Episode 0- Introduction to Beck Did It Better
[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, and we promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better. This is Episode Zero, From the Beatles to Big Boy and Andre 3000. We're talking about that list. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time, but you're just too lazy to look it up online. If you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track, I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck Did It Better. This is Beck Did It Better, the podcast where we're talking about the Rolling Stones' top 500 albums of all time.
[01:00]But before we do that, we thought we'd take the very first episode to slow it down a little. So normally every day we'd be taking an album from the list and talking about what we think about it. But today we're going to be trying to look at the whole list. I think today we're kind of focusing on the first 10 or so. But before we start this, let's just talk about how's it going? How's everybody doing? Rosie, how are you doing today? I'm okay. I'm okay. No one wants to hear about the parents of a toddler complaining about their sleep, but my kid is going through a weird sleep thing. And so, you know, we're going to talk about that. We were up in the middle of the night last night and then up at 6 a.m. today. But it was beautiful sunshine today. I did a quick workout in the garage, which felt great. And I'm super stoked to hear what you guys have to say on what you all have to say. I'm trying not to say you guys. I'm super stoked to hear what you all have to say on this episode. And Rosie, before we started, you told us working out is code for jerking it. So I think that's good. I think that's a good code. In my garage, dry, just with some WD-40, just out there.
[02:00]So, all right. So this podcast is canceled before it even starts. Just me and some Mike Grease out in our garage. Somehow it's got two E's next to it for super explicit. You know, Rosie, my pediatrician when my daughter was growing up told me that a kid could cry for five hours before you had to be concerned and actually do anything about it. So keep that in mind. You can let that kid cry their ass out for five hours before you actually have to be like. I think something might be really wrong. My son is three. But the thing is, we live in a tiny house and his bedroom is next door to ours. So his thing now is like, just he's not in a crib anymore. Like, we're not going to turn this into a parenting podcast. But he can just walk straight into our room in the middle of the night and be like, hey, I need something. And then that's it. Let me give you some real advice and I'll cut this later. But when my daughter, when my daughter's transitioned to a real bed, I sat outside and I kept a tally of how many times they got up the first night. And they got up 65 times.
[03:01]Came out of the bed. And every time I took them back, I said, I love you. Good night. I put him back in bed. And then the next night I kept a tally on a sheet of paper and it went all the way down to 40. Now, normally 40 would seem like a lot. But compared to the night before, I was like, this is a great parenting victory. And then the next night I was 20. And then the next night I gave up and I started reading him stories because I'm a terrible parent. So now I still have to do that every night. I spend hours of my life reading my children's story. And I'm like, this is a special time. I shouldn't be mad about this. But meanwhile, I'm furious. Cause I'm watching absolutely no movies on Netflix whatsoever. Matt, how are you doing? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. It's the summer. I live in Minneapolis. It's about the best time to live in Minneapolis. Headed down to the lakes this morning for a bike ride. And went down with the family to the beach this evening. So life's good. Life's good. What's the favorite beach activity for your kiddos? Actually, you know, my eight-year-old Leo just loves it.
[04:02]And he's not, he wasn't gifted with the, with the athletic gene. He's about as smart as they come. And so like literally being in the water, he feels like he's on home turf. He can swim like a fish. So he just likes being in the water and doing whatever he can in there. Floating around, diving, all that good stuff. So not too much. I mean, we're not like beach, like build sandcastles kind of stuff, but just hanging out in the water. Does he wear a shirt in the water, Karnas? That's what I did all the time. Growing up, Matt, is I wore a shirt. I wore a shirt when I went in the water. And I realized when I was like, I don't know what, 26. I was like, I should have just, what? There's nothing more apparent that a guy is embarrassed of his body than wearing a shirt. And nothing draws more attention to it than wearing a shirt. It's a disaster. A parent should always tell a kid, take off that shirt. Get your ass in there. Nobody actually cares. Get that shirt off. I don't know about your shirt theory there, Rob.
[05:00]As a bigger guy, I've seen plenty of pictures with me in a pool. We're in a lake wearing a shirt. And I'm always kind of embarrassed about that. But I've also seen the pictures of me in the lake without the shirt. And that hasn't been the best deal either. I did have a fish bite my nipple the other day because it looks so much like a worm. And that was humiliated on so many levels. Right in front of my kids, too. I had my nipple pierced for a while. And a fish would jump out of the water to bite it. But that's another story for another podcast. That's true. That is true. Well, I'm going to listen to that podcast for sure. I'm sorry, Russ. Russ, how are you doing? Great start. Episode zero. Here we go. I'm doing okay, Rob. I'm doing okay. I was actually hoping to use this time to maybe get some advice from you guys, if that's all right. Hey, I'm in for you. If there's anything we'd love to do is give advice to people where it affects us almost zero. The real reason that it's probably a terrible idea for me to use you guys as a sounding board for this is it actually has to do with my dating life and specifically online dating.
[06:03]And I know that. You guys have all been married for 10 plus years now. You've never done the online dating thing. Or if you did, it certainly was not in the recent era. But I came across this woman who messaged me. And I was going to see if you guys could maybe help come up with a quick response that would maybe draw her in a little bit. If you can see me, I'm rubbing my hands together in delight. Eggplant emoji. Eggplant emoji and then the water drops. That's what I would send all the time. Well, let me tell you what she messaged. Okay. So this is on an app called Bumble. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Bumble. Essentially, it's kind of like a Tinder where you swipe right and left. If you both swipe right and you match, then the woman actually has the opportunity to message you within 24 hours. If she doesn't message you, it goes away. So essentially, it gives women the opportunity to message first and decide who they want to reach out to. So, Russ, can I ask you a question real quick? I have not had the chance to do online dating. It sounds fun.
[07:00]I think I'm going to start dating. Why? How did you get into Bumble? That sounds like it just has a chance to humiliate you over and over and over. I don't think I could do it. Well, Rob, you're kind of assuming that all the other apps wouldn't humiliate me over and over and over and over. When you talked about allowing your child to cry for five or more hours, if there was a limit on me crying during my online dating experience, it would have ended at five hours a long, long time ago. But I think, Rob, one of the reasons that Bumble is a good option. It's because I don't have to spend my time messaging hundreds of women, hoping that a handful of them email me or message me back. I can just wait and swipe. And if you match with me and they want to reach out, then it's awesome. Then I know that there's probably something there for at least us to have a conversation. Whereas if I'm just throwing messages out into space, I have no idea if anyone's going to read them, if they're going to respond. And it's been an interesting ride.
[08:03]So on Bumble, again, the woman messaged me. So she messaged me, and normally a message will consist of, oh, what was the most exciting part of your week? Or where would you love to take a dream vacation? Or they'll ask you something about your interests. This lady messaged me, and how would you respond to this? Okay. Quote, you seem fancy. Are you fancy? I think she said it like fancy. You seem fancy. Russell, I know you have pictures of yourself in front of restaurants where Michelin star chefs are running that restaurant. That's the only response. You need to send her a picture of some surf and turf you were chowing down on, man. Yeah, that's good. Surf and turf. Ladies love that stuff. Just give it to her. She must have thought that you live in God's country. You live in a really good city. So she must have figured out where you lived, and that's why she thinks you're so fancy. I don't know what it could be. There's a picture of me in Texas wearing a cowboy hat at a football game.
[09:02]I've got a professional picture on there. I don't know what in my pictures or my profile could have given her the idea that I was, quote, unquote, a fancy man. But then it started making me really wonder. I was like, is this, is she questioning my sexuality? What's happening here? And so I started urban dictionaring the word fancy just to see if there was something I wasn't getting. The closest answer I could come up with, so this is after I get done urban dictionaring and make sure I'm not missing something, because I've never once been accused of being a dashing, handsome, charming, and sophisticated man characterized by exquisite wardrobe, impeccable taste, and respect in good manners towards the fair. So I figured she could not have been referring to that. It had to be something else. But the best thing I could come up with, and I figured I'd run it by you guys before I do this, is maybe some sort of comment about I'm fancy at grocery stores, but a freak in the bed or something along those lines. Oh, yeah. No, I like it. You show yourself buying like super expensive mustard.
[10:00]Like you take that, you take that just the yellow mustard and you're like, no, no, no. And then you take the mustard with like the little mustard marbles in it. And you're like, oh, yeah, this is what I like. Fancy mustard. You can tell how fancy I am. I refer to it as mustard marbles. So what did you reply, Russ? What did you say? I'm so fascinated by this. Well, this is where this is becoming really depressing, as I was hoping that one of the three of you would have an amazing answer that I could just plop right in there. And I would maybe get another response by the end of this podcast. But I think I'm going to need to go back to the drawing board on that one. Obviously, I'm no help. There was no internet when I was dating. One thing I could maybe talk about is the fact that I am fancy and I do host a podcast with three of my friends. Do not. Do not do that. Russell, absolutely do not do that. That is a that is a major turnoff for women, because then, you know, what she's going to want to do is listen to the podcast. Well, that seems like a disaster. Yeah, that seems like a total disaster. So the podcast is about music, but you guys don't talk about music for 90 percent of it.
[11:00]Yes, that is correct. There are definitely some highs and lows. I've met some really awesome people, really awesome women through the process. It hasn't really led to anything permanent or or completely serious, but met a lot. A lot of really nice people, a lot of awesome people. But I've also met some of the crazies out there. So I figured, can I share can I share my biggest dating disaster story that doesn't involve me? But it made me question what I was doing. Let me look at how much let me look at how much time we have left. Yeah, we have all the rest of my life to listen to this story. I cannot wait. I've never wanted to hear anything more in my life. And that includes my wedding. Like, this is if you interrupted, like my wife said, I do with like Rob. I got to tell you a story about the biggest date and disaster. I'd be like, sorry, sweetie, I got to go. I'm out of here. So this story took place probably about a year ago or so. I've probably been doing online dating off on and off for about a couple of years. I'll do it for a little bit. Get sick of it. Take a break from it. Try it again. I matched with this this woman on BumbleArt, one of the apps.
[12:01]I forgot what it was. And we were going to go out and meet for a drink later on. And we were going to meet in Woodbury, which is probably about 45 minutes from my house. So it was a little bit longer than I would prefer to go. But whatever. You never know. I would drive 10 hours. I don't care. I'd be like that astronaut lady who wore a diaper and grew up across the country to meet somebody. They'd be like, hey, let's hang out. I'd be like, OK, put on my diaper. Let's go. We're going to hear that story, too. But we're going to see Russell right now. So anyways, I get in my car and I drive out and I meet her at this bar. And we sit down and we order a few drinks. And I give the guy my card. We can start a tab. And she kind of looks at me and she says, are you paying for this? I said, oh, absolutely. I'm happy to pay for it. No problem. And normally it's not usually a big deal. We're just getting a drink. Or two baller. And at first she looks at me and she says, she goes, I'm not used to guys paying for anything. And I kind of looked at her and I was kind of surprised by that because I just assumed, hey, I'm not assuming anything. But I think it's fair for me.
[13:00]If I ask you out, it's fair for me to pay when we go out. And so eventually she starts telling me about her dating experiences. And any time you're on one of these first dates through the dating app, if people start talking about their other experiences, you know, it's going completely sideways. You're. No longer interested in getting to know this person. It's just going sideways. It's like a podcast. Yes, exactly. No interest. So this this date starts going a little cattywampus, just like this podcast typically does. And she looks at me and she starts telling me about these disaster dating stories she's had. And she tells me about this story where she met a gentleman on an app and went and decided to have relations with. Him later that day. And then she went back on the app, met a new guy and went and had relations with a different guy in the same day. And that's fair. She can do what she wants. I'm not judging or anything like that, but I was sitting there wondering, this is a first date.
[14:04]Why would you be telling me this as, hey, get to know me. We should go out further. It was just so bizarre. So she kept telling me about this experience she had where these guys kind of used her and never called her again or whatever. Say, Russ, if I just got to say, if I. Had that experience, I would also be telling every single day that I went out and that happened to me as well. I'd be like, oh, my God, this one time. Oh, it was so great. It's the greatest day of my life. So part of me was thinking, am I going to be guy number three? Did this happen earlier in the same day? And she just wasn't telling. I don't know. That's just me speculating. But anyways, I kind of knew this wasn't going anywhere. But the whole time we're sitting there having these drinks and she's telling me about this, I realize this is my life. I drove 45 minutes to meet this woman. So. She. Could just tell me about all these guys she's she's slept with over the last few days. And I remember thinking, I can't believe this is this is what I'm pulling in. And I remember driving back from Woodbury just thinking, this is a complete disaster. Why am I doing this?
[15:00]And then the worst part was, you know, in the middle of winter. So the 45 minute drive turns into an hour, an hour and a half drive. And it was just a complete disaster. I think I deleted all my apps shortly thereafter for a while. So how do you so, Russ, how do you end a date like that? Like, do you just say, like, yeah, you just say, like, oh, let me go to the. Bathroom and the next thing you know, you're crawling out the window. Like, I like, how do you get out of the situation like that? I think there are some people that do that. I had a friend who did once tell me that he showed up and the woman he was meeting looked significantly different than what she had portrayed online and that he did go to the bathroom and then came back and claimed he got a phone call and he just left where I've never done that. I always figure you can always have a good time with someone. So I think we hung out for probably an hour and a half, had a few drinks and I listened to her tell me the life story. And then I finally got out. Of there and wondered what the hell am I doing? But you just say, like, this isn't going to work. Goodbye. And then you leave. Like, I don't get how it would go. Or like, do you say, I want to talk to you later or, Russ, tell me everything. My life is so boring.
[16:00]I have to, I think the go-to move, it's fair to just say it was nice meeting you at the end of the night. And usually I think both people are on the same page that it's probably not going anywhere. Oh God, I you're right. There's no way I could take that. That's too stressful. Yeah. There was no internet when I was dating. So I just waited until every other person got married and then my wife was like, well, I guess, and then we got married, which was funny. Cause you were like 24 when you got married. Yeah. But you know, with me, I had the maturity of a 15 year old, uh, this next segment is called rolling well known. And this is the part where we're going to talk about what we are into right now. Uh, Matt, what are you into right now? What's your rolling? Well-known I've picked up Yellowstone season three, and anybody doesn't know Yellowstone is about these ranch family out in Montana or Wyoming, somewhere near Yellowstone.
[17:03]And it's essentially every good, um, TV series that's happened in the last 20 years. Think of, uh, sons of anarchy Sopranos to a little bit. Um, a little bit of, uh, the wire in there and, you know, it's just, there's always some drama going on. Somebody is always trying to beat up or kill somebody and the family comes together and they're fighting the bad guys, but the bad guys are not the good guys. And the, you know, it's just a web of lies and I'd highly recommend it. It's just, it fits right in with all the rest of the good ones that have come out and Kevin Costner is the lead. And so I'm, uh, I'm trying to catch up on, on Yellowstone now, right now. Where, where, where can you watch? Yellowstone, man, I bought it on Apple TV. It's on the paramount network, which, oh my God, exactly. Which is about the only thing that's ever come out of the paramount network. So I just buy it on iTunes and watch this. I'm honestly impressed that you guys can watch so much shows.
[18:02]I just don't like, I don't, I don't, it's not that even I don't have the time. I got lots of time. I'm a teacher at my summer. I'm doing nothing. I just don't, I can't sit down and watch a show. Like I'd rather. Well, I'm trying to think of what I did today and I did absolutely nothing today, but I don't know. I I'm, I'm, I'm more impressed. I think watching series now is like books like Matt, you watching Yellowstone is the equivalent of reading like that eternal rainbow book. And I'm going to edit in the correct name of the book here. Oh, gravity's rainbow. Yeah. Gravity is rainbow. Gravity's rainbow. It's like that book gravity's rainbow where I sound smart. I think if you're watching series, no one else has read. You're like. You're the smartest guy. Now. It's crazy. You just mashed up infinite Justin. Oh, and I'm editing that part out where I look dumb. If, if, if this podcast is going to consist of Aaron making fun of us, cause we can't, we need to end this immediately.
[19:03]If you only read one book a year, it's not hard to keep them straight. Ross, what are you into right now? What do you got to recommend? One thing I would recommend one thing I came across a while back and it's kind of music related. So I. Thought it would be kind of cool for our listeners. Have you guys ever seen the YouTube videos of the Kennedy center honors where there are concerts with famous musicians playing other musicians music while they watch it? No, that sounds amazing. I think I saw Led Zeppelin do something like that once. It was pretty cool. There was a really good Led Zeppelin career is playing other people's music while they were watching shots fired. Here we go. But anyways, there's, there's a, one of them where heart sings stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin and Led. Zeppelin. Zeppelin's watching them just blast this song. And it's really cool, but there's, there's a bunch of different, really cool episodes. There's a Billy Joel one. There's a Paul McCarty one, but for our music listeners out there, if you like watching people cover other people's music and the artists actually getting to watch it and enjoy it, I would recommend going and checking out some Kennedy center honors awards on YouTube.
[20:07]What's what's one band you would totally recommend for that? Russ, the Baja men. Here's Joni Mitchell singing dogs out. That's that's good. Let the dogs out. So good. Rosie, what are you rolling? Well known. What are you into right now? I am into. Well, right now I'm into obsessing over. If I'm seizing. Seizing my new carbon steel walk correctly, but I don't think our listeners want to hear about that. What I'm into is the radio. I discovered this about three years, about three years ago when my son was born about 23 years ago. Where do you fuck? Are you talking about the radio? How are you into the radio?
[21:01]I'm, I'm, I'm into the telephone. I'm out. I'm telling you, man. I have two radio stations that I truly love. A one or 2.9 KBLX and 91.1. KBL. KCSM KBLX is contemporary R and B and KCSM is jazz. And I, I learned when my son was born that I music is, we'll talk about this, I guess through this podcast, but music is so important to me. It's grounding to me. It's it centers me. I listen to music every day and I realized that radio DJs still are very valuable and letting someone else choose your music for you is really wonderful. So. Most days when we're home, especially now that we're sheltered in place, I will put on one of those radio stations. I also learned that I can listen to them on my Sonos. So I do that sometimes. And yeah, I'm into the radio. Yeah.
[22:07]I, I was stuck listening to radio the other day when I was backing up my car and the backup camera was on. So I couldn't turn on the Bluetooth to turn on a podcast and it was a fucking nightmare. It was like some song playing. I was like, what the fuck is this? I didn't pick this shit. I don't need this shit in my life. I listen to every song. Every Sunday morning, I turn on Cities 97 in Minneapolis here has acoustic sunrise every Sunday morning. Oh yeah. Cities 97 has acoustic sunrise, which is just phenomenal. It's kind of right up my alley of people playing their songs in a slow, smooth, earthy tone. And it's great. I also listen to 96.5. It's an alternative channel here. 95.3, which is a kind of a rap R&B station. That, that plays a lot of the new stuff. So, I mean, if you're just driving around on your bike or something, I mean, it's a, it's a great station to just get you going.
[23:02]So I listen to the radio a lot. I mean, it's hard for me to say, I listened to like the top 40 stuff anymore. I can't listen to a Katie WB. I can't listen to a KS 95, you know, but there's some, there's some really good stations that you just hear stuff. You've never heard before. You, you, yeah, you feel me. I listen to 89, nine KMOJ from the cities. What the fuck are you guys? What the fuck? How are you listening to the radio? I listen to the radio all the time. If you're not in the car, I have a receiver. I have a stereo receiver in my living room. I just like hit the button and you just turn on the radio and it just plays random stuff. And you're okay with that. Yeah. And you know what? You know what? The really, like one of really, if you're listening to the radio in your car and you're driving home from somewhere and you, you're listening in your car and, and you get out of your car and you come in your house. And the radio is playing the same song because your lady was home listening to the same station and you come in and the radio in your house is playing the same song that was playing in your car.
[24:03]That's a wonderful moment. It's beautiful. I don't know how you, I don't know how you find new stuff. I mean, without listening to the radio personally, I mean, you know, I've got all the old stuff. Well, I've got my Spotify, your new releases playlist, but all my Spotify new releases are like reissues because I'm washed. That I, that's so fucked. I, that will never happen. Okay. Walking. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Being the fucking radio playing the same song that was playing in the car. I'm happy if I can put in my AirPods and it's playing the same fucking podcast, and I was listening with the car. Like it's, it's that's so wild for me. Um, you know, but Rosie, well, yeah, you just fucking talk 10 minutes about the radio. Like, I know that. But here's the thing though. You don't seem to, Rosie though. Maybe realize what I love is fire. I love going out. Like fucking caveman. It says. it's the same fucking shit like i love i love making knives i love shape making sharp tools
[25:01]and using those tools to accomplish things i love making money and training them for goods and services like what the fuck are you talking about the radio get out of here then yeah no crap this this would be like me going up and approaching a woman in real life and asking you out that's just insanity if russ was on a date from bumble and the lady goes what are you gonna do and he goes the radio should be like oh i gotta go to the bathroom i'll be right real quick i don't know she might say that's a fancy man right there the radio is fancy i also showed up on my horse i mean what the fuck are you talking about the radio so here's what i'm into right now uh since nobody asked the host is a lonely job uh i just watched the movie home alone my kids we're staying at my family's cabin but it's like a family cabin where you have a collection of dvds that people have brought and so it's like you can tell like my old own uncles have picked all the selections because it's like the three stooges uh christian family's comic none of it's any good it's all terrible stuff and then there's home alone so my girls
[26:05]are like let's watch home alone they're desperate they're so desperate that they're being nice to each other that's how i know that they're desperate we watched home alone the scene in home alone from when he says this is my house and i must protect it is the greatest scene in cinema history period i would put that shit up against any other scene in the godfather i would put that against any other scene ever in cinema history you know how many people have just turned off this podcast because when he puts that charcoal heater on the door handle and you know he's gonna grab it it is so satisfying to watch that last 10 minutes where these guys are just getting the shit beat out of them even when the whole idea of the movie is actually terrifying there's men breaking into a house and they say over and over we're gonna get this kid like that should be an absolutely the most terrifying movie of all time but instead you're listening to me you're like this is fun this is funny and even at the end they catch him they put him on the hook and the guy goes i'm gonna chew off every finger you
[27:03]have and you're like holy shit this is the darkest thing of all time and then he's like ha ha ha he gets hit with a shovel in the head how different would this movie have been viewed by kids had they really just chewed off his fingers at the end and it was like a horrible ending like the movie seven where he finds the head in the box give it away kids forever kids forever just say no what's in the box he ate the fingers kevin i'm home kevin i'm home with john candy oh shit what happened to all your fingers oh my god i'm a terrible parent my nieces and nephews always quote the line from that movie of easy on the pepsi uncle russ like they always quote easy on the pepsi that's what they their favorite line ever but if that movie would have gone south i'm sure my nieces and nephews would constantly just say oh what happened the cops show up and joe pesci's got three kid fingers in his mouth
[28:02]holy shit that's a whole different movie i love it man we got to make that how do we remake these movies in terrifying fashion yeah here's a fun movie my kids like let's make it terrible willing to frozen every single one of them is there a way for us to just pivot and move this to our podcast idea yeah new podcast idea let's come up with a new intro so russ russ you're really the one who started this adventure you you we were all talking on zoom during quarantine you said listen guys i'm listening to the rolling stone top 500 album list what what made you want to do that like why why did you start to do that in in overall well i i was listening to the radio for about three years straight and i got so so i'm just in general i was in the car playing the same shit it was in the car where are you going download bumble every every eight minutes they tell me what goddamn time it
[29:07]is again my favorite part is the ads for 40 minutes of every hour of music holy shit i love that shit it's my favorite so anyways i'm i'm a guy who just kind of loves having quests i'm on a quest to see all 30 major league baseball stadiums i think i've been to 21 and i've got nine to go i'm trying to read a biography on every u.s president although admittedly i've been stuck on grover cleveland for quite a while and i'm not even sure if i'm allowed to read these books anymore or if i'm going to get canceled if i continue to read them i don't know and then i also whenever i travel i like to go to top chef restaurants so contestants that were at a top chef on that show i'll go check it out i've been to a few with aaron when i've been out in in san francisco and oakland but i like having these quests so do you guys have any kind of non-music quest matt i think you collect sweatshirts or something like that do you guys have quests like that oh yeah i mean you got to have something to occupy your time so champion reverse weave sweatshirts
[30:03]late 80s early 90s and you know i've got a gopher one i've got a kansas basketball one and yeah you know i mean they're just nice hearty thick sweatshirts for the winters of minnesota it's a quality item you can wear them in the pool if you're fat and you jump in the pool you can put them on i didn't i i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i didn't i identify with the idea of quest i don't have the same stick-to-itiveness that russell has so my quests end up being more short-lived but uh for me they have to do with like different forms of exercise like i got really into my road bike and then since i've had my son uh i don't go for five-hour rides anymore so i tried lifting weights but i'm not as strong as rob so now i just try to do as many burpees as i can and uh and then my other quest is trying to get my carbon steel the walk season perfectly so I can cook some stir fry. But I get it. We're not talking about that fucking walk. We told you 10 times before this podcast started.
[31:03]We're not doing it. Russ, as you may guess, I'm obsessed with everything I do all the time. That's why I agreed to do this podcast sitting in my dad's car at 1030 at night. So you would call yourself, this next question I have, it seems silly now, but you would call yourself a completionist. Does it bug you when you haven't finished stuff that you've set out to do? When the stay-at-home order went into effect back in March and April, I realized I kind of needed a new quest. And so the first day I decided, I'm going to try to run five miles every day. And that lasted like three days. And three days is probably being generous. It probably lasted one or two. And then I decided I was going to try to eat really healthy. And do you guys ever use like MyFitnessPal or anything where you kind of log in everything you eat? Yeah, it's a disaster. I thought I would try that. But then I discovered DoorDash was a perfectly fine way to compensate for the isolation I was going through. So that went to hell in a handbasket.
[32:00]Texas Roadhouse delivers what the fuck. Desserts too. This is great. But so eventually I realized that part of it, beyond me just being extremely lazy, was that I needed something with a definitive list or something where there was kind of like an end destination to strive for. And I thought, what if I were to listen to Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time? And I'm not a huge music connoisseur. I've never really gone out of my way to listen to albums. So, for example, I could tell you that Hey Jude or With a Little Help From My Friends are popular Beatles songs. But I have no idea if it's on Sgt. Pepper's or that album where they're walking across the road. I don't know any of that. The album where they're walking across the road and Sgt. Pepper's is the two Beatle albums that Russ has brought up. Okay, keep going, Russ. Exactly. So I've never been into albums. It's something totally new for me. So I just figured I would start listening to this. And to me, music can be a very active or passive activity, right? Like you can listen to it in the background
[33:00]at work. You can listen to it while you're exercising. You could sit down and have a few drinks doing it. So I figured it was something that I could actually accomplish. And so I started with Sgt. Pepper's and I listened to it. And I sent you guys a text and part of my text was complimenting the music, but also part of it you guys inferred was me ripping the music. And this eventually kind of started this text chain where we started talking about it and we were on these Zoom calls. And we kind of realized that the four of us were the ones that enjoyed talking about this quest and the rest of our friends, every time we talked about it, would just completely tune us out. So I don't know if that bolds really well for what we're doing as a podcast, but the podcast is called Beck Did It Better. Why is it called Beck Did It Better? All right. Beck Did It Better is an idea that I think I almost lost all three of you as friends because I mentioned it, but I'll mention it here and we'll probably lose all of our eight of our listeners immediately. The first album I listened to was Sgt. Pepper's by the Beatles, and I was going for this walk and I was listening to it
[34:00]and I thought, wow, this is really a great album. I really enjoy it. But there are some songs on here that are just kind of unique and a bit bizarre. They're not Beatles songs that I would typically hear on the radio or that I would add to a playlist, right? Like you guys have a better feel for this, but the Beatles have some strange music. And I started listening to this and I thought, this almost reminds me of songs by Beck. But I think Beck does those songs better than the Beatles. And so I texted you guys that I think Beck does strange songs better than the Beatles do it. And then all hell broke loose. All of you guys started calling me names and it just started a complete firestorm. Yeah, I wouldn't say that on one of your Bumble dates, Russ. I think that would be a total disaster. It's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. It remains to be true. And I've said that a lot and I stand by that. Russ, are we at all qualified to have a podcast about music? At least you and I. I do not think we're qualified at all. Absolutely not. I think my music history
[35:01]is essentially nil. I played the alto saxophone for two years in middle school and I was in choir for a few years in high school, but my music knowledge is pretty limited. It's not the same as some of you guys in our group here. No, there's absolutely no way I'm qualified to talk about music in the least. I know almost nothing about music. I hate the radio with a passion. I would rather listen to people talk about music than actually listen to music in the first place. Matt, why do you think you're qualified to have this podcast? I'm not qualified. I mean, you know, none of us are qualified. It's a given, but that was a trick. I'm actually the most qualified. I know a lot about music, so you guys just admitted it. So you're probably, you know, you're most qualified to do most things and I'm sure you'll tell us about it. So yeah, we'll go through that for the rest of the podcast. But the, you know, no, I mean, I've got a music is always, I'm the horrible singer. I play zero instruments, but I've always listened to music. And I think it's, it kind of comes from
[36:00]the fact that my parents didn't. I don't know if I ever, I mean, there's like one or two albums I know that my parents owned or ever listened to, you know, and they listened to Cities 97. That was it. And so I think it was kind of a thing that I found as a younger kid. That was just kind of something different. And then it kind of just grew from there. You know, I don't like reading fiction books. I don't like reading. I don't like watching like sci-fi movies. So I've always been drawn. It sounds like you should put it up on Bumble. That sounds very good. Things that you don't like. My profile, Russell, you can tell me how it looks. I think I've watched every single music documentary that's out there on Netflix, HBO, a couple other things, you know, I mean that stuff, how these albums come together, how these artists kind of get to where they're at, you know, how these different music genres
[37:00]kind of come together. That's always just been fascinating to me. And so then, you know, you kind of hear how some of these albums are made. And it's just, it's absolutely amazing to hear. You know, everybody thinks Rolling Stones and Rosie will get into this later, but, you know, the Rolling Stones are these musical geniuses. Well, they basically just loved Southern rock, right, and the blues and basically tried to just figure out everything they could about it. And made their own music based off of these obscure blues singers from the South. And, you know, how they kind of came up with that stuff. And then they make these meccas to go record their albums and muscle shoals and things. I mean, just, and you can go on so many different tangents on how these albums are made that it's just amazing to me, you know, how you kind of come up with a final package. And that final package ends up moving X amount of people, you know, and it's just, it's a crazy, crazy thing to me, how the whole thing works. Aaron, what's your... Why do you think you're qualified to do this podcast at all, talking about music?
[38:01]I don't think anyone's qualified to talk about music, and I think that's the best thing about music. But I do have to say, Matt, that's a beautiful... It's hard to follow what Matt had to say, so I don't know if I can follow that. But, no... But I would... Aaron, I would argue that you're probably the most musically inclined of all of us. I mean, we went to a, arguably, what is a music college in St. Olaf together, and you were a music... Music major. But, I mean, you know, I do think that, I mean, I guess, like, if I'm ever proud of myself, I think that I'm pretty good about listening to music and understanding it. I grew up in Iowa. I joined the Des Moines Children's Chorus when I was eight years old and learned a lot from Eugene Wilson, who was the conductor of the Des Moines Children's Chorus. So I learned a lot about music right away. I'm good at learning music quickly. I was a... I played trombone in high school. I was a member of the Allstate Choir, and I... I was in Iowa for two years. And then, yeah, I have two degrees in music. So for me, my degrees
[39:00]are in classical music. I don't really listen to classical music anymore at all. And, yeah, I always just, like, there was always music on in my house. My dad's a doctor, but I always wished he had been a musician. And my grandpa was a choir director in high school in Iowa. So it was just always, like, music was always around me growing up. So there was always music on in the house. That's so interesting, because my... My family literally listened to no music. Like, when I'm in a car with my mom, there's nothing playing. There's no radio. There's no nothing. In fact, that extra noise, I think, ironically, with having me as a son, that extra noise, like, stresses her out. So it's always silent. And then when she's gone, my dad will turn on some music, and it'll turn on CCR or the Eagles or stuff like that. And it's kind of interesting to hear this music play that I never heard growing up, because you know, my mom was always around, but, like, I... Russ, what... Did your parents play music growing up? You know, I was going to talk about this a little bit later, but I think they weren't huge music fans. I know my mom always
[40:01]talked about that she got to see Elvis when she was younger, which is always a pretty cool thing. Holy shit. We're going to have her run for a guest spot and hear about that. Moms do make guest spots on this podcast, and that will be one thing our listeners get to look forward to. But no, honestly, I remember listening to music in the car, and it would be like my parents playing Huey Lewis or the Beach Boys or something like that. But I don't remember my family being huge into music or music always playing when we were at home. The car is a huge music touchstone, I think, for a lot of people our age. I mean, I remember my parents had that Beach Boys Greatest Hits as a tape, and then they had Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. So I can fucking sing every song on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Joseph, you know what they said, yay. Oh, totally. Real quick, I want to get into what is our fab four of music or albums? And let's just go around the horn. I'm going to start real quick. My fab four of albums of all time is the first album that ever got me into music
[41:01]whatsoever is when I was in fifth grade, I remember distinctly on the playground somebody throwing around, do you guys remember those red music players with the orange record button that played cassettes, tapes? Is it a radio? It's a radio that Rosie has in his car, and then he listens to it when he comes in his house. And it would play, and I remember the first tape that these boys had, and they literally were running around the playground, throwing this player to each other, and girls were chasing them. And even in third grade, I was like, yes, that's what I want, is girls to chase me around. And that album was right here. Oh, come on. Beastie Boys, License to Ill, which in retrospect, totally disrespectful. Nobody should probably be listening to this. And it just totally changed my mind about
[42:00]it associated music with women. And I think for the rest of my life, that's how I associated music, was like, if I have the right kind of music, I can meet and talk to women, which is probably the number one most defining quality of my entire life. Because I love hip-hop music, although I don't have any hip-hop albums in my fab four, but I love rap and hip-hop. And somehow the Beastie Boys just missed me. I don't remember the Beastie Boys much at all, except for the Pipe Your Right to Party video. But they're such an important hip-hop group, and I just never I miss them completely. I don't know about any of that. All I know is that girls in Rochester, Minnesota in 1989 were attracted to boys who had that record, and I wanted that record so bad. So that was my first of the fab fours. Russ, what was your first of the fab fours? My first fab
[43:01]four album is the Black Album by Metallica. I think this album, when I was looking, this is the first time I've listened to about 160 albums so far, but today was the first time where I actually looked at the whole list. And I think it ranks in the mid-200s, which at first glance just seems unconscionably low to me. But if you look at this album and it has Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Unforgiven, Wherever I May Roam, Nothing Else Matters, honestly you'd be hard-pressed. I think to find many albums that have kind of a better five starting rotation of songs than that. And I think I just saw this was a pretty interesting fact about this album was that the Black Album has been on the Billboard Top 200 list for more than 550 straight weeks, which makes it only the fourth album ever to be on the Top 200 for that long, right behind Dark Side of the Moon, Bob Marley Legend, and Journey's Greatest Hits, and so two of those are Greatest Hits albums. So that's a pretty
[44:01]That's amazing. That's a pretty amazing feat, and if we do one podcast a week, we'll actually get to discuss this album about five years from now. So you're saying that 91, 92? 91, but the reason I think this album really resonates with me is that I think it's a way that I've connected with friends over the years, whether it was getting pumped for a sporting event as a kid, or connecting with new college friends who also like Metallica, or even sitting at a Twins game and being terrified when Mariano Rivera ran into the stadium. I always just connected with friends through listening to Metallica, and as I got a bit older, I got more into the older Metallica stuff, which is kind of more thrash metal as opposed to kind of more this poppier, heavier metal, but for me, Metallica is my favorite band ever. I've seen them half a dozen times, and every time I think they've destroyed, so my first five, or first Fab Four is the Black Album by Metallica. I love the idea that over the years, people have been like, holy shit, get me to the store. I gotta get Journey's
[45:01]Greatest Hits. It's my favorite album. It's so good. What were you gonna say, Aaron? I gotta say that, like, I mean, that's really, I mean, Russell's a more true Twins fan than I ever was to feel terrified when Mariano Rivera came in, because there were moments at the Metrodome where I was relieved to know that game was gonna be over, and I can go to Hubert's and get a beer and get the fuck out of that place. There were a lot of Twins games like that growing up, for sure. Matt, what's your, what's what your first album on the Fab Four? I think, you know, I grew up in listening to, like, the Top 40 on the radio with my parents, right? So, like, KS95 and just, and maybe WCCO was on or something like that, and somebody played Siamese Dream, you know, and, like, Today was the big song from there, but I heard this song, Cherub Rock, come up, and you just listen to it, and it kind of slowly builds up, and all of a sudden, this guitar hits, and the drum hits, and
[46:01]I was like, oh my goodness, what is this? And so, this is kind of the first, like, holy cow, like, what kind of music's going on here? I mean, it kind of led to all the other grunge albums that were out there, but, I mean, just when this hits, I feel this deep, dark guitar that, it just, I mean, I can't believe what I'm hearing, you know? Like, where did this come from? And then it's not, like, a deep, like, metal band, you know? Like, I'd heard, um, Metallica, Black Album, and One, and some of those I thought they were great, but, like, this just felt like it talked to me a lot more than, like, that deep, dark, heavy metal stuff. It was just hard rock, and I couldn't believe it when I heard it. So, uh, Siamese Dream, uh, Smashing Pumpkins was kind of my baptism into more or less kind of the grungy early 90s rock. I haven't heard this song in so long. It fucking rocks, man. This, this is so good. I honestly never knew the name of this song, either, until this podcast, but I know the song
[47:01]so well. Uh, Rosie, what about you? What's your first, what's your first album on the Fab 4 that we definitely came up with right on the spot and we didn't plan this out ahead of time? My first album is Whitney by Whitney Houston. My little sister had a little pink uh, boombox and she rocked this she, as Biggie said, she made the tape rock till the tape popped. She played this cassette, and I I still, to this day, love anything Whitney Houston did. And, uh, my, my favorite track on the album is probably, uh, I want to dance with somebody, but, uh, so emotional. I just, I love her vocals. I'm so emotional. And where she's singing back up with herself, she's outstanding. Uh, I think Whitney was an angel from heaven, and, uh, yeah, this, this was like a one that she's like, and Whitney Houston was just everywhere for her. She was ubiquitous. Like, there was her first album, um, which I love, called Whitney, which I play on Saturday mornings still, and then I'm
[48:01]obviously, if you were watching football in the early nineties, you remember her singing the anthem. Uh, the Bodyguard soundtrack was, you know, full of hits, top to bottom. But, uh, this album was the one that I remember so well, because my little sister was playing this all day long on her little boombox on her cassette player. So, when I think about music, I always think of this this album. I think a lot of times, for me, my second album is, when, when we're thinking about albums, you forget how much albums cost, right? You're talking 20 bucks a CD. If you buy a CD that sucks, you have now spent $20 of your parents' money on a CD that sucks. So, I was a big fan of Greatest Hits and box sets, and at one point, I got way, way, way, way, way into Bob Marley, to the point where my cousins and I once decorated a tractor at their farm to be a Bob Marley tractor. We put the Jamaican flag on it, we put all the weed decals on it, like, and these are, like, straight-laced, like
[49:00]doctors. I'm sure they saw this thing pull up, and it's like a front-loader that has a bunch of marijuana leaves on it, and they're like, what are these kids up to? We literally loved Bob Marley this much, and so the Bob Marley box set was one of the albums where, like, and it was the first time where it was like, I was listening to this album where other people liked Bob Marley, but because I was going deeper and listening to the box set instead of just Legend, I felt like, oh, I can actually talk about this, and I have to thank Bob Marley, because I would say it was about five years of my speeches that I had to give, whether it was in speech class or English class. I gave the same exact speech about Bob Marley. I think I did it once in college, too, and it was the same speech over and over. I got at least Is this the same speech you just gave to us now or not? Bob Marley was born in 1960. You know, it was the same thing. I got at least an A- on it every time. Big props to Bob Marley for helping me through my scholastic career, and it's one of the albums that really defined who I am.
[50:00]I forget who I was talking to next. Russ what's your next on the fab four of your top four albums of all time? My next album is do you guys remember the first CD you ever purchased? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. The first CD that I remember purchasing is Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J. And I remember seeing the video on MTV where he's standing in the boxing ring and he's rapping into that microphone for the announcer. Exactly. Don't call it a company. But this guy comes up with a funky rhyme here, right? So eventually I convinced my mom to let me buy this CD and it probably helped that I don't think it had a parental guidance stamp on it. Do you guys remember the parental guidance stamp I remember? Yeah. It was a hell of a time for me to buy The Chronic by Dr. Dre or 1993 by Naughty by Nature. My mom would not tolerate any of those albums because of the sticker. But I remember this is the first time where I remember I'm picking the music
[51:01]my mom or my dad aren't the ones picking the music. And I think that's one of the cool things about music, right? When you're connecting with it and it's not your parent's thing anymore. It's now your thing and they don't get it. But I think a lot of people really connect their music as a way of this. I'm now kind of becoming an adult and I'm choosing what's cool. My parents aren't telling me what's cool. So this is the first time where I remember thinking that. Do you guys kind of remember the first time where your parents weren't into the music you were into? Yep. And that's happening with my kids now actually. Because they're listening to music and I'm like, what the hell are you listening to? And it almost makes me cry because I'm like, you're a little adult, you're listening to music I hate. I feel like you guys are really growing up. I think it's so great. Matt, what's your second album on your Fab Four? My second album again, right from the early 90s. Not so much the grunge era, but when Green Day came out with Dookie. Oh man, what a classic. It was like nothing I'd ever heard before. I picked Welcome to Paradise. It's kind of like again, just hits
[52:01]right away. I think I had a feeling this exercise. I found that it's not so much the lyrics that do it for me, it's just how they construct. If we got some guitars that hit right away, I think it resonates with me. But listening to this album front to back, just non-stop. Listening to the secret song at the end, it was like the first time I'd ever figured out that an album had a secret song. And it's just an amazing album. You know, it has grown into a love of Green Day. Oh, it's such... I also remember getting this album and being like, oh, it's called Dookie? Oh God, that's so badass. And all these songs were like kind of like naughty. And I was like, oh my God, I'm so naughty listening to this music. It's so great. Oh, this song's a jam. I just want to listen to it. It's so good. Rosie, what's your second song on the Fab Four? My second song, I tried to pick albums from each decade of my life because I just completed my fourth decade. Oh my God, you put so much time into this.
[53:01]I can't believe it. In my second decade, I got into a big Beatles phase. And for me, my favorite Beatles album was the White Album or the album called The Beatles. And yeah, it's just one I had on, you know, I had the double CD. And I listened to a lot in just like in my house. And yeah, it just changed what I thought about music. It changed what I thought about taking chances and getting outside of your comfort zone. And my brother and I listened to this a ton when I was a kid and he was younger. So for me, the White Album was just like that. I never ever listened to the Beatles anymore, but I put this on the other day in preparation for the podcast and it still slaps down to the bottom. It's sad because when you read about it, the Beatles themselves weren't really enjoying working together. And I enjoyed this song, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, because I was 16. I thought that was amazing. Like, they made a song called Why Don't We Do It In The Road. I think that's incredible. Ross, why don't you give me the last two albums of your
[54:01]Fab Four? Okay, the last two. The first one is American Four. The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash. God, just stab me right in the heart. Oh my god. It's so good. So I remember knowing who Johnny Cash was as a kid, but I was never really into his music. That was like old country to me. But I remember getting to college and his kind of file sharing became a thing. I remember hearing Folsom Prison Blues, A Boy Named Sue, I've Been Everywhere, and these just seemed like really cool songs to me. And I distinctly remember I think Rob, you would always sing Johnny Cash at karaoke on Wednesday night. I have a very, I have a very similar voice. Anyways, a few years later I came across the Johnny Cash American Recordings which were essentially collaborations with Rick Rubin in the later in his life in the 90s and 2000s and I bought the American Recording, the five disc box set, and I was just blown away. So there were some new songs, there were new recordings of older songs like Delia's Gone, and then there were also a ton of covers which I
[55:01]really enjoyed. So there's the cover of Rusty Cage by Soundgarden, Desperado by the Eagles, and then probably the most famous one is Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. But anyways, American Four was my favorite one. I just thought there were a lot of fun songs on it, but it really caused me to do this deep dive into all of Johnny Cash's oldest stuff. So I ended up getting the Columbia Collection which was essentially 30 years of his music. But I think, like Rob said, one of the reasons I really have loved Johnny Cash is it's easy to sing to, right? And I think a lot of his songs are really cool stories. I know Aaron and I talked about this about 20 years ago, but the song Long Black Veil, that should be a movie, right? Essentially this guy is executed for murder, and he could have exonerated himself, but he chose not to because he was sleeping with his best friend's wife and that was his alibi. But to me, just Johnny Cash songs are fun to sing along with, and I think they're always good stories. I will say that the song I hung my head on that Johnny Cash American Collection is one of the few songs ever that's literally made me cry. I was
[56:01]listening to that song like Driving, and it's about a boy who accidentally shoots somebody and then they hang him for accidentally shooting him. And I was like driving, crying my eyes out, and I was like, oh my god, it's so sad. I mean, the idea that I would get in a car accident because I am crying about a Johnny Cash song is something I should probably put on my Bumble right now, so I think girls would be able to show how sensitive I am. I think it's a good idea. Russ, what's your fourth song on your BAB4? The fourth album is, I'm going to go a little off the radar here. It's actually a soundtrack. The Blues Brothers movie soundtrack. Oh yes. Just phenomenal. Thank you, Matt. One of the things I've always enjoyed with music is connecting through it with TV shows or movies. Like you guys were talking about earlier, Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy has this guy named White Buffalo who just sings these amazing songs that fit the show perfectly, and it kind of brings out the story of the show. But to me, I remember watching the Blues Brothers and being exposed to, okay, you have this R&B band with all these cool band members. You've got Matt Guitar Murphy and
[57:01]Donald Duck Dunn on the bass, Tom Jones Malone. You've got all these horn players that are being spotlighted. But then you also in this movie have amazing songs with Aretha Franklin singing in the diner, Think. That's just an amazing song. Or you have Ray Charles singing Shake Your Tail Feather at the record store. And Cab Calloway destroying Minnie the Moocher. So for me, I've always enjoyed connecting with music through movies and TV. And to me, the first time I remember doing that is through the Blues Brothers. Matt, what's your last two on the Fab Four of music that affected you? My third one, same as Rosie's, is White Album. It was the action. It's our crossover. We nailed it. It's our crossover, I think. So again, go ahead and play Helter Skelter. Again, this thing just kind of hits from the beginning. You hear that guitar and you're like, what in the world is this? I remember knowing what the Beatles were, but hearing Helter Skelter for some reason and thinking, this isn't
[58:01]the Beatles. And I'm like, no, this is the Beatles. And, you know, my parents, I found their 8-track actually for the White Album. And so we were able to listen to the 8-track and that kind of started out and then you want to find the rest of it and everything. That's not the worst thing you can find in your parents' room, Matt. So that's right. I do think it's interesting that Matt and I both chose songs where Paul is singing because I think at this point, John had just given up and Paul is still bringing it. And he was bringing it through the whole 70s and still is bringing it right now. And John, I think, had given up. I hear you. John's not singing much anymore, I've noticed. No. Too soon, too soon. How come you notice we have two albums so far that one is the Black Album, one is the White Album. Are there ever albums where it's like the Orange Album or the Yellow Album or is it only the White and the Black? There's a Grey Album. I love this track. I don't know who played piano in this. It's so good.
[59:00]I was listening to it today. There's a Black Album that's Ginger Mouse matches up the White Album and Jay-Z's the Black Album. Yes, yes, yes. Keep going, Matt. We interrupt you with dumb jokes. No, no. It was like understanding that you go from I want to hold your hand to Helter Skelter. And so discovering that and discovering there's music in the 70s and everything's not just current what's on the radio there was actually good music that kind of just led to a whole different genre of listening for me. Well, I'll tell you, if you like fucking music in the 70s you will love this Rolling Stone Top 700 album list. It is right up your alley if you are like a 50 to 60 year old white male. It's got to be your favorite thing of all time. Aaron, what are your last two albums on the top, on your Fab Four? My last two on my Fab Four. In my 20s I really got into soul music and Sam Cooke was one of my all-time favorites.
[60:00]And he didn't have that many studio albums really because he was recording at a time where it was more singles or he had a couple of live albums that were really good but he did one called Night Beat late in his life that I just loved. This is actually interesting. This is from earlier. This is the gospel recording of Nino Grohl. So the cool thing that was about Sam Cooke was he was a great gospel singer and he was able to take gospel tunes and turn them into love tunes. But Night Beat was my favorite Sam Cooke album. I shared that with my lady a lot. And Sam Cooke is one of my favorite singers of all time. I'll just look this way for a second because his voice is just... Okay, now Sam Cooke is suing us into oblivion.
[61:00]Same with the Soulsters. But yeah, so Sam Cooke's Night Beat was him basically with a jazz trio just doing jazz standards, blues stuff. It was really great. I listened to that one a lot. In my 20s and I really explored Sam Cooke and that just changed how I thought about music and singing. And then number four is an album that came out in 2000, but I really got into in my late 30s which is Lover's Rock by Sade. And I tried to avoid picking too many track one-side ones but the song is By Your Side. It's the first track on Sade's album, Lover's Rock. And it's just such a good track, one-side one. It sets the vibe. It's become a real comfort for me. Anytime I feel stressed or I need to chill out or I just want to put myself in a different space, I go to Sade. That voice and the space and the minimalism of the music, I just love it. So I try to pick something from each decade that made me think about
[62:00]exploring a different area of music and this was my last one. Well, you put about 10 times more thought than I did into this. I think you used Sade in the same way that I use Going Out To My Car and Screaming. Matt, what's your fourth album in your Fab Four? I saved the best for last, obviously. So that's great, Matt. So I think my third album... Go ahead. My all-time band that I just celebrate their entire collection is Pearl Jam. I was waiting for some Pearl Jam. Holy shit. I was a big fan of Tan and Versus and the early stuff. I listened to it a lot, but when I got to Yield, it came out in 1999, I believe. It felt like they kind of grew up a little bit, if you will, and kind of got away from the early grunge stuff to kind of be just a straight-up rock icon that they are.
[63:01]And so once I got to this, I saw them live in Alpine Valley with Hovberg and Cordell. Drove in a truck all the way there to see it. Great stories like that. I've seen them seven, eight times now, and I'll never miss a tour again. I think they're the best live band going. I'm a huge concert fan. I've seen pretty much everybody I could possibly see. There's a couple yet to see. Rage Against the Machine I was hoping to see this year. COVID ruined that, but since they're back, so I... Pearl Jam is the best live band going. They play three hours and they play all bangers, and they're just great. And so my final album was Yield by Pearl Jam, because I think this has kind of got me to a different level where Pearl Jam is, and got to where my fandom is today. Third album was a compilation of... it was called Vietnam Rockin' the Delta. You cannot find it anywhere now. But it had
[64:01]music like this, and it was one of the first times where I was listening to music and I was like, this is so good, because I actually grew up listening to... when I was younger, I would listen to the oldies. Go ahead. Is that... that's Eddie Kendricks in the background there. Truly. He's like cleaning your office. Hey, I'm Eddie Kendricks. But I just listened... I listened to that album and I love it, and it's kind of like a... For me, it's really a throwback of like, I would just buy albums where I like the music rather than the artist, because if I could get compilations, it would be so many artists at one time. But my all-time favorite band, and a band I always see when they come to New York City live, is They Might Be Giants. And this was the one where I had a friend in elementary school say, hey, listen to this album. And as soon as I heard it, it was so weird. And it was so different, and nobody else was
[65:00]listening to it. And I went out and bought all their albums that I could, and I listened to everything, and I learned everything about They Might Be Giants that I possibly could. And I loved knowing a band that nobody else knew. And then I would meet people that They Might Be Giants fans, and I was, and you would just be like, have this instant connection. And then I always go see them live, and when I do, every single, first of all, it's 90% guys there. Second of all, 90% of the guys look exactly like me, except they're wearing glasses. Um, and that's like, They Might Be Giants to me, and to me, that's just music, it just is like, this thing of like, What is this song? This is a Motown bassline for sure. Oh yeah, this is the guitar. With like a Britpop vocal? I like this. This is off of a Apollo 18, which is like the first album that somebody made for me on a cassette tape, and I listened to it until I wore it out, literally. I mean, it was just, it's just such a banger. I bet I bought that album at least three times. I've never heard that tune, it's so nice. So, I'm just gonna say this, like, how do you guys feel about live music?
[66:01]I'm gonna tell you right now, I could live without live music right now. I think this is pretty obvious. Like, I just, when I go to a concert, my feet hurt. Even They Might Be Giants, who I love, after about an hour, I'm like, okay, I'm ready to go home. Russ, what do you think about live music? You seem like a grumpy guy. Are you on my side, Russ? I'm grumpy enough to, I like to go to live music. I like seeing smaller shows, but I don't go out of my way to see it, but I do like going to see the big events. For example, if Metallica comes through town, I have to go see them. I've seen them when they opened US Bank Stadium, and I've also seen a couple of the other bigger events that have been in town. Garth Brooks, when he's played at the new US Bank Stadium, or when he's played at Target Center, I've seen him a few times. And I also went and saw Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney at Target Field years ago. So, I do like to go to some of the big events, but I think Matt goes to a lot more concerts than you or I might, Rob. I have to pare myself back from going to too many shows, and so I've started a list
[67:01]a long time ago, and I've gotten all the way through it, except for Rage Against the Machine. So, Rolling Stones live at The Bank, TCF Bank Stadium. Pearl Jam, Guns N' Roses, at US Bank, at where do the Vikings play? US Bank Stadium? Yup. Guns N' Roses, seeing them live when they're actually playing the band. Smashing Pumpkins was a big one. They broke up. And I saw three out of the four members came back, so saw them at XL. I'll go to live music wherever and whenever I can. I'm not the kind of person who will just go just to go. I think going to see things that play, we're extremely lucky, maybe, in Minneapolis, to have places like First Avenue, where it holds about 4,000 people, I believe. And so, you know, I've seen Lauren Hare, I saw I saw who else? 16 Stones. I got them on the list. Bush? I saw Bush.
[68:01]Bush came through there. You know, so I had BMT. Just a ton of bands there, and being able to see those in an intimate atmosphere is phenomenal. You know, I think it adds a whole different flavor to the music. If the band does it right, if they're not just trying to blow your eardrums out, I mean, if they're actually trying to make a concert sound good, you know, they do a great job of it, and it absolutely adds to the flavor of the band. I mean, seeing Rolling Stones live, and seeing Mick Jagger when he's 72, I mean, this is like five years ago now. So, like, actually be a frontman? I mean, it absolutely shows you why they're such a good band. And so, there's just something about the live music and watching how they act. I mean, it comes down to, you know, we'll talk about professionalism a lot on this board, you know? When people just mail it in, I mean,
[69:01]there's nothing worse than a live show where the band mails it in. You know, you can tell they just don't care. And, you know, I don't even care if they fake it, you know? If they're being professionals and putting on a show, putting on three hours of their hits, you know? I mean, there's just nothing better than it. So, I will go see all of the big guys as much as I can, whenever I can. I've got a couple of key buddies that I get to go see some. Nick. Shout out Nick from Minneapolis. Shout out Matt from Woodbury. I'm gonna be a big shout-out guy, just because I think it's cool when people get shout-outs on podcasts. Yeah, you gotta shout people out. So, I mean, when I can see these bands, and you know what their music is, I mean, there's nothing better than being able to see them live. Rosie, what do you think? What do you think about live music? In my 20s, when I lived in Minneapolis, I was at First Ave a lot and 400 Bar a lot, and yeah, same. I loved going to live music, but even in my 20s, I'd always be like, man, my back gets tired from standing up.
[70:01]Now, later in my life, I've had the good fortune of, my lady works for a large well profitable company here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and so I've seen some private concerts at AT&T Park, and so I've been fortunate to see Katy Perry at AT&T Park, which is amazing. I have to say it, I saw Stevie Wonder, and seeing Stevie with my son, sit on my lap, listen to Island in the Sky, was incredible, but the one Did he fall asleep? No, he was awake for that one. He was two. Oh, okay. Did he play the fucking harmonica the whole goddamn time? He played the harmonica. Oh, God. I'd start booing. I swear to Christ, I'd start booing Stevie Wonder. The one live show that sticks out from the last five years for me was Christina Aguilera played at one of these shows at AT&T Park, and she nailed it. She was incredible,
[71:01]and I felt like an 18-year-old guy again watching Christina Aguilera even though she's a mom of two or three or whatever. So that one was, yeah, that one was a highlight for me. I think I would say my favorite show it's enough. But anyway, I'm not going to go into live music now because my back hurts when I stand up. Let me tell you, Rosie, there's specific things that you do. You don't buy floor seats anymore. As an adult, you don't buy floor seats. You either buy the early, you're either part of the fan club, so you get the fan club seats early, so then you can buy one or two sections over on the stage, and the seats up, and you get as close down to the rail as you can, alright? And if you can't do that, you wait until the day of, and because of StubHub and all these places, tickets absolutely go on sale real cheap, and you find really good seats. Always in seats. You always got to have a seat. You got to have the ability to sit down.
[72:01]But never, ever, ever go on the floor ever again. Never again. Over the age of 36-ish, you just don't do it. You got to have a seat. And that was our reoccurring segment, Old Guy Advice. So, I'll say this. If you had to pick one that you had to only keep one for the rest of your life, music, TV, or movies, what do you think? I'm just going to say right now, I would probably pick movies. I don't watch any TV. I honestly think I could eliminate music for the rest of my life, and I'd be just fine. It's probably not great to say when I'm doing this podcast. I got a feeling I know what Rosie's going to say. Rosie, why don't you go next? What would you eliminate? You got to pick one, music, TV, or movies. Pick music. I got to keep music in my life. Matt, what about you? I'm picking music. I mean, as much as I love movies, I'm picking music. Russ, what about you? I'm going to go off the board and eliminate dating apps. I don't need to go through this. All right. So, real quick, I want to just talk about the Rolling Stone 500
[73:01]Greatest Albums list. Basically, we know this is an impossible task. However, even the people that did this failed, I would say, absolutely miserably by any sort of standard. The first list was published in 2003, and since then, they've come out with their revised version in 2012. But basically, they asked 273 people to give a weighted list of 50 albums. They then hired an accounting firm to give them a point system to try to come up with the top 500 albums of all time. So, what you have here is a very biased list from a bunch of people that voted. And just to give you an idea of why this list upsets me, you don't hit a single person of color until you get to Marvin Gaye. Yeah, what's going on with Marvin Gaye? And that's it in the top 10. There's only one person of color in the top 10. And there's absolutely no women until 13 with Nico. The next woman you run into on this list is 23, and that's if you count Yoko Ono as part of John Lennon's
[74:01]band. And then the first woman that's by herself on the list solo is Joni Mitchell. And I think as we go through this... It's not even just no artists of color. It's like... The entire genre is just like, we don't get to hip-hop until Public Enemy at, what, like, 48? Which, I mean, that Public Enemy album is great, but... Sorry, Rob. You had a thing rolling. No, no, no. I think you're totally right. I mean, I think one thing we need to acknowledge during this podcast is we acknowledge the list is something that needs to exist, and it's problematic in its very sense of what it is. But I will say, having gone through this list and listened to these albums, Russ, I gotta say I really enjoyed the journey of actually listening to an album and instead of just my favorite Beach Boys song or my favorite Beatles song or my... You know, to be honest, I've never listened to Clash before. I've really enjoyed going... Russ, to you, what do you think a great album... How do you define a great album? If you were gonna vote on this list, how would you decide what a great album is?
[75:01]I think we all kind of view this a little bit differently. The thing that jumps out to me most about a great album is whether it's appealing music and it's something that I want to listen to again. Yeah. And I know sometimes you get into, I think for me, and you guys have echoed this when we've been talking before, but part of it is, like, a great intro, you want to hear the great song that's gonna kind of lay a foundation for, hey, what am I gonna listen to over the next hour or so, but I kind of like being taken on a little bit of a ride where you get kind of different music along the way, so you get... You're listening to a rock album, you're gonna get that ballad somewhere, you know, song seven, song eight. I kind of like the variety, but I think for me, the most important things are a really awesome start, and honestly, what I'm looking for in a cool album is holy shit moments where I'm listening to it thinking, wow, I have never heard anyone do this before on this list, or you know, getting 30, 40 albums in and I've never heard a sound like this, or I've never heard a singer like this, so honestly what I'm looking for is that holy shit moment thinking, this is totally unique and I can see why this revolutionized music. Like, Kid A, you know,
[76:01]great album, right? I also like to listen to albums where I can understand what they're singing, Matt. Had to do it, had to do it. Oh, Aaron, what do you qualify as a great album? I mean, I do think a great album has to still, I like the idea of moments because obviously any piece of art has to have peaks and valleys, although like you wouldn't want too many valleys on a great album. But an album has to, like, buy it by track. The valleys on this album are so fucking low. Oh, yeah. I love how bad the bad is. I think it's got to hold my attention by track eight or nine, and it's got to still be, you know, it can't something about, you know, it's got a set of vibes that I enjoy that I want to listen to for an entire, you know, hour. But by track eight or nine, it still has to give me something that surprises me but stays within the general oomph of the album. That's what's important to me. Matt, what about you? What's a great album
[77:01]for you? Well, I mean, so the problem, you know, the problem with this list for us, right, is that we're all plus or minus 40 years old. Like, real tight on that. We're all about the same age. And we're very cool. Like, some of this, right, like, we'll never know. The album, Love, like, you know, it's, I don't know where it's at on the list. Somewhere in the top 100 here. You know, like, we'll never know it, but like, when you dive into it, and we're not going to dive into these time and time again and really get deep dives, but you know, it probably came out, like, three years before anything else before it. And so, to try to quantify what that new sound actually was, and who actually listened to it, and then, you know, created their next great album because of it, I mean, it's hard for us to tell on some of this stuff. So, you know, some of these where you're quantifying, like, the great album, like, are people ahead of their time? And sometimes you don't know if they're ahead of their time until it's 20 years later,
[78:01]right? And so, it's really, really tough unless you really dive in. And that's why I think it's, while it's good that you've got a big group of people that are voting on it, you know, clearly we've got some biases, I think, but you know, for me, it's just a good album is just, it's something new, but it catches your fancy, if we're gonna do a callback to a different word, you know? It catches your fancy a little bit, you know, it just, it moves you a little bit, it makes you think, huh, what the heck's going on here? It makes you want to listen to it again. You know, a lot of times when you're listening to this top 100 list, you just want to move on, but, you know, that's not to say that that album wasn't great for when it came out, or for the genre that it's in. So, you know, we will struggle with this podcast, and that we all kind of grew up in similar backgrounds and similar times, but I think it'll be good to kind of hear our different perspectives on it, and everybody's
[79:01]got different takes, which is good, which is never making, you know, it'll never be a perfect list, right? And so, hope to do is analyze it to, and go from there. Well, I think when you look at the list, I think one of the most interesting parts is 37% of the songs on the Rolling Stone Top 500 list are from the 1970s. So you're telling me that almost 4 out of 10 of the greatest albums of all time were from the 1970s? I gotta call bullshit on that. I mean, it was a... It really is like a bunch of us being like, you know who fucking rock? Rex and FX. Because it's such a huge part of us growing up. Rob, before you jump forward, you kind of mentioned some of the things that we thought were maybe shortfalls in the list. I just had a couple more I thought we could talk about real quickly. Absolutely. So the first thing that I noticed is, out of the 500, about 70 of them, about 1 out of every 7 albums is a compilation or a greatest hit. I don't really understand why
[80:00]greatest hits albums are on the list. I read that when they revised the list, they added a few compilation albums so they could combine an artist and open up additional spots, but that just doesn't make any sense to me. I'm kind of curious, what is your guys' thoughts on the inclusion of greatest hits albums on this list? Oh, I think it's total garbage. I'll just say cop out. Yeah. Totally. It seems like they added it for, you know, so they could get like Elvis in the top 10 or 20 or whatever. You know, but then you've got like Elton John. And they were trying to get Robert Johnson in Muddy Waters. Yeah, Elton John's Yellow Brick Road, and then like five spots later, it's his greatest hits. I mean, like, how does that work, right? Like when you're in the 130s, 140s, something like that. So I don't know. It's a complete cop out. It's a cop out in the end. They don't define what an album is, and they don't talk about when was the era of albums. When did music, when did artists get time to go into the studio and make an album? Well,
[81:00]this is also a question that breaks along racial lines, right? The Beatles made great albums because someone paid them to go sit in a studio and dig around on a piano for how long, and other artists had to scrap and keep turning out singles so radio would pay them to play. And so, you know, the album didn't, to me, start until probably 66 or so, when someone would be able to go into a studio and make an album. And so I think the... But you do see even later artists, for example, I think CCR has a greatest hits album on there, and this is well past the timeline of a band not being able to put together an album. So what do you think about that type of deal? I think they're just trying to include bands that they know were important and didn't really get the chance for whatever reason to make a proper classic album. And the reason they wanted to include CCR because CCR has so many great tunes, but I guess they never put out a great album. But part of the problem too, right, is when we're talking about the greatest albums, like I said before, the number
[82:00]one album should be Man Hitting Rock With Bone. If you're talking about influential albums, that should be it. And I get that Robert Johnson, like I really enjoyed listening to the Robert Johnson CD. Yeah, it's great stuff. But he never went into a studio for days at a time and smoked weed and did yoga with Marisha Mai's yogi, and then turned out in Within You Without You. It was interesting hearing the songs that I would hear by Cream and by Derek and the Dominoes and by the Blues Brothers, you know. But was that really a great album? I don't know. I mean, I get why it's important, I just don't know if it's so great. Right. I was also curious, one thing we might not get a chance to do when we're going through episode by episode and looking at each album is kind of looking at who was excluded from the list. And I was kind of curious, I wondered, do you think there's some sort of bias against kind of really popular acts that maybe don't have the same significance or cultural significance? Like, if you look at it, I don't think Garth Brooks is on the list. He sold 156 million albums. That's ridiculous.
[83:00]Which is second to only The Beatles. I find it hard to believe that one of those wouldn't be on there. And I like Garth, but I think, it's not even me being a Garth fan, it's just kind of curious, do you think there's like a bias against maybe like country music or certain types of music and why that wasn't included? I didn't check Chris Gaines on though. Yes, I think he is on there somewhere. I think that was Captain Beefheart's alter ego. Chris Gaines is number two. No, I mean, this list is it's so incredibly white and it's so incredibly 70s and classic rock. But I guess but to Russell's, to think about Russell, it's white and it's also New York. You're only going to get on there as a country artist if you were recording in the 70s and you were like properly outlaw. And Alan Jackson didn't make it, right? And George Street's probably not on there. George Street, Kenny Rogers, yeah. But how much of that too is us growing up and being in middle school in 1992 and hearing Garth Brooks over and over and over and being like, yeah, I shouldn't cheat on my wife. He made
[84:01]a good point. You know what I mean? When Garth Brooks was like, ah, fuck it, I better go marry Trisha Yearwood. I don't care what anybody else is saying. But it's not just country music artists, it's other artists that are like up in the top 10 of all-time sales like Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, each have sold like 70 million albums, not on the list. How the hell does Mariah have that? Tupac sold like 37 million albums, not on the list. Mariah Carey's not on the list? Does it surprise you that acts of that stature are not on there? Yeah, fuck yeah. Absolutely. At some point, being popular is its own metric, right? Being popular is the most important thing ever. It's what I tell my kids all the time. They need to be popular. It supersedes everything else, period. End of story. Thank you. But like, each of those albums, right, like, none of those artists wrote their own songs, which is fine. Tupac, that's crazy. You know, which is fine, you know, but things like that, but like, they're absolutely driven towards top 40 radio, you know,
[85:00]and they're manufactured towards top 40 radio, so yes, okay. But you can see why Rolling Stone magazine doesn't put them as a top 500 album, you know. Sure, but the Beatles weren't a four-person band. George Martin was, and how many studio engineers made Sgt. Pepper happen? I mean, the Beatles weren't just like four dudes writing tunes or something. Well, I mean, the early stuff was built for radio, but any of the top albums, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, I mean, that's not like, oh, we gotta get this on the radio, you know, whereas all of those, the Garth Brooks of the world, the Alan Jacksons of the world, specifically George Strait, I mean, that dude put out an album every eight months. He's got 48 albums. God, good for him, man. It's just literally, it was not about, like, I want to make a great album, it's like, how much money can I make and sell a CD? So, you know, I don't know. You had mentioned the Beatles, you guys were talking about producers. My third issue with the list is, there's a
[86:00]convicted murderer on this list. Bill Spector was convicted of murder in 2009, and the list, I think, was revised in 2012, and it's kind of strange. This would be like the NFL naming its top hundred greatest players on the NFL network over a few months, and including O.J. Simpson. Well, I guess they actually just did that. The NFL shouldn't be our guide, but it's just crazy. Like, who are the people that felt like Phil Spector really needs to be honored and remain on this list when he murdered someone? Should that not matter at all? That's just, that's the Brian Wilson thing. Like, Brian Wilson was so head over heels about Phil Spector that people just think, like, he has to be on because if there's no Phil Spector, there's no Pet Sounds, and if there's no Pet Sounds, then there's just no popular music after 1967. People just get crazy about it. That's a fucking long-ass album if you're listening to everyone in his album. It's not even an album. It's just a bunch of 45s. Like, those are all just 45s that
[87:00]were never intended to be listened to one after another. Same with that Muddy Waters and Buddy Holly thing. Like, nobody thought you were going to sit and listen to four hours of Muddy Waters. That's crazy. No. So, I think we're down to that. Let's do what we're going to do on every episode, although this one we're actually rating the whole list. So, here's the deal for the rating of the list, and this is a rating system that's sweeping the nation. A lot of people are talking about it. A lot of emails about it. People love it. Do you think this list is Rolling Blown in that they totally screwed it up? Is it Rolling Throne, you like it, or is it Rolling Drone? Who really cares what Rolling Stone has to say about a list in the first place? Russ, what do you think? What do you think of the vinyl rating? Is it Rolling Blown, Rolling Throne, or Rolling Drone? I think it's definitely Rolling Throne. I really like the list. I quibble with where certain albums are at times, and there's been a handful of albums where, honestly, the music just doesn't resonate with me at all. I don't get it. I don't enjoy it. But most of the albums I really enjoy, and I would say about 75-80% of
[88:01]the albums, at some point I've texted you guys and said, hey, I've never heard this before. This is awesome. It's been a great experience. So, there are songs and there are albums that I don't really understand why they're so high, and I don't really get the use of Greatest Hits albums. I don't understand it, but overall, it's Rolling Throne. I really enjoy the list. All right. Matt, what do you think? Rolling Blown? Rolling Throne? Or Rolling Drone? And I'm going to say these again, because I take a lot of time to find these rhymes. So, I want credit for that. I'm going to go with Rolling Drone, which is the one that is basically Who Cares? You know, it's a list. Somebody put it together. We've decided to kind of take it and run with it, to use it as a backbone of what we're going to, you know, just as something to do. I mean, you know, if you're going to get, if anybody's going to get all up in arms about, you know, the Beatles being number one over Marvin Gaye, or you know, the grunge era being as well represented as it is, you know, I mean, it is what it is. You take it for face value and you
[89:01]move on with life and go from there. So, I'm kind of on a big Who Cares? I like the list where it's at. I mean, it's enjoyable to go through everything, you know, but it's not going to ruin my day that, you know, that we don't have Elton John until the 80s, you know, that he's not in the top 20 or something like that. So, I'm just, I'm going to go with the Rolling Drone guy. Well, Matt, you make a great point. Now I feel bad that I punched my dad about it earlier. What do you think, Aaron? Can I say this? Aaron, and again, no, shut up for a second. It's Rolling Blown, Rolling Thrown, or Rolling Drone. It's very clever and good. I'm going to make a portmanteau. I'm going to say it's Rolling Thrown Blown because I like it, and I think they screwed it up. And I like it because they screwed it up. And I like it because we're here talking about it with my buds, and this is I'm so excited to be here, but I think it's all goofed up, and I love it anyway. So, it's a Rolling Thrown Blown to me. I love it. And the correct answer, of course, is
[90:01]it's Rolling Condenser Microphone. I got to buy some new stuff to make this podcast. Anytime I get to buy new stuff and not hang out with my family and tell my wife I'm definitely not sitting in the car screaming, and instead I'm doing a podcast, which is very different. It's not the same at all. It's very good. So, that is the correct answer. And now it's time for our game, and this game I have picked albums, and I have picked adult films. And you need to tell me, is this an album that's on the top 500 list, or is this an adult film? So, let's do a quick practice round. I'm starting to run out of battery on my computer, so we'll figure this out. First one, Russ, what do you think about Toys in the Attic? Toys in the Attic. Is that an adult film, or is that a movie on the list? I'm sorry, an adult list. Okay, so we're doing movies, too. I forgot to mention that. In 2020. We're changing this podcast to the best adult films of all time. Hey, what's your
[91:01]podcast about? Oh, yeah, well, I watch adult films and rate them. They're all good. Russ, what do you think? Toys in the Attic. I'm gonna say this could probably be an album. I feel like if I were to respond to my potential Bumble date with I Was Really Fancy and Toys in the Attic, she wouldn't be offended. So, I'm gonna say it's an album. You are correct. That's an Aerosmith album. Nice job. Matt, what do you think? This is a practice round still. Nothing to hide. Nothing to hide. Is that an album or an adult film? Adult film. That is correct from 1981. You're gonna find a lot of these adult films are from 1981 for some reason. Aaron, All the Young Dudes. All the Young Dudes. Is that an adult film, or is that an album? All the young dudes carry the news. It's Mata Hoople. It's an album. That is correct. That is an album. Okay, so now... I was terrified that Aaron just knew the soundtrack for that film right there.
[92:01]He loves it so much he has the soundtrack. I got the A track. Alright, Russ, you're gonna start. Just to let you know, you get one point for a correct answer. One ties, all ties. Alright. I'm worried you're gonna ask me some Beatles album and then you guys are gonna kick me off the podcast when I accuse it of being an adult film. It's gonna be all Beck albums. This first one's so easy, Russ. Oh no, that's the worst. Moanin' in the Moonlight. Moanin' in the Moonlight. Well, I... Matt's holding his head. I can see him through the Zoom right now, so I feel like I need to guess that this is an album. That is correct. It's a Howlin' Wolf album. Ding, ding, ding, ding. You get a point. Nice job. Matt, what do you think? Shoot Out the Lights. Shoot Out the Lights. Is that an album or is that an adult film? What do you think? I can only do that if I wait like a week in between that and Shoot Out the Lights. If you're like on a camping trip with a bunch of your friends. I'm gonna go album. I don't know. Album.
[93:00]That is correct. It's Richard and Linda Thompson. Okay. Aaron, what do you think? Rum Sodomy and the Lash. Rum Sodomy and the Lash. That's the Pogues. That is an album. Son of a bitch. You're too smart for this. That is correct. It's an album. You get a point. It is one to one to one. All right. Is this an album or an adult film? Russ, The Ginger Effect. The Ginger Effect. The Ginger Effect. Don't Google it. I see you're trying to Google it. Don't do that on a work computer. For God's sakes, Russell, I had to look these up on my phone. I'm a teacher. I couldn't do this on my work computer. I should learn my lesson about our previous discussions about the Jamaican jerk-off song with my work computer. I'm gonna say that that's probably an adult film. Ding, ding, ding. That is correct. Nice job, 1986. All right, Matt. A quick one. Is that an adult film or an album on the Rolling Stone Top 500 list? A quick one. Apparently, that's an album.
[94:02]Oh, it's The Who. While He's Away. That's the song is While He's Away. The album is just a quick one. All right. Are we sure that wasn't also the self-titled album of Rob and Jenny's home movies? No. Trick question. It's both. That one's called Is It Sweat or Tears? Next one. Aaron. Space Nuts. Space Nuts has got to be an adult film. That is correct. That's from 2003. That's a modern classic. That's from when we graduated high school. That is an adult film. Okay, so everybody's with two points. Final round, although I think I made four rounds. This game is way too long. Okay, Russ, careful he may be watching. Careful he may be watching. Is that an adult film or is that an album from the Top 500 list?
[95:00]I'm going to skip that and say it's an adult film. That is correct. It's from 1987. That is an adult film. Nice work. Matt, Taboo. Taboo. That's an album? That is incorrect. That's a 1980 adult film. I love that we get the year of this. This is the best. I don't know what genre we're in. Well, that's important to know. Okay, Aaron, Willie and the Poor Boys. Willie and the Poor Boys. That's a good name either way. That's confusing because isn't there a CCR song called Willie and the Poor Boys? But didn't we just discuss that CCR only has the greatest hits album on here? Willie and the Poor Boys. I'm going to guess an album and I don't know. That is correct. It's a CCR album. Nice job. You are too smart. Alright, so Russ with two, Aaron with two, Matt with one or something, or three, two, three. Next one, Russ. Blonde Ambition. Last round.
[96:01]Blonde Ambition. I was worried you were going to say blonde on blonde and I was going to have too many drinks and get screwed up or Rob was going to trick me on that, but I'm not sure about this one. I'll go adult film. That is correct. From the hit year 1981. It's a classic year for adult films. Blonde Ambition is an adult film. Okay, Matt. To catch up. Actually not. Doesn't matter. The harder they come, the harder they come. Is that an adult film or is that an album from the Rolling Stone Top 500 list? Is it a sentence, please? Hey, I just went to the theater and saw The Harder They Come. And I got the soundtrack on CD and I love both. It's an album. That is correct. It is an album, but it's also a movie. It's a soundtrack. It's a soundtrack. Jimmy Cliff. It's all reggae. Yeah, nice job. Alright, Aaron.
[97:01]To Ty Russell. You need to tell me the last one. Do you think it's funny to pick an adult film? Or would I think it's funny to pick an album? So much pressure. Violator. Isn't that a Rolling Stones album? Violator. Do you think that's an adult film or an album? I'm going to go album. I think it's Rolling Stones. You are correct. Ding, ding, ding. It's a Depeche Mode album, actually, but you win. Are you Depeche Mode or are you Depeche Mode? Oh, Depeche. Who says Depeche? I don't know. I had a roommate in college who swore it was Depeche Mode, so we can discuss that when we get to it. Well, I think that's like 380 on the list. I had to go to all albums that were way down the list because I know you guys have listed like the top 150, so I had to go way down. Wow. Alright, that is it for this episode of Beck Did It Better. The next album we're going to talk about, oh my God, is this intimidating,
[98:00]is Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Hearts Club Band. Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band. I'm sure we don't have much to say about that. That is it for Beck Did It Better. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time But you're just too lazy to look it up online If you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck Did It Better.
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