Minion Death Cult - Takin' Back CALI (clip)
Aired: 2020-10-15
Duration: 07:07


=== Feeling Like Takin' Back Cali (02:10) ===

[00:00:00]  So much like, I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of bands you could point to, a lot of artists you could point to where They had to sort of come out with something like catchy and radio friendly in order to like, I don't know, fund their more artistic endeavors, fund their more like real endeavors.
[00:00:27]  You know, it's like, I don't know, it's like Marzvolta putting The Widow on Francis the Mute, you know, just so they could write.
[00:00:37]  Gotta have a radio hit, yeah.
[00:00:39]  Just so they could write like 55 other minutes of Latin jazz fusion, you know?
[00:00:44]  Yeah.
[00:00:46]  I feel like Takin' Back Cali is McGallifornia's The Widow.
[00:00:55]  And I feel like he did that so that he could reply to the popularity of Takin' Back Cali with a true work of art.
[00:01:07]  That might not, you know, might not be appreciated by everybody.
[00:01:13]  And this tweet, I want to caption, I want to read the caption for this tweet, which says, THIS IS A CIVIL WAR BASED ON COMMUNICATION.
[00:01:26]  Yes.
[00:01:28]  And I'm going to play the song.
[00:01:32]  This is a civil war.
[00:01:33]  This is a civil war based upon communication.
[00:01:40]  So fucking good.

=== Sick Primus-Influenced Sound (05:11) ===

[00:01:59]  So fucking good.
[00:02:04]  Uh, so I have to point out first of all, uh, Civil War of communication.
[00:02:10]  Yeah.
[00:02:11]  This is like Minions Law, but like, it's, it's like a meta, it's, it's like a meta expression of Minions Law, which is civil war through communication.
[00:02:25]  This is like shots fired directly at us.
[00:02:28]  The first lines of this song are, Stop!
[00:02:33]  Children, what's that sound?
[00:02:35]  Everybody, look what's going round!
[00:02:37]  It's a revolution of the mind!
[00:02:39]  Eliminating what they deem unkind!
[00:02:44]  Who was that talking in the beginning?
[00:02:47]  Uh, it's a... I don't recognize who he is.
[00:02:51]  He's probably some racist guy.
[00:02:53]  Yeah, clearly.
[00:02:55]  When those vocals hit, because the thing is, that fucking riff, that fucking riff, when it opens, like, I'm ready to open that goddamn pit.
[00:03:04]  It's like a throwdown riff.
[00:03:06]  Yeah, we're stage diving, yeah.
[00:03:08]  This is like, this is a great song.
[00:03:11]  And then those vocals come in, and it's like, kind of extra pissed.
[00:03:14]  Like, I kind of love it.
[00:03:17]  Um, it reminds me of, like, that era of Incubus where they're trying to sound like Primus.
[00:03:26]  Oh, that like the Fungus Among Us type stuff?
[00:03:29]  Yeah, and they like... Science?
[00:03:31]  And they, well, I believe the correct name of that album is S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
[00:03:44]  But it's like they're trying to sound like Primus and it's like they just think like their idea of Primus is just that Primus like sounds bad.
[00:03:54]  Yeah.
[00:03:55]  Like Primus just sounds fucked up, so we're gonna mimic that by like playing random notes on a bass.
[00:04:03]  Nothing random about that, man.
[00:04:06]  And that's kind of like, and the kind of like rapping that uh, what's his name?
[00:04:12]  What's the singer of?
[00:04:12]  Brandon Boyd.
[00:04:14]  kind of rapping that Brandon Boyd does on that album like it's very much like the it's that kind of vocals What if I remember?
[00:04:30]  Yeah, it's like that.
[00:04:35]  No, what you gotta know is that album is actually written, when you plot it out, it's actually Sega Geometry.
[00:04:43]  When you plot out the notes, it's Sega Geometry.
[00:04:48]  I love that it's, stop children, what's that sound?
[00:04:51]  Everybody look what's going round.
[00:04:55]  Uh, because it's almost like, it's like the opposite of what we have now.
[00:04:59]  What we have now in every single like commercial for a movie, a teaser for a movie.
[00:05:05]  What do we have?
[00:05:07]  We have a slowed down, melodramatic, somber, eerie version of a pop song.
[00:05:15]  Of a classic pop song.
[00:05:17]  I mean, look no further than the Dune trailer with a slow, moody, what do you call it?
[00:05:28]  Not ethereal, but ambient sort of version of Pink Floyd's Eclipse.
[00:05:34]  I'm sick of that shit.
[00:05:36]  It's not good anymore.
[00:05:37]  We don't need that shit.
[00:05:38]  What I need is like a new metal rap rock slash beatdown hardcore version of classic 70s pop rock songs.
[00:05:51]  Absolutely.
[00:05:51]  Give me a whole album of exactly that.
[00:05:55]  I just want like a whole album of like Hatebreed does the classics.
[00:06:02]  Stopped into a church!
[00:06:04]  I passed along the way!
[00:06:07]  California Dreamin'!
[00:06:13]  It's what we need.
[00:06:13]  Dude, those gang vocals would be sick though.
[00:06:15]  I'm such a Wednesday!
[00:06:18]  It would be so sick.
[00:06:20]  And then, yeah, and then what?
[00:06:22]  What is the, like, flute solo?
[00:06:25]  What is that?
[00:06:26]  Oh, dude, that's just gonna be just heavy dive-bomb ripping.
[00:06:28]  It's pinch harmonics, dude.
[00:06:33]  Pinch harmonic flute solo.
[00:06:38]  That fucking rules.
[00:06:40]  This can only be recorded on one of those, like, jagged Ibanez guitars.
[00:06:46]  Like, it kind of sucks because I do think that, like, Throwdown's cover of Baby Got Back is better than this song.
[00:06:55]  Oh.
[00:06:57]  It's unfortunate.
[00:06:58]  Dude, I don't know.
[00:06:59]  The end of this song rules.
[00:07:01]  That, like, the end of this song rules.
[00:07:02]  That's like, I don't even think you can count that as the same song.
[00:07:06]  It's like a different song.