Uncharted Riffs with Josh Dixon and Nick Buxton
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Uncharted Riffs with Josh Dixon and Nick Buxton
Episode 1 - Nothing but Keys (Josh Dixon)
The Uncharted Riffs Podcast kicks off with Josh's top picks, ranging from the "growl" of Oasis to crying at Billy Joel, this episode has it all. Talking through his favourite live gig, his perfect song mashup and his ultimate uncharted song, the episode kicks off with comedy, humour and a surprise amount of random shit-talking.
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SPEAKER_01:Hello, welcome to the Uncharted Riffs podcast with me Josh Dixon and me Nick Buxton. We have spent ages coming together with this idea, and it's finally come to its fruition. We're doing our first episode where we'll be able to talk through our favourite Uncharted songs, our favourite Perfect Song mash-up, and our favourite live gig. We have got a range of different guests lined up to come in the next following weeks. However, we thought we'd do a little bit of an introduction as the two of us and, yeah, basically talk through our different bits, to be fair.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, we started, I think, for those who have come from the previous episode that we've done together from the original Podstance, the Punkstance podcast, this is a show that will be dedicated more to bands
SPEAKER_01:and individuals and artists who want to describe their music and sort of flaunt it as it were to us but also talk about their inspirations their favourite live shows and the things that have sort of brought them to the moment right now where they talk to us and establish their music to the masses as it were yeah because I think if I mean the idea really came from like if you think about trying to find new music I don't know if you've had the same issue but like it's always a bit of a chore it is a bit of a chore you've got to go through through countless playlists countless radio stations countless songs and artists that you don't care about but what you want to do is hear about well who they are where they're from what their influences are but also you want to be able to put a stamp on something you found yourself so why not give them a platform to do so exactly and the kind of I mean you saying that the number of playlists that I've had going through trying to find new music is just ludicrous the one I'm I have about eight yeah and the one I'm currently on is a sort of party induced play called The Only Thing I'm Busting is Moves and Nuts. Did you create that one? That is a Nick Buxton original. So that's my party-infused playlist. Do you want to talk through where that name's come from? Because busting nuts is quite a phrase to throw out there in the opening two minutes of the first episode. I thought it was funny. We're still establishing the tone of the show. For my show that I do individually, it's much more mental health orientated and there's a serious tone to it. apart from ours, which was just hilarious. But with this one, it's going to be a lot more free flowing and a lot more sort of conducive to a positive mentality because I feel like when I talk to people on my own, I allow them to express themselves and they get a chance to express how the music makes them feel. Whereas this time we allow the bands and the artists themselves to do that and express it to us. So we'll be slightly different, but also this is an introduction so we can gauge how we're going to do it. If you don't want moves and nuts, I'm open to it. I mean, if you're going to bust a nut right here, I think it's probably a bit far. But if I want to bust a move, that's a whole other... Yeah, go for it. That's a whole other challenge with that one. Yeah, and when we get into the Uncharted song at the end of the episode, it's going to be... I will be busting moves. I mean, if you're not, I'm going to be offended. It goes one of two ways.
SPEAKER_00:And speaking of that, would you like to explain how the general line-up will go?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so this is going to be a format which hopefully plays into everyone's strengths whether it be an artist a band a venue well someone who owns a venue not the actual venue itself obviously but if the forum comes on then we know it's gone wrong um but yeah we're going to be going through uh basically our favorite ever live gig so that could be one well for us we're both not musicians so it's not one we've performed but if an artist finds out that yeah it's an art there's a gig that they perform that they really enjoyed then they can obviously run through that um that we'll do a perfect song so that will be a mix of your favorite vocals lyrics drums and bass or and riff so that could be a particular song it could be a particular artist it could be a particular live sort of performance which incorporated all of that into one but we will ask for four different uh well one for each so before in total to build your perfect song and then we will have the uncharted song at the end so the reason for this podcast as well is we obviously wanted to highlight songs that maybe you wouldn't have discovered on an album because you've just listened to the song that was well the headline song that was maybe charted so we wanted to shade not shade we wanted to project a bit of light onto the songs on the album we wanted to project a bit of light onto the songs that maybe don't get as much recognition and that we would like to leave for the following guest and we will get their live reaction while they're listening to it to be able to set up theirs for the following week as well and I believe that as the starter of this or the initiator should I say you will be going first yeah so I'll have to get some questions ready it feels a bit pretentious going first because I'm kind of like I did a podcast by myself yeah true I wouldn't feel too bad at least I've got someone to chat to this time I just spoke to a wall first time round which is a bit weird how was yeah why did you do that just felt like talking about yeah fair enough you don't yeah no one's coming back to you with anything yeah they can't insult me for my choices yeah okay well yeah I'm happy to launch into my ones for this episode and we can go into yourself for episode two hopefully
SPEAKER_00:absolutely And for those who are listening, firstly,
SPEAKER_01:thank
SPEAKER_00:you very much for joining us.
SPEAKER_01:We'll be hopefully getting these out as regularly as we can. But this is the Uncharted Riffs podcast, and we may as well get started with you, Mr. Josh Dixon. I've done it again. I can't even get your name right. Josh Dixon. Shall we start with a favourite live gig? I think that's a great idea, Joshua. Perfect. Cool. So, this is going to be, obviously, for any other episode, it'll be whatever the artist or band's favourite live gig is, whether it's one they've performed or one that they've seen. Now, I'm not a musician, really. What? I've got grade four piano. That's about it. I mean, I can
SPEAKER_00:sing, but it's karaoke. That's a
SPEAKER_01:pretty decent building as well, grade four. Yeah. You get a grade four listed building. That's top quality stuff. So, don't put yourself down like that. Grade four is top quality. Yeah, it's pretty shit.
SPEAKER_00:There's your positive mentality for the day.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, obviously it's not going to be my favourite live gig that I've performed. So the favourite one that I've gone with was Nothing But Thieves at Birmingham O2 Academy. Wow. So this was about four years ago and there was a bit of a sort of shit build up to it. That's so bluntly said. It was a really shit build-up because basically I crashed my car the day before. Wow, okay, that's not what I thought you were going to say. No, no. I mean, the gig, fantastic. We'll get into that in a minute. But the, yeah, the preface to it was awful. I basically crashed my car into a drug dealer's beamer. And I can tell he was a drug dealer because he was high off his face when he started speaking to me. But he was quite hard- And he was kind of, well, hard looking. Were you looking at his eyes? Yeah, I mean, he didn't just, but like, yeah. I hope you were looking up. But yeah, he was quite hard looking. I kind of just got scared. So I was like, yeah, all right, fine. I'll put it through my insurance. I'll say I was the issue and I caused the crash and everything. And then I spent the following day just panicking about it because it was a Sunday so I couldn't get through to anyone. And I was panicking going, what the fuck's the insurance going to say to me? Did you write the car off? Well, this is the thing. So the car, when I crashed it, my car, completely fine, right? Not a single dent or scratch on it. That's pretty lucky. His car, I mean, I've really overhyped this. The crash was at about 10 miles an hour. It was down a cul-de-sac. I didn't like T-bone him. It was like genuinely like, yeah, it was like a little bump. Like I reckon there's probably bigger crashes in dodgems than what happened with us. Wow, that's... So he was kind of like, yeah, he had a few bumps and scratches on his, but obviously you don't know whether that's you that's caused it or whether it is like something from before. And judging by the way he looked and spoke, I was like, right, you've been in some scuffles, mate. I'm going to have to struggle to pull this back to, well, yeah, me not being the issue. So yeah, I basically had a bit of an argument with him. I was panicking about it. I was kind of torn in two minds about going to this gig because I was like, you know, I've got loads to sort out. I've been stressed all day. And then I went along and it was the best gig I've ever been to by some way. Wow. I went with my girlfriend at the time and I saw her for the initial 10 minutes when we walked into the venue and I didn't see her for two hours because it got lost on opposite sides of the mosh pit. It was brilliant. I had a two-pointer in my hand. We were bouncing around. Sweattiest gig I've ever been to as well. The band itself, like, I mean, we spoke about this on your podcast, didn't we? Yes,
SPEAKER_00:go and listen to...
SPEAKER_01:Subtle plug. Yeah, it's your fault. Podstance, the Punkstance podcast. A big bounty sandwich, episode 19. With Josh Dixon. You'll hear more detail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is basically a continuation of that, really. Like, Conor Mason, as the lead singer, was just ridiculous. Like, never heard vocals like that before. And it was a mix of songs that I'd never heard before, which I really loved, and songs that I had heard before and I knew all the words to. So I could sing along and kind of get sweaty to it. So... Which is always a win. Yeah. Yeah. And it was... Oh, yeah. I just think back to, like... the build up to that it was horrible but yeah I didn't finish the story so basically I crashed into him we weren't sure about the scratches he then said that his mate could fix his car for 600 quid and that if I just directly sent it to him we wouldn't have to get the insurance involved and I was like umming and ahhing about it and then I spoke to my mate and he went yeah don't do that like he's obviously going to scam you out of it and then probably do insurance anyway and he was telling me that his car got written off for like one scratch on the front that I apparently caused So I was kind of like, oh shit, I don't know what to do. That's not good. Went through the insurance and then, so because it was down the cul-de-sac, he lived literally like three doors down from me. So for the rest of the year at uni, I'd be sat in my room looking out my window, basically watching my car to make sure that nothing happened to it. And he keyed it the whole way along. Really? Yeah. Shit. Oh my god. Yeah, it was a really fun few months that, but I got a good gig out of it, so... It was pretty good. Yeah, that's a very binary story. Yeah, I mean, I kind of dipped in and out with it with the gig. But overall, it kind of made it 10 times better because there was a bit of a bit of a sob story to it. Well, I mean, it just goes to show how impactful of a gig it would have been because of all that terrible news about your car and having some weird man key it. You still... have that that gig in mind is what your your single best one was it the performance in particular was there anything about it that really stood out uh i mean the the encore i mean it's obviously meant to be the best right it's the three songs which are meant to get the crowd up the most and you're meant to go away going fuck me what you know that's what you want to end on top-notch stuff But two of the songs in the encore, I didn't know. In hindsight, probably wasn't a good start. But they did a song called I'm Not Made By Design, which was from the Broken Machine album, which we also spoke about on your podcast. And I'd never heard that before, but the vocals on that was just incredible. And I just remember thinking, this has got to be one of the best performances I've ever seen. And I kind of came away from it being like, I need to listen to this song now. And I think it's one of my top ten most played songs ever. Wow. Yeah. It's just come off the back of that. That's a pretty... That was a rollercoaster of a story. I know. I'll give you that. I'm crying. I've got tears in my eyes. He's not even lying. He's about to go and sit in the corner. have you ever seen nothing but thieves i i unfortunately have not i would really really like to because i as i said in the in our episode overcome was probably one of my favorite songs of that year yeah prior to the release of the album um and i think they're just such a versatile band i think they could probably cover the vast majority of genres in the rock scene and probably in a lot of the pop scene as well and pretty much nail it i think they've got this this knack for writing top quality riffs and just really engrossing their audience i don't know what their stage presence was like because because you've obviously, you were the gig and I wasn't. But it seems to me they're the kind of people, particularly Connor, who just have that, That thing about them. Talent. Talent, yeah. But you can play the best music in the world. And I have a story similar to this that I told. You can play some of the songs that are your favourite, but if you don't have any personality on stage, then you're never going to engage the audience. And that's deep down what it's all about. Yeah, yeah. I mean, so this was the Moral Panic tour. So this was the one just before... Well, Overcome and everything on Dead Club City, which, to be fair, is more of like a dance album, I think. It's a bit more like... There's no real hard-hitting rock on there. It's all very much like synthesiser beats on that album, which I was quite surprised about at first, but it kind of proves your point a little bit, that they are quite good, regardless of what they want to perform. They just have that way about them. Again, from the album that you were talking about, they just... they have a manner about themselves where even though they can write very slow songs and very emotionally engrossing songs, they can still capture you in a live scene. Yeah. And just the moment you're in there, you're just, you're just transfixed. You're just, you can't, you look at them and go, Oh my God, you forget about the car. You forget about the girlfriend. The other side of the room. You're just like, it's so engrossed with the band. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's testament to their writing and their, and their performing skills really, isn't it? Joe was amazing off the back of it as well. What's that? So I did a classic, Like... audience geek thing and went and actually bought merch at the gig which I don't usually do I always have a look and I'm like yeah I'm not paying 50 quid for like a tote bag it's not it's not worth the money see I'm about to do the complete opposite because I always buy I am buying I am literally wearing a four year strong t-shirt right now from the gig I went to about three weeks ago okay it was such a good gig but it's not the gig for my episode no stay tuned stay tuned you want to hear about a different gig yeah but this is the thing I was kind of like oh it's 50 quid for a t-shirt like I don't really want to spend that and like yes do I love it that much I bought it right because I went yeah this will be fine it didn't fit for a start it was too big and then my dad came up to me about maybe a year later and was like Josh I'm performing at a gig and I've been told by the rest of the band I have to wear a gig like a band t-shirt but I don't have one what one's do you have and it was either a toss up between an Oasis t-shirt that was way too small or this which was too big for me so he's now got it he just wears it in all his gigs while he's playing the piano well yeah I mean we love that band yeah my dad is in it your dad is in it other dads are in it yeah I don't know how it came around. I don't know why it's called. So they're called The Expandables, right? Big up The Expandables. Yeah, I mean, massive shout out because they've done pretty much all the theme tune music for this. But I don't understand where the name's come from. I do know where it's come from. Is it like a fat joke? no I just thought expanding waistlines I mean maybe kind of it's based off the film series Expendables yeah which basically has loads of classic action heroes from the 70s and 80s right and they take them in in their like 60s and they go off and do like similar action missions and I think it was based on that because they're all dads who are now in a band but later in life oh okay so it's like the one with like Sylvester Stallone yeah Arnie was Arnie in one I can't remember Harrison Ford Harrison Ford was in one Jason Statham's in one Megan Fox was in one for some reason uh Expandables 4 one of the worst movies I've ever seen but Megan Fox was in it but Megan Fox was in it so it made it slightly kind of not maybe bearable um it's such a bad movie um but yeah I think that's what it's based on don't quote me on that but I'm fairly confident that that's what it is oh it's just yeah they're fat yeah yeah but yeah I don't know where that came from like whenever I tell friends who who didn't know the dads, they'd all just be like, oh, they're just all fat. And it was quite hard to explain that not only was my dad in it, so yeah, can you stop slagging him off? But also, they're not even that fat. They're fine. One, two, one, two. Well, this moves us on pretty well as the master of segues over here to the specific parts of songs that you like. Your father... plays the piano, my father plays the drums. And one of the things that you mentioned in the previous intro regarding that is a certain drum beat or bass line. So would you like to start there? Yeah, I'm happy to. So yeah, it'll be perfect. So this will be the perfect song mashup. So I've got, yeah, you're right. Drums and bass, vocals, lyrics, and a riff. Yes. Like a lead guitar kind of thing that I like. So I've picked out four songs that I like. Four different songs. Yeah. Rather than like specific artists. Because I think I was also doing the same thing. So that will work quite well. Yeah. Yeah. yeah because I think I think a song like you can actually like hear it whereas if I just go oh you know like so and so is really good at the guitar it's like you know what else am I going to say about that yeah you don't have much else to work with yeah like it's one of those things so we'll start with drums and bass just because you have and I've gone for a song that hasn't actually charted before By choice, really. Not because I wanted to. Just because it is a song that I... I mean, I love it. It's on the Council Skies album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. And it's a song called There She Blows. So, I mean, have you heard it to start off with? I have no idea what the song is. Okay. Do you know who Noel Gallagher is? That would be a good starting point. No, I don't. Okay, brilliant. Do you know what birds are? Winged rats. Yeah, okay. We can start there. Obviously, I know who Noel Gallagher is. Yeah, well, I'm assuming most people do. Obviously, Oasis and all that sort of stuff. And this was the project that came after it. The least shit member of Oasis. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, I have actually got an Oasis song on here as well. It's part of the perfect song. So that'll be a good segue in a minute. Okay, good. But yeah, so I've gone with There She Blows. It is a song that... I don't really understand why it hasn't taken off as much as it has. So it's got a very
SPEAKER_00:good... Unintended or? I
SPEAKER_01:didn't even think about that. I didn't even think about that. But yeah, it's fair enough. But it's got like... I mean, it's got... When I was thinking about drums and bass, what I was trying to think of was I want a song in which I can stride to, right? I want something that I'm going to have my headphones on. I'm going to be on a walk to work. I'm going to be... pretty pissed off that I'm going to work but I want something that's going to get me hyped up and I can stomp along to yeah and this is what this does it is a song that I mean the drum beat is pretty slow and melodic but it's the bass lick over the top which just gets you and then I mean Noel Gallagher even though he's not the lead singer of Oasis has like surprisingly good vocals like he really does and it kind of brings the song all together he did always surprise me when he did his inclusions
SPEAKER_00:of
SPEAKER_01:like within Oasis songs um Don't Look Back In Anger I mean, the solo stuff's not that bad, really. I mean, I know that's me saying it as someone who isn't a multi-platinum winning songwriter, which he is. But like, I mean, some of the albums, if you actually listen to them, I mean, if you take away from the Oasis stuff, because that's untouchable in my opinion. It's like nothing either him or Liam do in their solo careers is ever going to get close to it. But if you look at it as a simple project in terms of the album on its own, they're really good they're really really good and also the lyrics that he has are a lot more I mean they're a lot more sort of emotive than maybe Liam's are where he's pretty much spitting into the mic and just just screaming so yeah that's my song for for drums and bass nice I reckon go and give it a listen I will I'm going to search up right now as I'm doing my own list lovely stuff we'll segue into the vocals shall we yes because that is an Oasis song that I picked do it I haven't picked Noel Gallagher's vocals for this one because I've gone with Slide Away. Oh, now that is a good underrated Oasis song. Oh, so fucking good. I mean, I'd be tempted to say it's one of the best love songs. Someone's been murdered. Yeah. We do live in London after all, so. I'd be tempted to say it's one of the best love songs. like I've heard from a rock band, like genuinely. And it's, I mean, yeah, we've spoken about this before when we've been in the pub, but the Nebworth 96 version of this song is ridiculous. It is so good. Like, you can just see people like crying in the crowd as they expand to it because there's just so many people just connecting with the song and also yeah like the growl of Liam Gallagher's vocals is something that I don't think any band or any frontman has ever touched since he's basically come to the fore so absolutely but it's yeah incredible song it's I think it's probably my most listened to song ever just through loving it so much obviously discovering neb worth seeing as many live performances of it and the fact that he still does it now when he tours and like he kind of incorporates it into his encore and it's one of those ones that you kind of just sit back and go yeah yeah i either want to be in the mosh pit i want to sit there and just hear the hear the lyrics that come with it so it is it's much like what we were talking about before about one of those songs that you You just sit in it and let it wash over you. It's not a passive listening experience. It's one of those songs that really... Because it's like six minutes long as well. It's a very long song. A lot of theirs were, especially in their early album. But it's the kind of song with the kind of lyricism that really washes over you and you get completely engrossed in what's been written and the way that the guitars amplify those feelings. It's quite a jangly tune as well, which I guess is what helps... get that message across yeah massively and also like when you look at the live performances they do they sort of this is another thing that I love about live performances is when they change up the song at the end so like they've done stuff before where they've incorporated like a Beatles song into the end of like a guitar solo that they're doing Sliderway's no different they basically incorporated a sort of I don't want to sing it you know that might be a bit far but they basically incorporate extra lyrics and stuff which maybe when you listen to the song over Spotify or apple music or whatever you use you're not actually going to hear it like before and then they obviously like accentuate that when the live performance and it brings everyone together to basically shout back at the band and it's a whole whole atmosphere kind of thing so yeah i'm glad you heard that song i i would be very upset if i hadn't yeah i'll be honest i mean a song that you might also have heard of in terms of I guess, rock music. And this would be my riff. So my lead guitar solo. Sweet Child of Mine, Guns N' Roses. I am aware of this song. Yeah. It's quite good, isn't it? It's quite well known. It's pretty notorious for being a legendary classic rock tune. Yeah. And for very good reason. And this is, I mean, I've got quite an emotional story that ties to this one as well. I don't want to bring the tone down. We
SPEAKER_00:should
SPEAKER_01:have done this on my show. Yeah, in various different jobs. So the first time I heard it was we were all sat down at lunch, right? 10 of us all sat there. And they had an Amazon Alexa in the kitchen. And this song just came on, Sweet Child of Mine, Guns and Roses. And all of them stopped eating. All of the family friends stopped eating and started playing air guitar when the guitar solo came on. And I just thought to myself, like, that is so brilliantly, like... Like, the amount of people that get, like, anxious nowadays to go and just be themselves. Like, them to just all simultaneously just stop doing... It was obviously a song that brought them all together. Yeah. And I felt like I was part of that. So we drove back from there, which took about an hour and a half or so. And I spent genuinely probably about an hour off that journey just listening to this song. I was like, this is incredible. I can't believe I've never heard this before. with this band and then obviously you go on and you listen to like yeah paradise city well it is the sweet child of mine is in fact from appetite for destruction right so you were correct 1987 uh july 21st to be precise 1987 um what i didn't know having now looked at this is that it's like the ninth song on the album is it? yeah it's not first it's not the closing one I feel like it should be a closing song it's not it's just in the middle yeah it's just of the 12 tracks it's number 9 which is one of those ones where you get to the end where you're like you know what kind of filler is coming up but apparently Guns N' Roses thought oh I know what we'll do we'll put in 9th place one of the single most influential classic rock songs of all time yeah but sometimes bands like they don't realise it's going to be a hit until it goes out like Wonderwall for instance I know we keep banging on about Oasis but like Wonderwall was never known like that's going to be a hit when it came out I think they initially thought it wasn't great I think it was one of the least favourite it's always the ones that are going to drop from the album potentially and then they leave it in and obviously people just get really emotionally attached to it I still stand by the fact that it's probably the worst song on the album You think? Yeah. I like every other song more. Have you not done the full circle yet where you come back and go, oh, it's actually lyrically amazing and I love it so much? Lyrically, I can appreciate it, but I think that... I mean, some might say it's my favourite Oasis song. Good song. For a very, very good reason. But I think everything in that album is better than Wonderwall because I think... it's a very simple riff and I think that's why it's so accessible yeah and it's very you know people can it's one of that's why the whole meme of like anyway let's anyway here's Wonderwall yeah it's such an easy song to play which again an easy song doesn't mean it's a bad song I just think it's I don't know it's not for me yeah I like it but it's not compared to you know as we spoke about like compared to the quality of Definitely Maybe and the rest of What's The Story I just don't think it compares even slightly it just got popular well Would you sing, some might say, if you were pissed at karaoke? Is that the one you'd pick? I would probably pick Champagne Supernova. Really? Yeah, because I think I can sing that one kind of sort of well. You could do the guitar solo as well. Yeah, I'm trying to learn that at the moment. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that and Sons of Swing by the Dire Straits. It's so tough. Is it? It's so difficult. I didn't think I was that great. And then I tried playing that and I got about three seconds in and I gave up because it's so difficult. But it's like the song Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. If you can learn that solo even slightly, you're an excellent guitar player and you have my respect. It's also about 10 minutes long. The whole song, yeah, is about nearly 10 minutes long and half of it is a solo. It's a solo longer than most songs nowadays. It blows my mind. Have you seen Kingsman? I have seen Kingsman. Oh my God. Very, very effective use of that song yeah great movie for those that haven't seen it it's a way well yeah obviously go and look up what the premise of the film is but they play the guitar solo from free bird over like five minutes of footage of just a massacre in a church yeah and it's incredible it's so good it's colin firth in a suit massacring loads of like yeah racist like deep south american churchgoers yeah um i can't remember what he says he's like oh i'm I can't remember what he says, but he basically insulted them all in one big go, saying that he was gay, he had a black boyfriend, and all that. And then he stabs loads of them with pitchforks, not pitchforks, forks. General forks. Yeah, actual forks. But it's all played to the solo from Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. I really wished I'd picked that now. Really? Yeah. What pisses me off as well, right, is I'm about to get angry. I've made a fatal error. First episode at each other's throats is the fact that I did the radio show earlier and I put Free Bird in before I thought about what I was going to talk about on this. And I didn't think, oh yeah, it's a pretty good fucking guitar solo. I might as well use that. And so, yeah, we're sticking with Sweet Child of Mine. I mean, it's still a very apt song for that. It's just Freebird is... A whole other song. I think what bothers me about Freebird is I don't know how to say the name of the band. What, Lynyrd Skynyrd? Is that it? Yeah. Is it not Lynyrd Skynyrd? Lynyrd Skynyrd. Yeah, it might be. You've just reminded me of a... I'll get this quick because we'll go way off topic. There was a guy I bumped into when I was driving up to Loughborough for a job and he was South African and I stopped on the motorway to get a drink and he said, oh... can you help me get somewhere? I went, oh yeah, where are you headed? And he pointed on the map and he said, I'm trying to get here. I went, sorry, what do you mean? He went, I'm trying to get to Lugabaruga. I said, I'm sorry? He's like, I'm trying to get to Lugabaruga. I went, you mean Lathborough? It's called Lathborough. He must have been waiting there for ages for someone to ask him what it means. He looked at it and he's like, it was that face of, you're completely wrong. He was so convinced it was called Lugabaruga. And now I call it that because it was the funniest thing i've ever heard once he left i just got in the car and i started laughing i was like that's the funniest thing i've ever heard someone like worcestershire sauce is a terrible terrible terrible name uh but like leicester you have lysette lysester shire and all this stuff but luga baruga is not even close no but I you know what that was really funny but yeah no it's Lynyrd Skynyrd okay to be precise right well I wish I'd known that about two hours ago when I was coming up with what I was talking about but we'll stick with Guns N' Roses speaking of being able to say things correctly lyrics yes fantastic segue again thank you very much I'm getting better at it yeah we'll get we'll get there we'll tie it up eventually so lyrics it's I mean a lot of these have been rock songs and rock bands that I've picked I don't know Lyrics, I've gone away from that. I've gone for Billy Joel, Vienna. Have you heard this one? I have heard
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SPEAKER_01:song. Okay. Not for a while, though. I think it's just one of those songs which, regardless of how old you are, who you are, what your background is, if you listen to it, you're going to turn around and go, like, this just means something to me. It just does. I kind of heard this when I was at uni. Kind of a bit of a rough time, but... you know I was still going out and discovering music and stuff so it can't be that bad but yeah this came up and I was like this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and the live version as well from Madison Square Gardens which I think he did in 2015 I think I have to double check that but he's got like a live album out do you want me to do more fact checking go for it but it's yeah I mean that album as well that whole yeah all of the songs he does on that's amazing but obviously Vienna was the one that stood out for me and it's just I just can't really talk much more about it other than if you haven't heard it go and have a listen because it will connect with you in some way what's Jeeves saying it was May 28th 2015 Come on. Played his 66th show at Madison Square Garden, breaking his own record for most performances by a solo artist at the venue and marking his 20th consecutive show since starting his MSG franchise in 2014. MSG franchise? MSG franchise. Was... What does that mean? Madison Square Garden. no no I didn't mean like the preservatives that you get in a fucking packet of crisps in a Chinese he started his own Chinese franchise but like what does he like is it like a residency thing that he has I'm trying to find it said MSG franchise this show was also his 20th consecutive show at MSG since he began his quote franchise there in 2014 which made him the first music franchise at the venue joining the New York Knicks and New York Rangers Pretty impressive, isn't it? Yeah. 66 shows there. That is very impressive. And he's still going. Yeah. He's still going. What a talented little guy. Who do you think is better? Him or Elton John? Because they're both very, very similar music. Oh, don't ask me that. I mean, I've got to put you on the spot at some point. Don't ask me that. It's not my episode. I would have to say Elton John for me. Because he's British? Not necessarily. I just think his style and his... His patter, shall I say. I think he's more charismatic than Billy Joel. And also, I watched the film Rocketman fairly recently. So I have more of an affiliation. It's recency bias, but I'd like a lot more of Elton John songs than I do of Billy Joel songs. Yeah, because I did... I mean, I'm... I don't know. I'd ask the question without an answer. I think... Probably Billy Joel. Putting me on the spot and you... Well, yeah. I think probably Billy Joel, personally, for me. Okay, interesting. What other songs of his do you... Do I know? Do you know? Or some that could have taken the spot of Vienna? For what? For lyrics? For lyrics. As he is what some people would call a lyrical marvel. I mean, my life... I love it. Not just my life. I mean, the song My Life is pretty good. Yeah, I fucking love Life, man. I feel like we should be having a joint and just chilling out. That's fucking cool, man. Yeah, New York State of Mind, Moving Out, Only the Good Die Young. I'm not a massive fan of that one, but I can see why people like it. Piano Man, probably very similar to what you said about Wonderwall. It's that song that everybody sings
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SPEAKER_01:Moving swiftly on. Sorry. We didn't start the fire. Of course.
SPEAKER_00:Great song. We didn't start the fire.
SPEAKER_01:That was a good one. Big shot. Honesty. Honesty is a great song. Yes. So yeah, there's a few, but yeah, Vienna is just far and away. for that one I think and of those four vocals, lyrics, drum bass and riff which of those four do you think is the one that resonates with you the most like in terms of the songs not just the medium itself what do you mean so like the songs and the connection to either the riff drum and bass etc yeah yeah yeah which song do you think resonates with you the most as a result of what you've picked it in terms of slide away slide away yeah just I mean I'm on a massive Oasis hype at the moment like anyone who's friends with me would just like tell me to shut up because I talk about it too much also did get tickets as well so you got tickets yeah fuck you yeah Wembley standing on on a Saturday night I don't know how we managed it. I mean... i might as well have had bots working for me on ticketmaster that day because i was like i had about were you peak refresh were you just constantly like i was yeah i had four devices and i didn't get any but it was my mate's girlfriend's sister that managed to get tickets for me and my mate and like this is what i mean like we just had about 15 people working for us to try and find really get these tickets wow it was uh it was quite intense in fairness there was someone at my job at the time who was who did that as well i think she had four devices her fiance had three yeah and like everyone in the family had one going as well just to get like a few tickets and they still didn't get any and then they just they just won in a raffle so they they they had all these devices didn't win anything and then suddenly on email saying congratulations you're a winner here's two tickets to see oasis they went sweet oh i don't have to sell my kidney yeah yeah i can go delete all the ticketmaster accounts you've got so yeah i'd love to see stats on how many were created on that morning because i was i mean i was i used to live in croydon So it's pretty depressing anyway. But I was sat there after like four hours of refreshing on all these devices, messaging all my friends to see if they'd got me a ticket. And I still had none. Wow. And it was the second wave in which we got lucky. But yeah, it was a, that was a very stressful day. I can't lie. But you got them. I got them. And now you might potentially be able to see Slide Away live. well I have already twice to be fair but not as Oasis as Liam Gallagher by himself oh okay yeah but it's not the same is it no it's not it's not but I mean if they don't like kill each other before the 27th of September then I'm in for a treat the only guaranteed show is the first one yeah yeah I mean I think Paddy Power were taking odds for them to like break up and it was six to one like that's so low like frighteningly low and yet they yeah it seems to be going ahead They'd have to refund a lot of people. Yeah. I don't think they would want to risk that at all. They'll have to remain civil at least. Yeah. But, oh well, looking forward to it. And yeah, Sliderway is probably the one that resonates most with this growly voice. Yeah, I mean, of all of that, there's some cracking songs in there. But now we come to the part of the show where you get to recommend a song to me. Yeah. And then I have to listen to it. Yeah. So this is... My Uncharted song. So basically it's going to be, I mean, this is what the podcast is all about, right? We're trying to promote songs from artists that have never charted before. You might not know before. We are going to add them all to a playlist after each episode. So then what you can do is you can obviously go back through, have a look. find them for yourself and you don't have to do the legwork pretty much so what we're going to do is I'm going to play a song to Nick now and he's going to listen to it he's going to give us his reaction and I'm going to talk through about why this song was picked from me why it's so amazing who the band are because absolutely no one's going to know who they are and also yeah basically how they were live because I saw them about two weeks ago and it sounded incredible live as well so yeah we'll play the song and we'll stitch this in shall we I'll be right back Cool.
SPEAKER_00:Thoughts? Okay, so I've just listened to this song. You know how you were saying
SPEAKER_01:that you're really into Oasis right now? Like, almost egregiously into Oasis. Yeah, it's an infatuation. I will say, I really enjoyed that. It has... It's like a slow burner. It's not a very long song. It's just over three minutes. But it has a pacing that's a bit more relaxed. The guy sounds very similar. He sounds like a mix of Noel and Liam Gallagher at the same time. Yeah. And they have a very good guitar solo about two minutes in that's very reminiscent of that sort of 90s Britpop. It is just a very Britpop song. And I quite enjoyed that. But what it reminded me of is a band that I know. And I feel bad because I'm just going to recommend a different band now. But it reminded me of a band called Breezer from Hastings who are basically the Oasis equivalent that I found. Yeah. And they did an EP like two years ago. And it just reminded me of songs that they had written because they're both very, very similar in the way that they have taken Oasis and shaped it into their own kind of sound, like a modern day Britpop band. So that was pretty cool. What was the reason that you picked it? i mean just to touch on what you're saying around like oasis bands like i feel like there's quite a few that are all going around and touring together at the moment i feel like brit pop's having a bit of a resurgence at the moment it might be to do with oasis becoming maybe more in the mainstream again but at the same time brit pop's always had a bit of a it's always been a touchstone of our musical culture hence the name so it's always been around but i think it's getting a bit more of a a resurgence now than prior. I mean, this band, Roller, they go around with... I mean, there's a few others that they tour with, like Pastel, the Rosellas, the Crooks, Breezer, I'm assuming, is probably very similar. There's lots of different names that all come out, and they all do similar stuff to this. These guys, like I said, I saw a couple of weeks ago. This one came from the Nothing Less Than Everything EP, which... If you get a chance to go and listen to all of the songs on there, they're incredible. I know I keep saying the word incredible, but yeah, they're amazing. It's incredible. They are amazing. But yeah, they're from Manchester as well, which probably plays into that a little bit. I've got it up on ChatGPT here, actually. They say that their influences are Twisted Wheel, DMAs, Fontaines, The Verve and Idols, which isn't a bad sort of group of bands to be included in. That's interesting. That's not a collection I was expecting to hear together, but fair enough. But yeah, when I saw them a couple of weeks ago, Like the guy, he literally walked out in a parka. He walked out with sunglasses on. He had like the mod bowl cut kind of trim. And he literally came on and just started flipping off the audience. Nice. Before he'd even done the first song, he was already having a scrap with people in the front row. So straight away, I was like, I like this guy. He's got a bit of character. So yeah, I'd heard some of the songs beforehand and then... Yeah, obviously seeing them live, it always kind of elevates them that much more to something that, yeah, you kind of hear the live version even though you're not listening to it when you walk around in everyday life. So yeah, it was just amazing. It was really good. And I definitely want to go and see them again. So that was why I picked Ease My Mind by Roller. Well, thank you for that. Great song. Yeah. Yeah, shall we wrap up? I think that was pretty solid. Yeah, I think that was a very insightful... understanding of your musical choices um and now you've passed on roller to me i'm gonna have to think of one to get back to you yeah and i have no idea it's a tough like it took this took me quite a bit of time to have one song to narrow it down to yeah is incredibly tricky because you have so many influences and obviously i could just pick all the albums that i know i really like because i focus primarily on smaller bands anyway but i'm gonna have to be a bit more pedantic and a bit more pernickety with how I pick it out so are you going to pick a song because I picked that song because I enjoyed it it wasn't so much I didn't really take your opinion into account yeah no that's fair that's fair I'll have to do a bit of looking around I might have to change some stuff up yeah but because you have now inspired me to have a look at my list and maybe move some bits around so yeah and I'm going to message Roller as well see if we can get him on the show oh my god that would be cool yeah wouldn't that be cool does anyone else want to come on the show no If you've listened and enjoyed this, then please do get in touch. We'd love to hear about your musical inspirations, the music that you're getting up to from any walk of life. Well, if you're an Oasis-y band, Josh will get right on you. Oh, yeah. He'll jump on you. Give you a kiss on the lips. He'll work with you like a duck to a pancake, trust me. So he'll be all over you. But I think the important thing with this kind of show is that We like to have inspiration from all sorts of genres. Yeah, of course. Yeah, this isn't just a rock podcast. I know that's mine and that's what I enjoy, but this is everything, right? We're going to try and diversify this as much as we can because I think it makes it interesting. It opens it up for other people who maybe don't listen to a certain genre of music to hear something. They're like, oh my God, that is great. Yeah, if you're a funky chap, if you're into your country, if you like drum and bass like me, do you I bloody love drum and bass mate I did a whole episode on it did you yeah but if you yeah if you like EDM if you like basically anything you can think of jazz If you like jazz. Do we accept jazz? If you like jazz. I think jazz is where we draw the line. You like jazz? You
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SPEAKER_01:But if you, yeah, any song that has influence to you and something that has inspired the music that you're currently writing, yeah, get involved or Josh will hunt you down. Yep. Because he's pretty good at that. Yeah. Well, I can track IP addresses. We know what we're doing. I'm joking. We're not stalking anyone. But yeah, thank you for listening to the Uncharted Riffs podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. Come back for episode 2 where we'll have Nick's choices and if you'd like to go and if you'd like to go and view some more content that we've got then you can follow us on Instagram at Uncharted Riffs thank you and bye
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