Speaker 1: This is Melissa Mingle, friend of the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. You start messing it up when you
try to do too much.
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. Jason, I bet with two words, I
can take you back to nineteen ninety four. Ready, Yes,
so bended on.
Speaker 2: I'm a loser baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if that's on your list. Maybe
it's on my list, maybe it's not. You guys will
have to wait and find out. But we are here
with the top five songs from nineteen ninety four. Now,
there are some caveats to this list. We have just
finished with an epic run of incredible albums from nineteen
ninety four, Asterix, nineteen ninety five, Collective Soul, and we
are not choosing any of the songs from any of
those albums. Those are off the table. And we also
have covered at least one big album from that year previously,
Get a Grip by Aerosmith, which has a lot of
great songs on it.
Speaker 2: That was a big album for me in ninety four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the elimination of that album probably cut your music
catalog in half. From what you were listening to that year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I told you that I wasn't really in the
mainstream flow at this time, so I caught stuff. You know,
my college roommates would play stuff. But I mean, when
you knock off Green Day, you knock off Collective Soul,
you knock off Aerosmith, you knock off Live, I'm suddenly
reeling for good songs.
Speaker 3: So yeah, But as I've mentioned in our previous episodes,
there were a lot of really big albums that came
out that year, Albums from Soundgarden, from the Cranberrys, from Oasis,
and some that I'm sure that we're going to get
into today if I didn't hit it already on your list,
and I see, I don't know what Jason has on
his top five list. He doesn't know what I have
on my top five list. And the way that we
do these fun little games, if you haven't been here before,
ladies and gentlemen, is we tease the song and have
the other guy try to guess it. So we will
do that with you as well. I will start describing
a song, Jason's going to try to figure out which
song it is that I'm talking about, and you can
play along as you listen. Jason, what do you think
nineteen ninety four were almost done with the year? What
are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety four is the nineteen eighty four of the nineties.
It's the convergence of all a lot of good movies,
a lot of great music, a lot of great pop
culture moments. I mean, there's a lot of interesting things
happening in ninety four, and it was one of the
very very last times, I think where the Internet was
not having a major impact in people's lives and so
you got your news from the TV or when you
went and saw a movie, or you know, news stations
and that type of thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, we just covered Collective Soul just
the last week we had that episode come out, and
I listened to Ed Roland talking to He was talking
about how he talked to a record executive after they
had been going for a couple of years and they
weren't getting any support from the record label and Napster
was starting to be a thing, and he said to
the guy, He's like, what are you guys doing about this?
You know, what precautions are you taking? And the record
executive said, it's a fad. It'll be gone by next year.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: And Ed Roland said he knew at that point he
needed to pull from the record label and make his
own independent label, and that's exactly what he did, and
it probably saved him. But yes, obviously everybody knew what
was happening except the people in the record industry. And
I told you, Looking at the chart topping songs from
nineteen ninety four, I can tell that this is the
beginning of the end as far as I am concerned
for music, because you have got a slew of modern
R and B rap, very like team age pop songs
that were not my cup of tea at all. I
still don't really enjoy them, but they became the mainstay
of music and have been the mainstay of music popular
music for the last twenty five years. But enough blathering.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's get into let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna go first? Am I gonna go first? Uni?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 2: Why don'd you go first?
Speaker 3: All right, I'll go first? Okay, five? All right? My
first song, I'm gonna totally blow your mind here. But
I'm not even gonna start by talking about a Seattle band. Alright,
I'm going to talk about a band that you and
I have covered before on this podcast. They are a
California band played on the Sunset Strip. The bass player
wrote most of their songs, heavily involved with Heroine.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, big album. I had this album keep going, Okay,
I sold it back to the used CD story.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So clue number one the song was
composed by the bass player, who wrote most of their songs.
Number three, I've already said cover this band before. Clue
number four. This was originally a bossa Nova sounding song. Okay, okay.
Clue number five that you composed it in ten minutes, Okay, okay.
The lyrics were about lying to his fiance about his
drug use, specifically deceit and broken promises is what this
is about, Okay, okay, his fiance leading me here. I
led you down the wrong I led you down the
Primrose path on purpose. Who did you think it was?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: You were setting me up for Motley Crue right there,
a big album in ninety four where they had dubbed
Vince Neil and brought on John carrab And so I'm like, okay,
is this Hooligan's Holiday?
Speaker 3: I just start writing all of these things down. I'm like,
holy cow, this sounds exactly like Nicky six, but it's
not Nicky six.
Speaker 2: All right, y, I know what this song is. Okay,
stop right there, because it's my number four. Okay, all right,
I will pivot. Everybody, hold on to those little nuggets.
If you think you have an idea, all you have
to do is wait for two more songs and then
and then we'll be back to this song. That's my
startar It's fine, fine, yeah, all right, So let's do
my number five.
Speaker 3: You're number five, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm actually dying to talk to you about this.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I love this song, but I have seen it ranked
as this band's worst song. I've seen fans hate on
this song. I might get ridiculed for this pick, but
I love this song. Okay, Okay, So again, this is
a Sunset Strip band. Okay, this is a band we've
talked about. This song was released at the very end
of nineteen ninety four, Okay, and it's attached to a
pretty prominent movie in ninety four. I actually called the
radio station when they played it because I was like,
holy cow, that's a song from a band that we
have not heard from in a long time. Are we
getting in an album from these guys? Like, what is
the deal? I remember having a conversation with the DJ
who was like, man, I so, but I don't think so.
This is just a single that they just released and
it's going.
Speaker 3: For a movie.
Speaker 2: But that's it.
Speaker 3: Okay. So we've got a band that's got a history
we've covered before. Yep, they have this like single that
comes out in ninety four. Yes, just a single, just
a single, okay, keep going, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: It reached number ten on the mainstream rock charts, so
it's a hit on the rock charts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A prominent member of this band left this band because
of this song. So it's like the song that you
could never talk about, Like they could never play this
in concert because it caused people to lose their jobs
in the band.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: A different member of the band was working on a
solo project at the time. He was away but still
an active member of the band. When he heard this
song on the radio, He's like, I didn't work on
that song. I guess I might be fired, And it
turns out he was. Now. One of the reasons why
I love the song is because I think this band
does a great job of covers. This is a cover
of an old song. So this song is notorious for
several reasons. Number one, the title. The content is controversial,
for sure, but there's an urban legend that a woman
was stabbed and killed during the playing of this song
when it was being played by the original band. Okay,
all right, turns out that's not true. It was a
different song, but they had just played that song.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: That concert was the Almont Free Concert, which we've talked
about before.
Speaker 3: I think I think I know what you're talking about. Okay,
before you guess, I won't guess. Yeah, keep going.
Speaker 2: This song was written by the original lead singer, one
of the most well known men in all of rock
and roll. Yes, when he brought it to the guitar player,
the guitar player is like, this is great, I love it,
but let's turn it into a samba.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So he added percussion, a little bit tambourine, a little
bit of the owl, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep.
Speaker 2: Now, then back to the cover band, the band who
covered this song. Yeah, this was the final single from
this band until twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty confident I know what it is. I didn't
even honestly remember that came out of ninety four, But.
Speaker 2: A song came out and played at the very end
of the movie an Interview.
Speaker 3: With the Vampire. Yeah, I know what it is for sure?
Speaker 2: What you got?
Speaker 3: So this song was originally by the Rolling Stones. It's correct,
and this song was then covered in apparently nineteen ninety
four by the band Guns N' Roses. The name of
this song is Sympathy for the Devil.
Speaker 2: Please allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 5: I'm a man all well and taste often.
Speaker 2: Around for a long long year. Man soul as around.
Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.
Speaker 3: D This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Now,
I really like the Rolling Stones version better, but I do.
I do like the Guns and Roses version. I thought
it was great use at the end of Interview with
a Vampire. But man, yeah, I'm shook. I did not
know that this came out in ninety four. It's great, Okay,
you surprised me. Yeah, very good, very good.
Speaker 2: So here's the rest of the story. On this way, right,
Guns of Roses has been a train wreck from their inception,
right right, okay, but this is what caused Slash and
Duff to be like, we're out, We're done with this crap,
and they eventually form a band with a lead singer
from a song that we're gonna talk about here in
a second. But Slash took this song as the ultimate
slap in the face because he laid down a guitar solo,
and Axel brought in another guitar player, a friend of
his Wow, who played Slash's exact solo. So basically he
copied him but replaced him on this track.
Speaker 3: What the heck?
Speaker 2: How do you replace a guy like Slash?
Speaker 3: Uh, you're Axel Rose.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Slash says when he listens to the song, he says,
it's the sound of a band breaking up. But I
love it to your number.
Speaker 3: Four, all right, number four.
Speaker 6: Four.
Speaker 3: It is a cover song. You talked about this. There
may be songs that you're like mm hm. You may
have given me the name of the song and I
still don't know what it is, right, Okay, So the
original artist we have talked about at least once, if
not two or three times. Okay, the artist, the original
artist would record a new album in nineteen ninety four,
called Outside, and he would sing this cover song that
had come out, you know, in ninety four while he
was touring that album. Okay, Okay. The guitarists passed away
in April of nineteen ninety three. The cover was recorded
six months later. The title comes from a couple of
different sources. One is a novella by Robert Heinlein. One
is a nineteen fifty four DC comic book.
Speaker 2: Okay all right.
Speaker 3: It was covered in nineteen seventy four by a woman
named Blue. The Lulu recording was produced by the original artist,
and it went to number three on the UK Singles chart.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on just a second, Okay, I've been studying
up on my James Bond theme songs and Lulu sings
the theme song to the Man with the Golden Gun.
Speaker 3: Guys, this is what we would say is foreshadowing for
an upcoming episode on the Shirley You Can't Be Serious podcast,
because Jason is putting the double O seven band of
brothers back together again. Who was it last year or
year before we covered Best of the Bond Girls and
the Bond Girl Draft, the Bond Girl Draft, and then
this year maybe next episode, next episode, He's going to
be covering with those guys James Bond songs. Love it Okay, Lulu.
Lulu's version went to number three on the UK Singles Chart. Okay,
It gotvered again in nineteen eighty two by midyear, and
it was covered by this band. Like I said November
of nineteen ninety it was originally the B side to
Space Oddity. As far as the song goes, the original song,
the guy who covered it and his band, The guy
who sang it, he had personal journal and he put
it as number forty five in his top fifty favorite
albums of all time. This guy was introduced to this
album by then drummer Chad Channing. Is that name ring
a bell for you? Okay? The band that covered it,
we've covered before, but they had a different drummer when
we covered their album. When they covered it, it was
for an MTV Unplugged episode, but the singer actually had
his guitar plugged into a fuzzbox. This cover version was
number three on MTV's Most Played Videos on February eighteenth,
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, so it's clearly a song that I've heard.
Speaker 3: Six months after they recorded this song on this Unplugged MTV.
The lead singer committed suicide.
Speaker 2: Okay, so clearly it's Nirvana.
Speaker 3: Yes. The Robert Heinleine book was called The Man Who
Sold the Moon, and the nineteen fifty four DC comic
was called The Man Who Sold the Earth. Okay, d
this is the man who sold the world.
Speaker 6: Spoke.
Speaker 3: So not everybody even knows what the name of that
song is, right right, But after Kurt Cobain's death, this
song kind of became his ghost song. This is the
quote from Rolling Stone. This was a man with the
world at his fingertips and he gave it all up.
Interesting and Rolling Stone ranked this as the number one
in the reader's poll of the greatest live cover songs.
Speaker 6: Not memes. This song.
Speaker 2: Love it, I love it? Okay. Well, moving on to
more tragedy, let's go back to your number five song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and your number and my number four four song. Okay.
As a refresher, we have written by the bass player
Boston Nova song I'm going to tell you It was
composed in the front seat of Winnebago on a twenty
five dollars nylon string guitar, and I have to wonder
if if the Winnebago had some scientifically treated petroleum under
the hood. I'm pretty sure they didn't have Shirley Temple's
under the hood, right, So you obviously know what this is.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots.
They talked about how when they would travel, you'd have
the van and like attached to the van, it was
like its own thing, like a like a trailer where
a guy could go back and be by himself and
hang out or think or get high write songs, you know.
So the title comes from the idea that Scott was
in Atlanta while his fiance was in California, and that
they would write these songs they were on the interstate right.
Speaker 3: I actually, on the way over here today, listened to
our episode from exactly two years ago, Oh Wow, where
we covered Stone Tiple Pilots Core with Brad Moore, who
just got finished cover and Live with us. We seemed
to come around on the fall on these things all
of the time, and on that episode we had Brad
Moore helping us. We had Kevin Davis's executive producer, and
on that episode we had we had Jeff Johnson come
in and give us the Shirley Showcase, and he gave
us his opinion on those two albums that we were
covering Core and Dirt by Alison Chains. But then when
we started our nineteen ninety four albums, he suggested that
we should put Purple on the list.
Speaker 2: We should cover Purple at some point.
Speaker 3: Dude Purple and super Unknown or Jar of Flies, those
would be excellent matchups, all three, very very worthy. Absolutely so.
Speaker 2: By the way, yeah, there is no truth to the
fact that Jeff Johnson does look like the weird guy
with a long nose in this video.
Speaker 5: Okay, just putting that out there, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: This was released as a single September ninth of ninety four,
almost exactly thirty years ago today, and became a number
one hit on the Billboard Album Rock Charts.
Speaker 3: If you hadn't had this on your list, and I
thought that you might, But if you hadn't had it
on your list and you hadn't gotten it, by the
time I had gotten pretty far down in the clues,
I was going to say the original name of this
band was Mighty Joe Young, and I thought that.
Speaker 2: Probably would have gotten that would probably have shaken the
cobwebs list.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: So that brings us to my number three. You're number three, Okay.
Speaker 3: Three. We just talked about the Unplugged Nirvana album and
MTV episode, right right, Okay, two guys from a different
band came to play with Kurt Cobain and the rest
of Nirvana for that unplugged show. Okay, did you know that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, they're brothers. Names are Chris Kirkwood and Kurt Kirkwood. Okay,
haven't got it yet, No, I didn't think so. Okay.
These guys started as an eighties punk band, and they
were outsiders even for eighties punk bands. Okay, they were
never really famous. They had a big underground following. Got
formed in seventy nine and started off as hardcore punk.
But then they they did a very unique thing. They
mixed country and punk and came up with their own sound.
And they don't sound like anything else.
Speaker 2: Country and punk. This is not going to be my genre.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling. I have a feeling. You're right,
But I know that you're going to know this song
that I'm talking about. It came out in ninety four.
So these two brothers in this band playing with Kurt
Cobain in ninety three, they cover one of this band's songs.
Kurt Cobain sings this song, and just like Man Who
Sold the World, this song becomes well known despite the
fact that it was not particularly well known back when
they did it in the eighties. Okay, they opened for
Nirvana in there in Utero tour, and that's how Kurt
Cobain said, why don't you guys come and play with
us on MTV Unplugged. I'm gonna play you the version
of their song that Nirvana played on Unplugged. You ready, sure?
Speaker 4: Many Ham skilled the Gramdle phrase of the Plants song
belong with strangers.
Speaker 3: Some folks, you know, holy don't recognize that song.
Speaker 2: Nothing is hitting me at this moment.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay, because that's not the song that I'm
talking about these guys, as I said, nobody really not
many people paying attention to this band. Okay. But there
they are, with Nirvana at their absolute peak, playing a
cover of one of their songs. And then in ninety
four they come out with another song. Now, before I
play you that song, I want you to I want
you to hear how bad the original version of that
song that you just listen to.
Speaker 6: Is still grandle.
Speaker 4: It's the Plato some strangers and some folks.
Speaker 2: You're making my ears bleed. D. That's horrible. D.
Speaker 3: It's really pretty bad. It's really pretty bad. And these guys,
I mean, the singer so much as said I was
trying to offend people. I was trying to get people
scared away, okay, And still somehow people just kept coming
to see our show. Okay. They came out with an
album new album in nineteen ninety four, and that's where
this song that I'm talking about comes from. You're not
even going to recognize this as the same band. Here
it is, okay, you ready? Yes, I'm playing you the song.
This is the this is the song.
Speaker 7: You ready?
Speaker 6: And when I wake up in the morning to feel
the day on my face? Okay?
Speaker 2: D I did I do recognize that song? That song
is called Backwater by the Meat Puppets.
Speaker 3: That's right. I mean I can't imagine, like I literally
I had to go, is this the same guys?
Speaker 2: That does not sound like the same thing, doesn't.
Speaker 3: Sound the same at all? Right, I mean they have
made and clear.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's good. It's really really good.
Speaker 3: Like I I came across them because of Lake of Fire,
and I'm looking all these things from ninety four and
I'm like, oh, these guys had something in ninety four.
Speaker 7: I pull it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I loved this song and I had
just kind of forgotten it. But then as i'm you know,
I made a playlist of these songs and threw it
into the mix, and I'm like, crap, this is really good.
Speaker 2: This is a good song. I like, that is way
better than that other crap thing you played for me.
Speaker 3: So's the here's the rest of the story. Okay, these
guys who've been the underdogs their whole lives suddenly have
this very successful song.
Speaker 6: They may see the back.
Speaker 3: They get lots of money, and Chris Kirkwood starts shooting
up Heroin as much as he can, right because why
they almost immediately start falling apart because of his Heroin
use and his brother was he described as He's like,
it's like seeing someone on an iceberg floating away from you,
like you just you see it and you know what's happening,
but there's nothing that you can do about it. And
he was shooting up with his wife at the time.
Then within just a few months, his mother dies of cancer.
And then his wife dies of an infection that she
gets from the shooting up heroin right, and so he
absolutely loses it. He says, I took a nose dive
into the abyss. He was done with life, he was
ready to be finished. He goes into a post office
and starts harassing the security guard. Eventually the security guard
forces him out the door, at which point he grew
abs the security guard's baton and starts to hit him
with it. So the security guard shoots him.
Speaker 2: Death by security guard.
Speaker 3: He did not die, but he did go to prison,
and he went to prison for a while. He had
been in prison before, and so this was like strike
two or three or four for him. So he went
to prison for a while, and in an unusual turn
of events, prison actually helped him and he got out,
He got clean, and the meat puppets got back together,
still together today.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting story. You have that one out. That's
a good one. Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3: I like it. Okay, my number three, we're to your
number three.
Speaker 2: All right. Okay. The details of this song are gonna
make it hard for me to disguise it, because I
think it's a pretty well known story.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this band went from bouncing around in the
Southeast to world wide dominance in ninety four. Literally they
would sell demos out of the back of their car
from like eighty nine to ninety four, and then the
album that they released in ninety four goes twenty two
times platinum. Wow, it's one of the biggest selling albums
of the nineties. Okay, now get this. They were heard
on the radio by David Letterman on a Tuesday, David
Letterman's driving home whatever radio station in New York City plays, Hey,
here's a band out of the South. We think this
song's pretty good. See what you think.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Letterman is thunderstruck. He pulls over, he calls his people,
and he says, I want this band to play on
the Late show. Get him in here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So that's a Tuesday. On Friday night they played David
Letterman and go on to become one of the biggest
bands in the world. In ninety four. David Crosby from Crosby's,
Stills and Nash sings back up on this song. And
there is a special version made for Sesame Street teaching
kids to hold hands within a while crossing the street.
Speaker 3: So this is Hooty and the Blowfish, hold my Hand.
Speaker 6: With a little love, and sometiens.
Speaker 8: Water Borah the miss with a little Piers.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so this song to me is irresistible. I
don't care who you are if this song doesn't make
you smile a little bit happier, it makes you tap
your feet. It's so great and it's so sort of
squeaky clean that it's for everybody. Like my grandmother would
love this song.
Speaker 3: Right Cracked rear View, the album that this song comes
from was one of my staples in nineteen ninety four
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: If we don't cover this, what are we doing?
Speaker 3: We're not doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: If we don't right, we got to cover that. D
Do you want to hear the top ten from February eighteenth,
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3: Normally I say yes to this question, but knowing how
bad the top ten was on a routine basis in
nineteen ninety four nineteen ninety five, I shudder to think
what beat this song out?
Speaker 2: Brace yourself? Okay, I'm ready number nine suki Yaki by
four pm? What do you remember that one? No better
than hold my Hand? By What What? Number eight always
by bon Jovi. Okay, it's kind of a big sugary
song from bon Jovi.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Number seven Candy Rain by Soul for Rain, ring a.
Speaker 3: Bell, not a bit.
Speaker 2: Number six You Gotta Be by Desiree.
Speaker 3: Nope, you would know that one, okay.
Speaker 2: Number five Baby by Brandy.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: Number four Another Night by the Real McCoy still now,
number three on Bended Knee by Boys to Men.
Speaker 3: That was everywhere, so I at least know that song.
Speaker 2: Number two Take a Bow My Madonna, not one of
our best. And number one Creep by TLC.
Speaker 3: The wrong version of creep.
Speaker 2: Right there were three creeps in ninety five and they
picked the wrong one. That's a whole ton of sugar,
right there.
Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, Oh my gosh, I love hold my hand,
I love it.
Speaker 3: It's it's a fantastic one.
Speaker 2: Great choice, all right, d Let's move on to your
number two.
Speaker 3: Two. Okay, this one, I doubt is one of your
favorite songs. Okay, but it's monumental.
Speaker 2: If it's monumental, then I'm ready for it.
Speaker 3: Let's do this, all right. The singer who is really
the whole band on this one is now a composer
for many movies, including a Disney Pixar movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, just Danny Elfman. We're not in Danny Elfman territory.
Speaker 3: Art is not Danny Elfink. Okay. It is also not
Alice Silvestri.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's Hans Zimmer all right.
Speaker 3: So the band's first album came out in nineteen eighty nine.
It was not I don't think either one of us
had it on our list in eighty nine. Okay, all right,
The group is currently now, I say in the group.
His group is currently creating a soundtrack to the next
Tron movie. Oh so that's exciting. In nineteen ninety seven,
this guy lead singer for this band was described by
Spin magazine I'm quoting here as the most vital artist
in music.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a high compliment.
Speaker 3: Then, right, So this album came out in nineteen ninety four,
and I'm going I'm gonna spin out of control on
this a little bit here, so forgive me. But okay,
at the time that this album was recorded, okay, the
artist was living at one zero zero five zero Celio Drive,
Benedict Canyon, La. That address mean anything to you. It
was the site of the murder of Sharing Hate. What
was her old house, Roman Polanski's old house.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: It had been converted into a studio and they were
using it such to record this album. I'm on the
hook and he's living there in the house. Recording in
the House.
Speaker 2: Helter Skelter was written on the walls of this place
in blood Gosh, Okay, keep going Okay.
Speaker 3: This song is built around a heavily modified sample of
the bass drum from Iggy Pop's Nightclubbing. Okay, I'll play
that for you in a second. First, I'm gonna tell
you this. People think it's about lust, but it's really
about self hatred and obsession. Comes from the same This
band comes from the same record label as Bush Innerscope
throw Back to Our Bush sixteen Stone and Revenge of
the Nerds Revenge of the Nerds Tedfield's Innerscope Records. Okay.
This song reached number forty one on the Hot one hundred. Okay.
The video was shot inside of an abandoned hospital and
was made to look like a nineteenth nineteenth century mad
scientist lap Okay yep. It was directed by Mark Romanek,
who later directed a Johnny Cash video that covered a
different song from this same album. Okay, I'm going to
play you the bass drum from Iggy Pop's Nightclubbing. Okay, Okay,
it doesn't quite get you there. It was very modified.
Speaker 2: The only time I remember us talking about a Johnny
Cash cover, ye is when we talked about Depeche Mode.
Speaker 3: The depeche Mode Personal Jesus was the B side to
that single of the Johnny Cash cover of the song
from this album that is not this song.
Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, monumental and vital artists keep going.
Speaker 3: Okay, and I'm going to talk more here in just
a minute about Johnny Cash because this is just too
good not to talk about. But for now, let's stay
focused on this particular song. Oka. Right, as I mentioned,
people think it's about lust, but it's really about self hatred. Okay.
The composer and the singer and lead of this band,
I said, he composed the music for a Pixar movie.
That Pixar movie was called Soul. He's also composed the
music for a whole lot of David Fincher movies.
Speaker 2: Okay, So clearly we're talking about Trent Reznor and Nine
Inch Nails. Yes, this has to be the song that
they play at the very beginning of the movie seven
and that song is called Closer.
Speaker 6: Viol Give Me.
Speaker 3: I mean, he changed the face of music with that song.
He did. He brought industrial to the mainstream. I mean,
obviously standing on the shoulders of guys like depeche Mode. Obviously. Okay,
But I had to say that I had to talk
about this, all right. So Johnny Cash's album that came
out that year, nineteen ninety four, since we're talking about it,
I just got to throw this out there. It was
released three weeks after Kurt Compayne's death. The song that
you probably remember from that album is Delia's Gone, which
is a song about the murder of a fourteen year
old girl back in like nineteen hundred on Christmas Day
by her boyfriend. But the quote, the line, the line
from the Johnny Cash song that totally caught me off
guard in nineteen eight ninety four was and it's from
the perspective of her murderer, right, Johnny is singing as
her murderer, he said, talking about her evil. He says,
kind of evil make me want to grab my submachine. Like,
why is Johnny Cash singing these kind of gangster lyrics? Okay?
So I mentioned that Johnny Cash covered another song from
this album. That one was on American four The Man
Comes Around, which came out in two thousand and one,
last album to be released while he was still alive.
The video, as I mentioned, was directed by Mark Romanek,
who had directed Closer Okay. That video was named Video
of the Year by the Grammys and by the CMAS,
and is named Best Video of All Time by n ME.
When the reps from Johnny Cash first came to Trent
Reznor with this idea of him covering Hurt name of
the song okay, Trent Resnor said, I was flattered, but
I thought it was going to be gimmicky. Eventually they
record it, they send it to him, and these are
his words. He said, when I heard it, I felt
like I is watching my girlfriend looking somebody else. Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was made him uncomfortable because he said, this song
came Hurt came from a very deep and personal place
for him. Right. And then a month, two months, three
months later, he is recording with Zach Dala Roche from
Rage against the Machine and he gets sent the DVD
of the video. He puts the video on and these
are his words. Wow, tears swelling, silence, goosebumps. Wow, I
just lost my girlfriend because that song isn't mine anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, very good.
Speaker 3: So here's Johnny Cash's version of hurt.
Speaker 4: I hurt myself today to see it first till feel.
Speaker 7: Focus know on.
Speaker 3: Then that's coming from a guy who knows the end
is in sight and is new and everything he can
to record everything he loves. I see why Trent Resner
felt the way that he did.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yea great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that was your number two.
Speaker 3: It was my number two.
Speaker 2: We're under your number two, sir, Okay, my number two.
The album was released March eighth of nineteen ninety four.
This album went on to become six times platinum. Here's
how this song was written. The lead singer, you know Well,
was driving home and he had about a fifteen minute
drive from this main city to his home, and he
was listening to the radio and he heard a news
anchor come on and was just kind of talking about
the news of the day, and he said he was
just kind of half listening, half looking around, and he
said something that he said.
Speaker 3: Stuck with him.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's three words and they don't really go
together when you look at it. You're like, they don't
belong in the same sentence, okay, And he said it's
because he misheard it.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: He just heard a couple of random words and he thought, well,
those three words together they sound pretty good together.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So when he wrote this song, he brought it to
his band and it was one of those where it's
a bit slower, it's not their usual style. So he
played it for him. He didn't think they were going
to like it. Well, they did like it, and it
became maybe the biggest song of the summer of ninety four.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So I thought this band was kind of new to
the scene. They had actually been around for ten years already.
There is an interesting story about the name of the album.
The lead singer got this from a seventies TV show
in Seattle, Leaning where it was a children's show where
he had this clown named JP Patches on in the mornings.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Apparently it was on a magazine cover or it was
on a VHS tape or something for this seventies TV show,
and he thought that it said super unknown, but what
it really said was super clown with a K.
Speaker 3: I knew when you said Seattle Show that we were
talking about the album super Unknown because obviously Soundgarden and
I can tell you the three words that don't belong together.
What are the three words black hole, sun.
Speaker 9: In, masak in, dispous in disguises, no one, ruse as
the face, blassnes, snake, the sun, mad, disgrace, morning heat.
Speaker 2: You got it? Okay, this song is so good. Ruled
the summer of ninety four and may have one of
the weirdest videos of all time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the popping eyes and the weird like melting faces
as people are looking what appeared at to be like
some sort of solar event destroying the world while they're
all very happy and like it looks like a bad
acid trip Sesame Street episode.
Speaker 2: Yes, when you go back and watch this video, you
can tell that they're like, Okay, there's this real It's
a cool thing named computer graphics, and we're going to
stretch their faces and make their eyes bug out. It's
going to be really awesome.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it in a long time. At the time,
I was impressed by it. I suppose probably looking back
at it now, it looks probably dated. So I saw
Michael Beanhorn talking about this song like they're recording super Unknown,
and Michael Beanhorn is like, you know the we need
something more when he's something bigger, and Chris is like,
I don't know what to do and he says, well,
you know, do something for your fans. And he's like,
but I don't know what that is. And he goes, well,
what do you like and he's like, I like Cream
and I like the Beatles and he says, well, then
go home and write a song like Cream and Beatles.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It comes back, gives him the recording of what he's done,
and Michael Beanhorn says, my job isn't to pick out
good songs. Mike's job is to pick out what's not
working in the song. He said, from the first notes
of the song, he was like, what the fuck is this?
And then as he kept listen, he kept waiting, He's
just like, where is it gonna go bad? This is incredible, right,
And he's like, Okay, the verse is perfect. He's gonna
get up on the chorus. Chorus comes and it's even
more beautiful than the verse, and so he immediately calls
and he's like what the Chris, and Chris is like
what what? What's wrong, and he's like, you're a fucking genius.
Speaker 7: He goes, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: It's like black hole Sun.
Speaker 10: Black Hole soun launch you come, black Hole Sun lone
you come.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: That is a great pull right there.
Speaker 3: It's it's an amazing song.
Speaker 2: It is an amazing song. Now, okay, the honorable mentions,
you're up.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna cheat a little bit, and I think
you'll forgive me for cheating a little bit. All right.
One of my honorable mentions is a song that I
love dearly and probably deserves to be in the top five,
but it's an emotional song for me because of someone
else who's involved in the song at this moment, and
so all I'm going to say is Nutshell Alison Chains
jar Flies. It deserves to be one of the top
songs of nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 6: Chasms writer.
Speaker 8: We preas the Baiah, But I can't talk about it
right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, Now I'll go back to
our happy episode and talk about other honorable mentions. See
if I can lead you into it. Okay, okay, okay.
First honorable mention Seattle Band. The singer in this band
worked at a shoe store called John fluvook with Chris
Cornell's girlfriend, Susan Silver, who also managed bands out of
a little place out of the back of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're tickling my memory there.
Speaker 3: Okay. The lead singer of the band met Chris Cornell,
met Andrew Wood, met Lane Staley, met all of those
guys working at the shoe store. But he was younger.
He's about five years younger than they were. But he
was definitely into music. He was playing drums and so
once he got a band together and they were playing
in the same studio that we talked about when we
covered Alison Chain's Dirt, that they all got together and
just hung out all day long. He would talk to
Lane Staley all day long about different artists that they
like and singing styles. He talked to Andrew Wood about
different types of music because he was like, he was
just this huge, like he looked like a rock star,
even though they hadn't made it yet. Right this band
when they hit it, like it was kind of a
weird thing because the grunge thing had kind of started
a blossom and the band had only been together for
about a year and a half and there was this
big band showcase. Basically that record producers came to listen
to new bands. EMI showed interest in this young band
and said, why don't you guys come down to LA.
They go down to LA to play a show and
EMI doesn't even show up. Ghost them, Ghost them, right,
But ironically, turn of Fate, Madonna's record label, Maverick is there.
They love them and they signed this band.
Speaker 2: Gosh, you're talking all around some stuff I feel like
we've covered before, but I don't remember exactly. Keep going.
Speaker 3: So, as I said, this was a Seattle band. Lead
singer was from I think, born in Illinois, raised in Texas,
but like at fourteen, he was in Seattle with the
rest of the guys. But this band got a lot
of hate, not only because they were young, not only
because they had a Seattle sound, but because people kept
talking about them being from California even though they were
actually from Seattle. Specifically Courtney Love. I had a big
feud with her because she kept talking about, you know,
their just this California band. And then later these guys
would join up with some of the old members of
Live and they would form the Gracious Few.
Speaker 7: We just talked about.
Speaker 2: I just listened to this this yesterday.
Speaker 3: The big song that they had before this song was
a song called cover Me and Seattle Band. They're more
rock and roll than grunge. They have their big break
of luck when Alison Chains is having lots of trouble
because of Lane Staley's Heroin use and Lane. Basically they
break up and they're supposed to be opening for Metallica. Well,
this band then comes in and becomes the opener for Metallica.
And Wayne con said this band was not the nail
in the coffin of grunge. This band was the coffin
brought in to take grunge out. You know the band.
Speaker 2: I know the band.
Speaker 3: Okay, this band is Candlebox correct. I'll give you one
more hint. Okay, yep. The beginning line of this song
was Andy, I didn't mean to treat you bad, but
at the last second he changed it and said, now,
maybe I didn't mean to treat you bad.
Speaker 2: This song is called far Behind.
Speaker 6: Now Me Manway.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: It's a brilliant song. I love this song.
Speaker 3: I've heard and I don't know if this is precise,
but I can see it that this song is a
love song from Heroin to Andy Wood. This idea of
I didn't mean to treat you bad, but I did
it anyway. But it also is a mournful song for
Kevin Martin, having not tried to do more for Andy
before his Heroin.
Speaker 2: I love that idea that this is a love song
from Heroin to Andy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, so there's one of my honorable mentions. You
do your honorable one of yours now, and you have all.
Speaker 2: These heavy songs I've got, like you know, cold man.
Don't tell me you didn't love this.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 3: I loved it. Okay.
Speaker 2: So my first Honorable Mention was released in October of
ninety three, debuts on the charts in January of ninety four.
It peaks at number four on the Billboard Hot one
hundred and April of ninety four. Okay, and I have
told you many times that this is the single greatest
charades song of all time.
Speaker 3: I do not remember having that conversation.
Speaker 2: When you're playing charades and you put this in your arsenal.
You've already got one in your pocket of your winning Okay,
mark it down.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So this song has been named on VH one's Awesomely
Bad Songs, which I don't agree with Okay.
Speaker 3: Yes, the lead.
Speaker 2: Singer in this band has a very distinct voice.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's been said of him, if a bullfrog
could sing appealingly, it would sound like this guy.
Speaker 3: Okay. It's a deep voice, deep voice.
Speaker 2: So each of these three verses describe the isolation and
suffering of a different child.
Speaker 3: I've got it.
Speaker 2: What's the name of the song.
Speaker 3: This is crash Test Dummies, and I think the name
of the song is just you got it.
Speaker 6: It was this cute.
Speaker 10: He got into an excellent dumps and god in comments.
Speaker 3: Will Button, I'm pretty sure d script is going to
cut that out. Yes it's it's mmmmmm.
Speaker 2: Greatest trade song of all time.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Yes, it was all over the air
for about five minutes. It sure was.
Speaker 2: It also makes an appearance at a very emotional moment
in the movie Dumb and Dumbing.
Speaker 3: I remember that well and his hair head turned from
black to right way.
Speaker 2: Lloyd is screaming at Harry. I'm sorry, mister prefact. Okay,
your other honorable mans next to honorable mention.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think that the song is going to
be in your wheelhouse, but this is one of those
albums from ninety four. That was a main stay for me. Okay, okay,
I'm so sure that this is not in your wheelhouse,
so that I'm going to tell you the members of
the band right off the bat. Okay, Okay, We've got
Jeff Borrow and Beth Gibbons. Okay, nope, we're not ringing
any bells all right so far. No, if people know
who the band, they'll know who that is already, all right.
They met at an Enterprise Allowance course. Enterprise Allowance was
this thing that Margaret Thatcher put together for business entrepreneurs
to teach them how to be entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2: Are the English?
Speaker 3: They are? They are British, Yes, British. Okay. They began
this is great. They began working on their first recordings
in Nina Cherry's kitchen.
Speaker 2: I forgot Nina Cherry's British as well.
Speaker 3: She actually also had a minor hit in nineteen ninety
four called seven Seconds. Pick that one up. It wasn't
quite Buffalo Dance, but and Milli Vanilli wasn't even around
to knock her out of the running. But okay, and
so then this guy named Adrian Utley or Yutelee, I'm
not sure how you pronounced his last name. He comes along,
he meets them and he starts introducing them to thereman's
that thing and then what's something that's called a symbol,
which I looked it up. It looks like a coffee
table with strings and petals. Anyway, these guys, because of
these new things that Adrian was bringing along, had a
very unique sound and basically are credited with bringing what
was called the Bristol sound into the mainstream. And Bristol
is the place in the UK that they're from. Okay,
they had kind of a hip hop beat to their stuff,
but their hit their music was not remotely hip hop.
It sounded more like bluesy jazz like. It sounded like
the James Bond theme music. Genuinely, this song in particular
sounds like it could be a James Bond theme all right,
But they didn't record it digitally. They recorded it on vinyl.
Then they would take the vinyl records and they would
put them on the floor and they would walk on
them and treat them like skateboards to get them all
scratched up, so that it has this old school scratchy
record effect. Yeah. So, like I bought the CD and
all of a sudden, it's like yeah yeah. This song
that is the last single that came off of this
album album is called Dummy Don't Ring any Bells yet, okay,
last song on the album, last single to be released.
It sampled Isaac Hayes's song Ike's Rap. Two was released
in August of nineteen ninety four. It reached number thirteen
on the UK Singles. They put this video on their
YouTube channel in twenty fifteen, so nine years ago. Since then,
it's had thirty five million views.
Speaker 2: Okay. I would love to tell you what this is
by I don't even have it.
Speaker 3: You don't even have a close Okay. So the name
of this band I know, you know because I've said
before is Portoishead, Okay, which is the name of a
town nearby Portishead, Okay. And the name of the song
is Glory Box.
Speaker 6: So time hind away.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't recognize that song, but it definitely does have
the sound of a James Bond.
Speaker 3: Theme had the CD. I don't even remember how it
came into my radar, but it's it was a big
one in ninety four. Honorable mention there.
Speaker 2: Hey, I did like it. I thought that was that
would be a complete new discovery for me. Okay, my
last honorable mention, yep, I'm excited to drop this trivia
on you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: So this, as we said, is right before Napster, This
is right before Spotify. This is right before streaming and Internet.
Even the artist, the lead singer for this particular song,
wrote an article and the headline was, my song got
played on Pandora one million times and all I got
was sixteen eighty nine, less than what I make from
a single T shirt sale. And that article went viral
okay and continues to be a reference point for money
and streaming and.
Speaker 3: Like, how bad it is for the artist?
Speaker 2: This song was played over a million times on Pandora
and he got sixteen bucks.
Speaker 3: It's terrible, by the way.
Speaker 2: That article came out in twenty thirteen. More interesting stuff
on this song. The band's label made the singer write
a letter two radio stations denying that the song was
about drugs, when clearly it was. Here's another clue for
you in the video, this show's the lead singer, and
the lead singer's name was David Lowry losing a boxing
match with Sandra Bernhardt.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I kind of remember that ring a bell
with it. I kind of do remember that. Okay, keep going, Okay.
Speaker 2: This song reached number sixty four on the Hot one
hundred and May of ninety five reach number three on
the Modern Rock charts. The album that it comes off
of is a ninety three album called Kerosene Hat. When
you talk about using drugs, one might say that you
are getting high, and so this song would be the
opposite of that, and it's called low.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I Want to take you Down.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, now that I hear it, Yes, I know
that song.
Speaker 2: Yes, super catchy chorus, all about hey hey hey, it's
like being stoned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not about drugs.
Speaker 2: So they made him change the lyrics. Hey hey, hey
like being stone? What do we is this?
Speaker 3: Eighteen eighty four and a Stone Gossard? I don't right who.
Speaker 2: They made him change the lyrics because they didn't want
it perceived that this song is about drug use.
Speaker 3: We've got all of these guys writing all of these
songs about drugs, and they're getting caught up in this.
Speaker 2: Hey, Tipper Gore was in the studio apparently or something.
Because that seems pretty harmless, relatively harmless compared to a
lot of other stuff that was my unable mention.
Speaker 3: So I had a couple of new discoveries that I
just want to turn you on, turn other people onto. Okay, yep.
One of them is a Mega Death song. I'm not
a megadeath guy, but Mega Death had a release in
nineteen ninety four called to Lemont. Okay, I get welliss
mingle in here to help me pronounce that. I guess right,
but it's really pretty good. Well, listen to it here.
Speaker 6: I don't remember where I was I realized life was
a game. I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a throwback to the old eighties.
Speaker 2: It sounds like eighties rock, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And So another one that came up that I
remember listening to because I had the soundtrack when I
was a kid that I had just kind of forgotten
about is band called Machines of Loving Grace and it's
called Golgotha Tenement Blues but it's off the Crow soundtrack
and it's awesome. Scott Benzel is now a member of
the faculty at the California Institute for the Arts, So,
uh nice, you know, sideway career move for him. But anyway,
there you go. I think maybe the very first song
on the Crow soundtrack. It's I loved it. So did
you have any songs that were new to you?
Speaker 2: Well, so here's what I'm gonna tell you. I went
to a concert in nineteen ninety four in Texas Stadium,
saw the Eagles. It was the I mean, like the
hottest ticket around. Eagles had gotten back together for the
Hell Freezes over to her and they had a woman
who opened for them that I had never heard of.
And when she played, she blew my socks off. And
the one particular song that she played that night that
I've just fell instantly in love with it's a song
called come to My Windowless Ethridge. It was Melissa Ethridge.
And when I saw her that night and then she
plays this beautiful song, I'm like, that song is a hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure enough. I was right.
Speaker 2: By the way. I have not stopped sweating from that
concert in July, the stadium with the roof open. Okay,
we're uptore never once.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, going first.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 2: We might have the same number one song.
Speaker 3: If we Baker Street this again. I'm gonna go nuts. Okay,
I'll start, Okay, you start, you start. My song is
a cover song.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: The guy who wrote it in eighty four was having
lunch with Bob Dylan later on and he said, hey,
you know, I really like this song. Here is Bob,
how long did it take you to write? And Bob
Dylan's like fifteen minutes. And Bob Dylan's like, I really
like this song that you've got song that I'm talking about? Now,
how long it take you to write? And this guy
says two years. That was a lie. It took him
five years. Okay, wow, this song was his tormentor and
his muse. He wrote, well, nobody really knows how many
verses he wrote. It's just crazy long and he would
throw things away and pick things and mix it up,
and eventually he got it to where he thought it
was in its best shape. He takes it to the
president of CBS Records, who he signed with at the time.
The song is something like eight or nine minutes long,
and the president of CBS record says, I can't produce
this crap. What are you talking about this? It's ridiculous.
And this song it's my number one song of ninety four.
It's one of the most well known songs worldwide. Okay, yes,
and it gets rejected by the president of CBS Records,
and so he goes to an independent label who produces
this song. And I gotta tell you, the nineteen eighty version,
the nineteen eighty four version by the original artist is
almost unlistenable to me knowing what the song sounds like today, Okay,
those ninety four So then round about late eighties, early nineties,
this group of folks gets together, These artists get together,
and they decide to make a tribute album to this
artist who wrote this song. And John Cayle, who is
I believe he was with the Velvet Underground, I remembering right,
he does. He tells the guy who wrote this song,
He's like, I really like that song, but can you
fax me over the pages and I would like to
cover that song on this tribute album that we're doing
for you. And so the writer sends him something like
fifteen pages worth of lyrics and he's like, oh my gosh.
And so he says, I pick out the ones that
have more religious undertones to them and are kind of cheeky.
And so they make this tribute album to this guy.
And because it's a tribute album to an artist that
is not super popular in the first place. About five
CDs get sold, Okay, sure. One of those CDs goes
to a lady in New York City who has a kid,
I mean teenager who is house sitting for her, and
he happens to come across this CD with this cover song,
this cover of this song in it, and he's like,
I really like this. And he's a musician himself, and
so in nineteen ninety when he records this song, he
records his cover of the John Klee cover of the
original song from nineteen eighty four. So it's ten years later, right, sure,
And so it's a cover of a cover, it's cover
of a cover, and this guy's voice is beautiful and
it's just him and his electric guitar, and the guitar
sounds like this ethereal beam of light from heaven and
his voice is like the angel that comes along with it. Okay.
It comes out in ninety four, which is why it's
on my list. It actually doesn't do exceptionally well. It
gets some notice, but it doesn't do exceptionally well. It's
only three years later when the singer suddenly dies under
very tragic circumstances that his catalog and this album Come
to Light. Singer was swimming in the Tennessee River singing
a Whole Lot of Love by led Zeppelin. As he
was floating along, had his boots on, suddenly disappeared and
nobody ever saw him again. The name of the album
that came out in ninety four that started getting notoriety
in nineteen ninety seven at his death is called Grace.
The name of the song is also religious and has
probably been covered by more people than any other song
in the world.
Speaker 2: So this song is Hallelujah, and the singer is Jeff Buckley.
Speaker 6: I heard the wor was a secret code that David
played and it pleased the Lord. But you don't really
care for music. To you, lickos are like this.
Speaker 9: The fourth, the fifth, the Mine of Fall, and the
Major lived the Bible King composing Hall.
Speaker 2: Kill Me, Man Kill Me.
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful. I couldn't not pick it as my
number one song. And so you're right, cover of a cover,
and so because that's the one that everybody came to know,
every cover that you've heard somebody else is a cover
of a cover of a cover. So here's Leonard Cohen's
original version of this song. There was a secret chord
that David played and then pleased the Lord.
Speaker 7: But you don't really care.
Speaker 3: For music, do you?
Speaker 2: That sounds like Jimmy in accounting that karaoke.
Speaker 3: I always like to bring this song up as a
song that took a decade to fully ripen and input
from various artists, but man, when it came up, it
was perfect.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we've talked about my number one song at
length before.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a track by track, but it was a
song that we discussed pretty thoroughly about two years ago.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: This song came off of an EP that was released
in January of ninety four. It's the first EP to
reach number one on the album charts.
Speaker 3: You know, I actually had to look up the difference
between EP and LP because and I don't know if
it's this one or not, but an EP from nineteen
ninety four is thirty minutes long, and I had it
and I listened to it NonStop, and I would have
never said this is different than any other album. I mean,
it's longer than some of the original Beatles albums. So anyway,
I'm sorry, go ahead and EP, yes, and.
Speaker 2: EP, and I'm confident that this is the same album
we're talking about here. Okay, Okay, different song, same album, gotcha. So,
after this band's nineteen ninety three tour, they went to
the studio for a few days. They grab their acoustic
guitars just to see what would happen. There's a lot
of parallels between Guns and Roses Lies album and this album,
which rives with lies. But and so you know, let's
go to the studio with our acoustic guitar, let's see
what happens. And they pump out this song among others
that are just amazing songs. I feel like we need
to cover this at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I said, this one versus Purple sometime in
our future would be great.
Speaker 2: So we talked about this, I think when we were
doing kind of the separate history of before we did
the track by track and this particular singer, this is
Laine Staley of Alice in Chains struggling mightily with Heroin.
At this time, they didn't even know if he would
be able to perform, let alone.
Speaker 3: Show up when they did their and they did the unplugged.
Speaker 2: Right and I think we even talked about how he
went back home to kind of get away to try
to get a hold of his life. And he pulled
into like a grocery store and there were some kids
that had parked the cars kind of in the back
of the parking lot and were just kind of have
a little impromptu party in the back of the parking lot,
and they had this song cranked up, and when he
pulled up next to him, he rolled down their window
and started seeking the song with him.
Speaker 3: They were like, oh, my gosh, right, this one is
no excuses.
Speaker 2: And this time in nineteen ninety four, I was not
particularly an Allison Chains fan, but this song is irresistible.
It is amazing.
Speaker 3: This is one of those albums and I'm calling it
an album, even though I mean it's thirty minutes long.
Speaker 2: It's an album.
Speaker 3: It's an album, and it is good from beginning to end.
And I wore it out back in the day. The
original version of these songs that we've discussed are fantastic,
and the unplugged version, I mean it brought it up
a notch too, so.
Speaker 6: Very good.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: So that brings us to the end of our best
songs of ninety four.
Speaker 3: Guys, tell us what you think what we miss? My
goodness what an incredible year. May be the last incredible
year for music, but so glad we got to go
rewind ourselves to nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: I had fun with this, D thank you so much
for doing This is kind of the capper of our
five albums of ninety four or five. Next week, we
are doing our James Bond theme song draft. We've got
five podcasts participating. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
You definitely want to come back as we draft our
favorite James Bond theme songs.
Speaker 3: Be sure and tune in for that. Guys, we will
see you next week.