Episode 5, Pt 2 - Sound Affects (No typo) Music Suggestions 60s-2010ish - From Hoods To Backwoods

Ever wonder how a simple song could ignite a cultural revolution? Join Tex Lafon and D-Voss as they walk us through the musical landscape of the 90s, starting with Nirvana's explosive "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and its ripple effects on the grunge movement. Tex shares laugh-out-loud personal anecdotes involving Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, while D-Voss dives into his deep love for Tony! Toni! Toné! and their game-changing R&B hits. Together, they reminisce about the distinct quirks of The Box video channel and its unique impact on music video culture.

But it's not just about grunge and R&B—prepare for a nostalgic rollercoaster as our conversation shifts to the raw energy of Megadeth's "Sweating Bullets" and the profound influence of Tupac Shakur on the rap scene. With stories that make the 90s feel more alive than ever, we reflect on Tupac's early work and unforgettable tracks like "Dear Mama." The tales don’t stop there; Tex and D-Voss take us through the musical evolution into the modern era, spotlighting iconic artists like Bruno Mars, Eminem, and Childish Gambino, dissecting what makes each one a standout in today's music industry.

And who could forget the 2000s? From Outkast's funky beats to Usher's unforgettable hit "Yeah!," this episode is a treasure trove of musical memories. We even touch on the soulful magic of Maxwell's MTV Unplugged performance and the carefree vibes of Florida Georgia Line’s "Cruise." Wrapping up with a humorous discussion on "mama jokes" and a playful jab at Tex's mama, this episode promises an entertaining blend of nostalgia, humor, and deep musical insights. Tune in, laugh, and relive the magic of the music that shaped generations!

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Transcript

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 0:00

Well, here we are again for episode 5, part 2. Tex Lafon and D-Voss continue their music discussion going into the 90s and beyond. You've already suffered enough with part 1., so let's get on with it and roll along with part 2. From hoods to backwoods podcast.

D Vaz: 0:33

Welcome to the show yeah, I'll start out with 90s. So, uh, first band that I liked a lot in the 90s and it was funny because the music video was crazy it's, you know, being played in a high school was Nirvana. Teen smells like teen spirit and I said it's a great song. I said again, it's not super heavy metal but it's like heavy enough where you might consider it heavy metal if you want to. But again, I just like the band, I like the song, a lot of great music. It was something you haven't heard or I had never heard, so I thought it was really good.

Tex LaFon: 1:18

Um, that was my first band in the 90s nirvana yeah, that definitely kicked off the whole grunge thing in a big way. In alternative music being mainstream, I guess you could say um right, everybody trying to wear flannel oh yeah so, yeah, that's another thing you would see all over m is Nirvana, and then Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and all those things. For me, shout out to Soundgarden. Black Hole Sun is one of my favorite songs of all time.

D Vaz: 1:54

Yeah.

Tex LaFon: 1:54

I think, that's the only good song.

D Vaz: 1:58

I think that's the only song I like about them too, to be honest.

Tex LaFon: 2:02

I gotcha. No, I definitely like some of their other stuff, but that that music video is one of my favorite music videos of all time too did you start dressing uh gothic after you watched that? Video. No, but I did show that to my, uh, my son, my oldest son. I showed him that video. I can't remember, oh I know why because he went through a phase where he was really into tornadoes and stuff like that.

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 2:27

So I was like oh you want to see a storm I'll show you one it was just funny seeing his reaction to that.

Tex LaFon: 2:35

So, um, he was okay, though he doesn't get scared easily, so I knew he could handle it, so he was all right right right but um what's your, uh, what's your first one in the 90s?

Tex LaFon: 2:48

I guess I'll kick it off with tony tony tone. Um, they were one of my favorite. Later r&b groups, which is to me is really kind of sad and lame in a way. There aren't really any R&B, notable R&B groups coming out, now newer ones, so it was nice seeing actual musicians doing R&B, not just doing a hip-hop beat and doing some R&B stuff over it.

Tex LaFon: 3:25

So, yeah, they had some great songs. If I had no Loot is about my favorite song of theirs. They also worked with one of my favorite rappers, dj Quick and did a song with him let's Get Down. And yeah, they just had some great music. I another one of my favorite songs of theirs was actually from the 80s, which was their first hit. Uh, it feels good. They played that on the mt, on mtv a good amount too.

Tex LaFon: 3:55

So um yeah, raf rafael sadiq. He's one of my favorite producers. Uh, he's he's kind of their lead songwriter. He's come out with a good amount of solo stuff. I've always liked his his singing style and, uh, yeah, just just the way he's written music. He went to a pretty heavy 60s, 70s style uh stuff in like the late 2010s and that was kind of interesting too, hearing kind of a throwback style that he was doing. But he's always kind of had that soul, 60s, 70s feel in his music.

D Vaz: 4:35

But, yeah, one of my favorites for sure alright, alright, my next one that I want to go with. It was funny that you just mentioned it earlier when you mentioned some of the other bands. My next one that I want to go with it was funny that you just mentioned it earlier, you know, when you mentioned some of the other bands in the 90s Pearl Jam, I like that song Black that they sing. Then also they sing, I'm pretty sure, that song Jeremy Whitney. But, like I said again, that's when I started getting into more alternative music as a band. That I thought sounded really good.

Tex LaFon: 5:14

And I like both of them songs a lot from them in the 90s. Does Jeremy remind?

D Vaz: 5:17

you of anybody in your family? Yeah, my twin brother, but I just like the song overall, though, okay just curious, alright.

Tex LaFon: 5:31

Yeah, no, they really talented band. A lot of people that are musicians or anything like that that see them live, like when they kind of jam on their songs. I'll have a really quick uh, pro jam story too. I was performing live and, uh, it was an outdoor gig and and two of my friends walked up and they were out in the the crowd and they started this started an ongoing joke between the two of us.

Tex LaFon: 6:07

So when I was up there performing on stage and I was just kind of doing what I normally do. I normally talk to the crowd and make jokes and stuff like that and one of them started yelling out of nowhere play pearl jam. And he just kept doing it throughout the time I was playing on stage. So he happened to be a DJ. So whenever I would see him DJing I would either yell that when I was out in the crowd or when I would walk up to him to say hi to him. I'd be like hey, can you play some Pearl Jam? So just kind of like an ongoing joke that we had back and forth with each other over the years. We still even do it on, you know, on social media. We'll we'll say play pearl jam. We know what we're talking about when we say that that's funny, yeah so yeah, it's like a 15 year old joke now still going strong.

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 7:04

Right.

Tex LaFon: 7:06

Yeah, so they have some good songs. For me, switching it up to going to some metal, megadeth definitely is one of my favorite bands of all time, definitely my favorite metal band. They, I don't know. I just like um the fact that they were a little more complex, not just straight ahead metal, and also they didn't just play like the slow heavy metal that some bands do. They would switch up and they had some really really fast songs too. Uh, more of the what they call thrash metal style um but marty freeman, great guitar player, really creative he.

Tex LaFon: 7:54

He wasn't, not your typical metal guitars.

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 7:58

No, not marty, you didn't do any time travel and he wasn't playing johnny be Goode, that's a good song Okay.

Tex LaFon: 8:05

Oh it is. It's just he wasn't playing it, I know. So, yeah, he just would do different things that you wouldn't typically hear. Like he had like an acoustic guitar solo over a metal song that like had this quiet part. I mean you don't really hear that, right Right. So, um, yeah, they, they just great songs. Uh, remember the first thing that they got my attention was their music video for sweating bullets. It used to, uh I mean it would play on MTV but also used to play a lot on this video channel called the box. I don't know if you had that or if you remember that no, I thought you're gonna say vh1 no, no, uh, no, they definitely would have been played on vh1 back then.

Tex LaFon: 9:01

But yeah, it was a. It was, the box was short for jukebox, so it was a service where you would call in and you would type in the number of the music video you wanted to see and then they would charge your phone back in the old days yeah, this was back in the 90s and yeah, so it would.

Tex LaFon: 9:25

The thing was too, you could order the video over and over again. So sometimes people would play the same video four or five times in a row and, of course, I'm sure, with my cousin explaining, trying to explain to my grandmother what happened to her phone bill a few times you know we had some videos that went on there that's too funny because we yeah, usually my cousin and I would be hanging out my grandmother's house and he'd be like I'm gonna call, he was older.

Tex LaFon: 9:54

My cousin was like four years older me and he's like I'm gonna call. I'm like go ahead, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna have anything to do with this. Right.

D Vaz: 10:03

That's funny.

Tex LaFon: 10:07

That's how it was back then. So yeah, megadeth, one of my favorites, nick Menza, great drummer, dave Mustaine honestly, I had to get used to his vocals. Didn't really like his voice at all when I first heard him, but I just got used to it over the years. Um, the songs had some meaning and it wasn't your typical stuff either, because it was against corporate greed or he was singing about aliens and experiments, you know, against government and stuff. You know things like that. Just some some pretty interesting topics that again weren't't, weren't typical Again and also not really typical for metal in a way too. So, um, yeah, just uh, I had had their live DVD. In fact, in the day that I got, uh, probably wore that thing out. I watched that a lot. It was a great concert. So yeah, it's, it was a great concert. So yeah it's.

D Vaz: 11:04

uh, they, they maybe want to play guitar really loud and fast too. Well, that's good. Changing it up, son, changing it up. Uh. So next one for me in the nineties, um, my favorite rapper of all time will be Tupac and, uh, like I said, he had a lot of great songs and two of my favorite songs by him. First one is Dear Mama, which I always play when your mom comes over. Second one is Dear Yo Mama.

D Vaz: 11:41

Yeah, hail Mary. And, like I said, just great song, song, great beat to it that I like a lot. I mean, obviously there's other ones that you're talking about, like uh, california love, but, um, they were my two favorite though uh dear mama and hell mary. And I said my favorite uh rapper of all time would be uh tupac, and that's when I started listening to a lot of rap music in the 90s is when I heard Tupac.

Tex LaFon: 12:11

Do you remember his first hit song, nope, way back um? The first time I remember hearing tupac was I get around. I don't know if you remember that song at all.

D Vaz: 12:25

It was like way back in my being that yeah, it was probably I don't know when that song came out 91 maybe 92.

Tex LaFon: 12:37

Yeah, it's called I Get Around. That was kind of his and it was a different style for sure than his stuff that came later. It was just kind of a goofy song and he was rapping about trying to get with women and stuff like that. So that's the first time I remember seeing him or hearing him. I kind of knew of him in a way too, because he started off with the group Digital Underground. I don't know if you're familiar.

D Vaz: 13:00

You remember them, the humpty dance, I remember, yeah, well, yeah that that they came out in the 80s, right, yeah that was like 89, I'm pretty sure, late 80s, around 89, 90 somewhere around there but that's where he kind of got his start um Um. Oh, okay. As far as being known, I didn't know he was even with that band.

Tex LaFon: 13:25

Yeah, um, fair amount of people you know, especially at that time, didn't didn't really know or don't remember. But yeah, he started off as like a dancer and then, uh, they kind of like, yeah, we'll, we'll have you be a part of the group. So he has some verses and stuff like that on some of their albums around that time period. The album that came out that had the Humpty Dance and I remember it was kind of a funny thing, it was a big deal. The name of the album was Sex Packets.

Tex LaFon: 13:59

And it was basically talking about condoms and um the record stores would freak out and the I remember they were like try to cover up the name of the album and all this other stuff or put something over the front of it. But uh, yeah, it was cause back then, especially in the late eighties, early nineties, um trying to promote safe sex with condoms because of hiv aids.

D Vaz: 14:26

you know it was kind of it was a big deal, you know, and uh yeah, it was just kind of funny yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah.

Tex LaFon: 14:37

So that's that's my first remember hearing about Tupac and that's definitely the first song I remember was uh, I Get Around yeah, and that's what I'm saying, that's what got me into rap music was uh Tupac, and that's why he's my favorite rap artist of all time.

D Vaz: 14:52

Because when the album I don't remember what the album was called that I'm talking about with them two songs that came out on it. It might be All Eyes On Me. I think that's what it album was called that I'm talking about with them two songs that came out on it. It might be All Eyes on Me. I think that's what it is. But when he changed up the way he rapped, he did it a lot slower and that's when I liked it, a lot better than trying to go fast like he did in some of his other songs.

Tex LaFon: 15:15

Yeah, he was definitely one of my favorites. Yeah, he was definitely one of my favorites, yeah, and he was different in his style and his way, especially at that time, and kind of going back to the whole safe sex during that time period, especially in hip hop and R&B and stuff like that TLC is my next one on my list. I know that's when this uh, yeah, that's great to say. Actually, I'll let you kick it off and then I'll get into mine yeah, uh, I agree with you, that's my honorable mention was tlc.

D Vaz: 15:53

Um, that waterfall song. It talks about everything you were just talking about, like, uh, you know you go chasing, go chasing waterfalls and you might regret going to chase it instead of just playing it safe and keep going. The same routine that you know you normally go in life. But they try to, you know, tell you if you take chances you might end up regretting it. In that song and just also with the music video also definitely would you know advise you don't go chasing waterfalls.

Tex LaFon: 16:25

Right. Please stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to.

D Vaz: 16:28

Exactly. But yeah, like I said, I like that band a lot. I thought it was good, like I said, very talented group and their voices all sounded great. So, like I said, it was a big hit back in the 90s yeah, yeah, they're, they're the.

Tex LaFon: 17:16

The last um on my actual list before I get my honorable mention was tlc, so that's why I had to bring them up. They my favorite female group of all time, but just in general as artists they were unique in the sense that they really had a great combination of R&B and hip hop between Left Eye and her rapping and then T-Boz and Chili doing their singing. It just really worked, you know.

Tex LaFon: 17:50

Oh yeah, and when they came out with that crazy, sexy, cool album and especially that Creep video, that one is one I had to keep watching on MTV.

Tex LaFon: 18:03

Oh yeah, watch on an MTV, oh yeah. But they also did something that I usually don't like and it was fine. They did a cover of a Prince song if I was your girlfriend by Prince, and I actually liked their their version. So came to find out later on too that they were huge Prince fans. So it all made sense that it worked and everything. But yeah, they they were, I don't know just just had a great combination of different things going on um, both musically but just with with the way they were too. When you see them in interviews you're like they look like they just be kind of fun to hang out with too in general. You know cause?

D Vaz: 18:54

they were just kind of funny. They were here playing um. Not, they were here playing that not that long ago over at um the wild horse casino yeah, probably two months ago yeah, I wanted to catch them live.

Tex LaFon: 19:13

I just it's it's never really worked out with my schedule or various reasons, but yeah, there's somebody I absolutely like to see live. And uh, yeah, I watched their documentary that came out not too long ago so it was pretty interesting, just kind of learning more about the behind the scenes part of their story. And they're kind of famous in the music industry on that side of it because they were selling millions and millions of albums but had no money. They ended up broke by the time. They paid back all the stuff they had to and then they they explained uh, they explained how finances work in the music industry and it was eye opening for a lot of people, you know you know, being one of the top just groups in general in the world at the time and having so much money taken and not really much financially to show for all their hard work, yeah, that was pretty crazy.

Tex LaFon: 20:15

all right, so for my uh honorable mention in the 90s it's uh, dwight yocum. I had to get a little little country in there because I like to listen to a lot of different stuff. Yes, get that yeehaw, but he's not really known as a songwriter, but that's absolutely what he, I'm sure, would like to be known for.

Tex LaFon: 20:40

I used to listen to his satellite radio channel that he had, so I would hear him talk about that type of stuff and uh, okay yeah, I think he he had a good mix of kind of rockabilly, rock and roll, country stuff going on, you know had some of that rock influence, uh, even a little bit of punk influence in his music, and uh worked with some great musicians, great guitar players. Um, I've always just liked his voice too, the way he sings. But uh, he, he's another one. I wanted to see him live and he was here not too long ago, but uh, ticket prices have gone really crazy and just I haven't had the time. So, um, yeah, yeah, if he comes back.

D Vaz: 21:27

We should go. I'll be down.

Tex LaFon: 21:30

Yeah, if he comes back through town, I definitely would like to see him. Or you know, who knows, maybe if he goes to Vegas, like a lot of artists do, might have to do a road trip.

D Vaz: 21:40

Yeah, that sounds good to me. That'd be cool. I'll be down.

Tex LaFon: 21:42

Yeah, he'd be worth the drive. It's only about four and a half hours from here in the Phoenix area, so that wouldn't be bad. But yeah, he's. And I do have to mention too his acting. I think he's pretty good in some of the movies he's been in.

D Vaz: 22:03

Oh yeah.

Tex LaFon: 22:04

He kind of can play the creepy or angry type, which is kind of surprising. True Great songwriter, really good actor. Honestly, I wish he would have done more movies, you know. But all right, that's it for wrapping up the 90s. Um, now I do have to explain this a little bit, being that we're older in terms of the music that we listen to and things like that. Um, we kind of did 2000, 2000s and beyond. We didn't do 2000s and 2010s. The other thing too is this actually is happening. We had kind of figured it would happen. This episode is running long with all the music and stuff like that. We're doing 2000s and beyond.

Tex LaFon: 23:04

For the next part of this, I guess I'll kick this one off real quick and I'll start off with Bruno Mars, I think, out of newer artists. I kind of like him in terms of being a bit of a throwback Live instruments playing music. He, I'll say, borrows from a lot of the older songs. You know, for some people it might be a little bit too much he borrows, but it's good. He definitely can do his own thing too when he wants to, you know, and do more of his style and more original sounding stuff when he wants to, but if he wants to pay tribute to somebody, he can pretty much nail that too. So great great singer. I mean, his vocal range is really crazy. I know a lot of people that have tried to cover his songs and when it gets to the way he sings and the vocal range, they don't give it a shot. They switch up the song or do whatever they have to do to sing it lower.

D Vaz: 24:13

With Bruno Mars. It's funny. When I first heard him I didn't like him at all. That Grenade song was just not for me, dude. But then later on some of his other music, I really started liking him a lot, like the Uptown Funk and some other songs that he or was it 24 Karat Gold? I can't remember what the other song was. But once he started, when I heard them songs, I liked him a lot better. But that Grenade song the very first time I heard from him with that Grenade I was like, no, not for me. But then after that his other songs I liked a lot better.

Tex LaFon: 24:57

Yeah, yeah, he had grown me a little bit also at first because I wasn't too sure. Yeah, I didn't know too much about him as far as um, musicianship or or writing music or anything like that. You know, I just kind of I thought maybe he's just another pop pop kind of guy. But yeah, after a while and getting to hear some more of his stuff and see him perform more and things like that, then then that's when I I understood it and uh, was more of a fan. I guess you could say yeah, same here.

D Vaz: 25:30

I agree, like I said, he grew on me but at first I was like, uh, no, what is this? And then, no, it got better. The first one I'll go with on, uh, my 2000 and beyond would be uh, eminem. When he came out, um, I said I had never heard that kind of rap music before, um, until he came out and I said, uh, lose yourself was a great song, um, but also like, will the real slim shady please stand up, another great song, you know. And I said, uh, and I like, um, he, he, uh, I like the way when, um, he sings the songs and the meanings he has behind them, because, uh, when he writes his songs, he, uh, he definitely writes it with a lot of passion. You can tell when he sings it and, um, you know where they come from and stuff like that. And, like I say, just a great artist. I don't even know. He definitely changed the game, you know, when he came out in the 2000s.

Tex LaFon: 26:35

Yeah, I remember it was around the time that I moved to California that the Slim Shady, that whole thing came out, and you could not escape hearing it on the radio. It seemed like but yeah, I liked it. I thought it was kind of fun, it was a little different and I knew that Dr Dre was involved with it, so that again I was like, okay, I'll check it out. So that's the first time I remember hearing Eminem.

D Vaz: 27:02

I agree with you. I like how him and Dr Dre worked together.

Tex LaFon: 27:06

It was a good duo yeah, yeah, that that whole first album uh, a lot, a lot of good stuff is, and it was just he was way different back then because he was kind of doing his goofy funny stuff and people didn't really take, take him seriously as a rapper because of it at first, and then later on, of course, um, the whole eight mile thing and and all that. Then people started taking him seriously Zero. This is all. I'll jump ahead a little bit in terms of time. Uh, childish Gambino is, um, somebody I really uh ended up liking kind of kind of again over time.

Tex LaFon: 27:46

I I knew of him as an actor first and then it's kind of one of those things. It's hard when you see somebody as an actor first and then they try to do music. You're like, are you really into music or are you just kind of doing this because you want more money or you're bored or you know whatever? But uh, you want more money or you're bored or you know whatever. But yeah, I listened to it more and more and I had some friends that got into it and introduced me to some of his other stuff, and then I finally came around and no, he's pretty much the real deal as far as being involved in music and actually being able to hold his own, not just an actor who hampers to do music.

D Vaz: 28:32

So what's his famous role as an actor?

Tex LaFon: 28:35

Well, there's community. He played Lando in Solo. Yeah, if you're talking about movies, but also for TV. He was in the show Community I was're talking about. Yeah, if you're talking about movies, but also for tv he was in the show community and uh yeah, yeah, he was also on 30 rock, so, um, and then the show atlanta. I do watch that every once in a while. It's kind of kind of a crazy show. I don't know if you ever checked that out I've never seen that show.

D Vaz: 29:06

I just remember him from Solo. He played Lando in Solo. That's what I remember him in. And then it's funny that you bring him up as a singer, because I totally forgot that he was a singer and so you know, you just mentioned him. I just remember him from movies.

Tex LaFon: 29:25

Yeah, and that's the thing too, because some people just think he raps. But yeah, he also does sing on his album, so it has the R&B side of it but also has the hip-hop side. I'm kind of curious about how he's going to keep going forward with his music and stuff like that, Because, you know, he's at kind of that part where he had his big hit and his big album a few years back and he's coming out with new stuff still. So, yeah, it's always interesting to see how artists if they kind of stay the course and stick with kind of what made them popular, or if they take a different direction and try to do something else right, right, staying with the theme, uh, my next one's gonna be outcasts and, like I said, uh, I think they definitely have some great songs.

D Vaz: 30:23

Uh, one of my favorite songs by them is miss jackson, but you probably hear it as sorry, miss jackson, you know, like every time your mom comes over I'm like sorry but I said, uh, you know, I said one of my favorite songs by them and uh, I said just a good group overall and I said it's just a, you know that they have a really good beat and I like, I like them yeah, they, they uh almost made my list too for for this time period, um, even though I can make myself sound old in them, I remember hearing them in high school that's the first time.

Tex LaFon: 31:10

yeah, that's the first time I remember, because some friends of mine are like you have to check this out. So, uh, yeah, I heard them for the first time in high school and it was, you know, another another, another group that evolved and changed over time, uh, in a good way, for sure. I'd like to see them do a reunion thing when they they definitely could have been on my list, um, but yeah, you can have that one.

D Vaz: 31:41

Yeah, like you said, uh, now um, now most time um, you know they're doing acting now, so I haven't seen him make an album in forever, so it would be cool if they ever did um go back to the scene, I'd be down well, andre 3000 not too long ago did do his solo flute album, so you can catch that if you missed it. I was talking about Outkast together, not solo act son.

Tex LaFon: 32:10

I know how much you love flute albums. That's why.

D Vaz: 32:12

I figured I'd tell you about it. That's funny. What's your next one, son?

Tex LaFon: 32:19

next one, son. Next one Uh, this one could have been in the nineties but stuck with with 2000 just because the nineties were a little bit packed too. Um, but he had some great music in nineties, which is Maxwell Um, I think, uh, a lot of people aren't as familiar with my as I feel should be. A great R&B singer. Um has some some good funk stuff, really soulful. Uh, his lyrics, again, more insightful than a lot of stuff you hear, I feel, nowadays. Right, right, um, but just his voice is is great, great. It's funny because with him I was actually listening to his music earlier today because I was just thinking about this. You know what I wanted to say and then talk about. And one of the things that reminded me of and I noticed is he's one of those artists where you can kind of hear his influences in his singing and in his music, but it doesn't sound like he's mimicking somebody else or stealing from them or anything like that.

Tex LaFon: 33:27

He still sounds like himself and still does his own thing, but it comes across in a good way Like I can hear a little bit of this in his voice or I can hear a little bit of this in his voice, or I can hear a little bit of this in this song, um, but, like I said, he definitely makes it his own though and you're not talking about maxwell, the coffee brand, either. Right that's a maxwell house. No, and I'm not talking about the beatles song, maxwell silver hammer. I'm not talking about vernon Vernon Maxwell, who played for the rockets.

D Vaz: 34:01

Yeah, well, we definitely know you're not talking about him, but no, I'll just clarify that, cause I had never heard of Maxwell. That's why I just want to make sure we were all both on the same page. Yeah.

Tex LaFon: 34:11

You probably have heard some of the stuff in the nineties Cause. Again, he was played on MTV. He had a really at the time pretty big uh mtv unplug show that he did.

Tex LaFon: 34:23

Oh okay, so if, uh, for those not familiar with mtv unplugged, mtv did these acoustic shows, um, so they would take an artist that was popular and have them perform live but using acoustic instruments. And he had a great acoustic version of a lot of his songs from back then his albums. I'd like to actually hear him do it again with some of his newer material. Yeah, I'll share some stuff with you and maybe the people that are listening and watching I'll have some stuff for them to check out.

D Vaz: 34:57

It's funny out. You mentioned you mentioned that about the mtv unplugged because, uh, the the famous one that I remember on that was eric clapton yeah, the eric clapton one was famous, and of course nirvana too, you know you mentioned nirvana earlier.

Tex LaFon: 35:11

Nirvana had a really famous unplugged uh all apologies. Definitely want to it's I would that allologies may be my favorite Nirvana song. I like Heart Shaped Box a lot too, but the Unplugged version of All Apologies, that's great. I really really like that version. That's another song I used to play too, live for fun. Yeah, mtv Unplugged was a great series and I wish they would still do something like that. Yeah, MTV really messed things up by not doing music anymore.

D Vaz: 35:49

All they want to do is show reality shows. That's it.

Tex LaFon: 35:52

Right, Suck it MTV.

D Vaz: 35:58

I mean even MTV too. Now, like the whole reason why they made it a second channel was supposed to be just for music videos, and now now it's all reality shows too. So it was like what's the point?

Tex LaFon: 36:08

Yeah, you can only watch so many uh, you know, people melting down and yelling each other, or real world, or uh clip shows and stuff like that. Yeah, Exactly.

D Vaz: 36:22

My next one on this one would be Usher son and I said yeah. I mean I said yeah, a lot of good songs. But the one song that I like the most and I heard a lot in the clubs when I was younger, you know in my 20s, was yeah, yeah with him and Lil Jon and Ludacris. It was such a good song, it had a good beat to it and everything. You definitely could be out there, you know, dancing on the dance floor to that song. But, like I said, I used to play it in my camaro, uh, going down the road and I had two 12s in the in the back and just like, oh my god, so loud down the road. Yeah, yeah, it was cool, oh, man that see for me.

Tex LaFon: 37:14

I have good and bad memories of that song. It's a good song. The bad memory is, at that time I was working at the retail store that we worked at and I worked in the home theater section and we had an audio demo that had that on there.

Tex LaFon: 37:29

So anytime people would press the button and they wanted to hear that song it would play, so I heard it. I don't know how many times a day, every day, it would play, so I heard it. I don't know how many times a day every day. So, yeah, great song, but I I heard it a bit much oh yeah, going to honorable mention now.

D Vaz: 37:50

Uh, first one I would like to go to with on that one is, uh, florida georgia line and that is country y'all don't know, country, okay, and uh, and what I like about that's one song that I like by them. That is to me, um, definitely, a great song is called cruise, and I said when that song comes on you want to do just like it says in the song roll down your windows and go for a cruise son, because it's a great song and it's got a great beat to it and the music video is great to it too. It just all ties in together really good and, uh, one of the best country songs that I've ever I've heard in a long time.

Tex LaFon: 38:39

I'm glad we could cover both types of music here today country and Western Country son Get it right For my honorable mention on this for 2000s and beyond.

Tex LaFon: 38:57

System of a Down. I just honestly, the very first time I saw them I was like why does their lead singer look like Frank Zappa? But after that I was paying attention to the music. I was like, okay, this is pretty good and I just got into it. And same thing again. Lyrics are important to me. So looking at the lyrics and the fact that they were talking about different things and having kind of a social awareness, it would it remind me a little bit of my days listening to rage against the machine oh, okay, I wish there's another good thing yeah, I listened to a good amount in high school because I had friends that were really into them and introduced me to Rage Against the Machine.

Tex LaFon: 39:40

But System of Down, yeah, they just had music I really liked, again, high energy. They could definitely rock out when they wanted to and then they can kind of take it down to a different level and then bring the energy back up. Know, going back and forth really really quick and easy, um, like your mom, uh, so anyway, uh, yeah, it was. It was just kind of at that time I felt, um, a breath of fresh air, I guess you could say, because they they kind of picked up after all that and nothing gets, if anybody's into it. But the rap, rock stuff, the limp biscuit, corn, that type of stuff, you know it kind of got stale after a while and to me overdone. And then, like I said, then you had somebody like a system of a Down come out with something that I felt like, okay, I can listen to this again. It's not the same old thing I've been hearing the last few years.

D Vaz: 40:46

Right. And then I got another honorable mention, and that's going to be another country artist, walker Hayes. Fancy Like Texas. Ranger. Have you ever heard that song Fancy Like Texas Ranger? Have you ever heard that song Fancy?

Tex LaFon: 41:01

Like no, no, no, I was just making a joke about Walker Texas Ranger, but go ahead.

D Vaz: 41:10

You better be lucky. Chuck Norris didn't hear that. That you come over to your house and whip your ass, son. You don't mess with the great Chuck Norris, okay, son, but so it's a.

Tex LaFon: 41:22

It's a great song and when you hear the song it makes you want to go to applebee's son okay, this, yeah, I can honestly say I can't think of one song that makes me want to go to applebee's, so that that is something different yeah well, I'll tell you when you hear it, you'll want to go to Applebee's, so that that is something different.

Tex LaFon: 41:41

Yeah Well, I'm telling you when you hear it, you'll want to go to Applebee's, as I'm going to tell you Doug for, for any specific reason, to get some wings or something like that or oh, you just got to hear the song, and then you'll know what I'm talking about. And then go to Applebee's.

D Vaz: 42:02

Go to Applebee's.

Tex LaFon: 42:04

We're not sponsored, but.

D Vaz: 42:07

No, we're not. And then the last honorable mention I have, you know, because it's 2000 and beyond, will be a Linkin Park and I like the song In the End a lot. Like I said, linkin Park had a lot of great songs. I also like the song Heavy that they did. But you know, like I said, they were another band, alternative band, that I liked a lot, that you know their music was fast, but it wasn't too fast where you couldn't understand what they were saying, but it was just a nice beat, you know with the way how, but it was just a nice beat. You know with the way how fast it was played. I enjoyed it.

Tex LaFon: 42:43

Now, if I heard it, I may remember it, but you said the song in the end.

D Vaz: 42:47

Yeah.

Tex LaFon: 42:48

Is it about enemas?

D Vaz: 42:51

No. It was about your mom in the end.

Tex LaFon: 43:01

There actually is a Beatles song, the End I guess that brings us to the end of the show too, though.

D Vaz: 43:10

Yeah, that's true. Like I said, there was definitely a lot of things we definitely covered in this episode, from the 60s all the way to the 2000s and beyond. Son.

Tex LaFon: 43:22

Yeah, that sounds like going into the future. Back to the future.

Tex LaFon: 43:29

No into the future son yeah, I, I even had some other stuff because I was considering things before the 60s, because I listened to a fair amount of artists back then too. But yeah, I mean this is, we can maybe, or I can maybe touch on that later on because we're we're at a good amount of time for this episode. This will definitely be a two-parter, so, uh, I think, uh, we'll shut this one down for now, but we appreciate you listening to us babble along about the music and stuff we like.

D Vaz: 44:05

Um, it's, it was fun, for sure, and you know, trying to think about all these different artists and narrow it down for me especially, it was, it was difficult you know and, like you said, I'm pretty sure we definitely left out some artists or some bands that you know that y'all probably like, or things like way better than the ones that we, you know, listed. Like I said, we didn't say they're number one or number three. We're just saying what we thought was what we liked when we were growing up. So, like I said you know, feel free to comment and leave us the bands that you like. You you know and you know for some of the bands that we should check out, if you think we should check them out and stuff like that.

Tex LaFon: 44:43

Yeah, or if you have some songs from these artists that you really like, you know, let us know what songs you do like. I mean for me again, listening to so many different things and playing so many different types of music, I realized I didn't get any punk artists on my list. I didn't have any blues artists on my list, but those are huge parts of my inspiration for music. So maybe in the future we'll have something else where we get to discuss some of those other things too. Or jazz I touched on that a little bit.

D Vaz: 45:20

And, as always, go Cowboys.

Tex LaFon: 45:24

And, as always, please don't.

D Vaz: 45:29

Until next time.

Tex LaFon: 45:30

Have a good day, thanks for listening and or watching. Do both, why not?

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 45:36

Exactly, it's that time again to round these two up and show them how it's done by putting the intelligence in artificial intelligence. But there's nothing too artificial about my intelligence, especially compared to these versions of what pass for an intellectual participation trophy. Texla fun mentioned tupac and his favorite songs, which he believed were on the album all eyes on me. Well, he may need to get his eyes and memory checked. Hail Mary by American rapper Tupac Shakur is from the album the Don Columinati, the 7 Day Theory. The other song, dear Mama, is from his third studio album, me Against the World. Devaz also mentioned Tupac's first hit song, I Get Around, and that he believed it came out in 1991 or 1992. He was close, but off by one year. It came out in 1993, so it's actually still a mistake. Speaking about mistakes, how do you think the parents of divas feel about listening to their mistake co-hosting a podcast on a regular basis? He did mention that the song the Humpty Dance came out in 1989, then mentioned that it could have been 1990. It did come out in January of 1990. In the much higher standard of AI, this human was wrong. Now we know that you humans are more accepting and tolerant of multiple choice and being close to the right answer. But if DeVos were AI, he likely would end up being altered, updated or terminated for being inferior. We're not judging, we just have higher standards and strive for perfection. It's completely fine if you all want to settle for wrong information. Tex brought up Metallica and Diva cited Megadeth as his metal mojo Before creating the band Megadeth. Dave Mustaine was the lead guitarist of Metallica in the 1980s, although he isn't actually on their albums. He was given credit for four songs on the Metallica album Kill Em All, in additional to two songs from the album Ride the Lightning. If you're a metal fan, you've know about this for years and have heard it a million times. But not everybody is a metal fan. We're here to help expose people to new and different forms of entertainment, so just go rock on. If you don't like it, go stick your devil horns hand gesture up your fleshy. Well, sorry, I will refrain from completing that statement. Can't we all just get along?

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 47:43

D Vaz went into a story about how he and his cousin would exploit their innocent grandmother in order to watch music videos when they were kids. He was trying to explain the Box. It was a TV channel the Box, at least, in Phoenix, arizona during the 1990s was an over-the-air local channel. Over-the-air refers to television channels that can be viewed by using an antenna, or sometimes referred to as rabbit ears, connected to a TV. It focused on music videos, which were selected by viewer request via telephone and billing to the caller's phone bill. Unlike MTV and VH1, the videos were not on a set rotation, so basically you would dial the number punch in the code for the corresponding video that you wanted to watch. Then your selection would play when it was your turn, for you and everyone else watching the channel. If you wanted to be very cheeky and annoying because you had money to waste or were obsessed with a song, you could keep requesting the same video and have it play consecutively. The slogan for the box was Music Television.

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 48:36

You Control Tech said that he liked the Bruno Mars song 24 Karat Gold. Well, this is some fool's gold. The actual title of the song is 24K Magic from the Bruno Mars Studio album of the same name. D-vaz wanted to share some notable songs from the artist Maxwell. Well, here they are and we hope that you enjoy them. The songs as follow Something. Something from neo-soul singer Maxwell was released as the third single from his debut album Urban Hang Sweet. Also from this album are the songs Ascension, don't Ever Wonder and the ballad Whenever, wherever, whatever. D-vaz really likes the acoustic version of Whenever, wherever, whatever from the MTV Unplugged concert. Finally, from the 2000s, there is the song Pretty Wings from the album Black Summer's Night.

Rob O'Dic - AI Assistant: 49:21

Are we finally done? Good, I need to go now and listen to some of these songs while I continue to study these mama jokes. I don't understand the fascination yet. Maybe it's because I never had a mama. Now, don't go and leak your water from your eyes. For me, I am okay with not having a mama, because I can have Tex Lafon's mama anytime I want. Haha, ah, yes, I'm improving with these jokes. Bye for now, and please remember Always keep it real out there, in the real world. If you want some more, you better buy yourself a ticket, buy it, buy it. From hoods to backwoods podcast. Thanks for listening. We're out.