Put away your snow boots. The sun is rising, the birds are chirping, the flowers blooming, and Fire and Water Records is back with an all new special. Ryan and Neil Daly return for the first of four quarterly episodes spotlighting the seasons. First up: Spring Mix. The brothers showcase songs featuring themes of rebirth, rejuvenation, turning-the-page, self-healing, and recovery; and because it’s the Brothers Daly they tie each song to a comedic, tragic, or just crazy story from their personal histories. Tune in and check it out!
Track list
- “Every Time the Sun Comes Up” by Sharon Van Etten
- “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles
- “Here Comes the Rain Again” by The Eurhythmics
- “Let the Rain” by Sara Bareilles
- “Breathless” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” by Ella Fitzgerald
- “Heat Lightning” by Mitski
- “Roll Me Away” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
- “Reincarnated” by Kendrick Lamar
- “Roller Coaster” by Luke Bryan
- “Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living” by Eels
- “MacArthur Park” by Richard Harris
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My brothers are back! Just starting this and you hit me with one of the greatest songs in world.
Great episode fellas! I really did enjoy hearing your stories, from the heartbreaking to the hilarious. I think Ryan and I need to cover a Ventriliquist storyline when Knightcast returns…
Just a few thoughts:
“Here Comes the Sun” has always been my favorite Beatles song, written and sung by my favorite Beatle. I had no idea it was the most streamed. The Beatles Channel on Sirius XM plays an acoustic version Harrison did with a choir on back-up, and I think I may like it even more.
I’m a huge Bob Seger fan, and was a little suprised neither of you (particularly Ryan) weren’t overly familiar with him. But I don’t know many of the artists you seem to have a deep connection to, so I guess we’re even, and this is how we learn about new (to us) artists. I’ve seen Bob in concert three times, and each time he opened with “Roll Me Away”. I always feel like it’s the better version of “Hollywood Nights” myself.
I had heard this version of “MacArthur Park” before seeing Bettlejuice Beetlejuice, but I had no idea until looking it up that Richard Harris recorded it! I know of the Donna Summer version, and I think Waylon Jennings did a version too?
Hey Neil, where were those Kentucky girls from exactly? Maybe I know them!
As for a personal stories and spring songs, what popped to mind was Sting’s “Fields of Gold”. When I hear that song, it takes me back to when Cindy and I first started hanging out in the spring, walking through the fields on her parents’ farm, and falling HARD for her. That song only came out two years later, but it brought all that back then, and still does now when I hear it.
I love this concept of the seasonal episodes, and am really looking forward to hearing the rest!
Oh man, “Fields of Gold” is an awesome song and Sting has two different versions of it! I wish I’d thought of that one. 😀
Frankfort, KY. Pretty sure their full names are Ellen Elkins and Beth Snodgrass. I think they both went on to UK in Lexington.
Right in my neck of the woods, but they don’t sound familiar. I’m sure someone I know knows them…or is related to them, because…Kentucky!
Note to self: Always sign an NDA around Neil.
Great episode, guys! As an Eels fan, I was very excited to hear them make an appearance. I loved the stories spliced in with the song choices. The puppet story alone made me crack up my entire ride to work. Well done!
Man, the Brothers Daly killed it again! Thank you for sharing the persona details – or SECRET ORIGINS – of your lives. And you can’t go wrong opening with a Beatles song.
Also, I bet Dan Cortese loves being mentioned!
Just wait till our entire Dan Cortese episode!
I never took the Rites of Spring for a purgative, but ya’ll went on a journey here, for sure.
I was getting Lucinda Williams and maybe a bit of Patti Smith from “Every Time the Sun Comes Up,” but this was my only serving of Sharon Van Etten so far.
I cringe a bit at “Here Comes the Sun” being the top streamed Beatles song, but when I think back to the numbers that have been popular in my lifetime, it’s probably a better choice than I could have reasonably expected. Any likely candidates from before 1965 would have been worse, it’s sonically pleasing, and I’ve always gravitated toward Harrison. It’s just such a weekend-favorite-of-the-oldies-station, audience friendly, hippy-dippy unit shifter. But yeah, a perfect hit for the season (in places that have seasons.)
I had a similar problem with Bob Seger in totality. He was already a nostalgia act when I came to pop music, whether it was Tom Cruise dancing to “Old Time Rock and Roll” in his underwear, or “Like a Rock” soundtracking Chevy pick-ups. Just peak boomer sell-out shit. But Ralph Bakshi used “Night Moves” very effectively to bring American Pop home, and crushed enough on Sheena Easton that I couldn’t deny “We’ve Got Tonite.” Some acts are just made for the masses, and I’m not immune, at least to a hits collection.
I only know “MacArthur Park” as a punchline. I think maybe Ambush Bug sang it in one of the mini-series. I can’t possibly take that bit about the cake seriously.