Season 5 Episode 1: Garth Brooks - Man Against Machine Part 1

The road we're on is paved in girth. Come along on the journey. As we explore. Psychology. Think of it more as a conversation. I like that. So if this is truly a conversation. And I say let the conversation begin. Shows us. Hey, everyone, it's Deb. And I'm Pete, and. I'm Jess. Welcome to the first episode of 2024 and the first episode of our fifth season of Guadalajara. Wow. Can you believe this? Oh, that's like. That's five seasons over 100 episodes. Fifth season. Nuts!

Crazy. Going strong. Woohoo! Happy New year, everyone. Happy new year! Okay, we are going to start our fifth season by discussing the next album in Garth's discography, which was his ninth studio album titled Man Against Machine. Man Against Machine was released on November 11th, 2014, by RCA Records Nashville and Garth's company, Pearl records. The album marked Garth's return to recording after a 13 year hiatus. Between the last album we reviewed, Scarecrow and this album Man Against Machine.

Let's look back at what happened prior to the release of Man Against Machine. Just to give this album some context to the gap between Garth's eighth studio album and this one, his ninth. Garth had originally announced his retirement on October 26th, 2000, because he wanted to be home while his kids grew up.

In 2009, Garth agreed to start his first Las Vegas residency, called Garth at the wind, but he only agreed to perform on the weekends so he could still be at home with the girls during their school week. The residency lasted weekends from December 2009 until January 2014. On July 28th, 2014, Garth's youngest daughter, Allie Collin, turned 18.

So on July 10th, 2014, Garth held a press conference where he confirmed that he would embark on a world tour and announced plans for his return to studio recording, and the album Man Against Machine was the product of that return. It was his first album released digitally, available digitally only through Brooks's online music store, Ghost Tunes. The original release date was November 28th, 2014, however, it was later changed to November 11th.

Mannequin's machine features a mix of traditional country sounds as well as contemporary, more rock styled elements. To quote rolling Stone magazine from their review of the album on the album's release date, they said Garth Brooks returns with one of the year's best accidental rock albums. There's no autotune to smooth as rusty voice, so it's more weathered and honest than the man who left the spotlight.

So a lot of time went by in between his eighth and ninth studio albums, and I think you can definitely hear a difference in the music and in Garth himself in the songs on Scarecrow from 2001 and the songs on Man Against Machine from 2014. To me, it seems that in this eclectic mix of country and rock, Garth has made a distinct break from his previous record company, Capital Nashville, and moved musically to his new record company, RCA, as well as his own streaming service, Ghost Tunes.

He's breaking away from the machine, as discussed in the lyrics of the album's title song. So let's get started on today's episode by looking at that song, as well as songs two and three on Man Against Machine. Pete has song number one.

Yep, I get song one off the album Man Against Machine. Because I'm a machine myself. But I'm. One. Where the work in. Oh. Are. Ready for the bitter. Don't know me from mathematics, right? Get reminded man has kicked. The gloves are off. No love lost between. I'm not against the machine. Man Against Machine was written by Larry Bastian, Jenney Yeats, and Garth Brooks. The song was never released as a single.

This album is 57 minutes and 43 seconds of some of the best songs, but to start with a five minute and 17 second banger like this was one way to come back from retirement. We went to every single possible world tour show that was in our area, and you can tell the way that that song starts with those curtains coming up and they start to rise. I knew that we were going to be in for an ass kicking, and this show just kicked it off that way. This song kicked the show off that way.

Like it was really, really well done. The piano and the guitar are amazing in this song, but the rock sound in Garth's voice, it's a perfect match to everything going on in the background. The song's meaning between man and machine, how technology has really taken over our world. It was so well told in these lyrics and you, you know, just mentioned you can tell during that entire time of retirement there was a huge switch in the industry and in this world in general.

And Garth was very vocal about coming back to that. And, uh, when I listen to the song, especially over the last couple days, doing the research on it, listening to it over and over again. Right. I find it on Amazon Music Technology. I'm doing it for my computer, on my phone, all technology. It's crazy. And it made me reflect how much of my life is ran and controlled by technology these days, even more so now in 2024, than it was when he came back and released the album.

And that was huge to him at that point. It happens with our phones, the computers, diagnostic tools in my business to diagnose cars. It's crazy how much man is against machine in this world, and this song tells the entire and perfectly told story with lyrics about how about how that happens in everybody's everyday life? You can't avoid it. Anyways, that's my thoughts on this song. I love that he started his comeback with with a song like this on on this studio album.

What an amazing way to kick it off. But Jess, what do you think? I love this song and I agree. I remember going to all those shows and always how it opened was such a bang. And you did. You just knew that the whole show was going to be such a ride. Not that his previous shows weren't that way, but you know, you never know. That opening song is always important and it really sets a tone. And I think this one definitely set a tone. I like the sound effects on this one.

It's got those like railroad spikes being driven in. And it just we talk about how Garth does so good with visuals and painting a picture with his songs, and in this one, I think the, the sound effects or the music helped paint the song as much as the words did. It's a powerful rock opera type opener for people like Deb and I, who like theater and have seen a lot of things like that. It reminds me of that of like a really good rock opera. It's a very kiss. It's very theatrical.

I think, um, which is right up Garth's alley when he gets in that kind of rock arena a little bit, and there's lots of electric guitar and heavy drums in this one, and then it switches to acoustic guitar toward the end. I think my favorite sound, as far as the music is, there's a drum beat at about the three quarter point. That's like a heartbeat. And that's really cool because it's man against machine, so it's very much the human side of it coming out in the music, I think.

But it's just it's bluesy and soulful and rock and it's got an a cappella opening. It's very gritty and I, I, I always picture when I'm and I don't really remember specifically what he was doing watching the show as far as his facial expressions. But when I listen to this in my car or I hear it on my playlist in the house, I always picture like Garth Stank face through the whole song because it's just that kind of song, like, that's how I picture him singing it.

But then it's got the choir and it gets kind of softer for a while at the end, and then revs back up and goes out really loud. And I like that. My favorite line from this song is where it says, the machines are living the American dream, and I think you can very much look at it literally like, like literally the machines, like Pete was talking about, like how much of our lives is technology?

And then also the men and the people who run those machines, the Apple, the Facebook, the, you know, those kind of things like the corporations, I think is the machine, too. And this song becomes like an anthem for the everyman. And I really love that too. That's a really powerful. And what a cool thing to be able to just do with a song in five minutes, you know? But anyways, I really like this one. Deb, what do you think about it?

Well, I'm going to start off my entire album review by saying I'm pretty biased when it comes to this album as a whole because honestly, it's one of my favorite Garth Brooks albums ever. Like of all of his albums, I love this one. It's so. Good. It's so good. In my opinion.

I think it contains some of Garth's most rock rock songs, and that's one of the reasons why it's probably one of my favorite Garth Brooks albums, because the heavier rock songs on this album are my favorite songs on the album. So this lead off song, Man Against Machine, it's like right up there. It's like number one on this album for me. I love it so much. So like Pete mentioned, I think this was a great tone for him to start this album off with.

I think it's it proves that he was kind of breaking away from that previous record company, and this song is not our sweet and gentle Garth Brooks, and I love that for that reason. And I mean, don't get me wrong, I love sweet and Gentle Garth, and this album has that too. But in this song especially, he is kicking ass and taking names and that just appeals to me. I just love him when he's like that.

I think the lyrics are intelligent and so well written and like you guys mentioned, it tells that man against the big kind of corporate machine story perfectly. I think the lyrics, I think they're pointed and they could now. I mean, I think they could be taking a shot at the country music industry as a whole calling that a machine. But I think it's also in response to Garth's battle with iTunes.

Yeah, because that was part of the reason why he created ghost tunes, was that whole he wasn't going to go on iTunes. He still to this day, you know, ten years later, still has not gone on iTunes. But personally, I'd like to think that the message is more global than that. I think that he's showing concern for, like you guys said, how technology is invading our lives even though this was ten years ago, it's way more so now.

And then also like how just said corporations are absolutely putting profits over people. And I think that's a big message from this song. And so when I listen to it, that's really what I kind of focus in on and how Garth is trying to fight that machine. And so I say more power to him, I love it. My 19 year old daughter, this is her absolute, without a doubt, favorite Garth Brooks song.

And I think that generation, I think this type of message and this type of song definitely appeals to them more than maybe some of his other stuff. Also, people may not know this, but you know, in the lyrics he mentions John Henry the you know, there's that line John Henry's about to show on the scene. He mentions him like three different in three different verses. So in case you don't know it, John Henry is an American folk hero.

And this quote that I found from a philosopher I thought summed it up perfectly in relation to Garth using it in this song. So philosopher Jeanette Bickel said of the John Henry legend, John Henry is a symbol of physical strength and endurance, of exploited labor, of the dignity of a human being, against the degradations of the machine age and of racial pride and solidarity. During World War Two, his image was used as a symbol of

social tolerance and diversity. Wow. And I read that and I just thought that again, that just points to everything this song represents to me. So I just think I think that just sums up everything, the meaning of this song perfectly. And overall I think the music is so great. Obviously I think the lyrics are amazing, but I think the music is so heavy and strong. It's got like just mentioned that fantastic rock beat, the heavy guitar solos, the drums, I. Mean, it's all there.

So with that music and those fantastic and challenging lyrics, I am all in on this one. Like I could not. I mean, obviously I've got a lot to say on it. I just love it that much. As Pete mentioned when we saw his world tour multiple times over like 2015, 2016, 2017 and the show opened with this song. This is honestly over all the concerts I've been to, this is my favorite Garth Brooks concert opening ever. I just love it. Even researching for this episode, I went back and found YouTube

videos of it. It's so. It's just such a great opening. It's crazy because I went through all of my videos and stuff, and we always record the opening of it or whatever. And on one of them, uh, down in Pechanga in the San Diego area, we were down there and he was opening it, and then you can just hear it and it's boom. And you could hear me in the background like, holy shit! Like, oh my. Oh, can you believe I'm just. Talking about.

This opening because it's getting ready to go and the band members are running out and the smoke starts firing, and then it's got Garth just shadow of him standing there. Almost like George Strait, you know where he's kind of there, but he's just got his head down. And then it's shining lights at different areas of the stage, wondering where he's going to come from. And then boom, it hits. And there he is in the place. Went nuts. And I thought to myself, that might have been the loudest opener

we've ever been to. It was wild. Oh, God, it was so good. So good. And like Jess, my favorite lyric is the but I'm a man with a working heart and then it's got that heartbeat. That drum sounds so much like a heartbeat. That's just my favorite. But this song, without a doubt, makes me wish that Garth would just put out an entire rock album. I would just love that. That would be cool. Maybe he'll do like Dolly, and just maybe they'll try to induct him, you know. Into the Rock and Roll Hall of.

Fame. Yeah. And he'll be like, okay, here's my here's my rock album then. Yep. I wonder if. We can get him to a rap album. Okay. No, no. But yes, that. That'd be strange. But I listen to it though. What a way to come back from retirement and start off an album. So that's it for song one. Jess, you have song 2 in 1 of my favorites off the album. What Do you got? I have She's Tired of Boys.

I don't care. And I guess I met a man who said, don't call me kid Pop, and I won't call you. So I guess you could say hit it off from the start, but not much difference in age. It ain't a question of are wondering where she was waiting outside. Said we gotta talk. So we went for it, right? I'm tired of voice. I'm tired of first dates. And I'm tired of toys. I want a lover who will understand. So.

This is the second track off of Man Against Machine, and it was not a single. It was written by Garth Brooks and songwriter Amanda Williams, and it runs five minutes and

eight seconds long. And actually, there's a very cool story that Deb found about how this song came to be and how Amanda Williams ended up writing with Garth and working on this song, and I think we're going to flesh that out a little bit and maybe do an episode about it. So I'm not going to go into that right now, but just know there's a cool little story there, and we're going to get back to you on that at some point later. Right? Right. Deb? Yes, we are,

because it's fantastic. Yeah. Musically, this is kind of a soft sound, mostly just rhythm guitar and drums, and I really like it. It's very even. It's not a lot of up and down, not in a negative way, but it's just a very easy listen. It's not all over the place like some, some songs are in, and in a good way. They can be up and down and you can have those crescendos, but this one is just like very

easy to listen to. Midway. There's some electric guitar, but again, it's very soft. It's like a soft rock kind of sound. The melody is got beautiful background vocals by Trisha on this one, and great harmony is always anytime they sing together. It's just beautiful harmony. Garth's right down the middle, not gritty, not falsetto. This one's very much just Garth. Like just the way I would listen to and tell somebody that is just Garth being Garth, right?

Right. Straight down the middle. The story on this one is interesting. It's it's about a young girl probably fresh out of college, walks onto a jobsite with a bunch of guys, ends up in a relationship with the kind of protagonist of the song who's a more mature man. I'm just going to say more mature because it's time to talk about age. He's an older guy, and after she tells him she's tired of boys and all the negatives that come along with dating a younger, less mature guy.

This relationship comes about

and they strike up a physical and emotional relationship that continues long after she moves on from the job site, and that's alluded to by the lyrics. They just can't understand why she's in town from time to time. My favorite lyric is the one that says, I called her a kid and I guess that made her mad. She said, don't call me kid pops and I won't call you dad. It just sets up the sass and the kind of banter I think between them in a very succinct way.

And when you're trying to tell a story and you're in a song and you have five minutes to do it, you have to choose your words very wisely to get your point across. And I think that was a very good way to show the tone of their relationship. Just brilliant, brilliant lyrics and very well done by Garth and Amanda. And I don't know who had that line, but whoever did, kudos to you. It was an awesome one.

This is probably it's definitely one of my favorite songs off of this album, but it's one that I just enjoy a lot, and I don't really know if it's the music or the the story more. I am amused by it for sure every time I listen to it, but I really love this one. Deb, what do you think about it? I love this one too. I love everything the music in it is so good that that alone would be enough for me to love it. But I think what's even better than the music, if it can be topped,

is the story. Yeah, it's such. A great story song, and being a woman, I love this story from a woman's perspective. I mean, she's like you said, she's right out of college. She's taking control of all parts of her life, including her love life. Like, she's not afraid to work with the boys, but she wants to play with the man. Like I say, more power to her. And then you get those racy lyrics like, okay, I'm tired of first dates and I'm tired of toys. I want a lover that will understand.

Someone who will touch me with a knowing hand. I'm tired of feeling emptiness inside I want to be the one left satisfied. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Oh shit. I didn't even think about that. So right now. She's taking. Control of every part of her life. And I say more power to her. We need a music video. Okay? We're not going to get a music video like that. Oh, darn. So I love it because it's an empowering song.

And when you think about it, it came out in 2014 like there were no songs like this on country radio in 2014. That sentiment just hadn't been approached in this way before. And it's done so perfectly by Garth and Trisha here, because it's a fun, sassy song, and you really have to dig into the lyrics to really think about what they're saying. And I think it's eloquently portrayed.

The woman is frustrated, she's exhausted with all the disappointments and the heartaches that she's encountered in her romantic life. She's disillusioned and she just wants something more. She's heard all the lines, and she's tired of empty promises and insincere gestures. She's just tired of boys. So I just think that's so great. And I'm so happy that they recorded this song, I love it. I think they're both fantastic on it. And overall, this is another one of my favorite songs on this album.

I just I'm going to keep saying that this is my favorite. This is my favorite, but this is one of my favorites. I love to that. The sentiment is coming from I mean, I know Amanda helped write it, but it's a male album. It's a man's song and that it's a song that if you just put it out there, I think with no artist attached, you would assume that it would be, you know, a woman singing it, right?

If you're like, this is what the song's about, and this is what it's called, but then the way it's written from the male perspective and then to be portrayed by a male artist, I think is just really cool. Yep, I agree, what do you think, Pete? I think a lot of what you guys thought. I mean, I'll go through the notes real quick. I love the song, I love the story, I love the duo Patricia, and I love anything and everything in between. My favorite lyric maybe on this entire album.

I called her the Kid and I guess it made her mad. She said, don't call me kid pops and I won't call you dad. I love it, right? Love, love, love it. The way the first couple word paints the entire picture of the beautiful woman walking onto a jobsite of men. She just sets the entire story and takes over the song. And I think it's just amazing.

Again, it's an amazing, amazing song that a woman could be what you would call a main character, I guess, in this story being sung by Garth Brooks, a man you know, with Trisha obviously in the background on. It's just it's so unbelievably good. I definitely think I was, I was looking at the songs and I'm like, you know, top three for sure, just unbelievably good. So damn good. And that lyric, like when just reading it here, I want to turn the song on and turn it on loud just so I.

Can hear it. Right. So good. One. It's just one of those songs. It really is where you're like, well, now that we talked about it, let's. Just play it, listen to it again. But before we do that, let's move on to our third song off the album. Deb has that one for us. Deb, what have you got? I do song number three on Man Against Machine is cold like that.

So cold. I could be the train. For a change. You could be. The one time to the track. I just. Found new life for. Cause a crash. Walk away without a scratch. Cold Like That was written by Steven Lee Olsen, Melissa Pierce and Chris Wallen. The song's lyrics tell a tale of heartbreak and intense emotional distance. The protagonist reflects on a relationship that's turned cold, describing the emotional distance between the two who were once close.

The metaphor of the emotional coldness of love gone wrong is

cleverly conveyed in the lyric crush heart's like ice, which perfectly describes the starkness of this love story gone wrong. But my favorite lyric from Cold Like That is I could be the train for a change. You could be the one tied to the track. The power in that lyric just shows how much the narrator of this song is suffering. He has constantly been in a vulnerable position in the relationship, and he's just done being run over, so that lyric gets me every time.

It's honestly one of my all time favorite lyrics in all of Garth's songs, so I love it. It's another song on this album that I love. I think Garth's vocal performance in Cold Like That effectively conveys the pain and longing expressed in the lyrics. I think the arrangement is so well done. It's got that mix of acoustic and electric instruments, and it just complements like this angry mood of the lyrics so perfectly.

And while Cold Like That may not have been released as a single, it is one of the tracks that contributed to the diversity of this album as a whole. I think it captures like the essence of a traditional country storytelling, but it incorporates so many elements of rock that I just think, again, it helps this be almost a rock album. Like rolling Stone said, it's like an accidental rock album. So that's my thoughts. Now it's your turn. Pete. What are your thoughts on Cold

like that? So cold like that. My thoughts are pretty simple. It's my least favorite song on the album. What? But a song that I so thoroughly enjoy still, it's like and and it was so hard to come up with, like saying that, but I don't dislike

any song on this entire album. They're all amazing. But I guess listening to the album, this was the one that I didn't necessarily know every lyric to. If I was singing along and somebody turned down the volume, I'd be like blah blah blah blah. At some points. I wouldn't know it, and. That's the only reason why I rated it that way. I love the piano and the song. I love how the piano kind of just grabs you and then moves you or takes you along for the ride.

This song, for some reason, almost makes me think like it's the back end or the the part two of the song that summer. If you think about it, that summer, we'll just call it a wild relationship, right? And they're all love, everything's all going great or whatever the case is. And then you take something that dynamic and it doesn't work out, and it just gets very, very cold between two people very, very quick. And this is it. Like this could be that, I don't know.

I just thought about it that way. I thought, you know, that's a complete opposite of, you know, that summer relationship in this one. But like you said, you can hear the suffering in the voice from the person that's telling the story through the entire song. It there is, there is. It's got that rock feeling to it. I love the ending as the guitar and the instruments take it out. It is a really, really good song.

It's hard to say that it's the one I least like off the album, but I again, I it's still so good. This album was so good. This song was so good. I don't know just what your thoughts on it. I love it, I love the piano. Like you said, the piano opener. I like how it's very quiet and then it bursts into this wave of action and crescendo, and then it goes back to quiet again.

And like you said, you kind of can't help but be pulled up and down with it. So I get what you're saying about being pulled along by the piano, because I, I did have that in my notes too. And personally, when music does that, I get this like anticipation for the next rise or fall, because I know it's coming when it's done that before and you like, wait for the next moment. And I like that. I think it's compelling in a song.

This one's kind of all over the place melodically, because it goes from a really quiet falsetto sound to this full on grit, and then it goes back to almost a whisper so fast I almost get like, musical whiplash trying to follow it because it's all over the place. But but it works like, in the very best way. Like, I don't mean that in a negative way. It makes it interesting, I think musically. And then there's just there's great lyrics in the song.

And I picked the same one that you talked about, Deb, where it says, I could be the train for a change. You could be the one tied to the track, because who's never wanted to shift the power dynamic in a relationship. Before, you know who's never wanted to care, just a little bit less so that you could protect yourself a little bit more from someone, especially if you know you're about to get hurt and you're, you know, you just want to flip that a little bit.

The line that says fall in love and cause a crash. Walk away without a scratch. I'm just so struck by how many of Garth's songs have these really just lyrically smart moments. If you compared to so many other artists, I think there's, you know, a handful, maybe a little bit more of like very, very good. Not even good. That's not the best word for it. But just like amazing, brilliant songwriters. But they're so rare and there's brilliant moments throughout their careers.

But I think if you stack them all up and set them side by side proportionally. Garth's music just lyrically. Is so smart, it would have to stack up higher than the majority of other artists, I think, even though there's other people that definitely have those moments too. I just I'm like, we talk so much about how this song has brilliant lyrics and this song has brilliant lyrics, and he helps co-write a lot of them.

But I think because he's an amazing songwriter, but he also has the ability to choose very good songwriters and that are a good fit for him as well. That was a whole lot of talking, but I'm just so thoroughly impressed by that, by his ability to either write it or hear it and know recognize it and be like, that's got to be on my album. But yeah, I, I just this is a really good one.

I don't I haven't really thought about ordering them though, so I don't know where it would fall on my list of favorites for that whole album. But I do know that I enjoy the song. Me too and I, I agree with you completely on the lyrics thing. I think if you look at his albums

back to back to back to back to back, all the way from the beginning until now, he just has some of the smartest lyrics, like, they're so intelligent, they're so like chef's kiss. Perfect. So many of them, because there's twists and turns and things you would never think of. And I think this album as a whole is filled with them. Yeah, I think there's so many really brilliant songwriting moments on this album. So I have been waiting to review this album.

I'm so excited that we're here because I just love it. And I also wanted to go back to something you said, where you talked about how this one could be like the end of the that summer story, like, this is if, hey, what if everything went wrong? You know, another thing to think about is the song that Jess talked about. She's tired of boys that could be the opposite of that summer, because instead of the young boy and the older woman, now you've. Got the young woman and the

older man. Yeah. So, yeah, it's funny you said that. And that was where my brain went. So like I said, I'm so looking forward to the next few episodes and reviewing this album because I think it's fantastic. And I think we're going to have a lot more of these moments where we say, listen to this brilliant lyric, yeah. I can't wait. I can't wait. Me too.

It's crazy because with it I, you know, listening to this, obviously I put Time Traveler on the, on the background and started listen to this one. And now I started thinking to myself, it's going to be so hard to go away from this back to time traveler, because I'm enjoying going over this entire album again for the podcast. So it's so good. This one, this one I always go back to this album. All right, everyone, that's it for this episode.

The first part of our Man Against Machine review covering songs one, two and three. Now let's go over to Pete for a shout out to one of our favorite cardiologists shout outs. This week's shoutout goes to an excuse me if I don't get this correct, but I'm gonna do my best. It goes out to prior guard Savan from Denmark. He posted on the year end review about how he enjoys the podcast and how it makes it easy for him to get Garth info when the music in Denmark isn't so easy to get.

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