Revolver and Dr. Feet (1966)

[00:01]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. 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 and we promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. This is Revolver. And our friends are all aboard with many more of them right next door. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time, but you're just too lazy to look it up online. If you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track, I've got the perfect podcast for you. Jack, Beck did it better. What is up, everybody?

[01:00]This is Beck did it better. The podcast about the Rolling Stone. By the way, saying Rolling Stone and not Rolling Stones when you're talking about the magazine is almost impossible. The Rolling Stone, you'll hear me really think about it. The Rolling Stone top greatest 500 albums of all time. We're all the way up to trace number three. One thing we've learned is that Rob has a real struggle with plurals versus singular. This is a, there must be a name for this condition, Rob. Uh, yes, it's called not being very smart. It's a problem I have, but it's not fair that they named the magazine Rolling Stone and the band Rolling Stones. I like the, imagine the same people named them both. Yeah. Well, you know, the Rolling Stone namers out there. And then I've, I'm in a band called the Rolling Stone and that it's, it just confuses me. Have you guys run into any issue where you explain to your friends what you're doing? And the quest you're on with listening to all these albums and had anyone say, I didn't know the Rolling Stones had 500 albums?

[02:04]Yeah. Because that has happened to me. Yeah. They're like, oh, wow. You really love the Rolling Stones. You use all the bootlegs and the live recordings. Yeah. Yeah. But then I try to explain that it's, it's Rolling Stone magazine, but I don't even know if magazines even exist anymore. So what are you supposed to say? The Rolling Stone website page? What do you do? Russ, I would never talk to somebody I respect about this podcast. This is going to be, nobody's going to listen to it because all of us don't want to promote it at all. We like doing it. We don't actually like having other people listen to it. Keep it quiet. Shove it down. Just keep that in there. Just put a lid on it. Good God, Russell. You're not talking about this on dates, are you? I may or may not have mentioned it tonight and got a strange look like I had, they had no idea what I was talking about. It was, it was pretty appalling. That's why I record on Friday nights. Russell's out telling his dates that he's doing a podcast. Cross them off the list. I did purchase this. Special edition Rolling Stone magazine about Prince recently.

[03:00]They're still out there. I bought it from my grocery store in Houston. I can't be the only one who still knows it's a magazine. Yeah. They still sell porno magazines on those, uh, in those newspaper things down on the subway. They do. I'm always tempted to buy one. Oh yeah. I'm always tempted to buy one and just be like, okay, I guess I'm looking at porn on the subway. I don't know. Like they sell them down there. So it must be fair game, right? Like you gotta be able to look at them. You got American dollars. They got porn for you. But I don't want to be judged on the type of magazine. I mean, if you think about like every time you click on a category, on a website, like if that was a magazine you had to give somebody money for, and they gave it to you, people would be judging you like crazy. You guys don't act like you don't know about categories on websites. You fuckers. You put me down. I think people will be more embarrassed when they are seen actually downloading this podcast. Yes. People are getting it off the dark web. Our numbers are going to be terrible because they're getting it off the dark web. Matt would much rather have people know the freaky things he's looking at on you porn than the fact that he's actually recording.

[04:01]Downloading this podcast. That's true. That's true. No, I need a new bike. And Rosie is my guy. He's my bike guy. And, you know, so before we hit record, um, you know, we're talking bikes and now I'm just, I'm, I'm all over the place. So I gotta get, I gotta get refocused. I need to find a new bike though. We're bringing back. We will not talk about bikes on this podcast or we might. Yeah. I don't know. We've got the chain of lakes around here, which is great to ride around, but then you see people that are just flying by you and then you're flying. I mean, I just, I don't know. I have no idea. It's like, Oh, it's like I'm going with a, a catcher's mitt to go play goalie and hockey. I have no idea what's going on. So I think I'm just trying to figure it out. I just don't want to be, I just don't want to be embarrassed out there when I've got my tight pants on. You got to get your Laker on. Yeah. I mean, I think a catcher's mitt would be the best option for hockey, right? Sure. Yeah, sure. So, all right. Well, the song says we got off track or we followed the theme song and we got off track.

[05:00]We did it. Right. Listen, we're, we're going, we're going, actually we're, we're following forward. We're going to four months forward in time from pet sounds, an episode, which we did and definitely finished, uh, onto the 1966 album revolver, uh, by the, by the, uh, I almost said beach boys again, but it is the Beatles. So, but before we get into that, let's go rolling, going, how's it going? Everybody, Matt, we heard a little bit about your bike, uh, saga. What else? How's it rolling? Going great title. Whoever came up with that title. I think they did a great job. Just the rolls off the tongue as always. I mean, it's catchy. It's a new thing. That, that was the only thing my date enjoyed tonight, Rob. When I told her about every single segment of the podcast, she really enjoyed rolling going. She thought that was very clever, a very clever way to introduce how people are doing. All right. Well, I have just sent an email to my lawyer. I did just divorce my wife. I'm ready to date online. If that's what women are into, I am set. That was quick. Yeah, I did. She did listen to the last episode. We were talking a lot about wife swaps more than I remember talking about at the time.

[06:00]She was like, oh, I'm ready to date. Oh, I like that episode. So guys, things might be getting freaky over at the Rob household. Yeah. That's a take my wife, please. Joke. Yeah. So Matt, you were saying something about wife swaps. What were you talking about? Yeah. No, yeah, no, no. Rolling gone. Hashtag rolling gone. It's a, it's going well. Having a great time going through this list. It's, it's crazy. I think to kind of, you know, I'm, I'm up on the list a little bit and it's crazy to kind of get. Towards the, you know, the hundreds, two hundreds and, you know, we're jumping way ahead, but I think it's, it's what to look forward to on this. You know, it's not just everything, you know, it's finding new, new albums in there and stuff. So that's what I, that's, what's rolling going for me right now is finding new albums up on the list. Matt, if you were going to recommend an album, maybe 150 in or something like that, what's an album that's jumped out to you that you would recommend that our listeners need to check out that you were new to? Arcade fire had an album that came out in the mid two thousands. It wasn't on the original.

[07:00]And then when they had the update in 2012, it was like one, I don't know what it was. One 51, maybe something like that. And it's just phenomenal Canadian band. So arcade fire, check them out. Good choice, man. Check them out. Aaron rolling, rolling, going, uh, I'm rolling, going, okay. I have, so I have a positive rolling going, which is that I learned a new trick for slicing cherry tomatoes on YouTube. And so I was able to do that. I put some cherry tomatoes in my day. And your YouTube history is fucking wild, dude. Yeah. It just is. Did you use a, use a knife or what was the kettlebell? I wish this like every time he jumped up from his burpees, he sliced it with the Ginsu or what's the trick? It's from Kenji. Uh, you, you put, uh, your cherry tomatoes in the, in a plastic lid. Uh, so you take a plastic lid and you turn it so that like the lip is up kind of so that they hold the cherry tomatoes and then you put another plastic lid on top and then you

[08:01]slide your knife in. Between the two plastic lids and it slices the tomato. It's very cool. I would have just, I would have just eaten the tomatoes once I opened the lid. They wouldn't have made it to this whole slicing deal. Is cutting a cherry tomato hard? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Is it something that needed YouTube? This saved me in 25 to 30 seconds for sure. Because I would have cut each of them individually. This way I cut like 12 to 15 cherry tomatoes at once. Oh, you put all of them between the lids and cut them. Yeah. Well, you're terrible. Don't start a YouTube channel yourself. I didn't understand that at all. I thought you were doing them one at a time. With all that extra time, I got to do another listen of, uh, she said, she said, and I have a lot of brilliant things to say about it. I'll tell you the first side of this album is 18 minutes long. You can, you can save actually quite a bit of time by just listening to the Beatles. I think just listen. Yeah, I do. I don't want to step on Russell's territory, but I have a, I have, I do need a bit of advice myself. You want to sit in the corner?

[09:00]Maybe. I mean, I don't want to get into Russell's corner. I don't know how I'm, I don't know. I don't know if I belong there. You're welcome. You're always welcome. I apologize. I was not trying to jump on Russell's bit or his, no, the, the, the corner, the water is fine in the corner sometimes there, and sometimes it gets a little bit hot over here. You should come join me. I think that happened to me that I need some advice on is that I had to deal with people's feelings at work today. Quit. Quit your job. If, if we're talking about feelings on this podcast, I am, I've got better things to do. Hey, he's in the corner guys. He's in the corner. He's in the corner. So we need to yell advice at him. I'm not trying to get into the particulars because obviously when we hit it big, whoever this person is, is going to listen to this podcast, but it's not important what I do for a job, but I mostly work with data and so I'm just not really interested in dealing

[10:02]with people's feelings at work. Also, my job is just something I do. So that's what I do. So like, um, you know, sit here and hang out with you guys can afford, you can afford you, you porn premium. Right. But, uh, I mean, what's your approach when, when like someone unexpectedly has emotions about a thing at, at your job, how much, how much time and effort do you give that versus just saying like, well, this is my job, but to move on to something else. I think it's a two step process. The first is you listen, you'd be there and you listen to what they have to say and you're empathetic. And then you weigh over it. You overshare about things in your life so they will never, ever talk to you again. It's an easy two step process. You're nice, empathetic. You're there for them as a friend. And then you give them every deep, dark secret you've ever had in your life and you will never deal with it. I got it. It's, it's, it's two, it's two steps for me, just like Russell. Is it something that you could control or is it something you can't control?

[11:02]Is it that your husband is not watching the kids as much as you want? Or your wife, you know? Or is it that you've got cancer, you know, like something you can control versus something you can't control and if it's something you control, well then buck up and I'll listen to you and we'll move on. But if it's, you know, something that you can't control, yeah, I mean, cripes, you hang out with these people for eight, 10 hours a day, five days a week. I mean, sometimes you gotta, you gotta just, uh, be an ear to, to listen to. So. Well, if you've got cancer and you work with Matt, don't go to him. He is not. Well, I think that's excellent advice. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys. I'm glad to hear about it. Russell gave some good advice. I didn't hear, I didn't listen to the first part, but the second part was really good. So I think that was, get out of the corner. That was Russell's advice corner. Oh shit. I don't know something about, I wasn't paying attention or something. No, that's, that is, that's bad.

[12:00]I mean, I think it depends how close you work with this person, right? Like I have somebody I work with every day. We teach the same classes. Yeah. And they went through kind of a traumatic life thing and I had to, I shouldn't say had to, I stood up and I gave him a hug even though I was like, okay, here we go, 50% chance to get fired. But I, you know, what can you do? But if it's somebody who like, you don't have to directly interact with, ah, man, once they single you out as somebody they can complain to, they're going to do that every day. Aaron. So I, maybe I, just like I messed up my description of my cherry tomato cutting technique. I don't think I was clear enough. These were feelings about a thing that happened at work. These were a, this was a work related thing where a person had feelings about the thing that happened at work, which I just personally can't get my head around. Like And you're not there. You're not their boss, right? Right. I'm not. No. Yeah. I would never talk to a coworker about something that happened at work. I would absolutely say, Hey, I do not want to talk about that report that we have to work on together. And I don't care if you're sad about it, you know, go back to your, go back to your cube.

[13:01]I mean, I would never talk to a coworker about work things. Never. No. Okay. So, uh, Russ rolling, going, how's it going? I've kind of had a rough day today. I got woken up a little bit early and so I woke up about 7 00 AM to this horrendous sound and it sounded like a lawnmower or snowblower. It turns out it was a chainsaw at 7 00 AM. Those city workers start, they got to get going. A neighbor of mine was having a tree cut down in their front yard and the guys were taking the tree down. We're literally out there revving up chainsaws at seven in the morning. You could have probably heard that. You could have probably heard this from five blocks away. It's the legal time. It starts. Oh, it's garbage. And, and I'm, I'm super interested to hear what you guys think about this because I've had this type of thing happen in recent years where the neighbor's blowing snow at 4 AM or they're, they're mowing their lawn at 7 30 in the morning. And now I get, I get, you need to use a snowblower super early to get your car in and out.

[14:00]I feel like that's an acceptable thing, but a lawnmower, a chainsaw, that's a bunch of bullshit. Yes. I agree. And so I'm curious what, first of all, what do you guys think is the acceptable time to start yard work that is going to wake up neighbors? And second of all, how should I have handled this situation? Oh, this is, I, the correct answer is, is later an hour later is always better. So nine to 10, whatever. It should be later. I think nine is the earliest, the way you handle this situation. If you're me is you do absolutely nothing. You send a text to some friends complaining about it. I had a coworker at work that I had, I went to and tried to complain to, and they told me to shut the hell up. They didn't want to talk to me about it. So that was bad. Was it a private company or was it the city or who was cutting the tree? I don't know, Matt. I didn't go out and get their credentials or ask if they were bonded or anything like

[15:01]that. I was, I was busy fuming in my own house. Okay. Russ, you be you. I'll be the neighbor. I'll be the neighbor. The neighbor's hired a company to do it. Go ahead. Hey guys, turn it down, please turn it down. I'm trying to listen to this amazing podcast. We're cutting down a tree. Excuse me. It's a little early to be cutting down this, this tree paper comes at six 39. I'm a millennial. I'm a millennial. And it is too early to be cutting down this tree. Could you, could you delay the tree cutting down in the millennial card? You've got women coming in and out of your driveway all night long and it keeps us up. Yeah. From your bumble. We're sick of it. We're cutting down this tree. That's the way it is. I mean, what are they going to say? Oh, okay. Sorry. We'll put the chainsaw away, please. Although you would be a neighborhood hero. You know, if everybody saw you out there, but. There's only so many trees in the neighborhood, so it can only happen so many times. No, but it's not just the trees, Matt. It's not just the trees. You shouldn't be mowing your lawn at 7 30 in the morning and I have neighbors who do

[16:01]that. That's terrible. And so I figured there's kind of three ways to go about this. I'm curious. Rob kind of mentioned one of them. So the first one. Are you looking for advice? Are you looking for some advice? I would love advice. I love advice from you guys. I love going to the corner. Aaron was in there earlier. I was just about to get to the corner. It's time for Russell's Advice Corner. Oh, yeah. This is the part where Russell asks us questions and then we actually don't give him any advice. He just does whatever he wants and he tells us the best advice. I don't give a rip about Aaron's co-workers feelings, but damn it. The listeners of this podcast care about my feelings right now. They want to hear about how Russell feels. Aaron didn't want to tell you, but he does work at a tree cutting place. So this is part of the problem. This is where the story really gets thick. Yeah. So I figured there's kind of three ways you can handle this, right? The first is, and I'll go through all three of them and see what you guys think. The first is you go out there and politely ask them if they could wait a little bit,

[17:02]but they're out there. They're ready to work. They're not going to wait for that. Right? And plus, what are you going to do? Go back in and sleep? Yeah. You're already awake. Yeah. If I go out there with my neighbors, I'd be like, oh, can't do anything. The second option is you go out there and just throw a legit tantrum. You say, what the hell, this is way too early for this. You show your displeasure and then you go back inside. Yep. You Karen it up. I like that. Yep. The third, and I think the most Minnesotan way to handle it is just go completely passive aggressive and to ignore it, but get your revenge later. So you go out and you mow the lawn at like six in the morning the next day. Or you go and you make it way worse than whatever they did. You crank up, Beck did it better podcast than the biggest speakers you got in the neighborhood at like 5 AM. So I think my way to handle it is ignore it and then just get revenge down the road. Molotov cocktail is also an option.

[18:00]I think it's a combination of the Beatles and Will Ferrell in that basketball movie. All you need is love and everybody love everybody. Just let it roll off your back and go. Man. It's life's too short to get angry about all this stuff. Wow. Did we just double up on Russell's vice and Matt is very smart. We just have a double. Wow. No. That was mad. Smart comment of the week. Ooh, that's some smart shit. Oh, yeah. They sound very similar when I play them very close to each other, but like, honestly, honestly, you, you, you get up a couple of times early, whatever, right? If you're trying to tit for tat back and forth. You're just going to be even more mad and it's just going to keep snowballing, snowballing until you're just into a whole rage and then you're mad at your neighbor and then you can't even like, you can't even like go down the road and say hi anymore because you're flipping each other off, but you got to live next to each other for however long you're going to live there. So this sounds like a man who's been listening to love me too.

[19:01]And within you, without you on Pete, like I like the taking your, your inspiration from life goes on within you. And I like this. Yeah. Russell. I'm more. I think you're getting screwed over. You need to call at the very least call the police, but I will say get on like next door, get on Facebook, get on your neighborhood Facebook page and just be like, Hey, does anybody know who is making all that noise? For the record, Russell, I know the city you live in and I used to work for that city and 7am is the, uh, it is the time that, that that's, it's a, the noise violation goes away. So no wonder Matt's telling me, he was one of the, he was one of the assholes that I had to admit it. I had to admit it. I had to come clean and tell you. Yep. Been there many times. I kind of wish I would have. I kind of wish I would have listened to Matt's advice earlier this morning because I went out and poisoned the rest of the trees just as my way of getting back at them. And now I feel really bad about it. And I know the last time someone admitted to poisoning trees on the radio, they got

[20:02]in a lot of trouble for it. So maybe we can edit this out. No, I can't. I'm much too busy. I like the idea of Russell going around with a big bucket on it that says tree poison. His neighbor looks out like, what are you doing? Yeah. Got a big skull and crossbone. What's that? Just washing my windows. Just enjoying this Beatles soundtrack here. We've talked about this a little bit with the Beatles. What's, what's your experience specifically with this, with this album? Ross, what's your experience with this, with Revolver, the album? I would say my experience is similar to Sergeant Pepper's, which we talked about a week or so ago. I, again, I know the Beatles hits, but I've never really listened to this album. The one thing I did differently leading up to this before we talked about this album was I listened to all the Beatles albums in a row just to kind of give myself a feel for how they progress and how their music was a little bit different when they first burst onto the scene as opposed to this point and then how they took it further.

[21:00]So I don't really have any meaningful history with this album. I did watch a cool documentary. I forgot the name of it offhand, but it was essentially about the songwriting partnership between Paul and John. And how, how that kind of progressed over time and how eventually John kind of, essentially, it sounds like kind of gave up and Paul kind of took the reins of the band. But I don't really have any meaningful history with this album. I think you can hear the point on, like there's a point on Sergeant Pepper where you can hear John give up, I think, but that's, we shouldn't, maybe we shouldn't talk about Sergeant Pepper. Oh, we'll, we'll talk, we'll edit it in. Matt, what do you think? What's your history with Revolver? I know you're a big Beatles guy. You know, honestly, I never listened to it and I think it's strictly due to the, the cover art. If you look at... Holy shit. Me too, man. The cover art is... Whoa! Do we just be best friends? You totally stole my line. Yes. You totally stole my line. The cover art is whack. If you look at the four, I was like, who are these four guys on the cover? It's like, oh, this is terrible. Yeah. So you look... And you wonder if they were like, this cover sucks. We got to get a better one for Sergeant Pepper. I mean, so if you go look at all of the other ones, you know, and I think the first album

[22:02]I listened to was the White Album, I found it, you know, you look at, at Sergeant Pepper, which is just killing you with color and different people, and I know there's people on this one. You know, the art drawings of the four guys, and it's just like, ugh, what is this thing? I'm not... I just... I think I was totally drawn off by the cover art, and so I never gave it a chance. It was like the last album I ever listened to. And so, I mean, even to this day, it's kind of like, meh, and I think it all comes down to the cover art for me, which strangely... I believe the cover art won a Grammy for the best cover. Did it really? Yes. God damn, Russell. So smart. And we may or may not be discussing this later on. Yeah. Once we get through this album. Wow. Amazing. That makes me think we are going to be discussing it. It seems like foreshadowing. Aaron, what's your history with Revolver? Yeah, similar to Matt, I went through, as I've said before, I had a big Beatles phase in my teens, but the albums that I played a lot and that I owned and that I bought on CD were Rubber Soul, the White Album, Sergeant Pepper, and Magical Mystery Tour.

[23:06]And at the time, I thought it was because I was really concerned with being different, weird. But I got really into Magical Mystery Tour, Blue Jay Way and some of those tunes on there, which I don't listen to anymore. And Revolver never hit for me. I just never got into it. I don't think I listened to it start to finish until this quest. Do you think, Aaron, it has to do with this guitar sound where they really have cranked up the treble on this? Yeah. I hate it. Because you've mentioned before you don't like that grating guitar. I don't. But they've basically taken away all the bass out of the guitars and made them into these real jangly, jangly guitars. You're totally right, man. I hate it. Damn, I'm smart. Yeah. It's super smart, Rob. You're right on. Make it drop. The songs that I love on this album are For No One. I've always loved For No One and I'm Only Sleeping I really like, although that has some jangle to it, too. So those I really know well, but I never got into the album. And so I thought it was because I was trying to be like a smart, artsy kid. And then, like Matt, I realized I think I just couldn't get into the cover art to get the

[24:03]album chance. That makes me realize how attractive you were in high school, Aaron. The fact that you were trying intentionally to be weird. All I wanted to do is sing. Yeah. I wanted to fit in and sit at the popular kid table for lunch. It's all I wanted. But Aaron is so good looking. He's like, man, I'm weird now. I'm weird. I don't listen to Revolver. I'm a weird kid. I will say this. This is another one for me. There's so many better ways to be weird than to not listen to Revolver. I made some poor choices at the time. Rob, let's hear about your experience. This is a Beatles album I've never really heard before. I mean, I know some of the songs off of it, obviously. Like Tax Man, Eleanor Rigby, of course, I know. But it's kind of weird to hear this all put in an album where every song sounds kind of like Tax Man. And Eleanor Rigby is really kind of the odd one out in this whole album. But I have to say, I did enjoy listening to this album. I probably, I don't want to spoil things, but I did enjoy it more than listening to

[25:02]Pet Sounds. And I even had a member of my family say, oh, thank God you're done with Beach Boys. But the problem was that some of those songs were stuck in their head. Whereas I don't think, are these songs that get stuck in your head? I mean, I, I, it's just, they, they seem, they seem a little on the harsh side to me. Yeah, they're very harsh. The sound is harsh. There's some ugly sounds on this album. And I think they might've been going for that, but yeah, there's some ugly sound as well. One of the best ways to look at these albums, we've talked about the Grammys in the past. I want to talk today about the best selling albums of each year. Okay. Leading up to it. In 1960, the best sounding album was The Sound of Music. 1961, it was Camelot. 1962, 64. It was the West Side Story soundtrack. Two years running. Two years in a row. 64. It's Hello Dolly. So it's another show. 65. It's a soundtrack actually from Mary Poppins. So we start to get actual, a movie soundtrack. Rob, I'm actually a big fan of 1966 music and I know the answer to 1966.

[26:01]You can they mind if I take a chance at this one? Lay it on me, Russ. I believe it was Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass with Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Correct? It is correct. I don't want to pick on you, but it is Herb Alpert. It's not Albert. It's with a P somehow. So did he get it right or did he get it wrong? It's Herb. It's two P's. There's Herb Alpert. We'll let it go. We'll let it pass. Impressive. I don't really know the rest of the 60s. I was more focused on that one year. So I'll keep going around. I would love this. Focus on the Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Guys, we might have to do a Patreon episode where people pay us to listen to it and we talk about Herb Albert and the Whipped Cream Delights. Yeah. Whipped Cream Delight. It's going to be so good. Herb Alpert. So it's not Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Don't make me do it. I can't do it. Herb Alpert's Who Sampled page is just like a murderer's rope. He did the bass line for Hypnotized by Biggie. I mean, it was his own song and then Biggie sampled it. Someone stop me right now. Aaron, we got a lot of emails about your claim that someone sampled Herb Alpert.

[27:02]Well, if we can take Rosie. Could you discuss whether Herb Alpert was sampled by a tribe called Quest? Because I got a ton of emails about whether this was factually correct. I was hoping you could just address this issue with our listeners now. I would like to issue a formal apology. In the Pet Signs episode, I claimed that Tribe Called Quest had sampled Herb Alpert. And I spent enough time on whosampled.com to think that I might have been wrong about that claim. But I will say that Biggie and other hip hop greats sampled Herb Alpert. Rob, our Twitter page was blown up, right? What's our Twitter page again? Ish. If anyone felt offended, I'm sorry. And I'll try to do better in the future. Our Twitter is at Donald J. Trump. Real Donald J. Trump. That's our Twitter. Check it out. We've got some pretty good views, I think. I think a lot of people see how smart and cool we are. No, I probably should set up a Twitter and a Gmail. I should probably get Beck did it better before this gets out and gets big and somebody squats on it.

[28:02]We have to pay him a lot of money. Right. Well, Rosie, your request to apologize is officially denied by the head of the podcast. This will be edited out. This podcast has a strict no apologies. No asking for forgiveness. Okay. Yep. And if I say something offensive, I edit it out. But that is not true for other people on the podcast. You certainly have not. You certainly have not apologized for the horrible advice you guys have been giving me over the last few weeks. Russell, just because you're podcasting with us on a Friday night, that doesn't mean necessarily our podcast is giving you bad advice. We're intentionally sabotaging Russell's dating life. So he has to be here with us. Wait, wait, wait. I don't like this. I don't like how this is going. So 67, the monkeys have the best. But this is the point, right? Is that we got to start to get the Beatles and everything around 66, 67. I mean, obviously they were, they were big before that, but all of a sudden the best selling albums after this, the monkeys. And then think about this. 68 is Jimi Hendrix. Are you experienced? And then 69 is iron butterfly in the God of the Vita. So all of a sudden we go from like soundtrack, soundtrack, Broadway show, Broadway show to, to everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[29:00]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm, for good reason. Come on forward. Okay. So. All right. So this was the Benghazi. The Kid in Jeopard Heath. Yeah. All right. Deere this is an L. Cool. Cool. Expect this album to be big, extraordinary маг Nurse готов not release since taxes. So Up At Number One is brought to our, our 2009 McK ráp rupees. Now I would. That's a. That'd be. Oh, that's a, they gotta h cap it. It's crazy. Wait, no, i know this song's called. Theybiリ Revolver by Crazy and the Beatles. It's gonna, it's actually great. Really I wanna. But you wanna listen it out. If you wanna listen this song faster. Dr. Look, I. albums they've been touring they've been going crazy all of a sudden they had another movie they were going to make and right before this album they the movie got canceled they didn't like the script so all of a sudden they had three months to do whatever they wanted which they which they haven't had since 62 so they all get on to their own thing which from what i can tell is mostly taking lsd is how they filled that time and it's taking doing drugs but but they they also got into some of these other things which you see more kind of uh realize itself with sergeant

[30:04]pepper but like you said this is the really when they get to sit down and they say okay here's a bunch of songs we want to make and we want to go nutty with the recording right we want to just turn how we record an album on its head and they had been listening to um a little bit of pet sounds kind of in the middle of this as well and there's a song on here that's actually inspired by pet sounds but we also run into their uh to this new it's not a producer what is it oh engineer named uh jeff emmerich who basically is kind of like this guy who who they say we want you to unwire this amp we want you to rewire it up as a microphone and we're going to make this into a new kind of sound and he's like yeah sure let's do it because they've got tons of money they've got lots of time they're able to experiment with all this stuff uh before the album comes out they're able to release uh they release paperback writer and a song called rain which has some interesting backwards uh sounds and actually

[31:00]some really interesting drumming if you want to listen to it sometime i think people yeah people claim rain is ringed up and they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not best track right yeah i i didn't mind ringo i know ringo gets a lot of shit for his drumming but i thought there were a couple songs on here where i thought he was kind of playing an interesting stuff i have to agree yeah i gotta agree i've gave him shit on sergeant pepper but i think it's good apparently ringo's big issue is that he's a left-handed drummer but he's always played on right-handed kits and so some of the things you have to do for fills and stuff are a little bit more difficult but you do have to love ringo's voice and we'll get to it on yellow submarine i just think he has the perfect voice for that where he's they're like okay we need a ton of notes and the very first note has to be a little bit sharp who can we get to do that ringo's like right here i'd be happy to sing it by the way i'm gonna be doing more beatles accents because it turns out i'm really good at it twitter was blowing up so i'm kind of curious before we get to the album one thing i was watching this documentary about lennon and mccartney and i'm kind of curious we haven't we didn't talk about this really on sergeant peppers but where do you guys stand at my

[32:02]understanding is by this album lennon had taken acid and mccartney had not right and and when i listened to it and what i've read it feels like this is more of a mccartney album so where do you guys kind of stand with the lennon versus mccartney what what resonates with you well i i don't have a ton of knowledge about like who wrote what song but from what i can tell every single song i enjoy it seems like mccartney writes it and then when i read about it everybody's like yeah this is kind of a quaint little you know it's not that like deep but it's kind of a fun song to sing along to and all those seem to be little mccartney ones whereas all the ones where i listen to it and i go you know is life even really worth living and then it turns out that john lennon wrote one of those i really was i thought as a kid that i was a john lennon guy i mean i loved imagine so i loved that song so much and so i really got into the john songs but um as i get older i just i don't find them pleasant to listen to the sound just to me it just is too abrasive in a lot of

[33:05]cases and i find myself i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know much more of a mccartney guy and um yeah i mean i think you're right rob like there were like a lot of the sort of cutesy tunes because i think mccartney had sort of a vaudeville you know background in his family but i actually think mccartney's a great musician and a great song writer and was always had a prettier kind of output than lennon did so i find that as i get older i'm more of a mccartney guy thank you aaron i appreciate that dude we're taught in the songs making pretty in such you a you know i i haven't fought i mean i i don't have big takes on this you know to aaron's point i've i've found that the the older i get and the more uh worldly i get i guess and just kind of been around for a while the less i like the um the lennon songs he seems kind of snarky and

[34:01]kind of he's always trying to stick it to somebody or tell you how stupid you are or something like that and so you know that it just kind of starts to wear on you a little bit if you're listening to too much of it for my book i think paul was i mean so even i mean when for some reason when i think of paul i think a lot of simply having a wonderful christmas night which like is a wild christmas tune and he like got stoned and went crazy on some sense and like came up with something magical russell what's your what's your take i think one of the best ways i heard it described when i was reading and listening was that almost all of lennon's songs were i think one of the best ways i heard it described when i was reading and listening was that almost all of lennon's songs were are these songs about either him or about the world it's either him or such a big concept like peace or love whereas a lot of mccartney's songs are these songs that may be about himself but he writes them in a way where everyone who listens to them thinks it might be about them or it's kind of these little niches of society it's not this huge world or it's not just about himself

[35:02]like a great example it may resonate with more people because it's not you know it's not just about himself it's not just about himself it's not just about himself this huge overarching big hairy audacious theme of society or just about himself it's kind of in the middle so i think a lot of people might resonate with the mccartney songs because of that yeah that's why i write them i try to get everybody thinking maybe this means the song man you know russ next time russ if you're like guys i have something smart i want to say about this you can just say it you don't have to ask us a question and then we look like assholes and then you have this great answer tripped on our dicks talking garbage and you can go to the best answer it's very lenin i have to say my overall take on this album though is that if they had all this time and money like why didn't they finish any of the damn song every single one of these songs they just never finished it's like it's like when you talk about about stephen king books rob like they didn't finish any of these songs they just yeah they just kind of fade them out or they like just like out there two and a half minutes and there's a couple songs in here that they mash together from two different songs and you can tell because all

[36:00]of a sudden they're in four four and then they go to three four or like the beatles though on this one especially this is one where they a lot of these songs start with the chorus right they're not building to a chorus they start with the chorus and it's kind of jarring to hear that in a song i think the biggest thing you have to know about this album if i could sum it up in one sentence rubber soul 80 hours in the studio revolver 230 so they're they're they're taking all this extra time in the studio and they said we're never and they never played any of these songs live i believe uh they also a lot of uh interesting things they did recording wise they this was the first where they developed an automatic double tracking of the voice so instead of having to sing the same song twice and double tracking their voice to make it sound fuller they were actually able to just record it once and have two tracks of the same voice to give it that same sound i think too short double track his vocals also on his first album i'm pretty sure that's correct aaron i'm pretty sure too short also double tracked you've got a good uh history with this with with these statements we're gonna check this out i think too short

[37:02]vocals are double tracked on board or not i i think aren't most albums now i mean i don't you know are double tracked probably like i know all the drops i make i double track my voice just to give it a little more beef and plus you can put effects on one and then not on the other and it comes through you guys it's a lot of real technical engineering things that only jeff emmerich and i would understand um and they also the way they mic the drums they put something into the bass drum and they put that they were like we're gonna put the microphones really close and they were able to use this new thing called compression to make it so it doesn't burn out the microphone and so it totally changed how everybody records drums from here on out and i think that's why part of this thing is with this album is it is kind of sharp on the ears but i think because it's just so sharp overall like you can hear every little thing going on it's pretty cool uh and also this is kind of interesting i this is one where they really tried to avoid any ever talking about love on the whole album they just didn't want to they were like we don't want to write any more songs about love we want to write about other stuff and paperback writer

[38:03]which is a single before this was an example of that where they're like can you write a song not he's like hmm paperback paperback writer like the singles that got left off of this album and sergeant pepper when you think about paperback writer and rain yeah and trevor fields penny lane like it's it's wild they had all these things that they had to put on a lp well you can see why that album they released before this the the the old ones and the new ones like yeah why not they got so many good yeah i don't think yesterday really maybe it is i don't know wow yeah all right so are we ready to get into this album here we go let's get into it let's talk about revolver and it starts off i gotta say again you know we've listened to some albums that do not have a great opening track this one is another banger of an opener a little bit talking hey hey guys look at this cover art it really sucks but i don't want to do it again i'm gonna bitch about my taxes well this is yeah george harrison wrote

[39:06]this song yeah i gotta agree it's a banger i hate this oh so good and he was complaining about this during the song because apparently at this time on the richest people in britain there was a 95 tax so it would be honestly the most interesting thing about this song was i was like i didn't really figure the beatles would be the type of guys who were complaining about taxes it just it's kind of startled me a little bit and i i spent at least an hour today researching taxes in in britain at the time to see what they paying i spent wow i got way more enjoyment out of researching the tax situation than i did listening to the song i think the song is an awesome song but this is not this is not one of the best opening songs on the albums we've listened to i think it's pretty weak actually i agree well what the hell i know i i feel like we're fighting again guys you hurt my feelings

[40:01]okay fine matt and i are on this if matt and i are on the same on the same side you guys got problems i'm not talking about feelings on this podcast i haven't been at work today i'm going on hey guys i heard some people complaining about tax man as an opening song what a bunch of dicks huh well but do you guys do you guys aaron and rob does this jump out to you as one of the best opening songs on the albums we've listened to so far no no because you know i have a soft spot for sergeant pepper where they're yelling at me to listen to the album and i'm like okay i will and no like it doesn't come close to wouldn't it be nice yeah so much better and then and plus you hear the beatles complain about taxes you're kind of like okay i guess like well to be fair after over a certain income level they did have to pay 98 percent of their money to the tax man so i understand george harrison's complaint i guess we all come at taxes from a different perspective but opening song for an album that's supposedly the third best album on the list man i guess so if i had an album like i would start it with like

[41:05]why can you only find king-size candy bars and gas stations anymore sometimes i just want a regular-sized candy bar have you noticed that have you tried to find a regular-sized candy bar at a gas station i didn't notice that a couple they're all king-size now yeah it's ridiculous matt and aaron what would your what would your opening song be about if you could just have your pet little your your niche thing that is important to you what would your opening song be about stop calling your kids buddy they're not your buddy you're their parents that's some hardcore dad shit that's some hardcore dad shit mine would be about um slice and cherry tomatoes nice nice when there's like a good slice of cherry tomatoes honey can you make another caprese salad god damn it gotta turn over the lid again jesus christ wait so do you have nicknames for your kids or are they just no you know no here's here's the problem he's no he's to coach

[42:00]baseball right they call him sir and he calls them child one and child two and he has a whistle different tones for the different kids yeah yeah yep they march in yep yeah and uh no so i coached i coached college baseball at our college for a long time right and from the beginning when i was coaching to the end at the end there was 22 year old kids and their moms were yelling for the stands uh like kid goes into pitch come on buddy you can do it and when you're yelling come on buddy to a 22 year old who's playing college baseball there's just something that's off-putting about it to me and so i don't know then you hear it all over the everybody's calling everybody buddy and you're not their buddy you're their parent so i'm off my soapbox sorry no you you stay on that soapbox you deserve to tell people to knock that shit off yeah man you you earned it i asked yeah and i believe that's true for other parents my kids are my best friends though so i i think that's important uh all right so let's go next one eleanor rigby one

[43:06]of the few songs where there are no beatles playing on it at all no guitar no nothing george martin arranged arranged this on strings also plays it with acoustic stuff but i think this was my favorite song on the album and i love this opening lyric about eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has been lives in a dream and it's all about this loneliness this person her job was literally to pick up the rice at the wedding what a horrible job and she's wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door like that is some lonely well see now that i can relate to that is actually the one part i do i can actually directly relate to this picking up the rice in the church like i've never had to do that that seems like a terrible job but i was a groomer not a groomsman i believe an usher in rob's wedding that's like a that's like above groomsman for a lot of weddings russell just to

[44:02]let you know i was an usher at rob's wedding probably what 15 years ago 16 and we're there and the wedding gets over and everyone runs out to the limos to jump in the limos we're going to jump in the limos and we're going to jump in the limos and we're going to jump in the limos we're going to drive downtown afterwards and rob's mom i believe comes up to me and essentially tells me hey you need to go pick up all those statues that we put up out there like she treated me like the help kind of it was 105 degrees see i don't remember any of this yeah you were having fun i get i pick up all these statues and then i come running out and i barely make the limo and the limo is full so i have to sit in the front fucking seat with the limo driver for a 45 minute drive downtown and so i literally i'm literally sitting in the front you know where they have to put up the screen or the window where you can't see in the back so all my friends all the bridesmaids that are back there that i'm going to try to talk to you and i don't get to sit by

[45:00]anyone i'm sitting up by the front with the driver and i remember looking at him and i'm like can i at least drink up here and he looks at me and kind of gives me the he realized i am the lonely person like in this eleanor rigby song eleanor rigby and he just he said you do what you need to do man so i sat up there but i never really thought about and then i listened to the lyrics of the song i'm like man i'm the lonely person who had to pick up the damn statues at rob's wedding like this eleanor rigby had to pick up the fucking rice yeah we threw those away the next day we didn't want those statues we just tossed them we didn't even need them i remember the back of the limo is the problem i mean the air conditioning was too it was too cold in there conversation there was just too wild you were laughing too much yeah hey john what about the change the song where it's about somebody pick picking up statues uh my paul mccartney voice is going away pretty badly sounds like rob it's perfect thanks everybody for the support keep it up buddy

[46:01]yeah so that song's fun uh and not depressing at all and russell once again thank you for picking up the statues yeah because how are you supposed to have a wedding if i don't have statues of myself around where it's like oh here's here's musa centaur the nude statues like the david yeah rob version was probably not necessary but it worked for your guys yeah exactly i'm like hey make it bigger okay and that was the joke you thought i was gonna make and i made it so disappointed myself okay wait a minute i'm gonna come up with a different take of that joke make it smaller yes i nailed it yes yes i came through rob yes i am the best all right i'm only sleeping this turns out to be my one of my favorite songs on the album and i i didn't know that i know this whole song and then i was listening and i know the whole song i really love it uh lennon has a theme i'm singing about sleeping in a couple of them which maybe he was

[47:05]depressed i don't know well obviously it was but this is a this is a song where they actually played it um faster and they slowed it down for the album they used a various speed i didn't know that which they did on a couple you're not supposed to do any research right you're not supposed to do no i was told that by um by the limo driver because i was up actually in the front of the other limo as well and he was like hey i'm a big expert on the beatles and it's back the voice is back big time it's back it's back i do i i have to say that it's one song where i when i usually get one of these songs stuck in my head and that's the one where i've been humming the melody myself over and over i'm telling you man it's catchy all right love you too to you want to guess who wrote this song i'll give you guys one guess i do have to say though when the beat drops here it's a banger just get ready here it comes this is a song that george harrison has said is about how he wants instant sexual gratification

[48:10]and he feels like you shouldn't have to wait for carnal desires i mean i guess he and her could have had some discussions about that rob we talked about the use of the sitar on the sergeant peppers podcast but i believe this was only the second time that george harrison had broke out the sitar and used the traditional indian music for a song this is the first and did you know that everyone's favorite artist beck has also used the sitar rob yes if you could pull up nobody's fault but my own now obviously maybe beck took some inspiration from the beatles i'm not saying he was the originator of using the sitar and maybe it's a little different vibe and maybe a little different tempo from love to you but if you can pull this up rob let's just take a listen quick pretty similar so far

[49:01]almost sounds like a cover actually that might have done it better i think you might be right russell beck did do this better hold on i think there's an objective way to prove that rob oh my god are we doing math so beck did this beck did this song on his album mutations which won the best grammy for best alternative album in 2000 now unfortunately for the beatles they had to contend with other musical greats like bob newhart and they did not win a grammy for revolver other than for the cover design so i gotta ask you guys does beck have a better sitar song on a grammy winning album than the beatles yes i mean it definitely has to be yes right so rob well he did it better i mean they did win they did win a grammy for sergeant peppers right that's after no but we're we're talking about revolver here they did not win a grammy for this who did it better than russ i gotta say beck did it better beck did it oh yeah nailed it russell you

[50:04]nailed it all right here there everywhere it's just like where i had statues around my wedding all right that was a good joke better than i should get more credit for that one that sounds like the beginning of live and let die which he eventually did for wings right he claims the opening of this was inspired by god only knows not quite sure i don't hear that it's interesting it's so corny and it's so good i just can't stand it it's just like sweet as sweet can be and i love it now think about the songs we've had so far right this is the fifth song on the album so we've had like a legit like pretty up tempo going hard then probably the most depressing song of all time especially now every time i listen to that i'm going to be thinking about russ running around getting statues while i'm in the limo i like that it took 16 years for you to it took

[51:01]16 years for you to make that connection i've only brought it up about every other time i've seen you and never once got a damn apology you know the policy russ never apologize but i mean there's so many very there's so many varied songs on this album right and they're all catchy and they're all good but it's just like it's such a it's such a wild swing from song to song and and almost nowhere is that as apparent as to what is almost everyone's favorite beetle song at one point in their life and it's just like it's just like it's just like it's just like until somebody makes one of them for it this song is not good why don't you like it aaron it's a fun song i know i think i do think it's a fun song i agree with you i know i like it like i sing it at home all the time but then i was listening i was like i think this song is kind of bad i don't have a you know solid brown stand on when i say that i just i don't know

[52:00]i think when i hear it in the context of the album i'm like well you're there and everywhere and she said she said a great song i had an embarrassing moment with this song today and maybe we can give a tip to all our listeners so i i was listening into headphones to this song and for the first minute and a half of the song i couldn't hear any of the lyrics and i was like what the hell did i get the wrong version or something and then i made it about two more songs before i realized if i put my other headphone in i would get to hear everything so yes so just a tip for our listeners if you're doing the headphone thing you got to wear both of them well and that's the thing about this album right is and basically what they had to do is they had a four track recorder so they would record everything squish it all down to one track record some more stuff squish it all down to one track and so you hear a lot of things of like and again there's a website you can go on and look for this but you can hear conversations that they're having you can hear a yawn you can hear a chair scrape and and and you couldn't get rid of anything once you put it into the mix like you couldn't change anything and then all of a sudden they remastered and it comes out with stereo and

[53:02]you're able to hear all these tracks but god they went hardcore with the stereo didn't they like they it's like two tracks to one ear two tracks to the other it's like i don't need everything floating around in my head talking about yellow submarines we can just put some shit in the middle right does everything need to be stereo like does that is that i don't know if if you don't wear your right headphone on yellow submarine you will get no lyrics until the final 20 seconds just a warning for the people out there if you're really let down by yellow submarine it might not be because aaron thinks it's a boring or lazy song it might be because you just don't know how to wear headphones correctly she said she said so i have a confession to make about this song and we talked about our history i thought this was a black keys song and it turns out the black keys did a cover of it which is a great cover but uh i didn't know it was a beatle song when i first heard the black keys do it so it's a big hole in my beatle this is a song where they got in a huge fight beforehand and

[54:04]paul mccartney is nowhere to be found hey guess what nowhere on this song i'm gone i walked out and they it's actually george harrison on the base of that so oh wow i didn't know that did you research that uh no the limo driver again told me that he's like hey guess what interesting beetle news mostly about revolver uh so good day sunshine here's a hot poppy one i love this opening i don't know what that sound comes from good day sunshine good day yeah it must be but there's something about the way they recorded it's paul on the piano too recording this song does john lennon just want to vomit or how does he handle a song like this where clearly it probably doesn't relate to it at all i think he probably walks in and says he's a snarky right and then like goes and gets higher

[55:01]whatever i don't know i think he helps with the he helps the lyrics and stuff he helps kind of pull it together who knows i mean that's kind of the bummer right is that these guys they probably are the best songwriting team ever and they lasted like six years together seven years together and then like just hated each other forever i mean don't you think that don't you think that that's almost about as long as you could last like these guys are amazing songwriters in their own right and can you imagine if you're john lennon and you realize at some point mccartney's kind of leading the band it would be it would be very difficult to just kind of follow his creative direction the whole way wouldn't it i i think at some point there's a switch right where they go from like i want to be a singer i want to be a musician i want to be a musician i want to be a famous musician too i'm sick of the shit we're making i want to make something i think is real art and when you have four different people trying to do that at one time you're going to go off in different directions but would you hear on the way though for sure i maybe that maybe it was just too much too soon like maybe if they would have spaced it out they wouldn't have but but what i

[56:03]don't get is how can you have four musicians like this right and they're so good when they're together and then all of a sudden when they split up like yeah there's some songs here and there that i enjoy but they don't have any of that and they're so good when they're together and then all of a sudden any of the success that the beatles had i mean i don't know when when we split up and i have my solo podcast i'm pretty sure it's going to flourish that thing's going to be a banger it's a lot i mean there's a lot of bands like that we'll talk about it when we get to it but you know slash and uh axl rose yeah you know those two together it was awesome and then you split them up and they've slash had a little bit of success but axl rose had none from what i can tell so i don't know i think there's a lot of them like that where it just happens to click at the right time all right and your bird can sing the guitar lead one of the first one of the first double guitar so that you're going to hear and it influences a lot of stuff from here on out

[57:00]like metallica fucking love the drive-by truckers i love drive-by truckers that was a band i got so into which like they were doing the double guitar stuff but i'm not not so into this stuff i did i do have to say i mean i think uh i think paul's solo stuff is here's a list like ram is a great album i think there's stuff out there you should take going back to the previous yeah but shouldn't it be like the best like he wrote some of the best beatle stuff so shouldn't his later songs also be like unbelievably good like why can i name like 10 beatle songs and i can name like two paul mccartney on his own songs name two uh i'm gonna go with uh that one where it's where he's talking about it's not benny and the jets but it's like suffering and then uh i'll give you credit for that one name a second one and then a second mccartney on

[58:02]his own song it's gonna let you hang here oh no i got it um i did the one where it says a sergeant is a lady ah shit i should know another wing song no we can we can let this drag out i'll edit this podcast we'll let it drag out for a little bit that's fine god damn it we got time oh uh how about this uh the girl is mine the girl is mine hey michael the girl is mine oh i don't think so michael this girl is mine mine mine the girl is mine okay oh i think i told you i'm a lover not a fighter i've heard it all before michael she told me that i'm her forever lover you know don't you remember talking about russ and i could write in an afternoon i really had to i do want to hear whatever songs you guys and band on the run or man man on the run

[59:04]band on the run whatever it's band on the run that's the big one speaking of sad lonely songs this one is a i mean for no one it's just like my name you find that it's so catchy though this is probably my favorite you know that's so good listen the last song she wakes up she makes up she takes her time but you really can tell like pretty distinctly who wrote what can't you so matt do you get a different vibe when you listen to this song versus when we listen to sergeant peppers no i mean it's kind of a day in the life it's i mean you know it sounds like some other songs that they do um i just think it's more of the piano and the softer rhythm and softer tune tone and uh so i don't know that's probably what i probably what i uh go towards on these albums more than the russ russ can you hear them can you hear them building

[60:05]towards sergeant peppers in this album like can you catch some of the things that they're going to be pulling off big time on their next one i think this is where my original beck did it better thing came from is that when you listen to the first four or five beatles albums then rubber soul i think is probably a departure but all of a sudden there's these songs that are a little bit different a little bit more unique than the typical kind of boy band original initial beatles had so i think you can kind of see a progression here but i think you can hear the progression in the instrumentation in the orchestration and whole album i mean like track two you hear a string song right but you definitely hear them thinking like okay rock music isn't just in guitar bass and drums and vocals right it's sort of guitars bass and drums they're thinking differently so i i think i i do think you need to to take this album and and listen to um the beach boys listen to pet sounds and then listen to this

[61:00]it's only four months later but it sounds so much more advanced like instrumentation wise and like recording wise like i i know that that's the research impacting how i listen to it but it sounds so different and unique every song sounds so interesting whereas the beach boys there's a lot of songs on that album you could play and i wouldn't be able to tell you the difference between them you know what i mean i'm kind of curious for you guys is this one of the one of the first times where you kind of realized there was this competition between the beach boys and the kind of going through this quest like i always think of athletes are very competitive but i've never really realized there's this competition between musicians or between bands and you listen to these you kind of go back to back to back with these three albums and they're kind of sitting right in between each other and it's it's interesting kind of hearing how they influence each other all right dr robert one i can relate to finally so this is a song rob if you would have if you would have done about another eight years of college you could have been we could be calling you dr robert this is a song to me about you

[62:01]i'd want to be one of those doctors that's way into feet oh yeah sorry ladies yeah i know i'm at the beach yeah i'm taking pictures of your feet i am a doctor okay doctors need their respect too just like a lot of doctors do right oh i was actually started thinking is this one of the greatest songs about a doctor all right here we go and so i thought i would give you guys a few options to see if we could come up with the greatest song ever about doctors this by the way i'm gonna put in a sting right here and it's gonna be something like what should say this is another oh yeah how about this count them down with russell oh yeah it's time for it's time for russell's checklist oh yeah i think russell's gonna come up with something better than dr robert russell's final countdown and we're not we're not ripping off any copyrights with this one it's the final countdown such a good idea

[63:02]all right the first song about a doctor let's see if you guys appreciate this one how about the rolling stones dear doctor who'd they steal this from i can't wait for our first rolling stones pod where i will say that just gets to unleash the beast i do love the rolling stones but this song goodbye all right fair enough goodbye yeah the next one we're gonna go to is jackson brown my eyes rob if you could jump forward about 30 seconds we can get to the matt rosie does this oh yeah jackson brown i mean it's good it's definitely good it's it's catchy too i like this one but sometimes we got to get beyond the foot doctors and the rolling stone doctors we got to talk about a witch doctor don't we i mean yeah we got to give go beyond

[64:01]western medicine david seville the witch doctor i told the witch doctor i was in love with you i would listen to this song over the jackson brown song a hundred times i would listen to this a hundred times before i had to listen to that jackson brown song again oh russ this is a classic you're gonna have to do this is a banger song about doctors if if if dr rob was actually dr robert oh he would walk in and this would be his entrance music for every surgery so good this would give me complete faith that i was in good hands like if that was a song i played after i graduated from medical school i would walk in and this would be his entrance music for every surgery school yes the next song and i don't even know if they have an album on the top 500 but it's kiss yeah they do let's go calling dr love rob if you want to jump about 30 seconds in i mean there's cowbell already so you can't kiss songs are always so weird because they're so

[65:04]hard and heavy but at the same time they're so slow like shouldn't this song be like a 30 percent faster yeah i agree with it that's a good point i mean i was just enjoying the cowbell at the so we've got we've got feet doctors we've got doctors for your eyes which i don't know what those are called an optometrist or something i think that's right yeah we got the witch doctor we got the doctor of love we also just need a regular doctor when i need a doctor i need to call dr dray eminem and skylar dray i need a doctor rob if you want to jump forward about a minute 30 for this one yeah this is gonna be a yeah this one this one's a ripper right here this has that kind of lincoln park shield to it you know it was like every evanescence was skylar gray in evanescence i've never heard of any of these people except

[66:01]for dr i just like i never feel whiter than when eminem's voice makes me feel fired up like there's nothing whiter than eminem's voice come on and i just feel stoked i just that's the whitest thing in my life well if you didn't feel white enough there these top two will definitely get you there the next one in second place on my list matt let's see what you think of this one how about motley crew dr feel good rob if you want to jump forward about a minute 30 for this one jump about a minute in this this is my this is what i thought it was so hard see now this is an appropriate speed for a song yeah there's only one more option that it could potentially be for you guys to choose from because remember the only thing you have to choose from is what i give you and oh i've got a song to add on there too russell all right so we'll do my last one i've got 10 songs about doctors but that's it okay just 10 the last one on the list is how about

[67:05]you guys i'm loving you parentheses doctor doctor this is a real stretch to be on this list oh you wait for 35 seconds in rob that's i mean here we go this rock's a little bit harder than i remember well i think robert palmer he's got the idea of like just give him a beat the heart of rock and roll is still beat here we go rob check this out god damn that is clearly about a doctor this is a song i'm gonna be singing all day tomorrow jesus russ that's a great moment you're gonna sing that all the way to new york rob all right rob let's hear what your entrance music would be into the into the waiting room look at my beat all right let's see this is a song i just the this is dr worm by they might be giants it's all about a worm who learns how to play the drums listen i don't know what to tell

[68:01]you what do you think is happening have you never heard this song no this weird al no this is they might be this they might be giants this is if you want to go to a show with any women this is a great show to go to that and tool those two bands i think i have heard this song i think i could clearly see rob walking into the the operating room with something hanging out of his his his lab coat that shouldn't be out there and people are calling him dr worm so matt aaron rob what are your favorite songs about doctors i'm telling you my name tag would have a big picture of some feet on there and i would say dr feel good it's the perfect it's the perfect song i i gotta go yeah dr feel good it's gotta be mine i was i was hoping that the the spin doctors two princes was coming up because that is that's such a good song too early 90s yep but i would

[69:00]go dr feel good as well dr feel good is a great answer unfortunately it's incorrect in this scenario because the correct answer is weird al like a surgeon oh wait again it doesn't have doctor in the title you he's a surgeon it's a doctor rob it's your wife a doctor a surgeon qualifies as a doctor yeah i guess he went off the board again i can't believe it sometimes you gotta go off the board i can't believe you'd go off the board to make a joke russell i would never do that i never never thought kevin i think we need to discuss i know we're discussing the beatles which is the greatest band ever but weird al not on the top 500 what are you guys thinking absolutely outrageous huge part of my childhood a big reason i got into songs period is i would hear the parody first and then i would be like oh this is a like a lot of the rolling stones he did a polka with all the rolling stones all over the stage would you think a boy is if i could say it's not just a

[70:08]weird al polka like that and again aaron was trying to not listen to the beatles and you know he was so attractive i was stuck listening to weird al so this tells you a lot about my life so dr robert was actually about a guy in new york who was selling drugs to a doctor who's giving out drugs to a bunch of celebrities all right i want to tell you oh this isn't what blue oyster called you carly this is so good everyone i like the bass there yeah it's good but i don't need to listen to it anymore now this one this next one i gotta say is one of my favorite songs when i found out that it is about paul mccartney and weed i think it's chicago song to me and i know you love chicago it's true it's it does sound like what

[71:02]chicago would be coming out with all these horns but this guy likes weed so much he's like singing a love song to it it's so great it's like him and snoop yeah exactly wikipedia says he uh wrote it after seeing stevie wonder perform that's probably why i don't like the song very much it's been a couple episodes since we had a stevie wonder argument so if there was a song russell that you had to sing something that you had to sing i gotta get you into my life what would that what would that be do you think russell oh it's got to be more carbs right that's it like pizza spaghetti bagels everything got i gotta get you into my life just russell in a bag of fries and an air fryer at home and he's like i got to get you into my life what about you rosie what do you got to get into your life what i gotta get get into my life i gotta get uh jeez you put me on the spot i'm not editing this out i'm gonna make a joke here that you cannot

[72:05]edit out it's about time aaron looks like an idiot yes what are you gonna put into your life aaron more sleep into my life oh my god correct answer is feet i was thinking about a skateboard you guys caught me i was googling to see if stevie wonder ever covered this but i it doesn't believe that it doesn't appear that he did so he doesn't have the skill to do it is that why doing research doing research during the podcast that's like a double whammy that's i don't want to get egg on my face again like i did with trap dog quest you're in beck did a better jail and asking trying to get another apology that's third strike i kind of like aaron's apology corner where he's got to apologize for knowing nothing about music what a dumb shit oh yeah matt what do you got to get into your life uh i gotta get a new bike i guess i don't know i know this is a tough one

[73:01]i'm gonna cop out on this answer so just what do you got rob's got something good coming up rob what do you got oh you know what i can't wait i actually i'm going back to new york i cannot wait to eat a poke bowl it's the one thing i cannot get minnesota that i just i love it so much i gotta get poke bowl into my life that would be a great music video of rob singing got to get this poke bowl into my life and he's just like wandering through new york looking for the one spot that's open said it's a weird oh my god yes oh i want it so i want it right now all right last final song tomorrow never knows what do we think i like this song i don't know why but i like it i think it's cool yeah man we genuinely agree on all music but this is the one time we may disagree for the first time but first time yet but like of all the songs this sounds like a beck song more than any of them to me it does it does this is the one where i don't where john lennon famously told the engineer

[74:04]i wanna sound like a thousand dalai lama standing up on a mountainside and they ran a is this the one where he was like can you perhaps the microphone to my vocal cords or something or was that across the universe and he he did he did something where he had a speaker that would spin in the case it was used for organs and this is what he used on his voice and and you start to see the backwards tracking and you start to see like this is where you really start to see the i think these last three really are where you start to see this kind of psychedelic beetles now this one especially i shouldn't say the last three to get you into my life is hardly psychedelic i don't find it that pleasant to listen to but i think it's awesome i'm sure there's a lot of skill that goes into this but if there's ever a part of me that thinks oh this is what a bad sixth grade band sounds like then then i don't know if it should be a song on one of the top five albums ever right hey russell come on now man i thought we were getting along so well what's going on man it's me but i buddy i do i i do get what matt

[75:04]says the more i listen to it i kind of get a different appreciation for it and the more you read about it i get an appreciation for it but the first time i listened to it admittedly i thought i i don't understand the music i don't understand why it's ranked this high i think it's i don't i don't feel that way about this song russell but i think that brings us back to uh the points about we might have talked about it in sergeant pepper we're like oh no no we talked about it uh with them like if there's a clunker of a song do you throw out the whole album and matt i think you said no but if there's two you throw it out and like i think there's at least two absolute dog shit moments on this album so like i don't know oh come on man i don't want to give away my final rating but i can give you some thoughts on here that are terrible so i don't know oh man i can't believe there's two dog shit moments on my album oh bollocks and wouldn't it be awesome if we could listen to it again and listen to it again and listen to it again and listen to it again and listen to the beatles analyze our podcast and be like yeah that that episode on yellow brick road

[76:05]was a real piece of shit like wouldn't it be great to hear them analyze what we do because i'm assuming that in 50 years right somebody's gonna make a podcast where they listen to every episode of this and then go through and talk about what they thought of our podcast episode it's very meta guys it's gonna get great sure gonna happen all right real quick we're gonna do a rating and i just have a quick it's not a game but i have a quick conversation for afterwards so our final rating system and i don't need to tell you guys this because it's so well known everybody's using the hashtag so let's get it out there follow us on twitter at beck did it better i think and at gmail beck did it better at gmail.com i think uh so the final rating system the final rating system is rolling i mean at some point guys we got to actually release these right so people need to hear them so i suppose we should try to interact with other people it's not just us looking you know emailing feet pictures to each other uh all right so the final rating system is what was my weakness hey turn off that chainsaw look at these feet it's just got an ipad full of

[77:08]feet all right rolling well toned that means you think it's right where it should be on the list is this album did it get rolling boned meaning it's too low it should have been up higher or is it a rolling groan do you think it's too high up on the list uh and matt i'll start with you what do you think well i forgot i kind of forgot where i had uh um pet sounds like i don't know if i can compare it to that because i don't remember what my rating was for the pet sounds and so um definitely in the past yeah um no this is this is uh this is too high in the list what is that one hashtag rolling groan oh my god everybody knows that that's hashtag everyone knows matt it's rolling yeah so when we say too high that means it should be a higher number it's too low of a number but because our list is one on top and 500 on the bottom it's too high so you

[78:00]like i don't have to explain that to you guys that's easy yeah hashtag rolling groan twitter check it out um no you know i don't know i mean it's probably a situation where we weren't around i wasn't around i think i don't think you guys were there in the situation in the when this came out to kind of know the how cool and hip and now it was but you know from all of the other albums out there this is to have this as number three is it's a little too high for me all right aaron what do you think uh yeah rolling groan they didn't finish a lot of these songs so i gotta go rolling groan i i want i do want to go back real quick i i have to say side two of the album is eight is 16 minutes and 28 seconds side one is 18 minutes long like this album you can literally like watch this faster than you can watch most television shows you can listen to this album i do appreciate that i like that yeah this one come out like the bread like right now right i mean they did essentially three albums in like 16 months between rubber soul this one and then uh sergeant pepper

[79:01]right and nobody does nobody does that now so i mean it's kind of hard to again might be the timing of it all so i don't know it's hard to knock them for that so matt likes bands that put out lots of music and not just good music well that's interesting matt uh all right russ what do you think was this and again i don't need to explain it but rolling well-toned rolling bone or is this a rolling groan for you oh i think you need to explain it the people need to continue to hear about this amazing amazing system you put together well-toned means it should be number three rolling boned means that it's too low on the list it should be one or two rolling groan mean it should be below the three spot oh it makes complete sense to me so to me it's a combination god damn it it's a combination of rolling groan i think it's too high on the list i wouldn't put this as the second best beatles album and just by doing that calculation it shouldn't be this high on the list but i'm also going to say it was also not to steal a rob's thunder but it was a rolling

[80:02]too early i came home i was out on the out on the town tonight and i came home to record this podcast and when we're listening to the songs it does it doesn't warrant me coming home on a friday night it's too high on the list you gotta get rolling groan and rolling too early i came home getting back out there russell if you ever want to open up your phone on the date and record an episode we will do that okay we will make an exception put the zoom on okay yep and we're not going to make her put her feet up to the camera don't worry about that all right i'll just be like oh hey you're russell's date has he looked at your feet yet and i'll just say that and then not say anything else so she's gonna be like this is dr rob dr russell i've been hearing about i can't wait i can't wait till the next uh the next podcast when rob says god damn it i spent too much time talking about feet on that last last podcast i gotta edit that stuff out this is the first time i've talked about feet an appropriate amount all right

[81:03]i will say i i i liked i like this album better more than i like pet sounds i gotta say it um but i am going to give it a rolling ohm okay and a rolling ohm of course is a unit of resistance in an electrical circuit and to make all these cool effects they had to have a knowledge of circuit so you need to give this a rolling ohm it's the only correct answer i thought it was going to be a rolling ohm like a transcendental meditation rolling ohm i'm terrified that my twitter feed tomorrow morning is just going to be filled with hashtag rolling ohms all right real quick marry f kill the first three albums you have to marry one of the albums you have to f on one of it and you have to kill one of it very creative on my part definitely took a lot of time coming up with this we've got sergeant peppers we've got pet sounds and we've got revolver okay i'm gonna go first i'll tell you what i'm going to i'm gonna f this one i think it's kind of a fun kind of chunky like all over the place

[82:03]i'm gonna marry sergeant pepper and i'm going to get rid of pet sounds okay even though god only knows is the best song on the entire list period bar none gotta let it go what do you guys think matt i will marry sergeant pepper i will uh what are you effing is that what we're saying i'm effing pet sounds and i am killing this one and the f stands for feet by the way so yeah aaron what do you think i'm gonna marry pet sounds uh i will f for you this one because it's uh it's short and that that fits my schedule and uh i'll get rid of sergeant peppers i like that you're so busy i don't have time i didn't make that was i don't think i made the joke correctly but you get it sweetie i'm on who sampled what.com i don't have time to sleep with you right now i got it wrong i gotta be prepared these guys are roasting me

[83:00]because i said herp alpert was on every single goddamn album and it turns out he's not can't you see i'm researching herb albert every time you want to make love it takes hours please what's wrong with you i'm not sting please come on show some respect you should be more like revolver she just shows up the next day she's wearing a mask that has the drawings of them from the cover like i can't because i don't like the album yeah aaron do you love me now i'm ringo from the album cover oh i'm sorry did my three-year-old draw this no actually this is professional album art the beatles ad what a grammy ugly fucking thing jesus christ i mean when if you're the beatles and you saw that and you're putting in 230 hours in the studio and you see that album cover you got to be like wait what like did you put two hours into this like what is going on this sucks russ mary f kill

[84:01]the albums well because i respect the fair sex so much i don't play mary f kill i play do dumper mary rob do dude wait dude dump or mary do oh dump or mary okay so i'm gonna marry pet sounds it's it deserves to be number one on the list i'm going to do wait did i say what did i say do what am i gonna do in 2020 am i doing pet sounds or marrying pets you're married no there's no way i can live with pet sounds my whole life i'm gonna do pet sounds i feel like it would be fun for one night but there's no i would just ghost them after it i would never i would never talk to that album again after all right so i'm gonna marry sergeant peppers i'm gonna do pet sounds and i'm gonna dump this one russ the joke's on you because marriage is a lot like the album pet sounds every once in a while it's god

[85:00]only knows what it'd be without you and then every once in a while it's the title track of pet sounds and you just gotta deal with it all right not my marriage my marriage is all that first song from sergeant pepper yelling at me to listen all right i'm gonna tell you a story from work and it's gonna be about a half hour long and you're gonna listen to the whole goddamn thing and i'm gonna get mad if you don't all that wife swapping helps too right yeah why wasn't wife swap one of these we couldn't have wife swapped in a bob dylan album somewhere there right i will say you know because you know i've got this list and we went from this this album right into highway 61s and how do you feel and it's just i can't wait to do the next that bob dylan album is just phenomenal we should have wife swapped that one in okay i don't we can't use wife swap as a verb for everything that seems wrong we can't say like do dump and then be like yeah we should swap wives

[86:00]do dump or swap rosie's already texted me three pictures of feet you know that's not researching cv wonder stuff yeah right ding here's another one that's a real sound effect i just made by the way ding all right next album revisited with bob dylan oh my god a new band we're gonna lose our minds when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time but you're just too lazy to look it up online if you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track i've got the perfect podcast for you jack did it better we could easily get a sixth grade band to play that version of the song and it would be a better finish than that tomorrow never knows oh honey i was just listening to my favorite new podcast they were so mean to me all right we can't all make the jokes for the end of the podcast it's got to end