Speaker 1: 0:43

welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is matt said home alongside my co-host and co-founder, super awesome mix, samer abu salbi. Samer, how we doing this week.

Speaker 2: 0:53

I am doing real well. It's our uh, our final new music mix in the month of November before we do Best Of. I'm already thinking about my picks for end of year, but I haven't settled on any of them yet.

Speaker 1: 1:04

I don't know how the status of your mix is coming along preparing this one and I was like man, I don't know how I'm going to pick 12 songs because, just as a reminder for the listeners out there, we're going to do a two-part. Best of one week will be uh, did we do one week and then the next week? Did we switch?

Speaker 2: 1:25

off.

Speaker 1: 1:25

Yes, yeah, so one week will be sammer's best of 12 songs and then, uh, my best of 12 songs. So yeah, I think it's going to be a challenge. I mean, we said this more than once this this year that there was just a lot of great new music. And then there's probably even some songs because I think both of us did this where we kind of picked a single off, a new release kind of early and then the whole album came out. So there might even be some new music and best of on the uh, on the best of mix absolutely, yeah, I mean, that's the benefit of getting your new music out.

Speaker 2: 2:01

You know, later in the years you got a, you got a bigger chance, I'd say, of getting on the super awesome mix, best of mix, um it's, it's a big honor.

Speaker 1: 2:08

It's everybody's vying for it uh everyone did you order those plaques we were going to send out, or did you not?

Speaker 2: 2:15

oh, you know what? I will do that right after this.

Speaker 1: 2:17

Okay, right after we record, here you're going to order those plaques. Okay, good, good, good, yeah. So just a couple more new episodes left in this year. Then we're going to get ready for season five in 2025. We're super excited, uh, about some fun stuff coming next year. So, uh, with all that being said, let's get to our new music, and we start off with your pick, and it is Like a Prayer, but this is by the I'll Take you there Choir. So, samra, tell us about this one.

Speaker 2: 2:49

Yeah. So if you are not a listener of what Are you Listening To with Jen Tully on the Super Awesome Mix Network? You absolutely should check out the most recent episode that just came out, a couple of days earlier than this one, and it's where I discuss my marathon experience. So I won't tell you all about it, but I'll just, you know, spoil it that it went really well and I was able to finish, thankfully, but this was on my you are still with us.

Speaker 1: 3:13

I'm still here. You survived.

Speaker 2: 3:15

I did survive, although, as Matt knows, it took me like 45 minutes to get set up for this recording. So you know, every work in the kinks out, work in the kinks out, um, but as I discuss on that episode and I'll just briefly talk about it here this was on my day of mix. Um, it didn't quite make the. You know the mixtape that I we talked about just this last episode, but I had started to see this pop up a lot in reels on Instagram and it was set to like a runner's meme of graduating to the marathon, set to this choir version of the I'll Take you there by Madonna, and it worked really, really well and it kind of like made me swell up. Honestly, everything was making me emotional leading up into the marathon because it was just such a big moment. You know, something I've been planning for for years and I had a lot of anxiety about it. You know all all the feelings and excitement and stuff.

Speaker 2: 4:05

So I love this song for that reason. I think it has that cinematic feel to it, which makes sense. It's from the Deadpool and Wolverine soundtrack, so it absolutely makes sense that it's got a cinematic feel. But in general, as I said, you know, told Jen, I just I love pop songs sung by a choir. Like I just think it's such a cool way to kind of interpret a song and hear a cover of it and this one just feels like gospel, like you know lyrics aside, which we joke about it, I had again the very obvious realization how much innuendo is in the song. It does feel like a triumphant song, right. So really really loved it and it got me through my race day. So I'm curious if you'd heard this or seen this on Instagram yet, or heard it on Instagram.

Speaker 1: 4:52

I hadn't heard this yet. I really want to see the Deadpool and Wolverine movie. I just haven't gotten around to it, but I think it's coming on Disney Plus soon, so very excited about that. But yeah, I really enjoyed this one and I'm with you and I think it fits even better with this song, just because the original, like a Prayer, had a choir element to it, and this one it's almost like if you just stripped out the Madonna vocals and just focused on that. And, yeah, I think it works. This one works really well and so I really enjoyed this one. On the mix.

Speaker 2: 5:27

Nice, All right. Well, let's get to your first pick, track number two, and it is I Don't Know how to Say Goodbye, parentheses bang, bang, boom, boom by Dwight Yoakam and Post Malone Boom.

Speaker 1: 5:36

Boom by Dwight Yoakam and Post Malone. Yeah, dwight Yoakam has a new album coming out and so it just led to an opening for me to include more Post Malone singing country music this year. Yeah, yeah, there's been a lot of that. He had his own country album come out. He's been doing so many collaborations on that album and then and then separate from that.

Speaker 1: 5:55

I've always loved Dwight Yoakam sound. You know it's almost a little like rockabilly if you're familiar with that album. And then and then separate from that. Um, I, I've always loved dwight, dwight yokem's sound. You know it's. It's almost a little like rockabilly if you're familiar with that genre. Um, but he still sounds great here. I mean, he's been doing that a long time and I think he pairs up really well with post malone. This, this song is pretty straightforward as far as, like you know, kind of a breakup heartache type song. The bang bang, boom, boom stuff is pretty fun as they get into that and the lyrics, but you know no deeper meaning here, necessarily, but I think just a really a really good straight ahead song.

Speaker 2: 6:30

Yeah, I agree it's really catchy. It's a very catchy song. It's a very country song, really catchy, it's a very catchy song, it's a very country song. It wins some points with me, though, because I believe it has a fiddle instrumental like right, kind of in the middle of it. So you know, earn some points there.

Speaker 2: 6:46

If there was like an Olympic grading system for me for country songs, I would get some points for including a fiddle points for including a fiddle I love the idea of an olympic grading system for genres you don't care for right exactly, yeah, it's just like.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Well, it does have this. So I'll listen to it and I'll give it this right.

Speaker 2: 7:10

Yeah, it loses some points on the opening, because the opening is very country sounding but then it's very country but it kind it reigns it in.

Speaker 1: 7:18

I feel like, yes, Post Malone's voice has got to help a little bit. It does.

Speaker 2: 7:23

Yep Earned some points there for a crossover artist. So overall, you know, let's give this like a six. I think We'll take it.

Speaker 1: 7:31

We'll take it, you know of course, we drop the highest and lowest scores and average the rest to get the final score for this one naturally yes, yeah, so follow us at super awesome mix. To see what the other judges say. Um, all right, all right, your next pick, track three.

Speaker 2: 7:49

It is the devil I know, by dorothy yeah, so I did not know um this artist, dor Dorothy, and I'm so happy that I discovered her late in this year. She really reminds me of the Pretty Reckless which I've talked a lot about on the show. Another like just you know, Taylor Momsen, an amazing rocker. So I get a lot of those vibes from from her, from Dorothy. And yeah, I mean just like a solid kind of rock song with great vocals, and I don't have much more to say than that. Like, basically, this is like Sam or clickbait for me, right, Like a rock song with strong female lead vocals. I'm like sign me up, let's do it. So I'm excited to kind of dive more into her discography because I've been needing more of this kind of like heavy rock in my life. I feel like that's kind of the mood that I'm in these days. So I'm excited to spend more time with her.

Speaker 1: 8:45

Yeah, I was really impressed as well. Had not heard of her prior to this and we've done a couple editions of the Women who Rock mixtape and I feel like if we do a volume three, there's probably a few songs of hers that would be strong candidates here. Absolutely yeah, great vocals, great energy and just good rock music. It's funny because I don't know if my kids know what rock music is, whereas growing up it was a real standout genre, whereas now I don't know. Everything I hear them listen to is much more like pop or R&B. Those have kind of become the dominant genres.

Speaker 2: 9:25

Well, it sounds like you got to make them a mixtape, Matt.

Speaker 1: 9:28

Great suggestion, Samer I like that all right.

Speaker 2: 9:34

Well on our mixtape that we're currently talking about track number four, your next pick. It is rich off rap by I don't know how to pronounce this rapper's name big big x, the plug big x the plug, that's right, yeah big x the plug, I got it.

Speaker 1: 9:49

I got it so okay, this is gonna make you laugh. Um, so I follow, I watch a lot of of NBA basketball and follow them on Instagram and they're always like, hey, the celebs are out tonight, right, and they'll show celebrities. And nothing makes me feel older than scrolling through that because I'll be like I don't know who any of these people are, right, but in one of those editions it was like look who showed up at the Mavericks game and I was like I don't know who this dude is. And then I was watching you know the Colorado Buffaloes and Coach Prime out there, and then, like he brings this guy into the locker room and I'm like I don't know who this guy is, but everyone's going crazy. Okay, in both cases it was Big X the plug.

Speaker 2: 10:34

So he is an.

Speaker 1: 10:35

Alice rapper, pretty popular guy, and he just came out with a new album. This one I kind of picked as a standout because he samples the Rick James song Give it To Me Baby, which is just an awesome sample Like. That really kind of like drew me in immediately. And yeah, I mean the first line. He says everything that I wanted. Everything that I wanted, stood up and got it. Um, and it's just kind of your classic straight ahead rap song where he's talking about how great his life is and it's like man, that sounds pretty good, you know, and he's gotten rich on rap for sure. So, um, yeah, but it is pronounced big x, the the plug. And yeah, dallas guy, I don't know the genesis of the name, but there's probably an interesting story there.

Speaker 2: 11:23

Yeah, no, I agree with everything you said it was. It's super catchy intro, right Like sampling right off the beat give it to me, baby. And then having that kind of you know run throughout the song just immediately does pull you in. And it has this like gives us like channeling some inner DJ Khaled which we could all use sometimes, of just feeling like you're the best you know, like it's important to have days like that. The world can kind of beat you up left and right. So every now and then, just be like you know what, doing my best, I am the best, but let's, let's do this.

Speaker 1: 12:00

So I like that energy here. I'm telling you there's. There's something to that right, like, if you don't't have actual skill, just telling everyone you're good at something. Um, yeah, so, uh, let's go to track five. Uh, it is gorgeous, and this is by snoop dogg, dr dre, and I might screw this one up jean aiko yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:20

So, speaking of celebrities that I think the entire united states now very much knows, uh, snoop dog with new music, I feel like he might be the last like he and the Rock might be like the last two humans that we all agree are just like wonderful people. You know, like he's having such a renaissance. He was all over the Olympics. He continues to just be all over everything. He's on the Voice now and I'm here for more Snoop in my life, like I kind of want him commentating everything. It just makes it a little bit more fun.

Speaker 1: 12:53

I think I saw him on Monday Night Football recently too, Like he's just, he really is just everywhere, and so I was actually kind of shocked that he had any time to make new music.

Speaker 2: 13:04

I know, right, yeah, yeah, it's been a minute. I feel like it's been a minute since he's kind of sat down and done music, you know, produced by Dre. You know Gene Aiko on on the vocals here as well, just a great, great song. You know, I love the line here. Again, just really clever rapping, but he sings. You know, show, show you how to do it properly. When you're on my property, I'm a hot commodity, boardwalk monopoly, just great right. A nice little tie-in with the game Monopoly there.

Speaker 1: 13:35

How many like advertising people out there who've been hired by real estate companies have been struggling for years to kind of string together those words and snoop who, I'm guessing, never had a job in real estate like just kind of nailed it he does.

Speaker 2: 13:51

Yeah, exactly, exactly. I mean, maybe that's what he'll do next.

Speaker 1: 13:54

He'll just become another dude like I could see him jumping into all kinds of industries, right yeah, no, like here's the thing when henry winkler tries to sell me a reverse mortgage, I'm a little suspect. But if snoop dog's on there I'm like well, hold on a minute, snoop, you can take money out of my house all right, I'm interested in this it's been a minute also, so it's been a minute since I've watched shark tank.

Speaker 2: 14:17

But I could totally. So I don't know if he's actually been on the show, but I'm pretty sure he hasn't. But he could absolutely be a guest judge, right, wouldn't that be?

Speaker 1: 14:24

great, be great. That would be great. Yes, yes, because I think he would actually like kind of mellow out some of the other judges. I think it'd be hard for Mr Wonderful to be so high strung if.

Speaker 2: 14:34

Snoop was sitting next to him. He'd be a good foil to them, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 14:41

He would be.

Speaker 2: 14:42

He would be All right. Well, let's move on to track number six. Here, your next pick, and it is I'm just joking by ashley kutcher yeah, when I looked at this I was like, is this ashton kutcher?

Speaker 1: 14:54

um, because the name is just so close. Um, right, but yeah, similar to another favorite of mine, megan maroney, she is a ashley kutcher, she's a country singer and she she's got a lot of very just, cleverly written songs, kind of tongue-in-cheek. I mean, her sound is very country, so I know it's going to lose points with one judge just based on that, but I do like how this one is written and the way she sings it about just getting a little too excited sometimes in the early part of a relationship, about just getting a little too excited sometimes in the early part of a relationship and she kind of talks about how fun it would be to plan a wedding or name children, and then she kind of tops it with this you know the end of the refrain where she's like I'm just joking, unless and then she kind of leaves us hanging there.

Speaker 1: 15:41

So I just thought it was just really well done and I think the way she sings it is really, uh, really great too.

Speaker 2: 15:46

so, um yeah, kind of a new up-and-coming country artist, someone to keep an eye on yeah, I, I think she scores high on my uh, on my olympic judge score sheet here. Uh, she earned some extra points for being only 22 and having just an incredible voice. You know, very talented, okay, um, so that's great bonus points there. Earn some points here too, because I I do think the subject matter is like very cute and cleverly written of you know, having those early feelings in a relationship and just kind of like planning out your entire future with this human, but testing the waters with it, um, I think that's that's like a very funny and very relatable thing that we all have experienced, I'm sure, at some point in our lives.

Speaker 2: 16:25

So really, really like the premise of it and just overall, I just think it's a very catchy, lighthearted song. It's a joyful song, right. I think that that's really nice here. So I'm with you. I think I'm excited to kind of see where she goes from here, because I think this is a really really exciting release from her and she's got a lot of talent.

Speaker 1: 16:49

It's going to be exciting release from her and she's got a lot of talent. It's gonna be really cool, nice, wow, and I mean geez. I mean, if she scored so highly with you, there's probably some crossover appeal at some point absolutely, yeah, yeah love it all right. So now here a slightly more established artist here. This is, isn't it obvious?

Speaker 2: 17:05

by alessia cara yeah, so she um, just recently announced her fourth album coming in 2025. I believe it's going to be called love and hyperbole. Um, this is, you know, a single that's going to be off that album presumably. But I, I just, you know, I really like her voice. I've always liked her voice. I, she kind of reminds me I put her in the same categories like lord. You know, like, if you like lord, you probably like alessia cara, and back and forth. Um, they have, kind of reminds me, I put her in the same category as like Lord. You know, like if you like Lord, you probably like Alicia Cara, and back and forth. Um, they have kind of similar vocals and styles. Uh, I'd say so, um, you know, just really like the song.

Speaker 2: 17:35

In particular, I really like the lines here where she sings fears are only false creations. Just as vibrant as we paint them, we're just fine, and I just love that sense that like fears are things that we give like fuel to right they are. They can be so real in our minds because we make them that real and so just as vibrant as we want to make them like they can become even more scary and kind of stop us in our tracks and stuff. So I think that's a really powerful line to sing about and it's a good reminder that oftentimes, like we create our own fears and let them block our progress and what we really want to do. So I just think it's a really nice song and great vocals and, as always, excited to see what's on the rest of her album.

Speaker 1: 18:20

I think she's so underrated. You know, I she kind of I kind of heard of her first because you know, with my kids we've watched Moana 200 times and she sings kind of the theme song for that one how Far I'll Go. She sings that in the closing credits and she's got such a great voice and I still think she's just a little underrated, even though she's probably a pretty. You know, people recognize her name but I don't know if she gets full credit for how good a singer she is.

Speaker 1: 18:50

So yeah yeah, really, really enjoyed this one. I'm sure the whole album is great and she's just going to continue to do big things. I wonder if she will pop up on the Moana 2 soundtrack, because that one's about to come out.

Speaker 2: 19:05

Oh wow, yeah, I didn't know that they were making a second one. I um that's cool, it's exciting.

Speaker 1: 19:09

Well, if I didn't have children, it would probably be off my radar too. There's so many movies and shows that people will look at me and go you never watched that. I was like, look, I was like 31 when that came out, like I didn't have kids. Like why would I right, why would that be on my radar?

Speaker 2: 19:25

that's awesome all right track number eight. It is picture of you in parentheses x plus w by u2 all right.

Speaker 1: 19:37

So u2 just released a 20th anniversary version of the album how to dismantle an atomic bomb. It was their 11th album, but actually one of their bigger ones. It included the songs Vertigo Sometimes you Can't Make it On your Own City of Blinding Lights, so just a lot of like bigger hits for them, kind of in more recent years. And if we learned anything from doing this show, it's that so many times albums are, you know, know, the final list that we see is whittled down from you know, 20, 30 songs or whatever. So I love it when artists like this will release an anniversary version and then what they did here was put out 10 songs that just missed the cut and never made it on another album, and so picture of you is one of those songs.

Speaker 1: 20:26

Now, the interesting thing about this is written 20 years ago, so I don't even think the iPhone existed at that point. We didn't have all the apps and stuff that we just have in front of us all the time. But if you look at the lyrics to this one, it's all about the distractions in our lives and all the things just sort of readily available to us in our face, and all the things just sort of readily available to us in our face. He makes you know a couple of references there of you know watching the nightly news to get to know the enemy, which is also something like now news has just become you kind of just pick one side or the other and you hear about all the stuff on the other side and then buying things you can't afford, which, again, is just super easy now that we're on our phones and money's kind of invisible because we just click a button we don't actually have cash in our pocket.

Speaker 1: 21:15

So just I don't know. Just this song really stood out, just for how prescient it ends up being, having been written, you know, around 03, 04 when the album came out, and now listening to it in 2024.

Speaker 2: 21:28

Yeah, it's a really good call out. Everything that he's kind of singing about has just been exaggerated over the last 20 years. Right, unfortunately not solved like other songs that we've talked about where you know we've solved all the problems.

Speaker 1: 21:43

Yeah, we just solve all these things in three and a half minutes, but but not always the case not always the case, um, but sonically, by the way, I just have to call this out.

Speaker 2: 21:54

I didn't realize this was you too. Like I, you know, was just playing the the mix and I really, really, really liked it. I just had it honestly reminded me of like jane's addiction. Um, it had like just a higher like energy than I am like used to from you two, or like just more of like a rockish sound, um. So I was like pleasantly surprised that it was actually this. You know it was bono and and friends, because I never would have guessed that otherwise it just didn't sound.

Speaker 1: 22:21

It sounds a little bit. The song vertigo from this album has a little bit of that same energy and I'm wondering if they just kind of picked between vertigo and this song as far as like which one of those would go on the album. But yeah, I I agree there is some some kind of higher energy to this one definitely all right, your next pick, it is x-ray eyes by lcd sound system yeah.

Speaker 2: 22:48

So this track, um, you know, I kind of picked it just almost as a reminder to myself that there there's new music by lcd sound system coming out. Um, it, I'm excited to listen to it. I have like a love not hate, but let's call it a love dislike relationship with lcd sound system. There are songs that I'm like, so into from them, and then there's songs that I'm just like I don't know why I'm listening to this. I don't know where this one lands, because, because there's not much to this song, right Like it's a, it's it's a callback, very much so to like their earliest stuff. Um, you know, he just kind of like sing, talks his way through it. It sounds exactly like an LCD sound system track. Right Like you would guess it a million miles away, um, for all of those reasons.

Speaker 2: 23:34

But then it's, there's something about it to where, even though I'm not crazy about the song, I still find myself listening to it and listening to it and it's weird. I don't know why that happens. I don't know if it's like just the repetitive nature of it. Weird. I don't know why that happens. I don't know if it's like just the repetitive nature of it, maybe like my subconscious finds that calming. But that's that's. That's kind of where I'm at with this track and kind of his like style of music in general. It just kind of reminds me also of like craftwork or like just 80s, like synth pop, right. Like it has that kind of vibe to it and maybe that's another thing that I like about it. But I don't know, I'm like in a weird space with this group, with him. It's like a DJ, but I just figured I'd throw it on the mix because why not? Why not talk about it?

Speaker 1: 24:19

Well, it's really kind of funny to hear you talk about it, because my first reaction to this like the first time I heard this I was a little like meh, like didn't move the needle right. And then I heard it the second time and I was like, oh, I really love it. What song is this? It was as if I'd never heard it before. But I liked it a lot more that second time. And then I kind of went back. I mean I don't know, I listened to this mix a few times. Then I kind of went back. I mean I don't know, I listened to this mix a few times and I was like I.

Speaker 1: 24:49

I think I like this, I think I do like this. But it's so funny the way you describe your. You know how you reacted to this song, because I think I had a similar reaction and that at first I was like what is this? And then I was like no, no, I like this. Let's keep listening, you know. So there's something in there that kind of grabs you yeah, there really is.

Speaker 2: 25:06

It's odd, um, it has this kind of like, yeah, nature that just kind of plants a seed and then it just grows over time. But I'm curious, listeners, if you have a different reaction, you can always reach out to us at super awesome mix on instagram. I'm always eager to kind of hear your uh, your input and ideas on these songs as well. But before you dm me, listen to it like two or three times and and let me know if by the third time, you like it or you're still like no, it's an awful song I.

Speaker 1: 25:33

I agree, yeah, I don't. Yeah, we don't want your first reaction because you're hearing our like third reactions to it, you know yes, exactly, exactly um all.

Speaker 2: 25:42

Right track number 10. It is. We could have this by ben folds featuring lindsey craft. Yeah, so ben folds has a christmas album. Right Track number 10, it is. We Could have this by Ben Folds featuring Lindsey Kraft.

Speaker 1: 25:48

Yeah, so Ben Folds has a Christmas album coming out and, as, as you know, most artists do, they will sing their versions of a lot of Christmas standards and then include a couple originals. This is one of the originals on this upcoming album and it's just a really sweet song about, you know, these two people singing about what they could have at Christmas and I almost. When I heard it, it was almost like the view of how you view the holidays when you kind of don't have somebody right to share it with, versus like when you do have that person. Or you know, in this case it seems like this couple is maybe apart and will be together at some point. You know, whatever the case may be, or maybe they're just sort of longing for a future, some sort of idyllic future.

Speaker 1: 26:37

I think there's a few different ways you can interpret it, but I think that was kind of sweet for me is that, you know, I certainly was single for a long time and so the holidays would just kind of come and go, and not that they weren't meaningful because you have family and whatnot there. But it definitely takes on a different tone now with, you know, wife and kids and all of that around the holidays. So, um, anyway, uh, you know Ben Folds is great. I'm sure the whole album, his interpretations at Christmas songs, will be really fun, and so, um, yeah, I just, uh, just really enjoyed this one.

Speaker 2: 27:12

Yeah, I agree, I I find his voice to be very comforting and has like a soothing quality to it. So I'm I'm excited to kind of hear the rest of like the standards done by him, the Christmas songs and all that, because I do think that there'd be like a comfort to it. And Lindsey Kraft here, you know, as like the featured guest vocals also, like the two of them work really well together. It's a really beautiful duet and in general I find this to be like almost a sad song but maybe a very sweet song. It's exactly like you said. It's kind of hard to know where the needle falls there, but in general it's a very nice, like calming. You know, a song about your experience, like through through the holidays. It definitely can can be a wide range of all those feelings, whether it's a very calming and happy one to maybe a more somber and and like difficult one. So I think this is really well done and it's a beautifully sung by both of them.

Speaker 1: 28:35

All right, now let's take a hard right turn here for your last pick, track 11, and it's appropriately titled finish them by gangstar.

Speaker 2: 28:44

Yes, it's so funny. This is one of those things where I kind of feel like I've manifested the song, because I was looking for new music and I you know there's all these like memes and reels. You know me being a millennial, I kind of get millennial targeted. Ones of you know us lamenting the fact that, like current hip hop and rap sounds nothing like old school hip hop and rap, which is just you know, in a lot of ways better.

Speaker 2: 29:09

I just have to say that out loud and it's so funny. I was like, oh, I just really I miss that right, like I miss that classic hip hop like 90s, you know, maybe 2000s like sound. And then I saw, oh my God, gangstar has like new music and I was just so excited so this is great, like this definitely popped into my life at the exact moment I needed it to. I was introduced to Gangstar in college and was obsessed with them, listened to their albums like nonstop, you know, just a really really good like hip hop sound. And this one is like a callback to the game Mortal Kombat. So finish them, you know, is like the finishing moves that are super violent at the end of that video game, whenever you've kind of bested your opponent, if you hit the right key combination, then you do a finishing move. So that's what he's thinking about whenever he's saying finish him. And yeah, you know, I just think it's it's. It's a great track here and there's some really clever rhymes as well.

Speaker 1: 30:05

So very, very happy to kind of see the gangster was clever rhymes as well so very, very happy to to kind of see the gangsta was, you know, releasing new music. Um, I I laughed when you said you kind of manifested this song, because recently I was playing this, uh, this game with my son. He has this thing called they're called bay blades. You wouldn't know what they are, but anyway, these little metal spinning things and they could break up and you put them in this little battle arena or whatever, and so we will have these little battles and you know we'll both be like yelling stuff at our little spinners as they are knocking into each other and I told them I go, man, there used to be this game called mortal combat, and so I was telling them all the stuff that they would like yell out during mortal combat.

Speaker 1: 30:44

so it's funny, I was just educating my son on this and then this song comes up by Gangstar, so you may maybe we both manifested this to happen. I don't know. It seems so yeah, I love that the song was certainly meant to be, but anyway, you're right, just a real straight ahead. Great, like kind of throwback sound to it and yeah, no, I enjoyed it awesome, all right.

Speaker 2: 31:11

Well, let's round this out with just a great, great, great track. Loved this one. This might be my favorite off the mix. It is survive the night and it is. It features vocals by shensi, chris rivers, naz, cameron, ghostface, killer rizza and buster rhymes all right, so I mentioned moana two earlier.

Speaker 1: 31:25

lynn manuel miranda was part of one, just as he was part of Moana 1. But this is actually new Lin-Manuel Miranda okay, with a woman named Ayesa Davis, and they collaborated on a concept album called the Warriors. Now, samra, are you familiar with the 1979 movie the Warriors?

Speaker 2: 31:47

I am not no.

Speaker 1: 31:48

Okay, and so I just won a dollar because I bet myself that you did not know this movie. Um, okay, so the 1979 movie the warriors, it's kind of a cult classic. It's, uh, set in new york city and it's about this gang called the warriors and they have to make it across new york city and back to their home turf in one night. And they have to make it across New York City and back to their home turf in one night and they fight off all these other gangs along the way. And all these other gangs, all the gangs have their own like kind of shtick and their own kind of uniforms and whatever. It's a ridiculous movie, I say in all seriousness, I think you might actually enjoy it Okay.

Speaker 2: 32:25

Okay.

Speaker 1: 32:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 32:26

Nice.

Speaker 1: 32:27

So maybe check it out. I'm going to tell you right now, there are some very questionable scenes in it, but overall, conceptually, I think you'll enjoy it. Okay, so back to the present. Lin-manuel Miranda, big fan of this movie, decides I'm going to write, like a soundtrack, an album of what this would look like as a musical.

Speaker 1: 32:48

And so he takes this. The gang in the 1979 movie was all men. He makes the gang here all women and, um, this is exactly the theme of the whole movie and, and, of course, this album. It is surviving the night. That's what this gang has to do.

Speaker 1: 33:04

Um, there is talk of them turning this into a full on musical, but at this time, like there's nothing in place, there's no production that has begun, but, uh, for now we have this entire album, which I would imagine they would simply apply to the stage if it got to that point. Um, but it's great, it's really entertaining and if you know the movie, I think you're going to love this. Some people have kind of been. You know the fact that he made. Uh, if you know the movie, I think you're gonna love this. Some people have kind of been. You know the fact that he made, uh, you know kind of like when people were up in arms about when the ghostbusters were made women instead of men, like some people right right in arms about, about this, um, I don't know, I don't think it matters.

Speaker 1: 33:43

Uh, it's still a really great album. I think he does a really great job here, and this is kind of the uh main title track here that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 33:51

I didn't realize any of that, so that's that makes this like all the more interesting. Um, I would, I would, probably I might check this movie out. We'll see, we'll see. But, um, this track here, like I love the deep cuts of kind of like new york city knowledge, right, which makes a lot of sense now, knowing all that background.

Speaker 2: 34:09

My favorite two, that I just have to call out the Staten Island piece where they sing so how do we make it back home alive? When we got to leave our crib at 945 for a midnight meeting, word up, what a pain. Taking a train to a boat, to another train, which is so great because Staten Island is not connected to the new york city subway system, right, like they have their. They have a single line that runs across the island and then you basically it ends at the ferry. So then you take the ferry across to to like white hall and the ferry station down in um and like fight eye in the battery park, and then you gotta, now you're connected to like the main kind of hub of the rest of the city subway system. So that line of train to boat to train is just great.

Speaker 2: 34:54

Well, imagine doing that while you're being chased by other gangs, by rival gangs, Right right, yeah, and leaving at 945 for a midnight meeting is hilarious, Like you really do got to. It's such a commitment to get there. It's such a commitment to get there. Finally, being a resident of Manhattan, I was very happy to read this one from the Manhattan part of the song, which is when you say New York, we're actually what you mean. That's great, oh man. So I appreciate that too.

Speaker 1: 35:29

A lot of great deep cuts here with, uh, some solid knowledge of of new york city, so great track yeah, and the whole album is definitely worth checking out because it is like you're listening to, uh, a musical soundtrack, right, like you're hearing the whole story throughout the whole thing. So it's really, uh, right, really good. I think it'd be really cool if you tried to bring it to stage at some point. But, um, anyway, there you have it a new music mix, the last new music mix of 2024, for a super awesome mix. So, yeah, how about that? So we've just got a few more shows left in the year, but stay with us, okay, it should be some fun stuff. We're gonna take an extra week off because we've got Thanksgiving coming up here in a couple of weeks, and then we'll be back with three new episodes in the month of December to round things out. So follow everything Super Awesome Mix at Super Awesome Mix on all social media. But for Samer, this is Matt and we'll see you next time.