30-Minute Music Hour

(city traffic noise) It's the 30 Minute Music Hour. I'm Andy Moore. From Baraboo, Wisconsin, PHOX. HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW I FEEL ALL OF IT TOO YOU KNOW YOU KNOW 1936 BREATHING GARNET HER STONE EVER GLEAMING EDITH'S HOPE IS FOR LOVE BUT SHE DOESN'T HEAR OF HER GRANDCHILDREN GRIEVING NO, ELDEST RAISED BY AL RINGLING SPIRIT GRANTED FROM SING SING ALL OF HER HEART IS FOR DRUGS AND SHE DOESN'T CARE THAT EVERYONE IS LEAVING HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW I FEEL ALL OF IT TOO YOU KNOW HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW I FEEL ALL OF IT TOO YOU KNOW

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HALFWAY IN THE HOUR TOWARD THE MID OF THE NIGHT WE MET OUR HANDS DESPITE OUR WICKED FIGHT AND WE WILL SORT OUR WAY AROUND THIS AWFUL MESS THAT ALL OUR GENES HAVE THROWN AROUND HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW I FEEL ALL OF IT TOO YOU KNOW HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW I FEEL ALL OF IT TOO YOU KNOW

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HER BLOOD IS OUR BLOOD TOO I KNOW

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Pepper and pepper. It's working. NOW YOU CAN CRY YOUR TIME AWAY 'CAUSE ALL YOUR TAUGHT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE THEY'RE TOO LATE IT'S TOO DAMN LATE -

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One, two! THROW YOUR CLUBS AND YOUR SPADES 'TIL THE HOUR'S REAL LATE BUT IT'S TOO HARD TO LOVE YOU WHEN YOUR HEART I CAN'T TAKE AND YOU'D OFFER ME A DIAMOND BUT MY LOVE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO DAMN LATE YOUR CHARMS WERE ALL IN JEST AND I LEAPT, I CONFESS I'LL BE FINE I'VE TAKEN DEEPER BULLETS TO THE CHEST

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WHAT YOU FEARED YOU FEARED THE MOST WAS NOT HAVING ME TO BOAST BY YOUR SIDE DAY AND NIGHT WELL, I'M TAKING OFF THIS TIME AND YOU'D OFFER ME A DIAMOND BUT MY LOVE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO DAMN LATE YOUR CHARMS WERE ALL IN JEST AND I LEAPT, I CONFESS I'LL BE FINE I'VE TAKEN DEEPER BULLETS TO THE CHEST

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Buzz it, buzz it! -

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ZZZZZZZZ Sing it like honey. -

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Sweet like honey. -

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ZZZZZZZZ -

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GONNA GO FAR AWAY ZZZZZZ NOT TO RUN BUT TO STAY FAR AWAY FROM YOUR HAND AND ALL OF YOUR HALF-HEARTED DEMANDS AND YOU'D OFFER ME A DIAMOND BUT MY LOVE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO LATE IT'S TOO DAMN LATE That's a lot of bees.

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Can you hand me a water? My man was out of tune. Okay, I'll just do it. Yeah, you just do it. (chattering) Can you scat the intro? It's that thing. - That thing.

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WEEDING A MILLION NIGHTMARES I CHANCED ONE DREAM IT WAS IN MINT CONDITION IN MY SLEEP FLYING ONE KINGFISHER AS I WAS LOST A MIND PAINTS A LOVELY LANDSCAPE AT THE COST OF LOST ACTUALITY OR SEEING WHAT'S REAL OR DODGING THE PROBLEMATIC WAY YOU FEEL OF LOST ACTUALITY OR SEEING WHAT'S REAL OR DODGING THE PROBLEMATIC WAY YOU FEEL

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WOKE TO AN ANGRY HEADACHE ON YOUR SABBATH DAY OH YES! DEAR I FINALLY REACHED YOU OH NO! WHAT DID I SAY? TAKEN FOR JUST A MOMENT TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT SO BRIEF IN ENTIRETY REVERIE IS MY GODDAMN RIGHT OH, LOST ACTUALITY OR SEEING WHAT'S REAL OR DODGING THE PROBLEMATIC WAY YOU FEEL I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU TO ALL YOU DO AND EVERY IDEA THAT I CREATED I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU TO ALL YOU DO AND EVERY IDEA THAT I CREATED WEEDING A MILLION NIGHTMARES I LOST ONE DREAM IT WAS IN MINT CONDITION IN MY SLEEP

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That box head is hot, isn't it Matt? - Yeah. It looks like it's hot. - It gets warm up here. Matt Holmen, and this is PHOX. Friendship is the name of the release, where 19 tracks are available. Well, some of them are, like, puny, funny, like seven-second things, right? They're very serious monologues. That's part of the Friendship deal, I suppose. Give us a quick introduction. Well, friendship, you don't just get the gold nuggets. You don't just get to go up to someone and get a good piece of wisdom every day. Or, a good pat on the back. Sometimes you get a little backhand or a little BS, you know, in your ear. That's what we're giving. We're trying to give you the whole picture. Well, you can see it even when we're here live. Between songs I think the audience was like, Hey! We're over here! Hey, wait! Guys! There's how you get both sides of the coin. It's real. It's actually happening. Introduce us to your friends. - Of course. This is Monica. I call her Crumb. We've got Trow over here. J Sean, J Sean de Rulo. Dave, his name's Dave. Che, Che Daddy. And of course we've got Ziggin' Zach back here. PHOX collectively is from Baraboo, Wisconsin, correct? - Indeed. Everyone grew up in Baraboo? - Yeah. And everybody graduated from Baraboo High School? Uh-huh, Well, we all attended Baraboo High School. (laughter) I mean, you know, leave it at that. (laughter) Then you migrated to Madison, and further challenging the believe system, you all moved into the same house? - That's correct. How'd that go? -

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It's pretty nice. I really like it. It's a dark place at times, but there's good food to be had, good company. It's nice. The family that eats together, stays together. What's typical night? Lots of us, you know, go home from work and boil a pasta and watch a rerun of Shameless and call it a night. What's a typical night at the PHOX house? I think we end up spending the first part of the day hating ourselves by eating horrible food and watching terrifying television. Or maybe that's me. I don't know. It that a normal day? - Okay, so I'm projecting here. (laughter) No, we eat a lot. Come on now, I'm not the only one that complains about their diet. We eat a lot of cheese. It becomes really dark sometimes. We get into a comatose place. What it sounds like, next to the kitchen, although maybe not physically, but in popularity, there's the wood room. - Yes. And that has got a lot of people in this part of the state talking. What happens in the wood room? I don't know, something special. I think basically what happens is that you're forced to play without all of this stuff that's kind of, like, up in your face, that makes you sound a certain way. I always had a big problem going to see a show, a guy picks up his acoustic guitar, plugs it in, and when it's coming out of the PA, it sounds like your ear, it's, like, inside of the guitar. That's not how you listen to a guitar. You listen to it from a room, and it sounds kind of small and puny sometimes. I love that. I've always enjoyed the way that things actually, naturally sound. I think that room gives you the opportunity to hear what an ear would hear just standing in the center of the room. We usually just do one mic, or maybe so additional bass miking. I don't know, I guess there's a big mirror, so people have to really look at themselves in the face. Listen and look. So, there's some honesty there. Yeah, very frightening. That dynamic has created an environment for some new music, too. Tell us about the next song. I'm going to leave. You tell us, as I walk away, about the brand-new song. Yeah, that's right. - Thanks, PHOX. - Thank you. Yes, this is a new song. It's still being written. Well, they're all still being written. They're all still being written. Right now, it's called "Nobel Heart," and it might sound different next time you hear it. It almost certainly will. - It probably will. (chatter) And there it was. That's it! Thanks for listening to PHOX. DID THEY ALREADY TELL YOU I'M A LOW LEVEL POISON? TO DRINK THROUGH I'D LIKE TO PROVE THEM WRONG BUT PATTERNS SHOW THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH YOURS IS A NOBLE HEART I DON'T DESERVE TO HOLD PLEASE SOMEBODY MAKE ME WEAK KEEP ME AWAY FROM THE SEA BUT SIRENS I SWEAR ARE THE DEATH OF ME I WANT THE MOUTHS OF ALL WHO SING YOURS IS A NOBLE HEART I DON'T DESERVE TO HOLD OH, THIS SCARLET LUST HAS GOT ITS CLAWS IN ME IT'S TAKEN OVER ME IT'S PROVING WHAT I CAN BE FOR ANY MAN AT ALL BUT IF YOU DECIDE THE TWO OF US MAY BE TOGETHER ENDLESSLY BLINDLY, OH BLISSFULLY I'LL WOULD FORGO THEM ALL OH MY DEAR, I'LL GLADLY FORGO THEM ALL (vocalizes)

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This song is called "Evil." It's about an old friend. OH, OH, OH, OH OH, OH OH, OH OH, OH, OH, OH OH, OH OH, OH OH, OH, OH, OH OH, OH OH, OH

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FACE DEEP IN BETWEEN MY BEST FRIEND'S KNEES TELLIN' ME THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HURT ME AND I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ANY WORD FALLIN' OF YOUR PLAIN LIP ISN'T UNCLEAN

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FACE DEEP IN BETWEEN MY BEST FRIEND'S KNEES TELLIN' ME THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HURT ME AND I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ANY WORD FALLIN' OF YOUR PLAIN LIP ISN'T UNCLEAN

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AND I I KNOW THAT EVIL WILL FIND ITS OWN DEMISE FIND ITS OWN DEMISE AND YOU'RE THERE CHILDREN CRAWLING THROUGH YOUR HAIR TELLIN' ME THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HURT ME, NO AND YOU CAN SPEW ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT'VE HAPPENED TO YOU TO YOU MAKE THIS ALL FEEL MORE HUMAN, I SEE WELL I I KNOW THAT EVIL EVIL WILL FIND ITS OWN DEMISE OH, OH, OH, OH I AM SORRY THAT YOU AREN'T REALLY LOVELY I FIND PEACE WHEN I I KNOW THAT EVIL EVIL WILL FIND ITS OWN DEMISE

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NOW I I KNOW THAT EVIL WILL FIND ITS OWN

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Thank you for having us.

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