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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirly You Can't

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Be Serious podcast. I am here with my good buddy Jason.

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We are doing kind of a limbo episode. This is

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not really season three anymore, but not quite season four.

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This is a Hey, we're just gonna have some fun

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and do some more episodes.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it, man. This didn't take a whole lot

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of research. We just kind of having fun.

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Speaker 3: Basically, we missed each other.

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Speaker 1: We didn't like being away from each other over Christmas,

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having to spend time with our families. We wanted to

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see each other and talk about eighty stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're actually celebrating the fortieth anniversary of nineteen eighty

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three a lot this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just to think about all of the

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things that were going on in eighty three.

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Speaker 3: I know. My key memories are.

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Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi, first Star Wars movie that I

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remember seeing in the theater, seeing boobies for the first time,

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three movies in a row on a glorious, glorious day, vacation,

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trading places in risky business all on the same day.

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At seven years old, I was changed boy at that point. Beautiful,

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beautiful year. That's a special year. But what we're going

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to talk about today is not movies. We're going to

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talk about songs. We're gonna talk about the best five

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songs of nineteen eighty three. And I've got my top

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five and Jason has his top five, and we have

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not discussed. We don't know if there's any overlap. We

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don't know how it's all gonna play out. Will We'll

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ultimately just have to see what happens as we go along.

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But just I mean, if you think about nineteen eighty three,

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the other memory I have from that year is Michael

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Jackson Motown in the Moonwalk for the first time, and

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I was like, wow, wow. And I told you when

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we were talking about this, I'm like, literally, the case

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could be made that every single one of the top

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five could be off of The Thriller. I mean, it

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is the album that left all other albums behind. And

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eighty three was its year. Came out in eighty two,

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but it was November of eighty two and eighty three

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it was a mushroom cloud in the music scene.

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Speaker 2: I told you, in my fifth grade year, I was

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known as mister Thriller right right in my fifth grade class,

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Mister thriller, And so my fifth grade self would be like,

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there's no way to do a list other than Michael

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Jackson's song. She just started off, you know, want to

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be starting something, you know, Thriller, Billy Jean, beat it,

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human Nature.

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Speaker 1: Just go right down the list and it's all Michael Jackson. Yeah,

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my list is not gonna be all Michael Jackson. Well good,

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that's good. You fear musical tastes have expanded since you

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were nine a little bit, a little bit. Did I

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tell you that I was so into Michael Jackson at

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this point in history that my grandmother sewed me a

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white sequin glove and it was all like the silver

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sequence like he had, except in the middle she did

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colored sequence and it was the letter D for my name.

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I wore that thing out, Grammy out, love you, thank you.

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That was it was something special. That's very sweet, Actually

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it was. It was. It was my prize ession for

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the longest time. Okay. So in addition to in addition

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to stop looking at my notes. It's my notes.

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Speaker 3: You can't look I'm looking right, all right.

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Speaker 1: So in addition to Michael Jackson, we've we've got soundtracks

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like from Flash Dance, we've got Bonnie Tyler, We've got

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some rockers like Quiet Riot.

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Speaker 3: And Golden ear Ring.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of genres of music that

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are exploding into the stratosphere in nineteen eighty three, and

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I think is now time for us to jump in.

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So I'm gonna defer to you, honors to you number five,

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what is your what's your pick?

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Speaker 3: And you We're gonna tease this.

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Speaker 1: Up a little bit, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, see who

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if I can figure out what you're talking about before

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you get there? Okay?

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Speaker 2: All right, So this is a song that hit number

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one in March of nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so big song, Okay, I mean huge, okay song. Okay.

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Speaker 2: This song was written about a real life stalker who

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accused this artist of fathering one of her twins.

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Speaker 1: Okay, not both one. It's an interesting and underum right

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there were they fraternal?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but you know that's crazy person.

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: So I mean, do I need to say anymore? I

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think I know where you're going to go with this one.

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You've hit the Michael Jackson right out of the gate.

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It's got to be Billy Jean. Yes, it's Billy Jean

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at number five.

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Speaker 3: All right, So.

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Speaker 1: Billy Jean is on the Thriller album which came out

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in November nineteen eighty two, which we discussed. We have

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an episode on this and it's actually our very first episode.

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So in a little while, few days, if you will,

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we're going to have that episode come out and you

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can listen to all of our talk on all the

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behind scenes about Thriller, Billy Jean, all of it. But

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tell me what chicut on Billy Jene.

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Speaker 2: Well, so you know you alluded to that episode that

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was first episode out of the gate for us. We

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did Thriller Versus Bad. It'll be interesting to hear that

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So number one March of nineteen eighty three, you.

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Speaker 2: Of course have the Motown performance with the Moonwalk, which

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inspired a nationwide craze of white people trying to do

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the moonwalk unsuccessfully, right right.

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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson as he was writing this song, If I

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can say it, yeah, I was a moonwalk master. I

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mean we got the video right there? Can I see it? Yes? No?

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Oh my gosh, Okay.

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Speaker 2: All I know is that you know, after lunch before

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you know, fourth hour begans everybody was trying to do

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the moonwalk.

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay.

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Speaker 2: So, as Michael Jackson was writing the song, he was

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driving on the highway one day and he was thinking

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and thinking and thinking about this song. Is so absorbed

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with Billy Jean. His car actually caught fire. His rolls

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hoist was on fire. Had a motorcycle guy pull up

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next to him like, hey, mister, your car's on fire.

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He had no idea, he was so like into thinking

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about the song. This song is made up of twelve

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or more different hooks. The drum is a hook, the

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baseline is a hook, the synths. I mean, it's hop

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gold masterpiece of the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Pop goold masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: No argument here, and yeah, I mean obviously a big

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inspiration for me is it was the song he was

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singing when he did the Moonwalk at Motown. Yeah yeah, okay,

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hey wait wait wait okay.

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Speaker 2: So what if you're not deferring, that means it's not

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on your list.

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Speaker 3: It's not on my list.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that. Well, okay, all right, keep your seats,

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all right, okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: If the Girl is Mine is on this list, we're

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gonna have words.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, So are you done with Billy Gene?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, So moving on, this is my number five.

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Are you ready? Yeah? So this one also involved a fire, okay,

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and it involved a song that we've covered on one

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of our Patreon episodes. Actually a couple of Patreon episodes.

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We've talked about this. Okay, the knack and my Sharona

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was the key to inspire this song from producer to songwriter.

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Go ahead, do you know what it is?

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Speaker 2: Obviously this is Michael Jackson's wonderful masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: Beat it. Let's talk about that one in a few minutes. Okay,

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all right, all right, yeah, no problems. That's good, all right, Okay,

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So to you to number four for you? Actually, I

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guess since I didn't get to go on my number five,

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I should go to my number four, shouldn't I? Yeah? Good, okay,

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all right, So to start this, this can be a

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little trickier. You're gonna have a little more trouble with

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Speaker 3: Okay, maybe maybe not.

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Speaker 2: Don't look at my list, Okay, I'm not now I.

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Speaker 1: Gonna look at your list. So nineteen eighty three was

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a memorable year for multiple reasons, right, multiple reasons, but

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one that probably most of the people around here are

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not familiar with. Was a pretty big upset the United

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States had. Okay, yeah, So in nineteen eighty three it

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was the one hundred and thirty second America's Cup. Okay,

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the boat race. Okay. In that time, America had won

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every single one of the races for that entire one

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hundred and thirty two years. Okay until nineteen eighty three.

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September of nineteen eighty three when the team from Australia won.

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Speaker 3: The captain of the ship was a.

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Speaker 1: Guy named John Bertrand he won the America's Cup in

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the ship called the Australia two, and he dubbed this

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song the battle Hymn of the Ship.

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Speaker 3: If you got any idea.

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Speaker 2: It's one of three possible songs. Okay, I'm gonna say

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this song is down Under.

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Speaker 1: You got a buddy, Okay, yeah, man, it worked, there

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you go. So my number four song is down Under.

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Speaker 3: By minute work. It actually came out.

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Speaker 1: I think they recorded it even in nineteen eighty just

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a different version of it, and then they had their

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normal version that we know came out in eighty one,

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but it did not hit the charts in the US

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until nineteen eighty three and Boy in nineteen eighty three.

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It was all over the place, like Billy Jean, like

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beat it. It had a video that went with it

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that people were obsessed with. Right this one hit number one.

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hit was who Can It Be Now? Okay, which was

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it was number one four four weeks January to February

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nineteen eighty three, right at the beginning of the year.

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The origin of this song is that their guitarist, a

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guy named Ron Streikert, would fill bottles up with different

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amounts of liquid and then bang on them to get

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a different rhythm, and that's where you get the okay

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cool And then he Allo So came up with this bassline,

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and so Colin Hay has got this music that's in

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his head and he just thinks about living in the

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land down Under. It's that hook in his head, goes home,

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puts the guitar chords to it, and history is made.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't get away from the song now.

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I mean, this song's I still hear it all the time.

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Speaker 1: It is one of those four chord Champions of the eighties,

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just like Toto's Africa, just like Don't Stop Believing. So

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the lyrics of the song, I'm going to decipher a

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few of them for you, okay, because it is a

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Speaker 3: US state side folks, right, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: So fried out Combay is referring to a VW Combi

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van which is broken down. It's a popular van with

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surpers and hippies and so a fried out Comba. That's it, okay,

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the van, right, yeah, okay. Head full of zombie Zombie

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is a really strong marijuana that was making the rounds

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down to Australia back then. All right, head full of

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zombie grass, right, okay. Vegemite sandwich at this point, everybody

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in the US knows what vegemite is, but probably very

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few of us have had it. It's actually a fermented

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yeast spread which is very popular down in Australia. Does

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not sound delicious, it does not, And even down there

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it's like.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yes, we ought to take the Shirley Podcast on

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the road sometime to the lounddown Under and have a

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vegemite sandwich.

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Speaker 1: And then finally where the bear does flow and the men. Chunder.

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Chunder is not a word you heard.

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Speaker 3: For It means vomit.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. Yes, So I really feel like we

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got to cover this album eventually. There are several hits

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off of this one, nineteen eighty three strong. I feel

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like we need to go into this one. But that's

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my number.

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Speaker 3: There's my number four.

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Speaker 1: What do you got? All right?

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Speaker 2: My number four hit number twelve in July of nineteen

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eighty three. Okay, this song made this artist a superstar.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: On this song, you have lead vocals from the following people, okay,

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Jill Jones, Lisa Coleman, and Des Dickerson.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha? Okay? Gotcha with me? So far? Yes? All right.

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Speaker 2: It was also written in nineteen eighty two, during the

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middle of the Cold War, as a celebratory song to

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be participated in later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah with me. I know what the song is, of course.

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It is from the Purple One himself. It is nineteen

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ninety nine by purpose.

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Speaker 2: How are there eleven songs better than this in nineteen

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eighty three?

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Speaker 1: So it only got to number two, only got to

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number twelve. Well, that's a good question. So here's the list,

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Like I got it right here, right.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, I'm just blown away by this list. This

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is how good music was in the nineteen eighties. Okay,

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So eleven was Sweet Dreams by the Rhythmics, She Works

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Hard for the Money, huge hit stand Back by Stevie Nicks.

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Is this something we should know? By Duran Duran? I

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mean Duran Duran's huge in the eighties. Our House by Madness,

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Come Dancing by the Kinks, Want to Be Starting Something

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by Michael Jackson, Never Going to Let You Go by

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Sergio Mendezeh. One of your favorites, What a Feeling by

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Irene Kara, Electric Avenue and Every Breath You Take. That's

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a who's who of eighties artists right there.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little tough to crack the top ten, but

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still in my list.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge song of the eighties. It has lasting

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power that some of those other songs that you mentioned

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do not.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, I was at a roller rink in nineteen

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ninety eight on New Year's Eve and guess what song

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they played at midnight?

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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: It was cool on the trip that we where we

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went to California and I saw the Boobies for the

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first time. On our way out, stopped at a hotel

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driving along the way, and I can remember very clearly

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seeing Prince for the first time. It was Little Red

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Corvette that they were performing, but same album of course, right,

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and just being like, Wow, this dude is different. This

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is some different stuff. And I was entranced, absolutely entranced.

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Eighty three heck of a year.

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Speaker 2: Lisa Coleman was twenty two and she had just been

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a piano teacher and was hired by Prince and there

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she goes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, my number three. I'm going to give it

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away like in the first few seconds, right, yeah, okay.

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It was written at the same desk that James Bond

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was written at. I got it, I got it.

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Speaker 2: This has to be Every Breath You Take by the police.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's okay, fantastic. So this song was a mammoth hit,

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like it was the biggest hit song of nineteen eighty three.

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It simply was. I mean, even with Thriller doing all

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of the damage that it was doing to everybody else,

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it could not stop. Every Breath You Take. It was

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the number one song it was for the year. And

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we talked about this in our Synchronicity episode, which was

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I listened to some of it today and it was

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so fun to go revisit this. And it's another one

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of those episodes that we're going to have for you

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coming up here in a little while, since you get

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the full story.

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Speaker 3: On this song.

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Speaker 1: But Sting, you know, a lot of people think this

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song is a love song, right, and it's not. It's

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a stocker. It's a stalker song. And Sting is like,

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you know, people come up like I played that at

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my wedding and he'd be like, good luck, Yeah, exactly.

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I love that story.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, in nineteen eighty three, I didn't appreciate

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this song and we talked about how when we did Synchronicity,

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I wasn't a Police fan, but after we did that

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Deep Dive, I became a Police fan and realized, Man,

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this song it's just awesome.

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Speaker 1: It just is. It has the staying power. It will

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never get old. And there are so many good stories

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in the episode. I mean Stuart Copeland, the drummer, his

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dad was a member of the CIA that helped overthrow

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the government over there. I mean it's in Iran. I

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mean it was just it's just it's nuts. It's nuts,

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all of the things that went into making that album.

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And they build and they build and they build, and

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that album Synchronicity was the peak. It was the pinnacle.

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And then they were done.

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Speaker 2: They were done, by the way, Andy Summers, Yeah, turned

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eighty years old this week.

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Speaker 1: Shut eighty front door. Holy cow. Wow. I mean, I

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guess you know he got of got started late forty

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years ago. He was forty Yeah, I mean, the guy

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was considered to be the new guitarist for the Rolling

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Stones just before he joined up with the Police. That's

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he's a guy who's got chops and a guy who

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was a little bit older than the other two. Yeah, okay,

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that's my number three. What do you got? All right?

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Speaker 2: So this song, yeah, was directed in a foreign country,

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which was a new thing. It was a creative departure

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because every video had been shot in the same warehouse

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in New York City and MTV said, go do something different. Also,

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at the end of the song, it's rumored that there's

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the sound of a female orgasm at the end of

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the song.

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Speaker 1: Is that the rumor?

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Speaker 2: That's the rumor.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So the video not only was it filmed in

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another place, but it was filmed by one of our

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favorite directors, mister Russell Russell mckayhee and the song is.

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Speaker 2: Fringy pop bold man.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's great, It's pop fantastic. Yeah. And interestingly, as

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I listened to some of our old episodes, Melissa Mingle's

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name came up multiple times. So I am so thankful

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that we got her to come on and share with

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us her love for John Taylor and the album Yeo

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as a whole.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's say one of our good friends and followers

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of the podcast, and that was such a fun time

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to have her.

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Speaker 1: Great. By the way, this video shot in Sri Lanka.

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Speaker 2: As we talked, they shot Save a Prayer and Lowling

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Your Nightmare, all three on the same trip to Sri Lanka,

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which is why those videos look so close. Simon Labond

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bleached his hair in the middle of this video and

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it turned out really bad, which is why he's wearing

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Russell McKay He's Fedora the entire time in this video.

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Speaker 1: Right, And you thought it was an Indiana Jones thing,

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and it.

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Speaker 2: Was clearly they were taking you know, raiders a lot

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of stark approach, right. And that is Nick Rose's girlfriend

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laughing at the beginning of the song. It's such a

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great kickoff. As I mentioned before, this song is played

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in one of my eighties guilty pleasure movies, Hot Dog,

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the movie Hungry Like the Wolf. Number three all right,

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by the way, by the way, how in the world

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did this song only make it to number.

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Speaker 1: Three on the charts? Okay, well here's the reason. Okay,

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March of nineteen eighty three. Yeah, number one was Billy

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Gene Okay, I mean, uh, I mean duh. Yeah. Number

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two was do You Really Want to Hurt Me? By

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Culture Club? Yeah? No, no, dude, I mean it was

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eighty three. It is an unstoppable force. Culture Club was

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a phenomenon back then. It was a phenomenon.

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Speaker 2: It was boy George was kind of the person for

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a moment.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a better song. Yeah, okay, do

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you to me? Are so? Are we already a number two?

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We're burning through this? Okay? Now we covered synchronicity, okay,

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and this song I'm about to describe was a competitor

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for that. It's my favorite song of this off of

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this album, and it is featured prominently in a video

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game that is named after the band that has the

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band members as the characters in the video game. This

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particular song has the guitar player shooting lasers out of

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his guitar up into this you got it? I think

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I've got it. It's one of two. I believe it is.

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Speaker 2: Let's go down the wharf and get a haircut and

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get a shirt from Target and play Separate Ways by Journey.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So this is my favorite Journey song

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and possibly the worst video of nineteen eighty three. Right,

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that's true. I watched it again and I just had

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to go. I just imagine them as they all just

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showed up, and you know, the guy who was directed

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of the beer commercial yesterday was like, Okay, guys, what

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are we doing. They're like, now where we hired you?

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And he's like, oh, what's just everybody put your instruments

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over there, and you go pretend like you're paying your instruments,

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and then we'll bring them back in and it'll be

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like they just appeared.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Jonathan Kane, just do this, you know, really hard,

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and then we'll bring a keyboard in and out.

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Speaker 1: It'll be awesome. Yeah, this song was shot at wharf

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that our buddy Christopher Weber Yeah, it's like real close

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to where he works. Yeah, that's right, and the wharf

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actually says it on the wharf in the video. And

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then the hot girl that's walking around, you know, Steve

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Perry showed up with his girlfriend and she saw the

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hot girl that was supposed to be in the video

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and she was like, excuse me, I will be the

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hot girl, thank you very much. Yeah, Sherry Songsry. Yeah,

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there you go. It's tragic that that didn't work out. Yeah, well,

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we've got the whole episode on that band, which is

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again fantastic. I mean, guys, Steve Perry was working at

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his father in law's turkey ranch when he got the

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call from Herbie Herbertson or whatever it is. He has

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given up music, he'd quit and when he got when

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he got the call, he was like, yeah, I don't

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really want to.

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Speaker 2: Over does that you? Yeah, it's incredible working at a

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turkey ranch. Maybe the greatest voice of the eighties and

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he was like an ask, I'm just.

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Speaker 1: Going to work with turkeys. Yeah. Yeah. It is amazing

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to know what the history of Journey is and how

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many times it was almost not a band at all.

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It is basically this is weird. It is basically Santana too.

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No one would think that, but that's where the seeds started. Yeah, crazy,

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it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Check out our Journey Frontiers episode coming a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your number two is it to me? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: All right, So this song has Thomas Dolby from She

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Blinded Me with Science on keys. It was rumored that

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this song was about Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 1: But it was not. Okay, that threw you a curveball right there,

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he did.

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Speaker 3: It's Thomas Dolby's been on a few things that we've talked.

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Speaker 1: About going, yes, he has okay. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This video features the first flying spread Eagle on MTV. Yes,

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it predates David Lee Roth and a T shirt was

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purchased on the way to the video shoot for like

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ten bucks and it became the Rage and a Selma

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concerts today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So this song is photographed by def Leppard from

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our Pyromania episode Piromania album. Fantastic song, love it. It's

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a great song. It is a great song. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We talked about that chirp at the beginning. Yeah, and

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I think you decided that it's the sound of him

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plugging his guitar and to the end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. For sure, Mutt Lang setting the standard

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for what rock music was going to be for the

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next twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's a pop metal like it combines pop and

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rock and mainstream rock. I mean, these guys just hit

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MTV with a great song, a great video at the

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exact right time, and they took off.

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Speaker 1: So nineteen eighty three, you are a little kid who's

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obsessed with Michael Jackson. Yes, and what you remember this story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm sitting in my fifth grade class and

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my buddy says, hey, listen, I've got a song I

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really want to play for you, and I'm like, listen,

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I am into Michael Jackson. I don't have time for

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anything else, right, And he's like, no, I think you

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like this one. I'm like, no, really, I'm strictly Michael Jackson.

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He's like, well, can I just play this one for you?

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00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:21,119
And he plays Photograph for me and.

472
00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,319
Speaker 1: I'm like, this song is so freaking good.

473
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 2: Like instantly I'm a deaf leopard guy. Yeah, and that

474
00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:31,160
shifted me into def Leppard really for the rest of

475
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,759
the eighties, and like Hysteria.

476
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,559
Speaker 1: Is my all time favorite album.

477
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, so absolutely fell in love with def Leppard, the

478
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,880
mainstream rock guitars, and just the fun joy of rock

479
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,680
and roll infected me from that minute forward. Love it man,

480
00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:49,440
it was that was when the match hit the flame.

481
00:24:49,559 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, those those moments in our youth where where our

482
00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:57,640
eyes are suddenly opened. It's amazing time to think back too.

483
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,559
It's great, great, good story. I'm surprised we had too

484
00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:01,599
much crossover so far.

485
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:02,319
Speaker 3: No, we haven't.

486
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: Okay to you, sir. Okay, So we are at the

487
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,039
point in the show where we're about to talk about

488
00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:12,000
what our number one song for nineteen eighty three was,

489
00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:15,160
and we got to do some honorable mentions here.

490
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 2: Okay, how many honorable mentions are you gonna do? Would

491
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,119
you like to change the rules on this? They always

492
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,160
accuse me and changed the reals.

493
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,039
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I just I and I didn't do it mid episode, mister.

494
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,039
I at least suggested it to you. So we'll do

495
00:25:28,079 --> 00:25:31,400
two honorable mentions and if you've got one one song

496
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,920
that you had forgotten about, but when you started looking

497
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,079
at nineteen eighty three, you're like, oh yeah, I remember that,

498
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,640
so oh yeah, I do. Okay, so honorable mentioned for

499
00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:45,400
me number one. It's got to be Quiet Riot. Come

500
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,799
On Feel the Noise off of Metal Nose. Okay, that

501
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,319
was an iconic album in that time in my life.

502
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,400
I remember my brother had it. I remembered that the cover.

503
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: I can still see the cover.

504
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: In my brother's room album cover of him in the

505
00:26:02,279 --> 00:26:09,000
leather straight jacket with the metal face on. Fantastic headbanging,

506
00:26:09,559 --> 00:26:12,640
hard rock, heavy metal song. Absolutely, come on, Feel the Noise.

507
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:13,960
I remember the video.

508
00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:14,799
Speaker 3: I remember being.

509
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: Big in my fifth grade class.

510
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,519
Speaker 2: So absolutely deserving to be your honorable mention, absolutely all right.

511
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:26,519
Speaker 1: My second honorable mention very similar. It's making Love out

512
00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:31,799
of Nothing at all by air Supply. It's a catchy dune.

513
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,160
I love air Supplies a right, and I am unapologetic

514
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,799
about it, all right. I know that it's mushy, gooshy

515
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:43,200
weenie songs, and I don't care. I love air Supply.

516
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,359
The guys can sing man. That song is freaking fantastic

517
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,119
nothing at all.

518
00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:51,839
Speaker 2: We got to listen to that right here. I know

519
00:26:52,319 --> 00:27:00,279
just whisper and cry, I know just when had a

520
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,160
fine answers, and I know just out a live.

521
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,839
Speaker 1: If this song was not on your makeout list of

522
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,440
nineteen eighty three, you weren't doing it right. You didn't

523
00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:12,799
understand the assignment.

524
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: I have to stop this. I'm gonna start weeping.

525
00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: You you put that in the right move and as

526
00:27:18,519 --> 00:27:21,400
my brother says, that's a panty It's a panty dropper

527
00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:21,880
for sure.

528
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,599
Speaker 2: Great great choice, Okay, great choice.

529
00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:27,039
Speaker 1: Okay. So those are my two honorable mentions, and you

530
00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:28,839
do your honorable mentions. Then I'll tell you the song

531
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,599
that I rediscovered. Okay, all right.

532
00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 2: So my number one honorable mention has Bobby Kimball with

533
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:43,119
the sweaty vocals singing Africa by Toto. The chorus is

534
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,079
so infectious that when it comes on the radio, I'm

535
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,039
turning up every time. It doesn't matter if I listened

536
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:49,279
one hundred times in a row. No, it's a great,

537
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,559
great song and I love it. Another Raiders of Lost

538
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:54,640
Art video by the way.

539
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly right with the spirit chucking and black

540
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,960
Lady in the library. So so not twenty first century

541
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,519
of Robria, but at the time, ooh Africa like it?

542
00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:11,440
All right? It's so good, hey that the history on

543
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,599
that song and the times that we've covered it is

544
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,039
it is a song that will live forever. Great mention. Okay,

545
00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:18,720
what do you got.

546
00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 2: That Toto episode, by the way, is one of our

547
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,519
all time favorites, and I wouldn't have thought that.

548
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,839
Speaker 1: And we started that episode and that was the one

549
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,480
that we compared to Duran Duran's Rio. That was a

550
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:30,839
great matchup because those are two killer album.

551
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 2: Those albums are twenty forty one this year. That was

552
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:36,079
a great matchup that we had Toto four versus Rio

553
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,559
Duran Duran one of my favorite episodes that we've done.

554
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,279
Speaker 1: Love it, Okay, my second honorable mention. You ready for this? Yeah?

555
00:28:43,319 --> 00:28:46,279
Speaker 2: It is a pop song with a message. There is

556
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,640
no course in the song and the name of the

557
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,400
band is from her nickname when she was a little girl.

558
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,920
She went to Spain and they called her Nina Ah.

559
00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: The ninety nine left falloon, I left Balloons. You gotta

560
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:06,960
tell his story about you and your wife on this.

561
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: We need to do a Patreon on this song because

562
00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,160
I had a discussion with my wife one time and

563
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,319
we were talking about this particular song and she's like,

564
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:17,839
you're talking about that song, that German song, and I'm like, no, no,

565
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,200
the English one.

566
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: You know.

567
00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:22,759
Speaker 2: She's like, that song's in German. I'm like, no, it's not.

568
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,440
It's in English. And we had a knockdown, drag out.

569
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,720
That freaking song is in English.

570
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: It's both, it's it's bold's two different verses of the song. Yes,

571
00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:34,920
I had the stupid ninety nine Red Balloons was the

572
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,359
one I had just heard. So anyway, I love that song.

573
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 3: Two fantastic two fantastic songs.

574
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,319
Speaker 1: Yes, okay. So what do you Got is like when

575
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,119
you discovered Okay, this one is by Jackson Brown? Okay,

576
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,079
So I was like, Jackson Brown had a song in

577
00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:52,839
eighty three. I didn't really, I mean, and honestly, this

578
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,960
album that it came off of was his kind of

579
00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:57,960
last big Hourrah. You know you think I can get

580
00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:02,599
at So I'll give you hint. Okay, because it's not

581
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,039
a song that people are really talking about still okay,

582
00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,440
But it's a fantastic song, Okay, Okay. It has my

583
00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:11,759
chosen profession in the title of the song and talks

584
00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:15,559
about people like me being passionate about other people like me.

585
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,400
I got nothing if the song is called Lawyers in

586
00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:25,440
Love by Jackson Brown? Do you have anything you never

587
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:26,160
heard this song?

588
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 3: I guarantee you've heard of it. Okay, pull it up,

589
00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:29,720
pull it up. We're gonna listen to it.

590
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: Yes, I've heard the song. Yes, of course I've heard

591
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:51,599
this song. Just a little bit more ahead. The third is.

592
00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: Yes, of course I've heard the song. Yeah, I totally

593
00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,279
forgot about it.

594
00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exact, exact right, Like, I'm like, Lawyers and Love.

595
00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:03,240
I remember in the night the title of that song,

596
00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:04,640
and then when I listened to him, like, hey, this

597
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,759
is a good song. Yeah, it is a good song song.

598
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,680
I mean, but how is a song called Lawyers in

599
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,720
Love Gonna last? Wow?

600
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson Brown, I believe married Daryl Hannah. If I

601
00:31:15,079 --> 00:31:18,519
am not mistaken, he and Daryl Hannah had a relationship

602
00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:19,119
in the eighties.

603
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:21,839
Speaker 1: Really, did you know that she's married to Neil Young.

604
00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:26,640
She likes us, she likes the musician. Yeah, Neil Young,

605
00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:31,160
Neil Young, Hey, yeah, crusty old Young and Darryl hot

606
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,680
Hannah Yeah, Roxanne fucks man, Oh my gosh. Yep. All right,

607
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,839
So here's the song that I.

608
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,079
Speaker 2: As I was going through this, I just couldn't get

609
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:40,839
away from it, right, And I kept coming back. I'm like,

610
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,400
does this belong in my top eight?

611
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:43,799
Speaker 3: You know?

612
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: And I just it's one of those songs where you

613
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,200
may not even know the title of the song, but

614
00:31:49,319 --> 00:31:51,079
you probably know all the words, like if I played

615
00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:51,599
it for you.

616
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: You probably just spit them all out. Okay, So it's

617
00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:53,960
one of those.

618
00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:57,319
Speaker 2: This song reached number six early nineteen eighty four.

619
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: I told you before I was writing.

620
00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:02,279
Speaker 2: One time with my whole baseball team, we just won

621
00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:04,799
a game and the coach list turned on the radio station.

622
00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, we sang Harder rock and Roll by Huey Lewis.

623
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:17,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we all sang this song by Genesis.

624
00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:23,279
Speaker 3: So it's the title of this the title of this song.

625
00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: It's just a shame is that the name of time,

626
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,359
title of the song is called That's All.

627
00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:30,759
Speaker 1: That's all. Yeah, this that probably was the beginning in

628
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:33,119
the period of the eighties, the beginning of the time

629
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,279
that you could not go for a week without hearing

630
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:36,519
Phil Collins for which on the radio.

631
00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:41,039
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Phil Collins unstaple through the eighties, unavoidable at that point.

632
00:32:41,119 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: And not I'm not complaining. I like Phil Collins too,

633
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:47,079
but heck, dude, that guy was had a hit song

634
00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:50,000
every three months. Yeah, it's true, every three months.

635
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 2: It's true. It went to Genesis had a big album

636
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,559
in eighty three and eighty four. Phil Collins No Jacket

637
00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,400
Required takes us through eighty five, and then Genesis comes

638
00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,440
right in with eighty six.

639
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so we've reached number one and we've got

640
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,880
I mean, just guys, just think about how incredible of

641
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,680
a year of the music this is. This has been.

642
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,519
This was a really hard thing to narrow it down.

643
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,119
I mean, we've got stray Cats going crazy, You've got

644
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:19,480
Laura Brannigan going crazy, You've got sticks, You've got Bonnie Tyler. Yes,

645
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,680
I mean Bonnie Tyler kept kept my song out of

646
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,359
the top spot in the UK. Hey Tyler. Total glimpse

647
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:27,759
of the Heart.

648
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,039
Speaker 2: Definitely in the conversation for this list.

649
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, every time it comes on, I'm like, hey, yeah, yep, okay,

650
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,160
so number one again, I'm gonna defer to you, what

651
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:38,640
do you got?

652
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 2: Well, I think you already know what my number one

653
00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:42,279
is because we kind of eliminated.

654
00:33:41,799 --> 00:33:42,759
Speaker 1: It right off the bat. Yeah.

655
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 2: But when you take the greatest pop artist of the day,

656
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,599
and you combine it with the greatest guitar player of

657
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,599
the day, and you mash it together, and you put

658
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,319
the greatest producer of all time, and you come up

659
00:33:56,359 --> 00:34:00,480
with a song that is so catchy it's so much mainstream.

660
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:03,519
It appeals to rock people, pop people, R and B people.

661
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,440
It's beat it by Michael Jackson.

662
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: So that opening sound, that iconic opening sound, is from

663
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:19,039
a ceclavier keyboard. Right. They were doing everything they could

664
00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,960
not to sound like anything else, but it was a

665
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,400
stock sound and they're like, hell, we got to change

666
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,199
the sound, and Michael Jackson was no, no, no, no, We're

667
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,920
keeping this sound. That thing.

668
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 3: Yes, So that sound is.

669
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: A sound that came programmed in, like you open the

670
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,519
box and there it is iconic sound. And I mean

671
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,000
we went into all kinds of detail when we did

672
00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:47,199
our Thriller episode on this, but I uncovered multiple different things.

673
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,440
Michael Jackson when he wrote this song, he said, I

674
00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:53,360
want to write a song. It's a rock song that

675
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,239
I would go out and buy. Yeah, but that's not

676
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,599
being played on the top forty right now. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.

677
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 2: Well, I mean Eddie van Halen produced two guitar solos

678
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,599
for two six packs of beer, and really, I mean

679
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,519
a case can be made that this accelerated the demise

680
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:11,199
of van Halen.

681
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:17,559
Speaker 1: David Lee Roth. Absolutely, I mean this album kept nineteen

682
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:20,400
eighty four out of the top spot in the three

683
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,039
weeks that it was at number two. Thriller was at

684
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:24,079
number one the whole time.

685
00:35:24,159 --> 00:35:27,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, Thriller was this juggernaut and David Lee Roth didn't

686
00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:30,639
want Eddie playing for other artists and it was a

687
00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:35,519
fight and it ended with Dave gone, Sammy in and

688
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:36,719
Michael Jackson being the.

689
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: King of the eighties. Yeah, and Eddie said he was like,

690
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,800
I just wanted to do something nice. Like he didn't

691
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,360
even care about not getting paid other than the beer

692
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,599
they brought to the studio or whatever. He was like,

693
00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:48,159
I just want to be nice to this kid. I thought,

694
00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:50,559
maybe give me some dance lessons or something. My gosh,

695
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:51,639
and it's so good.

696
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: I like, literally, I think this is Eddie van Halen's

697
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,920
greatest piece of work. Yeah, it is the most amazing

698
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,760
guitar solo I've ever heard.

699
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,559
Speaker 1: So, as we mentioned the episod, so the musicians that

700
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:03,559
are involved in almost all of the songs on this

701
00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:06,599
album are the guys from Toto, Steve Lucather on guitar,

702
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,599
You've got Jeff Pacaro, You've got Steve Pacaro. They're involved

703
00:36:11,599 --> 00:36:15,880
in I mean, Steve Pacara wrote Human Nature. Yes, And

704
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:20,000
so when Eddie came in, he heard Lucather's chord progression.

705
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:22,599
He was like, hey, can we switch this up a

706
00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:27,360
little bit? And they're like, whatever you want, mister van Halen, Yeah, sure, yeah,

707
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,119
And so he changes it up and does two takes,

708
00:36:33,119 --> 00:36:38,360
two takes, and in two takes he sets the monitor

709
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:49,159
speaker on the fire. So then when Michael Jackson came

710
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:52,920
in and Eddie's still there and he saw that he

711
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,119
had changed it, he wasn't upset. He was like, I'm

712
00:36:56,199 --> 00:36:59,559
so honored that he cared enough about the song to go, hey,

713
00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:02,719
let's let's maneuver it here and make it better. And

714
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,320
it was truly impressed that he took the time to

715
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:05,679
do that.

716
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,039
Speaker 2: You know, the video, you had actual crips and bloods

717
00:37:10,119 --> 00:37:13,840
on set for the gang fight, the West Side Story thing.

718
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 1: Yeah. Although I'm gonna say.

719
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,639
Speaker 2: It's an iconic video and it finishes strong the beginning

720
00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:20,719
with Michael Jackson.

721
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:22,199
Speaker 1: Laying in bed singing.

722
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 2: He improves, he gets much better, and you compare that

723
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,519
to like Smooth Criminal a few.

724
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: Years later, where he's doing amazing things. The entire video. Yeah. Well,

725
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,519
the director of that video was Bob Jerryaldi Okay, okay,

726
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,440
And you know he said everybody thought that this was

727
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,800
supposed to be a West Side Story thing, And I mean,

728
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,639
come on, west Side Story is obvious on this right

729
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,000
right right? And I mean the line in West Side

730
00:37:50,039 --> 00:37:52,360
Story when they're like running away because there's about to

731
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,840
be a fight is beat it, beat it right right?

732
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,880
So but he's like, no, no, no, no, it wasn't that.

733
00:37:57,039 --> 00:38:00,960
He was like, I was inspired by the hoods in

734
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,440
my neighborhood when I was growing up in Patterson, New Jersey,

735
00:38:03,559 --> 00:38:06,159
right right.

736
00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:09,199
Speaker 3: So he directed him in this video. He directed him

737
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:10,360
one other time.

738
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: Okay. It was for a Pepsi commercial ham Yes, oh

739
00:38:19,039 --> 00:38:21,079
my gosh, yep. Okay.

740
00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 2: This song hit number one April of nineteen eighty three,

741
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,480
and it's I mean, I don't know how it's not

742
00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:29,559
higher on your list, but let's let's see what you

743
00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:30,000
got here.

744
00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 1: Well, let's let me just say, okay, this song was

745
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,639
on my list. This was a hard list to put together,

746
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,480
and I had to I had to find something. I

747
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,639
had to put these somewhere, right, That's true, So beat

748
00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:40,679
it still. I mean, I just I could have done

749
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,159
all Michael Jackson, I could have done it all, okay,

750
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,480
but I picked the one that is my favorite. I

751
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,039
put it number five because this song is the perfect

752
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:54,199
crossover of pop, motown and rock. Like you take those

753
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,360
three things, cram them together. It's perfect and you've got

754
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,400
to beat it. Yeah, I a song. I fought you

755
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,159
not at all for putting it number one, all right, okay, okay,

756
00:39:04,199 --> 00:39:05,960
So you're ready for my number one? I am, I'm ready.

757
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,920
I can't wait. I'm on the edge of my seat. Okay.

758
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:11,639
This song when I heard it the first time, and

759
00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:14,480
I think this is probably the experience for most folks.

760
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:18,320
It's like it reaches out of the radio and grabs

761
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,800
you by the shirt and shakes you and then gives

762
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,679
you a big kiss and you fall into it. I mean,

763
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,800
this is the this is the classic piece from the

764
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,719
eighties where it's you know, the guys, the girl's mad

765
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,119
and they're fighting and then all of a sudden they

766
00:39:31,159 --> 00:39:35,440
kiss and it's passionate. Right, that's this song. Okay, okay, okay.

767
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: This song is.

768
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: By a pair that was in a group initially called

769
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,880
the Tourists. We talked about Australia a little bit earlier.

770
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,519
The Tourists had gone down to Australia on a tour

771
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,440
and they absolutely fell apart. The pair were dating at

772
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,039
the time, Okay, I mean they were romantically involved. By

773
00:39:57,039 --> 00:40:00,840
the time they were flying home, they were done. But

774
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:04,960
they both were smart enough to go, hey, we're a

775
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,880
good combo musically. How about we just move out and

776
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,119
we keep on working on music, and I move out.

777
00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:14,119
One of them literally moved to the floor above the

778
00:40:14,159 --> 00:40:18,280
other one, right, okay, And so then they changed their

779
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:19,400
name too.

780
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: I think this is the Eurhythmics, see.

781
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: Okay, So Annie Lennox is suffering from depression because as

782
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:34,840
the Aeromix, they've had not a great deal of success

783
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,199
with their initial releases, and she's kind of in the

784
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:41,360
fetal position in the corner, and Dave Stewart is toying

785
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,079
around with these new electrical machines that make music like

786
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:48,559
that basically it looks like a computer. And if you've

787
00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:51,119
seen the video, you've seen what he's what he's messing

788
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:54,480
around with. And she's over there crying. He's fiddling around,

789
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:56,679
and she's all of a sudden like, I don't know

790
00:40:56,679 --> 00:41:04,320
what was that, And it's that it's infectious. You can't

791
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,000
avoid it, you cannot avoid it. And it is a

792
00:41:08,039 --> 00:41:12,159
song that does it is a pure chorus song like

793
00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:15,880
there isn't verse, right, it's just cook cook cook, cook

794
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,400
cook cook. The whole thing is hook and you just

795
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,199
want it to never end. You want it to never end.

796
00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:23,480
It is like it's you know what it is like

797
00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:26,559
to me, It's like Corey Hart and sunglasses at night.

798
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 3: It is something where you hear it and.

799
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: You're automatically like, I need to turn it up right now.

800
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,800
And so that awesome intro is actually two pieces, right,

801
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:39,280
It's actually him playing one part and her playing the

802
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,880
other part. And if you listen, you can hear you

803
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,639
can hear the side to side on the stereo of

804
00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:47,000
the two different pieces because and they're like, people have

805
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,400
so much trouble because they try to play this as

806
00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:53,320
one instrument. It's two people playing interesting okay. And she

807
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,639
had done so much. I mean you talked about boy

808
00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:58,519
George and his look. She was kind of the other

809
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:01,199
side of that coin. Right here she is with her

810
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:06,039
head nearly shaved, wearing a man's business suit. And the

811
00:42:06,199 --> 00:42:10,719
song is not a happy song. The sweet dreams are

812
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,639
made of this. It's talking about this kind of desire

813
00:42:13,679 --> 00:42:17,079
that you have for fame, and then you realize this

814
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,400
sucks because some people want to use you and some

815
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,480
people want to be used by you and just this.

816
00:42:23,599 --> 00:42:25,599
If you listen to the lyrics, it's really about you know,

817
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:29,519
I've travel over the world and it's crap. But then

818
00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:32,360
in hearing all of this, Dave Stewart's like, well, we

819
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,760
can't be completely a downer. Let's keep your head up,

820
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:39,480
keep moving on, hold your head up, keep moving on.

821
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,960
That's good And that's how that makes it. That's how

822
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,039
those lyrics make it out. That's great, man, that's great.

823
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:46,519
Speaker 2: Okay, I can't I can't fault you at all. That's

824
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,280
a great song in it. I had it written down

825
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,599
on my list as near missus. So yeah, I mean,

826
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,360
nineteen eighty three great year in music.

827
00:42:53,559 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, we're going to have episodes that cover a

828
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,400
lot of these things coming up here in the next

829
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,719
few weeks. We hope you enjoy them. We hope you

830
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,320
enjoyed this little journey with us. If you think we

831
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,320
completely missed the boat on this, or if you think

832
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,280
we're just off a little bit, hit us up on Twitter,

833
00:43:08,559 --> 00:43:10,800
hit us up on Facebook, and tell us what are

834
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,960
your top five songs of nineteen eighty three? Should we

835
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,280
talk about what we got coming up on the schedule. Yeah, sure,

836
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,960
let's talk a little bit about what's in store for

837
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,679
season four of the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.

838
00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so our schedule is always inflex Yeah, but I

839
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:27,320
think we've got.

840
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: We've got Groundhog Day coming up.

841
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're gonna pair that up on Groundhog on

842
00:43:32,119 --> 00:43:35,280
Groundhog Day. We haven't actually decided what we're going to

843
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:35,760
pay that up.

844
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, surprised.

845
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 2: So we're in talks to maybe do the Outsiders versus Rumblefish,

846
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,280
kind of a Francis Ford Coppola Tulsa thing.

847
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. We we started talking about this and I talked

848
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,880
to I mentioned something to my sister in law about

849
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,199
this a few weeks ago, and she's like, oh, yeah,

850
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:53,960
I taught Mickey Rock how to ride a motorcycle.

851
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 3: I was like, shut the heck up.

852
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: What She's like, Oh yeah, I was in text. I'm like, nah,

853
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,960
so have a I have a close dear relative that's

854
00:44:04,159 --> 00:44:07,400
freaking' She've lived with Meg Tilly for a couple of weeks.

855
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,920
I mean, it's nuts. What are you talking about? It's incredible. Yeah.

856
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 2: Well, and then we're gonna cover I think we're gonna

857
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,039
cover Long called Winter, Long Cold Winter by Cinderella. We're

858
00:44:17,039 --> 00:44:19,840
gonna cover you eight one two by Van Halen. We're

859
00:44:20,039 --> 00:44:22,400
hopefully gonna tackle Billy Joel and Lionel Richie.

860
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,079
Speaker 1: We've got two iconic computer movies from the eighties. We've

861
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:29,480
got war Games versus Tron. We hope to have a

862
00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:32,159
special guest on that one. Yes, you know which one.

863
00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:33,199
I'm really excited about.

864
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 2: Soundtrack, soundtrack, movie movie. We're gonna do Rocky Horror Picture

865
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,760
Show and Grease.

866
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: Can't wait in the fall. Yeah, I can't wait for that. Yeah. Guys.

867
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 3: We've got all kinds of fun stuff.

868
00:44:44,199 --> 00:44:47,639
Speaker 1: In store that will reveal to you as the episodes

869
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,239
go on. But please hit that subscribe button, hit that

870
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876
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877
00:45:09,559 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 3: We've covered the knack we have, We've covered.

878
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: We covered September by Earth Wind and Fire.

879
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 3: We've covered You've.

880
00:45:16,599 --> 00:45:17,559
Speaker 1: Got it All by the Jets.

881
00:45:17,559 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: We've covered Relaxed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Yeah, the

882
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,920
Simple Minds. Don't you forget about me? Yeah, we've covered

883
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Video Killed the Radio Star. We have course covered I'll

884
00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:29,280
See You in My Dreams by Giants.

885
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 1: Yes, and all I want for Christmas is you.

886
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 3: We took the wind out of my there so excited.

887
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 2: We've got some great stuff on Patreon five bucks a month.

888
00:45:38,039 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you get all this extra stuff. It's really cool. Yeah.

889
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,559
Speaker 3: And if you go up in levels from there, we

890
00:45:41,599 --> 00:45:42,599
started sending out gifts.

891
00:45:42,639 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: Man, I know. Hey, by the way, Yeah, check out

892
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894
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thirty something Movie Podcast. If you just heard our most

895
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,000
recent episode, we were talking with John about the Superman episode,

896
00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:02,960
and then even before that, we were talking with John

897
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,039
and Dayton Johnson from the Docking Base seventy seven podcasts

898
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about the Star Wars Trivia Star Wars Trivia.

899
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Speaker 3: Yes, a heck of a show.

900
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard that one yet, and you it

901
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,480
goes from easy to rather hard quickly. All Right. That

902
00:46:18,639 --> 00:46:20,280
was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun,

903
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,880
and then of course this we also I hate not

904
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,159
to mention this, but we've got some episodes coming up

905
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,559
this year with some other podcasts. Our friends over at

906
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:32,360
the film By podcast had done a whole series on

907
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,119
nineteen eighty six. Now they're doing one on nineteen seventy six,

908
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,920
and when they showed us to the list, I was like,

909
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,880
holy cow, there are some amazing movies. So we'll be

910
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,920
joining them for some of those fun. That'll be fun. Guys.

911
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,239
Thank you so much for listening. Please tune in next time,

912
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:52,440
and as always, thank you for being awesome. We will

913
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,079
see you guys. Next time you Next time

914
00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:04,159
Speaker 2: You a fish