God Loves You, Mark Bonanno Feat. Tom

[Music] A list-nuff production. [Music] Wow, wow, you all have been waiting a whole week, so have we, one week we've been waiting. Finally, we get to play our concept album to Mark. We know what the songs are about. We know what the songs are. Mark doesn't get ready for a very tight listen as we play those songs to Mark. [Music] Welcome to another one for week, folks. Of? The Anti-Donner Podcast, with a new backdrop if you're watching. Yeah, we've got a new backdrop and sometimes it'll go back to the old backdrop. But for the most part, we are locked into this new backdrop. They've also made another backdrop, so we're going to interchange. Oh, very nice. Anyway. Anyway, Mark, are you feeling better? From last week you weren't here. I was so sick. But you're feeling better? Oh, yeah. Now? Much better. Last week? No, good. Say, as you all know. Next week? Next week? We'll see. We'll see. But this week? We'll go good. And last week? No, good. This week though, right as rain. Last week? Cloudy days. Did you check about next week? Next week? Don't know the forecast. I'd love to add in the week before last week. I was on my tipitose. Ready for what was to come. Which was? Cloudy days. Rainy skies. Oh no, what about this week? This week? Beautiful blue, clear clouds. Not a grey cloud in the sky, sunny days. Next week? Haven't you had the forecast? Don't know. Need to ask the weatherman. Can I just check if we're not talking about weather right now? I don't know. Yeah, you're talking about your health or the weather. I've gotten a lot of things. We were asking you about your health and then you started talking about weather. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am unsure what's going on. Great. That's where we want you right there. Good. Don't eat the fruit. Can I ask that you don't eat the fruit? It's my breakfast. Yeah, but this is a work in time. I know. And I don't have a fork. So I've been. So for everyone listening at home, I've got a plastic box of fruit. Yeah, with some money. So many different kinds of fruit mark. For the listener. Yeah. This is a tropical fruit meat. So tropical fruit. Now we're getting closer. Yeah, yeah. We've got some blueberries. Now we're talking some pineapple and some kiwi fruit. If I may say the holy trinity of my favourite fruit. Now, it's a tropical. It's a tropical. It's a tropical fruit. I'm sitting at home and I'm thinking, wow, they've really splashed out to be one third blueberries, one third. You wish mate. You wish. No, we're talking about a 90% pineapple ratio. Yeah. We have one kiwi fruit chopped in half and then there are maximum 10 blueberries scattered about it. Yeah, you know what I mean? My name's Frustalids and it's just that fucking green rock melon shit. Yeah, I got it now. And a great fucking touch it. I don't touch it. And I always hide it. This one. It's one of my favourite. And everyone hates the most. Sorry. The answer to your question is, I admire the honesty. It's in a clear container. Like they've tried to get you by putting all the good stuff on top. Yeah. But also, I quite like pineapple, you know? I would have gone full pineapple. I was looking for full pineapple. And then when I saw pineapple with a peppering of blueberries and a kiwi fruit in there, I was like, well, that's a very lovely combination. Would you say blueberries are the pepper of the fruit world? Yeah. I would say that. Of the fruits that mark. Don't you open that fucking container. No, no. Well, I don't want to get my fingers all sticky and. Mark, you don't have time for that. Last week, we brought in Tom, who is here. Hi. Yes. Now, Tom Zahari is a musician, sound designer and. Father. Father. And podcast producer. And father. Father for these days? Yeah. And father figure to. He's a journalist. A number of people. And father to children. And father figure as well to his children. I call him Daddy. Yeah. Well, Daddy has taken on a different meaning in popular culture in the last few years, Mark. Yeah. Pedro Pascal is a Daddy. Yeah. He got them right he is. Tom is both Daddy. Do you touch him feeling for me? Dad at home. It's his anxiety. Tom is Dad at home. Daddy at work. And you are? Well, Daddy at the club. Father figure at work. Yeah. You were Daddy figure at the club? Yes. Okay. When Daddy is at the club, Daddy be smacking that ass. Okay. Let's move on. So. Now, as you all know, lastly. We made a commitment. Don't cry. Three years ago. Three years ago. You don't have to. No, but I'm just going to say we made a commitment a few months ago. Don't a few years ago. You're not bank podcasts. Yeah. Well, no, and I'm just saying we made that commitment. Yeah. And we've been recording and fresh every week since. But Zach and I and Tom were. Hidden the head by a large piece of wood. So a very big piece of wood. The same piece of wood that made my weight fluctuate months. And. And my head. And my head. And my head. And my head. My head grew six months. But yeah, we were. The background change. Very powerful piece of wood. The biggest. It was a magical piece of wood. In fact, there was a wizard holding the wood. Really. It was a. Trude. There was a wizard holding the wood. And the wizard said to us, "This be not no normal piece of wood." This piece of wood hold magic within. For when you are hit with it, it will not be a memory lost. But many months will have passed. The memory will not be gone. It will be faded. The length that your hair be grown. And I said, "Is it going to travel us through time?" He said, "No, time will stay, but you will move." It's kind of like in the steller, he said. But opposite. And he hit us and then the police shot him. So it's. What's the opposite of a bookcase? A. Streaming service. Yeah. Are you trapped in like fiber optic cables? No, we've gone to less gravity, I guess. Maybe it's heavy. Yeah, right. No, with the opposite, we've been really light. I would say the opposite of a bookcase is a giant book filled with tiny bookcases. Yeah. Oh, clever. Right in, if you think. A tiny book. Book, tiny book. You would call that bookcase a bookcase case. Well, the book is knowledge. And you gain knowledge from reading books. I guess the opposite of that is getting shot in the head maybe. So maybe it's a gun. What's going to happen to the whips? Maybe it's a gun store? Anyway, what we've been informed is before we hit the wood, I mean, we hit with the wood by the wizard. Just think about that. The fourth act of interstellar happening in a gun store rather than a bookcase. And he's pulling the trick. And he's really old. And he's really old. He's really old. He's really old. Yeah. And at the very end, he's really old. And they're like, "We want you to meet your daughter." And it's the same child actress. He's like, "Oh, I missed your whole loss." The dialogue is the same. And then she's like, "This little girl." She's like, "You have to go. You have to keep on looking." Stop talking about interstellar. Did the opposite for five seconds. I mean, this one, "Why can I say one thing?" No. More interstellar. No more interstellar. That's sad. Now, what we've been told. Yeah, so the wood, basically what's happened is we've forgotten last week, but we wrote some songs without you. Why would you do that? Because you fucking were sick. I think I think. I think he was un. What are you having in the answer? They beat that. Just beat that. You'll know what that was. He was working on something that you'll find out about soon. Yeah. So we wrote a song. Lindsay's that right? Yeah. Yeah. What was the song? What was the song? Why did we do that? Because it was last week. It was only last week. Why did we do that? But it gets Lindsay a wizard assaulted. Tom's second eye. With his wizard wood. And then he was shot by a policeman. You know the wizard wood? He walks around south by himself. Have you seen the wizard with these big piece of wood? Me personally. Yeah. I know I haven't seen anything. That's crazy. Because I went to the. For the podcast. Lindsay. So wizard, Lathy, he hit us in the head and changed how we look and our memories. You remember this Lindsay? I remember Mark wasn't here. Why? Because of the Beeped project. Why were we making songs? Because Tom was here. Sure. Yeah. Great. That's a great reason. But that makes sense. Do you remember more detail? Or were you? Oh my god. Lindsay, were you also hit with the wizard's wood? Oh, that damn. Lindsay. Okay. I just need a little bit of clarity. So, what happens when you. Did you get hit with the wizard wood? Presong or post song? And it's made. Presong to make you write the song? Or post song to make you forget what happened last week? Oh, what happened last week? So last week, when we recorded the podcast last week. Of course. We did some stuff. And then we said, next week we'll have Mark on, we'll play these songs for Mark. Yes. I thought my life would be the same. Then we stepped out. This is. I believe what happened. We stepped out of the offices of listener. And the wizard with his wizard wood approached us. Explain to us. We were going out for burgers. Explain to us. Your memory. And then he hit us with the word, right? So then and the affliction of that word is that it feels like it's been months since you've done the podcast. But did he explain because in your version, he went, yeah, you're met and then he said, but did he, yeah, that it cut himself. He cut himself off. You went, the wizard came out and he said, you're met and then he hit us with the word. And I just said, yeah. So what I'm asking you is, did he cut himself off before he explained himself and truck you and assaulted you? Or did he explain himself? Sorry, I was doing that to like make the space, right? Right. So he said, you're met and then he hit us. But this is all in one motion, right? So I want you to imagine the hitting happening because he was like, and then he was like, you're, you're, your memory will, you know, say he kept talking, right? And there's like, your memory will, but to us, because we were hit with the word at net. Or you heard it felt like you're met, hit with the word and then you might, and then it felt like months later. Marie. Marie. My first memory is Marie will be gone shortly. You will only remember certain things and your, how you look will fluctuate. Who's Marie? Exactly. But I'm, I'm positive that he said your memory will. So because in that line, he did the magic. Right? You understand? Because this is important law building in order for us to cover up the fact that we're going to be, exactly. Anyway, have not banked. Or you need to know is that we recorded some songs. None of us remember because of Wizard hit us with wood. Right. Now, we're going to play them to you. Beautiful. To get feedback. Feedback Lindsay is that? I don't tell them remember. I think by the end of the episode, you were talking about recording it all as an album. Yeah. Yeah. You guys wrote a whole album. Right. And now we have to get a whole album. And it's just to get your sign off. That's really important to acknowledge how incredible that is. People, you two have worked for years writing songs and making albums and you guys did it in one bank to podcast a month ago. Mark, we will have the first album that is longer than the time it took to make it. Wow. So I understand there's seven songs. That's incredible. Is that an EP? Yeah. Yeah. That's an EP. Yeah. So I think of it as a sharp, like burst onto the seed. It depends. Yeah. Is it Prague? Because if it's Prague, you can make the songs go for 20 minutes. That's a lot. All right. Or have you seen that footage of Green Day playing Duky? Two. Yeah. Or what's the time of your life on? Or good riddance? What's good riddance on? What's it on? What album? It's on Nimrod. And people listening to it. Okay. Or in some kind of monster when they play through St. Anger. Yeah. You're the producer or the father figure or whatever. But we just need your ticket approval. Okay. Great. Should we play track one? Do I get the names of the tracks? Oh, no. No. Okay. We can name them after we listen. We can name them after you. I don't remember them. All right. So wait. But what you're going to hear now is recordings we did. Last week. Last week. I think we talked about all that stuff after we've played it. I think it would be nice to hear something before it. I do. Just turn it in and say, you're about to watch a movie that is about this. Well, I've never sat in his private screening room. I've never. But you go to the movie and you, I mean, he does show it. He talks about it. He talks about it. So yeah, I don't have that example. Yes, I made a movie. Contour. I mean, here it is. I have. That at the aster, I believe, or the four a few times. Yeah. If you, if we, if you don't sometimes some cruise, there's a little video. Yeah, sometimes I'll see you. Sometimes I'll see you. Sometimes them at screenings at, yeah. Sometimes, yeah. It's got a point. Yeah. I guess every director always gives a preamble to every movie. Thank you. In any session. Let me bluff it. Okay. Here we go. All right. So this song, Mark, this was the first song we worked on, or at least the first one of the collection you're about to hear that we worked on. First track on the EP. I think that's something we really want to leave up to you. Uh-huh. I want, when you put it in an order for a reason. I want you to realize that there is a sense of discovery here and we were trying to explore different genres. This piece, see if you can guess what genre this is and what we were trying to do with this one. And have these been mixed and mastered, Tom? No. All right. Okay. So this is just raw. This is raw. This is a demo. This is a demo. Yeah. All right. Cool. I would have expected to have been given something a little more. No, we only had a week. That's fair. I'm going to spin that shit, DJ. Um, Naftba Naft was born in 1988. He exploded on the scene with a unique brand of sketch comedy. Uh, he's got a beard and a barefoot and a bomb. That's what you are. That's what you are. Back to the chorus. Pause it. Yeah. So the song ends with me saying pause. Yeah. And that's deliberate. Right. Well, it's just a demo. Yeah. Mmm, but that will stay. Okay. Bad beard, bomb. I'd rather leave. I don't want to. I don't want to. You know, I don't do lyrics in my line of nights. I understand that. And I do understand the idea of ambiguity and art. But I'm just asking if that's what you said. Which is like, that shouldn't be ambiguous. Just like what we said. About me. Like, that's not about the ambiguity. Yeah. That's not an abstraction. I'm just literally, is that, are those the words? So you're asking what words were I singing? Because it sounds like bad beard, bomb. Bad beard, bomb. Oh, no, no, no. No, that's not what's being said. Well, it's just a whole album. All right. Just a couple lines. What do you have? What do you think of that? I did not expect to hear my date of birth tied in with. Did you expect to hear my date of birth and then my bio, which is actually the anti-donna bio, I believe that's the one that is on most Wikipedia pages. So. Yeah. So that was odd to hear that kind of just put into it. I was surprised that it was about me. But I guess makes sense. You guys are obsessed with me, especially when I'm gone. Am I right? Yeah. So that's fine. And then I liked how it was about my beard, but then what's confusing is bad beard, bomb. So I don't think that was the lyric. What was it? I think it's important for you to interpret that yourself. Right. All right. I did like the. That was actually really cool. Good music. Yeah. All right. That was beautiful. Next track. Hit it. Got a friend called Mopinano. ♪ He's not where his shoes ♪ ♪ Mopinano is ♪ ♪ He's ♪ ♪ Love is blues clues ♪ ♪ Wow ♪ ♪ I know Mopinano ♪ ♪ From a place called Where it Be ♪ ♪ And that's the only way ♪ ♪ He knows where to be ♪ ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ He works hard ♪ ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ He does jokes about farts ♪ ♪ He knows it can be ♪ ♪ The hardest of journeys ♪ ♪ He knows it can be ♪ ♪ Harder than you can see ♪ ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ He did not come today ♪ ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ It makes me sad to say ♪ ♪ God loves you Mopinano ♪ ♪ You know ♪ ♪ God loves you Mopinano ♪ ♪ You know ♪ ♪ You know ♪ ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ God loves you ♪ Bring it down there. Got a friend called Mopinano made him out back ballerat down by the gravy spot. He put a sock on his sack. It's funny, it's a little man. ♪ Mopinano ♪ ♪ God a big heart ♪ ♪ Works hard every day ♪ ♪ That's Mopinano ♪ Got a beard, got no shoes. 基로래� natuur에서 부� relatable Rono sposób 로그 ♪ Mabin' ono ♪ (singing) (singing) (singing) (singing) (singing) (singing) Samuel (singing) (singing) (singing) (singing) This is great That's it So you'll see through a thing or a frame we have Self-affirmation Discuss every song after we've seen We can play the next one Watch it This is a part of me that kind of just wants to get through it now I'm starting to feel Starting to feel a theme emerging What? Mark Bonanno? Yeah a little bit That's interesting that that's how you would interpret those lyrics I don't like blues clues that much I think the figure in that song See that's a power of I think we were going to You think that song's about you Well I mean I don't mean to be It's just, you know, it says my name a lot It says God loves me Does that make you feel good Well the, what can I say Beautiful harmonies That's two That's two performers working in Unison You know that's 14 years of harmonizing Of harmonizing And did you play the guitar on that? I found some loops Yeah nice Alright that's even better in some ways I'm feeling good It's interesting so you thinking there's a pattern emerging It's hard to say it too let's see I can't remember if there is a pattern Let's see, track through This to me all would make sense if I was dead Let's play the next one Fuck it, fuck it now Just finding it Yeah There wasn't fun Oh God Man, I'm not It's still a home I'm not He wanted to know What life was like James Blunt Well I'll sing Well it's a song Falling down Oh yeah I'm trying Oh no Oh no It just made me feel good I will not be mad I will not be mad That bit is so bad Not been a no Not been a no Not been a no Not been a no So I just remembered one of the Throughlines Like I was wet Yeah I forgot about that too There's another throughlines No one finds out It was very delicate What did you hear? I have the fight Always funny What else did you think about the Going for a bit of a I'll give away some of the influences there Going for a bit of a perfume genius Sophia and Steven's vibe Oh okay yeah I heard James Blunt I have a bit of James Love a bit of Blunt Have very soft There was a bit about sin So there's a godly sort of Christian He finds his own version of Christianity Through his work Obviously the country music of earlier We're really trying to embrace the themes of the genre there I wouldn't read too much into the god style Now a vibe for the album It's a concept album Right Should we play track 4 I guess that we must Yeah No one that who tells a lot of lies He's the best when you improvise His name is Mark Bonano Mark Bonano He's revising his word He knows Mark Bonano Mark Bonano Mark Bonano Mark Bonano Mark Bonano I'll just pause it there Yeah So what do you think? Do you think that one Well that just sounds like a mistake A mistake A mistake A mistake No No I mean both right I believe you're mistaken That's not a song That was an attempt A short, sharp punky That was an attempt at something Why do you think that was an attempt at something? Because it starts Not much happens And then someone says pause I believe it's prone And then there's not It's interesting you read it that way It sounds like a Like a soft, the bloodduster track to me I don't know if that resonates But then you want a mistabled note No, no, no, no Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a little more brutal I'm a little more on the grind But it's a good thing. Well, track was at track four or five Yeah, that was far I think. Good track four, isn't it? Yeah, whoa, where are I? You know, we wanted the album We wanted the album, I think, to It's not the film by genre But there are some It's quite flectic, I guess you would say We tried to do an album that's not combined by genre but there are there thematic links between the song Oh, yeah, that's one. I would say the ones that are coming out of the main. Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, my banana Uh-huh Christ And like in you know, when talking about God and sin, I think that's more of a genre thing you hit Sofia and Steven's you're firing but there was God in the early one That was a country song Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, I wouldn't read too much into it. We don't think you're a sinner I mean that, yeah, I'm not, I'm not All right, so the answer to Steven's explore sin in his work Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh five track five now this is I'm very keen for your thoughts on this one Hit it All right, this is a form of an American Yeah, four minutes Here we go, I think I can do a verse here Yep What's that trumpet? I like that it is a little Justin Timberlake but I don't mind it so then you take it away you go I know a man Call him up and I know All right I has lots of style that is what I know I know a man His name is my banana he's got great style War is suit around for a little while Yeah No banana Yeah, he wears different things Things bowed his brand and raised pants could giggle That man, my banana he wears cool clothes And that, for that I don't love Style substance fun passion Oh, she's a good song That's the mouth banana way Style substance fun sun Sun Style fashion That's my banana way My banana that man's got great style I want stola suit and ward around for a little while My banana Great great style My banana Stola suit ward around for a little while Yeah, stola Let's vibe it out Mmm Oh Come play that while this is what I can do Yeah, that's good It's a broken word I'm really enjoying My banana He's got great style War is suit around for a little while My banana He's got great style What's our stola suit and ward around for a little while Fashion Session Yeah, huh What? Fashion Session Oh yeah Fashion Bob and I know Stola suit ward around for a little while I know my banana They're not playing with my banana He ain't no bitch He likes to play his switch Play his elder Play Mario Kart 2 What does he really on? He eats the dinner Says thank you Bob and I know He's got great style Took his suit War around for a little while Style MAP and I know Substance MAP and I know Fashion The MAP got great style Don't you know Fashion Fashion Style Substance MAP and I know He's normal height He's just around our two guys who are taller than him You see Fashion Fashion Style Substance MAP and I know Fashion Session Style Session Session Session Session Session ♪ Run that Zakka Chos, taller than you think ♪ ♪ No we're back on, my friend ♪ ♪ No, go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪ - That's a punk, punk, punk, punk, punk, punk. - Yeah, that's good. - No, watch as well. - Very good. - Want to sing to this? - Yeah. - That was a joke. - Yeah, that was a joke. - Let's do it. - Let's do it. - I'll never let it. - Let's do it. Passion, passion, style, substance. - See, that has something that I've been missing in music for a while, which is the vocalists, the just commenting on the song, and how much they like it during the track. Not enough music does that. - What's the thing about comedy, we know this. The audience feels about the show the way you tell them. If you tell an audience, a comedian, if you ever been to a comedy show where you're watching it and the comedian goes, "God, this show's going badly." And you think, "Well, I thought it was all right." That's clearly your impression. And now you've imposed that on me. I guess it is doing badly. Number one, we're all a comedy. You don't say the show is going badly. We thought, "What if we reverse it and apply it to music?" - This is good. - This is good. And then people were going, "Yeah." (laughing) So the EPism is evolving. There were some extra themes in that one, which I thought were interesting. It introduced my friends, Broden and Zach, who have big DJs. - And swing them around. - And that I'm not as short as maybe people think. And you're all quite tall. - The chorus is, "Mapanana, he's got great style. Took his suit, wore a band, but then I like the drill into that for a little bit." - Well, yeah. So there's a meteorite coming. I wore your suit that you found somewhere. Like it was like a plaid brown suit. And it was had flares and very nice. Fit me beautifully. - I remember, I got that at retro star. - Yeah, and so I wore that around for all the while. - The first suit I ever bought for myself, my friend Kira, she was there. - And I Kira. - I don't remember. I do remember that suit. I didn't remember that it was Mark's. But now that I think about it. - I definitely don't remember you just wearing it around. - For a little while. - All right. All right. Did I say that was okay? - Yeah, I think, can I do an impersonation of you in 2010, please? - Oh, I love this guy wear it to something. - Yeah, man, that's all right. - Now your voice is lowered since then. - Yeah, my balls dropped. - But spirit of you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That song's about a guy we know, who has great style. - Yeah. - Who's a very stylish guy we know. - In that kind of like. - I would love to make a video clip for that. Put it on YouTube. - To fucking bang on. - Yeah, it's a genuine guy. - Yeah, it's really good. It's really good. - And just you being stylish. - Yeah, yeah. - You're a Mark, could play that friend. - Well, I think, oh. - I think it's better we leave it and mystery who that friend is. - You know, maybe you could play him. - No, I just think ever since Leonard Cohen revealed to Chelsea Hotel number two is about, it took a little bit of the magic away. - Right. - And I think it's the same thing. I can't remember one of them. And it's the same thing with this. I think that if we say exactly which friend that is, it's about a friend of ours who has great style, who's shorter than us, but is normal high. And people think he's short and we're normal, rather than he's normal and we're tall. - And it's an anecdote about me taking his suit around for a little while, similar to the one that I did with you. - Yeah, that's 15 years ago. - That's interesting. I just thought that you rhymed style with a while. I never realized there was truth to that. Isn't that amazing? Even in collaboration, there are things to discover about a work. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Shall we hear the six, yeah. - We got seven tracks, yeah. I think we moved into, yeah, yeah. Let's have a listen. I think we get, - Also, I would love to prefer to, we really started to feel the vibe. - Yeah, I think we're vibe in it this way. - So does that mean the tracks get longer? - Yes, I think they get longer. And I think they also get like a certain degree more confident and less feeling the need to be funny. - Because there's a record that I love. (laughing) There's a record that I love by an artist I love. It's called "Empaths" by a man called Devon Townsend. - Yeah, yeah. - Now you guys might know about Devon Townsend from my soil work, speech that I, - Everyday, time. - That I gave, right? I mentioned him, he's strapping young lad. He produced "Natural Born Chaos" if you remember correctly. And he, in 2018, released an album called "Empath" and it was him just going, "This is what I wanna do." And in the liner notes, in the notes on the album, he says, "This is not an easy listen." (laughing) Because it ends with a 20 minute track. - Yeah, I think that's a lot of the tracks along. It's kind of really him just doing exactly what he wants, you know, really doing the, put the audience last kind of mentality. That is so important for this record that you add, that you add a note just saying, not an easy listen. In fact, it gets more difficult. I'm struggling. - I think it's this podcast like "Slow It Is" well, yeah, it should be. - This is not entertainment. And I would add, nor is it an easy listen. - This is not entertainment, nor is it an easy listen. Now Mark, I just wanna say one thing, these are just demos. - Right. - So when you hear that, you know, the one that's giving James Blanc, Sofia and Blanc, obviously we're gonna rerecord the vocals, give them a more, serial quality. - Quality. - If we can be faster. - If there is enough demand, we're on tour right now, I believe, as this is coming out. - Well, not just I believe we're recording this. - We're recording this in. - From wherever we are. - From New York. - Yeah. - 'Cause we've had "Never to Bank." We've got a show tonight in New York City. So we better get on with it, I think. - Here's the next track, the sixth track. - Yeah. - Let's try this, I haven't listened to it. (upbeat music) - I can tell you this. - Take it. ♪ I knew a man he was ♪ ♪ Toller than you think ♪ ♪ He was surrounded by two men that were toller ♪ ♪ Two men, a six foot tall ♪ ♪ One man, a five, ten ♪ ♪ Everyone thinks that they were normal ♪ ♪ What is normal? ♪ ♪ He's got the same size ♪ ♪ He's a shoe, a sack ♪ ♪ Before that the man doesn't lack, here we go ♪ ♪ I know a man that was toller than you think ♪ ♪ He went to town and made you toller drinks ♪ ♪ He'd like to sing and make a happy time ♪ ♪ Baby, dog, baby, dog ♪ ♪ He did not know what to be sublime ♪ ♪ He was ♪ - What's that bass? - Just testing some stuff. - Yeah, I think. - There we go. ♪ Is normal, hyped, brother and sack ♪ ♪ Are taller than you think ♪ ♪ But brother, is taller, hyped ♪ ♪ He's just surrounded by men that are taller ♪ ♪ Than they look high now, six ♪ ♪ Thank you, I'll be right here ♪ ♪ But it's, let's run ♪ ♪ Gotta be okay ♪ ♪ It's gonna be okay ♪ ♪ Gotta be okay ♪ ♪ He's taller than you think ♪ ♪ But it's gonna be okay ♪ ♪ But it's gonna be okay ♪ ♪ It's a jam, man, that's six, what's wrong ♪ ♪ But it's gonna be okay, I gotta be okay ♪ ♪ What man is taller than you think ♪ ♪ Gotta be okay ♪ - So I did forget some subtle queer themes of it in the latter end of the album. - What? - I don't understand that. - It's gonna be okay. - But I think that's a message that can be. - It's for everyone. - Yeah. - It's for everyone. - Like pet shop boys, it's for everyone. - Okay. - Why'd you think of that song? - Would you think that, Mark? - I genuinely really liked the idea that one person is saying, one man is taller than you think and the other is saying it's gonna be okay. Comedically, I think that's really quite good. - Yeah. - Like, I'm saying you're coming right. - Is that funny? Over this journey of this album, where you are now? - That's genuinely like, like, like, that's genius. Like, that's this close to being like a proper song that I would want to put out as a bit done. - It's crazy. - It's quite good. - Well, that'll be on the album. - I really really. - It's just something very funny about one singer who's going, a friend I know is taller than you think and the other's going, it's gonna be okay. Those two ideas of the top of each other, here we go. - He's inspired. And I'm not being sarcastic. I'm not joking. If someone pitched that in a meeting, that would be the one that I would then go, we need to make sure that that stays pure. And we don't infect that. We're trying to turn it into anything else. - No, what's the joke? Just do it. That's really. really good. But I think what we're trying to say in that piece is if you live in a world of tall people, you're going to feel short, but there's no such thing as normal. Yeah, whatever. It's just really good. But yeah, funny where you've come on this album, I feel points, there's been a reticence from you to really embrace it. But at that six one, all of a sudden it's all starting, when you go back and think of the older ones, how do you think about them now? They're not as good. They know when ERA is good. What about that 10 second one? The 10 second punk one I think could be easily cut. Yeah, what a band. I think it's already quite short. I meant a cut from the album. But he paid around it. Making around six. It just needs a bit more substance. It's a nugget. Like you said, they're demos. Yeah. It's not as strong. Are you ready to end this? Yeah. Now, once again, I will reiterate, as this comes back to me, we do, as we just said, we do start to sell them. There's a bit of self indulgence. It's a little bit more. Creeping indulgent. How long is this next one? I don't know. I don't know. Lindsay, how long is it? Four minutes 42. It's a full song. Maybe I was listening to a lot of pet shop boys at the time. I don't know if that influenced this one. Yeah, at the time of last week. Still listening to them. Yeah, so it checks out. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, strap in four minutes. Fuck. Here we go. Here it is. I love a long song, by the way. But four minutes is quite short. Yeah, it's just a full. It's almost radio play. Yeah. Anyway, here we go. Hey, my. I know this is just the final. No, no. Oh, this is a great one. This has been a concept. Oh, it's over the revue. About my bow. No, no, wow. You got it. Oh, about around. I did. I know how good you were. I juxtaposed. Oh, fuck. My banana. We made this album for you to tell you how smart, big, clever, stylish and funny you are. Yeah, the, the. I'm so deep in this comedy world now that, um, I don't know where the joke is exactly because you're smart and talented. And this music is good. I guess it's the fact that we're only getting one tape. ♪ IT'S Mark Bloop No-NO ♪ (done singing) ♪ OH GOD ♪ ♪ Oh no manho ♪ - Wow. (done singing) ♪ Bog roe da na no, nod da no, u bland na ♪ ♪ Na na na na no, u u ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪ ♪ Mark no-no, u, u ♪ Beautiful control. - Another voice there. Just gonna figure out what that's doing in the middle of it. ♪ Mark no-no, u ♪ - What are they saying? I thought we were gonna say "Marper" don't we? - What are they saying? - Woo. - Trying to clear your mind, I think. (done singing) - I just can't do it. (done singing) - Bye bye. - Maybe a rap? - Okay. - Yeah, yeah. - And then I-- ♪ Mark no-no ♪ - I'll go high right at the end. So let's get the rap in. Let's do a bit, this is a 12-minute song. - Yeah, no, this is a deliberately long one so that you can't burn the CD. (done singing) ♪ Mark no-no, good, bad, you ♪ ♪ Mark no-no ♪ - Survival in your G-E. - S-U-S-S. - Jesus. - M-A-R-K. - That spells Jesus, Mark. (done singing) ♪ What you let me go, no, you never come back ♪ ♪ Will be best that you never never had ♪ ♪ I'll make you feel like that ♪ - Mmm, mmm, this is for you, Mark. (laughing) ♪ I'll make you feel like that ♪ ♪ Mark no-no ♪ ♪ Do you know ♪ ♪ Oh, none of who this concept opens about ♪ ♪ Good vibes and life ♪ ♪ And safe travels on your journey ♪ - All right, now it nails the tone. - Hot. ♪ No ♪ - You do a bit of good buying now, come in. ♪ You know, no, no, good, bad, you ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no, no ♪ - I'm making bang when you make bang bang. ♪ You know, you make bang bang ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no, no ♪ ♪ You make bang bang bang ♪ ♪ You know, you make bang bang ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no ♪ - It's not done with it in my headphones. ♪ Good, bad, you ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no ♪ ♪ You ♪ ♪ Good, bad, you ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no ♪ - You say how they pick you up now. ♪ You make bang when you make bang bang ♪ ♪ Good, bad, you ♪ ♪ Mark, poor, no ♪ ♪ And you ♪ ♪ Good buy ♪ ♪ To ♪ ♪ Mark ♪ - Yeah. - No, no, no. - Yeah. - And then the fuck. (phone ringing) - Mark, this is for you, brother. Thanks for being such a great comedy companion. (laughing) - Well, it was revealed at the end, I suppose. - So as, what, were you said at the start of this, listen to the whole thing? - You know, as we were talking about that friend and that person we worked with, that was talented and stylish, funny and smart, a great improviser. - And you said that could never be me. - I think I did. Isn't that interesting? When you were listening, you thought, well, that sounds like a really cool guy. - Yeah. - But Mark, that was you. - Was me, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said my name in every song. - No, I don't know if it was every song. - No, it was. (laughing) - Absolutely was. - So tell us what he thought. - Yeah, so that's something like, it's in the context of a comedy podcast, it's interesting. 'Cause, you know, if that's sometimes what friends do for the other friends on their birthday, you know, is make them songs as like a funny personal joke. - Yeah. - And so this, I don't know where it's coming from. - Well, I think they just struck us, you know, how cool the guy you are and we just wanted to sing about it. I can't tell you where it comes from, where the, I don't know from whence, the well of creativity finds its water. All I know is that we found it. - If I was to explain my muse to you, it would kill my muse. - Yeah. It's about you, Mark. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Also, I just wanna apologize for saying, I'd been listening to a lot of pet shop boys because that had no impact on that final song. - I just, I thought it did. I thought we did one that was more pet shop boysy. I think it was more on the one before. - That last song was you. - It's gonna be okay like kind of, but that's more 2000s. That last song was in the style of jazz. - Was it? - But do you know who it was about, Mark? - Me. - Yeah. - You. - Like, you know, I can't stand happy birthday being sung to me in my birthday. - Right, I do know that. - Because it's very, it's like the attention thing. - Ooh, ooh. - So I'm like quite shook. - It was a pleasure. - It was all the attention. - Yeah. - And the seven songs about me. It's a lot, it's actually genuinely a lot to process an handle. - Lindsay said, "Initially told me there was nine, but there's not." - Is that what you, 'cause at one point, during one of the songs I looked over at you and you were looking at Lindsay going, you're just shaking your head and going, and so was that cut the last two songs? - Above Lindsay's head, I thought I saw the lead actor from Strictly Ballroom. - Which one? - The guy. - The guy. - The Paul McEureo. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I thought it was him in there. - And was it? - So I just started pointing at him. And then Lindsay and Courtney both looked over, like, what is he, wants to get that? Does he wants to get that man? So I said, no, no, don't get him, don't get him. Don't get that man. But I saw the lead actor from Strictly Ballroom. So I had to start pointing at him. - It was him, you know it was him? - No, I don't know. But it felt like a lot of famous people walked through here. Like once I was sitting here in Bruce McEvani and he was over there. - I haven't seen Strictly Ballroom in so long and I've been meaning to rewatch it for years. - Great. - So it is, in front of the memory, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's a real one. I'm pretty sure it was him. - Wow, is it, was I riding on his name? McEureo? - Yeah, Paul McEureo. - Yeah, well, yeah. - Postive dancing with the stars, right? One of the judges. - No, she, the lead. - Sonya Kruger. - Sonya Kruger. - Yeah, but one of the judges was Paul. - I think he made a pastor with some point. - Yeah. - But Mark, that's pretty funny, isn't it? - Yeah, it's Paul. - Yeah, it's Paul, very cool. The thing is, right, when we were really in it, we started to feel like, - Here's an album that's special, right? - Here's an album that's bigger than. Here's an album that's bigger than Donna that could actually cut through because it's. - I don't know about that. It's got such a wealth of influences and stars. Again, demos. - Demos, yeah, right? So what's up for change? - And you can watch her show on Grouse House. - Sonny Cruz. - Demi's. - Demi. - No, yeah, demos. - Demi's. - What? - Demi's, uh, like a quick scratch track to give an idea of the song. - Hmm. - Yeah mate. - Kind of like an animatic. - You're a fucking idiot. - Don't be a fucking idiot. Broden, we're gonna get Mark's sign off on this. - I need some time to think. - Yeah, you don't need to. - I don't need to waste a week to like process or relish into the songs. Which is, that's a lot to ask of someone. - We need to relish the notes. - To separate your own personal feelings about the fact that all the songs are about you. - Well, that's hard. - Relieved to the listen to the songs. - That's extremely hard to do as, it's a loving tribute. It would be better if I was dead. So I would say play them at my funeral and never again. - Can we get that in writing that you endorsed that? - 'Cause that's pretty fun. - Absolutely. No, if I die on this tour that we're currently on, I'd be very short with this. - Oh, if I get hit by another car. - Give us an install. - Yeah, okay. - The woman in Seattle finishes the job this time. (laughing) She comes back for me and finishes it. - Mark got hit by a car once. - Yeah, in Seattle. - Yeah. - And it was a hit and run. It was great. And so yeah, if that car-- - And it still did the show. That nice. - You did the show. - That night. - I had to go to hospital afterwards. - And then he went to my backspinning. - But yeah, so if that, you know. - Just, I think the lesson of this episode is be safe on the roads. Be safe in your car. Don't be on your phone. Don't be drinking. - Yeah. - 'Cause that one person you hit that you bump you with your car, sure, you might think, fuck, I've just run one guys day. You might be ruining hundreds of - Right. - of old comedy fans' nights. - Yes. And on that show. - Actually, that was a really good show. - That was a great show. - You did a great job. - Well, thanks for listening. Bye. - You've been listening to the AnTuDonna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another great episode brought to you by AnTuDonnaClub.com. See you next week. (upbeat music)