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Yes, it’s been a few months kids, we had work to do, but we are back and you will dig this 20th episode the most! 

Here’s what you get in this action-packed episode:

1. Two Britannica facts to nourish your meat computer! 
2. Things annoying us- there’s a lot, evidently 
3. Randon musings on ER, Mary Todd Lincoln, and our Sea Monkeys (still with us!)
4. Cass guesses Pitchfork rankings for :

• Chance the Rapper: Star Line
• Maroon 5 - Love is Line
• MGK - Lost Americana 
• Alex Warren - You’ll Be Alright Kid 
• Justin Bieber - Swag 
• Benson Boone - American Heart 
• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter VI 
• Addison Rae - Addison 
• Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25 

5. Band names we made up and you may use at your leisure

6. We saw a show, and we’re seeing more.  Updates!

7. Book Corner: You should read more.  We’re here for you.

8. Country Crap Corner Returns!  Jessie Murph returns!  1965 (It is the absolute worst.)

9. Bands to Watch New and Old.  Get these in your hearing flaps!

10. The finale!  Cass picks from our NCAAA-esque brackets for annoying humans, real and otherwise.  Play along!

Thanks for listening.

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We’re talking eye surgeries, birthdays, and Sea Monkey (singular) 

-Exec Producer Burk Shares the Ratt Love

-Rock Operas. What even are they? What are the qualifications?

-Britannica Fact! What did Mozart’s partner do after moving to Pennsylvania?

-What the hell’s going on over at MTV?

-Neighborhood App Returns! Weirdness & Mayhem

-Our Live Show Schedule Is Sick!  (No one should say that, sorry)

-Things annoying us? 

-We have some bands and songs for you - do the homework! 

• The Tubs-Narcissist 
• EggS-Head in Flames 
• exmagician-Keep Your Nose Clean 
• Hurray for the Riffraff- Jealous Guy
• Peel Dream Magazine-Pictionary 

(Prepare for pretension!)

-Print Magazines!-Foreign Affairs, New Yorker. You heard us!

-Book Corner! You should read more.  We’re here for you.

And Our Main Topic:

Ted Gioia is a renowned American music critic, historian, jazz pianist, and composer. He is best known for his influential work in the jazz world, where he has served as a critic, historian, educator, and record producer. Gioia is the author of 12 books, including The History of Jazz, The Jazz Standards, and Music: A Subversive History, which have been widely acclaimed and translated into 11 languages.

A few weeks ago on his Substack, (The Honest Broker, which is the most widely-read music newsletter on the platform) he wrote a piece called The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened - The state of the culture, 2025

It’s good, but we have thoughts.

“Corporations didn’t intend to make the culture stagnant and boring. All they really want is to impose standardization and predictability—because it’s more profitable.”

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Cass and Lee go unscripted for a look at multiple top 2025 songs and albums of the year lists from various outlets.

We are mostly disappointed, yet unshaken. 

Join us in our confusion,

And we sometimes get from our listeners that they haven't heard a lot of the bands we talk about, yet appreciate it.

Well, this one's for you! We've never said "Charli XCX" more times in our life (well . . Lee hasn't).

We also get into a few updates to kick things off.  

Brett Michaels is part of that.

How can you not listen?

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Britannica Facts!

-In what sneaky place do handlers keep their treats during dog shows?

-What country has no mosquitos?

Why does the sky person hate Kiwi Birds?

Nextdoor App: We got 2 good ones.

Band Names (Start a band and use one of these, just give us credit)

Bands to listen to: 

-Mei Semones: Mei Semones is an artist creating jazz influenced indie pop songs with lyrics in both Japanese and English, currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

-Fantasy of a Broken Heart - Feats of Engineering - Al Nardo and Bailey Wollowitz collided in 2017 at the since-shuttered house venue Heck, in Bushwick. Immediately bonding over the The Flaming Lips and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the two have intermittently lived and worked together since, in Brooklyn and Los Angeles

-Why Bonnie - Wish on the Bone - Singer-songwriter Blair Howerton’s writing is full of doubt and vulnerability, but her band’s blend of shoegaze, fried country, and straight-ahead indie rock sounds more confident than ever. (7.4 on Pitchfork)

-Starcleaner Reunion - a New York quintet who sound a bit like if Stereolab had spent a lot of time hanging out in Ridgewood (Transplants moving to New York City may want to check out the up-and-coming Queens area that made Time Out magazine's world's coolest neighborhoods list). They announced their upcoming EP Café Life with the single “The Hand That I Put Down,” which we named one of the Best Songs Of The Week, and today we get another one called “Plein Air.”

-Sharp Pins - Radio DDR -  Lifeguard singer-guitarist Kai Slate If GBV met The Byrds with some Matthew Sweet in there

Let’s talk movies:

-Joker 2 - 32% Rotten Tomatoes- ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Is Being Booted Out of Thousands of Theaters This Weekend

-Megalopolis - 46% and 35% audience

-Cass reads some reviews of these cinematic experiences

Country Crap Corner

-We thought it was new, it is not new, but who cares. It is bad.

-Kid Rock, The Nashville I know

How about this lyrical Rob Ritchie poetry:

There's a line at the door full of underage whores

And the bouncer lets 'em on by

There's some clown from LA who's trying to sing Hank

But it sounds more like bad Barney Fife

Ugh.

Our Main topics:

1. Chappell Roan: She loves fame/She hates fame (maybe pick one)
2. Grunge: We watched the documentary, Hype!. (It’s a good watch.) But do the kids even listen to any of the big Grunge bands?  Were all those Seattle bands good?
3. This article: The End of Generation Rock. The music of the baby boomers survived into the 21st century, with stars still performing in their eighties. Can it last? https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2024/10/end-of-generation-rock-boomers

How did we end up with rock gods in their eighties?

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Remember kids: Good Times Don't Have a Curfew.

-This podcast is declared Grandmother-safe, with 85% less F Bombs from you know who.

-Announcement- Cass is mobile!

-Olympic Thoughts and a trivia question!

-David Lynch really loved to smoke.  Not so much now.

-The Next Door App- Never lets you down

-What’s annoying us? We’ll tell you - the pervasiveness of full body deodorant. Why?

-10 new band names we made up.  Colerain Hamster!  And More!

-Let’s talk movies.  Let’s talk the stark commitment of Nicolas Cage! And old men sleeping in theaters.

-And now, a very insane love letter to Chilis.  You really want to listen to this. Chilis After 9 PM: Late-Night Dining Delights Unveiled

https://bakedideas.com/chilis-after-9pm/

We’ve got bands you should check out: 

• Land of Talk
• Nala Sinephro
• Maya Ongaku
• Chris Cohen
• Goat

And more!

-And then, our Top 5 lists of bands that made only one amazing album, and then for whatever reason, they were done. See whose list you dig more.

Main Topic: Rick Beato’s video: “The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse”

If you love music, and pretty much all of you listening (all 12-30 of you) do, watch the video first. 12 minutes long and good for context: https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo?si=Cot9T3dTZU4swZuO

Cass and I have our agreements and disagreements on Rick’s main points in his video:

• Is Music is Too Easy to Make ?
• Is Music is Too Easy to Consume?  
• ”Music isn’t valued as much by young people today” True?

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5115-ep 15: changing the vibe in the treehouse

1. National Eat Your Jell-O Day- Yikes
2. 23 pairs of twins graduate from same middle school-Signature Colors! (And the only real twins are identical twins.  Fight me.)
3. Time for Next Door app goodness. It’s. . .silly.
4. Delightful Movie Corner! (Cass has hot takes on DVDs!) 
5. Live Shows, what have we seen? Alvvays & GBV
6. More Made Up Band Names (Oh you’ll dig these)
7. Country Crap Corner Twofer! Post Malone, you old dog, you.Cass also has a theory on musician genre hopping. You will hear it! But will you agree?
8. Music News: Ween Announce Deluxe Reissue of Chocolate and Cheese for 30th Anniversary- 8/2
9. Bands you should check out. Right now:

• One True Pairing
• Chime School
• Deary
• Delicate Steve
• Voxtrot
• Mock Media

10. And the main topic: The perfect Pop song, what has happened to Pop music, and we each pick 20 amazing pop songs.  

Also, the Spotify playlists are back.  Listen to our 40 perfect pop picks playlist! (Alliteration!) 

5115, Episode 15: Perfect Pop Songs

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Random Musings:

• What animals survived the Titanic’s sinking? (It’s not marmots)
• What the hell is a bee ball? 
• Which essential service still uses 5.25-inch floppy disks? (This is frightening)
• Which pop stars have had number one songs in seven consecutive decades? (It’s not Sleeze Beez.  Or Britny Fox.)

Cass’s NAM letter - That’s National American Miss to you. 

Concert Corner: Alvvays!

Music thoughts/news:

• Morgan Wallen hates chairs
• Damon Albarn/Blur - (Coachella whining)
• Beyonce country album (Some butt-hurt country fans out there.) 
• Courtney Love’s delightful crap-slinging (It is delightful)
• Taylor Swift album drop (We can’t help ourselves)

Country Crap Corner: There isn’t one this episode. Why?  Because they’ve gone from beyond deliciously bad, to just appallingly boring.  Cass has theories.

Things bugging us:

• Unnecessary/lengthy song intros
• Podcasts- this tendency for the host to repeat the exact thing the guest just said and act like it’s a revelation

Fun Fact: NYC doesn't have alleys

We’ve got new band names!  

We’ve got thoughts on real band names!

Our main Topic: Chick Tracts: What are these rancid little pamphlets?

Sources for the main topic:

Chick Publications

Satan, the pope, and Dungeons & Dragons: how Jack Chick's cartoons informed American fundamentalism

The History of Chick Tracts

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On a whim.  Cass and Lee rapid-fire band names to each other (real band names that is), and decide if they suck or they don't.

For example, Radiohead.

Great band.  Terrible name.

Play along kids!

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5115-ep 13: White Rappers- -The Scourge of The 7 Seas.  And Our Ears.  And, really, everything.

Well, it’s happened - now we’re really not 5115.

Here's what we got:

1. What animal can be frozen by drawing a straight line?
2. The nation’s most important focal point: Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion’s Rap Beef: Don’t worry kids, Variety has a complete timeline as of Feb 1: https://variety.com/2024/music/news/nicki-minaj-megan-thee-stallion-feud-timeline-1235890487/
3. Pitchfork being swallowed by GQ: A lot of pearl clutching.-warranted? https://defector.com/music-journalism-cant-afford-a-hollowed-out-pitchfork#coral_thread
4. Next Door App - This one is insane.
5. What’s been annoying us lately? Trump and The Smiths - Boo!!!!.  
6. We got a crap load of new band names!
7. Steely Dan!
8. Concert Corner: It’s been quiet. But on the horizon . . .
9. The Evil Bong movies-It’s a rough go.
10. Sopranos is done.  Walking Dead is on. And do not sit on True Detective.
11. Country Crap Corner-Niko Moon. Good Time (ugh) https://youtu.be/mKnQXaIlrMo?si=JY_fwRPLepFB1CFm

And Cass has the main topic: White Rappers!  Regurgitate all you know and love!

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Make sure and check out Part 2-only on Spotify: 

5115-ep12, pt 2: Every Time A White Man Raps, An Angel Loses its Wings.  

We talk year-end best of/worst of music and you get to hear the tunes!

Listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EWNZ4majKae0auPyMY8XW

On to the episode:

1. How did Andy Warhol influence breakfast food?
2. Speaking of breakfast-like food, what is the difference between oatmeal, porridge, mush, and gruel? (Not boring at all!)
3. Who is Lee’s favorite actor? And what is one of his favorite monsters? And does Cass care?
4. Next Door App-You’ll see
5. What’s been annoying us lately? 
6. We got band names!
7. Lana Del Ray-Covering Country Roads. Why?
8. Concert Corner: Jeff Tweedy Book Tour, Depeche Mode
9. Country Crap Corner It’s a 2-FER: 

Lainey Wilson: Grease https://youtu.be/fwzgh7UUpjE?si=ma3QQuBxwCUAdRDg

And next, Jason Aldean- Let Your Boys Be Country 

https://youtu.be/QOjoXLw2emw?si=Ue3DMnIRXrMsQC80

Last before the main topic- 1980s Pop Rock For Kids. It is arguably not only a terrible mix, but makes absolutely zero sense.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0BcUyI3tXw8NcZyE6RQHwU?si=nhOcd2skQDaI010XudsUxQ

Main Topic: It’s the year-end episode-we got best-of lists, worst-of lists and engaging banter! 

• People-Sexiest man alive-Cass does not agree.
• Most annoying social media celebs
• Most annoying celebs:
• Best Concert of 23
• Most overrated bands/performers of 23

And head over to Spotify for our music picks!

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