My Brother is a Hipster
My Brother is a Hipster is a unique take on a music review podcast. Three brothers review an influential indie album every week however, one brother is a hipster and the other two....hate that. This podcast provides the perspective of an album from two people who hate "hipster music" and one who is desperately attempting to convert them. He fails.
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Jonathan Richman- I, Jonathan (1992)
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That Summer feeling is in the air! We are here at the end of season 3 for this finale episode reviewing I, Jonathan by Jonathan Richman!
WOW what a season, and what a way to end, with harmony! Then we get to the anticipated results how the season long competition shakes out, you don't want to miss it. Then you don't want to miss Steven and David getting their payback on Mike (it sucks).
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Hello! My brother is a hit! Come on, Dave! You can do it! And come on, Steve! There's nothing to it!
SPEAKER_03So diarrhea gives you energy.
SPEAKER_02Did 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?
SPEAKER_00You guys are gonna hit my arms like a cat. Curling up on a warm window of $15.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna grab that in your ass. Yo, David? Fuck you! Yes, I would. You didn't say there was any other rules, David.
SPEAKER_03This is off the rails. Shut up and do trivia. Okay. One, two, three, gave it, baby girl, and we're on. Alright.
SPEAKER_00Hello! And welcome to my brother. Steven Shut Up.
SPEAKER_02My brother is a hipster podcast where we review hipster influential album indies. I'm Steve. We are my brothers, and we're the hipsters. I'm a hipster. David's not, Steven's not. It's episode season three ten. What the fuck is wrong with you? What happened? I can't see out of my left eye. And so we are here to review another, the last, of season three, an album that we are gonna review. But this is my brother's a hipster. And what this is. I don't know what's fucking going on. Okay, this is a music review podcast. I get that fucking part. I present albums and you guys.
SPEAKER_03He's treating every single episode like nobody's ever heard this. Yes, that's what you have to do. Is that what you have to do? Yes, no.
SPEAKER_02Is that what it says in the podcast? Can we not? Can we just be like, hey, it's it's the season finale. If you don't know the spiel, go back and listen to any of the other ones.
SPEAKER_01Things were okay, but in this one, things are done my way. In the first episode, things were just okay. But in this one, things were done my way. I am dancing at the my brother is the hipster bar. Ooh. Ooh.
SPEAKER_04I give up. All right.
SPEAKER_02Cause we are reviewing IJonathan by Jonathan Richmond, released in 1992. Woo!
SPEAKER_03That was uh okay. I'm gonna say that was a good one that got me.
SPEAKER_02See that?
SPEAKER_03I like that one.
SPEAKER_02Guys.
SPEAKER_03Don't take it at Rum with it.
SPEAKER_02Just well, first of all, before we get into it, Instagram at my brother's a hipster. Yeah that. Email mybrothershipstart gmail.com. Look at us, do things, touch us, poke us, like us in the face, and leave comments. Alright, we'll do that again, probably in the middle of the podcast. All right, good job.
SPEAKER_01Deal, deal, deal, deal, deal. Good job.
SPEAKER_03Okay, but like I said, if they got here already, then they probably knew it was Jonathan Rick.
SPEAKER_02We'll tell them later in the middle. Guys, guys, how do you feel at the end of season three? Here we are. Fucking exhausted.
SPEAKER_03Talking about it just goes like right in.
SPEAKER_02We guys, we've listened to very commercially successful artists. We've listened to very underground artists, we listened to rap music. I'm fucking exhausted. And now we're here. We're talking about Jonathan Richmond. But before we do, guys, this is the last episode of season three. Yeah. Which means the whole time you have been providing me with what you think I have been rating albums. And the whole purpose of that is that the winner, the person who was closest at the end, I did it like a golf score. So if you were one off, it was plus one. If you were two off, it was plus two. If you go if you got it right, it was plus zero. And guys, that's ridiculous. You are not gonna believe this. What if you just did it normally? Wait, normal? That's how else would you do it? Like the closest gets a point. No. Okay. Okay. Because then you could win, you could win four straight, and then David could nail one, and you could be six off, and you still win. That's not fair. So I did it like God. So is that no, that's fair. This is how I did it. So shut your fing mouth. What the shit? Okay. Listen to this, and I'm glad I did it this way.
SPEAKER_01Okay. We're gonna do a quick review before we get. Oh no, no. Should we do this at the end? What? What you already started. Let's do it now, let's do it now. Then we'll get to iJonathan by Jonathan Richmond at least in 1992.
SPEAKER_02And then we'll do the album review. No. What? Then we'll do the album reveal later. Okay. Maybe you should have worked this out before we pressed the video. Wait a minute. We still have a rating for this one. I know we do, I know we do, I know we do, but this is why I wanted to set the stage. Okay? Guys. Oh no, this is going to be through nine episodes. Okay? We started with Geese Getting Killed. Okay. We gotta go through fucking all of them. I rated it a five. David guessed. No. No. No. Yes. No. What? Okay, we're not gonna do this for every single song, are we? No. Yes, that's what I'm saying. I'm building suspense. No, no, no. No. Why? Why are you gonna reveal anything right now? Why wouldn't you do that at the end? I thought you were just gonna say till the end. I thought you were gonna say what the standings are now. I was going to! Okay, but I thought you were just gonna say what the standings are. We're gonna give you all it. We're gonna give you our things for now. I got you. Okay, we're gonna let you know. And then later go through that. Fuck it. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh, God damn it. Let's keep them in here. Okay.
SPEAKER_03And like listening to the episode. Jesus Christ. Get it. Yeah. Alright, guys. We're still learning.
SPEAKER_02So, David. Oh, Steven. What do you think I rated IJonathan by Jonathan Richmond? Alright.
SPEAKER_03Can we just like say them out loud this time? Because it doesn't really matter anymore. Okay.
SPEAKER_02And uh, David. Um I got so excited. Alright, but first, we have gotta talk about I Jonathan by Jonathan Richmond released in 1992. Guys, here we are. I was so excited for you to hear this album because this album is so different than the rest of the albums that I presented this this year. So I agree. Okay, yeah. So let's give general thoughts. But before we do that, I gotta talk about Jonathan Richmond for a minute. Okay. Okay. Jonathan Richmond is one of my favorite musical artists. Okay. Okay. He started in a band called Modern Lovers. I'm actually surprised by that. Okay. He started in a band called Modern Lovers, okay, which was a proto-punk band. He was kind of like a pioneer in like the proto-punk art punk scene. Really? Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. Over time, I didn't see that at all. He kind of disconnected from that style and didn't really enjoy that style anymore. And then the rest of his career has been spent doing like calypso-style, Caribbean-influenced, acoustic, folky music. And he to go from like a proto-punk band like Modern Lovers to this, which is just stripped down, like innocent, boyish, childish music, but in the best way possible. Like the one thing I love about Jonathan Richmond is that he has a way of presenting a song that is so childish and so innocent, but still so pertinent and so powerful. Like I don't even know how he's able to do it. That's what you So you you equate it to like childish. Like not childish, like bad, childish like innocent.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I didn't I didn't get innocent in the sense of like Yeah, I didn't get that at all. In that in that way.
SPEAKER_02I got more I got more of a um So you didn't get innocence by the way like that he Noah. No, my honest my honest feel on it was more of a like like laid back, I'm gonna do what I want vibe from it.
SPEAKER_03See now I got I got more of a not parody in the literal sense, but parody 50s vibe.
SPEAKER_02So 50s definitely 50s rock and roll. Yes. And I think that parody is the innocence. I think that's the beauty about Jonathan Richmond. Like if you go to see him live or if you listen to his album, the whole time you're like, this is funny, because it is like a parody, but it's also I didn't see it as a it's but it's not a parody. No, he's not in joking. No, no, no. That's why I'm not sure. I didn't see it as a parody. I saw him as a as not a parody in appreciation. He's a fan of that. Do you see what I mean?
SPEAKER_03No, I definitely got this uh a feeling of a like a tribute in a way. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Like that was like if if I sat down and I said, dude, I want to do like a 50s style, like goofy.
SPEAKER_02While not taking myself too seriously. Not taking myself too seriously, and I'm not gonna fuck it. I'm gonna do what I want. Also, in the filter of that 50s censorship. Like when you say when you say childish, like you say like that, like the you know, the um uh naive kind of naive, naive is a perfect word, right? Right, right. But I see it almost more of like a the filter or the censorship of like the 50s, like you can't say certain things. So he kind of like came through with that. Right, yeah, like so so maybe trying to censor himself. Right. I don't think he never really had an issue. He like he doesn't swear in his song, like every once in a while getting like shit or something. No, but I mean like you remember how like you know, like the 50s was like, dude, don't talk about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I feel like he pulled everything back and gave it a so much childish. So alright, so it opens with um with uh party in the USA. Yeah, right? Party to the USA.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was weird for me. That was a weird like vibe for me. Like, I don't know, that was uh I didn't know how to feel about the whole album with the second I was listening to that song. What is this gonna be?
SPEAKER_02I immediately, like the second that song started, I was like, Summer 11 from Greece. It was it was literally the the music that I interpolate. And I and I sat there, I was like, oh, okay. And I'm listening to it and I'm going, okay, but what is this? Then he started singing, and as he started singing, you the only thing I could think of was You remember the two guys in their Something About Mary that play the thing? That's Jonathan Richmond. You're fucking lying. That was gonna be one of my little uh little uh things because I said I'm seriously, I'm going, that's that's Jonathan Richmond. Dude, I see what he started there. The guy who sings the theme song is something about Mary, that's Jonathan Richmond. And who keeps pulling up with the other guy in the guitar? I'm going is gonna be a little like awesome. This is like the something about Mary theme song. Like it is that's all I kept thinking. And then I'm not even gonna lie, like this album, this album is from around that time. And three, like three, the third song in is where I was like, seriously, like something about Mary, like the saying that that's hilarious. You know what? And I even pictured because his face is like on the thing on Spotify, and I'm looking at it and going, could that be him? Like, I really thought that. I'm not even kidding. The drummer that tours with him, Tommy Larkin. I dude, I'm not even fucking kidding. Yeah, I literally sat there and thought that it could be him, and I was like, no, that's dumb. It can't be. Like, I literally thought that totally is. That's that's that's fucked up.
SPEAKER_03That's really fucked that you made that connection. I really like immediately. That's all I could do.
SPEAKER_02But I think that speaks to how unique Jonathan Richmond is. That like you don't even know who he is, and you can hear him. And I don't know if you've watched there's something about Mary a hundred times in the past week, but like you're like, hold on a second. Like, there's that instant connection. He is so unique in his approach. Like, I'm listening to the song, and all I hear him is him saying, Well, there's something about Mary. Like that, like I literally heard that in the room. He sings True Love is Latin Light Nice, he loves Let Her Go Into the Darkness. He he sings uh those songs.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah, no, that that's that's fucking so funny, dude. I love that, dude. You know what my biggest problem was is that when I first started the album, I had the initial I was jaded. I was like, it's gonna be another shit album. Here we freaking go. Yeah, and I started listening to it, and I'm like, what the fuck is this? Right? And then my like mind settled, and I'm like, holy shit, I think I really like this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's fun. So it's fun. Going into the second song, I don't know the name, sorry. Second song is tandem jump, so go just like kind of like a skit, yeah. Right, and I that song started, and I went, I feel like I'm listening to like a movie soundtrack, and then it kept going, and I'm going, he just the all he said was tandem jump, and I'm going, I'm literally picturing a beach scene from the 60s, like a 60s movie beach scene. That's all I was thinking of, and I was like, Alright, I'm I was expecting more singing, and I'm like, I guess not. Okay, so literally just like 60s beach vibe, like and and as it started going, like as the album started going, it like again, I just couldn't get that there's something about Mary out of my head, and now I know why. Yeah, and I'm I it was still so weird to me that we made that connection. It was just building, it would, and it was building on me, and then I finally I'm like, okay, now we're at like the bluesies Elvis. Like now we're at the you know, and I what did you guys think about You Can't Talk to the Dude? That was the third song. That's one of my favorite songs of all time. That that honestly, that was the song that made me go, Okay, seriously, this is like there's something about Mary. But and after so the first one, I was kind of just like, I couldn't get by the summer lovin', and then the second song, I was like, Okay, but there's no singing. The third song came in, and I was just like, Okay, this one I can get behind. Yeah. Because I was like, I this one's not bad. I said, I I can I can I can see this one, and then that, but again, I was just like so hooked on there's something about Mary. But then as it went on, I just accepted that and kept going and like started picking out the other things. Um, but yeah, no, I did I did actually like the third track. I like that one. That's one of my favorite songs.
SPEAKER_03No, I think that that's where I was kind of like, oh, dude, like there's a theme here. Like they're going for something here, like he's going for something here. Like, and I was really starting to just like you said, take it in, accept what it was, and then being like, Okay, I'm there, dude. I'm at the malt shop. What are we doing? Yeah, yeah, it's then it started getting, and then as we're going, it gets goofy. Yes. So you're kind of like, what are we doing? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It was kind of one of those things where the first two songs set the tone, yeah, and then you're like, okay, I'm listening to a 50s blues rock old school. It's some kind of tribute to her. Isn't it awesome though, too, how like the the album elicits this feeling of like I don't know if he's joking or not, and I genuinely don't give a shit. No, I honestly didn't feel that. I felt like I'm like, you know what? He knows what he likes. This is like his homage to that, and he's just fucking rolling with it. And like my favorite my favorite part about Jonathan Richmond is that like he'll stick with like a steady, like verse chorus, like he he definitely knows how to write a hook, and then but then he'll also just be like, like, I think we're jumping ahead a little bit, but like that summer feeling where like at the end he's just like, actually, no, one more time, and like he'll like just like literally talk back into the song, which is crazy for a recording. But what do you think? What did you think about um like Velvet Underground and then obviously Velvet Underground is like a love's a love note to Velvet Underground, who is a gigantic Lou Reed, and that was a gigantic Velvet Underground was where I got the Elvisy blues. That was very blue, and then I got the that's where I was like, okay, this is that vintage rock, which I I liked. But but then they hit you in the face with I was dancing at a lesbian bar. That was that I loved that. That was that's that was my favorite. I have not met one single human being that does not like that song.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, that is an amazing song, and I you've played the song before before us, and that it hit, and I was like, oh, Mike played this song before. And then I was like, oh my god, this is a song that I would definitely listen to again.
SPEAKER_02100% I literally the only note I have for that song was nice lol, I like this one. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Yep, it's just a is that purple? Yes, and then what's the purple shirt that says I was dancing at a lesbian?
SPEAKER_02What what was what was the next one after that? Rooming house on Venice Beach. Okay. It was a room and house on Venice Beach. And I was listening to it and I'm like, okay. Like I was I was there for it, and then all of a sudden I'm I look, I go, Oh my fucking god, it was five minutes, and it just keeps going. I'm like, that's the there's no rhyme or reason. Like, you can't talk to the dude. To me, it feels like it needs to be like a minute and a half longer. And then you have rooming house on Venice Beach, and I feel like it needs to be a one-minute song, but he goes for six fucking minutes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's where it's like, I feel like he was really just like I got a very um when I was listening to it, I got a very um Jim Morrison vibe where he would just kind of space off and go with just go with what he wanted to, yeah, yeah. And then and then it ended up being good. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? I do kind of like the the the um the hints of like uh a jam band. Like every once in a while something will take over. And I think here's the problem since we both listened to the bonus like one, the extra whatever, like that, and has like four extra songs to it. Yeah, right. I heard some stuff that was like literally like there's a song. I hope it was in this, but I don't know because once again I was listening to like the Did you listen to a song, Steven, that was like a recording of them like in the um like just in the recording room?
SPEAKER_02Uh no. Like I don't think I listened to the bonus one. You wanna know? Oh, you wanna know why? You wanna know why? Yeah, because I listened to the bonus one on our fucking last one. Yeah. Which was what the fuck was that? TV on the radio. So you specifically. So when I went to listen to this one, I searched and it showed both, and I went, no, no, I'm not doing that again. And I clicked the regular one. So I might be a little skewed. I actually No, my last song was The Twilight in Boston.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. I I heard a song. Uh so it's a track, right? And it's actually really decent. Alright, it's on the bonus one. Alright, and it's basically like it reminded me a lot of like remember when you guys used to record just by accident random bullshit.
SPEAKER_02Oh, when we were recording songs, we had like skits and like us talking and bullshitting.
SPEAKER_03Not even that, it was just you guys talking and bullshitting, those ones, right? Like the real raw ones. They had a track where it was just that for like a minute change, yeah, right, and it was just a lot of them, just like the background y bullshitting about what's going on. Like a part where they recorded and was it was just super raw. And the title was super fucking cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, and that's the thing, is uh what I love about Jonathan Richmond, what I love about is the innocence of like the way he approaches an album is that like he has albums that like half of the songs are him like singing in French like half of the song, like it's just like whatever like if you really dive into Jonathan Richmond, you become like intoxicated by his approach. Um and I think that that this album I think is the most commercially approachable one. Um, and I think that's evident by that summer feeling.
SPEAKER_03That yeah, yeah, no, definitely.
SPEAKER_02What did you guys think about that song? Because I want to see what do you think that song is about? Because I have my perspective on that summer feeling. I don't remember which one was. Um The one that you says that summer feeling a lot. Yeah, but um what what track was that? That's track seven. Um I have no notes on it, so that must be a good thing. Like, I it just kind of like you know what I mean? Like, no notes on the most popular song I think. So I I just like at that point I was kind of just vibing with it, to be honest. Okay. So I didn't really have anything that like it wasn't it wasn't anything bad and nothing, like it like you know, it just so with that song, I it was very um it was weird because when I was listening to it, it was very uh the beat and the song itself is very uplifting.
SPEAKER_03But the lyrical content as I'm listening to it, it's super depressing.
SPEAKER_02So that's that's what I yes, that's exactly what I pulled from it too. So like that summer feeling is it sounds like you know, that summer feeling like you're outside in the beautiful sun, like that summer feeling. But when you listen to the word words, it's that summer feeling is gonna haunt you the rest of your life. And when you listen to the context of the lyrics, it's really an he so he recorded this album when he was 40 years old, right? So he's 40 years old. Can I can I have a guess?
SPEAKER_03Right, to like like just jump in before you give the actual what happened.
SPEAKER_02All right. Well, I don't know the actual thing. This is my oh yours is all right, but yours is usually on point. Yeah, all right.
SPEAKER_03With me, like I was always I I felt when I was listening to the song, it was a very much like happy that summer feeling, but then with the lyrics, it's almost like him reflecting as a child, like like it to his childhood or someone reflecting to their childhood where it was very much like or a trauma that happened in summertime. No, it was more like like I got like more of like a um you don't um um like you took it for granted.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, if you don't take if you don't take advantage of that summer feeling yes it's gonna haunt you for the rest of your life right like you missed out on something yes and so one one of the lyrics that's always stuck with me which I thought I think is just amazing it's he's talking about like a like a young love and he's he says do you long for her or for the way you were and I'm like holy shit yes no that's such an amazing line of like did you are you when you're reflecting nostalgically are you actually saying like oh my god I love let's use music for example I love that album I love that band are you reflecting on the band or are you reflecting on the way you were when you when you listen to that band yes so a life without responsibility a life without the burdens of life no I'm gonna tell you right now that line hit me weird because I was and like I said earlier I was cleaning my garage and I had my earbuds in right and I'm you know doing my thing I'm vibing to this this album right and that line for whatever reason that specific one that specific line alright hit me in the face really hard yeah because what I thought was I was sitting there was like you know when you sit there and you think back on like past relationships and shit like that and you think of like how happy you were or something like that you know whatever and then but then to get the uh to get the feeling of like okay were you really happy with that relationship yeah or were you happy with the person you were when you were with yes yeah in in a greater scheme in a greater scheme where you looking back on that path I was 17 years old I didn't have responsibilities I didn't have bills and I have to pay my mortgage dude I literally I was cleaning the garage and I stopped and I went well and that's and that's what that's what I think is so amazing that he is able to captivate that while not like being melodramatic or extreme or intense with his lyrical content. He's just like it's just such a beautiful way of illustrating that picture that makes you fill in your blanks. Like you know oh no that's what music should be no it definitely stuck and made me think of my own like my own ideas and it made me think of so many things like even like like old friendships like when you think back on old friendships and you're like oh man I wish we did. Well you didn't so there must be a reason why you didn't but when you're reflecting back what are you really reflecting back on that person that you're not in contact with anymore for some reason or your life as you were I mean let's be honest when you break away from somebody there's usually a reason okay and that was probably a you still maybe miss the but you missed the person you were with that person or at that time at that time then you tend to free your tend to forget those reasons. And then you're like you know what I should reach out to them and you get back together and you're like oh yeah I find that all the time like when we were like deep like in in like right when COVID like loosened up and you could go out and we were deep in video game hunting like we were going to all those video game stores and I'm like oh my god this one and that one and from my childhood and this and that I fucking never play the fucking video games like but just feeling that nostalgia is just like it gives you that that burst of like what you were or like a time and you're trying to recapture that feeling that you can't ever recapture because you're not that person anymore. Right. No but that's but that's the whole nostalgia thing. Like I mean and I think that that's like what nostalgia is you're trying to catch that.
SPEAKER_03I don't mean to swing on like a normal like you know event going on but like with the collecting like it's like the highest point in time for collecting something with millennials especially. Especially think of what you're doing. You're collecting something that's gonna sit on your shelf so that you can walk by and go, man, I remember when I felt the way I felt when I first picked up that card or that toy or whatever that's it's the high yeah it's the high of it you don't give a fuck you just dump your page and you know what it it's interesting too let it sit on a shelf.
SPEAKER_02And I gotta say this is one of the most uh unhinged episodes that we've ever done because of how un not hinged it is but but I think I think what's such an interesting point too is like that like Steven said that capturing of like when I buy the thing I'm getting my hands on a piece of my past that I'm that I lost. Yes and like it's a it's a metaphorical thing like it's like like yeah like I have that thing that I that I lost or that I was afraid I would lose and I'm getting it back. You still have a connection yes you still have some connection in that yes and and it's a safety blanket really and it is and for some people it's different because for some people it's oh I found it I got it I have it and they can be happy moving on with it right and then for people like me where it's kind of a it's kind of both for me for somebody like me it's that trying to find it it's that trying to get it it's the getting it it's that gratification and that high from it and then I have everything like I have my room that I have everything in and where I go in and I do what when I want to do something to to clear my mind I go in that room and sometimes I'll find myself for no reason like my wife's in the living room watching TV we're doing this we're doing that we just watch the show and then all of a sudden I'll find myself sitting on that couch in my room even for five minutes three minutes I just go and sit and I'm able to just I'm surrounded by all those things that gave me that high and that fill me with the nostalgia and I'm able to just literally sit there and go like it just it gives me that release of summer feeling yeah there you go summer feeling Guys this got really deep. This got weirdly Jonathan Richmond brings out the best in us but I will say this I think we need to review Jonathan Richmond but I but I will say this I don't like this somebody start yelling Twilight in Boston yes no I know I didn't like that so now Twilight in Boston is killing I think Twilight in Boston was Jonathan Richman's summer feeling but Twilight in Boston to me I was like I thought that wasn't that bad though I was that was that was to me that was an older version of him that was that was like a 20 year old I literally heard so Twilight in Boston I'm sitting there going the the note I had on that I was like not my favorite and not a good ending for it. Like I it is like I I do often find that it's an interesting ending like I feel like if you think the summer feeling that's been a summer feeling would have been a better ending. I feel I I just felt like it wasn't bad but if you put it in the middle of the album not gonna lie if that song was in the middle of the album I don't think I'd even talk about it. I think it'd just be like Boston yeah I feel like it would kind of be like a Twilight in Boston not bad whatever would have been a good transition from Ruinhouse on Venice Beach but then the album with it made me go what about what about higher oh go ahead no no no for uh I was just for Twilight in Boston I I got like a um like a downgrading feeling from it where he went from like no but he went from like the 50s to like the 30s no I see like the 20s. I didn't know where it came from all I know is it started and I went Okay and then I'm listening to it and I'm going, I think his decent was very simple it wasn't bad description of him reflecting on his long walks through Boston when he was like a 20 year old kid. And what I did what I do like about it if I was going to give it one note as an ender I do think it's like he's walking away from the album. Like it kind of does give that feeling like that the album kind of feels it is atmospheric. You do feel like you are walking through Boston at night. No, yeah I and like I said I'm not saying it's a bad song I'm not saying I didn't like it.
SPEAKER_03But the only thing I got it but with that the one thing with that though is is you're sitting there and you're kind of like man if you don't know Boston you're fucked.
SPEAKER_02Yeah like that's the one thing I got out of that it meant a lot to me knowing because yeah we're close like six out of the freaking like six out of six of them I knew where they were like the other ones I was like eh I was like what's that? So in general what would you say about this? So like similar to what I said last episode like if somebody was going to say hey I'm thinking about listening to I Jonathan by Jonathan Richmond like how would you what would you say what would you present? Listen and also did you have a favorite track I would say listen don't just don't just listen to the album actually listen. Okay and be yourself. No I'm saying I'm saying actually be real I'm saying actually clear eyes full heart can't lose no I'm saying actually listen to what he's saying what's going on actually listen. Okay because he needs a thinker but also touch the walls don't be afraid what what also don't be in tune with your environment but also don't be afraid to dance I think you can put I think you can put this album on and have a full range of an listening experience and a dance party all right anyway what okay fuck you no fuck you we can't turn on each other now what no this is too much fucking harmony like huggy bullshit all right so what would you say generally well it fucking sucked all right overall if you want to if you want to get the the cliff notes to it watch there's something about Mary. Yes no dude honestly I would say that like I don't think that you like if you were say hey Jonathan Richman I'd be like okay here's what I know that's all I know I would have to give him more time yeah I about this album yeah I can be like dude if you're looking for a semi jokey like tribute to like 50s shit go for it okay fucking great shit like love it you want to fuck around have some fun and then yeah and then all of a sudden hear something that makes you go what?
SPEAKER_03And then I would also always cliff note it with the something about Mary Facts. Okay. Yeah because you need to like dude you know the dude for something about Mary Fax like you gotta watch it.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Listen to this. So yes what I would say generally is I would kind of mirror your things right like I think it's an album that you can throw on, have fun, but also be introspective. I think if you're in a mood where you want to be introspective great album. If you're in a mood where you want to dance around great album because even that summer feeling like you were saying if you don't want to sit down and dig into the lyrics you can still have fun with it. Oh no it's still like a nice fun little slow dance. If you weren't paying attention and honestly at this point in the at that point in the album I wasn't yeah so I'm like I'm literally like just vibing I was vibing with the album moving shit in my garage and then all of a sudden that line hit me and I went what? It brings you back. Yeah it brought me right back all of a sudden David turned into a mirror and went who are you I looked at the reflection in the pool are you dropped a pebble in the pool watched the ripples I cried for 40 minutes. So let's talk about let's talk about critical receptions. So there's only two on here really Allmusic gave it four and a half out of five stars okay and Pitchfork gave it eight point seven out of ten okay okay but but the fucking points whatever so for the last time this season I'm gonna ask you for your ratings and remember guys this one goes to 11 It does we know so uh let's start with uh David um just for the sure fact that I am going to probably listen to the album again and the fact that I'm definitely gonna listen to I Was Dancing at a The Lesbian I let's give it like a let's give it an eight wow holy shit wow right behind Deltron alright wow yeah I don't think you've given anything an eight ever oh no you did Nirvana well you gave Deltron a nine yeah but you tied it with Nirvana for an eight that's fine because that was that album that was Nirvana Bleach yeah yeah what about you Steve what would you rate it and remember it goes to 11 honestly so I know what you're you're gonna you might think that this is not good but I'm going a seven okay fuck you um now here's the thing that is your highest rate of the season that is that's that is no that's I'm glad we're on the other side of five season I'm glad it worked out this one to me a seven to me is like you know what I'm like David said there's a couple of songs from here I would listen to I'm saying as an album. Yes there's a couple of songs from here I'm definitely gonna add to a playlist okay but will I listen to more of him? Yes. Okay you know what I mean like in and again like you should listen to Little Black Bat. It's off his newest album really sings on Italian it's amazing. How new? Uh the this 2018 25 how fucking old is he now this is 2020 77? Just so you're thoroughly aware 77 something like that yeah I just saw him oh two months that's fine holy shit I just saw him live two months what'd you say you know this is 2026 right yeah he said recently yeah I said recently you said he and then he just said 2025. Okay it's 2026 so recently is a year ago no he did what it actually might have been 2026 actually what am I missing you're missing David Dranking too much theoretically 2025 is a year ago it was it was a year ago it was 4th of July 2025 I'm gonna go back considering that this this album's from 30 years ago 34 years ago yeah so all right so Steve we're fucking old so you gave it a seven seven okay which actually it's the only other album I've given I've given other ones eights but the only other album I gave a seven was uh arcade fire what the f we don't need to bring that back up David that was the one me and you fucking were yelling at each other remember shut up for trivia yeah that was I'm gonna shrub that copy directly up your eye Dave Yeah no though alright so David would you buy it on vinyl um so I'm like kind of it's right behind you what holy shit oh by the way I rated at a nine what uh alright I rated a nine good job buddy yeah um what the fuck that is terrifying okay so if if nobody knows it's just a freaking close up of him yes there's also an amazing there's an album called Jonathan Goes Country where he sings like in a country like tone and the album is like literally him the album cover is him with a guy holding red cowboy boots and Jonathan Richmond's going like this like I don't know if I want to buy those and then the back cover is him walking away with red cowboy boots I got it I got it I'll show you I'll show you that's awesome that's amazing uh yeah that's why all right so in my hypothetical album wall that we have been building this entire series um this would definitely be on the wall just for the sheer fact that I like the album and it's probably obscure enough to be like somebody's gonna ask questions. Yeah they would okay yeah so yes the answer is yes I would buy it on bidding uh yes wow that's your only second time this season this in Kings of Leon yep wow full sweep I don't know why we did that full sweep all right guys so it is not time for trivia right but it is time to reveal the results of the season long game wait wait I see a buzzer uh yeah that's from last episode oh is it don't touch it okay okay so David so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go album by album we're gonna really build the suspense as you guys might have known by oh we're gonna be it's two seconds shut up in two seconds in another 45 minutes real quick I'm gonna give a quick recap of every album no all right so what we're gonna do is we're gonna just go album by album so here we go now the game is whoever was the closest to the score cumulatively is the winner and gets to choose the album in the list reveal that I will be listening to and reviewing. So Geese getting killed I rated it a five David guessed a six Steven guessed a four so you were both one off okay MacDamarco salad days I rated it an eight David guessed a six Steven guessed a seven so Steven was one point closer. So now the score is David three Steven two now remember lower score is better okay like golf like golf Kings of Leon I rated it a nine David guessed an eight Steven guessed a nine so now Steven is up four to two Jesus Christ death grips money store wait this gets fucking good death grips the money store I rated it a nine David guessed a seven Steven guessed a six so now the score is five to two five six five to six can I have a pen yeah I'll just grab one where the fuck please hold so then we got to yuck dude that artist he he makes a bunch of fat things of like uh wait wait wait wait wait we'll talk about that I have the counchocular the frankenberry all that's right then we got to yuck David I gave it a 10 David guessed an eight Steven guessed a seven so David was two off and Steven was three off so now the score is two three four five six seven eight two six seven eight eight to eight it tied it up I don't like the way you score shit okay then we got to Deltron 3030 where I rated an eight David guessed a nine Steven guessed an eight so David now has two foot seven eight nine and Steven has eight then we got two front bottoms I rated it a nine David guessed a nine Steven guessed a nine tied so Steven's still up by one then we got to Fugazi 13 songs I rated it an eight Steven guessed an eight David guessed an eight David is still down by one we got the TV on the radio return to Cookie Mountain I rated it a nine Steven guessed a seven David guessed an eight and tied it up shit going into today's going today I rated the album a nine out of ten David rated it thought you would rate it yes David thought I would rate it a nine Steven thought I would rate it a nine fucking died after all of that wait you fucking died can I say one thing Steven we discussed what we were going to do for the album he agrees with me anyway I think it's just I literally think it's just magic. No I think it was meant to be fucked up because he picked basically the album I was going to pick. Yeah so honestly either of or had one I was gonna say the album he picked anyway yeah so I think it's divine intervention. We're good you want to tell me or should I all right wait wait hold on hold on hold on hold on so let's set the stage okay now we are going to talk about the list reveal the next episode that you will see will be the season four list reveal where I will be revealing the albums that we will be listening to in season four okay that'll probably come sometime like mid to like early like mid summer right like in like July probably and then you won't hear from us until the fall we're gonna start recording season four in the fall okay we have to focus on our disc off development. That's right okay then but we might have a few episodes that drop in the summer some of them might just be me I'm currently working on an idea called Labels where I deep dive into indie hipster labels and talk about some influential albums from them. That sounds terrible. So I might be doing that. Also you might see an episode where it's the three of us where we are going to talk about our favorite artists our favorite songs and our favorite albums to give you a better idea about kind of where our compass is but the next episode will be the list reveal and in that list reveal we will be reviewing an album that is presented by David and Steven who tied and I will have to listen to it and review it. It's kind of like revealing Revenge in a way. It doesn't have to be, but it can be. So, with no further ado, David and Steven, which album will I be listening to in the list reveal? Alright.
SPEAKER_03This album. If you want to understand how a pair of grease-painted horror rappers from Detroit became a multi-million dollar substance. I was right!
SPEAKER_02I was fucking right!
SPEAKER_03I fucking knew it!
SPEAKER_02You fucking knew it!
SPEAKER_03You have to look at 1997's The Great Malenko!
SPEAKER_02It is the definitive, definitive insane clown posse album. Oh fuck.
SPEAKER_03It features legendary rock guitarist Slash. Why? Pop icon Alice Cooper. Woo! And it triggered one of the most infamous corporate censorship battles in music history. It did why? Have you heard it? That's gonna be in 1997. The Great Malingo by Insane Clown Posse.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna be honest with you. What? It really fucking sucks. Yes! I knew it! This is awesome! Hold on, hold on, hold on. I will say this. I obviously know who Insane Clown Posse is. Okay. I obviously have heard some of their songs. However, I have never listened to an album by Insane Clown Posse.
SPEAKER_03Alright, if I can be honest with you, this might be decent because I think this is literally probably every song you've ever heard of ICP. Yes. This is like probably, this is basically all of their major large. Major ones came with Great Black.
SPEAKER_02I mean, there's a lot of for like deep ICP things. That's why I was gonna put a lot of the shit. Because I was like, listen, if I pick, you know, if I pick an ICP album, I'm gonna be like some of them Fucking 65 minutes?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, baby!
SPEAKER_03One hour and seven minutes of pure clown stuff.
SPEAKER_02And by the way, Mike, I I'm gonna I because we tied, I feel like I should add a caveat to this, where not only do you have to listen to the great Malenko, okay Boogie Woogie Woo. Wow, can't wait. Yep. That is a great, great song, by the way. This is awesome.
SPEAKER_03I'm so glad because we found one that me and Steven are into. I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_02You have no idea how happy I am right now. So now here's the deal. I feel like you have to listen to this album, and the entire time Molly's coming to the album, you need to be drinking Fago. I have Fago downstairs. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03You need to be drinking Fago. So, no, real alright, so now real talk, okay, and this is stuff we'll get into. We're gonna have to do some crazy deep divey shit on some ICP. That's your fucking job. Oh yeah, don't worry about it. Um but dude, real real talk though, alright, since you're you guys all were talking wrestling earlier, alright. Um you got um they got deep influences in into wrestling. Great Malinko. Yes, obviously, you know D. Malenko.
SPEAKER_02And obviously, obviously. And on top of that, on top of that, backyard wrestling PS2. Yeah. Um, okay, alright. Well you guys should just kill time. RP's is here.
SPEAKER_03But anyway, oh yeah, let's hold that. Okay, cool. Um, I've been watching some like cra crazy ass stuff. You know they broke into wrestling.
SPEAKER_02Um like yeah, like they they were like wrestlers, like almost like first and foremost, before they were like rappers. Didn't they like really start the backyard wrestling like a whole thing?
SPEAKER_03They broke it, they like kind of broke it open and it was it was more of a like so they started in like normal, like everyday old school, like fucking 90s wrestling shit. You know, like indie circuit shit, and then they did the rap stuff, and then they started like branching out and somehow got like a hook into like WWE and WCW and all that kind of shit. And then after that they opened up JCW, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, and then it turned into like this what? Yeah. Oh yeah. And then it turned into this whole we're gonna wrap this shit up.
SPEAKER_02What? Alright. We're talking about Juggalo Wrestling. Okay, great. I'm glad you thank you for filling that time. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_03No problem.
SPEAKER_02Uh okay. So here we are. At the end of the season, season three is in the books. We have listened to ten albums. It was a tough, tough, tough experience. Yeah, it was. It was fucking absolutely horrible. But but I will say, I don't wanna I don't wanna get ahead of ourselves, but in season four, I do plan to try to do things differently. Okay? So we'll talk about it further.
SPEAKER_01But this has been season three of My Brother as a Hipster, where we reviewed Dead Opposite We reviewed Geese, we reviewed TV on the radio, we don't have to go through Benghazi, Jonathan Richmond, Kings of Leon, Mac Jamarco, bunch of shit. Okay, good. Geltron!
SPEAKER_02All right, Geltron.
SPEAKER_01So here we are.
SPEAKER_02Next time you'll see us, we'll be revealing season four's list. You can get excited about that. You can even pre-listen. We're gonna listen to ICP's The Great Melico. Malinko. There you go. The great Malinko.
SPEAKER_01We'll be doing that, okay. Until next time when we review that piece of garbage. I'll see you next time. Okay, rolling with my homies. Homies!
SPEAKER_02Topical outro. That was fucking really good. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Alright, I'll see you later. Okay, goodbye.
SPEAKER_03Malinko. Steven, I think me and you need to paint our face like ICP for that episode. That'd be hilarious. You're gonna do that. I'm doing it. Yes.
