Prince: Sign O The Times (1987)

[00:00]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 we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better i think my voice broke there this is album 45 a sign oh the times by prince guys are ac green album a lot of people don't realize i just told you i'm trying to be clean and you bring up ac green right away that's like as far it's like as far away from prince as you can get right you know the cleanest of the clean that's what i'm saying speaking of a guy who didn't ever slam dunk his balls i mean they're there there we go listen i stayed in the podcast i tried i tried i tried we had a little meeting before the podcast and i said i'm not gonna be dirty and everybody just rolls her eyes when i say that i don't understand why listen guys uh i i you this is kind of cool but i know that the other day you guys went out for burgers the other day

[01:02]russ and i went out to the bar now that he is uh waxed vaxxed and ready to make a pass i didn't want to tell russell this but i actually recorded rob i recorded what'd you say nothing see now i'm listening more too that was the other part of the beat i'm gonna listen and respond and then when i say what did you say you say nothing that's not a good listen i didn't want to tell russell this but i recorded the whole thing okay and it turns out that russell has some great pickups lines let's take a listen like this don't say oh russell this is a great bar yeah let's let's go talk to some ladies let me see you some of your what you got here uh hey okay wait a minute wait a minute it turns out that russell has some fine oh the pickup lines i wrote that down so i wanted to say it fine oh the pickup are we gonna get spanked if we don't laugh at that one russell this is a great bar yeah let's let's go talk to some ladies let me see you some of your what you got here uh hey baby what's going on you play soccer oh you look like a keeper

[02:03]you know i always thought happiness started with an h but looks like it starts with you yeah hey do you have an instagram my mom always told me to follow my dreams oh is that a mirror in your pants because i can see myself in them there we go oh is that a groan that was on the recording hey ladies i'm russ if you're feeling down i can feel say pretty baby there's something wrong with my phone your number's not in it baby if you were words on a page i know you'd be the fine print baby you must be a library book because i keep checking you out baby you should be hanging in a museum because you're a work of art yes write an article on the finer things in life could i interview you

[03:01]lines russell's pickup line wow oh excuse me do you like bagels because you're my big goals did i tell you i run spotify now you're on the hot singles list yes baby you're so beautiful you're so hot even my zipper's falling for you hey do you have an inhaler because you have got that ass lines hey i'm researching important dates in history do you want to be mine hey does anybody here want to go halfsies on a baby when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time but you're just too lazy you can use it guys who chat and then they never you never

[04:04]vandal me when i invoice her for half that price i've got the perfect podcast for you two thirds two thirds did it better what's up everybody i'm here with three guys that are wondering if you're a haunted house because they scream every time they come inside you we've got aaron and do you want my alternate i've got an alternate on 30 version okay i've got an alternate guys i'm here to three guys who want to kiss you where it counts rosie in california how are you doing rosie i like that rob that's a direct quotation from prince i'm very excited to do this podcast tonight but i'm gonna leave my pants on because i'm kind of going with someone matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing great rob thanks for having me as always and i forgot that i usually do aaron last so i guess russell today is going to drink up every ounce russell in minnesota are you and russell all these references i took another bubble bath with my pants on and all my app eating swiping stopped next time i play online euchre with all three of you this is the ballad of yahoo user pile of

[05:03]shit too oh why am i writing this song that was brilliant russell that was fantastic you're like a mini edgar allen poet i'm realizing now he's not a poet so i'm not sure why i picked that one matt started making a face when i started talking about bubble bubble baths with my pants on no i'm upset because i usually wait until russell's done to figure out if i can fit in with a lyric from the song and then russell took the same lyric and did it better so russell did it better russell did it better that's our offshoot podcast where it's just russell yeah uh i was just thinking of that podcast how fun that would be i would listen to that russell you want to do it on the awkward network we got it going network you know when he was talking about taking a pant a bath with his pants on and i was like oh my god i'm pants on i had a real visceral reaction to that like thinking about lying in a bathtub with pants on i was just like this is the worst that's the worst of all words worlds i've done it yeah have you guys ever done shrink to fit jeans bath with the pants on yeah shrink to fit jeans what explain that explain shrink to fit jeans to me i mean i think i can figure it out but

[06:02]levi's shrink to fit you buy a pair that's two inches too big at the waist two inches too long in the inseam okay i've never done that by the way i've never bought a pair of pants that's like oh these are way too big if i have to start going to like the big and tall section it's like a defeating demoralizing moment and then you put the jeans on and you sit in the bath with the jeans on for an hour normal and then you wear them around and let them dry on your body and then they're supposed to shrink to your perfect size on your body i don't i think it's overrated i did it yeah where did you walk around with wet jeans for an hour just around rockridge oakland california oh my god took a walk down the street oh so you did this when you were like 30 something once again yes all of the all of the dumb shit that i've done that you think i did when i was 17 i did when i was 27 37 you know who knows right now matt's already copied like the fanny pack and he's

[07:00]writing this down am i willing to copy aaron on will i go sit in the bathtub with jeans and i think matt's even saying no go on that aaron's neighbors are like hey somebody moved just moved in that tiny house with all the ivy out front let's go see who it is then aaron walks out and sopping wet jeans and goes hey how are you doing by the way i've slept in the garage for quite some time everything's fine nothing weird that explains why my jeans were always so tight in the crotch it's because i love pissing my pants and then those would dry i mean there's a i'm not gonna explain it all right let's go to the voicemail so stupid i can kiss my ass dumb shit listeners they can't even tell what we're doing god listeners are dumb shit hey rob and other hosts thank you listeners here thought i'd uh call in with a few uh few thoughts i like i just wanted to say i i love the part in every episode where it seems like there's going to be a guest host uh but it turns out it's just matt and his uh 17 seconds to speak every episode um also you guys just missed

[08:03]it there were two birds chasing another couple birds it was pretty sweet lastly i'll just say love the pod but radiohead can suck it oh that's two weeks in a row where radio is very interested in picking on radiohead that might have that might have been the perfect call it was short they said rob and the other host and then they just got out they didn't try to like stick around there was no uh what are we gonna say next like it was great i love that call i thought it was excellent more calls like that please and now you guys say something are you messaging the government to have this person eliminated or what's going on there matt are you going to respond trying to figure out who that was do we know who that is i think i i may know who i may know who it is and it's possible they've sent pictures of feet to rob before well then it's very possible they've got pictures of feet back that's how it goes check out these sexy toes and then there's

[09:00]a lot of you know that like me just saying check out these sexy toes and putting my fingers down there around the toes and and i'm not going to be dirty so that's going to be the end of that conversation it's a constant struggle with me it really is it's like dr jekyll and dr jekyll too in me that's it there's all dr jekyll wait was jekyll the bad guy other dr jekyll yeah dr jerkle i think i've made that joke before but it is dr jerkle and mr hide my browser all right that's a good joke i had that one pre-written all right let's go how do people leave a beck sound how did he get a hold of the beck slant rob how do they get a hold of that well you know what you could do is look at our instagram where i post every time we record i post please call the beck line today we're talking about prince nobody calls uh but it is 802-277 2325 that's 802-277 beck call that beck line and we promise to make fun of you or not if you call and say don't make fun of me i won't i can do that i'm strong enough i really can let's get into rolling going the three of you refuse to acknowledge the radio head sucks we've had

[10:00]multiple callers call it and you guys refuse to acknowledge it yeah but you're forgetting our callers are dumb shits hey listeners i hear you out there i hear you and appreciate you i kind of want to talk about radio in the context of prince or prince in the context of radio head but we'll in the second half uh aaron rolling going how's it going with you oh thank you rob it's going great i have um you're welcome aaron yeah thank you this is very polite to aaron here on the podcast i really enjoy this new rapport we have um my ruling going this week is uh it's sort of a it's a two sides actually it's a bit of a jekyll and hyde kind of situation rob i'm glad you brought that up uh and as i'm thinking about my ruling going i'm thinking about a song in two parts by the american composer charles ives where he wrote something called memories and the song has a and b a is how pleasant and b is rather sad and so i have two memories from this past week that i want to share with you guys i had two parenting moments uh one that matt is going to be disappointed with me about and the other he's going to be pretty proud

[11:03]so on saturday last weekend we took my son for his first professional haircut we took him to a wait wait how old is he he's four 35 years old he lives in the backyard and he's 35 he's a feral child in california yeah he got like the the straight shave and everything too at his first haircut well no that's the thing is we took him to the stylist rather than the barbershop so i know matt's going to be concerned and i um we were dog sitting last weekend and i ended up on dog duty rather than haircut duty so i went um to the bar across the street and had a beer and watched baseball while my wife took my son for his first professional you didn't even go with your son for his first professional he wanted mom to go and she and she also she was you know he's got beautiful curly locks she was concerned about how it was going to turn out i was too i trusted her more to communicate what the haircut needed to be so she took on the haircut while i watched since aaron's the boss of the family he

[12:03]was like you know what i think i really think it's best that you take him and not me he definitely wasn't like what do you want me to do watch you want me to watch the dog okay then he goes to the bar and everybody's like why are your jeans sopping wet right now what is going on with that you can really say these are these are dry to fit jeans yeah that's it you can really set your watch to every time before these podcasts where aaron says i'm the boss of the family it's like every time on the hour it happens he always says that before we start recording he says in a really loud voice like in a mean way yeah so that was that was my rather sad memory did it turn did his haircut turn out turn out all right it did it turned out great like he well he kind of he looks like it kind of looked like andy gibb from the beachies like if you guys have he's got like the nice he's got the bangs and then some long curls coming down the side like he's a very it's a good you know it's not yes what all kids want to look like the barry gibb yeah he's a very handsome kid he's got great hair so the whole thing was

[13:00]we didn't want to cut the hair too much and i trusted anna to deal with the haircut more than i and and bonus i got to watch some baseball and drink a beer with benji yeah but the name very pleasant memory and i think matt will be proud of this one is that we went to our first kid's birthday party in a year on sunday morning so we went to this birthday party it was at a very nice home enjoyed the birthday party it was all three four five year olds your kid was like your kid was like dad dad this house has five rooms yeah like it's amazing they don't have all their clothes hanging up this is unbelievable you know what's amazing was we had he had to go to the bathroom while we were there and he really loves other people's bathrooms he's like oh dad this toilet flush is different than our toilet yeah but the that i think matt's gonna be proud of is that he full-on irish goodbyed his first kid's birthday party we were there and it was like they did a thing for the kids where it was like that we're gonna you know oh hey everybody a dinosaur laid eggs in the front yard everybody's gonna get their

[14:00]eggs we ran to the front yard he got his egg had his hot wheels in it the kids were still partying there was another 20 minutes to go in the party was there really a fucking dinosaur laying eggs in the front yard so he got his he got his party favor we were in the front yard in the front yard he's he had no shoes no socks on because he'd been playing in the sandbox and he said can i go and he just walked straight to and this is like this was a fancy house where the mom of the house had to like put the code into the gate to open the gate and so like we'd be like oh hey can you let wallace out so like he went down to the gate his mom was still trying to talk to another mom and i was like hey you know wallace your your mom was trying to talk to callie's mom he's like she'll meet us at the car he's full-on just walking down the sidewalk barefoot he was out of there he got he didn't say goodbye to anybody he went yeah sorry your party sucked see you later i got my dinosaur egg i'm getting the fuck out of here goodbye i'm surprised he didn't come up when you guys were like talking to the parents and he's like dad in this house they use the bathroom to go to the bathroom they don't sneak out to the

[15:01]to the backyard and then he had to be like oh whoa whoa whoa you see the thing is i was in a tent and so i had listen you know how to download a podcast i can give you a summary i actually did an audio diary that is available on the podcast you know that's the thing though isn't it it's like kids birthday parties and kids friendships i've said it before but it's so weird because literally the only thing you have in common with these people is that you have kids the same age that's it so like we've been to some and jenny's jenny's run into mothers at child's birthday party i'll never forget it where they were like oh you're a pathologist oh do you do a lot of autopsies on babies and this was like at a kid's birthday party yo and i was like i'm gonna get my dinosaur i can get out of here i'll see you guys later like yeah i'm working on that but then you're you're stuck at with this conversation with this psycho you can't escape because you're at a kid's birthday party man what's your what's your dad's style of kids birthday parties you talk chat up the other dads the other moms what's your style at a kid's birthday party but try to at least pretend like i want to be there you know like that i don't have

[16:04]like a podcast to go listen to or be on or something like that you know and we know you don't have to listen to them yeah yeah and so i mean it and it's tough and it comes back rosie it's it's funny because i think most kids are like that they're pretty blunt and direct like you want them to say thank you you want them to say hey happy birthday and they're just like meh you know i'll see you like yeah we've got that with our kids with like grandma and grandpa's right like grandma grandpa's they do all this stuff and they set up this great dinner and all these games and all you know and stuff they're like can i go now you know and it's like just hold on you know give it give it five more minutes and you can't do it so you've got to say under your breath in that parenting voice you gotta be like we all want to go right now and you've got to be no but we can't so here's the question when you guys as parents host the birthday party aaron have you had a a birthday party hosted at your house yet we've we've been no people for a while your son's kind of young but matt and rob your kid's got to be old enough where you've hosted a party when when parents or kids leave early are you happy are you offended what's your style when

[17:04]you're hosting the kids party i'm at the age now where the kids don't the parents don't stay and i'll tell you what that is a it's a double-edged sword because when you're throwing the party it's the real deal you know as a teacher it's not that bad it's like oh only 20 kids who want to are high on cake like i can handle that that's nothing to me that's two-thirds that's two-thirds full for me but but jenny can't handle it i mean jenny's used to sit in an office with a microscope and nothing and then she's in there with these kids they're just going at one at one birthday party there's all girls and then these two boys and of course the two boys are over throwing a ball against the wall as hard as they can while the girls are like having lunch and like chatting with each other the boys are like yeah yeah jenny goes go and take that ball from them and i said i said if i go take that ball you're gonna wish in about two minutes that they had that ball because whatever they do next is gonna get way worse it's gonna be really bad but what we do now is we just go rent somewhere for a party we

[18:00]don't do parties at home anymore we'll go to the pool we'll rent a room we'll tell the parents okay drop them off at 11 pick them up at three yeah vip right yeah vip room yeah there's no object yeah exactly they come in strippers are already in the pool they're already in the pool they're already there it's not a big deal um and so they have a so like they'll just come in drop off the kids we'll order lunch delivered we'll order a cake delivered like the the pool's there and i like jump in to make sure they don't kill each other and then that's it like it's it's the greatest party ever it's you don't want to do it at your house because you get you get kids the parents don't come it's a disaster so back to the first question my style at these birthday parties i have to go there is to try to find one or two people and have a couple of people that are going to conversation that's not work yes just don't ask somebody yeah what do you do that's like the worst thing yeah that and how many more kids you're going to have and things like that like just stay away from do and do that kind of a thing and so eventually you know if you're just nice

[19:01]you kind of put out just a little bit of a vibe like hey you know like a great party thanks for having us all that stuff somebody will come over talk to you and then you end up finding that you know i always go into these things thinking that the these people are all just going to be a bunch of talk to and they're always all great people right like and so you always find somebody that you got something so i've i've got a bad attitude that i got to change going into it now rob's got it right now back to the hosting the party keep that thing as short as you can do it you know the three hour birthdays it gets long for me as the quote-unquote host which i can't stand um you know because you're essentially babysitting some other but somebody else's kids yeah right and you you're kind of stuck for a while it's kind of like coaching t-ball but you know it's uh one kid man there's this one kid i just can't get him to put his glove on straight so uh but yeah but like there there's there's a big business out there right of just hosting how do you not put a glove

[20:04]on right there's only one hole rob rob follow your own rules there's only one hole there's five go ahead man i'm so sorry okay so there's a huge business right and they make a ton of money and they can have every last dollar that i've got to host my kids for two hours where they hire some high school kids but no tip you know it's essentially run everybody through and you just got to sign a waiver and all that stuff and you know what take it whatever i've got in the bank account you can take it you can have it you be in charge of watching my kids for two hours and i'll just sit back and and uh you know i'll go broke for a while i'm not gonna eat any pizza i'm not gonna have to i'm not gonna be able to buy any beer for a while but you go ahead take all my money you're not gonna tip that man taking down the bouncy castle are you papa don't tip that man papa i barely jumped on all the trampolines at this place please don't tip that man he he yelled at me when i pushed him in the ball pit yeah kids birthday i i kids stuff you know it's so weird because like i love my kids

[21:05]and i think they're so great but like my one had a dance recital today it lasted 21 minutes when they were like oh that's it i i stood up and went like this yes like that they were like this is the end and i go yes because i don't want to watch all these other kids dance like i don't i don't care about those kids rob did you look behind you and was there a dad that was just holding his thumb down the whole time like you do on the airplane or not yeah he didn't like he didn't like the ballet he's like he's more of a jazz guy hip-hop dance you he stood up and said this is a ballet minus i was like hey i got a podcast you should listen to if you think that joke was funny it's a good one rolling going russell how's it going with you have you guys ever gone on a date with a woman who doesn't speak the same language as you nope nope but i'm here for the story have you russell are we talking about love are we talking about love languages or spoken languages i might need to go to i might need to go to the corner and get

[22:02]your guys advice and see if whether this is a good idea or not it's a great i do and actually i take that best time i can tell you the story russell oh all right okay oh i just skipped the map you guys ever seen love actually it totally works this is gonna work no problem all i know is i know how to say i'm horny in sign language so whatever that's worth russell you know often i feel like my wife and i don't speak the same language you guys know what i'm talking about i did the close-up thing because it was a horny ass joke all right go ahead russell sorry a few weeks back you know we got caught up in the the pregnancy date there was all sorts of random stuff going on but i didn't even tell you guys i may or may not have gone on a date where we did not speak the same language and so we connected on an app it became clear we didn't speak the same language you said hey we can go out but you need to speak the same language you need to be patient we're probably going to have to use some sort of translator for most of the date if you're up for that and i said i'm up for that and i may or may not have gone out a date

[23:00]weeks ago with a woman who we did not speak the same language well when you say translator i'm imagining literally a third human on your date who's translating for you which to me sounds so fascinating i would have to do it like i hope it's her grandmother or her brother or something any of it would just be like so grandmother yeah it's a really funny joke this is actually a friend's episode yeah eric shows up he's like oh look at this tattoo i have on the small of my back about grandmothers right here perfect yes i would i would go just to say so so when you say translator wrestle are you talking about a human being are you talking about a phone kind of situation ask your abuela if you are on birth control is that i mean that's grandmother in spanish by the way this is but i actually went on a date with someone used a translator but it was like a google translator so essentially you would hold the phone and you would hold a button either english or spanish and say what you wanted to say and then

[24:01]it would immediately put it into a reader so the other person could read what they had just said and the communication went much better than i was expecting it would yeah it was it was kind of a fun time and and you guys will get a kick out of this the coolest thing about it is if you say something that's kind of dumb or moronic or doesn't hit you can just say oh no no no the translator didn't get that there's something off with the translation on that that actually sounds perfect i think that rocks because at any time i've made a mistake with my wife it's because i have to say something to her face right away that i haven't practiced the number of times where i've written her a text and it's like a long text you know it's like one of these that i look at and i go oh no oh i certainly can't send that like maybe that's what i need it's just like a translator it's just english english so i type it in of like you know do you want to hear about my day at work and instead of like you know breathe heavy i just say yes like i think that's a great idea i love that this girl's translator did not pick up on my heavy breathing so that was a fantastic part about it what where

[25:05]did you go for this russell like i i imagine that it would be you know some places it would be tough but did you go to like a sit down we were we were in kind of a a bar that was not too crowded so at first i was thinking this is going to be awkward people around us are going to see that we're speaking or hear a phone and we're speaking different languages and i was not concerned about it but i i was aware that this could be a thing but once we got down and we kind of got into a groove of hey we're using the phone as a translator and we probably used it for 90 of the date but it was actually a pretty fun time and i think we both had a good time now whether whether she ever responds to me after my whole uh wearing the the pants in the bathtub picture that i sent i can't i can't explain that but maybe her abuela will tell her this is this is customary in our in our culture no russell is it true that let me check this out i have a i have your some of your messages that you translated let me play one right now okay this is the size of a normal penis in the united

[26:02]states is that true did you write that no no comment russell i do i do admire your your courage with this stuff that you you will you will try things i think i think the the ladies that you date must really appreciate that so my my kudos to you do you guys know it looks like a bird's nest with gum in it why it's still reading it no it got that translation wrong that's what i had to say about oh yeah yeah this takes time when i have to type in everything it really takes time like and i have to think about what i'm typing which is why i can't believe i mean butt stuff question mark wait that's the funny thing is we're not allowed to interrupt for rob rob says no interrupting and all the computer voice is interrupting us right i don't need you guys i could have a conversation with this guy he's great for all the listeners that that weren't part of the conversation i'm going to have a conversation with the pre-game show rob told us we're not allowed to interrupt him anymore and then he's holding up

[27:00]his finger and saying we can't interrupt while he types thing into his computer voice you know i had a um i had a friend on my trip to russia who hooked up just feverishly typing while he's talking okay pause it type it then play it it's just a gray penis actually me and zai i'm healthy that was gray a gray a gray penis actually means i'm healthy oh this is my work computer god damn it i forgot about that shit um i had a friend of mine uh not a friend of mine i went to russia with some people that way i was friends with a bunch of they were not the most normal people but it was it was a fun trip and one of them hooked up with this woman who spoke no english because russia like it was a wild trip because nobody spoke english and so he like rented a room the floor above us on his own and brought this girl back to this room so of course we did what any good buddies on a trip would do and that is that we printed out some of

[28:02]the lyrics to uh wild thing and we taped it to his door so when he got back with this girl just said that's what happens when body starts slapping when doing the wild thing and i think because she couldn't read english i think that was trouble no rob's typing rob you have to stop i will stop i'm sorry we need you to kiss you where it counts oh not it counts why would you say it counts i'll kiss you where it counts that doesn't make even make any sense we're going off the rails no more rob you can type it the final joke but you need to pause no more typing it's like the fart sound effect i have to delete them for my own good because i can't trust myself you know what i mean it's like it's like junk food you just got to keep it out of the house it's not any good uh matt rolling going how's it going with you uh good a couple things one rosie you'll be happy to know that the best way to break in a baseball glove is to also put your hand in it soak it in a like a five gallon bucket for about 30 seconds so it stops bubbling and then you have it on your hand it's formed to your hand

[29:02]and you play catch with it and it starts to form the pocket and then you put three balls in type wrap you know wrap it up and then that that forms your glove and so that's so great i never knew that yeah can i erupt you guys to ask a parenting question that has to do with baseball uh no you can't and so my second semester no plowing through no i'm learning how to break into part of one of the lessons go ahead go ahead go ahead rob interrupt we need you to interrupt my the other day from a friend's brother's baseball game and she said oh yeah the friend's mom taught me how to throw and catch a baseball and now i know how to throw and catch a baseball and i was like isn't that my job like somebody's stealing my parenting duties yeah i'm at home like editing a podcast and she's out learning how to get it really is like cats in the cradle by little kid is that bad man should i be teaching my own kids how to throw and catch a baseball i know i want to edit a podcast like you dad you're teaching them plenty in life rob you can't teach them everything you gotta you gotta

[30:05]let something come from the uh outer ether that's really you're doing plenty you're doing a great job they did hear me writing that pickup line song today so i think they did learn quite a bit so that's good man ruling going how's it going with you uh good the only thing i was going to bring up this week um was that i was reading an article i i work in commercial real estate you know making bank area where i work and one of the articles that comes across one of these publications that i just get daily in my email uh talks about the comeback of retail being led by vinyl stores vinyl record stores okay and so it's talking about you know there's like essential real estate like your grocery stores and things like that which obviously come back but there's all of these boutique type things where you know how do you get back just to get back to your

[31:00]regular old restaurants and things like that and one of the ones that's like not a restaurant or or a uh you know essential retail stop is the vinyl record store and apparently according to this article um last year vinyl actually outsold cds um as a as a form of of listening to music and so you know it kind of goes on to say that it's kind of the hipster it's more than just the hipster cool guy thing anymore to go to a record store is that it's kind of like you've got all of them are getting up and up in age getting some gray hair losing some hair and they're they've got some disposable income and you know anybody can stream anything now you could listen to the most obscure uh song that you've ever wanted to hear we can go find we can we have found you know as many crazy things you know most of the things that rosie listens to you know we're finding some of that stuff and you know but to actually physically hold like a you know smashing pumpkins album or a

[32:00]album or something like that it's like don't hold it what are you gonna what are you gonna spend your money on you know things like that and so you know it kind of comes back to the days of baseball cards uh you know i think it used to be cool to go get baseball cards but that's really more of a kind of like a kid teenager type thing i mean there's still some adults that do it but i don't know i thought it was pretty cool that at least one major publication was uh shouting out vinyl as a way of kind of bringing back retail so i still get my football cards real fast and yelling give me give me give me it doesn't get the response i want most of the time but yeah it was kansas city chiefs i like that and and we're also on a run of two albums in a row that i happen to own on vinyl and um if i could find the um 1978 recording of pharaoh sanders and phyllis hyman that i was listening to on spotify the other night i would buy that on vinyl too but i had to stream that one because i don't own it so matt you're 100 right on all no idea you said two names i've never heard those names in my life before i've never heard those names in my life before

[33:00]so i had to click it oh i didn't click it at all last week i realized aren't they aren't aren't we listening to them right now aren't we hearing them no because i know you can't oh they're rosy i see why you like this you're gonna like it yeah this is good stuff you mentioned going to the vinyl stores and kind of the hipsters people being into that but i gotta say i know three people now on this podcast that are normal fanny pack wearers or buying fanny packs i aaron brought up fanny packs a few weeks ago and then within a week rob had a gold like a bright gold fanny pack like he's calling it as much attention as he possibly can to the baby back to his friend matt to bring our listeners behind the scene matt started texting about what kind of fanny packs you guys have but aaron there's got to be part of you as like a wannabe hipster where if rob and matt start wearing the fanny pack you're gonna revolt like you don't want these other old boring dads to be part of the fanny pack crew do you i hadn't thought of it that way i mean i i thought of it

[34:00]that way oh now he's crying i've never really led any kind of movement before so if i can lead the fanny pack movement done beck did it better i'm that's the first movement i've ever led so i'm gonna feel pretty proud of myself but didn't everybody here get record players because of you i mean you led that movement you don't still you don't have a record player yet though right well no my apartment is too small that would never work but a bunch of those fancy rubber pads but no record player to go above the pad right yeah i listen i was like three girls i'm really having some trouble with static on my records right now and i'm not going to do that i'm going to do it right now i'm at it i'm at my wit's end about it i got a couple records that are fully statically charged i'm thinking about i'm thinking about buying an antistatic gun i don't understand how these things work i'm reading about static electricity rob i'm going to need an in service about it you want to buy a gun there's mr second amendment again here it comes it's about that time you can set your watch here and second amendment things listen i can talk to you about electricity but i'm either going to be pretty positive about it or pretty what so matt when you said you were commercial real estate. Do you ever do the

[35:01]I love that commercial. That's my favorite one. What the fuck are you commercial? Commercial. It's a callback. I was going back. All right. So rolling going with me. How's it going? That was I didn't actually want you to answer it. I just had that joke ready to go. Oh, it was a good one, too. Let's see what voice generator thinks of that joke. Rob, that was a really good joke. Thank you. Voice generator. My kid now speaks in a British accent. I don't know which way. Rob, you are saying about your kids and in my mind, I have an impression that your oldest kid is like more like Jenny. Your youngest is more like you. Oh, yeah. But I could be wrong. So when you talk, which one has the British accent? The older one and her friend now both have a British accent. So the one that is more like Jenny has a British accent. And what she does is she ends the sentence on an up tone. Explain. So instead of Ron Burgundy, instead of, hey, can you close the door? She'll be like, can you close the door? Can you close the door? Papa, are we getting pizza? We're getting pizza. Like stuff like that. And I and Jenny and I just look at each other and start. Are we going for a

[36:01]swim this afternoon? Well, I knew it was bad because she asked where the aluminum cans go. Oh, no. Aluminum. That's weird. Yeah. Where did this come from? We went to the zoo and she looked at the zebras and I was like, oh, no, this is bad. So I don't know where she gets it from. I have talked to her about it a dozen times. She keeps saying I'm not speaking in a British accent, but her friend did get made fun of at school for the way she talked in a British accent. And I told her, I said, when we go to Minnesota this summer, my family will make fun of you. Non-stop for having a British accent and I've tried to stop her because I don't want her to have a tough time at school. But then I think back to my childhood. There was a time where I hurt my knee. Somehow I was jumping down the stairs in my house and I hit my knee like on a pillow or something like I was jumping into a thing of pillows. I hurt my knee and then I decided that I needed to walk with a cane and we had an old wooden cane. And so I walked around with it. Oh, you got to be. And then I brought it to school with me for like three days and walked with a cane at school. Now, at some point looking back, stop. I'm interrupting. I know we're not allowed to. It is

[37:00]a miracle you've ever had sex with a woman. The fact that like you walked around with a cane is like a 15 year old kid. Like it is a miracle of modern science that you have outlasted the fact that you walked around with a cane, not not crutches, a cane. I think this year, Russell, I'm probably doing at the same rate that you are, honestly. But yeah, I know at some point. Well, no, I assume that it's a lot. So here's the thing is that at some point, like Father's Day is coming up around when we release this episode. Should my parents have stepped in and be like, you cannot bring a cane to school. You cannot do that. You look like a crazy person. I was just like, I'm going to bring a cane to school. They're like, OK. And I did it for three days. But like, I mean, I think about there's so many things that you could try to protect your kids from from, I mean, just like getting out of the car, things like that. But like I'm so conscious of not creating like phobias or, you know, any sort of weird self-consciousness. Thing like, I mean, eventually you just got to

[38:00]be like, yeah, hey, man, just do you and let them figure some of that stuff out themselves. You don't need your parents to be the one hovering over you. And I don't know. Don't you see plenty of that? I don't know. If your kids decide they're going to take a cane to school and you guys don't say something, child protective services maybe needs to be called. But that's like the least like that's like one of those least things that could ever really go wrong with anything. Like, I mean, in the real world, yes, it's not that big of a deal. But in the world of like getting along with other high schoolers, your kid taking a cane to limp around for a few days, you need to jump in. Someone needs to jump in. I'm the opposite of Aaron. I did all my dumb stuff when I was actually young. Like I wasn't like 25 in my 30s. Oh, no. But now are you going to let your daughter use the cane? Because it's sort of a British kind of look like is she going to wear a monocle and a top hat? Go to school. I, you know what? I'll record her talking. You're such a jerk. Aaron Robbins never made fun of your son in any manner. And now you're out here picking on Rob's daughter

[39:01]because she's got a British accent. I've never made fun of that little Prince Valiant with his long hair. He doesn't look like Prince Valiant. It's true. I feel like now your wife's actually going to be mad at me for good reason. I think Prince Valiant isn't the worst thing you could say. No, I mean like Instagram and like everybody trying to post like perfect things all the time, stuff like that. Like just let people do their own thing and be weird and have fun. And if you want to wear a monocle like what's the worst that could happen? Like one, some kid just says well, nice dumb fucking monocle kid. Tell me who this kid is. I'm going to go beat the shit out of him. But like, right. Like, I mean honestly, like if that's the worst thing that happens is like they get made fun of for wearing a monocle like great. Your kid's doing great kind of a thing. I actually think let kids be weird. Let them be themselves is a great segue to this album. If we were thinking about talking about music on this podcast, what music and maybe and maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe half of my reason for saying this is

[40:01]I think I didn't ever do any and I know I did something and my mom can call in and while she's folding clothes and tell you about the weird stuff I did sometime. But you know, like I think I just think of, you know, me growing up. I just was always trying to be like a couple couple grades older things like that. So I didn't really care to like step out and do anything. And I don't know. I mean, like, was that a good bad? I think turned out some way. Okay. But like there's so many cool people right that just did their own thing. And you're like, hey, I think looking back on it, I think about how cool it was that they had the guts or the balls or whatever you want to say to kind of step out and do where stuff rose colored glasses, you know and things like that. All I know is I have three great friends on this podcast and if any one of you would have told me to comb my hair over the last 12 years, my dating life would have probably gone a lot better. So thanks for nothing assholes. But I think that's all the time, right? Like I look back at me. I look like a grandmother with my hairstyle from high school to college. Like I look terrible. I wish somebody would have said your hair looks terrible. You know

[41:01]who did say that a ton? My mom and that's the number one reason I did not cut my hair is I didn't want to do what she said. Let's talk about the album real quick. We are talking about Sino the Times with Prince just to give you an idea of where Prince was at when he was. Rob says it Sino Sino the time. Yeah. What is it? It's not sign of the times. It's Sino. How do you say it, Aaron? Sign of the times? No, it's not of. It's not of. I agree with Aaron. I think you're saying it, Rob. You're wrong. You just let it run off the off the tongue. Just sign of the times, you know, you know, Sino the Sino the times. You're putting like a British accent like your daughter. You're like Sino the time. It doesn't rhyme with Rhino. Just I know Sino the times. Well, guess what? Host your own fucking podcast and I'm saying all right. When Prince started doing this Spanish, it'll be easy when Prince started to record this album just to give you an idea of where he was. He had the number one

[42:00]song in the country at the time with Kiss classic. He also had the number two song at the time with Manic Monday by the Bangles. Like he produced it or wrote it or what? Yeah, he wrote that. Yeah, he wrote it. So he's he's an absolute star at the point because he was sleeping with the number one bangle at the time. That would help, right? That would that would hey, I wrote you this song. We should sleep together or maybe it's the other way around. Who knows? So basically he Prince at this time. He's working on a solo album. Called Camille where he's going to play this androgynous kind of David Bowie type character, but he's also going to sing in a female voice and kind of do both sides and there's a taste of that on this album and then he was also going to make the last he was going to make a album with the revolution is band called Dream Factory was going to be a double album. Well, unfortunately, he broke up with the revolution before this all happened. He had the double album. He was then going to combine Camille and this double album in

[43:00]do a triple album. And so they actually they actually had record executives come to Paisley Park sit in the studio, which they said never ever happened before and tell him you cannot do a triple album. This album has to be shorter. So even though I think all double stamp, you can't triple stamp. Exactly. Even though I think all double albums are too long and I think this one is too long. This one wanted to be way longer, which I found out when I downloaded the deluxe set of this and it was eight CDs long. So I did not. Oh, eight CDs. Yeah. Yeah. Because his CD songs are cashing in on releasing stuff posthumously, right? Yeah. That's a big part of it. Eight CDs is a lot like Aaron would skip his son's first haircut for if he could get eight free CDs, right? Like that's a lot of CDs. Honey, I can't take him to cut his hair. I've got to piss my pants, walk around with his wet baseball glove on and listen to these eight Prince CDs. So it seemed to me when I was doing research on this, if you are a smart person and you know me, my brain is very small. So I'm always trying to do what smart people do.

[44:00]Smart people say this is their favorite Prince album. This is what it is. Aaron, why do smart people say this is their favorite Prince album? Why do they say this is his best album? Two facets to why people say this is their favorite or his best Prince album. And one is the story behind the album. And that is that Prince did it all by himself. This is even more so than Stevie Wonder on Intervisions. This is all Prince doing everything, you know, even on Intervisions or Songs in the Key of Life. You know, Stevie had someone else doing the programming on the Moog and the other synthesizers he was working on. Greg Billigans. Look at the liner notes for Sign of the Times. It says the names of the two engineers, which I should know their names and I've forgotten them. Plus, Prince also engineered this record. It's Eric Leeds on sax and Atlanta Bliss on trumpet. And then everything else was Prince. He did the whole thing by himself. There's a great Rolling Stone article about this album and his producer,

[45:01]or the woman that was like the producer of this album, said that when Prince came down and he was playing the drums, you had to make sure the bass and the guitar were ready to go because he would hop off that, get on the guitar and play, and then hop off that and get back on the drums. You had to make sure everything was ready to go because he was just cranking out these songs like crazy. Yeah, he did the whole thing on his own. So knowing that, you have a different appreciation for the album knowing it. But my thing, and Matt, we've talked about this too, you know, does that matter when you're listening? Does it change how you've, does it change how you hear the music? Probably not. You know, knowing it later makes you appreciate it more, but it doesn't change that you're feeling listening to the music. So I think the second reason why people think this is his best album is, number one, there are great songs on it, and number two, this is the one that just shows the full breadth of his imagination. This is everything. This is him doing every style, doing every sound imaginable, and they all came from his brain. So to me, that's why people would say it's his best

[46:00]or their favorite. Say what you want about the album. At least this is a singular vision of one person. You're like, this is what he wanted to put out, and this is what he puts out. Should we get into the album? Yeah, let's do it. Let's get into Sino the Times. And listen, this is right away, we have a Sino the Times. We have right up front, Aaron, and in your face, this is a titular track that's right off the bat. Here we go, Sino the Times. I'm surprised that gets over the ledge of the video, there. I think one of the fun things about this track is that it's and I hadn't thought about this until I read Honey, if I do, or keep tribute to the album on its 30th release. This is Prince in conversation with hip-hop. This is Prince saying, hey, hip-hop is doing street stories. I need to get involved in this. I need to tell some street stories. And Prince was always hip-hop adjacent. I know he rapped on a couple of tracks. It completely failed. But he was such, he himself was a

[47:00]huge influence on hip-hop. You know, Ice Cube's first rap name was Purple Ice. He was a huge influence on hip-hop himself. And he was always in conversation with the art form. So it's fun that this is what he started with. One thing, Matt, that's kind of interesting, I saw something where he said that the guys who laid this album out, that Prince was obsessed with, each CD needed to have, the way it was set up was hugely important to Prince. Right? He said you need to have an emotion when you get into the CD and you need to have an emotion when you're getting out of the album. So we're going to hear that twice here with this double album. So it's kind of cool. That song, by the way, got all the way up to number three in the charts. Now we have Play in the Sunshine. This is one of my favorite tracks on the album. Some of the tracks are a little slower. This is like very fast. This felt a little more like some of the tracks on Purple Rain from my perspective. I like this one a lot. And I don't know on all these if he's playing drums live or if he's doing drums on the drum machine, but some of these

[48:00]where, if it's the drum machine, he's just showing off because he's not doing straightforward programming. There's all these interesting fills. A Lynn Machine, Aaron. A Lynn Machine. If you want to do your Wikipedia, it's called a Lynn Machine. And I think he also has some live percussion from, was it Sheila on the percussion? I think that they were doing some of the same thing. Oh, Oakland Zone, Sheila E, right. Next one, Housequake. Such a jam. Oh, this is unique. I cannot believe this is not a bigger Prince song that I haven't heard this more. There's nothing on Genius about this song. Like, it's crazy. When I looked at how popular it was on Amazon, I thought it was going to be one of his most popular. Not even close. Yeah, I mean, it's him doing his funk roots. This is one of those songs where I feel like you could argue this is either Prince's greatest song ever or the worst song ever. Like, depending on your attitude for the day, this could be the best song you've ever heard or the most annoying song you've ever heard. And today, it is the best song I've ever heard. I love it today.

[49:01]Love it, Russell. My opening song, if I wouldn't have thought of the brilliant one that I came up with, was going to be playing Housequake with farts in the background. Every time he said Housequake, it was going to be farting noises. And I was like, you know what? I've already done that once with Sir Dookie. I cannot do that again. I think you may have made the right choice. That is a long time ago. It's true. Maybe I can do it again. But you guys should applaud me for not doing that. I was pretty proud of myself. Restraint. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of that. That, by the way, he recorded that song the day after Revolution broke up. So when he's talking about how there's a brand new groove, that's what he's talking about with that. And that's also the first song on this album that he did this Camille thing that I've talked about, where he actually recorded his vocals slower, or he sang a couple octaves down, and then tuned it up. So it gives him that very feminine voice. It's a lower note, and then you tune it up so that it's a higher pitch, and then it's a different sound. But I don't think he sped it up, right? I think it's the same speed. So it's the number lower, but the speed is higher? I think he's quoting Coltrane in that one, too.

[50:01]I think he quotes Giant Steps at the end, where it's bum, bum, bum, bum. Or maybe it's just me, but he's a bum, bum, bum, bum. To me, that's Coltrane. And he's just, you know, he's a genius. He does what he does. There's my brain right now. Don't interrupt. Don't interrupt Aaron. This is your brain on drugs. This is your brain on listening to Aaron talk about music albums on a podcast. Listen, we're talking about Coltrane and all the engineers. I mean, what is this, a train podcast? Okay. What song is this? Ballad of Dorothy Parker. So this was one, this is the first one he recorded at Paisley Park. the board got was not totally powered and which is why it sounds so muddy but prince loved it so much that they kept it this way interesting aaron you have this on vinyl so yeah there's 16 tracks on this is the is this the end of the first album or how does this fit on what jumps out to you on vinyl yeah i think it is four four four four the moses malone tribute so i think it is a i think it's four to a side um and it works really well it's it's really well

[51:04]pasted it is one of those at least on my copy where it's sides one two and three and four so you roll right through it all 80 minutes we put it on yesterday and made it through the whole thing it's really a nice way to spend your afternoon this i want to state again my marriage is fine okay everything's fine oh no however that song was about him getting in a fight take back rob with his he was can't take back he was engaged at the time and that song was about him getting in a fight with his fiancee what's your guys's strategy for for close person fights is it i i've told you before i just go silent i run silent like a submarine and it doesn't work because it just builds up until i explode like a submarine getting crushed at the bottom of the ocean by close person fights you mean like the one like the ones in batman begins where it's like the krav maga style or you're talking about like fights with your but you've actually been in physical fights with your wife there's i'm not talking about a physical fight because i would also not know what to do then i would also i would do what very similar to what i do when i fight with jenny which is start crying

[52:00]whoever cries first wins you have like a small sword or a big sword are you not to entertain aaron what's your strategy when you have a disagreement oh no i need some tips i don't i don't do well with these i don't have any good tips no i don't do well with these in fact i recently had one maybe three weeks ago where i i really failed but i did take a walk around the block uh which i thought would help away you blow off some steam i thought it would help it didn't your wife tracked you down because she could she could see the droplets from your wet pants you're walking around she's like i know where you went look at these wet ass pants oh my god he went right to the bar across the street to watch you were in the garage with those rats again weren't you aaron strategy is definitely try to walk away before it gets too angry but you have to make your exit graceful and that's right that's where i struggle it's like when you're walking away you need to try to make that that walk away graceful and i've definitely not succeeded at that uh in recent times so you've got it you've got to be able to yell you're just like your mother right as you close the door to the outside because if you close the door too early you don't hear the mother part then it's like you're just

[53:01]like you're and then she goes what you're like nothing zips up this is aaron walking away in his wet pants i mean this is like this is useful knowledge for me how many times are you guys allowed to drop that you're just like your mother like once a year do you get like once every two years i'm still are you allowed to do it i'm still ever do it listen my wife loves it when i say she's like her mother because bernie is a wonderful she's an angel here on earth everybody loves her my wife thanks me when i say that all right so you guys were no help whatsoever i appreciate it next we have it or it i don't know if he was talking about working on computers here or what wasn't like the crazy looking clown was that it in the movie it was yeah well the clown's name is pennywise you want to get technical about it i just these songs where it sounds like he's like in bondage himself like this is like just pure sex it's just really something else this cd is mucho horny to quote russell on his date it is mucho horny it is big time big time horny for example the lyrics on this one i want to do it baby every day all right in a bed on the stairs anywhere all right

[54:07]right on the stairs like is that something that we're shooting for like on the stairs now first of all i don't have any stairs in my apartment so we'd have to go outside of the apartment i don't think anybody nobody i think prince was very lithe you know he was only five four he could i mean can you imagine walking up the stairs right you're coming up the stairs and you just see me naked just going to town and you're coming up from below i yeah coming up from below that'd be bad probably you probably outweigh prince by a good 150 pounds like oh at least prince doing it much more possible thing than than that rob doing on the stairs of his is yeah high rise in manhattan or wherever the hell you live yeah it would be tough because like it doesn't even make sense but can you imagine you're walking up the stairs and you hear that you hear you're like what is that noise and you're walking up you're walking up you're walking up and pretty soon it's just like somebody's squeezing two bread loaves together like right in front of your face like what is what is going on here i don't know wasn't there a viking or a timberwolf or somebody who

[55:07]i could see how stairs could be advantageous in the right you know configuration i don't know i'm gonna i'm gonna my only stairs are my only stairs the front steps to my house right outside in the words of my friend manuel rosie let's let's talk about that yeah right interesting let's talk about that i'm gonna need you to come over here take a picture of me while i'm laying on my stairs with no shirt on here in about an hour so if you could lay off that bottle of booze and come over and get my picture uh what's the weirdest place you guys have ever done it though i was once on a hike in switzerland and the person i was with is like hey we should mess around up on this mountain there's nobody else up here we should just do it i was like okay you know even though i've just been hiking i was like there's no way this is a good situation going on here and uh sure enough within two minutes somebody walked right up behind us and i was like oh great this is awesome i'm sure that this is exactly what they wanted to see now they did think it was the matterhorn so they started

[56:01]taking pictures of it and i was like no excuse me this is not it's a large mountain for those of you that aren't geologic geologically uh gifted with this you guys don't think that's funny the matterhorn okay i'm laughing what do you want from me i can't hear you laughing or the zoom thinking of somebody taking oh oh that's one matterhorn and they're taking i'm like no nine all right starfish and coffee i like how you guys just forced me to edit out stuff by not talking starfish and coffee this song is so good listen you like this one rob this is one of your favorites it's so you can tell just how talented musically is matt you like this one what's your favorite song on that album so far personally the anyone that doesn't have the drum machine yes i think the drum machine is so 19 early 80s and when he starts getting away from it those are the songs that i like and that's why i love this album but yeah that drum machine is a lindrum i don't know if i told you that earlier

[57:01]but that's something i mentioned before the podcast started yeah but the lindrum is like super it's super it's such a 90s sound like if you go back and listen to all the 90s bands that drum is just over and over and over and i was gonna do a list on it but i didn't want matt to get mad at me so i i buried that shit way deep down that matt matt i buried it deep down where it will never come bury it down but i'm gonna i'm gonna say this anyway i i love starfish and coffee i like what you guys have said about the sound of it and you're spot on with the music so i'm not gonna say anything about that i love this little slice of life thing that prince does because i believe prince is from another planet i believe he was not human but he still had this way down the street here he still had this way of recognizing the humanity in these small moments and here he is talking about a sort of you know special kid in school and who knows where that story came from and he always had this way of being human getting to our level when like i 100 believe he was not from this planet and i love the

[58:01]lyrics of starfish and coffee i'll listen to it all day long and twice on sunday he's definitely not from this planet none of us could have pulled off any of those stunts on the flight of the earth that's what i'm saying not one it's so funny because you can tell he wrote this album and then like had sex and then wrote a song right after he had sex because he'd be like here's a nice sensitive song and then he'd get all ramped up again and you make a song like slow love this song shout out shout out eric leads on sax on this one this song is all about making love slowly and when i listened to it i i all i thought about is how much i love slow cooked meals like the whole time you went you went and you went and you went and you went and you went and you went and you went and you went and you plugged in your crock pot robin you were just letting that meat sitting there the whole day i had birria tacos for lunch today it's like it's it's the opposite it's like this meat is too hard how do i get you know how do i get it tender i'm gonna leave it and cook it for a while when i leave it in when i come back home and there's a slow cooked meal ready to go i am so happy that

[59:05]is like my death everybody's happy it smells good it tastes good aaron what slow cooked meal have you had recently i just i had i had birria tacos today for lunch i had two quesadilla tacos this is slow cooked beef with cheese uh in this case i was at mocahete in downtown oakland uh with the handmade tortillas and then they give you the consomme which is the you know the the liquid that the beef was cooked in yeah i only had two of these two tacos and i felt full up until about an hour before this podcast i was so you had you had slow cooked tacos for lunch what time did you start those you get up at like 4 a.m and start cooking those or what no i went out i went out for lunch today in fact i went out i should have mentioned that in i went out for lunch with a colleague we had a nice lunch uh i thought you didn't i thought you didn't do personal stuff with work aaron's job is such bullshit to me aaron's sitting there in his sopping wet jeans watching baseball being like i think my kid has like a freaking haircut or something i don't do things with work colleagues this is a guy who used to be on my team who left

[60:03]my team he used to report to me and he left in personal he didn't like me and now you guys go out and get beers and then we went on thursday afternoon i did i resisted the beer i really want to have a beer but i resisted so i just all right here we have hot thing barely 21 another sex song on here guys drum machine this is another album where should we kiss our zoom cameras all at the same time have you guys thought about that when i said that earlier when did you say that earlier i'm getting some maybes he mentions a crystal ball on here that was the titular track oh another second titular track aaron that was a titular track off that double album that he wanted to do earlier and that song he's talking in the song crystal ball which is off a different album he's talking about a post he's like the world is going to end bombs are falling we should screw right now that's what the whole song is about it's

[61:00]about like bombs are falling and we should make love and i was like dang prince is a single he's on a mission he's like i'm just going to make songs about having sex on stairs when there's nuclear fallout happening i'm going to do it slowly it's great it's like my mind but he's musically talented so when you put crystal ball and then that's like having sex and getting it on right that's put that together crystal ball crystal ball is that doesn't your dad love crystal ball i had multiple multiple intro quotes right i didn't want to call out rob's old man but hot thing no hot thing that's terrible but that like like that's uh that let's have sex before the bombs drop is a very like 1980s thing right that was the we all he does he says it in 1999 too like why does everybody have a bomb and uh every one of my every one of my first dates i always talk about the possibility of bombs dropping and it hasn't

[62:00]worked yet i was gonna say russell you should make a cd where it's like this is wcco news nuclear bombs are falling they will land in three minutes if you want to make love with somebody you should do it right now and you're like we need to make love right now do you know where some stairs are uh all right just see if it works she gets in the car next day it's like this is wcco bombs are falling she's like no i'm not you played this last time all right forever in my life now this is the ultimate pickup line isn't it where he's like girl i just want to settle down with you here's that drum machine again he's like i want to settle down with you so we should probably have sex right now it's the old meatloaf gag you know what i mean like oh yeah i'll love you forever now we're going to the second album you got the look where's she look this is the third single got all the way up to number two on the charts so this is the biggest

[63:02]hit right yes all right any of these are any of the songs in this album hits i'm not a huge prince guy i was never into prince as a younger person i gotta say i don't know if i've ever heard any of these songs before listening to this album are there the purple rain album has multiple hits where's the hit on this album is this it this is this is the highest this is the highest any of them charted yet another one gets number three but this is and i think a lot of us grew up with the the hits besides compilation i don't know how many tracks from this album are on there it's probably not that many but for me the hits are adore never take the place of your man that starfish and coffee in in this in this song he mentions peach and black and that's because for this album he ditched his purple signature color for purple rain and wanted everyone coming to his concerts to wear peach and black can you imagine having to scrape up a peach and black outfit like that's the only thing that's going to happen to you like it would just be like me naked there's a crazy photo on the liner notes of the of the

[64:05]album one of the jacket covers is him in like you know heels and the peach colored uh suit and then black heels yeah so i guess that's what he's going for at the time but he ended up not touring with this album actually he toured europe and then canceled his uk and america legs of it so it never nobody ever had to look like uh basketballs going to his concert this song guys i know we're running long this song we got to take our time with if i was your i mean this is a song where he imagines that he is a girlfriend of his fiance and talks about what it would be like and i just i just want to play this one part because this is what prince thinks of female friendship is like this is so prince just undressing all the time together but i love

[65:05]the bringing together of eras right so you got the funk bass there's the finger or the thumb slap going on the kind of the booty collins style bass and then and then and then these other kind of synths are very uh i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know and and prince was 100 grounded in 70s funk and so you can hear that he's taking the funk here but he's making it laid back and it's kind of plush and then he's playing with gender it's definitely like you know you guys know me i'd love to hear anything that's parliament or funkadella conspired and uh it's just taken straight from george clinton's playbook i like this one thing you you guys were mentioned earlier is some of these songs that he was using the camille voice where he was kind of taking his vocals speeding them up to kind of give a different pitch right so i thought what we could do is maybe a little bit of a list about the greatest songs ever with sped up vocals with high higher pitch songs oh my god we tried that out oh this is a great thought it's just this album again song one house

[66:03]shut up already damn get on the stairs just like you were saying rob so what they would do what prince did and correct me if i'm wrong guys is , essentially he would sing a certain song in a lower octave at a slower pace and then they would speed it way up to kind of give that really high pitch that different sound and it made him sound like in this is kind of alter ego was camille so so i wouldn't looked at a bunch of other uh famous songs that have kind of used the same methodology to kind of take a song speed it up to give it a higher pitch the first one is you guys may remember this this is david seville this is the witch doctor he also was the guy who produced the chipmunks check it out i'll give it to you dude yes so that's david seville and this was in 1958 this song made it to number

[67:02]one on the billboard oh and then he released the chipmunk song for the christmas album a few years later also made it to number one on the billboard so both those songs charted higher than you got the look which is hilarious both of them and both of those songs were higher than any song of this album and then he released the chipmunk song for the christmas album a few years later and then he and this is no joke okay witch doctor that was the first dance at my wedding okay i'm serious this time this is you can't see it on the zoom but i'm dancing to witch doctor so this was the guy who did all the chipmunks voice and the chipmunk song actually was the first song or the first album that made it to number one that was a holiday album no other holiday album ever did it again until rob's girl in the red snow suit mariah carey like 50 years later so great oof i agree with you god i know you left the show from daughter josh's but i gotta give it a go you with you guys super sexy all right next up on the list we're gonna go to a rock band here this is led zeppelin the song's called ocean there's a lot of rumors about whether this was like helium or they sped up uh is it robert plant the main main singer for led zeppelin all right check this

[68:02]song out this is ocean by led zeppelin here it comes so everyone thinks that this got sped up so they could boost his pitch a little bit really he could not get there so everyone thinks that they sped up led zeppelin to get that higher pitch oh wow that would be scandal they stole that idea from a blues singer from 1924 who was taking helium on their porch exactly another really revolutionary uh use of the changing the speed maybe you guys have heard of this guy his name is the rizza may rob you ever heard of him aaron i don't know if you're into hip-hop is he related to the jizza i think they're related in some manner so the redis there's a little reason why this song gets sped up and they went on a bachop program who theína you guys don't think you're going to like this one or when it's going to be similar to the RZA, who was part of Wu-Tang, became very instrumental in using sampling of old music and speeding up the pace of it.

[69:05]And so this song is, for heaven's sake, by Wu-Tang. Check this out. You hear that voice? That high-pitched voice? Right. And so a lot of people say that the RZA was very influential in bringing that kind of high-pitched, speeding up samples to give that high-pitched song with hip-hop. I thought that was very cool. Right, and then Kanye built his whole career on it. Oh, speaking of Kanye, let's just jump right to the next one. This is Kanye West. This is Through the Wire. Kanye, like Aaron, you just said, he became very, you know what? They actually, this went on to become something called Chipmunk Sampling, where they're essentially taking samples from old, help me out here, Aaron, old. Soul songs, yeah. This is shocking music. Old soul songs, Chipmunk Soul. And so they would take soul samples and speed them up and add this. And Kanye, with all this. With all this production and a lot of his songs, he did this.

[70:00]So this is Through the Wire. Check this out. This is, he's speeding up Chaka Khan, I believe, Through the Wire. Check this out. Wait, soul sample? Are we talking about Kanye's shoes? Yeah, so I turn tragedy to triumph. Make music that's fire. Threw my soul through the wire. Through the wire. You know what I'm saying? Yeah? Yes. I was gonna have to have a plate in my chain. And this one, when you, I think it's, like, this song's interesting. You're gonna have to cut me off. But this song. This song's interesting because when Kanye made it, he was speaking to people who knew the Chaka Khan song. But I didn't know the Chaka Khan song when I heard this. I thought, that's really cool. And then 20 years later, when I finally heard Chaka Khan do Through the Fire, the whole song that Kanye was doing made sense. Chaka Khan has such a great voice. It was, it's really fun to think about different contexts that people experience this music through. It was interesting. When I was reading about this kind of pitch shifting and speeding up music, there was actually one person that coined the phrase Chipmunk Soul. Maybe you guys have heard of him.

[71:00]I believe his name is Questlove. I think he's on the Tonight Show. Have you guys ever heard of a guy named Questlove? I love that show. Rob, Matt, you ever heard of this guy? I'm not gonna do. That show is so good. I'm not gonna break into tears. That drummer on the Tonight Show, he's so good at music, isn't he? He's no Kevin Eubanks, but man, he's pretty good. He's talented. No, Vax, whatever his name is. Vax Weidberg, right? The last song on the list, and I kind of had to go a little bit out of order, but the next one, this is Akon. Have you guys ever heard of Akon? This is a song called Lonely. Akon and Young Jeezy. Check this sped up. Sped up high-pitched lyrics here. This is badass. Akon's so good, I call him A-plus-Kon. A-plus-Kon. Oh. Here, crank this up here, Akon. This is just like Wizard of Oz. That's the Wizard of Oz, the Munchkin voice, isn't it? I unironically loved this song from the time it was released. It's such a whack song, and I love it so much. I will never get tired of it.

[72:00]I love it. I got such a kick out of this. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Oh, I love. That's such a great list, Russell. Good one. That's a good list, Russell. I love it. I'm not going to lie. You sent me a list of The Witch Doctor, Kanye, and Akon, and I was like, I have no idea what angle Russell's going with this week. There was a Led Zeppelin in there, too. The Zeppelin one is a nice pull. Yeah, I never knew that. I cannot connect the dots on these at all. Next up, Strange Relationship. Oh, this is about our podcast. This sounds like, you know, what begat New Jack Swing, right? Right. Wow. That is a big take. I like that. Maybe that's a hot take, Aaron. I'm down with it. Aaron thinks Prince started New Jack Swing. I love it. ABC, BBD, BBD. All right. That's the only part of that song I know. It's not the right lyrics. Back again. I could never take the place of something that's too long. It's not on my. Your man. Your man.

[73:02]I love this one, too. To me, like, this is Prince. This is the songs I love with Prince. It's fast. It's up. Beat. It kind of makes you smile. I'm just into this type of song here. Anthem. Anthem, Matt. Is it an anthem? Yeah. No, this is classic. This is when you can play in a stadium. Just rocks it out. It's good. It's all about him saying to a woman, I can't sleep with you. It probably blew his mind when he wrote that. He's like, what? Is that something you can even say? That's crazy. Imagine how many times he had to have sex on the stairs before he just said, I can't have sex. The cross. My notes on this, it sounds like a Creed song. You guys remember the band Creed? Oh, yeah. For some reason, I made a connection with Creed. I don't know why. Well, that's funny, Russell, because I was going to say it sounds like a Pearl Jam song. And obviously, Creed was borrowing from Pearl Jam. So maybe I'm wrong. But this kind of like just drums and rhythm guitar, like always makes me think of songs

[74:03]like Black or Yellow Leadbitter or something. Prince also started Pearl Jam. Wow, Aaron, you've got so many hot takes today. No, I didn't say that. I did not say that. That's so good. What are your thoughts that Pearl Jam has been linked to Prince and Creed? What are your thoughts on this? It's all very well thought out. And I kind of agree. And if you think of, I mean, honestly, I've had this conversation numerous times. You think of like Mumford and Sons. You think of all others. There's a few even new bands now. That's their whole shtick. Cold play to some extent. They start off really nice and soft. That one guy. Then everything. And then just your ending. With this huge ballad of noise that's coming at you. And it's kind of a recipe for success. I mean, think of a song that starts really loud and then ends quietly. It doesn't exist. Nobody wants to listen to that. We want to hear stuff build. We're about building here. We're not about breaking down. It's going to be a beautiful night.

[75:00]Live from France. I like this one because it's got the live audience in the background. I enjoy the live audience kind of being in the song. And just like Aaron in his wet pants. Oui, oui. That's the one that you like, Russell? You like that joke, huh? I've hit that point in my bottle of wine, I guess. Russell's date was like, oui, oui. And Russell's like, hmm. Yes, yes. My problem with this song is that I just want to get to the last track. And Matt, we talked about this previously. I mean, nothing compares to this one. Well, nothing compares to you. AOL 2010 Bowl of Prince fans. This is the number two Prince song of all time. What is? A door or a beautiful night? This is. Wait. It's hard now. Do you have two pairs of socks on? Because one of them was about to get rocked off. This is the best Prince song out there. Oh, that's a bold statement. Yeah. I'll tell you what's going to get rocked off is my undergarments. This song makes me want to fuck. You have to listen to the whole thing.

[76:01]We're not going to. Is this a door? What is this? Yes. A door. Okay. Now, listen to what he says. I want you to listen to this. Now, just listen. Listen. Here it comes. I love his riffs. Yeah. So, I'm now going to read the same lyrics, and you tell me who's sexier. Rob or Prince. Can we read them or not? Put them on the computer. It's a computer. Oh, yeah. Let's let the translator do it. Let's take the time. When we be mocking love, I only hear the sounds. Heavenly angels crying up above. Tears of joy pouring down on us. They know we need each other. They know you are my fix. I know. You know that I ain't cheating, baby. They know this is serious. I ain't fucking just for kicks. No. But I got to have your face all up in the place.

[77:01]I mean, listen to this. I got to have your face all up in the place. Maybe not. Maybe not the right. So, you guys all adore this song as the final song on the album, right? Yes. You all adore it. Yeah. Yes. You guys know there's someone else who also adores Prince, and that is Beck. Did you guys know that after Prince died, Beck recorded a three-track LP? I don't even know what that means. If it's a record, I don't know what that means. But it was actually called the Paisley Park Sessions. Beck was the first person to record an album in Studio A, which is the famous studio at Paisley Park. Wow. So, check this out. This is Beck. He did, what are some of Beck's songs? I can't remember. Two Turntables, whatever his songs are. But one of the Beck songs is he did a compilation of all Prince's famous songs. And this is called The Paisley Experience.

[78:01]This is Beck recording in 2019. This is Beck recording in 2019. This is him doing Raspberry Beret, which is the best Prince song ever. It has not been on either of these albums. Check this out. This is Beck. Hey, sounds nice. Are you going to make me say Beck did it better for this, Russell? I don't know if I can. Hey, when it comes to being the first artist to record in Prince's studio, who did it better after he died? Beck did it better. That's pretty cool. He was the first guy to record in his studio. That's very cool. That's a pretty cool thing. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. It's an honor. You know, Beck won his Grammy in 2017 with Morning Phases. He basically wrote and played everything. Him and his producer basically played everything. Very similar to this album. And so, you know, I think there might have been some kindred spirit. Prince started Beck. Matt's with the hot takes. It's great. Yeah. I hope when Beck was at Paisley Park, if he found some pills, he didn't eat them. I would stay away from that. Oh, jeez. We made it so far. Let's get into our final. God, so close.

[79:05]Matt, Matt, Matt. Matt's the best. Matt's the best. He's laughing. He's not a loud laugher, but he's laughing. Everything I laugh at gets cut. That's what I would say. Every time you laugh, it gets cut. It's a bold statement. Rob, Rob, did you see this big pimple I got right here on my face? Oh, my God. I got to show you guys my fingernail sometime. It totally fell off. I'll show that to you after this is done. The one thing that Matt has gotten cut in a year of doing this podcast, he's got to bring that one thing up. He knows what you love, Russell. All right. Listen, this is our rating system. Is this album? At 45, sign all the times. Is this a rolling groan? That means that we did not like it that much. Is this a rolling well-toned? It's perfect. Or did this album get rolling boned? It should not be back at 45. It should be higher, which in this case is a lower number. So we're kind of doing a fraction here. Higher, lower, numerator, denominator.

[80:00]What does it all mean? I don't know. I didn't do well in school. So, Russell, what do you think? Is this album a rolling well-toned, a rolling boned, or a rolling? Uh, groan. What do you think? What's the rolling groan song? What's the moan or groan one again? No, you're not making me say rolling moan again. I'm not doing that. I'm not some sort of circus monkey that works for peanuts. Anytime somebody says moan. I'm really torn on this. So obviously we're all, a lot of us have lived or we're from Minnesota. At some point, we have a Minnesota connection. We talked about whether we gave more credit to Purple Rain because we're Minnesota people. I love Purple Rain. I put it up in my top five. I was so looking forward to this. And the first time I listened to it, I gotta be honest. It kind of disappointed me. I thought there were a lot of slow songs. There was a lot of things going on musically, but I didn't really want to listen to the next song. I didn't really want to listen to again. And then I gave it another listen and another listen. And all of a sudden songs started jumping out at me. That housequake song all of a sudden became a super cool song. And there was a lot of songs that the more I listened to it started really resonating with me.

[81:02]So the first time I listened to it, I was kind of bummed. I thought it was slow, but the more I listened to it, I started to gain. An appreciation for it. And I love a lot of the songs on there. So I'm going to say rolling. Well-toned all right, Aaron rolling, well-toned rolling bone or rolling grown. What do you think? All right. Well, I, I'm also a little bit torn about this album. This has long been what I consider to be my favorite Prince album. However, I will say I didn't discover it, um, really until the, the 2010s ish. Like it was never one that I was, that I got into a lot. So I don't have nostalgic feelings about it. I. I dove in because I felt like, oh, I need to understand this album. Um, but I I'm, I'm sort of the opposite of Russell, maybe in a way I I've always loved this album. And the more I listened to it and the more I sort of studied it for today, I actually started to find. Things that, that maybe bothered me about it. And Matt might talk about some of the drum programming and I, I see how that's dated in a way stairs thing.

[82:02]Didn't you tonight? You tried to do the stairs thing and I can't do the stairs thing. Cause I've only got three stairs outside my house. And there. I made a cement and the neighbors. He's on an escalator, you know, he's like, oh my God, it's almost the top. Um, and I do something about, so for, so listening to it, it's my favorite Prince album. I think it's better musically, not better, but it's more interesting musically than purporting. But something about having done this all by himself is both impressive and so sad because as a funk musician, he would have grown up listening to funk bands, which would have had eight, 10, 12, 15 members. And he did away with the whole thing. He did it all by himself. And just like, it's like he killed the band in a way I'm still going to say it's rolling bone because it was better than a lot of things that we've heard, but I'm torn about it. Matt, what do you think? Rolling? Well-toned rolling, grown or rolling boned. Well, I'm just going to ask Rosie. I mean, if you are the best at playing that instrument and you're the best of playing three or four instruments, I mean, I get why he comes and does it right.

[83:06]I mean, like exactly vision. I mean, it's right. It's like, it's why Barry Bonds never made a great teammate. Right. Cause he couldn't understand why his teammates couldn't see the game the way he did. Right. Prince started Barry Bonds. Another hot take from Aaron. I love it. So I am going to say that I think this is a rolling well-toned album. I think that it's kind of like what we've just listened to kind of the same era of a rolling stones career. You know, they had a bunch of stuff in the beginning and this is where Prince is kind of turning into. I think ideal Prince for me anyways, he's kind of still got some of those drum machine eighties poppy kind of things, but then just starts getting into that drippy soulful, you know, heavy R and B heavy jazz, heavy, just down and dirty funk kind of albums that he gets.

[84:00]And it gets to more of his musicality that he's got later in life. And so I think this is just kind of the perfect culmination of going from the old to the new. And that's why I like this album so much. Cause it's got a little taste of, of everything. Yes. And again, a door might be, you know, it is my favorite Prince song, but it might, it's like a top 10 song for me of all time. I could just, I could listen to that song forever. And so for that, I'm just going to say it's rolling. Well-toned the correct answer for this album is rolling. Prince wants to bone. This album was super horny. This was the, this was the all time horniest album we've done yet. And that's saying something because we did cover kid a, uh, this album is so sexual. It makes me think like, if you made love to Prince, do you think it would be fun? Like, do you think he'd be like just a blast to make love to, or do you think it would be more like Leonardo DiCaprio? Who the rumors are that he puts on noise canceling headphones when he does it, which is always, it makes me laugh so hard. Just be like, oh, this is my chance. I finally get to make love to the guy from Wolf on wall street. And he's just like, he's like me walking around the house.

[85:00]Noise canceling. What'd you say? I've always been a bigger fan of the Derek Jeter cell where he leaves them the gift basket afterwards with like the signed baseball. It's so good. That's not the one with. The centaur painting of himself. That's how I think anyone's like, this is my last, this is my chance to make love to the kid from growing pains. Like, don't you think that's like some people it's not, it's not all Wolf on wall street for the Leo fans out there. Right. That's true. Some of us do think of Leo as the guy from growing pains. Like you, Aaron, he's been to a bar across the street in like the last two days. He hasn't seen a movie in 35 years. All right. Next up, we are going from one of the most sexual albums to easily one of the least sexual albums of all time. What's up next? We've got the album that answers. The question, who has more talent, Simon or Garfunkel? This is Paul Simon's race land. This is the first album we're doing where I know every lyric, every note of this album. This is an all timer. It's so good. This album is so good. I think it should be called great land. That joke is closed. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time, but you're just too lazy to look it up online.

[86:06]Graceland. So good. I've already got it all loaded. We can do it right now. Ready to go. Let's do it. Double, double album. We can do a double album. Double podcast. I've got the podcast for you. That's fine as leave. Beck did it better. Did it better. Russell, thanks for the great date. My house has so many stairs in IT. Why are your pants wet? Why does it say it like IT? It says IT, right? Stop saying IT. I don't care. That was so, that was the worst part of the day when I kept asking if you would touch IT. And she couldn't understand my question. Stop asking if you would touch IT. That's a good joke. That's a good, Rob. That's a great joke. Rob, you need to apologize for next week for not laughing at my joke. You don't need to ever tell me that's a good joke because I know it is. That was so funny. You should touch IT.

[87:00]Okay. Well, then I don't like it when you say it like that.