Music's Piths: Mentos' Enlightening Journey Through the Harmonious Forest

Man I am about to enter this forest that I am about to enter

And I am Mentos Leonard

And I'm entering this

Whoa! What a, wow man

What a crazy old forest this is

Ooh oh

I wonder what music's pith is

What's the pith of music

(Mentos)

What

Oh there's a voice

(Mentos)

It's saying my name; it's almost like I'm asleep the whole time

Almost but you don't know that yet for sure

That's kind of

That's kind of left ambiguous

He's fallen asleep

Oh oh

He's fallen asleep

(Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh)

Ahh

Aughh

If it were a dream I'd be

I'm I'm not asleep

This could be a real forest here, maybe I'm in the forest

It's a crazy old forest here

Beast who watches me sleep

He's out to get me but he could be watching me now

Cuz what if I've been asleep

Uh yeah hi Marty uh thanks for hosting the show

Um I'm calling in today to um you know

To talk about the fact that Led Zeppelin had uh stolen "Dazed and Confused"

Um from Jake Holmes, a folk-blues artist who released it on his uh 1967 debut LP

And uh it was two years later, 1969, when Led Zeppelin stole it

I just wonder what's going on there, and thanks for taking my call

(Come on)

(Keep it up)

Uh hey Marty, uh thanks for taking my call

I think I was uh

I think I was uh maybe in my 20s when I first heard Mentos Leonard

And uh from the very first time that I heard the opening notes of Me When I

I just uh I just I couldn't think that music like that could have possibly existed and now I

A-one-two-three-four

A-five-six-seven-eight

A-nine-ten-eleven-twelve

Fuck!

Mentos Leonard sleeping in the forest

Mentos I am mentos sleeping in the forest

Mentos Leonard sleeping in the forest

Oh mentos is sleeping in the forest

He's sitting on the ground Mentos Leonard

Sleeping in the forest

His head is on some leaves

Why is he asleep in the forest

What's that?

My favorite Mentos Leonard song?

Ah, god, where do you even start with a band like that?

You know, obviously, like most people, the first song I listened to was

"What the Fuck Did You Fucking Say About Me You Little Bitch," et cetera, et cetera

That song absolutely blew up back in uh back in the 80s

Uh but you know, like like most bands it's

Their hit single is not their best song

Like um

I think, I always liked

I always liked the "Magnum Opus Sus,"

The rap freestyle on that and some of the sound effects

And "Peter"'s a good one as well, really deep meaning in that song

I think my all-time favorite has got to be "The Wrong of Spring.wav.The Wrong of Spring.wav.wav"

Just absolutely flawless

And you know it was all improvised

I mean, what more can you say?

They came up with that on the spot

Ooh uh

Mentos Leonard, Mentos Leonard

Mentos Leonard, Mentos Leonard

You are listening to Mentos Leonard

You are listening to Mentos Leonard currently

This is Mentos Leonard

Mentos Leonard you say

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time

When Mentos Leonard released Me When I in 2020

It helped me out of one the deepest depressions I'd ever been in

And it put me into an even deeper downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction

Until I realized the true message of Me When I

And its followup album, whose name I cannot pronounce

That you know what

Sometimes it's okay to pour rice on your head and ask for soy sauce

That's all I'm saying

That's all

Uh mentos mentos mentos oh oh

Here we go here we go now here's a verse

About the jungle and uh my favorite animal

And it's the silverback gorilla, they

Uh yeah I wasn't the biggest fan of Mentos Leonard

When I first heard it I thought "well this sounds a bit odd, doesn't it"

You know, it's not exactly what you'd call a typical

Typical rock-and-roll band as they say

But yeah I listened to it a bit more

And it starts to grow on you, I think

The more that you listen to it, the more that you start to expect the uh

You know the more unusual parts of it

You get a better appreciation for

You know, the hidden meaning behind some of the songs

I mean, it's just, you know, there's so much in there

There's a bit of every great band is in Mentos Leonard's Me When I

You've got a bit of uh

You got a bit of

You've got a bit of

And uh of course you've got

Um yeah really, really just the most fantastic band I've ever heard

Hey hey ohh hey I'm Heebie Jeeber

I'm here to haunt your dreams Mentos Leonard

I'm Heebie Jee

I'm from the other album

I'm Heebie Jeeber

(Crossover)

Crossover, this is a crossover

Uh, Heebie Jeeber, I'm here to

Oh I'm gonna cast a spell on you like I did with the Tungsten

Yeah I'd have to say I was provably still in grad school

Thinking I knew everything about the world

Thinking I knew what the world was truly about

But then when I first heard Me When I

The debut album from Mentos Leonard

My conceptions of reality began to tear down

And you know I I I was neurotic

I was institutionalized

And really I think all is for the better now you know

I learned a lot about society

A-one-two-three-four

Ye

One two three four ends

Mentos

Mentos

This is the voice of the universe

If you can hear me

You are in a dream and you must wake up

You have been in the Harmonious Forest

And if you do not open your eyes

Then you will certainly fall prey to the cruel setups

Don't do it

Mentos, wake up

That's the end

No more