The Mailbag: I Am Done with This World

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I think this is going to be quite a good one.

I actually think we can all view this from a different perspective.

Dear Susie, Christopher and Frankie, firstly I really enjoy the podcast.

I have been getting

listening since the first episode.

You never fail to make me laugh, enlighten me and give me post for thought.

Thank you all.

My dilemma isn't a particularly serious one, but one I'm sure many folks can relate to.

Music has always been a huge part of my life, particularly since I started playing guitar at 13 years old, and I've spent much of my time seeking out and discovering new artists and bands to listen to across pretty much all genres.

Certain artists have such a profound effect on me that they changed the way I thought about music and even how I viewed the world.

And I can vividly remember hearing some artists for the first time.

I like music, okay.

Fucking hell.

Over the years,

music's provided many uplifting moments.

I'm going to be 50 later this year,

and I feel that my voyage of musical exploration is coming to an end.

I find myself listening to the same old favourites over and over.

While there is some comfort in that, it's quite unfulfilling.

In an age when it's easier to discover new music, I find myself paralysed by the amount of choice an offer.

Like much of the content in the internet, often amounts to nothing but a collective white noise.

I find the prospect of having to wade through uncurated, algorithmically homogenised music so unappealing that I just stick to what I'm familiar with.

My questions are: should someone at nearly 50 be trying to remain at the cutting edge of new music when surely that's the domain of the younger generations to which I will inevitably fail to relate?

Do you feel similarly about music or indeed comedy?

And can you recommend one Scottish artist or band to me, a new year old I grew up listening to, Teenage Fan Club, BMX Bandits, Delemitri and Jesus in the Mary Chain for reference.

Thanks for the podcast, Phil.

Christopher,

this could be you in 20 years, man.

Maybe, maybe.

You keep up with music, Frankie, though, don't you?

You get your

in a sporadic way, but I don't think this guy's talking about music.

I think it's a metaphor for

I don't want to keep ploughing through the same old tunes,

his wife or husband.

And there's all this young, new stuff out there that I want to get involved in, but it's too chaotic.

How do I sort that out?

And he's expressed this through music, but I've found a metaphor.

It's a metaphor.

A metaphor for younger people that he wants to invite.

He wants to fire into the young team, but he

accepts that probably he's better off

plowing away at his partner.

Can you recommend the Scottish act I could be interested in?

Exactly.

Wow, no, you can't fuck any of my friends, brother.

Nice.

I would say taking him at his word and not trying to examine his left hand.

Why would we go sexual?

Why would we examine anything?

Why would we look any deeper than what people offer us?

No, I think it's an interesting.

Yeah, maybe.

So you think it's about sex and getting in about the young'uns?

No, like illegal young'uns, just the young team.

Well, we don't know.

No, fuck no, lads.

Come

Lads.

Come on.

It's impossible to really understand, but I would say if you were gonna take him,

if you were gonna

take him at his word.

If you want to take somebody at his word, it is.

There's a few, I mean, it's a very common issue.

How do you listen to new music?

Because big issue with Spotify just now is they're putting AI-generated fake music into playlists.

And eventually, I think that will

consume the whole platform.

Can I be honest?

I am fucking done with this world.

I am.

That is just.

That's what they want you, I think, Suze.

That's one of the most depressing things I've ever heard.

Fuck it.

That's terrible.

I think

Apple Music is actually more

is better quality and is slightly more ethical than Spotify.

The entire streaming platform, the entire streaming industry is completely unethical.

But Apple does pay more than Spotify does.

What are the other options?

Amazon Music is obviously it's Amazon, but I think they pay more than Spotify does.

I use Bandcamp as much as I can.

Bandcamp has a thing called Bandcamp Friday, which I don't think it's every Friday, but it's once a month you can pay a band direct or to a record label direct, and the platform takes none of the

bookshop.com.org, but just for one day a month.

And that goes straight to the bands.

And then you own the music and you know, you can stream it on your phone and the app, but it doesn't have everything though, so you can

buy Bandcamp's really cool.

I would definitely, if you want to hear new music, I'll check out Bandcamp because they have every day they'll have a new track and a new album that's like featured from all over the world.

And you can type in a country and it'll bring up all the music that's been released in that country this year.

So, you can go genre by genre, subgenre by subgenre, country by country.

That's very cool.

There's people on like TikTok, so there's a new account called

New Bands for Old Heads where they'll say, oh, you like these three bands, then you might enjoy this new act.

And, you know, that's kind of getting away from the algorithm.

That is a more curated thing to take them to Facebook that they're not.

Psychosexual TV and is fed up fucking an old lady and wants to get right in amongst the young strange of Scotland.

The young and

if he's looking at, let's just take him as a word, let's pretend Freud never existed

and his subconscious isn't a thing.

I would say a couple of recommendations.

Carlom Easter.

Oh,

was that the guy we've seen?

We saw him at the Belmont Sebastian Festival.

And I would also say, no, it's Scottish, but if you've no heard, I was listening to Joanna Newsom on my Apple fucking thing when I bought the albums.

And, you know, the great poet of the new century.

So Joanna Newsome?

Yeah.

I really like it.

She's got a song called Good Intentions Paving Company.

That's, to to me one of the best songs anybody's ever wrote about falling in love and make mistakes and things like that.

And it's just her on a piano.

She's got a crazy voice.

She's got one of the best songs about Writer's Block, Inflammatory Ripped, and one of the best songs about language and a side of the blue.

Check those out.

So I would say definitely check out.

I mean Bandcamp was bought by a conglomerate and they fired a lot of people which was a bit shy but ultimately it is a good platform for finding and buying and new music.

I'm sitting here in a Stone Roses t-shirt, so I don't think I can tell anyone to listen to new music.

That's my advice.

I am going to keep my mouth fucking shut.

Just do whatever makes you happy.

And if it's getting on about the young ones, just

get in about it.

Wow.

I went to see my friend Taylor plays drums in a band called The Tubs.

I saw them at the Rum Shack before I went to Australia.

Taylor Romeo Taylor.

Romeo Taylor, aka Cool Genzo, aka Taylor Stewart.

He is a great drummer.

He's a fantastic drummer.

We have a friend in common.

Yeah, Caldun.

No, but I know him as well.

He was there.

I was like, all right, Caldun.

He went, all right,

all right, fuck.

Shout out to Kyldun.

But

he plays drums in a band called The Tubbs.

They get a really good album this year.

Singers English, but very, very funny.

Singers English.

Former Champ who are fans of this podcast.

If you like, you're indie rock.

Former champ featuring members of Savage Mansion.

They are an indie rock band and they're very, very good.

They're fans of Here Comes the Guillotine.

And if you like, he's an Irish lassie singing for Canadi Rock Music.

So if you like Scottish music, check out out Former Champ.

Who else?

I've been getting into that.

Tina Sandwich.

Tina Sandwich is a great lassie.

Yeah.

Check out Tina Sandwich.

I've been getting into this brain rot stuff.

We heard this.

Only fire.

Which is some mad gay guy.

Well, I'm assuming he's gay.

He's like some mad kind of Estonian dude who does these things that are like highly sexualized things where an AI woman's voice to a kind of dance beat.

And it's It's like,

I had a cruel summer, I got my heart broke.

Now I'm a sad bitch and I want to do cook.

Oh, that kind of stuff.

Charlie XAX.

So often Charlie XAX coded, it's often about his or her pussy.

Seems to come up regularly.

Sounds pretty out there.

I've thought that about Calamista when we started.

Give out there a chance.

I don't know if that's making any of the hip parade for you.

I don't know.

But I've got God.

Sorry, I forgot I was in Heartland.

Can't even fucking do an AI song about your push anymore.

And coming up next on the breakfast programme, we have an Estonian gay man interfacing with a sexual AI.

And that's before we do the

traffic and travel.

Traffic and travel, dude, look there.

All right, guys.

We've got eight minutes before the Estonian gay guy.

But you know what?

What's that helicopter looking for?

You know what I mean?

anything that's got a helicopter i'm just checking the traffic

the eye in the sky i mean the eye in the sky sinister was that yeah what were clyde up to back in the day man the eye in the sky cunts coming down a fucking rope ladder towards you

and on that note lads

you had two peers down do you know how i always go into bands is um

going to see people who are supporting other people so we went to see baby sebastian and that's how we've seen Calamista.

We saw the lassies, who were they called again?

No, they called the Twits, but it was like

the rapes either.

They were this something, and they were alright as well.

They were good.

There was a lot of good bands that day.

I would say, you know, when I got into Frightened Rabbit because they were supporting Modest Mouse, and I got into Frupy and Frabit, shouted for a bit.

I got into, you know, and you just see

you read interviews with bands and stuff.

I don't know, it's the same as it's always been, really.

It's just the same as it always been.

It's the same as it always been.

I mean, the issue is that there isn't a music press anymore because nobody pays anybody to write stuff.

Because why?

The reason the music press used to exist is because the only way you could hear about new stuff is by writing it down and then sending it to people.

But now you can just listen to things.

So people are like, oh, that's a shame that the music press doesn't exist anymore.

But I mean, why would you read about something when you could just hear about it?

It's a bit like when you get a good football writer though.

Who's that guy who writes for the Gardens?

Alex Petrides or something like that.

But like when he writes a good

review of an album or something, it's got a quality of its own, you know.

I think, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that's the kind of.

It's the 1% of beauty that makes the 99% of shite worth it.

Oh my god.

Right.

I don't think mit any more poetic than that.

That's a beautiful.

I think that's

language.

It's the needle in the eye stack, but the needle is

filled with heroin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you want it right here.

Good.

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