Episode 7 - Draft a Disney Album with Dan and J.R.

[00:00:15] Welcome to Fantasyland Draft League, where we take one corner of the Disney universe and draft it like it matters. Because it does. My name is Ryan and today we are doing something a little different. We're not just drafting Disney songs. We kind of did that before. Instead, we are each building an album. Cohesive, front-to-back listening experience. Made entirely from Disney music. And yes, that is as fun and as stressful as it sounds.

[00:00:45] If you are brand new here, here's the deal. Each episode we pick a category from anywhere in the Disney umbrella. Could be parks, could be movies, could be corporate mergers and all kinds of stuff. Go listen to our other episodes. There's lots of fun ones there. All of it's fair game. Drafted in serpentine order, which means the person who picks last in the first round picks first in the second round. And then we keep on going through five rounds.

[00:01:09] Today's episode has a little bit of a twist. We've been doing a few of these twisty-turny episodes lately. We're not just drafting our favorite songs. We are each building that album. I will also post a playlist of all of our songs together in the Ears Up Discord where you can also go to vote on who chooses the best album.

[00:01:36] So go join the Ears Up Discord and you can vote right along with us. Before we get into it, I do want to make sure that I introduce the people who are here with me today. Co-hosting with me the man who didn't necessarily build the network, but sure does he keep it running. We have Eric. Eric, say hello. Howdy. Thanks, Eric. We won't go on a howdy diatribe this time.

[00:02:09] Hi. Hi, everybody. I'm from Chicago. Ed, joining us as our guest. First up, we have... He's a music composer whose work you've actually already heard because you are this far into the episode. And he makes our theme.

[00:02:32] He also makes the theme for my other show, Peony Pod, as well as many fine shows that you probably listen to if you're listening to this episode as well. We have JR. JR, say hello to the good people. Hello, good people. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Thank you. And also, if you listen to this episode or if you're listening to this show, you probably have listened to at least one of the next three shows that I'm about to say.

[00:03:01] One of the hosts of Supreme Resort, Bowie Splaining and Scraping the Vault. Dan, welcome in. Hi. I mean, howdy. Thank you. Thank you, guys. All right. So, we're drafting Disney music albums. Just a heads up for the listener. We like to keep it light on rules around here. So, if there's anything that's like, hey, does this count? Which is kind of weird for this subject.

[00:03:30] There's probably not going to be a whole lot of like, does this count kind of stuff. We like to argue it mid-draft. We also try not to say other picks. So, you know, if you're trying to choose between two songs, right? Don't say like, I was trying to choose between these two songs and so I landed on this one. Just because there's a chance somebody else wants to pick that and you take it away from them talking about it. I think there's going to be a lot of overlap here. There's going to be a lot of fighting.

[00:04:00] You might not. You might be surprised. I look forward to my surprise. And the last rule, like I say, is if somebody else drafts it, you can't. So, if somebody picks Under Pressure by My Chemical Romance and... Hey, wait. Hold on. I can't remember who covered that. By who? That was the diminutive version, I believe that was. Yeah.

[00:04:30] It was My Chemical Romance and Vanilla Ice. That's what it was. There we go. There we go. Should we... Although this is maybe one that we should work out before because this actually brings up a good thought in my mind. So, we talked a little bit off air about, hey, you know, should we choose recordings? Should we choose, like, covers? That sort of thing. Should we say that a song is off the board if any one version of it gets chosen?

[00:05:00] Yes. I think so. Okay. Fair enough. Okay. But, okay. I'm not disagreeing. Just throwing this out there. What if the version is significantly different from the original? Then I think you should make that argument. Let's argue it in the moment. And we do have a history on this show of, like, thumbs up, thumbs down, like, democratic decision making. So, yeah. If that has to happen, we'll make it happen.

[00:05:29] And I don't think any of my picks currently land here, but just for the listener, I'm curious. Is it just songs or, like, pieces of music? Does that also count? I don't think most people would make that difference. Yeah. I don't think people are in the weeds enough to know exactly where you're going with that. We're musical folks. We would make that distinction.

[00:05:55] I think a piece of music is fine because I have one on my list. I landed almost, I think, entirely on song songs, but there were some, like, instrumental bits that I ended up not going with. But might swap in. If there's, like, score pieces or whatever that are, yeah, throw them in. It's fine. Yeah.

[00:06:21] I don't think we need to stick to the hard and fast definitions. I will also say, just for the listener, be prepared because I'm guessing mine is going to be the most basic of all. Because, like Eric said, we are all, there is all musical people on this conversation. And we're all insufferable. Shallowest.

[00:06:47] So, with that, I know usually we do some sort of fun way to pick out our draft order. But I could not, I'm not going to lie to you, listener. I just couldn't think of a fun way to get that figured out. So, with that said, Eric, I'm going to pass it to you. And as my co-host, I want you to pick our drafting order. I am going to be magnanimous and pick the order of people I see on my screen.

[00:07:16] So, Ryan, Dan, JR, me. There we go. All right. So, Eric gives himself the hot corner. I need to not say that because I'm stealing that from another show that is also a draft concept. And I don't like doing that. This is like a sports thing, right? So, it's based on like fantasy sports, yes. I will say, and I don't know, I might cut this part out.

[00:07:46] Is that like fantasy sports that like when dragons and unicorns play soccer or a whole other thing? There's a fantastic version of it called Blood Bowl where, you know, that's actually an actual game. Fun fact. Also an Alex Jones supplement. So, that's good. Oh. Yeah. It's good about the energy drink.

[00:08:08] I stole this concept from a show called All Fantasy Everything, which is a bunch of stand-up comedians drafting pop culture topics every week. Like, I just listened to an episode where they drafted giant things. That's where I got the concept from. Interesting. That sounds like a backwards version of like the guys that made Taskmaster. Like where you have to just keep coming up. What did they call that game? Oh, that'll make for exciting content. Anyways.

[00:08:39] It's all good. Yeah. So, all right. So, we have me. I want to make sure I got this right. Me, Dan, JR, Eric. Yep. Okay. Okay. Perfect. Let's go. I have the first pick. I am going to go with my first pick. I'm going to go with Let It Go by New Found Glory. So, New Found Glory, pop punk band from Florida.

[00:09:09] And they have a series of albums called From the Screen to Your Stereo, where they cover various movie songs. And in that was Let It Go. It's actually pretty fantastic. I've seen New Found Glory live a few times.

[00:09:27] And Jordan, their lead singer, comes out in full Elsa costume to perform this song, which is great because this is a man who has like full sleeves down to his fingertips in full Elsa dress and the blonde wig and everything. It's peak, peak live performance. But, yeah. I am going to pick that one. So, yeah.

[00:09:55] Like I said, mine are probably going to be the more popular edge, I guess. I'm not going to lie. Let It Go was on my short list. That said, you know, I have bagged on that song quite substantially over the last 12 or 13 years. And then, you know, nothing would increase my enjoyment of that song more than having a little girl.

[00:10:21] So, when she went through her little princess phase, I'm here to tell you, Frozen and Frozen 2 were intricate parts of our household. So, I've heard the song. It's fair. I had an experience recently where I heard a song from Frozen. I can't remember. The one that they – I don't remember. It's not that one, but it's one of the popular songs. Right, the other one. Yeah.

[00:10:47] And I actually was like – it had been enough times since I had heard anything from Frozen that I was able to actually like listen to it as a song. And I was like, oh, that's actually a good song. I – that – okay, I'm glad. Oh, that was well constructed. Oh, okay. Well, true story. Like, once I'd gotten off my little, like, oh, popular things must suck high horse or that it was just getting beaten into the ground.

[00:11:15] Once I listened to both Frozen and Frozen 2, like, just from a construction standpoint, they're really well written. Like, really intelligently written, well crafted stuff. And, man, I'll bet something like that might get really popular. Oh, wait. It did. Surprise. All right, Dan. What's your first pick?

[00:11:40] I went on a journey with this assignment and I wanted to try to recreate, like, a mid-career album where you're like, okay, this is interesting, but I hope they're okay. Oh, okay. You know, like, it's either a weird, like – Like the album's a cry for help.

[00:12:06] Well, no, it's that, but at the same time, almost like a Walker Brothers thing where it's just like, okay, did we just give Scott the keys to the studio too much or the right amount? Or is it like, what's going on? Is this on purpose? Is it like – or is it just they're out of ideas and this is just a collection of stuff that they were like, I guess there's a theme here. That's how pet sounds is made.

[00:12:36] Well, yes, the best and most important album ever made. Besides Sgt. Pepper, of course. Oh, yes. I was going to say there – So – I mean, just a really difference. Yeah. Well, the White Album is like five of those put together. By the way, listen to Dad gets the Beatles. I – If it's still up. Some of the episodes are still there, yes.

[00:13:03] So, okay, that's how this started. And I went down the rabbit hole where I was just like, here's a bunch of those tracks and these weird connections started forming. This one, it doesn't fit any of those connections, but it is, to my mind, a great opening track because of an album called Stay Awake, which everyone should be aware of and listen to.

[00:13:29] It's an album of Disney covers by a bunch of weird, interesting people that was released in 1987, which listeners of Bowie's Planning know I'm fascinated by this year in music. The song is Little April Shower, and it's from the movie Bambi. Spoilers, someone dies in the movie. And it's not Bambi or Thumper. Oh. But who is it?

[00:13:59] Does anyone know? Does anyone remember this movie? It's Flower. This obscure movie. The hate crime against Flower. Eric, I mean, Ryan, you can edit that out if you want to. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. This has just been one hell of a journey because it's taken us quite some time to get to this point.

[00:14:26] And did we actually announce the song? Yes, it was. It was a Bambi song. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I just picked it. I picked it because it's the opening track of that album, Stay Awake. And it works so well as an opening track there that I was just like, I'm going to lift it. I'm going to use it, but I'm going to use the original because, you know, I'm not going to be that.

[00:14:53] I'm not going to be 100% that guy, even though I am. Says that guy. Says, yes. Awesome. So the original Lil' Apple Power, not the one from. Not the one from Stay Awake. However, if anyone is into this stuff, look for this. There's probably something out there. I don't think it's on Spotify. I don't know if it's on iTunes, whatever, Apple Music.

[00:15:22] But like, if you're listening to this show, you will appreciate that album. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. I feel like there's going to be a lot of there's Disney has so many of those weird albums that came out. And I'm sure that several of them will come up through the course of this. Well, here's the thing is this wasn't a Disney album.

[00:15:45] It was like some guy that was just like doing legal jujitsu and was like, we can do this. So you have like Tom Waits singing hi-ho. And like, I mean, that right there is. I'm in. Yeah, right? That sounds good to me. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I'm passing it to, or is that, is that from, do I pass on this show or is that the other show? You're good. Yeah. JR, you're up next.

[00:16:14] It goes to the stinky corner over here. You know, it's actually a legitimate concern because my cats are not wrestling. Anyways. So my, my thought was I was going to try and create a legitimate best of, and I wasn't always going to go for the things that like, like, yeah, this is because like, if you're going to go over the things that I just absolutely, you know, I'm going to die on that hill might

[00:16:41] not be the best thing for everyone else to enjoy, but I'm going to try and I'm going to try and hit all the genres. I'm going to try and hit all, all the areas. And that is why my opener is without a doubt. When you wish upon a star from Pinocchio. I mean, as disturbing as the whole premise of Pinocchio is to some extent, the irony of this happening right now is out of control.

[00:17:13] Did one of your cats turn into a real boy? Wow. Anyways, the whole premise of Pinocchio might be a little on the disturbing side. But like that song, like it's so iconic that even if you've never seen Pinocchio, you've heard it. You've, you've heard it at the beginning of, of nearly anything that had promotional, whatever from Disney. So yeah.

[00:17:37] Like something that transcends that, that is, it is, um, acknowledged by billions of people. That's going to be my opener. Yeah. Yeah. That, that's a good one. That is a good one. Eric, you're up next. Oh my goodness. Oh, and I get two. Yep. You do get two back to back. Has anyone taken any of yours? Was little April shower on your list? No, it was. Okay.

[00:18:06] No, you didn't take any of my list because my list is, um, you'll figure out the theme eventually. Wow. Wow. So I'm starting with a song that I knew none of you would take. So are we doing this in order? Like this is track one. I got that. Cause this might be a good track. Yeah.

[00:18:36] I, I did not. I will say I did not. I will. I did not put track order into mind. Okay. So, um, but it sounds like both Dan and Jr did. So I think if you want to carry on with that. To be fair, some albums aren't, it doesn't matter if you listen to it in order. So we could say that, you know, maybe yours did like, I'm going to say mine. It does matter. Okay. But Jr is yours. Does it matter for yours? What order?

[00:19:06] Uh, for, for the purposes of being a jerk. Sure. Let's say it matters. Okay. Okay. Great. Cause I, as you, as you were talking, I'm like, Oh crap, I got to reorganize this. Um, but Hey, we're going to start out with hellfire from the, Hunchback of Notre Dame. Okay. Hellfire. I mean, it's also the, the main theme from the movie.

[00:19:34] So it's part of the, the, uh, the intro, but, uh, but yeah, it's, uh, it, it, it really reveals the, uh, the characters, uh, the character of, uh, Frollo. That's his name. I was trying to, I was struggling with that.

[00:19:56] Um, it brings out Frollo's inner turmoil as he's not allowed to be with anyone because he's a priest, but, uh, he's also in love with. Oh, Oh, we all thought the same thing. Just not. Don't. Yeah. Smile and be a good boy. Smile and be a good boy. Yeah.

[00:20:23] He's in love with a woman that he shouldn't be in love with. And she just doesn't care about him at all. It's, it's one of the darkest songs. Oh, it's so dark. Disney. Yeah. But it's very powerful. It's from a movie where all of the songs are very big and, um, yeah, I, I really like it.

[00:20:49] I think it's a great way to start an album and that's why I'm following it up with, uh, the song be prepared from the lion King, uh, which is also a very dark selection.

[00:21:07] Uh, scar is explaining his plans to his army of hyenas and, uh, apparently the directors who, the directors of the movie used imagery from Nazi propaganda films. Sure did. Oh yeah. They absolutely did for this portion.

[00:21:32] Um, and what I, what, one of my favorite things about this is that Jim Cummings comes in for the last, for the last verse because it's Jeremy Irons to start out the whole thing and they didn't finish recording it and he lost his voice. And so they brought in Jim Cummings. And once you hear this fact, I bring this up all the damn time, but once, once you hear

[00:21:59] this, listen to the song and you'll never be able to hear that last verse. It's like sassier scar. Cause it's, it's totally Winnie the Pooh singing evil. Yeah. Yeah. Which is an album that needs to be, that needs to happen. Winnie the Pooh death metal. That'd be awesome. Um, but yeah, it's when he, when he gets to the point, be, um, be prepared for the coup of the century.

[00:22:27] Um, be prepared for the murkiest skies. Um, yeah, it's totally Jim Cummings and you can, once you know that you can hear it, just listen to it. Uh, because yeah, once you know it, it, it's totally obvious, but, uh, it's one of my favorite songs from a Disney movie because it's, yeah, the whole thing is really well done.

[00:22:53] And yes, part of it is the, the animation and all of that, but the song is, is very evocative. And, uh, yeah. Hey, why not? Um, why not bring in a weird, a weird fact along the way? Very Tim Rice lyrics there. And I won't say why, what that means exactly. Um, I will say though, that along the lines of what things that like, once you know this,

[00:23:20] you'll never not hear it with that song, same thing. And there's a point at which the backup singers are singing, we'll have food, lots of food. And once you know that you'll never not hear it. It's bad. My goodness. All right. J R what's your, uh, what's your second pick here? Uh, second one, um, is a little bit of an, of a nostalgic one.

[00:23:49] And it also comes with a fun fact as well. Um, again, not my favorite song, but considering how many people know it and some of the stories behind it, I think it's gotta be on the list. I'm going with beauty and the beast. Angela Lansbury did not want to sing that song. She didn't think that she could.

[00:24:13] Um, in fact, you know, it took like the director and, and like, uh, a sound person, like, just look, why don't you just, just do one take? We'll just do one take and then we'll, we'll send it off to someone else. Blah, blah, blah. So they did it. They did one take live with the orchestra, all one shot, just so we could prove that Angela Lansbury can't do this. And she knocked it out of the park. And that's the version. That was one take? That was one take. One live.

[00:24:42] That's one of the most iconic songs ever. Exactly. Yeah. Did that song win a Grammy? I believe so. And who was the, the, the pair of, uh, oh, this. Uh, Minkin and, uh, Ashman. So like, that was the last thing that they worked on before they passed away. Yeah. And if you kind of look at a lot of beauty in the beast, you can kind of feel that in

[00:25:11] the work as well. But I, I just, I think like there's something really cool about that story about like them knocking that thing out in one take just to prove that she couldn't do it. Just so she could prove that she could do it. Yeah. And it was like, that's cool girl. So that would be my number two. Nice. Current show, correct. And correction. It was an Oscar for best original song, but. I, it would definitely won the Oscar. No Grammy.

[00:25:40] Uh, the, it, it was, I think it won a Grammy for best children's album. Oh, okay. Uh, but that was the whole, uh, like the whole soundtrack as an album. Any Emmys? Cause there'd be the Airbnb got. Yes. It won. I don't know. Can a movie win an Emmy? I don't know. I don't think so. About a Tony. I mean, I guess maybe the, uh, Bell's Magical Christmas could have won an Emmy. Cause. No, it wouldn't. It couldn't have.

[00:26:13] But are you sure? Have you watched it? Listen to the episode. It did not. Could not have. Uh, Dan, what are you picking for your second? Okay. My, my second track. And this is, I, I have a love of second tracks in general for some reason. Um, not a Nottingham from Robin Hood. Okay. Okay. It's.

[00:26:42] I don't know what else to say. I, I was just going, I was going through all these tracks, these like weird, like tracks where it's like, not really a downer, but like not really a showstopper at the same time, but all songs that like, when you hear them, you're like, Oh yeah, that song. And that is, that is a very, Oh yeah. That song for me.

[00:27:06] Um, and it gives the trajectory of the album, a nice little, like, this is, this is possibly going to go somewhere if we had more than five tracks to work with. Well, I, I just, I Googled it to grab the, like the, uh, spelling of Nottingham and the image from the YouTube channel that's up is like of the mice family when they're down on their luck.

[00:27:36] And I was like, Oh man. Yeah. It's that song. Oh gosh. Oh boy. Well, I do love that movie under, under, under appreciated. I think it's, I think it's appropriate appreciated. Cause I don't know about you, but every time I watch it first half of the movie, I'm like, this is such an enjoyable movie. I don't know why. And then the second half comes around like, okay, yeah, that's the, this is why I never

[00:28:05] really finished this movie. Cause it just gets boring. Eventually. That's fair. I think all those, all those like 60s, 70s movies kind of. The Xerox years. Yeah. They, they kind of, uh, I mean, they're charming in there. They were, they're weird in all the right ways, but the writing is like, Hey, yeah. They front.

[00:28:32] It's like, I'm going to try to keep this with a musical references. It's like a U2 album. They're all front loaded. And then by the time you get to the second half, just like. I thought you, but by the time you get to the second song. Shots fired. Shots fired. All right. Let's see here. So I am going to continue. I'm going to, so it's going to be a super. I picked all covers, um, covers or remixes.

[00:29:01] Um, we'll see where I get at the end, how I'm feeling. Um, I'm picking a whole new world from the album, a whole new sound, which was just released a couple of years ago where a bunch of pop punk bands covered Disney songs. Um, and this cover is by yellow card. Um, surprising from you. Oh, I know. It's so shocking. You enjoy that album. You're right. Um, yeah.

[00:29:31] So, so yeah, I mean, it's, it's a really fun cover and like Ryan key from yellow card is a super Disney nerd. He's done other work for Disney. Um, I think he did one of the new parades if I remember right. Um, so kind of cool that he got to do kind of a seminal old show their old song from, uh, a classic. I'm saying all these words just to trigger Rob when he listens to this episode because

[00:29:59] he's gonna, he's gonna be real happy with me, Colin. Uh, he did Disney star made the nighttime parade. There we go. That's the one. That's the one. Um, great was that. That's the new, that's the, that's the nighttime one in a magic kingdom right now. Oh, that's the new magic kingdom. Okay. The one that isn't paint the night. I always forget its name. Yeah. Yeah. That nobody's loving. Unfortunately. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:27] It isn't paint the night in all the ways that something can not be like. Great. Great reference there. Ryan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm going to go ahead. And I'm going to pick, this is going to come as no shock to literally anybody who's ever listened to this show. I had to pick a version of this. Um, I'm picking great, big, beautiful tomorrow, uh, by the lost bros, uh, who actually makes some really cool merch now.

[00:30:55] But, uh, they do have, they have like a pop punk cover of great, big, beautiful tomorrow. Um, I, I didn't know that you were into pop punk and this is delightful to me. I, I, I, I, I'm into like, I'm into like everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Except that. I mean, come on.

[00:31:21] Let's say the country album that Disney just released maybe wasn't on my playlist, but cause they did a version of that. They did a cover album this year, just a couple months ago. I think that's all really actually, if you want a good nudge into country ish, um, there's this guy, Don Gibson. I think that's his name and not D O N. It's like D A U there's like us and H's and G's involved. Um, it's really good.

[00:31:49] He, he's, he comes out with some stuff that's like, what I love about his stuff is, and I was excited that I, that I found him because it's like, Oh, this fills a country gap. This fills my country gap. I'm so glad. Um, what I love about him is that I couldn't, I can't, couldn't tell if he's an electronic guy who is doing country music or a country guy who knows electronic stuff.

[00:32:19] Which is like the perfect balance for me. Huh? Yeah. I just want to appreciate you repeatedly yelling that something was filling your country gap. Well, I mean, when you're single for a certain amount of time, that's fair. I'll have to look him up. Yeah. I will say like, there is a part of it. I do like the, like some of the more blue grassy country that, that I can listen to, but you know.

[00:32:48] And look, when you're raised on a farm, you have different ways of talking about things. You have values in middle America. That's all I'm saying. Like, for example, I would say, mama, I think something's wrong with my country gap. And she'd say, come, come mosey on over here, son. Let me take a look at that. Look, mosey on yonder to mama. I'll take a good old, good old country.

[00:33:17] Look at your country gap. Yeah. That boy. Right. This is how we know Dan's a coastal elite. God, my goodness. Sure am. Dan, what are you picking in your third spot? Because it's background to you. What are you putting in your third country gap? Me and my country gap are listening to high diddly D in parentheses, an actor's life for me.

[00:33:47] From the song, from the movie Pinocchio. It sounds like a fun song, but it's in a movie that is a goddamn nightmare. Dan, your album is a goddamn nightmare. Are you surprised? No. But it's going somewhere.

[00:34:15] Two weeks later, we would all send a wellness check to Dan. Dan, did you put the sound of a gunshot after April showers? No. Okay, hold on. I'm not saying this to be defensive, but I am being a little defensive. Eric, you've listened to David Sylvian. I have listened to David Sylvian. I'm not saying David Sylvian.

[00:34:45] You've all seen Twin Peaks. Oh, my goodness. These are things that I consider fun. You're ringing some bells here. Okay. By the way, looping back to Little April Shower, quick plug for the Ears Up Etsy page. There is a Fantasyland shooting gallery shirt. I wore that last weekend. My father-in-law thought it was hilarious.

[00:35:14] Generally, people, when I've worn it, it's usually like no one sees there. It's like, okay, here's the font. Here's the thing. It's a Disney thing. And then when they actually see what's happening on it, they're like, oh, God. Oh, gosh. Yeah. And I designed that. You sure did.

[00:35:44] Best seller. All right, JR, what you got next? Next up, I'm going to go with the closing credit sequence from Star Wars Episode 3. Because you get... From Episode 3, if you go with... Oh, Episode 3. Episode 3. I was thinking 6. Sorry. You dirty whore. No.

[00:36:13] Episode 3, if you go through and listen to the credits, you get pretty much all of the greatest hits. You get the Imperial March. You get the main theme. You get the throne room. You get the duel of the fates. You get let it go. And you even get the Tom Waits cover. It's all there. It's in one... You hear him coming into the studio. Again, tune up.

[00:36:41] But when you look at it, you kind of thought that Episode 3 was kind of... That was going to be it. That was the grand finale. So Williams wrote it like not just the end of the movie, but the end of the entire cycle. So you get lots of thematic material there. And it pretty much makes it so that I've pretty much knocked Star Wars completely off the list for anyone. Well played. Well played. That's a smart thing.

[00:37:08] Yeah, I never really thought of it that way, that Williams wanted to just reprise all of his greatest hits. It was supposed to be the last one. Yeah, it really was, right? Like, sure, supposedly Lucas had a trilogy of trilogies in mind from the beginning, but nobody thought it was... No, we didn't. That was actually going to happen.

[00:37:32] Well, actually, the original third trilogy was supposed to start with American Graffiti and lead into THX 1138. It's history. You're right. You're right. Yeah. And then there's a man with a whip. Doing George Lucas's. Let's go. Everybody bring your best tricks. A man with a whip?

[00:38:00] Speaking of whip, I found this miracle whip. It's much more delicious than... It's like a remake of mayonnaise. It's like poetry. It rhymes. It's quite spicy. It's quite spicy. Oh, it's whipped. It's got some slip to it. A little too much for me. Eric. Why do we all have a George Lucas lined up? Why don't I is the question that happens.

[00:38:31] Like, that's... Of all the characters, it's the one. It's just soft-spoken Kermit talking about really boring things. Stand up in front of a green screen and then everything will be just fine. Oh, JR actually has... I think JR has the best. Damn, son! Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Okay.

[00:38:56] Listeners, in the Discord, let us know who has the winning George Lucas. George Lucas. We don't care who got the best lineup for album. We want the best George Lucas. Well, you know, that was just to get you in the door. The real money's at the George Lucas. Oh, my goodness. Of course, this is going to be a giggly episode. Well, my next track, we're going to lighten things up.

[00:39:24] We're going to go with Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. It's a great song where Gaston sings about himself and LeFou sings about Gaston. And he's a very confident figure. And he used antlers in all of his decorating. He's, uh... He's mogging everybody. As the kids say. He's antler-maxing.

[00:39:53] He's antler-maxing. I don't know if there's... I don't know if the deleted scene of him bone smashing is available on YouTube. Oh, my. Not that, Eric. It's something else. No, I'm sure it is. In a dank basement. I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about. Have I not forced you to watch Clavicular yet? No, not yet. Don't.

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[00:41:47] So, Eric, go ahead with your next pick. We're going to keep things light. With Cruella de Vil. If you haven't figured it out yet, all of my songs are villain songs. Songs sung by baritones. Hellfire! Oh, my goodness.

[00:42:18] Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians. It's jazzy. It's making fun of the main villain. And it's... She's one of the best iconic villains in Disney history. And she's got a whole song about her. And it's just a dude named fun of her.

[00:42:42] As soon as you hear the song start, and you hear the style, and you hear the words, it does not take... It takes about 10 seconds, and you already have a picture in your mind of what this person should look like. If you... Words are hard sometimes. If you've completely divorced the film from the song, you can listen to the song, and you pretty much can see that image in your head instantly. That's a great description.

[00:43:10] I think what it also does, and I haven't thought about this until you said what you said, is it almost does the opposite of what people do in horror movies. Where they're like, okay, we're going to show you how bad it can get up front, and then everything is kind of open from that point on. What this does is it says, okay, this character is a buffoon. And that means that we can go super, super, super, super dark with her.

[00:43:39] And it's going to be read as buffoon-coded, and it makes it more interesting. It's also one of the few songs that's written by a character in the movie. It's part of the plot. Oh, literally, yeah. That's a good point. Yeah, whether it's like, I forget why it was written in the first one. I think it was for a video game in the 96 live action.

[00:44:07] I think he was trying to make music for a video game or something. Well, no, in the original movie, he just sat down and wrote a song about his wife's horrible friend. Yeah, that's right. It's diegetic, is what they call it in cinema. Diegetic. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Also a book written by Elrond Hubbard. I was going to say, Dianetics. Please don't do it.

[00:44:37] This one, the volcano is a little more blue. JR, pull us out of this nosedive we're in. What's our next pick? Our next. Oh, no. This is when the show finally got good. No. My next pick is a pretty easy one. It is from Aladdin. It is friend like me just because it slaps so freaking hard.

[00:45:05] I arranged a version of it. It was so much fun to write because it's such great music. And you can't deny that Robin Williams brings something that up until that point was kind of unexpected. I don't think people knew him for his ability to sing in sort of air quotes, but he knocks it out of the park. And just listening to it, it's like the most desperate salesman you've ever heard in your entire life.

[00:45:34] You know, it slaps. It's such a great tune. So you're not talking about the Will Smith version? Shockingly enough. Well, see, that's conveniently enough why we had that rule in place where that like one song covers all versions so that, you know, we don't have to completely fall apart. Here, another fun fact. When Robin Williams died. Fun fact. Robin Williams died.

[00:46:03] No, but after when he died, the Broadway production, when they got to his tune and they were supposed to do a friend like me, the cast came out and they led the audience in a sing along. And so instead of having that character, it was it's a really cool moment, but it's making the best of an otherwise awful situation. So that would be my next choice. Nice. Nice. Good pick.

[00:46:34] Dan, you're up next. Okay. We're going to make a little turn a little bit. But once this has been established, we're now in this place where like everything is sad, which is fun. So the second star to the right from Peter Pan. Okay. Because here's a little glimmer of hope that is like, no, not really.

[00:47:07] Because again, this is fun for me. A lot of divorced dad energy over there. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Susie Q was still in his country gap. Um. With that. Uh. I suppose that's me. I suppose that's me.

[00:47:37] So I I'm going to go with round four. I didn't realize I chose two frozen things, but I'm going to. Uh, I'm going to choose Weezer's version of lot of lost in the woods from frozen to. It's a good song. It's a good song. And Weezer does it right. Uh, I believe it was in the end credits, if memory serves. Um, but it was also on the soundtrack. Yes. From having watched that film almost daily for a three to four month period, I can confirm.

[00:48:05] Yes, it absolutely is in the closing credit sequence. So, yeah, it's a it's a really fun one and it's a fun version of it. And I love Weezer. So here we are. Um, and last but not least, I'm going to because every single time there's a cover album or something like that, there's always one song like a bonus track that is just completely out there.

[00:48:35] And, and so far off, like off track and crazy. Um, and so I had to include something like that, um, slash also shoehorn in a way for me to talk about the album deconstructed, which is a like EDM, uh, Disney album that I truly love.

[00:48:59] And I am going to pick the Kinsey Moore remix of Pineapple Princess, um, from Hawaiianette. Oh, it is a, it is a banger of a track. Um, and it's really, really, really enjoyable. Um, I love that whole album there. It's, it's kind of got some iffy pieces on it, but this one, um, is one where I haven't even seen the original movie.

[00:49:28] I haven't seen the source material, but I love the song. And so I have to, I have to, uh, grab that one. Or was it just on Hawaiianette? Well, isn't that a, no, that's just one of, uh, one of Annette's albums. Uh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just one of Annette Funicello's, uh, albums. Just a, just a Sherman Brothers banger. I have never, never heard of that album. I'm going to check it out.

[00:49:58] Yeah. It's, it's really good. Um, it's like I say, it was George Lucas telling us that he had the other one. That sounds interesting. Oh, I see. They did the Muppet Show theme. Yeah. The Muppet Show theme is pretty good. Uh, that's on there. Um, the Tron song that's on there is horrible. And I forgot that I wasn't, uh, Kermit the Frog. Um. Oh, Michael Jack Cheese has his, okay.

[00:50:28] I'm going to listen to this. Nice. Nice. Yeah. It's, it's a good one. Uh, let's go with Dan. You're up next. Okay. The final track, uh, is My Own Home from The Jungle Book. It's the song that the lady sings at the end. Okay. Because it's, it's, uh. It's an ender. It's an ender and it's an ender.

[00:50:58] The idea being that it ends on like emotional ambiguity, um, vague hopefulness. She's talking about how nice it is to have a place where she belongs. But then she also talks about all the roles that she fills in the village and it sounds weirdly oppressive, but also like that's kind of how the things were working.

[00:51:25] So like it is kind of happy, but, uh, also not, um, yeah. Yeah. And then bang. No. And then the bonus track is Swiss, Swiss Capulca. Ooh. The damn Swiss family tree house. Not the first time that song has come up on this show. Surprise. Because they're isolated.

[00:51:59] Bang. Listen to boys planning. All right. JR. What, what are you closing out with? I am closing out with be our guest. I think that it just, it kind of encapsulates a lot of what I kind of thought of Disney. Like when I was a kid growing up in the eighties, you can, there's like, I mean, granted that that's not a song from the eighties, but it's of that style where there's like big orchestras

[00:52:29] and it's kind of like a musical, but it's a cartoon. And, and again, it's incredibly well-crafted. And I think it brings good closer energy. My little track, my little track list. Nice. It was either that or savages from Pocahontas. So I wasn't sure. Oh gosh. Part one or part two. I was just like, but I ended up going with be our guest.

[00:52:57] Good pick. Good pick. Eric. Did anyone step on each other at all? There's so much Disney music. There really is. Yeah. I, I did not. I mean, I went through one through five of what I had and even like, even if you guys like, yeah, nobody picked any of the songs I was going to pick. Well, there we go. If I'm going to end my ultimate villains album, I'm ending with poor unfortunate souls.

[00:53:27] I'm a little mermaid because Pat Carroll is the absolute best. She worked for Disney for so long doing voice for everything. And this song is just the ultimate, it's the ultimate deal with the devil. It's, I mean, but the devil is the one singing the song. I think the villains always have great tunes. Oh, they do.

[00:53:55] This is what's so great about, about Disney stuff is, is that the villains always, we, we get the, I want, I need, I wish song from the hero or heroine. And then we get the no song from the villain at some point. Well, but isn't that also kind of like there, I want, I need song, but it's all like warped because it's a villain. Yeah.

[00:54:25] I suppose that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Hellfire is definitely an I want song. One song is happy and floaty. The other one is very sharp and angular. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I, yeah. It's, it's, it's one of, it's one of my favorite Disney songs ever. Poor unfortunate souls. That's a, yeah. It's a very, very good one. I think I, I, I think I ended up kind of lingering around the, I want energy, but with

[00:54:54] a, like unresolved, like feeling to it, which, which ended up kind of revealing itself to me while I was putting this together. Yeah. All right. Well, let me, anybody, did anybody have any honorable mentions, any that they left off their list or anything like that? I mean, there's, it's a, it's a massive song book. So like we don't, obviously there's a ton that we left on the table, but any that like almost made your list that you want to mention? I have a few.

[00:55:23] I really wanted to try to get in a world of my own from Alice in Wonderland in there. Everybody wants to be a cat could have been the like single from the album that, you know, then you buy the album and you're like, what the, what, what's this? Um, and then I also wanted, I, if, if I really was going to flesh out the album, I would add like some instrumental stuff like, uh, Yoho, the scare me version.

[00:55:53] Cause it has a lot of bass flute in it. And so does the jungle book. And so there would be this like, and I, I also wanted to have an instrumental, I think it's called jungle beat from the jungle book, which has a lot of, basically there was going to be a through line of that instrumentation that ends with my own home, which has a lot of, you're basically landing in a sploosh of a bass flute.

[00:56:21] So like 20 years ago, were you a big one on mixtapes and mix CDs? Yes. That was a very important, very defining skill for some of us. Growing up. Yeah. Yeah. And no one had preached, no one noticed the like through line, but that one friend, everyone's on, I was like, okay, what did you do here? What were your, what were your discs? Music that doesn't suck.

[00:56:51] Music that doesn't suck. Volumes one through 19. I still, I, I still link together certain songs because of those albums. Yeah. Cause that, that was one of the things we do. We'd like the songs that go, but I wouldn't stop. I was like legitimately mixing the songs. Like sometimes, you know, do a little pitch shift, you know, kind of get it. So it like, kind of keeps going except instead of being a bunch of dance music, it was like rock things that I like music.

[00:57:20] That doesn't suck. One of the discs had no one ever found it and I never expected them to, but one of the discs had up a hidden mystery track on it. If you put the CD in and your CD player would allow it, you could rewind into. Oh, one of the rewinds. And I put in a song, I put in like the music that plays when they're revealing your prizes on the prices, right? Oh my goodness.

[00:57:48] They might be giants did that on an album. That's where the song, the token back to Brooklyn was played. And that was one of those things on the internet where it's like, you guys got to do this. Yeah. Ryan, I know you said that there are some kids that listen to this podcast. So I want to take my one and say, we used to listen to things on music on things called CDs. It was not an investment.

[00:58:15] It was a, it was, it stood for compact disc because before there were larger discs called records. You might know those. You probably have a teacher who's like way into them. Well, now we call them vinyl. Vinyl. Yes. Yeah. So what they would do is they would take the pants from the seventies and they melt them down and they turn them into music. And then they melted them down again and turn them into pop. Turn them back. Yeah.

[00:58:43] And then they turn them back into pants for a brief period of time. And then back into the big music. It's a circle of life, which is my sixth track. Circle of life was on my list. Yeah. Circle of life was there. I was also leaning towards, I wanted to try and get something good from like the Marvel universe that got added. But unsurprisingly, there's very little notable there. Yeah.

[00:59:12] Alan Silvestri is like fine. Bubba dump. Bubba dump. Bubba dump. Yeah. Yeah. Ludwig Goranson does some good work on the Black Panther films. Those have some good soundtrack pieces. Oh, Ludwig's best on Mandalorian though. Hmm. That's fair. I only recently found out that the music in the Avengers campus is not just the Avengers theme over and over again. Some of it's Ant-Man. Well, I know.

[00:59:42] But then I had to like stop and like find a recording of it and listen to it and see the things. And I was like, oh, they really just do all sound the same. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you know Ludwig Goranson got his start on Community and then was in Childish Gambino's band for a while? I didn't know that. Yeah. I knew about Community. Yeah.

[01:00:07] I was listening to, I forget what podcast it was. It was the Dave Chang podcast and he had the jerk from Community. Why can't I think? Jeffy Chase. No, I mean, not the real life jerk. Jeff, the guy who played Jeff. What the hell? We have to come up with something quick or either the right thing or the wrong thing. Joel McHale. Joel McHale. Yeah.

[01:00:37] There we go. Joel McHale. I like Joel McHale. Yeah. The guy from the soup. Yeah, exactly. But he was talking about Ludwig Goranson and in the light of the Mandalorian. Coming out. Anyway. Cool. Well, let me read through our albums. If you have a name for your album, chime in after I read off your album track list. So mine is Let It Go by New Found Glory. Whole New World by Yellow Card.

[01:01:06] Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by The Lost Bros. Lost in the Woods by Weezer. Pineapple Princess by the Kinsey Moore remix. I mean, I'm going to call it Punk Goes Disney because my brain is fried and I can't think of anything more creative than that. So Punk Goes Disney it is. Punk Goes Disney. Exactly. Exactly.

[01:01:28] Dan, you have Little April Shower, Not in Nottingham, Hi Diddly He, D, A Actor's Life for Me, An Actor's Life for Me, Second Star to the Right, and My Own Home. Do you want to name your album? Let's call it Low. Okay. Low. Not that one for contractual obligation reasons.

[01:01:57] J.R., we have When You Wish Upon a Star, Beauty and the Beast, Closing Credits from Star Wars Episode 3, Friend Like Me, and Be Our Guest. Any title to your album? I'm going to call it The Bare Necessities. Ooh, I like it. Not Country Gap. Bare Necessities! Not the Country Gap!

[01:02:21] Eric, we have Hellfire, Be Prepared, Gaston, Cruella DeVille, and Poor Unfortunate Souls. Any name for yours? Villain's Delight. Villain's Delight. I like it. Villain's Delight! The chicken tastes like wood. The funny thing is, so, really funny thing that, like, of this all is I, so nobody other

[01:02:48] than I think maybe Eric, you and I talked about this when we were kind of conceptualizing this episode early on when you, J.R., you were going to be involved. And I thought about this idea of, like, music you could march to or putting together, instead of an album, putting together a marching show. And I'm looking, Eric and J.R., especially, at your lists. Those are marching shows. Like, yeah. Pretty fantastic.

[01:03:18] Well, it's, unsurprisingly, I tend to, like, you know, the music that I listen to tends to be thicker, tends to be a little more heavily orchestrated, tends to suck less. That's fair. Square it out. I mean, we could have added tunes on here, like, You're Welcome. We could have added tunes on here, like, Trash in the Camp, because I know we got a lot of Phil Collins fans here. Oh, boy.

[01:03:47] But we chose to not, or what was that one tune, like, from Tron that got, like, really hot for, like, four seconds? Oh, de-rezzed? Yeah, there you go. But, you know, a lot of that just kind of feels disposable. That's fair. So we have two marching shows and a sulking show. Yeah. And then, I guess, a music festival or something? And then a punk show. Yeah, there we go. And then something for people who like fun music.

[01:04:20] I want to be happy. Why don't you put some ska on there, bro? Ska is the only form of music. Do you know that there was an album that it's entirely, it's a whole album tribute to George Floyd in Ska? Like, did we need that? Oh, my God. That actually doesn't spread.

[01:04:48] That doesn't shock me. And it's actually some, it was like a major group did it, too. And it was like, really, guys? Huh. Oh, gosh. Mighty Mighty Boston's. Yeah. Who did it? Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. That's okay. Well, Boston's famously known for being progressive. The music is not hot. That's fair. Oh, boy. Let's end on that. Yeah.

[01:05:18] Cut that shit. Well, let's get through our plugs here. Dan, what would, where can people find you? I just want to plug my country gap. God, don't we all. Let me think. Well, you have, we have Bowie's planning, which is currently happening. I do that with Eric. Oh, I need to release that, don't I? Probably. Oh, boy.

[01:05:49] Bowie fans, we are currently, we just finished Never Let Me Down and Tonight, and now we're listening to Tin Machine. So take that as an invitation or a warning. I'm not sure. But hey, listen. Listen to us. And there's also the Supreme Resort where we talk about some resorts that are good. Supreme, even. Some might say. They have sour cream and tomatoes on them.

[01:06:19] That's the difference. All right. J.R. What would you like to mention? By the way, listen to the Dollywood episode. It's really fun. Well, I am supposedly a professional musician and composer. So you can find all sorts of stuff about me at my website, trump.org.

[01:06:44] Or you can even buy my debut album at jrtrump.bandcamp.com. It'll make your teeth white. Actually, it won't do that. But it will be music. What do dentists say? Something like that. Awesome. Thank you. And Eric. Well, if all goes well, I will be on JR's second album.

[01:07:12] It's called the Magma Opus. He's been working on it for a bit. Five years. Gosh. I'm also on the aforementioned Bowie-splaining and the Supreme Resort. I also do Ears Up. I also do... What's the other one? The hub crawl? The hub crawl. Oh, the one people listen to.

[01:07:43] Sometimes you're on spokes. It's just the hub crawls. Right. Yeah. Yes. Crawling up the hub. And I guest on various podcasts from time to time. And if you listen to all of them, your third eye will open. And you can see into time and space. That's right.

[01:08:12] Eric Johnson is spice. My podcasts are folding space. I will close us out. You can find me on Instagram, Tomorrowland Travel Authority. I'm also a Concierge travel planner. So if you guys... If anybody wants to travel to anywhere, not just Disney parks, but really anywhere,

[01:08:41] preferably while listening to the playlist. We're working on our Virgin Galactic contract. So, you know. Just wanted to clarify so you don't get any angry. Good at taking off. Bad at landing. Yeah. So if you need help planning a trip, please reach out. I am super happy to do that. And I will also mention... Yeah, this will come out in time.

[01:09:10] I also did just launch an Etsy store. It's Buck and Ears. Spelled B-U-C-C-A-N-E-A-R-S. Like a play on words. Clever. Outpost. I'm selling 3D printed magnets and stuff. So check that one out. Also, my other show, Puny Pod. David and I should be putting more episodes out soon. By the time you hear this one, this episode of this show, we should have more Puny Pod out. So go listen to Puny Pod.

[01:09:39] What movie are you on currently? We are on... We are on... Our next movie that we should... Well, our next Marvel thing we should watch is Moon Knight. Okay. But we're slowing down Marvel movies a little bit. Or Marvel content a little bit. Just because we were going too fast and catching up. So I think our next movie is going to be David's choice. Because he won our bet last year.

[01:10:06] And I think he's been wavering. But last I talked to him, he was thinking towards Freaky Tales. Oh, wow. Okay. As his choice of our movie. He strikes me as more of a Fern Gully type of a guy. It was between that and Pee-wee's Playhouse. But... Or Pee-wee's big movie. But, you know. Yeah. If you ever want to talk about Perry, I'm in. Okay.

[01:10:35] Sounds good. Well, what's that you're into in? Perry. If you ever get to Perry, the Disney movie about the squirrel. Yes. How about Madam Web? I'll be in on Madam Web. We talked about it. I watched it in theaters and I was impressed. There is a part of me that has debated doing that whole Sony Villainsverse thing that they

[01:10:59] tried to do with Madam Web and Craven and Morbius and just put ourselves through that punishment. If you guys do Song of the South, I'll show up for that. I'd be totally down for Morbius. I am morbidly curious about Morbius. It's Morbin time. All right. Well, thank you listeners for drafting with us.

[01:11:28] And thank you guests and Eric for being here. Truthfully, truthfully appreciate y'all. We will see you next time in Fantasyland.