The Front Bottoms-The Front Bottoms (2011)

There's comfort at the bottom of this podcast! (topical episode description). We are reviewing The Front Bottoms S/T debut! Do you think Steven and David are going the love the anti-folk hipster anthems like Mike for some reason did!? No? You are not as obviously optimistic? That's good...

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hello! My brother is a hit! Come on, Dave! You can do it! And come on, Steve! There's nothing to it!

SPEAKER_03 0:10

So diarrhea gives you energy.

SPEAKER_06 0:12

Did you not hear what I said? No. Oh, well then shut up! Topical intro, baby! Screeching like some horrible animal, and now we're here. Okay, so overall, not bad. Steven, what did you feel about the apple pie? You stupid mother popcat!

SPEAKER_05 0:31

David for the green! I just fucking broke my pop screen.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

You guys are gonna nest in my arms like a cat curling up on a warm window bed.

SPEAKER_06 0:43

$19 I'm gonna cram that copy directly in your ass. No, David? Fuck you. Yes, I would. You didn't say there was any other rules to that, David. This is off the rails. Shut up and do trivia.

SPEAKER_05 0:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

Go. Hello! And welcome to Steven Stock. And welcome to My Brother Is a Hipster Podcast, a music review podcast where we listen to an influential hipster album picked by me, Mike the Resident Hipster, and reviewed by Steven and David, my brothers, who are not that.

SPEAKER_06 1:22

Do we have to go over this like every time? Yes, that's how intros work. Why do you get more and more like a like a telephone hotline?

SPEAKER_02 1:30

And I will remember this episode as the one where we take steroids, because you like a pod with intros, and ours are topical.

SPEAKER_06 1:45

Topical intro. That actually really wasn't a topical intro, but that is a topic. You were actually singing. That was a topical intro. Yeah, but you were actually singing.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

He's making he's making like those were lyrics, Stephen.

SPEAKER_06 1:59

Yeah, but you were singing the lyrics. I was not singing the lyrics, I made them topical intro to us. Yeah, yeah, but what I'm saying is that you were actually singing with. Well, Steven, get ready to take steroids. Because I promised everybody. Yeah, that's most of it. Talking is more speed with this album. Yeah, Steven, don't you dare. Because what is that album? Front bottoms by front bottoms, released in 2011. This is episode seven of season three, where we're reviewing front bottoms by front bottoms.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

We seriously need to not take so long to do these.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

That's what I mean. This is what happens. We it takes like two weeks, and then we get back in here, and then he's out of his fucking mind.

SPEAKER_06 2:39

I'm excited. Yeah, I noticed. Yes. So speaking of speaking of a front bottom. Yes. Um what? Um I would rather rip off my own dick than listen to this again. Fucking relax. All right. Okay. Isn't that not a front bottom? I don't I don't really know. Do you know what their fans call themselves? The front butts. I I could.

SPEAKER_04 3:04

Okay, now that's definitely a vagina.

SPEAKER_06 3:08

So, well, Steven.

SPEAKER_07 3:10

Before we get into your general takes, and I appreciate you being very energetic and excited and talking with so much vigor and excitement. I'm just following the tone of the album. No, you're not. Don't do that, Steven. Oh dear God. Okay. I need your guesses for what you think I rank this album first for our ongoing game. Because we are like a few weeks away from revealing it and then winner.

SPEAKER_04 3:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 3:37

So, Steven, what did you think? Okay. And oh, that's David.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Okay, we have our guesses in, so let's talk about the front bottoms.

SPEAKER_06 3:59

Okay, the front bottoms are composed of two men. Brian Sella and Matt E. Print that out. Yeah, I have notes. Oh dear God. You printed it out. Yes, printing. You have a laptop on your lap currently. That's how laptops work. And a you're still reading print. And a piece of paper that you printed out resting on the laptop. Yes, Dave, I'm a hipster. I like physical things. Why don't you keep things in a tiny baloney book? Because I don't have I have standards, Steven.

SPEAKER_03 4:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 4:28

Okay? So, as we said, this album was released in 2011 on Bar None Records. Okay. The band is from New Jersey.

SPEAKER_06 4:37

Alright. Yeah. Okay? And it is really so the band started with those two people, Brian and Matt. Okay. Matt is the drummer, Brian is the guitarist and the singer.

SPEAKER_07 4:47

Okay. And they have had musicians that have been added throughout the process. Sometimes touring musicians, sometimes people have had more like permanent stays.

SPEAKER_06 4:56

But the primary focus is that those two uh guys, Brian and Matt, they are really like a duo. Okay. It is Oh. I don't care. Yeah. Same. Sorry. Okay. Well then why don't we get into general thoughts then, Steven, since you don't care so much. Uh that that's what I'm saying. Somebody might care.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Let him finish. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Yeah, go ahead. No, I don't feel up to it now.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

There's nothing else to say, is there?

SPEAKER_06 5:19

There's nothing else to say. That's pretty much it. Yeah, okay. Okay. Steven, please tell me, tell me, tell me about what you think. This is their self-titled debut album. Um most indie thing. Debut album? This is their debut album. Yeah. Oh, that's most indie thing I've ever fucking heard. Yeah. Okay. Fucking dumb, nonsensical lyrics. Wow. Dumb lyrics. I thought you were gonna like it a little bit. Why? Because the fuck gave you that opinion. I can't even think.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

I don't even I don't I'm actually gonna be surprised if you like this.

SPEAKER_06 5:48

Okay. Because this is this is this is the this is the type of thing he's gonna fucking love.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

Oh yeah, no, I know. I know. I I based I I think I based my my ranking accordingly.

SPEAKER_06 5:58

Okay. I'm gonna here's what we'll do. Okay. Yeah. You want you want like just general thoughts? Yeah. I'm gonna run through all of my notes. Oh. Alright. All four of them. Yep. Okay. Uh most indie thing ever, fucking dumb lyrics. Um is that a fucking trumpet?

SPEAKER_07 6:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 6:15

Okay. Uh cool. So he just talks. Okay. Um, that's pretty good. Rhode Island, cool shout out. Still just fucking talks.

SPEAKER_07 6:24

Yes, I have a funny story about that.

SPEAKER_06 6:26

Um, and that's the end of my notes. Okay, I asked a question. Okay, is the song Rhode Island?

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:30

There's a song called Rhode Island in it. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

Yes, there is. Thank you. Okay. My question is pertaining to said song. Okay. Okay. All right. Is there some weird indie reference to Rhode Island?

SPEAKER_06 6:41

You didn't get it in the lyrics? What? It was very clear. Yeah, no. Is there some weird or is he just happened to like like how stupid indie people just name something, something random? No, no, no, no, no. There's a story to that. Oh, Jesus. All right. Oh God. I thought it was very clear with the lyrics, Dave. I'm actually shocked that you didn't get that. Okay. Well, it is pretty clear. Oh, okay. Yeah, once we hear the story, it's gonna be clear.

SPEAKER_07 7:02

So I actually saw the Front Bottoms Live for the first time opening for Manchester Orchestra. We've we've reviewed an album by then. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:13

Great.

SPEAKER_07 7:13

Andy Hull and a couple of the members from Manchester Orchestra have a side project called Bad Books. That's good. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

I went to go see Bad Books, and Front Bottoms opened for them. This is like 2013. Oh. Right? So they were very new. Very new.

SPEAKER_07 7:28

Very, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:29

And so after the show, right? They were in the lobby talking to fans.

SPEAKER_07 7:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:36

So I all three of them? All two of them. Wow. There wasn't really just two people there?

SPEAKER_07 7:40

Oh no, no, no. There's only two people in the band. That's what you were referring to. I didn't know you were being sassy.

SPEAKER_06 7:43

I was yeah, I was being sassy. Like there was only three people who wanted to talk to them. You're so sassy. I am sassy. No, seriously. Who actually wanted to talk to them? A lot of people. Really? Yeah, indicates.

SPEAKER_05 7:53

Like, oh my god, you guys are great. Yes, you guys are gonna make it someday.

SPEAKER_06 7:57

Oh shit. Stuff like that? Yes. Really? So I talked to Matt, the drummer. Of course. Of course you did. And so I asked him, I said, I gotta ask. I'm from Rhode Island.

SPEAKER_07 8:06

What is the song Rhode Island about? Right? And he said, Rhode Island? No. He said, they were doing a show in Rhode Island, and this guy tweaking out came up to them, right? And he said, Hey man, I have a backpack full of drugs. The FBI's looking for me. I'm getting on my bike and I'm dri I'm riding my bike all the way down to Florida. Like his bicycle all the way down to Florida. Right? And the guy was like, They were like, okay. And so the lyrics are literally, I wonder how the bike trip's going. I wonder if the government knows he's hiding. It's probably gonna take a few more months. Florida's a long way from Rhode Island. Those are the lyrics. It was about that tweaker who had a backpack full of drugs.

SPEAKER_06 8:51

That actually made it worse for me.

SPEAKER_05 8:53

Yeah, a little bit worse.

SPEAKER_06 8:54

That actually just made it so much. You could have done so much better of a job. So one thing I will say about front bottoms, especially in this album, is that some of their songs are not completely cohesive, right? So you wouldn't say that. So like Steven. I don't think he would say that. No. No. So like the hooks might be a different context than like some of the lyrical context. Well, I'm sorry. Did you say hooks? Yes. There's a lot of hooks. They're very catchy.

SPEAKER_07 9:21

Very catchy.

SPEAKER_06 9:22

Oh, so fucking catchy. I actually can remember uh so many. There's comfort at the bottom of a swimming pool. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't like that song? I don't, Michael. I think I actually I I think I might have blacked out and blocked all of this out. I honestly have to say, um, as far as like There was nothing redeeming for you, nothing. Stephen Alaska. Nothing. Stephen I is like tell me. I don't even remember. I can't even remember. You want me to give you my legit like like that?

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Yes, David? Alright, so basically, I sat in and I'm like, okay, same sound, same type of freaking vocals, same in D feel. Okay, fine. Maybe there's something in the lyrics.

SPEAKER_07 10:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Started reading the lyrics, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 10:05

Could you be more depressing? Maybe. Every one of those songs is some weird depressing or freaky something to do with drugs or something like that. And I'm not saying like I'm against like, I mean, like songs about drugs, but it's like weird stuff. It's like very I I hate that we use the word jarring a lot. Yeah. But like it's like it it irks me a little. But you know what makes me feel weird. You know what I love about it so much though, is that this is to me, the front bottoms are like the bands from high school. Right? Yeah, the really bad one that that but they figured out how to do it perfectly. They figured out how to be simple and how to be bad and raw and emotional perfect. None of that was emotional. The motherfucker talked for the entire album. I can be on sing once. He actually it's fucking s you're supposed to sing in music. He was talking the whole time, and then for some reason face. Yeah, that's not true. You can't you can't make that statement and then he also be the same person who says you like post Malone. Listen, okay, listen. What I'm saying is he literally fucking talked, not rapped, not sang, not nothing, talked, and then all of a sudden, every once in a while would be talking and then go into falsetto while talking, which maybe just kind of sounded like he was going through puberty, and it was really fucking stupid. But I think he's capturing like that. That's really capturing no fucking shit. But the funny thing is, is like given that they are like a duo from like suburban New Jersey, and he's playing basic chords on his guitar, which he admits, and he actually jokes about in some of his songs. Like one of his lyrics and one of his songs is I would put learn more than just four chords if it's a song that you would like. Like, he knows that he's playing very basic rhythms. The drummer is really like driving with this like marching band style. Like, it's so reminiscent of high school. No, to me, like a suburban high school experience where everything is depressing. Like that girl that you have a crush on is hanging out with the popcorn. Yeah, no, but that wasn't what it is. It was like it went down a really weird dark path in a lot of sense. Like, like I'd be sitting there and it had the same like it had the same feeling of like king of carrot flowers. Like that good callback, David.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_06 12:28

Alright. That it was just I'm actually mad that you remembered the song title.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

There's only one song I liked.

SPEAKER_06 12:35

Well, so David can't be educated now? And I've blocked out that whole fucking part of my life. I've blocked out his whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

But it had that thing of like, wait a minute, hold on a second. Like, what the fuck is he saying? Who's on cocaine? Who needs to be on steroids? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_06 12:49

I wish I was on all of it. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_04 12:52

Is this song about his girlfriend breaking up with him, or is it about his girlfriend doing cocaine in the bathroom while he cuts off his own dick?

SPEAKER_06 13:01

Like, I have no clue.

SPEAKER_07 13:03

I don't remember those lyrics.

SPEAKER_06 13:04

What I if I argued it in some weird way or form, I probably could get my point across. If I looked into more of the lyrics, here, right here. So maybe it's because you're you've never heard this album before. I don't think that matters. No, no, no, no, no. Let me finish my sentence. Maybe it's because you haven't heard the album before, but for me, this is the type of album that like elicits an emotional response beyond the music and beyond the lyrics. My emotion was aiming. So if you were I should have aimed higher at my fucking ranking. So if you were deep into indie music in the early 2010s, right, this album is such a time capsule of that time, right? You have the indie guitar riffs, you got that drumming style, you have the narrative vocal styling, you have that folk type guitar. Excuse me, excuse me. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You have the trumpet in the background that the guy's not really playing well. Like it's so indicative of that time. It brings you right back there. Michael, um, could we pause for just one second? Yeah, what's up? No, no, no, no. Just I just need a minute. Okay. If you don't mind. Of what? No, no, no. You just you do you. David. What? Am I fucking missing something? Um because to me, it's it's he's talking as if they just invented their own genre.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

Here's the problem. I don't understand what they're doing. This is what I've learned. This is what I learned about hipsters.

SPEAKER_06 14:30

I feel like I'm either off or on too much of my medication.

SPEAKER_03 14:33

No, no, no, no, no. No joke. This is what I've learned about hipsters. Okay. It has nothing to do with if it is a good song with good musicians, with good lyrics, with good this, with good that. Nothing to do with that. It has to do with at some point in time their dumbass was sitting somewhere and got like an emotional slap in the face.

SPEAKER_05 15:01

And they're like, oh my god, I remember those feelings that I had when I saw Front Bottoms and I spoke to Matt so close. You're talking about me, right?

SPEAKER_06 15:10

Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael. Indy is a deep connection to the music, right? Yes. So here's the Michael. Here's the here's the problem. Go outside. No, here's the problem. All these fuckers hook on to these small, stupid club bands that are geniuses, right? I didn't think they get to shut the fuck up and they get to go in the lobby and go and chat up with the guy and like seriously, go fuck yourself?

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

We're good.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Okay. Alright. All right, technical difficulties, but we're back. Okay, so continue the conversation you were saying about shut up, you're not here.

SPEAKER_06 15:50

So my point is I am at some point at some point, at some point, we're still human beings, we still have ears. Yes. And music and everything is fucking vibrations that we hear. And when something's off beat and not good, it makes you go, uh. So I don't know why. You're being a smug dick about that. No matter how much emotion is connected at a time or whatever, at some point you're still gonna go, yeah, I remember that, but they fucking still suck dick. No, but like, here's the problem. I would rather, like, I I'm just the type of person where realistically, if you gave me the option, okay, of no matter what emotional involvement was around, if you gave me the option of sitting through that guy's terrible lyrics, his talking, the fucking bullshit that I just listened through, or Taylor Swift, who I hate, queefing through a walkie-talkie, I would pick Taylor Swift queefing through a walkie-talkie. Would you relax? Alright, hold on a second. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

Um, anyway, uh, but yeah, no, but my thing is, Steven, is that like, yes, you make a good point, but here's the problem. Um, at one point in time, Yoko Ono thought what she was doing was music. So again, that wasn't good either, though. No, but that's the point.

SPEAKER_06 16:57

There are people, there are people who are misguided into what sounds good. So why is it not okay that these guys are very aware of what they are and who they are, and they're making music that is like kind of like indie. It's not okay because I know we're gonna get to the rating section of Charlie, but wait, hold on a second. And no, it's the the fact that they are even acknowledged as a contending band for indie bullshit when they are doing the same shit everybody else does. But I feel like you wait, you're gonna be with me on that. But you feel like they're doing the same shit as everyone else. Shut up, it's just a different flavor, dude. That's not the problem here. Stop telling me to shut up, Steven. We're having a conversation. Yeah, but the problem is walking works. The problem isn't about the world. This is not how this works. Stop telling me to shut up. That the problem isn't what they're doing, okay? Because they can just be terrible and think it's good. That's fine. My problem is, my problem is, is the fact that there are there is anybody, anybody out there who listens to them being terrible and goes, yes, they deserve a record deal. Yes, let's give them the praise. Yes, let's make them fucking rich. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

What's one of the top, what's one of the top grossing um musical genres out there?

SPEAKER_06 18:16

Kip up.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_06 18:20

Not not a trend. Yeah. I'm talking about something that's been around. Country. Country. You hate it, right? So that's what my thing is, is that you got people out there. Now, yes, I am probably contradicting kind of what I was saying. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Fuck you. Fuck you! Fuck you. Fuck you! Fuck you. I gotta hold on a second. This just popped in my head, okay? Oh, words that don't make any sense, and lyrics that think they mean anything. Yeah, okay. Let's talk about strawberry fields forever. Let's talk about the loops of being disguised with diamonds because that's your that's your mentality.

SPEAKER_05 18:58

No, no, wait, let's go, let's let's wait, wait, wait, shut up. Let's talk about the uh Led Zeppelin. Uh hey mama send the way you move, gonna make you sweat. Oh, cool. The guy's gonna make you sweat and make you groove.

SPEAKER_06 19:11

Wow, cool, Robert Plant. I think that's Okay, first of all, um he was saying It's been a long time since I rock and rolled.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

Wow, it's been a long time since he rock and rolled. Wow, how fucking groundbreaking!

SPEAKER_06 19:24

Okay Fuck you! I fuck you! Because those were real musicians, playing real musicians! They were real musicians, the music was fucking on point, they were revolutionary, and on top of that, this was revolutionary! Oh, it was. Yeah, it was revolutionary above a guitar with his dick and the drummer sitting there like he's got fucking palsy, and no one's gonna fucking open the combo. You're putting a fucking nail in a cigar box. That's okay though. Because again, that's fucking ingenuitive. That's just like the fucking That's just like the fucking that's like the fucking That's fucking genius here. That's just intuitive. That's the fuck you. Because that's just like those fucking girls that you brought up before that sat there and never learned how to play mus um instruments and just fucking- Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Again, there is a way that no, I just don't want to hear you talk about lyrical content when you cannot tell me anybody outside of like Lewis Capaldi that you listen to that has validation.

SPEAKER_06 20:29

Hold on, let me say something you do fucks. Alright, anyway. So, I didn't think the front bottoms was gonna split us up this hard. Yeah, no, it's gonna. It's a lot of podcasts. Um, what name the lyrics, name the lyrics that were like you're standing behind that we're gonna be just beer and coffee cups. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

The thing is, dude, is that if you had given me music I could enjoy, the instrumentals I can enjoy, vocals I can enjoy. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 20:59

You did for this?

SPEAKER_03 21:00

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 21:00

If you could give me that, I would look past the lyrics, just like when it comes to some of these bands where the lyrics are super simplistic, but I'm rocking to the music.

SPEAKER_05 21:13

I like the way the vocals are going. I don't care if it's just how it is in the rocking and fucking dick. In the fucking fuck dick. Stop swearing so much.

SPEAKER_06 21:23

You just didn't mean here. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin is a fucking jam band, okay? The lyrics didn't fucking jam band. Shut the fuck up. The lyrics didn't fucking matter. Go back and watch. Go back and watch a Led Zeppelin conference. Stop pointing at me! I don't want to talk about Robert Plant! He doesn't even follow the fucking lyrics because it doesn't matter. They would just fucking jam. Yeah, and the music was. And you know who did that too?

SPEAKER_04 21:50

You know who used to do that too? Who? Uh um, oh shit. What was his name? Good job, Div. Yeah. The dude from the doors. Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison used to do that too.

SPEAKER_06 21:58

Oh god. But then again, Jim Morrison. Yeah, and that's another thing. At least these guys were fucking high. How do you know these guys aren't high? Oh, they're not fucking high. They're probably vegan. Oh, they're not. Oh, I know. Oh, they don't know how to put this as clean. So wait, can I just say something? So front bottoms, right? They st I told you. I first saw them when they were opening up for Bad Books, which is a side project for Manchester Orchard. Right. Then, about a year later, they were opening up for Manchester Orchestra. Okay? Oh, so they moved up. Flash Forward a few years, right? Hear me up. Hear me? Flash forward a few years, they are then headlining a show that Manchester Orchestra is opening for. You know what I clip the band. Tell me for free that they did not all sit around and go, listen, we headlined the last. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. You guys want to turn around. That poster right there? Which one? The front bottoms of Manchester Orchestra one? The front right in the middle? Bottom middle? Of this one? Yes. Okay. Signed by both bands. Uh-huh. Okay. What do I do? Wow, that must have cost you like dollars. Yes. Why is Manchester Orchestra still the first name? It's not there simultaneously next to each other, David. Nah, I read from left to left to right like the rest of the country. I would say that they're first. I was at that show and the crowd was there for front bottoms. Okay? That's sold out arenas. They sold out holy rocks. Why? Red rocks. Yeah. That's the problem. Here's the problem, though. Here's the problem. I don't know what that is. Because you're an ignorant bitch. Where is it? All of the people in um Colorado. All you did. Why the fuck would I know that then, Dick Bag? All they did was just flip it. Like here's the thing. It's obviously the same fucking fans. It's obviously the same fans who are there to see Manchester Orchestra. So obviously all they did was just flip.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

So do you guys like the album?

SPEAKER_05 24:00

But I don't like the entire premise of this fucking podcast anymore.

SPEAKER_06 24:05

Why? Because it's all the same shit. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_05 24:11

We only listen to a couple of good indie albums every once in a while. Like fucking eight out of nine are fucking horseshit.

SPEAKER_07 24:21

Okay. Next season. What do you mean next season? I will try really hard to put a list together of things that I think you will like. Uh yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

Why the fuck? You do that every time and it fucking fails horribly. No, that's not true.

SPEAKER_06 24:32

You sit there and say, oh, I took the biggest thing. I really think you guys are gonna like this one. Well, I just think that you guys have gotten ignorant in your old age. No, you're older than me, dick! I think you're getting lazy and just looking at the top fucking five.

SPEAKER_05 24:42

No, bitch, I'm I put a lot of effort into this list. This is bullshit. You're bullshit.

SPEAKER_06 24:47

Dude, no. You can't bring this fucking indie ass band that you happen to see at a Manchester Orchestra fucking very popular. Popular by what standards? Indie standards. From the indie standards. Indie standards. That's like what? Be in the fucking No, they'll they'll be like they'll be like high up on the bill in like festivals. In festivals? Yes. So that's like having the hardest dick in a nursing home? Okay, no. Fucking all people that you're doing. Giving a big dick on a pope. Okay. What is wrong with you two?

SPEAKER_05 25:22

No. No, listen. It's important.

SPEAKER_06 25:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 25:29

Okay. I'm glad it's important to you.

SPEAKER_06 25:32

The front bottoms. Oh god. I thought that you were gonna like it. Why did you date that? D!

SPEAKER_05 25:37

You just fucking did it. Why would you? This was so cookie fun! It's fun!

SPEAKER_06 25:42

Just say you thirdly. I don't know what you think we're doing, but I think we're at like the half hour mark. Okay. Alright. So I don't know. This sounds good. I think that's fine with wrapping up. Let's wrap it up.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

So mean to me. Because you started it. I put my heart on the line here to let you listen to a song.

SPEAKER_06 26:01

It's like PTSD. It keeps every time and like every once in a while we get one album that's decent. I think you're gonna like the next one. Alright, fuck you. That's all I have to say about that. I haven't even picked it yet. They have uh um an EP called My Grandma versus Pneumonia. See? Yeah, and what's the other one? Rose or something like that? Rose was the EP, yeah, after yeah, yep. Is it a creepy lady?

SPEAKER_07 26:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 26:22

Is that his grandma?

SPEAKER_07 26:24

No. Maybe.

SPEAKER_06 26:25

I That's another thing too. You know what pisses me off? Oh, how did you guys feel about father?

SPEAKER_02 26:30

That was pretty clear. I had a dream that I was beating my father with a baseball bat. And he was screaming and crying for help.

SPEAKER_06 26:36

Yeah, once again, going back to the okay, this is great that you're working all of your trauma out, but like maybe go to a thousand. Yeah, but what about flashlight? What? Is it the one where he talks about putting a flashlight in his peehole while doing cocaine? No. Oh, sorry. That must have been the other one. I think um I'll be completely honest with you. Yes. If you ask me what about this song and say the name of it, I'm not gonna know anything you're talking about. I I've I think I blacked out this album because I couldn't. You could tell me. You also listened to it a week ago.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

So that's it.

SPEAKER_06 27:10

You could tell me fucking anything right now, and I'd say yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

I just I just honestly want Wait, wait, I got a question to ask you. Seriously, okay? If Michael pre-prepped us on this album and said, guys, you're gonna like this. It's an indie joke album. Would you have enjoyed it more?

SPEAKER_06 27:32

Um I wouldn't have I wouldn't have enjoyed it more, but I would have been like, they did good. They did a good job. Right? Oh, they're not. But I wouldn't have enjoyed it. If you told me these guys are making fun of indie guys, yeah, I would have been like, alright, cool. You know what would have made me enjoy it is if they were making fun of indie music, but they actually had other albums that were good. Right, like shit indie album. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I got you. But like when you listen to like Through the Glass and then find out that it's Corey Taylor from Slipknot, and you're just like, well, okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Hey, I started digging more into Stone Tower.

SPEAKER_06 28:11

Yeah. Dude. You guys are so mean. They did some crazy good shit. Oh, yeah, no, they did do great shit. But like you hear through the glass, and if that's the only song you think about with Corey Taylor, you're just like, yeah, he's good. And then you find out it's like Corey Taylor from Slipknot, and you're just like, oh, he's fucking awesome. Like, right, because you're so used to him screaming. Exactly. Yeah, you're like, wow, he actually has an amazing guy. Like, that's what I mean. If it was like that, then you can't.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

No, because no, because you're a one-sided prick.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

That's the reason. Because when you want to validate how you feel, you go for it. You can listen to Looking at You Through the Glass by Stone Sauer with that melodramatic vocal performance.

SPEAKER_05 28:46

I'm looking at you through the glass.

SPEAKER_06 28:48

That was my point. And you're like, well, cool. Corey Taylor did it.

SPEAKER_05 28:51

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_06 28:52

First off, let me know. That is not fair because on that album, what if that is their fucking radio song? So what? On this album, listen to the rest of it, and you'll hear actual fucking clear fucking point in the vocals. That was my whole fucking point. You listen to Stone Sour through the class, but then you realize it's Corey Taylor, and you're just like, okay, that's kind of fucking awesome. That was my whole point. Okay, so in this one, my kids would be like, Oh my god, that's Brian Cell. Yeah, that's awesome. If he did something good other than this, but he didn't.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

That's like um Static X is um not Static X, Powerman 5000 is uh Rob Zombies. I know I do like that.

SPEAKER_06 29:29

I actually like Powerman 5000. Okay, well then you know what? Let's talk about critical reception. There's not a lot. There really isn't? No, there's only like two.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Oh, think of it.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

Oh, good. That I can show you. So these guys, you're so you're making these guys bigger than what they are.

SPEAKER_07 29:41

No, they're later albums like Talent of Hawk and like In Sickness of those are.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Oh, so you're telling me that the reviews for this album.

SPEAKER_06 29:48

That's because he went, that's because Michael went to see the front bottoms when it was fresh, when it was new. Yes. It was a special time in his life. He was emotional at the time. It was with his ex that she's the one that got away. He always thinks, always wishes his wife was her, and like all of that stuff. Oh, great. Now we're not allowed to do the podcast anymore. None of that is true.

SPEAKER_03 30:08

I think, dude, no, honestly, I think the thing is that there are plenty of like let's be honest. There are plenty of bands and shit out there that we listen to. I know with me, like, I'm I'm sorry, like I we had that whole um the episode where we made you listen to fucking disturbed. Yes. And like that, and I was making jokes and that. But I'm gonna not gonna I'm not gonna lie, dude.

SPEAKER_06 30:28

I like disturbed, and I will sit down and listen to a full disturbed album. Yes, it all sounds the fucking same. It's all power rock shit. Yeah, it's whatever. Okay, fine. But I will listen to disturbed, I like it.

SPEAKER_07 30:38

And I don't judge you for that.

SPEAKER_05 30:39

Right, that's all well and good.

SPEAKER_06 30:40

And I understand because you my problem is, is I'm not pushing disturbed. I'm not pushing this on you. No, fuck you. I am not pushing disturbed as an amazing band. Alright, they're a fucking 2000s new metal band. I didn't say that this is I didn't say that they're amazing, uh, they're an amazing band. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on. You're doing everything. You are hyping the fucking fuck. Would you fucking relax? No. You are hyping the fuck out of this band. And my issue is is that you're literally just doing that. Well, hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait, wait a second. I was gonna be way more neutral until you two started attacking them like they were my firstborn child. We wouldn't attack your firstborn child. I would have attacked your first child. I feel like I have to defend them like as if you were. Oh, I would attack. Well, first of all, if your firstborn children's made this music, then yeah, I would. You're the one who has to take the opposite stance. Okay. So Allmusic gave it four out of five stars. That's I can't even say what that is. I don't know. I'm very proud of you. Thank you. I censored me. Good job, Steven. Good for you, Steven. You're having some fucking restraint. And absolute punk. Can you stop swearing, please? This is a child's portfolio. Ranked it seven and a half out of ten stars, eight stars, seven stars. I'm sorry. What the fuck did you just say to me? Exactly. Absolute punk rated it uh seven and a half out of ten stars. Why was that so hard for you to rate? Absolute stars are punk? You had to count them? Well, it doesn't say seven next to it? No, no, the stars. What a fucking great way to fucking rate something. Are you serious? Yes. There's just seven stars. You have to sit there and count the stars. Yes. Counting's hard. You got one, two, three. Oh, they got five. That is ridiculous and a dick move. So now that we know their critical reception, let's get- There was literally two? Yeah, I could only find two. Good. Are you fucking curious? Move on. So now that we know theirs, let's talk about the reason. So they really were absolutely nothing at the beginning. Yes. And then they just and they kind of blew up. Yeah. Okay. They blew up, I think, is a vast overstatement. I've never heard them in my room. You guys were on posters. Alright. This is true. I remember that. So we are right there.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Let's talk about let's talk about your ratings.

SPEAKER_06 33:00

Okay? David, remember, this one goes to 11. I don't think we need to need that.

SPEAKER_07 33:07

So, David, what would you rank Front Bottom's self-titled debut album released in 2011?

SPEAKER_06 33:17

Oh. Two! Yeah, I don't know. That's on par with geese. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This sucks. Wow. Okay. Steven. Yeah, two. But I had no middle, I had no middle ground with this. I'm gonna tell you I like the songs. Like, yeah, I'm I'm I'm kind of like not. Okay, and I I'm just gonna ask for the sake of asking, would you buy this on vinyl?

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Play frisbee with it.

SPEAKER_06 33:45

Yeah, I was just gonna say frisbee, maybe. So yes? Oh no, definitely not.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

I would see how I would play disc golf with it and see how far we can get it.

SPEAKER_06 33:52

Okay. So if it was like in like the like dollar bin and it was on clearance for 75%, I'd buy it to see if I could aim my pee through the little hole in the middle. Other than that. You're very pee forward today, Steven. You've been talking a lot about P and P N S. Yeah. Yeah. Usually. It's telling.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Yes. Yes. I don't know what's telling, but it's telling you you probably have to pee.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Alright, guys. Well then I guess we're at that point where it's time for a trip. You didn't fucking rate it. Oh yeah. Nine.

SPEAKER_06 34:28

I ranked this album a nine. Do you actually? Yeah. You're a fucking piece of shit. Why? Dude, I knew it was gonna be stupidly high. I knew it. It's just so much fun. I knew it. I just something the second I like heard this, I was like, this is. I thought you were gonna like the You know what lyric I thought you were gonna like? What? I thought you were gonna like the one that says, I like to wait.

SPEAKER_07 34:48

I like girls with ex-boyfriends that they, and you think he's gonna say hate aren't really over. I thought you were gonna like that.

SPEAKER_06 34:57

Wha why would you like to do that?

SPEAKER_07 34:58

Because it was like a f it was fun, because your brain thinks, I like to wait, I like girls with ex-boyfriends that they, and you think they're gonna say, oh, hate. I know.

SPEAKER_06 35:08

Do you know sometimes like New Mexico? Yeah, yeah, because probably probably because that lyric of the idea of places I'll never go. See? See? See that right there is why nothing stuck with me here. Because even if there was a halfway decent line, which by the way, that's not one.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Even if there was a halfway decent line, like concrete covered basically.

SPEAKER_06 35:29

It was literally followed by and I like New Mexico. Like, dude, what? My dude, my problem with this whole shame of consciousness. What? What? No, I just not what? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

No, dude, none of these the dude, none of the lyrics stuck because the most of the time, like sometimes in some of these albums, dude, I will actually be so confused by a song like a previous one that I will actually look it up like on Google. Like, what the fuck is this song about? Yeah because I just don't know.

SPEAKER_05 35:57

I had the thought to do this for this album and then went, eh, fuck it.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

And just powered through and then was done and gave up on life.

SPEAKER_06 36:05

You Powerman 5000 through it? Power Man Man 5000, dude. When worlds collide.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Alright. So, let's play trivia! Can I just say, is there anything more like 2000 early 2000s than Powerman 5000?

SPEAKER_03 36:21

No. Well, David, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_07 36:24

Save it for s maybe save it for singles only.

SPEAKER_06 36:26

You're not getting Powerman 5000. You're getting dumb shit. Or you're getting like. Alright, relax. I don't know. Don't yell at me. Okay, trivia. What about it? David, grab your red button. Oh god. Don't press it yet. Steven. Grab your blue button. I gotta get it. Well, I can't reach it. Alright, I will hand it to you, Steven. Alright, so let's go. We have your buzzers for today's trivia. Let's have Steven go first. Steven, what is your buzzer for tonight?

unknown 37:03

Steve.

SPEAKER_06 37:06

What the fuck even was that? That was Sale by AWOL Nation. He goes, Sale. So then Steve instead of sale. I don't think I don't even know what he's doing. He's running out of ideas. I don't even know what that is. He's running out. You never heard Sale by Aw Nation?

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Sale's a good song. You ever heard Sale? You would like that song. Seriously.

SPEAKER_06 37:33

You would like, yeah, you actually I don't know. I have to, I gotta do it. I might know. I might know. It's actually a good song. Pretty powerful.

SPEAKER_07 37:40

All right, David, and what's your buzzer option?

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Oh my god!

SPEAKER_06 38:02

I can't even laugh right now because I'm pissed off. That's my happy song. That's my song.

SPEAKER_05 38:08

You the fuck said it, Daylas, David. But that's my song! That's my happy song. Oh my god. That was very good. I'm offended.

SPEAKER_04 38:20

That was that it wasn't you, but I but it's it's He went with the S and the D. I know. That's the S and the D. S the D. Okay. Question number one.

SPEAKER_06 38:30

Jesus Christ. Steven. Don't get mad.

unknown 38:34

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_06 38:35

Dick Gladware. On the tri what? What? On the track. The beers. Brian sings about a specific liquid being on his breath that isn't actually beer. What is it?

SPEAKER_07 38:48

A. Orange juice. B Listerine. C coffee. Or D whiskey.

SPEAKER_06 39:01

Steve. E, come. So I um uh I wasn't ready for that. Uh coffee. C coffee. That is incorrect. Alright, thank God. David? Orange juice. Orange juice. Is incorrect. It's B Listerine. Go fuck yours. See, that's the kind of problem I got with these fucking lyrics. One minute you think they're gonna say something ridiculous, like, oh, I got fucking orange juice on my breath. Right? But no, it's Listerine. The most common, dumb fucking thing to have on your breath. Yep. I don't understand the fucking lyrics. They're random when they shouldn't be random, and then not random when they should be random.

SPEAKER_05 39:46

Okay. So question two. And what do they mean by front bottom? They it is a vagina. I'm not wrong, right? I don't know. You didn't look it up.

SPEAKER_06 39:53

Or a dick. I mean, the front bottom is a you could be your dick.

SPEAKER_05 39:56

Oh, I guess it is your front. Yeah, but okay, okay, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_06 39:59

Front butt is a vagina. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:02

Front bottom is your front bottom.

SPEAKER_07 40:05

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_06 40:07

And looking like you just woke up. So their fans call each other's vaginas? Maybe. What specific item does Brian mention putting in his hair? More lyric shit. So like the like why are you gonna make it fucking lyric? A. That's all he's got. Pomade, B, Gel, C, water, or D, sea salt spray. Did it work, David? Well, I clicked it.

SPEAKER_05 40:33

I hope that came through on the mic. I was just going. Did it work?

SPEAKER_06 40:37

David, what would you say? Uh D? Sea salt spray? Sure.

SPEAKER_07 40:42

Uh no.

SPEAKER_05 40:43

That's what I'm fucking saying. It's probably something Palmade. Watch Pommy.

SPEAKER_07 40:48

Steven? You don't have to hit the buttons.

SPEAKER_05 40:49

You don't have to hit the butt.

SPEAKER_06 40:58

Pomade. That is incorrect. It's gel.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_05 41:03

See, fuck I'll say. Like it could be something interesting, like sea salt spray, but no, it's gel. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 41:09

Which song on the album features the repeated frame, I will tattoo my poems all over my body. Did you say frain? Refrain. The repeated refrain. Okay. I will tattoo my poems all over my body. Is it A maps? B Rhode Island. C flashlight.

SPEAKER_07 41:30

Or D father. David? See? Flashlight.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

That is correct! Woo!

SPEAKER_06 41:53

I don't I don't care. I just want to be done at this point. You're being rude. I this is this one has exhausted. Next question. It's hot in here. One more for David.

SPEAKER_07 42:01

What unusual percussion instrument is prominently featured on several tracks on this album, a hallmark of the early acoustic punk sound. Is it A electronic drum pads? B a washboard, C a plastic bucket, or D steel drums?

SPEAKER_03 42:32

Pretty sure Steven got it first.

SPEAKER_06 42:36

Uh Bucket. That is correct!

SPEAKER_07 42:42

Alright, we are down to the last question here. Here it is for all the marbals. Many of the songs on the self-titled album were originally released. On which two self-produced EPs? Is it? A Slow Dance to Soft Rock and Grip and T. C. B. Summer of Steroids and Brothers Can't Be Friends. D. Rose and Anne. I mean C. Or D.

SPEAKER_06 43:16

I hate my friends and my brother, my grandmother versus pneumonia.

SPEAKER_05 43:21

I'm not even sure what the fucking Steve.

SPEAKER_07 43:29

B uh Summer of Steroids and Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

That is incorrect. Okay. D, the grandma one. That is correct! Oh shit. I don't care. Wow, David, that was riveting. I know. I'm I'm riveted. Okay. It's really hot in here. You're really hot in here. Okay. David. I'm gonna try to open a window. So you won trivia. No, wait, Dave. We're almost done, and then we'll open a window. Yeah, no, no. No, no, don't open that one! Really? The one who I go to reach for is the one I can't open in this goddamn room. Just that one's broken. Is that why they There's tape on it? Yes. I just noticed that now. David, we'll open a window in a second. That is a lot of tape. Can you just choose an album first and then we can open an album? Don't worry about it. It's probably not broken that bad, but he just taped everything instead. You're wrong. So, David, you want trivia, which means you get to choose the next album for our next album. Oh we heard down the three albums to choose from.

SPEAKER_07 44:22

The first option is Jonathan Richmond, I Jonathan, released in 1991. TV on the radio, Return to Cookie Mountain, released in 2006.

SPEAKER_06 44:32

Or Frugazi, 13 Songs, released in 1989. Okay. So hear me out. Okay. I'm hearing you out.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

So far, anything we've landed in like the like early mid-2000s has sucked absolute donkey penises.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

So I'm going to shoot for something earlier. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

So I'm thinking the 89 one or I'm thinking the 91 one. But I've heard of Fugazi, and I don't think it's for a good reason. So yeah, let's just get it over with it.

SPEAKER_03 44:59

Okay, cool. So um if this one sucks just as bad as this one, then I'm gonna come prepared and we're gonna change the entire format of the show.

SPEAKER_07 45:08

I think you're gonna like this one.

SPEAKER_03 45:11

Of course you do. Yes, of course you do.

SPEAKER_07 45:12

And the reason why is because of hold on. It's hard to type at talk.

SPEAKER_03 45:20

We should get him like one of those like McDonald's fucking headsets.

SPEAKER_07 45:26

And the reason why I think you're gonna like it is because it is a punk album. Okay. Okay? D C D I Y Punk.

SPEAKER_06 45:36

Oh god. Oh, it's gonna be loud as fuck. And it's just gonna be noise and distortion. But listen, if you can if you're wrong, listen, I can get behind punk being obnoxious. I can get behind the phone. Yes. Yeah. But if it's just fucking noisy, like banging on file, I might fucking kill someone.

SPEAKER_07 45:56

Okay. Well, I'm excited then. So here we are at the end of the episode.

SPEAKER_06 46:01

We released talked about an album. Front bottoms. Yeah. Good job, buddy. Front bottoms, my front bottoms released in 2011. David won Trivia. Steven loved the album.

SPEAKER_07 46:12

He had zero penis entras the entire episode. We're very proud of you, Steven. Now we're gonna listen to Fugazi 13 songs released in 1989 on next week's episode.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

Okay, thanks for listening. This has been my brother is a hipster. We'll see you next time. Okay, bye. Steven.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

We gotta take a shit. Do you think if we just like not listen to the album, like what would he do next episode? I didn't listen to this one. But like I think we just we should just come. We should come in like next and just be like. Oh, we bolted. It's too long of an outro. No, it's not. No, it's not. I can do whatever fuck I want. Yeah. Look at it. We're still technically at 45. I'm not gonna be at 46. Okay. Just because you said you're fucking shit doesn't mean that we have to stop. Yeah, we can do whatever we want. You said what you said. That's your outer. This is your done. So now me and Steven are gonna pick up for the day that Steve five minutes.

SPEAKER_06 47:02

We're just gonna go.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

Bye.

SPEAKER_06 47:04

Anyway, so like I was saying. I'm gonna cut it when I want.