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- Hey everybody, what is up?
Welcome back to Fansom Power Music Review.
This is episode 10.
I think I'm gonna do four songs this time.
Episode 10 of the Fansom Power Music Review.
This is where we dive into songwriting,
composition, recording,
we geek out as musicians love to.
Some of you guys love to geek out
over Bitcoin mining and nodes and ordnals
and whatever all you propeller heads love to geek out about.
I like to geek out about songs
and hopefully people will chime in and listen.
Or listen and chime in, one of the two.
But most importantly, this is a value for value podcast,
which means that the listener can send
little tiny bits of Bitcoin
straight to the artists while the songs are playing
or to the podcast host who could always use a new microphone.
If you love the show,
we certainly hope you will donate to it,
be a value for value.
But most importantly, we are here for the artist
and we want to help artists earn a living wage.
And I think the value for value
and what's going on in podcasting 2.0 with RSS feeds
and with what's coming up with Nostar,
I am excited about the music industry
for the first time in 30 years.
Anywho, I've talked about that on my other podcast.
All right, let's shut up and let's dive into some songs
and then we'll break down what makes them tick
and what we like about them.
First up, we are going to do a song called
"Figured You Out" by The Dwarfels.
And if you dig it, you got to boost it.
Let's listen to it and then we'll break it down.
Here we go.
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♪ There's a girl in my world ♪
♪ And she's all one ♪
♪ If only I could follow her and take her ♪
♪ I know every single little thing about her ♪
♪ If only I could follow her and show her ♪
♪ Shoot her tax in the middle of a night, die ♪
♪ Maybe we could get together ♪
♪ Take her to your spots on the rooftops, baby ♪
♪ Go on, take her out and let me change her ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Are you ready? ♪
♪ You can't have the fun ♪
♪ Don't stay in the city ♪
♪ Going downtown ♪
♪ And leaving downtown ♪
♪ And I don't want to stay in the city ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't do that ♪
♪ I know you like staying up a little later ♪
♪ I know you're not the kind of fox for a play ♪
♪ And I'm spelling all my time, baby, baby ♪
♪ Just trying to find a way to take you ♪
♪ From the guys that you know you're the all right ♪
♪ Don't you let me shout a little loud ♪
♪ Little, little real you do, baby ♪
♪ Go on, take her out and let me change her ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I'm the baby ♪
♪ You got the fun ♪
♪ I'm down, stay in the city ♪
♪ Going downtown ♪
♪ And leaving downtown ♪
♪ And I don't want to stay in the city ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ I know you want to know ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ Every time I'm with you ♪
♪ You're just dead ♪
♪ I am not blind ♪
♪ And I'm so ♪
♪ Fly ♪
♪ You're the sound of a fly ♪
♪ You got the fun ♪
♪ I'm down, stay in the city ♪
♪ Going downtown ♪
♪ And leaving downtown ♪
♪ And I don't want to stay in the city ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ And I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ I'm gonna get you out ♪
♪ I'm gonna stay in the city ♪
- Well, we're gonna have TJ Dorfell on the show
coming up at the back end of January.
He's agreed to do an artist, our interview.
We can dive more into that track and to the history
of the band, 'cause I know they've been around now
for at least 14 years.
I saw some YouTube clips of the band
when they were down in Florida
and playing it around the country.
So I bring all of that up because it is no surprise
that that song physically sounds as well as it does
when you have a band that's been together that long,
when you guys have guys that have been doing it that long.
The production on that is just absolutely topped here,
absolutely topped here.
Other things about it that stand out,
the complete absence of any sort of beat, any sort of music
on beat one.
Like that is just such a cool trick.
I know, you know, like Miley Cyrus did it last year on Flowers
and I just love that feel of it.
I mean, just what it does to the whole syncopation
is so cool, really smart writing.
I love the dirty techno bass sound you get
with the live drums and you can tell that it's live playing
or I hope to God, it's live playing, right?
And like that nasty, senthy techno bass,
key bass thing with live drums is really EQed well,
very hip, great drive.
And they've added some interesting effects to the guitar
so that it sounds a little bit more like a synth in the verses.
And you don't really hear like a true guitar sound
per se until the bridge comes around.
So I just, I thought that was really cool,
as well great separation in the mix
from the lead vocal to the rest of the mix.
I really, going back to thoughts about the bridge there,
I love how the bridge of the song
doesn't follow the Nashville format or even the LA format
of what I quote unquote bridge should be.
I think some of that kind of harkens back to the fact
that these guys, they've been a band for so long
that they just don't necessarily care about the rules
of what the industry tells you you should do for songwriting.
And it really shows in the quality of how well this song comes off.
The melody is killer, strong, love how it is tight
with just about every instrumentation in the entire production.
And then lastly, I would say the snare hits
how they coincide with the chord progression too,
especially with the two chord.
Oh, that's the other thing, like really,
really great chord changes.
You don't hear a song based off of, you know,
pulling hard off the three and pulling hard off the two
as much, you know, so many times in pop or country,
you know, you're doing a 1645 or 6251, you know,
just the same old trite progressions.
And I absolutely love those chord progressions.
One, three, one, two, one, three, one, two.
And then they really only pull off the dominant
once in the song if I'm not mistaken.
So just overall, figured you out is a vicious song broken down,
I mean, it's just so well done for every aspect of it.
Theory, production, melody, harmony, vocal delivery,
great track, great track, absolutely great track.
Okay, so let's move on to the next one.
Let's check out Sheets of Brain from Oshianna Heart Song.
I think these guys are number one on Wave,
like not with this song right now, but with another one.
But let's check them out.
And then we'll break it down.
Here we go.
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♪ Love is a pushin' ♪
♪ Born in the morning ♪
♪ You gave me goosebumps ♪
♪ That was a warning ♪
♪ Your eyes are the ocean ♪
♪ Color is on them ♪
♪ I wake up she ran ♪
♪ Gold and burnin' ♪
♪ I ain't, I don't know what you want ♪
♪ I'm tryna stay afloat ♪
♪ Caught in an undertone ♪
♪ You would let me go ♪
♪ Findin' forever brave ♪
♪ You were marked in Dunin' and Burn ♪
♪ We ain't calling in ♪
♪ Sheets of Brain ♪
♪ Thundered storm and baby, I'm away ♪
♪ I can't get no sleep ♪
♪ Sheets of Brain ♪
♪ Tossin' her and baby, as we lay ♪
♪ In a Sheets of Brain ♪
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♪ Love is a poison ♪
♪ We got our demons ♪
♪ I set myself low ♪
♪ Guilty of treason ♪
♪ Eyes are the ocean ♪
♪ Color of torment ♪
♪ I wake up she ran ♪
♪ Gold and burnin' ♪
♪ I ain't, I don't know what you want ♪
♪ I'm tryna stay afloat ♪
♪ Caught in an undertone ♪
♪ You would let me go ♪
♪ Findin' forever brave ♪
♪ You were marked in Dunin' and Burn ♪
♪ We ain't calling in ♪
♪ Sheets of Brain ♪
♪ Thundered storm and baby, I'm away ♪
♪ I can't get no sleep ♪
♪ Sheets of Brain ♪
♪ Tossin' her and baby, as we lay ♪
♪ In a Sheets of Brain ♪
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- Love that tight little ending at the end.
The song only clocks in at 2.30,
which I guess is the new three minute,
but it works well.
It really works well and I love that abrupt little ending.
The thing that really drew me in on this song was the space
that is created with the rhythms
all throughout the song.
If you go back to what Miles Davis taught,
Herbie Hancock about space,
I think I've probably told the story before,
but he told, Miles told Herbie to sit on your hands
while you're playing essentially.
Space is more important, right?
And that's the first thing I thought of when I heard Sheets of Brain,
Oceana Hearts on with this.
I also really love that turn going into the pre-chorus
or if you wanna call it the second half of the verse.
There's a nice little twist that they use with the progression.
Chorus chords are very strong, love the buildup.
There's a really great,
there's four great textures going on in the chorus that I love.
Number one is they take the verb or the grease off of the vocals
from the verses when the chorus comes up
and they go with a drier approach
on the lead vocal in the chorus,
which I think is very smart.
That's the first texture that I love.
Number two is the sound of the acoustic.
Number three is the trash drum sound.
And then number four, the how it fills itself out
in the soundscape with the rest of the modern sounds.
I think it's whoever produced this
and I can't quite figure out if this is just a galsing in
or if it is her and her musical partner doing this,
I can't quite tell what's going on from Instagram or TikTok
or whatever.
But there's some really smart production going on in this song
and as I said at the start,
what drew me into it was the space.
I also love the doubling of the vocal on the chorus.
Not a lot of people do that anymore.
It adds a great amount of depth
and I love the selections that they made in doing it.
Sometimes you want to get that vocal just absolutely dead nuts,
soup to nuts tight.
On that second track, sometimes you just,
you want it to be just a little loose
and that's what I think that they did on this.
And to me, it was very, very strong.
This song has the ability to sound very, very intimate
as well as very massive in the same setting
and that's hard to do.
So Kudos to the production team on this.
Obviously it's a romantic song.
So you want to have that intimate moment
but you also want to have the large explosive feel of a pop song
which I think they do very well.
And then lastly, I will say that I think her voice
really matches not only the instrumentation
but the storytelling of the song.
This is very well recorded, very well mixed
and very well mastered.
And those are three different things entirely.
So Kudos to Oshihana Heart Song
and be it just the Gowon singing
or the duo that's creating the stuff.
Nice track, guys, really nice track.
Looking forward to what you guys come up with next.
All right.
By the way, that song was key of C, about 98 BPM.
And if you were curious about the key in the BPM
for the Dwarfless track, that was the key of the people, G
and about 79 BPM.
All right, so let's switch it up.
Now we're gonna jump over to Seaminer,
about 152 BPM.
And I love this band, IRO, I-R-O-H.
We're gonna check out their song called The Fever.
Here we go.
If you dig it, you gotta boost it.
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♪ I see the snow in the wind ♪
♪ Twisting stars and I can hear them now ♪
♪ I've been hearing them and been ♪
♪ Jason Holt, the love thing you feel ♪
♪ I'm running, they sign here ♪
♪ Here's your beautiful feet ♪
♪ Break the rules for us ♪
♪ And I run in place, I can't get you ♪
♪ You're afraid ♪
♪ You're supposed to be a little more ♪
♪ A little more ♪
♪ Grab my keys, you know what I'm gonna do ♪
♪ Lost my friends, and I lost you ♪
♪ They come from the world, second man ♪
♪ The space, they stay away ♪
♪ I'm running, they sign here ♪
♪ Here's your beautiful feet ♪
♪ You're afraid, they come from the world ♪
♪ A little more ♪
♪ I can't get you ♪
♪ You're afraid ♪
♪ You're supposed to be a little more ♪
♪ A little more ♪
♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ I'm a c'mon, c'mon, done ♪
♪ Rear with a smile feet on ♪
♪ From the commemoration ♪
♪ Come to the kelp ♪
♪ When the storm ends ♪
♪ I'll go ♪
♪ Is coming under ♪
♪ Rear with a smile ♪
♪ For a combination ♪
♪ Of your true mind ♪
♪ And it's being a joke to see ♪
♪ I won't let you go to sleep ♪
♪ I can't let you go to sleep ♪
♪ I won't let you go to sleep ♪
♪ I learned the lessons I see ♪
♪ I know I'm a fool ♪
♪ I learned the lessons I see too often ♪
♪ I've been hearing ♪
♪ You're a fool ♪
♪ Just a fool ♪
♪ Gluttoned different rules ♪
♪ I won't replace that kid ♪
♪ Get your job out of the field ♪
♪ Praise the hero for us ♪
♪ I won't replace that kid ♪
♪ Get your job ♪
♪ Get your work ♪
♪ Sing for your praise ♪
♪ The plans of men are coming ♪
♪ Coming or done ♪
♪ The reptile beans of violence ♪
♪ Combination ♪
♪ The plans of men are coming ♪
♪ Coming or done ♪
♪ The plans of violence ♪
♪ Combination ♪
- So much to love about the song,
but let me start with the very beginning
and what I call an all-start,
which is where everybody starts,
at the same time, everybody's in,
bought a ping-pong, bought a boom.
This is a brilliant example of how to do it.
Let me give you the beginning again
so you can hear what I'm talking about.
♪ I know I learned the lessons I see too often ♪
I mean, that's just perfect.
Everybody's at, boom, you got a snare fill
and then everybody comes flying in
and you just are bolted out of sleep
or waking up from your coma
or brought out of the grave,
whatever the hell it is, you want to call it.
Absolutely love the all-start.
That's one of the better ones that I've ever heard.
Another thing that I love about this track is that
it is very easy to lose the vocals in the mix
when you have such a heavy song.
But the mix on this is really well done
and I hope people are sticking around
and listening to all of these comments
because I think if you look through,
or listen through a lot of the stuff that's on way, Blake,
or a lot of the stuff that's in Ellen Beats, unfortunately,
there is an overwhelming supply of stuff
that is not mixed well, that is not produced well,
that is not in tune
and it just gets in the way of everybody
who's trying to take this seriously.
So I would hope that anybody who, you know,
before you put your stuff up on the web,
I don't care if it's here or Spotify,
have somebody else listen to it
and give you an honest critique
as to whether or not everything is in pitch
and on time, 'cause that'll save everybody a lot of trouble.
But again, the mix on this is exceptional
and the other part of the mix
that I just absolutely adore is the bass and the kick EQ.
It is on point throughout the entire song
and the guitar riff, how that is EQed,
how the guitars are EQed, fantastic, top tier.
The melodies on the verses and throughout the song
are very, very, very strong, especially on the third verse
where they're repeating the first verse again,
but those backing harmonies on that third verse
are fantastic.
I love the bridge breakdown, how it's drum driven.
I love the ascending chord progression in the chorus.
These guys are really smart writers
and whoever is producing their stuff
is guiding this band in the proper direction.
This is one of the better bands that I have come across
in the V for V space.
Yeah, I dig everything that these guys are doing.
Great writing, great engineering, great production.
Great vocals too.
All of it, just quality shit, man.
Quality shit, so I hope you guys are sending them some sats
and I hope the band is sending some sats to their producer.
All right, last track that we're gonna get to,
we are going to listen to,
quote unquote, my favorite band
and I love the name of this band.
I mean, if you're that bauzy with calling your band,
my favorite band, well,
then I'm definitely gonna give it a listen.
So let's give it a listen.
We're gonna listen to a track called Never Going Back
in the Key of A, about 93 BPM or 186,
I don't care what you call it,
but this is Never Going Back by my favorite band.
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♪ Break up, I wasted hours of sleep ♪
♪ In the back of my mind, my soul feels weird ♪
♪ About no one's different ♪
♪ About to think you're different ♪
♪ She's coming back to my old ways ♪
♪ My old past and the things I'm changing ♪
♪ Now I'm trying to grow right now ♪
♪ This doesn't even show ♪
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♪ You know myself in the mirror ♪
♪ I seen my best two years ago ♪
♪ Where two things were so much clearer ♪
♪ I'm already late now, some two ♪
♪ I've gotta try to pick that one this time ♪
♪ Turns out they just wasn't right ♪
♪ I feel I'm falling back again ♪
♪ Yeah, no, never run back again ♪
♪ Or you will never have a string to hand ♪
♪ Stand by yourself and be in my age ♪
♪ You are the control in your life ♪
♪ Break up, I was in a sleep ♪
♪ In the back of my mind, my soul feels weird ♪
♪ About no one's different ♪
♪ About to think you're different ♪
♪ She's coming back to my old ways ♪
♪ My old past and the things I'm changing ♪
♪ Now I'm trying to grow right now ♪
♪ This doesn't even show ♪
♪ And I'm never run back again ♪
♪ Or you will never have a string to stand ♪
♪ Stand by yourself and be in my age ♪
♪ You are the control in your life ♪
♪ Yeah, no, never run back again ♪
♪ Or you will never have a string to stand ♪
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♪ Yeah, no, never run back again ♪
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♪ Yeah, no, never run back again ♪
♪ Or you will never have a string to stand ♪
♪ Stand by yourself and be in my age ♪
♪ You are the control in your life ♪
There is a lot to love about that band.
They kind of remind me of the chili peppers,
maybe a little bit of primus.
That song basically, or that whole project,
I think came out in 2005.
So we're basically talking about stuff
that's 20 years old now.
And another band that it kind of reminds me of
is Fall Out Boy.
There's, it's kind of funk rock with some emo, right?
And I listen to a lot of their tracks up on Wave Lake.
And they are so impressive rhythmically.
One of the, everything from all of the guitar riffs
and the finger tapping on the bass and the drums,
rhythmically these guys were,
and I hope they still are.
I hope they're still together.
Amazing, really solid band.
Let me be completely honest
and I'm not trying to talk shit
and I'm not trying to bring anybody down.
But I could not help but feel when I listen to these songs.
As much as I loved the band and I loved the lyrics
and I loved the melody,
I would love to see this band get back together
even if they're in their 40s or 50s now.
I mean, at this 20 years later,
I'd love to see this band get back together
and I would love to see them hand the mic over
to a female lead.
Somebody like a Gwen Stefani type thing
because I think if like that to me is what's missing
about this stuff.
I love the band, don't get me wrong.
And who knows, I'm probably gonna get some hate mail
for saying this but I just, I couldn't help
but feel that way as I was listening to all of these songs.
I'm like, God damn, they're really good
but like something was gnawing at me.
It's like, man, how, like if I was producing this band,
what would I do?
And what I would do is I would get a female lead singer
in there.
So I hope this band is still together.
Even if they're in their 40s or 50s,
fuck it, man, get out there and play.
But hey, but I would love to hear this band
with a female lead singer.
I would just love to hear what these songs sound like.
And I hope that they don't take it the wrong way
and I hope that they don't send me any hate mail.
I think that, you know, if you're gonna do podcasting,
you gotta be honest.
I'm not gonna come out here and talk about the songs
they don't like and make fun of people
who put songs up that are out of tune or poorly produced.
That's not fair.
But if I hear something and I think it still has some life to it
and still has some value to it and there's a way
to take it to the next level, I'm gonna throw it out there
and see what people say.
And I love the name of the band.
I love the work that they put up.
And I hope they're still playing.
It would be amazing to see these guys live.
I just think it, I would love to see it with a female lead
in this and what it would do to the dynamic of this project.
So that's it.
That's all I got for you.
That is four songs for the fans and power music review episode 10.
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All right guys, that'll do it.
I hope you guys had a safe and happy New Year's Eve
and look forward to a great year in 2024.
Smile for the mugshot.
We'll talk to you later.
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