uh... but it was so the violence and great episode one twenty seven the armadillo class episode joining the show this week is that about crow that about crow is the brainchild of mitch stuart that about crow was found in twenty eighteen and has had quite a uh... quite a few line changes starting as duo and then a four-piece and i think a five-piece for a while and then back down to uh... solo project and now expanding out again into a full band the band has a full album out which they put out a couple years ago and recently started releasing a series of singles is not technically an album but uh...
for the purposes of this podcast we're gonna talk about that collection of singles here's the first one now from back on uh... still good enough always better in my mother said it what it feels like someone's dying jack the polls for a hard listen like a snake take it out that's that's the heaviest one on the album uh... as far as like the meaning behind it where it came from stuff uh... so two thirty two i wrote it at the beginning of twenty twenty it was it was in january i think it was a day after a year uh...
so i i full-time job is in mental health and uh... there was a uh... a resident that i worked with pretty closely and uh... they had come back from the hospital and it was alright and that person in the room like uh...
i was one of the people that that got to to the person's room trying to resuscitate them and i was able to and so uh... i after i got myself back together after a few weeks or couple months or something uh... i went in and and wrote two thirty two just in memorial to that person you know it's it's not in any way they might take on their life but more or less the struggle to be someone for other people and what that can do to a person and that the most important thing you know in the end is is kind of what we all are reaching for which is connection and love uh... acceptance yes that was that was the catalyst for that song what's the place of writing the song kind of in the uh...
recovery from that situation like what did it what did it do for me is for your government situation yeah yeah like where would that be you know just in the span of like that is that part of the grieving of it part of the uh... processing you know all of it and like do that did that start right away where you're thinking okay this is you know like you're sitting down you're playing your guitar and that just comes out because that's heavy on your mind or you thinking i'm gonna write something you know take something from this positive so i'm going to sit down try to write something about you know what's that thinking there that that time frame for me is really blurry it that'll hit me really hard and and just knock the win out of me um i i think it was maybe yeah maybe like a month or so afterwards you know i i ended up going to therapy myself to to deal with the the trauma just from the whole event and and and i i know i knew for me you know writing is is my catharsis and it's the way i i deal with most of my my feelings and emotions and so i wanted to to commemorate that that moment in a weird way not the weird word to use but but it was a it was a life-changing moment for me and so i you know i think it kind of came out like anything else does when when i write you know it it was just a feeling that i had and what i was going through and wanting to express some sort of grief from from that event um uh who's playing that is uh jockey um he is a um a friend that he plays um he plays violin professionally and on a regular basis um i say he's a friend and i'm blanking on his last name right now that's your best friend from high school yeah i've known the guy for like 30 years i call him a chief close i call him guy yeah i call him hey there he is stuff like that that that that's that's fiddle player um yeah no um he he went to school actually with Paula and um and i met him through her and so he came in and um and laid that down and yeah it really it really brought us on together i the i think like the rhythm and the cadence of the song i didn't want it to i wanted it to stay pretty slow and like steady and i but also wanted that that voice from from the violin to because i mean the violin can be super you know emotionally engaging um and i think it really set the tone for for the song um and uh and it wasn't too much and um yeah i love the way it can be the other is one of those like simple songs that just didn't need a whole lot i think because lyrically it was carrying a lot of weight anyway kind of came out of me dealing with some like codependence um and there's a i think there's a wildness album that that points to like mental health stuff or just like relational stuff um and i think the last the last album was was more spiritual than than that um and and so Bleedu Dry was made dealing just with my own codependence and there's a line in and Bleedu Dry the like the where i took the title from um that that goes um basically you can't did you really write this song no it's not it's Jackie's no um basically like you can't provide everything that i need but i'd like to bleed you dry um and and i think just pointing to the fact that like at least for myself and and in relationships romantic relationships or friendships that i have i i have this tendency to to try and find myself in those in those relationships and i've done a lot of work to get away from that but i lose myself in it and then i find myself expecting the other person to to make me happy to make me feel comforted to bring me joy instead of finding that myself and um and it's like this thing that i can't really get away from um but i i think i've gotten a little better at it um for the years but that song also um i feel like it's like a um a bit more of like a grown-up song you know you know in a few words like it it's got like um it's got like a waltz to it and um and just i i found myself getting impatient when i'm like trying to sit back and just let this on go um and you know and and nowadays like most songs are cut down to like three and a half four minutes and i think that song is like six minutes long or something like that and it shouldn't be that big of a deal but it's like um i think there was like a lot of space left in that song um there's a there's space for for the lyrics and and instruments and um and it just felt more like put together when it all came together felt like something different than what we had done before i mean there's a lot of songs on this that i'm releasing that that are a lot different than what i've done before but that one in particular felt more adult i guess in a way if that makes sense it really yeah really it does it really felt like the um like there was a patience to it which you're kind of alluding to and um there was space in between uh you know the instrumentation the singing you know everything uh just to kind of think about what was what was just said or what was just done yeah what was just for versus a whole bunch of like i can't i can't pause too much here um you know if i if i don't have words there has to be a hook or there has to be guitar solo or something that but it's more like you're saying adult because it gives you a chance to think about wait that thing you just said i don't have to i have a second to think about you know that um you know that phrase or you know what that meaning there yeah yeah right yeah i mean and that's that's also the only song on the album that eludes it all to like the pandemic um that that we're still in um in some ways it uh the the line um about you know basically they're being this like viral disease and we can't go anywhere but it doesn't mean that we have to just stay put and deal with it um and that was that was intentionally but there because i mean i didn't i didn't want to spend my 20 or 20 writing songs about the pandemic which would have been easy to do right i just rather focus on like how attached i am to other people i guess yeah i noticed you know i i really did notice a lot of um you know a lot of pandemic albums a lot you know it was like and people would like say it's my my pandemic album like quarantine album you know and it's usually just someone in their acoustic guitar or something and you start off and that was kind of interesting but like by the time no vember and december rolled around and you're hearing a lot of those yeah you know it's hard to say yeah you know something new about that um yeah and then uh they tried to take over the government and everything changed you know so that kind of change you know right we needed something to change itself yeah right yeah yeah a lot of those albums were very good high quality stuff by the way just in case you know yeah yeah absolutely i mean everybody was just trying to to figure out yeah something to do and some sort of platform to say something i mean i when when 2020 started you know i went through that with the suicide and then before covid actually hit um i guess i i just hit and we played one last show and and i like i was feeling burnt out and and on top of going through what i went through and so i actually like put a stop to playing music before covid you know shut everything down um i wasn't i wasn't sure that i don't want to keep playing um i think they're you know i i enjoyed playing with everybody that we had in the band um but there were there was just something that that didn't feel like me and and i think i like rushed to put a band together and didn't consider what i wanted and what i was like happy with or not happy with and until you know and then when covid started kind of like appearing and we all kind of knew that we were probably not gonna be able to play shows anymore you know i i was like i think this is my like out in a way um you know to to stop because there's always that like guilt or like shame or fear that like if you stop playing then you're just gonna miss out on all this stuff and like you know am i even gonna like continue to play music and my own put stuff out am i gonna do shows anymore um and and i think i need i needed that space in that time to to figure out exactly what it was that i wanted as opposed to the direction that things were kind of being driven in you know um there was there were things i wasn't happy about but like when you're on that train it's hard to stop when you got shows booked every weekend for like months in advance it's hard to pull the plug and be like you know a mal because then you're just fucking a lot of people over yeah yeah so and it's hard to say it's hard to quit with something booked uh and then like feel like get motivated to do that thing you know so you're in that cycle where you know you don't want to tell people i don't want to do this anymore but also you don't want to do anymore but you are you have these obligations um so yeah kind of a i noticed that a lot of bands broke up during the uh during the shutdown and i think that's part of yeah i think that's why i think a lot of them were kind of that would have happened anyway but it maybe would have been messier so a lot of people took that as an opportunity to say hey we're not doing anything now anyway so let's just go out and and and right yeah yeah yeah that's very true that one is um one of my like my first attempt just creating a story that had no like emotional attachment to um or like a setting but i have no emotional attachment to um i i wanted to write something that had a lot of like imagery and there's a lot of color a lot of description um paying a picture of you know being outside in a meadow or being in a room with a ghost um and and that's that's pretty much where that came from them but i think that also was my first like moment putting these songs together because i didn't know what i was gonna do with them but i knew that i and i didn't know if i was even playing live shows anymore but i knew that i wanted to do something different if i was gonna play and put something else together and so blue was the first electric song that i sat down and dude it'd been like since i was a teenager that i had even held an electric guitar and so you know i but i wanted that like driving rhythm that's in that song and um i don't know it all just kind of came together the weird thing with this i'm not calling it out because i'm releasing them in singles um so but this with this group of songs i so i wrote everything and created the melodies for everything and then i sent them to other musicians and i didn't hear most of what was gonna be done until we got into the studio um it was more of me just wanting to like throw stuff at some musicians that i trusted and see what came out of it because i really had no specific direction i just knew that i wanted something different and um and blue kind of brought back in that like that violin lead um and in a way that was much bigger than i was actually expecting it to be um that that violin really is the the part that's holding that whole song down um as far as like keeping you engaged and um and so yeah the only thing that i went into like writing the song was um the um the widows walk which is mentioned in the lyrics as well um and i just had that image in my head and kind of worked backwards from there um yeah so i really like the saxophone in this it has a saxophone right no no what is that what are you talking about wait a minute am i on the wrong side is it a violin then i'm yeah i don't i don't have saxophone in any of this but what i was like i'm gonna listen to it again hold on right there i mean that sounds fun i think they might have put it on afterward you don't realize it oh is that what yeah i was listening to a little bit over quick oh yeah that's definitely a violin what did i think that's a saxophone i need new speaker i have like 14 saxophone questions now it was just ruined the whole interview yeah i had to okay so i had to adapt these saxophone questions to the violin what kind of read did they use in the violin it's not was it a bun dude yeah i mean let's just talk about it as if it's there right yeah i mean there's time to change his x player on the yeah he was on the corner and uh and actual and i was like dude do you want to play it on the song absolutely yeah yeah i was gonna and also i was making a saxophone i was mad that you didn't ask me so no no no i didn't know that but now that i do oh yeah we should start over because i'll have a better attitude yeah i won't be such a jerk now right yes but anyway so the violin is and great it sounds like a saxophone this probably might this might be my first or second favorite song that you did i like the um now i'm questioning myself i like the dynamics of it you know the how it grew uh yeah progress that was that's really interesting and you talked about how yeah you sent um you sent these these songs out to other musicians how much of the arrangement did uh did you like so it's like it sounds like you didn't give them much direction so you get into the studio and how close is the final product of what you think about when you're writing the song or when you go into the studio how much does it change from you know beginning to end there i i tried to i tried to leave everything open to interpretation as much as i could for for the guys that came in and played um but i think the the only framework that i really gave them was that i just especially with blue was creating creating that emotion um and kind of this haunting vibe to the song um and i i think i tried yeah like i tried to keep my expectations low for them given me something that like i was exactly what i was i was thinking in my my head but they were pretty spot on i mean um jackie's violin part on on that on that song is pretty incredible and um and and then um wilson billingsley um he's playing lead on there um you know and he played to the song you know he didn't try to overpower the violin or come in with something he he has a voice in there with his lead parts it's it's not much but it's enough to add a lot to the song and i really appreciated that as well um and the drummer is a guy named cambal dean um and you know i told him i want when we he and i actually did practice a little bit together before we went into the studio um and um and he came up with that he just followed that driving rhythm and i i wanted him to keep it there just to hold this tension throughout the song we debated back and forth a little bit about changing it up but in the end i i i was like i i like it like i wanted to allow the other instruments to break that tension um which which i did uh where was this recorded this was and um at giraffe studio and hannah shibil andy bishop oh yeah um he he produced the uh the first album um and i love andy he's a great guy and he's really great to collaborate with he's got good ideas and really pushes everybody that comes in you know to he's he's he's upfront and honest about what he hears and if something's off um i trust his ear or if he has ideas for things we'll try it um but he's a solid guy and he's been doing it for a long time and um he actually played bass on this whole on all these songs any of the songs that is based on it he laid down the bass track more from mitch stuart from vagabon crow in just a few moments don't forget to go and follow vagabon crow on facebook and instagram also at vagabon crow dot bandcamp dot com and we'll have other links in the show notes including to the spotify and apple music pages or you can go just search vagabon crow on google i don't think you're going to get it confused with a whole lot of other stuff hey guys this is kendra and this is that from the brown mountain lightning bugs and this is waves from our new album folkish which you can find online you can stream it you can download it or you can buy physical copies from our website which is brownmountainlightningbugs.com we also have some 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not a metaphor then it's it's not a metaphor i wish it was it's not i mean it could be it could be whatever you want right it's the listener that interprets the song um but uh i um yeah i mean i wrote that i wrote that for paula um and you know that was just kind of the it was it was also a reflection of just my tendency to to like want to run or pull away from from things you know i and and um having somebody whether a relationship lasts or not having somebody that in the moment you can you can lean on um it's really important and she was that for me and so yeah i mean the um the the flow of the song um with the melody was uh something that i i don't know the inspiration from it came from before it came from a few different things and um i wanted to mess around with the harmonica which i never done before um and i also like the harmonies and stuff that are in the song are probably my favorite on the whole the whole mix of songs that we're putting out yeah they're on it's it's a you know folky little soulful song and the organ that we we decided to throw that in there because i wanted to uh just have something rounding everything out and we had never messed around with an organ before so that was really cool and and i thought that it was on to yeah like the harmonica you said um you know you had played the harmonica before or no i've played it but never like i never played it live or recorded whether or anything do you plan on um taking this album like with the full band no i i have um over the past months i've put a whole other band together so it's just me from the you know original duo vagabond and but i'm i'm holding that that title and um i've got a couple of guys out of spartanburg and um a guy out of the actual area and they um every side of them i found them through a few musician friends of mine and um yeah it's all coming together really well they they're they're really solid guys um and i'm really excited about it because i feel like this time around it's like i know more of what i want after having like more over a year away from everything and um and so i'm i'm giving them you know all the new stuff we're looking at the old stuff and revamping some of it um because i think i'm wanting to get away from just like acoustic folky stuff like i think that that will that will still be there um but it's going to be different and um and i'm moving towards some more electric stuff and i don't know i get i get bored doing the same thing over and over again so like the ability to change it up and mix it up is really nice um no alittle um he's playing lead guitar and he plays violin and the keys as well so having him kind of allows me to change the sound up from time to time and do different things you know i'm not just with a lead guitarist bass player and drums um you know i've got i've got a mixture of of things um so yeah we're gonna go out and you know the new stuff will pretty much be what you hear on the album or what you hear from the new songs um but the older stuff i think i think a lot of it's probably gonna change um and uh and we might even go back in and re-record some of the other stuff depending on how it goes one thing i noticed um about the the album uh and hear me out all right it's not a it's not a insult but um but this is a comment to the songwriting is that there wasn't um as far as the arrangement the instruments i mean the instruments were like you know acoustic guitar bass drums harmonica violin electric guitar you know and they all sort of had the same you know you weren't having a bunch of different guitar effects you know not strings were there any keys uh it might have been some keys on a couple songs uh maybe yeah but um but basically i mean the the instrumentation a lot of times sounded the same but uh never did i think the songs sounded the same you know so even though you're kind of using the same instrumentation the songwriting was so strong that you're not you know and that's what a lot of people fall back on is these two songs sound the same most make one acoustic one electric you know or let's make some fuzz on this or bring some strings in or something like that but uh yeah even though it had you know it has a cohesion between the instrumentation but then that lets the songwriting you know kind of branch out to different different things because like um on a room for two which we'll talk about in a minute uh that kind of had the same instrumentation as you know like the softer songs but it was just done a different way because it's a different song yeah right yeah i mean i think that what you're speaking to is a problem that that i that i i one of the reasons why i don't want to play by myself there's like i've i've been told that before um that people find it interesting um which isn't always the best word but um they that that i can have similar chord progressions or similar the instrumentation of the songs can be similar but the songs all sound different um and i don't know what that is i think that in in part it's it's due to me writing songs by myself and it's it's um it's easy when you're doing that to like to get used to the same thing um i i want to play with other people because it um it pushes you like somebody has an idea that is different than mine and it opens up an entire door to to something else um and and so i love that collaboration because because guitar and and coming with melodies like that's i wouldn't say that that's my strong suit like my strong suit is is writing lyrics um and the guitar is kind of a conduit what is a conduit for me to be able to write and then perform um and so having a different mix of people coming in just allows things up and i think i think that's gonna happen more um you're gonna see more of that changing room for two is um was written after a uh an argument that i had with someone someone that uh that i'm close to and um but it's a very contentious relationship it was you don't remember that argument run that we had together that's why it's been a year since we talked um no it's it's an ongoing contentious relationship that i have with somebody and um the the argument was just really shitty and so i went home and and wrote about it and i wasn't sure that i was gonna like release that or really put that out there because you know in my last album and last time we talked and we did interview like as we were talking about i was like man i am really just like laying all of my personal stuff out there and i i kind of i kind of live that way anyway and it's kind of who i am but i also you know i also know that like that isn't necessarily always best for the other people involved that are on the other end of that um and so it's also hard to edit a podcast where you have to go back and take a bunch of stuff yeah yeah yeah so you know i'm just gonna try to make it easier for everybody no um it's but you know i think when you're when you're like you have somebody in your life that you're kind of stuck with and you can't really just cut that person out completely you have to deal with it and deal with their feelings about things that have happened um you know it's it's hard to it's hard to maneuver that and so for me writing room for two was just saying like i um you know i've got enough of my own shit in my head that i deal with on a regular basis i don't need you telling me what you think about me and how shitty of a person you think i am like i get it so um it's it's that's that's where it came from um the because it's such an intense like song for me i wanted it to be heavy and dirty and so we when we went into the studio there's three different guitar parts like three guitars laid over each other um you've got two rhythm guitars laid on top of each other and then you've got the lead part um and i just wanted it to be this heavy and dirty as possible it really wasn't anything right i was thinking like i wonder if people like this like i was like this is this is for me but this is i need to i want to hear it this way i want to feel it this way um and i think releasing that single before anything else which is kind of my way of coming back to things and saying that like this is you know this is this is what i want i thought people will message me and say you know they like the song but it's really hard for them to make the crossover from what i was doing before to that and and you know it's that that heaviness that's in that song that's not all that i'm doing you know there's there's a lot of nuance and dynamics to what to what i'm doing but again that kind of points back to all the same in the beginning that you know back in 2020 i wanted to stop because i feel like i was doing stuff that other people wanted me to do instead of what i wanted um and i like it when people enjoy my music you know but i also i want to like my music i had really like um kind of a post grunge feel to it like if uh like if the avit brothers started grunge band grunge band and we know they were they were an emo like an emo bluegrass band when it first started yeah i got yeah i guess it worked and they're uh i think their first album are one of the first albums called like the fourth piece or something like that they're like screaming over bluegrass music and it's it's incredible i remember that now because i didn't like that that was not my i ran the music and uh i remember seeing them um seeing them live one time and that was yeah that was a little hard to take but i wasn't even into much americana at the time so i wasn't yeah yeah i'll go all that out i mean so maybe that brothers come on this show anytime uh you're huge fans they make it they're big sponsor i think they are yeah secret secret yeah i that song is uh about getting high at an aquarium um and uh and so i went there um with a friend and got really stoned and spent i don't know how many hours um just walking around looking at fish and it was it was like a really incredible experience and like i hadn't had something like that in a while from drugs and um and so i don't know it was like a i feel like a stoner um i guess i am whatever anyway um but like that that was like i went you know went down to the beach went to the aquarium and um and just sat literally sat on the floor staring for a couple hours and and i and i knew that like i like there were other elements to um like other trips that i had taken um and being in the car and you remember like the old um like i don't know if you came in on smr am or both but like art bell yeah you know the art bell show yeah coast of coast of coast of west i'm on it yeah yeah yeah so i grew up listening to that um and that that always stuck with me like how creepy it was being in your car at night driving along and like listening to this weird far out stuff that was being talked about yeah and um and and i the reason that had popped up in my head because i started listening this podcast called lore um and and so he erin makie he like has a lot of those weird odd stories he has that weird cadence and pitch to his voice and stuff um and i've been listening to that recently and um and so i was thinking about all that and um and just like a weirdness from that but also within all of that talking about my codependence again you know not wanting to be alone um you know not wanting to like when you go back home from a trip and like with friends and they go home and you go home and like you feel that weirdness when you like come back to your house like you're all excited for the vacation and now you're just coming back to your normal life and maybe it's great maybe it's not but like um it's uh so that that was mixed in there as well just wanted to go back to that moment um and so so that that was inspiration for for aquarium um and the um the long guitar we we worked on that for a while we worked in the studio trying to find something that fit with that guitar um because i knew that i wanted that song to have like an indie and some sort of indie vibe um you know with the reverb and all that stuff um and i also wanted to be simple and stripped down so that you felt like you're in the room um and so we tried to add violin we tried to add um drums and lead part and nothing nothing worked um nothing felt right and so what we landed on was at the end you know you have the like the three notes from the piano um and like the first hook and then at the end it builds and you have that ambiance sound can i talk about it um and the ambiance sound um it reminds me of like the sound from it reminds me of the sound from War of the Worlds when the aliens land and they make that like wah sound or whatever um and so that was kind of what i went in with and we worked backwards from there i was like indie i want like a wah sound and so then we just mixed we mess around on the MIDI controller and like um and until we came across that and it just it kind of comes out of nowhere and that is a very different song for me to do um but that that song is probably my favorite song on the album just because of like the experiences that inspired that um and it's also it is it's also very different and personal and um yeah yeah i wonder if um how often aquariums aquariums uh are used for that purpose it seems like a great place to just you know drop some acid or take some mushrooms and go to or something like that yeah um yeah and i wonder if that happened with like uh laser light shows where they weren't maybe they weren't built for that and the people who like built them were like oh this would be a cool way to enjoy you know uh what's her name uh uh pink floyd and they're like oh yeah there's like shock that people would take drugs and go to a laser light show but it's now yeah that's exactly what you would do so maybe you know it goes to aquarium yeah if you know if you didn't do drugs you just want to go to a place and aquarium is a perfect place there's like weird fish swimming around you know everything's like real mellow and stuff like that right right yeah i mean i i think it's the perfect place to do it i mean i went in the off season and at night and there was like no one here and i yeah i um they had like a little stingray like um pool where you can like touch the stingrays and stuff and and i just like laid laid on the edge of it and just like felt this team raised for like a long time um but it was uh man i i feel like those moments are so rare now like when you you know you start your life you know you don't like having time to get that stalling and like go and do something is is um rare yeah yeah uh is anybody else you want to mention that appeared on the album that we already talked about um Jackie Barnes that's the violin player oh okay um just say Barnes and i'll edit that back in how do you say his first name not really no Barnes yeah that's so natural oh Barnes yeah Jackie Barnes taking Barnes um so uh yeah him and Wilson Billings Lee, Andy Bishop, Campbell Dean those were the those were the people that came in and played um and yeah man i you know i think it's weird like talking about talking about Paula like you know we went from this duo and and then like doing this kind of on my home even though i have a band like it's more of like it's more like a backing band um so it's more of like me running the show completely and um and it's it's weird performing by yourself like after you've been performing with somebody else for a couple of years um but i'm also i'm also excited about i can do different things you know like when i think when you're when you're singing with someone else it's like a certain sound you know that you're that you have um and you're kind of you're kind of limited in some ways of like what you can't do um if you're building everything around that um and so even vocally like exploring things locally like there's new stuff that i'm writing that that it's not like i'm doing anything crazy different but it i'm allowed more space to like try different stuff and um and so i'm looking forward to that and i also definitely went through a grieving process of like you know not having what we you know what i started with um because it's comfortable being on stage with someone that you know really well and you're like working together all the time okay i want to thank Mitch for being on the pakas Mitch from vagabon crow make sure to catch vagabon crow they're starting to play live again so go to their website or their facebook page to look for those upcoming shows also don't forget to go to the show links for links to their music or go to vagabon crow.vancap.com also we did record a version of the super popular uh guest the lyric game and i'm going to put that at the end of the episode uh because it's kind of long and i want to give our closing song a person a good chance to get their song in before people have too much fun speaking of the closing song the closing song this week comes from katie and the attic katie is an indie folk indie pop singer from angus scotland my hometown plays piana and viola viola right not voila viola yeah as well as a few other instruments she's like the edenborough french festival and the live lockdown show channel z you can find her on instagram and facebook by searching katie and the attic or attic katie or just check these show notes here's katie and the attic have a good week we're now gonna play a game so i'm gonna read these lyrics you have to tell me what song they're from and you're playing tonight for a t-shirt from the ashville's own cow punk band the death box punk band oh i love those guys oh yeah yeah have you seen their t-shirts love those guys yeah i have okay so they got uh they got cool if you win you get to choose between two designs they said just let them know uh okay but these are just gonna be hard the death box actually were the first the only people so far that have won this game and it was three of them so it was kind of cheating now they think about it yeah yeah that's not fair that's not fair all right um so let's see one two three four five six seven there's seven songs you got to get five to win all right all right all right here we go it seems a stress okay i want to thank the contributions uh for these songs of andrew delson matt sellers and christian valentino all past or future guests on the bucket okay so here are the here's first okay all right let me give you about maybe 20 seconds to think of each one okay um at least that's what i'll edit it too uh women think i'm tasty but they're always trying to waste me women think i'm tasty but they're always trying to waste me that is the first line of a very famous song god that sounds so familiar women think i'm tasty but they're always trying to waste me shit give you about 10 seconds wink take longer i'll just cut now i have an answer i'm cutting out thinking yeah i don't want to say my answer because it's embarrassing i think that it's a 40 song is no it's worse than that okay we'll go ahead it's worse than that black i'd be oh no um tumbling dice by the rolling stones jesus christ okay yeah all right all right oh four wow one um burning out his fuse up here alone um um john i recommend yeah that's the most common one everybody's got all right you are almost there i mean i do you're right i went five okay five out of seven maybe that's that's a lot wrong i'm almost well this is the third time i've almost just said the name of the song because i'm reading the wrong thing i am my mother's only one that's the first line i'm gonna give you some hints he is a kind of a he's a folk kind of indie folk pop musician uh this he has a real name and a stage name is it hosier no shit i give you one more guess i'm gonna give you another hint this might be given away when he recorded the album so he had mono i know the song i think he had mono he didn't look well i think that was no i don't know i don't know bonnie var and the song is flew god damn it yes i i play that damn song jesus christ yes oh my god what do you think when you play it i don't know apparently i don't know what i'm saying oh my god oh that's my favorite things happened with this whole any of these any of these that's great i'm glad i could do that for you right i'm so glad i could do that yeah oh man i should uh i wish i thought about i would have got one of your songs and just put the lyrics to it and see if you can see there's a great chance i would have not known okay i've forgotten all the time we uh we've been told all along uh love pheromones is it pheromones or chromosomes chromosomes oh my god no it's chromosomes you know that's that's my least favorite song i've ever recorded oh really oh that's like your hit song that's my yeah that's that's my yeah that's my least favorite song okay so you're you're one and two you can't miss another one uh almost at the name of song again uh and little early pearly came by in his curly whirly this is i don't know this is a classic rock song if you listen to 105.1 for more than eight hours you're gonna hear this three times i don't i don't know this song dude please this christ it's a one is it blinded by the light all right i wish i had i don't think it's fair that i didn't have a band with me right like i'm just that is not fair what do the other three just for fun real quick uh the local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb that is you know rock the caspa no okay all your inside's fold of pieces you just sit there wishing you could still make love i don't know that is high and dry by what is your name oh yeah you're you're talking um that sings creepy radio ready yes all right okay now this is the song that inspired this whole thing unsealed on a porch a letter sat then you said i want to leave it again unsealed on the lyrics i have no idea it's a yellow lead better by purl jam purl jam okay is that a you know it's a here on a porch turn letter sir i never knew that's what he was saying nobody does um never no so i um i was with a uh a guy couple weekends ago who was just playing that song over and over again on acoustic guitar and um it was not enjoyable um and the rest of them it's like i know these songs but i don't yeah if you would ask me about any like screamo emo band from like the early 2000s i would have nailed every single oh okay i'll do that for the next person that's great that's super helpful to me