Boom boom boom. Okay, we're rolling. We are, we're doing this.
Let's go to eight podcasts in a row. We'll stop. That's Jason
Ginty. I'm Ron Ryan. This is the Playpants Podcast episode. At ninety
eight. Were coming up on a big year for Nirvana. They released their
final album in Utero Part Shape Box All Apologies, thirty years ago. Jason,
Wait, hit me with that number again. Wait, I don't believe
that could be true. Nineteen ninety three was thirty years ago. So we're
on the anniversary of the last studio release from Nirvana, and we've never done
a Nirvana top five on this list. We've almost done one hundred podcasts,
We've mentioned Nirvana six gazillion times, but never did a Nirvana top five.
I think we're due, you know. When you said it over, I'm
like, you're like, well, let's do it, Nirvana top five.
I'm like, uh, come on now, dude, we must have done
that out of the gate. And then I look back and I'm like,
oh my god, the two dipshits who really have nirvanted to think for where
we are today in some ways never did. It was tough. We're talking
about them a lot. I mean in a roundabout way. I imagine we
probably have done. If you piece together ninety eight different podcasts, you could
probably piece together our top fives. But we've never really kind of done it
in one discussion. So I think we're overdue on that. I brought in
an article which I think is really cool. This is taken straight from Loudwire,
and I want to do a little thing with you and see if they
got it right. And we're just gonna focus on the eighties. I know
that's even longer ago. That's dude, forty years ago. We're going back
forty years now. Okay, we're gonna go to the eighties. So what
they did is they picked the artist that was the biggest artist of that year.
It's the artist that everyone was talking about the year. Because sometimes when
an artist came out, let's talk about Nirvana. You know, when Bleach
came out, nobody was talking about Nirvana. So the year that Bleach comes
out, you don't give Nirvana that year just because they were the biggest band
probably to come out of it. But the year that it came out,
no one was talking about Nirvana, so they will not be mentioned on the
year that Bleach comes out, they'll get a mention on the year, but
they won't be the biggest act. You'll see how it goes. It's actually
pretty interesting, so I'm looking forward to getting into that. And then I
just wanted to say that football is kind of awesome again. I know last
week I was pretty down on football, but the Bills came back with a
win and things are going well for the Saints. Yeah. Yeah, No,
it's cool. It's you know, it's like there's a lot of other
games I'm kind of like keying in on. And We've talked about this before.
There's just a lot of cool storylines around the league that, you know,
two weeks in you're like, okay, but I think some shit's gonna
shake out here pretty soon. Last week, Rod, we did our top
five favorite videos yeah of all time, which you know what. After we
did it, I was like, yeah, mine suck because then I started
digging looking at other people's I'm like, ah see, this is what's fun
about this is because in the moment I thought those were my favorite, but
now I'm like looking at some of these, like our our good friend Francis,
God, damn, Francis is so good. At this. You know
what, he kills us every time, Like I'm like, fuck, his
are way better than mind. Every time I go some of a bitch man.
His top videos coachis from Audio Slave. Think about when that song came
out, that first song come out, and it was a punch in the
face and the video was a perfect companion. Think about this, Okay,
Chris Cornell is in rehab the day they shoot that video. Chris Cornell gets
picked up in a car from rehab. Whatever he's wearing that day, that's
what he shows up in at the video. So think about how that video
plays out. And Francis, you nailed it. And I don't know why
I didn't talk about this because it's one of my all time favorite videos ever.
The fireworks and everything. Chris Cornell shows up in the video and he's
up on the platform already. He doesn't have a band, does he.
It's just Chris Cornell. You got rage against the machine. They don't have
a singer. They come in that fucking truck and there's three guys right up
the elevator. It's three guys. They need a singer. So they go
up on the roof. There's Chris. They start jamming. But true story,
Chris was in rehab. So look how cool he looks in that video.
That's just what he was wearing that day. Okay, they maybe did
a little bit of hair, a little bit of makeup, but that's it.
There was no he didn't talk to the guys. They just said be
here at this time and we're going to do this, and that was it.
He shows up and they make one of the great videos of all time
and completely unscripted. At the end of the video when it's over with the
band members come together and they all hug, completely not script it at all.
It's like, fuck, yeah we found our singer and yeah I found
my band. So great. Damn that video is great. I mean,
you know, that's what just goes to show you that, you know,
being cool is just that's it's it's you can't fake it. He's just he
was just fucking cool. Oh I just got cool. I could have been
in wardrobe for a month and I wouldn't look that cool. Okay, he
doesn't even have a wardrobe. He just shows up in the clothes he's wearing
it rehab that day and films one of the greatest videos ever. So Francis,
You're the best coat cheese audio slave. It's it's an incredible video.
Yeah, that was his number one Charles Taylor Honorable mention Maroon five Sugar.
I don't know if I've seen that one. I don't remember that zz Top
legs. Yeah, okay, I'll give him that one. Remember that was
we talked about the zz top throwing the key in the big fancy car.
Queen's right, silent lucidity. I thought that was interesting. I'm trying to
remember the video now. It wasn't here lacking away, kind of sensitive,
shadowy, shadowy, It's kadowee. Yeah, think think Police every breath you
take, that kind of look. Yeah, okay, yeah, I get
that one. I just never got into Queen's reich. I just I can't
get into them for some reason. There's certain things I kind of am okay
with, but yeah, I don't know something about it. You know,
years ago after Queen's were I busted up or whatever they were doing, Jeff
Tate, the singer went out on a solo thing, did a solo album,
and they and this is this is where you know, once in a
while you take a liberty in radio, you know, you do one for
you because you have the keys to the candy store, you can go and
eat the candy sometimes, you know what I mean. So I get a
phone call and I'm programming some shitty little station. It was like an alternative
rock talk thing back in the day. And I get a caller like and
it's and it's Jeff tats people and they're like, hey, Jeff is in
town in a in a week, you know, we want to do an
interview. Maybe he'll do an acoustic song. And I'm sitting there going it's
Jeff fucking Tait. Okay, this this dude arguably one of the better voices
ever, and you can put him in the top. Great voice in the
top, you know. And I'm like, and I was like, I
don't ever want to play a song on the air. I don't ever want
to really talk and put an interview on the air. But if I get
to meet and hang out with Jeff Tate for ten minutes and maybe he'll sing
a song, yeah, come on in, guys. I'm cool. So
I did the old this ones for me. So Jeff take comes in right,
and he's just a fucking rock so he's he's super nice, totally cool.
Of course he wants you to play his new solo album that nobody was
playing. And he's like, hey, man, I brought I got a
guy with me playing acoustic guitar because you want to do a song. And
I go, you know, in my programming, you might not going absolutely
not, no way, never the million years when I do this, and
I go, yeah, let's do it on the air. On the air.
So we go to commercial break, we come back, all right,
here's Jeff Tate with whatever the song was. And you know, I got
the guy was playing the acoustic with the mic and he's just playing the acoustic
guitar. Jeff Tate, you know normally, and you've done this in the
past where you've got the bay and so during commercial break you kind of do
a little quick soundcheck and everybody like, okay, where's your microphone? Gonna
be kind of get a level. He runs through part of the song.
You're good. Then when you alive, you'll look like an asshole or try
not to. So Jeff Tape is got the microphone that he's been speaking in
right by his face, like you would like we do right now, Okay.
As he goes to sing, he takes two steps backward in the studio.
He is literally two arm lengths away from the microphone and I'm looking at
him, going, bro, where the fuck are you going? And then
he starts singing. He's so fucking loud and powerful. Dude. Oh yeah,
it's an operatic. I mean it's it's theatrical. I'd never heard the
song before. In the fucking hair on, my arms are just lifting off,
and I'm just like and he's just fucking It's me, him and the
guitar player and probably nobody listening, and I'm like, dude, it was
so badass. So I have a appreciation for Queen Drink because of that moment.
And it was literally he's two arm lengths back from the microphone in just
fucking blowing hair back. I mean, it was great. It was such
a performance to do that. So yeah, Yeah, the guys that have
those voices, they know they need to back off. I'm like, they
need because they know they're gonna they're gonna wail. He could have been down
the hall and still made it. I mean it was great. So yeah,
and we got another one here from let's see here from Immortal Warrior.
This you're getting this off of our YouTube page. So this is from last
week's podcast, episode ninety seven. We were talking about our top five favorite
music videos, and we just want to let you guys know we do look
at our YouTube page to see your comments. Yeah, I'm looking right now.
No, I'm kidding. We do look Mega Death Crush Him. I
don't remember that one, but I will go back and look at it.
Mag That's made some pretty cool videos, man, eminem Stan, I don't
know why we didn't mention that one. That was pretty good. That's awesome.
And then Charles Taylor had, okay, go uh this two shall pass
uh corn freak on a leash. A dude, we didn't even you know,
we kind of bombed on this a little bit because you two where the
Streets have No Name? You two made some pretty fucking for the time badass
videos. They where the streets who have no Name? Is a great one?
Is the one why the rif top? No? Well, I forget
which one that one was to set. They're like, what Vegas? Yeah?
All that ship? So anyway, yeah, I'm not supposed to by
the way inside inside information, right, I don't know if you even know
this. I don't have the radio Wizard talked to you about this in Houston,
but uh, there's gonna be a new You two song next week.
Well they played it on Fremont Street, all right, yeah yeah, so
uh just they're gonna drop it next next next week. So you know,
hope it's good. I even said, please be good. I heard it.
Oh is it any good? Or is it? Well? I heard
the live version that's out there, the videos out there. I mean there
was so much guerrilla footage out there. They did it right on Fremont Street.
I don't know if it's called Atomic City or something, but it's a
song about Las Vegas because they're doing the Las Vegas Residency and that's spear uh
in the Sphere. Yeah, and I want to go. I do want
to go to that. I don't want to go. I don't want to
go the first day. I don't want to go the first week. I
want them to work the kinks out and stuff. But if you don't know,
it's it looks like this big, huge globe. It looks like the
like a planet. It's the place is completely round. It's called the Sphere
and it's just going to be for awards shows and shows like You Two's residency.
It's just another you know, huge room for people to play. But
man, it looks so badass. It looks unbelievable. They got you can
like kind of there's like cams you can look and and like one minutes a
happy face. Next thing is like the globe. It's it's pretty spectacular.
So so thanks for the comments on a YouTube channel. I love it.
I love it because now I've got like six videos I got to watch this
weekend that were great, and there's so many good ones that we skipped.
I mean we mentioned the Lincoln Park and all the tool videos. I mean,
there's just so many of them. Rod Quick, quick thing I want
to throw at you if and I think you've probably you've probably covered this on
your morning show. But if if they start charging for Twitter, I mean,
I'm out, I'm punching out. I'm out. I'm done. I
don't give it fuck. If they start charging for Facebook, they start charging
for Instagram, I'm out. Yeah, I don't. I don't think Zuckerberg
will do that. And that's why he's got Threads just ready to go.
Like nobody's on Threads. You know, there's a decent amount, but not
a lot. Yeah. Well because it just kind of automatically carried over and
it's like you kind of have it, but nobody's using it. Nobody's out
there doing anything with it. But he has it there, it's ready to
go. If you have Instagram, there's a good chance you got threads or
it's just sitting there waiting for you to activate it. You just gotta punch
in. Yeah. If he does, in fact charge for Twitter slash x,
Threads is just ready to roll. I mean, that's the only reason
why he did it. Just no, I will not pay for X.
I just I just won't, not even for work. It's just I don't
need it. I need Facebook, I do. I know it's like where
Grandma is, but believe it or not, most of my referrals, my
bounce back from social media to the blog page is from Facebook. It's not
even nothing else even comes close. So Facebook is what I would keep,
And then that's obviously packaged in the meta universe with you know, Instagram and
Threads. You know, I wouldn't pay for TikTok. I wouldn't pay for
any of them. Well, the one I probably wouldn't give a couple of
bucks to and don't tell them but shit is probably Facebook. But I don't
think he'll ever charge for it. They're making money, They've got ads,
they've got revenue coming in. Elon Musk is throwing this up there as a
hail Mary. Yeah, he's just throwing it. Will not pay, No,
No, I don't think so. I don't even pay for the verification
badger. We used to be verified. I'm not I'm just not paying.
It's just not interesting. I'm not interested at all. No, No,
it would be kind of nice. And then like if they start charging,
you think, like you know all these corporations, all these people that use
it to advertise, and all the influencers and shit, it's like, I
don't care. This actually saves me a lot of work. At the end
of the day, I don't have to use it anymore. Got it nice?
Got a really good email, And I want to thank Jimmy. He's
listening to all of our podcasts. He's like, man, I was so
pumped to listen to you and Jason your top five grunge songs. Give them
all your knowledge in the radio industry. He gave me his top five.
He said it was absolutely brutal. Uh, Nirvana, Come as you are
was one Screaming Trees, Nearly Lost You, Pumpkin zero stp plush Bush,
Little Things. He said he's working on Mark Lanigan's book right now. So
Jeff from the podcast right that's the Screaming Trees singer who is now deceased.
And then he's moving over to another book. I recommended Kitchen Confidential. Wait,
keep rocketing the pod. Thank you for y'all's time and efforts. This
guy's like taking advice from the podcast. And then his third book is gonna
be Color Me Good. Harry. Oh yeah, Harry Styles Coloring Book.
That'll be the third one. There's a lot of you know what, we're
better than Oprah right here. We got Oprah's got our little club, we've
got the we've got the Playpants Podcast book Club. Actually, you know what,
probably wouldn't be a bad idea, obviously, Harry Styles is the best
book that we've ever recommended. You know, he's got one coming out in
October. He's got a real book coming on in October. I'm just just
a tease again, Rod, I'm I'm in the no now I know stuff.
So we'll get to that. Are you digging into this new Queens of
the stone Age at all. We're playing the single that's out right now,
Paper Machetti. I like it. I like it. I don't love it.
I like it. We just announced they're coming. Are they coming to
New Orleans? Coming here? We just announced. Yeah. I haven't listened
to the new album yet, but just because they're coming, i'd been listening
to a little Queens at the stone Age. I'm just I'm so hot and
cold on them. I can get rid of I can literally get rid of
half the songs on every album, and I can take a ten track album
and I can tell you that like five of them, I just I don't
want to hear, but five of them are really really good. It's so
weird how I'm hot and cold on that band. So I can't wait to
listen to the new one. We're recording this On Wednesday, September twenty one,
Friday, Stains album comes out the two Stained songs. Did you watch
the video? Yeah, you know, I was. I got a little
bit excited last week apparently or something. I don't know, too much cocaine
off the computer screen or something. I don't know what happened, but I
said I would do like one of those reaction videos. Yeah, I was
waiting for it. Yeah, I'm telling you right now. Of all,
I didn't know how to do one of those, so I had to go
research how to do one. I realized that terrible. That's a lot of
fucking work. Uh. And then I'm like all right, and I'm like,
well, I could do it, And then I just got sidetracked to
another shit. So I'm like, well, fuck, I better at least
watch the damn video anyway, and just so I can have something to talk
about in case you bring it up, which you did. Then I watched
a video and I'm like, yeah, I'm glad I didn't do a reaction
video on that. It hits a little too close to home for me.
It's a brutal it's dude, fucking wow. I'll be honest with you.
I was surprised that you said you were going to do this. I said,
do you know about this video? What's going on in the content of
this video? Yeah, but you said you were going to do it.
I said, I will have a fucking front row seat if he's gonna pull
this off, because that video is really emotional and it deals with you know,
it's a father and it's a son and the father's dealing with Alzheimer's,
and it's it's it's it's a tough one. Man. I can't believe how
many people have emailed me, either you know, thanking me or odd you
bastard for making me. I didn't make anybody do anything. I just warned
everybody that it's you're gonna get hit hard in the fields. But it's really
done well though. It is it's great and you know, uh, you
want to have fun though, and I'm telling you it's actually kind of a
cool thing. Is that because I started going down that rabbit hole? Of
course? Well then there are a bunch of other reaction videos that are gonna
pop up in your algorithm on your YouTube channel, and there's all these like
big meaty dudes, like beards and like tough looking dudes, and they're just
like all they're like, I can't believe this fucking songs making me cry,
man, Like, so we could be getting millions of hits right now,
is what you're telling me? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, all the all
the big dudes, all the all the elphas are crying and they're like like
you fuck this guy, you know what I mean? But so then I
went and I was like, Okay, the video is giving me a reaction,
so that that's almost unfair way to judge just the song. So I
went back and listen to the song straight up, and I'm like, damn,
this is a good song. It's a good song. I was staying,
they've got a sound. They don't go too far from where they're at.
They know what works for them. Man, those are two great stains.
They're great staining songs, and it's it's the way you do it.
The first one was heavy, second one softer one. And there's two other
songs that are floating around out there that are supposed to be great. But
Radio Wizards said there's five hits on this album. So I'm looking forward to
it. New Blink one eighty two tomorrow, nine o'clock our time, nine
o'clock am. We're playing it. You're playing it at nine. You're gonna
get it right. Well, we got a different morning show, so I
can't play until time we're gonna play. You know, we're doing old school.
You know, back in the day you see dor top every hour.
You know, world premiere, which is bullshit because everybody's playing it. But
you know, you gotta take credit when you're in radio in your market.
So yeah, we'll be banging at top of every hour all day tomorrow because
the song is good. The song is good. I want to I want
to get your thoughts after you listen to it. It's about the lyrics.
Pay attention to the damn lyrics because I know you don't. I don't,
but they do. Blink did a good job of setting it up on there
you are on their Instagram page. If you look at maybe their last post,
it talks about the song and how they all came together. You know,
Travis goes all the way back or to you know, getting in the
plane crash and you know how they didn't want to do music and the cancer
and everything. So uh yeah, this is gonna be another one that's gonna
be pretty emotional. And they use the hook. You can hear the hook
of the song playing in the video, so it's like a teaser and you
can tell it's a smash already. You said it was going to be great.
It just from the little clip I heard on Instagram reels, you can
tell you know it's going to be a smash. So great time for music
right now. It's a great time for music right now for what we do,
you know. I mean, we don't always We're not always like the
shiny, new cool thing. And I feel like we're feeling I'm feeling pretty
shiny right now. In alternative rock, yeah, I think you know again.
And alternative rock and alternative radio really has a split. You know.
There's the there's the cool kids out in LA the West coast, East coast.
You're gonna play all the new shit, you know. I mean,
there's a there's a guy who went to number one on the alternative rock charts.
I forgot his name is, and how much I cared. I didn't
play the song. I don't think you guys did either, and if you
did, it was very little. Declan McKennon or something like that as his
name, I don't know whatever. It's kind of a slow song, and
but it's very pop. There's a lot of pop, and there's a split
happening. And I think we've talked about this before on the podcast. In
the alternative world, where there's stations that are going a little more rock,
like you and Houston and Saint Louis and US in New Orleans, and there's
a few others kind of going in that direction. And then there's like the
pop guys and for your city, if it's working, good for you.
But I'm more of the let's play the stains. Let's play that, because
I know New Orleans is about that shit, man, and I know Houston
is obviously. So yeah, you've got You've got the Blink coming out,
which, by the way, I don't think people understand what an incredible producer.
Travis Barker, the drummer is produced the whole album, So it's gonna
have maybe a little different sound, you know what I mean. And it's
gonna like he did all seventeen tracks, which is new and uh he sings
a little bit on this song, just saying And then you've got to keep
in mind too, we're gonna get some Pearl Jam at some point. We're
gonna get Green Day at some point. There's a song coming out from Mike
Shinoda that is fucking great coming out soon. I mean, we got a
lot of shit coming our way, dude. There's a lot of good shit
there really is. You know, there's and you and then you know there's
always gonna be something on the left field. There's gonna be some weird shit.
You're going, what the fuck is this? It happens every wonder Bush
will put something out to go along with their Greatest Hits album sometimes, you
know how bands will throw in like a like a banger, and so people
talking about it. So maybe something from Bush, you know, maybe it's
not just the greatest Hits, right extra song? Yeah, So again,
I'm just it's a it's a good time for our format. We kind of
get left, at least with my company. You know, all they care
about is fucking Taylor Swift. So it's it's good and it helps that we're
doing as well as we are. I know, your ratings are on the
rise over there in New Orleans. So all this new music and good new
music, it's it's only gonna help. Yeah, it's good ship, dude.
So I found an article that came out this week and it was from
Loudwire, and I don't go to that website quite as often. I probably
go to Blabbermouth a little more, but this one really kind of caught my
eye. And what they did is they dissected each year of the eighties and
they determined what was the biggest name of that year, what was everybody talking
about, and they kept it in like the rock metal space, you know,
and there's going to be some stuff that's a little pop leaning, but
still I thought they did a really really good job. So we're gonna start
with nineteen eighty Loverboys self titled debut comes out. It's the Turned Me Loose.
I was on that. I did like that song. I still like
the Kid is Hot Tonight is on that first one. I think the Romantics
dropped two albums in nineteen eighty. I love the Romantics. I've got probably
six Romantics albums on vinyl. I love them. So they dropped two albums
in nineteen eighty. That was what we heard. What I Like about You,
Donnie Iris is Aliyah Dead Kennedy's come out in nineteen eighty, Joan Jet,
nineteen eighty, diamond Head which Metallica were huge fans My Evil, Brian
Adams in excess Billy Squire, Huey Lewis and the News Psychedelic Furs now Brian
Adams in excess Billy Squire. They kind of snuck in on that nineteen eighty
where they weren't huge that year. They gave the year to Ozzy Osbourne,
that was the biggest thing of the year they got that year, right,
because what's what's what's out that year? It's Lizzard of Oz Blizzard right,
Yeah, Okay, yeah, well this debut, these are all debuts,
So that means it's not you can't have been around for a couple of years
and just had a great year that year. It's your your debut year.
Who had the biggest debut year? Who had the biggest debut in that year?
So everything that I mentioned came out their first albums in excess. First
album Brian Adams first album nineteen eighty nothing was bigger than Ozzy Osbourne. Nice,
he was everywhere, ruled the airways, multiple hits on that album,
yeah, the whole thing. Okay, Yeah, I go with Ozzy on
that one totally. Okay. Nineteen eighty one I was ten men at work.
They won the Grammy and they won Best New Artists and then a couple
of singles. It wasn't just who can have been to Me? Now?
Down Under? Be good Johnny Stevie Nicks goes solo in nineteen eighty one.
Phil Collins goes solo in eighty one. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Thank You in the Air Tonight nineteen eighty one. So everybody knew
him from Genesis, but he gets in on the list because he's solo,
breaking through as a solo artist. Did you hear Monday Night Football? Two
things about that? First of all, why the fuck do we even do
it anymore? That was that shit? That? What was the check?
That was doing it there for a couple of years, the country Check,
the Blonde, she's still doing it. Don't even dude, if you're if
you're gonna start capping on Carrie Underwood, Dude, I'm gonna shut this podcast
down. I'm like shutting it down. It's shutting it down. It's so
shudder filled. She's hot. I love it, But this dumb night football?
Fuck oh Sunday Night Okay, whatever, it's dumb. I hate it,
but this was good Monday Night football. Chris Stapleton fucking great Snoop dog
Listen. I know everybody loves Snoop Dogg, and I know what they why
they did what they did. But he's not needed on the track. Okay,
you could have just been Chris Stapleton and it would have been fine.
But the drummer, do do do do do? Do do. That's Lenny
craw it's his drummer. I thought, so. I was like, wait,
but that's Kravis his drummer right there, and she's a badass now that.
I thought that was cool as shit, man, I thought that was
pretty neat. It's pretty and again Chris Stapleton now doing the national anthem.
Last year they were doing white Horse week one. In and out of breaks
they were playing our song, my song, and then he just did the
Monday night football song. Is there any question who's doing the fucking Super Bowl
halftime show this year? Is there any question? Jason? You know question.
I don't have questions about that. I have a lot of other questions,
but it has to be I would say it's him because then he can
bust out, you know, Jelly Roll can show up for a song,
and like they could do the cool country thing because country is really hot right
now and there's a lot of crossover on a lot of different genres with the
country, so you know, I think that would be the home run.
I don't love it. I helped he says fuck you to everybody and just
does it himself. I'm telling you, I'm on board. I am fan
number one right now. I can live with that. So Phil Collins comes
out with his solo well, Go Goes, Stray Cats, Motley Crewe don't
forget. Motley Crew comes out right in eighteen eighty one, but didn't nobody
knew. Nobody knew right, nobody knew eighty one Moley Crew, come on,
you were Rhythmics, bad religion, dock in minor threat, bad brains.
If you're in the punk space Anvil kicks Raven about that album Replacements,
who got nineteen eighty one Billie Idol? He had the most heat. He
had the most heat. Obviously with money money, you gotta covered, you're
gonna do alright, And yeah, that makes it. I mean, I
would say the Go Goes. They had a couple of hits that in eighties,
so that that's a tough one. I'm Phil Collins was huge, But
did he hit? Did all that hit in eighty he made have released it
in eighty or eighty one, but did it hit? You know what I
mean? Like, it's a weird The timing is weird. And then does
he not get the same credit because he's already known from Genesis and the same
thing with Stevie Nicks she's known from Fleetwood Max. So do they get the
same kind of new you know what I mean? Right, I'm fine with
Billy Idol. I'm not man. Billy Idol was all over when it finally
came around and debuted. Billy Idol was all over the place. But yeah,
Billy Idol was talked about. Nineteen eighty two, they gave it to
Asia. I was wearing an Asia T shirt either last week or the week
before. Podcast they sell those, dude. Asia was fucking huge. Oh
they were massive and they wrote some great fucking songs. Asia was massive.
Everybody in the band was great. Heat of the moment. Only time will
tell soul survivor all for that first album. So that's nineteen eighty two.
Are they bigger than the Fix flock of Seagulls? Night Ranger, Twisted Sister
starts getting some heat, Robert Plant goes solo that year, Misfits Descendants,
Rm, nah, they were and beastie boys who weren't really the Beastie boys
yet none of those Twisted Sister isn't even twisted history yet, correct, wasn't
the big that doesn't stay hungry? So yeah, I would say Asia,
I mean that what a weird year for music man Asia in nineteen eighty two,
there was like kind of no competition nineteen eighty three. Metallica, Metallica's
first album comes out in nineteen eighty three, but Metallica again is not Metallica.
Nobody knows about it, Nobody knows a Metal Blade or whatever album whatever,
you know, that's the only that's the Big Four. Slayer also comes
out that year. So when you look at like the thrash Big Four,
and then Anthrax and Megadeath are coming later on on the list, but Metallica
and Slayer come out in nineteen eighty three. Queens, right, there's your
boy, eighty three Kings X from Houston, fast Way, leader Ford,
Europe, Suicidal Tendencies. I love the Smith's violent femmes, butthole Surfers,
the Hooters, Uh, James, is it Jamestown, New York? Ten
thousand maniacs? Yeah, yeah, it's well, yeah, I guess it's
Western New York. I don't know if it's Jamestown, but yeah, I
Jamison and Jamestown and then Stevie ray Vaughn came out in nineteen eighty three.
Correct, they gave the year to deal you know, I would have to
say probably deal because he's got the pedigree of the Sabbath, the Rainbow and
Holy Diver. Holy shit, dude, there's so much great shit on there.
But then Stevie Raybron's Texas Flood, come on, come on now.
But I don't know if Stevie Raybrown was Stevie ray Vaughn in eighty three?
Was he that shit hit later? You know? That's the hard problem with
this. Did he have the hot heat on him? It was? He?
Was he? And all the magazines was he on TikTok? You know
what I mean? Like? Was he? That deal was everywhere? So
yeah, I gotta go deal man. They're doing a pretty good job with
this thing. Quick question. Yeah, I've always been a fair weather fan
of King X. You know, I like some of their ship. Why
did they they They're one of those bands that kind of got caught in the
wash somewhere and they never kind of had that hit that broke them through to
like bigger, you know what I mean? Like that, that's one of
those weird bands that you just see that they're doing fine. They're doing they're
living, they're making great music, but they never could get across the hump.
You know, all musicians love Kings X. Correct, All musicians absolutely
think that they're the ship. The players in the band, all three of
them were unbelievable. Doug on bass and the singer. I mean, he
was a fucking great singer. When I first moved here, he reached out
to me, he said he was listening to the show. He was working
out and stuff. So they were still living here. But yeah, Doug
Pinnock, Yeah, the guitar, the drums, they were all fucking virtuosos
at their instruments. They wrote amazing songs. They just didn't write three and
a half minute verse chorus, verse songs. Didn't write Yeah, but musicians
love Kings X Yep. Yeah, they're a Bison's band. Yeah. It's
just one of those ones that you're like, a man, what happened?
Why didn't that not click? But I'm sure they don't give a shit.
I guess anyway, what was the eighty three? Now we're on eighty four.
I already know the answer of this one, so yeah, you can
go ahead. I'm telling you, I don't know if they got this one
right. WHOA So here's who this is? Who they didn't give it to
Anthrax debuts. Nobody knew. So now you got three of the Big four
Autograph, Turn up the Radio, Massive, Massive, Yeah, to Hell
with the Devil, Remember Striper, Striper, Christian Metal, Wasp comes out.
I Love Wasp, Great White, the movie, Spinal Tap, Honeymoon,
Sweet Canada, What Up? Soul Asylum, Red Hot, Chili Peppers
come out, but we know this. Nobody knew anything about them in their
first in the first three four albums, the Pogues come out while they give
the year to Rat and don't give it to bon Jovi. Bon Jovi came
out of the gate pretty Hot, which She's a little runaway. That song
was, Yeah, but Rat, Come on, you couldn't turn on any
video program or MTV without seeing round and Round Milton Rat, Round and Round.
Yeah, Milton Burl right is in the video. Yeah that was.
That was in Massive, Heavy, Rat. That song was. I grew
to not like it after, like the video, I was like, all
right, even when I was in you know whatever eighty four was, Yeah,
No, I the bon Jovi, I get, but Rat was just
everywhere that year everywhere. Yeah, Rat was. I'll tell you what Rat.
The problem with Rat is kids is they're fucking so dysfunctional. Okay,
like the band themselves. If they would have stayed together, okay, hear
me out, if they wouldn't have been dipshits. And when you're in a
band and you're young, you're stupid, you're a bunch of assholes, and
then somebody starts whining about shit, and you think it's a big deal,
and then you realize when you get older, God damn, it's not a
big deal. If Rat would have held it together, we would have Rat
right there with Motley Crue. Still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, but Rats Rat's productivity. Go look at their albums, go song
for song, look at what the crew did. Rats right there. But
they don't. They're not in that discussion because they're not number one, they're
not as famous, and they just broke up so often and they just couldn't
keep it together. And for the most part, except for recently, Motley
Cruz stayed with the same four guys with all the bullshit they had. For
god's sakes, their lead singer killed somebody. They kept them in the band,
you know. I mean, of course, they brought in John Karabi,
but for the most part the core four were there and Rat just couldn't
hold it together. We would view Rat as a little bit higher up and
they would be right at par with Motley Crue. Yeah, because they're there.
They kind of get they they could be at Molly Crue, but they're
kind of lumped in with the hair, you know what I mean, Like
from a there's a cheese factor. Because of all this bullshit they did,
they needed a man. They needed Doc McGee, the manager. They didn't
have the manager to hold together because he held that Molly Crue owes that dude
a lot. They were idiots. Okay, now eighty four Okay, when
you talked about, well, maybe we shouldn't look at you know, Phil
Collins, and maybe we shouldn't look at Stevie Nicks because they're so well known
for their other bands. I don't care. It's nineteen eighty five, the
biggest debut and the biggest debut that people were talking about. David Lee Roth
ended discussion. It's over doesn't matter because that was so huge. He does
Beach Boys, and he does he does two cover songs in the videos.
Were they those videos made Rats overplay look stupid? Like Roth was on your
TV constantly, But it wouldn't work because I don't know what kind of airplay
that got. I couldn't tell you. I know California Girls did, but
I don't know if just the jiggalo got played on the radio. Videos,
but the videos were played non stop, and it just he would not have
been the biggest artist of that year had MTV not launched yet. It was
just the reason he was so huge was just based on the videos. Those
songs are ridiculous, but the videos are so fucking great. They're so great
of the time. I mean they look dated now. If you're young piss
pot listed into this podcast and you go back and you're like, oh,
man, don't tell me those videos are great. They were great. They
were great. Yeah, yeah, No, And who else who's on the
list five? Well, we finally get the we close out the big four
Thrash Megadeth debuts White Lion, The Firm Okay remember the Firm Radio Act?
Yeah, Paul Rodgers on vocals, Jimmy Page, Tony Franklin on the fart
base. Uh power Station is another supergroup with Robert Palmer. That's the Fat
Albert theme. It's also radioactive and what's happening. Remember that one rog no
that was we gotta do a top five TV theme songs. I think cool
Karen. I think she suggested that, yes, we should do that as
great. I already know the one that's gonna be number one. So so
supergroups, Yeah, you had the Firm came out that year. You had
Power Station with Robert Palmer, had the Duran Duran Brothers, the Tailors,
right, and then you had Tony Thompson on the drums. You had Mike
and the Mechanics, which I think was kind of a supergroup. Yeah,
that year it was Genesis, right. Yeah, and then and I forgot
where that singer was from. The outfield comes out, and then alternative.
You start getting college radio. You start to get some names that you heard
of before. Drama, Rama Jesus and Mary Chane, Love and Rockets,
Sisters of Mercy who I loved, Dead Milkmen. There was some college music
is now starting to become a little bit more well known, right. So,
but it's the early, early, early undertones of you know what we're
gonna eventually call alternative. Go back to nineteen eighty five, eighty four,
eighty five, So yeah, I mean the biggest thing in nineteen eighty five
was David Lee Roth all right, let me move this along. This is
one. Yeah, they're right. I just don't agree with it because I
just have such a dista the band Poison. I cannot stand them there of
the time. It's what was happening. Even when it was happening, I
thought it was goofy shit. I really did, man, I never ever
was on board with anything they did. Talk Dirty to Me the dumbest song
ever written. It's the worst piece of shit ever. If I could,
I would give the year to Cinderella, who I think is a rock blues
band. I do. I think they're rock blues band. But nineteen eighty
six goes to Poison and they were the biggest thing. Talk Dirty to Me
was absolutely huge. Cinderella Tesla comes out that year. Yea, they immediately
yea. I love them. I remember I hear them the first time they
got played on MTV, and I remember, holy shit, man, this
is really really good. Smith Reens come out, Concrete Blonde, here we
go, some more Collegy stuff. Matthew Sweet Screaming Trees come out that year.
Nothing else. Georgia's satellites. Can't you for yourself one dopey song.
Yeah, so you gotta give nineteen eighty six kind of shitty year. You
gotta give that to Poison. But I'll remember. I remember going out and
for whatever reason, I must have liked one of the songs on the album.
I went out and bought the cassette. Yeah, I went and bought
the cassette, dude. And I'm like, okay, because I heard the
songs of the racelet I bought the cassette. I'm like, all right,
Poison, I'm cool, man. I bought a cassette that everyone's got on
the radio, all right. And I get I buy the thing and I'm
looking at the cover and I'm like, chicks, Well, they don't sound
like girls. Like I'm so dumb and naive, man, I don't know
shit. I'm like, I'm like, well, god wall action dude.
Yeah, And I'm like a action tonight. So I'm in my youthfulness looking
at it, going I'm like, well, that one's kind of that.
That chick's kind of hot. And then I kind of do some digg and
I'm like, oh those are dudes. Yeah, dude. That kind of
rocked my world a little. In eighty six, I was. I was
a young buck at the time and still trying to figure things out in life,
and I was like, oh, makeup, got it? Okay?
Freaking me my best Jason Ginty voice? Did you cry tough when you listen
to it? Sorry? You know, I really just wanted action, bro,
I just wanted action. Nineteen eighty seven, do we have didn't have
to go through this? I mean, guns an Roses, guns hits done.
They don't get immediately though, it doesn't TV. It's not until MTV
starts playing Welcome to the Jungle, But it's still in that year. They
owned in nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, I mean, and then they owned
eighty eight and eighty nine. But they but they were the biggest thing that
when they came out. They were the biggest thing once MTV picked up the
video go go down the list, what's kind of bubble and alternative? Why
was there anything in that year, because that's that's where things start. That's
when rim starts heating up a little bit. There's other things happened. They
weren't new at that time because they were back a few years before. But
well, I mean, we know from listening to this show Soundgarden also debuts
that year. Nobody know, nobody knows, but Jane's Addiction comes out that
year, but it's that weird live album then again, you know, and
where they do the Stones cover and you know, I went back and retroactively
bought that album, but I didn't know it. I didn't know. I
didn't know Jane's Addiction until you know there because technically it's their debut. So
that's why they're lumped in the eighty seven. The only thing that would really
I mean, Lou Graham I think has a solo record. I know,
you don't like these guys wants to come out of big bands except for DLR.
But he did have a pretty big solo career. Lou Graham was kind
of a big deal. Richard Mark's debuts that year. That's true. Yeah,
he Richard Marks had a couple of years. He had some hits.
Man, he was everyone kind of like the Billy's Squire of pop rock fair
because Billy Squire was rock, coppy, lead rock, but Richard Marks was
pop. You know, yeah, but not today's pop. It would be
more pop on okay, So he debuts should have known better. Don't mean
nothing but a ship year from music outside of Guns and Roses, Robbie Robertson,
he was in a pretty big band. He goes solo and then again
with But with the College thing nineteen eighty seven, we're not calling it alternative.
We're not doing any of that. We're not in college yet. I'm
still in high school. But here's what's bubbling under. Sound Garden comes out,
Pixies come out, Jane's addiction, Henry rollins, Okay, White Zombie
comes out that year. Wow, Faster Pussycat comes out that year, more
of a of the glam. Yeah. And then I just I had to
go look this. Google Dolls nineteen eighty seven, eighty seven, Wow,
Jed? Right? Was that their first album? No Google dollas Google Dolls
fu? Yeah? Yeah, yeah that southing? Okay, yeah? Was
Jed was second? Second raw? That's raw. It's awesome because Robbie singing
all of it. Robbie is the lead singer. Robbie Tai Kak, the
bass player, is the lead singer of the Google Dolls. When they come
out, like you talk about a band, I mean, I realized bands
evolved in mutate and have changed, But when you really think about how that
band just completely changed, and and good on them for making a change to
the way it did. But wow, you know, when you think about
that story, that's pretty cool. Man. Yeah, eighty seven was kind
of a ship year, dude, except for guns for guns and rows,
and then maybe that helped it great. Either eighty eight's not great. Winger
self titled album comes out, that's where you get seventeen, but a way
Bullet Boys comes out smooth up in you. Yeah, Yeah, it's Nice
Vixen, the all girl rock band. That's the that's the one you were
probably looking for when you bought Poison. Yeah, I got the wrong one.
Kingdom, Come, Brittany la Guns. I mean nineteen eighty eight we
are we are just at peak glam metal. We're just peak shit, you
know. But then you got dan Zig, Melissa Ethridge, Jeff Healey band
again. You gotta squeeze in the Canadian artist here and there. Jeff healely
was fucking great, guys, the movie Roadhouse. He's the house band,
all right, brilliant, He's blind. He plays the guitar like Stevie ray
Vaughn. Okay, like Stevie ray Vaughn. That's what he sounds like Blues
wise, but he plays it flat on his lap and he plays it like
one of those country steel guitars. Yeah, he's fucking gold. Everyone,
please go look up the song can you See the Light? Okay because he
couldn't because he was blind. Can you see? And it's fucking insane how
great it is? And then what's the cover Roadhouse Blues in the movie?
He does Roadhouse Blues? Yeah, And then he had that song to hit
the drippy you would angeliz or something like that or angel yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, which was a great song too. Man. You know what
else he couldn't see? Come on, you couldn't see that girls Teddy's when
she did that dance on the stage and Roadhouse either couldn't see that, Like
he's just sit up there looking around well, you know, not looking around
whatever. This is terrible, by the way, we're so canceled. Dalton
got her down. Thought he did because Dalton. I mean, you want
some good life advice, you pay attention to Roadhouse. Dalton will get you
straight. Dude. Yeah. Eighty what was he eight? Nineteen eighty eight?
They give the year to Living Color. You know what? This is
where I'm going to disagree I love Living Car Color, but Winger was way
bigger. They were all over MTV, all those hits, the Miles Away,
the Pretty Boys, I mean, Winger was bigger. I'm sorry.
It was so shocking that Living Color was a black hard rock band. You
know, it was such a big deal. You know. I've heard them,
you know, talking, and they've talked recently with everything going on with
Jan Winner, the Rolling Stone guy that said, stupid shit, Living Color
wants to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I'm sorry
they're a one hit wonder. They're a one hit wonder. I don't they
broke down barriers and things, but with one song, I'm sorry, it's
a one hit wonder to me. Had they done more, uh, you
know, a couple more songs than yes, I'd be I'd be all right.
I'll never forget the first time I saw him, I think I saw
I remember hearing the song, going, holy shit, what a great song
called a person amazing, what an amazing the guitar and the whole thing,
and I'm like, this is unbelievable. And then I watched one Saturday Live
and I went still one of the best Saturday Live performances from a band.
It's it's got to be up there to top ten. And I'm like,
what wait if they would have followed it up with three and four songs,
you know, not Open Letter or with Landlord and stuff. I mean,
it's okay, it's it's just it's just not great. It's just it wasn't
great. And then there wasn't a second and a third album that you that
you can sit here and talk about hits. Well, Rod, I love
those albums, okay, but who loves him? Not that many? No,
no, not that many. Yeah, you need more than that or
a one hit wonder. I do love him though, I mean, Vernon
reads fucking guitar solo on that damn song cult to Personality. It's just here
I can I'm gonna show you what I can do. And he just just
fucking played as fast as he could and it was great. Yeah. Yeah,
No, it's spectacular the whole song. He's just ripping through the whole
thing. So yeah, but I gotta go winger on that one, man,
I gotta go winger. Sorry. I got the last one as we
and I think maybe nineteen eighty nine Jason Guinty. Yeah, I Nails,
nine inch Nails, Head like a Hole again. Now you're seeing this college
rock kind of what it was called back then. Wait a minute, this
just really starting to break through now, nine inch Nails, not as they
didn't become huge yet, but they debuted in nineteen eighty nine, and let
me tell you, there was a buzz about band Stone Roses They're out,
They come out, Nirvana's Bleach comes out, mud Honey is out, Mother
Love Bone is out in nineteen eighty nine. Again, these aren't household names
yet, but it's so funny. It's so interesting to me to see that
none of that stuff is existing in nineteen eighty, eighty one, eighty two,
and then you're starting to see eighty three and eighty four Chili Peppers and
these bands. Wait a minute, they're just fucking laying the foundation, you
know, to what's coming later on, and it's see all the way back
to r EM you know, right, yeah, you can see it.
It's funny. How but but you know what I mean, how why were
they all so different sound? You know, they weren't filling any trends,
you know what I mean. They were doing their own things because there was
no playbook yet there was no playbook. It was just you're listening, but
you're listening to everything that was before you, you know what I mean.
So there's all these influences, but somehow all these bands just kind of sounded
different, which was great that It's kind of why skid wrote or that's kind
of why Sound Garden like sounds like a metal band, you know, because
that was their influence, you know. But then they came in they just
kind of ended up doing their own thing, all right. Nineteen eighty nine
I mentioned Green Day, Offspring, Pennywise, and then you still got you
still got the Hair, so you got enough's enough. You got Mister Big
with Buffalo Boy actually Tonawanda Boy, Billy Sheen, bad Lands, Underrated Band,
Dangerous Toys, Dream Theater, and then I guess more on the college
side, Lenny Kravitz, Yeah, they give the year to skid Row.
Makes sense. My only thing I made a note about, like, you
know, Warrant was pretty big that year, and again I'll take skid Row
way over Warrant, But you got to think about the video power of Warrant's
videos, you know, the cherry Pies of the world, all that shit.
So yeah, I'll give it a skin road just because I like him
better. But yeah, no, I can't be mad about that at all.
No, I get And going back to the sound guard and comment,
Rod, I forget if it's Outshined or it's Rusty Cage off of Bad motor
Finger, but Chris Cornell said that that he wanted to write a hill billy
black Sabbath song. That was what he was trying to accomplish, and one
of them, I forget if it's Rusty Cage Outshine, but and I'm like,
when you listen to it, you kind of go, yeah, yeah,
I can hear that he succeeded. I think that's awesome. Yeah,
he would sit down and go, I want to make it sound like this.
He had have a sound in his head and that's how he described it,
and then of course it comes out just fucking awesome. So Rod,
why don't we take a break and we'll come back with our top five favorite
Nerbana song, which is what is this episode two? Yeah? Right?
You know what they didn't mention in Loudwire. I just I looked it up
because it's just because we talked about r em you two eighty. They weren't
huge, but they didn't even get a mentioned for the year for them coming
out in nineteen eighty. Maybe they didn't just they might not hit the market.
It might have been just like one of those things where it's kind of
big in England and barely did anything in the US or some shit. I
don't know, that's a that's a weird boy. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't remember. I was fucking eleven and just running around in my
kiss makeup. Okay, uh top five favorite Nirvana songs coming up. Hey,
guys, next time you visit New Orleans, man be sure in book
a Pirate Tour French Quarter walking tour like no other. It's our only sponsor
that's been with us since day one. Thank you for that. The Real
Pirate History of New Orleans. Book your tour Pirates of the Quarter dot com.
If you already took the tour, but you still you love you some
Pirates, maybe you didn't again on the shop. There is a store right
there, Pirates of the Quarter dot com. Get your pirate gear. They
got all these kick ass T shirts for sale right now. Everything is at
Pirates of the Quarter dot com. At Pirates of the Quarter. Something ever
is getting a little bit nicer. We're seeing. Some of that is humidity
going down and New Orleans walking around the Quarter taking a tour. It's awesome.
Grab a couple of bruise. Listen to these jerks talk about history.
It's fine. There's there're sponsors, dude, you gotta treat them nicely.
Two things on the Pirates of the Quarter tour A thanks for everyone who's taking
it from Houston. We got a lot of Houston Knights, is that right?
Houston Ers, Houstonians, Houstonians's fancy? I like that. It sounds
like I should have tea in my hand when I say that, I knew
you were going to get there on your own. Thanks. Sometimes you gotta
let the boy run a little bit, you know what I mean, and
see what happens. I was talking about now, son of a bitch.
Anyway, everybody from Houston that takes you're away from Houston for taking the tour.
Uh. Second of all, we've had a lot of people say,
hey, these are all dude t shirts. What's up? Don't you like
girls? I do? Yeah, I also like poison apparently, but we're
gonna have a couple of ladies shirts coming soon, hopefully, we'll have it
up on the website next week. And if you are coming to New Orleans
as fall, you're gonna want to book early because shit is getting tight already.
People are finding out about this damn tour and they're taking it. So
that's my words of wise wisdom today, Rod, that's it. Just want
to let you know those few tidbits. Thank you for those wise words.
Oh wise one Nirvana, dude, I mean this, It got me listen
to Nirvana again. Outside of the five songs we play on the radio NonStop.
It got me listen to Nirvana again. And I think that's a good
thing because Kurt was a great songwriter. And Dave Grohl always says that he
always puts Kurt on a pedestal, you know, I imagine things got bad
at times, and you know, he's kind of like like divorced parents,
how you just don't like talk bad about the other parent, you know,
because they know he knows how much people, you know, how they have
their their love and all they ever does is talk about positive things, you
know, and that's just kind of him. But he always talks about like
what an unbelievable songwriter Kurt was, and when you go and you listen to
some of these songs that aren't played on the radio. The ones that are
played on the radio are great, and they're played on the radio for a
reason. They're the ones that most people like. But now you're at the
point where the band, you know, they've got such they had such little
production because they weren't around that long. You can almost just go in and
play anything on the radio and it's I think people would just okay, yeah,
it's Nirvana. You know, it's kind of like the first Guns N'
Roses album. There are singles off the album, but the whole album is
singles now and Pearl Jam's you know, first album, it's those are all
singles now. They're so popular and they're so they're so well known. Nirvana's
kind of like that with their catalog. You know, three albums technically,
I mean three real albums, you know, it's it's insane, yeah,
and nobody really knows the first one, and I felt compelled to get something
off of the first album, which I did, and it is a great
song. But yeah, you got three albums. Then you got the MTV
Unplugged, Then you have Incesticide, which was kind of like this greatest hits.
You know something, there was a money grab for you know, for
the label. There was a stop gap between between Nevermind and they wanted them
to release in Utero sooner than they did, and so they're like, well,
fuck it, let's just put this out and that gets us. We're
coming off the heat of Nevermind and then this will bridge the gap before in
Utero. And it worked. You know. Yeah, it's the game,
all right, Top five. I'm gonna go first, please do. I
bet you We've got I love. I love doing this now. Man,
I'm gonna go to one. I'm gonna go to one. You think that
we only have we have two minimum of two. Right, Let's see what's
up, dog, We'll see what's up. Everyone knows this song, but
if you listen to Kurt on the Unplugged in New York, he said,
this one's off our first album. Nobody knows it. And it's so weird
because it's the time capsule. It's like, Kurt, everybody knows that song
now about a girl. Go back and listen to the Bleach version of that
song. It's just he's a great songwriter. What I was just saying,
and it's it's it's evident on that first album of course, Nirvana and never
Mind is what blew them open. But you gotta go back, and you
gotta pay your respects and you gotta go listen to Bleach and it's the album
that Dave Grohl fell in love with the band, and he even said that
was my dream job to be asked to be in this band. He thought
Bleach was the best thing he's ever heard before. So if Dave girl thought
it was that good, then has everybody gone back and listen to that?
About a girl from Bleach is in at my number five? I just,
you know, I wanted to spread things out a little bit. In at
number four. I remember when the song came into the radio station. We
were in Buffalo, you know, you're right, and it was a song
that they found and it just it made me so happy because it was recorded
after Heart Shaped Box or a in Utero, and it really did sound like
this is what Nirvana was going to sound like. Yeah, it just had
a cool darkness to it. It was heavy. It was classic Kurt with
his voice, and it was angsty. You know, you're right. I
don't know if it's like the songwriting and everything, if it's the best song.
But for me, it was so exciting, and I was hoping that
there was going to be a bunch more and then Dave came in and kind
of shipped on that and said, oh yeah, I forgot we did that
one. But that's it. There's I don't think there's going to be like
a hundred more songs. That's it. That's all we did. That song
is so great, and it's frustrating to me because god damn, they just
and nobody thinks that Nirvana would have been around, you know, had Kurt
been alive, that's it. Solo, he'd be doing something, you know,
he'd be in a coffee shop somewhere, you know, singing with an
acoustic guitar, or he would have formed a band with Michael Stipe. But
that song, it's fucking a rocker. It's great. It's absolutely That's my
number four. My number three is Heart Shaped Box. I just thought coming
off of such a huge album there, the second album, I almost I
still sometimes slip and call it the debut, but coming in that strong Heart
Shaped Box is amazing. The visually, the video is amazing. Everything about
it. Uh, the song is unbelievable and it's about Courtney Love's Filthy Crotch
Uh. Number two Come as You Are, Yeah, and number one,
my all time favorite Nirvana song, which I think should be played on the
radio. Breed. Yes, it's the most rocking Nirvana song. It doesn't
have to be your favorite, but I will fight you. It is the
most rocking Nirvana song. There's nothing that even comes close. It rocks,
but it's still palatable. It's a yes, oh yeah, yeah yeah,
because he's singing, but it's it's a fucking face melter. You remember God,
and he's so talented, and I hope he comes back with some something
really big. But Aron Jones, yes, you listen to him at all.
He was from Seattle. Yeah, dude, Lenny Kravitz, and it's
like, Okay, I get it. He's black. You gotta go with
the black guy, Lenny Kravitz and Nirvana boom, those busses hit and you
get a Ron Jones. Right. So we're watching Aron Jones. He's playing
a buzz fest and I'm sitting I got Alex with me, and I hear
Dana and I look over and I'm like, it's taking me a minute,
taking me a minute, And I go I look at Alex, I go
fucking Breed. He's doing Nirvana and he did a cover of it. Yeah,
and I already really was into his stuff, but man, those covers
hit guys. If there's a local band listening, do a goddamn cover at
least one or two. I lost my mind. I lost my mind because
we're not going to see Nirvana. I never saw Nirvana. So when I
hear somebody that you know, he's from Seattle, he's a fucking major accomplished
guitar player and just got an amazing voice. I heard Breed and I just
I was so excited. I don't know that I've ever seen anybody ever do
it live, so it was great. You know, it's the only time
I've seen that song performed live myself. Wow. Yeah, No, that's
a great song. You know. The other song and I didn't put on
my list that that is just fucking visceral. But it's not as melodic as
Breed, if that's even the right way to describe Breed. But like Territorial
Pissings is just fucking nails on a chalkboard, rip your face. So I
love that song, but it's like Breed makes more sense it's it's more palatable.
Well, damn, you know what. I think you got me man,
you were right too, but I don't think you are gonna yeah yeah,
the two we got. I was shocked. Actually, all right,
that's a good list, dude, that's that's a very good list. Let
me thank you. Let me Yeah, You're welcome and appreciate that. I
mean, coming from a program director of an alternative rock station, I haven't
said I did good. I mean, you know, proud of you,
man, you did a nice job. Then I gotta village. You'll keep
your confidence high, bro. Thanks, Thanks chef. Uh. There was
a song that came in to the Buffalo funny how you mentioned this the Buffalo
Station early days? And it was a great album, and at least in
my head it was great. I remember it having a lot of really interesting,
cool songs on it. I think there was a Google Dials song on
it. I think you'll you'll know. The album was called No Alternative and
it was an album that a bunch of artists put out for AIDS fundraising age
relief, and it was called No Alternative and it just had like a black
bunch of black circles on it and Nirvana did a song. It was originally
called Sappy, but then it got rechanged to Verse Chorus Verse, and it's
fucking great. It's one of my favorite Nirvana songs of all time. It
is a really good song. And I remember playing that. I remember playing
that off of the No Alternative compilation album. Yeah, and I think the
Google Dells had I think they did Bitch with the incredible Lance Diamond and they
had the horns and the whole thing. I think that was the Stones tune
they did on that or was that a different I don't have to look it
up. It was something with Lance Diamond. Yeah, but they did that
song. I think you're right. I think that that cover was on that
album. Look up, it'll be on YouTube somewhere. Look dig up the
No Alternative album and goes on that sucker. Man, there's some good shit
on there. I can't remember who else was on there, but that was
a cool album anyway, Verse Chorus Verse number five, number four coming backwards
is hard Dude number four. And this is cool because it comes from an
album released thirty years ago in Utero and you had Heart Shaped Box, then
you had All Apologies, the third single on that album, was supposed to
be this song Penny Royal t and it's fucking great, and it didn't get
released because Kurt was dead and they just went, Okay, we're done.
That's enough of that shit. Penny Royalt gets lost because you go back and
listen to that song and you're gonna be like, oh fuck, this is
a banger two man, because it's got that same Nirvana soft loud, soft
loud. It's great. It's great. Penny Royalty. That's at number four,
number by four three. I can't believe you have to count backwards every
time. Jesus Yeah, and my daughter does a better job of counting backwards
than you. I got dropped on my head. I think when I was
a kid a few times or something. I don't know. Anyway, Number
three and it's not The song is not about what you think it's about.
The song is called rape Me. And if you got the balls to put
on a song and you're screaming at the top of your lungs and the only
way Kurt can scream rate me over and over again. At the end of
it, you're like, Okay, this is fucked up. But he's really
talking about like mass media and the machine and just him feeling violated from his
fame that he hated apparently. So that's what that song is about, by
the way. Fucking it's if you if you can get past what he's those
words, because it's hard, especially in this day and age. Fucking great
song, absolutely amazing song. It used to be in pretty heavy rotation,
man, And it was weird playing that song, you know, when fucking
mom's loading up the minivan and in the morning. Yeah, well, we
do, like on Fridays, we do like a bunch of nineties shit.
And that comes up as I'm kind of scheduling the music and every time I
just I stopped as I'm going through the log and scheduling the music for that
Dan and I and I and I stopped on rape Me and I go,
oh, do I want to play it? Yeah? And I do,
of course. And then and then check this out, dude, boom,
here's our two. Number two breed right, such a great song. Fuck,
it's great and number one. You know, you're right. And I
remember hearing that the first time, and I'm like, I was just like
so excited, like, oh my god, there's one. They got one
left. This is great. They found the Nirvana song Holy Shit, hoping
it was gonna be great, and that Basseline in the beginning that it's you're
just going, oh my god, this is fucking awesome. And then when
he is screaming pain and that's what he's saying, pain and he just let
it drag out forever. It's that classic ripping your vocal cords to shreds uh
to shreds Kurt Cobain style of screaming, Yeah, you're just you're feeling the
pain, and it's like, god damn. And then that was it.
It was so exciting, It was so unbelievably exciting when that when that song
it, we got to play it on the radio, so talking about it
and it just it really was when you I mean, just take like the
singles, okay, just take smells like teen Spirit and then Heart Shaped Box.
There's progression there, oh absolutely, And then you know, you know,
you're right, an album full of that that would have been amazing.
Why just to plow your fucking head off that album would have been unbelievable as
selfish music fans, you know what I mean, If you just put it
that way, if you look at it through that lens, I mean,
I was so excited about that song, but then after I listened to it,
I was so bummed out that I was like, this is fucking where
they were going. Yes, and you know, obviously the band was not
going to stick around for very long, but they would have gotten back together.
I think they would have come and gone, I really do. I
think they would have went, fuck it, guys at mission, let's go
do another album and bang it out, and it would have been it would
have been the last Nirvana album though, yes, for a long time.
I think it would have been it. But god, man, to see
where it would have went, Oh my god, it's so so great.
So yeah, we did get too. My top two were you know,
the songs that you chose as well, So pulled up the album No Alternative,
Nice Matthew, Sweet Buffalo, tom Urge, over Kill Again. These
were all like these were all like throwaway tracks from these bands, you know
that they just kind of donated to the album, you know, whatever they
had extra laying around. You were right on the Google Dolls with the incredible
Lance Diamond. They did a cover of Bitch Nice Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins,
Bob Mould, Sarah McLaughlin. Sound Garden is on there with a song
called show Me. I don't remember that song. I have the album.
Uncle Tupelo is on their Beastie Boys, the Breeders, Patti Smith, Nirvana,
Versus Chorus Verse, Sonic Youth, I mean, huge, huge names
on that album. I remember listening to it and I remember it being full
of Okay, yeah, these are things that weren't good enough to make their
albums, you know. But but you're right. The Nirvana song was a
standout Google Dolls covers because I love covers, but it was a really good
cover and it was weird. You know, Google Dolls they get on this
album. It's a big deal for them to be mentioned because they weren't on
the level of Smashing Pumpkins, and they weren't on the level of Nirvana,
and you know, even the Breeders, sound Garden, Sarah McLaughlin. But
when somebody picked up that album, it wasn't Johnny singing. It was a
lounge singer from Buffalo, you know. Incredible that they worked with who you
know, when you listen to that, there's just there's just cool oozing out
of that. I mean, there's so much cool losing out of that because
Lance Diamond was fucking cool man. He was a badass, and he just
added something to that bad It's like I kind of wish they did a few
more songs with him back of the day, you know, because they were
so well done. Can never take the place of your man. That's the
best song. That's the best song that the Google Dills do with the incredible
Lance Diamond. It's a Prince cover. Cha la la la. It's so
great. It's it's so freaking great. I can never take the place of
your man Prince cover. Look it up Google Dolls and then you'll just it'll
be Lance Diamond, will just Lance Diamond comes in at no extra charge.
When you looked that up to go listen to it. It's it's spectacular.
But yeah, so yeah, no, it was weird doing the Nirvana thing.
Man. I'm like, okay, well here we go, and again
you know what it's hard for for what I do and what you do for
a living. It's like, I'm not putting lithium on there. Is it
a great song? You bet your ass it is. I'm not putting I
love coming as you are because I love that sound, that that kind of
drippy guitar and everything is very cool. But again, I mean, dude,
I nope, don't eat it. It's like, if you're working at
McDonald's every day, you're gonna get that whopper on your Sunday off, maybe
I guess, but probably not. Aren't we going to get a Nirvana biopic?
I think there's a lot of moving parts within. Courtney Love is the
problem. Courtney Love's a problem. She's not going to sign off on anything.
She's gonna be the wrench in the works. But god, I would
love it. I would. I think there'd be a lot to uncover there.
I mean, she stands to make a lot of money if it's made.
You know, you know what, you know what really needs to be
made. The Dave Growls story needs to be made, because that takes Nirvana.
He would be the thread. He's the story because he does all this
shit goes from that goes through food fight, it creates food. But that's
the story, you know what I mean. And the obviously the recent tragedy,
I mean, that's terrible, but that's an arc in a story that's
I think you gotta do the Dave story. Eventually, anything gonna happen soon.
Yeah, I don't think you do it while he's doing what he's doing.
You know, he's too busy doing shit he do. He's too busy
doing being real and active. So yeah, but I do. I do
think that that's that is a band that if you recognize and you would have
to include these other bands, even if it was just the Flannel four that
we just got done talking about it in a previous podcast. I really do
think that Nirvana is it's there for the taking. I think it's mass appeal
enough, you know, I don't look at it like how we talked about
Motley Crue the Dirt straight to Netflix, Kiss is straight to Netflix, I
believe. I haven't heard anything about that movie. By the way, I
haven't heard anything other than it was gonna happen. I think Nirvana is big
screen. I do. I as long as you're recognizing that, you also
have to kind of talk about the movement and all of that and and and
grunge and how it changed the culture. And you know, you would even
have to kind of include you know, some hair bands in there, and
you know them fucking freaking out. You know, you have to get somebody
to play Brett Michael's going, what the fuck is this Nirvana shite? We're
done over my record anymore. You'd have to include some of that stuff.
You'd have to you'd have to include what crumbled too. I just I think
there's something there. I do well, I think then, but I also
have to try and figure out a way to work in, you know,
the fact that there's other elements happening. There's gen X, there's there's the
movies, like the singles movie that comes out, you know, and there's
just all these elements. There's just again, it's lightning in a bottle.
It's it's it was the perfect song for the perfect time. You know that
hits any other time doesn't quite do what it did. I don't know,
But there there are so many elements swirling around it. You almost have to
come in and bring all those elements into play as well. Know, Yeah,
there's so much in the fashion took off and just everything. Well,
you know how it ends. So the movie kind of ends dark, you
know, Yeah, it's all dark. Everybody knew how the Elvis movie was
gonna end. Yeah, it didn't end well, let's just say it wasn't
a happy ending. So well, you know, The rod Ryan Show presents
the Boobs Rock Golf Tournament October eighteenth at Wildcat Golf Club. This is coming
up pretty soon, man, you look, I get it. You're gonna
drink a bunch of beers. You're gonna go out there and do dumb shit.
But between now and October eighteenth, if you're if you've already got your
foursome, go out and swing the wrenches. Go to the driving range once.
That way, you don't look like a complete horse's ass out there.
Okay, go swing those dusty ass clubs between now on October eighteenth. Now,
unfortunately for you, the foursomes are sold out, but they're looking for
whole sponsors, auction items, volunteers. You got something you gotta biz get
in touch with these guys. All the money is gonna go to the Rod
Ryan Showcres Foundation Boobs Rock Fund to support breast cancer research at MD Anderson in
Houston. Also, the This is Cool The Boobs Rock Car Show is Saturday,
October seventh. Okay, you got a busy October, dude, not
it's it's not too late to enter your your wheels for this. All sorts
of cash and prizes, everything you need to know is on the world famous
Rod Ryan Show page at the buzz dot Com. Even, dude, you
ain't. You ain't doing nothing but work in all October. Apparently that's what
you're gonna be doing. You're gonna be working, but you know working,
Okay, I'm doing air quotes in case you're not watching this on the YouTube
Jazz working at the car show? Are you gonna be working? Are you
even bringing clubs? No? I don't bring clubs anymore. No. We
used to do all those golf tournaments and me and you'd be like, oh,
I got my clubs. Meet true and we go and we get out
there, and I'm like, did you even fuck though? I just drive
bother I don't even Yeah, I don't even pretend anymore. I don't bring
the clubs. I just walk around and hang out with everybody, and you
know, it's my job just to go around and make sure but he's having
a good time and you know it. You know what's funny is years later
I got invited to like a legit golf tournament, right, Like, I
didn't know what a legit golf tournament was, like a you know, the
scramble, what do they call it? The shotgun start or whatever it is,
right, and uh, and I'm thinking I've cruised up and I'm like,
oh, yeah, this would be great. Beers everywhere. It's gonna
be fucking crazy. Because the radio ones we used to do were pretty fucking
legal. Were great. Yeah, they were great. And uh and I
show up, I'm like, all right, here we going, and yeah,
we golfed. It was weird. I didn't quite understand what's going on.
I was so late, I was so often in doubt the direction.
And then when I had to actually legit golf and shit, I'm like,
oh, well, what the hell is this? I thought we were just
gonna see strippers and have fun. God. Yeah, not all golf tournaments
are like the ones that we used to do or do. Yeah, it's
not like that. But you get used to a certain thing in life,
and then when you do something else it's weird, like like it. For
a while, I was on on radio for a couple of years, and
I went and became a civilian, as we like to call it, right,
I came. I became as a as a cousin would say, I
became a normy. I came. I became a normal human being. And
I didn't know what to do with myself because I would say shit, ha
ha, I'm thinking it is funny, and people just look at me and
shock. I'm like, okay, I'm not I'm not saying anything anymore because
you get a costume to the workplace that you're in and it's like it really
will don't don't go be a normy rod, don't do it. Well,
you're not like this, You're not. I don't like this because because you're
in van Halen. You're in van Halen because you're like this. Yeah,
I'm not. I'm not like this because I'm on the radio. I'm on
the radio because I'm like this, that's your sweet how come you had that
one done? Yeah? Come on, I can do all your ship for
you. Come on, dude, any final thoughts. Yeah. So we
on Sunday, the kid and I. We get up in the morning.
She knows it's football. She's kind of you know, she doesn't really care
so much about the game, but she's just you know, Josh Allen Buffalo
Bills. She wants to wear Bills stuff. I'm into it, Okay,
she's into it a little bit. It's cool. We eat ant Sue sent
us a box of Josh Jack's that the cereal is called. Really, that's
the cereal Josh Jacks. Fluty Flakes are is still the winner, man,
I mean Josh Jacks. That's that feels a little, that feels a little
trying. That's trying pretty hard. Here's an old last year's model Josh Jacks,
no j a q S Jacks. Well, you gotta get the people
in Canada excited about them too. For those of you that don't know,
General Mills is in Buffalo and they make cheerios downtown. You can smell them,
and you can smell cheerios and she's pretty good. So if you've heard
most people have probably heard of Fluty Flakes. Yeh, like fucking and the
quarterback in Buffalo has his own breakfast cereal. Kind of cool. And then
you know, retroactively, they made you know, Kelly's heroes, and then
when we signed Terrell Owens, we had t O's and then there was even
you know, Ryan Miller had his own cereal from the Sabers. And you
know, my sister always sends me this stuff. So Josh Allen has his
own breakfast cereal. All right, now you're caught up. So we're eating
our cereal, okay, and then my kid says I'm done. I'm like,
whoa fucking there's milk in there. There's a couple of like loopers in
there, and there's milk. My question this morning is, when you're done
with your cereal, do you drink the remaining milk out of the bowl?
I just kind of assumed that every person on the planet drank that sugary ass
milk with the cement at the bottom and everything, right, it was the
best part. Or if you have a lot of milk, fucking load it
up with some more cereal. Hit it again. So I tell my kid,
I'm like, you drink the that's the best part. She's like,
I don't want it. I'm You're not my kid. You can't be mine.
You cannot be mine if you're not drinking that. So of you think
fat boy throws it away. No, I drank mine. Then I drank
hers. Yeah, of course. I did a poll question this morning,
when you're done with your cereal, do you drink the remaining milk out of
the bowl? Seventy five percent of people yeah, fourteen percent, sometimes ten
percent, never, never, you don't drink the milk that remains after you're
done eating your delicious cereal. Weirdos, Man, don't ask about things that
you don't want to know the answer to. I just assume that everybody did
it. Now, I think people are weird. That's something you find you
weird if you don't do if you don't drink the milk, what's wrong with
you? That is something you put in your tindered profile. I think at
this point you need to we need to know this. If you're gonna go
out man, hitting something, you gotta you gotta know this. So a
couple of things I know about this. Yes, A right, I will
drink that shit. I'm not a waster when it comes to that. I'm
not wasting. But here's the thing. As I've progressed in age, when
I do eat cereal, I kind of know the ratio to ceretal milk.
So I've got it timed out and measured just about right. So when I
get down there, there's very little left. I've got it kind of worked
out. After seventy five years of fucking eating cereal. I kind of got
it, you know what I mean. But whatever its left though you're up
there, Yeah, it's done. But there's very it's usually very little,
okay, okay, But back in the day, you know, when you
got the cool, awesome cereal like cocoa puffs and the fruity pebbles and shit,
that milk was like that was the best part of the damn thing.
And it was some men everloaded it with extra milk because you knew that drink
at the end was going to be kick ass drink your fucking milk. Why
would you waste it? Don't waste it, you know what I mean.
Don't waste it. So that led me to believe. But that led me
to this. If I'm eating so if I'm eating a bag of chips,
okay, and I get the last decent one that you're gonna grab, there's
clearly a bunch of stuff in there, Okay, crumb. Let me tell
you, Chubsi's. I'm I'm making a valley in that Dorito's bag, and
I am I am eating everything that's in that bag. I am not throwing
away all of that awesome chipness that's in that bag. Again, why would
you wasted It's still there, It's still good. Like, I don't go
chip valley out of the bag, you know, what I mean, I'm
not doing that. I'm not circus cealing the thing. But I will pour
it in my hand and I will go, i will go horse out of
a feedbag. I'll just lick it out of there that way and bag right
to my fat face. And I'm I'm eating all of those chip, those
wonderful little bits that some of them are just absolutely coated in all the dust.
Awesome again, I mean, this is this is just I thought that
was just a normal human thing. There's certain things you expect out of life,
and it's drinking the milks and eating the crumbs out of the bottom of
the chip. I mean, the chips are good. It's not like,
you know, maybe you're not a huge fan of broccoli and there's a couple
of little guys kind of chilling on your plate and you're like, yeah,
I'm good, Okay, I got you. I'm okay with that. The
milk in the cereal is fucking gold and the chip dust is spectacular wonderful.
Right, I think I've figured out now. I know that this is probably
not a huge problem for you, but some people can't sleep at night.
Rod. There are people in this world, which is most who can't sleep
at night, They toss, they turn. You know, I've literally resorted
to counting sheep. I don't take it for granted, dude. I like,
I don't even like talking about it because I fall asleep so easily,
and I know, it's like like an awesome thing that I have in my
life. It's like the one cool thing that I have. So it's like
I don't want to talk about it because I don't want it to go away,
because I realize what a problem it is for people. It's brutal,
and I have that same I have this problem all the time. So I
just start thinking of shit and it's like fuck, So I I think I
got a solution for people. And it ain't drugs. It ain't fucking listening
to this podcast to put you asleep at night. Don't do that. That's
not fair or funny. I just tried this one night out of the blue.
I don't know if I read it somewhere, but I tried this.
So you know how when you like go on vacation, right, You go
on vacation and you go somewhere and you just there's a moment in that vacation
where you're doing something and you remember it vividly. Okay. For instance,
I went to the beach I don't know, weeks ago, and I would
get up every other day at six am and walk quarter of a mile and
then go to a pier and go fish on my son. Right. But
at six am there's nobody out. It's quiet, you know. And so
what I did was because I enjoyed that walk so much. I tried to
recreate the work, no visually in my mind. I'm recreating so and I'm
doing it from stepping out of the bed. I'm like, okay, the
lamp was blue, and I'm trying to throw every possible, trying to really
focus on the details, and like okay. And then I would go and
I'd make I'd grab a cup of coffee, I grab the cooler, grab
the fish, and poles out the door, down the elevator and oh yeah,
this had the dog walking lady was there every morn And I'm painting the
picture I've got. I've yet to get to the pier. Like I have
yet to get to the pier. I fall asleep, like it's I don't
know what it works. It works. I don't even get out of the
building hardly if it works. It works, dude, But but it's gotta
be something you like. You got to pick out something that you can remember
all the and as you start building it in your mind, you'll start seeing
the color of the floor, the wallpaper, the you know, oh,
there's the Eiffel Tower in the distance, or wherever you were on vacation or
whatever. Recreate it vividly, and you won't get to your destination. Man,
you knocked right out. It works. I don't know why. I
like if I walked myself through the prom nineteen eighty seven, the Bitto Perry
Niagara Falls Boulevard, the vibrating Bartles and James that we were drinking. You
think if I walk myself through all of that, I'll fall asleep before the
fun stuff happened. Yeah, because you're getting out of the station wagon and
you're like fuck and you're like damn it, and then you park a lot
and you remember, like fixing the cuff on your shirt, Like you really
got to go detail heavy. Yeah, really, it really painted the forts
yourself to paint the picture, Like, look around, but you won't get
out of the fucking bed hardly. I thought I was very detailed with my
Bartles and James reference. I don't know, man, but it's worked.
I've yet, I've yet to even get close to the pier and fish on
my journey that I tried to create, And man, it works every time.
I'm like, okay, take the walk, and I just start taking
the walk and boom gone done. If if it was a problem for me
to fall asleep, I would no longer be weed curious. I would be
partaking in weed. Okay, if I just I would not be able to
afford to not be able to fall asleep with the little amount of sleep that
I get. Right, Yeah, I'm not crying and whining about it.
I'm just saying this is what I chose to do. But I mean,
I get that six hours every day. If it was a problem, I'd
be weeds number one customer. You know, I really would. There's no
question about it. So whether it's coming and you know, and I've got
some gummies here and stuff, and you know they're nighttime gummies, and but
it's legal stuff. It's not like the good good stuff. I don't know
what it is. I don't know what it is. We've come down this
road before. We don't know what the fuck it is, yeah, we
don't, but I'm freaking out. It's like, boom, I'll take one
of these gummies. I'm like, okay, I'll go to sleep. Great,
so let me throw this out. And I know we're trying to wrap
up, you know what, we should just start the podcast here and then
just get rid of the rest of the ship. But so in the last
two months, I've had a lot of different conversation with a lot of different
people, right as you would in life, but the same thing has come
up a few times. Like anything seems to work in cycles. So I'm
talking to a buddy of mine from years ago and we're just telling stories and
stuff. He goes, yeah, you know, back in my cocaine days,
blah blah blah blah blah blah, tell some story, tell some story,
bad things. And I went okay, And I don't, okay,
what if you did blow back in the date whatever? You're young, Who
gives a shit? Do you think? Another? Like a week and a
half later, I'm talking to a guy in the record business, and of
course those guys you know, and and he goes, yeah, he goes,
you know, I'm back in my when I was doing blow and I'm
like, ah, okay, well that's a second one. And then I
had like five or six people over the course of like six weeks do the
old well back when I was doing blow back, when I was doing cocaine,
and I'm thinking to myself, I must have missed it because I don't
have those reference points. I didn't have I don't have the you know,
back when I'm doing blow I don't have those stories either. But it's like
so many of them kept coming up, and I'm like, mother fuck,
I missed that. On the blow I was only really around it a couple
of times. To be honest with you, I mean, it just wasn't
always around. I'm glad I wasn't around it that much, but the times
that I was around it, it's just like, nah, no way.
The only thing that I did is somebody must have been cutting up some shit
on my drums or I'm like one of my drum cases back in the day.
So it was in my van and there was some residue on it,
So there was some cocaine residue. I don't think I've ever shared this with
you, but there was, you remember, and I don't. I don't
really have any reference. I don't really know how to do coke or anything
like that, but I know that scarface. After he got done doing it,
then he'd like rumps him on his fucking teeth. Yeah, really numbs
your gums or some shit. He gets it helps dude. So there was
a little bit on there and I just like, oh, fuck it,
and I rubbed it on my teeth and I felt like a monkey face,
like I felt like Planet of the Apes, Like my mouth was in front
of my face. I've honest the gun like I didn't get high at all,
but the numbing qualities and the numbing properties of it, just that little
bit I felt like the I don't know how else to put it, like
I had like a dog nose or something like my mouth was dend it away
from my face snout. Like it happened almost instantly. Wow, it's like
this. I got like this. I rub it on my gums, and
all of a sudden, my fucking face grew like the American werewolf in London.
It's exactly what it felt like. If you know the reference, you
know the reference, you know this Pinocchio face. Man, it just grew.
It happened. That's the only time so I guess I want to say,
you know, did you ever do blow Like? No, but really
it rubbed some of my gums once and I felt like a monkey head.
I can't imagine snarfing that ship then, can you imagine? Oh my god
that no wonder people do it? But yeah, I just I think it
was off. But you damn dirty ape. Yeah, so that's that's my
back in my blow days, back in my cocaine monkey head monkey face days.
The German Shepherd of north Ton of One. Yeah, dude, honest
to god, it really did. It's like I could feel it growing.
Yeah, apparently there's a lot of people there with back in the days of
when I was doing blow stories. I just was kind of like blown away
that it kind of hit me a bunch of times in a short period of
time. It's like, Okay, I obviously missed a train somewhere along the
road. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't around it. I wasn't interested,
No, no, I have no desire, didn't care. I didn't want
to do it all right. Well, guys, thanks so much for checking
this podcast out. Man. We would appreciate you subscribing. I did catch
a couple of you subscribing, So maybe we need to kind of say that
throughout the podcast. I probably was another like I made a note right here
mentioned subscribe during the podcast. Don't wait till the fucking very end when nobody's
listening. So the subscriptions are cool. Sign up to get notifications so that
you know when it drops, so when Jason uploads it in the middle of
the night, boom, you'll have it there. It'll be on your phone
in the morning. So subscribing is huge. Top five Nirvana songs. You
guys have been killing it with your top fives. Your top fives are so
much better than ours, so always, you know, the best place to
leave them is on our YouTube page at play pants Pod. But you know,
Twitter and Facebook and Instagram at play pants Pod. It's really funny how
like everyone's lists are better than ours. I'm starting to think maybe everyone else
you do a podcast and then we sit back and just listen to the damn
thing because it probably gonna better. I mean, you know, when you
think about it, Yeah, you guys should just do podcasts and we'll leave
top We'll just whatever you're doing your top fives on, we'll just add ours
to yours. But you know you've got an all fairness, you know,
you know how one like there's someone says something, but then you can come
up with a million ideas. It is a little bit easier once someone's already
kind of laid out some groundwork. I'm just saying, I love the suggestions.
And by the way, that guy that gave me his grunge list,
he said, you guys have not done a top five Smashing Pumpkins song.
Listen what well? I think I got a couple of what we come up
with a TV show theme songs would be a good one, and the Smashing
Punkins. I love that idea. Here's what I'm gonna almost demand. I'm
gonna demand that they're broken out seventies, eighties, nineties for TV. It's
just too much, man. I mean, even like with the with the
videos that was when that idea was kind of introduced to me, we really
could have done, you know, eighties and nineties. I'm really, you
know, done a real service to videos with a top five from me each
decade. And I think with TV, you know, homes almost I mean
if my all time TV shows, I mean like Game of Thrones is a
TV show, right, Yes, I think that counts. Yeah, So
like you're gonna have you're gonna have that and Sandford and Son on the same
fucking list. I mean, those are the same you're telling me those are
Those are both television shows, right, yeah, The Love Boat and yeah
and Bad Yeah right, Colombo and Game of Thrones, night Rider and yeah,
I know, night night Rider and The Wire those are TV shows,
right, Yeah, maybe not night Writer. So what I'm saying is there's
no way that you're gonna put the fucking Brady bunch in Game of Thrones on
the same goddamn list. We would have to do seventies, eighties and then
today, like nineties up until today. Yeah, I'd be or you know,
eighties, seventies, eighties, and I would even be okay with nineties
up till today. Yeah. I think that's fair because after that it's the
TV theme kind of fall apart, you know what I mean? All Right,
I think we got a couple of lists now stacked away that we can
actually borrow from here in the next few weeks. So I like that.
I mean, one Day at a time and Breaking Bad they're TV shows,
right, They're both television shows. Yeah, No, I mean, you
know, w krap and Cincinnati and friends, what are you Gonna Do?
Yeah? Those are two very good ones, I'll be honest. All right,
that's enough. Check us out on our socials, Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, and of course our YouTube channel, and thanks for listening. We
appreciate it. Thanks guys. Good. Let's go find us wherever you listen
to podcasts. See us on our YouTube channel, and follow our social media
pages at play pants pod