TV on the Radio:Nine Types Of Light

A record can be packed with talent and still feel messy, or it can click so hard that every sound seems inevitable. Nine Types Of Light by TV On The Radio lands in that second category for us, and the more we listen, the more the album feels like a complete world rather than a stack of tracks.

We talk through what makes it work: the tight but adventurous production, the way the arrangements leave space for horns and synth textures, and how the band slides across funk rock, soul, art rock, and even a little blues jazz without turning into a genre exercise. Along the way we touch on the human story around the lineup, including bassist Gerard Smith, and how that context can shift the emotional weight of what you’re hearing.

Then we get to the fun part of Greatest Non-Hits: we set aside the most obvious singles and build our top-three deep cut rankings. We debate what even counts as a “hit,” call out the tracks that build into glorious chaos, and make the case for the songs that feel like pure adrenaline or pure ache depending on where the album takes you. If you love album reviews, track-by-track reactions, and discovering underrated songs you should be playing on repeat, this is for you.

Subscribe wherever you get podcasts, share the episode with a friend who loves TV On The Radio, and leave a review. What are your top three tracks from Nine Types Of Light?

Transcript

Welcome And The Game Plan

SPEAKER_11 0:05

Ladies and gentlemen, all of you what you're doing!

SPEAKER_07 0:32

Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris, and playing the song New Cannonball Blues by TV on the radio, and their uh fourth studio album, Nine Types of Light, is my co-host Tim. Thank you so much for listening, joining us today. Um as always, you know, we're gonna listen to all the all the songs on Nine Types of Light by TV on the radio. Uh at the end, we're gonna give our our top three non-hits. And uh in the meantime, we're gonna have a bunch of fun. Um I'm just gonna talk a little bit about the album, what we feel about it. Tim's gonna join me. We're he's gonna give us his input. And then we'll list all the albums. We've got a bunch of funny sound clips. Uh so it's gonna be great. And uh before I go any further, shout out to Wells uh Wellsy. Uh he's one of my co-workers. He's the he's actually the person who turned me on to this album. And I've got to say, uh, good choice, my man. Um

Why Nine Types Of Light Works

SPEAKER_07 1:32

we love it. The more I listen to this, the more I get into this album. Um I would describe it as being greater than the sum of its parts. Uh because while I I respect all the the the talent of all of the personnel, uh the the way it was arranged, the way it was uh uh produced, uh it was so uh just all so put together. Um it's the the vocalist is Tunde Arabempe, uh vocals, loops keyboards, uh Juil Button is the drummer, uh synthesizer, vocals, uh some guitar, bass, kit Malone, vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, Dave Andrew Cytek. If I'm getting these names wrong, I apologize. But um anyway, he he did programming some synthesizers, guitar, bass, samples, and vocals. And then uh Gerard Smith, bass guitar, mainly uh some organ samples. Uh sad fact about uh him, he passed away uh within days of uh of recording uh when this is when this is all uh said and done. So um uh rest in peace, Gerard. And uh but nevertheless uh he he left behind you know what we consider to be a masterpiece, uh or it's it's starting to feel that way the more we listen to it. Um we just uh loved all the different uh sounds. I would say there's just so many different influences. I I just don't know really there's like funk rock. Um what else has it been referred to? Oh just uh soulful blues jazz, jazz blues, you know. Shout out to shout out to um Spinal Tap. Here they are.

SPEAKER_14 3:26

A uh festival. Jazz Blues Festival. Where was that? Blues jazz, really.

SPEAKER_07 3:30

Yeah, so anyway. There is some blues jazz. I heard, you know, a little bit of um super tramp, bee gees at times, uh in in the you know, in the in the vocals, and you know, takes me like way back. And um I I really thought it was done very cleverly and sparsely. It wasn't uh um I it was just really good. And uh another cool fact of this uh album is how they made an uh a video for every single song, and I think as a comp all that combined as a compilation is a a movie of some sort. And I I haven't looked into that, and I don't think Tim has either, but we're definitely gonna look through that just to see what that's all about, because there's like a different director for each of the different songs, and there's like a backstory behind all of it, and uh we we we didn't get that deep into this whole thing, and uh like I said, this is just an album that was just not long ago, just like a a week or two ago, um mentioned by my co-worker Wellsy, shout out again. And so uh we're gonna grow with it, but uh, we've heard the album a few times. Um I guess we could probably talk about the songs that are the hits or the singles that we're going to um exclude, I guess. For me, we'll do is considered to be universally recognized as their most popular song on the album, and it's always name-checked in the top ten in all kinds of rankings. Stereo Gum, I think, has um has ranked in the top ten of their of their total catalog of the catalogue. So Will Do will be uh out of the rankings, as well as I think second song. And I think I love those, both of those songs. But uh I guess that's uh that's ranked way up there too, but and and like from top to bottom, there's a lot of critical acclaim for uh a lot of these uh songs. Uh Killer Crane, Keep Your Heart, uh Caffeinated uh Consciousness There's a lot going on here. Um and there's some deeper cuts. Forgotten, um New Cannibal Blues, which is just with Tame is playing. So um It sounds like it kind of like scales almost in a way. Like I'm liking the uh the technique. I mean he's uh He's crashing it. So anyway So yeah, that that's gonna be what we're gonna be doing and uh Yeah, wherever you get the podcast, make sure you download us. Uh you know send us Yeah, send us anything, you know. Take us up, or just you know send us uh send us a line, you know. Say hey what's up Chris and Timothy But anyway, yeah, we're gonna get the uh the funk out in a moment.

Album Art And First Impressions

SPEAKER_07 6:48

Uh also yeah, the artwork on the album cover, I think, is from uh Tundy, the uh the lead singer. And uh I think CyTech uh gives uh a little bit of uh input with it, but we we dug that as well, and and Tim is gonna elaborate a little bit. Tim, what's up, bud?

SPEAKER_06 7:07

Yeah, doing well. The uh the album cover is kinda like the original windows like background that they made uh a shadowy figure with light out of a window, and it looks like a synthetic, like weird glass, right?

SPEAKER_07 7:24

And it's with a red light, and I I just it's kind of dangerous. Water and the sun and the sky all different shades of red.

SPEAKER_06 7:34

Yeah, it's very, very sort of pulls you in into a like a microcosm of some kind of mathematical universe that I'm pretty dealing with.

SPEAKER_07 7:55

Anyway, I can get it.

Track Reactions And Musical Details

SPEAKER_06 8:50

Which is the first song which is confusing sometimes you think you're in the first, you think you're in the clear, but all of a sudden you're not because some fucking passcode or some subscription just uh gets gets it just wears on you, and then you're like trying to find your inner self.

SPEAKER_19 9:22

Confidence and ignorance approve me.

SPEAKER_06 9:25

Right?

SPEAKER_19 9:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 9:29

But here we go.

SPEAKER_19 9:30

I've tried so hard to shut it down.

SPEAKER_07 9:33

This is second song.

SPEAKER_19 9:34

Gently walk away.

SPEAKER_07 9:36

You see how they it's like the uh the accordion.

SPEAKER_19 9:39

Love that appetites and impulses confuse me.

SPEAKER_06 9:43

They found it uh Brooklyn like junk shop, I'm sure. For five dollars.

SPEAKER_19 9:52

Shaking hands move to tear my face away. And when the night comes, I'm feeling like a pyro, and I know stables my survival when there's music all around me.

SPEAKER_07 10:11

You need music for survival.

SPEAKER_19 10:13

Not a single word to say.

SPEAKER_07 10:14

I would agree with that.

SPEAKER_19 10:17

I'm not gonna give you a light. I'm gonna show you the light.

SPEAKER_17 10:25

No, I'm gonna throttle.

SPEAKER_19 10:28

May I illuminate the nameless, faceless state of these odd and open brains?

SPEAKER_07 10:50

This berry did.

SPEAKER_13 11:01

Think I'm gonna get some racks and diamonds. When I'm loaded.

SPEAKER_06 11:12

Sonic Evolution, I love that.

SPEAKER_09 11:22

Darling. Light up my light.

SPEAKER_06 11:26

Oh body mind. Body mind. Leave me behind. Oh body mind, leave me behind. I think about the body mind, M-I-N-D. Body mind. Is that a word? Like body and mind. Oh, okay. Oh body mind. He's trying to ascend from his body and mind. Clever use of word. We're good. I think Spotify is not correct.

SPEAKER_19 12:00

Forever.

SPEAKER_08 12:01

Forever. You can do anything you want. Anything you put your heart and your mind into. I believe that.

SPEAKER_06 12:48

What note is that? It's like a D. D D is the very jovial chord, I think. I think this isn't D. D D. Just D.

SPEAKER_16 13:16

I think the horns are phenomenal.

SPEAKER_07 13:22

Yeah, they end this song with just the pause it real quick.

SPEAKER_06 13:35

Yeah. Man, I could start the day with that song. Nice. You think?

SPEAKER_07 13:41

Yeah. I did start this day with this song.

SPEAKER_06 13:43

A little cayenne, a little coconut. Yeah, it put me in a great mood. That's good.

SPEAKER_07 13:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:47

Alright. Cayenne, coconut, and coffee. Shout to the tea and coffee drinkers. That's right. Right. We've got some caffeinated love. We do. For you. Um. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:00

Why don't you let me fix your smoke this little coconut?

SPEAKER_06 14:05

There's some sponsors.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

With joy in your heart.

SPEAKER_15 14:23

You drank all over me. Cheap.

SPEAKER_10 14:29

I love Leo.

SPEAKER_19 14:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

I'm gonna keep the Yo With Joy in your heart.

SPEAKER_06 14:56

Thank you. Sarah. What's his name? Who you're no idea. Baba. Ooh, a little bell. Shout out to all the serpents. Oh yeah. Shine on.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

And yes, I'm ready to think. And yes, I'm ready to think.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Wonderful feeling. This piece is called the whole life. How my gonna keep the Oh How I gonna keep the- I never heard that. It's the world of bow. Oh man. How my gonna keep the Yo Bog.

SPEAKER_07 16:41

Yes, dude, it's so much different. I've been hearing it. Not the way to work. Take it all.

SPEAKER_06 16:52

Better speakers, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:00

Shout out to the runners, the teeth breakers, all that. Shout out to the teeth but just hang it out.

SPEAKER_06 17:06

You could probably just get more from it if you just fully immersed it. I'd really like the acoustic guitar with this sort of stinty Yeah meanderings.

SPEAKER_07 17:23

Probably playing songs also can probably be good for your just development.

SPEAKER_06 17:33

They like to play doubles and triplets a lot. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Shadowlands.

SPEAKER_19 17:47

Still lines intertwining.

SPEAKER_06 18:03

Brooklyn. It's the band TV. Band TV radio I radio TV and easy chip.

SPEAKER_03 18:51

It's the wheel fall.

SPEAKER_07 18:56

Talking heads a little bit. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 19:03

Percussive chanting.

SPEAKER_07 19:06

Yeah, the David Byrne. It's almost kind of but he does it his own way. You know, it's not, but it's I really like the drums here.

SPEAKER_06 19:19

It's like church or something.

SPEAKER_07 19:22

Oh. Domo. Domo. That's uh Phil Collins. Domo. Yeah, so Domo.

SPEAKER_06 19:30

Yes, no, you're right. Yeah. I hear that. Phil Collins coming at you, okay.

SPEAKER_14 19:38

Simple lines.

SPEAKER_07 19:43

Okay, this is you.

SPEAKER_19 19:58

I just thought you might like to know. You're the only one I ever love.

SPEAKER_06 20:20

Destruction is creation. Yeah. Take the things to build a love.

SPEAKER_07 20:32

This picture is called with joy in your heart. It's called with joy in your heart. With joy in your heart. That's good. Sorry, I take that. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_18 20:51

That's too awful. That's too awful.

SPEAKER_06 20:54

It's only a dream. It's only a dream, alright. It's only a dream. It's a love.

SPEAKER_07 21:03

Vibration. That's kind of the vibrative quality too. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 21:15

Oh love, it's a vibration.

SPEAKER_07 21:18

That's just cheap stuff. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 21:23

Get out the get out the vibrating love.

SPEAKER_14 21:32

This place is called my love puff.

SPEAKER_06 21:35

They played this. They played this at that jazz. Oh, was it a blues or they played this though?

SPEAKER_14 21:40

A uh festival. Jazz blues festival. When was that? Blues, jazz, red, and blues, jazz festival.

SPEAKER_06 21:47

This is a hit though. This is a hit though. Right? No, it's not. This is not.

SPEAKER_07 21:52

Yeah, we're putting this in this this is a part of the rank. Okay. The first song we played, the second song is one more song. Everything else that we've heard up to this point is up for commentary.

SPEAKER_06 22:06

I'm keeping keeping uh I'm on track.

What Counts As A Hit

SPEAKER_06 22:11

So this is a feather in your cat, this one sounds like. Oh, don't call me macaroni. Just no naval officers, Alice. Okay, what does it mean? Shout out to Eyes Wide Shut here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 22:39

Shout out to what's it? He stuck a feather in his cap and called it back around and put that.

SPEAKER_06 22:47

That's just Yankee Doodle. Yeah, Yankee. My friend.

SPEAKER_07 22:50

Shout out to Yankee Doodle.

SPEAKER_09 23:04

Let me finish my sentence.

SPEAKER_07 23:07

Shout out to Brad Hamilton. You just had to bring up Yankee Doodle now.

SPEAKER_06 23:17

Dude. That's where dude came from. You realize that. I did not know that. Dude came from Doodle.

SPEAKER_07 23:25

Yankee Doodle? Dude? Yeah. So it was like Doodle. Hey Doodle, what's up?

SPEAKER_06 23:30

It's a metrosexual. A dude. Because you put a you wear the English fashion when you were trying to be hit. Oh, it goes on the Yankee Doodle. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 23:44

I just thought it was just like a like a like seventies or the eighties.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

Oh, look at me up, kids.

SPEAKER_06 23:50

Well, now it's coming at you.

SPEAKER_07 23:52

Yeah. Oh, look at that one. Oh, this is no future shot.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

That was my straw.

SPEAKER_18 24:18

I that was my straw.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Control your damn control. Till it blow.

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Oh, dance.

unknown 24:28

Oh my. Oh, dance, don't stop. Oh, to the no future. To the no future.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Oh to the no future. Oh, well, blow yoka. Oh to the no future.

unknown 24:48

Oh well, blow yoka.

SPEAKER_06 24:51

I can stop.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Oh mother dear cup

No Future Shock And Real Stakes

SPEAKER_02 24:58

of feel before they brought up you. Now here, wait forward.

SPEAKER_06 25:14

I'm a man. I guess this is about a man. Smoking? Whoa. It's about drugs. Whoa.

SPEAKER_10 25:43

I can't. And we were going up and and the whole future.

SPEAKER_06 25:51

Twenty years for nonviolent drug crimes. Maybe this is probably what I'm thinking. It's probably about some of the no future.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Oh, they're from Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_06 26:10

Hey, they get they get baked all the time. Thank you, Shiloh Bob. He loves this song. It's motivational, kind of.

SPEAKER_17 26:39

Sindy in the middle of a beautiful, to the no future.

SPEAKER_08 27:16

Although I sip and yearn.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

I hope you know we have a serious situation.

SPEAKER_08 27:30

Althani, I sip and yearn. Make. Make it make it. Make it. Make your future Danny High.

SPEAKER_07 27:40

Alright. Okay, now here's here's the other hit. Oh wait, no. Oh wait, no,

Killer Crane And Prog Turns

SPEAKER_07 27:48

no. This is Killer Crane. This is a great song. But it's not. It's unprovoting. It is unprovoting.

SPEAKER_06 27:56

This is This is why we do this. The piano simple. This one looks a lot.

SPEAKER_07 29:23

Sounds like super stress. A little bit. A great sage.

SPEAKER_19 29:34

Leave it behind.

SPEAKER_07 29:43

Or like Genesis feeling.

SPEAKER_06 29:46

It's kind of 80s feel.

SPEAKER_07 29:50

But like Peter Gabriel, 70s Genesis. He can do that. He can mirror a lot of different types of artists. But he still has some sounds. I don't want to mention his town. I guess his his sound. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19 30:15

Sunshine. God is night, steal us the sun. Sunafray. And after all, we're free to fall. And how we stay.

SPEAKER_06 31:30

Transformation.

SPEAKER_14 31:37

Leaves me with a festival, Jazz Blues Festival. Where was that?

SPEAKER_19 31:46

Blue, you're my voice. Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_06 32:11

Shout out to Sudoku.

SPEAKER_07 32:23

Shout out to the Kratty Kid. Killer Kraves.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 32:32

Those metallic guitars. Oh, maybe. I think it is. Yeah. I thought it was a banjo. But I love how it echoes the echoes the vocals. How cool is that?

SPEAKER_07 32:47

I know. Yes, but two in the cast for the songs. Check the gardeners. Very psychedelic too. This is like Sergeant Pepper's E. Yeah. That and with like old Genesis like nursery crime. There's a album called Nursery Crime and kind of look at the flu. You're crazy! I like you. No, it's like all psychedelic. This is this is like Prague to me.

SPEAKER_19 34:24

It might be impractical to seek out a new one. We won't know the kids play if we never take the trade. I'd like to collapse with you and ease you against this song. I think we're gonna have to get a little bit more.

SPEAKER_06 34:43

I haven't been an artist for that in a while. We need to get some xylophones in your house. Okay.

SPEAKER_17 34:50

My love. You're crazy.

SPEAKER_06 34:55

I'm not crazy.

SPEAKER_19 34:56

I'll get it out.

SPEAKER_06 34:57

What choice of words will be from this rule?

Choice Of Words And Vocal Craft

SPEAKER_06 35:02

That's the ultimate simple line instrument. Xylophone.

SPEAKER_19 35:08

What choice of words will take me back to you?

SPEAKER_07 35:12

Maybe we can begin a show. Ding ding ding. Like it's like the 1950s. Oh.

SPEAKER_19 35:18

Your love makes a fool of you, you brought me to understand. A heart doesn't play by rules, and love has its own demand. But I'll be there to take care of you if ever you should decide.

SPEAKER_15 35:35

You drank all over me like a cheap fucking soap.

SPEAKER_06 35:45

Can't by love, you know.

SPEAKER_17 35:48

Any problem to choose of words will break me from this.

SPEAKER_18 36:00

You can do anything you want to do. The choice of words will take me back to you.

SPEAKER_16 36:07

Oh rich.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

It is. It's like strings. It's the really big. Yeah, they do, don't they?

SPEAKER_18 36:20

Calabero. What is that sound? Glistening. Through your music.

SPEAKER_07 36:36

I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 37:03

It's not easy to go from regular to falsetto like that.

SPEAKER_16 37:21

When they choose a rough guitar, you hear the rough guitar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19 37:26

What choice of words will take me back to you.

SPEAKER_06 37:30

It's like polished strings. Rough with a guitar.

SPEAKER_07 37:48

Okay, this is a new

New Cannonball Blues Chaos

SPEAKER_07 37:50

cannonball. Listen.

SPEAKER_10 37:54

I can't. And we were going up and and the whole oh my god, the whole goddamn thing went into a like a like a flip-out and it flipped and bent the whole railing, and it must have gotten caught on the carpet on the on the stairs.

SPEAKER_06 38:11

Done.

SPEAKER_11 38:12

And listen.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

Just a pornographic animation. As we watch the spiders will eat it.

SPEAKER_12 38:29

What the fuck is he talking about?

SPEAKER_06 38:32

Pornographic annulationships. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Nobody just got this.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Come on.

SPEAKER_06 39:14

Job. Give him the company already. C C me on this. Let's go.

SPEAKER_10 39:31

And um, my feelings are hurt.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

Blue, you're my boy!

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

You're getting by staying low, like on the four hundred blows. Makes you feel like you're all by yourself. So when the chance comes along where you could help out wrong, the bullshit got you stuck up on the shelf.

SPEAKER_04 39:53

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Heavy, I'm not ready. Do you feel like you're swimming in the nose? Will maybe follow the sound, the shooting out of your crowd.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Oh, they're talking about shockers there. They're talking about shockers, I swear.

SPEAKER_10 40:22

I love Leo.

SPEAKER_06 40:28

I love the horns. They add that overlay, the hard high notes. I know. This isn't a pump up jam, it's nothing else.

SPEAKER_07 40:43

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:45

Shout out to the runners. Should run forward usually.

SPEAKER_07 40:53

Gonna run right. That's forward if it's everything to the right.

SPEAKER_06 41:10

Clearly it's got him singing.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Otherwise, a little more sixty-three hundred dollars suit.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Push up and bit make a bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16 42:01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:13

Alright. Damn. I I think I you guys already know what I number one might be. Really? Okay. I mean, you were into it. Come on. The listeners. Yes, I they can't see me because I'm freaking out over here.

SPEAKER_07 42:35

We have that kind of thing going, almost.

SPEAKER_06 42:37

Yes.

unknown 42:38

Do you know that if you swim feel right?

SPEAKER_19 42:59

And I love how I'm living, cause I cough my bill, but I can't stop thinking how it's all gone wrong. Then the cracks will be obvious before too.

SPEAKER_12 43:07

What the fuck is he talking about?

unknown 43:14

What's the matter with your next door neighbor?

SPEAKER_19 43:16

I heard he had sex breaks in danger. But you can kick it with a complete stranger. I think I hear him call.

unknown 43:25

What's the matter with my next door neighbor?

SPEAKER_18 43:33

I think I hear him call the talk.

SPEAKER_19 43:38

If I don't better hope you can see in the dark of your heart.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

I hope you know this! We have a serious situation!

SPEAKER_07 44:21

More than a few simple line. I know it's like I have like more of that.

SPEAKER_19 44:50

My repetition is this. My repetition.

SPEAKER_06 44:58

This is definitely blues jazz. This is like not hitting any genre. It's really good. Build up in the release. Ah. Totally. Oh, here we go with the guitar. Here's the paramount stall out here. Oh man. Triplets and the full-off stuff. These guys jam. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_13 45:48

You think guy? I got some ruts, some diamonds. I wanna unload them.

SPEAKER_06 45:57

I would love to see this band live. Yes. And that song in particular would be a very good live.

SPEAKER_07 46:07

So

Forgotten And The Avant-Garde Corner

SPEAKER_07 46:08

we've got Forgotten. Here we go.

SPEAKER_19 46:10

And every hills. Burning off plants to scrape it away. I made it.

SPEAKER_06 46:26

It's a summer job. It's just a summer job. Yeah. Scraping away plastic. Yeah. I was gonna lifeguard, but yeah.

SPEAKER_07 46:40

I got this other gig. Yeah. Charging up stuff on a credit card in Beverly Hills every day for the summer. Scraping plastic.

SPEAKER_19 46:49

Dances the alley.

SPEAKER_06 46:58

I feel like this song is made out of like a slam poet. Like a slamming LA. Like Tundai, like slam poet. He's just like, I got this poem. Yeah. I'm just just write some shit for this. Yeah. This is dissing. This is this is uh dissing LA. This is avant-garde. This is probably the most avant-garde song. On the album.

SPEAKER_18 47:21

It's riding its name in the sky.

SPEAKER_19 47:25

It's down away down the night. What should we wear?

SPEAKER_06 47:46

Who's for dinner? What? Not not a big fan of that lyric.

SPEAKER_12 47:55

For the summer. What the fuck is he talking about?

SPEAKER_18 48:09

It's running its name in the sky. We stayed away until the side.

SPEAKER_06 48:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_18 48:25

Now we go.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

The size. Was that like a two? It's going up to a three. It's not good. Well, okay. 3.5. Doing some like military shooting or like feels like a military activity in the background or something. Yeah. That's the blue angels today. I'm I'm done with that shit. Loud noises. Say it so many times. Yeah. I'm spoiled for performance. I mean. There was the one guy who went under the bridge. He went under the naval bridge and never flew again. He showboated? Yeah, he went under the navel bridge. Yeah. Yeah, he showboated. He never never piloted again. Oh, they they shout out to the blue angels. We're talking about the blue angels here. Yeah, I know. I just didn't know if he was. Did they fire him or something like this? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Army Corps and engineers were like, yeah. That guy cannot get yourself. Shout out to the coffee and tea drinkers here. Get your heart rate up.

SPEAKER_07 50:10

This is a fan. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:18

Another can of ball. Tom May and Paula a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:02

Call the party apart.

SPEAKER_18 51:15

I'm not gonna give you a light. I'm gonna show you the light.

SPEAKER_06 51:36

It really opens up, I love that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 51:42

It's kind of like sound video. It really is.

SPEAKER_06 51:57

Kinda takes me to the beyond section in Bedbath. And beyond. Uh I'm like looking for xylophones in a home in a home goods store. And I'm holding a pet elephant, like a pick me elephant. Yeah. And then a cosmos are just gonna get to like the refrigerator sending it. The bottom drawer of the refrigerator has this like deck card King of Diamonds. And Alice's Wonderland starts opening up into a myriad of just high-dye Jerry Garcia explosions. It's good. It's a it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 52:54

Okay.

Top Three Non-Hits Draft

SPEAKER_06 52:56

Oh wow, that's it, I think.

SPEAKER_11 52:57

Just take it easy, champ. Why don't you stop talking for a while? Maybe sit the next couple plays out.

SPEAKER_07 53:05

No, that was that was for me, actually. So anyway.

SPEAKER_06 53:09

Unloaded my rocks, you know, on this album. This has been good. Yeah, really good one. Let's uh some diamonds. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:19

Alright, so let's uh get let's get into them here. Uh what do you what do you have for your number three?

SPEAKER_06 53:30

So the hits are the second song and will do. Yeah. Which as hits the first and sixth song.

SPEAKER_07 53:40

Yeah. Unless it's like number one on side two is will do, you know. It's like I don't know if there were five and five. I think they in record form. I don't know. Who knows? Right. Interesting. Yeah. But anyway, uh what do you think of number three?

SPEAKER_06 53:58

I do like caffeine consciousness, and I really want to put that on my list, but I think uh number three. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 54:25

Okay. For me, I'm gonna go with one of your favorites, I think. This is a new cannonball view. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I just that was kind of punchy, you know. Totally. And yeah, it was just a lot going on. I mean all of the little instruments bells, whistles, guitars, you know, drums. It was all came together so well. Alright, that's my number three.

SPEAKER_06 54:58

Nice. Alright. I'm going killer crane, number two. Um I think it's sort of a song that they might have maybe two songs together that they wanted to do. It just seems like it's got a lot going on. And in a way, it echoes what this man wants to do is make these groundbreaking and tear down the walls. I know. I know.

SPEAKER_07 55:36

I was thinking the same thing about that one. Um But I also agree with you, like Repetition was a great song. That's gonna be my number two. Um I like the way it built up and it got momentum and energy at the very end, and uh there was some chaos, but it was good. Like good trouble.

SPEAKER_06 55:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 55:55

And uh so it got me going. So it's a good like adrenaline song, so that's my number, this is my number two.

SPEAKER_06 56:05

Um announcing no future shock should be an honorable mansion. Yeah. Uh as well as cafe consciousness. Um those two are very, very strong for me. But what I covered in the beginning. Uh yeah, the new cannibal blues. I think the third lesson really got me. The first couple lessons, I was like, maybe just not into it, maybe just like thinking about other things in my life that I needed to do, and I'm like, maybe because this man inspires you to do things that you like to do while you listen to them. Sure. But if you're just listening, totally uninterrupted. New cannonball blues. Or you're working out, you're just you know, you need something in the background. New cannonball blues. Might be that pump-up jam. It is a pumpkin that tips you over the edge into obscurity.

SPEAKER_07 57:09

If you're doing cardio, you need repetitions. Yeah, like the runners out there. If you just need that extra push over the cliff, you know, you need to take it up to eleven. Repetition and cannonball blues, I think. Yeah, both of those. I went with Killer Crane. I like just it's like melodic. I kind of play like a little bit of it's just like it's just like the strings were so touching. Yeah, it was very touching. And uh just kind of got me all over clamped. Yeah. Just uh I'm glad we got it.

Emotional Range And Final Wrap

SPEAKER_06 57:46

Yeah, you had some connection to joint. But I'm glad we got some sensitivo. Yeah, we needed to get that in the uh in both of us.

SPEAKER_07 57:55

It was a very emo emotional album. You know, there was like the high highs of new cannonball blues and repetition. But then Killer Crane just took it down. Yeah. You know, it was a wide spectrum and it was emo it was it was good emotionally. It wasn't like I want to kill myself emotionally.

SPEAKER_06 58:13

I mean, they could have had an 11th song. This one goes to 11, like uh instead of caffeinated consciousness, they could have like a chamomile come down or something, and it would just be like an ambient. I would love to hear this band do like an ambient set where it you know less is more. Yeah. I think they all with it. Instead of it being like slam poetry in the background or something.

SPEAKER_07 58:40

Yeah, it's like their version of like a mountain jam, you know, like that goes on for like 30 minutes. Totally gets like super like chill and then comes back out.

SPEAKER_06 58:50

Good call, man. They need uh get out of Brooklyn to go to the Adirondacks or something. Yeah. Just uh get on their you know button-down white shirts and khaki shorts and get at the Algebra Club in the Adirondacks and just record there for a couple months.

SPEAKER_07 59:14

Yeah, maybe the the heart-shaped bathtub for the newly website. Right right in something like that. Yeah. Good acoustics. Excellent stuff. Alright. Good good talk. Good listen. Thanks, thanks for tuning in. Oh, and uh we'll get you on the flip side.