Nirvana: In Utero (1993)

[00:00]Now, listen, before we start, I want to say two things to you guys. Number one, I think last week's episode sucked, okay? Now, the fans don't know that, so those idiots, they just listened to an hour and 45 minutes of just slop last week. And guess what? They have to. They don't get any of the references this week. Uh-huh, joke's on them. Well, all the stuff you cut out, I mean, the episode's probably down to like an hour and 20. That's true. We actually recorded it for like an hour and 45. That's true. It's probably down to about an hour and 20. That's very true. Also, luckily, next week is the Iowa episode that blows, so the wind will flow perfectly through this episode.

[00:36]Wow. Here's the thing. I am going to this time, and I think part of the problem is I get so worked up about what I want to say that I interrupt. I am this time, this episode, I'm going to be in a flow state. I'm going to put myself, as Michael Jordan called it, in the zone, okay? I'm going to be in the zone this episode. I'm going to react with you guys. We're going to react off each other. This is going to be a great episode, and to up the energy, I just wanted to show you, okay?

[01:04]Look what shirt I'm wearing right now. Make the THX sound when I come. Now, I have been wearing this shirt around my family that says, I make the THX noise when I come, okay? Nobody has seemed to notice. Nobody noticed when I walk the dog. So, classy guy all the way around. In 2020. Four friends decided. They listened to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone Magazine.

[01:32]This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. We are all the way up to album 173. And from 1993. Now, you guys know what other... Matt, you've always said 1993, 1994. Great years for music.

[02:00]One of my favorite songs from 1993. Happy birthday, Rob. You're 13 years old. I mean, I... Big ups to that song. Loved it. I thought you were going to go with Bop Gun. Whoa. One nation. 1993. Much more fun. Ice Cube coming with a half bounce. Man, I know you're trying to get Aaron worked up. Don't do that anymore. I know that's your little trick is that you know what to say to get Aaron all fired up and get him on your side. Exactly. What gets into my jeans? We are all the way up to 173, 1993.

[02:32]We are talking about the third and final studio album from Nirvana in utero. Okay. And I recently... I'm sitting here with three guys. Oh, no, wait. We'll get to that part after. Listen, let's turn on the radio. Okay. Let's just sit back. Let's relax. Okay. Now, am I furious at Aaron for last week's episode where he talked about hot sauce? No. We got a number of voicemails from last week saying nobody could connect Aaron's hot sauce with the plane story.

[03:03]It wasn't just Rob in his altered state. Nobody knew what was going on with that story. I was getting there. It was just... It wasn't... The fact that Aaron told that story last week and not this week when I have this song is an absolute outrage. Okay. So, let's listen to K-Rob. Welcome to K-Rob. K-R-O-B. You know, folks, when it comes to condoms... Since I, Mustard, insist that you relish in this chance to catch up with our best friend, Aaron, soy sauce.

[03:38]Want to know what's in Aaron's fridge? I'm the chef of condiments. He's got nutritional yeast, I know. But what about you, female? Does he have bananas? Sauce. But what about Frank's Red Hot?

[04:03]Ooh, good job. I should listen to that. Lago Man Chili Oil. Old Bay for a seafood boil. Oh, nice. On his tongue, on his tongue, he just needs some. On his tongue, on his tongue, he wants umami. Yes, but you gotta have it. It makes him happy.

[04:34]Betty has harissa and bourbon maple syrup. You know he has kosher salt. Yeah, I'm getting pushed. What about sambal? Can you pass the top of T-heo? How about Vegemite for toast? I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. How about Vegemite for toast? I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. I don't know where T-heonus is coming from. you want some mustard while you're in town dijon yellow honey or brown nice wow on his tongue

[05:11]on his tongue he just needs some on his tongue he thinks it's yum he wants umami uh-oh the gout is coming oh no i think it's i bought some mackerel yesterday that's gonna be

[05:33]a little prophylactic whole scene for that one it's not a condiment but is that it's like a gout condom it's prophylactic yep you get it is it is anus is that a condiment or is that that's i feel like a spice to me i don't know you probably need a condiment on that one if you're gonna eat any i don't think you need condiment with ain't better i don't think you need condiment with ain't better i don't think you need condiment with ain't better anus it's not a big deal uh listen i want to point out before i point out who this is every condiment on there was off a list of the 25 best condiments ever i got it qp mayo

[06:03]aaron we got to try it and i want to explain to you what sambal is and tell me if you think you would like this it's an indonesian chili sauce or paste nailed it made with chili peppers shrimp paste garlic ginger shallot scallion palm sugar and lime juice doesn't that just sound like something you want on everything all the time yes eggs whatever i i love it the scallions and i'm in heaven yeah i'll tell you you know what condiment i've been ripping through lately aaron i got horseradish sauce yeah you're just putting on

[06:31]everything everything all the time burgers sandwiches it's just so good it's delish uh listen this is beck did it better we are talking about nirvana in utero okay and i've got three guys here who recently ordered a giant stringed instrument just so they could get a harp shaped i've got aaron in california very good actually all we are is all we are rob let's talk about

[07:00]wait no i don't do you for shut up i got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing good rob rob you know i kind of wish i was like you easily amused i've got russell in minnesota rob i've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks can you please bring that other key back when we see you each other in vegas i'm starting to chafe and i've got aaron out in california now here's the thing aaron had to change the password at work recently on his computer and so he put in the

[07:35]words m-y-p-e-n-i-s my penis and the computer said hey your password is too long too long yes appreciate you all we are is all we are let's talk about nirvana in utero meanwhile i put in my penis to my computer password and you know what it said too many special characters what not long enough it thinks it thinks it looks like a shift to left shift only left shift only there

[08:08]is no other shift all right listen let's stop messing around let's get right into or it might have said rob you've used this password too many times give this password a rest this password is but the thing is i can't sleep when i don't use the password but when i use the password it takes away from my sleep this is a this is like art garfunkel it's a catch-22 let's get into the

[08:36]voicemail right after i ask aaron aaron you got one condiment right now that you're going to bring over and impress me with what's the condiment you're bringing over one condiment that i'm going to bring over that i'm going to impress you with yep what you got did i did i did i did i did i did i just take it out of my fridge right now i couldn't whatever that i couldn't go out and buy sure look at aaron it's like i asked him which member of his family he wants to throw in a

[09:06]volcano is honey a condiment i'd bring you honey rob of course yeah how about some hot honey that'd be a good yeah hot honey hot honey hot honey uh pepperoni pizza yeah there we go so good uh i think mine what would i bring you nobody asked me but i would say no i'm pretty sure we needed we didn't ask you but homemade ketchup we didn't ask mine would be homemade ketchup because everybody loves homemade

[09:34]ketchup at a restaurant oh good you got homemade ketchup you know what the worst type of ketchup at a restaurant is is when they bring you like the little metal tin of just like it's just like one squirt of ketchup out of the bottle there's no way yeah it could satisfy anyone's ketchup needs you either go no ketchup and give me none or give me none of the ketchup that i need me the real thing don't give me the little metal tin i gotta tell you that's one of the greatest parts of having kids is i'll be like hey these kids need more ketchup then she brings the two

[10:01]ketchups and i'm like oh yeah daddy i was off ketchup for the longest time i didn't put on burgers and like i was like i'm good i don't need ketchup and now there's ketchup in the house i'm like yeah let me let me get a little bit of ketchup on there anything like it ketchup is delicious it's it's very very good let's get to our voicemail we have one this week russ don't say that we have one every really or not mostly oh we got one what are you talking about on the back line 802-277-BECK that's 802-277-I didn't even have to beg this week they just called

[10:33]in i wanted to get your take on the great mashup that is happening right now with music and sports aka taylor swift and travis kelsey interesting as music lovers and sport lovers uh what are you thinking about this magical moment going on in life bye oh hey thanks for saying bye a lot of our callers don't do that they're actually quite rude when they when they

[11:02]hang up okay uh guys what do we think of travis kelsey and taylor swift dating each other i know in my household it is the all the talk all the time my kid has almost watched like a quarter of a chief's game because she wanted to see taylor swift so i'll take it what do we think i feel like like i feel like travis kelsey's moment was like already over and now he's having another moment like it just feels like too much travis kelsey to me i don't know it just feels like i like him and

[11:33]his brother like i like listening to the two of them talk but it just feels like too much too much travis kelsey for me matt disagrees though which is okay tell me you quit the fantasy football league without telling me you quit fantasy football yeah travis kelsey's still like a top five you know yeah no yeah definitely of course he's very good it's just more like his moment in the limelight of the pop culture you know what would you say his previous highlight of pop culture was erin yeah

[12:03]like doesn't he do dances in the end zone i don't know doesn't he do dances in the end zone yeah winning winning the super bowl slam that ball on the ground and call it a spike yeah i mean what he's been like it's like he's overexposed i feel like jeez it feels like i'm talking like tipper gore about something like he does a lot of dances in the end zone i love dancing in the end zone i was just saying like this he's he's already been

[12:31]out there it feels weird because like you would think that taylor swift is the one you're like i'm sick of hearing about taylor swift but it feels like that's more her job to be in the tabloids and it's like it's weird to me it's not his job i don't to be fair i don't think he's making it his job you're right you know if that makes sense no that's true you know and i don't know if has the true story come out how they really met or anything like that you know the story about him going to a concert and throwing a bracelet up on stage or whatever is that real like did that

[13:01]happen he tried to meet her there and then rob i'm looking at you rob just to see if i have no idea i can i can talk to my swift uh reporter pretty soon because the dog is trying to get into a room here um but i will i will try to find out but i gotta think if you're travis kelsey can't you just say hey taylor swift can i meet you like he's one of the greatest tight ends of all time like that but see that's what i think is even better is that it feels like he didn't just be like hey you know get a hold of taylor swift and you know let's set up a date or something like that

[13:30]see that's what i don't know like the whole thing was that he went to a concert and tried to try to get her attention at the concert or whatever that's what i heard and i have not dove in any farther than that to see how true it is i don't know it's interesting though so he's a celebrity but clearly not at her level in terms of fame popularity media attention and all that what would you guys think could you date a celebrity that was that famous where all of a sudden even if you know whether you're famous or not his his profile has gone up so much how do

[14:01]you think how would you guys deal with that dating a celebrity where all of a sudden rob they're outside they're watching you walk your dog with your bike helmet and all all that stuff they're constantly on you are you asking rob if he would like all this attention he would get from dating from dating celebrity russell are you asking that question there might be a limit for people i value my privacy so much i always use incognito mode okay close my tabs before i go to bed

[14:30]oh we gotta make that a t-shirt if i dated a celebrity people would treat it in the way they treated uh katie perry when she started dating russell brand where just everybody in the world agreed oh russell band is an asshole katie perry is like the sweetest person that's exactly what would happen to me they'd be like who is this wart that this person is dating like this troll i see myself in the mirror from like the best angle possible and i'm kind of like wow like can you imagine a picture of me like bending over at the beach next to taylor swift that would

[15:02]be in every tabloid it's not looking in the mirror that really kills you it's seeing a picture of yourself is what kills you too right can you imagine that rob all the time oh i know the guys like these guys the the guys in this podcast are guys who value their independence and and their their personal time but do you think there's also a point where he's like hey can i get like a piece of your schedule like there's got like how like at some point isn't he going to be like yo couldn't we ever hang out for more than

[15:30]36 hours or whatever it is like that's got to be tough too in terms of dating no it's it's been so long since eric's dated i've been on the dating scene i know no he's fine like if we hang out every few like a couple days every few weeks when she's in the country he's good with that i mean during football season i gotta imagine that he only has you know let's say a 36 hour window on his day off kind of a thing where he could actually go on a date or whatever i don't know so just to get answer the question i think it's great i think

[16:03]he feels like he's like uh you know not expecting much at this point kind of a deal like let's just date you know we're dating that kind of a thing i'm not trying to get into her riches or anything like that i think she probably likes that about him is that he's independent and he's got his own thing going on as well you know i don't know it just it it feels like a good all-american wholesome thing right like the pop star and the football player have made it i don't know what i don't get is dating during the

[16:33]football season doesn't he just always have jock itch i know a lot of people during the football season they just had jock itch all the time which made dating new people tough during the season okay that's what i heard that's just a lineman thing rob who do you think he would have picked if if taylor swift showed up at his game and your wife showed up at his game and they both had uh burritos and burritos that's a tough one that's really hard there's no you think she gives him a chipotle burrito after a game that would be so

[17:03]funny the only thing about travis kelsey is this you would like to imagine him having a weird looking penis right like his penis is so weird like it's super thick at the bottom and really thin at the top like there's something like weird about it but in your heart of hearts you know it's not true he probably has a weird looking penis he probably has a weird looking penis he probably has a weird one of the only penises that actually looks good you know what i mean like it's the only penis that doesn't look like it's from an alien planet well i'm sure we'll make you to hear a song about it in a few years if it doesn't go right oh right there's got to be that like he's got he's got

[17:35]to worry she's gonna if i mess this up what song is she gonna cover that has to be hanging over his head all the time she'll cover hip to be square that's good what if she covers uh what if she covers this song like she just did a monday night okay i'm in the zone i'm gonna get in the zone right now not gonna lie my kid came out and yelled

[18:04]at me a little bit got me out of the zone i'm gonna get back in the zone you guys are gonna be moving in slow motion other thing i was thinking about with the kelsey relationship with taylor swift is it seemed very early on where like she had to hang out with his parents like i don't even know if they'd gone on a date yet and she was sitting in the suite like sitting with with his mom right like how would that have gone for like did you guys have to meet your your spouse's parents within like a week or two or not i know

[18:30]matt you had to like hide through a you know slink through uh your your father-in-law's house one morning before you'd ever met him or something but yeah the walk of shame right by him yep yeah i had to do it i think a football game would be a better situation than any of the early early situations i know i met him on the third date russell i guess a wrestling match or what that was no always we were butchering chickens actually but there's not an interesting story there there's nothing nothing we want to talk about there um now russell let me ask you this you seem to be

[19:05]projecting quite a bit onto this travis kelsey taylor's thing it's like i just think there's a lot of you know maybe we don't want to own a house don't you think he's going to regret owning a house maybe it's going to be a big deal to sell like maybe the furnace doesn't work or there's holders in the siding or whatever and then like oh maybe the christmas ornaments are going to be maybe they're going to have a big fight about the christmas ornaments i'm really worried about that she makes him take down like his chief's ornament or not yeah yeah she makes does she go does she here's a question if they go to get a christmas tree and he's like i know that tree's too big

[19:33]it's not going to fit in or on my car and it's going to be a huge pain to get in the house does she say no we got to get the taller one or not no taylor swift they're going to get a tiny tree yeah she says whatever she wants she's taylor swift russell she gets to do she gets to do whatever now russell let me say this does introduce me to my rolling going this year with you okay i gotta say my rolling going right now tomorrow it is time to go buy a christmas tree which you know means i will be going into the

[20:03]city i will be purchasing a tree and then i will be schlepping it onto the subway system back home i need to go ride the subway tomorrow with a tree so if you want to entertain yourself tomorrow just picture that i am i have a christmas tree i am on the subway uh surrounded by people who are annoyed that i am on the uh subway with a tree so more or less than your family is about your dog right now all right listen

[20:32]thank god i didn't have like four kids okay just wait a second we have to put up a barrier so the dog doesn't scratch at her door because like i said the dog wants to be around me but hates my voice and hates me being on the podcast as soon as i clap he freaks out like as soon as i clap for the episode he's done he hates it so that is my and then uh we are decorating the tree and doing all that stuff

[21:05]guys i gotta tell you a christmas tree in an apartment in new york it's like a whole thing this thing easily takes up i would guess five percent of our apartment right we need to rearrange everything we don't have room at the table like this is robin so you always do a live you always do the real tree you don't ever do a fake tree i how many years like does your wife or kids help you put it up you put it up yourself because i feel like i'm not projecting again but

[21:30]i feel like putting up a tree with a significant other or uh someone that you live with could maybe lead to arguments about holding the tree straight turning the thing that type of thing do you get you get help for that or do you do by yourself first of all nobody's arguing about putting up the tree straight russell you just put it up straight nobody is saying like hey i want to put up straight the other person's like nah let's just leave it crooked saying the process there's no way this there is my question rob the process if you and rob if you think it's straight and you're either your your kids or your wife think it's not straight do you have an argument

[22:03]that says yes this is straight and they say no it's not you got to tilt it a little bit that's what i think russell's well sometimes if you're true i'm just gonna say what i was gonna say i'm not in the zone right now this kid sometimes your tree curves to the left and you say that that's fine and actually some people like it more some people like trees that way it's the travis kelson kind of get straight up yeah even if this tree gets really hot sometimes like really hot sometimes you need to go to the doctor because the tree is so sometimes it curves the left sometimes if you

[22:33]trim some of the bottom branches it makes that tree look a little taller yeah but sometimes you don't stay in hotels enough so the tree is you gotta water it a lot too not trimmable it's like a wreath the water too don't you rob you do have to water well i mean the tree is straight up straight i mean you gotta take it out for air this tree ain't gonna suck itself you know what i mean now i think i crossed over there here's the thing the mayor i actually rob i got the maryland manson

[23:01]of trees this year oh you got the bottom ones removed so the tree can water itself wow and then i saw it on uh uh wonder years thank you thank you that was a great poll by me russell i gotta tell you we just have a system down jenny walks the lights around while i uncoil them okay and recoil them precisely uh the kids put up ornaments in a crappy way and they last about five minutes and then they

[23:31]get sick of it and go somewhere else and jenny and i finish it and then at the end i sweep up all the needles so and then and then i water it once never to water it again for the rest of the month that it's up okay until at the end it is an extraordinarily fire hazard and when you move it all the needles fall off which is really cool because you do live in an apartment so it's also down the hallway into the elevator and everyone in the building knows exactly what apartment made this big mess because they're tracking you are you a cautious tree guy so i'm a cautious tree guy we have a beautiful window right by the river

[24:02]by our house and uh the upstairs roommate thought we should put it by the window and i put a kibosh on it because it's right next to a vent i'm like i don't think you want to put the tree right next to a vent as some needles fall down in that thing lights a fire i'm out on it i said no dice what do oh how hot are you heating what are we doing yeah what is this vent you can't put a tree by like by like an event are you going up well that's what i'm asking how hot is your you don't want

[24:31]like hot air coming out of a vent blowing on a christmas tree that seems like a stupid idea 72 74 i don't know yeah i don't know uh fahrenheit 451 i mean i think that's how hot it would have to be to cause the the tree also are you guys also have to unplug the tree at the end of the night because i'm a it has to be unplugged you cannot leave the lights on no no i'm like yeah got a timer my tree my tree is like lionel richie all night long baby that thing is going all night all day no who cares plug at the end of the night yeah why it needs

[25:01]to be dark at night it's because like the house needs to go to sleep too it's just like a ritual oh you like house you go to bed and you see the christmas tree and you close the door and it's that season boy you guys are a bunch of grinches turning off the lights that's terrible it's i'm just saying that because you then then turning them back on the next night is part of the ritual no it's on when we plug in our christmas tree like december 1st it is on and never turns off until like february 12th yeah oh no for sure oh and it gets watered it gets watered once and

[25:35]then never again so we're all going russell that's good i was mentioning last night i was out for dinner and there was a a birthday they were singing along there was another birthday and it had one of my favorite things that ever happens at like a birthday when people are out or like a celebration they did the thing thank you they didn't spank oh god that would have been a bit of a turn on i guess at that point spanking train yeah hey my grandmother's 73 oh that's gonna be so many spanks i just jumped up and ran over there and got in line i was like yes so hey ironically i'm also wearing them

[26:06]spanking machine no spanks russell spanks so so they my favorite thing of like a celebration is when people sing happy birthday or they do some sort of congratulatory thing and then the person like the honoree has to give like the speech afterwards they've got to be like man i'm so happy you guys all came all of these important

[26:30]people in my life that you took the time out of your day to come and spend it with me it couldn't mean more to have my 43rd birthday with all of you people there's no one i'd rather have i so much appreciate everything you i love the speech after like the recognition you guys know what i'm talking about i'm talking about the speech after like the recognition you guys know what i'm talking about i'm talking about the speech after like the recognition you guys know what i'm talking about you guys know what i'm talking about i'm talking about the speech after like the recognition you guys know what i'm talking about you guys know what i'm talking about i'm talking about i'm talking about the speech after like the recognition you guys know what i'm talking about i've not seen that for years i've never seen that ever 100 russell i had that surprise party thrown for me on a boat with all the drag queens listen i don't want to tell that story we don't have to get into it but i time one of the things i did immediately is when i got on i was like oh

[27:03]my god it's a surprise birthday party and i know they have a microphone system in here so i get to give a speech and people have to listen to me it was one of the greatest gifts to me of all time why don't you give okay so you give the speech that like let's say aaron and matt and i are like we're congratulating you on your 180th episode or whatever it is give us the speech you would give rob i do have a speech prepared for uh this one time where it was a couple years ago it's like

[27:30]five six i think it was like seven years ago and i went to this uh soccer game and i saw messi score four times okay you want to hear that speech four score and seven years ago and she's gotta look it up speech lincoln question mark jen russell's old bit of bang i uh i do not know any more of the speech

[28:01]matt it's a good one though the other thing i wanted to share with you guys we talked about this a little bit last week i think was i got my spotify rap this week it tells you all like your favorite songs everything you listen to the most i thought i could share my top 10 songs with you guys quick of my spotify rap this week i got my spotify rap this week i got my spotify rap this week i love my spotify rap how does that sound let's hear them number 10 i'm gonna go from 10 to 1 number 10 one of the favorites of one of our listeners and a favorite for me this year was angel from montgomery john prine number 10 oh yeah great wow number nine fuck i'm gonna put

[28:36]these behind number nine this one jumped back up for me because it was in an episode of what's that new york show succession it was in an episode of succession the song is takeover by jay-z a little jay-z yeah in my 2023 jay hova yes number eight from de la soul as i know de la soul made the list top 10 wow wow number seven give up the funk made the list

[29:05]wow wow tear the roof off the sucker russell next up on the list like this one it was one of two songs that came from me shazamming a song during the tv show the bear this one is rem strange currency wow i don't remember that one next one next one up is a guy i think rob maybe you started to like after the

[29:34]the list i'm not sure about this but it's a new song by him it's van henry kissinger it's van morrison worried van blues i think we've talked about this one before made my spotify right where's the song come from aaron another one that you're like we got the funkadelic can you get to that is that can you get to that yeah can you get to that yeah i made the list i want to know one of your top rap songs is a funkadelic number four on the on the rap this year was a funkadelic song you're dangerously

[30:05]close to becoming an aaron you're going to record stores a lot you're listening to funkadelic badass song number three on the list place your love on credit talked about this one a week or two ago it's scenes from an italian restaurant you know that song's killing it when it made the rap and i've only been listening to it for like a week yeah wow that's that's a great song you've listened to that the third most of any song this

[30:30]year in like yes that's crazy isn't it matt you've been there right you hit the song you can't stop number two on my list was ac dc if you want blood also from the bear oh i don't know that you want blood now wait i can i listen to it listen to it well i'll be playing and then the last one on the list we've talked about my love for this song before i went and saw the play hamilton it's in the room where it happens was the number one song on my rap my spotify rap for 2023 what do you guys think of my song

[31:00]not many skippers in there man i he's i have i have thought of you guys recently because i have started listening to one song when i leave work every day because it puts me in such a good mood and helps me walk faster to the bus uh no this is the song it's by a guy named dizzy rascal i don't do your ass rascal he's a british rapper when i walk out of school i'm listening to this every day every day such a good

[31:46]man i'm listening to this every day every day such a good man i'm listening to this every day every day such a good man this reminds me i knew a guy once who had a he said his mom was a psychologist or psychiatrist one of those like a school psychiatrist like every day it's just stuff's coming at you right just

[32:01]hardcore just horrible stuff you talk about all this stuff and she would listen to like heavy metal like just deep heavy metal stuff when she was leaving work because she just needed something to like clear all the everything out of her brain and that's what that song i love that song rob for you but that's what it sounds like to me like you're walking out you just need to like clear everything out and move from school to new york rob plus my dream is that i'm going to be on some youtube or like tiktok short where somebody's like hey tell me what you're listening to right now on your headphones i'm just gonna be like dizzy rascal bass like it's awesome russell so

[32:34]how do you feel about your spotify rap were you happy i was pretty excited about it i thought it had kind of like a i mean i think kind of like a diverse set of songs we had some rock we had some hip-hop we had a song from a broadway show i thought it was pretty a pretty good lineup if russell from six years ago pre-podcast said hey your spotify rap is going to have a song from a musical on number one would you well yeah what would you have said you would have said no way

[33:03]right and then you would have said give me a kiss i thought we were going to do that on the podcast anymore we're talking about kissing ourselves in a time machine russell if that's wrong guess what i don't want to be right you guys are you guys all joni mitchell have you guys uh neil young have you quit spotify or do you guys have spotify did you get your rap this week or not are you i'm off spotify i got uh i'm i'm apple music though i got apple musics whatever that whatever that one is

[33:30]did they give you a list of your songs for the year or anything yeah but mine's messed up because of my kid but let's see where i'm at here my top artists were coltrane prince nina simone pharaoh sanders de la soul louie armstrong al green kids bop aretha and the tecox quartet which did uh the beethoven string quartets but my my top 10 is supposed to do this backwards right sure all right so number 10 area by de la soul state uh number nine the blind by a band called

[34:02]gabriel's what the fuck number eight dance of doom from ninjago number seven also from ninjago found my place aaron loves ninjago number six scotland the brave you know the the bagpipe song sometimes my son likes to drive with that on repeat so wait a minute wait a minute what what what is this your son likes to put this on repeat when

[34:31]in the car he'll be like play scotland the brave on repeat now russell if somebody did this to you car and a kid said play this song on repeat it's my favorite bagpipe bring it back to the orphanage and return it i mean this is great my brother aaron this if you did this to your kid in the car you should be sent to the hag this is a war crime he'll be like especially after braveheart came out and then when the

[35:04]drums come in wait till his drums come in yeah you guys are aaron you gotta tell this kid no more bagpipe songs i'm not doing it i mean yeah try doing it for 20 minutes on repeat while driving if you want to see a tearjerker if there's somebody some some guy who's in his 80s told his daughter to play bagpipes at his funeral that's what he wanted you know he wanted to go out he just wanted bagpipes at his funeral so instead of doing it at

[35:31]his funeral you know some event or some like birthday or something the daughter hired some bagpipers to come to his backyard he just wanted to go out and play bagpipes at his funeral and he just played whoa and the guy just starts bawling you know he's just bawling his eyes out that was like his dream and so like i don't know you have to show your son that'll find out it's pretty can you guys do me a favor at my funeral this is what i want played i'm a baseline drunkie and if we do rob we'll we'll keep it playing in the background like matt likes it and i'll give

[36:01]you the eulogy you'll be like we understand that they found rob in the bathroom with a sandwich after he put the christmas tree up it was not half plush he had left it outside of the bathroom i promise you all for all of you spreading the rumors that it was a half plush sandwich in the toilet that is not what happened he's one of the few guys to both uh die eating on the toilet and auto erotic asphyxiation i don't know how he thought that would work out those two things

[36:33]should not go together oh what else is on what are the top four here top four is the top four top five are i don't know what christmas is by the old 97s this is on a marvel music playlist that my son likes jesus christ it's it's from the guardians of the galaxy christmas special erin blink twice if you don't erin erin has like special tools to clean records and this is what his spotify ramp is oh my god until you get to mine celestial by ed sheeran which is on a pokemon

[37:01]playlist your favorite uh what other pokemon off the pokemon play roll i'll tell you what you should get like his old profile or something i should i need to yeah he totally fucked up my entire year in uh never gonna give you up by rick ashley because he was for a little while okay that's the one listen if john mccain heard this segment he would be like that's too much he's like that's too much that's really bad and the top i think i think apple music

[37:37]i don't think this is entirely accurate like because i usually play through the sonos app so i don't think this really was but this collected most of the stuff from the car so then the top two are operation new me and it's garmin on also both from like a new taco soundtrack some people run around their house like here's i think turnstile was in number 15 so we did get a few places i remember when erin moved out to oakland like 10 15 years ago he took me out as

[38:03]like a like buddy hey i've got to tell my buddy i'm moving we went out the same night randy moss got a touchdown when he rejoined the vikings i believe but erin told me this if you would have told me now that this would have been a spotify rap matt did you get a package wrapped or this year from spotify or no we're an amazon family so it's got like the top like 50 but i'll just go through the top two i'll just say

[38:32]i was top 50 i have one song i listen to a lot of music i think yeah you know so i've got one so from 10 i'll just go you guys i don't even know half these people but little deuce deuce i think it's something to do with some sort of video game toby fox there's five songs by toby fox in the top 10 i think again it's some video game thing bfdi music which is a video game uh banana pancakes by jack johnson constellations by jack johnson

[39:02]and a friend like you by andy grammer are the top three that's basically because my kids listen to that when they're going to bed you know kind of a thing so sarah's got a bunch of camp c-a-a-m-p great band out of uh columbus ohio if you haven't heard them and i've got um i've got where is my one pearl jam song the dog tried to wake up my wife oh no terrible the long road i got the longer that's the one i can't get out of my head so

[39:34]that's the one that's that's my only song on my family's top do you have any certain lists on your streaming service i do i just i just found it yeah and my top five goes like this lost boy by ruth b that must be one of amelia's number four is a song my wife plays almost every day gin and juice by the gourds i hear that every day i'm blinking twice aaron real big so you know

[40:06]it was gotta be my fish i do and i've got the way i am by ingrid michaelson nobody's stranger by tent dabs and russell at number one i've got a song from a musical ex-wives from six i'm so much like we're just we're all the same this is craziness russell we're so similar we should spend the holidays together rolling going man how's it going with you people want to know if that's

[40:32]going to happen or not good uh rob did you pull up a song for me quick amos lee windows are rolled down he's got a nice nice vibe like when he played for the vikings for the mid 90s for a year so i bet he ran for about 1200 apiece for two years that's so good that is such a good bit i believe he followed scotty graham probably right before leroy horde in somewhere in there ontario smith uh did you guys hear that

[41:05]hall is suing oats yeah i did yeah can you believe that i did well i tried to figure out did you guys figure out what it was about no i think he went and tried to sell like a bunch like his portion of their publishing rights he wants to sell his portion yeah so that made sense at first i was like what the hell happened to these guys but then you know everybody's selling other catalogs these days that you know i could see where if you had a duo like this and i don't know how they're set up probably with a

[41:32]delaware llc russell maybe a partnership agreement yeah you know so you know i can see why they want to sell it i get it but uh my kid tonight had his first uh middle school dance oh middle school dance is he home yet what do you what a nightmare listen what i give him the same advice i gave my kid during the slow songs you can go to the bathroom and then you don't have to stand on the wall i have been but see i have been i don't know

[42:00]if you guys know this you know i know i know you guys fairly well by this point but i don't know if this but you get a couple barley pops in me and i like i like to go to a nice stag dance and i like to find a dance floor yeah yeah i've seen it i've seen so and sarah's a good dancer too you know cut from the same cloth and that so we've been preparing our kids for this night for a very very very long time having family dance parties and everything like that and so man you know i was a little i just i went in with not okay you want to go to this

[42:31]there's a dance on friday night you want to go yeah that sounds like fun like okay like you want to get dressed up or anything no this is fun he just had some sweat pants and a sweatshirt on when he went to school and so he doesn't care about that but he went eddie and i had to go pick him up you had to you had to go like sign him out kind of thing he didn't really but eddie and i went he came out he had red cheeks and was just like he's going for it that was awesome and so you're talking about it so like yeah so we were we've been preparing them and so far and maybe is our best uh parenting oh way to go so far as preparing them for the first school

[43:05]dance did you tell him to request onyx when he was there that's what we always did let's play onyx yeah and then they play onyx and in about two minutes they'd be like we're stopping the song these kids are gonna get hurt now matt did you have to have a conversation with him before he went to the school dance where you're like now listen you're getting older okay and when you go to the school dance there's going to be really two things you have to know

[43:32]one is the bump okay and the second thing that you need to know for school dances this is not something we can teach you at home is the grind all right matt i think it's time to hand down the knowledge of the bump and grind one of the greatest dances of all time does anybody like that is just never you get the birds and the bees you got all the stuff you need to talk about the bump and grind is just not something you talk about you just don't talk that's just something you have to

[44:03]witness out in the real world and figure out if that's for you or not and then you just have to go in for it and typically if you're if you're a guy like us yeah you're a guy like us it's it's usually initiated by the partner yeah you're not gonna go out you're not gonna go seeking it out yourself yeah you gotta wait no and i and i think too i think bumping and grinding is like baby birds eating worms like it's just instinct you can't be taught it it's in the dna i heard the song and i didn't

[44:32]even know this was still possible i heard that song in the airport last week on sunday morning and like immediately like i hear my mind telling me no and i'm like yes and then i gotta double take me like i can't and i can't enjoy the song i have to not enjoy the song but you hear it first and you're like i don't see yes i can't believe they still put in the airport yeah how about that so success oh good job good job the whole family nice work yep yep uh who have we not got rosie are you up rosie rolling going how's it going with you

[45:04]it's going great i am super stoked never thought i'd be this stoked i'm getting a french drain we are getting a french drain at our house this feels like a what what we've made it they dig a trench all the way around your house and then they call that a pipe down there and fill it with rock and then that takes the foundation i've never been so stoked about a trench in my backyard what what are they going to do in the trench what's the first thing i'm gonna fill it with rock

[45:34]no we're gonna lay a pipe yeah that's what i'm talking about can you do me a favor when they're when the workman's doing that can you go out there and be like a being you both brother you know what i'm talking about yeah they really need to hear from me so i've been to your house so you've got your backyard basically goes up a hill so water if it rains the water is flowing down it's going right into the back of your house right and that's the issue yeah kind of a deal so now they're gonna put the drain in it's basically gonna throw all the water to the street around the side of the

[46:02]around your house that's the idea earlier i talked about matt activating aaron this is a case of aaron talking about drainage dishes he knows bats landscaping landscaping he'll do it because we are yeah we're the whole whole backyard is being redone so while they were while they had it torn up they were like do you need to do this french drain and like it rained the day before it happened there's like water puddling where the steps used to be that they had turned out and he's like look you need the french drain it's like yeah yes i did but i'm super is it going around both sides

[46:32]do you have gutters on your house yes we have gutters and it'll be gutters only around one side to start yeah only around one side to start because the slope hopefully it yeah russell i got to admit if a guy came up to me and said hey do you want to do a french drain i'd probably be like right rob is that copyright you is that what you would have done yeah yeah we just met but yeah you could do a french drain on me i think anytime that sounds pretty good but then the other the the downside of all of this is that so now they've been working

[47:01]in my backyard for a little over a week and we we my no it's it's all fine but my wife bought a ton of snacks to like set up for the workers so like i don't know if you guys can see this like look what i'm sitting next you don't have to give snacks yeah why is she buying snacks because it's the kind it's a kind thing to do they appreciate you guys hire now let me ask you did you hire a bunch of middle school age kids to do the work is that why you need to give hired a contractor but i mean but the guys can do the work but i'm sitting here next i

[47:31]so i did just have some sun chips this is the first time i've dipped into this stash but i got stealing from the working class wow like classic tiny twists sour cream and onion lays doritos cool ranch doritos white cheddar popcorn cheetos puffs and crunchy you ever have this stuff in your house normally or no never no i mean not no not the cheetos hold that doritos bag out look at the ingredients on the side of that thing yeah aaron i want here's what i want you to do aaron i'm gonna put

[48:03]no open that right now aaron i'm gonna put my foot up to the camera you open that bag of cheetos and smell and i'm gonna show you this is like going to a 3d movie theater this is like one of those special movie theaters okay ready there it is now i'll never eat cheetos again oh no i'll never eat cheetos again but i've resisted all week and then and then tonight while i was in here in the studio i had to eat cheetos again and i'm like oh my god i'm gonna eat cheetos again i had to dip into the sun chips because that's my favorite did you notice that aaron took out

[48:33]his phone and tried to take a picture when i had my feet up to the camera very suspicious that's it that's how it's really going with me is that everybody the french drain you got the french drain that really does i'm gonna have a french drain let's that sounds like something that like would be you'd have to pay extra for we did have to pay a lot of landscape but you seem like you would enjoy landscaping or having that thing done or done doing it yourself have you done that type of stuff or not i will say i used to do a lot you know i used to work

[49:03]outside a lot and my hands now that i've been like in an office for like 10 years are so damn soft that i can't do like one thing i think we've talked about it before and it's just it's embarrassing you can't do that other thing though so that's good yeah that doesn't hurt yeah the other thing you get really good at with soft hands actually uh listen quiet part out loud we are talking about nirvana we're talking about that callous gets you at the wrong angle right rob that that weight lifting that power lifting for you oh my gosh after a while there are there

[49:35]are no wrong angles russell uh listen you got a picture this is uh 93 yes nevermind has come out it's massive it's changed music everyone who heard the album knew it was nirvana hates nevermind they cannot stand the way it sounds they kurt cobain said well i might as well make another sellout album because i sold out on that one he wants to come out and make

[50:02]an album this next album he wants to make the album that he would listen to so he's quoted as saying we're going to go to the extremes on this album we're going to make this punk noise and we're going to make it super poppy hooks there's going to be no in between like nevermind was so they go out and they get the steve albini for the producer now this guy has produced for the pixies he's produced for the stooges and when he said to nirvana here's the studio i want to use what it's going to sound like he sends him the pj harvey album rid of me which we have done

[50:34]all right because that was also recorded by the same producer in the same studio and he wanted to see tell them what let them know what it was going to sound like where was the studio this studio that took place in is in no other than cannon falls which is about 15 minutes from where i grew up okay uh it's isolated they they wanted to get a place you know what i'm going to tell you this is so selfish what rob's like it's like 15 minutes from where i grew up it's also like 10

[51:03]minutes where where all four of us went to college right yeah like that's how we know each other is that we went there like right around there isn't it 15 minutes from where you grew up to russell it's almost certainly closer to rochester honestly that didn't even occur to me i have to be totally honest imagine that yeah so rochester center it's all he's thinking about i thought of you guys every day because i was looking at the candy bars and i was like what am

[51:30]i doing we've talked about this we've talked about this uh so in three days you're fine it's at this packaderm uh studios in cannon falls in february because steve albini said i didn't want anybody from the record company coming and everybody who was associated with nirvana was quote unquote the biggest pieces of shit i ever met he couldn't stand him so he said they're going to get in cannon falls it's the i looked up the average temperature 20 in 1993 in february 20 degrees it got all the way down to below zero so they're there they show up two days early before

[52:02]any of their instruments do so they're just hanging out and they are doing freaking prank calls all right now i'll never i'll never forget in 1993 i picked up the phone okay and i heard a voice say is your l is your elevator running that's what i said elevator why would i say elevator that doesn't even make sense where are we going is your refrigerator running and i said is this

[52:32]kirk cobain because i was very astute okay i was a very smart student at the time uh he prank called my house and i said hey don't ever do this never mind i'm not gonna make the joke i was gonna make do you know do you know who else they pranked though rob who mr pizza they pranked eddie vetter they prank called eddie vetter while they were there they did i just had to let bat know that so he was aware wow but what do you think about that i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know what were prank calls in 1993 that means someone had to actually answer the phone wherever they were like in eddie vetter's fancy house or apartment whatever he's like i'm gonna pick up

[53:02]this phone that's crazy ever making prank calls or anything when you were kids or not yeah of course but yeah like you couldn't do it because no one answers the phone you want to know what the worst prank call i ever got was what's that i don't know who it was it was probably like sis friend sister or something they did like the the call claiming they're like the hottest chick in school and that they want to talk to me i remember being like i'd i this is bullshit i fucking know this is bullshit oh no russell that was the worst

[53:30]prank call i ever got oh that's this is your therapy this is your therapy yeah now you guys ever get a bad prank call or no is there a two percent chance russell that it wasn't a prank call and you hung up on knowing the way i make decisions in life it wouldn't shock me if i was incorrect yeah i don't even know a winnie cooper topanga yeah right uh are we talking about something

[54:02]prank calls we used to do we'd start playing like vanilla ice like some radio like song that was hot at the time and we've been saying like we're kdwb and you just went like a free trip to oh my god that's good that's that's really good fucking serious well russell was a bad boy you know what were your guys prank calls i i don't want anything got that clever probably just like hang up the like breathe and then hang up that's that's

[54:30]they put you in jail for that is this eric hang it up hang it up i don't hang it up hang it up now hang it up star six nine did you just call me and breathe it into the phone i can't believe aaron you know as a guy who's been doing it now 170 some episodes of a podcast with you i can't believe you couldn't think of anything more creative than breathing

[55:02]into a phone hey let's make a prank call okay dial it okay dial it okay what are we gonna do what are we gonna do i don't know what we're gonna do i guess what i panic i breathe into the phone yeah right that's that's crazy i never prank called anybody too scary too stressful could never i really couldn't i could never do it plus you had to be anonymous nobody knew who you were no thanks don't need it okay i am going to be famous that's what my thought was when i was younger

[55:31]uh now is this is this the milkman's wife is this rob calling again that sounds like rob breathing all right hey i know that it's that fat kid down the street the most attractive girl in high school i don't want to talk to you you know what i should be doing prank calls i'm really good at it

[56:04]crazy good unlike unlike russell who's like excuse me this is the police this is the police your husband died in a car crash ah that's like russell's joke is like no we just said we just said you want to trip to like the police i don't want to talk to you i don't want to talk to you florida that's that's so bad that's crazy and then when they star six nine you got to act like you're the radio station

[56:34]like so for the next couple minutes you have to be the radio station kdwb uh-huh grandma yeah no sorry you got the wrong number you called kdwb so listen why the only one who thinks that like a fake trip to florida is just completely harmless compared to like your husband's just died in a car crash no somebody's hope rob's putting him on the same plane i'm like i'm not sure maybe i maybe i need

[57:03]to get away from my family more than i think when i'm so excited at the thought of a free vacation it would break my heart if i didn't really get it uh okay so maybe you can see why i didn't do pranks because if it doesn't go well i immediately go really really quick maybe you should make it a prank phone call right now to someone oh to can you do that on the can we do that on the do we have the do we have the beckline number we can call from well i will say this i do have i do have somebody's work number okay i happen to know somebody's work number here

[57:35]okay let me just call this one right here let's see all right how am i gonna call i don't know how to call guys it doesn't make oh you know what maybe on my phone guys imagine getting a call from one of your favorite podcasts how happy would you be pretty happy your only favorite podcast telling your favorite podcast telling you you want a free trip to florida can i tell you this russell when i was younger i was fascinated with

[58:03]calling 9-1-1 so much so that i called them accidentally twice oh no once when i was like eight and once when i was 26 and the one when i was 26 was really embarrassing because i was at my friend's coffee shop and so the police called back and he had to say no no he made a mistake and it was a pretty embarrassing time for me as an adult what else was happening at that time oh no that was it oh we were having kids i mean there was nothing all right listen

[58:35]okay no more prank calls you guys got you guys got me going crazy i was having a kid completely embarrassing hey this is a placenta colin i just fell to the floor dude that's live you've talked before about this packeter in this studio this is where they they recorded lightning crashes that's where they recorded lightning crashes that's where they recorded lightning that whole live album best live album ever right that was here too the best live albums ever wow i was just wondering which one of those guys loved me okay if it was all of them or maybe just one of

[59:03]them alone now here's the thing okay uh they're not happy they they write this album they say we give ourselves a two-week limit nirvana comes in first song in the album is one take the producer says this is great this producer that steve albini is a different kind of producer he thinks that should not have any influence on what it sounds like the musicians should tell them what to do and that they're just an engineer he also didn't believe in taking royalties he got paid 100k for

[59:31]this album straight up didn't take any royalties doesn't think producers should doesn't feel like they're part of the band that seems okay so it's kind of an interesting guy he mixes this for him they do this in like two weeks they come out and they hate the mix they send it to the record company they hate the mix they say albini we need you to remix this he goes no i'm not going to okay so they bring it to another guy who remixes it and then they bring it to a third guy who remixes the singles because the singles version that walmart and kmart are different so we have

[60:03]all these different versions of these songs floating around rolling stone comes out and says immediately this album comes out debuts number one huge huge hits this immediately this album is a ginormous hit by every imaginable thing way you can think about it rolling stone said it's the seventh best album of the 90s that's wild uh so let's get into in utero okay this one i think was about tennis okay well you

[60:30]guys didn't probably did take tennis lessons when you're younger so you don't get this joke uh serve the servants okay this was recorded uh one take and their first recording they're recording all in one room the amps are in the room albini wanted that sound so this is the poppy kind of riff yes this is the pop aspect that sounds nice listen to the next the top albums from 93 i already gave you guys something the bodyguard

[61:08]eric clapped and unplugged made it to number one depeche mode songs of faith and devotion aerosmith get a grip featuring crazy or crying one of the two on there rob it's so good or janet jackson self titled album there's a u2 zaropa i don't know that one oh yeah cypress hill black sunday cypress hill made it to number one the sleepless in seattle soundtrack makes it to number one wow billy joel

[61:37]river of dreams aaron you either love that one or hated that one i can't remember both little both little both in garden brooks in pieces bad out of hell by meatloaf pearl jam versus mad is it versus that made it to number one in 93 versus well and the last one was snoop doggie style that is an epic lineup of of albums making it to number one don't you think it's a murderer's row but you know i honestly you know one of the best songs of

[62:03]1993 was what's that happy birthday to rob 13 okay yeah next up scentless apprentice okay this is one of the few songs that all three of them get writing credit for this guitar riff was by david dave roll of course he was playing drums in the nirvana did you read the inspiration for this one no he had a book he had a book it was titled it was a

[62:31]novel called perfume here's the here's the story of the book it's about a boy without body odor who stalks and murders virgins in search of the perfect scent that's what inspired the song can you imagine being the boy with no body odor rob no i cannot choose to use that by murdering i was once on a flight i was once on a flight i was like 12 years old i'm on a flight coming back from the caribbean somewhere right my mom looks at me and goes off and is like i told you to wear

[63:04]deodorant i told you you need to wear deodorant every day we have had this discussion i'm and i'm like i pretty sure i did because i was never 100 sure i was like i'm pretty sure i did today mom you know i probably just started apologizing that's kind of my thing we turn around the the person behind me and i'm like i'm pretty sure i did today mom you know i probably just started apologizing that's kind of my thing we turn around the the person behind us has unwrapped a mcdonald's hamburger and that's what my mom was smelling and thought it was me so if you want to know what it was like to grow up with me that's just a little peek in

[63:31]so again my therapy next up art shape box do you guys remember the video for this song so scary yeah it was like creepy this and then they showed black hole sun and i can tell you if you were using mtv in the way i was using mtv huge bummer huge bummer not yeah not a good time of the afternoon i mean happy birthday to me i'm 13 next thing you know i'm down in the basement celebrating my birthday and i see that video with

[64:02]the cross and the crows oh scary doing is i i think this album would have been 10 times better if they would have cut the first song and just started it with the second song really you know like if because that seems like that's what they're going for in this album is that beginning of that play it one more time real real just the beginning of the second one this rob let's just listen to the beginning of this

[64:30]this seems like what they were trying to go for is a little more you know i think you would have just it would have hammered this what they were trying to get to a lot better but that's the thing is is that all the hits off this album are not those noise punk songs they're all the soft songs but again that's where i think you get this as a musician right like what you like isn't necessarily what plays on radios or what's popular anything right and that's where you kind of get

[65:01]pegged as a group oh what's that uh what's who's mark mcgrath what was his band sugar heavy metal band and then and then sugar ray came out with that one song and that's all i just want to fly yeah guys i i hate i hate to say this but man i kind of gave a away my christmas present to you guys the gift certificates i got when you said that they were pegged as a group oh okay because i found this place in vegas okay you'll never believe what they do is it off the strip way off the strip way okay it's like down in mexico off the strip

[65:35]rob can we take a can we take a a limo out there like we did the bunny ranch the one year yeah the classiest of ways to go out to have sex with escorts in a trailer park we're gonna have to invite zach back then he's the one that he did pretty sure was his idea too right i do want to just relay the story that when we were with zach who was a good wholesome guy i said hey let's all

[66:01]text our wife and ask them to send topless photos right yes my wife immediately sends back a topless photo okay somebody else's wife sends back a picture of a shirt zach's wife sends back the text is rob there next up uh r word me they changed it to waif me just they could put it in uh i was reading that

[66:31]they changed the name of it so they could get into walmart stores that cobain i don't think he wanted to change it but he said that's where he bought all of his records or albums growing up was at walmart so he felt like if this is what we have to do to get into walmart they'd change the name he said that he didn't they changed the title but the lyrics on the album were exactly the same right so they didn't change anything like that it was it was literally just the title of it which is crazy francis farmer i by the way like great song dave dave growl listened to him write that

[67:03]song and said this guy is such writes such beautiful melodies i don't get why he just screams all the time and it's like yeah he wouldn't that's the thing that popped up hooks on this album are so so strong and same with nevermind if you really think about it francis farmer will have a chance to be a part of the album and he's going to be a part of the album have a revenge on seattle i'm not going to tell you what the song is but i'm talking about that that that studio in cannon falls by where rob grew up i was looking at a few of the other like famous

[67:33]artists that played there there was a couple of them that we had to talk about we talked about live before selling the drama lightning crashes all those songs was that throwing copper is that the name of that one rob i believe they might be giants might have recorded something there on your album from tire damage i was reading that was a live album but i think they recorded maybe dr worm or one of the songs on tire damage was recorded there okay hey guys i mean dr worm

[68:02]is one of my favorite songs i don't know that this one was recorded there but this was one of the only originals on that album if i'm correct i'm interested in things i'm not a real doctor but i don't know how i didn't date more high school i don't get it i do know this soul asylum recorded there the grave dancers union which has a few big hits but i don't know that those two songs uh black gold or runaway train were actually recorded there they recorded a few

[68:33]studios but one that i believe was recorded there we got to pull this one up because we've got a lot of hockey coaches and people that are into hockey listening to this the gear daddies billy's live bait there was a hidden track at the end of this i want to drive a zamboni i want to drive a zamboni i believe was recorded at that studio we got to check that song out for our hockey coaches right wow russell wow are you pulling all this off the top of your head i did some reading on that studio today wow this song god did i hear this a lot you know why you heard it a lot

[69:04]three famous hockey movies can you guys guess the three famous hockey movies i'll give you the first two mighty ducks two mighty ducks three can you guys get the third fuck now russell slap shot slap let me ask you russell yes sir is there anything in the rule book for hockey because i've got a crazy idea uh is it mighty ducks one no you dumb shit this is mystery

[69:32]alaska you don't know that mystery alaska with the guy from northern exposure great hockey movie right yes that's a good one he skated down one of the other great hockey movies are there any others is it just the ducks and slap shot what else no that one about the olympics team what about that one miracle is the miracle i said that you know what uh running man one of the guys is a goalie who tries to kill arnold schwarzenegger so i count that running man what's the one where uh john claude van damme is the goalie no that's the one he's actually a fire marshal he has to go

[70:05]in as a goalie that's a hockey movie right that is a 100 where they're trying to kill i don't know if we're allowed to say that what's the uh figure skating one where he's toe pick what's that what about uh i know what you're talking about what's that figure skating that guy he was a hockey player and i believe you're talking about happy gill oh my god isn't that a hockey movie

[70:30]happy gilmore happy gilmore how about how about you guys in dumb and dumber the guy who's wearing the ym dynam 69m shirt is cam neely from the boston bruins i am counting that as a hockey movie dumb and dumber one of the greatest hockey movies of all time that would have been a great point rob if the song was still playing but it was still interesting guys dumb and dumber the guy who's wearing the ym dynam 69m hat is cam neely amazing so therefore if that guy over there is sea bass hey kick his ass sea bass don't forget

[71:03]by the way the way they get away with it is they just go like this they look over at sea bass goes like that's still one of the greatest pranks of all time all right if that's sea bass over there well if that man over there is sea bass then yes uh speaking of which gosh ironic time is a flat circle this next song is called dumb okay and it features a cello this has got to be more famous on the live one is it or no yeah yeah so how does the live you

[71:35]guys said the live one's later on the list but how does a lot of the songs from this album on that one is it sent out how many songs from this are on the live album i think four or five right quite a few i mean they only had three albums and their first one was pretty hardcore like punk and then they cover mostly this album and then they did the yellow or the the lead better song

[72:02]right lead sorry lead belly god lead belly song jesus david they covered dave bowie dumb i'm trying to read uh all apologies obviously penny royalty box had to be on there right it's just three of them it's just really no it's just three of them um i the the poppy hooky songs on this album are so good and i'm sitting here listening at work and

[72:30]i'm like god this song is so good the song is so good and then it'll be something like where it's the soft verse and the loud hooks like they always do it's so jarring though the difference in this album but i can see 1993 me just getting done celebrating my birthday getting this album listening to it and thinking it rocks although i had a friend who listened to this album all the time and i didn't think it rocks so i don't know uh next up just like me when i'm at the bar okay and i want to

[73:06]stick my dick through a hole and get milk it oh oh wow just making sure everybody's still listening edit that out but again it's like the quiet loud quiet yeah i think of the replacements a lot when i think of the just the arc of this album like this kind of same thing where it's their their they want to be

[73:30]a hardcore band but they're just too good at writing pop songs but their pop songs aren't going to be on the radio it you know you have like you can't hear this without thinking about where would they have gone if he had been alive but you know i think it's a good thing that they're not going to be on the radio no we need a call in from bryce we haven't heard from bryce is he alive are we sure he's alive he's alive i was in touch with him today yeah we should see what he's doing we need to hear in utero yeah so next up we have penny royalty the third single off this album

[74:01]but i wanted to i wanted to play this for you because listen to this closely and then i wanted to play for you the single that was remixed by a different guy listen to this there's like some phaser on his voice now his voice is so much further forward yeah and that was the thing they said that the voice and the bass was way too far back in the mix but the single versions that went out sounded like this

[74:33]doesn't this sound like a the beginning of that sound like a uh courtney love it song i think you're right i think it really does i think you're right they must have been writing songs together right uh speaking of tea do you guys are you guys big tea drinkers we drinking tea i'm starting coffee's messing up my guts i think so i gotta start drinking yeah i like tea at the

[75:00]end of the day i got a very nice tea kettle from well i was actually gonna issue an apology this week because anna got me a very nice tea kettle for my birthday a year ago and i've been hollering about how it hasn't been working right and it turns out you got to decalcify the thing once i decalcified it perfect right back right back accurate at the end of the night imagine like a little ashwagandha imagine you marry a man russell and later he comes to you and goes i can't figure out how to use my tea kettle wouldn't you just be like it wasn't that i couldn't figure it

[75:30]out it wasn't i felt like it wasn't calibrating correctly like when i did you supposed to go up to 194 it was getting like 175 did you and yes i checked with the thermometer you just assume you knew how to use it or rely on your wife to know how to use it was their instruction book because i have a story and i'm curious how it went for you well when i when i thought it wasn't it's been working fine it was set up it was working fine and then it stopped working as well and i thought something was wrong with it and then i realized i should probably consult the manual which we have

[76:00]and i read the manual and said decalcify your tea kettle and then i did it and that's what happened so i you guys know i've been on my espresso martini kick in recent weeks and i was um i just assumed the the coffee drinker in our house was going to be a coffee drinker knows how to use the machine because i don't ever drink coffee i don't ever drink espresso i just assume it's working the right way or whatever so russell in my experience yeah the person who drinks the coffee is not the person who's doing the maintenance on the machines okay i'm just gonna put that say that right now so i i noticed that i i've i've read a lot about

[76:34]how to shake espresso martinis and now how to make espresso and when you're drawing it the machine has to like amp up into the like the espresso zone or whatever and it's got a force the coffee grinds through the water through the grinds like that's what creates it right yeah and so i realized when i was watching it one time it turns out there it was never like that the energy was never going up on on the machine it was never getting up into like the

[77:01]espresso zone so it was just like dripping through i think and so we had to change the level of the grind we had to change the like the levels we had to change we had the wrong scoop we had a double scoop in when we were doing single scoops are you serious well i mean that's honestly russell that's outrageous i think the first few months of espresso martinis that i had were all with i don't know just coffee that was poured through grinds but not espresso those so you're telling me

[77:32]that when i was making all those espresso martini jokes i was really making coffee martini jokes yes we had to re-record those episodes oh my god i gotta go back and edit them we fixed it that's right we fixed it that's crazy well good good to hear that you're right and she was wrong russell radio friendly unit shifter i mean guys this is a little joke right tough to listen to right when i get to this

[78:00]it's hard for me to want to run this one back not saying it's not good or it doesn't have a amazing place or it isn't very influential but it's hard for me to run this album back it's the extremes a tourette's they're doing it on purpose yeah this the booklet had no lyrics for this one it's all kind of whatever you think he's saying is probably correct i gotta say though it does whip yeah i mean when they wanted to play fast they could play fast but i can't listen to it next up no thank you we have all apologies to end the album

[78:36]this is a second single is nominated for two grammys oh yeah what was this what was where were they said like disco flam like you have seen the the interview with dave growl when he talks about stealing his his drum sound from disco like that's what you hear right there i was reading rob it was nominated for best rock song and then best rock performance by a duo or group with the vocals

[79:02]you guys know the other songs that were nominated for this this is maybe the best category i've ever seen for a grammy what what was it it's crazy by aerosmith wins it oh yes round here by the county and crows oh daughter by pearl jam and then basket case by green day that is an epic lineup of grammy nominated songs best rock performance by a duo or group with a vocal isn't it basket case by green day jeez i mean that's like that's like wow the the one that won might be the worst

[79:34]one yeah i think you're right i think if you went back and did it now i don't i think it finishes if you said explain the 90s to me in like five songs i think that would be it right there and it turns out it's all from 93 that's what exactly that was thinking that's wild now listen guys i hate to do this to you okay at the very end here but unfortunately i have made a list on the last song of the album okay all the way so that's my bad realizing this is not good okay especially with my list because they kind of get out of control

[80:02]as far as we know what your list is about i'm not concerned this time my list is about this is very simple all apologies right we all know we all know the song is off in utero but we don't know this version we know the better version which of course is off the unplugged acoustic album so this list is all songs where the acoustic version is better oh okay oh okay better what a list what a list

[80:34]oh this is such a good album okay now first one okay off of it we have covered this guy we talked about this album we have covered this guy we talked about this album we have covered this guy the fact that this album is not on the list absolutely outrageous we are talking eric clapton layla this was the white came out yes yeah that's right came out the same year this is such a better

[81:05]version i remember listening to this all the time growing up middle school and then hearing the original derrick and the dominoes and be like not my favorite it is i i always thought it was amazing that people like when he says you can spot this one and so many people get it right away it's crazy i i wouldn't i you know it's so slowed down i wouldn't have got it man this is so good all right this is all i knew eric clapton as as a kid i never knew him like as a hard

[81:33]the guy from cream or all the other bands he played for this is all i knew was russell's like i like the unplugged and the yard birds that's it nothing in between uh all right next up all right we have a band that we've already covered and a song that we've already covered on this list we have talked about we actually did this album earlier as well this is prince doing an all acoustic set and this is i could never take the place your man listen to this

[82:03]oh great song i mean guys she couldn't stop crying so so good love it okay now next up we would be remiss if not to mention honestly probably one of the scariest

[82:30]videos of all time okay you got distracted by how scary the video was but the acoustic version of black hole sun listen to this i'll fast forward a little bit son won't you come i'm just convinced that most things chris cornell did in acoustic when his voice is essentially the the second instrument is just you know patience all these things that he does you've always said it man sun shower yeah this one also this is another amazing grammy so this was a song we're

[83:06]listening to from uh what is it all apologies also nominated for best rock song in 93 it was also nominated along with black hole sun right here yeah two songs from melissa etheridge i'm the only one and come to my window and then it lost to i don't even know how this is really a rock song but i guess it is streets of philadelphia by bruce springsteen yeah oh yeah that had the movie that

[83:32]had philadelphia philadelphia yeah but it's not really a rock song isn't it it's kind of like a soft i don't know soft i guess it's springsteen so they called it rock and finally oh my god oh finally one of the greatest acoustic versions of a song ever because honestly a lot of people are telling me okay that they hate the normal version of this song now there's more they don't know why they hate it so much okay but they i think they like it now all the people actually hate this song and they've heard it too much and they like the acoustic version better it's maps by

[84:03]the yay yes amazing they don't love you like i love you you guys look at if you look at the yard barker website that rob was looking at this one is below the nirvana song and the chris cornell song it's above or north of some of the other songs we were talking about no that's not we're not doing maps of a website that's sick okay oh so good so anyway guys that was my list of i didn't get it

[84:31]right away that's good top two list of i would say so as well oh fantastic list by russell that was having sex with franz list the famous composer top two yeah doesn't really make top just like in top well later as a bottom two list a little switcheroo that reminds me of something i have planned for vegas by the way uh all right so let's get into everyone's favorite part of the show another list no i'm just kidding it's the rating system now okay

[85:04]everybody's favorite part the rating system is very simple and very popular a lot of people actually do like it is this album at 173 okay at the perfect place guys so this is a defining album of the 90s this is like mature nirvana this is going past their huge hit of nevermind and doing more what they

[85:31]want with the cachet that they had so does this deserve to be higher on the list that means it's a rolling bone if it should be higher than 173 which of course is a lower number or should this be lower on the list which of course would be a higher number and that means that it is a rolling grown or is this a rolling well-toned okay and it deserves to be right there by where rob grew up in cannon falls at 173 in utero nirvana matt what do you think rolling well-toned rolling bone or

[86:01]rolling grown oh i just struggle because this is my wheelhouse right the 1993 94 95 kind of stuff i mean verses came out this this year basket we just thought you just talked about us it kind of stole a little bit of what i was going to talk about um you know siamese dream there's just so many other albums that came out at this time that i think are better than this album now having listened to it this week obviously there's three or four just absolute great songs but are they great songs because

[86:34]this album are they great songs because of listening to them um you know the acoustic version mtv and plugged it's hard to know that's a great point i think you know i think that um all in all like heart shape but again that video that scared me too and i didn't like it because of the video you know i don't know um so i all in all i think it fits in well here i just i struggle with the fact that versus isn't even on the list and you know this is one whatever it is one what do

[87:04]we have 171 72 73 whatever whatever number it is 73 um you know 173 and so i don't know i'm just gonna i'm gonna punt a little bit and say it's it's good here rolling well toned but i man there's just so many other good albums around here for me that i think are better than this that aren't even russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling boned or rolling and grown i'd echo a lot of what matt said to me there's a handful of hits the heart-shaped box and all apologies those are fantastic songs some of

[87:33]this is just too i think i'm too old it's too loud it's too like aggressive in your face it's just not the vibe i want to get from music at this point in my life so it's hard for me i don't want to i don't want to turn this and run it back and that's what i've been coming back to over and over again i'm kind of with matt i think there's a lot of other bands in like the mid 90s that were in our wheelhouse that i wouldn't mind seeing one of their first albums before i've heard uh the second nirvana one so man i don't think i i don't know if i can give it a rolling groan because i know

[88:01]they're so influential and so important for for the genre but for me personally i'm gonna say it's um a different band from the grunge era for the first time instead of another nirvana album uh aaron what do you think rolling well-toned rolling boned or rolling grown yeah i think i i think i fall right in line with these two guys and i will i will also give it uh the rolling groan that matt was uh too kind not to give um i think that's on here because they're nirvana

[88:32]because it's kurt cobain and because they are so important but i think some it would be it mayn't even wanted anyone to listen to some of these songs or if this was just him getting stuff out that he believed in or what he wanted to play but um yeah for me i think there's better stuff coming up so rolling groan all right listen unfortunately you guys are incorrect this of course shit this of course gets a rolling cannon balls right by where i grew up where you grew up

[89:03]by there right down by where i'm okay now i did have to look it up uh the the strip club jakes was in coats that was not in cannon falls i was mistaken how many miles what's closer rochester to cannon falls or apple valley oh uh no cannon falls is closer to apple valley no that's apple valley is i think i think let's i think apple valley is way closer to what to coats apple valley yeah no to cannon falls what are we talking about who grew up closer to this studio oh who grew up closer i did

[89:39]guys it's right by where i grew up you're just way wrong i think on this one are we talking about coats or cannon falls okay because the strip club was in coats that was close to the cities that was a long drive from rochester nobody you just you're the only one who's brought up well i just want to keep talking about it okay russell yeah it's not even close 20 closest one is 26.5 miles rochester

[90:03]is 43 miles it's not even close yeah it's a straight shot on highway 52 so you can drive fast i was talking about time time wise you'd get there way fast to college 15 miles a 20 minute drive the place where we met each other but that's a it's you gotta drive so slow down those roads they can be really ice 44 minutes 44 i'm talking 26.5 miles and 31 31 minutes to apple valley and it's 44 minutes and 44 miles from you guys don't get it i was talking about it's 40 it's 42 minutes from

[90:34]richfield bat grew up closer than you i grew up closer i grew up closer i was talking about 1993 february he would get there the fastest okay i'm driving all these good albums are coming out that year i'm still listening to they might be giants forever to miss music in the 90s that's the way it is now russell i looked up on so i grew up closer than right okay well listen yeah you guys are now closer to cannonball so go you know what go eat your

[91:01]fucking heart out i looked at trip advisor and it says one of the number one thing to do in camp used to be closer to cannon falls we are closer to cannon falls and we will be closer we covered it we covered it russell we've got it hey rob that um that tape by you that you grew up closer to it than us is rolling misinformation oh i don't think i also don't think the studio was in cannon falls proper i think it's south which would put it closer to rochester and i live on the northern

[91:30]part of town of rochester so i'd be pretty close so it's so it's if you're going to the city center of rochester forget it you're going to the city center of rochester forget it you're going to the city center of rochester forget about it that's adding at least 30 miles now here's the thing okay 30 miles next up all right this this is a the album do you guys hear that do you guys hear that it's a little just a little little salt on the back of rob's throat there i can hear it back there you guys know that when nirvana was like hey guys let's go get some food

[92:01]they were coming down to fazoli's in rochester okay they're not going after that a and w or whatever that is up in rosemont like forget about it this is you know where they're going rochester's the hub i think they were going to old chicago on 42 and uh not eating in old chicago no way although they did house of coats shamrocks downtown downtown rosemont maybe kelts one of them's gone russell i think i think kelts a little

[92:30]suspicious because one of the songs on the albums is just called juicy lucy so that does make me think that they were up in minneapolis not down in rochester where of course we had the famous big mac all right so let's do this all right let's do this part of the show that's going to be short and here we go next up we have a reggae album and it really is i mean if originally that you know what the title originally was i have to think about baseball and then jimmy cliff said

[93:05]change it to the harder they come you're not a count numbers guy rob i think about trash two derrick cheater three babe ruth four joe dimaggio five hearing that type of thing if you don't do that rob oh six tony oliva seven great gang hey you're gary guy nine gene larkin 10 tom kelly 11 chuck now i think about famous

[93:31]who have passed away in a plane crash uh roberto clemente oh jim croce payne stewart when i when i when i can't keep thinking of the numbers that's when it unfortunately i have a french dream this is the hardest part of the show when i don't remember a single thing we talked about except how cannon falls is not closer to rochester furious

[94:02]ding the worst is that it's rich philips was closer you would have never got so good in my head rochester is like right next to cannonballs but i realized i might be thinking about pine island