Weird Bands - Music Month

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Tanner's doing some research on bands Oh, isn't that weird?

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Tanner's deep

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and read it at this point.

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Do you know the names

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of the dogs? Basil

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and Budgie. Basil, it's time. no,

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yeah. It's like Basil's

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Yeah,

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that it

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yeah.

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had to follow. I love that

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that. It's just

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up

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hilarious.

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of

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I think most of the time Tanner doesn't remember parrots are

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time, Tanner doesn't remember parrots, I think.

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And welcome to I Should Have Known, the trivia game show that can't be trusted. Each week, one of our Quizmasters will present you with four facts about a topic, but one of those facts is a lie. And we are finishing up our musical theme. and we have our resident musical experts. Our quiz master this week is Tanner,

Sups 0:46

Hello.

Andi 0:47

and Tanner is doing a find the fake episode on weird bands. So he's going to present us with four bands that all have some kind of gimmick or schtick that's kind of bizarre or weird, but one of these bands he has invented. And he will play music from all four bands, but for the fake band, it's going to be someone else's music. He's lying about that. So join me, Andy, and our other host, Supes, in trying to figure out which one of his bands is fake.

Sups 1:14

All right. Sounds good. Yeah, I'm curious about your definition of

Andi 1:18

Yeah, right, yeah, that's a good point yeah, it doesn't take much too weird Tanner out he is our vanilla soft serve

Sups 1:26

and given your vast, expansive knowledge of music.

Andi 1:30

Yeah. I don't know if you've been listening to our other musical episodes. Yeah. Tanner is real music

Tanner 1:36

A virtuoso. Yeah,

Sups 1:38

are from like the

Tanner 1:40

But all of these are from like the last 20 years. So we're

Andi 1:43

they're newer. Okay. Wow. 21st century weird bands.

Tanner 1:49

our

Sups 1:49

PQQ,

Tanner 1:51

What English band from 1998 has four virtual members named 2D, Murdoch, Noodle, and Russell? I can play their song.

Andi 2:01

Yeah, sure. Oh

Sups 2:12

Oh, okay, yes.

Andi 2:14

So the bandaid is gorillas? Yes.

Tanner 2:15

Yes. So their weird thing is that they're all virtual. They're digital people. So it's actually two guys from England. And they made these four personas. And that's the band.

Andi 2:27

Yeah, Yeah, so that's kind of what we're talking about today. Like, bands that have something kind of weird.

Sups 2:32

gonna get even weirder than that.

Tanner 2:35

So. Band number one, Hate Beak.

Sups 2:38

Hick.

Andi 2:38

Beak? Like a bird?

Tanner 2:40

That's exactly

Andi 2:41

right. From

Tanner 2:42

From 2003 until the present day, American death metal band Made of two men and Waldo, a grey parrot.

Andi 2:51

Yes.

Sups 2:53

I mean, Wow.

Tanner 2:54

So they have one album, and then they've done like, split records, where they have songs on a record with another band. They've

Sups 3:01

So we'll listen to their

Tanner 3:02

Here's their song, yep. The song is called, The Thing That Should Not

Andi 3:06

Beak. Wow. Okay. I thought the music was pretty

Sups 3:36

standard

Andi 3:37

but, uh, yeah, so I wanted to hear The Parrot. I'm here

Sups 3:40

for Waldo.

Andi 3:40

Where's Waldo?

Tanner 3:42

They only do studio music or garage music. They don't go on

Andi 3:46

tour Okay. They don't do live performances,

Tanner 3:48

would not do

Sups 3:49

well on tour. How did you find this

Tanner 3:51

find this MTV has an

Andi 3:52

article Are you sure that he, he, found

Tanner 3:54

YouTube.

Andi 3:54

in here. Seuss in his, in his big old brain.

Sups 3:57

yeah,

Andi 3:58

Well skull, his big old skull it's

Sups 4:00

not very convincing.

Andi 4:02

Wow. Waldo would definitely be an issue in live performances, but also very convenient for Tanner

Sups 4:09

and his fake.

Andi 4:10

Is that like, well, you've never seen them. You can't go see them because they're more than

Sups 4:14

likely a parrot. Yeah.

Andi 4:15

I will say I do kind of find this a little believable because I don't think Tanner would come up

Sups 4:20

with Parrot. Right.

Andi 4:21

You know, like I get that, like, okay, you're death metal band. You want like a, like a Raven. But like, you can't have ravens as pets. So it was like, the closest thing is a parrot. Better than a cockatoo, I guess.

Tanner 4:33

I guess.

Sups 4:34

But like, the parrot can be trained to make sounds on cue. Like, you know, so.

Tanner 4:38

yeah.

Sups 4:39

I mean, it doesn't sound super outlandish to me. Right? Yeah. And when I also heard their music, if there is a parrot involved and they're dead metal, that felt like a very, like, starter level death metal

Andi 4:52

right? Yeah, I did. I thought the music itself, I mean we only heard a tiny bit, but it was a very like par for the course Death metal. I kind of think they really missed the opportunity to do like Shandy style,

Tanner 5:05

Oh yeah.

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like do nautical timed death metal with your death

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parrot.

Andi 5:10

and you can call yourself like the notorious plunder

Tanner 5:13

parrots

Andi 5:13

or something like that.

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a brace of the

Andi 5:15

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I, like, I get that they wanted a bird. Yeah.

Sups 5:19

from the description, from the music, everything seems to, we definitely heard a squeal or

Andi 5:25

there's, it didn't sound much like a squawk. It sounded like it could have been

Tanner 5:29

a cat.

Sups 5:31

Could that be,

Andi 5:32

And you think Tanner decided it was a parrot? See that's

Sups 5:35

not his bird of choice? That's

Andi 5:37

that's the hardest thing for me to believe is that Tanner came up with parrot. I think most of the time Tanner doesn't remember parrots are

Sups 5:44

time, Tanner doesn't remember parrots, I think. I like What I can say with confidence is that I've never heard of it, this band. Yeah.

Tanner 5:51

Okay. band number two.

Andi 5:53

K nine.

Sups 5:54

It's a bunch of

Andi 5:56

there's a bunch of dogs.

Tanner 5:57

are two

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dogs in the band. Okay.

Andi 5:59

that going to be the whole thing? Is that they all have animals

Tanner 6:01

Just the... first

Andi 6:02

two. Okay.

Tanner 6:03

So this is an American death grind band. Which is heavy metal plus hardcore punk. From until 2011. So they're not around anymore because one of the Pitbull Terriers

Andi 6:14

passed away.

Tanner 6:14

So it's three humans and two Pitbull Terriers.

Andi 6:18

Do they growl and bark and stuff? Yeah. They

Sups 6:21

get another Pitbull Terrier to replace the dead one? No.

Andi 6:24

No. The founding

Tanner 6:26

Terrier to go out with So they're all vegans. They're very into animal rights, vegetarianism. These dogs were adopted refuge

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dogs.

Tanner 6:35

So they have a purpose

Sups 6:36

and a message. Right. Not just a joke. Yeah.

Tanner 6:39

And here's their song, Human Raw

Andi 6:41

Hide. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

Tanner 6:59

Wow.

Andi 7:00

that's cool. That actually was genuinely pretty cool.

Sups 7:03

Yeah, And the dogs were barking on cue, like with the beats

Andi 7:07

and like that was, yeah. Right. Is that live or did they just like sample it and

Tanner 7:10

and then include it? I think they recorded

Sups 7:12

the barks. barks.

Tanner 7:13

And then

Andi 7:14

they engineered it. Yeah, because that's

Sups 7:15

I don't think in the studio. Hey, Do you know the names

Tanner 7:18

of the dogs? Basil

Sups 7:19

and Budgie. Basil, it's time. no,

Andi 7:21

yeah. It's like Basil's

Sups 7:22

Yeah,

Andi 7:23

that it

Sups 7:24

yeah.

Andi 7:24

had to follow. Wow. that one was better than the first one in the sense of incorporating the animals that we could clearly hear. That was a dog. There were dogs barking. That first one was like a yowl. I don't know what that was. It wasn't as integrated. And so, what is that music if it's not this band? You know what I mean? Like, he's faking one. He's going to play us some fake music

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the band. So

Andi 7:46

So I feel like that's some song with a dog.

Sups 7:49

Yeah. I mean, there is a dog. There was definitely some growls I think this band. Yeah. Also never heard of it.

Andi 7:56

I feel like this one, would be too hard to fake like that. I would just genuinely be so impressed that he took, I mean, I can see how you would fake it where you just take a sample of a dog and put it on top of a sample of a song do we really think Tanner is

Tanner 8:11

handle that at

Sups 8:12

I'm not so sure. I feel like we didn't get enough of the first

Tanner 8:20

Okay. Let's move on to band number three. So we're done with the non human animals. So band number three is called Oakley

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Okay.

Tanner 8:29

from 2015 until 2022. It is an American heavy

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metal band. Are they all metal

Tanner 8:35

No, just three of them because they're the weirdest.

Sups 8:37

mean, we have

Andi 8:38

have four options I guess like that does make sense 'cause like that's the thing in that genre is like it's subversion and so like it would make sense that you would have like humorous acts

Tanner 8:48

they call themselves a Neddle band, because they're based on Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. So he's the neighbor of the Simpsons, and he wears, gray jeans, a green sweater, glasses, a pink colored shirt, and a big mustache. And he's super nice and friendly,

Andi 9:06

They all have mustaches?

Tanner 9:07

They all have mustaches, and the same round glasses. And, okally dokally is something that he says. So that's why it's the band name. So here's their song. White Wine

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Spritzer

Andi 9:43

Okay, I'm going to venture these are a bunch

Tanner 9:45

of white dudes.

Andi 9:45

Yeah. Yeah.

Tanner 9:46

They look a lot like me. Yeah.

Sups 9:48

Um, music checks out from his description, like The music sounded metal to me. So, and it's interesting because you can't distinguish between two metal songs. They all sound the same.

Andi 10:01

I was actually going to say how it started out not very metal, I think. It was more alternative,

Tanner 10:07

don't

Andi 10:08

this up.

Tanner 10:10

do that. I

Andi 10:13

I actually don't really like the Simpsons. I've, I've barely watched any episodes. I'm aware of who this Ned Flanders is. I know Tanner has watched more

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than I have.

Andi 10:23

Okay. And I feel like... There's just like this kind of group of guys who are like, their personality is the Simpsons. And

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so,

Andi 10:32

this feels like a very much that kind of thing, Oh, let's do this funny thing and be weird and funny and laugh at ourselves and, yeah. But then also play music that we

Sups 10:42

like.

Andi 10:43

It's like mixing these two things. To me, like, the kind of people who like this kind of music and the kind of guys who are obsessed with The Simpsons, if you put those in circles, it would make another circle. They would overlap each other. So, yeah. This seems about right.

Sups 10:56

but maybe that's the point. That's what she's playing. That okay there exist real people, but this whole nettle is like a total beer. Okay, So no parrot, no pit bull terriers, no. Ned Flanders. Okay. So which means, the fourth one, we

Andi 11:17

the fourth one, we don't even have to listen I mean, it maybe he could have come up with this, but this would be like, this is the side of Tanner

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that I don't

Andi 11:25

communicate with.

Sups 11:26

with him. I could maybe see

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him thinking about

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when he was

Andi 11:31

like a teenager and obsessed with the Simpsons, like every teenage boy

Tanner 11:37

I do need to hear one more. Okay. Then I think I will know.

Andi 11:39

a break. Okay,

Sups 11:39

Maybe.

Andi 11:40

I hope. I really hope so. I am like,

Sups 11:43

too.

Andi 11:43

Tanner is really taking a beating in this episode.

Sups 11:47

Yeah, I feel like it's more like a personal commentary on Tanner. And your life choices.

Andi 11:52

it's also just so funny

Tanner 11:53

because he's so good at music. Yeah.

Sups 11:56

Okay, let's do it. Number

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four. Surprise us. Alright, band number four. Called Mask Back. From 2009 until the present. It's an American punk band, that exclusively makes songs in

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reverse. The

Tanner 12:10

songs are written and recorded forwards, but then they're produced on

Sups 12:14

the record

Andi 12:14

backwards.

Sups 12:15

So that's not making songs backwards, that's making a song forwards and then just putting it out backwards. Yes,

Tanner 12:21

every one of their songs is in reverse. And that's their shtick. sexy Yeah Here's Their song Hypnosis

Andi 12:48

All right. Okay. So they plan on it being in reverse when they make it, because they practiced saying words backwards so that they would sound

Sups 12:56

when they make it because they practice saying words backwards so that people would sound like... So it's only the words that are in backwards, right? The track is still forwards.

Tanner 13:01

They play all the music and sing the songs forwards and then on the record

Andi 13:06

it reversed

Tanner 13:07

So the music was

Andi 13:08

played backwards. Why? didn't

Tanner 13:12

ask that for all

Andi 13:13

four of you. I

Sups 13:14

not? I guess. No, they've released three albums, but they've never had a hit. I mean, that's part of

Andi 13:17

on! Like, just because you have to do something different and like stand out So they say that they were inspired by

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Backmasking.

Andi 13:25

Which is where people perceive messages hidden in songs. Oh, right. Oh, like, is that Stairway to Heaven? The Devil. The Devil.

Sups 13:35

Wow.

Andi 13:35

So, I was thinking as I was listening. I was like, okay, yeah, I figured Tenor out. I was like, this is how he fakes the song. Instead of being like, this song is this other band and it's not. He's just like I'm gonna play a famous

Sups 13:48

song and just reverse it Reverse it.

Andi 13:51

But then the guy starts

Sups 13:52

saying

Tanner 13:52

hypnosis

Andi 13:54

and then I'm like, well, how'd

Sups 13:55

he do that?

Andi 13:57

And then, then I get like, now I'm like, Oh no, how did you manage that? I guess Tanner's doing some research on bands and comes upon people talking about this. Back masking and is like, Oh, here's this one sound like, guys, this is so weird in this one song. It sounds like he's saying hypnosis. Oh, isn't that weird?

Tanner 14:22

Tanner's deep

Andi 14:22

and read it at this point. And so maybe he's like, yeah, and then I'll make a band based on this. I'll play the song backwards and I'll say it's this band that does all their music backwards Wow. That's what I think happened.

Sups 14:36

I think this

Andi 14:37

is real.

Sups 14:37

because

Andi 14:38

the

Sups 14:38

music definitely, yes, was a reverse track. You could see the jumps.

Andi 14:43

But also this one.

Sups 14:45

Stood out to me primarily because like trying to be different, like the other ones, they have a pattern, right? animals doing something like that's like a very standard, thing, but this one is like out there.

Andi 14:56

Yeah, I mean I see what you're saying about like this could be something that a band could come up with

Sups 15:02

It does

Tanner 15:02

sound like

Andi 15:03

like you're saying hypnosis. You could learn to say words backwards. like, the music doesn't sound that Weird in reverse, but when I'm thinking about what did Tanner fake, so Tanner has to play as a fake recording of his fake band. And so to me, it's like simply playing someone else's song backwards and saying, this is a different band.

Tanner 15:21

backwards and saying

Sups 15:21

Yeah,

Andi 15:22

like a genius plan

Sups 15:23

no, makes sense. I definitely agree to that part, you know, it, it sounded like. Yeah, straightforward, which is, Yeah, that's, that's like an area of doubt

Andi 15:31

then. I

Sups 15:32

Well, think? Are we

Andi 15:33

talking about the right

Sups 15:34

things? I don't know. I think, well,

Tanner 15:37

know. As

Andi 15:39

could you repeat the four bands for us, before we guess which one you faked and made up.

Sups 15:45

it is. Band

Tanner 15:54

which one

Andi 15:56

Hate to Beak.

Sups 15:57

Hate

Tanner 15:57

Band number two,

Andi 15:59

two,

Tanner 16:00

Band number three, Oakley Doakley. And band number four, Mask Back. One of those I

Andi 16:09

made up.

Tanner 16:11

I love

Andi 16:11

that you did that. Just gonna, just gonna start that. I love that

Tanner 16:15

that. It's just

Andi 16:15

up

Sups 16:16

hilarious.

Tanner 16:17

of hilarious.

Andi 16:18

Um, What are you thinking?

Sups 16:19

think it's The parrot? one.

Andi 16:20

The parrot? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm also second most skeptical about the parrot.

Sups 16:25

Yeah, because I'm trying to think from the track perspective, right. And if I can draw any connection, Of

Andi 16:30

all the descriptions that

Sups 16:31

we've had, this is the one where like the audio doesn't match. his description I don't think it's, I mean, not that I have a lot of experience with parrot squeaks, but of the little that I do, I think, this is like the farthest I would say, but the audio and the descriptions were like the other three bands, like the audio and the description.

Andi 16:48

they match. Yeah, I mean, I'm not deep enough into The Simpsons to get the white wine spritzer reference, but I'm guessing that's Ned's favorite drink or something. And that was clearly in the

Sups 16:59

Um, and that was clearly in the song. Yeah. I mean, canine is, if you think the dogs. Okay. Maybe it might be that. Okay. It's not a pit bull Terrier. Maybe it's some other breed or so canineness, I think

Andi 17:07

we can bark it. I think it's, yeah, we'll bark it. I think because also like the, engineering work, right? If that's fake. That was impressive. That was, that was, a

Sups 17:17

good.

Andi 17:17

work than you needed to do. T mm-hmm. I think it's number

Sups 17:20

Number four. Yeah.

Andi 17:21

That he took a song and just reversed it, and that's how he faked it. Right.

Sups 17:26

if I

Andi 17:26

were teller, I

Sups 17:27

do that.

Andi 17:27

Yeah.

Sups 17:28

I mean, that would be my Second choice, Yeah. Okay. I'm going to pick. number one?

Andi 17:32

Hate beak also. That's a great name. Yeah. Hate beak. Yeah, I think it's number four. I think it's a famous song. Played Backwards, and they were like, Hey, green Day's Basket case. Sounds like he's saying hypnosis. And that's

Sups 17:44

it.

Andi 17:44

how he came up with it.

Sups 17:45

Mm, okay.

Andi 17:47

But I don't know. Alright,

Tanner 17:49

the

Sups 17:49

fake one is mask

Tanner 17:50

Back. Andy is 100 percent dead on. That's exactly how I did it.

Sups 17:56

And you even got the song right.

Andi 17:57

Yeah, I thought it might have been uh, back in the case. And at the end he says, hold on. And I guess if you did that backwards it might sound like

Tanner 18:05

right. Yeah.

Sups 18:05

Yeah.

Tanner 18:06

it was

Sups 18:06

hundred percent

Tanner 18:07

right. Yeah. I don't know how you

Andi 18:08

don't know how you did And

Tanner 18:10

was the exact thought process I had. I was like, how am I going to make this up? Well, like back masking is a thing I read about in like the 80s and

Andi 18:18

Like Yeah. Like Led Zeppelin was a big

Sups 18:21

right?

Andi 18:21

right?

Tanner 18:21

yeah and twisted sister like a lot of people purposely put Messages in their songs backwards to

Andi 18:27

to play off of this because people had already talked about it.

Tanner 18:30

Yeah. And so what they would do is like play the song and record the tape backwards and then you would have a backwards song and so I picked a Green Day song and then I listened to it and I was like

Sups 18:40

I was like he's saying Hypnosis,

Andi 18:41

That's the name of the song. Wow. Oh, see, that's impressive. I thought that maybe you had read on the internet that you're like, Hey guys, if you play basket, case backwards. It

Sups 18:48

like

Andi 18:48

he's saying hypnosis because it really does. sound like he's saying that. Yeah. That to me was like the biggest

Sups 18:55

biggest,

Andi 18:56

like scare. Mm-hmm. ,where it was like, this has to be real. He's saying the name

Sups 19:00

the song.

Andi 19:01

Yeah. Yeah.

Sups 19:01

no. Amazing. Well done. I mean, like, well, your wife figured you out straight

Andi 19:06

Off and down.

Sups 19:08

mean, yeah. I had

Tanner 19:09

no chance

Sups 19:10

Yes.

Andi 19:11

I was all over that. Yeah. I know you too. Well, this is over here third wheel in real hard today

Sups 19:18

I'm following your lead, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

Tanner 19:21

Tanner's follows

Andi 19:22

yours I'll follow you follow me

Tanner 19:25

perfect.

Sups 19:25

I

Andi 19:26

I guess I should have known. Yeah. I should have known.

Sups 19:29

I should

Andi 19:29

known. Thanks for listening to this episode of I Should Have Known. If you are listening on YouTube, please like, share, subscribe, and comment if you figured Tanner out, too, or if you also were... Surprised, or if you know of any other kind of weird bands, and if you're on a traditional podcast platform, please review the show and if you'd like to support the show, we have a Patreon. Which is a subscription based service where you can give a monthly donation and support the show because it's a lot of work to make it. Think about how much work Tanner had to do to make up this band. And you also get some bonus content as well, And this is the end of our music theme for the month. Hope you guys enjoyed it. We are going to be doing Stranger Than Fiction. For the month of October, kind of Halloween y, creepy, so be on the lookout for that. And as always, they're not Polish rappers.