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for Humans. Best

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of Music Howard.

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Brett. Dragon

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Boy Swade. Yeah.

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Mr. Morris. Yeah.

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That's the offering shop talk, but wait a minute.

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-♪♪ Welcome

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to Improv

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for Humans. Best

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Hollaimer. What's

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happening? With

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special guests, And

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your host, Mattie

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B. The best taste

2:07

in the universe. Taking

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all our pick from the year and putting them

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together. But wait a minute. Third

2:17

intro? Whoo! Unheard

2:21

of. Like

2:23

the Underlord of the Ricks. Hahahaha.

2:29

You're probably going to see a 50% increase

2:31

in the 23. Howard

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Crammer's report! But

2:38

wait a minute. Whoa.

2:41

That was the rodeo boy that killed the same, the last one.

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Are these all 20% increase? All

2:47

of them. This is office dog, Big

2:49

Air. This is more mainstream. Welcome.

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Welcome. Best

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of Music, 2023. With Mattie B. I'm

3:02

going

3:05

to get real. I'm going to introduce

3:07

the best intro song. I think we played this year, Brad. I

3:10

played a few in there. But I

3:12

think you'll remember this one. And I remember the

3:14

time going, oh yeah I remember this one. So

3:19

for real. These are great

3:21

intro songs. They'll only be enough time

3:23

to talk. They'll have high energy. Always

3:26

30 seconds at least power. Okay

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this is the one right here.

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By Flatworms. Big alert. Oh

3:34

yeah. Welcome

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to Empire for Humans. Best of Music,

3:38

2023. Dragonboy

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Suede, Howard Crammer, Brett Morris in the

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house. We're taking all the

3:46

best music of 2023. Putting

3:49

our opinions forth. And

3:52

laying it out. Oh fuck yeah.

3:55

Thank you Flatworms. I

4:00

like a guitar that sounds like a hurt

4:02

animal. Yeah, wounded. Yeah, it's got

4:04

a bow and arrow in it. There's

4:07

a modest mouth song that Sidney

4:10

called the Seal song. Does it go...

4:14

Oh yeah. You know that song? I think

4:16

it's like called Whale Song. To

4:18

me that's never a modest mouth song. Intruder

4:20

by Van Halen, the intro to Pretty Woman.

4:23

That thing sounds like a wounded animal. Yeah.

4:26

Let me hear that. Let's bring

4:28

that up. Intruder.

4:31

So those were all good intro songs. Those

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were all nominations. But

4:36

I gave the winner to Flatwomb Siglet. And now

4:39

we're going back folks. This

4:42

is not Fresh for 23. What

4:48

is that? That is

4:50

rude. Sounds

4:56

like it's begging for its life to smooth a damn thing.

4:58

Yeah. You

5:01

hit me with the whole poon. That's

5:09

definitely like an injured D-Eleven. Oh

5:13

my god. I just want to thank

5:15

you for playing that. I'm

5:18

so happy that he did this. It's

5:20

insane that that leads into Pretty Woman.

5:23

I know. That that's the

5:25

next song on deck. Yeah. And hey,

5:27

I just found out recently we did

5:29

that. DLR did that on a

5:31

Minimooc. He did the organ

5:33

part on a Minimooc. So

5:37

guys, do you think 2023 was a good year in music? Or

5:41

do you think they're all pretty much

5:43

the same? Good stuff, bad stuff. Or

5:46

do you think you're more inspired this year?

5:48

Do you have a

5:50

general feeling on it? I

5:54

would say it was better

5:57

than usual in certain

5:59

genres. And in certain genres

6:01

that I really like, I didn't

6:03

get as much. Do

6:06

I try to shove you into hip-hop? Do

6:10

I try to categorize you because of

6:12

your Dragon Boy, Suede

6:15

persona? Well

6:17

what I'm more into, I would

6:19

say I'm more into storytelling, not

6:21

specifically, but lately

6:23

I've been getting more out of country, which

6:26

I've often said country and rap

6:29

are very similar because they are

6:32

real people talking about real things. A

6:34

lot of times adult problems, which you

6:36

don't hear about exactly so much in

6:39

other genres. And you can hear, you

6:41

can understand, if I may, maybe I'm

6:43

wrong, but you can understand the story

6:45

a little more clear. In rock and

6:47

roll, sometimes they're screaming it and unless

6:49

you're reading the lyrics, you can't hear

6:52

it. In hip-hop, you can clearly hear

6:54

what they're talking about. In country, you

6:56

can clearly hear the story. Which is

6:58

intentional? Yeah, no, not

7:00

at all. I think it's intentional. It's

7:03

just less abstract. It's more about giving

7:06

working people or struggling people some

7:08

kind of message that they can

7:10

actually understand. As opposed to...

7:12

You're into storytelling, not just hip-hop. Yeah,

7:17

but I mean, that's not a strict thing. That

7:19

just came out when I started talking. But

7:22

I would say that I look forward to this each

7:24

year. I want to thank you for having me on.

7:27

It means quite a bit. And

7:31

I'm always excited to see what your picks

7:33

are, which are often from

7:36

obscure places. And

7:39

I feel sometimes like I've

7:42

been watching regular porn all year. And

7:45

then once a year around Christmas time, I

7:47

meet with this guy who's been watching the

7:50

weird shit. You know, the German porn. Yes,

7:53

and he shows it to us. Hey,

7:57

check this out. Okay,

8:00

well this one. I don't know

8:02

that it's so obscure in the for

8:05

people who like punk music But I'm

8:07

gonna put this into my merging on

8:09

to is the category I had I

8:12

think the last couple of years the merging on

8:14

to the highway Nice

8:17

song merging is a big deal for you. I've

8:19

noticed It's not the

8:21

not the hauling ass on the hallway

8:23

exactly right It's easy to pick a

8:26

song where you're there's no one on

8:28

the highway You're just free-flowing

8:30

we'll get to that part of the song This

8:33

is how you are moving from

8:35

side streets local mentality to rev

8:38

up Yes head on

8:40

up a ramp competition mode You

8:43

have to pick yourself going up a

8:45

slight ramp to the highway. Yeah starting

8:48

at a stoplight Okay,

8:50

but you know and you're first at the stoplight

8:53

There's no one in front of you at the

8:55

stoplight. So as soon as that stoplight goes to

8:57

green you're up the ramp Merging

9:00

on to the highway. Oh, okay. I get I

9:02

got one. I mean and I will I will

9:04

wait my turn of course Okay, I think I

9:06

got one of its into this. Okay, remember we're

9:08

starting at the stoplight and I'll tell you when

9:10

it goes green This is

9:12

freaky by up Chuck Hmm

9:17

So you're looking you're looking at

9:19

the fucker to his right because he thinks he's

9:21

gonna it's one of those dude look duo lanes

9:25

But you're gonna get to that merge first still

9:28

red Go

9:32

great Up

9:34

the ramp. Oh you're flying that guy wasn't ready

9:38

Okay Okay. Now we're getting

9:41

to the highway. Oh, I'm gonna

9:43

go over the line

9:46

I'm on the highway already. I Got

9:50

to get over to the left though. I'm passing them

9:52

on the right. Yeah Right

9:56

now I'm right over the left and I gotta get

9:58

all left Oh,

10:00

oh. Diamond

10:02

Lane. Yeah. Diamond

10:05

Lane. People are

10:07

looking at me. There's only one guy in that car. Fuck you.

10:10

I don't care. It's not me.

10:12

Oh, yeah. Fucking

10:15

someone's in front of me in the Diamond Lane slowing down.

10:17

Now I gotta get out of the diamond lane. I don't

10:19

want to be on the road when you're listening to that.

10:21

I'm getting out of the way. Okay.

10:26

What do you got? Well,

10:29

this one, I

10:32

mean, this one I think could

10:34

be a driving. So I didn't really test

10:36

it, but I'm thinking high energy for driving.

10:39

Okay. Genesis Owusu.

10:43

Get inspired, I think it's called.

10:45

How about that? Okay. You

10:48

know that one. Get inspired. But also

10:50

my category with this was also going to be best song to get you

10:52

out of a rut. I

10:55

would be nice. This is good for merging. I'm not going to

10:57

be on the highway yet. I could be out. I'm

10:59

not making dollars. Maybe it's not. I

11:01

was speeding up. Yeah. Yeah. I

11:04

was a whole team up for your rut. You didn't need any of that. You

11:06

haven't made a deal. All that dreamin' that you think this all like. I'm

11:09

where that angst comes. All my people fighting demons. All that other pieces.

11:11

You don't even need a diamond lane. You're going pretty good on the

11:13

third night. You're going pretty good on the third night. You're going pretty

11:15

good on the third night. You're going pretty good on the third night.

11:17

You're going pretty good on the third night. Might as well actually put

11:19

this one down. I

11:38

want to be honest. People

11:43

are waving at you too. I was

11:46

kind of driving angrily. Yeah, I'm

11:49

pretty angry out there. That

11:51

was pretty mellow, that one. It's

11:54

all user failure out there.

11:56

Whenever you're stopped for any

11:59

reason. It's just people, they're

12:01

just not doing it right. I

12:06

agree with that. Okay,

12:08

did you have one, Brett? Are you ready for me

12:10

to move on? Yeah,

12:14

I think this one would be pretty good. This

12:16

is Iggy Pop with Frenzy. Whoa,

12:19

whoa, whoa. Iggy Pop put out something

12:21

this year? Yeah, I think early in

12:23

the year. All right. Yeah.

12:27

Wow. Yeah. I'm

12:29

off. Yeah, I didn't

12:32

miss it. He's

12:36

self-driving now, 85. God

12:44

bless him and Mick for putting out new stuff

12:47

this year. Yeah,

12:52

it's still calling people pricked. Yeah,

12:55

and you goddamn dick. That's

12:57

me on site on the regular streets. You

12:59

know what I mean? Right, on site. Yeah,

13:02

I'm on Western where it just is all

13:04

crammed up to hell. I

13:08

like it. I like it.

13:10

I like it.

13:13

Humans, my one regret

13:15

when we left Airwolf and came

13:17

here is that

13:19

we didn't make a transfer

13:23

portal video.

13:26

Jumping in the transfer portal decision

13:31

video. Do you follow those, Howard?

13:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I

13:35

just watched the Shohei Otani press

13:37

conference yesterday. That's not the same

13:39

thing, but you're talking

13:41

about college football. College

13:44

football. They try to entice

13:47

people. Yeah. It's so hilarious.

13:49

It's such the wild west right now, but

13:51

you can just, if you don't like your

13:53

coach, you not

13:56

getting playing time, or you

13:58

think you get... Honestly

14:00

a million more dollars

14:02

somehow. Yeah, you jump

14:04

in that transfer portal and you make a

14:07

sweet video And

14:09

you say what college is it's coming

14:11

down to and you pick four and

14:14

then all those colleges start They

14:16

start bidding. That's crazy. And then it's

14:18

like why get drafted into the

14:20

NFL to a crappy team to stay in

14:22

college Exactly. I was saying

14:24

that to my I was saying it to Danielle

14:27

Howard. I was like, I don't see Why

14:30

some of these guys should go I

14:32

feel like they got some guaranteed really

14:34

good money right now Absolutely.

14:36

It's like not the grind of the

14:38

NFL. It's like only fans but for

14:40

athletes It's like why are those why

14:42

are they gonna get real jobs when

14:44

they can just make more money? Not

14:48

you know just stay in Yeah Alright,

14:52

here's my transfer portal leaned way

14:54

off my score Oh

15:04

This is my train I'm

15:06

suggesting to any football player

15:08

basketball player Starts

15:10

out a little slow like

15:13

you're you're seeing clips of your Playing

15:16

pop Warner football During

15:20

the seventh grade you couldn't get Players

15:26

tape or the colleges tape. I expect

15:28

you to honest The cop

15:30

the players make these tapes. Oh

15:34

You think who when do you think the

15:36

college would make this tape? No, like when

15:38

they have like like

15:40

for like sororities and they're like

15:43

We're gonna put on a whole dance number and it's

15:45

gonna make you want to come here Wow,

15:51

I want to see those sorority tapes Help

15:56

me with the napkins before you busy watching those

16:00

This is where I have my four caps

16:02

for the different colleges. Which

16:12

one am I going to put on? Put

16:18

on one cap on one college. You

16:22

do another one. Oh, you do one there? Take them

16:24

out. Third one. Where I'm

16:26

going? Where I'm going?

16:28

Ah. You

16:30

picked the Razorbacks.

16:32

Yeah, four

16:35

times. That's a good song. That

16:37

has the quality of a song that

16:40

feels like it's existed for a long time. Yeah. But

16:43

it hasn't somehow. Like it's been around

16:45

since Roman times. Caligula is the social

16:47

side. Yeah. Caligula is the fucking thing.

16:49

That shit. Hey, I got

16:51

one there. That's Prof and Kevin

16:54

Gates with Devil's Gate. Okay.

16:57

I got one that goes along with that. I think

16:59

I did too. Nice. This

17:02

one is by City Girls. It's called Wigs. Wigs

17:06

by City Girls. City Girls. There we

17:08

go. Yeah. And they, like you're

17:10

doing with the hats. They

17:12

do it with the wigs. I

17:14

like your... And

17:27

then I'll also leave it. The

17:46

guy showing all the different football helmets that could

17:48

be having on. Yeah. Yeah.

17:52

That's a lot of different wigs. I

17:57

like this song a lot. Yeah. This

17:59

album is great. But this is my favorite

18:01

rap album of the year In

18:03

a certain way raw by

18:05

City Girls. I like it,

18:07

too. Can you play face down? Brett

18:10

do you mind same album because

18:13

I'm gonna transition right here Wow Look

18:16

at this way before that. I might have a

18:18

I might have a sports pick. Okay free go

18:20

back go back. Okay See

18:23

if there's put a pin in

18:25

City Girls, but what's your transfer

18:27

portal sound score? So

18:29

you're gonna have to kind of

18:31

jump the pond here, but just imagine

18:34

this is an American singing about American

18:36

sports This is Soccer

18:40

guide transferring. Yeah Transfer

18:45

portal then this is Clemson

18:48

just I think Clemson just

18:50

won the NCAA men's soccer

18:53

championship once again This

18:55

is hotel Lux with national team

18:58

Oh I

19:25

The great one for the EPL I

19:33

Some 16 year old wonderkin go on I'll

19:35

play right now. Yeah, the people my age

19:47

Brits The Brits I've

19:49

often criticized for not contributing that much

19:51

to hip-hop thinking of how long it's

19:53

been around But one thing

19:55

they have done great is that

19:58

monologue talk walking, singing

20:01

thing, whatever that was, like Art Brute

20:03

used to do it so well. Yeah.

20:06

Yeah, they're not at that. Shout out

20:09

to that. It just doesn't work as well with

20:11

other accents. No.

20:13

Unless you're a, what's your McCall it?

20:16

Detachable penis or a cake. King

20:19

missile. Yeah. King

20:21

missile. Yeah. Do

20:24

you like, you like yard act, right? Did you

20:26

hear the trench coat museum this year? I

20:30

probably did. It is about a trench coat museum. Let's give it

20:32

a taste, honey. And then

20:36

after that we're going to transition into a

21:00

hip hop and a genre of

21:03

songs like you call hip hop

21:06

or country storytelling. I

21:09

would call the next set of songs instructional.

21:12

Okay. Oh

21:43

yeah. I

21:53

like that. Great goal. One

21:56

of the better parts of this song is it lasts

21:58

eight minutes. long

22:00

like a trench coat All

22:04

right Does he

22:07

go Columbine in the later verses? I mean

22:09

it's hard to leave that no It's hard

22:11

to avoid that he somehow does or open

22:13

it up I

22:15

know some crazy motherfuckers also like to

22:17

wear the trench coat Keep

22:19

an eye on those nerds keep

22:22

an eye Keep

22:24

an eye on those nuts Disarm

22:27

those nuts I

22:32

Found out about the city girls through

22:35

this song face down. Oh,

22:37

yeah What

22:43

good is if he doesn't what Spin

22:46

the ass or spend Probably

22:50

spend let's hear it get spent bring

22:52

that beat back. I've listened to

22:54

it many times I Get

22:58

a spending she doesn't like broke. Yeah, they're

23:00

actually money Yeah,

23:04

what good is that Oh

23:23

Man amazing so that's

23:25

that's instructional Face

23:28

down ass up go ahead just saying that

23:32

Like guys have been rapping for

23:34

so long. It's really Refreshing

23:36

women have taken it over and I really

23:38

like here and there side of the whole

23:40

scam Like I rather hear a

23:42

woman talk about how she's gonna take a

23:44

man's money Then hear about a

23:47

guy say I'm gonna bang another chick, you know,

23:49

I mean It's more

23:51

is sure I Didn't

23:53

know what category to put this in

23:55

but city girls did a good one.

23:57

Just just let me back up a

23:59

little little bit. Back that ass

24:02

up Matt. Brett knows that

24:05

I think Twist and Shout is the

24:07

worst Beatles song it's cover but

24:10

because they're telling me how to dance

24:13

and I don't like any song

24:15

that tells me what that tells

24:18

you there's instructions in it of

24:21

what you should do. You should

24:23

play some of that. Move wise.

24:25

How you should move yeah. Or

24:27

even Moany Moany where they've incorporated

24:29

you everyone's going down the floor.

24:31

It really bugs the shit out

24:33

of me. Okay. What about my

24:35

wedding reception? Macarena bother you? Oh

24:38

fuck yeah. Anything

24:40

that gets everybody in line get me the

24:42

fuck out of the room. What about like Whip

24:45

It by Gap Band? Let's whip it. Fae-Bae. Let's

24:47

whip it right. Is that is that

24:50

too much? Hmm I am

24:52

a big fan of Drop the

24:54

Bomb on you. Everybody

24:57

goes down with Bomb Blast perhaps. But

25:00

let's get back to. You know that come from Will

25:02

Chamberlain? Oh sorry. What's that? Will

25:05

Chamberlain when he used to go into the crowd

25:07

to get a girl's phone number he'd go I'm

25:09

about to drop the bomb on it. Is

25:12

that for real? Yeah that's where that's where he

25:15

gets instructions. I'll knock the bomb on you. That's

25:17

amazing. Oh

25:20

my god I wish she dropped the bomb on me.

25:22

That'd be amazing. Yeah I was one of Wilt's

25:25

10,000. Yeah. Yeah oh yeah over

25:27

a thousand were gay hookups. Is

25:30

that true? I

25:32

don't know. I'm being part of his mythology. Oh

25:34

okay. The

25:38

70s. Oh are we doing um

25:40

instructions? Hold on. Hold on. I'm trying

25:42

to get into a very specific category

25:45

and I'd say this is my rap album of

25:47

the year is by sexy

25:49

red. Oh my god that was my

25:51

second one. Good hottest

25:53

princess but the category

25:56

I put this into

25:58

are songs that make me

26:00

blush. I'm not even kidding.

26:04

And let's see how

26:06

I'm gonna play one, two, three, four, five

26:10

selections by her in a row.

26:12

Sexy red. Let's

26:15

count how many seconds before your

26:18

face turns red. I'll count the seconds

26:20

till they get to instructions on how

26:22

to eat her pussy. Okay. I

26:25

like it. This is Hoodrats. Okay,

26:32

throw that ass. She's there seven

26:34

seconds in for that ass. But

26:36

a couple times they tell Keith

26:38

to fuck everyone up. Why is

26:40

he doing that? You hear that?

26:43

They do that in a couple of songs. Why

26:45

does Keith want to fuck everyone up? Okay. Is

26:47

he the DJ or something? I guess so. Producer?

26:50

Throw that ass. Throw you a hole.

26:53

Up and down there. Boom, go girl. I'm

26:58

looking sexy. I'm looking fine. My

27:01

robot. Man, right there, right away, tells

27:03

me how to,

27:11

and I think

27:13

about when she's, when she's singing, I

27:15

don't know how you listen to songs,

27:19

but when I hear this,

27:22

like when I hear like a country song, I'm

27:24

going from the point of view of like, I'm

27:26

the guy in the story and

27:28

the lyrics are about me. Whereas this, I feel

27:30

like she's yelling at me because I didn't eat

27:33

her pussy correctly. In

27:36

all these songs, she's mad at me because I

27:38

didn't do it right. That's

27:40

what I used to feel about DMX. He sounds

27:42

like he's angry with me personally. But

27:45

yeah, this is El Cat

27:47

SRT. You're

27:50

Aron opened up in

27:52

it. Yeah. We

27:56

like this. We like this. We like this. I

28:00

love that sentiment just right away. We

28:03

love guys that sell drugs. Yeah. It's

28:06

so great. That's not too

28:08

inspiring. But it so

28:10

turns the world on its ear.

28:12

Yeah. It doesn't

28:15

even sound like

28:17

they're having fun.

28:42

Fun necessarily. Singing these

28:44

lyrics like it's just that serious. They're angry

28:46

at these guys in St. Louis who aren't

28:48

doing it right. It's just routine. Hey

28:52

though, we played one on a Hoochart

28:54

of Bow Bow Bow off that same

28:56

album where she's commanding people to look

28:58

at her booty cheeks. They told us.

29:02

Can I see you on everything you want to see? Are

29:05

you kidding me? I'm being a bull. There he

29:07

goes again. Do I keep the fucking bull off

29:09

me? DMX

29:17

right there. I'm out

29:19

of town. Doesn't wear my round. My

29:22

kochi feet. My booty all brown. What

29:24

is this? I'm looking for the house.

29:27

Look at the face of me. You know?

29:30

I just don't feel a spell. I

29:32

don't need to eat this. Look at me. That's

29:36

amazing. I

29:39

would rather have... This

29:41

is mad at me. It's

29:48

somehow more in your face audio

29:50

wise than porn even is visually.

30:00

This is this and Daniel

30:02

my wife walked into the room I'd

30:05

be more like I'd like try

30:07

to hide the audio more and I try

30:09

to hide that German porn you were talking

30:11

about Yeah, yeah, exactly Why

30:13

so why is that? She

30:15

says what? Fuck

30:18

fuck you like you're Matt. You will not be

30:20

fucking me like you're mad at me But

30:23

there's no visual though. That's me that

30:26

German porn this will hard to rate

30:30

I can't argue with that I

30:32

can't argue with that All

30:35

right, so sexy red wins

30:38

music Most

30:40

likely to make me blush if we're

30:42

if we're just loosely in the category

30:44

of female rappers ice spice You

30:47

gotta you gotta talk about her. Yeah, is

30:49

she on the Barbie soundtrack? She's on it,

30:51

right? Yeah. Yeah You if

30:53

we were being for real I Don't

30:57

know if you're a real That's the album of the

30:59

year. Yeah, probably that's like I don't enjoy it much

31:02

But what is actually affected the

31:05

world right? Taking it

31:07

by storm. Yeah, if you see 2023 Yeah,

31:10

that's the album that was the event that was also

31:12

the summer event Yeah

31:17

For real and then Nicki Minaj. I mean She's

31:20

been Barbie for so long and her fans

31:22

are the barbs and She's

31:25

been a big part of that. But I

31:27

spice this year was great and also ash

31:29

Nico They had okay. What? What

31:32

do you what do you want us to play off of that? Oh

31:35

ice spice you could do munch or I don't munch

31:37

is not this year, but um

31:40

Yeah, it's to be this year God, uh

31:42

grab one off that album ice, but let

31:44

me in in

31:47

her mood Oh, yeah

31:49

in her mood is good. Okay We

31:57

could play barbie world like that, huh,

31:59

Nicki So I was trying to

32:01

analyze why I like the female

32:05

rappers more these days and we've

32:07

talked about

32:28

this before and is it because

32:30

it's more danceable and it's just more production

32:33

in that direction in the same way I

32:35

like major chord music. I'm

32:37

liking something that's easier to dance to.

32:41

A lot of the beats sound the same, they're

32:43

really menacing and then it's just kind

32:45

of what they're doing on top of it. But

32:49

maybe it just seems more poppy

32:51

because it's a girl. Menacing

32:55

is true. It seems,

32:57

then how can somebody menacing more upbeat.

33:00

It has more energy to it maybe

33:02

and I don't like the rap that's

33:04

kind of downbeat and

33:06

I'm like

33:09

a bummer. I'm going to

33:11

say that. I've often said like

33:13

Nas who's an incredible rapper, he

33:15

never picked like these beats like

33:17

he very often picks these like

33:20

downtrodden beats and so although he's

33:22

telling great stories and stuff, you

33:24

want to hear more like. You

33:28

know he's always like the DMX beats and

33:30

I always like yeah those yeah I mean

33:32

yeah those are crazy. Those are

33:34

like party beats and but the guys talking like

33:37

full on murder and stuff. It's

33:40

great. Alright so but

33:43

just to sideways get off

33:45

of this but have you heard

33:47

of Mandy Indiana this I

33:50

don't know if you'd call this hip hop. Do you know what

33:52

I'm talking about? I have not heard

33:54

it. I think I might have brought this one to

33:56

who charted from you because

33:58

I liked it so much. So

34:02

earlier in the year Mandy

34:04

Indiana put out Pinking Shears,

34:06

the song that goes like

34:09

this. Give

34:16

you a small taste of the original song.

34:26

I want to turn it up in the middle of it. Go

34:28

Go music. Okay,

34:37

it's very unique and... Is

34:40

that some type of witch language? What is that? She's

34:43

speaking French, right? Oh,

34:45

okay. I don't know. I mean,

34:47

they got the Jira witches. That sounds like

34:49

it. But... The

34:52

song... tell me what you... do you know Clipping with a period

34:54

at the end of his name? Yeah. This

35:00

is the rework with Clipping.

35:09

Mandy Indiana. Cream

35:15

of the bloody crap. Bree fell

35:17

in with Burnham Woods. The deal

35:19

is on crooked caps and

35:21

retail. My son was made the good, the

35:24

next president getting away with treason. Welcome

35:27

to the first world. The boots and raps leave

35:29

the plug wings pinned on your face. They lead

35:31

you to the money you make. The same money

35:33

they take. There's no woman's in this to get

35:35

a mister piece of paper. So

35:42

better pray to some guy to brother. I

35:44

think Clipping's on Sub Pop. What did you say? I'm

35:48

pretty sure Clipping is on Sub Pop. So

35:52

I think, I like what Clipping's

35:54

doing there. It

35:57

sounds like he's having a conversation with her

35:59

to me. Oh,

36:01

okay. Sounds like

36:03

they did a different room. Yeah.

36:07

But on the play all the breakage that they have

36:09

made every day, they can avoid the remainder of a

36:11

break. Oh,

36:14

yeah, the back and forth is good.

36:17

So with that in mind, let's go back to the

36:19

original. And I nominate this Pinking

36:22

Shears as best song to have an

36:24

argument with. Okay. So

36:26

let's try this. Okay, hold

36:29

on. Okay.

36:37

So I get a phone call from

36:40

my girlfriend. Oh, hey,

36:44

what's up? I'm glad you

36:46

called. I'm sorry I couldn't

36:48

make lunch. Yeah, I know.

36:54

I know. But

36:57

I had to take an Uber because my car is

36:59

in the shop right now. I

37:05

know, but I can't control that. Hey,

37:07

all right. I

37:10

could have borrowed one. Do

37:13

you want to try it? Oh, yeah, I'll try.

37:16

How you doing? How you doing? How you

37:18

doing? How you doing? How you doing? I'm

37:20

a cooking teacher. Okay.

37:24

Are you in the same room with her? Or is she giving you a

37:26

call? Zoom. Okay,

37:28

the Zoom comes on. That's

37:38

how you make crepes? What? What

37:40

do I do first? I

37:47

mean, I don't even know how to make this damn batter.

37:49

What are you talking about? There

37:54

you go. I

37:56

mean, it's been seen. Right?

38:00

Well, I can't top that. I

38:02

realized I had an instructional song. Oh,

38:06

you had one? I

38:09

had one, yeah. It's from a totally

38:11

different genre. This

38:13

is from Twin Temple. Have you heard them, Matt?

38:16

Yeah. It's

38:19

like a doo-wop. It's

38:21

almost like Phil Spector era doo-wop, but

38:23

it's all Satanist. This is

38:26

called Burn Your Bible. Shout out to

38:28

Iowa where they had to put that Satan

38:30

thing in the display in the state capitol.

38:33

Yeah. The lyrics are a little

38:35

harder to understand, but they are. That's a stretch of

38:37

all. Is

38:43

that the Zabith bell? Sounds

38:45

like it, of course. I

38:58

don't want to. I do want

39:01

to. I'm free on me. I'm

39:03

free. I do. I do. I

39:05

do. I do. I do. I

39:07

do. I do. I do. I

39:09

do. I do. Missionary

39:14

my fall. I do. Burn

39:35

Your Bible. Yeah.

39:47

So is there a filter on there to try to

39:49

make it sound like it's from that era? Oh

39:52

sure, yeah. A lot of different production

39:54

techniques. Yeah, from that old

39:56

school Motown, yeah. Bill

39:59

Spector. It's

40:02

a fun one. I think it works. The album

40:04

is pretty deep too. They got a bunch of

40:06

songs. They stay on theme. She

40:09

says, I always came for God, baby, when you're

40:11

in my bed. That's

40:16

what happens. You

40:18

date a nun. Don't

40:21

do it, humans. Break

40:23

your heart every time. Because

40:25

they come, always come running

40:27

back to God. Amen. Speaking

40:31

of Amen, do you have another song you'd

40:33

like to say amen to that you would

40:35

like to shine a light on? You think

40:37

it's the best of some category that you

40:40

would like to bestow

40:42

upon our listeners before I move on? I'll

40:49

let you go ahead. Brett,

40:53

this is kind of Anything Goes here?

40:56

Yeah, I could do an anything. Give me a category. Put

40:58

me under an umbrella. I'll give you

41:01

one. I'll give you one. All right. This

41:03

was going to be my best classic

41:05

rock return, but I

41:07

guess it could also be considered an instructional

41:09

song. Don't

41:12

get angry with me. Rolling stuff? Yeah, don't

41:14

get angry with me. Oh, yeah. There you

41:16

go. Oh, yeah. I got

41:18

a plan. Here we go. How

41:23

much time do they spend working on a song? No

41:26

more than three takes, right? Well,

41:28

maybe recording wise. Don't

41:31

get angry with me. I

41:33

have a car that's

41:36

going to be cheeky. Don't

41:40

get angry with me. You are just cheeky. I

42:00

wanna know why. Hey Matt,

42:03

do you remember way back in the day

42:05

like when Start Me Up came out and

42:07

like hey this is like a new chapter

42:09

for the Stones? Like do you

42:11

remember that? Well

42:13

hold on. Tattoo You in

42:15

my opinion is their best album. Okay.

42:18

Period. Wow. And

42:20

I know some people go are you fucking nuts?

42:22

Fucking... Yeah I would. I

42:24

don't know. I mean I would.

42:26

There's definitely arguments to be made. But

42:28

it has so many fun fucking songs

42:30

and I think after that album it's

42:33

kind of terrible. Right. But

42:36

all of a sudden... All of the further than

42:38

on. Where I was going was like that single

42:40

is so strong like if that came out back

42:42

in the day instead of Start Me Up like

42:44

I'm not saying it's as powerful as Start Me

42:47

Up but it would be like wow the Stones

42:49

sound great. I just think like it kind of

42:51

got lost this year because like there's

42:53

just not a big enough audience for them

42:55

in general. You know what I'm saying? But

42:58

like that is a classic concert.

43:02

Classically Turned to Form is what I'm saying and I

43:04

don't even think it's the best song on the album.

43:08

But yeah they sound great. I think

43:10

All Walking Dead fans should

43:12

be going to Rolling Stones concerts

43:15

because that's all I can think of.

43:18

The real zombies. When

43:21

I see that they're still like the

43:23

number one next... Right

43:25

after Taylor Swift's probably the number one

43:27

touring act and

43:29

they're releasing new albums. It's like

43:32

oh my god. God bless you

43:34

Mr. Jagger. You were truly addicted

43:36

to the rock and roll life.

43:39

And they got a young producer who knew

43:42

their sound and really did a

43:44

great job. He had them do all the music

43:46

before Mick ever got on it. So

43:49

they say that like the

43:52

Stones is Mick fitting into Keith not

43:54

Keith fitting into Mick. Interesting.

43:56

They write some of that though. Even

43:58

some of the guitar parts. Yeah,

44:01

but he's not allowed to sing on it

44:03

until the band is done recording Yeah But

44:05

I think but he and Joe Biden are

44:07

the same age and my dad died when

44:09

he was like I think he was 75

44:13

76 and I think of the shape he was in

44:15

and I think a Mick Jagger running And

44:18

he's got the full voice ring you

44:20

it's not Haggard sounding like yeah, it's

44:23

not withered Not where I thought

44:25

the best one was get close if you want

44:27

to play another track, but that was a great

44:30

one Holy shit

44:32

two Rolling Stones tracks play it

44:34

play it how often did a

44:36

needle drop it though? Look

44:40

at the meat of it He's

44:50

still horny Oh

44:54

shit hook up with a sexy rat Yeah,

45:05

that's a great blend of turn and

45:08

make go ahead Yeah,

45:10

yeah It's just equal parts.

45:12

It's rock Really come back.

45:14

I got a good I

45:16

got a good return to form here This

45:19

is porno for pyros with agua was

45:22

the recent Wow discovery Wow

45:55

Oh If

46:06

I was ever going to throw away

46:08

like mainstream life just to do like

46:10

a ton of acid and shrooms it

46:13

would there was a point in the 90s when these guys

46:15

just came out of nowhere and I was

46:17

like maybe I should go way out there.

46:19

Yeah, maybe I should go with them. And

46:22

then you know but I mean. And

46:24

then you don't. But they had the call of

46:26

the wild. They're like maybe you should just like

46:28

go on the road in a van and just

46:30

you know. Yeah. That

46:34

is great. That's great. Yeah.

46:37

So when you guys sing

46:40

to a song is it in a car?

46:44

Is it on the treadmill? Is

46:47

it in the shower? When

46:49

I'm in a car it's in the shower. But

46:52

if I'm on a treadmill it

46:55

doesn't depend on where I am. I'm having fun

46:57

of course. This is a great master. I

47:03

don't do treadmill so. And

47:05

I don't really listen to music in the car. So

47:08

I'm really at my house. To

47:10

me the city is my soundtrack. I'm paying

47:12

attention to things. I don't really like it.

47:15

I'm getting lost. Are you kidding me? You're

47:17

like don't listen to music in the car.

47:19

You're like Anthony Keetus under the bridge. If

47:22

a new song comes out I go I can't

47:24

do this thing justice. What if someone runs out

47:26

into the road or I see

47:28

a hot lady. I just have to be

47:30

with the music by myself. You can't listen

47:33

to music and see a hot lady? Like

47:35

if I know a great song and all I got

47:37

in the car is like the radio. Like

47:40

I'll fish around all this songs. Oh, heart

47:42

of glass? Give me heart of glass. But

47:44

I don't like. I don't really like. Heart

47:47

of glass? Give me heart of glass. Great

47:49

soundtrack to a hot lady. I

47:51

don't really like. I can't mix it. It's

47:53

too much. It's like. Brett

47:55

did you know this? I think I could

47:57

have guessed this about it. with

48:00

his driving style too. It's like head

48:02

on a swivel, emotions running hot. Oh

48:04

no! I'm tracking so many

48:07

different things when I'm out there. You

48:09

need to have calming music. Yeah. You

48:12

wouldn't believe how hot headed this

48:14

guy gets. I'm head on a

48:16

swivel, I'm looking for aberrations, I'm

48:18

braiding people, I'm peaching with my

48:20

horn, I'm... There's so much going

48:22

on. Brett, where do you sing?

48:26

To me, it's basically

48:29

two options. It's in the car for the

48:31

most part. And then it's

48:33

in the house if it's an empty house, you

48:35

know. Yeah, that kitchen might

48:37

have some good reverb. Right. But

48:40

that talking back that you were doing with the French lady,

48:42

I do that to both... Yeah, you would do that in

48:44

the car? No, that's in the house.

48:47

With the TV or the radio or

48:49

whatever it is, it's just a constant

48:52

dialogue back and forth. Don't

48:58

you have that like with the radio? They go,

49:00

okay, and this next one's by Jeff Rottow and

49:02

you go, no it's not. And you turn the

49:04

chat like this. You know what I mean? I

49:07

don't just turn it, I respond. The

49:09

woman on... The

49:12

AI... I

49:14

get that with the AI lady that tries to

49:17

tell me where to drive on Waze.

49:23

Okay. You gotta

49:25

take a ride up here and murder. I'm like,

49:27

I know. I

49:30

know you. This is my neighborhood

49:32

still. I need your help later

49:34

on. Right, right. And then

49:37

sometimes they leave you hanging. Where were you

49:39

three minutes ago when I didn't know where

49:41

to go right? Yeah, in this subtle merge.

49:43

What about this weird three highway intersection

49:46

where I'm not quite sure which lane

49:48

to be in? That

49:50

happened to me yesterday. I was

49:52

screaming at that AI. Yeah, it's like

49:54

an asterisk out here. Where do I go?

49:57

Okay. Well, my... We

50:00

had Lucero on our show and I think

50:02

they played it. They did play this song

50:05

and this this line or this

50:07

chorus this is This

50:10

is why this is my sing at

50:13

the top of your lungs, but you know in

50:15

the car the shower We

50:30

love her We

50:32

love her We love her You

50:43

probably you probably weren't paying attention. So I just

50:45

want you to hear the lyrics again This

50:49

guy's looking into the eyes And

50:52

when I was saying earlier when it's a

50:54

guy singing especially country I'm

50:57

the guy. I'm not being yelled at anymore.

50:59

Right, right You're the one even if they're

51:01

talking about like well, you are

51:04

from the country. You're from Arkansas But

51:07

mostly the guys the disappointment in these

51:09

songs That's true. But

51:11

I was to say like when they talk about

51:13

like I'm so glad I was raised country There's

51:15

like a whole bunch of songs like that Like

51:18

I fully sing along to those as

51:20

if I was raised country even dollars

51:22

in the suburbs of New Jersey And

51:25

that's why that's better to do that

51:27

alone in your car the shower not

51:29

out on a sidewalk in the country

51:31

where someone might Go I want it

51:33

down. They go. No, you get me

51:35

Street. I'm from the country John

51:38

Fogerty made a career out of that He

51:41

gets away, right? Yeah

51:45

Yeah, I can see it in her eyes I I

51:51

let her down, but I can make it up I

52:02

just need a little time, that's why

52:05

I started crying in the car, because

52:07

I think the things I need some

52:09

time on. Why don't

52:11

we have more subscriptions for improper humans?

52:13

I just need a little time, I

52:15

just need a little time. So

52:20

you're not even thinking romance,

52:22

you're thinking about your own bottom

52:24

line and stuff. Yeah,

52:27

because the songs are all about me when it's

52:29

Lucero. Oh, right, right, right.

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53:24

Human, it's getting to the time where

53:26

we need to say album

53:28

of the year and song of the year. All

53:32

right. And sometime, go

53:34

ahead, go ahead. Go ahead, Howard, you

53:36

start. I'm

53:39

forced to pick one. This

53:41

is by Ian Munsic. Is this

53:43

your song of the year or album of the year?

53:46

This is, oh, you're right. I'm

53:48

supposed to do album first. Sorry, Matt.

53:50

All right. Can I just

53:53

play a good song first? Oh,

53:56

wow. You gotta categorize it somehow. I'm just going

53:58

to hear a good song. I

54:00

think this is a song like if your

54:02

internal monologue is like yelling at your

54:04

parents, like you just want

54:06

to yell at your parents one time. That's

54:10

why I listen to music is to escape that.

54:16

This is Bully with All I Do. This

54:52

whole album is pretty good. I

55:01

don't know why Brett's mad at

55:03

his parents though. It's kind of

55:05

weird. This is a great song

55:07

for yelling at your wife. Great

55:11

lady, I bet her. Totally

55:14

it has that vibe too.

55:16

I like that one. It's got a nice slow

55:19

build to it, like a steady build type of

55:21

a deal. Yeah, but then it goes harder than

55:23

you expect. Matt, am

55:25

I allowed to pick Song of the Year Country

55:27

and then Song of the Year Other? Or you

55:29

gotta just have one. Wow, you're coming in strong

55:31

with all this country. I've asked you like three

55:33

times for the best country song. I'll give you

55:36

best country song. Yeah, do it. Okay.

55:39

Do it. This is Ian Muncic and

55:41

this song is called White Buffalo. To

55:44

me, this is a banger. I

55:46

feel like 20 years

55:49

from today, let's revisit, see where

55:51

it's at. But it's a great

55:53

song. She

56:05

came in like a lightning strike,

56:07

rolled out like thunder on

56:09

the plane. That

56:13

girl's a wild fire when she

56:16

gets done nothing's the same. She's

56:22

got the whole

56:24

video powered. She

56:50

came in like

56:52

a lightning

56:55

strike, rolled

56:58

out like thunder on the plane.

57:08

She came in like a lightning strike, rolled out like thunder

57:10

on the plane. I'm

57:34

just going through a path. It just echoes. Oh

57:36

yeah. That's... Oh, you go

57:38

to... You sing between mountains. Well, I'm just

57:42

saying, that gives me that, like, if I

57:44

was driving in Colorado, I may or may

57:47

not be listening to music, but when you're

57:49

dwarfed by the mountains, then you go, I

57:51

understand the John Birch Society, I get why

57:53

they don't want anyone else coming here. No,

57:56

I'm just kidding about that. You should

57:58

go. You should go to a mountain. mountainside and

58:00

sing. You don't have to

58:02

worry about driving and singing. Right now, when I

58:05

was, there was a point in Austin where I

58:07

was like, maybe I'll just front the band and

58:09

I took singing lessons and I would go out

58:11

to the park at night and sing and full

58:13

voice and. You

58:15

gotta get outta here. We close at 10 p.m.

58:18

Hey, not

58:20

yet. Holy

58:23

shit, I was practicing being in a

58:25

band. You fucking nerd. I

58:27

get drunk and go to a practice like everyone else.

58:32

Well, you're welcome. I used to practice stand up down

58:34

by a creek. You did? When

58:37

I first started to do it out loud. I'd

58:39

just go down by the creek and say it

58:41

out loud to the creek, my whole set. Wow,

58:43

you get me laughs? More

58:46

than at the club. Humons,

58:50

we could go on forever. I wanna

58:52

push back on country of the year

58:54

really hard, but this

58:57

is country of the year. Just

58:59

quickly. I'm sure it is. Dylan

59:01

Earl singing white painted trees. This

59:07

is for a factor of his fucking voice. This

59:15

guy could sit down next to Willie and

59:18

Johnny Cash and Waylon. White

59:23

painted trees. Toddling

59:29

the heart in the

59:31

Delta Breaks. I may

59:35

be eating all of

59:37

these things to get

59:39

me through. That's

59:42

how to sing, motherfuckers. If

59:45

you like that guy, which I do, I give props so you should

59:47

listen to a cult or wall. I know

59:49

a cult or wall. Okay, I mean

59:51

that stuff is the best country

59:53

of the year. Probably Little Songs.

59:57

Agreed. But I'm gonna be honest,

59:59

Humons, I can't do it. I gotta transition us

1:00:01

to best of the year. Pop

1:00:04

punk hit me the hardest this year. Last

1:00:07

year was Americana for some reason. The

1:00:11

country's been coming down. We've been

1:00:13

following a lot of country today. But

1:00:15

the two albums that hit me, well,

1:00:18

they're a sincere engineer that we played. I

1:00:21

hate your company name, how

1:00:23

your self-esteem stays. It's

1:00:27

getting ready to stop you. What?

1:00:29

And I hate you. That's not very nice.

1:00:31

That's a great song, Fireplace by Sincere Engineer.

1:00:34

But that's being talked about a lot. But

1:00:36

here too, we've played both these

1:00:39

on Improv Free Humans. One

1:00:42

was Total Downer. This

1:00:44

song is called... It's

1:00:49

a cool beginning, right? It's

1:00:52

called Dolly Parton. I'm

1:00:56

doing Song of the Year now. Pay

1:01:02

attention to this song. This whole

1:01:05

album is very good. It's called

1:01:08

A Hairtaker. But

1:01:11

my daughter made an observation

1:01:13

yesterday about this

1:01:15

song after we've been listening to

1:01:17

some Christmas music. ["A

1:01:20

Hairtaker"] It's

1:01:46

a funny song, asking Dolly Parton to fix the

1:01:48

world. Did that chorus remind

1:01:50

you of anything? Yes, the kinks.

1:01:53

Father Christmas, give us some money.

1:01:55

Yeah! Wow, good call. Wow, your daughter's

1:01:58

smart. And Sydney made that... call

1:02:00

yesterday. Damn, damn.

1:02:02

She goes, that's Father Christmas.

1:02:05

Wow, she's good people. Wow. That's

1:02:08

impressive. You could tell that her

1:02:11

father must have been exposed to

1:02:13

some type of revolutionary stereo music

1:02:15

system early in his

1:02:17

life. Yes, he doesn't even

1:02:19

know the organ. Neil Young

1:02:21

or somebody like that. For

1:02:23

example, Neil Young. He

1:02:26

wants, as good as that album is

1:02:28

and that song, I got to give

1:02:30

it to this song. This is my

1:02:32

song of the year by Rust Ring.

1:02:35

It's called Tiny Frame. This

1:02:39

whole album is great. Called North to

1:02:41

the Future. But Spotify

1:02:46

told me I listened to it

1:02:48

the most. I

1:03:02

like my

1:03:05

tiny frame.

1:03:29

That's why I used to sing to

1:03:31

myself at soccer practice. I like my

1:03:33

tiny frame. You

1:03:36

could squeeze between defenders. Like

1:03:39

Messi, the fleece. Messi!

1:03:42

I like

1:03:44

that one. So you guys ready? You got your song

1:03:46

of the year ready? Oh, I

1:03:49

thought I'm doing album of the year. Either

1:03:51

way, we are going to

1:03:53

do the separate, right? I

1:03:55

just did the song of the year. Mine could be from the

1:03:58

same. album. I

1:04:00

can do that. Okay. Let's

1:04:02

hear it. Alright, so album of the year.

1:04:04

I'm going with No Bro. There

1:04:08

I have a female fronted band

1:04:10

out of Montreal. No Bro. And

1:04:13

the song I would say is Song of the

1:04:15

Year is Let's Do Drugs. Okay,

1:04:17

I don't think I know how. Oh yeah, this is good.

1:04:23

Ooh. I

1:04:26

like it already. I'm

1:04:28

like very plugged. Oh,

1:04:57

oh. I

1:04:59

love it. I love it.

1:05:03

I love it. Brett, let's

1:05:05

hear some milk on the song.

1:05:07

You want

1:05:12

to hear other No Bro? That is such

1:05:14

a timeless anthem that every kid is going

1:05:16

to either use for sobriety

1:05:19

or for drugs. I mean, it's

1:05:21

going to get... And then they'll say an

1:05:23

interview with Satyric guys. You weren't listening. We

1:05:25

were really saying don't do drugs. Right.

1:05:29

You guys didn't get it. You going

1:05:32

to give us another taste of something else? Because it's the same as

1:05:34

this album of the year. I have to

1:05:36

drink some snake blood. And then I

1:05:38

woke up crying in the floor of a hotel room. The

1:05:42

mom asked, I don't know. I only

1:05:44

heard it now. Sounds

1:05:50

more like that for British. I

1:05:52

used to think that you were

1:05:54

really cool. These days you make

1:05:56

an average. That's a shame. You

1:05:58

are always talented. I got dudes to

1:06:00

pay, but hey, can I see what you're doing? All I wanted was

1:06:02

a Pepsi. And yes, if

1:06:04

you do the thing, but you don't want to. I

1:06:07

don't fucking see how I get.

1:06:10

No, I don't fucking see how

1:06:12

I get. No,

1:06:14

I don't. Well, you seem

1:06:16

to agree with me, Howard. Pop-punk

1:06:19

rules the day this year. No. I

1:06:23

don't see that. I don't

1:06:25

see that. That's your album

1:06:27

of the year. Well,

1:06:29

that's my album of the year because it's got

1:06:31

a bunch of bangers on it, and it works

1:06:33

as an album. Whereas everybody

1:06:35

else just kind of put out these

1:06:38

albums that have two or three good

1:06:40

songs on it. This thing to me

1:06:42

holds together as an album. So

1:06:46

I picked it. Also,

1:06:50

if I was going to really pick

1:06:52

one of the most memorable albums of the

1:06:54

year, we went over this hard

1:06:56

on Two Charted. But Dexie's

1:06:58

Midnight Runners put out

1:07:00

basically an album where the whole

1:07:03

thing is him being kind of

1:07:05

addicted to Fendom and dominatrixes and

1:07:07

stuff. Really worth a listen.

1:07:10

The most weirdest, out

1:07:12

of left field album of the year from a

1:07:14

known band. You feel like you're looking in on

1:07:17

a private moment. He's

1:07:22

basically just basically submitting

1:07:24

to a dominatrix. What's

1:07:27

that last one? Come

1:07:29

on, whip me hard. We gotta hear some of it

1:07:31

because it really is. Play

1:07:34

that last one with the synths and all

1:07:36

that. Yeah, yeah. Let's

1:07:39

see here. Is

1:07:43

it Goddess Rules? Dexie's

1:07:46

Midnight Runners. That

1:07:49

did not become a... Oh,

1:07:52

Lord. This does not sound like Come

1:07:54

on, Eileen. Sounds

1:07:56

like James Brown. It's

1:07:59

a good... Oh, yeah. Let's go.

1:08:04

Come

1:08:07

on, everyone. Wow. Are

1:08:14

you ready? Yeah.

1:08:20

Listen to me. Alright.

1:08:28

These are the

1:08:30

rules. These

1:08:32

are the rules for our relationship. You,

1:08:36

thank me, when

1:08:42

I won. Alright.

1:08:50

His responses are killing me. You're

1:08:53

waiting for him to rebel, Matt? He just

1:08:55

keeps submitting. The whole song is this. If

1:09:00

I was a recording engineer, I'd be like, come

1:09:02

on. Yeah.

1:09:04

I think he was a record engineer. He's

1:09:08

making up for a lifetime of being a misogynist or

1:09:10

something. The whole

1:09:12

album is just like, I serve women now. I

1:09:16

listen to them. It's

1:09:20

very strange. I

1:09:25

don't know what that was.

1:09:28

If I was listening to that, if my wife

1:09:30

walked in the room. Oh, jeez. There

1:09:36

used to be songs like that called

1:09:38

Cyber Sex. That'd

1:09:40

be on a show, Real Sex,

1:09:45

on HBO. Here's a

1:09:47

CD you can put on. Get you

1:09:49

hard. Instant

1:09:53

Rock. Soundtracks.

1:10:01

You want an album or a song? Whatever

1:10:04

inspires you. He just did an album and a

1:10:06

song. Go for it. I'll

1:10:08

do a song that inspired me. It's a

1:10:10

weird one, but that one was a weird

1:10:13

one too. So now I don't feel so bad. This

1:10:16

is Ty Seagull with Eggman. That's

1:10:18

such a... I had a... It's so cool. It's

1:10:21

that. I love it. I love it. I

1:10:24

love it. I love it. I love

1:10:26

it. I love it. I

1:10:28

love it. I

1:10:32

love it. I love

1:10:35

it. I

1:10:39

love it. I

1:10:45

love it. I

1:10:52

love it! See,

1:11:10

I could see you head on a swivel driving

1:11:12

to this. It

1:11:15

has that kind of anxious energy. Anything could

1:11:17

happen. Driving

1:11:20

cross country like I'm out with nothing

1:11:22

to look at in those middle states.

1:11:25

I would definitely play music, something

1:11:27

like that. It

1:11:29

has a desert feel to it. Oh yeah.

1:11:38

That song of the year. It's

1:11:40

up there for me. It's original. I like

1:11:42

that it's very original to me. It's definitely

1:11:44

original. It has a cool... It's

1:11:47

like a kink. Is there something about it that reminds me

1:11:49

of that kind of stuff? Like the

1:11:51

songwriting of it. Do

1:11:54

your album of the year, Brett. This

1:11:56

one is a contender for me. It was

1:11:58

Blitz and Trapper, millions of billions. Do

1:12:00

you hear this one? I think you would

1:12:02

like this one. They're

1:12:33

very original. I'd like to see them

1:12:35

next time they come

1:12:38

to the LA area. Yeah,

1:12:51

some of their new stuff for sure. I've

1:12:53

always liked them, but

1:12:55

I feel like everything I've heard that they put out

1:12:57

this year has been especially good. They've

1:13:00

got a new promotion with Wienerschnitzel.

1:13:04

I don't know if

1:13:06

that's true. That's a

1:13:11

freebie for the listeners, Matt. I know we're just

1:13:13

supposed to bring music and stuff. Yeah, I didn't

1:13:15

want all these jokes. Humans,

1:13:18

Brett, what about your album of

1:13:20

the year? Okay, my album of

1:13:22

the year. That means

1:13:24

you can listen to the whole album and not

1:13:26

feel disappointed. Exactly.

1:13:28

This is Write Down, My

1:13:31

Strike Zone, an artist I've

1:13:33

loved for many years. Pentatonic. I

1:13:35

don't think it's going to

1:13:37

surprise anyone necessarily, but this is a great

1:13:39

album. Return to Form, Queens of the

1:13:41

Stone Age. The album

1:13:43

is Emotion Sickness, which

1:13:46

is also one of the better songs on the album. Mm-hmm.

1:14:00

Give me another

1:14:09

track. I'm

1:14:20

going to play for this game right here. Ah,

1:14:33

just vibing

1:14:36

in the arena right now. They're

1:14:38

playing this live. They're

1:14:40

loving this. I

1:14:42

feel like I'm out of Joshua Tree and

1:14:45

someone gave me acid. Yeah,

1:14:47

this is where it's exalting.

1:14:53

Actually, was that the name of the album?

1:14:55

Exalting? That's a

1:14:57

good one. In Times New Roman is the name

1:14:59

of the album, not emotion sickness. You

1:15:02

know, Matt, formerly Yamavac

1:15:04

Casino, it's now... What

1:15:07

is it now? I don't know. You passed that on the

1:15:10

way out to the desert. That seems to me like... Yeah.

1:15:13

Right when you start to pass the casinos, you know,

1:15:15

you're deep out there. That's when you drop the acid?

1:15:18

This is another one. Carnivolure. Do

1:15:23

you drop it like when you're 30 minutes

1:15:25

out from parking, so it hits you right

1:15:27

as you park? Well, I went to a

1:15:29

concert. No, I

1:15:31

thought you were hiking out at Joshua Tree. I take it when I

1:15:33

get there and then drive home. You've

1:15:36

got to be safe, guys. You don't know

1:15:38

if you're caught in traffic halfway there. This

1:15:44

is Queen... this is the same band. Nothing.

1:15:46

Nothing. Nothing

1:15:49

at the time. This

1:15:53

is Queen of the Stone Age? Yes. This

1:16:00

was the most gothic. They

1:16:02

always sound to me like they just got

1:16:04

done doing kinky sex shit. Yeah.

1:16:08

Like some wild, just flaggering

1:16:10

around. Yeah. Better

1:16:14

fans. Alright,

1:16:17

humans. That is Brett. Go ahead,

1:16:19

Howard. This

1:16:21

one I just remember we didn't do,

1:16:24

and we gotta do it because of

1:16:26

Arkansas. This song is called

1:16:28

Running Out of Hope, Arkansas.

1:16:32

And this really is a great song. Brett's heard

1:16:35

it, he knows. But this

1:16:37

is real country. I

1:16:40

know this song. Oh, you

1:16:42

gotta do the studio version. This

1:16:45

is the studio. This is the studio.

1:16:49

If we get that studio, it hits our studio. Is

1:16:52

this the right one? Yeah, yeah. Damn,

1:16:55

he just fiddle. He just said

1:16:57

fiddle better than guitar. Yeah,

1:17:19

it's great, it's fun. She's

1:17:29

never even past Little Rock. That's

1:17:31

where I was born. It's hard

1:17:34

to get past my town. There

1:17:38

it is. A town called Hope. How

1:17:41

about that? That's where President Clinton's from.

1:17:44

The Jersey guy found that one. Or

1:17:46

you got some kind of Jersey song I don't know about.

1:17:50

Shots fired. I actually had

1:17:52

one. Jersey song? Yeah.

1:17:56

I don't know if these guys are from Jersey. I

1:17:58

am. I'm

1:18:00

not proud of it. I left there as soon as I could.

1:18:02

Born to run. I mean, it's about getting

1:18:04

out of there. I

1:18:06

can't recall if they had any artists

1:18:08

this year. I

1:18:12

think there was a slaughter beat. The boss

1:18:14

played with Gaslight Anthem. I played that on

1:18:16

your... Oh, yeah, yeah. No, but I was

1:18:19

saying, were you guys listening to that song

1:18:21

the whole time we were growing up? Like,

1:18:23

my brothers and sisters and stuff? Like,

1:18:26

you can't get the hell out of here. What

1:18:28

are you doing? Bruce

1:18:32

only lives there because his songs are about

1:18:34

you can't get the hell out of there

1:18:36

either. Yeah. Okay,

1:18:38

humans, I'd like to end with my

1:18:41

album of the year. This

1:18:43

is Joanna Sternberg.

1:18:46

This album called I've

1:18:48

Got Me. And

1:18:51

let's just...we'll play the title

1:18:53

track first. So you get

1:18:55

her vibe. But

1:18:58

she's usually either piano or guitar, and that's

1:19:00

it. I've

1:19:04

got me in

1:19:06

the morning. I've

1:19:08

got me in the evening.

1:19:11

I've got you in the

1:19:13

morning. I've got you

1:19:15

in the morning. I've

1:19:18

got you in the morning.

1:19:21

Let's do another one. This is

1:19:23

People or Toys 2 U. I'm

1:19:37

pretty talking to you. I'm pretty talking

1:19:39

to you. You tell

1:19:41

me what I hate. I

1:19:46

wonder what I would say.

1:19:48

Wait a minute, stop this

1:19:50

thing. I

1:19:54

know you went off so much.

1:19:58

I need you to come. Female

1:20:00

Neil Young a little bit.

1:20:03

Ah interesting. I think

1:20:05

it sounds like Sissy Spacek as Olive

1:20:07

Oil and Robert Altman's Popeye. Wow.

1:20:12

Every night I

1:20:14

cannot be. I

1:20:16

lie away. Do you like this

1:20:18

Rhett? A little acoustic guitar, a little electric now

1:20:21

piano. I will be with you. I

1:20:24

will be with you. I

1:20:26

will be with you

1:20:28

someday. So this is off as

1:20:31

I said I've got me. She released

1:20:33

this one. Just listen.

1:20:35

This one's a little Daniel Johnston or something.

1:20:39

Yeah, or Regina Spector. This

1:20:43

is called Neighbors. Fiona Apple.

1:20:47

Listen to the lyrics to this one. This is kind

1:20:49

of, this is pretty funny. This is called Neighbors. See

1:20:51

how much you relate to this. You

1:20:58

don't say hi to

1:21:00

me so I don't say hi to you.

1:21:03

You won't smile at me.

1:21:06

She said

1:21:08

she needs to be there. I

1:21:18

see a smile in my

1:21:21

eyes facing the sun and

1:21:23

lots of a broken you

1:21:25

are feeling me. What's there?

1:21:28

So, so, what's

1:21:30

there? How are

1:21:32

you with that? Do you say hi to your neighbors Howard?

1:21:36

No, I have a feud going with they

1:21:38

make incredible amount of noise. They

1:21:40

have a dog that barks, they have a loud

1:21:42

laugh. Yeah,

1:21:45

they're terrible, terrible people. You

1:21:48

only have one set of neighbors? Not

1:21:51

left and right. Well, I

1:21:53

got a set. I got

1:21:55

others but these are like, they live

1:21:57

underneath me. True. laugh

1:22:00

loud for a year then I finally lost it

1:22:02

and banged on the floor and then I got

1:22:04

a noise complaint. That burned

1:22:07

me. Then 10 days later they bought a

1:22:10

loud yapping dog and I

1:22:12

was like, okay, that's your escalation.

1:22:16

That's an escalation. And

1:22:18

they're just slow on the uptake. Yeah,

1:22:21

I mean most of what I say about

1:22:23

them is not suitable for any podcast. Shout

1:22:26

out to so many great musics that came

1:22:29

out this year. Yeah,

1:22:31

apparently mostly in country. We

1:22:34

got some pop-tunk on today. We sampled

1:22:36

some different stuff. Go

1:22:39

ahead. Should I just shout out some like runners

1:22:42

up type shit? Sure.

1:22:44

Oh, it's on

1:22:47

my other laptop. So,

1:22:49

never mind. But I

1:22:52

mean there's lots of great stuff. I also

1:22:54

like Ashlyn McBride. She was

1:22:56

a country too, but there

1:22:59

were others. Shout

1:23:02

out Noer. It's a cool

1:23:04

group. Lewis Cole on drums. Noer,

1:23:07

I don't even know her. Yeah,

1:23:10

Noer? I don't even know her. Original

1:23:12

sound. That's fun. Yeah,

1:23:16

I like that. I've been on our show. The

1:23:18

Rune Brothers album was really solid

1:23:21

this year. Speaking of production, a

1:23:24

lot of fun in their production sound.

1:23:26

Jenny Owen Youngs, another guest we've had

1:23:28

on her full album is really good.

1:23:30

John Allison Weiss. Former

1:23:34

dealer. Had some

1:23:36

good stuff. Lydia

1:23:39

Loveless, Me Rex,

1:23:41

The Hold Steady. All

1:23:43

had good albums this year. Man, let's put out an album that

1:23:46

was pretty good. What the fuck

1:23:48

with all these old 80s

1:23:50

bands coming back? Was it decent? Yeah,

1:23:54

man. I mean, you'll definitely find some singles

1:23:57

on there that are really good. Fear also.

1:24:00

And it's pretty good fear.

1:24:02

Yeah, how did I miss that?

1:24:05

Yeah, right small. I love that shit

1:24:08

blink-182 did this very

1:24:11

boring album Okay, fear

1:24:13

really here. Can we hear we in

1:24:15

let's end with fear. Let's end with

1:24:17

the most popular song on the fear

1:24:20

album. Oh Let's see.

1:24:22

I Love

1:24:25

living in the city. I love

1:24:27

that song. Which one is this? How

1:24:31

about I mean I'm partially here it's called

1:24:34

I am an engineer Leaving

1:24:47

on Cover

1:25:01

I am My

1:25:13

loop yeah A

1:25:23

lot of people say when fear

1:25:25

got popular. That's when keep

1:25:28

it going the

1:25:30

LA hardcore scene kind

1:25:32

of got nasty and It

1:25:36

forced a lot of people out became

1:25:39

violent kind of misogynist. Yeah, it got

1:25:41

jerky But

1:25:45

they were They

1:25:47

were on you guys know that they were on

1:25:49

a Saturday night line. Yeah, Belushi loved them. Yeah

1:25:52

fear Yeah And

1:25:56

Ian Mackay was there. The uma kind was

1:25:58

there. I didn't he was there is

1:26:00

one of the punks in the audience and they

1:26:03

wanted punks dancing around and I

1:26:05

think like Belushi called DC and

1:26:08

was like, we need punks

1:26:10

up here and a

1:26:12

bunch of DC punks. Can I

1:26:15

say something controversial about Fugazi? Sure.

1:26:19

Okay, go ahead. Fugazi?

1:26:22

Fugazi. That's what I

1:26:24

said, that was controversial, the way I pronounced it.

1:26:26

No, I only like the songs that Ian McCasings,

1:26:28

I'm not into that other guy. I

1:26:35

prefer Ian's voice, I'd say that. Oh

1:26:39

yeah, that's pretty controversial. I thought you were

1:26:41

going to say you

1:26:43

like to slam down at the concert. This

1:26:46

isn't good for you. Okay

1:26:50

humans, I could listen to this with my buddies

1:26:52

forever, but we've had a good time, in 2023

1:26:54

this has been the best of. Tell

1:26:58

the bands that you heard them on

1:27:00

Improv for Humans first, go out

1:27:02

and buy their full albums. Fuck

1:27:06

Spotify, right? We can get a taste of

1:27:08

them on Spotify, but then we got to

1:27:10

go buy their full albums somewhere. Bandcamp

1:27:13

you know Mattie B's buying the CDs,

1:27:16

if you got them available. Some

1:27:19

of these bands don't make the CDs for us

1:27:21

old guys anymore. How many CDs are you buying

1:27:24

this year? How many did you get? I

1:27:27

literally can count it right now. Jesus.

1:27:31

That's a lot. One, two. I'd

1:27:33

say I have 20. That's pretty good

1:27:35

though, for this day and age, physical

1:27:37

media. Yeah. I like that

1:27:39

they can hold in your hand. You're

1:27:43

part of the Improv for Humans platform, which

1:27:45

I hope you all go to the Discord

1:27:47

and say what was your best album of

1:27:50

the year? What was your best song year?

1:27:52

What's your best song for merging onto the

1:27:54

highway, our most popular category? Whoa.

1:27:57

They're singing in the shower. are

1:28:01

eating uh... eating out

1:28:03

your loved one. What instructional

1:28:05

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1:28:07

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