The Ultimate Stank Face Challenge

**Adam Maness** (0:02)
What do you think the teacher's gonna look like this year? I'm Adam Maness.

**Peter Martin** (0:08)
And I'm Peter Martin.

**Adam Maness** (0:09)
And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

**Peter Martin** (0:11)
Music Explored.

**Adam Maness** (0:12)
Explored, Peter. Today, we're gonna play a very fun game.

**Peter Martin** (0:15)
I'm excited.

**Adam Maness** (0:15)
It's called The Stank Face Showdown, Peter, and here's how it's gonna go. We're gonna do six rounds where we're going to alternate playing songs for each other, trying to get the biggest stank face reaction, which is like a, ooh, out of the other person.

**Peter Martin** (0:31)
Right, it could be, ooh, Laura, mm.

**Adam Maness** (0:37)
Let's do one at the end where we try not to get stank face. Okay, I have one that I think I could pull up that I think would be perfect. Okay, let's flip to see who goes first.

**Peter Martin** (0:46)
Okay, where'd you find that?

**Adam Maness** (0:48)
Sam's car. Okay, call it in the air, ready?

**Peter Martin** (0:50)
Okay. Heads.

**Adam Maness** (0:53)
Tails, I go first. Okay, good.

**Peter Martin** (0:55)
Dodge the bullet.

**Adam Maness** (0:55)
Now, I went with a strategy of a genre that I don't think you know a lot about. You definitely have heard the first three that I'm going to do, the bands at least, but I don't think you maybe have jammed out to these songs a lot. And I'm not going to say what they are.

**Peter Martin** (1:10)
I'm figuring jam that. So jam band is the genre.

**Adam Maness** (1:13)
It's a lot of fish. No, no.
I don't think we should tell each other what they are.

**Peter Martin** (1:16)
No.

**Adam Maness** (1:17)
Until some stank face is going to reveal. So here's my first pick.

**Peter Martin** (1:38)
Seven and a half? I forgot to control myself. I like it.

**Adam Maness** (2:07)
I feel like that was some good stank face.

**Peter Martin** (2:09)
I totally forgot to like...
I like it. Do you know who that is? No.

**Adam Maness** (2:12)
That's Led Zeppelin. That's The Ocean.

**Peter Martin** (2:15)
Okay.

**Adam Maness** (2:16)
Yeah.

**Peter Martin** (2:17)
So how... The genre, what would we call that genre?

**Adam Maness** (2:19)
I mean, that's hard rock. Classic rock. Hard rock, classic rock at this point. I guess you could say if you were a radio station, but that's definitely like hard rock. Boomer rock? Well, they were definitely baby boomers, yeah. But Led Zeppelin, one of the greatest bands of all time. And that...

**Peter Martin** (2:32)
Is that bad? I didn't know that.

**Adam Maness** (2:33)
Yeah.
So here's my general philosophy for this, because I thought about like, okay, we could go prog rock or like fusion, which maybe you did, because there's a lot of like natural, like if I were to pick like dirty loops, right? There's a lot of like, ooh, like chord things or whatever. But that's not what Peter Martin loves, actually. Peter Martin likes a thick, solid, dirty groove. And I think that Zepp, you know, John Bonham on the drums. That snare drum got me first. Exactly. Huge drum sound, riff based. That's what I'm, that's my strategy from here on out.

**Peter Martin** (3:05)
Okay, got it. Okay, that was good. That was good. So did you get a point for that? We scoring?

**Adam Maness** (3:09)
I think the audience should score each round.

**Peter Martin** (3:11)
Okay, got it. So I'm gonna, I didn't have everything in order, but I want to try something because I want to sort of contrast with where you're starting here. I don't have just one genre, although I have this first genre. I do have several of those in here, so we'll see how that's going to play out. And you may have heard this, so I wasn't focusing necessarily on that.
But I do feel like, well, let's just play it and see where we go with it.

**Adam Maness** (3:36)
Okay, okay. You know I'm such a sucker for the strings, Peter.

**Peter Martin** (4:15)
You're on.

**Adam Maness** (4:22)
Is this Turtle Island?

**Peter Martin** (4:23)
No. Close, though.
It is a quartet.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:28)
String quartet.

**Peter Martin** (4:30)
You might know this composition. No, that's very close though.

**Adam Maness** (4:39)
I like.

**Peter Martin** (4:39)
There's something coming up here, I think.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:41)
Okay.

**Adam Maness** (4:41)
You might be in German.

**Peter Martin** (4:58)
We don't always love it on the violin, but maybe.

**Adam Maness** (5:12)
Who is this? Okay.

**Peter Martin** (5:13)
This is Quartet, Quartet Ebene, a French quartet that's actually been around for a while. They're relatively young, beautiful quartet. They did this record called The Jazz Album. Not the most, yeah. But this is Diemda, written by Kenny Kirkland.