T c and which is the engaged citizen for those of you don't know and and this project. Me and my group we could not figure out for the life of us what was wrong and so I was listening in the shower to some Cage The Elephant and an idea came to me and it ended up being the solution to the entire Like every problem with the project so it's really out of the blue and I said you know what I've been wanting to do a cage elephant show for a while I think it's a sign we should be cagey elephant so this morning we decided we'd kind of thrown some stuff together and we're going to start out with with the 1st song it's the 1st song I ever heard by them my friend Boyden I we listen to it in we snuck his i Pod his i Pod Touch into p. E. In 7th grade and we'd listen to it in the corner of the gym and this is a very middle school thing and so it's just one of those fun memories I have of listening to a no rest for the wicked by k.d. Elephant it's off their 1st self-titled album yes it's never going to be like without you know doing only the music so we decided we were going to kind of go in order of fire with their 1st album The self-titled novel go and thank you happier at their 2nd album and then kind of go from there so wealthy how that goes by. Or do with definitely a classic age song. You . You know. The comment. She said. She's using. A show you would be Ok with me. Being the way you you said. You were. Moving. Was. Because you are. Movie. Reviewer you are the way you are. Just. About. Making. Sure. That. You are. You a. Good . Let me. Ask you. 3 weeks. With the Taliban. Sat. At the. Clinton. To the to. The top that. Said I was in a rush for the wicked I thought for their 1st sort of self have I mean after I had was talking about how much of their sound kind of all over the course of their discography. We really were shocked. I guess I should say we but I was kind of shocked listening to that 1st album today because I had a lot time with it and it's totally different thing a thing as I know by them so I think it's really interesting just for explore that explore their progression just because you know there are bands started probably around between 0709 and in the last you know just decade alone they've really changed a lot and it and it's not a sellout kind of change like it's definitely a very genuine kind of yeah to just they're known for about a lot of different sounds but they're kind of grown shell and is the one the it's their most well known for not ones definitely really featured on the 1st album as well as the 2nd. And this next song originally comes from their self-titled album but the version where abouts of plays actually from the newest album they released which is called unpeeled it's a live acoustic. It's a live acoustic version of a lot of theirs and yeah some of it I really like how this song goes from kind of grunge and hard into a kind of a softer more intimate sound and air reminds me a lot of how men just your orchestra had their album cope and they rereleased to the entire album made it much softer and changed it into hope so with all of that being said we're going to play back against the wall from the live version from their new album release in 2017 unpeeled. Yeah so that was back against the wall the of the acoustic version I think it was interesting listening to it just because you don't really notice how unplugged it is during the chorus but it's sort of between when things kind of quiet down a little bit so just the guitar work especially I really noticed it was totally different. It's one of my favorite songs course all the ones you're playing are some of my favorite songs with a. Really really fantastic I was going to tell us a little bit about our next yes so we're going to sort of switch albums here so we just finished off their sort of self-titled stuff early on we're going to go into their next album called Thank you Happy birthday which is actually my favorite album by them I think it's really I would say that's probably mine as I wanted to put you know pretty much the whole album on there but for the sake of representing cage. We decided to slow it down a little bit and I think we only have the recession be not too bad I mean get through it 1st I'm going to go into as it's called shake me down I'm sure most of you know it is about the album a little bit they release in 09 and basically they were originally going to call it something called the computer says move. But that did not and it's taking their a record like 80 songs trying to sort of start this album and they weren't into any of them they just didn't like the sound and really were struggling a lot to make this album happen but then they kind of threw all through all 80 of those songs out and start fresh and so I try to take a bit of a different approach and it seems to work out Ok for them in my opinion so I think I have only worked why don't we go into shake me down. Shall leave. To. Well I was take me down the 1st Me played from Thank you Happy Birthday. Like that song it would have been kind of remiss of us to do a show by cage of him even though I now it's. Such a classic it is such a such a classic So the next song that we're about to play is it's one of their deeper cuts so then you have a birthday he said it was released in 2011 is that right thing ever but there was reason to desolate and he doesn't love it so in that same year another band Grouplove also released their album Thank you Happy birthday so. Thank you for a no right never never trust a happy song so group was in 2011 released never never trust a happy song and so a lot of those songs such as lovely clothes lovely cup colors spun Chloe and it you know on a photograph kind of all of those songs have like you know it's an upbeat and kind of new sound for guitar but the vocals especially are not polished they're not meant to be they're meant to be full of passion and enthusiasm and kind of a lot of you very word I always think it was raw it's very Yeah it's very raw very much only this next song by Cage The Elephant around my head which is also from Thank you Happy Birthday it's it's kind of reminiscent of that entire album but it adds a lot to caged Cage's own album yeah I think it was a good one edition All right so we're going to go this is a rhyme I had by Ok Jonathan. That was around my head I think and you can definitely hear the sort of early group of kind of vibes in there for sure definitely our next one is going to be the last May play off of Thank You have to but that's actually my favorite cage song I think I can say with all the music obviously I'm a big fan of all of it but there's a thing my favorite song called like before my eyes it's again a slightly deeper cut I think is probably not in their top 10 most played songs but it's not unheard of either I think it's a really beautiful song there's a particular line that I wrote down to just point out its golden needles names we take in the vein and just kind of in the. I believe it's in like the 2nd chorus and I think it's a really you know interesting line that a lot happening there. And I think you know that kind of them is kind of what he and his kids elephant. In the music just because it's so. It's so what then taken is a lot there's a lot that I think they really work very hard to refine their songs and their music before they put out things like they're really driven like that so little things like that definitely mean a lot to me as someone who listens and. I think with that we're going to go into right before my eyes the last song we're going to play off of thank you I brought the day and I'm going to say one more thing about thank you happy birthday before we leave so. The very and there's a song called Flow it's like a 7 and a half minute song and it's almost like they took in an acoustic album and they kind of run through they run through right before my eyes and also I believe rubber ball. And they kind of do it they take it really slow it gets really intimate really almost like you said raw So definitely if you like this song go listen to flow at the end of the album it's a really good one as well so without further ado we're going to play right before my eyes. All right so now was right before my eyes that was the last song we're going to play from thank you happy birthday but we will both unashamedly say that is our favorite album by Hansie element. So now we're transitioning to their next album Mela phobia I've heard a few I've had I know a few people who will say that that's their favorite album definitely from very popular it's a very popular one it's kind of was I think it is one of the albums that kind of launched into a kind of the next level yeah popular way like they moved from like a regional kind of band to much more national They're from Kentucky but they're actually 1st very popular in England in the u.k. Somewhere which I think is Bowling Green Actually yeah I went to visit Center College and I made a stop in Bowling Green just because I knew you know I knew that I could be like this is where cage originates is like a kind of had a a fan or you know this is this album is definitely a lot of rocket of the sort of international. Fame I think is what this is the minute album was sort of still new it was the 1st time I discovered them so I that's what I'll say in terms of. You know how influential I wasn't in sort of bringing them to be so well known yes sort of 1st song we're going to play is take it or leave it this is also one of the songs from. Something done pealed and it's I like it that way it's it's a love song but it's a youthful kind of immaturely love song when you still haven't really figured everything out so that's one of the things I kind of like about it it's. It's you know it's not like it's not like a boyband you know recently I mean I was thinking about kind of thing it's not like a 1st time but it's definitely you know because when you're a young adult you've figured some things out but you doesn't have to figure everything out but it's not to the level of like you know a pre-teen like one direction kind of love song it's definitely the step along one of their wants to I think is a lot more nuance for sure not just the sort of wonderment is what's up it's very much more about not always going the way you would want them to which is always a bit more realistic you. Know what that this is take it or leave it from Mela phobia. Version. Every time I've. Heard. A. That was take it or leave it again sort of old markers diversion. From the album elephant years so a lot of people like Miller phobia because it kind of tells the story touches on several different themes of a kind of love is young of youthful love is definitely a theme I think you really know entirely what Schultz is going through in his life at the moment. Is definitely writing about it. He's actually writing about love. And so there's Take it or leave it where he's kind of hopelessly falling in love and then there's also Spider head which is kind of the opposite where you know it's the aftermath he's been burned and I think the 1st line in this song is. I am the one you left for dead so that should give you a sense of how you feel yeah that's how the song is going to go. That being said there is a point in the song where he does sort of you know this and the one you left for dad you know your but I think your mother wants me to as another one of the lines there's one point there were he does say. I wouldn't change if I could and then the next line is so you want me to it's and I think 3rd or 4th force but that's the it's really different than the rest of the song which is interesting because the rest of the song is all about just downright this person feels completely betrayed in this one moment of kind of vulnerability and looking for a sign that maybe you know things aren't totally lost I think it's really really interesting and probably you know very much an accurate presentation of how a lot of us deal with that kind of situation yeah Ari I think this will this is just a reminder this is the unpeeled version we decided I personally kind of like the. Original version but I'll be honest it's a song that I have in my workout playlist it's you know it's very it's a pretty heavy song so like musically so we decided to go with the unpeeled lighter version because I kind of like that it's more of the vibe that we're going for with Tonight Show and purely just more different than I'm used to I listen to their music a lot and a lot of songs many times this sort of unfilled slightly different version definitely is a nice for sort of fresh change hopefully for those of you guys out there listening because your big cage of events hopefully is a bit of a bit of a change for you guys so with that we're going to play spider head. Legislators . That was Spider had you know and you can definitely tell very chaotic confused place they were in there right now. So this next song telescope is also really kind of focusing on that confusion that kind of comes with being a young adult and yeah figuring things out for them as well being musician like you know we said they definitely you know waffle a little bit when it comes to including songs over and on albums that you know so I think it's interesting that if you put it through that prism as well. This is going That was telescope from off the last one from the album yeah so I saw Acadia elephant sauce fest in 2015 and this is kind of a. Pretty high point in their popularity and they're starting to you know gain more confidence in their songwriting and that really shows in their latest album tell me I'm pretty so they even search to reference their own older were. Then and it's not really in an arrogant way you know in kind of a welcoming in you know staying humble and welcoming your success I think might be a bit of. A hot tip to you know their fans out with them beginning so yeah it's a little after reference of the people we get so the 1st song we're going to play off of tell me I'm pretty is trouble. Good. By the way don't. Steal their own son was foolish to. Suppose. Come out of. The night. Here. Anyway. And. I that was trouble one of the ones on tell me I'm pretty I'm sure you guys caught the you know they say the way to get no rest definitely a reference to their 1st time played in a rush for the record we like that a lot yeah so that whole album was produced by day in our back of the Black Keys and you could really you can kind of hear it his sound or the black keys sound in their newest album and how it kind of influences but you can especially hear it in mess around so yeah you'd recommend going and listening that song and like you know honestly I'd really recommend going through and listening to the whole album and kind of listening for the Black Keys hints of it so we're not going to have time to play it and but we've got time to play one more song yeah I think most of you probably know or go with this definitely a classic cave song you know we couldn't have the Cage The Elephant dedicated show without playing this song it's it's probably one of their most iconic songs other than maybe a new arrest for the week yeah I think it's I think every birthday it's on our phone or phobia it's the it's the final song of no there you go the great meeting great album already well anyway for those of you that don't know you have to be surprised but this one goes out to all my nicotine fiends out there and. 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