Super Awesome Mix
"I made you a mix tape" -- some of the best words to hear from someone you care about! Join Matt and Sam on a weekly mix tape adventure: each guest is asked to pick a theme and make a mix tape, which will be unveiled over the course of the episode. You're guaranteed to hear about good music, some new music, and even learn some trivia along the way. Come listen with us, and be sure to grab your copy of the mix made available in the Super Awesome App in each episode's show notes. IG/Threads: @superawesomemix
Super Awesome Mix
From Post Animal to Bad Bunny: June's Musical Landscape
Matt and Sam are back with their June new music mix, where nostalgia meets innovation in unexpected ways.
The blurring of entertainment worlds takes center stage as we discover Post Animal's "Pie in the Sky," featuring Stranger Things actor Joe Keery who returned to his musical roots after the show's filming wrapped. This happy rock anthem sits alongside Maiah Mancer's haunting "sirencore" vocals on "With a Smile," creating a compelling contrast that showcases music's boundless versatility.
Our mix navigates emotional depths through Ben Kweller's heartbreakingly hopeful "Oh Dorian," written as a tribute to his late son, while Matt Berninger explores the hollow feeling of relationships that have everything except love. The storytelling tradition continues through James McMurtry, who continues his long songwriting career with vivid musical narratives that paint complete pictures in just minutes.
Hip-hop's evolution shines through multiple generations – from Logic's confident yet laid-back "Bad Mother****er" to Xzibit's emphatic return with "Shut Yo Mouth," which hilariously opens with a 1950s-style instructional segment. Ciara collaborates with the lightning-fast Busta Rhymes, while global superstar Bad Bunny demonstrates exactly why he sells out arenas worldwide with his infectious energy and multilingual approach.
Ready to discover your next favorite track? Listen now and let us know which song resonates most with you through our social channels @SuperAwesomeMix!
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1. Pie in the Sky - Post Animal
2. With a Smile (What So Not & Synergy's "Dreamer" Dub) - Maiah Manser
3. Oh Dorian - Ben Kweller featuring MJ Lenderman
4. No Love - Matt Berninger
5. Sailing Away - James McMurtry
6. 60 Ways to Forget People - Bush
7. Wassup - Ciara & Busta Rhymes
8. Bad M**********r - Logic
9. Shut Yo Mouth - Xzibit featuring Compton Av & Butch Cassidy
10. Have We Met (The Void) - Garbage
11. NUEVAYoL - Bad Bunny
12. Autumn in New York - Dena DeRose
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welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is matt said home, alongside my co-host and co-founder of super awesome mix, sam abusabi sam. How we doing this week doing real well. Six uh mixes into the year now, which is wild well, we've done more mixes than that, but you're talking about new music. New music mixes, right? Yeah?
Speaker 2:look I I haven't done math in a while. All right, once you leave college and the mba, you kind of you know you don't do a lot of math.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to clarify for people out there because I knew what you meant. But maybe the people, maybe they're not watching this clip on YouTube, and so they're like I can't see your face. I can't make out exactly what he's talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, six new music mixes. That's where we're at. It's a lot of new music. It's great. This one has some real good songs on. It's great, and this one has some real good songs on here too. I really like this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's getting real busy on the new music side. It's kind of funny because we talk about how January it's sort of slim pickings and we kind of have to like really scrounge to find some new music. But yeah, this month and the next few months it's really like just all sorts of big albums coming out. Well, you know whether we're ready for them or not, and uh, yeah, so this is a lot to choose from and it makes it really hard to pick out. Uh, just six tracks from each of us I agree.
Speaker 2:And uh, notable mention um little wayne knew his new album came out like basically right before we we put this together, so did not make this cut. I don't want him to feel insulted. It's a great album, been listening to it a lot, so just didn't make this mix in particular.
Speaker 1:Apologies yeah, you know his pr team which they are listening. They were very upset, uh, because we sent them a preview of this mix and that they weren't happy about it. But, um, no, yeah, I mean, look, springsteen is coming out with like eight lost albums and he's releasing like a single at a time, and I've been holding off, including any new bruce springsteen music, because I'm like all right, I'm gonna wait for all eight albums to come out, I'm gonna listen to it and then I'm gonna pick one track, okay, so yeah.
Speaker 1:You should applaud my discipline in doing that.
Speaker 2:I do. I appreciate that. I just feel you'd find a way to fit him in on every mix that we do. You're like songs I grew up listening to. It's like this just came out, like last week. And you're like, well, I would have been listening to it.
Speaker 1:There are a lot of albums. If he had actually released this album okay, in 1987, then yeah. I would have listened to it growing up. This is Fitz.
Speaker 2:That's fair. That's fair, all right. Well, let's get into this mix today with no Bruce on it, and we're going to start off with your first pick, and it is Pie in the Sky by Post Animal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, your first pick, and it is pie in the sky by post animal. Yeah, this one just made me laugh on, like artist and title alone, because if you're familiar with the alan parsons project, they have a very famous song called eye in the sky, right? So I'm like, okay, it's an easy misspelling. And then, of course, post malone is is everywhere. So it's like you could be missed, you might have mistyped malone and all of a sudden Post Animal comes up. So either this was really clever marketing by them or just happenstance, that this is how it worked out. But no, this is an actual band. They've been together since 2014. They're out of Chicago Now.
Speaker 1:One of their original members, who just rejoined the group because some other obligations have wrapped up, is a guy named joe keery. Does that name ring a bell at all? Sam, it does not. No, okay, well, you may know him better as steve from a show called stranger things. Oh nice, okay, yeah. So he like was in this band in 2014. If we kind of think back, it's like, yeah, I think that was before the start of stranger things, because it's been on forever and uh, so he left the band after like an album or two to go, uh do all this acting because it took them forever to film that show but they are finally wrapped and so he rejoined them for their newest album, uh, which is kind of cool, but this is uh. I think you know it's weird because they're described as a psychedelic rock band. I didn't really get the psychedelic aspect of it?
Speaker 1:no, not really it actually kind of fit your new genre that you made up a couple episodes ago episodes ago of happy rock.
Speaker 1:I feel like we were very much in the happy rock genre, um, but yeah, I just thought it was a pretty good like fun song, like it just really sounded good, put you in a good mood, all that stuff. So. And then with the stranger things connection, because I think the last season is finally coming out later this year, um, I thought that was kind of worth a shout out as well yeah, can we?
Speaker 2:I just want to take a quick aside there. Those kids are like full-grown now. Like I don't know, like the magic. The magic of the first season was that it was like a band of kids getting together and now it's like yeah, here's some like 30 somethings that are going to go fight this.
Speaker 1:Well, it's so funny because growing up you had shows that either went through that right, Like we're just like all right, right, these kids are getting older.
Speaker 1:We've got to reset in some way, like if you watch the brady bunch or family matters like you can kind of tell like well, these kids are getting bigger, right yeah um, or you had a show like 90210, where it's just like we're gonna get a bunch of 30 year olds and just tell you they're teenagers, right, like they didn't even pretend, right. And here it's like, yeah, it's like they're gonna start this show, I think, around thanksgiving, and be like one year later and it's like it's supposed to be, like they're 18 and it's like wait, wasn't the last season three years ago, right?
Speaker 2:this guy's going to college like he. What's happening like?
Speaker 1:yeah, meanwhile it's like you watch, you know the entertainment news. It's like he just had his third kid. Okay, the kid's just watching season one of stranger things. It's like wait what no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. Um, I am excited for that, though, and it's funny because there's the singer who was also an actress on Stranger Things, like season two or three, so there's a lot of music and overlap between Stranger Things and the music industry, which is great. I'm blanking on her name. I want to say it's Maya.
Speaker 1:Maya Hawk yeah, ethan Hawk's daughter, yes, yes, thank you, who worked with Steve at the ice cream shop. So these two, probably you. You know, they're acting together in all these scenes in that in that one season, and then they're probably just writing songs during the breaks, you know, like gosh can't wait to get back to this music career once this, once this show bombs out.
Speaker 2:You know they were probably I mean really, who's watching one of the largest franchises Netflix has ever had? I guarantee.
Speaker 1:One of them had an agent who was like look, this is done. Okay, like this is never gonna last. Nobody cares about science fiction.
Speaker 2:Especially if it's set back in the 80s Like who cares yeah?
Speaker 1:right. This thing is 0 for 2. I can't believe they made a second season. Just keep writing music.
Speaker 2:But I really like this sound. It has a throwback sound to me. It almost reminded me of like the heavy, heavy a little bit, and also Rooney. It's got like a Rooney vibe. But yeah, great summery energy, really really appropriate for a June mix. So nice start to the mix.
Speaker 1:All right, your first pick. This is with a smile, and I don't know if this is parentheses or just a description of what, what we're doing here, but what's so not? And synergies dreamer, dub by Maya Mancer.
Speaker 2:Yes, so she is. Her album came out last year, which had the song with a smile. This remix came out very recently and I actually talked about this on jen show. Um, what are you listening to? Obsessed with this song, have been listening to it on repeat non-stop. Um, her voice has been described to me. I learned later. It's like siren.
Speaker 2:Core is like a genre of music where it's uh, basically like siren you know voices right and it's perfect like she's. She's so good at that. Um, as I talked about on the show with jen, like florence, um, from florence, and machine is also really, really good at that. But yeah, I loved this song. I saw a video of it on instagram, of her performing it live, which was also haunting and beautiful, and so I went and got the the full song from spotify and have just been obsessed with it ever since. Definitely gets you moving. I've been having like an electronic music kick all year, so this fits nicely in with everything else that I've been listening to. But just thought this was like a really cool high energy kind of mix, and I loved learning about Sirencore. I thought that was so interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm so glad that there's a name for the way her voice sounds, because I was like it's ephemeral I don't know, that was the best word I think I can come up with to describe it. But it's just such a stark contrast to kind of the rhythm behind it and everything. And you're right, the Florence and the Machine comp is appropriate, is appropriate, Although Florence doesn't just stay in that register the whole time, I think, the way this one does. So I don't know if that falls under the category of a siren core, but yeah, no, it works. It's very interesting. I didn't know what to expect going into this and then when you think about electronic music, I don't know if I think about this particular voice with it, and so I think it just got my attention. I was just like where's this going? What are we doing next? Like this is interesting, so and that's probably a good compliment for like a new artist is, like if they kind of capture your attention, like that's what you're going for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely All right. Your next pick a very sad song, I would say, but a very nice and heartwarming one. This one is oh Dorian by Ben Queller featuring MJ Lenderman.
Speaker 1:Yes. So Ben Queller, we brought him on the show before I put him on a couple of other mixes before. I don't think MJ Lenderman has made an appearance on the mix prior to this, but this is a sweet sounding kind of duet song. Really really good songwriting here.
Speaker 1:If the backstory here is actually, ben Queller had a son named Dorian who he lost, and so it's kind of sort of you know ruefully thinking about you know time spent with this, you know child, that he's lost and I mean, which is just awful to think about, as having children myself like I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1:But this serves as a pretty strong tribute, I think, to him. And I think it's one thing that musicians have that maybe a lot of us don't is kind of an outlet like this where they can sort of write something, and I would encourage anybody who's kind of lost somebody it's like it's not a bad thing to just sort of write thoughts down, even if you're not writing a song or poetry or a novel that that is a good outlet. But, um, you know, as a result of that we get, uh, a new Ben Queller track and and one that I think is a you know strong, kind of true to his roots really sounds good, um, but obviously the backstory kind of you know, puts a, puts a sad tinge to it yeah, absolutely yeah, no, I think it's.
Speaker 2:It's a really heartwarming song, but a very loving and and like in a way, happy because, or hopeful in a way, you know, because he's singing like I can't wait to hang out with you again. Uh, he said that he wrote that as like the perspective of his high school friends, um, who had who still come and visit, uh, his son's grave and and like their attitude is like he's not really gone, like I'll see him again, and so I think he's trying to adopt that, that very hopeful, positive attitude about this. But yeah, I think it's a beautiful song, um, and knowing the backstory just like enriches that, um, that, but, um, always love ben queller, I think he. He's a really, really great music writer and music performer. So nice to see him with new music.
Speaker 1:All right, so track four. This is no Love by Matt Berninger.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's funny. We always talk about bands where there's almost no difference between, like, the band that they're in and whenever they do a solo album. And I know we've talked about the National being on that list. It just again reminds me because, like you could have told me this is by the national, I would have been like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I think the example we brought up then was like Dave Matthews once put out a solo album and it was like so the only difference was he dropped the word band from the album title Right, and it's like still kind of sounds like the dave matthews song like.
Speaker 2:It's really indiscernible. It was a really easy edit for uh, for the album covers and and the thing you just I think some of the guys- from the band played on that album.
Speaker 1:But it was just like this is a dave matthews album, so it's just like, oh okay, so wait. So I'm not gonna get a check next month it's like oh no it just won't be the same, just won't be. We're just cutting back on your hours yeah, um, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2:I think I would put also um the lead singer from Munford and Sons in that category.
Speaker 2:Right, he's the band anyway, anyway might be controversial, though We'll see Um but this is a solo album. Uh, it's called get sunk and I just I love it Right, like I love the national, I love his voice, I just think he has such a strong voice to just kind of pull you in. Um, I think the just you know like what he's thinking about here.
Speaker 2:I love how descriptive like the bridge is. For example, we say sorry, we laugh it off with careful hugs and kisses on the cheek, and I think that just paints such a rich image of kind of like being with someone you maybe were close with but now you're not close with, and there's like this discomfort and, and you know, you have this like awkward exchange where you know now maybe it was a romantic partner. Now you're just you know careful hugs and kisses on the cheek I, I just think that's that's so descriptive and you immediately know like having had that experience before. So, yeah, I just think, um, I started listening to this on like a cloudy, cool start to the day and I thought that was perfect, like it's that kind of a vibe. So really, really like the song and excited to dig more into the full album that's out now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was weird, this one. I was like is this a sad song or is it an okay song? Like this is kind of an in-between, like there's one lyric we don't know how it happened Everything we ever wanted, but no love. We keep keeping on without it. And it's just like wow, you know, and it's exactly what we described where it's just like we kind of get everything we want out of this, but there's just no love. And it's just like, yeah, do you want that? I don't know like it's. It's really, yeah, like you said, kind of interesting. Is this an old relationship? Is this a relationship that's just gone stale, like what's? I don't know, but it's, uh, really interesting songwriting and, of course, the sound like you, it just sounds like the National, so you'll enjoy that part of it for sure. But, yeah, this was well done.
Speaker 2:Awesome, All right. Track number five it is Sailing Away by James McMurtry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so James McMurtry is a singer-songwriter. He's been around for a long time and mostly falls in the country genre, but he could be considered kind of folk or Americana, like you know, all those types of things. Have you heard of his father, sam Larry McMurtry? Does that name ring?
Speaker 2:a bell.
Speaker 1:Okay, so he's a pretty famous author actually, of Western novels in particular. His most famous one is called lonesome dove, which they, um have made. I think they did a mini series most famously. Remember when there used to be a mini series out there where they just take, like they did it with roots, once upon a time they did it with lonesome dove where it was just like this is a multi-night tv event. Okay, now it's just every series on netflix, right like so. So nowadays they would just take lonesome dove or any number of, uh, larry mcmurtry novels and just create a season of it on on a netflix or some other streaming service. Uh, maybe more paramount, he might be more paramount, um, but anyway.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, this his son and it's really kind of interesting because I just love his songwriting and I've really done like a deep dive since kind of finding this. He's someone that growing up here in Texas, because he's from Fort Worth, like I knew of him and would hear a song here and there but never really got into it. And since I listened to this one, I've gone back and just started listening to all his albums and it's really remarkable because you know his, his father wrote these novels that are like a thousand pages long, like they're really extensive, and and he writes these stories in just you know, three to five minute songs and and so it's really cool the pictures he paints in his songs. I really love it, and so this is a great one, and I just kind of jumped at the opportunity to feature him on a mix because he doesn't come out with new music too often and I think it's an artist people should get into for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a couple of notes on this one.
Speaker 2:I really liked the shout out to Jason Is um, an artist we've featured many times on on our show, um, but overall I really you know to your point I was won over by the lyrics and the imagery that he paints. I think that that came through, and so to know that his dad was, uh was, a prolific author, like that makes all the sense in the world because I think that passed down to him or was taught to him. Um, but I I loved the lyrics, for example, trying to remember did I lock the front door and have I any business being in this business anymore? And then it goes right into the chorus of and I'm sailing away feeling faded, I'm not okay. So I just think, yeah, it's like it just kind of draws you in and can feel relatable sometimes, where you know you're just out and you feel like you're in a fog and you don't even remember if you locked the front door and you're just questioning all these things about yourself. So I thought that was really good. I really liked this track for his songwriting.
Speaker 1:All right. So next up and we get through a series of songs now of just kind of throwback artists that I don't know we haven't heard from in a while. So this is really kind of cool how this lined up on the mix. But track six, it is 60 Ways to Forget People by Bush.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know it's so funny. I feel like there's like a big resurgence of all these like iconic 90s and 2000s bands that all of a sudden are producing music that I didn't realize they still existed and were doing that. So Bush is one of them, which is great. I grew up listening to a lot of his tracks and so, yeah, you know, Gavin Rosdale just has one of those, again, iconic voices. You can kind of spot him anywhere whenever he sings. So this is off of a new album of theirs called I Beat Loneliness, which I think is a great title to just anything. I just imagine that being like a self-help group name. You know, I Beat Loneliness, which I think is a great title to just anything. I just imagine that being like a self-help group name. You know, I Beat Loneliness.
Speaker 1:I Beat Loneliness. Yeah, that's quite the flex, right. Yeah it is. Yeah, I Beat a Video Game or something like that. No, it's like I Beat Loneliness. It's like wow.
Speaker 2:I'd be really worried, though, if I put that together and no one came, and then I was just the only person who was there. I would feel worried about myself.
Speaker 1:Start a loneliness support group and nobody shows up.
Speaker 2:And no one shows up.
Speaker 1:It's a bad beat. It's a bad beat. It's a bad beat not a good way.
Speaker 2:Not a good way to start your day, um, but yeah, this feels very familiar, you know. So, like if you liked bush in the 90s and all that. Like you're gonna like, you're gonna like listen to this album, um, from what I can tell, but uh, just has that like volume raising chorus is what I'm gonna call it. Like, whenever the chorus comes on, you just want to crank the volume and really get into it, and so that's what I love about his music, and it's delivered here on this new track.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it took me a minute to recognize. I wasn't looking at my phone when this started playing, so I didn't immediately recognize Bush. But then after a minute or so I was like, well, this started playing. So I didn't immediately recognize Bush. But then after a minute or so I was like, well, this sounds familiar, what is this? And I looked down and I was like, oh right, and so it's interesting because I think his voice has evolved a little bit, like it's changed just enough, but it's still recognizable A little bit different than like a Stephen Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, where it's like the second he starts singing.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is Third Eye Blind. Where it's like the second he starts singing, I'm like this is Third Eye Blind, right. So I wasn't immediately like that, but I do recognize it after a while. He didn't necessarily outline all 60 ways to forget people, and so I wasn't sure if that was like a PDF that comes with the album download or when's that exactly coming? That's what I want to, not that I'm interested in forgetting people, okay, I want to remember everyone. However, if they have specific advice, I feel like that would be valuable.
Speaker 2:I think you have to sign up for his mailing list you got to give him an email address, yeah. That's how they get you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Then he just starts spamming you with like fat loss ideas and stuff.
Speaker 2:Right, fat loss ideas and stuff. It's a very intricate like pyramid scheme you find yourself in again super awesome marketingcom uh, it's still out there, it's still out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just imagining gavin roste guys. We don't make any money on album sales anymore. Okay, so, yeah, we make new music but then we sell them, these you know supplements, right, like kind of makes sense when you think about it.
Speaker 2:It totally makes sense. Um, all right, another throwback sound. Um, certainly with two recognizable voices, I would say, and this song is what's Up? By Ciara and Busta Rhymes.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Giants fans out there as they brace for the Russell Wilson era. He's a weird guy. I don't know how well it's going to go, but you know what? Ciara's got a new album, so you could at least listen to this and maybe feel a little bit better, right as you're slogging through this upcoming NFL season. But yeah, I haven't heard. I didn't even do the research. I'm not sure where the last time she came out with new music was, but I'm listening to this new album and I'm like this is really good. This is really fun. Good, this is this is really fun. And then to add Busta Rhymes to this and I don't know how he's still able to rap as fast as he is, but it's, it's really remarkable. Um, or maybe that's just AI. Maybe he's able to do it slowly now and they just speed it up, who knows?
Speaker 1:right it up yeah, but uh, this sounds awesome. Like I really love this song. Um, I thought it was really fun and this was my best bet for you. Like I thought this was the song you might like the most on the ones that I picked.
Speaker 2:I've repeated the most ever since um, ever since you put it on here, but I've always loved her voice. I just think it's so, so good, and I'm always here for a Busta like track you know, like I want him on everything. Actually I just I want him on like the national, you know, or on Matt, on Matt's uh solo, just randomly putting in a verse there.
Speaker 1:That'd be great that'd be a good mix to put together, where it's just like featuring buster rhymes, like we just go out and find songs by other artists where they have featured buster rhymes exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it'd be a great mix.
Speaker 1:I would gladly listen to that. Yes, 100, um all right. Speaking of, I mean, this was pretty good on its own, but it could have featured buster rhymes. Uh, track eight it is, and it's bleeped out here so I'm not going to read it out, but it is bad, mother effer.
Speaker 2:Okay, by logic yes, all the asterisks are there. We didn't add those. This one gives me a lot of Macklemore vibes. In a way, it's almost it sounds like a track that Macklemore would put out, only because it's kind of like softer, there's more reflection in it. He's almost like talking it and, yeah, talk wrapping it. You know like it's really interesting.
Speaker 2:But I just I loved this track. I loved listening to all the lyrics. You can actually like listen to them very easily because, again, he's just kind of like talking them. But I love the kind of the attitude here. You know, like I won't deny it, I've been living my life, not a blank given, can't deny it. You can say what you want, but that's my decision, um, and just kind of repeats that. And so I think you know, if you've, if you want a little bit of of quiet confidence in your day, like this is a really nice song to kind of just hit play on and just feel like, yeah, you know what, like it's my life, these are my decisions and and carry that with you throughout. But I just think it's like a really cool track from him and kind of like a softer sound um from him that you don't normally get in some of his other tracks yeah, like I, I wrote the same thing like this is really cool, right, like it's just so laid back and that like good guitar rhythm.
Speaker 1:But you're right, there's just so much confidence that comes through without a lot of bluster. Right, he's not shouting this, there's nothing like that, it's just what he's saying is just kind of conveying that level of confidence. One thing that threw me off, like when you're listening to lyrics and then you go back and read them, he used the terms racial and moniker at one point in the song and in my brain I heard Rachel and Monica and I was like, is he making a friends reference, right? And so then I go back and look at the and I'm like, oh, this makes much more sense.
Speaker 2:Okay, I've been hearing it, as Rachel and Monica too.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I thought it was he's around like our age. So I thought like maybe you know, we all grew up watching friends. Oh, friends.
Speaker 1:Oh, totally, I know I was gonna go back and be like oh, I wonder if I get the reference like what is he, what did he put together there? Then it's like oh, it's racial and moniker.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, that's great. Okay, I'm glad you said that yeah I would have been walking around thinking he's just a fan of friends, you know, and maybe he is, but maybe it just wasn't enough to go into the song no, yeah, you would have been like why didn't you mention phoebe?
Speaker 1:like that's messed up. It's easier to rhyme too easier to rhyme yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, um, another throwback track. I honestly didn't know this guy was still doing music, which is so great, and I loved this song. Um, this is shut your mouth.
Speaker 1:It's by exhibit and it features compton av and butch cassidy yeah, on title alone, I wanted to send the song to like 17 people, just like, hey, quick reminder here, exactly, and then the first 15 seconds, which isn't even like music. I'm just like, yeah, these 17 people could definitely hear this part right, there's a real emphatic message there to just shut your mouth, right and done in like a 50s, 1950s like instructional video style yeah, like it's so good it's really well done and then it gets into the beat from there and the rapping over it and uh, it's, it's awesome.
Speaker 1:um, and this whole album is really good by exhibit and of he brings along his friends on a number of tracks and so the whole thing is worth listening to. But this one sounds great. I think it's got a great message and, honestly, it's a good reminder nowadays, because I think social media has trained people to just voice every opinion that they have. It's like you could just shut up, right. There's nothing wrong with that. Just keep that to yourself. Nobody needs to hear every opinion.
Speaker 2:I agree. Yeah, I find a lot of peace in quiet. Sometimes even myself Like I'll try to go a morning where I don't talk for like an hour, like if I want to walk with my dog, and even after that I'm like, huh, I just feel calmer. You know, you don't need to talk or share thoughts all the time, and so I'm going to borrow a line here from the song I'm going to bleep it. But here you go, a piping hot cup of shut the F up. So good, I love that line it's perfect, it's perfect.
Speaker 1:That's what we all need. We could all use that to start the day, or in the middle of the day, end of the day, you know, whatever. Whenever it's appropriate for people, exactly all right. Track 10 uh, and I think this might have been my favorite of your picks. Okay, this is have we met parentheses? The void by Garbage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another great 90s band, throwback band, garbage, putting out a new album called Let All that we Imagine Be the Light, and just loved this track and I've been really enjoying the rest of the album too. But this is my favorite one off of the off of the album so far and yeah, it's just great Like it's. It's got like a cool story that you're following. I get that. My interpretation of this is like maybe she realizes her partner's been like cheating on her and like the person shows up at her door, you know, and realizes this and like she pieces this all together, you know, whenever she's asking the question have you mother efforts, been seeing each other? So I just think that's great. It's just like the anger makes a lot of sense. It sounds so good. It's got this like ominous sound. Actually, the opening sound to it honestly could have been like intro music to Stranger Things. It has like a cool electronic, like dark sound to it. But yeah, really really have been enjoying this album and this is my favorite one off of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm with you on the interpretation of the story. That's what I thought and I couldn't tell if, like, who was married to who originally and who cheated on who. But yeah, that's definitely the vibe that you get is that there is this interaction where you know something bad's about to happen between these two people. Name than the track. But, um, yeah, I mean just a great and I thought that was such a great job of conveying that story in like this four minutes of music. And I think the music that goes along with the lyrics just matches it perfectly and sort of builds up that tension in you and it's just really well done. And it's also great to see garbage making new music and coming back. So, yeah it, yeah, it's awesome. And if this is your first time encountering Garbage, if you're like, oh wow, this is kind of cool. I mean, just go back to 1995. Listen to that debut album, because that's good and they've put out a lot of good stuff since then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that debut album is gold. Like, there's a lot of unskippable tracks on that one, all right, your, there's a lot of unskippable tracks on that one, all right.
Speaker 1:Uh, your last pick track number 11, it is Nueva Yol by Bad Bunny. Okay, so Bad Bunny is like a massive star, yes, like and I don't know if we talk about him enough, maybe on this show or just generally, I don't know if people recognize just how big a star he is but he comes here to Dallas and like sells out back to back nights, you know, and it's just, it's just wild Like how big he is. And he was on Saturday night live recently as a musical guest and perform the song and it was a really cool performance. And the second I heard it I was like, oh, okay, I kind of start I'm starting to get it right Like why this guy is a big star?
Speaker 1:Because he could sing, he can rap, like obviously it's all in Spanish, but you can easily get that translated and I mean, this song is just about how much he loves New York, how much he loves Puerto Rico, how much he loves himself, like you know, maybe there's a formula to this, but I think it kind of works and I just love the sound here and the way it builds up and you get the different voices and all of that. But go back and watch the Saturday Night Live performance of this, because I thought it was really cool and, yeah, this whole new album, I mean again, it sounds really cool and you can get the lyrics translated to kind of deepen your own knowledge of Spanish, which is never a bad thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, never bad. Yeah no, this is so good. He's also hilarious when he does skits on SNL too. He's a really talented comedic actor as well. He's popped up here and there and done some cameos, and I always crack up at it, so he's great.
Speaker 1:He's going to play Happy Gilmore's caddy in happy gilmore too yeah, if you, if you watch the trailer like he's in there with with adam sandler, so I think that's gonna be pretty funny yeah, that's gonna be so good.
Speaker 2:Um, also shout out to juan soto uh, with his line with the yankees and the mets, juan soto run, because we knock it out of the park again. Um, and so I love that. Obviously that that's been a lot of fun to watch. Like they just recently had their subway series where they were playing at yankee stadium and um, juan soto did not get a welcome return to that stadium, like sometimes when players go back, you know, like whenever luca wasn't in, uh, american airline center oh yeah, like, yeah you know, did the tribute video.
Speaker 2:everyone was so happy to see him, but no, no, soto just got like booed, and just if they could have carried him off the field and thrown him in the parking lot, they probably would have.
Speaker 1:Well, what's so funny is it's like why didn't you take our three quarters of a billion dollars? Why did you take their three quarters of a billion dollars?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that's so great.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, let's wrap this up. Track 12 this is autumn in new york by dina de rose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so huge vibe shift here, um. But this is just one of those songs that I find myself again ending my days with, um. It's like just a sink into your couch song, like that's kind of how I describe it. Um just has you kind of take a deep breath, slow down. Could easily go on a mix with Samara Joy, who is one of my favorites from 2024. Like has that kind of throwback, velvety sound. You know you just imagine yourself in a lounge listening to her sing. But again, love the imagery here, just love that sound, that slower, jazzy sound with beautiful vocals on it. So really enjoyed stumbling upon this one. This was just like a random find, um, and I have listened to it quite a bit, so really great I just love that you put a song called autumn in new york on a june new music mix.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean, we've talked about before your disdain for summer and I think you're really driving that home with like, all right, well, I'm just gonna pick this song which is all about the fall, okay I can't, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2:I quite literally start to count down like so everyone's excited. Uh, summer solstice is the longest day of the year oh yeah I'm most excited because because it's the longest day of the year, not because of the sunlight, but because now it means that the days shrink again like, and I get so excited to see the sunset get earlier and earlier in the night, because then it just means that fall and winter are coming.
Speaker 1:We're that much closer. Yeah, no, I, that's what made me laugh. It's a beautiful song. Like she does a great job singing this. I think it's excellent, and I mean it's an old standard, but I think it's great when, like singers good singers sing like great songs. Right, and I think that's what we have here, which is great. Um, but it cracked me up that it's just like all right, so you're gonna end one of our summer mixes with a song about the fall. Right, like just making sure everybody understands where you stand on this.
Speaker 2:right, like wait for it to get cooler yeah, I also keep seeing all these memes of um, like they, they. There was a great one, I won't describe it, but basically the nfl is going to start soon, right like we're only a couple months out from like pre-season so it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it happens fast yeah, because I wrote down. Like you know, in the fall it's still hot here in texas, right, but at least we have football, right, like that's the big change here? It doesn't really get much cooler, but football starts, so that's a good thing, that's a good thing, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, there you have it. New music for you, this time for the month of June. If there's an artist out there that we miss, let us know. At. Super awesome. Mix on Instagram on threads, and check out our YouTube channel. We're putting video clips on there of old stuff from past shows as well as new clips, like this very show that you're listening to right now, so check that out. Sam and I have plenty of other mixes to get to, so we'll get to work on that. So, for Sam, this is Matt and we'll see you next time. You.
