SPEAKER_01: 0:48

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_02: 0:59

I am doing well. Um at the time of this recording, we're about to be hit with an actual literal blizzard, which uh has been a bit since New York has been hit with a blizzard. I learned all about what defines a blizzard, um, which is great. I had no idea there was strict rules for when you call something a blizzard, but we we qualify. So I'm uh I'm getting ready.

SPEAKER_01: 1:23

In Texas, we only call it a blizzard if you can turn it upside down when you serve it. That is Dairy Queen, yeah. That is the specific definition of a blizzard here.

SPEAKER_02: 1:35

Oh, that brings me back. I loved Dairy Queen growing up. I always they made ice cream cakes, and that was my go-to birthday cake. I would get an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. Oh, let's get them as a sponsor. Let's let's reach out.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49

I would love that. And then we get then six months later, we would have to get a diabetes medication as a sponsor.

SPEAKER_02: 1:56

Yeah, that's where I'd be that's where I would be at. Super awesome mix now brought to you by GLP1. Um it's it's serious out there, you guys. It's serious. Oh, goodness. Anyway, anyway, it's February, so we got some new music to talk about.

SPEAKER_01: 2:15

New music, and really um, you know, we talk about this during the uh January new music, how it's like, hey, early in the year, not so many heavyweights, but as the year goes on, it's like you really start to see new music from this artist and that artist. And there was even some that I kind of bypassed because I'm like, well, let me wait for the full album. But you know, so many big names coming out with music this month. So um, yeah, I mean, it was kind of a fun month. It was it was hard to kind of sift through everything that was out there.

SPEAKER_02: 2:42

Yeah, I agree. I mean, we have some massive artists on this list. Um, and I'm gonna start with one of the largest known musicians right now of our time. Um this is your first pick, and it's Streets of Minneapolis by Bruce Springsteen.

SPEAKER_01: 2:57

Okay, so let's put politics aside. Like we're not we're not gonna break this down, you know, or or anything going on in Minneapolis. What I want to talk about here, first of all, two things. First, like the distribution of music, because you know, Bruce he said he wrote this like on a Friday, he recorded it on a Saturday, and then released it on a Sunday. Right. And then it was everywhere, and it was like top of the charts on Spotify and and Apple Music. And, you know, I just think it's remarkable because I mean, I don't know, 50, 60 years ago when Bob Dylan was writing about Ruben Hurricane Carter being wrongfully imprisoned, you know, it it's an eight-minute song. He he had to record it and then hopefully maybe get radio stations to play it, but eventually he would just tour and play it on his tour.

SPEAKER_03: 3:43

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 3:43

Right. So it's like that, like bringing awareness there was so much more difficult for Bob Dylan to do to a situation. Whereas here, because it's just so instantaneous, Bruce can write a song and then get it out there that quickly. Um I will say when I saw this pop up on Apple Music, I I hesitated to hitting play for a minute because Bruce has a song called Streets of Philadelphia from the movie Philadelphia that won an Oscar and all this. And I was really afraid that he just took that song and replaced Philadelphia with Minneapolis. It was find and replace, yeah. Yeah, just like because I was like, oh no, if he got this out this quickly, was this just a uh let me let me re-record this, redubit it? But no, it's it's a whole new song. Um, and obviously it's a protest song. Um, you know, I think it's pretty clear to everyone out there where Bruce stands on the political spectrum. Um, and so you can imagine his thoughts on everything going on in Minnesota. What I also wanted to point out was just kind of this idea of a protest song, right? Like it's kind of a long-running uh American music tradition, you know, going back hundreds of years. And so kind of cool that sort of you know, younger people get to experience an artist doing this, but I also wondered going forward, because Bruce was no spring chicken, um, Bob Dylan's on his last legs. It's kind of like I wonder who out there would carry on this mantle of like, I'm gonna write a protest song and people will actually care about it.

SPEAKER_02: 5:17

Right. Yeah, or uh Tom Morello comes to mind who is also on the older side, right? Like, no, it's true. I I think about like my reaction to this song is um what I thought was interesting. Number one, he very specifically names and talks about the situation, right? Like there's no there's no nuance, there's no metaphor here. And I I find that when you you when we talk about protest songs, we bring songs up here, there's definitely a lot of like, well, you know, there's thinking about this, but like we're pretty sure they're talking about this situation in this country or this administration or you know, whatever it is, right?

SPEAKER_01: 5:51

Like there's yeah, you can make it that's why it reminded me of Hurricane by Bob Dylan, because in that in that song, Bob Dylan lists like the prosecutor's name was this. They could they brought up a charge of this, you know.

SPEAKER_02: 6:03

Yes, exactly. Yeah. So I thought, you know, he mentions Trump by name in the first couple of minutes or seconds of this, and I'm like, oh wow, okay. Like this is this is very clear. Like he's just recounting what's going on and his viewpoint on it. And so I thought that was I to your point, I think that that's kind of unique, and I don't know that we see that anymore. I agree. Like, it's hard for me to think of kind of a modern artist that's doing that again without cloaking it in like 50 layers of metaphor, or them being able to just be like, nope, this is about you know what something completely different. Like that's that's your interpretation, etc. So it is really interesting. And and I mean, I immediately, of course, as I'm sure most people would thought of the the hurricane song by Bob Dylan, like this is very much in that style of just kind of storytelling, and here's what's happening, and and his viewpoint on it. The the other thought that came to mind is um I have some like like many of us do, some people who are more conservative, like deep in the family chain, you know, like somewhere far off. Um and they, you know, they're very much, and you hear this a lot of like, oh, just shut up and sing, and oh, I can't believe Bruce would do this. And I just want to be like, have you been paying attention to Bruce Springsteen's like whole musical life, you know? Like, of course he would write this song.

SPEAKER_01: 7:14

Yes. Well, it was around 2000 when he wrote the song American Skin, right? Which is a per parenthetical called 41 Shots, and that's about a man, a black man who was shot by New York police officers 41 times. Yeah, and when he performed that song in Madison Square Garden, I mean, he was warned, like, hey, the police aren't gonna like the police walked out, like security walked out because it was like Bruce, we're not we're not gonna stand for this. He's like, Well, you gotta do what you gotta do, you know. Like, and like that's his hometown, right? Like he's New Jersey's own, New York's own, whatever. And he's like, I'm gonna write this protest song. So I I, you know, you're exactly right. Anyone who's been paying attention knows he he definitely would have written this song and and it's been this direct about what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_02: 8:01

For sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 8:04

All right. So uh let's let's switch it up. I mean, by title alone, I kind of agree with this song because I lived in the northeast for a few years and immediately wanted to leave. Um, it is When It's Cold, I'd like to die by Moby and Jacob Lusk.

SPEAKER_02: 8:17

Yeah, I thought this was appropriate given everything that's happened in this winter um with the weather because it it's been tough. Um, we've had like multiple Arctic blasts. We were at and below zero for over two weeks with like just so much snow, right? Like we got dumped like 12 to 15 inches of snow and then it just never left. And snow in New York is really pretty that first like couple of days, and then it literally turns into giant mud piles, and like they have nowhere to put it, and so they're like using dump trucks to literally pick up snow and drop them into giant hot tubs, basically. I mean, it's insane, it's an insane operation, and trash is piling up because the sanitation department's taking care of the snow. And so you reach a point when you're like, Yeah, you know what? I kind of agree with this song type. So that's why I brought this on. Um, yeah, but also, you know, Moby new album. He is obviously like uh just a huge music veteran. Um, and he's like reimagining this song. This came out much, much earlier. It also had a revival thanks to Stranger Things. It is a very somber, very like haunting, sad, powerful song. Um his whole album uses a lot of piano. It's so beautiful. Um, it actually just came out, so I had a chance to listen to some of the other songs on the album. And yeah, it's just it's if you're in that kind of like deep winter introspective mood, I think you would love this album. It's it's very much um in that alley.

SPEAKER_01: 9:41

So um, I'm so glad you brought up kind of the ugliness of getting a lot of snow, because I think here in Texas, because people haven't experienced that, we romanticize it a little bit with all these pictures. But right, yeah, after a while, the snow piling up becomes kind of a problem and a bit of an eyesore. So yeah, I agree there. Um yeah, this one was unique. I mean, obviously it's it's pretty somber, and uh, but in that sense, I mean, right in line with the title of When It's Cold, I'd like to die, right?

SPEAKER_00: 10:10

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 10:11

Like if you really are in that mindset and really are feeling that, I mean, this song is going to drive that home, you know? Yes, and kind of hits that emotionally. So um, yeah, I I did also think you should write a song called When It's Hot, I Want to Die.

SPEAKER_02: 10:26

Yes, that would be my version of it. A hundred percent. All right, let's go to track number three. I was so happy you included this because I did not know that they had new music. So this was really cool for me too to discover. Um, and this is Victim of Luck by Metric.

SPEAKER_01: 10:43

Yeah, this is a nice little role reversal because you introduced me to this band a few years ago on the mix, and I've just kind of kept tabs with them because I've enjoyed them so much. Um, their new album is called Romanticize the Dive. It's coming out in April. This is one of the first couple of singles. Um but yeah, I I thought this was cool just by title, like the the idea of a victim of luck, because so often you see not that they specifically sing about this, but just like you obviously somebody gets lucky with something, right? Winning the lottery or whatever it is, right? But there's probably some you know collateral damage in that process. So I just thought that that concept when I read that title, I was like, oh, that's interesting. Um and then yeah, I mean, I I just I don't know, I like the song, I think it sounds great. And um, you know, it kind of kind of got me fired up. It's like it's time to live my life like it's never been done. I mean, this person's kind of breaking away from whatever kind of victimization they felt in some way, shape, or form. So I thought that was kind of cool too.

SPEAKER_02: 11:43

Yeah, no, it is a great song, very much a metric sound. I was also there's a number of songs on here where I was like, wow, this is like so far down into their career. This is their 10th studio album, which I like never would have guessed that's why we can be talking about them all the way through season 10 um in our in our opening episode. So that's great. Um, my favorite line here is countdown to a hot mess, 5-4-3-2-1. Um, I just love the phrase hot mess. I use that all the time. I it's it's just like a perfect description sometimes of exactly how you're feeling or what you're dealing with. So that's one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_01: 12:19

All right, track four, and this is this is great. I thought on this new music mix, we kind of hit a trifecta of like some of our old favorites. We got Bruce on there, and now you get Asking for a Friend by Foo Fighters.

SPEAKER_02: 12:32

Yeah, I mean, exactly. Obviously, Foo Fighters is gonna be on here. Um, another new album from there, and this one's coming out in April as well. This is like just a classic Foo Fighter sounding song. Like, if you told me, if you'd played this for me and told me like this was an unreleased track from the 90s or 2000s, I would have been like, oh yeah, okay, that makes sense because it just goes back to kind of that very classic Foo Fighters rock sound. Um, you know, their last album, Medicine at Midnight, had like a very different feel to it. Um, it was he even said he was like more disco inspired when he wrote that one. But this one definitely just sounds like much more um in line with, or I'm expecting the the whole album to sound much sound much more in line with um what I'm used to from them. But yeah, like I I love the song. It's just a crank it banger of a song. It's great. Um, and I'm eager for the the rest of the album. I honestly don't know how I'm gonna wait until April for for all of it to come out.

SPEAKER_01: 13:27

Uh yeah, new music by them, and they've been in the news lately with the dismissal of drummer Josh Freeze. So that was, I don't know, kind of interesting timing with the new album coming out. But yeah, anything to say about Josh Freeze getting booted from the band?

SPEAKER_02: 13:41

Um no, I have no comment.

SPEAKER_01: 13:43

Oh wow, okay. So, folks, you know how hot a topic this is. Sam just Sam's just no comment in me. Um, I I love the song. I love the uh I love the idea of asking for a friend. He's asking so many like really heavy questions in this, and of course, it's like you ask questions sometimes, it's like, oh no, no, no, it's not for me. I'm asking for a friend.

SPEAKER_03: 14:06

Sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 14:07

You know, so uh even uh you know, outside of the sound, even the lyrically, it's kind of playful in in sort of how they uh how they how he wrote this one um with that sort of tongue-in-cheek aspect to it. So um and then the idea of what is real, he asks that over and over again, which I think these days is a pretty good question with all the uh AI and deep fakes and everything we have going on out there.

SPEAKER_02: 14:29

Exactly. Yeah.

unknown: 14:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 14:30

At some point we'll probably replace ourselves with AI versions. Um just run the show.

SPEAKER_01: 14:38

We should try it one time, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 14:40

Yeah, and see if people catch on. Oh goodness. We'll just randomly just start talking about how we love bits and bytes, and everyone will be like, this is a weird segment. Really weird. Um, all right, let's move on to track number five. Your next pick, that's Fabulous People by Joe Jackson.

SPEAKER_01: 14:59

Okay, Joe Jackson. I don't know, are you familiar with Joe Jackson at all?

SPEAKER_02: 15:03

Sam his name sounds so familiar to me, but no, basically no.

SPEAKER_01: 15:07

Yeah, so he had a big hit in the early 80s called Steppin' Out, right? And so if you go back and listen to it, you you probably heard it at some point, but he had a really big album back then and a big hit. And like he never stopped making music, right? So you were just talking about metric with like their 10th studio album or whatever. Joe Jackson has had a ton of albums since then. Um, obviously they haven't surfaced on on my feed in a while, but um this one did, and it it's actually kind of, I think it sounded great, right? He still got his voice. Um, the the sound of it was sort of reminiscent of his of his early sound, but but just like a little bit updated. And then the storytelling's really cool, right? Like you've got this character Billy kind of growing into acceptance. Um, and you know, Joe Jackson himself is bisexual, so he probably directly felt this story. And um, I don't know, but again, even if you ignore the lyrics or the message or whatever, I think the song just sounds really good. Um, and and I think his voice, I also love it when older artists still hold on to their voice for a long time and could still hit the same notes. So yeah, it's it was like a nice little find for me.

SPEAKER_02: 16:17

Yeah, no, it's a it's a cool song. Um, I do love the storytelling element of it as well. It's nice to just kind of follow along whenever they literally tell a story about an individual going through something. So I thought that was really nice. It sounded almost like the the opening notes hit me like it was like a Mario Kart theme song track, you know? Like there was just something very like light and playful about it, which I really enjoyed. Um, and that is carried throughout the the song. So it was nice, it was a good, good little track.

SPEAKER_01: 16:45

Yeah, that AD's background, he's still writing eight-bit sort of music. Exactly. That line was written by AI. Of course, they picked up on that. All right. You have Need Someone by Andrew Byrd and Gavin Brivick.

SPEAKER_02: 17:05

Yeah, so this is off of the pit, um, the just excellent TV show in HBO, which I have not started the second season yet. Um, I absolutely will. No one tells you that you no longer have time for television when you have a kid, like a newborn, right?

SPEAKER_01: 17:20

Let me tell you. We get asked questions about shows all the time. Even now when my kids are like nine and twelve, and people ask us about shit. We're like, look, we've seen like two episodes, we're like way behind, you know.

SPEAKER_03: 17:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 17:33

Yeah. Yeah. The the sh time for shows kind of diminishes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 17:37

It's yeah, apparently. Um, because we literally reminisce about that sometimes. We're like, remember when we could just sit and watch a TV show for like four hours? Like, we would just crank out an entire season of a show nonstop, uninterrupted.

unknown: 17:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 17:53

We laugh and think about when we thought we were too busy when it was just the two of us, right? Yeah. Remember what we were like, oh, we're just too busy for that. It's like, no, you're not you have nothing to do.

SPEAKER_02: 18:03

Yeah. Literally nothing to do. So anyway, so I haven't seen the second season, but I we watched the first. Amazing, amazing show. Um, you know, it's it's like ER taken to 11, right? And um, you know, Noah is in it as well. So there's like a nice little crossover. I love like how his career kind of spanned two emergency room TV shows at this point.

SPEAKER_01: 18:23

Um look, we talk about artists kind of playing the same songs. It's like cool with actors just being like, I'm good at being a fake doctor. All right. Like, let me just go with this.

unknown: 18:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 18:33

Um, but anyway, so but on the song, on the song itself, Andrew Bird, love Andrew Bird. This is a, you know, if you know if you're familiar with him, this sounds exactly like some of his songs. He finds a way to make whistling sad, which I think is not as easy as you imagine, right? Like I always imagine whistling is kind of a happy thing, but he he has a way to just make it feel very somber. Um, and you know, the lines here, like you need someone who's gonna cry for you, very much reminds me of a Death Cab for Cutie song. I think it's called Sarah's song. And in it they ask the question Um, you know, love is watching someone die, so who's going to watch you die? Which is like a very powerful line of of yeah, it it'll hit you when you think about that, right? God, yeah, I'm really bringing some high energy this February.

SPEAKER_00: 19:19

Um yeah, happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Um we'll be back next month.

SPEAKER_02: 19:26

But it they both kind of remind me of this idea of, you know, like in the hospital, you you're surrounded by people who love you, ideally, right? And so it's just like kind of it's a very heavy topic. Um, it's a very heavy show. If the pit is not a light show, do not watch it if you want a pick-me-up. It will not do that for you. So anyway, love the song.

SPEAKER_01: 19:48

Um, the song is like under two minutes, like it's a super short song. So I felt like once I was getting into it, it was like fading out. And I was like, oh, well, okay. Like it's it kind of came and went. Right. Um, I don't was it written specifically for the show or or they just adopted it. Do you have any idea?

SPEAKER_02: 20:05

That I don't know. Or sorry, no comment.

SPEAKER_01: 20:08

No oh wow, got another no comment. Sam is very elusive this month. Um yeah, so I know it once you said the TV show, because at first it struck me how short it was, and then I was like, oh, maybe they wrote it for the show. Like it was something kind of like, hey, we need something like this, but but maybe not. Um anyway, I I mean I like the song. I kind of just wish there was another like minute and a half of it and see where it goes from there. But yeah, that was uh no good pick. Andrew Bird, very talented. And I wasn't familiar with Gavin Brivick, so I'm interested to maybe uh do a little research on him and see what else he has out there.

SPEAKER_02: 20:44

Yeah, for sure. I wasn't either. All right, track number seven, your next pick. It is different kind of love by Young the Giant.

SPEAKER_01: 20:52

Yeah, Young the Giant has some new music. Um, I I really like this one. I think the songwriting is what stood out to me here. I mean, I love the it almost felt to me like the the character was realizing their surroundings aren't meant for them, right? Like it was just sort of this realization that you're looking around at your life in the same way that uh like talking heads doing once in a lifetime, where it's like, what is this beautiful house? What is this beautiful car? You know, in that same way where it's just like they just didn't see themselves belonging. Um and and here it's like it's almost like maybe how their fame has affected the relationships in their life so much that they they've got to kind of fight through it. And the line, give in to the weight, but don't let go, is kind of a lyric I called out just because it, in a sense, it's like you can't immediately change your surroundings, but if you're just fighting it all the time, it's it's not gonna go well. So just kind of this balance of like letting it sit on you, but also just continuing to try to get yourself where you need to go. Um, I don't know. It was just a really well-written song and and just kind of stuck with me.

SPEAKER_02: 21:59

I agree. I love the lyrics here. It also sounds very classic, like uh Young the Giant sound. But yes, I was gonna also call out that line. Um, they you know, the but yeah, I was also gonna call out that line living in a house that's not your home, living on a prayer you used to know, given to the weight, but don't let go, don't let go. Really, really powerful. I love that. Um, also really love the bridge. If you're a longtime listener, you know I'm a sucker for a really good bridge, and this one does not disappoint. I might have to do my own bridge Olympic scores, but I would give this one like an eight out of ten. It's really good.

SPEAKER_01: 22:32

Yeah, it's just nailed the bridge. Nailed the bridge.

SPEAKER_02: 22:35

Nailed the bridge, nailed it. Yeah. Easily that's gonna that's gonna podium you. I'm not sure you will get. Gold with it, but you're gonna be on the podium with this bridge.

SPEAKER_01: 22:46

Bridge rankings. I love that. That could be a good, good social media post, right? Yes, I might rank bridges. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 22:53

Maybe that'll be a mix one day that I do for my birthday mix, like my top 12 bridge bridges.

SPEAKER_01: 22:59

Best bridges, best bridges. Um, all right. So I mentioned earlier we got kind of a trifecta of our old favorites here. We had Bruce, we had the Foo Fighters, and now we've got track eight, You Got to Lose by the Black Keys.

SPEAKER_02: 23:12

Yeah, again, another like Sam bait of me uh instantly picking a song on a new music mix. Um, Black Keys, another album. This is their 14th album. That's another band that is just like cranking out albums.

SPEAKER_01: 23:25

14 studio albums is crazy.

SPEAKER_02: 23:27

It's so many albums, yeah. Like I knew obviously they're a prolific like band. I would not have guessed 14. In my head, it's been like five or six. Um, so it's like double that, which is amazing. But yeah, this is again just going back to what I think is their classic sound. Like their last album, you know, I think uh they got a lot of uh production work with Beck, and it sounded like Beck made a Black Keys album. You know, we talked about that when that came out, yeah. Um, so it's a little different, which is fine. Like it's still it's great when bands experiment. But this is if you like like that classic bluesy, like heavy sound, like you're gonna I think you're gonna love this album based off of what this track is. And Dan um even said, you know, he's quoted here, we weren't making a record, we were just jamming, like this is for us really primal in a moment when all the nerves are raw, just kind of screaming. And I think you get that in this song. Um, this is actually a cover of an Ike Turner song from 1958, but I just think like it sounds so good and so bluesy and like so like rocky um that I'm really looking forward to the rest of this album because it sounds like they were just like just producing music for the love of music and getting their emotions out. And I think that sometimes that those songs from bands or from artists are just so raw, like you feel it in their instruments, it's really powerful. So I'm I'm eager to listen to the rest of it.

SPEAKER_01: 24:42

Um, I love the sound of this one, right? The blues sound of it, like it was just like, man, this is this is fantastic. Um and then also love the sentiment, right? It's like winning is not the same without a loss every time, right? Whether you're you know, whether it comes to sports or just in life, right? Like like the losses here and there are what make the wins feel so good. So love that sentiment as well. But yeah, really excited if the rest of the album is like this. I'm I'm definitely gonna get into that when it comes out.

SPEAKER_02: 25:12

Absolutely. All right, another hard hitter this time in the hip-hop world. This is 26 by J. Cole.

SPEAKER_01: 25:19

Yeah, his new album is called The Fall Off, and uh I just felt like the energy on this track is amazing. Like he's he's an amazing rapper. We've had him on, we've put him on mixes before. Um, I love when he kind of whispers lyrics and then picks it back up. That's always fun. Uh, I realized I found out 2-6 is a reference to his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. And um, and yeah, I mean this song, I mean, lyrically, it's it's pretty triumphant. He's kind of going after some guys, but he's also talking about his own story and kind of where he came from, and obviously a lot of references to his hometown and things there. And um, I don't know, it's just an awesome track. So really excited about New Jay Cole coming out.

SPEAKER_02: 25:59

Yeah, me too. I I love listening to him rap. I love his lyric writing. Um, there's a line here which I'm gonna clean up, but it's uh he says, like cheerleaders, I'm stepping on these blank skillfully, and I just really love that again. It's just like such great imagery, right? Like you immediately know like cheerleaders are really good at like creating pyramids and doing all kinds of insane stuff on top of one another. And so I just really like how he just brings that in so effortlessly. Um, and it's great. But yeah, this is a really strong track from him, and I'm also eager for this album.

SPEAKER_01: 26:29

And who knew he was such a big fan of competitive cheer?

unknown: 26:37

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02: 26:38

That's you know, it's nice to learn things about people, new things about people.

SPEAKER_01: 26:42

I know, yeah. Um, all right, track 10. You've got Always Everywhere by Charlie XCX.

SPEAKER_02: 26:50

Yeah. Um, so this is the specifically the soundtrack for a new movie, Withering Heights, um, which is not an original story, just as a fun fact. Yes. Yes, it's not. It's a little old book by the same title by one of the Bronte sisters. I want to say like an audiobook?

SPEAKER_00: 27:16

Or what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02: 27:19

It's it's paper. It's like it holds open. It was written at a time when that was the only way that you could. I don't think that's gonna catch on.

SPEAKER_03: 27:26

Anyway, back to the song.

SPEAKER_02: 27:27

Yeah, back to the song. Um Goodness, Weathering Heights. I read that my senior year in high school, and I did not like the book then. But then as I grew older and I remembered it, I was like, I think I liked that book, and I'm I'm tempted to reread it um and see see how it goes.

SPEAKER_01: 27:45

That's interesting because I've never read it, but then I saw this coming out, and I was like, I feel like that's a book I should have read at some point. Yeah, yeah. There's a number of books like that that I feel like I should go back and read.

SPEAKER_02: 27:56

But no, there's definitely a long list for me too, where I'm I just skipped it. Anyway, the song though, the song is really good. Um, you know, Charlie XCX is again, we've talked about her a lot. Like, she's so freaking talented, but you know, as a pop artist, but also just as a musician and as a singer, and her voice is spectacular. Like she's just raw with talent. Um, and so I love listening to her sing. I love listening to her create like emotional songs. This is definitely more of like an emotional song, and love like the viola and the orchestral elements of this song, which is very different from her very like EDM pop heavy like sound. So she works really well. She's done the basically the score, more or less, like the entire soundtrack for this movie. Um, and I think it works really well. So it's awesome to hear that.

SPEAKER_01: 28:38

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I think she did do like the whole soundtrack to that, which is really, really pretty cool. You don't see that too often from artists, but I think it always um is pretty fun because instead of just inserting a single song, they really get into kind of everything. Um so so yeah, I'm all for that kind of stuff. And um, and yeah, I I like this song. I thought it was, you know, what I immediately thought in my head this is gonna get remixed like 50 times over because there's definitely some moments where it kind of builds up and it could kind of hit a tipping point into sort of a more dancy number, but it never really goes there. She kind of holds back and probably has to do with the fact that Wuthering Heights is set like I don't know in the 1600s or something like that.

SPEAKER_02: 29:21

I can't remember. It's yeah, it's something old. It's something so old.

SPEAKER_01: 29:24

It's super old to where dance music may not be totally apt, but um no, I I really liked it. And then the messaging where it's like you really feel this relationship where it's like this person is uh so enmeshed in their life and and hits that title always everywhere. Like it's it's this person's everything all the time for this this other person. Um, you know, could be good, could be bad, you know. I guess I'll have to see the movie, but um yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 29:52

Or read the book, Matt. You know, like I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 29:55

We'll just Sam, we just talk about how little time we have to read, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 30:02

If you just got off your phone, Matt, and picked up a book. My goodness. All right, let's take this home. Uh, your last pick, track 11, I Used to Go to This Bar by Joyce Manor.

SPEAKER_01: 30:18

Yeah, so this is a band um I just personally discovered, but then I also personally discovered this is their seventh studio album. Um they've been a their American punk rock band. They've been around since 2008. This is their first album, though, with a single that charted, right? So it feels like they're having maybe a moment here finally. Um, but I just love this song because it just kind of describes that time where, you know, but probably it late college or early 20s, where you just kind of hang out at the same place and you do a certain group of people, and all those people have moved on with their lives, and they've got careers and and kids and whatever now. Um, and so it was just kind of a fun song, just sort of remembering back. And um, I listened to their whole new album, and it's it's all really good. And so I'm excited that there's like six other albums to get into. But um, yeah, I mean, so exciting personal discovery. Apologies to all the Joyce Manor fans out there who are who are laughing at me right now. But hey, better late than never.

SPEAKER_02: 31:19

Yeah, better late than never. Exactly. We always say, um, you know, there's no shame in discovering bands or groups late. Uh, that's why we do our introduction mixes to get you up to speed if you feel like you've missed out. So um, I was not familiar with them, but I really like the song, you know, I wrote here is like just kind of a classic alt-rock song. Um, it almost reminded me of Blink from their Take Off Your Pants and Jacket album, like very kind of similar vibe to that, um, which is which is really cool because that's one of my favorite albums really of all time. So um I like the song, and yeah, I I definitely like that kind of reminiscing. And I think you know, we can all look back and even if it wasn't a bar, there was probably like some hangout place that you will later go by and point out and be like, oh wow, like that's where I used to go and uh think about that. So I like that a lot.

SPEAKER_01: 32:05

All right, let's bring it home. Track 12, your pick, it is votive by the new pornographers.

SPEAKER_02: 32:11

Yeah, the new pornographers is like another group that um has also just consistently cranked out new music all through these years, and I always kind of they're in that group where I for I remember them and then I forget they exist and then I remember them again. Um and I'm always happy whenever I remember them again. Um, so this is a new track from them. I really just love they just have like a kind of a very unique sound. Um, you know, I like the lines here, my hands are cupped around a match. I'm just trying to keep the lights on. And I think that uh I certainly, you know, going through now a still I would call newborn, even though he's a little bit older now. There's just moments where you're like, I'm just trying to keep the lights on, you know, like you're just you're so defeated physically and emotionally. And you're like, my hands are just cupped around this match. I'm just trying to keep the lights on. So I think uh I think that's what really spoke to me about this track.

SPEAKER_01: 33:06

That uh I wrote down that line too. I just think it's such a great visual, keeping your hands cupped around a match, you know. Um I also like the line: if you wanted quick results, then I think you should have been a surgeon, right? Like something where it's like you can't just jump in and cut this thing out. It's like you got to work through whatever it is. Um, I also thought it was kind of a neat little bookend. If you had played just your six songs and you opened with the Moby track, I feel like this one was kind of a spiritual cousin to that one. Although this one picks up a little bit more than that that track does. That one stays low the whole time, whereas this one kind of upped the energy a little bit. Um, but I thought it was uh I thought it was great, really well done.

SPEAKER_02: 33:48

Nice, awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 33:50

All right, there you have it. Another super awesome mix for your collection. This time, new music for the month of February. Like we said, we've got some more heavy hitters with new music coming out this year. So excited about all the new music mixes up ahead. Um, hey, reach out and tell us about new new music you're finding at super awesome mix on Instagram and Threads and of course YouTube. Uh hey, we're pushing to become the number one podcast in the music category this year as we head towards episode 200, mix number 200 in in around September. Um, so keep that up, keep sharing the show, get us a review if you haven't done that yet. And Sam and I will get to work on our next mixes. So, for Sam, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.