Tame Impala: Lonerism

That opening “look out, look out” isn’t just a goofy clip. It’s the doorway into a real question we can’t shake: how does Tame Impala’s Lonerism sound both childlike and haunted, like a bad dream you still want to replay? We start by connecting the Dumbo “Pink Elephants” melody to the swirling, woozy logic of Kevin Parker’s sound, then follow that thread into the bigger influence map. Along the way we hear Pink Floyd “Money” energy, Beatles-bright harmony instincts, and flashes of classic rock attitude that somehow never feel like cosplay.

From there we go track by track through the album’s most talked-about moments and a few under-loved ones, reacting to the synth-heavy choices, the punchy drums, and the transitions that feel engineered by a perfectionist at 3 a.m. We spend time on the cult giants like “Apocalypse Dreams,” the hooky pull of “Mind Mischief,” the forward-motion rush of “Music To Walk Home By,” and the uneasy tension inside “Why Won’t They Talk To Me.” We also zoom out to the album’s core theme: lonerism as a full psychological setting, where being detached can feel like safety and punishment at the same time.

We wrap by debating a question every fan ends up asking: are the lyrics the point, or is the voice just another instrument in the mix? Then we lock in our favorite non-hit picks and argue about what even counts as a “hit” when a deep cut feels life-changing. If Lonerism means something to you, subscribe, share this with a friend who loves psychedelic rock, and leave us a review with your top three tracks.

Transcript

Pink Elephants Cold Open

SPEAKER_09 0:09

Look out, look out, three elephants on the parade. Here they come, everything happens, and there they elephants everywhere. Look out, look out. They're walking around the bed on the head. Everything happens.

Why Lonerism Still Hits

SPEAKER_11 0:49

Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Nod Hits. I am Chris, and playing the song Elephants from Tame and Pala's Lonerism is my co-host Tim. So uh what you heard there at the beginning was uh the the main melody from the song uh Pink Elephants from Dumbo. It's the scene where uh little Dumbo uh gets a little bit of his first sip of alcohol and kind of trips out. And so uh we were I was kind of playing around with some sound clips earlier, and I remembered that pink elephants, and it kind of reminded me of this song, and I was just thinking there's a little bit of an overlap there. I don't know if we're uh we're missing something, uh, but uh we think there's a little bit of influence there. Uh we also think there's uh a lot of uh influence in Pink Floyd uh song Money, of course, uh seems to be woven into that song as well. So we we we sort of bridged you know two extremes in in you know three different periods of time. You know, whenever Dumbo came out, I can't remember 50s, 40s, 30s, I don't know. You know, with uh you know Money that came out, you know, back in the 70s, and then we've got you know present day. Well actually this is 2012 when this came out, so yeah, we're in the we're in the 2010s uh this year for our episodes, and so we thought that this was uh an album groundbreaking. You know, uh the tame impala gained a lot of its fame from the album Currents, but this was uh critically acclaimed, uh won some Grammy nominations, won an Aria Award, uh I think it was uh an album of the year by Rolling Stone. Uh I read somewhere. I don't know. I can you can look it up, you know, but uh the the uh the critical acclaim I think is uh or the critical reception is well warranted uh from our point of view because this isn't just uh a guy uh messing around in his garage and coming up with some catchy uh catchy tunes. So this is a a production uh production wizard, yeah, if you will. So uh you know Kevin Parker, of course. So uh he I I believe he wrote and arranged uh many of these things. I think uh Apocalypse Dreams and Elephant was co-written by Jay Watson, who's uh one of the backing personnel. He's one of the additional musicians, but Kevin Parker is primarily tame in Pala, but he um they go on tour, I think they uh he works with Jay Watson, who's writer, piano and keys, uh drums. He's also melody pro shade. It's a spoken word on track eleven, so okay. Well, right on. Well, so anyway. We're familiar with the hits, and uh today we're like our all of our um Oh, he's going into uh a little mischief or remind mischief. So uh that's I'm talking about Tim, what he's playing right now. But anyway, um we're gonna consider uh the hits. The the big ones, of course, are elephants and uh geez. It's uh uh feels like we only go backwards, of course. That's the big one from this album. And uh I guess my mischief could be up there. But uh we'll we'll keep it at around that range. Everything else is uh open for uh voting. So what would Tim and I are gonna do, we're gonna listen to all the songs. At the end, we're gonna give our top, you know, we'll give you our top three songs that were non-hits. And uh we're gonna have a lot of fun along the way. We've got a lot of funny sound clips. Uh you know, what else can we say? Tim's a big fan. Um I am too. I'm I'm coming around for sure. As uh, you know, we I we gave it a few listens to there's a lot of uh you know interesting sounds from the past. There's a lot of beetles, obvious beatles in here. And Pink Floyd, of course, I mentioned earlier. There there are others too. But uh it's um very synth-heavy. And there's a a general underlying theme of like lonerism. It's pretty straightforward. It's about uh the isolated the introvert. You know, uh that's the core theme, you know. It's it's a concept album. Psy you know, exploring the psyche of the outsider. So I guess he was gonna originally call it loner pop. Um but uh it is poppy. But um anyway, yeah, throughout the track list, you know, he processes the alienation of

Theme, Gear, And One-Man Studio

SPEAKER_11 5:40

watching the world move forward while feeling entirely detached from it. So, okay. This is you know I'm just reading from the FAU University Press here. So uh tracks like Why Won't You Talk to Me and Solitude is Bliss. They frame the isolation not just as a bummer but as a protective bunker. It's an incredibly relative relatable insular lyrical journey wrapped in explosive widescreen production. Wow, okay. So anyway, yeah, so like I mentioned before, it's like a one-man studio. Kevin Parker does it all. Um I guess like the the debut album was called uh Inner Speaker. Um I guess it was like on a sh on a shoestring budget. And I guess, you know, he talks about living a nocturnal lifestyle, recording on the road, hotel rooms, airplanes. You know, so anyway, yeah, Tim's gonna Tim's gonna join us in a second. Uh but there's a lot of uh interesting gear if you're interested, you know, the drums, the DBX 165A compressor, the C SIC guitars, the vibrato pedal pedal. There's tons of sense. Um The mixer was Dave uh Friedman. Uh there's some other guys. Uh you know the usual Greg Halby mastering There was like uh Leaf Code Hasky, we did the artwork and layout. Cool uh cool album cover. There's sort of like uh says something and it sounds kind of blurred out, I can't even read it, but uh it's the Garden of Luxembourg. Shout out to the Gardeners Okay, Garden of Luxembourg.

SPEAKER_13 7:33

Shout out to the Gardeners out there. Give us your give us your two. It really is. It's just you know, you have to make your own time sometimes and stay up late. Yeah. You stay up late, you become nocturnal and you rise above it. You know. In the middle of the night, the spirit world takes over, you just kinda you know, you get there. Sure. And sort of focus better, maybe. Shout out to Nigel Talk.

SPEAKER_05 8:42

Oh, I rise above it, I'm a professional.

SPEAKER_13 8:45

Exactly. Short on sleep, probably perpetually. I don't know. Yeah. Seems like a tired guy, but he's making a lot of good stuff, you know. You can make stuff tired.

SPEAKER_11 8:57

Well, what I never get tired of is be above it.

Be Above It And The Bit Parade

SPEAKER_11 9:00

That's the first song. So we're gonna let that go.

SPEAKER_17 9:03

So Hey, Rise and Shine Camper!

SPEAKER_11 9:06

Alright, shout out to Chris Farley. Gotta be above it. So you can hear it there. Here we go.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Kevin! But I'll rise and fob it. I'm a professional. But I'll rise and fob it.

SPEAKER_11 9:21

Okay. Nigel. Nigel, just settle down there. Right there whisper. It reminds me of that movie, What About Bob? He's like, I feel good, I feel great.

SPEAKER_13 9:49

He's like her little cheerleader. He's our inner cheerleader. Yeah.

unknown 9:53

And I know that I gotta bring me down.

SPEAKER_05 10:05

Look, who's in here? No one. And then in here, there's a little guy. Look, so it's it's a complete catastrophe.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

No, you're right.

SPEAKER_13 10:12

No He's prematile. Be above it. We gotta be above it. Gotta be above it. It's just folding. It's a joke, really. It's just a joke. Gotta be above it. Just hate it, that's all. I just hate it.

SPEAKER_11 10:47

That's our Viking phone. Oh, sorry. And I got some face of the crowd.

SPEAKER_10 10:54

Face the crowd. Yeah.

unknown 11:08

And I got down.

SPEAKER_15 11:15

Downers.

unknown 11:16

Get me a bubble. This time I just come to be the wrong. Gotta be a mother. Gotta be a mother. Gotta be a mother.

SPEAKER_13 11:43

Very cynthie.

SPEAKER_04 11:45

Yeah, I like the wow wow wow wow wow wow. There's some problems here. Uh I don't even know where to start. Alright.

SPEAKER_08 11:54

This time I'm just gonna take it off.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

You keep folding it. It keeps breaking. And then you'll everything has to be folded.

SPEAKER_11 12:24

Alright, this is endorsoir.

SPEAKER_04 12:32

Right. So then it's like this, but this doesn't work because then it's all because it hangs out like that's him making the jams.

SPEAKER_13 12:40

He's like a perfectionist. Right. In the middle of the night, he's like, this little synth bit hangs out here. Except it's all in Australian, probably.

SPEAKER_15 12:51

And Dave would you want to be holding this?

SPEAKER_11 12:58

Alright, exhibit A. And in here, there's a little guy.

SPEAKER_13 13:13

I like this song. This is cool. It's new age, like but old age. Yeah, space odyssey style.

SPEAKER_10 13:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 13:26

Jazz blues.

SPEAKER_13 13:28

Blues jazz, really.

SPEAKER_11 13:30

Yeah. Space Odyssey. Saucy jazz. Nor a naughty one. Saucy jack.

SPEAKER_13 13:47

This is like trippy church.

SPEAKER_11 13:50

Yeah. 1970s. Horror flick.

SPEAKER_17 14:00

They're all gonna laugh at you.

SPEAKER_07 14:01

Is there any way that you could sort of just talk me out so that like I I don't know that I'm at work?

SPEAKER_16 14:21

Don't let that defeat it.

SPEAKER_11 14:35

I'm digging this.

SPEAKER_13 14:37

It's got a enduring, like marching quality to it at the same time. Off I go, day is done. Often I I sit and yearn. I always made Kramer out to be the real crazy one, but he had some good ideas. Hey, he did. It's cutting holes in the fabric of society as we know it. He had some good ideas.

SPEAKER_11 15:14

I like a coffee table. The coffee table book becomes a coffee table itself.

SPEAKER_13 15:27

Okay, what are we at now? Apocalypse

Apocalypse Dreams Gets Serious

SPEAKER_13 15:30

dreams. Apocalypse dreams. The cult classic here.

SPEAKER_11 15:42

Some good piano work by uh Jay Watson. It's a nice shift movement there. Let's go back in. But if you don't change your state, I'm gonna change it for it. That's it. Even the time stayed. That's just it.

SPEAKER_13 17:28

Just sitting there often I sit.

SPEAKER_11 17:50

He's a close talker.

SPEAKER_17 17:57

Hey, rising timekeeper.

SPEAKER_13 18:02

He is like a cheerleader. He's writing little poems, making songs. Uplifting little poetry. He is, he's a poet. I didn't even know you. Now I'm gonna miss you. I guess I should warn my mom.

SPEAKER_08 20:02

Mom, Mummy, Mummy, Mummy, Mumma, Apocalypse Dreams, either.

SPEAKER_11 20:50

Not bad. Not bad.

SPEAKER_13 20:52

If these are apocalypse dreams, yeah. Some pink elephants in there. Those dreams. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 21:04

Some creepy, creepy symbols. Well,

Mind Mischief And Melody Talk

SPEAKER_11 21:10

we're gonna keep the party going with my mischief.

SPEAKER_24 21:14

Anyway, do you mind?

SPEAKER_11 21:16

There you go. Alright, here we go. Hey, you're playing a little bit. At the end of your stanza.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

Right. So then it's like this.

SPEAKER_11 21:35

Do you get any similarities of this song with anything that you've ever played, or does this does this remind you of anything in particular? Any influences? I can't.

SPEAKER_13 21:46

Reminds me of besides the Beatles with the harmony. Beatles are a f like a fish tune or something. Just simple, it's like it really is just simple riff. Yeah. Um Of you know, simple lines. In a twenty riff that goes on seemingly forever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 22:17

Shout out to the kid coming back from the dentist. Tripping out on you. David goes to dentist. Yeah. Whatever they gave him.

SPEAKER_08 22:27

It's a film. It's overflow.

SPEAKER_13 22:32

Two friends met at a gas station uh the other week. Uh-huh. Oh, she goes, oh, I s you had a you had a gas too, bitch. She's uh, hey, whatever your name is. Yeah. You had a gas too, bitch, and then they just laugh, and then she's just getting there. I love that. No, no, just that. Like, hey, I I know who you are. You know I am. Yeah. I have nothing really to say. Yeah, exactly. But look at us. Look at us getting gas. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_11 23:10

If I'm ever in that situation with you, like, yeah, I mean that's what we're doing. You getting gas too, bitch.

SPEAKER_13 23:17

Stop, bitch.

SPEAKER_20 23:31

I'm low on gas and you need a jacket. Bitch, I don't care.

SPEAKER_13 23:41

Getting jacked on gas.

SPEAKER_17 23:43

Oh, bitch, you got jacked, bitch. I'm low on gas.

SPEAKER_13 23:50

But if you don't change your face, I'm I'm low on gas. Messing around. We're messing around here.

SPEAKER_11 23:57

I know.

SPEAKER_13 24:09

I would love to hear the ISO of Justice Lyrics. Yeah. With no music. It's got a good falsetto.

SPEAKER_11 24:18

Yeah. This was. Yeah, this was released as a third single. It didn't see the same radio rotation as elephant. But it does have it does have an infectious guitar read.

SPEAKER_13 24:32

This one's always been my favorite.

SPEAKER_11 24:34

Really? Okay. Yeah. I mean it's a fan favorite, they're saying.

SPEAKER_13 24:38

Just the overlay he does with the guitar. Yeah. At the end.

SPEAKER_11 24:46

Yeah, it's really heavy.

SPEAKER_13 24:57

Changes. Yeah, that's that's Synth goes wild here. Never you're never left like you're bored with a seemingly simple song. Yeah. Cause you there's so many little added segments he loops in there. Right. I would love to see this band live. Really cool to see. No, yeah, I would too.

SPEAKER_11 25:31

I mean, they've they've sold out like as a square card.

SPEAKER_13 25:35

Yeah. Yeah. He's currently just like barking him around. I mean, they probably are good musicians in their own right. Yeah. But he seems like a perfectionist. He's got it down.

SPEAKER_11 25:48

Yeah, it would be. But it blow me away. Hell yeah, it blow me away.

SPEAKER_13 25:53

Anyway,

Music To Walk Home By Momentum

SPEAKER_13 26:00

music to walk home by This is uh elephants. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_11 26:29

Hmm. I like this. I do too.

SPEAKER_13 26:35

The last time I heard this song, like earlier today, I was thinking, okay, I gotta. It's a good walking song. Shout out to the walkers, obviously. Yep. I mean, you can walk to a destination to this song. You don't have to walk home and listen to this. Probably be better, but. Yeah, this is a great running song. And biking song. Well.

SPEAKER_15 27:07

It's only a dream.

SPEAKER_13 27:16

The mover I could turn into. Must be something I can do.

SPEAKER_11 27:31

Ooh. Yes, it's going high. I like it. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_13 27:38

That was cool. I like that transition. What is he says these little like beautiful girl is wasting my life? Yeah. What is this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 28:23

He's like a loner. He doesn't have a girlfriend, or he there's a girl that he really likes, and there's nothing that he can do. There must be something. I just don't know how to feel, right? The girl's wasting my life. Oh, he's tormented. Yeah, he's tormented. Okay. Playing a part of somebody else while trying so hard to be myself. Interesting.

SPEAKER_14 28:59

Yeah, baby.

SPEAKER_10 29:04

I don't know what the hell that was.

SPEAKER_11 29:07

Did you do that to me?

SPEAKER_10 29:08

No.

SPEAKER_11 29:10

What's up?

SPEAKER_23 29:15

Do it. Do it.

SPEAKER_13 29:18

Anything I do. Don't believe.

SPEAKER_23 29:36

Do it.

SPEAKER_13 29:37

Do it. Anything I do. Yeah. Whoa.

SPEAKER_14 29:44

Yes. Yeah, baby.

SPEAKER_08 29:54

Trying to be hard. So it's one of those.

SPEAKER_10 30:07

Yeah, that's okay.

SPEAKER_16 30:20

You don't talk so much, just smile and look smart.

SPEAKER_10 30:27

Smile and look smile. You don't talk so much.

SPEAKER_11 30:41

That was a good song. I like that. Music to walk home by. Yeah. Yeah.

Why Won’t They Talk To Me Effects

SPEAKER_11 30:53

We're getting there, Chief. So next one is why they talk to me.

SPEAKER_13 31:33

That's new and fun. I don't even know what he's doing.

SPEAKER_11 31:37

Yeah. I like the intro. Had to get into the song at some point, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 31:44

I can just see him messing with these messing with these effects. Whoops and easy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 31:57

You don't talk so much, just smile and look.

SPEAKER_13 32:29

I mean it's one way to emulate and reproduce these fun sound effects. Yeah, we could put sound clips through like sound condensers and make it go crazy and then s speed them up or slow them down to make like music that way. It would take forever, but yeah.

SPEAKER_20 33:10

No, man, you can't talk to Brad. And you can't talk to Brad.

SPEAKER_13 33:32

You don't talk so much, do this couple plays out.

SPEAKER_12 33:48

Take it easy, champ. Why don't you stop talking for a while?

SPEAKER_13 34:17

This makes me want to go to the arcade or something.

SPEAKER_11 34:19

I know. Frogger.

SPEAKER_21 34:40

Here is the frog. Here is the frog. This is the front door. This is the outlet.

Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

SPEAKER_11 35:50

All right, so that was why won't they talk to me? This is feels like we only go backwards. This is the big one. The big hit.

SPEAKER_08 36:25

You said when you come up But I get something else.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

It feels better. It feels better. It feels better.

SPEAKER_13 37:02

Just don't have don't get your hopes up then, you know.

SPEAKER_08 37:04

Just Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 37:13

This guy's got a lot of growing up to do if you guys.

SPEAKER_10 37:16

Well come out.

SPEAKER_11 37:18

Get it together, kid.

SPEAKER_13 37:23

Jeez. Life advice? Yeah. For uh a loner to like, but he tours. He's just got like uh doesn't do much, and then boom, you're playing in front of like millions of people, and then you're alone backstage. It's kind of a mind. It's a trip. It's a trip. Yeah, maybe yeah. Yeah, go in. He loners out just so he can make these hits for his own psyche. But he hasn't even You go from 30,000 people to just backstage by yourself. Yeah, playing on the guitar just like to nobody. Yeah. Like, oh, this is a good rip. Yeah, I mean, he seems to never stop creating and moving his sound around, so Well, I mean, I should get a little bit more into currents, you know.

SPEAKER_11 38:26

Currents is listen to this compared to that. You know, they it's a little more electronic. Yeah. This one or currents? Currents. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 38:35

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_13 38:36

And chronologically. It's yeah.

SPEAKER_11 38:40

It starts humbly with Yeah, with the this inferior equipment, and then by that time he's Yeah. He's got more to work with. More leeway creatively.

SPEAKER_13 38:54

Yeah. That always feels good.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

That feels that feels better. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 39:06

Okay. Where are we at now?

Keep On Lying And Sixties Echoes

SPEAKER_11 39:11

Now we're going keep on line.

SPEAKER_06 39:17

The color of this pen is red.

SPEAKER_13 39:26

Thank you, Jim Carrey. So keep on lying. I never know where I'm at with this song, yeah. It's very uh Melodies, Echo Chamber, like French alt. Uh aerials, pink, aerial pink stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 39:51

Or uh sort of French psychedelic rock. Yeah. It's looping. Is it looping and overdub?

SPEAKER_18 40:11

This is necessarily the end. It's usually close to the end.

SPEAKER_11 40:16

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_13 40:31

The pen is blue. Soon I'll be alone. Lonerism. Shout to the loners. The lone wolves out there. Of course. Yeah. This one's for you. Foxes. The lone chipmunks. Yeah. The lone solitaire players. Yeah. Freecell.

SPEAKER_11 40:52

Yeah, shout out to the free cell players. Shout out to the Euchar players. Shout out to the spades players.

SPEAKER_13 40:57

You get up. Yes. Just, you know, be near the toilet when you you get up there.

SPEAKER_11 41:04

Hey, shout out to the Impala drivers, too. Oh. You're driving Impala and listening to this podcast. This is this is for you, my good sir. Yes. Or man. Or man. Oh.

SPEAKER_13 41:21

Little laugh track. Very sixties-esque. Yeah. Oregon. It's like the animals or the birds are like Yeah, the doors even. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_11 41:44

Yeah, you're right. Animal spirits. Yeah. This is Ray Manzara key. But not elf. Yeah. Oh. That's a divino, baby. Maybe Iron Butterfly even a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Oh, wait just a minute.

SPEAKER_08 42:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 42:19

Okay. Yeah, this is I'm liking it. It's This is the part of the song that it's kinda long. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, this is a long song, isn't it? Yeah, it's I'm looking through this here. He doesn't This and Apocalypse Dreams, I think.

SPEAKER_13 42:36

It's your longest. Well. Yeah. You found a groove. Yeah. It's a strong one. I say strong.

SPEAKER_11 42:48

Is it quite strong? How's your portfolio drag?

SPEAKER_06 42:53

Oh no, darling! Oh, I got you back! You came back!

SPEAKER_13 42:58

Oh. Well, Dorothy. They're lying to you, Dorothy. Wizard of Oz has a secret tale. Secret meaning. Well, we're getting close to it. We're getting close. That's right, that's right, baby.

SPEAKER_20 43:19

Yeah, baby. No, man, you can't talk to Brad.

SPEAKER_10 43:26

Nobody can.

SPEAKER_14 43:30

You guys are messing with me, right?

SPEAKER_11 43:47

Oh wow, okay. Nice uh guitar work here. I'm digging it.

SPEAKER_02 43:52

But it blow me away.

SPEAKER_11 43:54

No, but

SPEAKER_22 44:05

Are you screaming these forever?

SPEAKER_11 44:20

Yeah. You just can't wait to get the elephant in.

SPEAKER_13 44:26

Oh, I think we overdubbed some I found the sound clips. Yeah, that's all right. We thought we uh this thing on? Is this thing on?

SPEAKER_01 44:42

The pen is blue.

SPEAKER_13 44:55

Sending out more now. That's that's Morse code. Yep.

SPEAKER_11 45:00

Oh yeah, the did it, did it, did it. Alright, here we

Elephant And The Influence Hunt

SPEAKER_11 45:05

go. That's an elephant. Here it is.

SPEAKER_13 45:23

Love it. Yeah, he definitely was watching Pink Elephants. Definitely. And made this. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 45:36

Yeah, I I saw that movie more than once in college. At one o'clock in the morning. With something like this playing, but Pink Elephants in the background. A lot of times it was Pink Floyd. Yeah. You can probably do that with this song, too. I'm sure, yeah. Just put this on with the pink elephants in the background. I am the side of worms. Or you can put pink elephants on like the sound with the elephants video from Tana Pala. Right, that's what I was saying, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 46:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 46:25

Good good melody here. It's very it is.

SPEAKER_11 46:32

But it's what's funny is I this is the genius of it, because while you you are right about that, there's also um a lot of Pink Floyd echoes in this first song.

SPEAKER_13 46:45

At all.

SPEAKER_11 46:46

And then there's money too. Money.

SPEAKER_13 46:52

That part. Yes. Specifically.

SPEAKER_11 46:54

Yeah. But there's some animals and there's some echoes in here, I can hear, like with the Yeah, this is cool. Yeah, this is a hit. It should be.

SPEAKER_12 47:14

That would really blow his mind.

SPEAKER_13 47:22

Right. Excellent. Excellent. Love that part. Work it. Work it, baby.

SPEAKER_14 47:34

Yeah, baby.

SPEAKER_13 48:00

I don't like it. Simple fact. This sounds like a little less claypool-y, like uh like uh the shot Lennon claypool delirium. Uh-huh. Oh, there's a there's a bass lake right there. That was gonna get lead. Oh, that's a high compliment here.

SPEAKER_12 48:31

That would really blow his mind.

SPEAKER_11 48:39

All right, so now we've gone into Led Zeppelin.

SPEAKER_10 48:42

This is Led Zap one.

SPEAKER_11 48:44

All right.

SPEAKER_13 48:44

I wonder what this was inspired by. Custard pie.

SPEAKER_11 48:52

Like uh down by the seaside.

SPEAKER_13 48:55

Air travel. Yeah. I was gonna say, you know, ancient air travel. This was inspired on Yeah, this is very light type funny. Okay, good exercise song, I would say. Yeah, this would be a good running song. You can it's a pace. It's at the same pace, man. I'd be pull handy running with this. Start out with some Antonio Yo Bim and then move to this, okay.

When Lyrics Stop Being The Point

SPEAKER_10 50:59

What what is this song about?

SPEAKER_13 51:01

I have no idea. I've it literally I'm confused by all of his lyrics because he fuses. There's no real narrative for me.

SPEAKER_10 51:12

No.

SPEAKER_13 51:16

Hey. I think the words are secondary for him.

SPEAKER_11 51:25

Yeah. It's really more about the jam. The jam, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 51:30

It's just another melody, is these lyric, lyrical layering.

SPEAKER_11 51:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 51:36

And it sounds good. Because it's got a good voice. Yeah. So it doesn't matter to me.

SPEAKER_11 51:41

Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it was I don't want to take anything away from it. So I was just wondering if it's just a meaning to it.

SPEAKER_13 51:48

I don't think it does. It's just it's just got his meaning to him. Yeah. It means something to him, I guess, you know? Yeah. It sounds like a Van Halen intro.

SPEAKER_18 52:01

Not necessarily the end.

SPEAKER_11 52:03

It's usually close to the end, but she just won't believe me. This is like just a little vignette for like not even a minute.

SPEAKER_13 52:36

It's kind of cool. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 52:41

Yeah. I would say too strong. Quite strong. Yeah. I think we got a new uh freaking flyer clip here, huh? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 52:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 52:54

I'd say strong, quite strong.

The Long-Title Track And Final Stretch

SPEAKER_13 52:56

So you wanna announce this next song to Nothing that has happened so far has been anything we could control is up next.

SPEAKER_10 53:06

Yeah, this is okay.

SPEAKER_11 53:08

This is one of those This is the irritating part of this album. It's got songs with fucked up names. See if nothing that has happened so far has been anything we could control. Or N T Dou H S F H B A W Double C C Pretty.

SPEAKER_13 53:50

Pretty good.

SPEAKER_11 53:52

I'll go ahead and do the next couple plays out.

SPEAKER_13 53:58

I couldn't stand.

unknown 54:04

I know it's crazy, but there's just nothing to be like that.

SPEAKER_11 54:09

It's kinda cool.

unknown 54:11

Come on.

SPEAKER_05 54:27

But I rise up professional.

SPEAKER_10 54:36

I hate it, right? I just hate it. Yeah. Just hate it as well.

SPEAKER_13 54:51

Yes. Keep running. Let's go. Keep running. You'll eventually get to the finish line.

SPEAKER_11 54:56

Yeah, you're gassed, but you just gotta keep going. Yes. Think about how how much better you're gonna feel.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

You know, just tears in his eyes, I guess. You're gonna be like, ah, that feels bad.

SPEAKER_10 55:17

Oh.

SPEAKER_11 55:33

Drumming is like really good at this deep. It's getting hard.

SPEAKER_13 55:51

Strumming out there is best. Yeah, like maybe you playing a harpsichord.

SPEAKER_08 55:59

What's going on?

SPEAKER_13 56:00

Yeah, this is just like going to old churches, getting weird organs and whatnot.

SPEAKER_03 56:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 56:10

Like it's a home residence filled with music instruments. It's a good decor, you know. A gallery of just instruments everywhere. There's a lot of work that went into this song, you know. A couple mood lamps. Like twenty to fifty mood lights. And just stent. Just sit down, man. You get hungry, you eat a banana. Yeah. Banana. You get tired, you just lay down on the little mat in between all your stents. Yeah. You wake up and spend some more. Easy Rayman's air cord instead. Well.

SPEAKER_11 57:32

This is yeah, it's great, yeah. So it's kind of exhausting, you know, but it's tolerable. It's tolerable, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 57:39

I just I just wish he'd cinched it up a little bit. Do you wonder if he plays this live? Like, is it too much? Yeah, I don't know if this would be good for an encore. I mean, I think everybody would just eat it up. Yeah. He's getting big now. He can play what he wants.

SPEAKER_11 58:14

Sort of like it's a nine-inch nails situation, it seems like. Right? That kind of thing.

SPEAKER_13 58:21

Yeah. Every man is happy until happiness is suddenly a goal. Yeah. Okay. I'll just be waiting here till Doctor calls and then I'll let you down.

unknown 58:40

What?

SPEAKER_10 58:41

You're gonna end on that?

SPEAKER_11 58:42

Okay, that's almost Yeah, it was that was almost a mixed bag. It was good, and then I was like, It was not good.

SPEAKER_13 58:50

It was good again, but necessarily the end.

SPEAKER_18 59:03

It's usually close to the end.

SPEAKER_13 59:17

Like the pilot.

Sun’s Coming Up And Closing Picks

SPEAKER_10 59:59

It's called the song's called Sun's Coming Up. Darling. Light of my life? Seriously.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:12

Yeah. It's not a half day or anything. So if you could just get here.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:22

Light of my life. Light of my life.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:31

Yeah, yeah, it's not a half day or anything, so you should get this message when you climb in. Regular time, it's ten a.m. Uh yeah, hi. It's Bill again. I I'm lost with this one.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:00

Yeah, I'm cut. Can we change it?

SPEAKER_13 1:01:03

How much time is left? Oh, it's half the song is left. Yeah, we can't have another three minutes of this. Yeah. We'll skip ahead a minute. Let's see. Okay. See if it rocks out, maybe.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:24

Okay, yeah, yeah. Let's do this. I mean, do you want to start reader three?

SPEAKER_13 1:01:28

I'm yeah. I'm gonna go. I know this is out on a limb, but nothing that has happened so far has been anything we could control, number three.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:37

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:38

Just because the organ mid part, the middle organ part was quite good. And something unique, I think.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:45

I agree. There was a lot that that was really good there. Some weird stuff too, but yeah. But yeah, that's okay. You know, you gotta take the good with the bad.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:53

Right. Every song can't be perfect. That's right. But that was a cool organ section. So yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:00

Okay, right on. What are the hits again? Um, well, it feels like we only go backwards as a hit. An elephant. We're gonna say elephants is a hit.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:10

And uh is my mischief a hit? I feel like that's on the cusp. It's on the edge. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:19

Uh well, I'm gonna say. Let's just we'll put a pin in. I mean, we'll let's just like leave those two out, and then we can do whatever we want. Alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. But uh I thought uh I think I'm gonna give a little shout out to Endor's Trois. Oh nice. It had a nice uh easy, breezy kind of quality to it. I did like that song. So I'm gonna get my number three.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:50

Alright. Um well for the sake of I'll I'm putting my mischief as a hit. Just because it was a hit to me, and that was my favorite song. That's still my favorite song.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:09

That hook. It's such a hook.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:13

And I think I'm gonna go number two is gonna be music. I like that one. That was good. Or whatever.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:39

It's a great song. I think it's to the point where I think it should be like a hit. Like it's for me, it's kind of a hit because it's such a cult uh classic with uh with the fans and I I would have it up there. It would be it would be my number one as well. But I'm gonna we have to go deeper and deeper into the the top of the So to go deeper and deeper I'm going with uh why I won't do a talk to me. It was very like I felt the same thing, like that you did. It was just a classic, I think. Yeah, it's uh kind of raw. It's kinda a little evil. You know, like the kind of uh yeah, it's it's it's old and daring like heaven parker too. But yeah, we thank you as always man.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:48

Enjoy your day night morning. Exactly.