Speaker 1: 0:42

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sidholm, alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, sam Abusalbi. Sam, how are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:52

Doing really well. Happy August.

Speaker 1: 0:56

I mean this, is it Like? This is kind of the last full month of summer, so you must be overjoyed.

Speaker 2: 1:02

I am. I checked the weather this morning and part of the weather app, of course, is telling you when the sun sets, you know. And the sun rises and I've been noticing that it's now shrinking. So here it's now, before eight o'clock. It's when the sun sets and I I literally turned to my wife and I was like, yeah, take that sun, your days are numbered. Get out of here with that heat. I can't wait, it's so great.

Speaker 1: 1:30

Yes yes, the star that essentially keeps the planet alive, sam sam really sticks it, sticks to it, right?

Speaker 2: 1:37

yeah, sticks it to it. Yeah, exactly, yes, yeah, okay, yeah, all right, no, it's good, though it's good it's good.

Speaker 1: 1:44

It's good, yeah, I mean it is like a hundred and something degrees right now, like we've had a pretty mild summer yeah overall in texas. But yeah, like right now it's really ramping up. So it's just like you just go outside and it's like, wow, like my son had a soccer tournament and it was just broiling out there it was rough, I know, and I always feel bad for all the um, like high schools coming back and starting football too.

Speaker 2: 2:06

It's just like no, this is, this is not great weather to do anything outside other than roast yourself.

Speaker 1: 2:12

You know, that's about it yeah, well, that's why we produce more, uh, elite high school athletes, though coming out of the state of texas. Okay, because of that toughness, all right, at super awesome mix. We don't have a high school football show, all right, we don't have a sports show, but you know what I mean. I could still sit here and advocate for, uh, the texas high school athletics, right and everyone out there knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2: 2:38

Yeah, no, I'm not going to fight you on that one. Ut's been playing great lately, so hey, preseason number one okay. Preseason number one yeah, this is their year. This is their year, this is it.

Speaker 1: 2:50

This is it. Well, hey, it's the end of summer and it is our last summer new music mix. So here we are once again, and I gotta say once again I mean we say this every month, but like had a hard time picking songs. There's a lot of great new music out there and I think we did a great job of putting this together.

Speaker 2: 3:08

Yeah, there's some some really nice songs in here a good range of picks and I enjoyed this mix a lot. This one was a lot of fun to listen to, so with that, let's kick it off. It's your first pick and it is in all caps Big Money by John Batiste.

Speaker 1: 3:24

Yeah, I thought this one was a perfect starting off track, the opening track. Here I mean just the energy of it right from the beginning. John Batiste kind of falls in that category of like jazz, soul, but he does some like R&B and kind of rap. I mean this kind of encompasses all of it. So I think it was kind of awesome just because it's all these different genres sort of mashed together and lyrically it's really good. You know you can buy a song but it doesn't mean you could sing, you could win it all but lose everything Talking about everyone's after that big money, but it's I don't know. I just loved how cool this one sounded and everything on this. I mean this might've been my favorite pick of mine for this month. It was just so fun to listen to, but also great energy.

Speaker 2: 4:15

Yeah, I got the chance to see him live at Radio City Music Hall and he was incredible. Have you watched him live too?

Speaker 1: 4:24

I haven't, no. I can only imagine, though, how cool, Because I mean, I think he's just so talented I'd imagine it's a really great show.

Speaker 2: 4:34

Yeah, and he falls into that category. As you go to concerts like anyone, you realize that like some people are really good musicians but kind of bad entertainers, um, and like a few are are both really amazing entertainers and amazing, uh, singers. And he's one of those people, so like he knows how to bring the crowd in, how to get them excited. Like it is a show where you're not like sitting there looking at your watch being like okay, are they? Oh, no, they're starting another one, oh, man.

Speaker 2: 5:01

You know, like you're, it just goes by so fast and yeah, this song is a perfect example of that. I mean, it's just like this for like two and a half hours. It's awesome. He's like New Orleans, like wrapped into a singer right, like just if, like their sound you know he does that so well um, he just like encompasses a lot of of their culture and their soul and everything and everything he does.

Speaker 1: 5:22

So, um, this is an awesome, awesome track and I really enjoyed listening to it yeah, and you're right, it all kind of starts with like musicianship, right, yeah, and coming out of a place like new orleans, I think you you kind of have to be, you know, that good of a musician to sort of emerge from that music scene. And, yeah, no, really excited for his new album this month. All right, your first pick. We've got Tree. This is by Chance, the Rapper, lil Wayne and Smino.

Speaker 2: 5:49

Yeah. So again, anytime I'm going to see Chance the Rapper, I'm going to listen to his music. I think he's just so, so great and kind of underrated. Um and Lil Wayne I've been obsessed with his recent album. I've been listening to that non-stop. So to see both of them on a track, I was like obviously I'm gonna pick this one. Um, I think you know their. Their lyrics are amazing. I love the, the line where Chance is singing. I think my mama must have worked at that saltine at the factory, why she came home crying, said I'm tired of these crackers, which crackers is like obviously a derogatory term for white people, but I just think that like the saltine factory and tired of these crackers is like so clever, right, like I think it's stuff like that that is really fun to listen to. Um and little wayne is also really good on this track. So, as I mentioned, I've been obsessed with him recently and been going on like a little Lil Wayne journey Lil.

Speaker 1: 6:41

Lil Wayne, lil Lil Wayne. I love that Saltine line as well and I wondered why more rappers haven't integrated like names of crackers into their raps. Probably enough different crackers out there, you know, between a Ritz, an Oyster, a Club Cracker, I mean I don't know. There's something there. So I challenge any rappers out there to maybe put something together. But no, this one's great and I think I don't know. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is all about marijuana. When you listen to the lyrics here and the title Tree, but yeah, it kind of got me thinking and they kind of allude to this in the lyrics. But how upset must people be who went to jail for some amount of time in their life for marijuana possession? And then you're walking around a place like New York and it's like yeah, no, no, totally legal. You smell it everywhere, you can get it anywhere. I mean that's gotta be just beyond frustrating so frustrating.

Speaker 2: 7:39

Yeah, I can imagine. Um, it's funny whenever they officially like removed the before they made it legal, they removed, like the prosecution of it in new york. And there was like that weekend where I mean like literally it was everywhere matt. I mean like everyone in the city breathed a sigh of relief and filled with that breath was the scent of marijuana.

Speaker 1: 8:03

It has since calmed down, thank goodness, but it was insane that's the first thing my wife and I noticed when we travel out of state because it's not legal. Here in texas there's ways to get it, but it's not like legal legal. And we were just in Washington and California and in both of those states it's just like. Everywhere you go it's like nope, there's weed, yep, everywhere. I'm just like God, this is a whole new world. It's really crazy.

Speaker 2: 8:33

All right. So on that note, let us move on to a different world, an accounting world, if you will. This is well okay. So it's the acronym EBITDA EBITDA if you are a business school kid out there, this is by Clipse, pharrell Williams, pusha T and Malice.

Speaker 1: 8:52

Yeah, of course, clipse is the duo, pusha T and Malice are part of them. And so, yeah, malice and Pusha T are brothers discovered by Pharrell Williams, and this is only Clipse's fourth studio album and their first since 2009. It's not like they're the Gallagher brothers for Oasis. I think they do actually get along. I think it's just been other reasons why they've kind of broken up, done solo stuff. They've had several disputes with different labels, which is kind of limited like releases from time to time. But yeah, this new one, let God sort them out. I mean, every time they come out with an album, there's just this huge critical reception, and this one's no different. The whole album is really strong.

Speaker 1: 9:36

It was hard to pick just one song, but, um, you know, in light of the fact that you and I met in business school, I felt like picking a song like eva, that would be, uh, would be kind of perfect. But yeah, I mean, just go listen to the whole thing, because I think you're really going to enjoy it and, and who knows when, we're going to get another album from these guys. So that's the other part. So you, when things like this do happen to me. I did make reference to Oasis. They're back touring now, so goodness knows. I mean, make sure you buy some sort of insurance on your tickets because they may not last before they get to your city. But not quite the same situation here, but still few and far between with releases, and this was just a great song.

Speaker 2: 10:14

Yeah, no, I agree, I love this one and it samples a song in the background I think it might be Summer Breeze or something that I'm obsessed with and it always reminds me of the game Grand Theft Auto, miami Vice, because I think they use that a lot, and so I immediately was just drawn into that because it's a really subtle sample in the back that it's not like as pronounced, but love the opening lines to this one. I was just immediately hooked into the song. I didn't learn a lot about accounting, though, from the song. I was hoping for a little refresher, but you're not going to get that here.

Speaker 1: 10:47

Surprisingly, very little accounting references in this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they do talk about going 10X on their EBITDA, which is a positive right, that is a good thing you want to see that as an investor, as a shareholder. Okay if you're observing a company there, but yeah, not a lot of good accounting lessons about how to boost your P&L. All right, your next pick. Speaking of samples, this one is jump and is by blackpink yeah, blackpink, of course.

Speaker 2: 11:22

Um, I've been obsessed with them basically ever since I discovered them and I'm pretty sure I was the first person to listen to them. You know, I don't think that they were that in the world.

Speaker 1: 11:30

In the world, they were pretty low-key, very, and yeah, kind of set them, yeah, and look, those are the opportunities that come to you when you get featured on Super Awesome Mix. It's true, yeah, hit us up on social media, exactly.

Speaker 2: 11:40

So I feel pretty unique having listened to this and then putting it on this new music mix. If you're not listening to Blackpink, you should be. They're amazing. I've been just loving like I mean, they are masters of pop as well. Right, we talk about this category of people who just can produce incredible pop music and what talent that takes, like in its own form. But, um, this is just another example of that. It's got such a great beat. They move effortlessly between like a high energy dance and then there's just like this bass beat. Their vocals are great for pop and then, like in the ending, it just sounds like you're like listening to a trance track, you know like just all over the place, but it works really really well all together. So if you're just looking for like a high energy, like dance track, they're incredible for that. And and it also falls in that category of like songs that I literally do not care what they're singing, what languages are singing in, you know what, like what the lyrics are.

Speaker 1: 12:34

I didn't even bother like I'm in yeah, like that's.

Speaker 2: 12:37

That's not the point, in my opinion, of tracks like this I agree.

Speaker 1: 12:42

Yeah, I love the energy. It kind of got me thinking because they're korean and, like you said, great at pop music and yet we haven't had. Have we had a massive like k-pop girl group or or just a massive girl group outside of, like the spice girls?

Speaker 2: 12:59

right, yeah, it's been, they were kind of a phenomenon.

Speaker 1: 13:01

But we get so many like boy bands, like we had a whole boy band era. Right, we had one direction coming from the uk. We had bts a couple years ago. But like these women, are talented and yet we can't get like a super uber popular girl group to catch on. I thought that was really odd yeah, no, that's a good point.

Speaker 2: 13:20

I can't think of anyone if you. If, if there's something obvious that we're missing, you know, hit us up at super awesome mix on on instagram, let us know. I'm I'm sure that we are missing something, but I agree yeah, just just really bizarre.

Speaker 1: 13:34

But anyway, yeah, I'm kind of with you like they're good at pop music. They've obviously gained some traction here in the us. But I mean, geez, when we found, when the, when the united states found bts, you would have thought I mean, yeah, I mean it was absurd, like the phenomenon that was here.

Speaker 2: 13:50

So we're not getting that no, no, yeah, all right, let's uh do a total vibe shift here. Um, this is track number five. It is all good with me by eli young band yeah, and there were a couple other country songs.

Speaker 1: 14:06

I decided to not go with sam just because I was like this is just he's just gonna hate it, so I'm just not even gonna bring it to the mix. Uh, so with this one, because I was like Eli Young Band, they're a little bit of like that country rock sound, you know, not straight ahead country, they haven't come out with a new album in a few years and you know, relative to their peers, because they're fairly popular, but they just haven't come out with like album after album after album. But you know, know, if you're familiar with them, this sounds just like eli young band, uh, which which is great, like they're, they're really a good band, just really just straight, straightforward, like I said, kind of country rock music. Um, I picked this one from their new album because I just love the idea that he's totally good with everything, as long as he's with this person, um, but I I kind of chuckled because I'm like the older I get and and I still love my wife we've been married for 13 years but I'm also like I don't want to do that.

Speaker 1: 15:05

There's more moments where I'm like, ah, geez, yeah, you don't want me to sit this one out, wait where? Where I see on the lawn. All right, can we upgrade? Like let's get a seat, let's just let's just sit down, just uh, I mean I'll stand for some of the songs we know, but otherwise, like, I want a seat, you know. Yeah, so I just love the idea that he's all good with everything and and we all have that phase, but certainly the longer you're with someone, the more you get. We all just get a little particular. That's all I'm saying no, it's true.

Speaker 2: 15:37

There's definitely like an arc where, in the beginning, like yeah, you're down for everything, you're like the coolest person. You're like, yeah, and then at some point you feel comfortable enough, you're like, yeah, it turns out I really don't like. Really don't like coming with you to all of these concerts and sitting in the back like I'm sorry, I'm just not gonna do that.

Speaker 1: 15:56

Yeah, and you know what? Your friend janine, not that funny, no, and I will no longer laugh at her jokes oh, that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 16:07

Um, this is a very country track. It gets a. It gets a two out of ten on my on my olympic scoring.

Speaker 2: 16:14

Um, the reason it gets a two is because I do like the subject matter. I think it's cute, you know. It's a nice little way of just kind of being like, yeah, you know you're really into this person and so, as he sings, you're the life of my party, which I really like that line as well, and also I like the opening line. Having no plan sounds like the perfect plan to me, because I also think that the further you get along in a marriage or a relationship of any kind, the more you're just kind of like do you just want to do nothing? And you're like yes, that sounds.

Speaker 1: 16:41

It sounds so good, like it's the best. Yeah, yeah. So that's another thing let's just hang out all right. Well, your next pick, and this was guaranteed to be loved by both of us. They are our old friends AJR, and this new track is called Betty.

Speaker 2: 17:00

Yeah, so it's funny. We were just talking about relationships, because this is about a fear of that commitment. And what's funny is that he's singing this about a fictional person named Betty. But come on, if you're dating him, he's just thinking about you, right, like it would be impossible to date like a musician and have them release a song and they're like no, no, I told you, I promise you it's totally fictional. And you're like is it though? Like, is it fictional?

Speaker 1: 17:27

oh yeah, remember the story behind dirty little secret by all american rejects, how they were like yeah, no, no, it's just kind of a song we made up about, like cheating on someone. And then it's like you try getting away with that Right, like you're thinking about this dirty little secret and it's like, no, it never happened, just a song.

Speaker 2: 17:44

Yeah, it's just a song. There's a keen peel skit about this Cause, of course there is. There's one about everything, but I think it's like a rap song where he is describing a homicide that he's being like. So it's like there's um. One of them is playing the, the you know the person accused and the other one's playing the detective, and every time they play further into the clip of the song he gets more and more specific about how he killed this person. Classic keen feels get, it's so funny, but that's what I feel like is happening with this one?

Speaker 2: 18:20

um, but yeah, it's a. It's a great ajr song, right, like we talk a lot about we say this almost every every recording about bands that just have a sound that you just love their sound, and ajr is one of them. Like I, he's, he's so, they're so good and like talking about anything and doing it with a kind of poppy light feel, even if they're talking about things like fear of commitment and like not wanting to, not wanting to marry someone, but doing it in such a funny way, right, like whenever he mentions like getting dinner with her mom or something, and he's like please tell her to stop pointing at your finger, you know, like asking where the ring's at.

Speaker 2: 18:55

So it's great.

Speaker 1: 18:57

No, I agree. No, this was, this was a fun one right off the bat and, uh, you know, also, like they, they get that hint of paranoia that comes out of it too, because not only is it, you know, singing about this relationship and any kind of fears they might have, there's also fear of like, well, maybe I lose you altogether, right, and so, yeah, the range of emotions here, and I think it's well done by a band that is obviously having fun, and, like you said, maybe this isn't about someone specific, but it still resonates, so, yeah, I think that's what makes their music kind of stand out from just sort of kind of I don't know something that's just maybe more, you know, uh, more of a parody. Right, it's really not that like, I think they do feel these things. It's just they, they just have a little more fun with it yeah, definitely all right.

Speaker 2: 19:45

This next one was a was a very strange pick. This. I was not expecting this one to be on a new music mix, um, but but I enjoyed it the more I listened to it. This is stone Stonehenge, originally by Spinal Tap, but this is Spinal Tap and Elton John on the track.

Speaker 1: 20:00

Yeah, I mean, look, happy Gilmore 2 is on Netflix right now. They're not giving us any sponsorship money, so I'm not going to tell you to go see it, but it's just a long line and a sequel, a long-coming sequel. Right, that one's 30 years back. Spinal Tap was from 1984. So either even farther back and Spinal Tap 2, the end continues is coming out in September.

Speaker 1: 20:28

The original is so brilliant and I think if you are a fan of rock music and you watch that, it's just amazing how they capture just the self-importance, I like, of some of those artists.

Speaker 1: 20:41

Yeah and uh, and that's what comes through this song where there's this strange the lyrics are all about this odd made-up mythology and just everything associated with stonehenge and, uh, I don't't know, they just crack me up, I mean, just with all their music. And here it's like all right, well, let's update this song and let's get Elton John on the track as well. So I imagine, much like Happy Gilmore 2, if you saw it, this one is going to have just a slew of cameos of people praising Spinal Tap as the greatest rock band of all time. So I'll definitely be going to see it, but I was like you know, and again, they're not paying us any money they should. We'd gladly have them on the show, um, but yeah, I, I just love everything about it and this one, you know, felt like it was. It was a good one to throw in a new music mix yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2: 21:32

No, I loved it. Uh, it was so fun. I I had not seen the original spinalinal Tap, but of course we've talked about them before on our mix of fictional bands, so this one was a lot of fun, but I love the little pan flute that is featured in the song. How often are songs featuring pan flutes? We should maybe put together that mix.

Speaker 1: 21:55

A pan flute mix.

Speaker 2: 21:56

A pan flute mix, okay, there might be this song and maybe one other maybe, maybe one other, yeah, yeah and it's probably by flight of the concords, because I can't think of another one that that has a pan flute in it.

Speaker 1: 22:07

Um, and they also. Well, yeah, we need to find an unironic pan flute right, exactly no you know what it really just added to the song I like, like that. It was there Exactly.

Speaker 2: 22:17

But no, this is a great song and definitely a collab that I had no idea that I wanted, you know, between Smile Tap and Elton John, but turns out I really wanted it.

Speaker 1: 22:30

All right. Well, let's move very much into the present, and I would say even future, with this next artist. This one is the Subway and it's by Chapel Roan.

Speaker 2: 22:40

Yeah. So shout out to a longtime listener, dad03girls on Instagram for the suggestion. He's always sending new music our way and everything, and this one caught his attention, of course, because he's from Saskatchewan and she has this line in the song where she sings well, f the city. I'm moving to Saskatchewan, so happy to throw this on the mix. It's a great song, of course. I mean, she's so talented. This is another great song about that stage of the breakup too.

Speaker 2: 23:09

I think she sings about that really well where you can't wait for that moment where, as she sings, this is just another person on the subway, you know, just another girl on the subway.

Speaker 2: 23:20

Um, and it, you know, it gets you thinking about like that again, that arc in that relationship where someone can go from being so important in your life to then eventually kind of becoming a stranger.

Speaker 2: 23:29

You know like, if enough time goes by, like you, you feel like you don't even know them anymore, you don't think about them anymore and but in the moment after a breakup, like that seems like an impossible thought. Um, you know, like they're so ingrained in your life that it's impossible to imagine them as just being a stranger. But eventually that happens. So I just uh, I love the song um and I appreciate the, the suggestion from um, from our listener dave, and then also I really like the cleverness of how she closes this out between switching between she's got away to she got away and she does that like so effortlessly, and I think such a minor change in the lyric and they mean two completely different things and it's really clever as well. Um, again, just talking about that, those feelings of like wow, you know, she, she's got away, like she really, you know, made me feel things, but then also she got away and so now the relationship's over, so really really good song.

Speaker 1: 24:21

Start to finish yeah, I agree, just really well done. I mean, she's, she's kind of seen. They almost kind of put her out there as like maybe an heir apparent to, like lady gaga, where there's there's part spectacle but also part singing talent and and sometimes gets a little overshadowed by the spectacle.

Speaker 1: 24:39

I think people were kind of surprised as lady gaga went along, that it was like, oh wait, she can really sing right and I think this one kind of is is kind of a standout for her, like vocally. I thought this was so good and almost reminded me of Celine Dion with like kind of the voice quality and the voice work. In this one I could see this being a track she sings. So you know, I want to just point that out, just because I do think sometimes it's kind of gets overshadowed by just either the videos that could put out there or or, you know, whatever she does in her stage show, right, which is awesome. I mean, that's obviously. You know, we talked earlier about people being, you know, a good singer but maybe not a great entertainer. I think she's certainly both. The other thought I had here and I think I've advocated for this before. But you know, straight guys should get more into lesbian rock, right, because it's like we're all singing about they're just singing about women, right. So like what guy?

Speaker 2: 25:38

Like you can, guys, you can listen to this song. This is a very specific thing for you to not only advocate for, but to bring up multiple times now.

Speaker 1: 25:46

I just think there's guys out there probably like I can't listen to this, but I'm like, I'm telling you guys like no, get into it.

Speaker 2: 25:52

Yeah, you have the same goal. Yeah, same goal.

Speaker 1: 25:54

Yeah, same goal. We've all had that feeling. She got away Chapel. I hear you, you know we can hang out I love that.

Speaker 2: 26:04

I love that there's a. You remind me, there's an episode in Curb, your Enthusiasm, umid and rosie o'donnell. And larry is a a champion of lesbians. Yes, he is. Yes, he is, which is great. All right, all right well, uh, track number nine. Next track, it is the hope by amy mcdonald all right.

Speaker 1: 26:28

Amy mcdonald is a scottish singer songwriter. This is from her six studio album titled. Is this what what You've Been Waiting For? And I realize I'm not qualified to answer that question because I was not familiar with her work prior to this. Okay, but I'm here to say that's my bad right, because I really enjoyed this. I really enjoyed her album.

Speaker 1: 26:47

I picked out this song just because I consider myself a pretty optimistic person and just love it. It's called the Hope One lyric I'll call out Watch me, now I'm going to hit that shot, work it out with everything I've got. We've got something I can't explain. We're still winners, baby Winning in a loser's game. Loved her voice, just loved kind of the kind of pop rock feel of this one. You know they kind of give her that singer songwriter label which makes you think maybe it's kind of a slower kind of feel to it. But I think there's a lot of great energy on this track and, yeah, I mean I think I'm gonna be, you know, digging down a little more to what she's doing, because um really enjoyed this one yeah, I was not familiar with um, with amy, and really just first few seconds of the song I was hooked, like I just knew I wanted to listen to the entire song, listen to every lyric.

Speaker 2: 27:38

You know. Just something about her voice is really interesting. I really liked it and just like what she was singing about. So, yeah, this is a really cool find. Well done. I like this track a lot all right, your next pick.

Speaker 1: 27:51

This is another band I've not heard of.

Speaker 2: 27:53

Uh, this is bully by durie yes, they're very similar words there, um, but so durie uh actually was founded by two siblings uh, their names austin and taryn. They started during 2020 like lockdown, um, you know, a lot of people started new things.

Speaker 2: 28:09

We started this podcast, basically that's right during covid so here we are doing, doing our thing too, um, but I just love I. I could honestly read every single lyric to the song, which I won't, but I just think that, like, listen to the the lyrics, read them if you need to, but they're so clever and so funny. Um, just basically talking about, like internet bullying, you know, and like how we're all, just as they sing over and over everybody's fighting on the internet. Again, no one's even trying anymore, you know, it's just like this modern, modern day anthem to what's happening. Um and uh also, you know, man, you seem really miserable, but I'm glad you got that off your chest. The internet is free.

Speaker 2: 28:46

I'm no professional, but I think you could use a therapist, which is, you know, again, like you get some of these comments from people and you're just like, wow, like yeah, you've got some, possibly some rage issues and maybe you should talk to someone. So I think, like the lyrics are so funny and then just, you know it's wrapped up in this kind of all american rejects or some 41 feel. You know it's got that vibe to it. So really, really fun song and happy to have just stumbled upon this one.

Speaker 1: 29:15

Well, and I love that the name of this album is this Movie Sucks right, which is also great, but I completely agree. This one from the Jump kind of captured my attention just by the sound of it, and then they got into the lyrics and I was just loving it because, yeah, it's a hundred percent true. Like the way, I'll never understand how so many people are compelled to just jump online and tell strangers how much they suck. It's just, it's amazing, okay.

Speaker 1: 29:49

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Okay, we comments. Yeah, we love nice comment. Yeah, we'll, we'll respond right back to you with another nice comment, and then we'll both feel better. You know like, isn't that just so lovely?

Speaker 1: 30:06

well, it is one of those things, though, because, even like, with what we do here with this podcast, right if we were to come on and just make like obviously more extreme statements about artists yeah like we'd probably have more downloads from people either hating us or loving us because of that, right, yeah, and, and we just don't do that. That's not really who we are, but it is funny how that's what kind of captures, uh, people's attention no, it's true we should do.

Speaker 2: 30:32

I just had the thought maybe a a Stranger Things promotion with their final season. We do a Bizarro World super awesome mix. We do an episode where we just trash everything. Oh yeah, the upside down episode the upside down super awesome mix. Yeah, we're just angry and cynical and every song sucks and we found nothing positive. Well, no, every song sucks and like we found nothing positive?

Speaker 1: 30:55

well, no, every song sucks, except you bring nothing but country music to the mix and you're like I love it, I love it.

Speaker 2: 31:04

I like that too. We could do that and you have to only say nice things about electronic music and metal and stuff. You're like. I loved minute 36 of this song, you know, yeah yeah, just stay with it guys. Okay, just stay with it, just you know you need all 35 of those minutes to warm up to the track. Every single one, all right um. Your last pick of the mix track number number 11, is Bear Hill by Raekwon.

Speaker 1: 31:34

Yeah, raekwon, one of the founding members of Wu-Tang Clan, first new album since 2017. It's called the Emperor's New Clothes, similar to Clips. I just love this whole album. This one has this really cool video where he literally turns into a beast as he's entering a rap battle, and it's really worth checking out. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 1: 31:54

I think people of my age, you go by mtv if you're watching, if you're watching tv at all, and and you're you know you go by mtv. It's nothing but ridiculousness. And there's still, I think, that there's a jersey shore offshoot that's still on on the air and you know, like there's no music videos, right, and so the idea of a music video has kind of left your mind. But meanwhile, like youtube is just massive. So it's like there's still really high quality music videos being put out there. Yeah, because I think that's a way for artists to still make money. Uh, because they're not doing it by album sales, and so it's like put out great music videos and then and then get on tour and charge a ton of money for sweatshirts and stuff like that. But no, I mean, this is just a really just. I just saw it from the opening couple beats of this one. I was all in on this song, so this was my favorite from the album, but just the whole album is worth checking out.

Speaker 2: 32:49

Yeah, very similar notes to great opening beat. Has that just classic rap song feel and this is like a swagger song. You know, it's like one of those like confident like you, just feel like you're about to go hard on something. You know, like you, I could put this in like an amp up track or an amp up mix and just be ready to go after listening to, ready to lift weights, run a fast mile, whatever it is. You know, give a great presentation. So it's a great, great track and I was happy that you put this on here because I love, love music like this.

Speaker 1: 33:20

All right, final track on the mix for this month, your last pick. It is Vampire Bat by Glass Animals.

Speaker 2: 33:26

Yeah, shout out to Jen. You know co-host of, or one of the hosts of the shows on our Super Awesome Mix podcast, Her show what Are you Listening To? And co-host with you on the Battle, which is actually currently in its third season, I believe.

Speaker 1: 33:42

Yeah, third season, third season. Yeah, we're trying to figure out the ultimate Yacht Rock song, and so definitely go to the Battle, subscribe to that one, give us a little love.

Speaker 2: 33:51

Absolutely, yeah, but yes, the reason I shout Jen out go to the battle, subscribe to that one, give us a little love. Absolutely, yeah, so, um, but yes, the reason I shout jen out here is because I always think about jen when I hear a glass animals track, because I believe she really likes them, um, but I like just love them. They also have a particular sound that they do with almost every track of theirs, and this is no different. Like their music is just like strange, but you find yourself wanting to listen to it, um, and you can't quite. I don't know.

Speaker 2: 34:14

I struggled to kind of describe why it's strange, but it just is. It might be something to do with, like their, their vocals, just the way that they manipulate their their songs, but I just kind of find myself like vibing to it and I feel like that's kind of them. In a nutshell, you just like listen to it and you're like, yeah, I really like this. Um, and again, like the lyrics are kind of nonsense and like that's okay, like that doesn't. I think that that's fine here, um, so it's a lot of fun, um, but yeah, I really really like the song and they've got a new, uh new album yeah, this one was interesting because when I hear glass animals a lot of times they they almost have I.

Speaker 1: 34:50

The word I wrote down was ephemeral right like.

Speaker 1: 34:52

Like. That's the kind of sound that I get from them, that it's just like what is this? This song, though, in particular almost sounded a little bit more straight hip hop than compared to most of their stuff, right Like. I wouldn't necessarily just squarely put this in the hip hop genre, but it was just a little bit more in that category. So it was kind of interesting to me, just because I kind of looked down like oh, this is a little different from Glass Animals, right Like. But it was good. I think I'm kind of with you. It's like they have a quality to them where they do kind of suck you in and you know when their songs don't. You know, we were just joking about metal songs that go on for 36 minutes. It's like they're also good at kind of producing something that's you know will suck you in, but they're also not taking it to six and a half, seven minutes right, right, totally.

Speaker 2: 35:40

Yeah, I also really like the line a kiwi is a cross of a strawberry and a lime, which I just, I guess, just I don't know why. I just really like that. It's kind of a funny thought and I I could see that I could kind of see that being true.

Speaker 1: 35:53

It is kind of yeah, I could, you could convince me of that yeah although then I think, why is everything strawberry, kiwi right? Like that's kind of a flavor. So then am I doubling up on strawberry that's true.

Speaker 2: 36:05

Yeah, one and a half parts strawberry.

Speaker 1: 36:07

Yeah which may be okay that might be okay.

Speaker 2: 36:11

Yeah, I don't know, okay, you know that's.

Speaker 1: 36:14

We'll save that for another show. Well, there you have it, another super awesome mix for your collection. This time it is new music for the month of August. Just a few more new music mixes left in 2025. Before we get to our best of so, follow us on social media Instagram and threads at super awesome mix and, like we said earlier, check out our YouTube channel at super awesome mix. We're throwing on video clips from this show and all of our shows, as well as stuff from uh from old shows as well, so you can get caught up and kind of you know uh, digest this in sort of a micro form rather than you know the whole show. But, in any case, tell your friends and family about us so we can get more listeners. More people hear about us. In the meantime, sam and I will get to work on our next mixes. So, for Sam, this is Matt. See you next time.