah. Yeah. We'll just be stargazing in the morning and night to open your pituitary glands instead, but we're just glued to.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

No, I'm I'm glued to all my device. I'm a Device. Yeah, no, it's it's in well into the thousands, maybe even tens of thousands with all the subscriptions. Tens of thousands.

SPEAKER_10 33:56

Oh, I'm a You've got it all. I'm a slug, man. I am just uh slugging away with the content. Yeah, the sling the Hulu. Yeah the Paramount Plus, Paramount Minus. Netflix, HBO man. Paramount penis. Wait, what?

SPEAKER_03 34:16

Yeah, I don't that's your subscription.

SPEAKER_10 34:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

Paramount penis. What the hell is that?

SPEAKER_10 34:28

Now coming to Paramount Penis.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Alright, yeah, it's something that's the old place actually.

SPEAKER_10 34:36

It's the infinite overlords of your entertainment world. We corrected the the obelisks all around the world, and you're here to control your mind.

SPEAKER_06 34:49

Infinite content.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

This is like the female version of the song.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Maybe you can take some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy.

SPEAKER_09 35:01

I hope we're making people happy. Sorry, Spant. Um Infinite Content.

SPEAKER_18 35:10

I'm making people happy! I'm the magical man from Happy Land in a gumdrop house on Lalipop Lane.

SPEAKER_19 35:20

Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

SPEAKER_10 35:23

Yeah, there's a lot of sarcasm here.

unknown 35:26

Infinite content.

SPEAKER_10 35:27

Infinitely content. Why are we content with the content that we were given?

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Infinite shit. As bad as the these last two songs are as songs, they are very thought-provoking.

SPEAKER_10 35:42

I like infinite content number two a lot. Can you pause it? Yeah, the I'll tell you what. Whenever you feel like you're alone and there's nobody you can rely on, this is all you need to know. Little Mr. Burton.

SPEAKER_14 36:01

If you don't mind, I'll just run alongside the train and expedition from my life.

SPEAKER_10 36:10

You are. Trying to make us predict the future.

Electric Blue And Screen Overload

SPEAKER_03 36:25

That's right. Okay, here we go. Electric blue.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Blue, you're my boy! Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Nice little pallet cleanser.

SPEAKER_10 36:38

Don't you go dying on me, Blue?

SPEAKER_03 36:45

This is a hit. Good good vocals.

SPEAKER_10 37:44

Simple lines here.

SPEAKER_03 37:45

Yes. A lot of intertwining of it.

SPEAKER_10 37:51

Did you hear that little sample? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Cool. That is cool. Like the term electric blue. I think it's like the screen of a monitor. The electric blue of that. It's about modern modern day life in front of screens and over stimulation.

SPEAKER_10 38:27

Amen to that.

SPEAKER_08 38:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 38:31

I know.

SPEAKER_19 38:50

I can't do it.

SPEAKER_16 38:55

I think of Jesus like with giant eagles wings and singing lead vocals for Leonard Skinner with like an angel band.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

And with like an angel band. Shout out to the runners out there.

SPEAKER_10 39:14

This yeah, this is a great running album. I love just love the samples they put in this to fill it out.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

This is probably one of the few songs when I first heard this is like immediately I liked this one. Yeah. The others took me longer. Some of them I'm still not there yet, if I ever will. Infinitely content, number one, the fast one.

SPEAKER_10 39:51

No. I love the lyrics for everything now. And the that um the flute sample. I mean, I think everything now has a great message. And, you know, as a maximalist, in my home decor, I think that just hits for me. It's such a big song. I'm always getting into everything all the time. What did you do with the plants?

SPEAKER_03 40:24

I mean, this is just between you and me. I mean, there's plants, I'm sorry. There's plants everywhere. Yeah, he's got plants everywhere in his house. Um we're like in the spring, and it was really hot last week, but then it went back down to like the 30s and 40s for this week. And so put them in the house. You put them back in. Okay. Yeah. He's got about a hundred plants, no joke. More than that. More than that.

SPEAKER_10 40:51

Shout out to the tubbers. You wanna say goodbye. Need some bath bathroom plants to the oldest friends.

Good Goddamn And A Little Hope

SPEAKER_03 41:01

This song is called Good Goddamn. And this was a song that I was lukewarm with, and I'm still lukewarm on it. Kinda like it.

SPEAKER_06 41:12

God damn it! Son to go. God damn it! It's always dark as a sport. Sun never shows. Say goodbye.

SPEAKER_04 41:38

What's that guy's name?

SPEAKER_10 41:40

Mark. Mark Revulet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 41:46

Maybe there's a good guy.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

Speaking of you as a maximalist, I I would consider myself more of a minimalist. This is a minimalist song. It's very there's not a whole lot going on here. Maybe that's why I like it. Good pacework, I like it.

SPEAKER_19 42:04

I would call I haven't we've been here before feeling. Thank you, Alan.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

It's kind of a good plan of words. Like, goddamn is negative, but there's good. Good goddamn. I mean push and pull.

SPEAKER_10 42:38

Just to feel bad about the struggle.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

Do you see a call friend?

unknown 42:49

Maybe there's a good guy.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Maybe there's a good guy. Maybe no matter how bad things are, maybe there's something good going on. So worth continuing to go forward.

SPEAKER_10 43:00

I like that.

unknown 43:01

Damn.

SPEAKER_06 43:03

Maybe there's a good guy. Could there be a good guy? Damn. Could there be a good guy? Maybe there's a good guy.

unknown 43:21

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 43:22

Maybe there's a good guy. Maybe there's a good guy reflecting out of the team.

SPEAKER_06 43:28

Maybe there's a good guy. Damn. Maybe there's a good God.

SPEAKER_12 43:41

How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None of it's more black.

Put Your Money On Me And Betting

SPEAKER_03 43:56

I do like that. Okay. Okay, this is put your money on me. Is this one of the hits? I think it is. This is the this is the last single that was released. This is actually released on January 19th of 2018 as a single.

SPEAKER_09 44:16

Fucking money in air. You could build a house out of stack of a hundred dollar bill.

SPEAKER_03 44:22

Okay. Shout out to Joe Pesci. It's kind of got a casino kind of a Yeah, it does. Uh put your money on me. Did you put your money on black or red or 32?

SPEAKER_19 44:48

275,000.

SPEAKER_03 44:50

Might want to hang on to that one.

SPEAKER_09 44:54

If you think I'm losing you, you must be crazy.

SPEAKER_10 44:59

This is this one hit hard for me when I heard that. This one electric blue and everything now.

SPEAKER_19 45:10

Took me to bed and wake me when I'm dead. Those are IOUs.

SPEAKER_06 45:18

Go ahead and add it up. A race for your heart. Started before you were born. Above a cover sky, clouds made of ambient. Sitting on the carpet in the base man of heaven. We were born in a stint, but it last day. But there's a race.

SPEAKER_10 45:51

It's starting to make sense. Every sense accounted for.

SPEAKER_03 46:00

I wonder how the the affairs that Wim Butler had a cheek. I wonder if that influenced any of these lyrics at all.

SPEAKER_10 46:15

Mime is money, let's go. Yeah, he's like, let's go, let's take some albums. They gotta make some money. Do the dead bird. Get me some cantaloupe.

unknown 46:28

Promises.

SPEAKER_06 46:31

I know a bit different. My skin keeps shitting. My mother was crying on the day of our wedding. We went on dead.

SPEAKER_09 46:58

Honey dew is the money melon. In the bed.

SPEAKER_10 47:20

Shout out to those listening before bed. Tuck you in with a little fire in the arcade here. Cha-chain.

SPEAKER_05 47:33

There's all the money!

SPEAKER_10 47:35

That's as good as money, sir.

SPEAKER_03 47:39

So it's it's disco kinda sounds like ABBA a little bit. So I'm hearing that. Oh, a little ABBA. With the some soft money. Soft money. Yeah. Thinking, you know, there's loyalty, there's consumerism in this song.

SPEAKER_10 47:58

There's like.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

It's gambling, put your money on me, bet him.

SPEAKER_10 48:03

Bet me bet on me. Despite all the uh when Silicon Valley's melting back into silicon. That's where the cover is from. Interesting. I think also like putting your money on the an industrial technological like AI thing, maybe. Yeah. And it's like it's like mocking that. We're like, oh, let's bet on AI for being to be our savior, but we're all kind of just we wanna be we have to be free, but we're doing this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:45

Well, I think that's a way to hear this song in today's day. I mean, they were working on AI, but it wasn't really a part of our lives at that point in time, but it's ahead of its time. You know, I think the song is ahead of its time for that. You know, this I mean, I guess these themes apply back to what we're what the unknowns are of of AI today.

SPEAKER_11 49:15

Right. Don't even know where to start.

SPEAKER_10 49:21

It's just the arrangements, they're just not to be just put your money in the arcade.

SPEAKER_19 49:34

Every sense accounted for.

SPEAKER_10 49:51

Yes.

We Don’t Deserve Love And Contrition

SPEAKER_03 49:56

Okay. What are we at now? We don't deserve love. Alright, this is a long one, but I think we're we're getting down to the home stretch, aren't we? There's like one song after this. This is like a six-minute error, so this is nice. This is uh Yeah. Buckle up, buttercup. Is this a Daft Punk kind of a thing that they have going on here?

SPEAKER_10 50:21

I'm sure. Mr. Hangout Sunday.

SPEAKER_06 50:30

Some driving to you. Don't want to touch Don't even watch TV.

SPEAKER_10 50:54

You don't even want to watch TV.

SPEAKER_06 51:03

So don't down.

SPEAKER_03 51:27

I I know it's a s it's a huge stretch, but Yeah, yeah, yeah. It sounds like that a little bit. Little bit. Melancholy haunting. Yeah, melancholy haunting, kind of.

SPEAKER_06 51:42

Officer, please don't check my mind.

SPEAKER_03 51:54

Yeah. Officer, please don't check my breath.

SPEAKER_06 52:04

If you can't see falls for the trees, just put it all down. Maybe we don't deserve love.

SPEAKER_03 52:38

Regina's probably saying, No, you don't deserve love. Win.

SPEAKER_06 52:45

Maybe we don't deserve.

SPEAKER_10 52:48

Yeah, and there's others.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

Yeah, they were like three different. I don't know. It was a weird article. It's like there were like three women that came forward and like one gender fluid person.

SPEAKER_06 53:02

It's like both sides on the moon and some job keeping all the options open.

SPEAKER_03 53:24

So yeah, this is a wild card. Let's just see where this goes.

SPEAKER_10 53:33

Winning.

SPEAKER_03 53:41

I like in the articles that I was reading, I've seen two of like taking out our ship. He's like, I fucked up. They had a kid. That just seems horrible. I had I mean no mat I I wouldn't feel I would feel like shit. Like if I did that betrayment wise. And then you got a young kid. It's like. It's gotta be awkward on a tour bus.

SPEAKER_10 54:07

Well, you don't have like a bunch of gender fluid penny lanes hanging in your lobby every day. You'll know what you would do in that situation. That's right, yeah. Shout out to the gender fluid penny lanes out there.

SPEAKER_06 54:24

Hey, man, maybe we don't so low. Maybe we don't so low.

SPEAKER_03 54:31

Damn, in defense of that, it's just like if you're born with a penis, but you Paramount penis.

SPEAKER_10 54:39

But maybe that's not what you wanted all along. Roll away the stone, alright? Roll it away. Oh. Mary Magdalene?

SPEAKER_03 54:54

What are they saying here? Yeah, there's a lot of religious uh references here. Hmm.

SPEAKER_06 55:00

Mary Magdalene is a uh best disciple.

SPEAKER_03 55:16

She comes up.

SPEAKER_10 55:22

Hey, truth is stranger than fiction. Come down up here, cross. I don't know what's going on here.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

Yeah, I think Wayne Butler's just trying to deflect that he is a cheating bastard and he's just trying to get all religious now.

SPEAKER_10 55:43

Don't even know where to start. Yeah, I exactly know. He's got a Christ. So do you think Wayne has a Christ um like complex? Who knows, huh? He thinks he's hot shit. With his request to have everybody dress up in a fucking tuxedo to go see them live.

SPEAKER_03 56:05

Yeah. Well, no, maybe the Christ figure, like mentioning Mary and the son, you know, I guess is a nod to traditional values of love and devotion.

SPEAKER_17 56:24

What what is it all about? That kind of thing.

The Album Loop And Top Non-Hits

SPEAKER_03 56:29

Uh are we missing any songs here? Did we did we do everything? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, this is the this is the back of the beginning. I'm in the black again. So yeah, I would I just kind of play the very first song a little bit just to kind of show how the last song leads back into the first song. So anyway. Alright, good album. It was tolerable at the very least. Yeah. And it was interesting. You know, I I I learned more about it. You know, after listening to it just on the surface, we got into the meanings of the songs. I thought it was pretty good. But with all that being said, let's just get into the non-hits. So, like what do we let's get the list out for the two of us here to I don't know. Sorry about this. We're having some technical difficulties on our end. Well, okay, this is I'm I'm fucking up now. So uh my apologies.

SPEAKER_10 57:26

I'm I'll go first here, and I'm going to say that um maybe we don't deserve love number three, because we excluded a lot of pretty much all my favorite songs on this album as hits. But um I think I already kind of mentioned my favorites being everything now, you know, put your money on me. Sorry about that. And uh Electric Blue, but if those if those weren't on the list, those that would be my top three. But I'm gonna go with um actually no. Yeah, we've got some other ones here, too. Not not to deserve love. I mean, that's what was the last one. No, I don't we didn't play the last song, actually. Well, it's everything now. Everything now again. It plays it like continued.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

It's everything now continued. Is the very last one on here. So I think we did. This is we don't deserve love is always name-checked as the last one. Oh, okay. Well, um I mean, I guess everything now continued. But actually there is. Yeah, we there's uh an extended version of everything now continued and listened to, but I'm not this where we came in thing.

SPEAKER_10 58:50

It's the whole, you know, the wall kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 58:52

Yeah, I mean if one if everything now continued wasn't gonna do it for you, then the last one extended isn't it? Signs of life, is that a hit? Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_10 59:03

Everything now creature can be. Good goddamn is my number three. Good god damn, it's catchy, it's it's got uh just a little bit of swagger to it. Um We don't deserve one, it's gonna be my number three.

SPEAKER_03 59:41

Um I like the story behind it, I like all of the uh distractions and the symbolism and uh like the like all of the uh the the religious references and the wake of you know him being a bastard in real life. Um at least uh he shows contrition in his um in his behavior through the lyrics in this song. And it makes him it humanizes him and it opens up the door for our forgiveness for his sins. After he says ten rosaries or hairs or whatever the hell. Yeah, if he throws Mary Magdalene under the bus and be doing that.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:26

Yeah, so it's gonna be um I guess um infinite content number two. I just I like that sort of rattle like slower. And it makes me laugh that hate that one less because they have like a bridge of the same song in a different way. It's a good message, and it makes you think about what you're consuming. Your diet is not just the food and that you consume everything you consume, including us.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:25

That's right. That's true. Yeah, the idea behind it is good. I just couldn't get past I knew you were gonna like that song. I just can't get past the aesthetics of it and but uh it does it does have it's it's deep. It's got a it's got a deep message to it, and um way down and uh it resonates with many of us who are creatures of uh or are just like consumers, consumer like uh hyper consumerism and how unhealthy it can be. And draining on our pocketbooks. So yeah. Uh but I would say my number two is good goddamn. I like the uh the the bass is nice on it. It's uh I like I like the sound of it. And um, you know, it's a good god damn, and then it's a good goddamn, like you you you change one comma on that phrase and it's the good goddamn has two different meanings to it. So uh clever use of lyrics in a very minimalistic kind of a way. Less is more and uh thought-provoking, and uh I liked it. So that was my number two. I wonder if our number ones are gonna be the same. What's your number one?

SPEAKER_10 1:02:56

There it is. Creepy shit. Talk amongst yourselves on that, I'll give you Talk amongst yourselves.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:30

You know, are we gonna be boys forever to discuss? Yeah. Um but Peter Pan was my number one as well, of course. I had no idea that it would be coming into it, you know, but uh after listening, great song, great look. And uh yeah, uh great lyrics, um great subject matter, and uh it's my number one. So that's all I gotta say. And I think that's uh I think we're out of time, but uh wrap it up. Oh we'll put it in a bro in a bow and a bro bow. Thank you. Thank you, uh Tim, and thank you, listeners, for putting up with us today. Keep listening, take us up, and whenever you get a chance. Uh we love you, take care.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:15

Woo!