Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. We have a very special episode tonight.
We are going back thirty five years in time.
Speaker 2: But before we do that, how you doing, buddy, Well?
I went to a party last Saturday night, didn't get
laid and got in a fight, which is probably good
because it hadn't been the other way around, my wife
would have been really mad.
Speaker 1: It ain't no big thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, nineteen eighty eight the year that the King of
pop still held his throne, but the hair bands were
storming the gates.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, I can't wait to talk about. This
is like my wheelhouse, man, I know this is so
in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: Now. We've got a few albums from nineteen eighty eight
that we've covered before. We did nineteen eighty three, the
Best of nineteen eighty three earlier this year, and obviously
Michael Jackson's nineteen eighty two album Thriller was its huge
and I think you've had two on your top five
from that album. I had won myself same one, Okay.
Now in nineteen eighty eight we got Michael Jackson has
just released Bad in nineteen eighty seven, and again he's
all over the place. So I'm pretty confident I can
guess where at least one of your artists is going
to be on the top five.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what else just kind of mirroring that
same track is def Leppard You got it? Pyromania. Then
five years later here comes Hysteria and same type of deals.
It's perfectly in tune with eighty three and eighty eight.
Speaker 2: And these are exactly the guys that we were talking
about when we were running together back in two thousand
and eight, I know, right, fifteen years ago. Can you
believe that fifteen years ago we were talking about these
bands and now here we are talking about them again.
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: It's great, man, I'm having so much fun. I'm so
glad we do this.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, it was fun to jump into eighty eight
before we get fully into our top five. Though. I
got a question, yes, which was harder to pick your
top five from nineteen eighty three or five from nineteen
eighty eight?
Speaker 1: Eighty eight? Harmer set Really yes, it was totally the
other way for me.
Speaker 2: Really like this one. I had. I had two songs
that I was kind of waffling on number five, but
other than that, it was an easy five pick for me.
There's plenty of songs that I like, but there was
no question about what my top five were. Okay, with
eighty three, I had two pages worth of songs that
I was like, it could be any of these.
Speaker 1: See that's the exact opposite for me. I had children
that I had to cut off and kick out of
the house. Like the ones that I left off. I'm
like bleeding that they're not on this list, but hey,
it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Jason. Before we jump into these songs, we
have to give a shout out to our executive producer,
Miss Melissa Mingle.
Speaker 1: What's up, Melissa? She was our good friend and she
actually joined us for an episode last spring where we
did Deranduran's Rio episode.
Speaker 2: She is a super fan, she is.
Speaker 1: She loves John Taylor.
Speaker 2: She does, yes, can't blame her for that. He's a
handsome man.
Speaker 1: She and her husband Mark are good friends of mine,
and we go to church together. And she and Mark
have decided to become Patreon members, and she commented on
the video Killed the Radio Star Patreon episode, which was
our first one.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, hey Melissa, Mark, thank you guys. So much.
We can't tell you how much we appreciate your support. Guys,
if you want to be an executive producer, all you
have to do is go to Patreon dot com backslash
Shirly Podcast for as little as five bucks a month.
You get access to all of our one hit Wonder episodes. Yeah,
great stuff over there. So we're going to go into
our top five for the year. We're going to have
a couple of honorable mentions and a couple of maybe
rediscoveries or new discoveries that we'll talk about before we
hit our number one. But would you like to start off?
Would you like to talk about your number five first?
Speaker 1: I do, but let me set the stage for us
just a little bit, so just to kind of bring
you back to what was going on in pop culture
in nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, I've got a few things
that I want to bring up, just just to remind
people where we're talking about. Okay, okay, So we have
talked several times about the Tyson Speinks fight in the
summer of nineteen eighty eight. Yes, you went to go
get chips and what happened.
Speaker 2: And the fight was over, got a coke, some chips,
the fight was over.
Speaker 1: Was twenty nine seconds I think was what the fight was.
Speaker 2: I think it was ninety I think it was almost ninety.
Speaker 1: Seven, okay, And that is the first time Michael Speach
has ever been down in a professional fight.
Speaker 2: And he's down again.
Speaker 1: A right hand right on the chain. It was way short,
it was.
Speaker 2: It was definitely if you just sneezed, you to miss it.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: And in eighty eight for you, you bought your swatchwatch that
your friends.
Speaker 1: All about the girl version. On accident, I didn't realize
there's a guy version of girl version. Yeah, yeah, okay.
So here's just a couple of other things. So Kirk
Gibson hits the game winning home run in the World
Series is one of the standout moments for the Dodgers.
The US basketball loses the gold medal in the Summer
Olympics in Soul, which four years later USA Dream Team
in ninety two Barcelona, which is one of my favorite
teams of all time.
Speaker 2: Screw this. We're not using the amateurs anymore.
Speaker 1: That's right, you guys in your pros. We're sitting out
pros exactly. Nike created the just Do It campaign in
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. Yep.
Speaker 1: Bon Jovi releases New Jersey. Well, I'm sure we might
get into that a little bit. My mom checked me
out of school just so I could go and buy it.
I brought it to school with me. Check it out, guys,
I got my copy for me.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight was this year my mom took me to
buy Poison and I got to get both albums I got.
I got both. Look what the cat dragged in and
opened up? Say sweet Sweet.
Speaker 1: This was the first year that CDs out sold vinyl.
Oh Wow in nineteen eighty eight. And then, of course,
this New York City cop got involved in this terrorist
in Knakotomy Plaza on Christmas Eve in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: It sounds like I'm ordered beats.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's get into it, man A. We're gonna
give each other sort of much.
Speaker 2: So a little different than our eighty three. We're gonna
we're gonna give each other a little hints and see
if we can guess it before we announce what each
of ours is. I've written my notes in code over
here so that you can't even peek and try to
figure it out. But this is just to let you
guys know. This is the way we do it on
our Patreon episodes. When we're at the end of the
episode and it's one person's turn to choose, we give
little clues and let the other guy try to guess it.
And so that's what we're gonna do now. And I'm
gonna let Jason start us off. Give me a couple
of clues. I'm just just one guess, and then you
have to tell me yes or no when we go.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, right, all right, five, all right,
here we go. So this song was inspired by a
cough and starts with a sigh.
Speaker 2: I think this may be a song that I have
as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it?
Speaker 2: Every rose has its thorn by poison?
Speaker 1: Every rose has this thorn by poison.
Speaker 2: I did not know that it was. Oh now I know. Now,
I know what it is. Okay. I knew the inspiration,
but I didn't realize what the sound was. I got you, okay,
So if I may, yes. So this song was written
by Brett Michaels, lead singer for Poison Yes, and he
was on the road. He had a girlfriend named Tracy
he called home, and what I had in my notes
was that he heard a man in the background. What
you're telling me from your clue is he heard the
manly cough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard Brett Michaels actually say this. He was
talking to his girlfriend and in the background he heard
a male and he's like, who in the heck is there? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody getting a physical.
Speaker 1: Yes exactly, And so that led him to believe that
his girlfriend, we'll see another man in that broke his heart.
He was on the road in Dallas.
Speaker 2: So since that's on my list, let's keep talking about
that one when we get a little bit higher on
the list, and I'll give you my clue, okay for
my number five?
Speaker 1: Alrighty, you're ready, Okay five.
Speaker 2: The title character of this song. It was confusing for
a lot of people for a while until the lead
singer finally set the record straight in a rare explanation
of one of his songs. The song is about Tipper
Gore of the p m RC.
Speaker 1: Wow Ah wowd thing by tone low no good good,
try good try Okay.
Speaker 2: So the song is mother Bye Danzig.
Speaker 1: Wow Okay.
Speaker 2: Right. So this song came out in nineteen eighty eight,
which to me, I mean, holy cow's awesome, right.
Speaker 1: Well, tell you two to noths of what my was.
Speaker 2: But most folks didn't really know it for five years.
Like you had your Misfits fans and Danzig fans that
were familiar with this song. Yeah, but it wasn't until
nineteen ninety three when they remixed it. Made it sound
like a live recording, like a on stage recording, but
really they just dubbed in crowd voices. And then they
also released the video from one of their Halloween shows
I think of ninety two, and that was when this
thing skyrocketed, but release was nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: So Glenn Danzig formed the Misfits as kind of a
rebellion against the pop rock of the time, Journey, those
kind of things. And so you's not gonna like he's
not gonna like that. We probably will not like your list.
He is not radio friendly guy. Yeah, Okay, So Glenn
Danzig has the Misfits, which I've seen their shirts all
over the and I didn't realize, like, yeah, yeah, exactly
a cool font on it, which I think they kept
for the Danzig stuff. But anyway, he goes on to
form another band named Sahan, and in nineteen eighty seven,
a guy that we've talked about before when we had
our episode with Def Dave himself, a producer happens to
catch the Sam Haynes show and he comes up to
Glenn Danzig afterwards, and he's like, Hey, you're awesome. Your
group kind of sucks. How about we form a power group.
So Rick Rubin says to Glenn Danzig, let's start a
new band. We'll name it dan Zig, and we will
get an entirely new band to play for you.
Speaker 1: Interesting, okay.
Speaker 2: So then they get this guy named John Christ to
play the guitar. He is John Christ, Yes, and most
people do not associate Christian values with dan Zig, but yes.
Speaker 1: John Jesus himself, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And then of course we have Beavis and butt Heead
love this song, and as they're watching the video say,
I bet he scores with chicks and gets in fights
a lot.
Speaker 1: Anytime we can bring up Beavis a butt Heead, it's
a win. Okay. Let's move to my number four, Yes,
all right, four? Okay. There are songs that are panty droppers, yes,
and then there are songs that if you play the
music too loud with your windows down as you drive,
you by women will actually chase your car and throw
their panties at the car.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is not a good clue.
Speaker 1: This is a panty dropper of panty droppers.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, now.
Speaker 1: We've actually gone deep on this song already.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: This is the song that caused me to believe that
women actually wear guarter belts to Walmart and stuff like that. Right, Okay,
this is on the Makeout List of nineteen eighty eight.
And if this was not on your make out list
of eighty eight, you were doing it wrong. You know
where I'm at on this one.
Speaker 2: Dude, you are giving me. You're giving me nothing here.
Give me a clue about the song, not just that
it's a really big panty drop. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: This was a music video that had the woman Tanya
Coleridge in it. And this is a former goody two
shoes pop star who was stretching his legs and became
a force in nineteen eighty eight. In fact, his album
may have been the biggest selling album of nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: You've got me. I do not know the answer to this.
Who came me with it? All right?
Speaker 1: This is George Michael's father Figure.
Speaker 2: Awesome. I love it. I had completely forgotten this part
of things, but now that you say that, Yes, Father
Figure is a masterpiece and my favorite song on the album.
Speaker 1: Face Absolutely, It's such a great song and romantic Dark
Haunting hit number one in nineteen eighty eight and was
a huge song for George Michael.
Speaker 2: Guys, if you haven't heard our George Michael Faith versus
Inxcess kick, go back and check out those two episodes.
We are both big fans of those pop icons of
that era. Yes, both released in October of eighty seven.
Is that right? And I remembering that right?
Speaker 1: That's right, You're exactly right, yeah, and both in Excess
and George Michael were competing in my mind for spots
on this top.
Speaker 2: Five or top panty droppers of all panty droppers?
Speaker 1: Is this a panty dropper?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, I will tell you that of my
list my short list of songs, never Tear.
Speaker 1: Us Apart was on there, but Never Tear Us Apart
was on my near Missus.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 1: That wraps up my number four. What is your number
four top song in nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 2: Okay? Four? I think the only clue that I can
give you is going to be a dead giveaway.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So just like my number five, this was a song
that came out in eighty eight but didn't hit it
big until the nineties.
Speaker 1: So what is this?
Speaker 2: Even later in the nineties, this group became popular because
of a band we've covered, Nirvana, who said Kurt Cobain said,
all he was trying to do was imitate this band.
And then the song became super big in my mind,
maybe for others earlier than this, but in my mind
became super big when it was the conclusion song of
the movie Fight Club.
Speaker 1: So I remember the end of Fight Club and all
the buildings come down? Is this the Pixie song?
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: The name of the song is where Is My Mind? Okay? Now,
I gotta tell you this. This is a beautiful piece
right here. They took a que from weird Al Yankovic
when they recorded this song, and that eerie little that
you're hearing they recorded it in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, So that is one of the musicians, one
of the not lead singers of the band, named Kim Deal.
She was the real deal. She was very good. She
kind of got frustrated at the fact that she kept
getting pushed to the side because Frank Black, the lead singer,
kind of was I mean it self admitted egocentric guy
and wanted to sing his own stuff. Well. Ultimately, the
Pixies broke up after a very short amount of time
being a band together because of this ongoing fight. Kim
Deal then goes on to form a group with her
sister called the Breeders.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this song where is My Mind inspired by
a snorkeling trip where a fish kept following Frank Black
around and trying to figure out what was going on
with this weird snorkler guy, and this is what inspired
the lyrics to this song. Interesting, it has been used
countless times in various movies and shows specific Fight Club,
but usually it happens when somebody is questioning reality.
Speaker 1: So to me, this is a more of a ninety
song just because of Fight Club. That's where it rests.
Speaker 2: In my mind, absolutely. And what's interesting is they broke
up long before Fight Club happened, obviously, and then in
ninety three with Kurt Cobain talking about how much the
Pixies meant to him with Fight Club coming out, in
ninety nine they get this cult following, and sure enough,
in two thousand and four they get back together again
after geez over a decade of being a part and
start touring. Do you know James Buckley some money or something?
Because I know he and I have the same taste
in certain circumstances, There's some overlap there. But yes, my
top my number five and my number four both were
on his list.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I'm gonna mention this at the end when
we look at David Wright's list. I had my list
written down before David Wrights is in. Okay, I'm just
throwing that out there, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Very good, very good, Okay, Okay, Now Jason, we're
to your number three. What have you got three?
Speaker 1: Okay? So my number three is the song that we
have already deep dived on. This song was written about
Aaron Everley, daughter of one of the Everly brothers. Yes,
you already know what it is.
Speaker 2: I can tell you the band anyway.
Speaker 1: This started as a joke. Slash. The guitarist was warming
up and decided that he was going to try to
make circus music with his guitar.
Speaker 2: Yes, so this is guns n' Roses.
Speaker 1: This is not Paradise City, right, This is not.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jungle. This is Sweet Child of Mine.
Sounds like a circus.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a circus and a number one hit.
Speaker 2: Can I just say that it presses me to watch
Slash doing like insurance commercials playing this. It's depressing.
Speaker 1: It is depressed. Does it see money?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. But literally yesterday we
were watching something that ad came on and Brock is like,
who is that? And I'm like Slash. He's like from
the band. I'm like yeah. He's like, why does he
look so young? I'm like, well, wearing the same outfit.
We're in the same outfit that he was wearing in
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. This song reached number one in
September of nineteen eighty eight, and I would argue was
the rocket fuel that saved appetite for destruction.
Speaker 2: Making Aaron Everlea the rocket Queen.
Speaker 1: If you will, Yes, Sheryl Crow did a copy of
this song, and this is one of the few eighties
videos that has been viewed over a billion times on YouTube,
along with Aha, which we covered on our Patreon episode
If You're not following us on Patreon, you are missing
some great stuff. For five bucks, you get all these
incredible stories behind.
Speaker 2: The songs exactly.
Speaker 1: Also, as a reminder, you can go back. We've already
covered Appetite for Destruction. That was one of our early
episodes and we accidentally coincided with it's thirty fifth and
a verse. You remember that. We just looked up and
we're like, oh my gosh, Appetite for Destruction.
Speaker 2: We did Appetite for Destruction versus Back and Black by
ac DC, and that was one of the toughest choices
we've ever had to make. That was a phenomenal matchup
to phenomenal album.
Speaker 1: Yes, the end of the song, Axel Rose was sitting
with the producer and he was asking, how are we
going to wrap up this song Sweech out of Mind?
I don't really know, Like so he says, so where
do we go? Like, where do we go now? And
the producers like, bingo, that's it, finish it up. And
that's how you get the where do we go now?
Ding to Sweech out of Mine? Okay, d number three.
Speaker 2: To you three all right, number three. As I mentioned before,
it was on my list. I'm just going to tell
you this is Every Rose Has Its Thorn. In my opinion,
it is the definitive rock ballad of the eighties. I
know you're picking Motley Crew for that, but for me,
I'm spiking the football. This is the rock ballad of
the eighties.
Speaker 1: They don't want to read you love it. This was
on my list at number five. Yeah, I told you
I had a buddy for my fifteenth birthday. Gave me
Open Up and Say Ah by Poison. And at the time,
the only single released was Nothing but a Good Time,
which could have easily been on this list, but it
had I remember on the sticker it said contains the
hit songs Nothing but a Good Time and Every Rose
Has Its Thorn. And I remember at the time going,
how do they know it's going to be a hit?
Like they were convinced out of the gate that it
was going to be a hit.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. They didn't want to release it
as a single because it wasn't the heavy metal image
that they were trying to give the band at the time.
But they said, we've played this live several times. The
crowd loves it. It is a rock ballad, not just
a ballad. We think you should, and they pushed and
they got it. They were successful. They were the ones
that convinced the record company to release this as a single.
But the first station that played this song was a
country station out in Dallas, Texas. I know, right, So
this song was number one rock, number one hop, and
in the top forty for country. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: And just to go back to our original story about him,
you know, running into trouble with his girlfriend, the idea
is that Rose is his career which is taken off,
and the thorn is his relationship which is ending.
Speaker 1: By the way, I saw an interview with her, Yeah,
and she's like, he's accusing me of infidelity, which I
thought was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Well, rock musicians are kind of known for their double
standards as far as they go.
Speaker 1: I'm above this. I can sleep with whoever. I This
is a perk of the job.
Speaker 2: I am a rock star. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: I'm working hunt.
Speaker 2: It's part. It's part of the requirement, honey, part of
the requirement. So this one after he had that conversation
with her. Next day, he was a laundromat and wrote
this down inside of a laundermat. How cool was that?
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: So guys, we're going to be covering this album in
future episodes.
Speaker 1: Poisons open up and say uh yes versus Living Colors
Vivid album, both released on the same day in nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Same day. Okay, So that does it for My number
three is your number two?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: So this is going to be difficult for me to
give you any clues because we've already deep died on
this song. Okay, all right, all right, yeah, so this
reached number two the summer of nineteen eighty eight. Okay,
number two two, okay, blocked by hold On to the
Knights by Richard Marx, which I have had some hard
feelings about. But when I went back and listened to
that song, I like, huh, hold on the Knights is
a great song too.
Speaker 2: Is this a Mutlin song?
Speaker 1: It is a mutlanth song.
Speaker 2: Hold on to that because it's coming up for me
in just a minute.
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, all right, so I'm putting number two down
the road, yes, two, So to my number two kind
of already have brought this up, but I'll go ahead
and throw your clue out there and see if you
can guess it.
Speaker 2: This song contains quotes by two presidents and one mover
and shaker of the Black power movement in the sixties.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is cult a personality, got it? Oh my gosh. See, Okay,
this song is freaking amazing. I absolutely love it. It's
going on my list Brady nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I understand. Yeah, I mean it came
out in the middle of eighty eight, but it was
really the eighty nine performance at SNL that kind of
kicked it up a notch. But yes, I understand you
put this in in eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And again I've got another one that's on James buck
Pleay's list. So I'm just going to tell you I
also had my list before James Buckley.
Speaker 1: Had this list, Okay, just to talk about culture personality
a little bit longer. Yeah, we're going to cover this
here in a month or so. I can't wait to
do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The musicianship from these guys will blow your friggin socks off.
Speaker 2: These guys, I mean these the drummer and the guitarist
Ernie Reid, who was kind of the head of the band.
Really yeah, they were already established jazz musicians. I mean
they were freaking incredible. I mean, jazz is hard. I'm
just saying that jazz is hard. If you say metal
is hard, no, metal is easy compared to jazz. And
these guys had the chops to play jazz and they
brought it into heavy metal. And just a quick story
the lead singer, Corey Glover, Yes, there's a great little
bit and we'll talk about it when we do our
full episode on this, but he was talking about his
musical influences. He said he had had older siblings and
his parents and his grandparents and all of their musical
influences played a part of his musical library. Right, But
he said there was one album that influenced them all,
like it came out and it was just like everybody
loved it, and this was Miles Davis. Bitches brew Okay, Okay,
talked a little bit about Miles Davis when we did
our Prince episode. Right, But he starts listening to that.
He's listened to several other black singers and musicians and
here then he hears led Zeppelin and he's like, I'll
never be able to do that. I will never be
able to do that until his parents take him to
go see Jesus Christ Superstar in New York City and
he hears Carl Anderson as judas Is Scariot singing this
rock power song and he says, maybe I can do this,
and that's what inspires him to go and become a singer.
Speaker 1: Fantastic.
Speaker 2: He ends up years later playing the part of Judas
Is Scariot with the same guy Ted Neely who played
Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar on his own.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 2: So three quotes. You have Malcolm X from his message
to the grassroots from nineteen sixty three. You have John F.
Kennedy from his inaugural dress in nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 1: And this is not what your country can do for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And finally you have FDR with his inaugural
speech from nineteen thirty three.
Speaker 1: And during the few moments that we have left.
Speaker 2: That's the first one. Oh okay, yeah, that's the Malcolm
X quote. It ends with FDR.
Speaker 1: It's fear itself.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, awesome. I can't wait to dive into that
whole album. I can tell you exactly where I was
when I heard that song for the first time. I
was on a Ski Trip the spring Break of nineteen
eighty nine. Yeah, and my buddy Bomber, who I talked about,
he's a Patreon member of ours. He's like, dude, have
you heard this song where you know, sharing headphones on
the blow of my Mind?
Speaker 2: Right? It's amazing. It's lasting power is amazing, it's subject
matter is amazing. This is a powerhouse of a song
in all regards. I can't wait to dive fully into it.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, very good. So that's your number two.
Speaker 2: Okay. So that does it for our first four for
each of us. Yeah yeah, okay, so before we jump
into number one, I have some honorable mentions and some discoveries.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, i'd say that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, tell me what you got, okay.
Speaker 1: So these are my honorable mentions, Like this is six
and seven okay, okay. So the last time we talked
about this song, I think you couldn't believe the words
that were coming out of my mouth. So, okay, this
song was written by Glenn Ballard and Sida Garrett.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I remember this a little bit. Keep going, Okay.
Speaker 1: The video for this song has one smidge of the artist,
but otherwise as a collection of newsworthy events from the day,
including Baby Jessica being pulled out of the pipe.
Speaker 2: This is only an honorable mention for you, only an
honorable mention the song you described as the best song
on both albums, Yes, only an honorable miss Yes, you
had two Michael Jackson songs in your top five for
nineteen eighty three I Know in nineteen eighty eight, which
has the album that you Love more than You Love
Thriller right, the number one song, and you've only gave it.
Speaker 1: An honorable mention until you hear my number one.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, guys, This is Man in the Mirror
by Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: D That key change is irresistible. The video makes me
cry every time I see it. Besiaca Yes with Baby Jessica.
Sida Garrett said she downloaded this from God Almighty and
she gave it to the Gloved One and he liked
it so much that he invited her to sing on
a song called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, which
also hit number one. Dude Cider Garrett's eighty seven eighty
eight was off the charts and this song was unbelievable.
I love it Man in the Mirror Honorable mention number one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 1: This hit number one March twenty sixth, nineteen eighty eight.
All right, my second honorable mention d as you can see,
I flip flop, I changed my mind. Okay, yeah, my
second honorable mention hit number eight in October of nineteen
eighty eight. Here's your clue. Former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick
Taylor played the guitar solo and it's a song about
sexual anger power.
Speaker 2: I know this the butt.
Speaker 1: No No.
Speaker 2: It was a big hit at eighty eight. Okay, no,
naughty girls need love to no oh, okay.
Speaker 1: But I love Samantha Fox. I know you do. This
song has since been turned into an anthem for Monday
Night Football. This is I Hate Myself for Loving You
by Jon Jet.
Speaker 2: Heck yeah, man, I am so glad. This was one
of those ones that I was like, this is a
really good song.
Speaker 1: So this song was written by Jone Jet and Desmond Child.
Speaker 2: Desband Child who gave us bad medicine and you give
love a bad name with bon Jovie, that's right.
Speaker 1: And remember he talked about how you take the things
that are opposite and you throw them together.
Speaker 2: Something like dude looks like a lady.
Speaker 1: Dude looks like a lady. Yeah, I hate myself for
loving you brilliant. There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Okay, those are my two honorable mentions. D Okay, honorable
mention number one for me.
Speaker 2: The one that I struggled on whether to put this
on the list is a song that we can possibly
cover as a one hit wonder all right, Okay, So
this song is Wild Wild West by The Escape Club.
Oh yeah, so I told you I was looking at this.
I was like, I gotta figure out which one of
these songs to pick, which one falls in the five
slot and which one falls out? And well, Glenn Danzig
is more interesting than the Escape Club, so Danzig wins
out on this one. But I love the song. I
think it's got staying power and talking about time capsules.
The lyrics of this song. I mean, we're talking about
nineteen eighty eight. It is the end of the Reagan era,
and this song is two and four him, right, this
is all kinds of stuff that are going on, living
in the eighties, headed for the nineties.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's a perfect time capsule, right, it is
headed for the nineties, living in the eighties. Yeah, yeah,
love it, Okay, cool.
Speaker 2: And then the other one I already mentioned earlier that
I had a hard time not putting on the list
was the one that we compared to George Michael. It
was never Tear Us Apart by in excess, not even
one of the best performers off of the album. There
were other songs that charted far better than this one.
It did chart super well, but to me, this song
is killer and it stands the test of time as
far as the songs off this album go. I love
the song.
Speaker 1: Hey, that is a fantastic song, and that album is fantastic.
If you missed our inexcess Kick album, we went track
by track that is packed full of fantastic songs, including
Never Tear Us Apart, which was a near miss for me.
Speaker 2: Now you had a rediscovery or a new discovery, what
do you gut?
Speaker 1: Okay, So for my rediscovery, it's a song by the
pet Shop Boys, and they wanted to do a duet
with an established artist, and they kicked around the idea
of doing this duet with Barber Streisan or maybe Tina Turner,
when their manager suggested, how about Dusty Springfield.
Speaker 2: Son of a preacher man.
Speaker 1: Son of a preacher man. She had had some big hits,
you know, pulp fiction kind of revived her career whatever,
but she had kind of fallen into this life of
drugs and alcohol, and when they pulled her out, it
revived her career. That song, of course, is called What
I Done to Deserve This?
Speaker 2: Dude, that's a good rediscovery.
Speaker 1: I love this song.
Speaker 2: It's been a minute since I've heard this one, so
that's good. That's a good one. Thank you. Okay, this one,
I think you're gonna like this. Have I don't think
i've heard this since maybe nineteen eighty eight. This is
a This is like a diamond in the rough. This
is a really hidden one. I'm gonna play it for
you now see if you recognize it? All right, all right?
Speaker 1: I wish you all could see my face right now.
Speaker 2: How could I let nineteen eighty eight go by without
rickrolling my best? Butte just kidding, just kidding. That is
not it's not the song my refine. There will my
rEFInd And I gotta, I gotta, I gotta do a
quick shout out, okay, because I struggled with this one.
But my rEFInd is the promise by winning Rome friend,
I got no song facts about this one. I just
I was like, oh, I couldn't have told you the
name of this or the band, but I love this song.
But quick shout out to our friend Chris Webber because
one of his bands that he's really wanting us to
cover is the Smithereens, and they had a fantastic song
in nineteen eighty eight called only a Memory.
Speaker 1: Great. Okay, So I can tell you one thing about
that song, the promise. Yeah, I know that the closing
credits for Napoleon Dynamite are to the promise. How about that?
Speaker 2: Perfect? I know they don't tell.
Speaker 1: By the way, Patreon member I'm a good friend, delle's
Selby said we would be failing if we did not
mention Rick Astley's huge hit never Gonna Give You Up.
Speaker 2: I didn't let you down. I never write you down.
Speaker 1: You did it. Okay. So since I have a ninety
percent idea of your number one, yes, why don't you
go first?
Speaker 2: Okay? Fair enough? One? So this song and I hate
that you already know what it is because it was
already on your list, because my clue was going to
be This song was inspired by a cartoon band. I
don't know how you pick any other song, Deaf Dave.
This is my crossover with you, my friend. I don't
know how you pick any other song as the number
one song from nineteen eighty eight other than def Leppards
or Some Sugar.
Speaker 1: On Me Guss from my Head to.
Speaker 2: It is definitive of not only nineteen eighty eight, but
the eighties in general. Like you can easily put this
on a top five list for the decade, so it
is unstoppable. It will never be hired, it will never
be old at. It's always good no matter how many
times I hear it, and even my gen Z kids,
every single one of them love this song.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely a top five head of the eighties. It
comes off my favorite album of all time, Hysteria. It
pained me to move it down from number one to
number two, which I'm gonna make a case for here
in just a second. We talked about this on our
Hysteria episode def Leppards Pour Some Sugar On Me ruled
the world in the summer of nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: This was my introduction to def Leppard for sure. Remember
the school dance where I heard it for the first
time just to give you a little That cartoon band
that I was referring to was the Archies and the
song was Sugar Sugar. If you listen to the last
bit of the song, my buddy Jason noted, Hey, this
song ends with the lines pour some sugar on me, honey, honey.
Speaker 1: We gotta listen to that right here. That blew my
freaking mind.
Speaker 2: And again another song that almost wasn't on the album
last few days of recording, Mutt Lang says, I think
we need another hit single.
Speaker 1: On this went to get coffee, came back. Joe Elliot's
just strumming on an acoustic guitar or a little sugar
on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then to get the lyrics, he went to
one side of the room, Mutt Lang went to the
other side of the room. They both just kind of
riffed noodled some lyrics into a microphone and then they
just took that made the lyrics this song.
Speaker 1: That's right. Joe Elliott heard Muttling's voice and said that
sounds like the words love is like a bomb.
Speaker 2: Love is like a bomb, baby, come and get it on.
Speaker 1: Based on run DMC's walk This Way with Aerosmith, It's
like a rock rap thing.
Speaker 2: Hey, if they can do it, we can do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, this reached number two. I love this song. How
can I not have it at the top of my
list for nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 2: That's the question I'm asking myself right now. Okay, a
drum roll, please, Jason's going to give me clues to
his number one. Okay, one.
Speaker 1: I think there's a legitimate case that you could put
this song in nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty eight, and
nineteen eighty nine. Okay, all right now, then my first
clue to you is Cory Glover from Living Color a
verbal argument with this person from the stage in nineteen
eighty eight. Okay, this band went through the roof in
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're talking about a band and a banner. Okay,
keep going.
Speaker 1: Hey, the title of this song came from some cautionistic
words from a hobo at a bus station.
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the jungle baby. I can't fault you. I
can't fault you. Okay, I mean I.
Speaker 1: Did you were ready to kill me?
Speaker 2: Which I was, well, no, no, no, no, I just
I was on the edge of my seat to see
what it was, but it is no surprise because that
as well could be on top five songs of the
entire decade.
Speaker 1: Yes, this was originally released in nineteen eighty seven, YEP.
Didn't really do all that much because MTV refuse to
play the video. David Geffen himself had to get involved
and call the station and say, you guys have got
to start playing this video. So when they did, it
hit a little bit in early eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Sweet Child of Mind goes to the roof in the
summer of eighty eight.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 1: They re release it in October of eighty eight, and
it reaches number seven Christmas Eve nineteen eighty eight, and
it's played at every single football game. We go to
it right now.
Speaker 2: They played this video to appease the Geffen Records folks
and the MTV folks who are at odds. They played
this video. They were going to do it one time,
a one off deal. They played it at four o'clock
in the morning, right and then the switchboards. This is
not an exaggeration caught on fire with people calling in
to say, play that again, what was that? It's it's
a mammoth, it's a bohemoth.
Speaker 1: It is it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's aw. Yeah, that's great. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it all right, d I got a little
PostScript for you, okay, all right. Now. Then you had
your list before we started. I had my list before
we started. Listen to this. You owe James Buckley some
money or something because this is his list. Are you
ready for this?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Number five, I Don't Believe in Love by Queen's Reich,
Under the Milky Way by the Church, Where Is My Mind?
By the Pixies. There you go, Only a Memory by
the Smithereens.
Speaker 2: Oh right, nice, good?
Speaker 1: How about that? And then Cults Personality, Living Color.
Speaker 2: He's got good taste.
Speaker 1: Hey, you and JB are on the same wavelength.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, then listen to this. David Wright sent me his
top five.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen to this.
Speaker 1: Marry Mary by runding Him, See Naturally, Pour Some Sugar
on Me by death Leport.
Speaker 2: It's the best. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ragged All by Aerosmith.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good one. I actually had raged. I
had Angel on my short list. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every Rose has its thorn by Poison.
Speaker 2: Hey, there you go, more overlap.
Speaker 1: And of course Cocomo by the Beach.
Speaker 2: If you know deaf Dave. That's his beach Boys will
win every day.
Speaker 1: There you go, our buddy, Brad Moore. I asked him
and he sent me his stuff. Here's his list, and
of course it's very close to ours. Finished what you
started by Van Halen, The Flame by Cheap Trick. That
was my first out. Oh yeah, exactly. That's number like eight. Okay,
Kissed Me Deadly by Leada Ford, which you alluded to
at the beginning of the episode. Just like Paradise by
David Lee Roth yep, cold personality. Yes, every Rose has
his thorn. Patience by Guns n' Roses.
Speaker 2: I was on my short list too.
Speaker 1: And won by Metallica. Oh ok, came out at the
very end of eighty eight for me. That's kind of
an eighty nine song.
Speaker 2: It's well into eighty nine for me. That would definitely
be on my eighty nine list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, Brad, Thanks for getting that to us.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: A couple other people who wrote in and gave us
their list. Genie Alexander Patreon member Gene Alexander good friend
of mine. Okay, she said, I don't really know the
top five, but don't know what you got. By Cinderella
has to be on that list, right, which was in
the top ten for me, just missed.
Speaker 2: It is the number one Cinderella song in my book.
So good.
Speaker 1: And then our buddy Jeff Johnson also sent me his
top five.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he gave number five bon Jovie Bad Medicine.
There's a case for that, right, Yeah. Number four Tracy
Chapman's Fast Car.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's not really like I love
that song, but it's a really good song.
Speaker 1: He said that. I'm just as surprised as you are
that he put it on it, right, Yeah. Number three
every Rose has His Thorn? Yeah, Number two the Pixies,
Where is My Mind? Hey?
Speaker 2: There you go see?
Speaker 1: And number one n WA straight out of Coms.
Speaker 2: Okay, not what I was listening to at the time,
but for those that were, that was a power It
was huge, right, it was a mammoth song. That is awesome. Guys,
be sure and go check out Jeff Johnson's podcast, A
Film by with his friend Brad and they do some
awesome stuff over there, checking out the lesser known but
worthy films of some of the most famous directors.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, we'd love to hear from you. Guys,
send us your top five from nineteen eighty eight. We'll
put it on Facebook or whatever. It'd be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, guys, we wanted to tell you about a
very special episode that is with us, but not our podcast.
We would love for you guys to go check out
the White Rocket Podcast with mister Van Allen Plexico.
Speaker 1: They figured out that we love ready Player one, and
we love Ready Player one, we do. They invited us
to come on. We're talking about the book first, then
we're gonna talk about the movie, and then we're gonna
have some trivia. So White Rocket Podcast. The first episode
drops on our discussion with Van Allen Plexico and David
Wright about the book Ready Player one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we put a link to that episode in our
show notes. Be sure and go down there, click that
and you can hear us talk about the book Ready
Player one. Well, guys, that does it for our list
of best of nineteen eighty eight. Please go check out
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eleven different?
Speaker 1: I think we're eleven now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're they're covering one hit Wonders of the
eighties and other areas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 2: Some of our best stuff. Guys, I promise worth the
five bucks a month. Totally go subscribe and enjoy those
extra episodes.
Speaker 1: We've got some other nineteen eighty eight stuff coming down
the pipe patch. I'm really excited about. So here in
a few weeks, we're covering Twins versus Big I mean
Big Twins, right, We're covering Vivid versus Open Up and
Say I'm both released on the same day. Nineteen eighty eight.
We've got the Great Outdoors. We've got Long Cold Winter
by Cinderella versus Van Halen's Oh You Ate one two,
which was huge in the summer. We're gonna have a
lot of fun messing around in the summer of nineteen
eight eight.
Speaker 2: He has joined us. There see you guys, then, thank
you so much. I'll talk to you next time.