SPEAKER_02: 0:41

Welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is Matt Sidholm, alongside my fellow super awesome mix host, the host of What Are You Listening To? It is Jen Tully. Jen, welcome in.

SPEAKER_00: 0:53

Hello, hello. Glad to be here.

SPEAKER_02: 0:56

All right. We are going to do uh a new music mix this time for the month of November. It is our last new music mix of the year. Next up, uh next month, we will do our best of 2025. I can't believe we've made it through another year, Jen. This is wild.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13

It's insane. Every time I look at the calendar and see that it's November, I'm really just uh kind of shocked and blown away. It doesn't seem possible.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20

Yes, but in spite of the time passing, I think we still uh continue to find great music. That's what we kind of marveled at going into this mix was just wow, still still more great music out there.

SPEAKER_00: 1:32

Still lots of good stuff coming out here at the end of the year. And I will, I'm gonna caveat this episode like I did our last. Um, if you're wondering why there is no Florence in the Machine on this playlist, um I've been so dedicated to representing Sam's interests here. It's because over on Waylit, I have a whole album review of Everybody Scream, uh, the new Florence in the Machine album. So if you're like Sam and I and you're huge fans, please check out this week's episode of What Are You Listening to, where we dig into the new Florence in the Machine album.

SPEAKER_02: 2:03

Yes, and that was that was an excellent episode. Great review.

SPEAKER_00: 2:08

Thank you. I've like, we've got we had so October was a big month for me between Taylor Swift and Florence. So uh I'm happy to be jumping into this uh this new this November new music mix. But let's start with your first track. Your first song for the November New Music Mix is a song called Fall Moon by St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

SPEAKER_02: 2:27

Yes, uh St. Paul and the Broken Bones. They are led by Paul Janeway. Um he is the Paul in St. Paul. Uh I got to see these guys live in Dallas a couple of years ago. I mean, he's incredible, they're incredible. I mean, I just love the their sound. They're so soulful. Um, they're out of Alabama, weirdly enough. Um, but yeah, I mean, this this new album is is very true to that sound. I mean, and so I listened, I couldn't wait. I actually they released a couple singles early in the year, and I waited until they had the whole album out so I could listen to it and pick one song from it. Um, and I went with this one, Fall Moon, um, which is just such a it's a it's true to their sound, and it's a nice little love song. I I just call out the lyric that it just stuck with me from the first time I heard it. I can't wait to get old and just talk to you, which is just kind of perfect, I feel like.

SPEAKER_00: 3:25

I loved that line too. And I thought that this song was so amazingly sweet. Like that's the note I just kept saying over and over like it's so amazingly sweet. And it is, it's so soulful. His voice is so amazing. The funny thing is, whenever it first came on, for one hot second, like maybe the first few bars, I thought it was a Christmas song. I'm like, wait a minute, has Matt thrown Christmas music into this November new music mix? Because it's it starts out, and I was like, oh, holiday song, here we go, you know. So then I was happy whenever I got in and um and and saw that it was just this really beautiful love song.

SPEAKER_02: 4:01

Uh yeah, it would have also been odd with a title like Fall Moon.

SPEAKER_00: 4:05

I know. We're dancing around the Christmas tree under the fall moon, right? Like we can make it work.

SPEAKER_02: 4:11

That's right. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like an echo equinox thing. Yeah, yeah. There you go. Solstice.

SPEAKER_00: 4:16

But I also I also thought that this song was perfect for this time of year because it's, you know, I love the message that it it shares that sort of love is like all year round, not just during cuffing season, you know, when everybody's looking to couple up. And so I did think it was like a really appropriate song for the playlist this uh this month.

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All right. Your first track, you've got Private by the Neighborhood.

SPEAKER_00: 4:39

Oh my goodness. So this is a band I wasn't sure we were gonna get more new music from. Um, I I've mentioned it on um on Waylit before. You know, I I love the neighborhood. I have since they very first came out. Most people know them by their song Sweater Weather, um, which is maybe like one of my far down the list of favorite tracks of theirs. It's not even one of my favorite songs, um, but I do love the band. Um, and they have a new album coming out on November 14th called Ultrasonic, that I think is gonna be so, so good if the first three tracks that they've released from it are any indication. Um, Private being one of them. Um their last album was an album called Chip Chrome and the Monotone. So I talked a lot about that album on um What Are You Listening to? And then they had kind of like a weird dust-up, right? They had um Brandon Fry, their drummer, had some trouble on the road. They were touring with the Maria's, and there were some allegations about some things that happened. He got dismissed from the band. Um, he checked himself into rehab, he publicly apologized, and now he's back and they seem to have it together again. So I'm uh I'm certainly not condoning his previous behavior, and I'm all for people getting second chances and trying to be better versions of themselves. So I hope that this is what he needed to get there because I love this song. Um, I just think it's so fun. Um, I love the like the sound effects in the background, you know, the shh keeping it private. Like I just think it's so cool the way they do it. Um so I think that this is gonna be like a big hit for them, and I hope that this album um leads to an amazing tour that I am able to get tickets to because this is a band I have not seen live that I am dying to see live. What did you think of this song? Are you a neighborhood fan? We've never talked about them, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02: 6:24

I, you know, I looked it up because just based on sound, I was like, I'm not sure if I know these guys. And then uh when I saw Sweater Weather, I was like, oh, I know that song, right? Um, so yeah, that's definitely their biggest hit. But yeah, I just thought this was so unique. I I love the beat. And then reading up on it, the fact that it sounds like part of it was recorded on the lead singer's phone, and then they were using garage band, and I was like, this is kind of cool because that stuff you'd see from like an up and that would be Sam and I have always joked about could we put together like a song based on Garage Band and some other tools out there that would get some streams on Spotify or whatever, right? Like, could you cobble something together? But obviously, we're not professional musicians, right? So it was cool to hear like uh an established band like this kind of use those tools um to really good success. Cause I just thought it was a really fun, like it was just a really fun song, and you know, kind of you could take all sorts of meanings, I think, from the lyrics. Like, is this some sort of affair they're trying to keep private? I feel like one side of this partnership is maybe a little bit more private than the other.

SPEAKER_00: 7:32

Yeah, I agree. And I think there's so much to dig into there, and a lot of their songs are like that. You know, I didn't think I would ever love a song as much. One of my favorite songs by them is a song called Devil's Advocate, off of that Chip Chrome and the Monotones album. And it's kind of my go-to. That's the one I go back to. And now this one's maybe like definitely maybe not surpassing it, but it's up there with it. So um I'm I'm happy that I'm happy that we have new music from them. But speaking of bands that I love, your second track is from another favorite band of mine. Um, and the third song on our playlist this week is a song called Gone by Haim.

SPEAKER_02: 8:08

Yeah, I think we featured the song Down to Be Wrong earlier this year. Um, and they were just releasing a few singles off of this new album. Um, but I just listened, they finally came out with the whole album, listened to the whole thing, and just like all their men, I I just love this band and I love listening to their albums kind of beginning to end. Um this one's cool. I picked this one just because they sample the song Freedom by George Michael, which might be my favorite George Michael song. I'm not sure. Um, but yeah, like I I love that song, so it was cool to hear it with this and just sort of a new a new framing of it. Uh, and and then I just love the message here. Like they're just kind of like, screw it, like we're gonna do what we want to do. Like the the I'm the gone part of this, I wasn't sure what to expect just based on the title for sort of like it didn't tip its hand on the theme. But then you get to the sort of freedom uh in interpolation and then kind of the lyrics, and yeah, they're just kind of like, you know what? We're we're gonna do what we want to do. Like what what you were telling us to do isn't working. And uh I just thought that was awesome too, because this is probably the point in their career where that's that's about right, you know?

SPEAKER_00: 9:22

Yeah. And they're an established band at this point. I mean, these women have done so many, uh so much. I mean, I I like I can't even list off everything that's like flying through my head right now, from acting to consulting on soundtracks, you know. Estee Haym was a big consultant for the music in the White Lotus series, you know. Um they're all sort of out doing Danielle produced the album. Um, they're all out there doing things. Um the other sister, I'm like, why is her name escaping me right now? But she's uh an actress, you know, she was in um Alana. The Alana Thomas Anderson movie. Yeah, Alana Haim. Yeah, that's right. Alana did um Mystic, not Mystic Pizza, um, Licorice Pizza, you know, like they're all doing so much. They're so involved.

SPEAKER_02: 10:10

You showed your age then. It's a long decade. It's Mystic Pizza, right?

SPEAKER_01: 10:15

Right. I'm gonna continue to show my age throughout this playlist. You just wait. It's about to get good, listeners. It's about to get good.

SPEAKER_00: 10:25

But I like you, I too, I love this band. I'm so glad you and Sam have sort of embraced them along with me as well. And I I also love that this was, you know, the George Michael sample in this. I love the song Freedom, and he's having a moment right now, too. Can we talk about how he was sampled on Life of a Showgirl as well? She has a song on that album called Father Figure. That's right. That's right. That is not a cover and isn't even a sample, but it sounds like the way she sings the chorus is vaguely reminiscent, enough that she gave him a writing credit for it, as did the Heim Sisters on this song.

SPEAKER_02: 10:58

So I was gonna say, yeah, she kind of tipped her tipped her hat to George Michael on that one, even though I I kind of I was like, there's no way she's doing a cover when I saw that on there, but yeah, that that's cool that she kind of gave him a little tribute.

SPEAKER_00: 11:11

Yeah, and they and like I said, that both bands gave him writing credit on the song. I love that. I think that's like turnabouts, fair play, like that you know, they're they're doing it the right way. And so um, I love that George Michael's kind of having a moment right now with with these female artists that I love. So, and I think George Michael would love that too. Like, I think that he would be stoked to see that his music is sort of living on and being rearranged. And I mean, you know, there's a lot we could say about father figure from this year after baby girl, too. So he's having a moment.

SPEAKER_02: 11:40

All right, track four. It is sideways, and this one's by Balu Brigata.

SPEAKER_00: 11:46

Yes, this song is from their debut album. Um, it's called Portal, which was released at the end of August, actually. And they have a couple of EPs that they've released, um, but this is their first full-length album. And I love these guys. These um, this is a band from New Zealand. They formed in 2016, um, and they're led by um brothers that are multi-instrumentalists, um, and they're just a fun band. If you've not gotten into Balo Brigada or listened to any of them, any of their music, get into it. Um, I think you'll dig it. They have, you know, their songs don't all sound the same. They've got kind of a wide variety that stays in this, you know, a similar genre, but it does sound different. It's not all the same. And this song is just such a bop. It makes me happy. Like I feel like anytime I turn it on, I just start to smile. And I love the line that says, Um, whatever happened to a fresh start, oh, maybe civil is a lost art. And I was like, uh-huh. I like that. I like that a lot. Were you familiar with these guys? Did you have any idea about Ballet Brigado?

SPEAKER_02: 12:50

I I had no I had no sense of them prior to this song, but I love the beat. Just right off the bat, I was like, okay, this is cool. You know, I'm into this. And then I wrote down that same lyric you just called out because I was like, that's that's really brilliant and appropriate, not just for this almost feels this feels like an argument between like a couple. Um, but I mean, I think generally we could probably say whatever happened to a fresh start, maybe civil is a lost art. I feel like it generally in public, we're we're kind of probably facing that. But um the other line I called out is can we just put it to bed because you're looking at me sideways? And again, it's just this whole song just feels like this. Can we just get over this? Can we just move on? And whoever he's with is like, nope, we're not doing that. And so I just thought that was cool. And it's over this sort of happy beat. So um if anything, like it's just gonna put you in a good mood, at least uh for as far as like listening to it. Uh, but it's a cool song as well. So yeah, really interested. And I I like uh I'm interested in digging into more of their music on this on this debut album.

SPEAKER_00: 13:56

Yeah, check them out for sure. That they have another great song on the album that's called So Cold. That's another hit um that I like off of this album they just released. And I've been getting served these guys a lot on Spotify, and so I think it's been I've been listening to a lot of Almost Monday and Royal Otis, and they kind of sit in that genre. Um, so I've been I've been listening to them a lot. Uh check them out. I think you I think you'll be pleased if you do, listeners.

SPEAKER_02: 14:19

Nice.

SPEAKER_00: 14:19

All right. Well, that takes us to track five. Matt, I'm so excited to talk about this one. Your next pick is a song called Troubled Paradise by Tuck Smith and The Restless Heart.

SPEAKER_02: 14:31

Yeah, these guys, so kind of a cool story. Uh, they had like a record deal, and then they booked the stadium tour with Motley Crue and Def Leopard. That was like right off the bat, okay? But that was at the beginning of 2020, and then COVID hit. So their album gets released, and then the stadium tour gets canceled. Any promotion around the album kind of dies out. They actually end up parting ways with their label. So it's like all of these things just fall apart. Well, Tuck Smith is like, all right, well, I'm gonna start my own label. It's called Gypsy Rose Records, and uh they decide to release this album under that. There's actually an EP that they have coming out, but I mean, I listened to the whole thing and just couldn't get enough. They have such a cool, you know, they were gonna tour with like Def Leopard and Motley Crue, and they kind of reminded me of something from the 80s, this sort of like classic rock kind of sound to them. Um, and they're just kind of fun. And this song in particular is just sort of this classic rock and roll story about a young couple trying to make it, you know. I don't know, it just reminded me of so many songs uh uh from a certain era, but kind of updated. And uh I just I just really enjoyed it. So it was a fun discovery for me.

SPEAKER_00: 15:51

Oh, this one is for all the like 80s and 90s babies out there. If you thought I was showing my age by the Mystic Pizza reference, well, here I go again. Because when I first listened to this and I had to go, I I saw the name of the song, but I didn't see the name of the artist. And I promise you, Matt, and I don't know, I I think you're old enough that you'll remember this is this song and this artist, but I was like, is this ugly kid Joe? Is that what is happening right here?

SPEAKER_02: 16:22

Everything about you, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 16:24

That's the one. And so when I first heard it, I'm like, is that guy back? That's immediately who I thought it was. I'm like, this is crazy. So then once I saw that it was not him, but they sounded so much like him, I was all in. I'm like, this took me right back to like, you know, middle school, high school, early high school days. And I loved it. I thought it was so much fun. I feel like I do have to say, I think Sam would not love this song.

SPEAKER_02: 16:51

He'd hate it. He'd hate it. I brought it for you. I brought it for you, Jeff.

SPEAKER_01: 16:56

Thank you. I'm like, I gotta represent Sam here and say, I think he'd have words about this, but for me, I was all in. I love the miscellaneous.

SPEAKER_02: 17:10

I think you would say something like, oh, it was a very nice song, but I'm not sure if it was for me.

SPEAKER_01: 17:18

Right.

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Right.

SPEAKER_01: 17:20

I just like that's all the first on first upon first listen, that's all I could think of is like, ooh, Sam is not gonna like Google. So I'm we're we're still representing him, even though he is he's here in spirit, always.

SPEAKER_02: 17:34

That's right.

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That's right.

SPEAKER_02: 17:36

Well, I think I think one song he would love is actually your next pick. Okay, so this is something you're not showing your age here. Okay, this is very much an updated track. This is Stardust by Big Wild.

SPEAKER_00: 17:50

Oh, if you guys like if if you never take a recommendation from me, take this one. I love this song. I love this song, I think it's so good. And Big Wild is actually um an artist named Jackson Stell, um, and his stage name is Big Wild. Um, he's an American electronic uh music producer, songwriter, vocalist, engineer. He does it all. Um, and he had an album uh called Wild Child that this song is on that released at the end of, I think it released end of August, maybe. Um, but I have just been like listening to it over and over and over again. And I love this particular track. It kind of gives me folk implosion vibes. Um, from there's they had a big hit called Natural One that was on the kids' soundtrack. But um, that's what I first thought of when I heard it. I'm like, oh, it sounds kind of folk implosion-y, I dig that. Um, and then as a performer, you know, he is apparently insane. His live shows where he's like switching back and forth between, you know, drum pads, synths, keyboards, singing, like he kind of reminds me a little bit too of a modern day. Again, I'm referencing, I'm making lots of references this episode, but um he reminds me a little bit of um New Radicals. Remember when when that when Get What You Give comes out? Like this kind of feels a little bit like an updated, like for the now times for 2025 version of New Radicals.

SPEAKER_02: 19:09

Uh, that's a great comparison. I I love New Radicals. I think I've brought almost uh all the songs on their one album to the mix at some point or the other. I've found a theme where they could fit under. Um but this was a really cool track, and I think the thing I appreciated it is that, or appreciated about it, was that um, you know, it's titled Stardust. The lyrics are very like referential to that type of thing. But then if you drop the lyrics, the sound of it is just so ethereal that it just kind of works on its own. So I I just think it's always cool when there's that matchup that it's like you don't even need to tell me. You could call the Stardust, just make it an instrumental, and I'd be in. I think it totally works. Um yeah, so I think that um that was I don't know, it just worked well. I I like that about it.

SPEAKER_00: 19:58

I agree. I think that this is a really cool song, so definitely uh check this one out. Um, and and like I said, if you like this song, go and check out the rest of their music. It all kind of lands in the same spot, um, but is super good.

SPEAKER_02: 20:10

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SPEAKER_00: 20:54

Um, all right. Our next track, we're kind of switching gears here, getting a little more serious with the song called Gun in Every Home by Bruce Springsteen.

SPEAKER_02: 21:02

Obviously, there's the Springsteen movie that's out in theaters right now. I have not seen it, and I think it's getting kind of mixed reviews. Um, but it's specifically about the time in his life where Bruce wrote the album Nebraska, uh, which was very much a departure from his uh normal music. We talked about Nebraska in season two of the battle, where we're doing uh a true crime battle, um, because the title track, Nebraska, refers specifically to the uh Merriweather crime spree of of that time period, and that kind of inspired uh that song by Bruce Springsteen. But he recorded that album in his kitchen, like he essentially recorded a demo, and um that eventually became the real the real thing because when he brought the band into it, it just he just didn't think it worked, right? Like it just didn't have the same resonance that he wanted with this album. Um, but nobody ever heard those full tracks with the bands and everything until now. So in in you know, concert with the movie release, they released what they're calling Electric Nebraska. So here's the Nebraska album, and it's you know, they they put four CDs out. So they have the uh kind of Nebraska album as we know it. They put out Electric Nebraska, where the whole band's with them, and then they put out a bunch of other songs he recorded at the time, some of which would later become part of the Born in the USA album, which of course was you know a monster hit, uh including the title track Born in the USA. I say all that because we did get a few new tracks, and this is one of them, okay, Gun in Every Home. And uh I just thought this was an incredibly written song. And thinking about having you know written this in 1980, 81, 82, somewhere in that area, you know, I'm just gonna call out. I could read all the lyrics, but just calling out the third verse in particular. Sometimes I want to take my little boy and hold him in my arms, shield him from all pain, protect him from all harm, from a world gone crazy now, from a world that's gone wrong all wrong, but I don't know what to do. No, I don't know what to do. And I just thought that was one incredible songwriting, but also just like it kind of blew my mind that it was written 45 years ago. But somebody listening to it now could probably completely relate if you have children. So, anyway, the whole thing's great. I haven't seen the movie, I can't speak to that, but um, I will say this electric Nebraska release is worth your time.

SPEAKER_00: 23:28

Well, I'm glad that you went through that because all of my questions about this song were related to like, okay, is this new? Is this old music that just never got released? Is it so I'm glad you cleared that up for me? And you know what my first note on here was is this a protest song? Like, I that's what I felt like. I'm like, and now knowing that it was written in 1988, I'm like, wow, uh, if this is another instance where I'll say, look, you don't have to love Bruce Springsteen, but you have to respect the man. Like that that's insane. That a song written 45 years ago, especially about a very specific topic, is still relevant to the point that I'm questioning if it is a legitimate protest song for now, right? Like that's amazing to me. I think that's just that speaks to a once-in-a-lifetime talent.

SPEAKER_02: 24:16

Yeah, I agree. It it kind of blew my mind that he had written this so long ago and I was listening to it going, yeah, I could kind of I it I have a son, I know exactly what this means, you know, like it just it it hits home. So yeah, hey, let's shift gears. Let's shift gears a little bit here for track eight. Okay, big shift, actually. We might get the bend from this, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 24:38

Wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_02: 24:39

This one is called Telephone Busy by Five Seconds of Summer.

SPEAKER_00: 24:43

That's right. For the kids out there, five sauce.

SPEAKER_01: 24:47

It's so funny every time I hear.

SPEAKER_00: 24:49

That's how my uh my daughter and her friends refer. Five sauce. Um, but yeah, this song will be on their new album uh called Everyone's a Star that's releasing on November 14th. Um, and I loved, I'm not a huge Five Seconds of Summer fan. Again, I do hear them because I have teenagers running around in my life here um with my daughter and her friends. But um, it totally the first time I heard their music and then I heard this song specifically, it was really giving me vibes of um future love sex sounds by Justin Timberlake, that album and the songs that are on it. And so that's what I love about this song. And I hope that the album ends up being that way, where it's just a like, it's not deep. You're not looking for lyrical meaning here. It just makes you want to grab your girls and go dancing, you know, like it just makes you want to have a good time. Um, and so I really like I think that this is just a super fun song, and I'm excited about um the rest of the album. And I have I think I feel like I really dug into like the songs from down under category this week because this is also an Australian band. Um, whereas Bally Brigada is from New Zealand. So I was uh I was staying in that region a little bit this week. But this is a super fun, dancy song. And if you're if you're only familiar with Five Seconds of Summer, you know, from some of their bigger hits and you don't love them or you feel like maybe they're too teeny bopper for you, maybe give this one a listen, especially if you like Justin Timberlake, because I think that I think that this album's gonna end up being a little bit more um more dancy like that.

SPEAKER_02: 26:18

I was gonna say this is uh I think this is a really fun song. I it felt like a summer song, right? And we're getting it in November, but it just feels like I feel like some corporation's gonna pay them enough money to use this in an ad campaign next summer. Um, but yeah, it's a it's a really fun song. It should be part of your spin clash, it should be part of your morning routine and just whatever. It's gonna put you in a great mood. So great, great pick.

SPEAKER_00: 26:41

Yeah, this was one too that I thought, well, if we are representing Sam, this is one I think he'd add to his dance or is one of his running mixes, right? Like I think he could run to this one. All right. Our next track is a song called Asking for a Friend by the Foo Fighters.

SPEAKER_02: 26:55

Yeah, Jen, you've been uh holding down the Ford for Sam by touting Florence in the Machine. I'm gonna hold it down by including this new Foo Fighters single. Okay. They uh they announce a tour coming in 2026. People think there's a new album coming, but there's been no official announcement. Um, I think this song was was really cool. I mean, just great rock sound, like we're used to, great vocals. There's a great guitar solo near the end. And uh the question they're asking for a friend, is this real or is this the end? And uh I'm not sure if this is a reflection of the current state of the world or just the current state of of their band, right? Because they've been around for a while, and some people are like, is this is this it for foo fighters, right? And so um I I think it's it's cool when when songs kind of have that dual interpretation like that, but at the very least, it's just it's just great rock music, and I think you'd appreciate it just for that.

SPEAKER_00: 27:53

Yeah, I agree. I mean, I you know, the foo fighters are kind of hit or miss for me. Like the songs that I love of theirs, I really love. And then everything else is kind of like, okay, yeah, it's the Foo Fighters song. Um, and I was I was nervous about listening to this one because I and I know people love the Foo Fighters for Dave Grohl. I love the Foo Fighters for Taylor Hawkins. I was a big Taylor Hawkins fan, and so it was really sad for me when we lost Taylor Hawkins. And I think Elon Rubin does a great job here from a drumming perspective. I I think those are really difficult shoes to fill anyway. Like, you know, in Dave Grohl's band, for those that somehow don't know, Dave Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana originally. Um, and so I think that's a lot, that's a high pressure position to be in for any drummer for the Foo F for the Foo Fighters. So I think that Ruben did a great job on this song. I just, I don't know, there was a part of me that selfishly wanted them to kind of be done, you know, like Led Zeppelin when John Bonham died, they just sort of like hung it up. Um and so I kind of thought that would be it for the Foo Fighters, where you know, Dave Grohl would be like, I've been through this with Nirvana, I've been through this with Foo, like I think maybe we're done. So that's that's I I say all of that to say I I did love that that that kind of all featured in this song too. Like I think they're asking the same questions that we all are about the band and and and the future state of it. So I did. I I like asking for a friend. This is this was a Foo Fighters track that I put on my yes list.

SPEAKER_02: 29:19

Nice. All right. Uh, so your next pick, and and this one threw me off for a second because I thought it might be a cover song, and then I realized I was reading the title incorrectly. So I'm gonna read it the correct way here. Track 10 is Penny Lame, and it is by Noga Ares.

SPEAKER_00: 29:35

That is right. So this song came out as a single um in September, and Noga Ares is uh she's an Israeli electronic musician and producer, um, and I love her. I discovered her back in um probably like 2021, I think is when it came out. She had an album um come out called Kids that had a song called Views on it that I love. I'm like, I look for views. I imagine that's gonna show up somewhere on uh on What Are You Listening to um this season because I originally, like I said, discovered the album back in 2021, just resurfaced it again, and have been just so getting into it. And so when I found that she had uh a new single on set that came out in September, I just like jumped all over it. Um so this is a super like uh this is an interesting track for her. You know, I think that she um she kind of switches back and forth between genres. Sometimes her songs sound dancy, sometimes they're a little more rappy. Sometimes they're super electronic. Um, but I just think that that she's a great artist that people need to uh to check out, even if uh if you don't dig into everything, check out views, the song Views from the kids album and this one. And if you don't like it, okay, you can pass and move along, but give it a try. I think you might be into it. Were you familiar with her at all?

SPEAKER_02: 30:52

I I had not heard her. Um, what's what's amazing at just hearing you describe it is one of my notes was this is a really interesting sound. And then I wrote, it's not quite rap or electronic, and you just ran down. She kind of switches genres a little bit between rap, and I'm like, okay, so I'm still got a good enough ear to figure that one out. Um, but yeah, I mean, but in that sense, it like keeps your attention, right? Because it is sort of, you know, vacillating a little bit between sounds and and genres like that. And I think too lyrically, it just sounds like uh someone who's really frustrated with the lack of attention she's getting from her partner. Um, I don't know if I'm hearing that correctly, but that's kind of what I was hearing there. Uh so I yeah, I just it's just interesting. It's something I want to dig in more into her music because I'm like, there's something to hear for sure.

SPEAKER_00: 31:48

Yeah, listen to the song Views. I think you'll really dig that one. Um, it's it's a very, very cool song with a fun, funky sound. And also, too, she opened for um Florence and the Machine in 2022 at Madison Square Garden. And so I'm also hopeful that if uh if Florence, well, we know Florence is touring for Everybody Screams. I hope maybe we get uh maybe we get a tour appearance as well on the Everybody Screams tour. Um, all right. Well, we're gonna keep it in the uh the powerful female vocalist lane with our second to last track um with a song called If the World Burns Down by Casey Musgraves.

SPEAKER_02: 32:24

All right, so this was my favorite of all of my new tracks. Um, it is from the soundtrack to season two of the Netflix show Nobody Wants This, which, similar to the uh new Bruce Springsteen movie, I haven't seen this show. And there's of course a zillion shows out there, but anyway, I saw it come up on my Netflix suggestions. That's not what led me to this. It was actually more the Casey Musgraves has a new song, kind of led me to this. Um I was really excited. I was like, all right, let me give this a listen. And I just thought it was an amazing song. And it's just it's you know, similar to Fall Moon. It's it's a love song, and but it's it's real simple, but not a cliched message. It it's just so if everything falls apart, just know you were it for me. And I'm like, that's just perfect, you know, it's not really sappy at all, but it says everything, right? And I was just like, this is such a great song. So it's one I've listened to uh I don't know how many times already, but one I'll probably continue to listen to. So yeah, this this was my favorite of my picks.

SPEAKER_00: 33:27

This was my favorite of all of our picks, actually. I love this song. I this is my favorite song on our playlist this week, for sure. Um, and Casey Musgrave just knows how to sing a ballad. I mean, this brought me back to like Love is a Wild Thing off of her Golden Hour album, which is a no-skip album for me. Like I will listen to every single song on that album over and over again and be happy every time. Um, and this song just brought me back to that, just a beautiful love song. Um, I just think it's perfect. So that this one is oh, I am it's gonna be on constant repeat. It already is from the first moment you sent it over, and I know that I'm gonna be over and over and over again. And it also made me want to check out the rest of the soundtrack for the show. I'm like, you know, I think if this song is is on that soundtrack, I want to know what else they have going on.

SPEAKER_02: 34:15

Yeah, and I might even check out the show itself. I mean, if it if the soundtrack's as good, right?

unknown: 34:22

Right.

SPEAKER_02: 34:22

But we'll start with the music.

SPEAKER_01: 34:26

Right, right. Sorry, Netflix. I'm here for the music.

SPEAKER_02: 34:35

All right. Well, let's finish this off. Uh, we we've joked about you showing your age, but I think you probably really do it on this last pick, okay? But I'm I'm happy you did it, okay. Track 12. This is appropriately enough. 12 Gates by Cheap Trick.

SPEAKER_00: 34:50

Okay. Yes, I know I'm showing my age, but I have a reason. So I'm gonna get into it here. This is um from Cheap Trick has a new album. It's called All Washed Up, um, which also drops on November 14th. Uh, like some of the other albums or songs featured on the show this week. Their albums are coming out. Um, November 14th is gonna be a big new music day. Um, but this is their first album since 2021, and I did not know that. I had to go look it up. I'm like, is this the first Cheap Trick album since 1985? The answer is no. So I'm definitely not a super fan in terms of like, I haven't followed this band their whole life. Of course, I know like the popular Cheap Trick songs. I like Cheap Tricks. Um, but I added this song, one, because I think it is a good one. I think it's representative of the band. Um, but I wanted to see what the kids thought of this one. And I'll tell you why. I have always thought from the very first moment I heard Arcade Fire, I think Wim Butler, the lead singer of Arcade Fire, and Robin Xander have really similar voices. And so I'm wondering if a kid just listened to this and they didn't know, you know, that Cheap Trick was a band that their parents listened to, I'm wondering if they would think, like, oh, this kind of sounds arcade fire-ish. You know, like I so that's really why I put it on there. Is I'm hoping that there's some interesting discussion we get maybe on social media about this song and if it does still translate, or if I'm just feeling, you know, the nostalgia vibes again and wanting to squeeze them into this arcade fire. But I really did as I listened to this, I thought if this came out as an arcade fire song, if it if you added just, you know, dialed the electronic up, a smidge, like I feel like kids might be into it, but I don't know. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02: 36:38

Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't well, first of all, I'm with you, and then I was like, hey, well, what first new album in 30 years? And then it's like, nope, it came out with one like three years ago. Okay, well, just have been keeping up, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_01: 36:50

Yeah, I missed that one.

SPEAKER_02: 36:51

Um, but I I like the parallel. I I think you might have something there. I I think you know, there's probably some influence uh of Cheap Trick on Arcade Fire, and so uh that that would be kind of fascinating to hear what people people think. Um, but yeah, I I do think there's there's probably some crossover there for sure. Um, but just on its own, I think this is a good song, and I'm kind of interested to dig into um this new album. I I thought it sounded really good, and I also think it's kind of cool when these older artists come out with these songs, and this song just seemed so full of hope. And I was like, look at this. These guys have probably been through a lot of stuff, and they're certainly on the uh the back end of their careers and and probably their lives, but it's like, man, like this is I thought it was just really cool that they'd put out a song like this that was just I I felt like full of hope. Um, so yeah, I don't know. I thought that was it was just really cool, and I was surprised I liked it as much as I did.

SPEAKER_00: 37:52

I honestly I was too. Like I said, I didn't realize they had new music three years ago, and so um it's again, it's not like I've been tracking them since the 80s, but um I thought this was a good song, and it reminded me of some of the you know, the cheap trick songs that I do love that were popular from back in the day. And so, yes, the song stands alone for sure. Give it a listen. I do like its hopeful message, but I did find the arcade fire parallel kind of interesting, and I'm wondering if I'm the only other person that has thought of them as similar bands.

SPEAKER_02: 38:22

All right, well, there you have it, another new music mix, our last new music mix of 2025. Next month, we will be back with our best of 2025. Um, that'll be a two-week affair to wrap up the season of Super Awesome Mix. You can join us on social media, on Instagram and Threads at Super Awesome Mix and YouTube at Super Awesome Mix. Of course, you could check out Jen's show, what are you listening to, with new episodes every Monday. So please go out there and support her. And uh, in the meantime, hey, we've got uh one, maybe two more new mixes this year, along with our best of. So we got some work to do, so we'll get to work on our next mixes. So for Jen, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.