Hi doll. Hi buns. We're back. Yeah.
I think we kind of disappeared to the people on who might subscribe. Who might enjoy listening to us following us subscribing. Dozens of people that follow us on Apple Podcast. I know I'm so sorry.
I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying.
I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what have they done. Technical issues fatigue me.
It's hard enough just to make to record one of these without making the vocals all distorted. I know I was gonna say my volume sounds slightly low right now. I'm trying not to blow out the levels. Oh well it I feel dull.
Oh that's a little richer. Okay. You're not dull. You're a doll.
Thanks buns. There are a little behind the curtain there. Nick names for each other. Doll and buns.
You know the maybe the the reasons and the stories behind it will just remain a mystery. I have no buns. I mean I have the flattest ass on earth possibly. You do.
You have flat buns, huns. I'm really glad that I never thought that was important to have a shapely man ass because I don't have one. Maybe it is important for some people. I think it is.
I'm glad I'm just not hip to that or that it never occurred to me as a teenager. I didn't have to pile that on to all the other things about all of my other shortcomings that I thought were so glaringly obvious to the world. Isi Barlow is approaching everyone. We have a snow day so there's children around.
Hi. Are you coming in for a hug? Okay. She's wearing her care bear pajamas that match.
Oh okay. Episode is starting. Impressions episode number 18. This week, Lou responds to a very special musical request from filmmaker, artist, musician, singer, songwriter, Adam Green, asks Lou to cover one of his songs and Lou happily obliges in two parts.
Raw impressions, episode number 18, commencing four notes. Do you think we lose listeners when he goes into those long sort of slightly lost me? Yeah. I almost fell asleep during that.
That was the longest intro in the history of podcast. That was not his best intro. Literally snoring over here. If anyone is still with us, he did do it pretty late at night last night.
So that seems to be reflected in the way he did that. What would Adam Green say about that intro? What would Adam Green say? I don't know.
I hope he says it's okay because he's our man today. He is. I got a phone message from Adam Green. And I'm gonna play it for you.
Here it is. Hi Lou. It's Adam Green. I was a little shy to ask you about this but a Belgian record label is putting in a compilation of other artists covering my songs next year.
And it's a little cheeky to ask you about this because I should be the one playing one of your songs because I grew up listening to Cebidot and folk emplosion and all that stuff. But would you consider doing a version of one of my solo songs? I was, if you would consider doing it, I was thinking maybe something from the Aladdin movie because you like it. But I don't know.
No worries if no pressure if you don't want to do it or you don't have time. Anyways, love you. Let me know. Look at that.
Listen to that. I love that. Oh yeah. I feel like I can almost see his face asking you that.
I don't know Adam personally but you've introduced me to him through his movie Aladdin. I showed you Aladdin last week while we were doing the dishes. You seem to really like it which was great because I love that movie so much that it's like a personal thing for me. And I feel like I have this feeling when I'm watching it.
Like there's no one else that thinks could possibly love this as much as I am loving it right now. And he had a movie that he made a bit before that called the wrong Ferrari. It's the same thing. I mean I loved it so much I was afraid to show it to anybody else or to share it because I just don't know what I would do.
Like if you didn't like Aladdin when I showed it to you, I mean that would be totally cool. And I could totally it's not like I would you know, wouldn't in any way lessen my affection for you or make me feel alienate me in any way but you loved it which was really nice. You sound very protective. You sound like you you came upon these pieces by Adam and then you felt really protective of them.
I just I just didn't know if anybody else would think it was incredibly brilliant as I did. And I'm not I'm you know, I'm not being facetious here. I'm not trying. I mean I really connected to these movies.
Yeah. So well I will I think I'll let you know. I don't know how many people have seen this or how you know, expose air to his movie Aladdin. We'll put a link in our episode description for you to to watch it.
And but I I have to say for myself, having no previous knowledge really of him or his artwork, I was totally kind of blindsided. I mean in a good way but like it was it was so good that I went through kind of an emotional journey watching it to be perfectly honest. I it stirred up a lot of feelings in me. I felt really intimidated by his talent.
I have to admit I was kind of intimidated by it. And it it freaked me out a little bit. I was like, Jesus, this is crazy. This person is doing a lot of things in this.
It's not just that he wrote this and that he's also doing the music. But the scenery, I believe, is that correct? He also did. Oh, oh, okay.
Well, this is this is the song. We'll come back to this. The first cover, the first in line cover of Adam Green's Never Lifter Finger from the Aladdin soundtrack as performed by Lee Barlow, beginning in five notes. I saw you conspiring to never lift a finger for all the time.
But I saw you conspiring to never lift a finger. That's the first one. Although it was the second one that I did, but that's the first one we're going to listen to. The song is called Never Lifter Finger.
It's from the Aladdin movie. I think it's his breakup song when he breaks up with the princess. I'm choked up over here. That song, Every Time I Hear It, I just, my chest gets so heavy, I feel really.
It takes my breath away. The movie is very funny. It is. But that song, he wanted me to cover that song.
I kind of immediately had an emotional connection to it, which I did not expect. Because I relate to it. Yeah, it was a song that you immediately felt. It was personal to you.
It felt personal to you. It did. It does. Oh my God.
Yeah, that song again kind of freaks me out because it's so poetic. It's so speaking of not lifting a finger, but it's so on the finger. What is that expression on the money? Yeah.
It really puts its finger on something. Yeah, exactly. It's really touching on something so real it articulates something. That's a lot of his work in his music too.
He had a band called The Moldy Peaches, which is how he came to be known. The Moldy Peaches as part of the what's in the name of the movie. Yeah. Did you know a soundtrack?
I don't really know too much about that, but he. We're like a very low fi kind of ramshack of folk duo. Okay. The Moldy Peaches.
And they were from this New York scene of bands, or also kind of like tangential to the strokes and all of that stuff. But Jeffrey Lewis, for instance, who I also incredibly blown away by Jeffrey Lewis and his words. But Adam is, yeah, they're sort of from the, I think the Moldy Peaches helped Jeffrey Lewis become known. Anyway, so this song, so and Adam has gone on and had this really fruitful solo career mostly in Europe, which is really where I heard his music first.
But he does these incredible, his solo recordings are very not lo-fi. They're actually quite developed. And I would say Lee Hazlewood-esque. Oh yeah.
Yeah, I love Lee Hazlewood. And maybe this is why I'm connecting so much to Adam's work as well. It does have a this beautiful reminiscent feel of that, but in a very modern way. Here's my first lead violinist.
Christ, that's so loud. Okay. Sorry. But actually the first.
Turn that down. Attempt. Yeah. A covering.
Doing a version of Adam Green's never lift a finger. Song. For your approval or dismissal. Let me know which one's better.
The first one over the second one. The second one being the first try. The first one being the second try. Commencing in three notes.
Shape you again. The joke came in at the loss. The ecstasy won't out. Something died for a time when I saw you inspiring to you.
For all time when I saw you inspiring to you. To go back to Aladdin real quick, we're not going to leave it because we're talking about it. That song's from Aladdin. I wanted to do it.
I'm covering the song for a compilation of our Jeffrey Lewis of Adam. That's because we're talking about it. Adam Green covers and Adam has approached me personally to cover that song. Yeah.
And so it's not just songs from Aladdin. It's like songs from his catalog. But that song is from Aladdin, the one that you covered. And the movie, yes, is funny, but it's so much more than that.
It's also so insightful and the social commentary. It's also touching. Well, at the end, he gets incredible. It's married at the end.
Not to blow the plot, but Aladdin gets married at the end. I don't know. Maybe that happens in the real Aladdin too. He gets married at the end and they exchange vows, the couple.
And they are so touching. I'm not sure how it happened, but I got into texting with Adam for the last year or so. It's often on randomly because John Davis knows him. I'm not sure how this happened, but I think I was just really chomping on the bit to tell him how much I loved his movies.
And then he sent me the Aladdin link. So I had seen him wrong for Ari. But anyway, anyway, the vows at the end of the movie are his actual wedding vows. And he said that he and his wife are continually adding to these vows.
And you have to hear that. I recommend anyone watching this. And Adam, he actually sent me the script of the movie because I was like, can I just have the script? I just want to read the script because I just love it.
It's so poetic and funny. And of course, there's all this extra dialogue in the actual script. But anyway, yeah, just listening to you talk about that. I was also thinking generous.
Yeah, I think that's what I think you can find that sometimes people with that kind of talent can be very intimidating. And the thing that I found recently is that I when I have sort of established contact with some of these people that I am super intimidated by, I've been really finding out that they're actually very generous. It's really inspiring. I agree.
Because I feel like, wow, maybe generosity is something that does. It creates a fertile environment. And people come to you and you get, and you can kind of get what you were. I think that there is something that makes me, I'm so intimidated by artists, really great artists.
And you feel, I guess my first reaction is that they're kind of telling me I'm stupid or I'm going to be rejected, or I'm going to realize that people, a lot of some of our greatest talents are people who are actually very generous and kind with the people that they are assuming he is. And he must be because I would say Aladdin is such an incredible collaboration because it's not just like him alone doing it. I mean, all of these people have come together to support him by helping him make it by either like acting in it. Or, you know, so you can tell that it's like he's adored by a really encouraging group of people who support him and his art.
Yeah, it really comes through. Yeah, it really does. So Adam, thank you for allowing us to share your voice message to Lu on this episode. And also having us preview the songs that Lu will be contributing.
I'll have to choose which one. Yeah, or maybe Adam can choose. Maybe he wants both. I kind of like the second one because it's the first one I did and I'm singing it live with the guitar.
So it's like it's a real is the second one your favorite? Well, wait, which is the second one? The first one or the second one that played? The first version I did was the one that just played.
The first version I did was the one that just played. Okay, wait, so is that the one you want to give him? I don't know. See, now I'm scrambled.
I don't know what's on the boat. It's the top or bottom or back or forth, back or forward? I don't know. The first one that I played was the second version.
It's more layered. It was actually after we watched the Aladdin movie and I thought, oh, I need to even soften this even more and making even a softer, more personal version of the song. Because at first, I was like, I'm gonna make a crazy version of one of the songs. But then I just when the when I really heard the song and then when you and I watched the movie and the sort of tenderness of it and also the kind of like real, a little bit of a heart-stopping realization within it that I related to, I was like, I have to do a much more natural version.
And I would say the version that just played was the most natural because it was just me playing guitar and singing with a little embellishments whereas the first version that I played is more of a layered production. I like them both. Yeah, I don't know if I have a favorite. I like them both for different reasons, I guess.
But it's nice to hear the song like more than once. I think the song is really good, really brilliant. I love it. So I'm so impressed.
I'm curious to hear how other artists, their interpretation of his music. And since I really don't know that much of his music, now I'm like, I gotta go download a bunch of Adam Green. That Jessica Simpson song once. No, I don't think you told me you were going to.
Well, and lastly, you have actually not met Adam face to face. Have you? No. The day hasn't come yet.
No. A lot of impressions that never lift a finger edition concludes. Thank you for joining us. Thank you to Adam Green on Raw Impressions episode number 18 concludes.