The Greatest Non Hits

David Bowie: Blackstar

• Chris & Tim • Season 5 • Episode 1

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A final album isn’t supposed to feel this alive. Blackstar greets us with ominous symbols and then, almost mischievously, turns the lens toward warmth, groove, and human detail. We trace Bowie’s late-era reinvention through a razor-sharp Manhattan jazz band, hip‑hop inflections, and lyrics that carry the weight of myth—eyes as portals, solitary candles, bluebirds hovering between a wink and a benediction. The journey moves from the ritual gravity of the title track to the aching candor of Lazarus, where heaven’s distance meets the drop of a phone and the thrum of a bass that sounds like memory learning to breathe.

We talk about why Bowie’s personas were tools, not disguises: ways to make new space without asking permission. That same spirit shapes Blackstar’s sonic palette—horns that cut, drums that keep time like clocks, and harmonies that hint at older Bowies without getting stuck in nostalgia. Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) sharpens the debate with lyrics that disturb and arrangements that stun, proof that beauty can interrogate darkness instead of decorating it. Girl Loves Me plays with slang and glossolalia, bending time until “Where the f— did Monday go?” feels less like a question and more like a diagnosis of our attention economy.

Then there’s Dollar Days, a soft reckoning with exile, roots, and the stories fame can’t finish. It leads to I Can’t Give Everything Away, a line that reads as boundary and blessing. After decades of giving more than we had a right to expect, Bowie keeps a private room intact—and the band carries that choice with understated grace. Across the episode, we unpack the music, the symbols, and the choices that turned a goodbye into a practice: collaborate deeply, compress what matters, and let the unsayable remain luminous.

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SPEAKER_00:

People are letting go of the idea of organ. I think I can't remember who the philosopher was, but uh in the early part of the century, um i i he said that we have to kill God to reinvent it. And I think that is very much playing itself out in the later part of this century. Um I think we have to find the focus of of where our religious strength lies in an entirely different area from the the archaic and almost medieval forms that we're sort of expected to supplant ourselves to.

SPEAKER_08:

I think Thank you for listening to the greatest non-hits. I'm Chris and playing Black Star is my co-host him. Black Star is the last album from David Bowie. It was a parting gift to us. It's gonna get creepy. We're gonna listen to all the songs. At the end, we will rank our top three non hit. I could go on and on like this. At some point I will have to stop. And it's gonna be around right now. Alright. So wow. Um one of the things we want to start off with is like there's like a David Bowie Elvis Presley thing that Tim and I are on, and it's like you know, he was we were starting to get into how like philosophical, not philosophical, but religious and spiritual and like you know, heavy, heavy shit, you know, that that this album puts off, you know. It was because Bowie was born on January 8th. Um, and I think this album came out like two days like after he died. It was just like crazy, you know. But anyway, Elvis Presley was also born on January 8th. So, but 12 years apart. So, anyway. Coincidences, you know, there's you know, but we was a lifelong Elvis fan. I guess, you know, when we were thinking like philosophically, you know, about the times, the 60s, and how, you know, shaking your you know, doing the twist and shout was resque, you know, and then it leads into the sixties, and then you know, there's all that, and then counterculture in the 70s. Bowie takes, you know, Elvis's you know, being the provoc provocative guy that he was, Bowie takes it to the next level, you know. Um in some good ways. We got, you know, we can debate about that, good ways, bad ways, but nevertheless, um the this is like David Bowie's very last album, and it's uh it's super deep, and it's his like like I said, his parting gift to us. And uh it's pretty it's crazy. Black star. We've been going back and forth. There's a lot of different ways that you can um interpret the songs. I mean the the the the words are it's it's biblical, it's it has all these different elements uh of symbolism. Um well we'll we'll listen to it, we'll we'll we'll dig deeper when we get into the uh get into the songs, but um anyway, yeah. Uh there was a the band is uh a jazz band from I guess he he he recruited them in a a club in Manhattan, like a 55 bar or something like that. And uh but when he brought them on, he wanted them to play in more of like uh hip hop kind of a style or like a little bit more contemporary instead of jazz. And so um a little bit more rock, a little bit all those things kind of fuse, you know, the fusion of that. And so there's some hothorns, there's uh the the musicianship is really good in this album. Like I've the the the one song that I've got etched in my mind is Black Star, but the rest of them I've heard them four or five times, and they're really good, a little bit more upbeat. Um but yeah, we'll uh well like I said, we'll rank our top three the way we always do. I don't know. I don't think we're gonna have any we're not gonna have any uh hits on this. We're just sort of like embarking uh in the 2010s, because as you know, like what we do on the show is every calendar year we take it up a decade, so we're done with the 2000s, we're doing the 2010s. This is the first one that we're doing of the 2010s. And we're coming to uh a piece of that you know, albums at this on this decade are becoming a little bit less relevant, you know, because at this point in time there are so many more demographics, so many more genres, you know, the world's opening up, and um he takes inspiration from all different uh you know uh uh strands of music. And he was very uh uh I think it was Kendrill Glamar's uh to butterfly a pimp, I think was the album that he drew inspiration from that's name-checked a lot. And you can hear it in the music. It's uh it inspired me to listen to Kendra Glamar's album, and it was actually, you know, he he marries uh you know, musicianship with hip-hop rap, you know, the all all that. You know, it's the there's there's not more of like the traditional hard like rock focus anymore. Or at least there was there wasn't a lot of that. There wasn't a lot of good stuff. I mean maybe you know, uh others could differ it. I'm I'm I'm purely sharing my perspective, so everybody's got their own everybody's got their own thing, you know. So but uh yeah, so uh with that, uh Tim and I were talking earlier uh we had some really interesting conversations about his take on things, um how he feels about or what his theories are about the lyrics in in Black Star. I mean I guess we can get to that um when he gets settled in. But uh what else did we talk about? That was I can I know we were a play. There was uh remind us you know remind me of what we wanted to segue into a topic.

SPEAKER_07:

We don't know in different directions on this out there who is the next pop star that is David Ellie. Will there ever be a David Howie or will he just be in fragments and pieces scattered around? We know this is this is his final piece. A genius how much of a horror cycle is he hoping about it to manipulate the manipulators as humans to learn how to manipulate energy and I think David Belly did a good job of that.

SPEAKER_08:

No, no, that was that was good. That was that was legit, man. That was you were blowing my mind. Seriously, that was legit. I like that, you know.

SPEAKER_07:

That's pretty simple and complex all at the same time. And he played many characters throughout his career as a way to not get typecasted or to be able to explore creatively without um you know judgment, I suppose. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Johnny Redney. Okay.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. He says, do it. I'm this new character. I can make anything happen. I am you know I'm David Ellie. Damn it. Yeah. Alright, the first song is actually just a uh icon of a star. So I just call it black star. Okay, star icon, blah black star. Oh, we'll call it we'll call it a star icon for Tim. We got urban urban jazz here for you all. But we shouldn't classify it.

SPEAKER_06:

Stands a solitary candle.

SPEAKER_00:

How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None more black.

SPEAKER_08:

We're off the mark with sound clips. Yeah. We could get into the lyrics. There's so many just different types of interpretations.

SPEAKER_07:

Eyes are the portal to the soul. Uh-huh. Center of it all. It's like a There's a lot of eye close-ups in this music.

SPEAKER_06:

Execution. On the day of execution. At the center of it all.

SPEAKER_08:

I should bring it up. I should bring it up to our church. Like maybe maybe we can't like put in like drums or scents. Like in a church service.

SPEAKER_07:

That wasn't really sacrilegious thing, I was. No, not at all. Drumming has always been an ancient thing. Yeah, but the rhythm of we keep time, don't we? Clocks keep time. Drums are gonna drum. What about sax? Yeah. Saks is gonna sex.

SPEAKER_08:

Sss Sansborn. So shout out to Sands. This is the castle. Yeah, well shout out to Sansborn. I I always do. But it's just the castle. Yeah. Thinks this is about ISIS. Not like the goddess, not the character network.

SPEAKER_07:

Well. He was dying. He was thinking about death. Uh-huh. She is the god of the facilitator, right? The underworld. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Osiris. You know, Lazarus is coming up. We can tie that back in. Oh yeah. I mean. We have.

SPEAKER_08:

Mormon is the serpent in the region. The village of the serpent. Stands at solitary tail.

SPEAKER_07:

The serpent brain is one that fear. React in fear. Right. Center of the gall. Echoey. The drum the drum is really good, but stiffy drum is weird. Oh.

SPEAKER_04:

So you have like really big eyes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Hot horn. I don't know. Shout out to the runners.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. The walkers. Tea drinkers. I'm I'm feeling the writers. I think this is a good journaling. I think I think we should all journal after this album. Our aspirations. Wow. It's moving on us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

This album. Don't forget to breathe. Shout out to the meditators. Yeah. Shout out to the llamas. The llamas.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey, llama.

SPEAKER_08:

Especially the llamas.

SPEAKER_03:

Hey, how about a little something, you know? Pretty effort. Hey, Llama! Hey.

SPEAKER_08:

So this is like kind of like a second song, would you say? The fusion, yeah. Yeah. This is supposed to be two songs, but this is probably where the the bridge. That's what that was all about. Yeah, I'm glad we caught that.

SPEAKER_06:

It's a leader instead of the side.

SPEAKER_07:

It sounds like more old Bowie, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_06:

And bravely cry.

SPEAKER_07:

It makes sense to us. From him.

SPEAKER_06:

How many times does an angel fall? How many lies instead of talking to talk?

SPEAKER_07:

See oh wow. Let's get that.

SPEAKER_06:

Just go with me.

SPEAKER_07:

Not a film star.

SPEAKER_06:

I'ma take you home.

SPEAKER_07:

Shout out to the cast.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I got my shout-out cross with your observation. Yeah, I mean, shout out to the cast.

SPEAKER_07:

Not a Marvel star. But we was a film star in that one.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

The labyrinth, I guess. Uh-huh. I want people to my day treat. I want the lions in my dreams. Oh. Somebody else took his place. Maybe this is a Timmy had some out there theories, man. We all get out there. You can you can think about that. Holly weird. You can get Holly weird in those theories. Yeah, we were getting Holly weird. Born upside down? Maybe a not the natural legs. Maybe he's admitting that he was We were. I'm not a porn upside. I'm not a porn star. I'm not a wandering star. What? Then what are you? What does that mean? It's whatever you want it to be. Wait. These energy suck. Yeah. He sucks our energy for the black star of the the moon. The the serpent moon people. Yeah, like an attorney. There's an attorney that's at the center of it all. Yeah. You know which one? Wait, Mr. Key Rock.

SPEAKER_02:

It's just Key Rock, Your Honor. Yes, I'm ready. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07:

It's very slow. It's very jazzy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

It's blues jazzy. Or jazz bluesy. It's going into blues. Ah, more jazz.

SPEAKER_07:

I think this is a masterpiece.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Song is every day. Yeah. Premonition or conscious absolving. I don't know what it is, but it's.

SPEAKER_08:

It's got women kneeling and smiling. It's got the fill of orbit. It's got a solitary candle. I mean, jeez.

SPEAKER_07:

Solitary.

SPEAKER_08:

It's not a porn star. I was born to love you. Alright, over.

SPEAKER_03:

Feel me, film he.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. Alright, cool. Myself pal clutter. But next thing in a little dirt diggler. You said it's not a porn star. Yeah. Oh, yeah, okay, there you go. Alright, I got it. Jeez. I was slow. That's just like a little delayed, you know.

SPEAKER_07:

Like time music. There you go. And the next song is a pity he was a four. Yes. It is a pity he was a four.

SPEAKER_08:

That's what we're listening to. And I'm digging it.

SPEAKER_07:

Dude looks like a lady, am I right, Steven? That's a patrol. That's patrol.

SPEAKER_06:

Patrol.

SPEAKER_08:

It's like a Gen Z kid. You know, it's like way ahead of time. Wait. Baby D kiss. Reincarnated as a tip now. Yeah. Start. All the time. Castles. Filling it.

SPEAKER_06:

Let's drop the kids to get my car. She wants a fall. She's all my first with my speed. That was patrol.

unknown:

This is the ball.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that is fitted.

SPEAKER_08:

Let's try to end with that. This guy's just going to town.

SPEAKER_07:

This is like the dark side of the death. Like it's a little more rocky.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh. It is. I like the rock side. It's all working. It's so much.

SPEAKER_06:

I suppose. Football was patrol.

SPEAKER_08:

I just enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_03:

No.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh nine that's here in Lois.

SPEAKER_07:

That's all my cat.

SPEAKER_08:

Lazarus? Song. Like this is kind of song in an aircraft, but tequila sounder eyes.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, magnet of the eye. Yeah. Right. We just take it for granted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

I'm in heaven. I've got scars that can't be seen. I've got drama that can't be stolen. Everybody knows me.

SPEAKER_07:

It's a good view. Yeah. Less drama. It has a little bit of a god rock in it too. It does. Greed. So we're gonna get a yacht rock song. That's the bass. The bass is really speaking in your idea.

SPEAKER_06:

Look up here, man. I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. Don't jump.

SPEAKER_08:

It's not worth it.

SPEAKER_06:

I'm so high it makes my brain worse. That's heavy shit, man. Drop my cell phone down below.

SPEAKER_07:

We should all just drop our cell phones. Yeah. Down below.

SPEAKER_06:

That would start some shit.

SPEAKER_07:

Get a Samsung from 95.

SPEAKER_06:

By the time I got to New York.

SPEAKER_07:

It was old by then. Sorry.

SPEAKER_06:

I was living like a king.

SPEAKER_03:

Then I used up whole mother.

SPEAKER_08:

I was looking for your ass.

SPEAKER_06:

This way on the way. Oh, fuck me in the goldness. You know how the free. Just like that blue bird.

SPEAKER_07:

Put a bird on it. Okay.

SPEAKER_06:

Now ain't that just like me.

SPEAKER_07:

One free.

SPEAKER_06:

Gotta buy the scoop. Just like that flooper. Baby!

SPEAKER_07:

No freebies. Even if you have Elvis' birthday, there's no freebies. Died on his ass. Supposedly.

SPEAKER_08:

Did he? Well then he just got up off of his ass. Like Lazarus rise. Right. Just laser beam into fucking space. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, yeah. God had that kind of power, you know. Shape in events like that. Extra, extra worldly. Yeah. An extra word for act. Honey.

SPEAKER_02:

Time to get creepy. Man, this is so jazz.

SPEAKER_08:

This is so urban jazz. This is a great band. They're just like a man hat. I would love to go in O'Farr and see if these guys.

SPEAKER_07:

This song is definitely. I I can't say this is gonna be my number one. It might be my number one. How good is this? It's badass.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, I like that. Alright, next song. Parentheses or in a season of crime.

SPEAKER_07:

The only crime I like to commit is leaving flaming bags of poo on my neighbor's doorstep. Shout out to our neighbor Sue for shoveling the entire street by herself. Yeah. Shout out Sue. You're the best, Sue. Thanks for the Thanks for the gift. That was very impressive. Yeah, she gave me this like weight to put on the key. So that's I mean, she thinks of everything. She responds to shape. She's like a maternal street war. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_06:

I just said you said you wanted breath. Sue's home. It's your home. Are you too good for your home?

SPEAKER_07:

Oh man, this is also a very good song.

unknown:

For I know that you have a son.

SPEAKER_07:

Oh never really broken down the album until now. I feel like. Yeah. I listened to it way back when. And I think it was just sad that David Bowie died, but like, yeah. Now I'm listening to it. It's a whole new life. Yeah, I've been listening to this like a lot.

SPEAKER_08:

I don't really like what he's doing to Sue though. Hopeless deeds. Yeah, this is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_06:

What about Deborah? The dream for the military twist.

SPEAKER_08:

Wow, they did that all together. I mean, can't they be? This is insane. Why can't this band do the Super Bowl?

SPEAKER_07:

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't have to be like.

SPEAKER_07:

We don't want them doing the Cowl. Speaking of tongues now. What does it sound like? Happy Thursday, y'all. Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. Yeah, what is Monday?

SPEAKER_08:

Does this who does it sound like? You gotta guess? Does it sound like you can realize it?

SPEAKER_07:

A little bit, yes. I just listened to him last night a little big time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

School of heads. School of that.

SPEAKER_07:

Also a little jazz urban jazz, yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Man, I can't I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do with my top three, man.

SPEAKER_05:

All these songs is just one is good too.

SPEAKER_07:

It's such long songs. I mean, they're not even that long, but they are ten, five, seven, five, five, five, six, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06:

China, two to the z.

SPEAKER_08:

There's only seven songs though. That's the thing. Run.

SPEAKER_07:

I mean, well, two more songs. He's speaking in tongues right here. Yeah. He's speaking in tongues here. Rush up. Slit a dead funnest. Dang bang. Dang dang. Viddy Viddy at the Sheena.

SPEAKER_06:

She rats.

SPEAKER_07:

What's that all about, man? This one's gonna be weirding me out.

SPEAKER_02:

Time to get Korea. Yeah. That one scares me.

SPEAKER_08:

That's gotta go. Gotta move forward, man. Where the fuck did Monday go?

SPEAKER_07:

Like We asked ourselves that. That's a weird one. Like. Well, you know, let's talk about how time has moved forward so fast, or perceivably so, because of the iPhone. We can always just and the TV. Yeah. Who knows what we're gonna be doing five, ten years from now? We're just gonna be hooked up to a a news a news machine. Just vibing off. Yeah. Some headlines that we don't can't care about because we're just supposed to be uh village people with no more than 250 people max in our village. I mean, you know.

SPEAKER_02:

Take an easy chance. Why don't you stop talking for a while? Hey. Maybe sit the next couple plays out.

SPEAKER_07:

Would you do that in the village? Alright. No, no, no, no. I come to my village. Sorry. Hey, you had me and then you lost me. That was you had me at village. Right. This is like a loves me not, loves me, I don't know. He's still writing uh little love songs, you know what it's like.

SPEAKER_08:

I know there's like tons of different interpretations to the lyrics of all these songs. We haven't really gotten much into it, but the thing is you probably have to listen to this like seven or eight times. No, yeah, maybe you can really fully this is gonna be I'm gonna be listening to this. I have to look all these I I wanna look up all these uh the memes of these lyrics now.

SPEAKER_06:

Cash girl self for me, I've got to enemies I'm walking down self-exile from Britain. It's nothing to me.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh yeah, exiled himself.

SPEAKER_06:

It's nothing to see.

SPEAKER_08:

Dollar days.

SPEAKER_06:

If I'll never see the English evergreens I'm running to move to the US in 74.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. New York City, then LA.

SPEAKER_08:

Maybe he's reflecting on his life. This is sort of like looking back on his life.

SPEAKER_06:

What his attitude was at the time when he bitches tell our magazines, those oligarchs with foaming.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh those oligarchs with foaming.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, how many can't believe for just one second, man? Forgetting you I'm trying to. He had like he was like one of the survivors of falling down.

SPEAKER_08:

You know, it's nothing to do with all of the movers and shakers of the world.

SPEAKER_06:

It's nothing to see.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

Like peasants like us.

SPEAKER_07:

We're crumbs. We're king peasants. Okay, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_06:

It's nothing to me.

SPEAKER_07:

Omnipresent King Peasants. Thank you very much. Where's our sponsor? Cake Us Up. I want to buy a loaf of bread. Because a lot of this is Danny McCassin. Yeah. Um really contacting David Bowie a little bit of both, actually. Uh-huh. But oh man. I think the LA Riots had a big I don't know.

SPEAKER_08:

Play in David David's mind. The LA Riots like back in the night?

SPEAKER_06:

And I do get this all again and again.

SPEAKER_07:

I'm afraid Americans just came out with Trent Resnner and all that too. Uh okay. He's English, but he lived in America. He's trapped here. Exiled. He's trying to get back to his English roots, but he never can. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08:

He's trying to. This is where he feels He's trying to get back to my roots. Okay, whatever that means.

SPEAKER_07:

But yeah. Yeah. Speaking where we live. I think seeing our root our roots are spiritual.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. It's just disillusioned. Yeah, like struggle like eight in the United States. And this part so I can race thing and sort of like goes white up its back to our foundation. It'll always be. Yeah, I think you know David Bowley got like a first and look at that dirty vibes and it's probably like thinking of that one as probably you know anything. Or maybe a breach in it, but gave up. To to be one of us, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. For the good fight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

He's not dying too, you know. This gets back to. It's at the end of his life, you know. Let's play on words. Okay, so this is this last song. I can't give everything away.

SPEAKER_07:

Interesting segue, to say the least.

SPEAKER_08:

Sounds like Kelly. Contemporary ride.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, I mean throw me for a loop here. Stall designs by second shoes. Stall designs upon my shoes. 41 minutes.

SPEAKER_06:

We have three or still left, I mean.

SPEAKER_08:

This is like a really, really good.

SPEAKER_07:

Gotta lay it. Adult contemporary stuff. Yeah. I can't give everything. The song is not great, but the lyrics we have to think about here. Yeah. What is he trying to say? Can't give everything. He's trying to always create. He just needs to reserve something for himself. He's always always trying to create. Yeah. Needs to reserve something. But it seems like he actually does give everything away. Because he's so out there.

SPEAKER_08:

Or maybe it's like he's at the end of his life. Even though he's dying. Maybe he just doesn't want to give or can't give everything away.

SPEAKER_07:

And also he gets like, you know, this band helped him like you know co-opt the sort of creative problem process in which he didn't have to create everything by himself like he's used to doing. And he could just co-opt sort of with his last creative breath. Sort of hand it off. But also, yes, yeah. Pass the torque with this band. It's relatively obscure. What did they do?

SPEAKER_08:

They tour down still. I mean they together. Who are we? Man, we can't. This is by something. That's what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah, what is great on the post returns to prodigal stun? Prodigal songs. Black O'Sark.

SPEAKER_07:

Clearly talking about the planned uh potential for I can't population on everything. Okay.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. Maybe it's just like I got all this stuff in my house. I can't give this all away.

SPEAKER_07:

I have a yard sale. Yeah. I need a yard sale.

SPEAKER_08:

Items, not currency. Yeah. You had an end-of-life. Yard sale. How'd we go in soon? Let me just get rid of this.

SPEAKER_07:

What is it? And he's like, I don't know. It's whatever you fucking want it to be. Bitch. Take it. Yeah, I'll give you 40 bucks here. Alright, so. Oh man, Chuck Tom and Object Entropy. Going out of trip. Going out of business. This week. That's some pieces up there. Sab. Stores are closing. Yeah. Seasons are changing.

SPEAKER_08:

Like the summer is not. Think about how light and free. Maybe he's just sort of like, I don't know. Like the the easy nature of it all. He's just sort of letting go, maybe, you know, because it's all dark and fucky in the first song.

SPEAKER_03:

For sure. Oh.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. Really good. Yeah, drawing it out. Oh man. I s I started not liking that song, but somehow it just got me at the end.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_07:

Damn.

SPEAKER_08:

That was a great end. He has a little goosebumps there at the end. I did too. That's wild. Yeah. That was great. Yeah, at the very end. You know, he didn't.

SPEAKER_07:

He also, you know, because he was friends with Ryan. That sort of process of letting go. Yeah. And I think he had that definitely in this album.

SPEAKER_08:

It was creating all the way to the end. You know, yeah, but his mind was always maybe his body gave out, but his mind was always still there. Yeah. This is his party. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, it's great, great album. Let's go we'll get into top three.

SPEAKER_07:

Jeez. I'm going to Dollar Days number as my number three. I thought that was Exile.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_07:

I'm gonna make a playlist with Dollar Days and Dollars and Cents with Radiohead and listen to them back to back. Yeah, I think Radiohead and David Belly's Blackstar sort of divide hand in hand a little bit. That's my number three with yours.

SPEAKER_08:

Well since we're leaving this all open, you know I'm gonna say there's no hit here. So I'm gonna my number three is gonna be Blackstar. Yeah, I mean because I mean it's probably number one empirically. But I'm gonna ha I've got my favorites, you know, that I wanna that I'm gonna do. So yeah, this was Yeah, I I like the like our intro, you know, to the Yeah, I like the chanting, da da calming, it was like the monotone Buddhist or A VS Buddhist, I don't know what it was. Yeah, yeah, it sets a tone for the album, so yeah, number three for me. So um number two.

SPEAKER_07:

Well shout out to the the non-hit hits that aren't gonna be on the list. That one gets honorable mention and definitely girl loves me. I can't give everything away, get honorable mention again, but um number two. Like, what is he talking about? The crime stuff, like he seems like such a well-behaved lad. I don't know. And then he's like talking about beating up Sue. So wild, but that is it was wild. I don't know why it's there or what it means, but I like it. So I'm going Sue number two. Or in a season of crime.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, Sue or in a season of crime. Yeah. It was like a remnant of the ice storm.

SPEAKER_07:

Medlum and Squalor.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Okay.

SPEAKER_08:

Number two. Uh Dollar Days. That was uh kind of a beautiful song. You know, it was it was all that.

SPEAKER_07:

That was uh It was tying the bow that was very charming.

SPEAKER_08:

That's my number two. Damn Lazarus.

SPEAKER_07:

That's um almost five minutes, and uh it could have gone longer for me. Honestly on another day, and I know I did cover Blackstar on guitar, but it was just maybe a little too downer for it all. And the chanting was throwing me off threw me off maybe a little bit, so that's why I went Lazarus with number one and excluded Blackstar completely, but I don't know, I always do that. I do like Blackstar a lot.

SPEAKER_08:

Right, but it's it it's so we're we're trying to let's we're trying to promote some things.

SPEAKER_07:

It almost is a an event. Yeah, it's it stands on itself and it is in the sky, and we acknowledge it, right? A black star. Yeah. But Lazarus was my star.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. I agree. I that was my number one. Yeah, it's a great song. It's overlooked, isn't it?

SPEAKER_07:

It is very good.

SPEAKER_08:

I think but I if you take a look, we don't we're looking at a screen and I don't see the number of downloads. I think it does get downloaded a lot. I think people do people who are in the know love this one.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. Oh, he is always accelerating being melancholy in uh jovial way. Maybe. Yeah. So whatever it is worth. Why don't we just put a lot of that?

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. Shine on listening. All right, thanks, listeners, take care.

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