Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968)

[0:00]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, and we promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better. From 1968, we are all the way up to album 60. All the way. This is Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. Oh! Guys, listening to this made me realize I need to listen to more radio, Because there are some songs out there that I would love I just haven't heard yet. So let's what, let's see what's on right now. Maybe there's a great song on the radio, or maybe it's a song that somebody recorded in like 10 minutes on the first take And then didn't feel like going back and maybe doing a better job later. Okay, so we don't know. It could be anything. Who knows? Let's check it out. What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B. Listen, I got a call to the KROB line. It's from four different guys who say they have a podcast and not as many people are listening as they should.

[1:00]So I asked them, are you using your real-ass names? Are you telling people about the podcast? Are you putting any work whatsoever into promotion? And they didn't think so. When we started this podcast, we asked people to listen at first. But then the reaction they would give me, well, it was just the worst. Yes. Oh, geez. Dark place. So now I don't mention it to anyone. Nope. And I don't even post to the back. Did it better? Instagram. Instagram. Instagram's over from me. And if you take a look at our Twitter feed. Oh, go get it. Go get it. You'll notice that it's basically completely empty. Oh, you hear Rob piping on that flute in the back?

[2:00]There's such nice flute on this one. Okay. You ever had a feeling that maybe you made something that was too long? No, never. It's never been too long. It's never been an issue for me. I know it's listening. Is it goddamn on the radio? Yes. It is true. Yes, I did my Van Morrison voice Maybe we should invite a more popular podcast Wait what

[3:00]I don't remember Yes I Did you step friends who used to text me about the podcast that is seemingly come to an end with it the last few months Yeah, the text or the friendships. You might be biggest man here in New York is like A couple episodes behind I was like, please don't you don't have to tell me that actually I legit got a text from a friend today saying that they were at the Prince sign of the times and that they were taking the week off to catch up on the podcast That's what they're doing on their time off. That's wow. Wow. That's great

[4:00]They're out in there. They're out in their shack in the woods writing their manifesto. I'm like, what do I want to listen to? I'm writing this what I think about the government. Ah, I've got this perfect podcast Excuse me. Why does this manifesto have so many references to time machines? I don't know All right. Welcome back to it better. We are a podcast where we're going through the top 500 albums as recorded by Rolling Stone magazine And we are all the way up to number 60. We've got Van Morrison astral weeks. And you know what here's a couple guys I haven't seen for one astral week Sorry, I didn't write anything down Russell in Minnesota Russell. How are you doing? Rob last night I ventured into the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream. Oh my my It was a sweet thing. I was wondering why I was so sore when I woke up this morning You know pain Rob. No pain I've got Matt in Minneapolis Matt. How are you doing tonight? Well, just great Rob. Thanks for having me as always And I've got somebody who has gone around trying to get one of these vaccine booster shots when he found out

[5:00]What it can do to your balls Aaron, how are you doing in california? I'm just so excited to be here and sit on our own star and talk about the way we were and the way we wanted it to be So i'm happy to be there. There you go. I like that just to let you know I am editing out that five minute rant. You just went on about your balls where you talked about it I've described in detail And how small they were we don't supplement we can discuss that another time No, it's not funny though that was always an insult of like, oh, I bet you have small balls Actually, it wasn't insult right big balls is both is big balls a compliment I think it is a compliment like sam kasell Yeah, sam kasell was famous for doing the big balls dance after a big shot I think it's a compliment such a great idea for a dance I have now grown into an age that when I am wearing like tight underwear It's just balls in the front like you know what I mean like I'm that guy You remember you used to see those guys and it would look like they're just like carrying a backpack of water or like a It would look like just a straight up pouch And you're like wait a minute. How does the penis look like that? You realize it's all balls I think that's the point where I'm at in my life where my underwear is just rounded

[6:00]It looks like a bowling ball I want to talk more about how you used to see those guys and then you don't see them anymore What's changed about your behavior where you used to see a lot of balls and now you don't I don't I don't have it. My gym doesn't have a locker room. So I'm changing at home So my days have seen like balls and stuff. It's It's gone. Sadly. I don't have any ball The gym has is a hairdryer at waist level. So who knows what we could do with that I don't know. Maybe dry my balls like a parachute does whatever Hey, but like with the stuff you said Aaron, I'm editing out You should get a hairdryer put in in your house drop Do you imagine like a that'll get your wife out of the bathroom You'd have your own private time if you had a hairdryer in there It'd be so good. I'm telling you guys, I am jamming on the separate bedroom idea Like big time. I am ready for my kid to move out. I've got plans for this bedroom right here It's gonna be so great. It's gonna what's going to go in the separate bedroom. We're gonna get tv's We're gonna get video games. I mean, I'm gonna be like 50 at the time. It's gonna be a podcast studio I'm gonna I'm gonna really get it going. It's gonna be awesome And guess what I can go to bed past 8 30 and not get yelled at when I hopped into bed

[7:00]So and we're gonna be on album 200 by that time. So we got plenty Of time Oh, that sounds fun What would happen if you proposed the separate bedroom to Jenny like now would she be up for that or what would be the response She'd be thrilled. She hates me And she hates it when I come to bed Listen, just gonna say it again marriage is fine. Everything's going fine But me getting into bed at night It literally is like I have to be like a cat burglar But in reverse like I'm trying to get in To the bed without setting off the alarm because she just hates it Even if we go to bed at the same time I'll move around to get comfortable and I can move about six times and after six times I know I'm gonna get god damn it. You're moving a lot like Do you ever just do like the big Flop and a lot of turn like just get it all over in like 30 seconds And then you know like obviously she's gonna wake up or whatever But you know just I mean don't try to do the cat burglar thing Just no barrel in there and go doesn't that work?

[8:00]I know this podcast is supposed to be like fun and joking everything waking her up at night is not a joke Okay, I don't even know about that actually it is very scary You do not want to wake my wife up at night. She will be mad and then she does this she goes God damn it. I can't even go to sleep now. So now I am stressed and then I look over her and she's like She so I'm up for another half hour. I'm like shit backfire All right, Rob. Rob. Put your earphones on mute for a second. We'll do rustle This is a great opportunity for another song You're great at making fun of Rob's family So you get you got the first one and now you can do one of making fun of Rob Trying to get Jenny to go to sleep. So Robin is his nightcap is nighttime activities. Yeah. Yeah So next week you're on you're up for a song. Okay, you can do a rock him verse about Rob Good luck on the parody song next week trying to do parodies on Eric being wrecked him's paid in full Oh my god, only the grid that last one was so good Everybody's waiting for the next one. So you're up next. No pressure. All right, Rob. Rob. You can put your headphones back on

[9:00]Yeah, yep. Yeah, no, yeah, you're good. Okay. They had to give me hand signals because obviously I couldn't hear what they were saying Let's get into the first part of the show that everybody remembers and definitely didn't forget about It's time for the back It's funny I I legit figure we had no becks and that we would have to have the discussion about how no one's reaching out to us anymore I'll tell you what my theme song writing it and singing it made me sad that nobody listens to the podcast But I have to admit this week the becks People did come in force, which is good because remember that what we talked about in the last one where the guy invited me to the party Totally forgot about it. Did not Think about it. I feel terrible Oh, someone give you a public invite and we honestly we kept like a really boring like two minute long Recording in the podcast I Didn't go I did not why didn't you go? I didn't even think about it I should have written it down. It didn't even cross my mind Until I was editing the podcast. I listened to the voice. We're like, oh, shit. That was this weekend. God damn it

[10:00]So do you think that's an acceptable reason for someone not to show up because they called and invited you up because they're a podcast fan No, I should have gone and then you don't show because they're you're editing the podcast Is that a good excuse saryn and matt for robber not No, no Hey, I'm taking the time to Leave your dumb podcast a voicemail that you can maybe make something funny out of and oh, why don't you come to this party? No, I'm so busy Not busy by the way a voicemail invite is almost as good as an evite Like you might as well have sent you an evite and you just not no response. That's It it's very bad. They're still in the yet to respond category I mean, we've all done the evite back in the day that the person who doesn't respond is a real asshole rob I'm responding. No, this is the response. I'm very sorry that I didn't go the I really am. I feel bad about it After their party Question for you guys What would be the worst song to hear at the totally not a scam dentist office?

[11:00]Okay, so joe buck is texting in and asking us What would be the worst song to think to hear when you are at The dental office now. I did immediately think about this song by anvil. Listen to this you go into the dentist office You sit down anvil. Wait, is this erin's pick or what are we doing? No, no, no, there's a great documentary about anvil It's about a kind of a old heavy metal band that was like sea list and then what they're up to now It's a great documentary if you get a chance. It won an academy award. I think this is called metal on metal You're in the dentist. You're in the chair Aaron, get the rob's left field take of the week ready. Yeah Boom Rob's left field take of the week. You know This is kind of catchy though. This isn't even like I don't know. This is kind of poppy Guys, it's so good. But the idea of metal on metal. That's what I think about going to the dentist It's the worst feeling of all time. We thought you guys remember the band mr Big that did I'm the one who wants to be with you?

[12:00]Yeah, I think they also in their non So there's so there's two things the first thing I do not want to hear the dentist is any song that I am Going to be incapable of singing along with which is most songs So if I'm in there in the dentist chair with like my mouth propped open And I'm the one who wants to be with you by mr. Big comes on I'm going to be trying to sing along and I'm probably gonna joke on whatever's going on That's not great. That would be so hard to not sing along with. I'm the oh Was to be with Excuse me, sir, please stop. We're gonna have to charge you extra if you keep singing during this song Oh terrible, it'd be about you're right. That's impossible not to sing along with anything You're dying to sing along with that's one But I think mr. Big also did some songs where they played their guitars with electric drills And so I think there are songs out there where like people are putting drills on their guitars and playing them All right, hold on Rob. You can have the sound bird back. You can almost I passed out just listening to that. That's terrible Just thinking about that. I almost passed out. Yeah, I think mr. Big was a band that did that

[13:00]But I'm gonna have to look it up. Yeah, I only knows last time I went to the dentist. I I was like You're playing this album through There's some problematic stuff on here. I don't I think I'm gonna go somewhere in the middle to me The when I hear songs, I don't want to hear I'm first. I'm gonna say any Metallica song I don't want to hear master of puppets. I don't want to hear metal at the dentist's office So Rob, I'm gonna pile on with that The other one I was thinking of is I don't want to hear oops. I did it again by Britney Spears I don't want to hear about anything going wrong while this dentist is in my mouth taking my money And abusing me I don't want to hear anything about mistakes. Oops. I did against so funny. Perfect. Matt. What do you think? You're at the dentist. What song do you not want to hear? Well, I probably let it bleed by rolling stones And then You know any I've gotten through the list a little bit I sent you guys a song today by the velvet underground but anything by the velvet underground just

[14:00]That would send me over the What's the difference between the velvet underground and band morris and they both start with v They both have like two words in it Like I have to admit there may have been some confusion on my part It's science and there's a there's a duh in front of one They seem quite different. I guess we'll discuss that when we get to the music unfortunately I think van morissen seems nice and velvet underground had Nico One of them is knighted Yeah, I'm not Let's just spin the whole podcast talking about differences between van morissen velvet underground We could just do that for an hour and a half and call it a night My next question about van morissen was going to be person or a band This is like steely dan. Is it a person or a fucking band? You don't know that unless you're really into music. Do you think there's somebody named steely dan? I don't know if it's a person or a band. I got history. You're well over a year into being the Tertiary host of a podcast about music. You're weighing in music Routal be the co-main host before you're like steely dan

[15:00]Steely dan could be like slip repeat or something like that Like there could be a guy named dan and he's just steely dan Guys, I don't want to get into this again, but I have we have talked about this before steely dan is named after a nickname for vibrators. So Okay, what is van morissen named after? It's the it's a it's a huge vibrator Don't even give you started on limo morissen. I mean, it's oh, no Yeah Listen, I can sleep, huh? I don't want to talk about optimist prime morissen. That's a whole different Oh This Bexar also sent a follow-up, which I realized I didn't pull the clip for but here. Let's If it's not the lumberjack by jack ill, you're wrong Okay, so he is saying That was kevin harland coming at he was risqué up high comes down hard. We call those the high hard ones Okay, so he says that this song is going to be very bad. So googly ugly, baby Maybe jackal might be the ones that played

[16:00]The guitar with their drills. Maybe i'm thinking of the wrong band Are we still talking about the dentist? Yes. We are still talking about the dentist steely dentist Oh, yes, it's the chainsaw on you. Oh my god. I think it is the one where the drill's on the guitar So don't doctors when they do operations they listen to music when they put you out Do dentists listen to music while they're working on you or not? I don't know Oh No, you're totally right. That's the one so me and this Bexar on the same page Yeah, that was on the list of songs you don't want to hear in the dentist and also songs you don't want to hear in this podcast So thanks for nothing Okay, but a dumb shit listener Okay, parody song ideas lumberjack in it. Okay. I'm crossing that out. Nobody liked it. Not good

[17:00]Hey, Rob. We got that covered next week. Don't worry about it. I do like that the Bexar by the way Both texted a Bex and then answered it with his own thing. That was also the best answer It's like, yeah, that's how you look smart You have a question that you know the best answer to and then you ask the question Brilliant. Yeah, I was thinking jackal was on my list. That was next to the one I was gonna say The famous band All right, let's get into everybody's favorite podcast. It's rolling It's time for rolling go All right, Aaron. Tell us rolling going. How is it going with you? Oh, it's it's a it's another day of a roller coaster of emotions for me. You guys know how I'm in my feelings a lot I I feel a little bit melancholy and I'll be honest Rob. Your song didn't help me get out of my feelings Yeah, I really enjoyed listening to this album this week And I feel excited to talk with you guys about it Because it's wait, is this the reading system? Yeah I started out of your ass here your astral weeks

[18:00]I didn't know this album. I was kind of not excited to hear it. I was sort of like astral weeks It's like I know it's canon, but whatever and I I loved it I really enjoyed listening to it and then we got to today and I was playing it for the last time over dinner tonight And I was like, man, this is it another smashing pumpkin. This is it I'm yeah And then I felt is the great I felt an infinite sadness and I thought about how people might have felt in 1979 listening And if they had a twin Wow, and they and their twin had the same dream if it might have been a siamese dream That's all the smashing pumpkin songs. I know we say conjoined dream now So you were sad so you're rolling on let me get this straight. Okay. Let me get this Yeah, let's hear it. You're rolling going is that you're sad that you can't listen to this album anymore after this podcast Well, it's not what you're sad about it's not that because I know I can still listen to the album It's more about the time marches on kind of concept

[19:00]It's that oh my once that we once we've talked about this album on this podcast Our end of mectallica it's the last time we've talked about this album on this podcast And that's it and then I just I start thinking about all the weeks and hours and days We've spent together talking about music and I feel like I It Emotional about it. Yeah, I'm seeking out new music and you're seeking and destroying it. Yeah So so Aaron when you say you get emotional about it, that means you are getting sad about Time or you've been happy emotional like an arousal or what do you mean? Just looking back and thinking about how we've spent the last year of our lives and Appreciating the time we've spent together and then rob you made a nice sweet song about how like It really doesn't matter that no one's listening because we've got each other and we're making I think it does matter I think it does matter. I think it really matters Listen, I mean listen this Aaron. This is what the year of us hanging out and making these sweet memories Don't get me started about the dew point. I've really like I've got a whole page

[20:00]I mean, I've got a whole page literally I've got 50 of these of just clips where I pulled to make fun of you Like that and no one else is that no one else thinks about me that much Like you other you know outside of my family Like you're the only one outside of my family who thinks about me that often enough to make clips of me So that's really sweet. It's so it's so true that I was going to do My kid has curls to brown eyed girl and I was like I cannot do another Aaron song I've done like four Aaron songs in a row. I'm constantly thinking about Aaron and then I'm apologizing for what I said I cannot do another Aaron song. So so you understand the podcast is also like a comedy I guess I I guess we're under the comedy thing So you saying that you feel sad is not a great start Not a great start. So anything else you feel sad about or like really bummed about Well yesterday we could still laugh at him when he gets off this tonight. We could still laugh. That's fine I mean, can you imagine being made to Aaron? You're married to Aaron, right? And you're like, sweetie, you're down You look a little glum. What's going on? He's like Just thinking about the podcast

[21:00]You're like, oh, what? You're listening to Van Morris and he's like Excuse me about the time I spent with these guys What am I doing in a tiny house with a cycle path? Make me edit that out Aaron what else do you have? I know you have more Aaron. Well, yeah, bought a new well, let's see what I want to say Yesterday was a new type of green at the farmers market best day of my life Yesterday was John Coltrane's birthday. So there's been Coltrane all weekend on the jazz station So that helps me lift my spirits a bit. I like to think about John Coltrane And we bought a new coffee maker. We bought an automatic drip coffee maker So that's been an exciting time over the last week to learn how to use that and my son's really pumped. So now he's part of the Coffee making crew in the family. So it's part of the new morning. Your kid is making coffee Yeah, he helps make the car. Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't like the sound of the grinder But after that, then he's all in he pours the water he puts it in the little

[22:00]Basket puts the basket in there puts the top on flips the switch and then he watches the water go It's very cool. Oh, you're what a parent. That's great. And then you're like, okay, a little bit of cream for dad Bring it over. I'm crying on the couch listening to van Morrison Are all you guys coffee fiends where you have to have it every morning? So I'm not a coffee person. I've drank less than five cups of coffee my life Are you guys you always have to have it in the morning or not? Yes Yeah, it's part of the ritual. Yeah pretty much. Yeah And if not like in the morning like that day like Cup of noon coffee or something like that but Yeah, no, I'm I was like you Russell. I didn't have coffee towels like 34 35 and then all of a sudden it's boom Three or four cups a day. I was the same way. I didn't have coffee till I was 25 And the irony is is that when I was 24, I was working at Starbucks And I didn't drink any coffee. All I drank were like mochas, right? So the first day at Starbucks, you're in there and you're working the line They're showing you how to make the drinks and they're like, you can have any drink you want at the store

[23:00]So to practice I made like four drinks. I would have that banana bread I would go be sitting in the corner eating the banana bread. No, they were actually strict about that The food was off limits. They were talking drinks. The food was oh Russell He's just saying that made me want to report you to Karen And she would have gotten on your ass because she was she'd like to do that. All right So I had like a double mocha like a latte like just a shot of espresso And I was like, I'm gonna drink all these. I don't want to waste them, right? That's like when you start working in a sweet place You're always like, I don't want to waste this and so I'm drinking it I have probably seven shots of espresso within 10 minutes, right? So then I go back out and all of a sudden It's like I'm in the matrix, right? The world is moving slow. I feel like Jordan I know kung fu The customers are Craig Elo and I'm Michael Jordan. I'm just in the zone. Nothing misses every drink I make perfect Every conversation I have with the customer perfect everything laughing is roses. It's you know, it's everybody's harps are playing And after about a half hour I felt like

[24:00]A wave of cold water just hit me and I start to sweat. It's cold, but I can't stop sweating And I'm like, wait, what's going on? What's happening? And I just felt like garbage for the rest of the day I was like, this is the worst decision I've ever made. It was awesome So did you keep doing it every day then or not? No I would have gone for the great 30 minutes and just dealt with the rest of the terrible day No, because everybody told you, oh, yeah, when you start working at Starbucks You're making like frappuccinos and double mochas and white mochas and then after a week everybody's just drinking straight black coffee They're like, I can't take anything. That's not it has any sort of sweetness because you're just surrounded and you're just drinking it all day All right, we're only going man. How's it going with you? Good Rob. Unlike you. I you know, I got invited to a party a podcast listener And you know, so I was nice. I decided to go there's lots of people I feel bad. Damn it. But did you want to go mad or not? Well, yeah but again guys I think we've all had this experience that we we're all we're much more than this podcast, right guys But then when you show up at these events and that's all people want to talk about

[25:00]There's no one else in my life who refers to me as a co-host of anything. So I don't know Well to be fair being married Russell, nobody considers me a co-host either I did figure out one thing though at this party. What's that? 8 30 in the evening is too early to start flip cup. Oh no You're 23 year old 40. This is a 40 year old birthday party. Oh my god Yeah, one of you guys could sprain a wrist or something playing 8 30 if you we showed up at like 8 So 8 30 we started playing flip cup. That's not that's not a good recipe anymore guys. Let me tell you We're getting a little too old. What time did you end 9 30? 8 40 there was a couple games it got pretty rowdy, but then yeah It was there for the rest of the night everything, but you really yeah, it's we're getting old It's been a long time since I was over served in public my my usual

[26:00]But when I say over served, I mean over served by my own choices Yeah, my usual tactic when that happens is to just kind of stay quiet And try to fade into the background if I can although there have been times where I get a little bit You know louder than I should when that happens, man What's your what's your style when you know you've maybe had more than you wanted to in a particular Oh, I definitely get louder and then I get really tired and I just want to go to bed I just want to leave and go to bed, right? But no That's such a dad move That's it. Oh, I used to do that all the time and it would at first it drove Sarah nuts But then she was like, well, it's kind of a good move just the old Irish I think we've talked about the Irish goodbye. Just you know, I gotta go get you know, and just go to bed You guys figure it out. You can't do too much damage to my house, right? So now Russell, it's true that you like to do what you call a coyote ugly Where you go stand up on the bar and dance around right when you're over served I mean, we're about to get there. We're about to find out this is a late recording tonight. No more bras

[27:00]Man, you were saying did you host the flip cup party? No, no This is that afraid but it you know, it's about six blocks from our house So I was gonna say there's no way Matt would allow beer to be spilled on like his garage floor Or like on his lawn or anything. There's no way that would host a beer cup party, right? Yeah it would have to be like right before You're about to like stain the deck, right? So it's going to get power washed the next day anyway That kind of a thing so I picture if you're at a party that's still doing flip cup I picture like earlier you guys are playing quarters where you'd make the quarter spin And then if you lost you had to put the knuckles down And then they fling the quarter into the knuckles as hard as they could guys in middle school Just like they'd be so bloody and they're like, yeah Then you go to Matt said the party rubbing an eraser against his arm for a long time. What does this do? Yeah, this party fucking rocks Yeah, there was you know, we were playing with the red solo cups, right? And you fill them up and there's lines kind of it was little one right at the bottom And you know, there's different lines that are supposed to be different ounces, right?

[28:00]And that's how you're supposed to do it. So we're all playing we all realize that we're getting old the kind of a things We're very barely filling up those Those cups right and then one of some neighbor comes in you mother Oh, they've got a port they've got to fill them up And so making big pours, whatever. Yeah, that lady didn't last very long either So it was pretty good. So at least we're getting a little smarter about how Oh, hi, we fill up those cups, but All in all it was a great party There was a lot of Beck did a better fans there and I just wish that they went I wish they would realize that we're more than this podcast And we have more to offer to the world in this podcast Plus if you ask Matt anything about this podcast beyond How do you guys sit around when you record? He's not going to be able to tell you too much like there's not You know, he's not going to be able to tell you like the editing process or the anything about my mother-in-law I did that the other day. She goes she just texted me you do not look like john candy and I had no idea Any reference to at all. I had no idea. I said I I'm lost

[29:00]I have no idea, so Sorry patty. I didn't Rob was big at a game called Ping pong pelt Have you guys ever heard of ping pong pelt before no air? Have you heard of this? No Battle pong is what we play what we call it Battle pong if you will So we had a party at our friend mani. I believe it was mani's house back in the day And it was ping pong so people were just playing regular ping pong and rob or someone decided to bring up this game called Battle pong where if you lost like a point you would have to stand there and pull your shirt up And then the other person on the other side of the table got to take the ball And just blasted at you as hard as possible. Yeah rob. Was this your invention or not? No, somebody else taught it to us But we would play it and non-stop at the cabin because the ping pong table is almost the perfect length where You're only going to hit somebody with a ping pong ball about once every five times You're going to wildly miss the other four times

[30:00]But that one time where you hit them And that sound of a ping pong ball striking flesh because the person's shirt is over their head So they can't see you hitting the ball. So it's a total it's like the darkness tasting But every once in a while you get whipped with a ping pong ball would not expect that And that sound and it would raise a welt and they would go You would laugh All night long like it was better than drinking hitting somebody with a ping pong ball. It was so good I do remember watching this and there were We were younger at the time but you had there were wives who came out and saw this and were just disgusted by it I remember thinking like how am I single and these guys is working for these guys, but yeah One wife was like, oh, that's a big target and I was like My ears aren't covered. I can hear you Rob pulled his pants and turned around I'm right here Yeah, they were like, what's that? What's that ping pong ball? And I was like, oh, my pants fell down Yeah, never mind They're like, why is it all like sac shaped in the front? Why is there no Shouldn't there be like definition? I thought there was supposed to be white

[31:00]Yeah, it seems like it's almost like a it looks like you're wearing a cup when it's just actually your genitalia All right, we're all in going Russell. How's it going with you? It's going well as you guys know I've I went to a concert with Is that the same concert that Matt was at a few weeks ago? I actually went to another concert But it was a little less a lower profile. It was a few this last weekend Was in a small town and there was a cover band or if you will that the guy was playing all elton john and all Billy Joel songs that's all he played for two hours And so I went and watched this and he was really good on some of them and he just completely bombed on other ones And so one of them like you couldn't really tell if the mics had gone out or if he just sucked or whatever But we say and we listen and I got to ask you guys Is there more fun artists to listen to and sing along with than billy joel melton john? Like there's no No singer or artist out there that I would rather listen to and just sing along with their hit songs. They're they're amazing, aren't they? They are very nice. And then you know, they've have often toured together, right?

[32:00]You told me about it, right? Yeah Yeah then they come out together and they got the pianos back to back and yeah No, it's you're you're right on there rustle. They're they're a great show. I mean this guy was he piano based So he he had a piano out there It was an outdoor concert not that many people a couple hundred now rustle Did you get up and see what kind of piano was where you like? Oh, this is a horn or electric piano I know the top five artists that played songs on that I got up there and started talking about the fender rose and everyone was cheered for me rob It was amazing It was the first time anyone wanted to call me a co-captain of anything That's right to be the co-captain of this concert this guy fucking rocks. Yeah, people loved it But no, they had the piano and then he had two horn players I think a saxophone player and then I don't know for the other or maybe been a guitar I don't know they had a I don't fucking know There was the main guy playing the piano

[33:00]And then there was another person that I can't remember up. Maybe I don't know what they were playing I'll have to look at the picture. They were playing something rustles playing flip club in the crowd He does have the best memory of this event. Well, that's true. I mean, you don't go to a local billy joel elton John concert and the on the complete sober that seems like a bad idea That probably is now did they did he do the bitch's back and bomb it because that's what I'm the song I'm picturing him just absolutely tanking of Well, the bitch is back No, they bombed I forgot what the song was but it was one of the famous billy joel songs that they completely bombed Oh, no, and at the end people cheered for it. I looked at and I was like, wait, this was really bad Do we have to cheer for someone if they suck at a live performance? Yes, did you get booed at rob's wedding or not? I don't I've not I've not to my knowledge been booed. I I booed once at a show and You did was not yes. Yeah, and it didn't appreciate it a halloween show Not and you're dressed like a ghost

[34:00]Sir, please don't like the music keep it yourself I do think though This is a tangent, but I think it's appropriate to boo villains Just in the same way that a wrestler like a wrestling heel You know if they're getting jeers like they know they're doing their job, right? I think it's appropriate to boo villains if the villain did a good job What kind of villain is at a concert are you talking about? Yeah, what kind of villain are you think like a stage show like if you go to a show like if you know If you went to see what you're saying It's like people should boo King George at the end of Hamilton like that's a sign of respect just like Or like the rob tells a bad joke. We boo that shit. Yeah So you think at the end when the actor comes out and everybody's like the bad person you're like boo you suck Yeah, that's I think that's a sign of respect. I think that's what you should do for the bad You know for the villain did he did his job so well that you still have these visceral feelings Yeah, I think so not everyone agrees with me about that Yeah, so I did look it was a guitar. It was a guitar player was the other one

[35:00]So that would make sense. They had a guitar player, but the two The one guy would change Well, if they were playing with their hands and had strings that makes sense with a guitar The one guy would change the main guy who was singing the songs would change his jacket So he would do three Elton John songs with like the electric looking jacket with the really Very vibrant jacket going on and then he would play Billy Joel and he would go put the dark jacket How are you not laughing at how many times he just I'm up above. I'm floating up above. I'm looking down. I'm seeing my body recorded this podcast because I'm in heaven He just said jacket like See the pearly gates. They slowly open. I see a giant figure not even a person just like I can smoke No, it's no smoke. I can just feel it's positive energy clouds And a hand comes down on my shoulder and says jackets and then we both walk in The light together Now Russell when this guy was doing this did he ever take off his pants?

[36:00]And jacket Take off your shoes and jacket take off your shoes and oh, sorry. Yeah, that's Aaron style Blank 282 It sounds like Russell had a busy night at the Elton John. What song do they close with Russell? I'm always interested My me and my friend left before the end because they fucked up the one song and we were like we're out of here We're gonna go somewhere else. So we did not say till the very end. Will you tell me what song they fucked up man, right? Will you? Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah, you're you're right about that. What song did they fuck up you remember at all? No, I had too much to drink You think they close with Piano man over tiny dancer Yes, 100 no actually we I did hear tiny dancer and I texted you guys this They sang a special verse. Do you guys know how garth brooks has the one song where there's The secret fourth verse or third verse or whatever it is friends in low places They sang a special

[37:00]Third verse for tiny dancer and he started singing about toni danza rob your favorite actor closer Everyone else at the concert did not get a kick out of it like I did though I was like over the mood over this whole toni danza. Angela hold me close. Huh? I'm toni danza Oh angela, what happened? You're trying to fix the dryer and you got stuck Here, let me hand you a tool that might help And here's a jacket to go with this and I'm gonna see your headlights on the highway. All right So Rolling going around at least help a little bit like don't you want I don't want to steal your toni danza impression You begged for it and I gave it to you then you're like, oh, yeah, that's right. It's really bad and gross And demeaning I don't like that when you say you begged for it and gave it to you that doesn't I had a physical I had a physical therapy appointment and we're going to call the guy We'll call the guy dr. George. Okay I had a physical therapy appointment my wife

[38:00]Recommended this because I was having some knee issues and on a squatting my wife's like listen go into this physical therapy She's great. He is a little bit out there and I was like, oh, well, okay. I guess I can So I go in And I meet a guy in the Elevator Okay, gets in a drink no mask right no mask wearing flip flops in Manhattan very I mean it's a very strange combination I was like this guy's going up to the physical therapy with me. This is the kind of people that go there So we're going up the guy looks at me and goes, oh, what's your name? And I said rob and he goes, oh, hey, I'm dr. George So that was the physical therapist that I was looking for with the no mask in the elevator And as I walked in he said, okay sit down. I'm gonna come talk to you I look at his book collection, right his book collection has books I wrote down the titles actually the supple jag wire Most dangerous moves and magnet therapy Oh, yeah So I was like I was gonna say if he started this guy starts doing some healing touch Oh, just wait So then he's like he explains to me this whole thing about lymphatic system and nervous system

[39:00]And then he says evolution it's all about your balls And I was like, okay, well now you're speaking my language so we can have this conversation like I'm I'm listening to this so then he's like we're gonna start You're gonna go spend 20 minutes in front of the lights. I go, what he had me stand in front of a panel of lights He goes, this is gonna activate your mitochondria Okay Okay, so I'm standing there my mitochondria is getting activated and they're like this is infrared light And I'm like, well actually I have a slide on this. I know it's not because I can see the light So I know it's visible light like that's the only kind of light we can see and then it was so bright That I shielded my eyes and they go, oh the light's not bad for your eyes Actually, it's good for your eyes. I was like, no, you can't say that like you can't just be like It's actually better if you stare at the bright light. I was like, that's I know that's not true No doctors like I highly recommend you go stare at these bright lights like that's my treatment for you So I'm like, okay So then Dr. George comes up and goes listen We're gonna do something I invented It's called the guts. So right there by the way something this we're gonna do something

[40:00]I've invented always a worrying line to start your physical therapy He goes, I'm gonna do the gut smash So I lay down and I he takes a kettlebell like a 45 pound kettlebell. Isn't this how Houdini died? Oh, yeah, that's trust me. That's what I was thinking about. See he's rubbing He goes, okay, I'm gonna rub your small intestine. So he's rubbing my small intestine because he's like The reason you're having trouble in your body is that you had your gallbladder removed And so everything in your body shifted So when that shifted it's screwing up your muscles connecting your legs And I was like it has nothing to do with the fact that you squat 800 pounds You don't need to be doing that and then he goes, okay, go lay down on this bed. There's an electrode thing on the bed Right. I lay on it. He then puts a wand Next to my liver And stimulates it for 10 minutes and it's just pulsing How do you stimulate it with electricity? He's running electricity through my body coming out on the right side of my liver So it's pulse pulse pulse Then hooks up even Aaron wouldn't move to new york after listening to this bullshit

[41:00]I'm not even I don't even know if I'm halfway through. I then lay on my side. He pumps my liver He goes, okay, we're gonna pump your liver for a little bit. So about five minutes. He's giving my liver CPR Pushing it up and down Mind you how appalled would you be if Aaron brought this story? Right I guess if this were my story I guess I don't get I don't understand what you're saying because this story is totally normal and it's actually a pretty funny story And definitely not a weird thing to do at all and definitely not to pay money to have somebody do it to you Hooked up two electrodes to my ears and ran electricity through my vagus nerve For 10 minutes. So my they were running electricity through both ears. You have a Las Vegas nerve. Yeah. Yeah double down, baby And then So then they're doing some stuff and they're like, okay, we're gonna need to massage the inside of your pelvis Oh, no, right. So I have to lay like spreading Takes his elbow and starts scraping at it Okay, at any point. Do you have a An a rep moment of arousal

[42:00]Are you like counting down from 99 to 1 or what are you how are you keeping it from happening? He's like, sir, I need to push aside this giant mound so I can get into your pelvis So then I'm on my stomach and he's stretching out my hamstring side to side and he goes What's your opinion on needles? I was like, I'm down with needles He's like, okay, so he starts jabbing me with a needle in the hamstring as he's stretching it side to side And then all of a sudden he's like, okay, that's it. Do you have 15 minutes to kill and I was like I do Let's do it. He hooks me up to electrodes on my quads Blast those for 15 minutes. I could barely walk afterwards Then as I'm leaving he says, okay, I need you to send me a videotape of you squatting next time And I need you to send me A text telling me about your next three bowel movements Oh, no He goes, I want to hear about your next three bowel movements He goes, we're hoping that on the third one It's going to be a little bit like yellow fat because I mean we've got some of that impacted stuff coming out Rob, we might need to move this along here. No, this is important. I now I need to know

[43:00]No, no, I gotta know the end. I gotta hear a bunch of L movements now Rob. I'm sorry everybody The third one was totally yellow. I couldn't believe it. I yelled when I saw it I was like, what the hell this guy knows exactly what he's doing He has the greatest experience and I can squat like crazy now. I'm good I gotta get one of those fucking lights for my apartment. I'm gonna stand in front of it and have the mitocadre be activated So your poop was exactly as he described it would be 100% it blew my fucking mind. I was like I like woke up Jenny and told her about it. She was furious. It's terrible. That's crazy. Come take a look at this It's yellow. Russell's so mad. All right, Russell. Fine. We'll get to nobody's favorite part. Let's talk about the album for Let's talk about some music after that. Oh my god We could keep talking about it. No, Russell's like talking about pimples is probably the worst thing we've ever done on the show Until today All right, so we are talking about astral weeks Wait, is this what you talk about to your wife when you go to bed? Is this why she gets bad when you go to bed? Like is this your pillow talk or not?

[44:00]Well, and then she goes, oh, he's never talked to me about that I was like, what? Like how why am I getting this treatment? He's looking at me and being like, oh that guy's really impacted. Does she get the pelvic massage from him from the doctor? Yeah, I don't know. Oh She showed up by the way. She showed up halfway through my appointment for her appointment. And you know what the physical therapist said to us? Don't you guys have two kids? So the physical therapist is doing a better job at childcare than we are because we were both like, oh, yeah What's who's feeding them? We're both here. You're doing the spider-man thing both pointing at you. I was there From 30 To eight I left no No way. It was so brave hours Four and a half hours of just people worrying about me and like rubbing me and stabbing with needles. I was like, this is heaven I can't get enough. Oh my god Let's talk about astral weeks. This is van morse and 68 out by the way We've been hanging out in this time span for the last I don't know four or five albums kind of 68 69 71 was led zeppelin

[45:00]This is van morse and second album When he played for them the producer came afterwards came and said, listen, you got to do a record for us. Okay And we're going to put out four singles. So van morse and recorded four songs Was going to put them out of singles. They actually released it as an album as a van morse and album without his knowledge at all One of those songs was brown eyed girl And he didn't know that they had released as an album until one of his friends said, hey, I just bought your album It's pretty good. He's like what album he didn't know you had put out anything So after that producer died There was a lawsuit where he could not play any of those songs anymore and he couldn't perform in the new york area So warner brothers eventually bought out his contract, but he had to submit 36 songs to The old record label as part of the bargain And so he recorded 36 of the fastest revenge songs ever where he's doing it With a untuned guitar And he's making these songs just to get out of his contract. So here's here's one of the songs is called want a danish by van morse

[46:00]You want a danish? No, I just ate I've just eaten Like I want some bread up new heart. Oh bread up front. You want a sandwich? Hey, let me tell you about baseball It is pretty similar. Is it it sounds like Bob Newhart to me This could be the lead track on any radio head album. We've listened to so far So basically then for this next album, they brought in these jazz musicians and they say that let's see They say that van morse and barely even talked to the musicians at all that for the most part van morse It was in the booth with guitar. He'd show these musicians. Okay, this is how I want the song to go with chords I don't care what you guys do whatever they want They would do about one to two takes for each song. They recorded this whole album in three sessions With the strings being overdubbed later and basically the main leader of the group was this bassist eric davis

[47:00]So I think we're going to hear a lot of this is a very bass forward album. It's good bass and that's it I mean, that's that's the whole album is basically it's a it's when I was going to listen to this album I was like, oh van morse and brown eyed girl moon dance But instead this is like if you combine folk music and jazz music together And this is what comes out. It's it's it's a crazy crazy album I never I didn't know till we were listening to this that van morse and is in fact irish and he's a he's a knight Right. He's sir. George Ivan And I feel like the only irish connection. That's a way better name by the way from north ireland Right, so I don't know if they claim being irish or how they what their feelings are But I remember seeing him on like pbs with the chieftains like playing irish music But I was just thought he was like a dude who loved irish music I didn't know that he was actually from there until we were it's so so crazy This is such a hole in my musical knowledge. You thought it was a band and not a person didn't you? Van morse and I mean smaller would be car morse and you guys don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's a vw

[48:00]Micro bus morse and astral weeks So oh the side one is called in the beginning the lyrics are kind of a stream of consciousness But it also is like this Every song builds and builds and builds. I guess I'm telling you guys. I love this album This is a voice that you couldn't miss. This is a unmistakable voice like there are parts of some of these songs I'm not crazy about what he does, but it's a it's an absolutely unmistakable voice Beside you van morse and listen to how he's kind of playing back and forth of this classical guitar here Oh Did you guys like this song to me this one was not one of my favorites? I thought it was a little too long. There's a part where he's yelling at you The first two songs are a little too long for you for me You don't like songs where the artist is yelling at you wrestle. No, there's a part where he starts yelling at you later in

[49:00]This song and do the dishes rob How come you never do the dishes in your home? I'm editing the podcast Because it's fucking Roy was supposed to do the dishes I did find Parts of this album We're we're sort of hard to listen to like in a like a mental way for me Like I would try to put the album on if I was doing other things and I just it I felt like it scrambled my brain I don't know if it's some of the repetition because he does sort of like get into a groove and just Stick with it and it happens over and over again. So Yeah, I think beside he was one where like it's kind of in this groove and then once while he just goes like You're kind of like Jesus van like I think the best way to think about this album is to think about it as a jazz album And his voice is just another instrument. Don't listen to the lyrics. You don't have to hear what he's saying But if you think about him playing off with the bassist and the other instruments, I think it makes a lot more sense Matt, did you see that line on wikipedia 2 or not? I haven't got there yet. Okay. All right. I'm still I'm still in van mortis and growing up in belfast

[50:00]Matt have you listened to some this week? Yeah, tell us about all the research you did. All right, sweet thing Oh, now we're back we're now we're back in the groove some of these songs are on this build It's kind of some cool drums on this one Yeah, the instrumentation on this one is like nothing we've really heard for a while now Just I this album I'm telling you and I'm gonna I'll say it right now I think sweet thing is the third greatest pop song ever recorded. Wow. We've got god only knows We've got hot for teacher I'm officially declaring three sweet thing ahead of backdoor santa For number three on my favorite songs. I bet I listened to this song a hundred times this week Never disappointed in it. I love the song. I just a Almost a perfect song. Do you think it's a better sweet thing song than whoever sings? Whoa, the sweetest thing who sings that song?

[51:00]That'd be you too, right? That's another irish guy you too. They love talking about those sweet things There's there's got to be a sweet thing deal over in ireland, then they're both Didn't shakar khan do a song called sweet thing and india or you might have covered it Oh, yes, they did and if you're looking for karaoke tracks like on youtube Maybe like at the last possible minute and you actually pull up shakar khan over and over it gets a little frustrated Don't you know you might am one of my favorites One of my favorite lines in this song was and I will drink the clear clean water to quench my thirst But you guys know on this podcast. I do not drink Okay, what is he possibly drinking for astral weeks? I don't know if I do one even well as you guys know Van Morrison, whether it's a band or a person is from ireland, correct? So I am doing what is called an ireish eyes cocktail. Can you guys see this? Green cocktail Show it again show that shit again. I gotta To be fair I think I may not have the right proportions, but this is an ireish eyes cocktail

[52:00]This involves ireish whiskey Green cream to men. Oh, no, he didn't add that and cream and a maraschino cherry But I may have overdone the cream. I think that my proportions are off. It looks more like a foggy Green drink and not quite the drink. I was hoping for okay. So Russell. I gotta know Yeah, okay. Did I go to the grocery store and check out with cream and maraschino cherries? Yes, I did. Wow. I did do that today I can't believe what on earth are you going to do with the rest of that green rustle I mean it's just gonna sit there a fucking tin I think we know what he's gonna do He's gonna find a teacher and play hot for teacher and do recreate varsity blues Oh, I was whipped the cream first, but I was thinking that when you bought a rustle. Did you say cash rules everything around me? Have to check out that. He's so fucking good Yes So what did you have cream to meth? I had to go purchase that. Oh my god. So you had everything for this drink

[53:00]I Had everything for it I think I put too much cream in it. There's something off. It does not look like it was supposed to look I've never been more disappointed in a rustle that you have every ingredient that really actually pisses me off quite a bit Part of the reason I wanted to try this is it looks so bright and green like when you guys get a cocktail How important is it that like it looks cool because there's something about a cocktail that has like a cool presentation Yeah, and maybe you can go with it if it doesn't taste great, but it looks really cool So how important is the aesthetics of a cocktail for you guys? I got an old fashion today and it was served to me in a cup that looked like the cups They had an old country buffet like the little glass cups that were kind of bulgy I was just like, I don't want to drink it out of this Like I don't want to drink this shit out of a cheap cup get out of here this shit The saying is you eat with your eyes first although I don't I mean my cocktails are usually a shot in a beer But if I were to go to a place and pay more than six dollars for a cocktail I would want it to look nice Can I tell you guys it can I tell you guys a dirty little secret? Bring it. Nope. Okay. Erin's giving me a big thumbs up. Oh, I'm always doing stuff. I don't think that's appropriate

[54:00]I love that's not a thumb frozen cocktails more than regular cocktails. I love frozen cocktails I will drink frozen cocktails a frozen mango daiquiri Let's give it to me. Oh, I love I'm like a child with a slushie. It's terrible Rob, we went out for a happy hour this week and I was already done with my drinks And then I noticed that the bar had a tie iced tea slushie that you could add rum or whatever to And I'm I'm still kicking myself that I didn't order one You want to know? Rob, do you have a machine in your apartment? Do you have a something to make a frozen slushie? Actually, I do have an ice crusher machine that I keep in my closet in my bedroom because there's no more space in the kitchen It's terribly dangerous. All it is I bought it off amazon and I knew it was bad because it was like $15 All the instructions were in mandarin. So I was like, okay, this is dicey It is just a thing you put ice into and at the bottom there are whirling razor blades There's no form of protection whatsoever. There's no like cover to not cut yourself on the razor blades You just put your ice in and just hope that it doesn't like

[55:00]I don't know what fly across the room But I gotta admit it's about as safe as the medical care you've been receiving lately Yeah, when I put some liquor on ice like that, I feel like it's it's heaven. It's the it's just awesome. I love it All right cypress avenue This is the song that closes lives And we got a little harpsichord back here It's been a while since we had hear the harpsichord on some Beatles albums. You guys hear that harpsichord. Oh, yeah, it sounds nice Yeah, that's crazy because if you really listen in the background too You hear that there's a harp Maybe they misordered that maybe they wanted the harpsichord and instead they were like, I just get the harp What's the difference? No big deal The way young lovers do Here, what do you think they mean by that? I never knew this was a van morrisan song. I knew this from the jeff buckley cover And I never knew I didn't know until we listened to this and it's a van morrisan song

[56:00]And the thing is I always thought that the buckley cover was sort of like laid back He buckley takes it in a darker sort of direction But he does kind of although it's just voicing guitar and the buckley cover He kind of recreates this sort of flamenco You know wild feel in a way that I didn't really realize till I listened back this week So the way young lovers do this is the beginning of side two I thought it's such a fun way to start off the second side of the album like Total change of pace. It's it's upbeat. It's funky. It's like, yeah This is what young lovers do like they're staying up all night You know doing stuff or whatever or maybe learning about stuff and learning about themselves drinking these Over foamy irish cocktails that don't really quite work out the way you want Sizing lower intestines. You gotta stop holding that drink up with the camera. My stomach rumbles every time you hold it up No, no Like this round? Yeah, I don't know if anybody's ever caught diarrhea over zoom But I got a feeling I gotta be calling dr. George a couple more times and be like, bro It's in a yellow next time. This is yellow ass shit up in here, george

[57:00]One thing I really loved about that song is you guys kind of hear that bass It was like it felt like a jazz song a little bit, didn't it? Absolutely a heavy album and the song That's really shining we've heard some we've heard some bass before but we've never really talked about the upright bass And that's what they're playing here is it's called a double bass, which is the same thing as an upright bass, right? Yes So I thought we could do a list of the greatest upright bass songs of all time. Can we do a list? Can I interrupt just really quickly though? Yeah, can I just say how perfect a choice this is because today is the 30th anniversary of the release of low end theory So this is perfect, which was an album inspired by the double bass His ass is way ahead of you, Aaron Aaron what? We're gonna go out of order this time just for you First song on the list is by a tribe called quest. This is bugging out. Check out this upright bass on this song Oh, thank you, Russell Is that bad after what chant for boo on the bass? Yeah, I mean our plakie's not playing the bass, but

[58:00]Hey, that's great. That's our plakie. If you guys haven't heard that's art plakie on the bass You guys know our big he's not playing the bass, but it's an art plakie song. Yeah Oh, no, hey, Russell instead. I'm going to send you a Spotify link that you're never going to listen to How about that? That's a classic Aaron move. Hey guys, listen to this. No response for three days I'm used to it. All right next Next up on the list, Aaron, I think you actually might like You actually might like this one too. This is the marvel. That's mr. Postman. This is much more faint You got to listen for a little bit more, but there's a reason we got to listen to I hear it back there Geez what a song too, holy shit But Aaron, I think you've talked about this guy once before The guy playing this was like one of the greatest bass players ever James Jamerson, right?

[59:00]Yes, is that one of the greatest bass players ever? He was the bass player on what's going on I think he did do the thunder tussy song. Is that right? He was on what's going on. He was a bass player. No, but But like Paul McCartney says like this guy is the god's gift to bass players And what I was reading was that at in Motown He was like the only upright bass player and they would schedule all these songs around this guy This was the guy who played on all these Motown songs. And I just thought that was super cool We had to give James Jamerson his props, right? I like that Russell. Yeah, I think he was mercurial I think he drank a lot. So they probably had to yeah, they had to probably play him with booze and wait for him to be Lucid enough to lay down some lines That's the guy who they he recorded that whole song on his back, right? One of the Marvin Gaye songs. Oh, I totally remember that now. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yes Don't you know bloke? He's my favorite bass player. It's me Paul McCartney I had to announce the name at the end. That's why you know, it's a good impression. You have to say the name and everybody goes

[1:00:00]It's like it's like Russell at the Billy. It's like Russell at the Billy Joel and John guy He's like, uh-huh. Are we gonna are we really gonna clap for that? Like it's totally quiet You hear Russell say are we gonna clap for that? Like Wait, I shouldn't have done that. Yeah I kept talking about the jacket. I don't know why people weren't having that. I don't know That's his third jacket. I'd be so thirsty I'm sure that's a 10th time you've said that please Okay, gotta hydrate if you're gonna You lose a lot of fluid there All right, next up we're gonna move forward a few years. This is soul coughing super bonbon. Check out the upright bass on this one Whoa Yes, Russell. They got it really amplified there. You hear that? Yeah This is famous it's on a few like the Michael Jordan movies where they show Michael Jordan He's always walking through the crowd and they're playing move upside and let the man go through

[1:01:00]It's a badass song. Can I just say how great it is that Russell's lists have really gravitated towards separate instruments And then when Russell went to a concert. He was like, it was a horn or guitar or something So you can tell Russell's knowledge is all text-based It's like when you read a word and you've never said it out loud You're like, oh, I don't know quite how this word works. He's his knowledge is great But if you ask him to show like what a clavinet looks like he's like, I don't know. I need to blow into it I have no idea Well speaking of things where my knowledge has been limited lately. Let's talk about the bear naked ladies They also use an upright bass. You guys remember the bear naked ladies If I had a million dollars they used an upright bass and almost all their songs. This is instant turn off these days This is on the radio I still unironically love this song. I will always love this song. It's so dumb Man, is it over being overplayed for you? Overplayed. I just can't listen to them anymore. And they're a little they're a little chorus here

[1:02:00]It's like Chock But not a real green dress that's cruel like okay. I've heard that joke too many times But I I like the sort of Dixieland feel of the upright bass there makes me feel like I'm a Delano's on End of an avenue I Was telling I was talking to Russell before podcast I was like if you would have told me in the year 2000 that bear naked ladies is going to be a huge band for the rest of your life I would have said absolutely that's absolutely true Bear naked ladies are going to put out a million albums that are all going to be good And then I just never heard about them again like ever like I think I saw him on a casino sign And I was like, oh no stuff like that. What do you see that? I like the idea. So that was not the man's first dance at the wedding. He's more of a ring of fire guy for sure Yeah, ring of fire also Also had an upright bass on that but until Johnny Cash makes the list We're not going to give any Johnny Cash out to the people. He needs to be on the list Yes, I agree Russell Tennessee to out not on the list tonight. I agree Russell

[1:03:00]Bear naked ladies, by the way Also a band that was invented before seo before google because there's no way you'd want to name your band bear naked ladies Now Although for my work computer Rob technically we could put bear naked ladies into our write-up on this episode. It might help us out, right? That's so good. And can you imagine if I misspelled it? Right, so they show up. They got a big claws. Okay, furry. They're about 800 pounds and you're like, oh my god These are bears naked ladies Bear naked ladies. Oh, how about that? Okay. So there's a bear with snakes on the back And then it comes turns into a woman and it's a bear snake lady A bear snake lady. Yep, exactly. God damn. It's so good Or maybe It's a bear with snakes and he's on a boat. So it's a bear snake matey Russell in the crowd. Do we have to cheer for that really?

[1:04:00]Wait, was that a good joke or not? I think it was That's glad for that one snaps all around. Well If the name of that boat was named debora It would be done by back because that's the last song in the list. Let's go to debora by back. Come on. Check out the upright face here Oh, oh, yeah, listen to this. That's really nice Man, this is a funny bass song It's a pretty badass upright bass song. Is it not so so good? Yeah, it slides around. Oh, I like it So I got to ask you guys when it comes to the upright bass, who did it better Beck did it better? Nice. I was so excited for that because I thought it was debora Russell that was a top five with a 41 year old man getting excited about a bra Excellent list Russell. Excellent. Enjoyed the bass. Yeah. Nice. I like the shout out to james jamerson

[1:05:00]Not gonna lie hoping you would have called it the bass for the whole bit We've never would have corrected you but you've only read about it. So you call it the bass Honestly, you guys know I've confused on instruments Did you guys know there if you start searching for double bass? You also get drum players who play a double bass It was very confusing. Oh, like john barlow used to play or not people thought he did but he didn't Well, let me think what could be one of the most famous double bass songs of all time Oh Because he's playing it rustling he's got the two pedals to the both feet so he can just go like that Hot for teacher double bras, right Rob? Double bras Do you think that's hotter rustle a double bra? I don't know. I'm getting everything else wrong today. It's probably a good sign Russell's mouth, by the way, is just a green circle around the mouth It's a green milk mustache all around A girl takes off her shirt Russell goes, oh one bra

[1:06:00]It's like a single mask at the airport. I want to see two masks, right? Yeah. She's double layers She's telling her friend. She's like, I don't know what's going on. He said one bra. So I I'm I was very confused for that. He's very sad about it. But a second one, I guess That's probably my favorite thing is when I take a joke that was really funny and then extended about 30 seconds too long That's so good of me All right, so I would imply there was a funny joke at some point All right, madam George So this for me was actually my favorite song on the album I I love this song even though this is absolutely the most rhyme dot com song We have heard of any song we've heard on this podcast He's just taking the last word and he's like oh, we're on the chance. Oh dance Yeah Yeah, you don't I'm telling you the voice is an instrument

[1:07:00]Do not listen to the lyrics on this because when I was going through the lyrics for a sweet thing for my parody song I was like Oof some of these rhymes. Oof they I don't care if you're irish. This rhyme does not work Absolutely All right, here we have ballerina Matt this was composed when he was with them With them yep with who no Yes, no, but guess who no nice vibes on them So do you get who it is man It's them. Yes. No Let's kiss This is where we got to talk about we have to talk about Hey, is the greatest song ever by this artist on the album and brown eyed girl is not but that last song sounds a lot like brown eyed girl There's a lot of brown eyed girls on this album. This is a good album Right

[1:08:00]I'm this album could be in the top 10 of the rolling stone list in my mind. It's that good of an album It's it's it's it's unlike anything we've heard when I come into work. I listen to the album once a day That's my rule for this Every day I came in and sat down to listen to this I was thrilled. I was thrilled to be able to be listening to this again Okay, now at the end of the workday my my co-workers are like, why are you crying? And I was like, I can't tell you about the podcast or I'll get fired. So this is the rating section Rob, here's the thing. I I agree with you to some extent that it's unlike anything we've heard Good. Okay. Let's get to the right now I So, yeah, I mean you guys know I think about voodoo one today anyway So maybe this is just my brain bit something and I like Russell that you brought up James Jamerson Because I know he was a major inspiration for voodoo as well something about this album made me think of voodoo where it's sort of like It's like Star Wars where it's it's creating a universe. So he's created a universe with this sound He's created a whole different place. The whole album lives in this place with this sound

[1:09:00]I don't remember the names of a lot of the songs. I don't always know what's going on But it puts me immediately into a mindset I could listen to the album over and over again and for me the only other thing that does that is voodoo And that and when we think of voodoo, right? We think about his muscles on his body and I'm not going to call him, but you think about star wars What was the music they played in star wars called? Giz, so it kind of goes together too. What? Style of music in star wars is giz. Look it up What? Amazing music style star wars just man type in music style star wars. See what comes up Name of music in star wars. Okay. So I'm still on wikipedia He's looking at he's looking at what he's still reading about belfast like what the population of belfast wasn't like Don't bother. Yeah, he's got a he's got a whole rabbit hole of Irish history All right slim slow slider Final song on the album 40 minute album. It's a quick one. Yeah

[1:10:00]I know you're dying And I know you guys think of this as the closer Killer You think so? Oh, it's a killer this album. It took you up the mound and it brings you back down to put you to bed at night It's a sweet ride Yeah, what do you think about this as a closer your construction manager I mean, I like it. I like when it kind of brings you down and Like you said, it just sets you down nice and gently and says here you go go on your go on with your day You guys ever made your spouse tuck you into bed Sometimes I do it sometimes like hey, can you just tuck me in like put the sheets around we tuck me in nice and tight How does it go for you? I don't know. It's weird. It turns out to be pretty weird Move memories. It's mixed emotions. I don't why did I bring this up sickos? All right, let's get into the patented and very popular

[1:11:00]Rating system By the way, I put all these in a row so I can find them now 60 episodes in Nailed it Very popular by the way, do you know what the other day we released our 69th episode nary a peep From any of us. Oh, we missed that opportunity there. Yeah All right, so is astral weeks at 60 is this rolling? Well toned that means it's perfect at 60. Hey go 10 times 6 guess where you are you're at 60 Will you still need me? Will you still feed me when the album's at 60? That'd be rolling. Well toned if you think that's a good idea rolling Aaron's not even mad like when I looked at Aaron's face. He's just kind of disgusted. He's just I think he was rethinking He's like, wait, what? Why was I upset? Why was my wife consoling me about this? Is this a rolling Boned should this have been much higher on the list higher than 60 it got rolling boned or is this a rolling grown

[1:12:00]You did not enjoy this. It should be lower on the list or off the list What so ever is the word I definitely meant to say Whatsoever and we're just going to skip that and not make it easy for me to edit out Whatsoever All right, matt. What do you think rolling tone well toned rolling boned or rolling grown? I you know rosy often comes up with you know Some of these albums that he thinks They're rated higher, but the ones that are lower Which means they've got a higher number until they're further down the list Exactly or actually better albums for him and I have this going on with van morrison. I think moon dance Is a better album than this one Specifically You know, I think into the mystic might be his best song ever. Absolutely You know way ahead of brown eyed girl in my opinion, but you know and that has Moon dance has into the mystic. So I would put moon dance ahead of this album personally. So for that reason

[1:13:00]I think this Album is rolling grown, which means it's too High in the list, which means I want it to go lower. So I get a higher number Yes, is moon dance on the list somewhere or not. Yeah 120. Oh, so it's coming up It'll be coming up years. Yeah a year from now. I'll catch you the year Imagine what color rob's poop will look like in a year after all these treatments Siri set reminder for one year start eating fish sticks then make a song called into the fish sticks I'm all set But I got started eating fish sticks like three weeks out and then talking about a lot of the podcast so Guys this is so good. I make my own content Aaron, what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown? Yeah, I had such a nice week listening to this album. I don't I don't even I don't know the moon dance A nice astral week, you might say I had a great astral week listening to this album. Matt. I appreciate you say it It makes me really uncomfortable actually if you say it, please don't say it anymore. Shout out for moon dance I'm gonna have to check that one out because I enjoyed this far more than I expected I think it's some really nice musicianship and just it's one that I know is going to stick with me

[1:14:00]And I'll keep listening to so I'm going to call it rolling well toned And Russell, what do you think rolling well toned rolling boned or rolling grown? This was one I I kind of thought I was going to come in and Not like it. I thought for sure. I was going to say rolling grown on this one But the Aaron mentioned it all there's all these instruments going on. There's the harpsichord. There's flutes There's is that a guitar. What do you call? What was that other instrument a guitar? Yeah guitar There's guitars on this. It's a badass. There's an upright bass There's a ton of fun things going on. It's not brown eyed grown I don't I don't think they have a song as good as into is it into the mystic matter What's the mystic? Yeah, and I don't so I don't think they have the huge crusher songs in there But I think Aaron put it best like you hear these songs and you think of van morse And you think of those songs that you really know and they're all kind of in that zone And I really enjoy listening to that. I'm gonna listen to this again. So I'm gonna say rolling well toned

[1:15:00]Folks, unfortunately, the correct answer is it's a rolling van mora sone Listen, I was so busy. I don't have a lot of time for this anymore I'll tell you right now This is you this album is unlike anything. I I have an confession to make I have a dirty little secret I don't especially like the song brown eyed girl. I don't I don't think it's fun. I don't like listening to it I think it's overplayed And so I just don't I really don't I think there's some things about like a guy in junior high played it And then he was super popular and it made me jealous of him. So I think maybe I know I hate the song I might be a psychopath But I think I just worked something out with you guys. So thank you. I appreciate it We're here for you. It's it's I was dreading it because I was like, it's just going to be those songs over and instead it was like this trip That was like The bass as soon as it started I was like boy, this sounds pretty jazzy and it just never stopped the whole album through I got such a kick out of this and I think it's it's fun to have this really unique

[1:16:00]Album this point in our journey Speaking of unique albums guys next up we have an album that's about my friend Hayden Hayden full By Eric B And Rocky That's a shift from what we've been listening to the last few right? Yes, it's a fun The guys the list is fun. We are kind of a fun journey Going from Led Zeppelin talking book to Band Morrison to Hayden full Back did it better Do you guys think the next day they go on I should make them one of these Irish eye cocktails or should I just show them my new jacket move?