Ep. 328 - Final Fantasy XVI-2cular

@“exodus”#p156119 Yes I could discuss this all day and night!

Overlooked in the Floyd context you could be right - chances are if you bought Animals you bought a lot of their other records. There's a lot of other context on that album, even down to you if you could handle almost an entire Roger Waters sung album (needless to say The Final Cut will be a bit of a shock) and the change in the messages the songs had. Dark Side to almost anything they did or a lot of other bands works is a bad comparison.

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@“exodus”#p156119 Or something!

Yeah I haven't had a cup of coffee yet, I need to prepare for this debate!

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@“Tom of the Fog”#p156098 I love any Beastie Boys lyric where they say how good they are at something.

Same! One of my favs:
_I don't mean to brag and I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French Toast._

I loved hearing so many people chiming in (with unquestionable sincerity) to give their take on IC's GOTY. That was a really cool feature.

@“Tom of the Fog”#p156098 this reminds me of their habit of rapping off weird food names. from super disco breakin: “sometimes i like to brag / sometimes I’m soft spoken / when I’m in holland i eat the pannekoeken”

@“esper”#p156142 I’m the Beastie Boys virgin who keeps googling these lyrics to find out if you people are all fucking with me

@“MegaSigil”#p156143

Two of these is real, and one is false:

With the cornbread stuffin' / With the Blimpie Bluffin / Motherf*ckin' Yoshi with those goddamn muffins

I'm not even asking, "Yo, what's cracking?" / Serving MC's on a platter like a baked Alaskan

My name's MCA and I've got the ambrosia / It's time for you to wake up and smell the damn Folger's

@“whatsarobot”#p156144 I know which one is fake, but well played on it!

@“MegaSigil”#p156143 Here's a great starting off point

https://open.spotify.com/album/0OqOIHkfdZ6tqkKd8QQcS2?si=XuAWdJ5UTHmmefGqgWKpcg

It's up to Hello Nasty (pre the album the discussion grew from, To the 5 Boroughs) but is a great selection with some classic tunes on it!

If you like it, then go through their catalogue. And if you can't stand it, you know I planned it!

@“esper”#p156142 I‘m listening to Paul’s Boutique now, and it just doesn't stop with the food references. I had breakfast not to long ago but now I want eggs!

@“Tom of the Fog”#p156151 Eggman is the best! Love the samples on that.

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I'm doin' 120, plowing over mailboxes
> Radar detector to tell me where the cops is

Love when a rhyme is really stretched

One for Uwe Boll:

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Shea Stadium, the radium, E-M-D squared

> Kicked out of the Palladium, you think that I cared

@“hellomrkearns”#p156153 now that is a deep cut show reference! Unless you also watched the house of the dead commentary.

@“exodus”#p156155 hah. No, I've never seen that film. I think you might have mentioned it a couple times and it stuck with me. Playdium was also the name of a massive Sega arcade in Mississauga, Ontario that shut down during the pandemic.

Was Gita trying to channel the Trump approach to speech writing? I mean, it's unlikely. She was a lot more coherent, for one. But I feel like there was at least some of that flavor.

Of all the stuff that's been said about FF16 on this forum and on this show, it was Patrick Miller who finally convinced me that I want to play that game.

@“marurun”#p156170 They were going for Connor Roy on Succession

@“Jaffe”#p156172 Ah, well, I can't say whether they did an awesome job at that or now. My knowledge of Succession is… well… absolutely nothing?

You want that thunder from down under?

Call me Hugh Jack-Man

Video games

Have come a long way since Pac-Man

Re: previous discussion of perceptions of overlookedness I always think about that also in terms of where you live. If you live somewhere pretty hip (like say, the Bay Area), then maybe Bjork seems like a very famous person because even if her early stuff was pretty big in terms of sales those sales were likely concentrated in specific places, so you‘re fairly likely to run into another person who has some of her records. But if you lived somewhere more rural and you saw a Bjork video randomly on cable and fell in love with her stuff, you might be the only person within a 100 mile radius that owns any of her albums. I’d definitely never heard of Bjork until I moved to Portland in my late teens (around summer 2000) and suddenly I met a ton of people who were obsessed with her.

My favorite Beastie Boys album is Ill Communication. A lot of great MCA lines. This is one of my favorites from Bodhisattva Vow:

“If others disrespect me or give me flak

I‘ll stop and think before I react

Knowing that they’re going through insecure stages

I‘ll take the opportunity to exercise patience

I’ll see it as a chance to help the other person”

I'm no Buddhist but those lines have stuck with me over the years.

@“Coffinwarehouses”#p156184 yeah, that is a good point! Growing up in the bay area she was for sure just on all the radio stations (that played rock or pop). Plus I had MTV where she was in heavy rotation. My experience might be different from many!