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Schizophrenic Music
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Schizophrenic Music
S6 – Ep 22 | 2001 Hidden Gems & Artists Beyond the Spotlight
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This week, Craig and Kevin turn their attention to 2001, uncovering a pair of albums that may have slipped under the radar but remain worthy of rediscovery.
Craig spotlights From Here on In by South, a debut album packed with atmospheric production, melodic songwriting, and a sound that feels both distinctly of its era and surprisingly timeless. Kevin counters with Welcome by Doyle Bramhall II, a soulful and adventurous release that showcases the depth of Bramhall's songwriting and musicianship.
The album discussion naturally evolves into a broader conversation about artists who expand beyond performing and find success in other creative roles. From production and engineering to visual design and behind-the-scenes influence, the guys explore how some musicians leave their mark in ways that go far beyond the spotlight.
It's another episode full of hidden gems, musical rabbit holes, and the kinds of conversations that happen when two lifelong music fans start connecting the dots.
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SPEAKER_00Well, all right. Welcome into Schizo Music Pod, the Schizurinic Music Podcast, with your hosts, Craig, myself, and Kevin. Who's a good close personal friend of mine who is probably more obsessed about music than I am, and that's a big feat. But just say it. Welcome in. Welcome into the podcast. If you're new here, welcome. If you're a longtime listener, of course, welcome. We invite you in both equally. But this exploration we were doing of 1960 to 2025, albums that we think are overlooked, underrated, makes us dive into our collections. And there's something about cleaning out stuff where you're like, what the hell is that? Where did I get that? And then you go listen to it and you go, Oh, I can see why I like that. Then, but does it does that mean I have to painfully scroll? Like, like good luck asking a friend or your wife, oh, just pick something in my collection. And then they start scrolling, and they're like, holy crap, dude, I've been scrolling for an hour, I'm still in the C's.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It was it was one of the recent one of the years we just did where I was like, I'm not saying I was just downloading anything, but some I was like scrolling through to look for something like I don't need that. Right. You know, it's like, but then I like if I get rid of it, will I want it? You know, I have I struggle with the letting something go, but then it's like yeah, you know, I'm like, have I ever it's kind of like the whole closet thing. If you haven't worn it in a year, whatever, throw it away, right? Or whatever. If you haven't and right, exactly. Well, yeah. And it's like, I'm like, do I need the album from this 80s band that I used to love that released an album in 2012 that wasn't very good, but I just bought it because you know, I mean, like, I don't need it, you know, because I'm never gonna like go, ooh, I need to listen to that. No, no, okay, no, no, you're right.
SPEAKER_00I mean, that that's what I've done is like it there's several things where I wouldn't mind if it shuffled and it came up and then I'll play the whole album, that's cool. I just don't want to hit shuffle on my collection and then keep going to things like that when there's all this other stuff that uh I would really like to get to that I love because look, man, we've been listening to music for quite some time and we've been diving back to stuff well before we were born. So much stuff in your collection. Right. If you're just collecting stuff, and I've gotten past the point of like trying to uh be a completist, I'll mention one real quick and then we'll move on. Duran Duran. I think Duran Duran's first four albums are a must have. I think the self-titled album, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and I love Notorious. I do love that album. I don't know if anything beyond that is essential.
SPEAKER_01I lost it. I kind of didn't listen to it.
SPEAKER_00I tried, I listened to the wedding album yesterday, and it's really not that good. There's some great songs on it, but it's really not that good. I've listened to some of the newer stuff. It's not bad, none of this stuff is bad, but man, there's something about that first record. Rio is a masterpiece. Something about Seven and the Ragged Tiger. I am very, very partial to notorious. I think Winter Marches On is my favorite uh Duran Duran song. I love that album. And then beyond that, I just uh I don't know. So I I get it, but are you a complete do you love those albums so much that you feel like you have to complete the rest of your collection? And the answer for me is no. Hey, we have a tradition here on the Schizo Music Pod, and it's called beer. And uh we we we like to uh we don't drink your typical stuff. Yeah, well sometimes I'll have a course banquet or a PBR, but we typically focus in on craft beers, and my craft beer of today is one I've had before. I've only had it once, I've only had a six-pack of this, but it's uh I broke this out, it's my last one. I did it because last time I was giving so much hype to the Grateful Dead. This is our Grateful Dead series, and this this is the Citrus Daydream Lager. What you got?
SPEAKER_01Now, I did not, we did not do this. And I pulled this out multiple times, but we were talking about it the other day, so no way.
SPEAKER_00That's hilarious. Oh, that's awesome. All right, let's uh let's crack it open. Uh I'll count us down. Ready? All right, three, two, one.
SPEAKER_01This has become like one of the things, and and I'll have to say I'm a slave to the grocery store, but this is like a kind of a go-to for me because it's always there. And it's like, and they tend to have it for like $10.99, $11.99. I'm like, okay, you know, good beer.
SPEAKER_00This one I got at uh I don't love it. It's a little thin. It is super thin. It's a little it's uh it this is a this is one of those crushable beach beers that you want to break up your IPAs with. Uh not bad. The juicy pale ale is delicious. That is that is a go-to. That's one I need to buy more. It's funny, I don't see that as often. This, I don't know where I bought this, honestly. I was just happy to see it. I love their dead series. They've had uh three or four before in the past that I like. So um, okay.
SPEAKER_01I love the I mean, this is the artwork.
SPEAKER_00I'm just they're such a cool dogfish head brewery. This is this is a prime example of a brewery that is dedicated to craft in every sense of the word. They are big music fans. They've done a Imperial style called Bitches Brew. It's it's fantastic. They have done uh they've participated in Record Store Day and put out that look. Crosley is a horrible, horrible turntable. I don't recommend buying one if you want to actually play vinyl, but their turntables are really cool looking. They're really they're retro little mini suitcases, right? And they've got one that's a mini suitcase that is an homage to the uh Dinosaur Jr. I want that. I'll never put a uh a piece of wax on it, I'll never play anything on it, but I'll put that thing up on disc. It's so cool looking because it's it's branded with them and it's branded with the dogfish head logo. And I thought, how cool is that, man? These guys they have a whole Grateful Dead series, they do a thing for Miles Davis. So cool. And I just love I used to love, I mean, they did the I remember the British brew, that was cool, and like the the other ones, but uh oh my god show used to I god that was one of the best shows on TV until that whatever he got canceled uh because he was on the travel channel or whatever whatever channel it was on, and they and they they had a big agreement with Budweiser, one of the sponsors were Anheuser Buster, whatever, and they said you can't play this program. Uh we go or he goes, and they go, Okay, they go. And I'm like, damn it. Uh I have that on DVD. I do, man. I'll let you borrow it. It's awesome. I wish they could have continued it. I would imagine these days in the YouTube days. I haven't seen him like Sam Calgioni, right? Uh he's got a great book, man. If you want a good read, it's called Brewing Up a Business. I recommend that to anybody that is wants to be an entrepreneur, just loves to be entertained, loves beer. It is a great read because the guy literally would he would take a boat uh because he's in Delaware, he would take his boat across the channel to get to certain bars, and he would have his boat just full of like cases of his beer, and that's how he promoted it. He was super, you know, you you hear the stories about like we sold it out of our trunk, he sold it out of his boat. I think that's just so cool. And the whole idea, this is another thing too. We're we're getting a beer cast here, but his whole thing was he was inspired by Sierra Nevada Pale ale. He that was such a monumental beer for him, and it changed what he thought about brewing, it changed what he thought about beer, and he said, How do I do that? And he literally found an antique uh one of those vibrating football games, the old football games that were magnetic and the guys, and it had none of the players, it was just the board and he goes, That's perfect. And he took that board and tilted it at an angle and put hops in it, and it would kick hops in continuously, and that's how he came up with 60-minute IPA. How freaking cool is that? Okay, that the minute I read that, I go, I fucking love this guy. Like, I just think he's the because for one, Sierra Nevada is uh still like just a fantastic beer. I put Sweetwater 420 up there, uh Sierra Nevada Pale. These are just anchor steam, these things will never ever die in the Pantheon beer. I just thought that was so cool. And when he told when he said that, I go, who the hell would think that way? Like he's like, Oh great, I don't need the players, I just want the board. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01He used to have one of those, and I'll go to the I was horrible at playing it, but I loved it anyway. Oh yeah, that's special.
SPEAKER_00All right. Uh we'll move on to beer cast, even though I uh I met a guy here recently. Once again, I met him at a brewery. I met him at Dr. Skopfloss. We'll have him on here too. His name's Matt, really cool guy. Um, we started talking about music and whatever. He's coming up with he's got an idea for rating music album, for rating albums that's very unique. And he wants my he wants my help with his website. And I go, awesome. You let me know what you want. I'm happy to, I'll I'll help you out in any way possible. Um, and I told him about the podcast, and he goes, Man, you guys, he goes, you guys know a lot about music. And he goes, You also know a lot about beer. No, Craig is Craig knows a whole lot more about beer. I thought that was cool. Matt's cool. I'm supposed to sync up with him. He's out of town, and then I'm going out of town. We're supposed to sync up here in a couple weeks. So if we do, I'll see if you're available. We'll we'll hang out. Um 2001 is our year. I'm dying to hear. I gotta hear your your pick because I have I honestly, this is this is pre-I met Kevin in 04 or maybe 05. I have no idea what you were listening to in 2001, so I'm dying to know what your pick is.
SPEAKER_01This was I I don't say I struggled, but I was like, you know, I struggled every every year. I say that, you know, but there was some really good stuff here, and I was like, yeah, but that's is that but then I I was flipping through what I have, and I went, you know, this guy, I think, is an incredible artist, and he's known, but I don't think known by enough people. I've seen him in concert solo and I've seen him join other people. And he's had other things, but this okay, I I I always I kind of tease I don't know. I'm sorry, I tease it or whatever, but this gentleman was born in Austin, Texas 1968.
SPEAKER_00Austin, Texas.
SPEAKER_01His dad happened to be in New York. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00I think I I think maybe I know, maybe okay.
SPEAKER_01And his dad played with some excellent, excellent, excellent players. So this his son started playing, you know, followed his father into the world of blues and whatnot. Started touring with this certain family that was really, really, really big in the Austin, Texas area. And anyways, he's an incredible guitar player. He plays guitar, he does a whole like Hendricks thing upside down. I don't know how he does. He does like a weird, like the way he plays is weird, but he's incredible.
SPEAKER_00I'm talking about Doyle Bramhall the second. It was either him or um Dickinson, Luther.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Luther Dickinson. Oh, God, I love Luther. Love me some Luther. So Doyle Bramhall II, of course, is Doyle Bramhall's son. Doyle Bramhall played drums with like, you know, Jimmy Vaughn and Stevie Ray and all even all those people and whatnot. We lost him. But anyways, like Doyle was playing. He's they formed a he formed a band. He started to, I think Doyle started touring with like uh Fabulous Sunnerbirds and stuff like that, started playing with them a little bit. Then he formed a band in the night, like I think 90 called Archangels, which there's Archangels album. Go grab that album. I can pull that out as the Charlie Sexton. Exactly. He tuned up with Charlie Sexton. It is an incredible, incredible album. Great album. So we did that, but then like he started he released this, I think in the I want to say the mid-90s, he released his own album, but then he started like being called in to be like a side man. Like he toured with Roger Waters. Eric Clapton called him to be like, you know, his one of his touring guitar players. I mean, like, you know, Roger Waters and Eric Clapton calling you out again. And like, okay, he got some skills or whatever. Right? Right. So, and he a couple songs, like Clapton started uh covering a couple of his songs in concerts, stuff like that. And then he released in 2001, released an album called Welcome, which is just an incredible, straight up rock and blues, I think a blue rock and blues album. He's just he I think Doy Bramhol's is is just incredible. Uh since then, he like he takes big breaks, which I wish he did not do, you know. I mean it was like one of those like he but he like I think this came out in he released like I think his debut was like I think '96. He released one in like '99. And then 2001 was this album called Welcome. And they didn't release anything until 2016, which he did Rich Man, and then 2018 did Shades. Both Rich Man and Shades are incredible albums. Like they both made my list. If I did the list that year, they're just great albums. But like Doyle is just like a great, I mean, he's just a straight up, you know, origin, you know, that just has the it factor when it comes to playing guitar and playing blues. And uh he's too I saw him uh by himself, but then I also saw him he's joined, he's played with uh Tedesky Trucks and just stood in the background, didn't you know, nothing, nothing doing, just step back there and play a little bit. Like, is that like that's Doel Bramall's like back there, like playing with them? And I saw him at uh when they recreated the uh Mad Dogs Inclusive Tour, he played there and did that, it was incredible. But anyways, if you like things like Tedesky Trucks, that type of style, definitely visit Dole Bramhall II's entire discography. But album uh 20 2001 is called Welcome, and it is way underrated on all music, two and a half stars.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, absolute joke, two and a half absolute joke.
SPEAKER_01But they do they do rate Rich Man and Shades.
SPEAKER_00I agree, and I have to say you turned me on to Shades in 2018, and that's I because I'd seen the name before, but I didn't really know much about him. And I was floor, I thought Shades was excellent, excellent.
SPEAKER_01So I went backwards. I mean, I'm not saying Welcome is by any means his best album. I think overall, maybe why I picked him up, I think Doyle Bramhall II is underrated overall, uh overlooked.
SPEAKER_00But if you seriously, if you go back, that Archangels album is I bought that in the height of my metal days because that was released what in 90 what 89, 90, somewhere around that range. And at first I didn't like it. I bought I bought it on cassette, had it on cassette, and at first it's like I didn't like it, and slowly but surely that there was that, and there was another album uh from the band called Kills for Thrills, which had Gilby had Gilby Clark was on it. Will yeah, those two albums were I kept um because this is before I really this is before I really knew of a place where you could buy and sell stuff, so I was always buying stuff new, and so I was kind of forced to keep it, and I'm glad it did because as time progressed, it's like God, I love those albums. Cry of Love was another one I I love that Cry of Love album as much as I ever loved it. That that Archangels album though is excellent, and that was it was a super group, so that to me I felt like if that that was the super group, I wish they would have continued going, but they only did that one album, to my knowledge. That's the only one that I ever heard. Love that one, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um that's like it's so like uh so wrong. I'm sorry, I need to like you you go to AllMusic, which is still a great resource, I'll use it, but like you see, like a you know, they give me a one-line like Kills for Thrills, yeah. Delivered Sleaze Rock, Gilby Clark, Jason, Todd Muscat, David Scott. That's it. Right. Like Clark later replaced Izzy Stradlin and Guns N' Roses. I'm like, really? But that that Kills for Thrills was a that was good shit, right?
SPEAKER_00Because it was so different. It didn't sound like it didn't sound sleazy and stuff like that. It was pretty bluesy and kind of straightforward. They had the look, they definitely had the look of a band that would have been uh, but they were kind of just straightforward LA rock, in my opinion. I do love all music, I will continue to use it, but I use it kind of more of as a guide, a it hence the name than I will for their critique a lot of times. Uh, but it's a it's a good barometer, whatever. Um all right, so mine's completely different. Mine is a completely different realm. Uh at this point in time in the late 90s, early 2000s, I was absolutely obsessed with the bands out of the UK and UK. I don't even know if I would consider it Brit pop, but the alternative rock from the UK back then was what I was really into. And there were three albums in particular that I was just absolutely obsessed with. None of them really get good reviews. Um, but Doves released an album called Lost Souls that gets the best review, gets four out of five from them. That came out in 2000. Uh, Elbow released their debut album, A Sleep in the Back, that gets three out of five. That's travesty. I love that album. It's super dark, it's kind of a dark moody album, but I do love it. But and those two bands are still going. Doves have since come back. Elbow never really stopped. But there's a band uh called South that I absolutely loved. And I listened to the album this morning, actually, to recap. And it's funny because when you look at the genre, they have them as country and pop rock. I'm not gonna super, but then the styles are alternative indie rock, indie rock, alternative pop rock, and dream pop. So I don't know how to get country in there, but there is some country elements to it. That's what I love it. The album that I'm gonna hype here is called From Here On In. Uh it's their debut album, once again, 2001. Um there are elements of this album that sound like a South. Yes, called South. Uh there are elements of this album that sound like if the black crows were from the UK. There's a lot of acoustic guitar. There's there is some pedal steel. There's it it is really, really good. And they Never took off. They never took off like Elbow and Doves and Coldplay and some of the other Brit pop bands of the era. And I don't know why. Uh I really don't. I there their subsequent albums definitely got more hype. Like With the Tides might be a more concise album. They give it four out of five. They get All Music Guy does. They give From Here on In three out of five. I just love the experimentation of From Here on In because it there are electronic elements to it, but there's a drummer, and the drummer kicks ass. The bassist kicks ass. The acoustic guitar and the guitaring is very well done. I just love it. It really stands the test of time to me. Uh I just think they were a phenomenal band. The last album they put out was called You Are Here from 2008. I think it's great. Um I'd think all their albums are great. I don't think they're going to come back, unfortunately. I think we've moved on to other things. But I think this is an album that's kind of trapped in time from 2001. And it it to me encapsulates that era for me. That the early pots for me were very I was into super furry animals and super grass and all these just all these Brit Pop bands that I just oh my yeah, all the super bands for sure.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Uh another band. Uh I I mentioned them the other day. Clear Lake uh was the very first album I bought on iTunes. Uh that was another band I was into. Six by seven uh was another band I was into. I if they if it was British, I'd listen to it. I said there's another band called Temple, the Temple, the Cooper Temple Claws. Don't remember loving it, but I owned it. Uh there's just so much there's so much stuff because the experimentation, the thing about the UK is it's always been this way. Go back and listen to the Beatles, dude. They just experimented more, they tried more, they embraced more. And what a lot of these Brit Pop bands or Brit Pop adjacent bands did would they would take a lot of those Beatles-esque moments and they would modernize it. And that's what I loved about it. You would hear that on a Super Furry Animal Zone, and then you go, This is not all that dissimilar from the Sonics, but it's like they if they took the Sonics and then mashed it up in a blender and mixed it with Chemical Brothers or whatever. It's just I freaking love it. Uh I love these bands. And I think this this is one I feel like you would listen to and go, this is really nice. I like this. So I do.
SPEAKER_01So you like these guys?
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01This is actually a band I've not, I mean, I know that I know the name and I'm not familiar with these guys, so I will definitely go and check out uh their first their debut. I would go in order. I would go from that on board. Yep. Go in order. I like to do that. That's you know, I like to unless there's something to not reason not to do that, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00For sure.
SPEAKER_01Totally. I was looking like I it brings me back and not talk not to move on from that, but Charlie Sexton hasn't released an album, a solo album, since like 2005 or something. Like, what happened to Charlie Sexton? Like, what's uh is he still and all of his albums were re were like rated covered all music? Every single one of his four albums was rated four-star. Really? Ah, I like hearing that. Four star, four four-star albums. I love that. I love that. Pictures for Pleasure, Charlie Sexton, Under the Wishing Tree, Cruel and Gentle Things, all four stars. Last one was in 20, excuse me. I love that self-titled album. Seems wrong.
SPEAKER_00I agree.
SPEAKER_01I know he's played like with Lucinda Williams and other people like on the side and stuff like that, but he needs to like he should have kept on. I don't know. That's that's kind of sad. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00No, you know, that brings up a that brings up a good point though, because I feel like I'm gonna click on this because I feel like when I was looking up South, there's something about um there's something about these bands to where they find a different outlet. If they don't make it, if they're not big, if they're making not making a ton of prop, they find a different outlet like South. Uh on Jamie McDonald's MySpace page, this tells you how old it was to MySpace. I love it. Uh, it was announced that the band was taking a hiatus and that there were no future plans to get back together to record to play live again. Uh McDonald uh formed a new band called The Hug, and Joel Cadbury on bass with Brett Shaw, is currently a producer of his own studio in London, has been working with listen to these bands. Florence and the Machine, Rufus Wainwright, Paul Banks of Interpol, uh Eliza Doolittle. I mean, can you blame him? He's probably making a hell of a lot more than those. He's probably making a hell of a lot more money doing that kind of production. That reminds me of like uh right.
SPEAKER_01In my in my not world, but like uh spin doctors were a big, you know, they were huge, spin actors were huge for like this long, right? And they're a great band. And they're like, what happened? Then then they released that second album or the second and a half, whatever it was, and it just was just not a great album. Yeah, god-awful. But anyways, uh Chris Barron, the lead singer, like runs a studio or something in New York producing all kinds of people. I'm like, okay, I mean, like, now they're going on to actually with uh gin blossoms, blues traveler, and spin doctors. I'm like, ah, I might go see.
SPEAKER_00Dude, if you go, I'm going.
SPEAKER_01I want to flip-flop.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_01You want to flip-flop what I want to flip-flop gin blossoms and blues traveler. I think blues traveler should be the headliner, then gin blossoms. Oh, okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'd say blues traveler over over.
SPEAKER_00I will say blues traveler over gin blossom.
SPEAKER_01I understand, but gin blossoms only have like two.
SPEAKER_00That's why that's the whole reason why. But they only have two. Uh, and they're both great albums. I mean, New Miserable Experience is a pop yes, classic. It's incredible. But so is uh so is so is we're going off the railroad. So is Travelers and Thieves, so is Travelers and Thieves, so is Four. So if we're gonna talk about classics, Four is a classic, it's an absolute classic. So as much as I'm not as much of a fan, but I but have Gin Bossom's like released anything in the last do they they release music? They have put out an album. Uh I remember say I don't remember listening to it, but they put out an album like I want to say five years ago. Um let's look and see. I'm just gonna look this up real quick on wiki here and see. So they've got oh wow, they've got a lot more. I do dusted, I don't remember dusted, I do remember an EP. So New Miserable Experience in '92. Congratulations, I'm sorry. And 96. Well, I don't realize it was four years. Oh, Major League, Major Lodge Victory. That's the one I remember seeing in 2006. But they put uh one out in No Chocolate Cake in 2010. Horrible album cover. Um, they've never been big on good album covers, honestly. Um but I I I do think New Miserable Experience on its own in its own right is is worth seeing them. But I totally want to go to that tour.
SPEAKER_01I mean, if you're if you're talking I mean, you know, I I know you're not I know you're not a blues traveler fan.
SPEAKER_00I don't have anything against them, I just haven't been compelled to but I at the same token, I I don't know why I've never really dove into them. They were right up in the I I did love the Spin Doctors. I went to the Alternative Nation tour and it was Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum, and Screaming Trees. And that was great. And the Spin Doctors rocked. Uh I did remember seeing an interview with uh, what's his name? Chris, the lead singer, Baron. He was pretty bitter um at the time, but he was asked a pointed question about like the bands of that era and why he felt like he just, you know, why do you feel like a lot of the bands that ran in your circle weren't seen in the same light as like Pearl Jam and Allison Chains and stuff like that? And he goes, you know, the funny thing is everybody just thinks we're just this happy band, but if you listen to our lyrics, it's twice as dark as anything Allison Chains wrote. And I'm like, I don't know about that, but uh who knows? He could be right. He could be maybe he was singing about drugs. I don't I don't think two princes was about injecting a needle in your skin, but it could be. I don't know. I regardless, I liked it. It's the same thing with like to me, I felt like Pocketful of Kryptonite, uh, very underrated album, and uh Blind Melon, Blind Melon are two albums to me that I absolutely loved that got didn't get the hype that it should have gotten because of the singles. You know, No Rain kind of killed Blind Melon, even though it puts them on the map, but it sounded nothing like the rest of the album. Two princes is a great album. Two princes, but I always love that song, so I'm not gonna knock it. But I love Little Miss Little Miss Can't be wrong, but I I think that's I think it's a great album. I really do. I never listened to that second album, so it sounds like I shouldn't I shouldn't I think that no rain, uh the no no rain, but the what did you say?
SPEAKER_01Blind Melon album, the the Changes or whatever, there's a song on there is just oh freaking incredible, and in concert they mashed it up with uh Dear Mr. Fantasy, which is just like oh my god, yeah, underrated band.
SPEAKER_00I saw them open up for Kravitz and phenomenal, phenomenal show. Both bands were just blistering. Kravitz was amazing and Blind Melon. That's when I was like, I I'm glad other people get to see this because I love that album, but I hate that single. It's the same thing. I did this is where we're I'm rambling, but I gotta I have to say I love Jane's addiction so much. I think both um both albums to me are epic. I think nothing shocking is an amazing, amazing full-length debut, but I love Ritual De La Habitual. But I if you if we but if you never played Pencot Stealing to me ever again, I'd be a happy guy. I don't I I don't hate the song on its own right, but that album is so much better than that song. Seriously. It it it is like it makes no sense. It's kind of like Sugar Ray, I want to fly as as as opposed to the rest of the album. Everybody bought bought floor, they're like, holy crap, who the I played that for some buddies here recently, and they go, This is sugar ray, and I go, dude, sugar ray was a hardcore, heavy band hardcore fly, all that stuff. You know, it was it just stood out, and that's the way I felt like about Ben Caught Stealing. I don't hate that song if you put it out as a sparish you know B-side, but the rest of the album is still good.
SPEAKER_01I love nothing shocky. That whole album, like give me a mountain song like any day on a show, yes, blistering.
SPEAKER_00But what I love about standing in the shower thinking. I know, right? I dude. Look, I that's a band too that influenced so many people don't realize um that influenced so many of the metal bands that people that people don't talk about because that when they played on the scene, they came in when metal was kind of on a fizzling out, and they played a lot of those clubs. They played, you know, a lot of the the LA Sunset strip stuff, and people went nuts. Motley Crue, all those guys went nuts for those guys, but and they were selling out clubs because they were so different. Um, what I love about Ritual though, like the softer side, like three days, three days on Ritual Day Low Habitual, I'm telling you, could be one of the best songs ever written because it is just epic. It's slow at some point. I mean, I'm telling you, the guitar solo on that is one of the best guitar solos out there. And it just has so many ebbs and flows. But what I love is like classic girl, um, and some of the softer side than she did. I just love that album. Um rambling a little bit. One more thing. I told you about that band Failure. Um, and I told you about the documentary that I saw here recently because I saw I the new album just came out. I saw an interview with Matt Penfield. Uh Matt Penfield's still doing it, man. He's on it. I've always loved Matt Penfield. So and he taught, he hyped them up so much. Uh, and he goes, I'm so glad you guys put out that documentary. I'm so proud to be a part about that. And I go, boom, check mark that. So you can get it on Hulu for free. You have Hulu subscription. Um of the advocates, a lot of the advocates there, you'd be surprised with one of which was Tommy Lee. And Tommy and Tommy Lee, yeah. Tommy Lee's failure. He goes, I just didn't understand why the faction of bands that we ran with hated this kind of stuff. He goes, I fucking loved it. He goes, it was just so different.
SPEAKER_01He goes, if anything, it motivated me and made me there were there were metal heads, I don't want to say metalheads, I think, are open-minded, but there were metal heads that just like if it's not you know heavy metal, it's not you know, they didn't want to let in the alternative or something like that.
SPEAKER_00He was so cool. He's like, No, I love failure. And he goes, You talk to any band out there, honestly, that saw them live when they walked away, they went, Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER_01Right. That's what I said. Mark Stiegel from Talking Metal, who I'll give him credit for this is the reason why there's is a podcast called Credit Music, because Talking Metal opened my eyes to podcasting. Uh, and go check out Mark Stiegel on uh Sirius XM Radio because he's got he's on there now and do you know he's down there doing the show, which is great. But Mark Stragel was a huge failure, he was the big failure fan. I'm like, who's this? And I didn't really know of them, and he's he like sang their praises, and I was like, Oh, let me check these guys out, and like it was good stuff.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that documentary is one of those documentaries where you realize we're gonna make and guys, it's been a long time. I'm gonna say, we we sincerely apologize. But it's been a long time since we've mentioned King's X. Oh, geez, I was just gonna say that the other day. This band, I told Kevin, I go, this is the best way to phrase it. I can't just came to my head. I go, they are the alternative version of King's X, and they are a band's band. Every band that hears them goes, damn, these guys are different. Everybody that hears King, and it's funny because they're both three pieces. They're both they're both three-piece bands. They're both what? Something about a three-piece band, dude.
SPEAKER_01So I I I we ap I apologize. We need to start mentioning Kings X much more.
SPEAKER_00I almost Kings X put out an album in 2001. I almost put it in there, but I didn't think it was as good. So it's not their best album. I think it's Manic Moonlight. It's good, but it's not their best.
SPEAKER_01It's good. Not all right, man.
SPEAKER_00Well, um you got anything else for me?
SPEAKER_01Let me see what I got for you. Would you rather have backstage access at every concert or unlimited festival passes for life?
SPEAKER_00Oh, backstage backstage passes for every concert. For sure. That's a good question, though. I like it.
SPEAKER_01Rather attend a concert where you knew every song or one where every song is completely new to you.
SPEAKER_00Oh man, you know. I'm gonna get your take on that because concerts are deep. I love the sense of new, but I don't know it takes time to absorb new music, and just to absorb it live, I don't know is the if the that's the best first experience. So I I but I'm not a hits guy either. Right. You don't want to see like the greatest. But in a terms of like a band that I've loved and I love a lot of like legacy bands, we'll say you like a lot of legacy bands. I want to hear what's familiar to me, but I don't necessarily need to hear your hits. Yeah. And that's another great one.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Let me give you one more and all. Let me see what I want to call this. Of course, I came up with these my on my own. Uh okay, here you go. Would you rather have every song you hear turn into a reggae version or a jazz version?
SPEAKER_00I gotta go. Uh well on one side I I initially thought reggae, but uh it's like, oh man, is that all gonna sound like 311? That could be bad.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot of good there's a lot of good reggae songs that aren't supposed to be reggae songs. I'm gonna go reggae.
SPEAKER_00That's awesome, man. Well, there you have it. This is what you get with uh schizo music pod. You get improvisation, you get rambling. Exactly. Just get a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_012001. So we gotta be closing, not it feels like we're closing in on it, but we have 17 left.
SPEAKER_00So we have 1970, 1974, and 77, we have 1986, 88, and 89, we have 1990, 96, 97, 2002, 3, and 2007, 2014, 2019, and it's so funny. We have hardly dove into anything from 2020, 2020, 2023, and 2025 is what we have left. So I like I like where we're going with this. I like the fact that we still have 17 of these left. Oh, yeah. Uh, that's another thing too. Uh you know, schizomusicpod at gmail.com. We have 17 weeks left of this experimentation, and then that at that point we're like, all right, what's next? I we what's next, as you know, we love things that are somewhat less discovered. What can we dive in? Doesn't have to be our personal thing. Like, is there a list?
SPEAKER_01I mean, we loved like seriously, we're I mean, we love popular music, of course, but you know, give me a underappreciated or uh where's this album been my entire life? Like a Jim Sullivan or something, like tell me about that for sure. As I grow older, I'm becoming anti-music snob. I'm like, yeah, if you like something, okay, go more power to you, you know. But like give me, like, we want to celebrate, you know, good music. Like, there's some things that people should know about that maybe they haven't heard about. So, like, give me something that's un you know, overlooked, underrated, underappreciated. We'd love to hear that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, once again, hit us up, schizomusic pod at gmail.com. Um, anyway, guys, thanks so much for listening in. We really appreciate you. And until next time, take care. Take it easy.