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Speaker 1: What is up, my fellow Shirley fans.

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Speaker 2: Kyle here coming at you from a little place called

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Sable Beach, Ontario.

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Speaker 3: Picture this.

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Speaker 2: It's dusk nineteen eighty six. You're cruising to the beach

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and you're Z twenty eight, your best girl riding shotgun.

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You've got that brand new denim jacket looking stellar, and

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she's rocking those shoulder pads like it's nobody's business.

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Speaker 3: You reach over, flip on the radio. What's next.

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Speaker 2: It's Jason and D's Top five Songs of Baby six.

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So buckle in if you feel the need for speed,

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But remember things are always slippery when wet.

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Speaker 3: Now take it away boys.

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back. And if it's your first

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time to join us, you might be asking yourself what

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is happening here? Something's going on that's not quite clear.

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Somebody turn on the lights. We're gonna have a party

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and it's starting tonight. Oh what a feeling when you're

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back with the Shirley. You can't be serious podcast.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. We are here to give you our top.

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Speaker 1: Five songs of nineteen eighty six. Songs that are all

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in some respect forty or so years old.

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It is crazy that eighty six was forty years ago.

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But I'm excited to jump in the time machine, flip

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the flux capacitor on and go back to nineteen eighty six.

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What can you tell us what was going on back

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in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 4: So here's what's going on in eighty six. Okay, couple

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of important things. So the summer of eighty six for

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me was the summer of Top Gun. Right, Yes, I

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saw that movie. Literally, I rode my bike to the

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movie theater with my buddies, Like, what are we doing today?

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I don't know, you want to see Top Gun? Yep?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 3: Right, answer is always yes.

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Speaker 4: I saw probably ten times. Ferris Bueller's Day Off was

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big in the theaters. Life moves pretty fast. You don't

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stop and look around.

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Speaker 5: Once in a while, you could miss it.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty six was the year that the Chernobyl accident happened.

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Speaker 6: There has been a new clear accident in the Soviet Union,

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and the Soviets have admitted that it happened. The Soviet

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version is this. One of the atomic reactors at the

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Chernobyl Atomic power Plant in the city of Kiev was

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damaged and there is speculation in Moscow that people were

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injured and may have died.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Challenger disaster. I watched that in my

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math class. We watched it live.

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Speaker 3: Yep, we did too.

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Speaker 4: He had the Cosby Show, you had the NES System,

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Growing Pains, growing Pains. So yeah, I spent my time

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playing Nintendo, riding my bike, and watching Top Gun.

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Speaker 1: This is a time in history where our age difference

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didn't make that much difference for us because I was

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doing exactly the same stuff.

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Speaker 4: So the year of nineteen eighty six is the year

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I kind of graduated from pop top forty to rock. Yeah,

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it looked like fifty one to fifty in the spring

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of eighty six. Yes, I went right into the Top

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Gun soundtrack, and then I graduated to Slippery When Wet

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by Bonjovi.

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Speaker 3: That was a big one.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Which brings us to the rules of the show. Okay,

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so if you haven't joined us for a Top five

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episode before, this is the way we do it. Number one,

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we take off all of the albums that we've covered

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before or that are on the list for this season

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ahead of us, and so for this take of our

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Top five we're missing some major albums because we've covered

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Slippery When Wet, We've covered the Top Gun soundtrack, and

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we are going to cover fifty one to fifty. So

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all of those albums are off the table for our

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top five, which I mean I could easily get my

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top five out of those three albums without any trouble

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at all.

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Speaker 4: When I called you earlier this week, I said it

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without fifty one, fifty, the Top Gun Soundtrack, and Slippery

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When Wet. Yeah, I'm fighting with two hands tied behind

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my back.

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Speaker 1: It is a much sparser list. Take those albums out

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of the picture.

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Speaker 3: It really is.

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Speaker 4: Also, we've covered the Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill. We've

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covered Rundiam c Raising Hell you know Heart's album, the

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self titled album it had hit songs and eighty six

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Peter Gabriel, so album was huge in eighty six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've covered those are off the table.

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 1: If you love those albums, we have an episode on

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every single one of them, go check them out.

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Speaker 4: That's right. That doesn't even mention Phil Collins No Jacket Required,

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which was in eighty six, and Genesis Invisible Touch was

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huge in eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Also on Patreon we covered something about You by Level

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Speaker 3: We also covered Your Love by the Outfield.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Your Love would probably have been in my top.

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Speaker 3: Five, oh, without a question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, coming up. I hope I'm not knocking

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any of your songs out. But on the schedule for

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this year, we've mentioned that we have Van Halen's fifty

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one to fifty Yes, which was massive for me in

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We also have on the schedule Cinderella's Night Songs and poisons.

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Look what the Cat dragged in?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Do we have Madonna and Cyndy Lapper on our upcoming season?

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Speaker 4: Well, we have discussed it. I don't know where we're at.

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Speaker 1: Just steered clear of those songs, whether we do or

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whether we don't, be Okay, potential was out there, It

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certainly could. Okay, all right, all right, Okay, So I'm

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gonna say the way that we do this is that

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we tease these songs up. We don't tell you the

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name of the song. We give you a little trivia.

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I give it to Jason. Jason doesn't know what my

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list is. I don't know what his list is. I

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give him little clues and he tries to guess what

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song it is before I'm done. Same thing he does

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for me, and you all get to play along and

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we'll see how it goes. Ready, you understand the rules?

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Is it time to start your engines?

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Speaker 4: Two honorable mentions and then our top five? Yeah, tease

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it up, sir, I'm ready, okay, tease me all right.

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I'm gonna let you begin age before beauty, all right.

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Jason's number five, number five, five? Okay. So when I

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went to find information about this band and this song,

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I can't find a lot. It's a true one hit wonder.

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I have a feeling this is either a song that

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you're gonna love or that you're gonna despise. There's kind

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of no in between on this.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So this band was out of Portland. This song hit

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number three in June of eighty six. So right, smack

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in the middle of the top gun Summer Okay, okay.

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was titled That's Right, which came out in nineteen eighty five.

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That album is called Poolside Now. This is a husband

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and wife team. Guy's name is John Smith and the

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girl's name is Valerie Day.

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Speaker 3: Pretty generic names.

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Speaker 4: Yep Day is now working as a adjunct professor at

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Portland State where she teaches contemporary jazz voice Okay. She

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also has a podcast called Living the Vocal Life. In

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two thousand and five, get this, she won a contest

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to have her image on the new corporate logo for

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Hot Lips Pizza.

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Speaker 1: It's Hot Lips Pizza, a Portland, Oregon franchise.

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Speaker 4: I've never eaten atizza, but apparently it's her lips that

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are the logo for Hot Lips Pizza. Uh. This song

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was created using a EMU emulator.

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Speaker 1: Too, okay, something emulating an EMU.

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Speaker 4: I guess it's emulating. I don't know a whole lot

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about it, my lab. Here's my last clue. I remember,

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I really don't have anything to lead you on this.

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The video, If you'll remember back the video, she has man,

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she's got huge shoulder pads. She's wearing like a satin

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green blazer, blondehair pulled back in a ponytail, and she's

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doing like random task looks like she gets a screwdriver

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and does some like it makes no sense. There's a

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dog wearing sunglasses.

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Speaker 3: Can you give me any clue about the song?

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Speaker 4: So, the thing that I can tell you about the

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song is it's highly synth and highly sampled.

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Speaker 1: So you know the so only one of about eighteen

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Speaker 4: You know the scene in Ferris Bueler's day off when

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he's using the keyboard to come up with like different

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cough cough cough, cough cough. It's like that. I know,

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there's not really much to tell you.

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Speaker 3: Ok yeah, well then give it to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you the name of the group, okay,

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and we'll see if you can even pull the name

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of the song from the name of the group is

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New Shoes. No nothing, not a clue. Let me play

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it for you if you remember it. This is gonna

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be one of those where you're like, I always hated that.

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Speaker 1: Song so a little like muted picking. It sounds so

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much like I want to be starting something or a

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pretty young thing off of thriller. Interesting, Okay, I just

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just listening to it maybe, which is interesting because I

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will have a song later that's a stolen drum beat

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from Driller.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so very good. So that song is called.

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Speaker 1: I Can't Wait, I can't wait.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: I saw an interview with Valerie Day and she looks

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like a lady who is close to seventy and just said,

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you know what, we had this one shining moment in

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nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Now she's got two with ips pizza.

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Speaker 4: I mean, all right to your number.

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Speaker 3: Five, all right, my number five? Okay.

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Speaker 1: This is the title track to this album. The album

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was released in March March third of nineteen eighty six.

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The song was released July of nineteen eighty six. It

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was recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Sweet Silence studio.

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The producer and owner of that studio is named Fleming

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Russ Munson and so he produced this album. It is

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the second track. As I said, it was the title track.

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We've talked about this band before. Before this album, they

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fired their guitarist. Their former guitarists said that this is

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something that the opening riff is something that the drummer

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came up with while the former guitarist was still with

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the band. The new guitarist and the bassists said no,

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this opening riff is an homage to David Bowie and

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it comes from his song Andy Warre.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: They recorded this song slower and sped it up, which

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is why it's so difficult to play.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: This is one of.

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Speaker 1: The biggest hits and kind of almost like the icon

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of popular thrash metal opened the door for thrash metal,

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which brought us all of the hair metal of the

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late eighties right right. The song is about drugs. The

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lead singer wrote the song, and it's about how things

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get switched around and instead of you controlling what you're taking,

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they take control of you. The other thing that tragically

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happened in nineteen eighty six September twenty seventh of nineteen

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eighty six is as this band was touring for this album,

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their van had a wreck and the bassis was thrown

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out and crushed underneath the bus. That probably gives you

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who it is and if you don't know yet who

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it is. Had we continued doing our Stranger Things soundtracks,

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we would have hit this song in what would it

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be Season number four because there was a huge part

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of that. Yes, I'm guessing you've.

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Speaker 4: Got it, I've got it, I've got it.

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Speaker 1: I misspoke a little bit earlier and gave it away

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and Jason was like, oh, yes, I know who that is.

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Speaker 4: When you first started off, I was tracking like British

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New Wave until you said the name of the drummer

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and then I went on, so yes, obviously this you're

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discussing Metallica. Yes, and the bassis who was killed. His

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name is Cliff Burton. Just a horrible disaster while they're

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on tour. But the song is Master of Puppets.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting to listen to David Bowie's Andy Warhol.

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It's not identical, but you can definitely hear. It's got

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a very similar and it's David Bowie is not playing

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on a thrash metal guitar, he's not playing on a

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head storted electric. But it's still good. It's still got

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that kind of thump to it, so you should check

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it out.

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Speaker 4: The interesting nugge that you said that I didn't know

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was that they played it slow and then they sped

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it up, which does make sense why it's so freaking

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hard to play. Yes, awesome, Okay, that's great, that's great. Yeah, okay,

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onto my number four.

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Speaker 7: Four.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this is my number four. This song was

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written in nineteen eighty. It was leaked to radio stations

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in nineteen eighty four. Okay, but it wasn't released formally

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until in eighty six. Okay, to me, this is the

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most interesting story that I'm gonna tell today. Okay, there's

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other songs that I like better than this one, but

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this is the story that kind of kind of gripped me. Okay.

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So this song reached number one in November of nineteen

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eighty six. The band was fighting with their record company

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for eight years, eight years, eight years. And when I

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tell you the name of the band, you're gonna be like, oh, yeah,

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seventies band. Well, the reason why they're looked at as

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the seventies band is because they had to blot out

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almost all of the eighties. Okay, So they finally won

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their legal battle with Epic. Now Epic was the one

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that was holding them down. This band is known mainly

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for an incredible vocalist and a guitar player who wrote

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all the songs and is known for being a perfectionists perfectionist,

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so he literally would spend years working on songs to

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perfect them, and the record company tried to pressure them

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into getting it out there and he's like, not until

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they're ready. The interesting thing to me is when it

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was leaked in nineteen eighty four, this song was leaked.

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I don't think they know exactly who, but it was

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leaked to like smaller markets. Okay, so you leak a

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song in New York or LA, the record company's gonna

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be all over it, right. But the fact that I

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think this may have been leaked in like Philadelphia or

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you know, Cleveland, something like that, maybe by a former

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member of the band or a you know, session musician

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somehow got his hands on it, whatever, And as soon

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as it was leaked, the radio station of course played

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it and it became like the most requested song. So

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imagine writing a song in nineteen eighty knowing you're sitting

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on this hit like I've got a hit. Nineteen eighty

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four confirms that it's a hit, but you still can't

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get it out there until eighty six. Okay, eight years

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is a lifetime in music, absolutely Okay, after it was released,

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of course, the eighty four the demo is poor quality,

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doesn't even sound good, but people just loved it, loved it.

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Speaker 7: While they're regrouping, we kind of gouned our grippy Little

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Claws on this from Rockets ninety four YSPM Okay.

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Speaker 4: Two weeks later, they got a season desist letter. This album,

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which I didn't realize it was one of the biggest

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selling albums of nineteen eighty six and kind of of

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the eighties. No video for this song. The lead singer

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committed suicide in two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: And here's the way he did it. He was in

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his bathroom and he set up like two charcolers in

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his bathroom okay. Yeah, and he duct taped his doors

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so none of the smoke could leave, and he fired

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up his charcoalor grills and asphyxiated himself.

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Speaker 3: That's a weird way to do it. Okay, Got nothing? Okay.

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Speaker 4: Dale Selby called me last week and said, it's the

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fortieth anniversary for this album, and it's the fiftieth anniversary

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of their debut album, Okay, which is widely considered one

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of the best debut albums of all time.

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Speaker 1: Okay debut album came out in seventy six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Was it named after the band?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Still Got Nothing?

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Speaker 4: Keep going Okay, Actually can't. I can't wait to drop

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this nugget on you.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Since nineteen fifty five, songs with a one word girl's

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name has hit number one fifteen times. Okay, including songs

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like Bernardine, Tammy, Diana. It hasn't been done since nineteen

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eighty six, but nineteen eighty six produced three count of

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three number one songs one word girl names. Okay, I'll

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give you the first two Okay. Starship had a number

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one hit with the songs e Sarah Yeah remember that,

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and in the summer Banana Rama had a number one

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hit with Venus Yes, And then in the in November

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of eighty six, Boston had a number one hit with

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the song Amanda, let Me Play It for You.

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Speaker 1: I had in my head that was Boston, because that

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makes sense because of the debut album coming in in

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seventy six.

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Speaker 3: But I can't. I couldn't remember. I don't remember Amanda.

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Speaker 1: This may be like a new discovery for me, or

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I may just be like I just haven't heard it

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until long.

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Speaker 3: Okay, hit me with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, oh for sure, bringing back all the memories. Yeah,

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I haven't heard that song in a long long time.

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But yes, no, totally remember that song beautiful Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know, during their run in eighty six. They played

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four shows a city. So literally, you stop in Detroit,

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you play.

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Speaker 1: Four songs, it's got to be better shows. Yeah, that's

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got to be better.

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Speaker 3: Than like that.

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Speaker 4: They said that it was great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one show, one night next to town. No another show.

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Yeah right, this is why you say thank you Cleveland

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in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: When they played Boston, guess how many shows they played?

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Nine shows? They sold out nine days in a row

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at their hometown, nine nine times. All right, okay, number four.

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Speaker 1: Now the last song. I said that the music was

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inspired by David Bowie. Okay, Now for this song, the

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lyrics were inspired by a different David Bowie song called

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Space Oddity. Everybody knows this David's Yes round Control to

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Major Tome. You know that one ever knows that?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: So this is the title track off of the album.

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The album came out May twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six.

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The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard two hundred. Also, oddly,

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this band's video for this was shot in Sweden. I

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don't think I mentioned the last song, but like it

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was in Sweden that Cliff Burton died. Yes, that's true, okay,

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And so the video for this song on YouTube, you know,

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and YouTube's only been around for what like twenty five

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years now or something else, not super long. Yes, has

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been viewed one point three billion times.

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Speaker 4: Okay, by the way, I think I've got it, Okay,

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but keep going.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So the lead singer wrote this around nineteen eighty one

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or nineteen eighty two when he was still in college. Okay,

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he had borrowed a poly six keyboard from the keyboardist

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for the band and had just kind of come up

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with this riff. But it was a rock band. They

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were just like, okay, you know, it was just there.

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You know, that's what bands do. They have little things

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that they play. And then by the time we're getting

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around to eighty five, they're recording another one of their albums.

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Speaker 3: The bassist you should.

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Speaker 1: Do something with that riff, like put something together, make

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a song around that. And so the lead singer takes

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it kind of makes, you know, his own little home

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tape recording of it, and we plays it for the

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rest of the band. Some of them liked it. Guitarist

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was like, I don't really like this kind of synthesizer

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thing that you've got going on, at which was the

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whole that's the beginning of the song, right. That was

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the purpose of writing the song was that was that

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cool riff. And then the guitarist later on was like,

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I'm glad nobody listened to me because this song hit

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number five in twenty five different countries. Yeah, it hit

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number eight in the US. They only recorded it because

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they wanted to have a good intro song for their concerts,

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right right, you know, just something to kind of pump

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the crowd up before the concert. And when the record

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label heard the song, they're like, this needs to be

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a single, and they're like, oh, this is just a

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it's like an opening song, that's all this is.

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Speaker 3: It's just an opening song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they were very wrong about as well.

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Speaker 4: The staying power for this song is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: By the yes, the actual song did not use the

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poly six keyboard, which was like a little kind of

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toy keyboard, used a Yamaha TX eight sixteen that's what

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that is, and a Roland JX eight P synthesizer and

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layered them together to get this incredible keyboard sound that

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begins this song.

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Speaker 3: And Sweden is a country in what continent.

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Speaker 4: That'd be Europe? And this song is the final content.

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Speaker 3: But you can't help but air keyboard to this song.

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Speaker 4: I love this song, man, I love it. Yes, my

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kids know it. They love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mine too. So yep, okay, ready three your number three?

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Number three? All right, my number three.

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Speaker 3: Three.

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Speaker 4: As I said, I was, I turned thirteen years old

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in nineteen eighty six, big year for me. Yeah, okay,

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in the mid nineteen eighties, if you'll remember, music videos

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were very very big and movie soundtracks were very very big.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We kind of talked before we were on this, you know,

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coming up with this list. You and I talked about

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how everybody was listening to the same radio station in

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nineteen eighty six, and that radio station was MTV. That's right,

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like everybody there was. Probably there are probably a few

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years in history that there was more commonality among what

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everyone was listening to at the time than nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 4: So this song peaks out at number seven in August

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of nineteen eighty six. It was released in June to

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coincide with a movie. Now. The movie is one of

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my personal favorites. It doesn't get a lot of talk.

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I'd love to tell talk to you about it sometime.

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I don't think you've seen it, but it's an early

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pre lethal weapon buddy cop movie. Before I fill you

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in on that this song was written by Rod Temperton.

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Do you remember any songs that he wrote?

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Speaker 3: Is this? Was he involved with Thriller? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I thought so. Did he write the rap that

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Vincent Price did on the song Thriller?

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Speaker 4: Quite possibly?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I recall that he was involved in several

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of those songs.

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Speaker 4: You have a good memory because we did that now

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seven years ago.

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Speaker 3: Seven years ago.

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Speaker 4: He wrote the Lady in My Life okay, he wrote

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Baby Be Mine? Yeah, he wrote Thriller. Yep, he wrote

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Rock with You, and he wrote Off the Wall.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: I think him and Bruce Sweden were the guys who

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were in the sound booth at the time. Eddie Van

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Halen came in to start playing guitar and literally set

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the amps on fire.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We're going to talk about that very very soon. Yeah,

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because that's important to the nineteen eighty four story, absolutely right. Yeah, okay,

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So this song reached number seven. As I said, I

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just want to run through these songs real quick the

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summer of eighty six, all right, So number seven is

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My Song. Number six is Friends and Lovers. Number five

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is Dancing on the Ceiling, which you quoted earlier. Number

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four is Take My Breath Away, Summer of Top Gun.

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Number three is Papa, Don't Preach Madonna. Number two is Venus,

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and number one is a song you told me the

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other day that you hated and it hurt my feelings.

477
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,559
Song is Higher Love by Steve Winwood.

478
00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:35,279
Speaker 3: Don't care for it.

479
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, put it in the Billy Ocean.

480
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 4: Oh you're killing me. Okay. So this movie is about

481
00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:47,640
two Chicago cops who are close to retirement and they're

482
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,240
trying not to get shot and their captain forces them

483
00:25:50,519 --> 00:25:53,759
to take a vacation down to the Florida Keys. They

484
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:56,759
go down the Florida Keys, they have a great time.

485
00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:59,640
They realize this is the life we're quitting the stupid

486
00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,759
police department, and it's fun and it's funny, and this

487
00:26:03,839 --> 00:26:07,880
song is perfect for the Florida Keys montage. All right.

488
00:26:08,079 --> 00:26:11,720
This song goes to the movie Running Scared, which stars

489
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,759
Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. Okay, and the song is

490
00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:20,680
by Michael McDonald, who also plays a very important part

491
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,960
in Our Van Hill In nineteen eighty four episode, which

492
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,039
we're gonna be talking about here in a week or two. Okay,

493
00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:45,839
that song is called Sweet Freedom, and it goes perfectly

494
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,319
with the jet skiing and the surfing and the girls

495
00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:49,559
and the bikinis and all that stuff.

496
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:49,839
Speaker 8: Yeah.

497
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,839
Speaker 1: I mean, he obviously is heavily borrowing from Jon Hammer

498
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,559
on his sound style right here right, you know, right

499
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,960
straight out of Miami Vice. So yep, please don't stone

500
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,799
for what I'm about to say. But I also don't

501
00:27:01,799 --> 00:27:04,279
care for Michael McDonald's voice. Oh you're killing me, the

502
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,400
falsetto thing, and I don't like it, mister Dooby. Yeah,

503
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,720
I just yeah. Anyway, So this one I remember it

504
00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:12,480
back in the background of things going on, But this

505
00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:14,680
was one that I was like, I'll go do something

506
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,160
else to guarantee you other than maybe being interested to

507
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,680
see what Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines might be doing

508
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,640
in this video, I guarantee I never watched it.

509
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:25,319
Speaker 3: Are they in it?

510
00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're in it.

511
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,559
Speaker 1: Then I probably watched it just for them and not

512
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:34,039
and no other reason. All right, okay, ready you're number three.

513
00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:36,920
All right, here we go, number three. I'm excited about

514
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,599
the song. I can remember absolutely loving the song, love

515
00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:41,599
it when it came there on the radio, love it

516
00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:44,000
when it came on MTV, and it was on all

517
00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:47,759
of the time. Okay yep, But it actually originally came

518
00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:50,759
out in nineteen eighty four, early April of nineteen eighty four.

519
00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.

520
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: The lyrics of this song are inspired by ts Elliott's

521
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,880
poem called the Wasteland.

522
00:27:57,559 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I give it to you.

523
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: Nope, this song, hitting number two in nineteen eighty six

524
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,480
in both the US and the UK, didn't quite make

525
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:09,400
it to number one. I wish I had done the

526
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240
Jason Colvin search and figured out what song beat this

527
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:14,559
one out? Yeah, I did not do that, Okay all right,

528
00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:17,720
but it won Best Single for the brit Awards. This

529
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,319
song by a couple of guys from London, but it's

530
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,319
heavily influenced by rap, which is probably why I liked

531
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,160
it back in nineteen eighty six, being a breakdancer. So

532
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:29,799
these two guys who were in this group got together

533
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,920
in nineteen eighty one and started writing music together. The

534
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,240
singer had just kind of been had done stuff in

535
00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:37,640
the seventies, but just it wasn't out performing a bunch.

536
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,279
Speaker 3: It was just like I'm writing some songs.

537
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: He had gone to school, had actually started working out

538
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,319
of college in nineteen seventy five, started working for Marvel UK,

539
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,160
which is the you know, Marvel Comics of the UK.

540
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,400
Kind of spiraled that job into some other editing and

541
00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,920
journalistic jobs. The magazine Smash Hits commission and said, hey,

542
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,200
we want to We want you to design a book

543
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,480
about the film Take It or Leave It, which is

544
00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,200
about the band Madness and their foundation. You remember us

545
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,720
talking about Madness.

546
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 4: I do in our No Doubt episode.

547
00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, it was a Madness album that inspired

548
00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:21,839
Eric Stefani to start writing ska music, right, that's right,

549
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,880
That's right, Okay. So he does this for them, and

550
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,559
it does such a good job that he ends up

551
00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,119
becoming a journalist and ultimately an assistant editor for Smash Hits.

552
00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 3: Okay.

553
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 4: And so as his smash Hits.

554
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, smash Hits, it's a it's a UK music magazine,

555
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,680
and he's interviewing people for the magazine and he gets

556
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,640
a job to h or an assignment to go interview

557
00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:47,839
sting for the police in New York, Okay. And while

558
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,119
he's there, his writing partner is like Hey, see, if

559
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,839
you can find Bobby Orlando. He's a producer in New

560
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,119
York City and he's done these songs. He's not huge yet,

561
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,200
but he's done these, you know, some songs for these bands.

562
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,680
Divine was one of the artists that he did songs for.

563
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,559
See if you can hit him up and just say

564
00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:08,839
hi and meet him, right, And so he plays him,

565
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,960
this lead singer plays Bobby Orlando some of their demos,

566
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,599
which includes this song that I'm about to talk to

567
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,960
you that I'm talking to you about, and Bobby Orlando's like,

568
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,559
I'd love to produce these. Let's get together and we'll

569
00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:20,960
produce them.

570
00:30:21,039 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 3: Right.

571
00:30:22,079 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: So the producer, Bobby Orlando pulls a drum beat from

572
00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:29,680
Billy Jean by Michael Jackson and puts it in this song.

573
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,279
I didn't know that. I wouldn't have guessed that, but anyway,

574
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,240
So that first version that Bobby Orlando produces comes out

575
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,160
in April of eighty four. It's not a big record release.

576
00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:47,079
They're not a big band at this point, but it

577
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,759
catches on in the club scene.

578
00:30:48,839 --> 00:30:49,519
Speaker 3: Okay.

579
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: It's got a rap feel to it and a very

580
00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:56,160
danceable beat with a very recognizable drum beat. To it,

581
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,440
and so big club hit in the US and the UK,

582
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,480
which then gets them signed with EMI. When they sign

583
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:06,400
with EMI, they re record this song and that's the

584
00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:08,640
version that you and I will know because that's the

585
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,640
version that gets released as a single. And what they

586
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,480
do the video for Okay Okay, I can recall that

587
00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:19,519
the song begins with the sound of traffic going on.

588
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:25,119
There's a kind of a film noir feel about the video.

589
00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:27,440
The lead singer is just kind of standing there singing,

590
00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:30,400
and the other guy, who is just a keyboard player,

591
00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:32,319
he doesn't even he's not back there playing the keyboard.

592
00:31:32,319 --> 00:31:34,039
He's just kind of standing back there in the background

593
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:36,599
looking what's going on. And this was all a deliberate

594
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,759
decision by the keyboard player. He keeps a low private profile.

595
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,400
He started wearing a ball cap and sunglasses every time

596
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,640
he played I think You're You're not in your head

597
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,160
like you think.

598
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 3: You got it?

599
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,079
Speaker 4: Think I've got it?

600
00:31:46,119 --> 00:31:47,319
Speaker 3: Okay hit me? What do you think it is?

601
00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:50,359
Speaker 4: Well, the thing that gave it away was the traffic,

602
00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:52,799
sort of the sound effect at the beginning of the song.

603
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,799
Yes is it West End Girls? Yes?

604
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 9: Yes, Underground we.

605
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 4: Girl Okay, So West n Girls by the Pet Shop

606
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,519
Boys very close to making my list. I love that

607
00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:22,200
song and it is kind of a British kind of

608
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,319
talkie rap.

609
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: Thing, you know.

610
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: But I had no idea that they took the beat

611
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,119
from Billy Jean.

612
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know me too, Wow shocker. By the way,

613
00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:35,000
nineteen ninety nine edition of Guinness's Book of World Records

614
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000
says that said that Pet Shop Boys were the most

615
00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:43,960
successful duo in UK history. They did have five top

616
00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:47,960
ten singles in the US. Obviously, this one is kind

617
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,480
of their iconic song.

618
00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:54,319
Speaker 4: Without it out. Yeah, gosh, I think I think I

619
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:58,079
could name three of those five songs. I think west

620
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,200
End Girls. I think it's a sin, and I think

621
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:04,759
what have I done to deserve this? We're all top

622
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,480
ten hits?

623
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: They were.

624
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that's a great one, man. I love

625
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:11,519
that cool. I'd had no idea it was around since

626
00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:13,519
eighty one or two or whatever.

627
00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:17,559
Speaker 1: You said. Eighty four, Yeah, eighty four, okay, okay, number two, you're.

628
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 3: On your number two, all right? Two?

629
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,319
Speaker 4: So I wrestled with this one, okay. I originally had

630
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,640
a different song from the same album in the number

631
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,640
two slot, and while I was laying in bed two

632
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,799
days ago, literally like waiting on my alarm to go off,

633
00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:37,640
you know, you kind of have the dream like state.

634
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,359
And I'm like, that's not the song, be honest, it's

635
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:42,920
this one.

636
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,359
Speaker 3: Okay.

637
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,079
Speaker 4: So this album was dropped December eighth, nineteen eighty six.

638
00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: Oh, this is so, this is late.

639
00:33:48,839 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 4: This is late eighty six.

640
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: Not listening to this one really until eighty seven, that's right.

641
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 3: Okay.

642
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,759
Speaker 4: But my buddy on the bus, who I've mentioned before,

643
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,519
you know how I used to share music.

644
00:33:58,559 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 3: You didn't.

645
00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:01,799
Speaker 4: You didn't copy and painte and texted to somebody. You

646
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,799
leaned earphones together and you shared earphones, right, And he's like,

647
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,800
he's the same guy who shared White Snake Slided In

648
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,840
album with me. Nice, he shared this album with me.

649
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,840
And when I'm listening to this song, I'm like, it's fantastic,

650
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,880
Like it instantly grabs me. I'm like, that's a great song.

651
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:21,039
This band needs to be heard, it needs to be famous.

652
00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:26,280
These guys are awesome and they were for a brief moment. Okay, Okay,

653
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,159
So the interesting thing to me is that this song

654
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,320
is a cover, but it's a very different cover than

655
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,239
the original. Right, We've already talked about this song kind

656
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:38,920
of in detail.

657
00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 3: Okay.

658
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 4: Okay, So this song reached number ninety one on the

659
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,079
Hot one hundred.

660
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,599
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay.

661
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:52,119
Speaker 4: Now, the song that it covered was the fifth music

662
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:57,519
video shown on MTV, and this is from eighty six,

663
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:00,280
So the cover was from eighty six.

664
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,599
Speaker 3: Oh, the original was the.

665
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 4: Original was the fifth music video shown on MTV. Okay,

666
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,000
and we've talked about it. Fifth music video, much more

667
00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:17,800
synth heavy version, and even the words don't quite rhyme

668
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,440
the same way that they do in the eighty six version.

669
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:24,320
Ok Now, the eighty six version is guitar. They even

670
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,280
changed the title, which is kind of weird to me, right,

671
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,719
It just they altered it a little bit, uh huh. Okay,

672
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,119
But when I watched the eighty six music video, it's

673
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:37,039
a bunch of long haired twenty two year olds who

674
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:40,960
are having the time of their life, living their dream.

675
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,639
They're wearing jeans and sneakers. You can tell they have

676
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,400
no money that they spent more money on pizza for

677
00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:50,639
the music video than the actual music video. Okay, here's

678
00:35:50,679 --> 00:35:52,960
the kicker. This is going to give it away. You

679
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,320
have personally sat down with this guitar player and played

680
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:57,840
with him.

681
00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:01,199
Speaker 1: Before Okay, all right, So this is is Tesla. This

682
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,800
is Tesla song from eighty six.

683
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:05,679
Speaker 4: It's a cover.

684
00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, gosh, what's the name?

685
00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:12,079
Speaker 4: You only play the original for you? Sure, Yeah, I'll

686
00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:13,239
play the original for you.

687
00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 3: I know what it is. I remember the whole suggestion

688
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:17,599
and the whole story.

689
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:22,679
Speaker 4: I just can't remember movies a man.

690
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 9: Okay, songs.

691
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:43,559
Speaker 4: She filed at the count. She's a lot like you.

692
00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: Little Susie's on the up. Yes, so let's yeah, let's

693
00:36:49,400 --> 00:37:37,039
hear the Tesla. It's gret They are just a bunch

694
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:38,920
of young kids having the time of their life.

695
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:42,599
Speaker 4: Fantastic. And if you want to hear the story of

696
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,119
how Dee got to sit down and play guitar with

697
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:48,599
Frank Hannon, go back to our Tesla great radio controversy,

698
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,360
which we did this past summer. Okay, to your number two, sir.

699
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,639
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, number two. Now talk about

700
00:37:56,679 --> 00:38:00,360
a brief shining moment. This is the briefest all This

701
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,719
song is their shining moment.

702
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,079
Speaker 3: All right.

703
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,039
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna be so bold as to give

704
00:38:05,039 --> 00:38:07,639
you the lead singer's name right off the bat. Okay,

705
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,280
his name is Nick Vanetti or van Dye anything, Okay,

706
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:13,800
I didn't think.

707
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 3: I didn't think.

708
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 7: So.

709
00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: This song was released in July of nineteen eighty six.

710
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:23,079
It also has been used in Stranger Things. Okay, but

711
00:38:23,199 --> 00:38:25,159
that's a big that's a big swath of songs, so

712
00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:25,960
that's not gonna.

713
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:26,559
Speaker 4: Get it right.

714
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: This song is but off their debut album. It was

715
00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:33,719
written by that lead singer. This was the first number

716
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,760
one single for the group. It was also the first

717
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,119
number one single for Virgin Records, and it was number

718
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:40,920
one for two.

719
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 4: Weeks, number one on the Hot one hundred.

720
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, okay, are you ready? Yeah?

721
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: All right now. They when they were recording this song,

722
00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:53,159
they couldn't get it to sound right, so they flew

723
00:38:53,199 --> 00:38:56,320
in Terry Brown. Is that name ring a bell for you?

724
00:38:57,559 --> 00:38:58,039
Speaker 4: Producer?

725
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 3: Yes?

726
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: No, not the album that we talked about in our

727
00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:08,119
last episode, but he was the producer of twenty one

728
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:11,159
to twelve and the other restaurant albums.

729
00:39:11,199 --> 00:39:14,039
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, we just talked about that.

730
00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:17,159
Speaker 1: Yes, And so when he came to help them with

731
00:39:17,199 --> 00:39:21,079
this song, he brought Neil Pert's snare drum and they

732
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:23,719
used neil Pert's snare drum in this song.

733
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.

734
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: The lead singer wrote this song after he had gotten

735
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,920
his heart stomped by a girl that was his girlfriend,

736
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:35,800
and then some months later she's like, hey, do you

737
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,760
want to come over? And they spend a marathon night

738
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,840
of passion and he utters the phrase that is this

739
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,679
song's title as he's banging away at the ex girl

740
00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:53,599
and it's this kind of difficult at the moment, Yeah,

741
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:59,519
at the combination of the face shormaface. Oh you know

742
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:03,800
what I'm saying. Oh yes, So he's at the peak

743
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:10,400
of his performance if you will climbac part of the escapade,

744
00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:14,480
he says this phrase, and it's this kind of awful

745
00:40:14,519 --> 00:40:16,880
feeling of like I've got the greatest moment of my life,

746
00:40:17,199 --> 00:40:19,360
but I know it's with this woman who's just going

747
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,039
to stomp all over my heart again. So it's you know,

748
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:25,400
love and heartbreak and it is.

749
00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:27,159
Speaker 4: It must have been something she said.

750
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

751
00:40:28,119 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: It is also somewhat based on the French concept of

752
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,119
la petite mort.

753
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 4: Little death, the little death.

754
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,519
Speaker 3: So you got any idea what this might be?

755
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: I think I do.

756
00:40:40,199 --> 00:40:43,559
Speaker 4: Okay, hit me, this is the cutting crew, that is correct,

757
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:49,320
This is I just died in your arms, I just

758
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,639
dying of your arms.

759
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:57,679
Speaker 9: Deny must have been something you said, just dying of

760
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:06,719
your deny.

761
00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 4: It's a great one.

762
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:10,079
Speaker 5: Man.

763
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: This song, I don't think this song is this song

764
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,599
without the ah, I don't. I mean you take that out.

765
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:22,039
You got an okay song? Yes, that song. It puts

766
00:41:22,039 --> 00:41:23,199
it at number one status.

767
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fantastic song.

768
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

769
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 4: And actually they had another hit in eighty seven called

770
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:33,280
I've Been in Love Before, which is also a heartbreaking song.

771
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,840
If you ever sit down listen to the words to it.

772
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:35,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

773
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love that song as well. Okay, we're

774
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,760
now onto our honorable mentions. Yes, okay, you ever actually

775
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,320
gave your honorable mention earlier before?

776
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 3: We'll cut that in right now.

777
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,679
Speaker 4: How about right here my number five honorable mention? Okay.

778
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,880
This song reached number one in March of nineteen eighty six.

779
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,599
Technically it was released Christmas of eighty five. I'm counting

780
00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:05,199
an eighty Now. These words are widely misunderstood.

781
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:06,079
Speaker 3: Now.

782
00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 4: We've discussed this song before at different points. Okay. It

783
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,119
is a song that includes words that I believe are

784
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:19,440
in Latin. Okay, okay, and we sing it. We don't

785
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,800
know what it means. We just sing it. Okay, all right,

786
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,400
particularly you and I will I say that growing up

787
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,599
with the Protestant background, I was not as fluent in

788
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:34,320
Latin Latin, you know things like that, right, So I

789
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,039
know what this is. By the way, I figured you

790
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:37,320
you would get this right off the bat. I mean,

791
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,079
it's hard to steer clear of this, right yea. So

792
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:44,360
so this was a song by a new group who

793
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,920
the singer had a cocaine problem, which he addressed in

794
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,639
the first single off of that album, Yes, which we've discussed,

795
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:52,960
and I think it was on your best of eighty

796
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,960
five right now. The urban legend about this song is

797
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,960
that the singer wrote this song from a hospital bed

798
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,000
after he had been assaulted.

799
00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: Oh okay, not true, Oh okay.

800
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 4: They actually wrote this song while they were on tour

801
00:43:10,119 --> 00:43:14,119
with Adam Ant Okay, yeah, which we talked about recently.

802
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,800
What do we talk about Adam.

803
00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 3: Ant Adam and the ants?

804
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:24,599
Speaker 4: It was, yeah, right, okay. So anyway, the name and

805
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,760
the verse of this song means Lord have mercy and

806
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,599
I haven't my notes here. It's in Greek, so.

807
00:43:31,519 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: I don't even know Latin Latin.

808
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,519
Speaker 4: It's all great, right, but apparently it's used in the

809
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:41,599
Catholic and Greek Orthodox services and it means Lord have mercy.

810
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: Right, And as you know, I have been miss singing

811
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,440
these lyrics, or I misssung these lyrics for something like

812
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:49,239
thirty eight years.

813
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:50,639
Speaker 3: Yes, two years ago.

814
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: I was like, you know that song, and you're like,

815
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,960
that's not the worst of this song. But I looked

816
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,559
it up on the internet and I am I am

817
00:43:57,639 --> 00:43:59,519
a part of a large group of people who have

818
00:43:59,559 --> 00:44:01,760
misunder stood the words to this song.

819
00:44:02,159 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 4: And the song is kyrie. Curie is how it pronounced.

820
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:06,559
Speaker 3: Sure, that's it.

821
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: However it's pronounced. It doesn't sound anything like that to

822
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,079
me when I'm singing the song.

823
00:44:11,199 --> 00:44:17,199
Speaker 4: That's right, curiate elaison means Lord have mercy.

824
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:22,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, play that sure, squear up?

825
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 8: Give me eight days, Give me eight days, Give me.

826
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,679
Speaker 3: Eight days now.

827
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: I never asked myself the question, why did he need

828
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:51,079
eight eight days to do all these eight days? Yes,

829
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,320
give me eight days to go down this road that

830
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,079
I must travel. Give me eight days to find the

831
00:44:56,159 --> 00:44:56,880
darkness in the night.

832
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 3: I don't.

833
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,159
Speaker 1: I don't, Okay, Hey makes as much sense years and

834
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:02,840
I loved it. I didn't know what it meant, but

835
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:03,639
I loved it.

836
00:45:04,559 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 4: Hey. That album, that mister mister album, Yeah had broken

837
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,960
wings which was in your Best of eighty five, Yes, Curie,

838
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,679
which was in my Best of eighty six. And then

839
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,199
it had another song called is This Love that was

840
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,920
on the movie Stakeout, which is a personal favorite of mine.

841
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:21,960
I love that movie.

842
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, all right.

843
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 4: Okay, here's my other honorable mention. All right, okay, and

844
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,920
I think I told you why. The summer of nineteen

845
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,480
eighty six was a big summer for me. First kiss,

846
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:38,440
first kiss, okay, and I will not release the names

847
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,079
to protect the innocent, but there was some back seat

848
00:45:41,119 --> 00:45:42,800
passion to this song.

849
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 3: Okay, same girl, Same girl.

850
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was a summer romance, I know.

851
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 3: But I mean back seat.

852
00:45:51,079 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: You weren't driving yet, sure whose car was?

853
00:45:57,079 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 4: I think it was like in the church parking lot,

854
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,039
so nobody was driving. It was just like one hundred

855
00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:04,840
and six degrees in the car. We didn't care.

856
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm hot and sweaty. What do you want

857
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:07,159
to do?

858
00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 4: I got an idea. So this song peaked out at

859
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:15,960
number four in July eighty six. Okay, and I believe

860
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,480
you and I have talked about this song. I can't

861
00:46:17,519 --> 00:46:20,400
quite remember it anyway. This the thing that blew my

862
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,920
mind when I started looking into this. It was originally

863
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,000
on his second album. When he played it for the

864
00:46:25,079 --> 00:46:27,760
record producer, like you know, you sit down, you play

865
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,559
your complete album. He listened to it and he goes,

866
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:32,760
I think this is a B side. Well, eighty six

867
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,559
rolls around time for his third album. He's got a

868
00:46:35,599 --> 00:46:37,920
new producer, Hugh Pagem.

869
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hugh Pagem that gave us the gated drum. Yeah.

870
00:46:41,519 --> 00:46:44,159
Speaker 4: And he is the producer for Phil.

871
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,039
Speaker 3: Collins and Peter Gabriel. Yeah, that's right.

872
00:46:46,679 --> 00:46:49,679
Speaker 4: So mister Phil Collins plays drums on this version, okay.

873
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,199
And the way this song came to be he was

874
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,280
touring his second album, of which I know you're a

875
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,519
fan because you mentioned it on your Best of eighty five?

876
00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:02,039
Speaker 1: Is this one of those two guys, this is Peter

877
00:47:02,079 --> 00:47:05,320
Gabriel or no, I can say, because we cover those albums,

878
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:06,400
I can use it.

879
00:47:07,519 --> 00:47:11,039
Speaker 4: So you already used one of these songs from his

880
00:47:11,199 --> 00:47:13,519
second album in your Best of eighty five. This is

881
00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:15,920
now eighty six. This is his third album, okay, okay,

882
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,360
So he was touring that album in eighty five and

883
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,960
he's running around with this radio disc jockey in San

884
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,840
Francisco and the disc jockey says, so, how do you

885
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,559
like the women of San Francisco? And he says they're fantastic?

886
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 3: How have them?

887
00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 4: And the disc jockey says, well, you know, you can

888
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,599
look at the menu, but you don't have to eat.

889
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,000
And he thought that's a great lyrical line, and so

890
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:43,039
he took that line and he built the entire song

891
00:47:43,159 --> 00:47:44,960
around this idea. Are you with it?

892
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: You got it?

893
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 3: It's there.

894
00:47:47,039 --> 00:47:49,119
Speaker 1: It's scratching at the door trying to get in.

895
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:54,079
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, you're the fastest runner, but you're not allowed

896
00:47:54,119 --> 00:47:54,400
to win.

897
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 3: Huh.

898
00:47:57,559 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 4: Let me play it mechanic. Nope, it's not. I'm gonna

899
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,679
play the original version for you real quick and see

900
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:04,559
what you think. I think you'll have it pretty quick.

901
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,599
Speaker 1: I know that I got the tune in my head even.

902
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,199
Speaker 4: Just okay, here's the eighty five version.

903
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, this is a song I had in my head,

904
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:19,280
but I can't.

905
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 5: I thought this.

906
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 9: We got the man you But you tescunties, you can

907
00:48:25,599 --> 00:48:28,079
feel the versions, buchts.

908
00:48:29,199 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 10: You can tell me.

909
00:48:31,679 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 3: What is it you wanted? Is that the name of

910
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,159
the call it? Nope? What is it?

911
00:48:36,599 --> 00:48:40,199
Speaker 4: The song is called No one is to blame.

912
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 3: Is to blame? Bout.

913
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 4: I'm gonna play the eighty six version for you.

914
00:48:46,920 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 10: Okay, no, no, no, never no.

915
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 3: So who is this artist?

916
00:49:17,679 --> 00:49:18,639
Speaker 4: This is Howard Jones.

917
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: Howard Jones Okay, yes, oh of course. I actually listened

918
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,320
to that when he did his when he did this,

919
00:49:26,519 --> 00:49:28,280
the song that I did from eighty five, when he

920
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,199
did that with Daryl Hall on whatever this. Yeah, I

921
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,760
listened to it just maybe a week ago, Like I

922
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,679
mean literally, I was like, it's so good, so good, excellent.

923
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:39,119
There you go.

924
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,159
Speaker 4: Well I love that song and I have a special

925
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:43,119
memory of that song.

926
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,199
Speaker 3: I bet you do.

927
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:47,639
Speaker 4: My new favorite hobby.

928
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet this is f Have you guys done this?

929
00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:56,639
Speaker 4: This is fantastic. What have I been doing for thirteen years?

930
00:49:56,679 --> 00:49:57,639
Speaker 3: Yeah?

931
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: Okay, So here are my honorable mentions horrible mentions? All right,

932
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,480
first one and keep this try to keep this a

933
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,840
little bit short. This single comes from the seventh studio

934
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,440
album of this artist after he left. You know, we

935
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:13,480
talked about Pet Shot Boys being success most successful duo

936
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,920
out of the UK. This comes from this artist's seventh

937
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,840
solo album after leaving one of the most successful American

938
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,639
duos of all time. It was inspired by a trip

939
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:27,199
he had to South Africa as far as the music goes,

940
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,199
and the lyrics come from a party.

941
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 3: That he was at with his wife.

942
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: And at the party there was one of the greatest

943
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:39,639
French composers of his generation, guy named Pierre Bulls.

944
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 3: Okay yep.

945
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,199
Speaker 1: And he introduces himself and his wife and Pierre Bulls

946
00:50:45,199 --> 00:50:51,199
with his French accent, mispronounces his name, mispronounces his wife's name.

947
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:54,159
He calls his wife his wife his name Peggy at

948
00:50:54,159 --> 00:50:57,079
the time, he calls her Betty.

949
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 3: If you don't know it by that, then let me

950
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:01,239
tell you.

951
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: The video stars a former Saturday Night Live icon. This

952
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,800
guy was also on Saturday Night Live all of the

953
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,880
time as both a musical artist and as an actor.

954
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,440
Sometimes yes rather iconic moment in a large turkey out

955
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,800
for the early Saturday Night lives But anyway, Saturday Night

956
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,920
Live actor is lip syncing and this artist is silent

957
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,800
and looking around and picking up different musical instruments and playing.

958
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 4: Let me just say before I tell you the name

959
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,639
of the song, which I know. This video is genius,

960
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,199
but it capitalizes on this a list movie stars fame.

961
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,800
He is at the peak of his powers at the

962
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,760
time this video comes out, so that's Chevvy. We're talking

963
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,800
about Chevy Chase. Yes, we're talking about Paul Simon. Yes,

964
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:51,239
and we're talking about the song you can call Me.

965
00:51:51,360 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 11: Al if I can call you Betty, Betty, when you

966
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:05,840
call me you can call me.

967
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 9: Du du.

968
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:14,679
Speaker 4: It's hilarious.

969
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,679
Speaker 1: It's great song, great one and every time I hear

970
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:17,880
it on the radio, I'm like it turned up.

971
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:18,639
Speaker 3: Man, I love this.

972
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 4: Oh that's great. That's great. Okay, love it, love it?

973
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:26,199
Speaker 1: Next, honorable mention. All right, now, this group started in

974
00:52:26,199 --> 00:52:28,559
the seventies. They started off as a funk group, but

975
00:52:28,599 --> 00:52:30,920
then they became a disco group. Okay, and this song

976
00:52:31,079 --> 00:52:33,679
is where they went from disco back into funk again.

977
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:34,760
Speaker 3: Yes, all right.

978
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: This is the title track and the first single off

979
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,239
their thirteenth studio album. It was their first top forty hit.

980
00:52:42,519 --> 00:52:45,719
When they originally got together as a band, it was

981
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,039
a fourteen member band and they called themselves the New

982
00:52:48,119 --> 00:52:50,840
York City Players, and then that guy shortened the Players.

983
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,400
They start they thought that sounded like some other like

984
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,760
Ohio band, and so they're like, let's do something else.

985
00:52:56,039 --> 00:53:00,360
So they end up naming the band after a Candian

986
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,639
brand of cigarettes that they saw while they were up

987
00:53:02,639 --> 00:53:05,000
in Canada at one point. Okay, okay, so the band

988
00:53:05,079 --> 00:53:07,760
is named after a Canadian brand of cigarettes.

989
00:53:08,599 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 4: I think I know what this is.

990
00:53:10,039 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 3: Okay, but keep going, all right? So I really don't

991
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,159
have much more of clues.

992
00:53:16,159 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: I can tell you that the song, well, i'll tell

993
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,000
you that the video has LeVar Burton as a police officer.

994
00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:27,920
LeVar Burton as from Star Trek Next Generation Jordie.

995
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 3: Rainbow.

996
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, has him as a police officer trying to

997
00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:35,519
arrest the band. Okay, gosh, and I can tell you

998
00:53:35,639 --> 00:53:43,199
this song uses the notes from Eno more Cones, the Good,

999
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:44,039
the Bad, and the ugly.

1000
00:53:44,199 --> 00:53:47,039
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you this is there spelling in

1001
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:47,679
this song?

1002
00:53:48,039 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 3: Yes?

1003
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,559
Speaker 4: Does the singer wear a cod piece in this video?

1004
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 3: Yes? Are your prominent cod Yes? You will bright red.

1005
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,119
Speaker 4: I love this song. I love this song and it

1006
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,880
almost made my list. I know this. Do you want

1007
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:04,199
me tell you?

1008
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1009
00:54:05,199 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 4: The group's name is Cameo, Yes, and the song is

1010
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:09,440
Word of.

1011
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:21,280
Speaker 10: Your Mom.

1012
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,079
Speaker 4: Man. It's fantastic. I love it.

1013
00:54:31,159 --> 00:54:31,679
Speaker 3: I love it.

1014
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: So that's my honorable mentions. We are now here, We

1015
00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:36,800
finally arrived. We're to your number one and my number one,

1016
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,280
and surprisingly we've had no overlap.

1017
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,079
Speaker 4: We listened to the same radio station.

1018
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we eliminated the same albums which would have

1019
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:50,159
been our real R fives. Right, but wow, with what's

1020
00:54:50,159 --> 00:54:52,199
the small bit that's left over?

1021
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 3: We have had at.

1022
00:54:53,199 --> 00:54:57,079
Speaker 1: Least six songs not the same. I'm wondering what we're

1023
00:54:57,079 --> 00:54:59,159
gonna land on a number one. I don't think you've got.

1024
00:54:58,960 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 3: My number one.

1025
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 4: I don't think you my number one either.

1026
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,199
Speaker 3: All right, then I guess we don't.

1027
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 4: Okay, Before I do this, I just want to give

1028
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,320
a quick shout out. We got a new listener who

1029
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,599
is a friend of mine who just started listening anyway,

1030
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,039
one of my buddies. We went and saw you play

1031
00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:16,119
live the other day and while we're sitting there, you know,

1032
00:55:16,199 --> 00:55:18,400
he of course had been listening to my podcast and

1033
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,800
then he got to meet you, and then he shared

1034
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,519
it with this other guy. Anyway. So this is my

1035
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:26,679
friend Tyler Bradley, and he was texting back and forth

1036
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,480
and I said, hey, we're doing best of eighty six.

1037
00:55:28,559 --> 00:55:30,840
He's like, oh, I love eighty six. And I said, well,

1038
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,840
send me your top five songs of eighty six. And

1039
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,599
so this is what he sent me. So he says

1040
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,760
Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right, which was off our

1041
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,159
table but still a classic song of eighty six OMD

1042
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,039
if you leave. Okay, we're covering Pretty in Pink in

1043
00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:48,239
like two weeks. Massive song, huge moment in that movie.

1044
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:53,119
Great song, kiss by Prince, Dreams by Van Halen, My Goodness,

1045
00:55:53,159 --> 00:55:56,199
the Blue Angels. We're going to talk about that. And

1046
00:55:57,039 --> 00:55:59,920
finally number one Walk this Way by Arismath. There you go,

1047
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:07,000
run DMC bye, Yeah, there you go. Great songs. Thanks Tyler,

1048
00:56:07,039 --> 00:56:08,840
appreciate you man, Thank you listen, Thank you very much.

1049
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,639
I'm glad you mentioned this. We have a new executive

1050
00:56:11,639 --> 00:56:15,199
producer for this episode podcast friend of ours who just

1051
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,320
joined our Patreon family. Oh yeah, Brad Swinson.

1052
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 3: Brad Sorenson.

1053
00:56:19,639 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 4: Brad is a one of the hosts of the Pop

1054
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,719
Culture Yearbook podcast out of Minnesota, and have we done.

1055
00:56:26,039 --> 00:56:28,079
Speaker 3: Two episodes with them, one episode, two episodes.

1056
00:56:28,159 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 4: We've done a couple episodes.

1057
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,199
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so thank you Brad. You're the executive producer

1058
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,599
for this episode. Guys, if you want to be an

1059
00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:38,880
executive producer for one of our episodes, go to patreon

1060
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,800
dot com slash Shirley Podcast and you can sign up

1061
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,960
for free. You get access to all of our one

1062
00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:47,679
hit Wonder episodes for as little as five bucks a month.

1063
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,920
Plus you get to be involved in the conversations that

1064
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,239
we have about all these crazy things from the eighties

1065
00:56:52,639 --> 00:56:54,119
poles and silliness that we do.

1066
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 3: So tune in for that. Go ahead.

1067
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 4: Yes, by the way, it's kind of a new thing

1068
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,639
we're doing for our Patreon members. Yeah, we now drop

1069
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,920
early and ad Freeah so if the ads bug you,

1070
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,840
five bucks a month, go to our Patreon you get

1071
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:07,639
it ad free, and it.

1072
00:57:07,599 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: Doesn't it just flows exactly.

1073
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 4: So yeah, thanks Patreon members.

1074
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, we appreciate you, guys.

1075
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: Number one. You ready, Yeah, my going first, You're going first?

1076
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 3: All right?

1077
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,159
Speaker 5: One? All right?

1078
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,639
Speaker 4: So, if I'm taking a truth serum, this was not

1079
00:57:23,719 --> 00:57:27,280
my favorite song in nineteen eighty six, but it's now

1080
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:32,280
like risen to the top through a series of books, movies,

1081
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:37,480
exposure to this band over time. Okay, okay, So this

1082
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,039
song was released in November of eighty five, but it

1083
00:57:41,119 --> 00:57:45,559
reached number sixty one in January of eighty six. It

1084
00:57:45,639 --> 00:57:49,559
was included on an album, but that album is kind

1085
00:57:49,599 --> 00:57:53,719
of the unofficial soundtrack for another movie. The interesting thing

1086
00:57:54,079 --> 00:57:56,800
is the band who wrote this song, was inspired to

1087
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,320
write this song after the Live AID performance. I remember

1088
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,440
Live Aid was this massive concert event and when you're

1089
00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:09,199
watching that amount of people without cell phones, no distractions,

1090
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:13,599
people on shoulders and moving in unison and singing in

1091
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,960
songs and remember those days the concerts and their people

1092
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,239
are jumping and dancing and singing all in one voice.

1093
00:58:21,639 --> 00:58:25,679
So there's actually a documentary of this group and it

1094
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:28,960
catches the moment where they write this song oh wow okay,

1095
00:58:29,039 --> 00:58:32,159
which is I think is always fascinating. There's a video

1096
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,800
of Aerosmith as they're recording What It Takes, and I

1097
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,000
always thought, man, that's really cool. You caught the moment

1098
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:42,280
that they actually sing those words. So this documentary catches

1099
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,639
the group singing the song or building the song, and

1100
00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:49,719
one clip has the lead singer saying one dump, one turd,

1101
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:55,480
two tits John Deacon, which is an alternate version of

1102
00:58:55,599 --> 00:58:58,320
the verse. And when I tell you what the song is,

1103
00:58:58,559 --> 00:59:00,679
you'll be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

1104
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Can I say, can you save me the alternate

1105
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:03,360
lines again?

1106
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:08,199
Speaker 4: One dump, one turd, two tits John Deacon. Now John

1107
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:09,920
Deacon is the biggest clue right there.

1108
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,119
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah.

1109
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 4: This song was used in the movie Iron Eagle Okay,

1110
00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:20,280
never seen it, and played a big part in the

1111
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,159
book Armada, which is a book by Ernest Klein okay,

1112
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,760
who also wrote Player one Ready, Player one right. Right,

1113
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,280
So this comes from the album that was the unofficial

1114
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:32,519
soundtrack for Highlander.

1115
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: Okay, A certain kind of magic, yes, okay, so this

1116
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,719
queen song, yes, okay.

1117
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,679
Speaker 3: And they were they played.

1118
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:44,239
Speaker 1: A live aid yeah, okay, so they were okay, okay, yeah, yeah,

1119
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:45,239
all right.

1120
00:59:45,639 --> 00:59:48,599
Speaker 4: So if you've ever seen the movie Bohemi Rassi, the

1121
00:59:48,639 --> 00:59:50,960
movie captures that moment, that moment when you see it

1122
00:59:51,039 --> 00:59:51,920
right there, live aid.

1123
00:59:52,119 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 3: Okay. So it's not a kind of magic.

1124
00:59:54,199 --> 00:59:55,199
Speaker 4: It's not a kind of magic.

1125
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,039
Speaker 3: Okay. And it's not who wants to Live.

1126
00:59:57,639 --> 01:00:01,199
Speaker 4: It's not who wants to Live Forever. It's not Princess

1127
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,559
of the Universe, okay, which I thought was a freaking

1128
01:00:04,639 --> 01:00:05,519
great song too.

1129
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,159
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what the song is.

1130
01:00:07,199 --> 01:00:08,559
Speaker 1: Then let me play it for you see if you

1131
01:00:08,559 --> 01:00:08,800
know it?

1132
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 5: Okay.

1133
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,679
Speaker 8: One one song.

1134
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,719
Speaker 4: One song.

1135
01:00:39,159 --> 01:00:40,719
Speaker 3: Was the name of the song. One mission.

1136
01:00:41,239 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 4: It's one vision ah.

1137
01:00:43,239 --> 01:00:47,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, not in my not when my queen wheelhouse.

1138
01:00:47,119 --> 01:00:49,599
Speaker 4: Oh man, I freaking love that song, and that's your

1139
01:00:49,639 --> 01:00:51,960
number one. That's my best song of eighty six.

1140
01:00:52,079 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, I don't fault you for it. It's great.

1141
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:55,639
It sounded great.

1142
01:00:55,719 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 1: I mean I recognize it, but I just not not

1143
01:00:58,519 --> 01:00:59,960
one that I was listening to a whole lot night.

1144
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:06,159
Speaker 4: Well since living on a Prayer, danger Zone, mighty Wings, Right,

1145
01:01:06,199 --> 01:01:07,519
I have all that is off the table.

1146
01:01:07,559 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: That's what I got. Yeah, okay, all right, well, what're

1147
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,239
to mind? Number one? By the way, you should go back.

1148
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,440
I think there was season two that we covered Flash

1149
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:20,599
Gordon versus Highlander to amazing Queen soundtracks.

1150
01:01:20,639 --> 01:01:22,159
Speaker 4: Right, Oh my gosh, it's great.

1151
01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:25,239
Speaker 3: So anyway, all right, here we are there.

1152
01:01:25,239 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: It is right up there with Jason's second grade handwritten

1153
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,880
signature on it. Okay, I think you're gonna get this

1154
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,800
one pretty quick, all right. Okay, so I'm looking at this,

1155
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,840
I'm like, what can I say? That's not going to

1156
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:38,320
give it away?

1157
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:38,679
Speaker 6: All right?

1158
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:43,599
Speaker 1: Right, all right, So it's off this artist's third studio album. Okay, yeah,

1159
01:01:43,719 --> 01:01:45,480
And just thinking off the top of my head, this

1160
01:01:45,639 --> 01:01:49,400
artist had a song that another band covered hit. He

1161
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,280
had a decent hit with it, another band covered it

1162
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,679
almost like within a year or so, and they had

1163
01:01:53,719 --> 01:01:56,119
an even bigger hit in the US with it. Okay,

1164
01:01:57,639 --> 01:02:02,440
let's see. The singer died nineteen ninety eight, so just

1165
01:02:03,039 --> 01:02:06,440
twelve years after the song, and this song hit number one,

1166
01:02:06,519 --> 01:02:11,639
hit number one on March twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six. Okay,

1167
01:02:11,679 --> 01:02:16,639
this song has references to some years, all right. It's

1168
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:21,800
got references to seventeen fifty six, seventeen sixty one, seventeen

1169
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:26,679
sixty three, seventeen eighty two, seventeen eighty four, seventeen ninety one,

1170
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:33,239
and nineteen eighty five. And that's only in the American

1171
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,320
version of the song, because the song was originally recorded

1172
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:39,840
in German, and still it was still in German. It

1173
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,719
just for the American version they added some stuff in.

1174
01:02:43,119 --> 01:02:47,000
This was really huge. This was really huge because of

1175
01:02:47,199 --> 01:02:50,960
a movie that had inspired it that starred one of

1176
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,519
the guys from Animal House.

1177
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you remember the name of that movie?

1178
01:02:55,119 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 4: That movie is called Amadeis.

1179
01:02:57,119 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: So do you know the name of this song by

1180
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:03,039
this Austrian art that is the only German language song

1181
01:03:03,079 --> 01:03:03,880
to hit number one.

1182
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:35,599
Speaker 4: This song is called rock me a'm a dais woo Man.

1183
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,239
I can't blame you at all I.

1184
01:03:38,159 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: Can remember with pure clarity, it would have been nineteen

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eighty seven, I believe, being in Hastings Records in the mall,

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like small Hastings Records, when it was just like a

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little like right now when it became the megastore, right

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and being in there, and this song came on, and

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I was like, what is this magical thing that I

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am listening to right now? Because I had already seen

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Amadeis the movie. I was already, you know, as a

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little kid. I told you I loved hooked on the Classics,

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which had hooked on Mozart. I loved all the Mozart stuff.

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And so then and you hear that list of dates

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of you know Born, he writes his first all of

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these things.

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Speaker 4: He composes the magic flute.

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Speaker 1: Right yeah, yeah, And I was just like, this is

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the coolest thing I've ever heard, a little whatever ten

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year old eleven year old me.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's freaking awesome. Yeah, it's freaking awesome. In fact,

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that album I had that album. I love that album.

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You had Rocky AMeDAS, you had Vienna Calling, and you

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had another song called Genie Falco really really cool and

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hit it big in nineteen eighty six. Yeah, Austrian rock

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singer Falco recorded Rocky Albadash. Wow, I love it, I

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love it. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we had no overlaps at all.

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Speaker 3: And eighteen songs.

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Speaker 4: Several songs that were Yeah, if I showed you my list, yeah,

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they're on there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So well, guys, tell us what you think. What did

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we miss that you were to put on the list,

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And don't forget we did have some stuff that was

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off the table. We hope that you will tune in

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later on this year when we cover nineteen eighty four

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by Van Halen versus fifty one fifty by also Van Halen.

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Speaker 4: We're doing that next week, next week, so.

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Speaker 3: It's not hard.

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Speaker 1: Just hit that subscribe button, hit that follow button and

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you will hear us.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what else you got?

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Speaker 4: We're doing fifty one to fifty verses nineteen eighty four Massive.

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We're doing Pretty and Pink versus some kind of Wonderful

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two more John Hughes Classics, basically a remake of themselves.

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We're doing Rumors by Fleetwood Mac versus Hotel California by

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the Eagles. Yeah, we're doing first Bueler's Day Off versus

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Adventures in Babysity.

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Speaker 1: Oh that sounds like an epiting matchup to me, it's

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gonna be great. Okay, well guys, tune in for those.

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Thank you so much for joining us, Thank you for

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seeing it all the way through, and.

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Speaker 3: We will see you guys. Thankt week.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: Their former guitarists said this opening riff was something that Lars.

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Sorry edit that out.