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Speaker 1: Hello, This is a GMA from Sweden and you are

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listening to Sure You Can't Be Serious Podcast? Say connect

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to and podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, welcome back to the Surely you Can't Be

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Serious Podcast. We are Jason and d straight up. Let

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me tell you what I am is what you are,

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and what we are is two down boys, two hearts

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beating with just one mind. Every little step of this episode.

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It's gonna take a little patience, but if you'll just

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hanged off with us as we pick our songs for

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the best of nineteen eighty nine, we're gonna tell you

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what songs were the greatest. After all, it is our prerogative.

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Oh my line?

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Speaker 3: Oh did I?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, when I showed up at your house today,

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I was I was like, you may not love these songs,

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but you're gonna love the stories. And I was gonna

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follow that up with but that's my prerogative because it's

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my list, but you stole my thunder. It was a

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brilliant intro though, Thank you so much for that two

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Hearts Beating with just one mind. I really really from

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your intro alone, think that we are not going to

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have any overlap. I predict one song I've got seven songs.

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You've got seven songs. We've got top five and two

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honorable mentions. I think we will have an overlap on

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one song. I'm not gonna say what it is.

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Speaker 2: I will be shocked if we have any overlap.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: So we talked about there's a difference between our last

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episode that we did on this was nineteen eighty four. Yep,

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everybody was watching MTV. It was the same twenty songs

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that we all experienced. It's all I mean, that's just

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how it was. Everybody's taste was the same. Yeah, by

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this time, MTV had branched out. You had headge Ball,

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you had Goo MTV raps, you had.

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Speaker 4: Had they started Real World at this point they had

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hadn't they not?

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Speaker 2: By eighty nine?

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, I told you in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen

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eighty nine, I had quit listening to popular music, Like

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I had started to play guitar, and so the songs

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on my CD player or my tape player or Lennard

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skinnerd led Zeppelin, the Eagles, like I was getting acquainted

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with all of those bands from the seventies, and I

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kind of missed this area as a matter of fact,

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one of the songs that is going to be on

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my list somewhere is a song that I had never

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heard until this morning. I texted the group and I'm like,

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holy cow, guys, I just heard a song that I've

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never heard before. It's by a band that I've never

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heard of, and it was popular in ninet eighty nine.

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It will probably not be one that many of our

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listeners have heard of, but I am happy to introduce

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it because it is a banger of a song.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's kind of missing the nostalgic factor on this.

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Speaker 4: That's okay. I mean, the fact is somebody out there

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to us has some nostalgia for this song because it

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played on MTV. It was a big success for this

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band as far as they go. But okay, I mean

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there are some people out there who are, like, I

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guarantee you they're gonna go, oh, I loved that album

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or I loved that band or whatever it is. So

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I think that that will be fun. Now. The thing

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is is that you guys are probably thinking, if you

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haven't heard our stuff before, well, guys, how are you

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gonna pick any songs from eighty nine that everybody doesn't know. Well,

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the answer is we have eliminated all of the songs

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of all of the albums that we have previously covered

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or that we have on the schedule to cover this year.

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Speaker 2: Right, And that's a lot, man, that is a whole lot.

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Speaker 4: So we've got Bonjo v New Jersey off the table,

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Cinderella Long Cold Winner off OU eight one two, Appetite

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for Destruction, skid Row, Doctor, Feel Good, Hysteria, Vivid Batman,

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Open Up and Say Ah, George Michael's Faith, The Cure, Disintegration,

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Depeche Mode, Violator. Those are all off of the table.

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And we've got some Patreon episodes that we've done where

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we've covered some of the one hit wonders of eighty

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nine and we're gonna cover some more. We got one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing Bust to Move and Funky Colem Medina

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along with wild Thing and Principal's Office kind of a

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four way one hit wonder from Young MC and Tone Loke,

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and all those are off the table as well.

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Speaker 4: We had a huge sequence of episodes on all of

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the parts of We Didn't Start the Fire, so that

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one's off the table. That was a huge hit in

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eighty nine. So guys, you're about to hear a top

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five list of songs that are not gonna be on

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any other top five because if you want to hear

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the good stories behind the big songs, you could check

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out those episodes.

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Speaker 2: Go check out those episodes. There's tons of great songs,

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great stories. Those are great fun episodes. Yeah, we just

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want to dive a little bit deeper, stretch our legs

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a little bit on this exactly.

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Speaker 4: And if you're interested in those songs that we've covered

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on our Patreon episodes, you can go to patreon dot com,

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backslash Surely podcast and you can see what we've put

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out there for free. You just become a member and

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you can see what the songs are that we've covered

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for free, and if you decide you want to listen

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to them, you can do it for as little as

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five bucks a month. Patreon helps us do what we do.

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We put in hours and hours of research on these things,

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and we appreciate the appreciation we get from our patreons.

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Our Patreon family is the best Patreon family in the world.

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Speaker 2: We love our patreons. But if you do decide to

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join for free, you can participate in all the polls

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that we do kind of join the conversation with us

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over there. It is a little more intimate. We do

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interact with those people a little bit more. Yeah, so

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come check us out.

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Speaker 4: It's free guys. If you can see the video, you

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can tell that we are not in a big, fancy studio.

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We are in Jason's bonus room upstairs. We are an

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independent business. So if you want to if you feel like, hey,

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I should support an independent business, go check that Patreon

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page out. Now, enough selling, Let's get into the songs.

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Right ready, who's going first? Not you?

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Speaker 5: Me?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 5: You?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 4: Five? Okay? All right?

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Speaker 2: This song is number five. I will tell you that

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I made a little playlist on Spotify.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I listened to it on the way home, and by

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the time I had gotten home, I had rearranged the order.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I've put my order together five seconds

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ago before we started the podcast, right, and I didn't

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mention for those who haven't listened before. The way that

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we do this is we tease up the song. We

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just don't come all right out and say it. We

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tease it up to try to get the other guy

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to guess what the song is. So audience members. You

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can participate in that. Try to figure out what this

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song is before we name it. Okay, all right, all right,

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here we go.

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Speaker 2: All right, my number five. We're going to do five

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and then, excuse me, we're going to do five, four

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Speaker 4: Yep, okay.

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Speaker 2: This song was released February of nineteen eighty nine. This

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has children singing in the background.

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Speaker 4: Shut the crap up. We've already got an overlap?

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Speaker 3: Are you serious?

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Speaker 4: Is one of the children, Fergie and the other children.

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Another one of the children, Jennifer love Hewitt, not that

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I know of. I may be blowing your mind with

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that information. Okay, you keep going because I think I

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know what it is. Keep going.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, now you're blowing me off my thing here,

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I dare say this is the only song on the

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Countdown that mentions ring around the Rosie Hopscotch, g I, Joe, Barbie,

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London Bridge, all the all the Oxen free.

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Speaker 4: Keep going, keep going, Yeah, okay, with.

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Speaker 2: The ball paper dolls, hacky sack hangman.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: It even has a great breakdown in the middle of

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the song where it's singing the children are singing. Jack

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and Susie sitting in a tree kiss I n G.

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Speaker 4: How many songs that were big songs in ninet eighty

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nine have a children's chorus as a part of the

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song so far, I'm not sure that we have the

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same song.

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Speaker 2: Keep going okay, all right, so we have all these

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references to childhood games sort of fun. It's very innocent

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that the lyrics are very smart. No sex, no drugs,

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no alcohol, This is all childhood games. This song begins

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with the intro from Mozart's Turkish March as a blistering guitar.

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The guitar player on this is legendary like Eddie van

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Halen and then Nuno Benncourt. Okay, yes it.

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Speaker 4: Is okay, keep going. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this was featured in a movie that we have

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covered where chaos is going down at the.

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Speaker 4: Mall, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you've got Joan of Arc leading in aerobics class.

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obviously Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Yes, okay, this song

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is by Extreme. This song was released February of nineteen

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eighty nine. It's a crowd favorite. This song is called

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Speaker 4: I can see Joan of Arc leading the exercise, the

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jazzer size session. I can see Beethoven playing on multiple

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multiple keyboards, and Genghis Khan riding on skateboards with football

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helmet on. Man, I love it. That was that was

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Speaker 2: That was a That was a wide poll too?

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Speaker 4: Hey did it chart? Was it? I mean? Was it

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, nothing, no nothing. This is just one of

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your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine. Yes, okay, very good,

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beef Oven leading the charge, Yes, very good. Okay, play

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with me, Mike extream All right.

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Speaker 4: Well, fortunately, since I tipped my hand a little bit already,

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still I don't know what it is. Yeah, my number

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five also involves a children's chorus. Okay, but it's not

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nearly as happy and go lucky as yours is. Okay, okay.

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The singer of Mine made her first movie appearance in

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nineteen eighty two as one of the orphans on Annie.

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She was not credited in that.

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Speaker 2: But wait, wait, wait, wait are we talking? Sun will

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come out tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: That Annie nineteen eighty two, Yes, hey. Then in nineteen

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eighty four, she was in break into electric boogaloo okay,

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and was not a breakout success on this one. Her

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kind of intro into fame was in the TV show

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Kids Incorporated, which she started doing in nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Wow, keep going, Yeah, I'm stumped.

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Speaker 4: And then same year she was featured in Mister T's

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motivational video called be Somebody or be Somebody's Fool. Okay,

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keep going okay. Her character's name is this very This

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is not Fergie.

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Speaker 3: This is Fergy.

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Speaker 4: It's not Fergie. Okay. No, But as I mentioned, Fergie

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is in the children's course, as is Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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not her real name. Her real name is Marta Marta Marino.

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Know who that is yet? Okay? That's good because I

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didn't want to give it away. The song spent two

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weeks at number one in nineteen eighty nine. Middle of

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nineteen eighty nine, the album, which is named after the singer,

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was at number fifteen on the Billboard two hundred.

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Speaker 2: Ah, I have a guess, Keep going, Keep going okay.

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Speaker 4: This song was sampled by Eminem for one of his

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songs that has a similar name and boy, did I

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fall down a rabbit hole on that one? I mean

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that involves the death of a couple of different rappers.

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I mean one of the rappers died and he writes

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this song about it, and then the rapper who is

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a friend who is playing the part of the deceased rapper,

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he gets killed within a few years himself. So just yeah, sorry,

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that's the Eminem song, right, fell down that rabbit hole.

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The song is about a friend that the singer had.

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This is the third song she ever wrote, and the

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first two were kind of soft poppy, nothing's yes. This

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third song is about a friend who is battling an

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addiction to cocaine. Tell me what it is?

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Speaker 2: I think I know what it is. Yes, this has

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to be Toy Soldiers by Martika.

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Speaker 4: You got it.

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Speaker 3: Step by step.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And I would have known it anyway, but

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the Eminem clue gave it away. Yeah, so totally remember

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this song. I worked at a pizza place. Was my

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first job with my now wife. Oh wow, that's where

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we hooked up Masias and jeans. You hooked up in

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the muss Well, there's a special you know, something going

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on in the sauce there. Oh, tell me that summer

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that was summer of eighty nine, and this song would

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play on over the restaurant overhead all the time. So

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great song.

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Speaker 4: I love the song. Yeah, sweet Yeah. This is one

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of those songs that within the last year or so

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just kind of came up on Spotify for me. Or

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maybe it was in the gym, I don't know, but

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I just heard it and I was like, oh, I

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really liked that song, and so I kind of investigated Martika.

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That was the name that she eventually took, and she

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ended up working later on with Prince in ninety one.

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They had a song called Love that Will Be Done,

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which was another big hit.

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Speaker 2: I heard of that song, yep.

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Speaker 4: And then she did other stuff, but eventually just decided

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to be a stay at home mom. She did some

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eighties you know, tours, cruise, Yeah, toured with Debbie Gibson

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and some of the other folks, and she's done that.

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But just a little thing that you should know. The friend,

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according to the VH one, Papa Video conquered their drug addiction.

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So happy ending, happy ending.

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Speaker 2: I mean, take it to the bank. If Papa Video

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said it.

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Speaker 4: All right, So there you go. There's my number five.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is to my number four, number four, Okay, four,

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all right, if I were to, if I were a

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betting man, this is the song that I think we

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might have in common. Okay, Okay, accept one small detail.

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I think you've selected a different song by this artist

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than I selected.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, we'll see all right.

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Speaker 2: So this song was released December of nineteen eighty nine,

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so it's really dropping late in the year. It reached

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number twenty peeked out in March of ninety. But for me,

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I definitely remember it fall of eighty nine because I

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bought the tape in the spring due to its first single,

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which I've already mentioned in this episode. Okay, this song

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is about a fictional woman whose name is Mercy. Now

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I will tell you this. The lead singer for this

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rock band his real name. He was born John Kennedy Oswald.

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Speaker 4: I know it. Okay, I know it, and save it.

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Save it? Okay, Savior number four, because this also was

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the one song. Oh wait, you said it might be

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a different song. I think it's a different song. You

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think it's a different song.

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Speaker 2: Let's hold it and we'll talk about it when we

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hit yours. Okay, all right, I think it's a different song.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough, all right to.

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Speaker 2: Your number four, sir, my number four.

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Speaker 4: All right. This song, my number four, was written by

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a Canadian DJ about an American Army sergeant and sung

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by somebody that the DJ acted with in a kid

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show in the mid eighties. That doesn't give it away

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for you.

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Speaker 2: I got nothing on that man.

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Speaker 4: Okay. The song. The bass line in the song Everybody

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Thinks is a fretless bass because the bass player didn't

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normally play a fretless bass, and so eventually they asked him.

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The bass player's name Steve Webster, you recognize that name. No,

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he was the bass player when we talked about Billie

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Idol Rebel Yell. He's the bass player on that one.

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So he was also the bass player on the song.

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And what he said was, I didn't play the bass

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on this song. This fretless bass is a synthesizer sound

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that one of the other co writer who also produced

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this song used to record the bassline. Okay, okay, all right, okay.

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The songwriter that was a DJ was also Canada's first

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Like Canada did not have MTV, they had a show

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called City Limits which was a precursor of the Much Music,

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which was the Canadian version of MTV. Okay, and his

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name is Christopher Okay, Okay. I was gonna throw you

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off by saying that the the co writer on this

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one was Mike Tyson. The producer's name is David Michael Tyson.

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I just was like, they'd be funny if I told

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Jason that Mike Tyson played the bass on this one.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I have no clue. I have no clue.

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna get there, but I just there's

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so much in this show that he did the City

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Limits show, they had bon Jovion in the early eighties

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before he was very popular. Okay. He also had Mike

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Myers on regularly playing Wayne Campbell in the mid eighties,

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like ten years before Saturday Night Live. And the guy

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who wrote this song was basically the precursor to Garth

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Albar No Way Way, Okay, here we go, and Mike

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Myers and the lady that sings this song were in

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another music video that this guy wrote. The song was

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called Boys and Girls Again, Mike Myers is playing the

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Wayne Campbell part. I think that was like his one

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trick Pony for a while. I can't wait to show you.

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Speaker 2: The only music video I can think of is Justify

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My Love or whatever it was they did with Madonna.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, So in ninety seven, this guy who wrote

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the song became a member of Ming Tea, which is

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a band with Mike Myers, Susannah Hoffs, and Matthew Sweet.

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James Buckley is listening and he's like, oh, I know,

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I think I know it is now right, Okay, song itself,

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as I mentioned, it's about an American Army sergeant. Title

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of the song could refer to a painting style, it

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could to clothing, it could refer to hair dye that

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this particular American Army sergeant wore, or it could refer

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to his voice. Because you probably don't know him as

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an army sergeant. You know him as one of the

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greatest singers of all time and his portraits were frequently

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painted on the black velvet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got it. So you did tell me the

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name of the song, right then, this is clearly Alana

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Miles Black Velvet.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Mississippi.

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Speaker 4: Okay. So this song he wrote after in nineteen eighty seven,

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ten year anniversary of Elvis' death. Right he was on

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a bus full of fans going to the tenth anniversary

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of his death celebration, and he was just amazed by

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the craze that still existed ten years later for this guy.

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And that was the inspiration for this song about Elvis.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic. So here's the deal, the story behind this song.

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For me, I would bet my last paycheck. This song

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peaked out about March of nineteen ninety because I went

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on a trip to Florida with Patreon member Chris Bauer

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and this is one of those songs that in that

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fourteen hour drive to Florida they played about every half

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hour or so.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so it was big that song.

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Speaker 2: I associate it strongly with that trip. This is a

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great song. Her voice is smooth and silky and soulful,

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and it's got that low down, dirty Mississippi blues feel

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to it. I love it.

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Speaker 4: Great. Call a Lot of Miles was actually Chris Wart's

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girlfriend by the time they got together on this song,

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and she's smoking back then. The album was released March fourteenth,

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nineteen eighty nine, so I thought, well enough with an

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eighty I call it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, right there, you go, all right to my

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number three number three three Okay. I don't think I'm

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bending the rules and including it on this list.

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Speaker 4: Sure you are. That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: It is what I do.

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Speaker 4: That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: However, we've talked extensively about this song without technically covering it.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: It was inspired by an English folk song. The title

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was Okay Okay. This reached number two on the Hot

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one hundred in October of nineteen eighty nine, blocked by

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miss You Much by Janet Jackson Okay Okay, which was

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a that's a that's no shame. That was a big song,

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right sure yeah Okay. Song was written in June of

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nineteen eighty seven. It has a reference to Margaret Thatcher

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and the Conservative Party when she won her third term.

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You want me to give you the line in the song.

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Speaker 4: No, it is the artist who sings this song involved

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in what your number one song was from nineteen eighty four,

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No okay, keep going okay.

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Speaker 2: So here's the line from the song Okay, politician Granny

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with your high ideals, have you no idea how the

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majority feels?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Trying not to sing it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I still do.

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Speaker 2: When you watch this video, you are overwhelmed with Sixties nostalgia,

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Egyptian Oks and Sunflowers and the Beatles's This Oasis.

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Speaker 4: Okay, keep going, Okay.

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Speaker 2: We recently covered an album by this band, and when

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we discussed.

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Speaker 4: It, I got it. Yeah, I keep going.

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Speaker 2: We discussed it, we talked about what was her your

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favorite song by them, and I said, this was my

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favorite song. This is six minutes of imitating the Beatles

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and nailing it.

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Speaker 4: Landor's a ball Hurt Smith Tears for Fears.

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Speaker 2: This song is called Sowing the Scenes of Love.

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Speaker 4: I love it. It's a great song. It's a great song.

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Amanda Janic mentioned that she just absolutely loves this song.

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Speaker 2: Go back and check out the podcast on Songs from

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vic Chair where we covered each song from that album

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from Tears for Fears. That was a great episode and

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it was like five episodes ago.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's this season, so check it out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very successful episode for us. Yeah, Sowing the Seeds

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of Love.

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Speaker 4: Very good to you. Number three, sir, number three, All right,

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this song probably would have ranked higher for me, but

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it's cover. In nineteen seventy three, the song reached number four.

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Who was written by the same guy who sang it

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and as a matter of fact, he not only sang

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it and wrote it, he played every single instrument when

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he did it back in nineteen seventy three. He recorded

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it May twelfth, nineteen seventy three, which I mean you

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were officially like eight days old. Eight days old, that's right.

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Three months later he was in a car crash which

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left him in a coma for four days and caused

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him to lose his sense of smell and sense of

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taste temporarily as well, which is tragic because he also

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had lost his sense of sight as a young child.

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So I've kind of given away who did the first

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version of It's one of your favorites from the eighties, Yes,

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but this version of the song by this other band

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was their first big Like they had three or four

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albums before.

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Speaker 2: This, this was their first big hit.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just gonna mention a few things on how

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big a hit their version is. It was used to

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promote FX's The Ultimate Fighter. It was used as the

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soundtrack for Disney's Space Mountain Journey from January to April

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two thousand and seven. Total Guitar called it the second

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greatest cover ever. Okay. In nineteen ninety. It was nominated

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for Breakthrough Video and the Video Music Awards.

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Speaker 2: Wait.

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Speaker 4: This was the band's This song was off the band's

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fourth studio album. This is the first album that they

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did after they lost their lead guitarist 'llel Slovak to

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a heroin overdose. He died at twenty six. He had

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been the guitarist on the previous three albums then Hellel.

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His position was taken by Sean Frushanti. And because I

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know that you're not super familiar with this band, I

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know that I can throw these names out and you're

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not quite gonna get it yet.

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Speaker 2: I don't even have it fenced in yet.

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Speaker 4: Right after Hellel Slovak died, their drummer, Jack Irons left

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the band as well, so they brought in new drummer.

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New guitarist had the same lead singer. By the way,

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the lead singer's dad was in a part in Lethal Weapon,

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00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,319
which we covered in our first season.

474
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 2: Okay, I know who we're talking about, the band, Yes, yes,

475
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,559
all right, so this I have a gat I know,

476
00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:23,400
I think I know the song.

477
00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 4: Okay, it's about reincarnation.

478
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not a Chili Peppers guy, and I'm definitely

479
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,160
not a Stevie Wonder guy, which you're hitting me my

480
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,480
Achilles Hill both spots here. Yes, the only song I

481
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,880
can think of is Mother's Milk.

482
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 4: Mother's Milk is the name of the album that it's

483
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,720
came off of. The name of the song is called

484
00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:53,559
Higher Ground.

485
00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 2: I know that song. I love that song. I didn't

486
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,680
know the name of it. Jackson RT is punching his

487
00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:08,720
radio at this moment, taking the phone at you. I

488
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,160
had no idea that was a Stevie Wonder song.

489
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?

490
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:12,039
Speaker 2: Oh?

491
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 4: Yeah? Though Stevie Wonder version is great. To listen to

492
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:34,200
this so funky.

493
00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: Wow the whole time, I'm just like, isn't she lovely? Superstitious?

494
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,160
I just called to say I love you?

495
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 4: Wow?

496
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 2: Okay, great song, love it fantastic. By the way, you

497
00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:49,519
mentioned his dad. His dad Rigs shoots him at the

498
00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:52,359
very beginning to leave the weapon at the Christmas Tree

499
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,640
Christmas Tree drug deal.

500
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed, and Anthony Keatis is in point break.

501
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,240
He gets shot in the which is absolutely hysterical. He

502
00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:03,160
screams his head off.

503
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:03,799
Speaker 2: Poor child.

504
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,759
Speaker 4: The Patrick Swayzey movie which might later different Patrick Swacy movie,

505
00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:10,359
But I'm gonna save that save that too much? All right,

506
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,759
all right, dancing number three, there's my number three.

507
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,759
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, are we onto my number two?

508
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,599
Speaker 4: Onto your number two, sir two?

509
00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 2: All right for my number two. I'm a little worried

510
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,079
about my street cred on this one, okay, because this

511
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:28,359
is a pop band.

512
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 4: I was expecting more pop than I've gotten from you

513
00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:32,359
so far, So you're totally fine.

514
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: This is a pop band who I think stretched their

515
00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:37,720
legs and tried to do a rock ballad.

516
00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, yep, and I think they nailed it. Okay.

517
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 2: Here's the interesting story about them. This was released in

518
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,079
nineteen eighty eight in Europe. They're a European band.

519
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 4: Okay.

520
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 2: They found success in the United States due to a

521
00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:55,880
foreign exchange student. Okay, you don't know this story, no,

522
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,000
all right. An American goes over to this other country,

523
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,160
listens to the radio, hangs out in this foreign country,

524
00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:06,440
and there's this pop act over there that's pumping out

525
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,559
hit singles. So he likes them. He buys the tape.

526
00:28:09,559 --> 00:28:13,119
When he returns back to Minneapolis, he goes to his

527
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,839
local radio station, hands the DJ of the tape and says,

528
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,880
you guys have got to play this. This is amazing.

529
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,039
This is what's happening in Europe. These people are huge

530
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:24,640
over there, by the way, start with this song right here.

531
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,759
Now it's not the one I'm picking, but it was

532
00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:30,240
their first single. Once that Minneapolis DJ started playing it,

533
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,480
people responded, started calling the rail station, started requesting it.

534
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,799
Eight weeks later, it's number one in the United States.

535
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:38,039
Speaker 4: Is the American involved with Paisley Park at all?

536
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 5: No?

537
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 4: Okay, keep going no.

538
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,519
Speaker 2: So this is the technically the third single in the

539
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,200
United States. I think it was the second single in Sweden.

540
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, they're from Sweden.

541
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,799
Speaker 2: They're from Sweeden, right The third single, over there was

542
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,720
the first single over here went to number one in

543
00:28:55,839 --> 00:28:58,400
nineteen eighty nine. You would know, you would think that

544
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,240
they're more of like a duo. Is a I and

545
00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:00,640
a girl.

546
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:01,319
Speaker 4: Okay.

547
00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: The woman, her name is Marie Fredrickson.

548
00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 4: Okay.

549
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: She kills it vocally on this song, and it slowly

550
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,599
intensifies like it starts out as a slow power ballad,

551
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,359
and as power ballads do, the intensity increases throughout the song.

552
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,480
Her vocals she starts shredding at the end of this song. Okay,

553
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,680
you have a great false ending you have all these

554
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:23,640
wonderful things. The video is fantastic. All the crowd is

555
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,440
swaying and waving the lighters and all this stuff. The

556
00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:29,039
singer for this song, her name is Marie Fredrickson. She

557
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,759
died in twenty nineteen. I've got the band. Okay, what

558
00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:34,079
you got rock set? It is rock set.

559
00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:36,559
Speaker 4: But there are a couple of songs that were big

560
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:37,240
in eighty nine.

561
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:37,599
Speaker 2: That's right.

562
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,799
Speaker 4: You gotta keep going, so I know which song it is? Okay.

563
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:43,599
Speaker 2: So this particular song hits number one in the US

564
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,680
in November of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, Okay, I'm going

565
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,359
deep on a clue for you here, Okay, Okay, okay, Okay,

566
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,119
I'm gonna try. I'm reaching deep for a clue here.

567
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,119
Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.

568
00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:58,359
Speaker 2: There is a Bible verse Jeremiah seventeen to nine, Okay,

569
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,720
that says the heart is seedful above all things and

570
00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:03,720
beyond cure. Who can understate it?

571
00:30:03,799 --> 00:30:06,559
Speaker 4: Okay? So I got it? Yes, So I'm guessing that

572
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,519
the original number one that is not the song you're.

573
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: Picking, Yes, is the look that's correct?

574
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 4: And I'm guessing the song that you're picking is Listen

575
00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:16,440
to your Heart.

576
00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: Yes, So good It is amazing.

577
00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:38,559
Speaker 4: It's a great one. I anticipated that you would pick

578
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:40,400
a rock sette song. I didn't know which one it

579
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,880
was going to be, but and I didn't. I didn't

580
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,759
even look at them because I thought Jason's kind of

581
00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:45,200
grabbed that.

582
00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: The look was a favorite of mine too.

583
00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:49,759
Speaker 4: So huge. Yeah, so we don't get to know who

584
00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:52,359
the Minneapolis for an exchange student was.

585
00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: His name was Dean Cushman.

586
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 4: Does he do anything other than discover Roxette?

587
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,279
Speaker 2: Shout out Dean Cushman. If you're listening, call in email

588
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,880
this to the podcast. We want to have you on

589
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,039
as a guest. Okay, he went over to Sweden brought

590
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:04,559
back a tape.

591
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:05,319
Speaker 4: It's fantastic.

592
00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, the looks number one in the

593
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:07,519
United States.

594
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 4: Okay, awesome, man, awesome.

595
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 2: All right, you're number two.

596
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,319
Speaker 4: Okay. So ironic that you had a band from Speed

597
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:18,480
Speeden for your number two, because my number two is

598
00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:22,640
from Denmark. I mentioned at the beginning of this episode

599
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,440
that there was a song that I had not heard

600
00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:29,440
until this morning. Yes, and this is that song. Okay.

601
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: Now, this is hard because if you give clear if

602
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,799
you've never heard of it, maybe I haven't heard of it.

603
00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 4: It's very, very possible that you have not heard of it.

604
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:39,079
But I will tell you this. This song got to

605
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,440
number twenty three on the US album Rock Tracks. Okay,

606
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:45,759
Okay didn't chart on the top of one hundred. The

607
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,559
album hit one sixteen. The name of the album is

608
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:53,880
called No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims that clue yeni Okay,

609
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,000
all right? The album sales were to this day, this

610
00:31:57,079 --> 00:31:59,400
band's still around to this day. The album sales are

611
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,480
six hundred. I mean that's barely gold and gold. That's

612
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:05,079
that is right. There were one hundred thousand sold in

613
00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:07,559
the US and two hundred and seventy five thousand sold

614
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,480
in Denmark, and then you do the math for where

615
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:13,559
they sold in other countries. Right? Is this real? This

616
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,720
is okay, this album, this is this is how I

617
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,839
I go. There are people out there who support my

618
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,240
position on this, even though I just discovered this song today.

619
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,079
This album was featured in twenty nineteen Rolling stone fifty

620
00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:29,839
Greatest hair Metal Albums of All Time? What an album

621
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:32,680
that only sold six hundred thousand copies? How is that

622
00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:36,880
is on Rolling Stones fifty Greatest hair Metal Albums of

623
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:37,359
All Time?

624
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: Okay, hair metal, you got my attention with hair metal.

625
00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:40,319
Let's keep going.

626
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,519
Speaker 4: Okay. The band is from Copenhagen, Denmark.

627
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think like Denmark. We're talking like Hanoi rocks.

628
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 4: No, okay. So their first album was called Call of

629
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,640
the Wild that was released in eighty six.

630
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:54,319
Speaker 2: Okay.

631
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 4: The largest concert, the largest concert that these guys have

632
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,680
ever done, was when they were an opening act for

633
00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:05,799
something called Boise on Celts forgive me all of our

634
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,440
Danish listeners, their farewell festival in two thousand and five.

635
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,440
There were one hundred and twenty thousand people in the audience.

636
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:12,960
That's the as an opening act.

637
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,759
Speaker 2: That's their big Well, that's pretty freaking big.

638
00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:18,319
Speaker 4: But the music video was directed by Andy Morehan, who

639
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:22,079
we've talked about countless times suns. It's primarily set in

640
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,279
a bedroom. It got pretty heavy rotation on MTV.

641
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 2: Okay.

642
00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 4: The name of the band was originally Disneyland After Dark.

643
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: Is This Dangerous Toys?

644
00:33:33,559 --> 00:33:36,759
Speaker 4: No? Okay? Because they didn't want to get sued by Disney.

645
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,319
When they ultimately got their record deal, they changed their

646
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,680
name to just the first three letters D dash, A

647
00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:48,279
dash d K. I'm guessing you've never heard of this

648
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:50,480
band either, I don't think so, okay.

649
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: Disney after Dark, Disneyland after dark.

650
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,039
Speaker 4: Oh yes, And this is actually kind of the theme

651
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,839
of the song because it's about after dark, anything can

652
00:33:59,839 --> 00:34:03,279
have happen, right, okay, And the song is about how

653
00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:07,240
he sleeps during the daytime and has his fun at night.

654
00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:09,199
I haven't gotten you anything yet.

655
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 2: Have I Slaughter up all night? Sleep all day is

656
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:12,719
the only thing I got right now.

657
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,559
Speaker 4: So I'm just gonna tell you because I have no

658
00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:17,719
more information than this, because surprisingly, the Wikipedia page is very,

659
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,039
very small, and it doesn't appear on so common and

660
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:23,519
it doesn't have any other supporting information.

661
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 2: Okay, before you play it for me, let me ask

662
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,559
you this. Yeah, how did you find this song? Just

663
00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,440
like googling nineteen eighty nine songs?

664
00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I typed in nineteen eighty nine to Spotify,

665
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:39,239
and I was like, Taylor Swift, Swift bottle what no, no, no, no, no,

666
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,800
I don't want Taylor Swift. Yeah. So I did that,

667
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,880
found a rock playlist, and some genius out there put

668
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,679
this on there and and introduced it to me. Today.

669
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:49,159
Speaker 2: Let's go.

670
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,119
Speaker 4: I'm ready to okay, So I'm just tell you the

671
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,079
name of the song now, since I'm sure you don't

672
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:55,119
know it. Okay. Name of the song is called is

673
00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:59,360
by Dad. It's called Sleeping My day Away. You're going

674
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:27,880
to love it. Tell me you don't love it.

675
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,679
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.

676
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,599
Speaker 4: Okay. So I'm listening to it. I'm grooving along. I

677
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,679
kept I'm in the gym, I'm my pedal rate has increased.

678
00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:37,639
And then I'm like, this is great, and I keep listening.

679
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,920
It's levels up. Two minutes and forty five seconds in,

680
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,760
it levels up, great breakdown here comes.

681
00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 2: I love that with the build. I'm on board. Count

682
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:02,039
me in.

683
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 4: How much gonna ask? Does this thing? What the heck?

684
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,880
That is so good? How have I never in the

685
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,679
last thirty five years heard this song before. It's called

686
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,800
Sleeping My day Away? D A dash.

687
00:36:18,679 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: D adding it to my playlist? It sounds great, man, Yes,

688
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,199
it's on the workout playlist now. It has all the

689
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,159
ingredients of a great hair metal it does.

690
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,119
Speaker 4: The guy's voice is spot on. They've got the look.

691
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,960
See what they look like on the album cover.

692
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 2: They look like Faster Pussy gat.

693
00:36:35,159 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tesla, any number of Yeah, any number of bands

694
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,000
that were big at that time. Yeah, of course. And

695
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,480
you know what I'm crediting the fact that they weren't

696
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:45,519
a huge blowout success to the fact that they're still

697
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:49,159
together making music today. Love it, yeah, love it great. Fine,

698
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:51,280
It's kind of like this is something Power Rangers theme

699
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:53,480
made it to number one because I was like.

700
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 2: Holy cow, this is so good. Yeah yeah, hair Metal magic.

701
00:36:57,679 --> 00:36:59,639
We lived through the greatest time of music.

702
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,079
Speaker 4: I hair metal. Yeah.

703
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: I've hit up Jays Beckley before. We almost missed out

704
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,239
on Appetite for Destruction. The record company almost killed it.

705
00:37:06,639 --> 00:37:08,599
I'm sure there are albums out there that we missed

706
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:12,079
out on that just didn't enter our consciousness. Here we

707
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:14,199
found one. There we go, there you go. All right,

708
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,320
honorable mention time. Oh right, okay, so I'll do the

709
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,320
first honorable mention. I think this one's gonna blow your

710
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,800
skirt up. Okay, yeah, all right. I think you're gonna

711
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,599
be shocked that I picked this particular song because it's

712
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,000
very much out of my normal realm of taste.

713
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:29,079
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.

714
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:31,679
Speaker 2: So this reached number twenty four in the US in

715
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,159
April of nineteen eighty nine, but it was in number

716
00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:37,960
one in England for three weeks. Okay, this particular song,

717
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,280
it's like a chant almost, it's just a chorus repeating

718
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,599
itself throughout the whole song. It's about a river in

719
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,599
Venezuela that is seventeen hundred miles long. But also the

720
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,400
name of that river is a studio in London where

721
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,440
they recorded this album.

722
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:57,599
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, the river's only in Venezuela, apparently seventeen

723
00:37:57,679 --> 00:37:59,960
hundred miles long. Yes, okay, keep it up. Okay.

724
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: So here's the interesting quote from the manager of this artist. Okay,

725
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:06,679
the manager for this artist, he got mad at the

726
00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:09,079
record company because the record company was beating him up

727
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,920
about singles. He's like, listen, this artist doesn't really make singles. Okay,

728
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:15,519
we're just trying to make an album. He goes, this

729
00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:18,159
is his quote. Sometimes you sign acts to make money,

730
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,599
sometimes you sign acts to make music. So this wasn't

731
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:25,159
really intended to be a single. All right, here's the

732
00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:26,599
big clue that's going to give it away for you,

733
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:27,000
I think.

734
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 4: Okay.

735
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,599
Speaker 2: There are some songs that have been featured in movies,

736
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:35,000
not written for movies, but are used in movies and

737
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:37,320
have taken on a life of their own because of

738
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,280
the movie. For example, a clockwork orange stole singing in

739
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,239
the Ring I destroyed it right, okay, Reservoir Dogs and

740
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,000
Stuck in the Middle with You took Stuck in the

741
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,239
Middle with You and change that song for the movie

742
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,920
that stole this song and made it a whole different thing.

743
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,000
Is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

744
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: I've seen The Girl with the Dragon Kattoo a couple

745
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:01,719
of times.

746
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,159
Speaker 2: Okay, So David Fincher movie.

747
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, it typically is a nine inch Nails score that

748
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,079
we get with David Fincher. Is this this isn't a

749
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:13,079
Trent Reznor song? Is this is not no nine inch nails?

750
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:14,840
So okay, I'm sure there are people out there that

751
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,599
I have got it by now. But here's by the way,

752
00:39:16,599 --> 00:39:20,079
and apologies to the folks who are concerned about nine

753
00:39:20,119 --> 00:39:21,719
inch nails. I'm sorry. It's not gonna make mine. I

754
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,559
don't I know, it's not gonna make yours. They had

755
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:27,159
a decent beginning hit in eighty nine, but it wasn't

756
00:39:27,159 --> 00:39:30,159
until September, and their big one came in nineteen ninety.

757
00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:31,800
So that's the reason it didn't make my cut. But

758
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,280
please continue, all right.

759
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: So The Girl the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher and Daniel

760
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,920
Craig are sitting around going this murderer is an artist.

761
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,719
When he commits these acts, he plays music, and so

762
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,920
what song would he murder to? And Daniel Craig is

763
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,920
scrolling through his Spotify list and he found this one

764
00:39:54,199 --> 00:40:18,800
and they played it and they're like, that's the one.

765
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,679
Speaker 4: I don't remember it. I mean, I don't remember what

766
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,440
the song is. The plays at that point. I remember

767
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,960
the scene like this is where Daniel Craig is being

768
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,920
tortured by the I don't want to give it spoil

769
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,440
the movie, but it's right, tortured by the killer, right.

770
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, I don't remember the song. One last

771
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,480
clue for you, Okay, not a great clue, it's just

772
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,159
a little tidbit.

773
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:35,559
Speaker 4: Okay.

774
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: The record producer, his name is Rob Deacons. I know

775
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:41,760
that name, Rob Deacons. Yeah, okay, he's actually mentioned in

776
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,320
the song. The lyrics say we can steer, we can

777
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,119
near with Rob Dickens at the wheel.

778
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, got nothing.

779
00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:51,639
Speaker 2: Let me play it for you and see if it

780
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:52,360
rattles anything.

781
00:40:52,400 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 6: Lucie, Okay, yeah, this is Enya sail Away.

782
00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:18,079
Speaker 4: Yes. Wow, oh I had totally forgotten. But that was

783
00:41:18,199 --> 00:41:21,280
in the Girl the Dragon Tattoo. I owned this album.

784
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,039
I owned the CD. Yes, yeah, it's great. I mean

785
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,360
it's the new Age sound that came in and sail Away,

786
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,400
sail Away, sail away. Wow.

787
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 2: Technically the name of the song is Orinoco Flow.

788
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that part.

789
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 2: Orinoco is the name of the river in Venezuela.

790
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,159
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.

791
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,639
Speaker 2: But it constantly says sail away, sail away, sail away.

792
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 4: That's it.

793
00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:44,039
Speaker 2: Enya. By the way, a good friend of mine in college,

794
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:46,760
we were driving back from Colorado. We had been driving

795
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:49,519
all night long, and we decided at three o'clock in

796
00:41:49,559 --> 00:41:51,239
the morning that the good thing to do would be

797
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,559
listened to Enya. Not a good idea, no, not if

798
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:54,000
you're trying to.

799
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 4: Stay away right exactly, and it'd be like hypnotic out.

800
00:41:57,599 --> 00:41:59,960
I don't mention, well, that's great. That was a good one.

801
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:02,880
I was a good one. It's good. Yeah, Okay. My

802
00:42:03,039 --> 00:42:05,840
honorable mention was written by the guy who sang the song,

803
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,800
which I won't mention yet, okay, our friend Desmond child

804
00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:11,880
Ooh okay, yeah, I know i'd pick your interest with that.

805
00:42:12,679 --> 00:42:15,280
I know you do. And it's right in his wheelhouse

806
00:42:15,519 --> 00:42:17,800
of you know, the good and the bad, you know,

807
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,519
mixing those two things up, all right, yes, And then

808
00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:24,400
the third writer on the song is Cindy Lauper's guitarist.

809
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:30,519
His name's John McCurry. Okay, okay, Now, this album was

810
00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:35,519
the singer's eighteenth album. Okay. He had not had a

811
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:38,639
top ten hit in the US in twelve years and

812
00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:40,960
then in the UK in sixteen years, so we're talking

813
00:42:41,199 --> 00:42:45,679
nineteen seventy seven, nineteen seventy three. This song hit number

814
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,719
seven in the US, huge comeback for him, number two

815
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,360
in the UK. There were two videos. The model in

816
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,559
the video is Ronick Kennedy. They had to do two

817
00:42:56,639 --> 00:43:00,199
videos because she's topless in part of it, and so

818
00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:02,199
they had to have a daytime video in a nighttime video.

819
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,239
But as it turns out, it's not actually her. It's

820
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,480
body double and I think it's actually kind of easy

821
00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:08,639
to tell that it's not her, But anyway happened. This

822
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:13,119
song has been covered eight times, most recently this year

823
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,480
twenty twenty four by Exit to Eden. It was first

824
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,800
covered in nineteen ninety three by the Vandals. It was

825
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,719
in the movie Tango and Cash, The Jackal End of Days,

826
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,320
The new Peter Pan Mean Creek and Pineapple Express. You

827
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,519
don't know what you do? You well?

828
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:31,519
Speaker 2: I remember Genie Alexander bringing up the Tango and cash

829
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,639
Terry Hatcher scene with a rasure.

830
00:43:35,199 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 4: This has nothing to do with the racuer or Seashells

831
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,239
to Seashells. Okay, I'm going to give you the clue

832
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,320
that I believe will give it away. Okay, knowing you

833
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,519
the riff that John McCurry used in this song, he

834
00:43:47,599 --> 00:43:51,199
had actually used with one of your favorites, John Waite,

835
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,840
back in nineteen eighty six. Okay, I think I got

836
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,719
it in eighties. John Waite, the singer John Waite is

837
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,639
not the singer of this song. Okay, okay, okay, I'm

838
00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:03,079
gonna play for you the John Wait song from nineteen

839
00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:06,679
eighty six, which you're going to immediately hear that guitar rift.

840
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,079
And if you don't know what the lions are from

841
00:44:09,119 --> 00:44:11,199
this song, you're not the man who I thought you were.

842
00:44:11,639 --> 00:44:13,599
No pressure, Are you ready? Here you go? This is

843
00:44:13,639 --> 00:44:31,840
the John Weight song encircled, so you're anybody who knows

844
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,039
the song who's listening is like scratching their hat at

845
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:38,440
these lyrics, because here's the intro to this song.

846
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 2: I got it.

847
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,079
Speaker 4: Oh you needed that roaring guitar to get it.

848
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:47,639
Speaker 2: Okay, this very nearly made my list. Desmond Child, I

849
00:44:47,639 --> 00:44:50,360
should have got it with Desmond Child, you said, Desmond Child,

850
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,679
I should have jumped on it right there. Okay, Yes,

851
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,480
you were leading me and the clues were excellent.

852
00:44:55,559 --> 00:44:57,079
Speaker 4: This is Alice Cooper, you got it.

853
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 2: This is poison. Oh almost made my list, same guitargraphy.

854
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: Wow.

855
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 2: Yeah that was confusing me there for a second. Total

856
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,480
comeback for him. Oh yeah, big album, big song. What

857
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:27,440
did this reach? I mean this climbed the charts.

858
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 4: Yeah. This was number seven in the US, number two

859
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,920
in the UK. The album was called Trash. I don't

860
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,800
have where it charted on my list here, but it was.

861
00:45:36,119 --> 00:45:36,400
It was.

862
00:45:36,639 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 2: My kids love the song. It's a great song. Yeah, great, Yeah, okay, love.

863
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,159
Speaker 4: It, love it? Okay, next honorable mention.

864
00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:45,639
Speaker 2: Next honorable mention. Okay, all right, So this song was

865
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:49,280
released in October of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, peaks out

866
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,239
in January of nineteen ninety Okay, okay. So this particular

867
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,119
artist and his guitar player were sitting around. They were

868
00:45:56,119 --> 00:45:58,519
trying to write a song, as you do hanging out,

869
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,039
think think, think I need to write a song what

870
00:46:01,199 --> 00:46:05,599
we Got, And he started to craft lyrics about his

871
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,639
frequent trips up and down a particular street in La.

872
00:46:11,639 --> 00:46:15,000
After he built the lyrics around this particular street, he

873
00:46:15,039 --> 00:46:17,920
built a chorus and as soon as he like it

874
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,599
was one of those Eureka moments, He's like, this is

875
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:25,519
a hit, this song. Okay, how am I gonna phrase this?

876
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:32,360
So this song glorifies appreciating pop culture, appreciating your religious background,

877
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:40,000
and most of all, loving your mouth, loves your mom,

878
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:47,440
loves geezes in America. Nothing, all right. The name of

879
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,000
the street is Ventura Boulevard.

880
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, this is Tom Petty Yeah, love it, love it? Yes, yeah,

881
00:46:55,400 --> 00:47:13,599
this is free Falling you got it? Also almost made

882
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:18,480
on my list. Fantastic song, all right, Okay I mentioned

883
00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:21,760
second honorable mention. All right, My honorable mention was written

884
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,920
by John Hyatt and a guy named Fred Kohler, who

885
00:47:26,039 --> 00:47:32,599
was a big collaborator with Shelle Silverstein. Yeah, the Giving Tree. Yeah,

886
00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:35,519
they wrote a ton of songs together, right, Okay, Yeah,

887
00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:38,840
but shel Silverstein Stein not involved in this particular song.

888
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:42,840
This song was released as the second single off of

889
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,280
the album in April of eighty nine, he got to

890
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,519
number five on the Hot one hundred. Band is named

891
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:53,800
after the lead singer, and he is a Canadian blues

892
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,960
rock jazz guy. Played grown up, played in Toronto.

893
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 2: The only thing I can think of so far is

894
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:01,559
no no winger.

895
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 4: Okay. The singer was adopted when he was a baby,

896
00:48:06,039 --> 00:48:09,440
lost his sight before he was one. Don't don't give

897
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,039
it away yet, I gotta. I just got to share

898
00:48:11,039 --> 00:48:12,960
this with you party, all right. I know that you

899
00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:15,800
know it because you covered the movie that it features

900
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,440
in with thirty something daily podcast. You got it. So,

901
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,679
As it turns out, when they were recording this album,

902
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,719
this nineteen eighty eight album called See the Light Clever Yes,

903
00:48:27,199 --> 00:48:31,679
at that same time, their producer, Jimmy Ivy producer manager

904
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,679
Jimmy Ivy was involved with a movie and they the

905
00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:38,840
guys who were making the movie, said Hey, we're looking

906
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,519
for songs for this movie. Here's the script. See what

907
00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:44,159
you can find for us. Now he's in the middle

908
00:48:44,199 --> 00:48:48,119
of producing this album as he reads the script written

909
00:48:48,159 --> 00:48:51,360
by a guy named r. Lance Hill who used the

910
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,320
pen named David Lee Henry. Okay, as he's reading the script,

911
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,719
he's the writer of The script specifically mentions that there

912
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,960
is a a band, a house band at this bar

913
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,440
where the singer is blind and plays the guitar laying

914
00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:10,400
flat on his lap. Now he's producing this band's first

915
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,719
album at the same time, and they're like, what, how

916
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,800
could he possibly you know, how could these things possibly happen? Well,

917
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,639
as it turns out, the writer of the story behind

918
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,639
this movie grew up in Toronto, which is where this

919
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,320
lead singer is from, and he had seen the lead

920
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,599
singer before he became famous, and that was his inspiration

921
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,880
for this house band in this movie called Roadhouse.

922
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 2: Yes, the name of the song is Angelies Got It

923
00:49:37,119 --> 00:49:38,360
by Jeff Heally Band.

924
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 4: That Jeff Healy band.

925
00:49:39,639 --> 00:50:10,199
Speaker 2: Yes, E love it.

926
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,079
Speaker 4: Man, it's a great song, such a good song, And

927
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,719
what a weird coincidence that Jimmy Ivy would be producing

928
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,719
the album at the same time that he gets handed

929
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,559
this script. And so not only does he say, well,

930
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,800
I've got that band, but Jeff Healy is a major

931
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,239
part of that movie, like he and Patrick Swayzey have

932
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:32,119
conversations throughout the movie, and he's obviously a key component

933
00:50:32,159 --> 00:50:34,960
of the bar scene that's going on. I was very

934
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:36,639
sad to learn. I had no idea. He passed away

935
00:50:36,639 --> 00:50:38,800
back in two thousand and eight, just forty one years old.

936
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,360
He had he had sarcoma that he had had removed

937
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,760
from his lungs and legs, but it ultimately it ultimately

938
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:45,480
took his life.

939
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 2: Do you get a chance go back and listen to

940
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,079
the thirty something movie podcast where we talked about Roadhouse Roadhouse?

941
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,880
That was like my first podcast maybe ever, I can't.

942
00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 4: Remember, might avoid the new one. Is what I heard?

943
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,639
I heard it starts well and then whenever is it

944
00:50:58,679 --> 00:51:02,119
O'Connor the name of the Connor McGregor, Connor McGregor. There

945
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:03,840
you go, I know it something like that. Yeah, he

946
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,400
kind of runs it from what I hear.

947
00:51:05,599 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're up to our number ones, number

948
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,119
one one.

949
00:51:14,519 --> 00:51:18,559
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm puzzled, and I'm gonna do my number one

950
00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:20,840
first since you've you've but you've gone first on all

951
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,840
this other stuff. Yes, I'm gonna do my number one

952
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:27,039
first because you know the band already. Yes, right, but

953
00:51:27,079 --> 00:51:29,480
I'm gonna tease it up for our listeners. I just

954
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,320
find it hard to believe that you didn't pick this

955
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:32,559
song before.

956
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 2: You say what you're gonna say, yeah, I am spiking

957
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,400
the football. The song that you're getting ready to talk about,

958
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,920
I believe was much more successful, but I've always liked

959
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,599
mine better, But go ahead.

960
00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 4: Okay, all right. This song was originally written by the

961
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:50,159
singer and the drummer when they were in a band

962
00:51:50,199 --> 00:51:53,719
before this band band was called Plain Jane. The band

963
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,000
had actually been around for a while before they lost

964
00:51:58,079 --> 00:52:00,559
their singer and their drummer and they had audition new people,

965
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,519
and so this singer and this drummer came in and

966
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:06,679
became the new singer and drummer for this band. Right.

967
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,880
The video stars Tracy Allen. It's filmed at a live

968
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,559
concert in Kansas City, Kansas, other locations in Kansas City,

969
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:16,599
and a little bit in New York City as well.

970
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,760
As you mentioned, the singer has a different name his

971
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:24,760
stage name. Yes, he is a boy with a traditionally

972
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:30,920
girl's name. Yes, who married a model from a subsequent

973
00:52:31,039 --> 00:52:35,639
video who had a traditionally boys name, and who had

974
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,800
another person with the same name who was a boy

975
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,280
who had a big hitting eighty nine as well.

976
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,639
Speaker 2: Okay, my productive true.

977
00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I gave a little bit too much

978
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,559
away right there. Oh my goodness. Okay. So the producer

979
00:52:46,679 --> 00:52:50,840
of this album, his name was Bohill, and he hated

980
00:52:51,159 --> 00:52:54,159
this song. He fought with them, didn't want them to

981
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,159
have it on the album. He didn't want to include it.

982
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,519
They fought back, they won. But basically he did a

983
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:04,800
subpar performance on producing it. So the record company brought

984
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,159
in another producer whose name was John Jansen. He reworked it,

985
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,199
and the record company went, no, that's not it either.

986
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,440
This kind of sucks, but let's just put the album out.

987
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:18,679
And so the first two hundred and fifty thousand copies

988
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,159
of this album have a subpar version of this song.

989
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:26,440
But this song starts to gain success, and when it

990
00:53:26,519 --> 00:53:30,400
gets really rolling, the record company is like, well, back up,

991
00:53:30,599 --> 00:53:33,360
we're gonna produce more albums, but we have to re

992
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:38,880
record this song to give it quote a bigger radio sound.

993
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,639
Didn't even ask the band to do it. They just

994
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,880
went in and redid it themselves. It spent two weeks

995
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,159
at number two.

996
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 3: Ah.

997
00:53:47,639 --> 00:53:52,119
Speaker 4: Serious, that's frustrating enough until you find out what held

998
00:53:52,119 --> 00:53:54,239
it back. It was a song called Blame It on

999
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,679
the Rain by a group called Millie Vanilly.

1000
00:53:57,079 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 2: We have got to talk about Milly Vanilli.

1001
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 4: So how upset would you be if your song got

1002
00:54:04,039 --> 00:54:07,719
second place to a band that was lip syncing other

1003
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:08,440
people sinking?

1004
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 2: That's true, and this is really one of the biggest

1005
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,679
power album songs of the eighties.

1006
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,679
Speaker 4: We talked about it in our episode that shall remain

1007
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,719
nameless because it's a mystery episode on the Patreon page.

1008
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,719
Of nine was the year for rock ballads, and this

1009
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,159
one probably laid the foundation for what it meant.

1010
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 2: I don't know why we really haven't covered this album yet.

1011
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,199
There's lots of great songs on this It was very

1012
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,760
popular slow dance Makeout City right exactly.

1013
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 4: This is definitely on the Makeout list. Album is called

1014
00:54:40,119 --> 00:54:44,880
Dirty Rotten, Filthy Stinking Rich, Yes, which they got Dirty Rotten,

1015
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:49,239
Filthy Stinking Rich after making this album. Yep, And unfortunately

1016
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,239
the lead singer taking the girl's name John Kennedy Oswald.

1017
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:58,559
John Kennedy Oswald. He died of acute alcohol poisoning August

1018
00:54:58,679 --> 00:55:02,519
of twenty eleven. His funeral was attended by a great

1019
00:55:02,559 --> 00:55:05,400
many hair band masters, including Great.

1020
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:07,199
Speaker 2: White, performed I Believe It his funeral.

1021
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 4: Oh Nice. The video was directed by Nick Morris, who

1022
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:14,199
had also directed the Final Countdown by Europe okay, and

1023
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:19,039
also recorded a song called Kyrie by mister Mister, which

1024
00:55:19,079 --> 00:55:21,800
I mentioned that for the last thirty years I've been

1025
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,119
singing give me a Days. Yeah, that's not what they say.

1026
00:55:25,159 --> 00:55:28,039
They don't say give me a days. They say Kyrine

1027
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:28,679
something or other.

1028
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: Curi a curie a curie a Yeah.

1029
00:55:31,519 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 4: Whoever.

1030
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 2: Yes, great, that's a great song for eighty six.

1031
00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:35,559
Speaker 4: Okay.

1032
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 2: So this song clearly is Heaven by warranty.

1033
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 4: Man. If that doesn't make your heart swell, then you

1034
00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:02,480
have no soul.

1035
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. I've always wondered why there are two versions.

1036
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:06,039
Speaker 4: Of the song.

1037
00:56:06,119 --> 00:56:08,599
Speaker 2: Now you know, I had the album and the video.

1038
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,679
The songs were different, and now I know. Now you know,

1039
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:12,519
Thank you.

1040
00:56:12,559 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 4: You're welcome. Okay. Now we skipped over your number four

1041
00:56:16,519 --> 00:56:19,159
because I identified it as the same band, but you

1042
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:20,639
said it's a different song.

1043
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 2: It's a different song.

1044
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.

1045
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 2: Now I had this album. I love this album. I

1046
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,719
was a warrant guy. I love Heaven. I'm swaying and

1047
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,960
making out and slow dancing to Heaven as well. Sure,

1048
00:56:33,199 --> 00:56:36,639
but to me, my number four has a bit more

1049
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:40,480
emotional pull. I've always felt stronger about this song because

1050
00:56:40,519 --> 00:56:43,880
you have kind of this sad story of this woman

1051
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,400
whose man walked out on her and left her all alone.

1052
00:56:47,679 --> 00:56:50,719
Her name is Mercy by the way. Okay, the songs

1053
00:56:50,800 --> 00:57:15,239
called sometimes she cries when SS and you have this

1054
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,079
great breakdown at the middle, in sort of the end

1055
00:57:18,119 --> 00:57:21,000
of the song where you have this like big cry

1056
00:57:21,239 --> 00:57:25,320
of maybe give love just one more shot? And that

1057
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:26,639
always touched me emotionally.

1058
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 4: That's great. I've never heard that song before. Wow, and

1059
00:57:41,199 --> 00:57:43,079
it has struck me as we've gone through all of

1060
00:57:43,119 --> 00:57:47,039
these songs. Guys, remember back when they put music at

1061
00:57:47,079 --> 00:57:49,280
the beginning of a song instead of singing right out

1062
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,400
of the box. Yeah, that was the eighties.

1063
00:57:51,519 --> 00:57:52,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

1064
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,679
Speaker 4: Give me a long guitar intro, give me a long

1065
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,719
solo in the middle. I don't care, because I've got

1066
00:57:57,719 --> 00:58:01,360
the attention span to enjoy some quality musicianship.

1067
00:58:01,719 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 2: Fantastic.

1068
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, good one.

1069
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:04,599
Speaker 2: Wow, we both hit on Warren.

1070
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 4: That's cool. Yeah, that was the one song that I

1071
00:58:06,559 --> 00:58:09,079
thought you would pick of mine. I thought you would pick.

1072
00:58:09,079 --> 00:58:10,239
Speaker 2: It was a near miss. It was close.

1073
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:10,639
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1074
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so we're now to your number one. Oh okay,

1075
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,960
so heaven's your number One's my number one?

1076
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 4: All right?

1077
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,199
Speaker 2: I can't wait to talk about this one. I really

1078
00:58:18,239 --> 00:58:20,119
am anxious to know. I don't know whether you know

1079
00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:23,400
this one or not. Ok So here's the deal. This

1080
00:58:23,519 --> 00:58:26,800
only reached number fifty on the Hot one hundred in

1081
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,760
the US. It was a bigger hit over the pond.

1082
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 4: Okay okay.

1083
00:58:31,039 --> 00:58:33,159
Speaker 2: It did reach number two on the US Rock charts,

1084
00:58:33,559 --> 00:58:36,199
released May second, nineteen eighty nine, very close to my

1085
00:58:36,239 --> 00:58:39,119
sixteenth birthday. Now then reached number three in the UK.

1086
00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:43,119
Although this song was released May of nineteen eighty nine,

1087
00:58:43,519 --> 00:58:47,679
it was not played live until April of ninety two,

1088
00:58:48,199 --> 00:58:52,199
three years after its release and several months after the

1089
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:53,400
lead singer's death.

1090
00:58:53,679 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I have an idea. I have an idea.

1091
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:57,480
But keep okay, all right.

1092
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 2: So this song was written by the lead guitar.

1093
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:02,199
Speaker 4: Blows it out of the water, Okay, go on.

1094
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,199
Speaker 2: This song was written by the lead guitarist, and they

1095
00:59:04,239 --> 00:59:07,000
actually kind of do a little bit of duetting throughout

1096
00:59:07,039 --> 00:59:09,320
this song. He wrote it about his divorce from his

1097
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,800
first wife, her name was Christine Mueller, and his new

1098
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,679
relationship with British actress Anita Dobson. Anita Dobson was an

1099
00:59:16,679 --> 00:59:20,440
actress and she was known for saying this catchphrase and

1100
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,480
they turn it into a big song. Okay, okay, now

1101
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,159
kind of at the end. But right about the time

1102
00:59:26,239 --> 00:59:29,159
this song came out, there were some health issues that

1103
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:33,840
were starting to become more known within the band. Okay,

1104
00:59:34,039 --> 00:59:37,280
and this was the time when the singer Di dressed

1105
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:37,760
with aids.

1106
00:59:38,079 --> 00:59:41,519
Speaker 4: That's the track. So this the band has to be Queen.

1107
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 2: It is Queen.

1108
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 4: So we're songwriters are Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Yes,

1109
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,320
they had several big hits and there was one that

1110
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,440
almost made my list. Okay, I want you to tell

1111
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,400
me which of the songs that they have because I

1112
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,519
don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember. You're gonna have to

1113
00:59:58,519 --> 01:00:00,239
get You're gonna have to give me the song. Okay,

1114
01:00:00,239 --> 01:00:00,599
that's fine.

1115
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 2: So this song was off the album called The Miracle.

1116
01:00:03,719 --> 01:00:04,920
This song is called.

1117
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:32,039
Speaker 5: I Want It All, I Want It Now, I Want

1118
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:33,559
It All, and I Want It Now.

1119
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 4: Great pick, great pick. It was hard for me to

1120
01:00:36,679 --> 01:00:40,280
eliminate Queen from my list because a lot of great

1121
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,480
songs love that band just didn't quite reach my top.

1122
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,239
Speaker 2: The one thing about this song, it's a it's a

1123
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,119
rocker and it's it's like a it's like a F

1124
01:00:50,119 --> 01:00:53,280
fourteen Tom Cat. Right, So you've got Brian May killing

1125
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,880
it with the guitar and then it blows the afterburners

1126
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,280
and it hits and it goes blistering rock, and then

1127
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,039
they pull back on the brakes and slow everything way

1128
01:01:03,079 --> 01:01:07,519
down and it becomes like an you know, pumper, I

1129
01:01:07,639 --> 01:01:08,519
just I love this song.

1130
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:11,199
Speaker 4: I always have great song, great pick, can't fault you

1131
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:23,559
at all. Well, we had no overlap. We had one

1132
01:01:23,679 --> 01:01:27,679
band that we all have. That's it, and that's all. Wow, fantastic,

1133
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:28,360
good job.

1134
01:01:28,599 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 2: Well, great list.

1135
01:01:29,599 --> 01:01:34,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, as we mentioned, we didn't cover a whole

1136
01:01:34,159 --> 01:01:38,519
bunch of albums. We didn't include them as possibilities on

1137
01:01:38,599 --> 01:01:41,840
this episode because we've already covered them and told all

1138
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,960
the stories that we know already. Would you like to

1139
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,679
tell me what your real top five is?

1140
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,079
Speaker 2: Let me tell you my real top five?

1141
01:01:50,159 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, quickly okay.

1142
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,199
Speaker 2: Number five Love Song by Tesla that's coming up here

1143
01:01:55,239 --> 01:01:58,119
in just a few months. Number four I Remember You

1144
01:01:58,159 --> 01:02:02,320
by skid Row, another power rock. Number three Cult Personality

1145
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,760
by Living Color. Go back and check out all these episodes,

1146
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,480
of course, Number two Doctor Feel Good by Motley Crue,

1147
01:02:07,519 --> 01:02:11,039
and number one eighteen in Life by skid Row, honorable

1148
01:02:11,119 --> 01:02:13,320
mention Firewoman and Lay Your Hands on.

1149
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 4: Me by Bye Joby. Throwing my list together very quickly, Yeah,

1150
01:02:16,519 --> 01:02:19,280
I don't have them in any particular order. Here's seven

1151
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,239
songs that could be my top five and two honorable mentions. Okay,

1152
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:26,480
Pour Some Sugar on Me by def Leppard. Okay, Love

1153
01:02:26,559 --> 01:02:29,119
Song by Tesla yep, which we will cover later on

1154
01:02:29,159 --> 01:02:32,519
this season. Yeah, Epic by Faith No More. Oh yeah,

1155
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,679
Cult of Personality by Living Color yep. Long Cold Winter

1156
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,599
by Cinderella, Yeah, which I didn't know before we covered

1157
01:02:40,599 --> 01:02:41,079
that album.

1158
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 2: Go back to that episode.

1159
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 4: I called that such a fantastic album. Father Figure by

1160
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,400
George Michael yep. And Personal Jesus by depeche Mode.

1161
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,559
Speaker 2: Hey, there you go. How about that great list? Good

1162
01:02:52,639 --> 01:02:53,639
job you, good job me.

1163
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1164
01:02:54,639 --> 01:02:57,519
Speaker 2: Hit us up on your favorite nineteen eighty nine songs.

1165
01:02:57,559 --> 01:03:00,719
This is harder, especially with two hands tied behind our back.

1166
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,719
Exactly what are your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine? Guys,

1167
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,000
we really appreciate you joining with us and sticking with

1168
01:03:06,079 --> 01:03:09,199
us through this whole episode. If you would like to

1169
01:03:09,199 --> 01:03:11,480
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1170
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:15,480
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1171
01:03:15,559 --> 01:03:17,599
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1172
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,880
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1173
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,199
say to these guys, throw it into a review for us.

1174
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,159
We can't tell you how much we appreciate those personally,

1175
01:03:25,559 --> 01:03:28,239
and also it helps get us higher in the ratings

1176
01:03:28,239 --> 01:03:30,199
so that more people see our show. Thank you so

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01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,920
much for listening. We will catch you guys next week.

1178
01:03:33,079 --> 01:03:35,840
Come back next week. We've got some guests coming with us.

1179
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,760
We're going to do it. What the heck happened on

1180
01:03:38,119 --> 01:03:41,519
Star Wars The Phantom Menace Versus Star Trek the Motion Picture.

1181
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Speaker 4: It's going to be epic.

1182
01:03:42,719 --> 01:03:44,039
Speaker 2: It's going to be amazing.

1183
01:03:44,159 --> 01:03:46,519
Speaker 4: Maybe an epic fail, but it's going to be epic.

1184
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Speaker 2: We'll see you then.

1185
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Speaker 4: Don't look at my pavers, Okay,