00:10Well, the song won, I think one of the most memorable things about it is that we had to work
00:15on it for about pretty much four months, constantly, and it took on various shapes and different sounds before we
00:28kind of came to the conclusion
00:30that we sort of need to let go a little bit and make it a little more fun.
00:34We probably worked for three and three-quarters of those months on one version, and then we just changed it.
00:40Which you can find on the internet.
00:43Oh, yeah. The old version?
00:44Yeah, there's an old version of one.
00:45There were so many versions. There were multiple versions.
00:47But there's a version of one that we worked on for months in Woodstock that you can get with the
00:53single, I think, and you can get that, and that's kind of a link between what we were working on.
00:59Yeah. Those songs just take forever to write songs, and we don't know how to do it. We have no
01:04idea how to write songs, so we just kind of guess and try, trial and error.
01:08Try not to be married to what you do.
01:10That's another song that we had a lot of working versions of, mostly for playing it live.
01:15Yeah, I looked at an old YouTube video for Love Me Girl when we played it in 2008, and it's
01:21basically like a merengue song.
01:23I think we were trying to combine like a Timberland beat with a Latin beat with an industrial song with
01:31Hathaway.
01:33But the only thing from that version that remained really was the...
01:36Build up. The strings.
01:37The strings and that guitar, that one little guitar, that little cowboy line.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Combining all that with a desert stomp.
01:47Mm-hmm.
01:49Rome.
01:51I don't know, working on that one, I was reading just a book about...
01:55It's not a very imaginative title, because I was reading a book about Rome, and thought it would be an
02:02interesting topic to sort of be inspired by.
02:06And, you know, it's always fun to talk about vengeance and murder, something that Romans were definitely excelled at, and
02:14did it with a certain amount of flair.
02:16Do you know that Hannibal, he's known primarily for getting to the gates of Rome, and people think he was,
02:22you know, being really nice by not storing, but his arm is actually kind of starving at the time, having
02:26made it through the Alps.
02:28But, the more major story, which people don't realize, is there was a battle after that, in which he pretty
02:33much made most Romans orphans, because he killed so many Romans.
02:37That's why the Romans hated him so much.
02:39Yeah, he was badass.
02:40He was a bad dude, man.
02:41And if only Carthage had supported him, then our whole world would be different.
02:46He wouldn't be filming us right now.
02:50Some Visigoths would be.
02:53Strange Reunions is just a song that's got weird time signatures in it.
02:59Really weird.
03:01Very exciting.
03:02It's hard to play.
03:02It's also about religious fanatics.
03:05This is what I don't understand when people, when certain unnamed music critic types, you know, speak poorly of our
03:15lyrical content.
03:17Isn't it obvious that some of the more simplistic lyrics are intentional?
03:21When you deal with such deep issues as the Roman Empire and, you know, religious fanaticism.
03:27Religious fundamentalism, yeah.
03:28Well, this is your soapbox.
03:31On to the, which leads us to the next song.
03:33Yeah.
03:35What's the next song?
03:35What's the next song?
03:36Those lyrics aren't particularly good or profound in any way.
03:39And actually, I think the verse contrasts the chorus quite nicely, because the chorus is so stupid.
03:45And I think that's, that, it's, Montegreen's just a really good dance song.
03:50We were just playing it a second ago, and you can't help but dance to it.
03:54Yeah, I was trying to.
03:54And dance songs aren't supposed to be sophisticated to me.
03:56I think we're trying to, well, now we're trying to come, sort of mess with an idea of trying to
04:01play this kind of, I don't know, like reggaeton kind of vibe, at least live.
04:07Mixing it with sort of a musical theater and trying to make it sound like, you know, something that sounds
04:15influenced by some of the post-punk bands that we like.
04:19You know, it's not too, it's not dissimilar, especially live from like a Wire song or something.
04:24But adding those really kind of ridiculous elements makes it fun to play.
04:28It's a huge hit in South America.
04:34Griselda was a song that we had been working on, and then we all watched this movie called Cocaine Cowboys.
04:42And I decided that would be a good topic to write about.
04:46Good film.
04:47This woman named Griselda Blanco, who you can, you can look up.
04:51Notorious, uh, Colombian woman, mass murderer.
04:56Yeah.
04:58Dark themes on this record.
04:59Dark.
05:00Really dark.
05:01Definitely playing with the idea of dark and light.
05:03We really got that down.
05:06Thank you for your time.
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