Top 5 Songs of 1994!

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