Speaker 1: What is up, my fellow Shirley fans.
Speaker 2: Kyle here coming at you from a little place called
Sable Beach, Ontario.
Speaker 3: Picture this.
Speaker 2: It's dusk nineteen eighty six. You're cruising to the beach
and you're Z twenty eight, your best girl riding shotgun.
You've got that brand new denim jacket looking stellar, and
she's rocking those shoulder pads like it's nobody's business.
Speaker 3: You reach over, flip on the radio. What's next.
Speaker 2: It's Jason and D's Top five Songs of Baby six.
So buckle in if you feel the need for speed,
But remember things are always slippery when wet.
Speaker 3: Now take it away boys.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back. And if it's your first
time to join us, you might be asking yourself what
is happening here? Something's going on that's not quite clear.
Somebody turn on the lights. We're gonna have a party
and it's starting tonight. Oh what a feeling when you're
back with the Shirley. You can't be serious podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. We are here to give you our top.
Speaker 1: Five songs of nineteen eighty six. Songs that are all
in some respect forty or so years old.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It is crazy that eighty six was forty years ago.
But I'm excited to jump in the time machine, flip
the flux capacitor on and go back to nineteen eighty six.
What can you tell us what was going on back
in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 4: So here's what's going on in eighty six. Okay, couple
of important things. So the summer of eighty six for
me was the summer of Top Gun. Right, Yes, I
saw that movie. Literally, I rode my bike to the
movie theater with my buddies, Like, what are we doing today?
I don't know, you want to see Top Gun? Yep?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: Right, answer is always yes.
Speaker 4: I saw probably ten times. Ferris Bueller's Day Off was
big in the theaters. Life moves pretty fast. You don't
stop and look around.
Speaker 5: Once in a while, you could miss it.
Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty six was the year that the Chernobyl accident happened.
Speaker 6: There has been a new clear accident in the Soviet Union,
and the Soviets have admitted that it happened. The Soviet
version is this. One of the atomic reactors at the
Chernobyl Atomic power Plant in the city of Kiev was
damaged and there is speculation in Moscow that people were
injured and may have died.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Challenger disaster. I watched that in my
math class. We watched it live.
Speaker 3: Yep, we did too.
Speaker 4: He had the Cosby Show, you had the NES System,
Growing Pains, growing Pains. So yeah, I spent my time
playing Nintendo, riding my bike, and watching Top Gun.
Speaker 1: This is a time in history where our age difference
didn't make that much difference for us because I was
doing exactly the same stuff.
Speaker 4: So the year of nineteen eighty six is the year
I kind of graduated from pop top forty to rock. Yeah,
it looked like fifty one to fifty in the spring
of eighty six. Yes, I went right into the Top
Gun soundtrack, and then I graduated to Slippery When Wet
by Bonjovi.
Speaker 3: That was a big one.
Speaker 1: Yep. Which brings us to the rules of the show. Okay,
so if you haven't joined us for a Top five
episode before, this is the way we do it. Number one,
we take off all of the albums that we've covered
before or that are on the list for this season
ahead of us, and so for this take of our
Top five we're missing some major albums because we've covered
Slippery When Wet, We've covered the Top Gun soundtrack, and
we are going to cover fifty one to fifty. So
all of those albums are off the table for our
top five, which I mean I could easily get my
top five out of those three albums without any trouble
at all.
Speaker 4: When I called you earlier this week, I said it
without fifty one, fifty, the Top Gun Soundtrack, and Slippery
When Wet. Yeah, I'm fighting with two hands tied behind
my back.
Speaker 1: It is a much sparser list. Take those albums out
of the picture.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 4: Also, we've covered the Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill. We've
covered Rundiam c Raising Hell you know Heart's album, the
self titled album it had hit songs and eighty six
The Dire Straits album had hit songs in eighty six.
Peter Gabriel, so album was huge in eighty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've covered those are off the table.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 1: If you love those albums, we have an episode on
every single one of them, go check them out.
Speaker 4: That's right. That doesn't even mention Phil Collins No Jacket Required,
which was in eighty six, and Genesis Invisible Touch was
huge in eighty six.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Also on Patreon we covered something about You by Level
forty two.
Speaker 3: We also covered Your Love by the Outfield.
Speaker 4: I mean, Your Love would probably have been in my top.
Speaker 3: Five, oh, without a question.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, coming up. I hope I'm not knocking
any of your songs out. But on the schedule for
this year, we've mentioned that we have Van Halen's fifty
one to fifty Yes, which was massive for me in
eighty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We also have on the schedule Cinderella's Night Songs and poisons.
Look what the Cat dragged in?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Do we have Madonna and Cyndy Lapper on our upcoming season?
Speaker 4: Well, we have discussed it. I don't know where we're at.
We're going to do that or not.
Speaker 1: Just steered clear of those songs, whether we do or
whether we don't, be Okay, potential was out there, It
certainly could. Okay, all right, all right, Okay, So I'm
gonna say the way that we do this is that
we tease these songs up. We don't tell you the
name of the song. We give you a little trivia.
I give it to Jason. Jason doesn't know what my
list is. I don't know what his list is. I
give him little clues and he tries to guess what
song it is before I'm done. Same thing he does
for me, and you all get to play along and
we'll see how it goes. Ready, you understand the rules?
Is it time to start your engines?
Speaker 4: Two honorable mentions and then our top five? Yeah, tease
it up, sir, I'm ready, okay, tease me all right.
I'm gonna let you begin age before beauty, all right.
Jason's number five, number five, five? Okay. So when I
went to find information about this band and this song,
I can't find a lot. It's a true one hit wonder.
I have a feeling this is either a song that
you're gonna love or that you're gonna despise. There's kind
of no in between on this.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: So this band was out of Portland. This song hit
number three in June of eighty six. So right, smack
in the middle of the top gun Summer Okay, okay.
It was originally on the band's second album. That album
was titled That's Right, which came out in nineteen eighty five.
They redid it released it on their nineteen eighty six album.
That album is called Poolside Now. This is a husband
and wife team. Guy's name is John Smith and the
girl's name is Valerie Day.
Speaker 3: Pretty generic names.
Speaker 4: Yep Day is now working as a adjunct professor at
Portland State where she teaches contemporary jazz voice Okay. She
also has a podcast called Living the Vocal Life. In
two thousand and five, get this, she won a contest
to have her image on the new corporate logo for
Hot Lips Pizza.
Speaker 1: It's Hot Lips Pizza, a Portland, Oregon franchise.
Speaker 4: I've never eaten atizza, but apparently it's her lips that
are the logo for Hot Lips Pizza. Uh. This song
was created using a EMU emulator.
Speaker 1: Too, okay, something emulating an EMU.
Speaker 4: I guess it's emulating. I don't know a whole lot
about it, my lab. Here's my last clue. I remember,
I really don't have anything to lead you on this.
The video, If you'll remember back the video, she has man,
she's got huge shoulder pads. She's wearing like a satin
green blazer, blondehair pulled back in a ponytail, and she's
doing like random task looks like she gets a screwdriver
and does some like it makes no sense. There's a
dog wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 3: Can you give me any clue about the song?
Speaker 4: So, the thing that I can tell you about the
song is it's highly synth and highly sampled.
Speaker 1: So you know the so only one of about eighteen
eighty six.
Speaker 4: You know the scene in Ferris Bueler's day off when
he's using the keyboard to come up with like different
cough cough cough, cough cough. It's like that. I know,
there's not really much to tell you.
Speaker 3: Ok yeah, well then give it to me.
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you the name of the group, okay,
and we'll see if you can even pull the name
of the song from the name of the group is
New Shoes. No nothing, not a clue. Let me play
it for you if you remember it. This is gonna
be one of those where you're like, I always hated that.
Speaker 1: Song so a little like muted picking. It sounds so
much like I want to be starting something or a
pretty young thing off of thriller. Interesting, Okay, I just
just listening to it maybe, which is interesting because I
will have a song later that's a stolen drum beat
from Driller.
Speaker 4: Okay, so very good. So that song is called.
Speaker 1: I Can't Wait, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: I saw an interview with Valerie Day and she looks
like a lady who is close to seventy and just said,
you know what, we had this one shining moment in
nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: Now she's got two with ips pizza.
Speaker 4: I mean, all right to your number.
Speaker 3: Five, all right, my number five? Okay.
Speaker 1: This is the title track to this album. The album
was released in March March third of nineteen eighty six.
The song was released July of nineteen eighty six. It
was recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Sweet Silence studio.
The producer and owner of that studio is named Fleming
Russ Munson and so he produced this album. It is
the second track. As I said, it was the title track.
We've talked about this band before. Before this album, they
fired their guitarist. Their former guitarists said that this is
something that the opening riff is something that the drummer
came up with while the former guitarist was still with
the band. The new guitarist and the bassists said no,
this opening riff is an homage to David Bowie and
it comes from his song Andy Warre.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: They recorded this song slower and sped it up, which
is why it's so difficult to play.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: This is one of.
Speaker 1: The biggest hits and kind of almost like the icon
of popular thrash metal opened the door for thrash metal,
which brought us all of the hair metal of the
late eighties right right. The song is about drugs. The
lead singer wrote the song, and it's about how things
get switched around and instead of you controlling what you're taking,
they take control of you. The other thing that tragically
happened in nineteen eighty six September twenty seventh of nineteen
eighty six is as this band was touring for this album,
their van had a wreck and the bassis was thrown
out and crushed underneath the bus. That probably gives you
who it is and if you don't know yet who
it is. Had we continued doing our Stranger Things soundtracks,
we would have hit this song in what would it
be Season number four because there was a huge part
of that. Yes, I'm guessing you've.
Speaker 4: Got it, I've got it, I've got it.
Speaker 1: I misspoke a little bit earlier and gave it away
and Jason was like, oh, yes, I know who that is.
Speaker 4: When you first started off, I was tracking like British
New Wave until you said the name of the drummer
and then I went on, so yes, obviously this you're
discussing Metallica. Yes, and the bassis who was killed. His
name is Cliff Burton. Just a horrible disaster while they're
on tour. But the song is Master of Puppets.
Speaker 1: It is interesting to listen to David Bowie's Andy Warhol.
It's not identical, but you can definitely hear. It's got
a very similar and it's David Bowie is not playing
on a thrash metal guitar, he's not playing on a
head storted electric. But it's still good. It's still got
that kind of thump to it, so you should check
it out.
Speaker 4: The interesting nugge that you said that I didn't know
was that they played it slow and then they sped
it up, which does make sense why it's so freaking
hard to play. Yes, awesome, Okay, that's great, that's great. Yeah, okay,
onto my number four.
Speaker 7: Four.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is my number four. This song was
written in nineteen eighty. It was leaked to radio stations
in nineteen eighty four. Okay, but it wasn't released formally
until in eighty six. Okay, to me, this is the
most interesting story that I'm gonna tell today. Okay, there's
other songs that I like better than this one, but
this is the story that kind of kind of gripped me. Okay.
So this song reached number one in November of nineteen
eighty six. The band was fighting with their record company
for eight years, eight years, eight years. And when I
tell you the name of the band, you're gonna be like, oh, yeah,
seventies band. Well, the reason why they're looked at as
the seventies band is because they had to blot out
almost all of the eighties. Okay, So they finally won
their legal battle with Epic. Now Epic was the one
that was holding them down. This band is known mainly
for an incredible vocalist and a guitar player who wrote
all the songs and is known for being a perfectionists perfectionist,
so he literally would spend years working on songs to
perfect them, and the record company tried to pressure them
into getting it out there and he's like, not until
they're ready. The interesting thing to me is when it
was leaked in nineteen eighty four, this song was leaked.
I don't think they know exactly who, but it was
leaked to like smaller markets. Okay, so you leak a
song in New York or LA, the record company's gonna
be all over it, right. But the fact that I
think this may have been leaked in like Philadelphia or
you know, Cleveland, something like that, maybe by a former
member of the band or a you know, session musician
somehow got his hands on it, whatever, And as soon
as it was leaked, the radio station of course played
it and it became like the most requested song. So
imagine writing a song in nineteen eighty knowing you're sitting
on this hit like I've got a hit. Nineteen eighty
four confirms that it's a hit, but you still can't
get it out there until eighty six. Okay, eight years
is a lifetime in music, absolutely Okay, after it was released,
of course, the eighty four the demo is poor quality,
doesn't even sound good, but people just loved it, loved it.
Speaker 7: While they're regrouping, we kind of gouned our grippy Little
Claws on this from Rockets ninety four YSPM Okay.
Speaker 4: Two weeks later, they got a season desist letter. This album,
which I didn't realize it was one of the biggest
selling albums of nineteen eighty six and kind of of
the eighties. No video for this song. The lead singer
committed suicide in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And here's the way he did it. He was in
his bathroom and he set up like two charcolers in
his bathroom okay. Yeah, and he duct taped his doors
so none of the smoke could leave, and he fired
up his charcoalor grills and asphyxiated himself.
Speaker 3: That's a weird way to do it. Okay, Got nothing? Okay.
Speaker 4: Dale Selby called me last week and said, it's the
fortieth anniversary for this album, and it's the fiftieth anniversary
of their debut album, Okay, which is widely considered one
of the best debut albums of all time.
Speaker 1: Okay debut album came out in seventy six.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was it named after the band?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Still Got Nothing?
Speaker 4: Keep going Okay, Actually can't. I can't wait to drop
this nugget on you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Since nineteen fifty five, songs with a one word girl's
name has hit number one fifteen times. Okay, including songs
like Bernardine, Tammy, Diana. It hasn't been done since nineteen
eighty six, but nineteen eighty six produced three count of
three number one songs one word girl names. Okay, I'll
give you the first two Okay. Starship had a number
one hit with the songs e Sarah Yeah remember that,
and in the summer Banana Rama had a number one
hit with Venus Yes, And then in the in November
of eighty six, Boston had a number one hit with
the song Amanda, let Me Play It for You.
Speaker 1: I had in my head that was Boston, because that
makes sense because of the debut album coming in in
seventy six.
Speaker 3: But I can't. I couldn't remember. I don't remember Amanda.
Speaker 1: This may be like a new discovery for me, or
I may just be like I just haven't heard it
until long.
Speaker 3: Okay, hit me with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, oh for sure, bringing back all the memories. Yeah,
I haven't heard that song in a long long time.
But yes, no, totally remember that song beautiful Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, during their run in eighty six. They played
four shows a city. So literally, you stop in Detroit,
you play.
Speaker 1: Four songs, it's got to be better shows. Yeah, that's
got to be better.
Speaker 3: Than like that.
Speaker 4: They said that it was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one show, one night next to town. No another show.
Yeah right, this is why you say thank you Cleveland
in Chicago.
Speaker 4: When they played Boston, guess how many shows they played?
Nine shows? They sold out nine days in a row
at their hometown, nine nine times. All right, okay, number four.
Speaker 1: Now the last song. I said that the music was
inspired by David Bowie. Okay, Now for this song, the
lyrics were inspired by a different David Bowie song called
Space Oddity. Everybody knows this David's Yes round Control to
Major Tome. You know that one ever knows that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: So this is the title track off of the album.
The album came out May twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six.
The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard two hundred. Also, oddly,
this band's video for this was shot in Sweden. I
don't think I mentioned the last song, but like it
was in Sweden that Cliff Burton died. Yes, that's true, okay,
And so the video for this song on YouTube, you know,
and YouTube's only been around for what like twenty five
years now or something else, not super long. Yes, has
been viewed one point three billion times.
Speaker 4: Okay, by the way, I think I've got it, Okay,
but keep going.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the lead singer wrote this around nineteen eighty one
or nineteen eighty two when he was still in college. Okay,
he had borrowed a poly six keyboard from the keyboardist
for the band and had just kind of come up
with this riff. But it was a rock band. They
were just like, okay, you know, it was just there.
You know, that's what bands do. They have little things
that they play. And then by the time we're getting
around to eighty five, they're recording another one of their albums.
Speaker 3: The bassist you should.
Speaker 1: Do something with that riff, like put something together, make
a song around that. And so the lead singer takes
it kind of makes, you know, his own little home
tape recording of it, and we plays it for the
rest of the band. Some of them liked it. Guitarist
was like, I don't really like this kind of synthesizer
thing that you've got going on, at which was the
whole that's the beginning of the song, right. That was
the purpose of writing the song was that was that
cool riff. And then the guitarist later on was like,
I'm glad nobody listened to me because this song hit
number five in twenty five different countries. Yeah, it hit
number eight in the US. They only recorded it because
they wanted to have a good intro song for their concerts,
right right, you know, just something to kind of pump
the crowd up before the concert. And when the record
label heard the song, they're like, this needs to be
a single, and they're like, oh, this is just a
it's like an opening song, that's all this is.
Speaker 3: It's just an opening song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they were very wrong about as well.
Speaker 4: The staying power for this song is remarkable.
Speaker 1: By the yes, the actual song did not use the
poly six keyboard, which was like a little kind of
toy keyboard, used a Yamaha TX eight sixteen that's what
that is, and a Roland JX eight P synthesizer and
layered them together to get this incredible keyboard sound that
begins this song.
Speaker 3: And Sweden is a country in what continent.
Speaker 4: That'd be Europe? And this song is the final content.
Speaker 3: But you can't help but air keyboard to this song.
Speaker 4: I love this song, man, I love it. Yes, my
kids know it. They love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine too. So yep, okay, ready three your number three?
Number three? All right, my number three.
Speaker 3: Three.
Speaker 4: As I said, I was, I turned thirteen years old
in nineteen eighty six, big year for me. Yeah, okay,
in the mid nineteen eighties, if you'll remember, music videos
were very very big and movie soundtracks were very very big.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We kind of talked before we were on this, you know,
coming up with this list. You and I talked about
how everybody was listening to the same radio station in
nineteen eighty six, and that radio station was MTV. That's right,
like everybody there was. Probably there are probably a few
years in history that there was more commonality among what
everyone was listening to at the time than nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4: So this song peaks out at number seven in August
of nineteen eighty six. It was released in June to
coincide with a movie. Now. The movie is one of
my personal favorites. It doesn't get a lot of talk.
I'd love to tell talk to you about it sometime.
I don't think you've seen it, but it's an early
pre lethal weapon buddy cop movie. Before I fill you
in on that this song was written by Rod Temperton.
Do you remember any songs that he wrote?
Speaker 3: Is this? Was he involved with Thriller? Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought so. Did he write the rap that
Vincent Price did on the song Thriller?
Speaker 4: Quite possibly?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I recall that he was involved in several
of those songs.
Speaker 4: You have a good memory because we did that now
seven years ago.
Speaker 3: Seven years ago.
Speaker 4: He wrote the Lady in My Life okay, he wrote
Baby Be Mine? Yeah, he wrote Thriller. Yep, he wrote
Rock with You, and he wrote Off the Wall.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: I think him and Bruce Sweden were the guys who
were in the sound booth at the time. Eddie Van
Halen came in to start playing guitar and literally set
the amps on fire.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about that very very soon. Yeah,
because that's important to the nineteen eighty four story, absolutely right. Yeah, okay,
So this song reached number seven. As I said, I
just want to run through these songs real quick the
summer of eighty six, all right, So number seven is
My Song. Number six is Friends and Lovers. Number five
is Dancing on the Ceiling, which you quoted earlier. Number
four is Take My Breath Away, Summer of Top Gun.
Number three is Papa, Don't Preach Madonna. Number two is Venus,
and number one is a song you told me the
other day that you hated and it hurt my feelings.
Song is Higher Love by Steve Winwood.
Speaker 3: Don't care for it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, put it in the Billy Ocean.
Speaker 4: Oh you're killing me. Okay. So this movie is about
two Chicago cops who are close to retirement and they're
trying not to get shot and their captain forces them
to take a vacation down to the Florida Keys. They
go down the Florida Keys, they have a great time.
They realize this is the life we're quitting the stupid
police department, and it's fun and it's funny, and this
song is perfect for the Florida Keys montage. All right.
This song goes to the movie Running Scared, which stars
Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. Okay, and the song is
by Michael McDonald, who also plays a very important part
in Our Van Hill In nineteen eighty four episode, which
we're gonna be talking about here in a week or two. Okay,
that song is called Sweet Freedom, and it goes perfectly
with the jet skiing and the surfing and the girls
and the bikinis and all that stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he obviously is heavily borrowing from Jon Hammer
on his sound style right here right, you know, right
straight out of Miami Vice. So yep, please don't stone
for what I'm about to say. But I also don't
care for Michael McDonald's voice. Oh you're killing me, the
falsetto thing, and I don't like it, mister Dooby. Yeah,
I just yeah. Anyway, So this one I remember it
back in the background of things going on, But this
was one that I was like, I'll go do something
else to guarantee you other than maybe being interested to
see what Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines might be doing
in this video, I guarantee I never watched it.
Speaker 3: Are they in it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're in it.
Speaker 1: Then I probably watched it just for them and not
and no other reason. All right, okay, ready you're number three.
All right, here we go, number three. I'm excited about
the song. I can remember absolutely loving the song, love
it when it came there on the radio, love it
when it came on MTV, and it was on all
of the time. Okay yep, But it actually originally came
out in nineteen eighty four, early April of nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: The lyrics of this song are inspired by ts Elliott's
poem called the Wasteland.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I give it to you.
Speaker 1: Nope, this song, hitting number two in nineteen eighty six
in both the US and the UK, didn't quite make
it to number one. I wish I had done the
Jason Colvin search and figured out what song beat this
one out? Yeah, I did not do that, Okay all right,
but it won Best Single for the brit Awards. This
song by a couple of guys from London, but it's
heavily influenced by rap, which is probably why I liked
it back in nineteen eighty six, being a breakdancer. So
these two guys who were in this group got together
in nineteen eighty one and started writing music together. The
singer had just kind of been had done stuff in
the seventies, but just it wasn't out performing a bunch.
Speaker 3: It was just like I'm writing some songs.
Speaker 1: He had gone to school, had actually started working out
of college in nineteen seventy five, started working for Marvel UK,
which is the you know, Marvel Comics of the UK.
Kind of spiraled that job into some other editing and
journalistic jobs. The magazine Smash Hits commission and said, hey,
we want to We want you to design a book
about the film Take It or Leave It, which is
about the band Madness and their foundation. You remember us
talking about Madness.
Speaker 4: I do in our No Doubt episode.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, it was a Madness album that inspired
Eric Stefani to start writing ska music, right, that's right,
That's right, Okay. So he does this for them, and
it does such a good job that he ends up
becoming a journalist and ultimately an assistant editor for Smash Hits.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And so as his smash Hits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, smash Hits, it's a it's a UK music magazine,
and he's interviewing people for the magazine and he gets
a job to h or an assignment to go interview
sting for the police in New York, Okay. And while
he's there, his writing partner is like Hey, see, if
you can find Bobby Orlando. He's a producer in New
York City and he's done these songs. He's not huge yet,
but he's done these, you know, some songs for these bands.
Divine was one of the artists that he did songs for.
See if you can hit him up and just say
hi and meet him, right, And so he plays him,
this lead singer plays Bobby Orlando some of their demos,
which includes this song that I'm about to talk to
you that I'm talking to you about, and Bobby Orlando's like,
I'd love to produce these. Let's get together and we'll
produce them.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So the producer, Bobby Orlando pulls a drum beat from
Billy Jean by Michael Jackson and puts it in this song.
I didn't know that. I wouldn't have guessed that, but anyway,
So that first version that Bobby Orlando produces comes out
in April of eighty four. It's not a big record release.
They're not a big band at this point, but it
catches on in the club scene.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's got a rap feel to it and a very
danceable beat with a very recognizable drum beat. To it,
and so big club hit in the US and the UK,
which then gets them signed with EMI. When they sign
with EMI, they re record this song and that's the
version that you and I will know because that's the
version that gets released as a single. And what they
do the video for Okay Okay, I can recall that
the song begins with the sound of traffic going on.
There's a kind of a film noir feel about the video.
The lead singer is just kind of standing there singing,
and the other guy, who is just a keyboard player,
he doesn't even he's not back there playing the keyboard.
He's just kind of standing back there in the background
looking what's going on. And this was all a deliberate
decision by the keyboard player. He keeps a low private profile.
He started wearing a ball cap and sunglasses every time
he played I think You're You're not in your head
like you think.
Speaker 3: You got it?
Speaker 4: Think I've got it?
Speaker 3: Okay hit me? What do you think it is?
Speaker 4: Well, the thing that gave it away was the traffic,
sort of the sound effect at the beginning of the song.
Yes is it West End Girls? Yes?
Speaker 9: Yes, Underground we.
Speaker 4: Girl Okay, So West n Girls by the Pet Shop
Boys very close to making my list. I love that
song and it is kind of a British kind of
talkie rap.
Speaker 1: Thing, you know.
Speaker 4: But I had no idea that they took the beat
from Billy Jean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know me too, Wow shocker. By the way,
nineteen ninety nine edition of Guinness's Book of World Records
says that said that Pet Shop Boys were the most
successful duo in UK history. They did have five top
ten singles in the US. Obviously, this one is kind
of their iconic song.
Speaker 4: Without it out. Yeah, gosh, I think I think I
could name three of those five songs. I think west
End Girls. I think it's a sin, and I think
what have I done to deserve this? We're all top
ten hits?
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that's a great one, man. I love
that cool. I'd had no idea it was around since
eighty one or two or whatever.
Speaker 1: You said. Eighty four, Yeah, eighty four, okay, okay, number two, you're.
Speaker 3: On your number two, all right? Two?
Speaker 4: So I wrestled with this one, okay. I originally had
a different song from the same album in the number
two slot, and while I was laying in bed two
days ago, literally like waiting on my alarm to go off,
you know, you kind of have the dream like state.
And I'm like, that's not the song, be honest, it's
this one.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: So this album was dropped December eighth, nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is so, this is late.
Speaker 4: This is late eighty six.
Speaker 1: Not listening to this one really until eighty seven, that's right.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: But my buddy on the bus, who I've mentioned before,
you know how I used to share music.
Speaker 3: You didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't copy and painte and texted to somebody. You
leaned earphones together and you shared earphones, right, And he's like,
he's the same guy who shared White Snake Slided In
album with me. Nice, he shared this album with me.
And when I'm listening to this song, I'm like, it's fantastic,
Like it instantly grabs me. I'm like, that's a great song.
This band needs to be heard, it needs to be famous.
These guys are awesome and they were for a brief moment. Okay, Okay,
So the interesting thing to me is that this song
is a cover, but it's a very different cover than
the original. Right, We've already talked about this song kind
of in detail.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Okay, So this song reached number ninety one on the
Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: Now, the song that it covered was the fifth music
video shown on MTV, and this is from eighty six,
So the cover was from eighty six.
Speaker 3: Oh, the original was the.
Speaker 4: Original was the fifth music video shown on MTV. Okay,
and we've talked about it. Fifth music video, much more
synth heavy version, and even the words don't quite rhyme
the same way that they do in the eighty six version.
Ok Now, the eighty six version is guitar. They even
changed the title, which is kind of weird to me, right,
It just they altered it a little bit, uh huh. Okay,
But when I watched the eighty six music video, it's
a bunch of long haired twenty two year olds who
are having the time of their life, living their dream.
They're wearing jeans and sneakers. You can tell they have
no money that they spent more money on pizza for
the music video than the actual music video. Okay, here's
the kicker. This is going to give it away. You
have personally sat down with this guitar player and played
with him.
Speaker 1: Before Okay, all right, So this is is Tesla. This
is Tesla song from eighty six.
Speaker 4: It's a cover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gosh, what's the name?
Speaker 4: You only play the original for you? Sure, Yeah, I'll
play the original for you.
Speaker 3: I know what it is. I remember the whole suggestion
and the whole story.
Speaker 4: I just can't remember movies a man.
Speaker 9: Okay, songs.
Speaker 4: She filed at the count. She's a lot like you.
Speaker 1: Little Susie's on the up. Yes, so let's yeah, let's
hear the Tesla. It's gret They are just a bunch
of young kids having the time of their life.
Speaker 4: Fantastic. And if you want to hear the story of
how Dee got to sit down and play guitar with
Frank Hannon, go back to our Tesla great radio controversy,
which we did this past summer. Okay, to your number two, sir.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, number two. Now talk about
a brief shining moment. This is the briefest all This
song is their shining moment.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna be so bold as to give
you the lead singer's name right off the bat. Okay,
his name is Nick Vanetti or van Dye anything, Okay,
I didn't think.
Speaker 3: I didn't think.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 1: This song was released in July of nineteen eighty six.
It also has been used in Stranger Things. Okay, but
that's a big that's a big swath of songs, so
that's not gonna.
Speaker 4: Get it right.
Speaker 1: This song is but off their debut album. It was
written by that lead singer. This was the first number
one single for the group. It was also the first
number one single for Virgin Records, and it was number
one for two.
Speaker 4: Weeks, number one on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, okay, are you ready? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right now. They when they were recording this song,
they couldn't get it to sound right, so they flew
in Terry Brown. Is that name ring a bell for you?
Speaker 4: Producer?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: No, not the album that we talked about in our
last episode, but he was the producer of twenty one
to twelve and the other restaurant albums.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, we just talked about that.
Speaker 1: Yes, And so when he came to help them with
this song, he brought Neil Pert's snare drum and they
used neil Pert's snare drum in this song.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: The lead singer wrote this song after he had gotten
his heart stomped by a girl that was his girlfriend,
and then some months later she's like, hey, do you
want to come over? And they spend a marathon night
of passion and he utters the phrase that is this
song's title as he's banging away at the ex girl
and it's this kind of difficult at the moment, Yeah,
at the combination of the face shormaface. Oh you know
what I'm saying. Oh yes, So he's at the peak
of his performance if you will climbac part of the escapade,
he says this phrase, and it's this kind of awful
feeling of like I've got the greatest moment of my life,
but I know it's with this woman who's just going
to stomp all over my heart again. So it's you know,
love and heartbreak and it is.
Speaker 4: It must have been something she said.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is also somewhat based on the French concept of
la petite mort.
Speaker 4: Little death, the little death.
Speaker 3: So you got any idea what this might be?
Speaker 1: I think I do.
Speaker 4: Okay, hit me, this is the cutting crew, that is correct,
This is I just died in your arms, I just
dying of your arms.
Speaker 9: Deny must have been something you said, just dying of
your deny.
Speaker 4: It's a great one.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: This song, I don't think this song is this song
without the ah, I don't. I mean you take that out.
You got an okay song? Yes, that song. It puts
it at number one status.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fantastic song.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And actually they had another hit in eighty seven called
I've Been in Love Before, which is also a heartbreaking song.
If you ever sit down listen to the words to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love that song as well. Okay, we're
now onto our honorable mentions. Yes, okay, you ever actually
gave your honorable mention earlier before?
Speaker 3: We'll cut that in right now.
Speaker 4: How about right here my number five honorable mention? Okay.
This song reached number one in March of nineteen eighty six.
Technically it was released Christmas of eighty five. I'm counting
an eighty Now. These words are widely misunderstood.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: We've discussed this song before at different points. Okay. It
is a song that includes words that I believe are
in Latin. Okay, okay, and we sing it. We don't
know what it means. We just sing it. Okay, all right,
particularly you and I will I say that growing up
with the Protestant background, I was not as fluent in
Latin Latin, you know things like that, right, So I
know what this is. By the way, I figured you
you would get this right off the bat. I mean,
it's hard to steer clear of this, right yea. So
so this was a song by a new group who
the singer had a cocaine problem, which he addressed in
the first single off of that album, Yes, which we've discussed,
and I think it was on your best of eighty
five right now. The urban legend about this song is
that the singer wrote this song from a hospital bed
after he had been assaulted.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, not true, Oh okay.
Speaker 4: They actually wrote this song while they were on tour
with Adam Ant Okay, yeah, which we talked about recently.
What do we talk about Adam.
Speaker 3: Ant Adam and the ants?
Speaker 4: It was, yeah, right, okay. So anyway, the name and
the verse of this song means Lord have mercy and
I haven't my notes here. It's in Greek, so.
Speaker 1: I don't even know Latin Latin.
Speaker 4: It's all great, right, but apparently it's used in the
Catholic and Greek Orthodox services and it means Lord have mercy.
Speaker 1: Right, And as you know, I have been miss singing
these lyrics, or I misssung these lyrics for something like
thirty eight years.
Speaker 3: Yes, two years ago.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know that song, and you're like,
that's not the worst of this song. But I looked
it up on the internet and I am I am
a part of a large group of people who have
misunder stood the words to this song.
Speaker 4: And the song is kyrie. Curie is how it pronounced.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's it.
Speaker 1: However it's pronounced. It doesn't sound anything like that to
me when I'm singing the song.
Speaker 4: That's right, curiate elaison means Lord have mercy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, play that sure, squear up?
Speaker 8: Give me eight days, Give me eight days, Give me.
Speaker 3: Eight days now.
Speaker 1: I never asked myself the question, why did he need
eight eight days to do all these eight days? Yes,
give me eight days to go down this road that
I must travel. Give me eight days to find the
darkness in the night.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, Okay, Hey makes as much sense years and
I loved it. I didn't know what it meant, but
I loved it.
Speaker 4: Hey. That album, that mister mister album, Yeah had broken
wings which was in your Best of eighty five, Yes, Curie,
which was in my Best of eighty six. And then
it had another song called is This Love that was
on the movie Stakeout, which is a personal favorite of mine.
I love that movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's my other honorable mention. All right, okay, and
I think I told you why. The summer of nineteen
eighty six was a big summer for me. First kiss,
first kiss, okay, and I will not release the names
to protect the innocent, but there was some back seat
passion to this song.
Speaker 3: Okay, same girl, Same girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was a summer romance, I know.
Speaker 3: But I mean back seat.
Speaker 1: You weren't driving yet, sure whose car was?
Speaker 4: I think it was like in the church parking lot,
so nobody was driving. It was just like one hundred
and six degrees in the car. We didn't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm hot and sweaty. What do you want
to do?
Speaker 4: I got an idea. So this song peaked out at
number four in July eighty six. Okay, and I believe
you and I have talked about this song. I can't
quite remember it anyway. This the thing that blew my
mind when I started looking into this. It was originally
on his second album. When he played it for the
record producer, like you know, you sit down, you play
your complete album. He listened to it and he goes,
I think this is a B side. Well, eighty six
rolls around time for his third album. He's got a
new producer, Hugh Pagem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hugh Pagem that gave us the gated drum. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he is the producer for Phil.
Speaker 3: Collins and Peter Gabriel. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: So mister Phil Collins plays drums on this version, okay.
And the way this song came to be he was
touring his second album, of which I know you're a
fan because you mentioned it on your Best of eighty five?
Speaker 1: Is this one of those two guys, this is Peter
Gabriel or no, I can say, because we cover those albums,
I can use it.
Speaker 4: So you already used one of these songs from his
second album in your Best of eighty five. This is
now eighty six. This is his third album, okay, okay,
So he was touring that album in eighty five and
he's running around with this radio disc jockey in San
Francisco and the disc jockey says, so, how do you
like the women of San Francisco? And he says they're fantastic?
Speaker 3: How have them?
Speaker 4: And the disc jockey says, well, you know, you can
look at the menu, but you don't have to eat.
And he thought that's a great lyrical line, and so
he took that line and he built the entire song
around this idea. Are you with it?
Speaker 1: You got it?
Speaker 3: It's there.
Speaker 1: It's scratching at the door trying to get in.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, you're the fastest runner, but you're not allowed
to win.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 4: Let me play it mechanic. Nope, it's not. I'm gonna
play the original version for you real quick and see
what you think. I think you'll have it pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I know that I got the tune in my head even.
Speaker 4: Just okay, here's the eighty five version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, this is a song I had in my head,
but I can't.
Speaker 5: I thought this.
Speaker 9: We got the man you But you tescunties, you can
feel the versions, buchts.
Speaker 10: You can tell me.
Speaker 3: What is it you wanted? Is that the name of
the call it? Nope? What is it?
Speaker 4: The song is called No one is to blame.
Speaker 3: Is to blame? Bout.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna play the eighty six version for you.
Speaker 10: Okay, no, no, no, never no.
Speaker 3: So who is this artist?
Speaker 4: This is Howard Jones.
Speaker 1: Howard Jones Okay, yes, oh of course. I actually listened
to that when he did his when he did this,
the song that I did from eighty five, when he
did that with Daryl Hall on whatever this. Yeah, I
listened to it just maybe a week ago, Like I
mean literally, I was like, it's so good, so good, excellent.
There you go.
Speaker 4: Well I love that song and I have a special
memory of that song.
Speaker 3: I bet you do.
Speaker 4: My new favorite hobby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet this is f Have you guys done this?
Speaker 4: This is fantastic. What have I been doing for thirteen years?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So here are my honorable mentions horrible mentions? All right,
first one and keep this try to keep this a
little bit short. This single comes from the seventh studio
album of this artist after he left. You know, we
talked about Pet Shot Boys being success most successful duo
out of the UK. This comes from this artist's seventh
solo album after leaving one of the most successful American
duos of all time. It was inspired by a trip
he had to South Africa as far as the music goes,
and the lyrics come from a party.
Speaker 3: That he was at with his wife.
Speaker 1: And at the party there was one of the greatest
French composers of his generation, guy named Pierre Bulls.
Speaker 3: Okay yep.
Speaker 1: And he introduces himself and his wife and Pierre Bulls
with his French accent, mispronounces his name, mispronounces his wife's name.
He calls his wife his wife his name Peggy at
the time, he calls her Betty.
Speaker 3: If you don't know it by that, then let me
tell you.
Speaker 1: The video stars a former Saturday Night Live icon. This
guy was also on Saturday Night Live all of the
time as both a musical artist and as an actor.
Sometimes yes rather iconic moment in a large turkey out
for the early Saturday Night lives But anyway, Saturday Night
Live actor is lip syncing and this artist is silent
and looking around and picking up different musical instruments and playing.
Speaker 4: Let me just say before I tell you the name
of the song, which I know. This video is genius,
but it capitalizes on this a list movie stars fame.
He is at the peak of his powers at the
time this video comes out, so that's Chevvy. We're talking
about Chevy Chase. Yes, we're talking about Paul Simon. Yes,
and we're talking about the song you can call Me.
Speaker 11: Al if I can call you Betty, Betty, when you
call me you can call me.
Speaker 9: Du du.
Speaker 4: It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's great song, great one and every time I hear
it on the radio, I'm like it turned up.
Speaker 3: Man, I love this.
Speaker 4: Oh that's great. That's great. Okay, love it, love it?
Speaker 1: Next, honorable mention. All right, now, this group started in
the seventies. They started off as a funk group, but
then they became a disco group. Okay, and this song
is where they went from disco back into funk again.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right.
Speaker 1: This is the title track and the first single off
their thirteenth studio album. It was their first top forty hit.
When they originally got together as a band, it was
a fourteen member band and they called themselves the New
York City Players, and then that guy shortened the Players.
They start they thought that sounded like some other like
Ohio band, and so they're like, let's do something else.
So they end up naming the band after a Candian
brand of cigarettes that they saw while they were up
in Canada at one point. Okay, okay, so the band
is named after a Canadian brand of cigarettes.
Speaker 4: I think I know what this is.
Speaker 3: Okay, but keep going, all right? So I really don't
have much more of clues.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that the song, well, i'll tell
you that the video has LeVar Burton as a police officer.
LeVar Burton as from Star Trek Next Generation Jordie.
Speaker 3: Rainbow.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, has him as a police officer trying to
arrest the band. Okay, gosh, and I can tell you
this song uses the notes from Eno more Cones, the Good,
the Bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you this is there spelling in
this song?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Does the singer wear a cod piece in this video?
Speaker 3: Yes? Are your prominent cod Yes? You will bright red.
Speaker 4: I love this song. I love this song and it
almost made my list. I know this. Do you want
me tell you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: The group's name is Cameo, Yes, and the song is
Word of.
Speaker 10: Your Mom.
Speaker 4: Man. It's fantastic. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: So that's my honorable mentions. We are now here, We
finally arrived. We're to your number one and my number one,
and surprisingly we've had no overlap.
Speaker 4: We listened to the same radio station.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we eliminated the same albums which would have
been our real R fives. Right, but wow, with what's
the small bit that's left over?
Speaker 3: We have had at.
Speaker 1: Least six songs not the same. I'm wondering what we're
gonna land on a number one. I don't think you've got.
Speaker 3: My number one.
Speaker 4: I don't think you my number one either.
Speaker 3: All right, then I guess we don't.
Speaker 4: Okay, Before I do this, I just want to give
a quick shout out. We got a new listener who
is a friend of mine who just started listening anyway,
one of my buddies. We went and saw you play
live the other day and while we're sitting there, you know,
he of course had been listening to my podcast and
then he got to meet you, and then he shared
it with this other guy. Anyway. So this is my
friend Tyler Bradley, and he was texting back and forth
and I said, hey, we're doing best of eighty six.
He's like, oh, I love eighty six. And I said, well,
send me your top five songs of eighty six. And
so this is what he sent me. So he says
Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right, which was off our
table but still a classic song of eighty six OMD
if you leave. Okay, we're covering Pretty in Pink in
like two weeks. Massive song, huge moment in that movie.
Great song, kiss by Prince, Dreams by Van Halen, My Goodness,
the Blue Angels. We're going to talk about that. And
finally number one Walk this Way by Arismath. There you go,
run DMC bye, Yeah, there you go. Great songs. Thanks Tyler,
appreciate you man, Thank you listen, Thank you very much.
I'm glad you mentioned this. We have a new executive
producer for this episode podcast friend of ours who just
joined our Patreon family. Oh yeah, Brad Swinson.
Speaker 3: Brad Sorenson.
Speaker 4: Brad is a one of the hosts of the Pop
Culture Yearbook podcast out of Minnesota, and have we done.
Speaker 3: Two episodes with them, one episode, two episodes.
Speaker 4: We've done a couple episodes.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so thank you Brad. You're the executive producer
for this episode. Guys, if you want to be an
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Speaker 1: Doesn't it just flows exactly.
Speaker 4: So yeah, thanks Patreon members.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 1: Number one. You ready, Yeah, my going first, You're going first?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: One? All right?
Speaker 4: So, if I'm taking a truth serum, this was not
my favorite song in nineteen eighty six, but it's now
like risen to the top through a series of books, movies,
exposure to this band over time. Okay, okay, So this
song was released in November of eighty five, but it
reached number sixty one in January of eighty six. It
was included on an album, but that album is kind
of the unofficial soundtrack for another movie. The interesting thing
is the band who wrote this song, was inspired to
write this song after the Live AID performance. I remember
Live Aid was this massive concert event and when you're
watching that amount of people without cell phones, no distractions,
people on shoulders and moving in unison and singing in
songs and remember those days the concerts and their people
are jumping and dancing and singing all in one voice.
So there's actually a documentary of this group and it
catches the moment where they write this song oh wow okay,
which is I think is always fascinating. There's a video
of Aerosmith as they're recording What It Takes, and I
always thought, man, that's really cool. You caught the moment
that they actually sing those words. So this documentary catches
the group singing the song or building the song, and
one clip has the lead singer saying one dump, one turd,
two tits John Deacon, which is an alternate version of
the verse. And when I tell you what the song is,
you'll be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, Can I say, can you save me the alternate
lines again?
Speaker 4: One dump, one turd, two tits John Deacon. Now John
Deacon is the biggest clue right there.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: This song was used in the movie Iron Eagle Okay,
never seen it, and played a big part in the
book Armada, which is a book by Ernest Klein okay,
who also wrote Player one Ready, Player one right. Right,
So this comes from the album that was the unofficial
soundtrack for Highlander.
Speaker 1: Okay, A certain kind of magic, yes, okay, so this
queen song, yes, okay.
Speaker 3: And they were they played.
Speaker 1: A live aid yeah, okay, so they were okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 4: So if you've ever seen the movie Bohemi Rassi, the
movie captures that moment, that moment when you see it
right there, live aid.
Speaker 3: Okay. So it's not a kind of magic.
Speaker 4: It's not a kind of magic.
Speaker 3: Okay. And it's not who wants to Live.
Speaker 4: It's not who wants to Live Forever. It's not Princess
of the Universe, okay, which I thought was a freaking
great song too.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what the song is.
Speaker 1: Then let me play it for you see if you
know it?
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 8: One one song.
Speaker 4: One song.
Speaker 3: Was the name of the song. One mission.
Speaker 4: It's one vision ah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, not in my not when my queen wheelhouse.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I freaking love that song, and that's your
number one. That's my best song of eighty six.
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, I don't fault you for it. It's great.
It sounded great.
Speaker 1: I mean I recognize it, but I just not not
one that I was listening to a whole lot night.
Speaker 4: Well since living on a Prayer, danger Zone, mighty Wings, Right,
I have all that is off the table.
Speaker 1: That's what I got. Yeah, okay, all right, well, what're
to mind? Number one? By the way, you should go back.
I think there was season two that we covered Flash
Gordon versus Highlander to amazing Queen soundtracks.
Speaker 4: Right, Oh my gosh, it's great.
Speaker 3: So anyway, all right, here we are there.
Speaker 1: It is right up there with Jason's second grade handwritten
signature on it. Okay, I think you're gonna get this
one pretty quick, all right. Okay, so I'm looking at this,
I'm like, what can I say? That's not going to
give it away?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Right, all right, So it's off this artist's third studio album. Okay, yeah,
And just thinking off the top of my head, this
artist had a song that another band covered hit. He
had a decent hit with it, another band covered it
almost like within a year or so, and they had
an even bigger hit in the US with it. Okay,
let's see. The singer died nineteen ninety eight, so just
twelve years after the song, and this song hit number one,
hit number one on March twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six. Okay,
this song has references to some years, all right. It's
got references to seventeen fifty six, seventeen sixty one, seventeen
sixty three, seventeen eighty two, seventeen eighty four, seventeen ninety one,
and nineteen eighty five. And that's only in the American
version of the song, because the song was originally recorded
in German, and still it was still in German. It
just for the American version they added some stuff in.
This was really huge. This was really huge because of
a movie that had inspired it that starred one of
the guys from Animal House.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you remember the name of that movie?
Speaker 4: That movie is called Amadeis.
Speaker 1: So do you know the name of this song by
this Austrian art that is the only German language song
to hit number one.
Speaker 4: This song is called rock me a'm a dais woo Man.
I can't blame you at all I.
Speaker 1: Can remember with pure clarity, it would have been nineteen
eighty seven, I believe, being in Hastings Records in the mall,
like small Hastings Records, when it was just like a
little like right now when it became the megastore, right
and being in there, and this song came on, and
I was like, what is this magical thing that I
am listening to right now? Because I had already seen
Amadeis the movie. I was already, you know, as a
little kid. I told you I loved hooked on the Classics,
which had hooked on Mozart. I loved all the Mozart stuff.
And so then and you hear that list of dates
of you know Born, he writes his first all of
these things.
Speaker 4: He composes the magic flute.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, yeah, And I was just like, this is
the coolest thing I've ever heard, a little whatever ten
year old eleven year old me.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's freaking awesome. Yeah, it's freaking awesome. In fact,
that album I had that album. I love that album.
You had Rocky AMeDAS, you had Vienna Calling, and you
had another song called Genie Falco really really cool and
hit it big in nineteen eighty six. Yeah, Austrian rock
singer Falco recorded Rocky Albadash. Wow, I love it, I
love it. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we had no overlaps at all.
Speaker 3: And eighteen songs.
Speaker 4: Several songs that were Yeah, if I showed you my list, yeah,
they're on there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So well, guys, tell us what you think. What did
we miss that you were to put on the list,
And don't forget we did have some stuff that was
off the table. We hope that you will tune in
later on this year when we cover nineteen eighty four
by Van Halen versus fifty one fifty by also Van Halen.
Speaker 4: We're doing that next week, next week, so.
Speaker 3: It's not hard.
Speaker 1: Just hit that subscribe button, hit that follow button and
you will hear us.
Speaker 3: Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 4: We're doing fifty one to fifty verses nineteen eighty four Massive.
We're doing Pretty and Pink versus some kind of Wonderful
two more John Hughes Classics, basically a remake of themselves.
We're doing Rumors by Fleetwood Mac versus Hotel California by
the Eagles. Yeah, we're doing first Bueler's Day Off versus
Adventures in Babysity.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds like an epiting matchup to me, it's
gonna be great. Okay, well guys, tune in for those.
Thank you so much for joining us, Thank you for
seeing it all the way through, and.
Speaker 3: We will see you guys. Thankt week.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Their former guitarists said this opening riff was something that Lars.
Sorry edit that out.