SPEAKER_02: 0:41

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, it's your birthday.

SPEAKER_00: 0:52

Oh yes, I am very excited about that. Um, because last year's birthday, I got immediately sick the day after my birthday. I um and spent the rest of the week just like bedridden. And it was a very inauspicious way to begin 40. So this year, um, the bar is real low to beat. So I'm excited. I'm excited. I've got good good feelings for for this year's birthday.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20

Are you feeling pretty healthy? Like nothing's going around or anything like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:24

I mean, you know, the flu is like everywhere, but so far so good. Um, I haven't seen anyone in six months, so that helps.

SPEAKER_02: 1:31

Um Yeah, that's the advantage of having a newborn is you kind of go into a little bit of isolation, but then yeah, wait till uh if if you put him in daycare, I I've got a colleague going through this right now where it's just like every other week you're sick, as well as the it's just it's just constant. But then they get to my kids' ages and they're they're like never sick. They have like the super immunity.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56

So I know to be young, so great.

SPEAKER_02: 1:59

Ah, to be young. Ah, to be young. Um, and yeah, look, you're still relatively young, okay? Early 40s as you are. Um, and I think you've put together quite the birthday mix here. I I I really enjoyed it, although it is very eclectic. So tell the people what you did here.

SPEAKER_00: 2:14

Yeah. So um I was telling Matt, um, you know, now that we are six seasons into this, it's getting harder and harder to come up with a birthday mix. Um, you know, it's not you have to really get creative to put a mix together that isn't just always like my desert island mix or something like that. So this year um I had a I have a playlist on my uh Apple Music that is literally titled Songs I Love but Rarely Play because I don't know where they belong. And it's like, because I tend to categorize music, of course, into mixes and playlists. And so if they don't go into like a natural like playlist, I rarely like play them. And it's only until I shuffle my library that I remember they exist. So I had decided to do something about that and I started a playlist called This. Um and so I picked out 12 songs from this playlist. So it is all over the map. Um, there's really no other theme connecting them other than the fact that they're just songs I really enjoy from various parts of my life. And um, of course, I'll share the story along with each one, but I do really enjoy each of these songs, uh, but I it's like hard for me to put them anywhere. Um, you know, because most of my playlists, honestly, are either morose, like sad songs or angry rock songs. So what can you do?

SPEAKER_02: 3:22

And I don't think this is it. I think that's what I loved about it, is like there was none of that, but you're right, it was kind of all over the map. I think I had a through line for a handful of them, but but certainly not for the whole mix. Um yeah, let's get into it because I I do I I really did enjoy this. Uh track one, it is Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine.

SPEAKER_00: 3:44

Yeah, so what's funny is a lot of these songs were introduced to me from movies or TV shows. Um, and then that's part of why like I loved them, and then I just didn't know like how to ever play them again. So this is that first example of that, and this is from the show, The Morning Show on Apple TV. And I will go on record here. You know, we try not to be negative on the show, but this is the only good part of that show, is it's the intro song. Oh my goodness. I my wife and I watched like I think two or three seasons worth of it, and and by the end of it, we were like hate watching it, you know, like when you do that, you're like you're just kind of you feel invested. It's like sunk cost fallacy. You feel like you have to know what happens, even though you're so miserable watching it. Yeah. So that's what we ended up doing with the morning show. But I loved the intro. I mean, it was animated really well. It was set to this song. So I, you know, I Googled what's a song, and I listened to the song, and I really enjoy it. The other cool thing, the other memory that comes along with this now is that when my wife and I were practicing our first dance song for our wedding, um, there was, you know, other couples obviously in the dance studio practicing songs that they were going to perform. And there was a couple doing it, uh, doing a song to this, uh sorry, doing a dance to this song. And their routine was so much more advanced than what my wife and I were working on. Um, and so it was really cool to watch them. I was like, wow, like these people are really talented. And you know, my wife and I are like basically shuffling our feet around the room. So that's the other thing that it reminds me of. But I just really love the the the sound of this song. It's just, you know, the lyrics obviously are just all about treating other people the way you want to be treated. Great blessing. Um, so that's why this one is top of the mix.

SPEAKER_02: 5:20

Uh, that is fantastic. And yes, I'm with you on the I love this TV theme. I feel like TV shows now are doing a much better job of getting like actual songs instead of like in the 80s when they'd write a specific song that told you everything about the show. Um but yeah, this this one's fun. It starts out, I almost felt like it was something from a musical, you know, just the way it kind of starts out. It's like we're gonna get this huge exposition that's gonna move us into act two or something. Um but yeah, I mean, just enjoyed the sound, enjoyed the vocals, and uh I haven't seen the morning show yet, but yet another reason why I won't start is is that that review right there. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 6:01

Don't do it.

SPEAKER_02: 6:03

All right, track two. This is Sugar Man by Regina Specter.

SPEAKER_00: 6:07

Yeah, so this is one that is just like so catchy. Um, and I find that I just want to listen to it over and over again. And I don't, you know, what the line that sticks with me a lot that I really enjoy from the song is don't go confusing sugar with love. And I just really enjoy that because I think, you know, obviously she's I'm pretty sure she's thinking about basically the life of someone who is, you know, potentially just like going from person to person um and just like being showered with gifts and with money, but basically not actually getting real substantial love. Like there's no relationship here. It's very much just like very surface level, you know, you're someone's date and that's it. You're just there to like show up. Um, and so don't go confusing sugar with love. Is it's just a great reminder that some people can absolutely shower you with like quote unquote love, um, but it's not real love, it's just basically like um a facade of it all, a veneer of it. So um I really like the message here. But in general, I just I I've always liked Regina Spectre because every now and then like she just has a song and the way she sings and like her lyrics are obviously always very easy to follow along. Um, and she just does it in like this really catchy way. And so this is just one of those examples where it's like I don't know where this belongs in one of my mixes, but I just really enjoy listening to her sing this song.

SPEAKER_02: 7:22

Uh, I agree on Regina Specter. Love her voice, uh, love just kind of the sound of her music. Um, this is this one was really cool, really like this song, but it just got my mind thinking for a second there before I kind of got the got to the line like don't confuse sugar with love, and you realize maybe this relationship isn't what it seems. It made me think of songs that, like, as a guy, you might want a female to put on a mix for you, but but they don't. Right. But so it's kind of like you hold on to this song because it's like, man, I really like this song, and sure wish someone would think of me this way, but they don't, and uh just becomes a little awkward when you're like, how do you even share this song? Because yeah. Anyway, so funny you think you give a really funny sort of awkward theme to a mix.

SPEAKER_00: 8:10

Yeah, that's a good one. That reminds me, I think I've mentioned this once before, but it's like I used to put songs that I thought were love songs on mixes until way later when I realized they were like absolutely not love songs. That would be a very similar mix.

SPEAKER_02: 8:26

Hey, here's the freshman by VerbPipe, right? We're both freshmen. This is cool, right? It is not it is not cool, guys.

SPEAKER_01: 8:38

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02: 8:39

All right, track three. This is Follow by Crystal Fighters.

SPEAKER_00: 8:44

So this is again another like media inspired song. Um, I'm pretty sure, like way back in the day, you know, as in the ancient year of like 2010 or something. Um I think this wasn't used in a Nike commercial. I'm pretty sure. Uh that's at least like my memory bank of like hearing it for the first time. I may be wrong, but it it featured someone like running through the streets. So it was set to this song, and that just like I loved it. So again, back then, you know, you searched like, oh, like what song was used in this Nike commercial because this was pre-Shazam. Um, and so then someone, you know, had this answer. I downloaded the song. I actually found later found like a remix of this song specifically that I couldn't find still um on Apple Music, but absolutely love it because it just has like I know why they picked it, right? It just has a sense of movement to it, and um it just has this like light, airy feel and a really fun vibe to honestly to run to. So it ended up being on like a run mix for me for many, many years. Um and then I just completely forgot about it. And then again, it just came up one day um in a shuffle, and I was like, oh my god, I love this song. Like it's just got a great little like vibe to it. So that's why this song's on this mix.

SPEAKER_02: 9:52

Nice. Yeah, this one um I almost felt like it was a cousin of your opening track, like it had a little bit of commonalities there, and uh, I just loved how it was just kind of a cool dance song, but had some lyrics as well. I mean, but I also totally got like where do you put this song uh on any sort of mix, unless you're doing, like you said, a run mix or you know, used to be a spin instructor, so something like that. Um, so I kind of saw that, and I don't even know if this would work with a spin class or if it's too fast. I mean, you would know better than I, but just something something like that might be the only thing I think could fit with this. But I mean it's a great song though.

SPEAKER_00: 10:28

Yeah, it's cool, it's it's um fun vibes.

SPEAKER_02: 10:32

All right, well, track four. Let's take a uh family vacation out to Grand Canyon. This is Pucifer.

SPEAKER_00: 10:40

Yes. Um, so this one is a I basically realized that I'm obsessed with with Maynard Keys uh from Tool. So this is another project of his. The guys in like three plus different things, right? Um, I feel like some artists are like that. Like one project is never good enough. So um, so he's part of this group. And I just like they're so strange to me. I haven't found a lot of music from them that I like, but like this is one of those songs that I really like from them. And I don't know, I like I don't know what genre. I guess it's kind of rock, but it's not metal, you know, like it's it's interesting. Um and this one just like sticks in my mind when I listen to it. And I just really love how they sing over and over, like standing on the edge of forever, because he's using the actual, you know, like the literal like standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon, um, and like looking at how just vast it is. But then, you know, the metaphor here is that you're standing at potentially the edge of your life, right? And the edge of your life is is ostensibly forever. Um, so this is also a song about all about like awakening in your own life and this really grand place. And so it's got a lot of you know, it has this like cool little double meaning um wordplay using the Grand Canyon. But again, for me, it's just the sound of of this music of this song in particular. Like, it's hard for me to figure out what it is, but I can't stop listening to it.

SPEAKER_02: 11:58

I I completely agree. I was like, this has such a weird quality to it, but it just sucks you in. I don't know what this song is. It reminded me lyrically of something from the 70s where it's like they were clearly on drugs writing this, and then we just get all this imagery where it's like, what do we do in man? Okay, I'm on the edge of forever. Um love those songs, right? Yeah, like you get through on the classic rock station and hear a handful of songs like that that are just kind of bizarre. Um, but yeah, I mean, I just kept thinking, like, well, I'd like this, but but I don't know what exactly I'm listening to here. Exactly. And so, you know, you had told me the theme of your mix. I was like, Yeah, this totally fits. Because, like, what would you put this on that you could kind of come back to over and over? It's almost better to stumble upon it and then be like, Yeah, I kind of like this. All right.

SPEAKER_00: 12:54

Exactly. Yeah, I think the very first time I heard it was because of an algorithm suggestion. And I was like, what is this? Like, I I don't like this. And then like 20 minutes later, I was like, I actually kind of want to go back and listen to that again.

SPEAKER_02: 13:04

What was that song? It's calling to me. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, great, great pick, but I'm totally with you on the I I can't even explain what it is that I'm listening to. And that's the one I would say everybody's got to go listen to this one and just tell us what you think at Super Awesome Mix because yeah, it's it's a real standout on this mix and in a good way. In a good way, but also a weird way.

SPEAKER_01: 13:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 13:29

Um, all right, track five. Now you've talked about this band. Uh we did a whole mix on this band. Uh, this is I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab for Cutie.

SPEAKER_00: 13:38

Yeah, so obviously Death Cab for Cutie belongs on many of my playlists, right? Like they, as you mentioned, we've even done an intro to them. But this song in particular is a tough one because it's eight minutes long, right? Like this, I think the first time I heard this song, I would have immediately bucketed it into the insufferably long song because the intro is like four and a half minutes long.

SPEAKER_02: 13:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:58

Um, and you know, like the first time I heard it, I was like, what is this? Like, why hasn't the song started? You know, and I got like annoyed with and just basically never wanted to play it again. And you know, this was like very confusing feelings because I love everything that Death Cav and Ben Gibbert does. Um, and so I just didn't want to listen to it again. But then, similar to the song just before this, I started to want to listen to it again. And I and I wanted to specifically listen to the eight-minute version because I heard the radio edit and something just felt missing from it. You know, it just felt like I don't know, having heard the eight-minute one and then having heard the version where basically the intro is entirely cut, there's something special about hearing this build. And I think it's because of the subject matter of this really being like a stalker and being like obsessed with someone. And I think there's something to that intro, that like repetitive intro, and like that's kind of the obsession. Like it's just over and over and over. Like you're just thinking about this person, and everything is like, or this whatever it is, it doesn't have to be a person. Um, and it just runs in your mind over and over and over again. And so then you get into the song. Um, and I just I would love that. And so that's why this is on here because it's rare for me to be able to sit down and commit the full eight minutes to it. But when I do, I really like it and and I enjoy the payoff.

SPEAKER_02: 15:15

Yeah, once I saw it was an eight-minute song, I was like, all right, well, that's where it doesn't fit in the other mixes because it's hard to get an eight-minute song onto a different mix. But yeah, I agree with you. Like the instrumentation and the the kind of intro part, I think it works, you know, going back to track one, which is an intro to a TV show. I think if this was like a montage within a movie, you know, something kind of eerie that that sort of builds up, and you know, you're seeing this stalker or whatever start to start to do whatever it is he's doing. I I feel like it would work perfectly.

SPEAKER_01: 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 15:47

Um, it's like a weirdly intense song. Um, because you know, obviously Deathcab for Cutie, I I don't consider them an intense band generally. Um, but this one kind of works, and I think the build lends itself to that. I think if you hear the shortened version, it just doesn't it doesn't convey that. So totally agree with that part of uh your assessment there. But yeah, I mean, you know, any song like this, and I think we've talked about a maybe stalker mix or something at some point. Um, you know, like every breath you take by the police, it's just like yeah. I mean, it's hard to work that into a to another mix, and that could also fall into the, you know, I I mistaken this for a love song.

SPEAKER_00: 16:27

Right, right, exactly. Yeah, I think this I I saw this was named like one of the 25 creepiest songs about love. So maybe we might have to visit a mix like that.

SPEAKER_02: 16:35

Like that's gonna be a Halloween mix one year. It's just stopper mixes, yeah. All right, now track six. Uh now this one threw me for a second um because it definitely reminded me of a song. Um, it is Tonight Tonight by Passion Pit.

SPEAKER_00: 16:52

Yeah, so this again was because of a TV show. Um, it was a TV show that I honestly cannot remember the name now because it only had one season. You know, it's like we're in the world where like these content factories are just like cranking out TV shows like crazy, right? And it's like they just want to see what hits and what doesn't. Um, and so this one was one of the ones that my wife and I ended up stumbling upon. We watched it, we ended up really liking it. I don't think it was picked up before, but it was about a dance like competition, like a ballet dance competition um being held, and it was featured, I think, in the last episode of the show. And of course it's a cover, right? Passion Pitts covering Smashing Pumpkins. Um, but it just sounds so like strange, you know, and it's like it's such an interesting cover of their song. Um, and it just has this really like light and airy feel, like you you just feel like you're floating when you're listening to it, and I really enjoy that. So um that's why like I don't want to listen to this all the time, but every now and then I I you know I want this kind of like weird 30,000 foot view like type song uh to listen to. And uh and then then again, it specifically reminds me of this one-off TV show that we watched and really enjoyed. So that's why this is here.

SPEAKER_02: 18:03

Um yeah, this one I started listening to it and I'm like, oh, I've never heard this song before. And then I'm like, God, these lyrics sound vaguely familiar for some reason. And then I realize it is a cover.

SPEAKER_00: 18:13

Yes, that's exactly what happened to me too in the TV show. I was like, this is such a cool song. What is this? And then I realized, yeah, right, it's a it's a cover.

SPEAKER_02: 18:22

But I think what makes it special is that Passion Pit just kind of makes a super popular song their own, right? Yes, it's not like I mean, so often we talk about cover songs that you didn't even know was a cover song, right? Because the cover is more popular or whatever the case is. In this case, Tonight Tonight is one of Smashing Pumpkins' biggest hits. And so why would you want to take that on? But then you take it on, and like here you and I are just listening to it, not even realizing it's a cover, which I think is a real tribute to the band there. Um so yeah, but I do think it works in that if you're sort of using Tonight Tonight as kind of a motivational song in some way, I I think it kind of gives you a little bit of nerve, you know, calms the nerves a little bit with this version versus the original. So I think that's kind of cool too.

SPEAKER_00: 19:10

I like that. Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 19:14

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SPEAKER_00: 20:06

Yeah, so this is um, I think the song that introduced me to Anderson Pock. So, and it was again featured in a commercial, uh, specifically the Apple Home Pod launch commercial. So, whenever the home pod was first um intro'd, it features, I think it was actually a Spike Jones uh directed commercial too. So it features like a woman coming home from the like the drudgery of of her you know work day. It's like very muted colors, and then she tells the home pod to play something she likes, and this song comes on, and then she ends up stepping into this world of like color that's oscillating. And I ended up, I was like obsessed with the commercial, it's a really cool commercial. Um, ended up watching like how they made it, and it was all like physically made, so like she's literally walking through these like rooms of color and everything. So that's why it why it looks so real and so good. It wasn't just animated. Um, and so anyway, so like that imagery that's just has always stuck with me as I listen to this song. But I just I I loved the vibe of the song. This one actually could go very well with Nemesis, the opening track on this mix. I think the two kind of sit very similar in that space of you know, it's like maybe like a little jazzy, a little like cool, cool vibes. I don't know how to describe it, but it's one that I have trouble like listening to next to other songs because I just find it to be so unique and kind of like genre mystifying for me at least. Um, and I also have always loved the line uh don't all this new music sound the same? Yeah, we must be getting old and gray. Because I think that that's that's very much a sign that like you you kind of at some point realize you no longer listen to new music because it all starts to sound the same to you. Um and then you know, you just want the comfort of the music you grew up with, and so that must be the sign that you're just getting old and gray. So I love that.

SPEAKER_02: 21:48

Yes, that is a great line. Um, hey, by the way, how many home pods did you end up buying after that commercial?

SPEAKER_00: 21:54

I mean, I've got a six-pack right next to me, actually.

SPEAKER_02: 21:57

Or that thing kind of came and went, didn't it? Um we got a cool video out of it, got a cool song, so that's good. For sure. Yeah. Um no, I thought this was a great one because it really is kind of describing uh like a day. It's kind of a simple story type thing, but I love how it picks up around the chorus when it's like, I want to I wanna ride this till it's over.

SPEAKER_01: 22:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 22:19

Because it feels like they're going into the night and maybe going out, and they want to keep it going. So it starts to sound like a dance song, like they're at a club or something like that, which I thought was really cool. And I don't know if that was intentional, but that's that's kind of how I heard. It is sort of going through the you know normal activities of the day, and then it starts to pick up at night when you're maybe doing something more social. So um, but yeah, really cool song, and and totally agree on the as you get older, everything starts to sound the same. I kind of chalk it up to pattern recognition. I don't know. I think the more we listen to music on this, certainly doing a show like this, I end up going, you know, this sounds like the so-and-so's from whatever year, you know. Right. Um, so no, that's true.

SPEAKER_00: 23:01

Yeah, it's kind of like that whole idea of everything is a remix, you know. So it's like um you just kind of what you grew up listening to ends up kind of infiltrating the song that then you create as a musician. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02: 23:13

Yeah, I'm really just trying to make you and I sound smarter than everybody, but yeah, let me we can go with that.

SPEAKER_00: 23:17

That's the whole purpose of a podcast, I think.

SPEAKER_02: 23:25

All right, let's go. Track eight. It is How to Tame Lions by Meg Washington.

SPEAKER_00: 23:30

So this is another video that I saw. Like, I I almost want to say it was pre-Youtube, you know, or it was very early YouTube, but it was like a music video that someone had put together.

SPEAKER_02: 23:39

What were you watching it on if it was pre-Youtube?

SPEAKER_00: 23:41

I don't know. Like it's some, you know, like Flash, maybe? I have no idea. I don't remember how videos used to play before YouTube. I don't. This has been a minute.

SPEAKER_02: 23:50

Well, you would have just said MTV or something like that. Right, that's true. Right?

SPEAKER_00: 23:53

No, it was online, but real player was a thing, right? Remember that you could watch video on real player when you got past the buffering sign that was just permanently there. Um, anyway, at some point in my youth-ish, I watched a music video that someone had created set to the song. I don't know if it was her or someone just like chose a song and put it to this um really interesting video that used tilt shift perspective to where basically you can have everything look like they're toys, like very small. Um if you're watching like a tiny town, basically. But it was a real video of, and I think this was literally someone like they were doing a test um rescue mission, like the the Coast Guard does like these test missions of like, okay, someone's you know drowning in the ocean. You load up the helicopter, you go save them, pick them up, bring them back. Um, and someone recorded this whole thing and did it again with tilt shift. So you you feel like you're watching like a little toy helicopter and little toy people, like and all this kind of stuff. And it was just so cool. Um, and so I love, love, love that video, and that stuck with me forever. And I just thought, like, this song is just so interesting, um, in the sense that I have no idea what she's singing about. Like the lyrics don't make any sense to me, but it just sounds really cool. Like, I just love the sound of the song. And again, that video just plays my head every time I listen to it. So that's one of the reasons why I love it. Like, I don't know what it's about. I don't really care what it's about, but I just think it sounds great.

SPEAKER_02: 25:17

I agree. I think it sounds great. I like the wordplay where she uses like lion like the animal, and then she talks about you know, lying like a position in space, and the lying like not telling the truth. But you're right, how it all fits together, like you're not exactly sure. Right. Um, and you could tell she can really sing, even though this is not a song where she's just belting out lyrics necessarily.

SPEAKER_01: 25:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 25:38

Um, but it all kind of lends itself, you're right. It's just kind of a cool sounding song. Uh yeah, there's no other, no other way to put it. I I'm not familiar with the video at all, but I do think it's uh yeah, I I imagine it would be pretty cool if it's associated with the song. All right, now let's take a hard left turn. Track nine. This is El Corrido de Don Duat Lulae, and this is by Del Castillo.

SPEAKER_00: 26:03

Yes, a very random assortment uh here of songs near the end. But um this one honestly, like I can't remember. I think it might have been introduced to me from the movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico with Johnny Depp and Antonio, I think Antonio Banderas was in that. I can't remember, it's been a minute. Um, but I watched that movie, I think he had a song on that soundtrack because again, like that was also the days when you could go buy a soundtrack like on a CD at Barnes Noble or wherever Tower Records and then um be intro to a whole bunch of different musicians. Um because you know, you were buying it for one other song and then you got all these other ones. There was no single downloads or whatever, like there are today. So um I listened to it and I just became obsessed with the guitar play in this one because it is amazing. Like this guy can really play the guitar. Um, and in fact, years later, he was at ACL as like one of the kind of smaller artists, like during the day, like when you're in the tent, so you're actually pretty close up. Um, and I watched him perform, and it's like it's unbelievable that anyone's fingers can move that fast. Like it's in it is insane. Um, and so this was one of those ones where it's like I was shuffling music one day, this came up, and I was like, oh my god, I forgot about how cool this song is. But like I don't have a mix of like Spanish guitar music. Maybe I should. Um, but but I don't, so I just never really play it. Um but I thought it was just so cool, and um, and I really enjoy listening to it just for the the music, like um the guitar play of it all.

SPEAKER_02: 27:28

Yeah, I imagine at a festival like ACL, that's one of the coolest things when you come across a band that not everyone has heard of, and so you can just kind of duck in and you're probably right up close during a session like that, right? Yeah, yeah. No, uh the guitar plays unbelievable here. The lyrics, I mean, are just about like a cowboy riding his horse in the old west. Like it's it's really um, I don't know exactly what it sounds like when you're just listening to it. So even if you didn't translate the lyrics, it would just take you back to that sort of place. But I don't know. I I really enjoyed this. I was like, this is this just sounds great. I love the guitar. I think there was a mandolin in there as well. So um, no, great pick, but just like a lot of these songs, I'm with you. Don't know how it fits on some other mix.

SPEAKER_00: 28:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 28:15

Um, and in that sense, you would say these songs are a world alone, which is track 10 by Lord.

SPEAKER_00: 28:22

Well done. We've both up-leveled our uh our intros. I really like it. It's really good. Just getting better and better. Um yeah, this one probably could go on some mixes because it's Lorde and it's you know her best album, uh Pure Heroine. So, so good. Still one of my all-time favorite albums. Um, just period. Not even just from her, but just full stop. But um, I don't know. This song, though, in particular off of that album, I don't play as much. Like obviously, there's bigger songs that she had off of it. Um, and so this one I would just tend to forget that it existed. And so I think that's why I ended up putting on this mix is um it's I don't know, it's just not one of her like largest ones. And so when I came across it again, I was like, wow, I actually really love this song. Um, I love how it sounds, I love kind of like the repetitive nature of the people who are talking, you know, like the way that she sings that. But I also specifically love the line, maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks. And I just love, love that line. Because that the answer is both. The answer is both. Yeah, exactly. I love that for me. But I can just hear her sing that line in my head all the time. And I think about that just as you're, you know, doing anything on the internet. It's like maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks. Um and so it's just great. But yeah, I really love this track of hers.

SPEAKER_02: 29:39

The the music in this one reminded me, speaking of TV shows, did you ever watch Friday Night Lights?

SPEAKER_00: 29:45

I watched the first season, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 29:47

Okay, if you remember the music from that, all the music from that show, and I think even the movie that they did was from a band called Explosions in the Sky. Are you familiar with them?

SPEAKER_00: 29:56

I am, yeah. I actually also saw them at an at ACL one year.

SPEAKER_02: 29:59

Oh, perfect. Okay, yeah. Like I feel like you would love them because their stuff just builds up kind of like this. So when this one started out, that's immediately what popped into my head was that band. And I was like, oh, maybe they worked with her on this track, but I don't think that was the case. But I don't know. I think that's what drew me in immediately, was it kind of had that same feel because I've also enjoyed their music. And then obviously she can sing, we know that. So it's like that that just kind of added to it, which made this a really, really cool song.

SPEAKER_00: 30:26

I had no idea you were fans of that band. I love them. I have I do have entire mixes with music like theirs um from them and and from others like them. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02: 30:36

And yet you've never shared it. We're on season six of this show. Look, guys, we're not gonna get into it. We'll talk about it off air. Audience doesn't need to hear that argument.

SPEAKER_00: 30:44

Just keep rolling, keep rolling.

SPEAKER_02: 30:46

Just keep rolling. All right, I'll edit that out. Or I won't. I don't know. Uh all right, track 11. It is Get a Move On by Mr. Scruff.

SPEAKER_00: 30:54

Yeah, I'm realizing now that I probably should have organized some of these songs together because this one could have very easily gone with Nemesis and with the other one earlier. It's Anderson Park one. It's okay. Um, you know, I have a newborn still. He's like, he's only five months, people. Give me a break. All right, he's still new. Still new. Um my brain doesn't work the way that it used to, but I I love the song because just like the name, get a move on, I think that's exactly what the song makes you feel like you need to do. Um it's just so perfect. Like sonically, it just makes you feel like you just want to get moving. Um, this was a song I was obsessed with specifically in high school. And then later in life, I actually ended up putting it on a mix of found a home, I'm happy to say, um, which is like a wake-up mix. So it's like if you ever just need to wake up and just like start moving through your your morning routine, your rounds, you know, whatever it is that you're doing, like it's not so high energy that you're just gonna reject it, but it's high enough energy that you're gonna be like, yeah, okay, I I can get a move on, kind of get going. So that's why I really like this song.

SPEAKER_02: 31:57

Well, I noticed the song is from 1999, which is your favorite year in music. So I thought it was great that you got one on your birthday mix from that year.

SPEAKER_00: 32:05

Very best.

SPEAKER_02: 32:06

Um, but yeah, no, this was a this was a cool song, mostly in an instrumental, but yeah, definitely gets you going. I I want to play this for my kids in the morning because I want them to get a move on, or you're gonna get left behind. You know? Which is also one of those empty threats parents make because it's like you really don't want them at home. Like you want them to go to school, right? So it's like as much as as much as they drag, it's like you could threaten them all you want, but look getting left behind, they're actually like, yeah, that that sounds awesome. So I can sit here all day and watch TV. It's like, no, you're you're gone no matter what.

SPEAKER_00: 32:40

I I live um near the Natural History Museum, and one of my favorite things is I'm often walking my dog near there, and there there'll be families that are trying to leave the museum, and like the kids don't want to leave, right? They're having a great time, especially younger kids, of course. And I love watching the parents pull the okay, we're gonna leave you behind, and then just watching like the kid like see the distance increase and then be like, oh my god, my parents are actually gonna leave me. I love watching that reaction, it's so funny because I'm like, I promise you, they're not actually gonna leave you at this museum.

SPEAKER_02: 33:09

Like Sam just you're gonna make so many empty threats to your kid. You know what? What if we never leave this house again, huh? What if we just stay inside forever? Would you like that? Because that's where we're headed.

SPEAKER_01: 33:25

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02: 33:27

It's not physically possible, is it? We had to leave at some point.

SPEAKER_00: 33:31

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_02: 33:32

Oh boy. All right, let's bring it home. Track 12. Um, I'm gonna mess this name up, but it is Liku Fennel by Zero Seven.

SPEAKER_00: 33:40

Yeah, I don't know how to pronounce that either. I'm gonna get it. All right, perfect. I nailed it. I nailed it. Um you nailed it. So this one is from my college years. Um, I got introduced to Zero Seven from the movie Garden State, because on that album, on that soundtrack, there was the song Lebanese Blonde. And so then I started to be like, you know, I really like that song and I wanted to hear what else they did. Um so there was this song and then a different one that they um that I almost put on this mix that uh, but I chose this one instead just because it's I don't know, it's just so different. It's got this like really cool kind of rhythmic sound to it, like it just kind of repeats. You can kind of find yourself getting lost to it, and that's actually like how I I used to listen to it. I think it was just like a song I would put on when I was studying or like copying notes or something because you or you know, just doing something like that where it's like you just wanted something on that was enough to get your attention, but not so much that you were like listening only to that song. And I think this especially helps because the lyrics are are not in English. Um, I think translated if if the internet is to be trusted, it is the name you are called suits you, is what they're singing over and over again. Um and so yeah, I just like but I love the sound of it. Like I uh the lyrics obviously didn't matter to me. It was just kind of that cool, you know, repetitive sound over and over again. It it sounded almost meditative in a way, so that's why this song's here.

SPEAKER_02: 34:56

Yeah, this one is a distant cousin of track four, you know, where you're talking about the Grand Canyon or whatever, where it's just like, why do I want to keep listening to this? I can't put my finger on it, but it does just kind of suck you in, and they have these chants that are in Zulu and and they kind of keep doing that, and then there's some lyrics in English, and yeah, really just kind of again, weird song, but but weird, I guess, in a positive way. Um, but yeah, really enjoyed it, but I don't know, I don't know how you'd classify this in any sort of a way.

SPEAKER_00: 35:28

I think yeah, if I if I the only band that comes to mind that I could maybe put them on a mix together with is Thievery Corporation, which is I think is also another Garden State introduction.

SPEAKER_02: 35:37

Um I think they I think they were on that soundtrack, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 35:40

Yeah, that was a very influential soundtrack for me at least.

SPEAKER_02: 35:43

So that was a monster soundtrack. No, that that's one of those like when people who know it like love that soundtrack. Yeah. Yes, which which could be a mix in and of itself, like whole soundtracks that really hit.

SPEAKER_01: 35:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 35:55

Um yeah, I listening to this mix, I feel like a handful of these songs have kind of the talk sing sort of style, which I think could be its own mix.

SPEAKER_01: 36:07

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 36:08

You know, but you you I was like, I wonder if that's just something you are attracted to. It's not the full-on, I'm belting out lyrics type thing, but it's like I'm talking with a little rhythm to it and sort of sing songiness. But but that was sort of the the one through line I almost kind of pulled out of this.

SPEAKER_00: 36:25

I would that's really interesting. Yeah, I hadn't noticed that, but you're right. Now I'm gonna have to do an assessment of my own music library.

SPEAKER_02: 36:32

Yeah, how random is it, Sam? Maybe not at all. Maybe not at all. Not at all. Well, there you have it. Another super awesome mix for your collection. This time, Sam's 2026 birthday mix of songs. He just can't figure out where else to put. Um, but I will tell you they were all quality songs, so definitely check them out. Um, also check us out on social media. Remember, this year we are going to become the number one podcast out there by episode 200, which is happening in September. So definitely share this with a friend. Leave us a five-star review and just uh keep keep pumping us up those rankings. Um, we'll have to do a check-in periodically so you guys know how we're doing. But, you know, keep sharing the show and all that, and uh the rest will take care of itself. Um, in the meantime, Sam and I have plenty of mixes to work on. So for Sam, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.