Speaker 1: Hello, This is a GMA from Sweden and you are
listening to Sure You Can't Be Serious Podcast? Say connect
to and podcast.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, welcome back to the Surely you Can't Be
Serious Podcast. We are Jason and d straight up. Let
me tell you what I am is what you are,
and what we are is two down boys, two hearts
beating with just one mind. Every little step of this episode.
It's gonna take a little patience, but if you'll just
hanged off with us as we pick our songs for
the best of nineteen eighty nine, we're gonna tell you
what songs were the greatest. After all, it is our prerogative.
Oh my line?
Speaker 3: Oh did I?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, when I showed up at your house today,
I was I was like, you may not love these songs,
but you're gonna love the stories. And I was gonna
follow that up with but that's my prerogative because it's
my list, but you stole my thunder. It was a
brilliant intro though, Thank you so much for that two
Hearts Beating with just one mind. I really really from
your intro alone, think that we are not going to
have any overlap. I predict one song I've got seven songs.
You've got seven songs. We've got top five and two
honorable mentions. I think we will have an overlap on
one song. I'm not gonna say what it is.
Speaker 2: I will be shocked if we have any overlap.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: So we talked about there's a difference between our last
episode that we did on this was nineteen eighty four. Yep,
everybody was watching MTV. It was the same twenty songs
that we all experienced. It's all I mean, that's just
how it was. Everybody's taste was the same. Yeah, by
this time, MTV had branched out. You had headge Ball,
you had Goo MTV raps, you had.
Speaker 4: Had they started Real World at this point they had
hadn't they not?
Speaker 2: By eighty nine?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I told you in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen
eighty nine, I had quit listening to popular music, Like
I had started to play guitar, and so the songs
on my CD player or my tape player or Lennard
skinnerd led Zeppelin, the Eagles, like I was getting acquainted
with all of those bands from the seventies, and I
kind of missed this area as a matter of fact,
one of the songs that is going to be on
my list somewhere is a song that I had never
heard until this morning. I texted the group and I'm like,
holy cow, guys, I just heard a song that I've
never heard before. It's by a band that I've never
heard of, and it was popular in ninet eighty nine.
It will probably not be one that many of our
listeners have heard of, but I am happy to introduce
it because it is a banger of a song.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's kind of missing the nostalgic factor on this.
Speaker 4: That's okay. I mean, the fact is somebody out there
to us has some nostalgia for this song because it
played on MTV. It was a big success for this
band as far as they go. But okay, I mean
there are some people out there who are, like, I
guarantee you they're gonna go, oh, I loved that album
or I loved that band or whatever it is. So
I think that that will be fun. Now. The thing
is is that you guys are probably thinking, if you
haven't heard our stuff before, well, guys, how are you
gonna pick any songs from eighty nine that everybody doesn't know. Well,
the answer is we have eliminated all of the songs
of all of the albums that we have previously covered
or that we have on the schedule to cover this year.
Speaker 2: Right, And that's a lot, man, that is a whole lot.
Speaker 4: So we've got Bonjo v New Jersey off the table,
Cinderella Long Cold Winner off OU eight one two, Appetite
for Destruction, skid Row, Doctor, Feel Good, Hysteria, Vivid Batman,
Open Up and Say Ah, George Michael's Faith, The Cure, Disintegration,
Depeche Mode, Violator. Those are all off of the table.
And we've got some Patreon episodes that we've done where
we've covered some of the one hit wonders of eighty
nine and we're gonna cover some more. We got one
coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing Bust to Move and Funky Colem Medina
along with wild Thing and Principal's Office kind of a
four way one hit wonder from Young MC and Tone Loke,
and all those are off the table as well.
Speaker 4: We had a huge sequence of episodes on all of
the parts of We Didn't Start the Fire, so that
one's off the table. That was a huge hit in
eighty nine. So guys, you're about to hear a top
five list of songs that are not gonna be on
any other top five because if you want to hear
the good stories behind the big songs, you could check
out those episodes.
Speaker 2: Go check out those episodes. There's tons of great songs,
great stories. Those are great fun episodes. Yeah, we just
want to dive a little bit deeper, stretch our legs
a little bit on this exactly.
Speaker 4: And if you're interested in those songs that we've covered
on our Patreon episodes, you can go to patreon dot com,
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We put in hours and hours of research on these things,
and we appreciate the appreciation we get from our patreons.
Our Patreon family is the best Patreon family in the world.
Speaker 2: We love our patreons. But if you do decide to
join for free, you can participate in all the polls
that we do kind of join the conversation with us
over there. It is a little more intimate. We do
interact with those people a little bit more. Yeah, so
come check us out.
Speaker 4: It's free guys. If you can see the video, you
can tell that we are not in a big, fancy studio.
We are in Jason's bonus room upstairs. We are an
independent business. So if you want to if you feel like, hey,
I should support an independent business, go check that Patreon
page out. Now, enough selling, Let's get into the songs.
Right ready, who's going first? Not you?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: Five? Okay? All right?
Speaker 2: This song is number five. I will tell you that
I made a little playlist on Spotify.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I listened to it on the way home, and by
the time I had gotten home, I had rearranged the order.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I've put my order together five seconds
ago before we started the podcast, right, and I didn't
mention for those who haven't listened before. The way that
we do this is we tease up the song. We
just don't come all right out and say it. We
tease it up to try to get the other guy
to guess what the song is. So audience members. You
can participate in that. Try to figure out what this
song is before we name it. Okay, all right, all right,
here we go.
Speaker 2: All right, my number five. We're going to do five
and then, excuse me, we're going to do five, four
three two. Honorable mention, Dona mention number one.
Speaker 4: Yep, okay.
Speaker 2: This song was released February of nineteen eighty nine. This
has children singing in the background.
Speaker 4: Shut the crap up. We've already got an overlap?
Speaker 3: Are you serious?
Speaker 4: Is one of the children, Fergie and the other children.
Another one of the children, Jennifer love Hewitt, not that
I know of. I may be blowing your mind with
that information. Okay, you keep going because I think I
know what it is. Keep going.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, now you're blowing me off my thing here,
I dare say this is the only song on the
Countdown that mentions ring around the Rosie Hopscotch, g I, Joe, Barbie,
London Bridge, all the all the Oxen free.
Speaker 4: Keep going, keep going, Yeah, okay, with.
Speaker 2: The ball paper dolls, hacky sack hangman.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: It even has a great breakdown in the middle of
the song where it's singing the children are singing. Jack
and Susie sitting in a tree kiss I n G.
Speaker 4: How many songs that were big songs in ninet eighty
nine have a children's chorus as a part of the
song so far, I'm not sure that we have the
same song.
Speaker 2: Keep going okay, all right, so we have all these
references to childhood games sort of fun. It's very innocent
that the lyrics are very smart. No sex, no drugs,
no alcohol, This is all childhood games. This song begins
with the intro from Mozart's Turkish March as a blistering guitar.
The guitar player on this is legendary like Eddie van
Halen and then Nuno Benncourt. Okay, yes it.
Speaker 4: Is okay, keep going. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this was featured in a movie that we have
covered where chaos is going down at the.
Speaker 4: Mall, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
Speaker 2: Yes, you've got Joan of Arc leading in aerobics class.
You've got Mozart playing in the music store. So that's
obviously Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Yes, okay, this song
is by Extreme. This song was released February of nineteen
eighty nine. It's a crowd favorite. This song is called
play with Me.
Speaker 4: I can see Joan of Arc leading the exercise, the
jazzer size session. I can see Beethoven playing on multiple
multiple keyboards, and Genghis Khan riding on skateboards with football
helmet on. Man, I love it. That was that was
That was fantastic. Man.
Speaker 2: That was a That was a wide poll too?
Speaker 4: Hey did it chart? Was it? I mean? Was it
a on? A?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, nothing, no nothing. This is just one of
your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine. Yes, okay, very good,
beef Oven leading the charge, Yes, very good. Okay, play
with me, Mike extream All right.
Speaker 4: Well, fortunately, since I tipped my hand a little bit already,
still I don't know what it is. Yeah, my number
five also involves a children's chorus. Okay, but it's not
nearly as happy and go lucky as yours is. Okay, okay.
The singer of Mine made her first movie appearance in
nineteen eighty two as one of the orphans on Annie.
She was not credited in that.
Speaker 2: But wait, wait, wait, wait are we talking? Sun will
come out tomorrow?
Speaker 4: That Annie nineteen eighty two, Yes, hey. Then in nineteen
eighty four, she was in break into electric boogaloo okay,
and was not a breakout success on this one. Her
kind of intro into fame was in the TV show
Kids Incorporated, which she started doing in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2: Wow, keep going, Yeah, I'm stumped.
Speaker 4: And then same year she was featured in Mister T's
motivational video called be Somebody or be Somebody's Fool. Okay,
keep going okay. Her character's name is this very This
is not Fergie.
Speaker 3: This is Fergy.
Speaker 4: It's not Fergie. Okay. No, But as I mentioned, Fergie
is in the children's course, as is Jennifer Love Hewitt.
So her character on Kids Incorporated was Gloria, but that's
not her real name. Her real name is Marta Marta Marino.
Know who that is yet? Okay? That's good because I
didn't want to give it away. The song spent two
weeks at number one in nineteen eighty nine. Middle of
nineteen eighty nine, the album, which is named after the singer,
was at number fifteen on the Billboard two hundred.
Speaker 2: Ah, I have a guess, Keep going, Keep going okay.
Speaker 4: This song was sampled by Eminem for one of his
songs that has a similar name and boy, did I
fall down a rabbit hole on that one? I mean
that involves the death of a couple of different rappers.
I mean one of the rappers died and he writes
this song about it, and then the rapper who is
a friend who is playing the part of the deceased rapper,
he gets killed within a few years himself. So just yeah, sorry,
that's the Eminem song, right, fell down that rabbit hole.
The song is about a friend that the singer had.
This is the third song she ever wrote, and the
first two were kind of soft poppy, nothing's yes. This
third song is about a friend who is battling an
addiction to cocaine. Tell me what it is?
Speaker 2: I think I know what it is. Yes, this has
to be Toy Soldiers by Martika.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 3: Step by step.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And I would have known it anyway, but
the Eminem clue gave it away. Yeah, so totally remember
this song. I worked at a pizza place. Was my
first job with my now wife. Oh wow, that's where
we hooked up Masias and jeans. You hooked up in
the muss Well, there's a special you know, something going
on in the sauce there. Oh, tell me that summer
that was summer of eighty nine, and this song would
play on over the restaurant overhead all the time. So
great song.
Speaker 4: I love the song. Yeah, sweet Yeah. This is one
of those songs that within the last year or so
just kind of came up on Spotify for me. Or
maybe it was in the gym, I don't know, but
I just heard it and I was like, oh, I
really liked that song, and so I kind of investigated Martika.
That was the name that she eventually took, and she
ended up working later on with Prince in ninety one.
They had a song called Love that Will Be Done,
which was another big hit.
Speaker 2: I heard of that song, yep.
Speaker 4: And then she did other stuff, but eventually just decided
to be a stay at home mom. She did some
eighties you know, tours, cruise, Yeah, toured with Debbie Gibson
and some of the other folks, and she's done that.
But just a little thing that you should know. The friend,
according to the VH one, Papa Video conquered their drug addiction.
So happy ending, happy ending.
Speaker 2: I mean, take it to the bank. If Papa Video
said it.
Speaker 4: All right, So there you go. There's my number five.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is to my number four, number four, Okay, four,
all right, if I were to, if I were a
betting man, this is the song that I think we
might have in common. Okay, Okay, accept one small detail.
I think you've selected a different song by this artist
than I selected.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, we'll see all right.
Speaker 2: So this song was released December of nineteen eighty nine,
so it's really dropping late in the year. It reached
number twenty peeked out in March of ninety. But for me,
I definitely remember it fall of eighty nine because I
bought the tape in the spring due to its first single,
which I've already mentioned in this episode. Okay, this song
is about a fictional woman whose name is Mercy. Now
I will tell you this. The lead singer for this
rock band his real name. He was born John Kennedy Oswald.
Speaker 4: I know it. Okay, I know it, and save it.
Save it? Okay, Savior number four, because this also was
the one song. Oh wait, you said it might be
a different song. I think it's a different song. You
think it's a different song.
Speaker 2: Let's hold it and we'll talk about it when we
hit yours. Okay, all right, I think it's a different song.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough, all right to.
Speaker 2: Your number four, sir, my number four.
Speaker 4: All right. This song, my number four, was written by
a Canadian DJ about an American Army sergeant and sung
by somebody that the DJ acted with in a kid
show in the mid eighties. That doesn't give it away
for you.
Speaker 2: I got nothing on that man.
Speaker 4: Okay. The song. The bass line in the song Everybody
Thinks is a fretless bass because the bass player didn't
normally play a fretless bass, and so eventually they asked him.
The bass player's name Steve Webster, you recognize that name. No,
he was the bass player when we talked about Billie
Idol Rebel Yell. He's the bass player on that one.
So he was also the bass player on the song.
And what he said was, I didn't play the bass
on this song. This fretless bass is a synthesizer sound
that one of the other co writer who also produced
this song used to record the bassline. Okay, okay, all right, okay.
The songwriter that was a DJ was also Canada's first
Like Canada did not have MTV, they had a show
called City Limits which was a precursor of the Much Music,
which was the Canadian version of MTV. Okay, and his
name is Christopher Okay, Okay. I was gonna throw you
off by saying that the the co writer on this
one was Mike Tyson. The producer's name is David Michael Tyson.
I just was like, they'd be funny if I told
Jason that Mike Tyson played the bass on this one.
Speaker 2: All Right, I have no clue. I have no clue.
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna get there, but I just there's
so much in this show that he did the City
Limits show, they had bon Jovion in the early eighties
before he was very popular. Okay. He also had Mike
Myers on regularly playing Wayne Campbell in the mid eighties,
like ten years before Saturday Night Live. And the guy
who wrote this song was basically the precursor to Garth
Albar No Way Way, Okay, here we go, and Mike
Myers and the lady that sings this song were in
another music video that this guy wrote. The song was
called Boys and Girls Again, Mike Myers is playing the
Wayne Campbell part. I think that was like his one
trick Pony for a while. I can't wait to show you.
Speaker 2: The only music video I can think of is Justify
My Love or whatever it was they did with Madonna.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So in ninety seven, this guy who wrote
the song became a member of Ming Tea, which is
a band with Mike Myers, Susannah Hoffs, and Matthew Sweet.
James Buckley is listening and he's like, oh, I know,
I think I know it is now right, Okay, song itself,
as I mentioned, it's about an American Army sergeant. Title
of the song could refer to a painting style, it
could to clothing, it could refer to hair dye that
this particular American Army sergeant wore, or it could refer
to his voice. Because you probably don't know him as
an army sergeant. You know him as one of the
greatest singers of all time and his portraits were frequently
painted on the black velvet.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got it. So you did tell me the
name of the song, right then, this is clearly Alana
Miles Black Velvet.
Speaker 3: Morning, Mississippi.
Speaker 4: Okay. So this song he wrote after in nineteen eighty seven,
ten year anniversary of Elvis' death. Right he was on
a bus full of fans going to the tenth anniversary
of his death celebration, and he was just amazed by
the craze that still existed ten years later for this guy.
And that was the inspiration for this song about Elvis.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. So here's the deal, the story behind this song.
For me, I would bet my last paycheck. This song
peaked out about March of nineteen ninety because I went
on a trip to Florida with Patreon member Chris Bauer
and this is one of those songs that in that
fourteen hour drive to Florida they played about every half
hour or so.
Speaker 4: Yes, so it was big that song.
Speaker 2: I associate it strongly with that trip. This is a
great song. Her voice is smooth and silky and soulful,
and it's got that low down, dirty Mississippi blues feel
to it. I love it.
Speaker 4: Great. Call a Lot of Miles was actually Chris Wart's
girlfriend by the time they got together on this song,
and she's smoking back then. The album was released March fourteenth,
nineteen eighty nine, so I thought, well enough with an
eighty I call it.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, right there, you go, all right to my
number three number three three Okay. I don't think I'm
bending the rules and including it on this list.
Speaker 4: Sure you are. That's what you do.
Speaker 2: It is what I do.
Speaker 4: That's what you do.
Speaker 2: However, we've talked extensively about this song without technically covering it.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: It was inspired by an English folk song. The title
was Okay Okay. This reached number two on the Hot
one hundred in October of nineteen eighty nine, blocked by
miss You Much by Janet Jackson Okay Okay, which was
a that's a that's no shame. That was a big song,
right sure yeah Okay. Song was written in June of
nineteen eighty seven. It has a reference to Margaret Thatcher
and the Conservative Party when she won her third term.
You want me to give you the line in the song.
Speaker 4: No, it is the artist who sings this song involved
in what your number one song was from nineteen eighty four,
No okay, keep going okay.
Speaker 2: So here's the line from the song Okay, politician Granny
with your high ideals, have you no idea how the
majority feels?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Trying not to sing it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I still do.
Speaker 2: When you watch this video, you are overwhelmed with Sixties nostalgia,
Egyptian Oks and Sunflowers and the Beatles's This Oasis.
Speaker 4: Okay, keep going, Okay.
Speaker 2: We recently covered an album by this band, and when
we discussed.
Speaker 4: It, I got it. Yeah, I keep going.
Speaker 2: We discussed it, we talked about what was her your
favorite song by them, and I said, this was my
favorite song. This is six minutes of imitating the Beatles
and nailing it.
Speaker 4: Landor's a ball Hurt Smith Tears for Fears.
Speaker 2: This song is called Sowing the Scenes of Love.
Speaker 4: I love it. It's a great song. It's a great song.
Amanda Janic mentioned that she just absolutely loves this song.
Speaker 2: Go back and check out the podcast on Songs from
vic Chair where we covered each song from that album
from Tears for Fears. That was a great episode and
it was like five episodes ago.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's this season, so check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very successful episode for us. Yeah, Sowing the Seeds
of Love.
Speaker 4: Very good to you. Number three, sir, number three, All right,
this song probably would have ranked higher for me, but
it's cover. In nineteen seventy three, the song reached number four.
Who was written by the same guy who sang it
and as a matter of fact, he not only sang
it and wrote it, he played every single instrument when
he did it back in nineteen seventy three. He recorded
it May twelfth, nineteen seventy three, which I mean you
were officially like eight days old. Eight days old, that's right.
Three months later he was in a car crash which
left him in a coma for four days and caused
him to lose his sense of smell and sense of
taste temporarily as well, which is tragic because he also
had lost his sense of sight as a young child.
So I've kind of given away who did the first
version of It's one of your favorites from the eighties, Yes,
but this version of the song by this other band
was their first big Like they had three or four
albums before.
Speaker 2: This, this was their first big hit.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just gonna mention a few things on how
big a hit their version is. It was used to
promote FX's The Ultimate Fighter. It was used as the
soundtrack for Disney's Space Mountain Journey from January to April
two thousand and seven. Total Guitar called it the second
greatest cover ever. Okay. In nineteen ninety. It was nominated
for Breakthrough Video and the Video Music Awards.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 4: This was the band's This song was off the band's
fourth studio album. This is the first album that they
did after they lost their lead guitarist 'llel Slovak to
a heroin overdose. He died at twenty six. He had
been the guitarist on the previous three albums then Hellel.
His position was taken by Sean Frushanti. And because I
know that you're not super familiar with this band, I
know that I can throw these names out and you're
not quite gonna get it yet.
Speaker 2: I don't even have it fenced in yet.
Speaker 4: Right after Hellel Slovak died, their drummer, Jack Irons left
the band as well, so they brought in new drummer.
New guitarist had the same lead singer. By the way,
the lead singer's dad was in a part in Lethal Weapon,
which we covered in our first season.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know who we're talking about, the band, Yes, yes,
all right, so this I have a gat I know,
I think I know the song.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's about reincarnation.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not a Chili Peppers guy, and I'm definitely
not a Stevie Wonder guy, which you're hitting me my
Achilles Hill both spots here. Yes, the only song I
can think of is Mother's Milk.
Speaker 4: Mother's Milk is the name of the album that it's
came off of. The name of the song is called
Higher Ground.
Speaker 2: I know that song. I love that song. I didn't
know the name of it. Jackson RT is punching his
radio at this moment, taking the phone at you. I
had no idea that was a Stevie Wonder song.
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Though Stevie Wonder version is great. To listen to
this so funky.
Speaker 2: Wow the whole time, I'm just like, isn't she lovely? Superstitious?
I just called to say I love you?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, great song, love it fantastic. By the way, you
mentioned his dad. His dad Rigs shoots him at the
very beginning to leave the weapon at the Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree drug deal.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed, and Anthony Keatis is in point break.
He gets shot in the which is absolutely hysterical. He
screams his head off.
Speaker 2: Poor child.
Speaker 4: The Patrick Swayzey movie which might later different Patrick Swacy movie,
But I'm gonna save that save that too much? All right,
all right, dancing number three, there's my number three.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, are we onto my number two?
Speaker 4: Onto your number two, sir two?
Speaker 2: All right for my number two. I'm a little worried
about my street cred on this one, okay, because this
is a pop band.
Speaker 4: I was expecting more pop than I've gotten from you
so far, So you're totally fine.
Speaker 2: This is a pop band who I think stretched their
legs and tried to do a rock ballad.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, yep, and I think they nailed it. Okay.
Speaker 2: Here's the interesting story about them. This was released in
nineteen eighty eight in Europe. They're a European band.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: They found success in the United States due to a
foreign exchange student. Okay, you don't know this story, no,
all right. An American goes over to this other country,
listens to the radio, hangs out in this foreign country,
and there's this pop act over there that's pumping out
hit singles. So he likes them. He buys the tape.
When he returns back to Minneapolis, he goes to his
local radio station, hands the DJ of the tape and says,
you guys have got to play this. This is amazing.
This is what's happening in Europe. These people are huge
over there, by the way, start with this song right here.
Now it's not the one I'm picking, but it was
their first single. Once that Minneapolis DJ started playing it,
people responded, started calling the rail station, started requesting it.
Eight weeks later, it's number one in the United States.
Speaker 4: Is the American involved with Paisley Park at all?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, keep going no.
Speaker 2: So this is the technically the third single in the
United States. I think it was the second single in Sweden.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, they're from Sweden.
Speaker 2: They're from Sweeden, right The third single, over there was
the first single over here went to number one in
nineteen eighty nine. You would know, you would think that
they're more of like a duo. Is a I and
a girl.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: The woman, her name is Marie Fredrickson.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: She kills it vocally on this song, and it slowly
intensifies like it starts out as a slow power ballad,
and as power ballads do, the intensity increases throughout the song.
Her vocals she starts shredding at the end of this song. Okay,
you have a great false ending you have all these
wonderful things. The video is fantastic. All the crowd is
swaying and waving the lighters and all this stuff. The
singer for this song, her name is Marie Fredrickson. She
died in twenty nineteen. I've got the band. Okay, what
you got rock set? It is rock set.
Speaker 4: But there are a couple of songs that were big
in eighty nine.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: You gotta keep going, so I know which song it is? Okay.
Speaker 2: So this particular song hits number one in the US
in November of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, Okay, I'm going
deep on a clue for you here, Okay, Okay, okay, Okay,
I'm gonna try. I'm reaching deep for a clue here.
Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2: There is a Bible verse Jeremiah seventeen to nine, Okay,
that says the heart is seedful above all things and
beyond cure. Who can understate it?
Speaker 4: Okay? So I got it? Yes, So I'm guessing that
the original number one that is not the song you're.
Speaker 2: Picking, Yes, is the look that's correct?
Speaker 4: And I'm guessing the song that you're picking is Listen
to your Heart.
Speaker 2: Yes, So good It is amazing.
Speaker 4: It's a great one. I anticipated that you would pick
a rock sette song. I didn't know which one it
was going to be, but and I didn't. I didn't
even look at them because I thought Jason's kind of
grabbed that.
Speaker 2: The look was a favorite of mine too.
Speaker 4: So huge. Yeah, so we don't get to know who
the Minneapolis for an exchange student was.
Speaker 2: His name was Dean Cushman.
Speaker 4: Does he do anything other than discover Roxette?
Speaker 2: Shout out Dean Cushman. If you're listening, call in email
this to the podcast. We want to have you on
as a guest. Okay, he went over to Sweden brought
back a tape.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, the looks number one in the
United States.
Speaker 4: Okay, awesome, man, awesome.
Speaker 2: All right, you're number two.
Speaker 4: Okay. So ironic that you had a band from Speed
Speeden for your number two, because my number two is
from Denmark. I mentioned at the beginning of this episode
that there was a song that I had not heard
until this morning. Yes, and this is that song. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, this is hard because if you give clear if
you've never heard of it, maybe I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 4: It's very, very possible that you have not heard of it.
But I will tell you this. This song got to
number twenty three on the US album Rock Tracks. Okay,
Okay didn't chart on the top of one hundred. The
album hit one sixteen. The name of the album is
called No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims that clue yeni Okay,
all right? The album sales were to this day, this
band's still around to this day. The album sales are
six hundred. I mean that's barely gold and gold. That's
that is right. There were one hundred thousand sold in
the US and two hundred and seventy five thousand sold
in Denmark, and then you do the math for where
they sold in other countries. Right? Is this real? This
is okay, this album, this is this is how I
I go. There are people out there who support my
position on this, even though I just discovered this song today.
This album was featured in twenty nineteen Rolling stone fifty
Greatest hair Metal Albums of All Time? What an album
that only sold six hundred thousand copies? How is that
is on Rolling Stones fifty Greatest hair Metal Albums of
All Time?
Speaker 2: Okay, hair metal, you got my attention with hair metal.
Let's keep going.
Speaker 4: Okay. The band is from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think like Denmark. We're talking like Hanoi rocks.
Speaker 4: No, okay. So their first album was called Call of
the Wild that was released in eighty six.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: The largest concert, the largest concert that these guys have
ever done, was when they were an opening act for
something called Boise on Celts forgive me all of our
Danish listeners, their farewell festival in two thousand and five.
There were one hundred and twenty thousand people in the audience.
That's the as an opening act.
Speaker 2: That's their big Well, that's pretty freaking big.
Speaker 4: But the music video was directed by Andy Morehan, who
we've talked about countless times suns. It's primarily set in
a bedroom. It got pretty heavy rotation on MTV.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: The name of the band was originally Disneyland After Dark.
Speaker 2: Is This Dangerous Toys?
Speaker 4: No? Okay? Because they didn't want to get sued by Disney.
When they ultimately got their record deal, they changed their
name to just the first three letters D dash, A
dash d K. I'm guessing you've never heard of this
band either, I don't think so, okay.
Speaker 2: Disney after Dark, Disneyland after dark.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, And this is actually kind of the theme
of the song because it's about after dark, anything can
have happen, right, okay, And the song is about how
he sleeps during the daytime and has his fun at night.
I haven't gotten you anything yet.
Speaker 2: Have I Slaughter up all night? Sleep all day is
the only thing I got right now.
Speaker 4: So I'm just gonna tell you because I have no
more information than this, because surprisingly, the Wikipedia page is very,
very small, and it doesn't appear on so common and
it doesn't have any other supporting information.
Speaker 2: Okay, before you play it for me, let me ask
you this. Yeah, how did you find this song? Just
like googling nineteen eighty nine songs?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I typed in nineteen eighty nine to Spotify,
and I was like, Taylor Swift, Swift bottle what no, no, no, no, no,
I don't want Taylor Swift. Yeah. So I did that,
found a rock playlist, and some genius out there put
this on there and and introduced it to me. Today.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to okay, So I'm just tell you the
name of the song now, since I'm sure you don't
know it. Okay. Name of the song is called is
by Dad. It's called Sleeping My day Away. You're going
to love it. Tell me you don't love it.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Okay. So I'm listening to it. I'm grooving along. I
kept I'm in the gym, I'm my pedal rate has increased.
And then I'm like, this is great, and I keep listening.
It's levels up. Two minutes and forty five seconds in,
it levels up, great breakdown here comes.
Speaker 2: I love that with the build. I'm on board. Count
me in.
Speaker 4: How much gonna ask? Does this thing? What the heck?
That is so good? How have I never in the
last thirty five years heard this song before. It's called
Sleeping My day Away? D A dash.
Speaker 2: D adding it to my playlist? It sounds great, man, Yes,
it's on the workout playlist now. It has all the
ingredients of a great hair metal it does.
Speaker 4: The guy's voice is spot on. They've got the look.
See what they look like on the album cover.
Speaker 2: They look like Faster Pussy gat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tesla, any number of Yeah, any number of bands
that were big at that time. Yeah, of course. And
you know what I'm crediting the fact that they weren't
a huge blowout success to the fact that they're still
together making music today. Love it, yeah, love it great. Fine,
It's kind of like this is something Power Rangers theme
made it to number one because I was like.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, this is so good. Yeah yeah, hair Metal magic.
We lived through the greatest time of music.
Speaker 4: I hair metal. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've hit up Jays Beckley before. We almost missed out
on Appetite for Destruction. The record company almost killed it.
I'm sure there are albums out there that we missed
out on that just didn't enter our consciousness. Here we
found one. There we go, there you go. All right,
honorable mention time. Oh right, okay, so I'll do the
first honorable mention. I think this one's gonna blow your
skirt up. Okay, yeah, all right. I think you're gonna
be shocked that I picked this particular song because it's
very much out of my normal realm of taste.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: So this reached number twenty four in the US in
April of nineteen eighty nine, but it was in number
one in England for three weeks. Okay, this particular song,
it's like a chant almost, it's just a chorus repeating
itself throughout the whole song. It's about a river in
Venezuela that is seventeen hundred miles long. But also the
name of that river is a studio in London where
they recorded this album.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, the river's only in Venezuela, apparently seventeen
hundred miles long. Yes, okay, keep it up. Okay.
Speaker 2: So here's the interesting quote from the manager of this artist. Okay,
the manager for this artist, he got mad at the
record company because the record company was beating him up
about singles. He's like, listen, this artist doesn't really make singles. Okay,
we're just trying to make an album. He goes, this
is his quote. Sometimes you sign acts to make money,
sometimes you sign acts to make music. So this wasn't
really intended to be a single. All right, here's the
big clue that's going to give it away for you,
I think.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: There are some songs that have been featured in movies,
not written for movies, but are used in movies and
have taken on a life of their own because of
the movie. For example, a clockwork orange stole singing in
the Ring I destroyed it right, okay, Reservoir Dogs and
Stuck in the Middle with You took Stuck in the
Middle with You and change that song for the movie
that stole this song and made it a whole different thing.
Is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Speaker 4: I've seen The Girl with the Dragon Kattoo a couple
of times.
Speaker 2: Okay, So David Fincher movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it typically is a nine inch Nails score that
we get with David Fincher. Is this this isn't a
Trent Reznor song? Is this is not no nine inch nails?
So okay, I'm sure there are people out there that
I have got it by now. But here's by the way,
and apologies to the folks who are concerned about nine
inch nails. I'm sorry. It's not gonna make mine. I
don't I know, it's not gonna make yours. They had
a decent beginning hit in eighty nine, but it wasn't
until September, and their big one came in nineteen ninety.
So that's the reason it didn't make my cut. But
please continue, all right.
Speaker 2: So The Girl the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher and Daniel
Craig are sitting around going this murderer is an artist.
When he commits these acts, he plays music, and so
what song would he murder to? And Daniel Craig is
scrolling through his Spotify list and he found this one
and they played it and they're like, that's the one.
Speaker 4: I don't remember it. I mean, I don't remember what
the song is. The plays at that point. I remember
the scene like this is where Daniel Craig is being
tortured by the I don't want to give it spoil
the movie, but it's right, tortured by the killer, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, I don't remember the song. One last
clue for you, Okay, not a great clue, it's just
a little tidbit.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: The record producer, his name is Rob Deacons. I know
that name, Rob Deacons. Yeah, okay, he's actually mentioned in
the song. The lyrics say we can steer, we can
near with Rob Dickens at the wheel.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, got nothing.
Speaker 2: Let me play it for you and see if it
rattles anything.
Speaker 6: Lucie, Okay, yeah, this is Enya sail Away.
Speaker 4: Yes. Wow, oh I had totally forgotten. But that was
in the Girl the Dragon Tattoo. I owned this album.
I owned the CD. Yes, yeah, it's great. I mean
it's the new Age sound that came in and sail Away,
sail Away, sail away. Wow.
Speaker 2: Technically the name of the song is Orinoco Flow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that part.
Speaker 2: Orinoco is the name of the river in Venezuela.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: But it constantly says sail away, sail away, sail away.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Enya. By the way, a good friend of mine in college,
we were driving back from Colorado. We had been driving
all night long, and we decided at three o'clock in
the morning that the good thing to do would be
listened to Enya. Not a good idea, no, not if
you're trying to.
Speaker 4: Stay away right exactly, and it'd be like hypnotic out.
I don't mention, well, that's great. That was a good one.
I was a good one. It's good. Yeah, Okay. My
honorable mention was written by the guy who sang the song,
which I won't mention yet, okay, our friend Desmond child
Ooh okay, yeah, I know i'd pick your interest with that.
I know you do. And it's right in his wheelhouse
of you know, the good and the bad, you know,
mixing those two things up, all right, yes, And then
the third writer on the song is Cindy Lauper's guitarist.
His name's John McCurry. Okay, okay, Now, this album was
the singer's eighteenth album. Okay. He had not had a
top ten hit in the US in twelve years and
then in the UK in sixteen years, so we're talking
nineteen seventy seven, nineteen seventy three. This song hit number
seven in the US, huge comeback for him, number two
in the UK. There were two videos. The model in
the video is Ronick Kennedy. They had to do two
videos because she's topless in part of it, and so
they had to have a daytime video in a nighttime video.
But as it turns out, it's not actually her. It's
body double and I think it's actually kind of easy
to tell that it's not her, But anyway happened. This
song has been covered eight times, most recently this year
twenty twenty four by Exit to Eden. It was first
covered in nineteen ninety three by the Vandals. It was
in the movie Tango and Cash, The Jackal End of Days,
The new Peter Pan Mean Creek and Pineapple Express. You
don't know what you do? You well?
Speaker 2: I remember Genie Alexander bringing up the Tango and cash
Terry Hatcher scene with a rasure.
Speaker 4: This has nothing to do with the racuer or Seashells
to Seashells. Okay, I'm going to give you the clue
that I believe will give it away. Okay, knowing you
the riff that John McCurry used in this song, he
had actually used with one of your favorites, John Waite,
back in nineteen eighty six. Okay, I think I got
it in eighties. John Waite, the singer John Waite is
not the singer of this song. Okay, okay, okay, I'm
gonna play for you the John Wait song from nineteen
eighty six, which you're going to immediately hear that guitar rift.
And if you don't know what the lions are from
this song, you're not the man who I thought you were.
No pressure, Are you ready? Here you go? This is
the John Weight song encircled, so you're anybody who knows
the song who's listening is like scratching their hat at
these lyrics, because here's the intro to this song.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 4: Oh you needed that roaring guitar to get it.
Speaker 2: Okay, this very nearly made my list. Desmond Child, I
should have got it with Desmond Child, you said, Desmond Child,
I should have jumped on it right there. Okay, Yes,
you were leading me and the clues were excellent.
Speaker 4: This is Alice Cooper, you got it.
Speaker 2: This is poison. Oh almost made my list, same guitargraphy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was confusing me there for a second. Total
comeback for him. Oh yeah, big album, big song. What
did this reach? I mean this climbed the charts.
Speaker 4: Yeah. This was number seven in the US, number two
in the UK. The album was called Trash. I don't
have where it charted on my list here, but it was.
It was.
Speaker 2: My kids love the song. It's a great song. Yeah, great, Yeah, okay, love.
Speaker 4: It, love it? Okay, next honorable mention.
Speaker 2: Next honorable mention. Okay, all right, So this song was
released in October of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, peaks out
in January of nineteen ninety Okay, okay. So this particular
artist and his guitar player were sitting around. They were
trying to write a song, as you do hanging out,
think think, think I need to write a song what
we Got, And he started to craft lyrics about his
frequent trips up and down a particular street in La.
After he built the lyrics around this particular street, he
built a chorus and as soon as he like it
was one of those Eureka moments, He's like, this is
a hit, this song. Okay, how am I gonna phrase this?
So this song glorifies appreciating pop culture, appreciating your religious background,
and most of all, loving your mouth, loves your mom,
loves geezes in America. Nothing, all right. The name of
the street is Ventura Boulevard.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, this is Tom Petty Yeah, love it, love it? Yes, yeah,
this is free Falling you got it? Also almost made
on my list. Fantastic song, all right, Okay I mentioned
second honorable mention. All right, My honorable mention was written
by John Hyatt and a guy named Fred Kohler, who
was a big collaborator with Shelle Silverstein. Yeah, the Giving Tree. Yeah,
they wrote a ton of songs together, right, Okay, Yeah,
but shel Silverstein Stein not involved in this particular song.
This song was released as the second single off of
the album in April of eighty nine, he got to
number five on the Hot one hundred. Band is named
after the lead singer, and he is a Canadian blues
rock jazz guy. Played grown up, played in Toronto.
Speaker 2: The only thing I can think of so far is
no no winger.
Speaker 4: Okay. The singer was adopted when he was a baby,
lost his sight before he was one. Don't don't give
it away yet, I gotta. I just got to share
this with you party, all right. I know that you
know it because you covered the movie that it features
in with thirty something daily podcast. You got it. So,
As it turns out, when they were recording this album,
this nineteen eighty eight album called See the Light Clever Yes,
at that same time, their producer, Jimmy Ivy producer manager
Jimmy Ivy was involved with a movie and they the
guys who were making the movie, said Hey, we're looking
for songs for this movie. Here's the script. See what
you can find for us. Now he's in the middle
of producing this album as he reads the script written
by a guy named r. Lance Hill who used the
pen named David Lee Henry. Okay, as he's reading the script,
he's the writer of The script specifically mentions that there
is a a band, a house band at this bar
where the singer is blind and plays the guitar laying
flat on his lap. Now he's producing this band's first
album at the same time, and they're like, what, how
could he possibly you know, how could these things possibly happen? Well,
as it turns out, the writer of the story behind
this movie grew up in Toronto, which is where this
lead singer is from, and he had seen the lead
singer before he became famous, and that was his inspiration
for this house band in this movie called Roadhouse.
Speaker 2: Yes, the name of the song is Angelies Got It
by Jeff Heally Band.
Speaker 4: That Jeff Healy band.
Speaker 2: Yes, E love it.
Speaker 4: Man, it's a great song, such a good song, And
what a weird coincidence that Jimmy Ivy would be producing
the album at the same time that he gets handed
this script. And so not only does he say, well,
I've got that band, but Jeff Healy is a major
part of that movie, like he and Patrick Swayzey have
conversations throughout the movie, and he's obviously a key component
of the bar scene that's going on. I was very
sad to learn. I had no idea. He passed away
back in two thousand and eight, just forty one years old.
He had he had sarcoma that he had had removed
from his lungs and legs, but it ultimately it ultimately
took his life.
Speaker 2: Do you get a chance go back and listen to
the thirty something movie podcast where we talked about Roadhouse Roadhouse?
That was like my first podcast maybe ever, I can't.
Speaker 4: Remember, might avoid the new one. Is what I heard?
I heard it starts well and then whenever is it
O'Connor the name of the Connor McGregor, Connor McGregor. There
you go, I know it something like that. Yeah, he
kind of runs it from what I hear.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're up to our number ones, number
one one.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm puzzled, and I'm gonna do my number one
first since you've you've but you've gone first on all
this other stuff. Yes, I'm gonna do my number one
first because you know the band already. Yes, right, but
I'm gonna tease it up for our listeners. I just
find it hard to believe that you didn't pick this
song before.
Speaker 2: You say what you're gonna say, yeah, I am spiking
the football. The song that you're getting ready to talk about,
I believe was much more successful, but I've always liked
mine better, But go ahead.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right. This song was originally written by the
singer and the drummer when they were in a band
before this band band was called Plain Jane. The band
had actually been around for a while before they lost
their singer and their drummer and they had audition new people,
and so this singer and this drummer came in and
became the new singer and drummer for this band. Right.
The video stars Tracy Allen. It's filmed at a live
concert in Kansas City, Kansas, other locations in Kansas City,
and a little bit in New York City as well.
As you mentioned, the singer has a different name his
stage name. Yes, he is a boy with a traditionally
girl's name. Yes, who married a model from a subsequent
video who had a traditionally boys name, and who had
another person with the same name who was a boy
who had a big hitting eighty nine as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, my productive true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I gave a little bit too much
away right there. Oh my goodness. Okay. So the producer
of this album, his name was Bohill, and he hated
this song. He fought with them, didn't want them to
have it on the album. He didn't want to include it.
They fought back, they won. But basically he did a
subpar performance on producing it. So the record company brought
in another producer whose name was John Jansen. He reworked it,
and the record company went, no, that's not it either.
This kind of sucks, but let's just put the album out.
And so the first two hundred and fifty thousand copies
of this album have a subpar version of this song.
But this song starts to gain success, and when it
gets really rolling, the record company is like, well, back up,
we're gonna produce more albums, but we have to re
record this song to give it quote a bigger radio sound.
Didn't even ask the band to do it. They just
went in and redid it themselves. It spent two weeks
at number two.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 4: Serious, that's frustrating enough until you find out what held
it back. It was a song called Blame It on
the Rain by a group called Millie Vanilly.
Speaker 2: We have got to talk about Milly Vanilli.
Speaker 4: So how upset would you be if your song got
second place to a band that was lip syncing other
people sinking?
Speaker 2: That's true, and this is really one of the biggest
power album songs of the eighties.
Speaker 4: We talked about it in our episode that shall remain
nameless because it's a mystery episode on the Patreon page.
Of nine was the year for rock ballads, and this
one probably laid the foundation for what it meant.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we really haven't covered this album yet.
There's lots of great songs on this It was very
popular slow dance Makeout City right exactly.
Speaker 4: This is definitely on the Makeout list. Album is called
Dirty Rotten, Filthy Stinking Rich, Yes, which they got Dirty Rotten,
Filthy Stinking Rich after making this album. Yep, And unfortunately
the lead singer taking the girl's name John Kennedy Oswald.
John Kennedy Oswald. He died of acute alcohol poisoning August
of twenty eleven. His funeral was attended by a great
many hair band masters, including Great.
Speaker 2: White, performed I Believe It his funeral.
Speaker 4: Oh Nice. The video was directed by Nick Morris, who
had also directed the Final Countdown by Europe okay, and
also recorded a song called Kyrie by mister Mister, which
I mentioned that for the last thirty years I've been
singing give me a Days. Yeah, that's not what they say.
They don't say give me a days. They say Kyrine
something or other.
Speaker 2: Curi a curie a curie a Yeah.
Speaker 4: Whoever.
Speaker 2: Yes, great, that's a great song for eighty six.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So this song clearly is Heaven by warranty.
Speaker 4: Man. If that doesn't make your heart swell, then you
have no soul.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. I've always wondered why there are two versions.
Speaker 4: Of the song.
Speaker 2: Now you know, I had the album and the video.
The songs were different, and now I know. Now you know,
Thank you.
Speaker 4: You're welcome. Okay. Now we skipped over your number four
because I identified it as the same band, but you
said it's a different song.
Speaker 2: It's a different song.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now I had this album. I love this album. I
was a warrant guy. I love Heaven. I'm swaying and
making out and slow dancing to Heaven as well. Sure,
but to me, my number four has a bit more
emotional pull. I've always felt stronger about this song because
you have kind of this sad story of this woman
whose man walked out on her and left her all alone.
Her name is Mercy by the way. Okay, the songs
called sometimes she cries when SS and you have this
great breakdown at the middle, in sort of the end
of the song where you have this like big cry
of maybe give love just one more shot? And that
always touched me emotionally.
Speaker 4: That's great. I've never heard that song before. Wow, and
it has struck me as we've gone through all of
these songs. Guys, remember back when they put music at
the beginning of a song instead of singing right out
of the box. Yeah, that was the eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Give me a long guitar intro, give me a long
solo in the middle. I don't care, because I've got
the attention span to enjoy some quality musicianship.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good one.
Speaker 2: Wow, we both hit on Warren.
Speaker 4: That's cool. Yeah, that was the one song that I
thought you would pick of mine. I thought you would pick.
Speaker 2: It was a near miss. It was close.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so we're now to your number one. Oh okay,
so heaven's your number One's my number one?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: I can't wait to talk about this one. I really
am anxious to know. I don't know whether you know
this one or not. Ok So here's the deal. This
only reached number fifty on the Hot one hundred in
the US. It was a bigger hit over the pond.
Speaker 4: Okay okay.
Speaker 2: It did reach number two on the US Rock charts,
released May second, nineteen eighty nine, very close to my
sixteenth birthday. Now then reached number three in the UK.
Although this song was released May of nineteen eighty nine,
it was not played live until April of ninety two,
three years after its release and several months after the
lead singer's death.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I have an idea. I have an idea.
But keep okay, all right.
Speaker 2: So this song was written by the lead guitar.
Speaker 4: Blows it out of the water, Okay, go on.
Speaker 2: This song was written by the lead guitarist, and they
actually kind of do a little bit of duetting throughout
this song. He wrote it about his divorce from his
first wife, her name was Christine Mueller, and his new
relationship with British actress Anita Dobson. Anita Dobson was an
actress and she was known for saying this catchphrase and
they turn it into a big song. Okay, okay, now
kind of at the end. But right about the time
this song came out, there were some health issues that
were starting to become more known within the band. Okay,
and this was the time when the singer Di dressed
with aids.
Speaker 4: That's the track. So this the band has to be Queen.
Speaker 2: It is Queen.
Speaker 4: So we're songwriters are Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Yes,
they had several big hits and there was one that
almost made my list. Okay, I want you to tell
me which of the songs that they have because I
don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember. You're gonna have to
get You're gonna have to give me the song. Okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 2: So this song was off the album called The Miracle.
This song is called.
Speaker 5: I Want It All, I Want It Now, I Want
It All, and I Want It Now.
Speaker 4: Great pick, great pick. It was hard for me to
eliminate Queen from my list because a lot of great
songs love that band just didn't quite reach my top.
Speaker 2: The one thing about this song, it's a it's a
rocker and it's it's like a it's like a F
fourteen Tom Cat. Right, So you've got Brian May killing
it with the guitar and then it blows the afterburners
and it hits and it goes blistering rock, and then
they pull back on the brakes and slow everything way
down and it becomes like an you know, pumper, I
just I love this song.
Speaker 4: I always have great song, great pick, can't fault you
at all. Well, we had no overlap. We had one
band that we all have. That's it, and that's all. Wow, fantastic,
good job.
Speaker 2: Well, great list.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, as we mentioned, we didn't cover a whole
bunch of albums. We didn't include them as possibilities on
this episode because we've already covered them and told all
the stories that we know already. Would you like to
tell me what your real top five is?
Speaker 2: Let me tell you my real top five?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, quickly okay.
Speaker 2: Number five Love Song by Tesla that's coming up here
in just a few months. Number four I Remember You
by skid Row, another power rock. Number three Cult Personality
by Living Color. Go back and check out all these episodes,
of course, Number two Doctor Feel Good by Motley Crue,
and number one eighteen in Life by skid Row, honorable
mention Firewoman and Lay Your Hands on.
Speaker 4: Me by Bye Joby. Throwing my list together very quickly, Yeah,
I don't have them in any particular order. Here's seven
songs that could be my top five and two honorable mentions. Okay,
Pour Some Sugar on Me by def Leppard. Okay, Love
Song by Tesla yep, which we will cover later on
this season. Yeah, Epic by Faith No More. Oh yeah,
Cult of Personality by Living Color yep. Long Cold Winter
by Cinderella, Yeah, which I didn't know before we covered
that album.
Speaker 2: Go back to that episode.
Speaker 4: I called that such a fantastic album. Father Figure by
George Michael yep. And Personal Jesus by depeche Mode.
Speaker 2: Hey, there you go. How about that great list? Good
job you, good job me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hit us up on your favorite nineteen eighty nine songs.
This is harder, especially with two hands tied behind our back.
Exactly what are your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine? Guys,
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Speaker 2: It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4: Maybe an epic fail, but it's going to be epic.
Speaker 2: We'll see you then.
Speaker 4: Don't look at my pavers, Okay,