(upbeat music) - Anyway, welcome to our introductory episode of Just My Variety. I'm Jared, I'm Mike, there's Mike, and there's Enkel Vincenzo. - Uncle Vinnie. - This is another podcast for you to listen to. Oh boy, a bunch of guys getting together, doing another podcast, how original, 'cause you know, we just have so much stuff that we wanna say, right? There's not enough podcasts out there. - We're not worried about being original, we just wanna hear the sound of our voices. - Right, we're narcissists for that. - There's a reason I had four radio shows going at once. Like, we're just a bunch of former college radio DJs that wanted to get back into finding new music, disturbing new music, rediscovering old music. Came up with the idea, just Vinnie here was doing playlists during the pandemic and just posting them. I said, well, why don't we just take your playlists and I'll just react to them in real time of like, let's mess with Jared as much as possible and get him to listen to the weirdest stuff possible. - Yeah, the initial idea was, how about Vinnie makes a playlist and then forced Jared to react to them? He puts the weirdest songs into the weirdest playlist and forces Jared to listen to the weird songs he has at the top of his head, and then it evolved. - And then it evolved into, we're just gonna build playlists for each other and then have each other listen to it. And then I told Mike about it, and Mike was like, oh, get me in on it. And now here we are. And so we're just gonna be building playlists and that's what's different about and a little more original about this specific show guys is you can follow along with us because that playlist is available to you to listen to. We'll put a link to the actual playlist itself on Spotify in our show notes and you should definitely follow our Instagram because we always do weekly album reviews and each of us posts every other day. We rotate, it's a fun time. - Uncle Vinny is Monday. Uncle Jared is on Wednesday and Uncle Mikey is on Friday. - I'm so honored that we got the Uncle titles now. Finally. I've transcended, really appreciate that. We're just here for fun. Like if you have an artist you want us to listen to, just send it to us. We'll just check them out. If you're a small time artist that wants to get their name out there, send us your music and we'll throw it into a playlist. We'll see where it fits and we'll talk about it. But yeah, we just wanted to kind of give a little overview of what the show is and who we are and where we really came from when it all comes down to brass tacks. - You know, I saw somebody mention it and I like to think of it this way after reading it that this is more of a for us diary that we just put out into the world where we say, if you listen to it, great. - It really is. I think that's the best description for it. This is really just us putting our thoughts out into the world. - The only thing we have going for us is we've been doing this for the past 10 years. - That is true. We do have a leg up on the competition. - Speaking of leg up in the competition, let's talk about that. How many other podcasters can you say? In my case, five years of experience on public college radio. - I'm sure there's a lot. - Yeah, you're probably right. The three of us as well as our indomitable producer, Jake here. We all met-- - We also met-- - Hi, Jake. - Hi. - We met at a college radio station in California University of Pennsylvania, which I think is now-- - Penn West Credit Union. - Penn West Credit Union, no, it's now Penn West California. - That's what it is, yeah. - Penn West Credit Union. - Penn West Credit Union. - Oh, it sounds like it's right at the YouTube. But yeah, we met at a college radio station at California University of Pennsylvania, now Penn West University. And we're out there putting out our music. We were free. A lot of college stations don't give you the freedom to play whatever you want. We maybe had a little too much freedom with that. And we got into some weird territories. (laughs) - I was not part of that. - Yeah, sure. - I was very straightforward, very predictable. - Were you? Were you though? - I knew what I was doing. - You knew what you were doing. No one else knew what you were doing though. You were predictable. You thought you were predictable. - I thought I was predictable. - But no one could predict you. - Everyone else seemed to be surprised. - The variety you have been, that's a lot of the reason why I wanted to do it with you is because of, at least start with you, just the wide range of taste you've got and what you can bring to the table in terms of. - We've talked about it before, but people that I know that Vinny will probably never meet are excited when I tell them Vinny showed me something. Vinny has been a huge influence on all my music tastes, but also I will show them to friends. And I literally had this happen a few weeks ago when you showed me Janelle Monet and I showed it to another friend. And my buddy Thomas literally said, Vinny doesn't miss, like he knew you. And it was so funny, and I was like, that's exactly the kind of presence that Vinny kind of brings to the table is that people who don't know him know him because of his crazy variety of music. - Yeah, I've pushed a lot of weird music on to a lot of people. And not even weird, I just, that's the way I describe it. I listen to a lot of music. I, it's probably an obsession at this point, but I don't really know how to exist in any other plane. So there's always soundtrack. There's always a song to be listened to. There's always a sound, a new song to hear. There's a song to be listened to. This truly is the way Mike described it of like a diary of the time. I'm very excited about the idea of having a diary of what I was listening to at this point in my life. So my first one that I am obsessively listening to right now. So I follow a 2000s BMX account on Instagram, which is just a lot of videos from 2000s BMX videos, which is where I've got a lot of my music from anyway. But this song popped up and I can't remember if it was on one of those or something else, but the song is called Paper Covers Rock by A.M. Taxi. (upbeat rock music) ♪ I'm right through the woods just to hear ya bitch ♪ ♪ But the best real note when the needle hits ♪ ♪ High fives runnin' into a fence ♪ ♪ Oh God, you're real ♪ ♪ You're real ♪ - This is so 2000s BMX, right? If my life had shifted just a little bit, I would know this song and suddenly I'd be like, "Oh, I've heard this song in 12 years." - Yeah. (laughs) - 'Cause I was much more into skateboarding side of things. And it's surprising how different the punk kind of ends up being between skate and BMX. - I hear the replacements in here. - Yeah, I mean, if there is anything at this current point in my life, if they sound like the replacements, I'm probably in love with them. - I mean, also the replacements were like, at a point, they were like your favorite bands, favorite band, like they were the songwriter, songwriter, like Paul Westerberg was like the guy to be. So it made sense that like a lot of people we listened to, like, idolized the replacements and wanted to be them. - Just something I stumbled across and it's been on repeat pretty heavily in the last month or two. - Did you just find these guys or was it like, is it something's been like in your rotation for a while now? - Within the past month. I probably found it a month ago. It floated to the back and then it came back in like a revisit or a daily mix or something like that. And I was like, "Oh, yeah, I've got some of that." - Yeah, this really does sound like something that I would have like, pick up like, Dave Mira's BMX 2000, like whatever PS1 game. - Yeah, this was on the cutting room floor of Dave Mira's pre-style BMX 2. - Exactly. - So I'm curious, this is going out to Mike now. I know if any mentioned this about like, he loves recommending stuff to people. What would you say out of any recommendations you've sent to someone either in college or outside or college? What's been your favorite recommendation and reaction you've gotten from someone? - Oh, whenever anybody who doesn't listen to metal shows even the slightest interest, I immediately go to somewhere along the lines of like, Glory Hammer, Ale Storm, Angus McSick's Nightwish, like the fantasy. And I can't tell you how many people I know who don't listen to metal that only listen that kind of metal now. And it's always my go-to thing when somebody is like, and I have a lot of friends who play D&D and it's like, I've been like, oh dude, check out the song. Like, read the lyrics. And if you wanna listen to the song, like listen to the song. But like, this is what I listen to to get pumped for D&D. I'll send them some of this and I've had so many people converted. I have so many friends who've never been to a metal concert that I have to tell them about what a metal concert, the difference between if you go to a K-pop or a rock concert or like any other concert type. This is what you have to be prepared for at a metal show. Even these metal shows are metal shows and you gotta be prepared for these. And I've converted so many people to like, just any kind of metal just by showing them. Usually, Gloria Emmer's my go-to. Actually, I will put this on here because this song is like, was like one of the biggest inspirations on my newest D&D campaign. And I almost redid my entire campaign based around just big fuck-all monsters because I listened to a song about the world serpents. This song is power-snaked by the brothers of metal. And this song got me so pumped about big monsters. This is one of the ones I will immediately recommend to people. ♪ Deep beneath the surface ♪ ♪ Nerves a mighty beast ♪ ♪ A reptile of the ocean ♪ ♪ A viper unleashed ♪ ♪ His creature is enormous ♪ ♪ It finds his tallest dreams ♪ ♪ The mansion's gonna lowkey ♪ ♪ That was brought into the sea ♪ One of the little I listen to is a lot of the guttural, screamy, like angry, like white vocals that people don't like about metal. But this is still metal with vocals you can understand. - I saw Deathlham at Millbell Music Festival, not that long ago. - Another great one. Love Deathlham. - And this is giving me the same idea. Their whole stage thing is incredible to me. - There's so much fun. - All dressed up as their D&D characters. - Guess we should state that we're basically based out of Pittsburgh, if anybody from outside of the area is listening. We're talking about the local scene. We're probably talking about the Pittsburgh music scene. - We're talking about the Baltimore DC area. Those are the only two scenes we know. That's sometimes Tennessee scene. That's where Jade wants to chime in with anything from Nashville, then he's more than welcome to. - Only got country down here, boys, nothing but country. - I just finished watching this interview with Nick nocturnal and the lead singer for Bill Murray. And he talks about how much he loves Nashville because all of the country acts from Nashville, their backers for all their bands are basically metal dudes. And like, it's so fun being, 'cause Bill Murray is like country metal. That's their shtick they're going for right now. And it's funny, he's like, I spent a lot of time down in Nashville. And when you do like collabs with country artists and meet the rest of their band, and they're like, dude, I used to listen to you and attack and tack all the time. And it's just like, it's crazy hearing that 'cause no idea the overlap. - That's actually a great point. I think it was last year during CMA Fest, which is the country music festival that happens like every June down here. I saw Jason Aldine as a part of just like the whole in the song stadium, like big stadium. They had like, you know, six different A-list country acts come in or whatever. I forget what the song was 'cause I don't really know Jason Aldine all that well. But whatever the song was, I was listening to it. And I was like, this is literally a metal song with a country accent on top of it because of his band. Like his drummer, his guitar player, like they were all in drop D. Like, you know, there was like the double kick going on. And then you hear him on top talking about like trucks and jeans and beer, you know? - And I was like, yeah. - And it's crazy. Listen, American Motor Sport comes out in like a few weeks and I will share that to all hell because I love Bill Murray and that album is gonna be the country album of the year. ♪ 'Cause you never even real ♪ ♪ I gave your heart you called up ♪ ♪ Did I ever make you feel ♪ ♪ When your head was on my shoulder ♪ ♪ When you always all lie ♪ ♪ You're like breaking your back just to hide it ♪ ♪ Now you gave us half me blindsided ♪ - If you like metal, the original crab core king, the guy from Attack on Tech, what's his name? Something Frank is now his new band has been blowing up. They are like, they have a very like, countries inspired, like metal core, lots of like heavy like country guitars. And it's just, it's so much fun. It's such like other music videos are hilarious. The past like four have just been becoming more incrementally bigger tractor videos. They're hilarious. The first one was him mowing his yard. The next one was him on like a John Deere, like riding mower and the last one they had a like full on like farm combine. I watched an interview and he's just like, "We can't go any bigger, there's no bigger tractors." (laughing) I love them, they're so good. They're such like an honest band and they're really blowing up and they deserve it. They're so much fun. All the lyrics are so serious, but like so fun to listen to. 'Cause they're all like such like, a lot of them have like really sad like stories in them, but they're so like that perfect like poppy metal kind of sound to them. Jared, what about you? What are we, what, why? What's the question I wanna ask? Why are you like this? Yeah, who are you? (laughing) Why are you the way you are? What's some of the stuff that we can anticipate from you? So my whole thing with this podcast was discovery, just like I found myself listening to the same five to 10 artists in a row, like just on repeat for like a month straight, like I generally take bad religion, men's and girls and gaslighting them so much, even though I love each of them the same, until you started posting your playlists during the pandemic. I'm like, I'm gonna listen to some of his stuff and just start picking stuff out. So my whole thing with this project is discovery and finding new stuff. I even picked up a few, I picked up Quest Loves as music is history and started like diving through stuff on there and there to find stuff that I haven't really listened to. David Burns, how music works, so like try and get a better understanding of how things are written and decisions are made. Like for me, at least at the start here, you're gonna be getting a lot of punk email and alternative stuff just in these beginning phases until I didn't like start to branch out so a little more comfortable talking about different genres and diving into the history and understanding where artists were coming from. So I guess to like start off, it's not gaslighting them for anyone who's curious. It is the men's and girls. - It was gonna be one of the times. - Just to get an idea of where I'm starting from, it's Anna, I'm gonna start with off of "Hello, Exile." ♪ I've never asked every single woman ♪ ♪ Ever you believe I was central town ♪ ♪ The way you laugh and dance in the kitchen ♪ ♪ After drinking so much deep red wine ♪ ♪ I always would ♪ ♪ Blow me in the night ♪ ♪ Back to the times ♪ ♪ Fuzzling it with you ♪ - This is my starting point. I like to like try and expand my taste more. It was always a little diverse and then once I got into college, Vinny reintroduced me to punk because our mutual friend had introduced the two of us and you and I got to talk to me about Tony Hawk and all those soundtracks. And then we hosted a punk show for the two years. - Yeah, there's the garage show. - There's garage, garage show, yeah, the thunder, garage. So I just kind of stuck with it after that. When I joined the radio station, by complete accident, my intention was to spam my music taste and try new things and try to have an artist, but I kept going back to the same genres and I realized I'm missing out on a lot of pop, a lot of hip hop, a lot of country, a lot of like just by staying within the quote, rock genre, I feel like I missed out on a lot in like middle school and high school because I was the quote, rock divist, if you will, or whatever the term would be of like, it's not good unless they're playing guitar as man, you know, stuff like that kind of pretentious douchebag that I'm not a fan of anymore that like to get away from that. So I threw Anna by the men's leaders in this playlist, give it a shot, I'll always go back to these guys that are comfort food for me. They helped me out through pretty rough time and this is my starting point. - That gives me a really good idea is that cause one of the shows that and Vinny helped take over for this show after everybody else graduated, we would do brutal eight at the radio station, which the whole theme of brutal eight was we had two hour block, there were four DJs that would play 30 minutes each, and our guest DJ would show up every week with a theme. They'd tell us the week before a theme and we would build a playlist around that theme. And it was fun to see what people would bring when you said, oh, I'm gonna be playing, a lot of it was metal and punk like more like hardcore, but like it was fun to see like when we had like, we had like our black metal guy, one of the friends at the radio station was more into black metal who hosted one of them. It was fun seeing everybody show up with like, I played a lot of like black and death metal, like Skeleton Witch-esque, whereas like, Karan would do like more of the like, a little bit of the thrashier side of it. And it was fun to see how people would like, take a general genre like that and make it their own. So that might be something really fun cause we all listened to punk, but we have different like, like if you asked me to name three punk bands, I would name three very different punk bands from each of you. - Since we're talking about the radio station so much, and this goes to both of you, I'll answer it last, but what's one artist you discovered through the radio station only? Like whether it was through a recommendation or through like one of the CMJ's subscriptions? - I found a couple of my favorite bands during the time of trying to like, cause again, like you said, college radio was a time for discovery. I was kind of steadfast rather than the rock version. I was steadfast in like, dirty nasty metal. If it's not the heaviest thing you've ever heard of, it's baby music. Like I was a huge asshole about metal for a long time. Maybe not like outwardly to people, but I had such like a preconceived notion about like, if it's not the heaviest thing, it's bad. And I did find a lot of like varying heavy music, but it used to only be like really heavy like gorgrine, like infant annihilator kind of like crazy heavy metal. And I moved towards a little more of a technical side while I was at the radio station. I found a lot of good technical bands, including one of my favorite bands, which is Archespire, just through kind of like trying to discover new music through that. That's one of the things that I really want to, like you said, find new music and find new things within genres that I already know. Cause there's lots of new bands always popping up and you never hear about 'em, but you can search for 'em and find 'em. (upbeat rock music) ♪ On the bridge we did ♪ ♪ So we know we do a sicker after we did ♪ (upbeat rock music) I always recommend people listen to remote tumor seeker, mostly because that song has like the bounciest rhythm to it. Like you could almost dance, it's a technical death metal song that you could almost dance to. This song is super fun and like really, it's really fast, it's really technical. It's got a really fun chorus to move along to and it's just, it's a really good song. And it's also, like technically, just one of the most amazing songs ever. Not for everybody, I understand, but if you can at least respect the musicality of it, it is very complex. She's like, whoa. - My brain is melting, so I hit play and then like I just clicked like in the middle of the song and I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have let it gradually build up on me. - Oh, it doesn't gradually build up. - It started right in. - Yep. Even if it's not your cup of tea, the technicality for this is crazy complex. You ever seen the memes about like Moshpits and it's like a picture of Moshpits and then it's like two of Moshpits and it's like kids taking an SAT? There's ones about Artspire Moshpits and it's just like a bunch of scientists in a like a lab. (laughing) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - So in college, we saw a lot of content. We had access to a lot of content and going all this stuff. I saw God speed you, Black and Burn, I was in college. Which is one of my favorite bands but it's also like, it was a very important band it still is to me. So we saw them and there's these two guys that open for them and I was just like, who's gonna open for God speed? And we go and they start playing and it's like, holy shit. These are musicians. I've always referred to them as Zylorus White. - My genres have them listed as Greek indie. - It's just a band I stumbled across and I just kind of love them. This is not what I would have expected to open for God speed you, Black Emperor. - Right. This is not something that you're like, oh, this is definitely like, oh, this in God speed, yeah. This is like, but they're folk Greek folk. It's described as their music often more than not uses various millennia old Greek folk traditions to explore free improvisation, acoustic and acoustic avant rock. - Okay. It's one of those things where like, you know, talking about exploration of the time, it's like diving down to some of the weirder avant-garde. You know that they're artists, you know that they're very good musicians, but it's like, it's not something you're just gonna stumble across, you know? I've always liked stuff that I've had a dig for. I've always had a work to find and finding them through, you know, opening band or a BMX video or something in that realm, this always has spoken to me. And this kind of fits, it's not exactly through the radio station, but it was during that time of like hyper looking and hyper like, what can I find next? What's the next goldmine that I find? This kind of sums up that feeling of that time. - I'm trying to visualize the path you need to take to accidentally stumble upon these guys, like anywhere online. - I'm sure I could find a person that could dish it down that rabbit hole pretty quickly. We went to school with a couple of them. - Yeah, I know, but like, at least you saw them like they were opening for somebody and like, that's how you were like, but I have such a hard time visualizing, like clicking through music, hitting this, and then listening through this whole thing and just being like, this is crazy. This is something I would have such a hard time stumbling into. (upbeat music) - Jared, do you have an artist that you found from Cal? - So I still have a lot of the albums that we got off of CMJ, like saved on the my computer. So it was chilling me with the name of this band was, they're called Coppeche. The album's called Drug for the Modern Age. It came out in 2015, talked to me by Coppeche. That one has always stood out to me and I had to go digging through iTunes to find it, but it's very upbeat. It's indie pop stuff I was into in college that I was like, really trying to dive into thinking like, oh, this stuff's coming from overseas. That was what was popular with "Underground Music" at the same time. And also, I wanted to throw in one of the songs I was obsessed with when it came out. And that's "Wolf Dane's Black River." ♪ There's a glass looking at the sun ♪ ♪ They're living life you've seen ♪ ♪ It's why we're here today last night ♪ ♪ That we think of how you and I met ♪ ♪ At the spring of our lives ♪ ♪ You've regret that this day ♪ ♪ Chasing your shadow in the mirror of the king ♪ ♪ Do you see ♪ - I saw "Wolf Dane" through a mutual friend of ours at the station because they opened for Bastille. And I got to go to see Bastille for free because he interned with the X. And we all fell in love with "Wolf Dane" more than we did Bastille. So sadly, they've broken up since that album's been released. But when they came back around to Pittsburgh, our mutual friend, Spangy, this mutual DJ, Ian, and I bought like the VIP tickets to go meet them. And like, we got to talk to them for a while. And it was real cool. Spangy got to talk to them about jazz for a little bit. Like, it was pretty cool. But I know I talked about like a starting point for me. It was a lot of punk, emo, and alternative stuff. But this kind of falls into that alternative camp, both of these songs. So I'd highly recommend both of these going back to Kopaki. And I mean, I really wish "Wolf Dane" would come back. I'd say those two are definitely ones that I found through the station that I would love to other people to just dive into. - It's funny, I would never consider myself hunting down to like, listen to this. But my opinion of Indie Pop has changed dramatically over the past like year to like year and a half, especially with like stuff that we've been listening to recently. I used to think that Indie Pop was just like, I kind of just assumed it was just the top 40 garbage. And I was like, it was like, why would I even want to listen to that? It was just gonna be the same radio hit over and over again. 'Cause like most of my introduction to Indie Pop was basically whatever was playing on DC 101 at the time. - Right. - Indie Pop can be pretty good. If you had asked me that a year ago, I'd be like, no, it's all garbage. So this is, I've been learning a lot about different Indie Pop. There's still some that I don't like. I really like this Kopaki song. This is good. - It's a nice little dance beat to it. Reminds me of the one, like, Indie Pop song that I ever really enjoyed, which was "Shut Up and Dance" with me. - Yeah. - I liked that. Vinnie laughed at that. - We loved that song. We danced so hard to that song. - And maybe I'm starting to understand what kind of Indie Pop I like, which is a little more like that danceable, like kind of, yeah, like funky kind of. - And there's a lot of that out there. - Kopaki is with his Nashville indie, here on Spotify. - Nashville indie. I don't know. I just have that local Natives poster up behind him, so. - I do. I do have the local Natives behind me. It's true. And I do have a playlist called Indie Pop-in, which I really should just send through to you guys if you're looking for that danceability. - They were all students at Belmont University at Nashville. - Yep, that's right down the road from me. - You probably know all of them. - I mean, they're all my neighbors. We hang out every day. But there was another concert series that happens usually once a year down here called "Live on the Green." They usually get coin because they grew up in Franklin down here. There's a really cool band called "The Wild Feathers," which is sort of like an alternative country, rock kind of a thing. And there was one more. It was either "Moon Taxi" or "Colony House." I think those are both also like Nashville bands, bigger indie scene that they get to come to this free festival. It's a very cool spot, like not only for obviously country music, but I mean, the indie scene, there's a very cool spot near downtown called "Printer's Alley" where more of like the blues and jazz and, I mean, metal scenes happen inside of like these. It's more like niche communities, which I think honestly is kind of more the speed for that genre of music. - I'm so mad that I didn't make it to "Printer's Alley" when I was down there last summer because I'm planning on it because I wound up on Broadway. I went down to see "Queen's of the Stone Age" and wound up on Broadway afterward. I did not want to be on Broadway at all. And I just thought, oh, well, this is what Nashville is. And then the next day my Uber driver was like, you see like you would be into all the original stuff. You wanted to do "Printer's Alley." You want to stay away from Broadway? I'm like, well, now somebody tells me. - Yeah, it's quite the mixing pot down here. - I'm trying to think of what the last thing, 'cause you two have added things. I'm gonna add one more song here. And I'm trying to figure out-- - One more song. - Yeah, hit me with a prompt. What's your go-to share song? When somebody asks you, like, I'm trying to get into X, like, what do you try to show them from like, whatever genre your current, whatever your big genre is right now, that isn't like one of the songs we've already posted. - Yeah. - 'Cause I know anything that isn't like 2000s pop punk or like Tony Hawk punk came directly from Vinny showing me bands. - Really? - The reason I love all of my favorite punk bands nowadays is because Vinny, like, showed them to me. So, there's gotta be, like, he's got a pretty good pulse on things that are, like, not the top 100 of that genre, but should be. - I'm gonna put a folk punk song in here that I really like. - Yes. - Because-- - I was fishing for folk punk. - You should just said it. - I know, I'm kidding. I wasn't fishing for folk punk, but-- - Oh, you got two of them. - I'm gonna put this in there because I want, this also is what I like. - People saying wildly obnoxious things about people in power. (laughing) - Beans on toast, Elliot. - Beans on toast. ♪ Harry's in a helicopter ♪ ♪ Way above the desert ♪ ♪ Shooting at the ground below ♪ ♪ With an automatic weapon ♪ ♪ And he's so high that he's not sure ♪ ♪ What he's even shooting at ♪ ♪ But Sergeant Major told him ♪ ♪ That he's probably Afghanistan ♪ - Harry in the helicopter is a song-- - About (laughing) - Beans on toast is a British folk punk artist. Harry in the helicopter is a belt. Prince Harry and Prince William fighting with each other. (laughing) The short of it is, the British Army sent Harry to be in the war so he could learn how to fight and kill his brother because he should be at the top of the list. (laughing) - Wow. - That he should be the king and not William. - But I mean, it doesn't matter. I know, once you get into the whole thing of it, like it's, there's so many people you have to go through to actually get to Harry. I can't remember this came up before he had his kids or not. I don't remember where it happened. Like, but it's just a fun song, just goofy. - That's always fun to hear. 'Cause like, I guess British punk is a little more like of the more common, like other punk, but we're used, I mean, still a lot of American punk where it's like American government bad. And it's fun hearing other people be mad at their governments too. The most recent like, neck deep album had a whole song. And I think the chorus is like, we need more punks and we need more bricks. - Yes, it's good, good line. - And it's a great line. And there were a bunch of Americans in the comments like being like, oh, if you're so mad at American government. And then a bunch of people like, they're from Wales. They don't give a shit about your government. - Yeah. - They're mad at their government. - Yes. - But as a fun story, it's goofy, it's unrealistic, but it just conspiracy theory enough that like, it entrances you, but you're like, well, I don't probably never happen, but it's fun to think about the fun conspiracy theory. ♪ Hey there, darling, did you get your hair cut? ♪ ♪ I think I cut, didn't really last one of them ♪ ♪ I'll make you swim, I've been feeling uncomfortable ♪ ♪ Am I alright, I really think I'm in trouble ♪ - Hair cut is just a nice song to listen to. It's so just kinda about someone having a breakdown, but it's so peaceful. It just kind of like, you could feel that they're having a tough time, but like, you sympathize with them. - This is gonna be the other end of when I like, this is, the sun is going down, but it hasn't gone down yet, and I'm driving through back roads, way too fast with the windows down. That's like, exactly what that song makes me feel. - The PD song is funny 'cause I recently posted, I posted, everyone posted their Spotify top songs, and I posted it, and my brother started listening to PD, and he's like, "You son of a bitch, I'm obsessed." (laughing) - That's the dream though, is if you share something, if it's like, I shared all my Instagram stories, somebody actually is like, "Hey, that's a great song." It's like, "I'm the king of the world right now." - It's funny, you put on there about PD being your top artist, and that being your top song, and like, a few days later, my other buddy just texted me saying, "Hey, I know this tit-taught artist that like, does these weird videos, and he does a lot of great music. You should check him out, I think you might like him, and then he sent me the freedom to fuck off." - Yeah. - And I'm like, "Oh, I actually know who PD is!" 'Cause I used to follow his account, but I had never listened to his music until then, so it was funny that his music actually blew up. - Funny enough, buddy sent them to me, and was like, "Dude, have you heard PD?" And I was like, "No." And I popped them on and played 'em, and we both had pretty much, like, our number one listened to artist was PD, and it was like, haircut for both of us, and then don't tell the boys, and I think the next one was like, our one-of-one we had difference of, but it was still PD songs. (laughing) ♪ Lottery lining fine foods ♪ ♪ Three blocks long ♪ ♪ And her song selling PBR to hipsters ♪ ♪ With ironic mustaches ♪ ♪ Who most definitely once were punk ♪ ♪ And now we're flannel ♪ - So your question was if somebody's asked me for recommendations on X, I send them X. So we're a couple of weeks off from me seeing Noah Kahn at Star Lake. I went on a whim because a buddy of mine had an extra digit, I should do it for cheap. And so while I was standing there watching him, I'm like, you know, I have listened to, like, eight other guys who have not made it, who do the same exact thing right now. Like, this has really thrown me for a loop. On the ride home, I threw on Tim Barry, and I realized just how depressing this stuff really is. But usually if somebody's asking for like a center songwriter type thing or like a country type artist, fine foods market is the first one that came to mind. But like, there are like, six or seven other artists that I could have put in this place, Corey Brennan's one. Brian Fallon's solo stuff is another one. Beaten toasts is one. Dave House is one, has, pause. If somebody's looking for like a, quote, country type artist, I'll send them one of those guys, but fine foods market is the one that just immediately comes to mind because it's, to me, it's so funny. And just making fun of hipsters and ETS punts and how nothing really changes. That's usually the first one I go to. One more song to round us out to an even 12, and that would be Mike's last recommendation for the night. And I guess, I guess we could get Jake to add one though. 'Cause Jake's here with us in spares. You know what I mean, Mike? Just to give a little bit of context, the show that I had while I called, it was called The Steely McBeal Show, because I was told that if I was a stripper, my name would be Steely McBeal. I'm sorry, that's what I came from. So I was DJ Steel because that's, you know, how it just kind of shook out. I grew up with rock and roll. You know, my dad was big into the Beatles and, you know, the Stones, but then in college, you know, when I met my friend Steve and Shane, who I ended up playing in a band with called Here Tonight, my mom, they sent me a screenshot of when they're listening to it at the beach, because they're like, this is like the perfect beach listening music. I was like, okay, good news though. That's what we were kind of shooting for. So anyway, all of that to say, like, whenever I started the radio show, it was a little bit of like, it was a little bit of rock, it was a little bit of like indie pop, because that was really the genre that I felt, I think more into than anything else in college was indie pop. So the one that I'll throw in here is a song by Mr. Wives, because I love Mr. Wives. There's so many to pick off of the Our Own House album, but I'm gonna go with the title track, Our Own House, the horns in their production. I mean, I'm also a big production person. I mean, the way that it sounds is so important to me, and it's just so crystal clear, and just so sharp and dancy and fun, great band. And also again, in 2015, this album was released really in the thick of, I think I was a sophomore in college that year. So yeah, just big, big Mr. Wives, indie pop, everything, dancy, fun. - I've only ever heard Mr. Wives and they did a song with another band that I listened to, and I've never actually listened to them outside of that, but yeah, Mike, you're talking about the dancing indie pop. I mean, this is like epitome of dancy indie pop. ♪ Are we built around how we start our hearts ♪ ♪ 'Cause we're our hands over our hearts ♪ ♪ And we swore on that day ♪ ♪ And I'll never fall apart ♪ ♪ We'll never fall apart ♪ ♪ We'll never fall apart ♪ ♪ We'll never fall apart ♪ ♪ We'll never fall apart ♪ - I remember when the song came out, like somebody sent it to me and I thought it was like the most hipster person for knowing who this was and then found out that so many people knew who they were. - Yeah, yeah, and I mean, Jared, you were kind of, you were sort of talking about it earlier too, like the gatekeeper attitude of like, oh, you know, people need to play real instruments or it's not real music, you know, that kind of thing. I think I for sure fell into that bucket for sure. Like back in that, like, you know, late high school college time. It wasn't until I was out of college that I really like got more into hip hop. And, you know, and I produce a top 40 show now. So like, it's a lot of pop music, but it's so silly. It's so silly that like, those are the things that we like tell ourselves of like, oh, it's not real music if you're sampling. Oh, it's not real music if you're not playing a instrument. It's like, dude, it's music, man, like, if you don't like it, turn it off, find something else. Like it's all cool. I've heard you guys say it before, you know, you like what you like and that's what it boils down to. That's it. - Yeah. My world was shattered when I heard girl talk, hearing someone make music out of other people's music, completely new music and like different, like I don't hear songs anymore. I hear like, oh, that's in a girl talk album. Like it becomes its own thing. Yeah, I think people should push. And that's kind of where I come from of like, push your buttons. Don't keep yourself in your little box. - I think we should wrap it up there. So welcome to just my variety, everybody. The playlist will be available for immediately for you to listen to. It's called introducing dot dot dot J-M-V. I'm Jared to the J, Mike is the M, Vinnie is the V. I swear that was all on purpose. It will also be available on our link tree, on Instagram. So go check it out. Share this with friends, family, share the playlist with friends and family. Send us your thoughts and opinions on what's in this playlist. This was just kind of a teaser for what's the common, what to expect. With that said, follow us on Instagram @justmyvariety for our weekly album reviews. Vinnie, myself and Mike alternate Monday, Wednesday, Friday respectively. Send us a DM, tell us what you think. Give us your honest opinion. We want to know, we want feedback. - Judge us. - Judge us. We're judging you, so you judge us. That's how this works, it's it. - Judge us, and he presses good press. - And he presses good press, exactly. And again, thank you to Jake, our producer, for all the hard work he's put in to this. - Anytime. - This has been fun. As always, I'm Jared, I'm Mike, and I'm Uncle Vinnie, and we will see you all next time. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
