Quackcast 781 - The tracks that made you

Our Quackcast this week was inspired by a post I made in the DD forums asking about songs that had a big impact on people in their formative teen years. This sort of thing is such a pertinent subject in 2026 when stupid people are thinking they can replace creativity with the soulless pastiches created by AI- Real humans are the sum of their creative influences, jumbled into a gooey mental soup as their brains were forming, getting all mixed up and mis-remembered and joined with other stuff based on emotional resonance and the context of what was going on at the time.

Ai on the other hand is a machine created by a corporation that's fed stollen IP from illegal sources, which then regurgitates simplistic, meaningless mashups based on nothing but the superficial similarities of aspects of the stollen source material - it has absolutely NONE of that soulful creative depth. It's a world “learned from books” as opposed to one experienced in reality, but even worse because even a person learning things from nothing but books has emotional connections with aspects of what they read based on past experience. When I can see that sort of depth of inspiration and history in people's creations I LOVE it.

With this in mind we chatted about songs that had made an impact on us as teens and how they still influence us. What songs influenced you as a teen and why?

This week our best-off from Gunwallace is It's Permanent - Old school southern rock, laconic, melodic, hard drinkin’, late night, whisky, beer and cigarettes. Play your cards right and you’ll be going home with the prettiest cowgirl…
Originally from Quackcast 387, the 7th of August, 2018

Topics and shownotes

Song thread - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/180214/?page=1#latest

Influential music for us:
Ozoneocean
Heart - These Dreams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsnYrH3BUP8
Tantz
El Condor Pasa - YMA SUMAC (1971) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPOldBxxVs&list=RDDlPOldBxxVs&start_radio=1
ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ ΑΠ - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1518A0450D00882B
Banes
Archie - Everything's Archie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBK1k9CM26s
Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw

Featured comic:
Jack and the Beanstalk - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/feb/22/featured-comic-jack-and-the-beanstalk/

Featured music:
It's Permanent - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Its_Permanent/ - by UltimateZ, rated M.

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/

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