Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy (w/ guest Rhonette Smith)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Singer, songwriter, and musician from the band Centennials (centennials.bandcamp.com), Rhonette Smith, joins Bill and Brian to discuss one of her favorite albums, Say Anything's ...Is a Real Boy (2006, J Records). Written and recorded during a period of mental instability for primary songwriter Max Bemis, the album plays with emo tropes and attempts to break the mold. Originally written to be part of a rock opera, the album finds solid ground with great songs, great tones, and a solid team behind the production. Rhonette, Brian, and Bill discuss the ambition to make art, mental health, the emo conundrum, hypocrisy, ego, the influence of Weezer and the Rentals, well-written lyrics, and of course a track by track review of the whole album.

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0:00.0	When I watch you,
0:03.0	When I watch you, want to do you, right where you're standing, yeah, right on the foyer, on this dark day right in plain due, oh yeah, of the whole ghetto, the boots don't meadows, but we ignore that.
0:42.3	Yeah, your only baby, this war is crazy.
0:49.3	I won't let you down.
0:52.3	Oh no, no, no.
0:58.5	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.
1:01.1	I'm Bill.
1:01.6	And I'm Brian.
1:02.7	And what we do here every week is we take a different album of music and just talk about what makes it great.
1:09.5	We're going to talk a little bit about our personal connection with the music. And then we're going to talk about what makes it great. We're going to talk a little bit about
1:11.2	our personal connection with the music and then we're going to talk about the bands and what
1:17.5	went into the production of the album and then we're going to do a track-by-track review of the
1:22.0	album. And we're not going to do it alone, Brian. No, no, we're not.
1:28.1	Because I've brought my split personality with me.
1:33.4	Oh, that's terrifying.
1:34.6	Yeah, now it's going to be really good.
1:36.7	See, there she is.
1:38.4	Here I am.
1:39.2	It's a brand split personality, Renet Smith.
1:42.4	Hi.
1:43.2	Welcome to the show, Renat.
1:44.4	Thanks for having me, guys.
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