1 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome back to be Surely You Can't 2 00:00:17,719 --> 00:00:21,640 Be Serious podcast. We are continuing with our series on 3 00:00:21,679 --> 00:00:24,480 the summer of nineteen eighty four, and I was just 4 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:27,239 thinking about something interesting. In addition to all of those 5 00:00:27,239 --> 00:00:29,399 incredible movies that we talked about last episode and all 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,640 those incredible songs that we talked about last episode, there 7 00:00:32,679 --> 00:00:36,119 was also a big event going on involving the president 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,439 of the United States. It was the election year where 9 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:42,439 Ronald Reagan was running against Walter Monde. 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:43,079 Speaker 3: I remember that. 12 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember it well. Yeah, And even though I 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,759 was eight or nine years old, it was fascinating to me. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,840 And mister Reagan was one of those guys who completely 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,320 misunderstood the lyrics to the first song that we're going 16 00:00:54,359 --> 00:00:54,799 to talk about. 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,719 Speaker 3: I know, I can't wait to dive into that story. 18 00:00:57,479 --> 00:01:01,759 Speaker 1: He's famous for talking about this patriotism and George will 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,680 has this kind of famous quote that's also a misunderstanding 20 00:01:04,719 --> 00:01:07,640 of it. And then Walter Mondale after Bruce was like 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,000 he's missed the point here. He was like, oh, so 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,159 Bruce supports me, and Bruce say, whoa tiger? Yeah, I'm 23 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:15,439 not back in either one of you. 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, for me, just on the summer 25 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:24,400 of nineteen eighty four, one of the big things the 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:30,280 Olympics in LA in summer of eighty four. We're huge, 27 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:31,599 Mary lou Reddin. 28 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:34,599 Speaker 1: We're in the star spangled banner on her tights, right, yeah. 29 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, And you had what you had Bart Connor, and 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,560 you had Mitch Gaylord who shows up later in the 31 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:44,000 movie American Anthem. Yeah, you have Carl Lewis, Edwin, Moses, 32 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,280 Mary Decker who tripped and fell. She was like the 33 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:50,920 favorite in the American race. And she she and Zola 34 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,840 Bud I think is her name, they got their feet 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,079 tangled and she fell, and just the heartbreaking images of. 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: Her like it, you know. 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So the Olympics in La. 38 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: That that was an amazing year. 39 00:02:03,159 --> 00:02:05,359 Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty four is an amazing year in the eighties. 40 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,359 Speaker 1: And you know what, an amazing album of that year 41 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,199 was born in the USA. 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: Let's get into it track by track. 43 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: Before we get going, I just want to point something out. 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,719 We have been talking to each other now for a 45 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:21,159 couple of years, face to face, and one of the 46 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:23,120 reasons that I can do that is because you don't 47 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,360 have nose hair. Have you been talking to people and like, 48 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,319 you can't even concentrate on what they're saying because of 49 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:28,879 their nose hair. 50 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,319 Speaker 3: Absolutely, they like tuck to you. 51 00:02:31,159 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: It dangles, yes, it wiggles, it's it's a total distraction. 52 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 53 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:36,599 Speaker 1: And so let me let me say, if you are 54 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,759 one of those guys, we have a product that is 55 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:41,240 supporting the podcast that you need to check out. Is 56 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,199 called the weed Whacker, and it is from Manscape. 57 00:02:44,759 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 3: It is an amazing product. It trims your nose hair. 58 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:49,520 It's not embarrassing. You just stick it up there. 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You get the idea. 77 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,319 Speaker 3: So who doesn't want their package Ultrasmooth? 78 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:37,759 Speaker 1: Right right, So don't forget to go to manscapes dot 79 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,800 com and use the promo code fan sided twenty to 80 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:44,960 get twenty percent off your order and free shipping. 81 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 3: Whack it perfect. 82 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:54,719 Speaker 1: All right. 83 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:57,719 Speaker 3: So the first song on the album is the title track, 84 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:11,479 Born in the USA. 85 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: Listen to this drum beat, I'm telling you, Max Weinberg, Baby, 86 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,279 you've got Bruce who's been this, you know, sort of 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,879 folks sort of rock guy, and you've got a quick 88 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:23,720 piano followed by a synthesizer. 89 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 90 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,319 Speaker 1: That was another big thing in nineteen eighty four. 91 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,519 Speaker 3: A repeating yeah synthesizer. 92 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: Okay, So this song was everywhere and you sent me 93 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:43,560 something that're like, hey, is this song hard to play? 94 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,240 And so I sat down, I'm like ding dong ding, 95 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,519 I'm like, okay, two chords, whole song, two chord and 96 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,959 then I played the melody. I'm like three notes. So 97 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,800 two chords, three note melody, and you have one of 98 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,720 the biggest hits of the decade. 99 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,199 Speaker 3: They got a hook and they wrote it all the 100 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:03,680 way for four minutes. You better like that hook if 101 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,759 you're going to like the song. Yeah, iconic song, yeah, 102 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,160 fist pumper, Yes, patriotic. 103 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: No, No, I mean so, let me tell this story. 104 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:17,040 So you're born to run and you get born in 105 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,040 the USA. I always know, you know Jason Bourne in 106 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,480 the future. Now, anyway, he's got born to Run, which 107 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,480 is not a flattering song for New Jersey, right, yeah, 108 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,199 I mean this town will rip the skin from your back. 109 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,319 I mean it's not good right right, your back anyway. 110 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:37,759 And New Jersey completely misunderstanding the song, was like, hey, 111 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:41,199 we should make that like our state song. Dude, No, 112 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:43,560 that's this is not a flattering song. They're trying to 113 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,319 get out of this town, right, We've got to get 114 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:46,000 out of this town. 115 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 3: So the US says New Jersey, hold my beer. 116 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:52,759 Speaker 1: Right, So if you think that this song is a 117 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,319 patriotic song, let's just listen to the lyrics real quick, Okay. 118 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,000 Born down in a dead man's town. The first kick 119 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,959 I took was when I hit the ground you end 120 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,920 up like a dog that's been beat down too much 121 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,639 till you spend half your life just covering up. That's 122 00:06:09,959 --> 00:06:14,920 not flattering, yeah yeah, but it's this amazing thing where 123 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,600 he takes these grueling lyrics in the verse and then 124 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:25,360 puts them against this very patriotic sounding chorus. 125 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:26,519 Speaker 3: It's a fist bumper. 126 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:29,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a total fist bumper, which is interesting 127 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,839 because as the song goes on, this is a song 128 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:34,560 about a Vietnam Vet, right, I mean, he grew up poor, 129 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,680 he had to join the army in order to get 130 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,000 out of going to prison. They send him off to 131 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,040 a foreign land to kill the yellow Man. His brother 132 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:47,240 gets killed, he's all gone, and he's back and everybody's 133 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:50,000 kind of spitting on him like he's gotten nowhere to run, 134 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:53,000 nowhere to go. This is like the plot of First Blood. Yes, 135 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:56,360 out by the gas fires of the refinery, I'm ten 136 00:06:56,439 --> 00:07:00,240 years burning down the road, nowhere to run to, got 137 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:03,399 nowhere to go. And so the idea of what was 138 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:06,160 happening with the Vets at this time, that you know, 139 00:07:06,199 --> 00:07:09,519 they had gone and fought in the name of the USA, 140 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,279 and they come back and they're the people who are 141 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,120 waving the flag, and all patriotic are kind of forgetting 142 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,360 about the vets. They're treating them like crap. That's the 143 00:07:18,399 --> 00:07:21,040 same thing that happens in the song. The chorus is 144 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,959 so loud and powerful, you completely lose the message of 145 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:28,120 the song. My first kick was when I hit the ground. Yeah. 146 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:31,319 Speaker 3: USA. So here's a part of Ronald Reagan's speech, right, 147 00:07:31,399 --> 00:07:34,519 ron O'reagan his son. I heard him son talking about this. 148 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:37,600 Ronald Reagan had no idea who Bruce Springstein was right, 149 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:41,399 So he says in his speech, he said, America's future 150 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:44,439 rests in the thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests 151 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:46,959 in the message of hope in songs. So many young 152 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,879 Americans admire New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen, and helping you 153 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:53,720 make those dreams come true is what this job of 154 00:07:53,759 --> 00:07:56,720 mine is all about. Somebody asked him, what's your favorite 155 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,439 Bruce Springsteen song? Yes, and an aide stepped forward and 156 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:03,480 said his favorite song is Born to Run. And Johnny 157 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:05,879 Carson said, if you believe that I got a couple 158 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,279 of tickets to the mondel Ferraro inaugural ball. 159 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:08,879 Speaker 1: I might sell it. 160 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: I thought that was funny. Yeah, So Born in the 161 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:17,360 USA is released October thirtieth of nineteen eighty four, so 162 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:19,839 the song reaches number nine on the Billboard Hot one 163 00:08:19,879 --> 00:08:22,519 hundred and like we've done before, I wanted to know 164 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,240 what are the eight songs that are better than Born 165 00:08:25,279 --> 00:08:28,199 in the USA at this time in nineteen eighty four 166 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,000 with all this cool stuff happening. Sure, okay, so here 167 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,879 they are. I was less than impressed. Like a virgin 168 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:38,279 Iconic Ages song number one, Yes All I Need by 169 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:44,120 Jack Wagner Cheesy crap. Okay, You're the Inspiration by Chicago. 170 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,080 It's on the make Out List of nineteen eighty four. 171 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,840 I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner. It's 172 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:52,159 on the make Out List of nineteen eighty four. Easy 173 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,639 Lover by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins. 174 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:55,039 Speaker 1: Ok. 175 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 3: I like it, but Iconic eighties. I mean, you know 176 00:08:58,840 --> 00:08:59,759 it's a catchy you know. 177 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, like, oh I remember those songs. Yeah. 178 00:09:01,879 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 3: But What Run to You by Brian Adams, great song 179 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:06,600 off the Reckless album. 180 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's my favorite song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 181 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: Wild Boys by Duran Duran. 182 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean it's a good. 183 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 3: Duran Duran song. We Belong by Pat Benattar. There you go, 184 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:17,159 that's where we are. 185 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:17,519 Speaker 1: Okay. 186 00:09:17,879 --> 00:09:19,919 Speaker 3: I mean they're all good songs, but are they better 187 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:20,960 than Born in the USA? 188 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: Right? 189 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,519 Speaker 3: I don't know. I want to talk about the creation 190 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:24,159 of this song. 191 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,519 Speaker 1: Let's go okay to it. 192 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:27,519 Speaker 3: This is a nugget that blew me away. 193 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:29,039 Speaker 1: I love it, Okay. Yeah. 194 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 3: So this song was written in nineteen eighty one as 195 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:34,919 the title for a film by Paul Schrader, and he 196 00:09:34,919 --> 00:09:36,960 sent him the script for this movie that he wants 197 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,960 to make with Bruce Springsteen, called Born in the USA. 198 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,559 So Bruce Springsteen makes this song, writes this song, and 199 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,600 then the movie kind of flounders. And then by the 200 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,720 time that they're ready to make the movie, the song 201 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:51,360 has already lived its life and so he can't call 202 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:53,559 it Born in the USA anymore. And so they changed 203 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,000 the title and they changed the actors. This movie is 204 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,519 called Light of Day and it stars Michael J. Fox 205 00:09:58,639 --> 00:09:59,399 and Joan Jett. 206 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: Right. I think I watched some of that movie just 207 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,120 because it had Michael J. Fox in it back in 208 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:06,960 the mid eighties. Yeah, and couldn't finish it. 209 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 3: I watched it like a year ago. 210 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: This is depressing me. 211 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:10,639 Speaker 3: This is pressing. 212 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,039 Speaker 1: It's not a happy movie. Now, okay, so yes, that 213 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,440 is the creation of the song. And for a long 214 00:10:15,519 --> 00:10:18,279 time this was just an acoustic song. It was just 215 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,080 him with an acoustic guitar singing, but it changes in 216 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,440 this amazing organic way. So they've been in the studio 217 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,720 recording ruling session, all of the members are worn out, 218 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,720 and they all go into the booth and then at 219 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:34,200 some point one of the band members goes back out. 220 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,000 I think it was Bruce, and he starts just playing 221 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,919 just the riff on the guitar, and then at that 222 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,639 point Max Weinberg is like, I think I got a 223 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:46,200 different idea here, and he walks out and he hits 224 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,919 that hard snare, hard snare, and like, okay, this is 225 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:52,679 making it sound a little different. And one by one 226 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,320 each of the members of the band come back into 227 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,240 the recording studio and they play it in a completely 228 00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:02,080 different way. It's more like an anthem than like this 229 00:11:02,279 --> 00:11:05,799 sad guitari folk song. And when they get done, they're like, 230 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,320 I think we just found something. 231 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. 232 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: They played it one more time to see if they 233 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,639 still had it. Then they played it one more time 234 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:14,039 and that's what's on the record. 235 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,639 Speaker 3: That's incredible. Yeah, I love stories like this where the 236 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,679 song is just kind of birthed and it takes on 237 00:11:19,759 --> 00:11:24,440 a life of its own aim becomes this rock eighties anthem. Yeah, wow, 238 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,039 I got a couple little nuggets for you. 239 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: Okay. 240 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 3: Patty LaBelle covered this song in nineteen eighty five. 241 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,519 Speaker 1: Okay, that's interesting. 242 00:11:30,639 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 3: Also, you may remember Cheach Marina still Man. Oh yeah, 243 00:11:40,759 --> 00:11:43,480 you're born in East la Well, let's see your green card. 244 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: Huh green card. 245 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 3: I'm from Eastill Laurel. 246 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:48,399 Speaker 1: And who's president. 247 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 248 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,039 Speaker 3: A parody of the song called Born in the East La. 249 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: I forgot about that. That's awesome. Made it into a movie. Yeah, Yeah, 250 00:11:59,120 --> 00:11:59,639 that's funny. 251 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,159 Speaker 3: Born. He's feeling one more quick nugget. This video was 252 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:04,679 directed by a guy named John Sales. 253 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: Uh. 254 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:09,159 Speaker 3: He's a guy who wrote the Howling. He wrote Alligator 255 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,679 was kind of an eighties movie, and he directed eight 256 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,919 min out. So he's a guy who's done some things. 257 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, eight min out. Yeah, Okay, that does it for 258 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:19,720 Born in the USA. On the song number two cover. 259 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 5: Me, So the beginning of the song blowing in sounds 260 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,759 like the fabulous Thunderbirds to me. 261 00:12:45,879 --> 00:12:46,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, I could go with that. 262 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, once again, you've got another song. About the guy 263 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,960 who's just been beaten down. Right, he has been beaten 264 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,399 down so much that all he's looking for is someplace 265 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,399 to hide where the person will cover him up. 266 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,039 Speaker 3: Yep, somebody. I need somebody to love me and cover me. 267 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 268 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:05,639 Speaker 3: This is the second single released July thirty first, nineteen 269 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:08,840 eighty four. This reached number seven on the Hot one Hunter. Okay, 270 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,519 we're still a little better than Born in the USA. 271 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's crazy now, I mean this is a 272 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,159 good song, better than Born in the US. 273 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: I know, I can't believe it. This song was written 274 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:20,360 for Donna Summer. 275 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,799 Speaker 1: I know, right. Can you imagine a disco version of 276 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:23,120 the song? 277 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 4: No? 278 00:13:23,799 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 3: No, Donna Summer is a great singer, but she is 279 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:30,639 a little bit more pop and definitely more disco, you know. 280 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 281 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,759 Speaker 3: But John Landau listened to it and thought this sounds 282 00:13:34,799 --> 00:13:36,480 like a hit. We might want to hang onto this one, 283 00:13:36,519 --> 00:13:39,240 so they gave her the song called Protection instead. 284 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,279 Speaker 1: This was one of the songs that was recorded at 285 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,240 the Hit Factory, Yes, which several of the songs were 286 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,120 recorded at. And it's simple, it's a more emotional song. 287 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 3: So yeah, this song is a good song. 288 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:52,919 Speaker 1: I like it. 289 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 3: It's upbeat, even though the lyrics are kind of like depressing, 290 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,840 but this is a toe tapper. This is a great 291 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:00,720 concert song. 292 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: Again, listen to those drums, listen to how the music 293 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,080 plays against the meaning of the lyrics, and you've got 294 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,360 this magical combination on almost all of these songs. 295 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:12,039 Speaker 3: It's crazy. 296 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 297 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 3: No music video for this song. Yeah, that's interesting, which 298 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:16,159 is kind of weird. And it's still made it to 299 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:25,159 number seven. Yeah, wow, great song like it? 300 00:14:25,279 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it all right? Song number three Darlington County. 301 00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:36,960 All right, I got a FEVA and the only prescription 302 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,960 is book cow Bell. I know right. 303 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 3: That Cowboll is very prominent in this song. 304 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: I give it up Max. 305 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:46,559 Speaker 3: So the first time I heard this, I thought, and 306 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:48,879 that sounds a lot like Honkey Tnk Woman by the 307 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:49,600 Rolling Stones. 308 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very yeah, similar intro. 309 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,759 Speaker 3: Yes, And as I did my research, I found out 310 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:57,279 that in concerts he would play the first few bars 311 00:14:57,519 --> 00:15:00,639 of Honckey Tonk Woman and blends right into this song 312 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:01,919 on my and on. 313 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:04,039 Speaker 1: The back awesome way to go you thank you. 314 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 3: This could have easily been a single. 315 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites on the album Great Solvent 316 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,279 Great Yeah. 317 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,799 Speaker 3: Lyrically This is about a guy driving to Darlington County, Towork. 318 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: People of Lucas. There you go look for work, Yeah, 319 00:15:19,039 --> 00:15:23,000 I would say, looking to get laid. Okay, we're just 320 00:15:23,039 --> 00:15:24,960 going down there to try to pick up some chicks. 321 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 5: Man. 322 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes that's work. It's Southwest work. 323 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 3: Darlington County is in South Carolina. 324 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're going to go down and talk to 325 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,440 the girls about being these big New York City boys 326 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:47,519 even though they're just a couple of Pelucas, and try 327 00:15:47,559 --> 00:15:48,960 to get them to, you know, come over here and 328 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:51,399 sit down, like get radio with me in my car. 329 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 3: Sounds good to be. A guy named Jeff Stevens and 330 00:15:56,279 --> 00:15:59,679 the Bullets took the cover version to number sixty nine 331 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,399 on the Hot Country Songs in nineteen eighty seven. 332 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,639 Speaker 1: It's got a very country feel too, except that the 333 00:16:04,679 --> 00:16:06,240 guys are talking about being from the city. 334 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,399 Speaker 3: Yes, one more quick thing on this song before we 335 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,919 move on. Springsteen originally wrote this song in nineteen seventy 336 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:14,679 eight for the album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Okay, 337 00:16:14,759 --> 00:16:18,279 it didn't make the cut. He reworked it re recorded 338 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,679 in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, and here we have it. 339 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:24,039 In nineteen eighty four, awesome, fantastic. Okay, moving on to 340 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,159 a song called. 341 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,279 Speaker 1: Working on the Highway. 342 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:40,639 Speaker 6: Gonnare week on the bird Okay, this one is screaming 343 00:16:40,639 --> 00:16:42,120 bo deadly at me once again. 344 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: It's a guy who's screwed up his life. 345 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 3: More depressing lyrics. 346 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: The music is so good, it's catchy. It's got that 347 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:54,480 nineteen fifties early sixties absolutely pop rock song sound about it. 348 00:16:54,679 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: But it sounds like summertime blues to me. 349 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 4: Yeah. 350 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:57,879 Speaker 3: Yeah. 351 00:16:57,919 --> 00:17:01,159 Speaker 1: And so you've got this guy, he's talking about everybody's 352 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:04,079 getting off of work, talking about getting hurt on the weekend, 353 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,920 and you know these you know, some guys are going 354 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:18,960 to go drink and some guys are going to go 355 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,079 look for a fight and all this stuff. And then 356 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:22,799 about what he's going to do. And he's got this 357 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,680 because he's holding his flag working on the highway. He's 358 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,039 got this girl on his mind. 359 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:27,319 Speaker 4: Right. 360 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,559 Speaker 1: So the people that I've heard talk about this, they 361 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:33,160 seem to think like he's working on the highway, he 362 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,839 meets up with his underage girl, gets in trouble, ends 363 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,440 up in the penitentiary, and is working on the highway 364 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,720 for the penitentiary. Yeah, I think it's already happened. Like 365 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,119 I think at the beginning of the song, Rus is 366 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,359 throwing you off with the lyrics about what the other 367 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,920 guys are going to do with their weekends. I think 368 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,799 this guy is already a penitentiary inmate because he did this, 369 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,599 and that's why the girl is on his mind, because 370 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,559 he mentions it in the first first But the idea 371 00:17:58,599 --> 00:18:01,480 of the song either way is this guy decided to 372 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:03,839 fall in love with the girl who was too young. 373 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,200 He talks to her dad does an honorable thing, and 374 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:09,920 her daddy says, don't you know, she's just a girl, 375 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:15,160 and then he takes her down to Florida. You're all 376 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,799 the right back there for a second. He took hard left. Yeah, yeah, 377 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:23,200 and so yeah, brothers show up with cops and it's 378 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,680 off to the penitentiary with him and he's just working. 379 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 3: On that, working on the highway. 380 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 4: Yeah. 381 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 3: This song was originally called child Bride. 382 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, working on the Highways A better time? 383 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:33,559 Speaker 3: Yes, how about that? 384 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, because nobody it's hard to understand what Bruce says, right, 385 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,039 I know. And this, by the way, I listened to 386 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,359 several of the songs off of some of the other albums, 387 00:18:44,599 --> 00:18:47,759 and his very first album the Greetings from Asbrey Park. 388 00:18:48,039 --> 00:18:51,119 The first single off of that album was blinded by 389 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,200 the Light, and I was like, did he cover? He 390 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,319 do a cover as his very first sing No, Bruce 391 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,720 Springsteen was the guy who wrote blinded by the Light. 392 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,240 No idea. I thought manford Man was the original. Yeah, yeah, No, 393 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:06,440 I didn't come along until seventy six. I was like, what, 394 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,119 but this is the rare circumstance where I can understand 395 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,359 Bruce better than I can understand what the banford Man did. 396 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,480 I mean, there was all kinds of misunderstood lyrics whenever 397 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,160 it was listening to the Manfred Man Goose was not 398 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,559 deuce right, not wrapped up like a dude? Not yes 399 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,079 that's right, you got it. Okay. 400 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,599 Speaker 3: So anyway, working on the Highway catchy song, another fun song. Yeah, 401 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:35,279 moving on song number five. This song is called down 402 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:49,559 Bound Train. Dude. That's the rolling Stones right there. 403 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: Oh so strong. The stones are strong with this one. 404 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,640 And wait for it, here it is. Max Cummins comes 405 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,200 in with that snare I'm telling you, yeah, I'm telling 406 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,039 you except for that. Now this song, this song, the 407 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,720 music matches the sadness of the words and the song 408 00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:08,000 right oh, my gosh downbound train like the guy's like. 409 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,920 Life was pretty good. And then the factory shut down 410 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,559 and my wife left me. And then I had a 411 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,400 dream that she was calling me back, and I walked 412 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,960 into a dark, empty room. Okay, I'm gonna go kill myself. 413 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,440 What Bruce, come on, man, find some happy, find you happy, 414 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:22,880 plays Brown. 415 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 3: There's an author called Debbie Bull. She called the saddest 416 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:26,599 song ever written. 417 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: It is. Yes, he did not bring the happy, Happy, 418 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:39,160 go lucky music along with his sad song so you 419 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:40,200 Got Sad music? 420 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 3: Sad song at the end of the Nebraska Sessions. Yes, 421 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,680 it was recorded with Working on the Highway and they 422 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,759 called it the Electric Nebraska Sessions. 423 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,839 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, this one I still like. Uh so 424 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,839 far we've we've gotten. I've liked every single song on 425 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,640 this say, They're all good. I mean, even if it 426 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,319 does make me suicidal, it's still it hits a nerve 427 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,160 that sometimes you got to hit. Sometimes songs are supposed 428 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,960 to make you feel sad. Yeah, that's why they call 429 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,599 it the Blips, and that's why they call it the 430 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:13,440 No Not that well John, right, John Again, what he 431 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,559 seems to do on this album to me is put 432 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,640 songs on each end of each side that are like 433 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,160 his tent pole songs like these are the best songs 434 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,720 on the album. Let's put them on each end, okay, 435 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:29,599 which brings us to the song number six, I'm on Fire. 436 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,319 Speaker 3: This starts off. I like it right away. It's a hit. 437 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:46,519 You can hear it in my ears immediately. 438 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: I'm all the way and this is beautiful, beautiful song. 439 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 440 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 3: This was the fourth single released February sixth, nineteen eighty five. 441 00:21:54,400 --> 00:22:05,119 It reached number six. Wow, another top ten hit. 442 00:22:05,279 --> 00:22:08,839 Speaker 1: Yeah four single. Yeah, so this song number one? When 443 00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:10,519 we get that, Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? 444 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,519 I really hope when he says daddy he means boyfriend, 445 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:15,960 because if he actually means daddy, this is super gross. 446 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,039 So I'm gonna assume boyfriend. But then, as I'm as 447 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:23,079 I'm listening to these lyrics, this is the song of 448 00:22:23,519 --> 00:22:26,440 a crazy man, Like this is the song of someone 449 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,599 who is disturbed and has a fire that is not 450 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,799 an appropriate fire, right, Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? 451 00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:34,960 Did he go and leave you all alone? I got 452 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,920 a bad desire? Oh, I'm on fire. He's struggling with 453 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,759 some demons here, right, and he brings that home with 454 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,000 the last part of the song, which I mean the 455 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,720 lyrics on this song I think may be the most poetic. 456 00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:52,799 And we're talking about huge poetry on every single song here. 457 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:57,000 But sometimes it's like someone took a knife, Baby Edgy 458 00:22:57,079 --> 00:22:59,519 and Doll and cut a six inch valley through the 459 00:22:59,559 --> 00:23:02,200 middle of my skull. At night, I wake up with 460 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:05,119 the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through 461 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,240 the middle of my head. Only you can cool my desire. 462 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,279 Oh oh, I'm on fire. Wow. It's so powerful and 463 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,839 so creepy and so beautiful and haunting and amazing and 464 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,279 two minutes and thirty seconds long. 465 00:23:18,319 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 3: All right. This video was filmed in March of nineteen 466 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,720 eighty five, okay, which is the same month that Huey 467 00:23:23,759 --> 00:23:26,119 listened the news filmed Bad Is Bad? 468 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: Oh okay, we're the film in the same place. 469 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 3: Both in New York, one in La one in San Francisco. 470 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,559 Speaker 1: It's a long ways apart. By the way, twos Oklahoma 471 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,200 boys are like oh right next door. Both the gelp 472 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:38,559 like a seven hour. 473 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:42,079 Speaker 3: Directed again by John Sales. 474 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:42,799 Speaker 1: Uh huh. 475 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:45,839 Speaker 3: This video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best 476 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,000 Male Video. Yeah, okay, so the video is Bruce is 477 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:52,519 a mechanic and this fantasy woman comes in. We never 478 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:53,799 see her face. 479 00:23:53,839 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: Turned nails as he gave at them, stroking the side 480 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:57,960 of the car he's working on. 481 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,599 Speaker 3: I don't know if it's implying if the she is 482 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:03,200 she a real person or is he just like fantasizing 483 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,000 about her or what? Is she just unattainable? But it's 484 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,920 kind of like the dark version of Billy Joel's Uptown 485 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,960 Girl video Hang on hand, I Got something for you 486 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:14,160 on this? 487 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:14,599 Speaker 1: Okay? 488 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 3: You ready for this? 489 00:24:15,319 --> 00:24:15,599 Speaker 1: Yes? 490 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,519 Speaker 3: The B side to the single I'm on Fire Yes, 491 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,400 is a song called Johnny Bye Bye written by It's 492 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,000 like fused from Chuck Berry. A Chuck Berry song. Okay, Okay, 493 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,559 so he had written parts of it and Springsteen took 494 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:32,200 those parts and kind of made a song out of it. 495 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:32,799 Speaker 1: But this was. 496 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 3: Written just before Chuck Berry went to jail for three 497 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,279 years for violating the Man Act of nineteen sixty two. 498 00:24:39,599 --> 00:24:42,039 Speaker 1: That's ironic, how about that? Given my interpretation? 499 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 3: Seriously? Yeah, and for those who don't know what the 500 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,240 Man Act of nineteen sixty two is, that is transporting 501 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,039 women across side state lines for immoral purposes. 502 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:54,759 Speaker 1: Wow. 503 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 3: Whoa, he's on fire. 504 00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see what Johnny Byebox sounds like. 505 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 4: With the Red song. 506 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 3: It's the party and nine down on them This time 507 00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:12,119 I'll be going down Ariunit D come man on the radius. 508 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,960 All right, So just one little tidbit on this song. Yes, okay, 509 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,599 Bruce Springsteen and his pianist Roy Baton and his drummer 510 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,279 Max Weinberg are sitting around the first version of this 511 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,599 song was just the three of them because everybody else 512 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,240 was taking a leak or on break or whatever. 513 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:33,319 Speaker 1: Right, smoke him if you got that's right, that's it. 514 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:33,759 Speaker 3: That's it. 515 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,079 Speaker 1: Okay. So Roy Baton has come up before. Do you 516 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,519 remember his nickname is the Professor. Yeah, he was one 517 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:44,640 of the handful of guys that bon Jovi got to 518 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:49,440 help him record run Away. So go check out our 519 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,400 bon Jovi. Yes, there you go. 520 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: It's the part one of the slipperwin wet New Jersey 521 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,279 Battle of bon Jovi. All right, time to hit stop 522 00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:01,279 on you tape player, kick it out and flip it 523 00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:24,319 over side too. First song, No Surrender, kicking it. 524 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:28,279 Speaker 1: Off, strong piano, sounding like the old fifties song you 525 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,599 Got the Harmonies Coming in here, I'm already loving it. 526 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,640 I'm telling you about temp pole on each side. This 527 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:34,519 is a great song. 528 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, this is a feel good song. 529 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: Yeah wait, what a positive I know, a positive sounding 530 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,160 and positive lyrics song. What is it doing on this alum? 531 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 3: I know, I know. This is a great song. This 532 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:50,599 reminds me kind of a bon Jovie. I mean, it's 533 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,160 a feel good working man camaraderie. 534 00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in this together and we're not giving up. 535 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:09,759 Speaker 3: See it through being on a prayer. 536 00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:14,079 Speaker 1: Okay. I really feel like this is something that probably 537 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,599 he had with his bandmates where he was like that 538 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,000 they had to say to themselves because I mean, just 539 00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,480 keep keep in mind, his first album came out in 540 00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:25,200 seventy three. This is eleven years later. Born to Run. 541 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,000 Had so much hope and he's built up all of 542 00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:29,200 this fan base, but he's not really had a commercial 543 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:33,559 success and so he has to rally the troops. Right. Yeah, yeah, guys, 544 00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:36,359 we were in this together. No Retreat, No Surrender. 545 00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:38,039 Speaker 3: This song almost didn't make the album. 546 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: Okay. 547 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 3: This was the last song in Wow. It was only 548 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:44,519 at the insistence of Stephen van Zane. He had left 549 00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:46,559 the band, but it was still friends with everybody. Yeah, 550 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:49,200 he was pursuing his solo career yep. And when he listened, 551 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,559 he's like, guys, we got it. I mean, this is 552 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:52,200 a great song. You got to include this one. This 553 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:55,119 song was originally titled Brothers under the Bridges. 554 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: Uh huh? 555 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,319 Speaker 3: And quickly have you ever seen the Jung Claude van 556 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,839 Dam movie called No Retreat, No Surrender? 557 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,839 Speaker 1: I have never No, I have not seen that. 558 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 3: Okay, not a great movie. He's the bad guy, but 559 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:08,759 the movie title comes from this song. 560 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:13,559 Speaker 1: Okay, is it about a band who's blood Brothers Underneath 561 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,640 the Stormy Night? 562 00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 3: No, it's Karate Oh. 563 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:24,599 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, song number I don't know, number two on 564 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,720 side two, Number. 565 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 3: Two on side two. This song is called Bobby Jean. 566 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,119 Speaker 1: So this song is about the loss. I can't tell 567 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,559 if it's a friend or a lover or a friend 568 00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:53,000 that he wanted to be a lover right like they 569 00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:57,359 were obviously close growing up. And she leaves without notice. Yeah, 570 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,559 and he's just hoping that maybe someone out there she'll 571 00:29:01,559 --> 00:29:03,839 hear this song on the radio and know it's better. 572 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,519 I'm not sure it's a sheet it could be he Yeah, 573 00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:07,799 that's true, I mean true. 574 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:11,119 Speaker 3: Bobby Jean could be a male or female, true, and 575 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,319 it's never really specified in the song. Some people think 576 00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:16,759 it's it's like, you know, Steven van z Aunt leaving 577 00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:19,039 the band and oh man, good luck to you, will 578 00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:19,640 miss you, that. 579 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,759 Speaker 1: Type of thing. It's Billy Jean's sister. 580 00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 3: I don't think it's Billy Jeen's sister. This song was 581 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,720 not released as a single, but it did make it 582 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:29,839 to number thirty six on the mainstream rock charts. 583 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,839 Speaker 1: Wow, all right, good song. 584 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 3: It doesn't get me real fired up? 585 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: No, this is I would say, probably my least favorite 586 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,160 song on the album. I won't call it a skipper. 587 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,920 I would just say, if you get to lose one 588 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,640 on the album, this one's probably it. Yeah. 589 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 3: Have you seen the live performance when Eddie Vedder from 590 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,039 Pearl Jam comes on stage and they sing this together? 591 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,519 Speaker 1: No but I must there you go. Wow, that will 592 00:29:51,519 --> 00:29:52,319 be fantastic. 593 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,079 Speaker 3: Done with Bobby Jean. We're now moving on to the 594 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:20,720 sixth single, released August twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. This 595 00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:22,119 song is called and Going Down. 596 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: I want that nasty guitar, all right, bring it in, 597 00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:30,839 max Y. 598 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 3: Call side why I can't feel it? 599 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:36,799 Speaker 1: Dot comment? 600 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,519 Speaker 4: I going up look. 601 00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:43,359 Speaker 1: Give me your little back. 602 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,839 Speaker 4: I'm way up. I'm you let out, wanna your mood 603 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,920 side where little where? I'm looking to you, guys, I'm going. 604 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: I love this song. This is a guy who's had 605 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:04,400 enough of her crap. Amen bro, tired of your crown, 606 00:31:05,759 --> 00:31:08,480 used to love on me, and now you just beat 607 00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:09,680 me down like a dog. 608 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:15,599 Speaker 3: This song reached number nine on the US Hot one hundred. 609 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,400 Another top ten hit. 610 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:18,799 Speaker 1: So how many is that? 611 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,039 Speaker 3: That's the fifth one that we've talked about. That's five 612 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:23,599 top ten hits and we haven't even gotten a few songs. 613 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Okay, little repetitive this song. I love it, 614 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,359 but a little bit repetitive for me. 615 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 3: It's catchy, it's I Yeah, it's it's it's andy. 616 00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: It is a good it's a good song. 617 00:31:34,319 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 3: I'm done with this one. 618 00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:39,279 Speaker 1: Moving on to song number ten on the album, assibly 619 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,640 my favorite song on the album. 620 00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:43,519 Speaker 3: This song is called Glory Days. 621 00:31:51,160 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 4: Where and. 622 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:20,279 Speaker 1: Song the punch. I love the guitar. I want to go. 623 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,519 I want to go get a board and a baseball glove, 624 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,359 and I want to go pitch a little bit on 625 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,720 the mound. And I was never a pitcher in high school. 626 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 3: Let's go get a bucket of balls and some pine 627 00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:31,920 tire and let's get out there. 628 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:37,519 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this one is. It's iconic. It is amazing. 629 00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 4: I'm all want to go down to. 630 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 3: Me. 631 00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: If you say Bruce Springsteen, this is where my head 632 00:32:50,799 --> 00:32:51,759 goes immediately. 633 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:53,519 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm totally with you. 634 00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: Understand every word he says in the song belly Yes, 635 00:32:56,839 --> 00:32:59,920 and it's it's a it is a feeling that I 636 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:02,279 can understand as well, you know, like I mean this 637 00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:05,480 when we're here, right, nostalgia Like these people unfortunately, it's 638 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:07,799 kind of that idea that the best days that they 639 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,240 ever had were their high school days, right, and they're 640 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:12,799 stuck there, right, They're just stuck in trying to relive 641 00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:15,759 those days. But you know what, that's okay, that's kind 642 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:16,440 of what we're doing here. 643 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,599 Speaker 3: Hey, well that's we are having a blast talking about I. 644 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,839 Speaker 1: Love talking about the glory a little of the glory. 645 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,039 So that's right. 646 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,319 Speaker 3: So this song was the fifth single released May nineteen 647 00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:31,880 eighty five. So this reached number five, Yeah, and the 648 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:34,759 just hot one hundred. Yeah, I'm spiking the football. This 649 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,920 is my favorite Bruce Springsteen. 650 00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:37,799 Speaker 1: Song of all times. 651 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,359 Speaker 3: Come Gone Down, Yes, love it. 652 00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I have no I won't fault you. 653 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:56,200 This is probably up until we did this podcast, this 654 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,200 was my number one. 655 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,559 Speaker 3: So this was actually based on a true story. Bruce 656 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:03,359 Springstey and this guy named Joe Depew were classmates and teammates, 657 00:34:03,559 --> 00:34:06,920 like little league teammates, right, And this guy, Joe Apeugh 658 00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:10,079 was a really good player. And one day he's walking 659 00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:13,679 into a bar. Joe Depeugh is walking out and he says, hey, Joe, 660 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,719 how's it going, man? And they turn back around, they 661 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,760 go back in, they sit down and have a big, 662 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,920 long conversation about the glorious right, which I thought was 663 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,000 really cool. And this is his quote on this right. 664 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:26,639 He said, the first verse actually happened, the second verse 665 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,800 mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening. Right, beautiful, right, nice, fantastic. 666 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,960 Here's the cool thing about this. I ran the sound 667 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,920 system for the baseball team this year. Okay, at my 668 00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:41,440 son's high school baseball games. Played it. It's still killed. 669 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,320 People are loving it. 670 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: I mean so good. 671 00:34:45,079 --> 00:35:01,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so good. Here's the interesting thing the video. 672 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,679 Stephen van Zandt had left the band two years prior 673 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,199 to Yeah, but he's he's all over the video. He's 674 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:07,760 having a ball. 675 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's another qud up on the stage with 676 00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:10,440 him as well. 677 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 3: Let's talk about her. 678 00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, there is a qute. 679 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:15,599 Speaker 3: Up on stage with him, all right. But here's the thing. 680 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,239 Julianne Phillips was Bruce Springstein's wife at the time. Okay, 681 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,920 if you say to yourself, Juliane Phillips, who is that? Yeah, 682 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,679 if you've ever seen the movie Skin Deep, of which 683 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,239 I'm a big fan, never seen it, Okay, Fletch Lips, 684 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,239 seeing that Fletch Lives. She is the love interest in 685 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:29,880 Fletch Lips. 686 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,760 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Okay. 687 00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:33,159 Speaker 3: She was married to Bruce Springstein from nineteen eighty five 688 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,119 to nineteen eighty nine. 689 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: Okay, so when did this video come out? 690 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 3: Nineten eighty five. She's actually in the video. 691 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: Okay, So they were married at the time came. 692 00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 3: And she's actually yeah, she's in the video. Okay, But 693 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:48,480 apparently down the road the other girl in the band, 694 00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:51,320 her name is Patty. I think her name is Patti 695 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,760 Siaffa if I'm saying that right, Okay. She and Bruce 696 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,880 were kind of calm out together, and so Julianne Phillips said, 697 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,400 I'm out of here. And now Bruce and Patty are 698 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,440 now married and have been married for a long time 699 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,599 and have kids. 700 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 1: And all that. 701 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, so's here's something funny I think about this song. Okay, 702 00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:10,519 so we've already established that Bruce has never had a 703 00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:12,519 real job, even though he sings about the working man 704 00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:15,320 all the time, right, and now he's talking about his 705 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,079 glory days, he said, like on concers. He's like, let 706 00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:22,039 me be clear, I hated high school, right, so it 707 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:24,320 doesn't have the fondest memories of high school. 708 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:24,559 Speaker 4: Yeah. 709 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,400 Speaker 1: Still not a standout student, not cool enough even to 710 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,039 be the class clown. That's right. Yeah. 711 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 3: Still great song. Hell yeah, best song on the album 712 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,440 for me, spiking the football all right. Moving on to 713 00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,599 a song called Death and in the Dark. 714 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: Okay, The beginning sounds in this song are very similar 715 00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:57,920 to the Born in the USA beginnings, Like you've got 716 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,199 that same synthesizer that's going all but the beat is 717 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,079 a little faster, a little more fun. And it's because 718 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,360 it's a dance beat, because dancing is in the name 719 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:07,239 of the song. 720 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:07,599 Speaker 3: Right. 721 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 1: But as we talked about in our last episode, this 722 00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:14,599 was the song that he wrote out of frustration because 723 00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:17,679 John Lando said, you don't have a hit yet. Boy 724 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,280 was he wrong about that. He was a little no, 725 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,920 he was right, you don't have a hit. You have 726 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,159 six hits, yes, right, I'm. 727 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,039 Speaker 3: A little worried because the other songs only sound like 728 00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:30,039 you know, six top ten hits, right. 729 00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:35,519 Speaker 1: So he they have their fight. Landau storms out. He's frustrated. 730 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,320 And this, I mean, his life up until that point 731 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,679 was he starts working in the evening and they record 732 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,360 through the night, and he falls asleep in the morning. 733 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,960 So the idea that I get up in the evening 734 00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:51,280 and I ain't got nothing to say, that is him. 735 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,280 That is I've been doing this. I've been spending all 736 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,840 night for months on end, and you're asking me for 737 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,800 another song. I've got nothing left to say. I've done 738 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,199 this eighty times, I've used all my words. I'm done, 739 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,000 and then I come home in the morning, go to bed, 740 00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:12,480 feel in the same way. So because to bed in 741 00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:14,719 the morning, gets up in the evening. This is the 742 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,920 life of a musician, friends and followers, This is what 743 00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,239 you hoped for to become a rock star. But at 744 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,039 this point, after all of this, he's nothing but tired 745 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,039 and just bored with himself. He could use just a 746 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:30,280 little help. I mean, the meaning means so much more 747 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,079 now that I know that it's the result of this 748 00:38:32,199 --> 00:38:35,400 big fight that he has after killing himself and getting 749 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,239 told you haven't done enough yet. Isn't that cool? Yeah? 750 00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:40,159 This is why I love what we do. Yeah. 751 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 3: The deep dive makes me appreciate these guys creations even more. Yeah, 752 00:38:45,039 --> 00:39:02,400 I want to say somewhere stop. 753 00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:05,400 Speaker 1: Stop. 754 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,519 Speaker 3: This song was released May ninth of nineteen eighty four. 755 00:39:23,559 --> 00:39:25,400 That was just a cold days ago, and it reached 756 00:39:25,599 --> 00:39:28,519 number two on the US Hot one hundred. 757 00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:28,840 Speaker 1: Wow. 758 00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:31,559 Speaker 3: All right, you want to know what's better than Dancing 759 00:39:31,679 --> 00:39:33,800 the Dark? Yeah, it turns out there's two songs better. 760 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,880 It was blocked for two weeks by two different songs. 761 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:37,760 Speaker 1: Oh what okay? 762 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 3: All right, so it was blocked by Deran Duran's The Reflex. 763 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 1: Okay, that was a big one. 764 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,599 Speaker 3: That's a big one, right, one, that's a huge one. Yeah, 765 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,119 and then the week after when Doves. 766 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: Cry and another huge one, huge one. Yeah. Wow, Well 767 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,000 that's unfortunate, but this is. 768 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,840 Speaker 3: Still a fantastic It's still a fantastic song. 769 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,119 Speaker 4: Yep. 770 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 1: So I think now now that I know the story. 771 00:39:58,039 --> 00:39:59,679 I gotta say, Glory Days has to move down to 772 00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:02,000 the number two spot for me, and this song is 773 00:40:02,079 --> 00:40:03,159 not my favorite song on the album. 774 00:40:03,159 --> 00:40:04,039 Speaker 3: O heay, fantastic l us. 775 00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:07,519 Speaker 1: Without this song, we might not have had Courtney Cox, 776 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,320 which means we might not have had a girlfriend on 777 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:11,920 Family Ties, which. 778 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,760 Speaker 3: Means we might not have had Monica on France. 779 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,639 Speaker 1: Wow, how about that. Thank you John Landau for being 780 00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:20,079 a little bit of a d and making Bruce write 781 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,239 just one more song. 782 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,559 Speaker 3: That's right, Thank you so much. You ready to talk 783 00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:25,760 about the music video? Yeah, because we're moving there right. 784 00:40:26,159 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 785 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 3: So you've got a young Courtney Cox as you mentioned. Yep, 786 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,400 if he doesn't pull her out of the crowd pull 787 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,440 her up on stage. That is her with the short 788 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,519 hair in case you got by you there. Okay. This 789 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,239 was filmed in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They played the song 790 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,920 twice so they could get all the footage they needed. 791 00:40:42,519 --> 00:40:44,440 It was directed by Brian de Palma. 792 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I would not have picked that. Okay. 793 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 3: Now, then here is the funny part about this song, 794 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,440 all right. The dance that Bruce is doing on stage 795 00:40:56,119 --> 00:41:02,480 later became the Carlton from Fresh Prince Villair. 796 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,559 Speaker 1: That's fantastic. 797 00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 3: Okay, one little nugget I thought was hilarious when I 798 00:41:06,559 --> 00:41:08,599 heard about this nugget about dancing the dark. 799 00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:09,679 Speaker 1: You're ready for this? Okay. 800 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,880 Speaker 3: According to Rolling Stone, this is the only Springsteen song 801 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,239 that Bob Dylan ever covered. Okay, Okay, imagine Bob Dylan 802 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:18,519 singing dancing in the dark. 803 00:41:18,639 --> 00:41:20,360 Speaker 1: Okay, I have no trouble with that. 804 00:41:20,519 --> 00:41:23,639 Speaker 3: Yes, so when he did it, so apparently this is 805 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,800 January twelfth, nineteen ninety Bob Dylan flubbed most of the 806 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,400 words and the performance was so bad people didn't even 807 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,119 realize what he was singing. They had no idea. 808 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,880 Speaker 1: That's that's awkward. They were like, what is this? 809 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 3: What is it? 810 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,079 Speaker 1: Dancing in the dark? 811 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:43,760 Speaker 3: What great song? Feel good song, poppy ear candy. 812 00:41:43,639 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 1: Yep, and a great story behind it? Everything I need this. 813 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,239 This is the new number one. 814 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,079 Speaker 3: This was voted the single of the year by Rolling 815 00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:51,840 Stone listeners. 816 00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:57,719 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, finishing strong with another tenth Pole song, 817 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,840 and we've got three in a row here Glory Days, 818 00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:03,119 We're dancing the dark, and then we have my hometown 819 00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:11,559 sal running with dim Mine. 820 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:20,039 Speaker 4: Bust up man. 821 00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:26,760 Speaker 1: Okay, this is not a fist bumper, No but after 822 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,639 hearing this song, I don't know how many times in 823 00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:32,559 preparation for this, I still almost teared up because the 824 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,039 imagery is so vivid of this little kid running down 825 00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:38,239 the street, the diamond his hand, getting a paper for 826 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,559 his old man, sit on his lap in that big 827 00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,440 old buick and steer as we drove through town, and 828 00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:46,800 he tossled my hair and say, son, take a good 829 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:52,079 look around. This is your hometown. And that warm fuzzy 830 00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:55,880 memory leading into the racial tension that happens while he's 831 00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,559 in high school and the slow spy roll down of 832 00:43:00,639 --> 00:43:03,360 the town. By the time that he's an adult and 833 00:43:03,519 --> 00:43:05,519 he's got his own little boy, he's talking with his 834 00:43:05,599 --> 00:43:07,840 wife about getting the heck out of there, but then 835 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,480 he's riding with his son in his lap with the 836 00:43:10,519 --> 00:43:12,760 steering wheel, saying, son, this is your hometown. 837 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:13,119 Speaker 4: Ah. 838 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,519 Speaker 1: It is so emotional, so amazing A love love love 839 00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:18,599 the song. Nice. 840 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,679 Speaker 3: So this song was released November twenty one of nineteen 841 00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:27,039 eighty five. It reached number six on the Hot one hundred. 842 00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 843 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,119 Speaker 3: Now, for those of you keeping track at home, that's 844 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,679 seven singles, all of them top ten smashes. 845 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:34,119 Speaker 1: Yeah. 846 00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:37,239 Speaker 3: Now, just a little addendum to that this song reached 847 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,400 number one on the Adult Contemporary, which to date is 848 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,320 his only number one hit. 849 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:43,880 Speaker 1: In any category. 850 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,760 Speaker 3: Yep, wow, how about that. 851 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:46,519 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 852 00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:49,360 Speaker 3: I know that is crazy because this was released so 853 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,239 close to Thanksgiving. The B side to this is Santa 854 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,599 Claus Is Coming to Town, which I hear a lot 855 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:56,519 during the Christmas time. 856 00:43:56,559 --> 00:43:59,159 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's fun, Bruce having fun for once in 857 00:43:59,199 --> 00:43:59,639 its life. 858 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,119 Speaker 3: Before we wrap up the album, I want to throw in. 859 00:44:02,199 --> 00:44:04,480 I want to talk about one song, just briefly. This 860 00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:05,960 is a song that didn't make the cut. 861 00:44:06,159 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 1: Okay, Pink Cadillac. 862 00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:34,039 Speaker 3: Girls Money was supposed to be on Born in the USA. 863 00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:34,519 Speaker 1: Uh huh. 864 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,559 Speaker 3: It didn't make the cut, but they later released it 865 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:39,719 as kind of a B side, and it reached number 866 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,280 twenty seven. I mean, that's the power of this album 867 00:44:42,679 --> 00:44:44,679 that a song not even good enough to make the 868 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,840 album still was a top thirty hit. 869 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 1: It's a great song. 870 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm riding in my pink like Prince's little red Corvette. 871 00:44:53,199 --> 00:44:58,519 It's a it's a little metaphor for a female. There 872 00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:02,800 you go, pink Cadillac. Take a ride in your pink Cadillac. 873 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:08,760 Speaker 1: Awkward, there you go? All right, So fantastic album. Yes, 874 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,000 from beginning to end. Maybe one song out of the 875 00:45:13,079 --> 00:45:16,880 bunch that I would go it is okay. The rest 876 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,000 of them are amazing, amazing lyrics, great music, better in 877 00:45:21,119 --> 00:45:23,800 my opinion, than anything he had done up until that point. 878 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,119 And as we've said before, I'm a radio for friendly, 879 00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,280 big hits, Bruce Sky, so that's why I like this 880 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,559 album better than his other albums. But given the success 881 00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:37,840 of the album, this is obviously an opinion that's shared 882 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,840 by many other people. So that's the end of this part. 883 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:43,880 Join us next week. 884 00:45:50,679 --> 00:45:53,400 Speaker 2: When we go into Huey Lewis and the News, the 885 00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:56,239 history of Huey Lewis, and then we go track by 886 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,400 track through the album Sports, which also was one of 887 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,639 the few number one albums of nineteen eighty four. 888 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,840 Speaker 1: Tune in next week you can hear all about the 889 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,840 albums that reached number one in the year nineteen eighty 890 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,320 four because there aren't very many and born in the 891 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,880 USA in Sports, where two of. 892 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,159 Speaker 3: Them come back for final judgment next week. 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