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Music Mini Mondays. Hi, it's Music Mini Mondays here on Raw Impressions. With Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow. Yeah.
Welcome back if you came before or if you're just new here and you don't know how you got here. So, I'm not sure you know. Well, I don't know what to tell you, but thanks for showing up. This is number.
You could be very lost and you just got off track and you were going for a nice hike in it. Well, you come to the right place. You're right in the right place though. Because I am on a streak this week.
I discovered my greatest talent this week as a musician. You did. There's a light kind of shown on you. I think I found my path.
What's your path here? My path is faithfully recreating baby doll commercials from the 1970s and especially for you. I made it an extra one. There's two in the episode four, but I made one for you.
Oh. I did because you're a child of the 80s. I'm a child of the 70s, so I made two dolls. My commercials are for Robert D'Abdali and Baby Alive.
But for you, I knew what you pined for desperately. I did. I mean, you were born when Baby Alive happened. You were Baby Alive.
I was born in 77, but yeah. You came up with a little kid in the 80s. Yeah, take a guess what toy that is. When I was a little girl, there was something I really wanted for Christmas.
And I would lay in bed at night and I would talk to Santa. And I would say, please, please, please, please, please, please bring me a cabbage patch doll under the tree this year. I really, really need to have my own, my very own cabbage patch doll. And guess what?
Santa delivered. Really? Yeah, I don't think I got it right away. I do remember feeling like there was one year where I'm like, it didn't come and Santa didn't hear me.
So this one offered two years. This was like a long term. Yeah, this was not a fleeting thing that I was interested in one day and gone the next. No, no, no, no.
My love for the cabbage patch was enduring. And I held onto it that desire to have my own. Did you ever want something like a one-up match? You want something like a one-up particular toy and then your parents get you the knock-off.
Oh, well, that happened to me. That happened to me with jeans in sixth grade. I desperately wanted guest jeans, you know, the little triangle on the back. So important to a child in sixth grade in the 80s.
And my dad, sorry, dad, but this is true. And you know, and it's not his fault because we couldn't afford the guest jeans. He got me palmetto. Can I hear the, oh, I know that someone else out there must really relate to that story.
I really wanted a GI Joe and I got a big gym. What's a big gym? Oh, you press a button on his back and he chops wood. That's definitely not my parents.
I think my parents actually were a little bit ahead of the curve because they were like, they didn't want to go for the whole full-on military thing with me. But my next door neighbor had one, so. My brothers had GI Joe's. Yeah, your brothers had.
Your brothers were hooked up. I've seen that toy closet. Your parents have actually kept it up quite well. My parents did an amazing job of keeping our toys from our childhood.
A lot of them. Because I made a special bonus baby doll commercial. For me? For me?
Oh, yeah. I've been toiling away at it. I was, as you know, the other night I was going kind of deep into the night working on it. Yeah.
So you're convincing in five notes. There's a special kind of love that you can match by naming the cabbage patch. Go, make a special kind of love. Meet Sara on.
I'll just have that with her. Shh. Welcome to the family, Sara Ann. Cabbage Patch Kids are each different as can be.
Cabbage Patch, a special kind of love. Cabbage Patch Kids come with a person to make an application for an option for each show separately. Oh my God. This is, Izzy came into the room.
I'm sorry. As I was finishing it. I know. I should tell you to stop.
I know it's late. I'm stopping. I'm stopping. Oh, yeah.
Izzy and I were trying to get Izzy to bed. And you were toiling away. Truly toiling away at this time. I was on the tear.
We were a cabbage patch tear. It's true. I did baby alive. I did rub it up dolly.
I mean, those were intensive cassette for track work. Well, it's because you found your true calling, your gifts recreating baby doll commercials, and possibly better commercial. I don't know. The commercial world is your oyster.
I'm ready for the smash up derby theme song. I'm ready for it. I would love to hear this as well. Hey, you know what?
I would also love to hear some recreations of some of my favorite childhood TV shows, theme songs, theme songs. theme songs. I love them. Well, because you know how one of my all time favorite theme songs is from.
It was from the Unknown Stunt Man. The Lean Major's song. I love the Unknown Stunt Man song so much. He's saying it.
Anyway, thank you so much for that Cabbage Patch doll song. That was fantastic. So, you know everyone, I am actually holding one of my Cabbage Patch dolls that Santa did deliver to me. And oh, she's such a love.
There's actually two of you. I have two. You have two. You have two.
You got another one. These are both my little Cabbage Patch dolls. And now Izzy has them. But they're my original ones from when I was little.
And one is like a baby, like a bald baby. And then the other one is more like a little kid. Right? Yeah.
And she has yarn hair that's super cute. And God, I love that yarn hair. The yarn hair is a little fabric body. Can I tell you something?
Really? You don't love the yarn hair? Because if you move it, you see huge bald spots. So it only is if the hair only grew in certain places and most of it is bald.
Mostly bald. Yeah. It's the yarn is sprouting from the top of her head. It's true.
It's placed. It's kind of like she has a mohawk. Actually, it's kind of a, it's sort of an alt. It's kind of a cool alternative.
Yeah, it's right. It's an alt lifestyle haircut. Alt lifestyle. That lifestyle.
I don't know what that is. But I mean, it's um. You know, people like when people shave their heads, but then there's hair that goes over the top of it. What is the alt lifestyle part of it?
I heard of people. Oh, well, God, you know who had cool. People with piercings. Well, yeah.
And when I was in junior high, there was this guy who was a skater that I had this huge crush on that he had one whole side of his head shaved and then kind of like a weird long kind of floppy mohawk on one side. So I guess it was sort of an alternative hairstyle. Exactly. Partial hair, but it looked really cool.
And I just thought he was so rad. I was like, man, look at him. He just, he's wearing that. He's, he's chose to do that.
And he looked unapologetic and cool. And I think that really stood out to me because I really was attracted to people who were so confident during those years when you feel many people, such as myself, can feel not so confident and insecure about their love. I was very, I wanted to blend in. Yeah.
Even in the height of my, you know, I was very into punk rock, very, very into new wave and punk rock and surrounded myself with that stuff. But I wanted to look completely, I wanted to be invisible in school. So I did not do anything radical with my hair. When I met James Askis, who we began a band called Deep Wound, he actually would take a pair of, you know, tremors and just cut pieces out of his hair.
I mean, he was like, some bouncing in five notes. Oh, this is, oh, okay. You'll hear it. I waited too long to have you.
I am the back of me. I achieved it so long. I wonder how you keep track of me. You can never be strong.
You can only be free. And I never asked for the truth, but you owe that to me. I entered the game on bricks with knives in the back of me. Can't call you for all.
No more when attacking me. I climb up on the house. We don't water the trees. And when you come calling it up, I put on my disease.
I climb up on the house. We don't water the trees. And when you come calling it up, I put on my disease. You can never be strong.
You can only be free. And I never asked for the truth, but you owe that to me. I never asked for the truth, but you owe that to me. I did that 10 minutes ago.
It sounds like it was from the 1980s. Mmm, because of the way you recorded it? Yeah, I recorded it 10 minutes ago on my foretruck. Legend has it that I use the exact same foretruck, but I use the same model foretruck that guided by voices used on some of their most famous recordings, including Game of Pricks.
Which is a song you just heard, Lou, do a cover of. I tried, we began episode four with me doing a disastrous attempt on it. So I thought that, just for the sake of completion, that I needed to perform it for this one. You found your range.
Yeah, I found it. I like it. That was nice. I enjoyed that cover.
Cool. Thank you. That was very nice. Yeah, I tried it.
I was just going to whip out the guitar and do it here live for you, but there's actually something so unforgiving about digital recording. Mmm. And my voice, I spent all day yesterday singing again. I was not kind to my voice yesterday.
Yeah, yesterday you were working on folk and floshing stuff, right? Yeah, I sang for a really long time, and probably strained my voice quite a bit yesterday. So I thought it would be cool to record it onto a cassette, Game of Pricks onto a cassette foretruck because it's a very forgiving medium. Well, good job then.
You knew what you needed to do. Did it feel soft? It felt hazy in a good way. Hazy.
Yeah. That's what that's the thing about this. I would call it hazy. I listened to Alien Lanes yesterday while I was in my studio, and I've been working on making some little knitted swatch ornaments for the Barlow Family General Store.
The Barlow Family General Store. Get away from me. And as I work in my studio, I really like to pick music to listen to. It has to match my mood.
And I thought, well, since we've been talking so much about Guided by Voices, maybe I'll listen to Alien Lanes again. And that's a great record. It really stands up. It does.
So kudos to them. Yeah, actually I have to say that playing shows with them kind of reignited my interest in the band. And actually I like the more now than I did back then. Cool.
I feel like I really understand them now. It's interesting. Anyway, music mini, Monday. Yeah, so, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Guided by Voices, and Lou is ready to sing all the commercials everybody.
Enjoy your Monday. Mondays, music mini episode.