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Nerdy Up North Podcast - Top 5 Musics Albums

from Nerdy Up North Podcast · host Paul Watson & Sammie Bryce

This week on Nerdy Up North we tortured ourselves for weeks, trying to narrow down our top 5 Albums.Join an eclectic mix of middle aged nerds, as we discuss musical royalty spanning the ages.We delve deep on a few surprising choices and genres, on music that sculpted us emotionally and physically, into the people we are.This episode Sammie, Paul, Kelly and Grant get in depth discussing our love of T-Rex, Slipknot, Dresden Dolls, Michael Jackson, The Misfits, Alanis Morissette, The Foo Fighters, and a host of others.What are the other 13 choices? You have to watch, just to find out how that leads to fish insertions, wearing curtains, 40 year old school kids, and our wedding days.If you like what you hear, find us here :-https://www.facebook.com/nerdyupnorth/https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL25lcmR5dXBub3J0aC9mZWVkLnhtbA?ep=14https://open.spotify.com/show/2nnuWC9y71xzNjlRF2GEGqhttps://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3e7bda25-c0d2-4c38-b685-4a746e465942/nerdy-up-north?ref=dmffpodnews

This week on Nerdy Up North we tortured ourselves for weeks, trying to narrow down our top 5 Albums.Join an eclectic mix of middle aged nerds, as we discuss musical royalty spanning the ages.We delve deep on a few surprising choices and genres, on music that sculpted us emotionally and physically, into the people we are.This episode Sammie, Paul, Kelly and Grant get in depth discussing our love of T-Rex, Slipknot, Dresden Dolls, Michael Jackson, The Misfits, Alanis Morissette, The Foo Fighters, and a host of others.What are the other 13 choices? You have to watch, just to find out how that leads to fish insertions, wearing curtains, 40 year old school kids, and our wedding days.If you like what you hear, find us here :-https://www.facebook.com/nerdyupnorth/https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL25lcmR5dXBub3J0aC9mZWVkLnhtbA?ep=14https://open.spotify.com/show/2nnuWC9y71xzNjlRF2GEGqhttps://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3e7bda25-c0d2-4c38-b685-4a746e465942/nerdy-up-north?ref=dmffpodnews

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This meeting is being recorded. What the fuck? Hey, everyone, and welcome to one of you episode of Nelly of North Park. It's a Nelly podcast hosted by Northern Earth.

I'm on your host, Sam. And I'm another host, Paul. And we are joined by team post-castes Grant and the lovely Kelly this week. Kelly's doing the best impression of the last one, the Incredibles.

We do like her, man. She's just smiling. Capes are out. No capes for us.

No, we got it. But yes, this week's podcast, we are, I would say, probably drag ourselves crazy a little bit. I'm trying to get work out how this one was going to play it, because I never thought this would be as difficult as it has been. I've chopped in the change.

I'm trying to think, as soon as Grant told us, we couldn't take great steps, I was fucked. I didn't realize that was an option, but it wasn't an option. I've been exactly the same, because I've been listening to what our team is my favorite album is like, right, top five right there. And then I think of another one.

And I was playing in that one, I'm like, oh, fuck, same man. So it's been a hard one, but I have no. I'm ready. I'm ready, Paul.

Yes, I think this one as well, because we are all around about the same age. So it might have a few cross-unaugural grants. I'm going to try and work out my grants. Inspiration is going to go from what I wanted to do as well, just to annoy some a little bit, because I've got this to do.

Like, see, thanks, I want to do this and for the online. I'm just going to try the crazy. It's out of the box now, out of the box. So yes, so sorry.

I just thought that would be good. I think I understand you do it, but why would you show us it? So I just wanted to see the reaction really. That was a fun side.

You want to see me cry? Oh, yes. Oh, gosh. Right.

I'm going to get the just name out the way we can move on, because I'm really interested to hear your grants. I really am. Always single me out. You are such an interested person, Brent.

That's fine. You're not interested in me. She wants to slap you. Interesting means she wants to touch him.

I think it's a fucking compliment. Right. Everything just goes to tonight's episode. Our opinions and our opinions are all on it.

If you want to discuss any topic from tonight episode, please come join us on the Facebook group and we can have an open discussion. What we want to have is anyone come first, tell us our opinions are all on it. We can agree, disagree, and find them. So keep it fun.

Keep it kind. Keep it up to the key of your autism. Oh, but that's... Well done.

And I admit it's fucking warm to me as well. Isn't it? So you're going to see a fat lad sweater, sorry, guys. It's happening.

I'm going to be fucking moneyshopping. Who's gone first? Who's gone first? I'm so excited.

Well, to be fair, you've picked them up so much, so we'll go to have to give them Grenley's first call. Me and Gren. You know what it is, you were talking about how difficult it was. You can lend my family up and ask me to kill five of them and the choice would have been easier to do about five albums.

It's behind nearly out of stroke, trying to narrow this down, because it's just... I'm so music for music, music for mood. You know what I mean? Like my one-hour listen, it changes, depending on whether it's sunny, whether it's raining, whether I'm in a good mood, whether I'm in a bad mood.

So I've kind of gone down the lines more of like... I don't know what the maybe my favourite albums, but they're definitely... Like the albums that have impacted me the most and because I'm so musically drunk, I thought that is probably where me top five is going to lie. I'm going to get one out of the way first because I'm really, really worried that Kelly might have picked this one as well.

I want to make sure that I'm making it up first. Yes. It's now been from 1971. But it was quite a drastic turn compared to the album that had been released before it, which was the fourth studio album that this artist had released.

And the album I've gotten about is Conte Dory, by David Bowie. Ah, Conte Dory. No, please join me. I'm just not that bad.

There you go. I've got no value in mine as well, so I'm going to be interesting. This album was one of the first albums that I got hold up on Bangle when I first started collecting when I was about 14 years old, something like that. And it just absolutely blew me away because it's, to me, a really good definition of emotional simplicity.

Prior to this with a man who sold the world, Bowie was very electrically driven in some parts, especially for the time, obviously, before the days of what he would consider modern heavy metal, so to speak. But he was using a lot of distortion. He was using his voice quite a bit. Obviously, he pushed him and pushed him and pushed him.

His voice has become more and more common, shall we say, having used it as a year of progress. But with Chain, I hope you'd already took a massive swerve. You stop writing on a guitar and start writing on a piano instead and what you ended up with was this beautifully, kind of delicate set of almost rocked lullabies that he came out with that just, like I said, it absolutely blew me away. You know what I mean?

You've got, obviously, the rework and the changes on there, which is probably one of his most favourite songs of all time. You've got like a Mars. Yeah. You've got absolutely stuff.

One that, you know, I'm sure, if you haven't heard, like a Mars 5 day about it, we just... Well, I think... You're getting the baby. But then you've got the old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old one of the most less than all ones as well, it's actually the last track on the album, both of the early brothers, which starts off very delicate, very a lot of piano and what have you but the way that it fades out to suddenly start throwing in all of these weird random vocal effects towards the end of overlapping these voices with a little weird little kind of like, oh we were gone.

We were gone. We were gone. We were gone. The entire album just fades out like that after what is a really, really beautifully put together song.

There's derivation on there but it's weird to me, top five album that I would struggle to get much of a description of because it is just amazing for me. Sometimes you really can't put the words together because it's too overwhelming for you to put into words the emotion that it brings out and only you will understand that. Absolutely. You can take the words right out and be mounted even now some what, 10 years after our first discovery.

No, what was it? 46 years? You're a good question there mate. That's right.

That's right. That's right. Yeah, every time I listen to this album it gives me good songs every song gives me chills for different reasons and different emotions and different kind of thoughts. That brings up I just adore all of it.

Cool. Did you say you've got the tracklist in there as well? I would be interested in seeing the full tracklist in for it. I do so the tracklist and you've got SAG1 because we're talking about it.

I remember SAG1 side too, yeah. You've got changes on there. Then you've got all your pretty things. There's another quite sort of upbeat kind of up-tempo's happy song.

It's a nice balance to it. Eight-line poem and one-line-phone Mars both kind of bring it down a little bit. They're a little bit calmer, a little bit more metal, a little bit more classically put together and kooks and quicksand, to end off that side are both just, they're going to be almost kind of drug-induced acoustic hallucinations that you get out of it. They're just kind of mad songs.

Second side again, nice and upbeat again with you. You've got to fill your heart with love. In the heart. The love today.

Couple of dedication songs because you've got a song called Andy Wall and then a song called A Song for Bob Dylan. Both of which are straight out tributes to the artists. Queen Bitch after that, which is the only electrically driven track on the album. I think it's the only time you hear an electric guitar or at least a conventionally distorted electric guitar on there.

It's got almost a punk kind of feel. You can tell he was rocking a run with you, pop taking loads of acid and getting a little bit of that. And then final track on the album, The Beauty Brothers, is one of the most beautifully put together songs I've ever heard in the entire. I'm probably going to say that a lot because I've got some kind of line that's to throw at you and each one does have one track that just absolutely flosses me with the songwriting capability.

I remember when I said many, many, many, many years ago, we used to sit and drink in the barre pretty much every night of the week. Me, you, Kev Dickinson, Terry and a few others, just to sit and play the jukebox and some of the eclectic and stuff we used to pick out. Things that you walked in because it was never technically a rock barber. It was in a way.

But on some of the songs we heard, like say you would never think like picture, if you look at Grant in the Straight, you would never picture him like in certain things. That's why I was so interested to hear the different tastes that come out. Especially Kelly as well, I think I'm going to get some magic from Kelly as well. But just, if I said these kind of conversations as well, it kind of just takes us back to that time because it was absolutely brilliant.

Like, and anyone who knows Kev Dickinson as well, you know what a very musical choice and tasty heart. So anything from right set Fred to like say, Alison, she introduced me, I put on the jukebox and stuff. It was always hilarious and we had such a blast though. It was always one of the best times of me, like I'm not going to lie.

Oh, well, that's so sweet. Can I just apologize in advance for my camera? It's doing me tits in. I will sort it out.

The jumping around is doing me heading. So I apologize for people watching on YouTube. I'm sorry. I think it's pretty cool.

It's like the ring is getting in and you just get for all else. It's also when you're doing a horror war, no, like something intense. Like really as to the atmosphere, but right now it's really doing me head in. No, you get marked next to this one.

Yeah, so great first. I think they're there, so we'll move on to the fabulous and eclectic Kelly. Shall we? Is she there?

Is she here? I'm having a talk about that. I am having a bit of audio issue because sometimes it's like, just like you're doing it right now. Just like that.

And sometimes it does. Sometimes it does. I think that's all right. Okay.

I'll go for my first pick. If you can't hear, let me know. And so, I was always thinking, I otherwise say for the character of the day, to like five albums that, you know, have changed your life. So I found this quite difficult because I didn't want to use any of the ones that I use pre-ness.

And so I raised each of those top five albums that I was in gym almost, or I was like, I can't hear a wee bass, I'm not going to use albums. And for, how do you make a really like a bear? No. Oh, no.

We're going to hear you. We're just going to interrupt because it is breaking up a tiny bit sometimes. Yeah. So we just want to make sure you've got to continue with slow love.

You got though. That's lovely. So the first one, the first one, was brought out in 2003. It was at one point when my favourite band.

And I pretty much modelled myself in nearly a decade on a sweet singer. And album is Fever to Tell By the Yayayas. Oh, wow. Been a while since I've heard them.

Yeah. Oh, yes. I've just not memory so watching music TV when I was there. I used to have a bass sitting job when I was 14.

And I watched the video for the single pin, which is basically golf back at all animation, mechanical, acupunctet, cuddles for the people. And then everyone's peed in a fridge. Absolutely crazy sort of stuff. And it just reached up with me.

I know it's the Yayayas, it's just a New York art punk in front of a urban caranog. It's still on the floor. But like, I can't hear you locked. I can only hear you.

Sweetheart, we're listening to you. No, we're listening to you. It's okay. Don't worry, we can hear you.

So just a fun woman who's just known for an avant-garde dress and on hidden stage and it's one of a part of Etc. It's a little album. She jumped off the stage and sat like a monitor landed on her head. She had to be like, tickled.

That's so wild. Oh, I remember you. Yeah, it was, yeah, fucking bad crap. Like, she had to be watching her.

So yeah. She just called her. She said, check you out, bitch. But I'm trying to talk about a few songs.

Max is possibly the most commercial hits they had from the album. It didn't want to release it as a single. But it was said, oh, give it a go. And it actually trickles the album sales.

They lost out on a Grammy for this album to the Vice-Dryxist album, which is an epic album in itself. It's too close. You know, that's amazing. So it's massive.

They followed it up with a single Y-Control, which was just like totally the other spectrum. It's like Jones and Bill Det, and I didn't believe coming on him had a little bit of a dally on. And this is really disturbing video of these Go-Kris children. He shut his hands off and like, darn, I can't with like, taxes and shit in a Grammy basement.

And it was just like, when it was on MTV or whatever, the book crap was back then. I had to like, blush it out because they found it that disturbing. It was like, what? It was like, what?

But you've got like other songs, came with a night plateau. Just didn't have any paid for all this car master, which was all right, but this was their debut. And it was just absolutely epic. I had the absolute joy to see that it was successful, the car now in Sotyewe, and I was dressed in Chiu-Jiu, trousers covered in dolls' heads.

Do you know what was in 10-5 line case? I think it was a wall. Yeah. Where is it came?

Cos it is. Now we need to see you when it came out, Kelly. Sorry, I've done for next curtain, the key. So we're evolving.

It's the evolution of Kelly. Oh yeah, I mean, I've got to stop swapping the car and on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to turn it to Mr.

Nick. So now I don't think I've gone to see him again. Always go back to it with a female hotel, like on a regular basis, because it just saw more just the raw and just chilli-fangy, jimmy-jimmy-jimmy-jangly art, like a voice. A voice is actually a good reason.

Yeah. So that is my first pick. Very good pick. Very good pick.

So don't worry. If we're going quite, we're just listening to him, what you're saying. So don't worry, Kelly. We're just listening to you, love.

It's all just like, oh my god. I'm just talking to him before, and I know that. I'm definitely not doing that. I'm fine.

I do it every day, don't worry. Move on to the lovely, coolest of the podcasts. Sammy, so you're not going last. We'll let you go next.

Oh, wow. I'm going to get my first one out the way with, and this one out the way with, because I have mentioned it before, possibly when we talked on the charity podcast, and any other time that we talk about music, it'll always come up. It'll always be in my top, or whatever, when it comes to music. It's from 1999, and it's a not-spaced album, because it's amazing.

After like, I'm going to do what Brad and I absolutely love them, and I'm like, a Doran Eyre at the moment. But this first one is the one that really hit home to actually listen to what they were saying, because sometimes it can just come across as noise. And I get it, because it is. But if you actually listen to a chorus saying, it's quite poignant, and it quite hits the spot.

And the first album will always do that, whereas I just remember when I first started getting into heavy music, and he had me music, and he was like, I do not want something on there. I don't want that shit on my tier. Tier, by the way. And he ended up doing what I wanted, and then put it right at the end.

And he put, wait, and he got it at the end, and then he put sick on as well. And I was like, oh. When he hear his voice, when he actually, like, I know, that's not the point in the six of the books. I know when Corey Taylor does his own stuff.

When he hear his voice, he's got an absolutely lovely tone, and like, that's velvet, when he sings. But it's more about the film than how he filmed. But I'm sorry to interrupt you, because you're expecting absolutely wonderfully there's other. But I'm getting shit in the chaff for being nicely in hell.

So Charlotte and Goodwill fuck off. Wow. Yeah. And then I just have this now, he's like, come on.

I'm gonna have this one. Now, let us have this one, dicks. And I have had the pleasure of seeing Slipknot and Corey Taylor separately. And we will, actually, if you want to, we could go and meet him.

I'm gonna go to for the tomorrow, not sure. But honestly, like the list there, I could pick on, like, go and see. But if I had to pay hard money, like hard good money, it would be for Corey, because, and I'd take one of these books, because he's honestly the man. Just, he saves my life every time he does something.

Like, any literature he brings out, anytime he doesn't interview him, anytime he speaks or sings, he just, he saves us. And I love him so much. And so, and I could, honestly, quite easily, could have picked any stone sour, any of actually Corey's, you've found that he's got out at the moment. But Slipknot number one, I'd be doing his offer to service and completely lying to himself.

It is my favorite album of all time. Nothing will stop it. So, good. Yes.

Very good start. So, yes, good will. I do want to see you and Martin wrestling in a buffer K.Y. Jelly, I think it'll be hilarious.

Sorry, that was just mentioned in the chat then. I'm not sure I'm not. That's not a lot. That's a lot of boys.

I'm not sure I like to find it. When I do my initial to K.Y. And I'll show you my drugs, and I'm like, maybe. Maybe.

Well, Jelly. So, Kelly has to be the referee. But yeah, so we're going to get a trip down. Because we have to know, because as I said before, our time is hugely difficult.

Like, because modern music has been made to make some very old school eclectic. But basically, how do you take your top five favorite albums? Because Grant says, it depends on your mood. So, I went for it down memory lane.

So, I started on my first album that I kind of remember listening to. Me as a young lad being obsessed with an album then me teenagers. And then, to me, like, say a little bit of adult years. So, we're going to start off with, again, my first ever LP, which I stole off me mum.

Oh, I thought you were going to say something else there. A store from a shop. Oh, come on. I'm from Ryan, but I'm not that bad, don't worry.

It was a big, that was a big, that's a very scary, very fun. Well, my mum was a huge Beatles fan. So, it wasn't any of the Beatles albums. It was John Lennon's Imagine.

And that album was the first LP I had. And, like, really, like, listen to, I know when you hear music, or when you sit and listen to it. It's such a different experience. And from, like, from start to finish as a kid.

And I remember telling me, when these school teachers are being listened to as well, and she was like, Oh, you have the LP? I was like, oh, yeah. So, she made us bring it in to show them. Me and mum was terrified, because I could say it was an original.

And she just, all she wanted to do was the tape. So, piracy back in the day, and the school teacher, pirate, and I had a lot of people. Just basically put on the record, on a tape deck, like, side one and side two. But the songs on this album as well, like, well, imagine is just, again, listening to the words and stuff.

It's very off the time and very idealistic. But it's just such a lovely corner as well. Like, I love one of your favourite songs in that album as well. Is Jealous Guy.

And just like the tone and everyone goes through that type of emotions as well. And it's like so honest. And I don't think, like, I don't Jon and Gethys credit for all your songwriting and stuff. Like, I put it's so honest this album.

And even if you're not a fan of the Beatles or a fan of, like, the writing style and stuff, it's just, like, listen from start to finish. You could, you could want a journey through the album. And I said, like, the first track is album, Jealous Guy. I don't want to be a soldier.

Oh, I love how it's so hard, crippled inside, give me some truth and how do you sleep in or yorko? I was not all about that one. But, uh... Please be...

Yeah. I can't help but smile. Just because of Chis is back to that time, I mean, when my mum first got the needle down and said, listen to this. And you couldn't even, there wasn't at the time when you could skip tracks as well.

So when you listened to an album, you had to listen to the full album. Yeah, yeah, no choice. Yeah. So that was my first pick.

I know it's not really much as talk about it. Just like, I remember how it made us feel of that time and how special it was. Sometimes it's difficult to put it in the words, how you take music, because it's your experience. You can't portray it to somebody else.

Because they're not, but they're going to have a completely different experience. So these could be kept short and sweet because you just, you're expressing your love for it and just hoping to someone might go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And but me and my friend were talking the other day and saying that, top five albums, top, yeah, I could listen to top five favourite albums on a problem. But if you asked us to do a list of top five albums, you could only ever listen to it for the rest of your life.

That's a kick in the teeth. When we were talking about this earlier on, she was like, that actually gives me anxiety thinking about having to pick only five albums listening to the rest of your life. Because the list would be totally different. The list would be totally different.

Mm-hmm, 100%. So that's my first one. So we are going to go on a bit of journey with mine. So have fun.

I'm trapped in. Let's go. Go. So back to Brent.

Cool. So second one, just going back to what Sami said there quickly, I think that's kind of where I have gone with my five. Is that it is very much like an old school desert island disc. Anything just to me, my top five albums would be the top five albums that I will never ever get to come listening, like not one single track.

Um, Sticklin' with 70s. Paul mentioned a little bit of a glam rock name there before. I'm not choosing how we put it. Oh my gosh, that was a great week.

What do we want? Well, you're a fuck him. I did. I'm you buddy.

I'm coming out so quickly. Well, these influence were right in this track was... Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Beeeeee. And back on it, that's not like going anybody who you wanted to be in.

Is it? No. But I am sticking with glam rock with probably one of the most political glam rock albums that was ever released. I mentioned before I've taken a whole few dollars as like one of the first albums that I bought on vinyl.

This was to the second album by the band in question released in September 1971. Um, with a single track that pretty much everybody is aware of called Get It On. It's Electric Warrior by T-Rex. Yes.

What an album. I bought one. Wow. Much the same kind of vibe that came to me with Aunty Dory is that you've got this beautiful mix of styles and influences and production techniques and even down to kind of the different types of instruments that have been used for the back end, the different effects that Paul and Scott had his voice.

And it takes much sense what Paul said there before it takes you on a journey. This album, you've got these beautiful kind of delicate tracks like Mambo Sun and Cosmic Dancer and Planet Queen and Liza Gas. That are just, it's like floating gently on a river through like, you know, like you get them in the water parks like the lazy river. Oh, and there's a guy there and a tire and a sun shining and birds, such an everything as a piece.

And then every once in a while it'll kick it right off with something like jeep step or monolith or get it on where all the sudden you've got this crunchy little electric guitar going on in the background and everything's bouncing and the temples jumped up by about 30 or 40 p.m. and all of a sudden, who doesn't hear get it on and think? Yes. You want to focus on them right now?

No, I'm not. It is one of the sixes. I hear no agreement with them. And a sandwich.

I'm not. Is she going to pop? I'm not supposed to look at the comic-one diagrams. No, I'm not actually.

I'm quite, I'm the only thing that's hard is because it's absolutely bastard boiling in this room. They're on this planet. It's ridiculous. It's so right on it.

And it's me. I have only started to appreciate them now. It's the same with Fleetwood back. And I really, I'm just like starting to appreciate them now.

I wish I could go back a few years, but hey, you got to ask this time. True. There's no wrong time to find something. It's all the things that we discovered.

It's just like say it's when you enjoy it when you like it. So no shame or no hate about some people like to discover it. Michael Jackson on, like, I had someone I went to, like when I was working with you the last year, trying to run films in the never seen course process. I wanted to punch him in his face.

But still there's no judgment there. Then I have no room to talk when it comes to movies. So I would have just sat back down. Well, you appreciate the love of T-Rex.

Like it really kind of influenced my love less grudges. And stuff had a few wear-brudges with T-Rex arms. So the girl from the building, on your personal beer front. Ballons, another one of those vocalists that had such a, it wasn't even a case of his vocal range.

That was particularly great. I think he's only sitting at about three and a half octaves or something like that, which we want to go into the geekiness regard and vocalist. There's a good few out there that have more vocal range than him, but it's variation and tone from these kind of beautiful delicate feminine sanding and kind of like a feminine word and a feminine phrase, songs on stuff like cosmic dancer and mambo son, where there's almost like a seductive star to kind of draw to the way that he kind of slows the words out and then get it on. There's a bit of grit in there.

Again, we're talking 1971. You didn't have Hannibal Court's run around good. No, you did not. The grit that these guys have, they're still comparatively quite a bit of grit.

And you've been, you have put that anger behind it, but when he didn't want to be angry, much the same as Corey Taylor. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. When he wants to sound beautiful, the man's voice is beautiful.

Yeah. When he wants to sound like a plus-win full of bricks. He can sound like a plus-win full of bricks. Ballon was like a 70s equivalent, if you will.

No, I totally get it. Totally get it. And I think it took Corey a really long time to do that, to show that beautiful side. Because in Iowa, there's like some moments where he sings, and then he just comes back to sound and like he's chewing on bricks.

But Ballon, it's almost, do you want to describe something like Bellovitch? All these voices like Bellovitch? It's kind of like Bellovitch, but with a bit of a rough edge to it. Like I can't describe it because for me, he sounds completely effortless.

It was one of the original, I know what it sounds like, wait, but the original bad boys of music as well. Oh, yeah. He was like a Roman, but a Roman in the right way. It would be a total Roman at the time.

Like the brothers would have hated him. Because he could just imagine the teenagers in the 70s, dress and like him. Who would have been really angry. It was probably all our mothers, put my team back then.

So that was probably something that I was probably surprised with. I wouldn't say a mama. I don't think she was her. Can we talk about your mum?

I'm sorry. I miss this weather. That's good to say. Not my surname.

She was like, and she was like a proper like, had her own motorbike at the age of 16, 17, and listened to her hard rock. So yes, she might not have had it now. Not that sad. All right, so that's fine.

I'll fix it. Don't know what I'm laughing at. We're moving on to Kelly. Yeah.

I know. I know. Oh, I'm going to talk about T-Rex. That's right.

Right. I've kind of just realized that three of my albums in 2003 was to be a good year. So this album is by a band of the fossil service and the album is called Give Up. A lot of people might not be, you know, absolutely hear them.

Oh, well. And listen to them. Oh, my God. They're on, and as ever since I've been with them for 15 years, their songs have haunted me.

I hear them, Kelly. I'm sorry. That's awful. It's awful.

It's very funny. It's awful. I can hear the song now. I'm wondering.

So, so, so, so, so, so, I'll find out why Sam here did. Let's find out why Kelly loves it. Exactly. You can offer a love.

Come on. I remember. I can't believe this. I remember.

I was interested in this band by your friends. I mean, I'm very proud. I'm a real well-losing trash prune bucket there when Chums like, you know. And he's actually moved the guys on the journey of North Group.

He lives in Zealand now. And I invited the group, Phoebe Party, so regularly. And my comment, Dave, who was the one who called us, and he said me an acoustic version of the song. We will become a silhouette.

And I thought it was bloody tremendous. It was heartbreak within the backdrop of a nuclear holocaust. I mean, what's not to like about that? And it's just like, the lyrics are just full of whimsy.

It's just like, it's starts off. I've got to come in with cans of food, filtered water, and pictures of you. And I'm not coming out until this is all over. It's just, it's just all over time.

And like, think, say, a lot happens when you go outside, you'll break in and then like, you'll explore. It's just, it's just great. You know, it's just all like, oh, anything poignant and that. But it's all about explores and humans.

And I would do this since pop of loneliness. I do like my symphony ship. I love the people who have to be boops, because it's very reminiscent of the whole school game boy. I just think I'm going to be...

Can you let someone make up for you, please dress up as art of detail and do that in pressure? It's quite funny. I'm trying to say right now, okay, I'm planning to dress up from my son's son's side-wise birthday party, right? And Adam says, I'm smiling off to the art of detail.

So I need to get some boxes. It's getting a bit, just getting a bit. Oh my God, I can't remember that. All black bins we used to get, they're almost rubbery.

That would have been perfect. Oh, get in the bin, Kelly. I love this album, because I just thought of being with big boots. It's just something that I mean, like, yes, there's some beautiful songs, I would say, district seats alone tonight.

And it's just, was it on sale at the asphalt wonder? And what's very done to me where I am? Just like, so I just, everything pops out of the street, it actually really like underneath the ground. I like, you know, fossilized creatures, or, you know, dead boy on the bat, you're just making a pinky, you know?

Oh, you've all got a song that I actually heard before, covered by iron and wine and tall stereotypes. But it was actually initially done by the hotel service in one of the lyrics absolutely melts me away. And it's like, I think that it's a sign with the full spell eyes and red images. And when we kiss, they're perfectly alive.

Oh, that was really nice. I like that. That's beautiful. Beautiful.

Oh, nice. It's just beautiful. And I see an actual piece of the love, such a space, I'm like, oh, I love you. Definitely not what I was expecting.

I'm still waiting for the use of the soundbite, one day of the case, I'm fucking Stevie Nicks. That's for one. I believe there's been more evidence of that in the absolute dang it. And just the real song is like, oh, okay.

Oh, it was a good time. We'd have to edit that in somehow. That's one. Somehow.

Once again, the chat is all talking about me, mum. That's my fun. Sorry. Apparently, Martin says plot twist, Paul is your stepdad, Sam.

Exactly. Also, did you wave that sword around earlier to show that you'd be actually out the box? Yeah, that's all. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I must go there. Oh, obviously. It's a good statement.

It really does. That is pretty cool though. I'll get you another bottle. Yeah.

I love it. Yeah, so. Great, great second pick there coming. So, Sammy, take the way to lovely, really.

Okay. And the album that defined probably mine yours, everyone who was there brought up in the 90s, probably talked about it before. I'm going to say it again. It's a lot of smart sets, Jack of Little Pill.

What a shout. It is. The defining point of my teenage years is this album. This was going to be my third pick.

So, yes. Yeah, you made it in the mind as well. Oh, if you have like a substitute, I don't mind your passage. Because honestly, I thought of some, at least another person might have picked it.

No, no, I've got no substitute. So, I'll just, I'll struggle to get the top five in. So, they're like, but I completely agree. My teenage years, like, I've probably felt like an angsty teenage girl.

So, yeah. So, this was, this is such a pinnacle moment when this album was put in my hand. It just changed how I looked at music. It's just, yes.

And if everything is just really angry, but not like, screen angry. It's failing angry, if that makes sense. Like, and expressing how the films, but this, as everyone says, I've never spoke to anyone who hasn't listened to this album. Like, especially our age.

And if any youngsters are listening, and our youngsters listen to us now, maybe I'm not old. And if you haven't listened to this album, what the fuck are you doing? We are like, Is that all? Oh, it is a movement.

It's a mood. That's what I described at the other day to a friend. I was like, it's a mood. It is a complete nut of mood.

I've been listening to it all this week. And I'm like, the songs that I even get upset over, because I've been crying over, because I'm like, holy shit, I told like, I'm nearly 40. And I understand it probably now. I didn't get it back then.

And I literally, I am forgiven is my favorite song of the album. And I'm well enough even thinking about it. I absolutely adore that. The range that she does it.

We all know a lot as much as it has hell of a range in that voice, but the fact that she could take it so up here to bring it so back down here in a matter of seconds in that song is just breathtaking. Yeah. Yeah. No, I know what will take turns on this one.

So don't worry, I'll accept it. Jump back and forth. I don't know if it was Grant, or if it was me wife and Nick, that shared the trailer for Bridget and season two with Grant's Grant's Grant's name. I was just about going to try and join in with that.

Nice one, because that is... The acoustic version of you, what you, I can't remember what I'm feeling now. You ought to know. And it's a sore, slow, down, slow, pierced, but the anger and the pain is still there.

And her voice fucking hell. I know this album's worked 20 years old now. And her voice still to this year is pitch perfect. Yeah.

And... Absolutely not. That song as well, it's like Generation X's version of I Will Survive. Yes.

You know what I mean? It's like male or female. All of us have felt that. Yeah.

But the raw power in that song is it beats any having metal track and stuff. Look, you couldn't say anything about that. That was brilliant. It's a one way.

Like, if you listen, if you can't help but sing away, but then you start singing it louder and louder. And you feel yourself getting to it as well. But it always reminds us of Anna as well. Like Anna, who's been on the podcast because every time we go to a karaoke show, she always sings, Ironic and...

She always sings fucking Black Velvet. Every time you go to a karaoke bar, she always sings Black Velvet. And she used to sing Tippany. They were our go to tracks.

I just remember singing iconic, but she has got a lovely voice as well when she sings it. Not quite a lot of stories. I don't think she'll mind her saying. But yeah, like, say this was just on repeat.

And this was the sound of the 90s. That's the best way I could describe it. Even though Ironic is the most way, just when you look at the words, nothing she says in that song is fucking ironic. But it's just...

But it's just... Well, that was... And I remember being on a trip to France with a school and it was about the time that Spice Girls which just blew up, like, one of me was just everywhere. And I had my headphones in over the thingy headphones with my tip deck and just had a lones marasnash on a fucking repeat throughout that whole trip.

Because I didn't... Like, they didn't understand what I was going through. I was listening to a masterpiece and they were listening to shit in my opinion. But obviously, I don't mind Spice Girls.

I'm just saying. Like, I just at the time, how powerful that album was. And I don't want to bring the tone down at all because we're all out of it. Hi, with this one.

But the secret track, if you remember, on the end of the album, I'm so pleased that it's not part of the remastered one from 2015. I'm so glad that I removed it because that song was played at my friend's funeral when I was 14. That is fucking haunting. I never want to hear it again.

And it's such a beautiful song. But you will never feel a punch in the face when that song plays in a church and it echoes. That is awful. Just to send it up, I'd like to change the tone a little bit about to the doctor.

Did you ever see the parody video with Ozzy Osbourne? Because it was a lot of singers. But Ozzy Osbourne's in the back of the car. Like, you know how...

But he's sitting in the front of the car popping around. And he gets a massive deal. The rems off. He's hit his head with a massive deal.

The hersing. But it is one of the most surreal things you'll ever see. Because he's just like... He's been all fucking Hosey and stuff.

That's just not changing the tone. That is fucking Lauren. I still don't know if I've ever seen it. I had a lot of sass games in one sense.

Yes. But if you have a look at it on YouTube, it's not watched for years. But I remember saying that. I think it was on the Jonathan Russell.

And it was on Jonathan Russell. It was the edgy on Channel 4. He had Ozzy Osbourne as a guest. And he'd done this video when it was absolutely fucking brilliant.

But if you go through the track list, like you learned, forgiven, as you said, handing out my pockets. Just everything in that album just makes you. And it spawned so many other female artists from this album. I don't think people like Cheryl Crowe would have thought about as I know, obviously in the country and western.

But Cheryl Crowe was like one with the Bitch song, Meredith. Meredith Brooks. And Brooks. Even Shana Twin.

Like I said, followed not by Shana Twin was big. But she even changed it up. She changed it up. It changed music.

That's when good albums come out. It changed the music and the land side. This was almost kind of like a grunge in a way, but not to the degree what grunge was. No, it was it was a team of version of grunge because I hit the grunge scene not long after finding this album.

Like Pearl Jam. Just fucking Pearl Jam. And so I found them, but it was like it was like a lovely introduction into the grunge scene. Did you know there's a musical?

For Jack a Little Bill. No. Yeah, there's a musical. And I don't know.

Yeah, it hasn't come over here or anything, but it's definitely it was just before the air before lockdown. It was in the tune of America. And apparently it was absolutely brass taken. So look out for a musical.

I know she's I know she's done the tour next year. I was at this year. Oh, I've no idea. I know she was meant to.

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