Top 5 Songs of 1984

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<v Speaker 3>Can you believe we've been doing this for coming up
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<v Speaker 3>You know, almost four years ago from this date, we
<v Speaker 3>recorded a three hour episode and we were like, this sucks.
<v Speaker 3>The start over. We trashed it.
<v Speaker 2>We are going to be talking about stuff from that
<v Speaker 2>very episode. Our very first episode was an album that
<v Speaker 2>was huge in both eighty three and eighty four, and
<v Speaker 2>then last year, just kind of on a whim, on
<v Speaker 2>an in between seasons episode, we decided, hey, let's do
<v Speaker 2>the top hit of nineteen eighty three. Well, as it
<v Speaker 2>turned out, that ended up being a really fun and
<v Speaker 2>really popular episode, and so we did several top five
<v Speaker 2>lists over the course of last season, and we thought,
<v Speaker 2>why don't we start the year off with another top
<v Speaker 2>five this year?
<v Speaker 3>Hey, I'm telling you, when it comes to music, nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty four may be the best.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible, and just as an example of how good
<v Speaker 2>it is, we have covered every single album that was
<v Speaker 2>a top album of that year already, every single one,
<v Speaker 2>is that right? Yes, We've covered the Footloose soundtrack, we
<v Speaker 2>covered Thriller, we covered Purple Rain, we covered Born in
<v Speaker 2>the USA, and we covered Ue Loose in the New Sports.
<v Speaker 2>I mean we've hit them all. Those were the only
<v Speaker 2>albums that were top albums in a Billboard two hundred
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty four. In a job Us, Yeah, good
<v Speaker 2>job us. In our nineteen eighty three top five episode,
<v Speaker 2>we hit some of the ones that we had covered already.
<v Speaker 2>But we've learned over the course of the last season
<v Speaker 2>we need to put some rules on ourselves so that
<v Speaker 2>we can have some new material. That's right. So this
<v Speaker 2>episode we are not touching any songs on any of
<v Speaker 2>those albums that I just mentioned, or any of the
<v Speaker 2>other big albums from nineteen eighty four that we might
<v Speaker 2>have touched on maybe last season, like Billy Joel's Innocent
<v Speaker 2>Man or Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down.
<v Speaker 3>Wait a minute now, are you telling me that we're
<v Speaker 3>doing a top five list from nineteen eighty four and
<v Speaker 3>we're not including Thriller, We're not including Purple Rain, We're
<v Speaker 3>not including Footloos, We're not including Billy, Joel, Lionel, Ritchie,
<v Speaker 3>all of those.
<v Speaker 2>That is correct, sir, Wow, it's gonna be hard. No,
<v Speaker 2>it's not. It's only hard because even without those monumental albums,
<v Speaker 2>there are still a bud jillion songs that are worthy
<v Speaker 2>of talking about.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so here's what I think we should do. Let's
<v Speaker 3>go through our top five plus two honorable mentions, and
<v Speaker 3>then at the end of this, let's give the real
<v Speaker 3>top five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's fair, Okay, the real top five being the
<v Speaker 2>ones that we would include the albums that we've already covered. Yeah, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 2>Well I've got another idea, all right. Yeah, there's one
<v Speaker 2>song that's a nineteen eighty four or mammoth hit that
<v Speaker 2>I say we make it a secret song. It's a
<v Speaker 2>secret episode, and ladies and gentlemen, if you're listening, you
<v Speaker 2>can have access to that episode, that one secret song
<v Speaker 2>that we're going to talk about from nineteen eighty four.
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<v Speaker 2>and every other one hit wonder that we've covered over
<v Speaker 2>the last year and a half.
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<v Speaker 3>you'll be able to see what the song is, what
<v Speaker 3>we're talking about exactly.
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<v Speaker 3>Okay, there you go, dude.
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready to jump into this list. Can we go.
<v Speaker 3>Let's go, let's go once you go first? Number five?
<v Speaker 3>All right?
<v Speaker 2>So say that we do this is we tease it up.
<v Speaker 2>We tease it up for each other. We give a
<v Speaker 2>little clues to see if we can get the other
<v Speaker 2>guy to guess it. All right, Okay, and so here
<v Speaker 2>we are my number five five Okay. This artist had
<v Speaker 2>seven top forty hits during the nineteen eighties. Her songs
<v Speaker 2>have been covered by Michael Bolton and Celine Dion. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The song that she had big in eighty four was
<v Speaker 2>actually released by an Italian group called Raff in nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty four in Italy. That version went to number one
<v Speaker 2>in Italy, and this artist version was recorded and released
<v Speaker 2>shortly after still nineteen eighty four, so they actually ended
<v Speaker 2>up competing against each other on the charts. They were
<v Speaker 2>actually number one and number two in Germany. Raff had
<v Speaker 2>number two and this artist had number one. Okay. In
<v Speaker 2>Switzerland and Germany, this version of the song was considered
<v Speaker 2>the song of the year. It was arranged by Harold.
<v Speaker 3>Faalt My wait Wait Wait wait held Faltemeyer the top
<v Speaker 3>gun anthem Guy axel f Yes okay, Georgio Moroder's right
<v Speaker 3>hand man, Yeah, you got my attention okay. Singer started
<v Speaker 3>off by singing backup for Leonard Cohen Okay. She decided
<v Speaker 3>to try to get a manager herself and ended up
<v Speaker 3>Sid Bernstein agreed to represent her. He got her a
<v Speaker 3>record deal Jack White was producing, and Jack White introduced
<v Speaker 3>her to this new manager named Susan Joseph, and she
<v Speaker 3>switched Well. Bernstein ends up suing her for fifteen million dollars.
<v Speaker 3>So when you say she in nineteen eighty four, my
<v Speaker 3>mind automatically goes to either Madonna or Cyndi Lauper.
<v Speaker 2>Of course it does, okay, but it's not either one
<v Speaker 2>of them.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, okay, keep going, keep it right.
<v Speaker 2>So in nineteen ninety she retired from music because she
<v Speaker 2>had to take care of her husband, who had cancer.
<v Speaker 2>She in two thousand and one went back into the studio,
<v Speaker 2>remastered some of her songs, including this one, made it
<v Speaker 2>a dance hit, and then started performing live again and
<v Speaker 2>was working on her back album when in two thousand
<v Speaker 2>and four she had a brain hemorrhage and died instantly,
<v Speaker 2>totally unexpected. And in two thousand and four, after that happened,
<v Speaker 2>this song hit the charts again. She had had a
<v Speaker 2>little more success with another song, hand On Yeah, I.
<v Speaker 3>Think I got it?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, is it Laura Branigan, you got it? Yes?
<v Speaker 3>This is self control.
<v Speaker 2>So this intro is the perfect definition of what happens
<v Speaker 2>with nineteen eighty four. You have this beautiful synth intro
<v Speaker 2>with this drum machine and you're like new wave yes,
<v Speaker 2>and then all of a sudden, the crunchy guitar comes in.
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I love this song.
<v Speaker 3>This almost made the list for me, my sister and
<v Speaker 3>I particularly love this. We used to watch this video
<v Speaker 3>a lot, and she's like stocked by this guy in
<v Speaker 3>a mask and like who is the guy? And it's
<v Speaker 3>it's definitely an eighties video.
<v Speaker 2>Great song.
<v Speaker 3>Laura Bran again, who also sang Gloria exactly.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that kind of known for that one.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, okay, yeah, I love it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Sadly she passed away. She was only fifty two,
<v Speaker 2>Like she decided, hey, I'm getting back into it. I'm
<v Speaker 2>doing it again. And then right in full steam she brains, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know that. Okay, tragic loss. She was amazing.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, cool, all right, you're number five, okay to my
<v Speaker 3>number five. This song was released March of nineteen eighty four,
<v Speaker 3>peaked out at number three in June of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>So this is a big sort of summary type of
<v Speaker 3>feel to me.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This is a solo breakoff from the guy's original group.
<v Speaker 2>I think I know what it is. I will say this,
<v Speaker 2>And you just showed it too fast, didn't I Again,
<v Speaker 2>you can give clues if you want to. But is
<v Speaker 2>the named female in this song also in the band's
<v Speaker 2>early video that was aptsolutely terrible. Yes, okay, yes, I
<v Speaker 2>got it, yes, keep going.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, all right, so clearly you know what
<v Speaker 3>this is. But this song was written by Bill Cuomo,
<v Speaker 3>Craig Cramped and the artist. They started working on it
<v Speaker 3>at midnight. They built it off what they call a
<v Speaker 3>scratch track, no words, just him going whatever yeah, and
<v Speaker 3>then a guy came in and filled in lyrics behind it.
<v Speaker 3>The video stars his girlfriend, who wasn't an actress, but
<v Speaker 3>she's certainly attractive enough to be in the video. And
<v Speaker 3>the whole video is Google. You know, it's just like
<v Speaker 3>it's like a video shoot and they're trying to do
<v Speaker 3>all these weird things and it's like they're on a
<v Speaker 3>break and he just starts singing.
<v Speaker 2>And my favorite part of the video is when the
<v Speaker 2>guy starts playing lead guitar on the mandolind Okay, So
<v Speaker 2>this is Oh Sherry by Steve Perry.
<v Speaker 3>I love this song man. The synth hook at the
<v Speaker 3>beginning captures me Steve Perry's powerful voice, the should have
<v Speaker 3>been God at the beginning, great intro and then the chorus.
<v Speaker 3>It's just so much fun.
<v Speaker 2>It was so much fun. I remember when we did
<v Speaker 2>our Journey episode. Go back and check that album out Frontiers.
<v Speaker 2>But I remember that Neil Shoen was talking about how
<v Speaker 2>everybody you know decided to go do some solo projects,
<v Speaker 2>but he went and did like broad rock or heavy
<v Speaker 2>metal or something like that. Right, and then Steve Perry
<v Speaker 2>goes out and does a song that's exactly like a
<v Speaker 2>Journey song.
<v Speaker 3>Hit number three I was gonna give you this the
<v Speaker 3>Top five June ninth, nineteen eighty four. Yeah, which we
<v Speaker 3>talked about. Nineteen eighty four, great year for music. Here's
<v Speaker 3>your top five ready. Number five is a song I'm
<v Speaker 3>gonna talk about in a minute, so I'm not gonna
<v Speaker 3>tell you. Number four is The Reflex by Duran Duran,
<v Speaker 3>I Love It. Number three is Oh Sherry by Steve Perry.
<v Speaker 3>Number two is Let's Hear It for the Boy by
<v Speaker 3>Denise Williams off the Footloose Cud track, and number one
<v Speaker 3>is Time after Time by Cindy Lapper.
<v Speaker 2>Incredible.
<v Speaker 3>Even though Steve and Sherry went their separate ways, Thank.
<v Speaker 2>You, I love what you did there, Thank you Hey.
<v Speaker 3>Loving a music man ain't always what it's supposed to be.
<v Speaker 3>Thank God they did remain friends. She actually never married,
<v Speaker 3>never had kids. She's a yoga instructor that she did
<v Speaker 3>have that one moment and a number three hit written
<v Speaker 3>about her. It's awesome, Sherry Swafford to your number four sir.
<v Speaker 2>All right, number four four, all right. This band formed
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen seventy two, but they didn't get their an
<v Speaker 2>iconic lead singer until sometime later. Shockingly, this is crazy.
<v Speaker 2>This song is this band's only top forty hit, even
<v Speaker 2>though everybody from the eighties knows who this band is.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody Okay. The lead singer had actually been working on
<v Speaker 2>the song for years based on the chorus that he
<v Speaker 2>came up with, but he could never get exactly what
<v Speaker 2>he wanted. Then, in nineteen eighty three, he was inspired
<v Speaker 2>by sex pistols quyat Riot, but most importantly Mutt Lang's
<v Speaker 2>work on def Leppard's Pyromania Interesting. He's like, that's it,
<v Speaker 2>That's what this song needs to be. Now. By this
<v Speaker 2>time they had signed with Atlantic Records Okay, okay, and
<v Speaker 2>they were given Tom Warman to produce their album. Tom
<v Speaker 2>Warman was known as the metal guy right Motley Crue
<v Speaker 2>and yeah yeah, so well known, good producer. But they
<v Speaker 2>start having problems right off the bat because Tom hands
<v Speaker 2>the lead singer a tape and says you need to
<v Speaker 2>listen to these songs and figure out which one of
<v Speaker 2>them you want to cover. And the lead singer's like,
<v Speaker 2>did you get our demo tape because we have songs,
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, yeah, I listened to it. Just go
<v Speaker 2>ahead and listen to this and see which of these
<v Speaker 2>songs you want to cover. So the lead singer is confused,
<v Speaker 2>but trust Tom, and he listens to the tape and
<v Speaker 2>he's like, yeah, these are songs by Saxon, which I mean,
<v Speaker 2>they're great songs. We love Saxon, but we tour with
<v Speaker 2>Saxon and Tom's like yeah. So he's like, so if
<v Speaker 2>we cover their songs and then go on the road
<v Speaker 2>with them playing their songs, we're gonna look like a joke.
<v Speaker 2>This is ridiculous, right, And he's like, well, okay, whatever,
<v Speaker 2>I guess I'll give it to some other band and
<v Speaker 2>let them have hits with it. And that was just
<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the problems. Tom was resistant to the
<v Speaker 2>band the whole time, tried to talk them out of
<v Speaker 2>three songs on the album that ended up being the
<v Speaker 2>three singles that they released, including this one, which I
<v Speaker 2>said is the band's biggest hit. When they make the
<v Speaker 2>video for this song, they are inspired by Wiley Coyote
<v Speaker 2>and his adventures with the Roadrunner. Okay, this song is
<v Speaker 2>a part of the Filthy fifteen. It was because the
<v Speaker 2>PMRC thought this song promoted violence. So when the PMRC
<v Speaker 2>starts their witch hunt, they invite the lead singer to testify.
<v Speaker 2>And he comes and testifies, and he is dressed up
<v Speaker 2>just like he would be for a concert, and he says, listen,
<v Speaker 2>I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs.
<v Speaker 2>I was raised in a Christian home and I have
<v Speaker 2>a wife and a child, and I try to raise
<v Speaker 2>my family with those values.
<v Speaker 3>I love this guy. I know exactly who this is.
<v Speaker 2>He's my namesake. This is d Snyder.
<v Speaker 3>You got it, twisted sister. This has to be We're
<v Speaker 3>not gonna take it. You got it it. God, this
<v Speaker 3>is a fantastic song.
<v Speaker 2>My mind was blown when I found out this is
<v Speaker 2>their only top forty hit. I woar, A rock is
<v Speaker 2>not a top forty, none of them. And I was
<v Speaker 2>like what. And of course, the ironic poetry of it
<v Speaker 2>is is that the government was on a witch hunt
<v Speaker 2>for these guys, and then by this century, every political
<v Speaker 2>candidate wants to use this song as their I know
<v Speaker 2>is their campaign song.
<v Speaker 3>I told you to watch a documentary on Netflix about
<v Speaker 3>Twisted Sister.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 3>It's a fantastic documentary.
<v Speaker 2>It really is. I've seen it. It is really, really good.
<v Speaker 2>This is a great story.
<v Speaker 3>These guys worked hard, toured, busted their butts, and so
<v Speaker 3>for them to have this kind of success, it's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>The one thing I remember about this particular video and
<v Speaker 3>I want to Rock Yes, is you have the guy
<v Speaker 3>from Animal House who played Niedermeier, who's like, what's that
<v Speaker 3>a twist? And Sister Pen he's wiley coyote but yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and then like I want to rock fun videos, fun band.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I think that probably that created more of a
<v Speaker 2>problem for him because they kind of became a little
<v Speaker 2>bit slapstick joky after that with their face paint and
<v Speaker 2>the rash and boldness, because they didn't do anything after this, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>nothing after this album.
<v Speaker 3>Stay Hungry, all right, D So we've talked about this
<v Speaker 3>band before.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This particular song was released February third, nineteen eighty four,
<v Speaker 3>reached number twenty five on the Hot one hundred. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>which seems incredibly low for how iconic this song is okay.
<v Speaker 3>Now here's the deal. The singer wrote the lyrics to
<v Speaker 3>this song. He stopped and started ten times, started it, stopped,
<v Speaker 3>through it away, started again, didn't like it, threw it.
<v Speaker 2>Away all right, And.
<v Speaker 3>He said he knew this was like a hit. This
<v Speaker 3>is a great song. I've got to get the lyrics right.
<v Speaker 3>And so he wanted to have this combination of attitude sexuality.
<v Speaker 3>Now you mentioned the PMRC. They came after them on
<v Speaker 3>this song because of the video was so us cages
<v Speaker 3>and have caged.
<v Speaker 2>I got it women, I got it.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, what do you got?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? So I know this one because this is my
<v Speaker 2>number three.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this is Scorpions rocky like a hurricane. This song
<v Speaker 2>only made it to number twenty five.
<v Speaker 3>Twenty five?
<v Speaker 2>What the heck? What? This song is one of the
<v Speaker 2>most iconic songs from the eighties. You can't go to
<v Speaker 2>a sporting event and not hear this song. As a
<v Speaker 2>matter of fact, another bit of trivia, some guy who
<v Speaker 2>worked for the Pittsburgh Steelers got fired because when the
<v Speaker 2>New Orleans Saints came to play shortly after Hurricane Katrina,
<v Speaker 2>he played this song. They were coming out that was
<v Speaker 2>one of my bits of trivia on this one. Here's
<v Speaker 2>the other bit of trivia. So the drummer, the drummer
<v Speaker 2>from the Scorpions had a significant drug problem and health
<v Speaker 2>problems related to his drug use, and they forced him
<v Speaker 2>to take a break while they were recording this album. Right,
<v Speaker 2>they're about to record this album. They're like, dude, you
<v Speaker 2>are too far gone. You got to go rehab. And
<v Speaker 2>so they get the drummer from Rainbow to replace him
<v Speaker 2>with his blessing, right, And so this poor guy has
<v Speaker 2>to go, you know, to rehab and the beaches of
<v Speaker 2>the Mediterranean somewhere. And after like two weeks, Class Minor
<v Speaker 2>calls him up. He's like, we need you to come
<v Speaker 2>back because we don't sound like the Scorpions without you.
<v Speaker 2>And so out Rainbow goes and incomes James Kotak guy
<v Speaker 2>just January ninth. How old was he?
<v Speaker 3>Sixty one years old?
<v Speaker 2>Wow? I mean for a band that's been around, I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure he was. He must have been a guy who
<v Speaker 2>came in because I mean they've been around for forever.
<v Speaker 2>They have like fifty albums or something ridiculous.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, we've talked about them before. How their popularity.
<v Speaker 3>We talked about the Moscow Peace Festival and how bon
<v Speaker 3>Jovi was the kind of the closer and the headliner.
<v Speaker 3>But in Russia those people were Scorpions fans.
<v Speaker 2>You know, Yeah they were, they were They were the
<v Speaker 2>big time there. And then of course there's the whole
<v Speaker 2>CIA urban myth.
<v Speaker 3>You have got to talk about that.
<v Speaker 2>That's Winds of Change. Was it written by the CIA
<v Speaker 2>or not?
<v Speaker 3>I would love to dive into that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it would be fantastic. By the way, the slow
<v Speaker 2>song on the album, I can't remember what it's called on,
<v Speaker 2>but it was thank You Yes, Still Loving You actually
<v Speaker 2>created a baby boom in France in nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 3>I love this line for the The bitch is hungry
<v Speaker 3>she needs to tell so give her inches and feed
<v Speaker 3>her well.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why the PMRC was upset about it.
<v Speaker 3>It's poetry.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the thing in that video, Like you said, it
<v Speaker 2>was the video, not necessarily the song that got them
<v Speaker 2>in trouble. They've got their inside cages and there are
<v Speaker 2>women trying to lustfully get to them, right right, right right.
<v Speaker 2>They weren't using models. These were actual Scorpions fans that
<v Speaker 2>they had recruited. To be in the video.
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, enthusiasm.
<v Speaker 2>It was important. It's true to life, true to life.
<v Speaker 3>I do love how they actually say the title of
<v Speaker 3>the album in this song, they actually say love at
<v Speaker 3>First Team. And this album cover was a young Jason's favorite.
<v Speaker 2>Side boob is side boob was epic. Yeah, side boo
<v Speaker 2>boob is epic. Okay, So well that was my That
<v Speaker 2>was my number three. So I've just covered my number
<v Speaker 2>three with you. So now you've got to do your
<v Speaker 2>number three.
<v Speaker 3>My number three.
<v Speaker 2>You're number three?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, so here we go My number three three,
<v Speaker 3>released March of nineteen eighty four. This reached number five
<v Speaker 3>on the Hot one hundred, which I mentioned.
<v Speaker 2>A few minutes ago.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, this was ranked number thirty two on VH one's
<v Speaker 3>Greatest Songs of the nineteen eighties. I just heard last
<v Speaker 3>night the lead vocalist for this band talking on hair
<v Speaker 3>Nation saying they were on tour, got a call from
<v Speaker 3>their manager. Manager said the record company has gone bankrupt.
<v Speaker 3>We need you guys back in the studio right this second.
<v Speaker 2>Was it Chrystalis?
<v Speaker 3>I guess it could have been Chrystalis. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what album's crazy alright, go ahead. So anyway, they felt
<v Speaker 3>okay because this song they had in their back pocket.
<v Speaker 3>Now then the vocals on this is done by the drummer.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, hold that thought, because this one ranks higher on
<v Speaker 2>my list and I want to come back to it.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, okay, all right, all right, two, Okay, you're number two.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, sorry, guys, put a pin in that last one.
<v Speaker 2>It's going to come back up in a minute here.
<v Speaker 2>But hey, we're not going to have another meeting of
<v Speaker 2>the minds on number one, I guess, so it'll be interesting,
<v Speaker 2>all right, all right, so this song was written on
<v Speaker 2>the toilet, all right.
<v Speaker 3>Good.
<v Speaker 2>This band started off in nineteen sixty eight. They had
<v Speaker 2>been around for a while, start off in sixty eight,
<v Speaker 2>and they were a pro rock band, their progressive rock. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>In nineteen eighty, one of the main founders of the band, Leaves,
<v Speaker 2>he's the singer. He Leaves brings in a couple of
<v Speaker 2>guys that we've talked about before. I won't mention their
<v Speaker 2>name yet because that'll give it away. But they release
<v Speaker 2>an album under this band's name in nineteen eighty and
<v Speaker 2>it's got very bad reception, and so basically the band
<v Speaker 2>is dead then for twous events occur over the next
<v Speaker 2>couple of years, and the band comes back to life
<v Speaker 2>with this album and this song, which is the biggest
<v Speaker 2>hit off of the album.
<v Speaker 3>I think I know it is, but keep going, all right.
<v Speaker 2>The two guys that came in as replacements for John
<v Speaker 2>Anderson were Trevor Horn and Jeffrey Downs of the group
<v Speaker 2>The Buggles.
<v Speaker 3>Trevor Horn, I remember that Okay video killed the radio
<v Speaker 3>Star right.
<v Speaker 2>So after the bad reception of their nineteen eighty album,
<v Speaker 2>the members Downs and how they go on to form
<v Speaker 2>eight and then the members Squire and Trevor Rabin formed
<v Speaker 2>this group called Cinema, and Trevor Horn is still with them.
<v Speaker 2>He's working production now and they decided to hit up
<v Speaker 2>their old lead singer from before, John Anderson about providing
<v Speaker 2>some vocals, says when he comes in, and they've got
<v Speaker 2>basically the two guys that formed this band in the beginning.
<v Speaker 2>This becomes this phoenix out of the ashes and an
<v Speaker 2>entirely new sound. This is not progressive. They're bringing the
<v Speaker 2>new wave with Trevor Horn in here, and they have
<v Speaker 2>an album that becomes their biggest selling album of their
<v Speaker 2>entire career. Trevor Rabin's the guy that came up with
<v Speaker 2>this song while he was sitting on the toilet of
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty all right, this was recorded in eighty three,
<v Speaker 2>and when they brought John Anderson in, he said most
<v Speaker 2>of the work had been done, but this song they
<v Speaker 2>really had some trouble with the verses sat down and
<v Speaker 2>John Anderson's contribution was the first two words of the
<v Speaker 2>song move yourself.
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know the toilet is a very lonely place.
<v Speaker 2>It is lonely.
<v Speaker 3>Indeed, yes, this has to be Owner of a Lonely
<v Speaker 3>Heart by yes.
<v Speaker 2>Another perfect song for the blend of kick but rock
<v Speaker 2>and guitar and new wave synth. And you've got these
<v Speaker 2>guys who are absolute musical geniuses putting this song together.
<v Speaker 2>And I got to say this, actually, I would put
<v Speaker 2>as a tie with another song from this album called
<v Speaker 2>leave It Okay any day of the week. Half of
<v Speaker 2>the time I'm gonna pick this Owner of a Lonely Heart.
<v Speaker 2>The other half I'm gonna pick leave It. We really
<v Speaker 2>should cover this whole album.
<v Speaker 3>We should, We should. I know James Buckley's a big
<v Speaker 3>fan of this album.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let's get time to get James on talk about this,
<v Speaker 2>talk about this album.
<v Speaker 3>That would be fun.
<v Speaker 2>We could maybe we could compare it to Supertramp. That's
<v Speaker 2>they are couple of bands that don't get the recognition
<v Speaker 2>that they deserve. It's a good idea Super Tramp seventy
<v Speaker 2>nine too. All right, Okay, get out the schedule. Let's
<v Speaker 2>see if we can piscil it in no right, all right, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we to my number two to your number two. All right.
<v Speaker 3>So at the front of this, I said nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 3>four is one of the best years of music, and
<v Speaker 3>I stand by that. Yeah, but I'm really spiking the
<v Speaker 3>football that nineteen eighty four is the best year in
<v Speaker 3>pop and I'm a pop guy, right, yeah you are? Okay,
<v Speaker 3>Now I learned I grew into rock, but at this
<v Speaker 3>time in my life, I'm Casey's Top forty. I'm pop
<v Speaker 3>all the way, right. So with my number two, I
<v Speaker 3>might lose some street cred on this one, but that's
<v Speaker 3>okay because I don't care. I'm freaking spiking the football.
<v Speaker 3>This is my one of my second this is my
<v Speaker 3>second favorite song. I'm nineteen eighty four. Okay, here's the trick.
<v Speaker 3>Though this song was released in June of nineteen eighty three. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>it didn't peak in America until September of nineteen eighty four, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>well over a year after the song had been released.
<v Speaker 3>All Right reached number nine in September of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>V H one ranked it number forty four on the
<v Speaker 3>Greatest Songs of the nineteen eighties. It's been covered by
<v Speaker 3>Ace of Bass.
<v Speaker 2>As big of as an Ace of Bass fan as
<v Speaker 2>I know, right, I can't believe it now.
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad that didn't totally give it away.
<v Speaker 2>Right there sarcasm coming through right there. If you couldn't tell.
<v Speaker 3>All right, now, listen, this song is featured in a
<v Speaker 3>movie that you and I have seen a thousand times. Okay, fact,
<v Speaker 3>we will cover it this year. Oh okay, all right,
<v Speaker 3>But it's also appeared in the movie Fraternity Vacation, Romey
<v Speaker 3>and Michelle's High School Reunion, as well as the kit
<v Speaker 3>and Car episode of Night Writer.
<v Speaker 2>Nope, alright.
<v Speaker 3>This song is sung by three lovely British ladies Okay,
<v Speaker 3>known as Banana Rama.
<v Speaker 2>Is this cruel summer? You don't have to apologize for this, Okay?
<v Speaker 2>You know, I know? This is a great song. This
<v Speaker 2>is an iconic eighty four song. You blast this song.
<v Speaker 2>I want to turn it up, put the top down.
<v Speaker 2>This is a great summer song.
<v Speaker 3>Fantastic now. This is featured in the Karate Kid during
<v Speaker 3>the Ali and daniels Son playing soccer scene. Right, Yes, okay,
<v Speaker 3>and we're gonna cover Karate Kid hearing about a month
<v Speaker 3>or two somewhere in the early spring schedule. Yeah, boom,
<v Speaker 3>here's my kicker on this. I love this. Ok The
<v Speaker 3>video shows these three girls dancing around New York City
<v Speaker 3>and they're kind of interacting with people on the street,
<v Speaker 3>and it's real low budget eighties video. When you watch it, though,
<v Speaker 3>there are scenes where they're more enthusiastic than other scenes. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>and the singers, the girls in the band said that
<v Speaker 3>when we're more enthusiastic, you can tell that those shots
<v Speaker 3>were shot after lunch, because during lunch there was some
<v Speaker 3>construction workers nearby that came over and hung out with
<v Speaker 3>them and introduced them to cocaine.
<v Speaker 2>Oh whoa.
<v Speaker 3>So when you see them all fired up, Oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>it's because they had the white powder.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh. Yeah, hey, girls, saw you out there?
<v Speaker 2>How you doing it? Exhausted?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>We got just the thing. Yep.
<v Speaker 3>That's it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So that's your number two, yep. So before we
<v Speaker 2>get to number one, we have honorable mentions, and if
<v Speaker 2>you've got one that was a new discovery for you,
<v Speaker 2>I'm interested to hear what it is. Okay, Okay, all right,
<v Speaker 2>I will do my two honorable mentions real quick. All right, okay,
<v Speaker 2>all right, the first one, hang, I don't even want
<v Speaker 2>to make an I don't even call it an honorable
<v Speaker 2>mention because it's so good. All right, okay, all right,
<v Speaker 2>what you got? All right? This group has a name
<v Speaker 2>that sounds like one of the duop groups from the fifties,
<v Speaker 2>but they weren't formed until nineteen seventy seven. But they
<v Speaker 2>like that fifties group sound, and it's a fantastic name.
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't believe it was not taken by nineteen seventy seven. Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe their best known song was not a hit when
<v Speaker 2>it was released. It only got to forty nine, But today,
<v Speaker 2>like I could, I probably hear it weekly, like it's
<v Speaker 2>just it's always on the airwaves, right all right. It
<v Speaker 2>became big after a beer commercial.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>They had that one come out in nineteen eighty and
<v Speaker 2>then obviously this song comes out in nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 2>In between that time, the lead singer had taken some
<v Speaker 2>time off ultimately came back to start recording with the
<v Speaker 2>band again. And it's just like so many times that
<v Speaker 2>we've talked about before, they've got the whole album, they
<v Speaker 2>need one more song, right, and this one is just like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>let's throw this one on at the end. So they
<v Speaker 2>finished recording it. There's a guy in there in the
<v Speaker 2>studio that they're in where I mean the studios had
<v Speaker 2>James Brown and several other big hits, you know, And
<v Speaker 2>there's a guy sweeping up, old guy, and he's like,
<v Speaker 2>I've been here a long time. I've heard lots of music.
<v Speaker 2>I always know twines are going to be the hits,
<v Speaker 2>and this song is going to be your big hit. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Like the Douop groups when they first started playing together,
<v Speaker 2>they all wore the same color suit, but it was
<v Speaker 2>a red leather suit. Okay, so I'm gonna give you
<v Speaker 2>the name. Now, see if you can give me the song,
<v Speaker 2>mister music encyclopedia over there. The first song that I
<v Speaker 2>was talking about that they had is that was never
<v Speaker 2>a big hit until later on was called what I
<v Speaker 2>Like about You Oh yeah by the Romantics, and so
<v Speaker 2>the romantics nineteen eighty four hit was a song called.
<v Speaker 3>Talking in Your Sleep You got it? Yes, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 3>fantastic man. I love the Romantics. Now is the drummer
<v Speaker 3>the singer on this one as well? So the drummer
<v Speaker 3>was the singer on What I Like About You?
<v Speaker 2>Right? No, not on this one? Okay?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, great, honorable mintion.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, what else you got? All right? This band formed
<v Speaker 2>a nineteen seventy seven. They got their name from the
<v Speaker 2>comic book ten ten. Okay, there are two detectives in
<v Speaker 2>the comic book ten ten, and that's where they got
<v Speaker 2>their name. The song spawned from a fight between two
<v Speaker 2>of the band members. They were also actually lovers since
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty In addition to working together touring together, they
<v Speaker 2>would get separate hotel rooms so they could maintain their
<v Speaker 2>personal space. They have this big fight. After they make
<v Speaker 2>up from this big fight, they say, nobody really sets
<v Speaker 2>out to write these kind of songs, but this is
<v Speaker 2>really inspirational stuff. Let's write this down.
<v Speaker 3>Just do you really want to hurt me?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 3>Okay?
<v Speaker 2>The two band members are male and female. Okay, okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>and there were pretty much when we saw him in
<v Speaker 2>the eighties, there were three band members, even though the
<v Speaker 2>name of the band would imply only two.
<v Speaker 3>The Thompson Twins. Okay, is this doctor, doctor, this has
<v Speaker 3>lay your Hands on Me?
<v Speaker 2>This is this is their biggest hit. How are you
<v Speaker 2>guessing songs that are minor hits when I'm giving you
<v Speaker 2>their most well known song. It's about a fight?
<v Speaker 3>Hey, they hang on ha hah. This has hold me?
<v Speaker 2>Now there you had a boy?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I struggled with that one a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, And then I will just tell you. The song
<v Speaker 2>that I was a kind of a new rediscovery for
<v Speaker 2>me is a song ball by Alphaville. Do you know
<v Speaker 2>this songs called Forever Young? Yeah? I like that song.
<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't have thought of it, but that's that's a
<v Speaker 3>great song.
<v Speaker 2>I like it. I mean I didn't really I did.
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't super familiar with this song, but I came
<v Speaker 2>across it in my research and then I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>this sounds like the love scene in some John Hughes movie.
<v Speaker 3>For sure, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah you nailed it
<v Speaker 3>right there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah it could have been I need to go look
<v Speaker 2>that up. I guess definitely could have been. All right, Jason,
<v Speaker 2>tell me your honorable mentions.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I'm packed full of information even on my honorable mentions.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna lead you down the trail here. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>all right. So technically this song was released in nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty four, probably fits better in nineteen eighty five, but
<v Speaker 3>it was released in nineteen eighty four, so I want
<v Speaker 3>to talk about it, Okay. Now, then the title comes
<v Speaker 3>from a nineteen seventy two baseball book.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Now, the song is about an earlier, better time in
<v Speaker 3>a relationship where the singer wants to return to those
<v Speaker 3>times with his ex. This guy's famous rockstar been with
<v Speaker 3>a lot of women, but one of the ones that
<v Speaker 3>I came across that he actually dated that could be
<v Speaker 3>the girl is Lois Childs. Does that ring a bell
<v Speaker 3>with you? No? Have you seen the movie Moonraker? Yes,
<v Speaker 3>Doctor Goodhead? The Bond Girl?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, well her in the early eighties. Okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>this Rod Stewart, he had a lot of Nope, no, okay,
<v Speaker 2>this is not Rod Shirt. All right, Okay, yeah, Now then.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna keep leading you down this one video of
<v Speaker 3>the year nineteen eighty five. Okay, there's a little boy
<v Speaker 3>playing drums in this video. Okay, the little boy actually
<v Speaker 3>goes on to become a famous rock star himself. He's
<v Speaker 3>seven years old in the video. Okay, okay, okay. His
<v Speaker 3>name is Josh Paul. He ended up playing He played
<v Speaker 3>for Daughtry, he played for Suicidal Tendencies. Okay, okay, and
<v Speaker 3>he's just playing drums.
<v Speaker 2>This is gonna give it away, I think.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, the lead singer or the singer from this
<v Speaker 3>song this is a solo effort. He was in a
<v Speaker 3>world famous rock band, one of the biggest and best
<v Speaker 3>rock bands of all time. He was driving around one
<v Speaker 3>day and he really did see a deadhead sticker on
<v Speaker 3>a Cadillac.
<v Speaker 1>Ah.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so this is Don Henley Boys of Summer YEP.
<v Speaker 2>I freaking love this song, and I love the atari's
<v Speaker 2>version of the song as much, if not more. But that, yes,
<v Speaker 2>that fantastic choice.
<v Speaker 3>Boys of the title they get from a book about
<v Speaker 3>when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to la which we discussed
<v Speaker 3>daring are we didn't start the fire.
<v Speaker 2>California Baseball California Baseball.
<v Speaker 3>There you go all right. So that's one of my
<v Speaker 3>honorable mentions. The other one, I'll eat my shoes. If
<v Speaker 3>you are familiar with.
<v Speaker 2>This one, okay, if I'm familiar with it, you think
<v Speaker 2>I'm not.
<v Speaker 3>I think you've probably heard it, but I don't think
<v Speaker 3>it's probably on your radar, okay, Okay. So this is
<v Speaker 3>the first single from a woman who uses only her
<v Speaker 3>first name, so like Tiffany or Madonna, you know, or
<v Speaker 3>or shut A something like that. This reached number eight
<v Speaker 3>on the Hot one hundred. So this is no slack
<v Speaker 3>slack off hit.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>It was featured at the end of a movie that
<v Speaker 3>I really liked as a young teenager.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 3>The movie is called Breaking All the Rules, which I
<v Speaker 3>watched in preparation for this because I was like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's kind of a teenage sex comedy that I really liked.
<v Speaker 3>Thought it was kind of aspirational for relationships, you know,
<v Speaker 3>kind of chasing hot girls around an amusement park type
<v Speaker 3>of thing. I watched it and it was horrible. It's
<v Speaker 3>such a letdown, a terrible movie. But anyway, the closing
<v Speaker 3>credits are to this song, which kind of drove it
<v Speaker 3>home for me. At the time is Sheila. It is
<v Speaker 3>not Sheila, although Sheila was considered Okay, it's considered a
<v Speaker 3>big crossover hit and influential in hip hop and freestyle.
<v Speaker 3>Although I don't really hear it just sounds like a
<v Speaker 3>pop song. I'm gonna play it for you, see what
<v Speaker 3>you get it?
<v Speaker 2>Okay. The song is immediately familiar.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know the title and I don't know the artist,
<v Speaker 2>but the song is immediately familiar.
<v Speaker 3>All right. So the artist is called Shannon and the
<v Speaker 3>song is called let the Music Play. That's it's a
<v Speaker 3>good one. It's one that I had on a.
<v Speaker 2>Mixtape, figuring out the broad clasp exactly.
<v Speaker 3>So there you go. There's an honorable mention pop hit
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 2>All Right, have you got a rediscovery?
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I do have some rediscoveries, okay, and but
<v Speaker 3>they're all mainstream hits. But it's like I didn't realize
<v Speaker 3>how great they were and still until.
<v Speaker 2>You're just you're going to use this as an excuse
<v Speaker 2>to rattle off one.
<v Speaker 3>Hundred no no to put on there no, no no.
<v Speaker 2>I'll give you two.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, two that I was immenseally familiar with. But when
<v Speaker 3>I re listened to them, I was like, dang, these
<v Speaker 3>are good, like better than I even thought they were.
<v Speaker 3>One of them is Caribbean Queen by Billy Oshan. Oh my,
<v Speaker 3>I just love that song.
<v Speaker 2>That song. I know he's a crap out of me.
<v Speaker 3>Oh you're crazy, It's just I love it, even if
<v Speaker 3>they have like the sound effects where the tiger like
<v Speaker 3>rah in the background. So I love that song. And
<v Speaker 3>then there's a song by Dan Hartman from the movie
<v Speaker 3>Streets of Fire called I Can Dream About You.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, I know that one too, and it's also an
<v Speaker 2>annoying song for me.
<v Speaker 3>Sorry, that's fine. Those are my rediscoveries. I love those songs.
<v Speaker 2>Nice. That's good. So we are onto our number one one, okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this is an iconic band that you just don't
<v Speaker 2>hear people talk about. I couldn't. I mean, I came
<v Speaker 2>across this song, I'm like, oh yeah, and I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>what else did they do? And then I looked at
<v Speaker 2>it and I'm like, holy crap. They've got a ton
<v Speaker 2>of fantastic stuff, right, But you just don't hear people
<v Speaker 2>talk about this band for some reason. I don't get it.
<v Speaker 2>This song title of the song, chorus of The song
<v Speaker 2>is based on a misunderstanding. So the drummer who was
<v Speaker 2>he'd been a singer and other bands and stuff. You know,
<v Speaker 2>he's not the singer for this band, but he would
<v Speaker 2>occasionally sing songs. Right, He writes this song to his
<v Speaker 2>little sister because he's a little worried about what she's doing.
<v Speaker 2>And she's like, these boys have other things on their mind, right,
<v Speaker 2>you know, right right, And his sister's name was Christy. Well, well,
<v Speaker 2>they play the song and they're listening to the song
<v Speaker 2>and the lead singer, Jack Blades, is like, I love this,
<v Speaker 2>and then he looks at the lyrics that the drummer
<v Speaker 2>is written down. He's like, Christy, you said Christy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, yeah, uh I heard Christian. And he's like,
<v Speaker 2>but that's not her name, and he goes artistic license, dude,
<v Speaker 2>Christian is the word that fits here, right if you
<v Speaker 2>haven't guessed it.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, So this song is Sister Christian by Night Rager.
<v Speaker 2>Sister Christian all the Time has come.
<v Speaker 1>And you know that.
<v Speaker 3>The world to say, Okay, I heard his sister say
<v Speaker 3>that this song was so popular that she was like,
<v Speaker 3>do I need to change my name? Like people are
<v Speaker 3>like this song is written about you. What's your name, Christy.
<v Speaker 2>Dang?
<v Speaker 3>I need to change my name.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this and Night Ranger is made up of some
<v Speaker 2>all stars, I mean from other bands even did you
<v Speaker 2>know they were touring with Ozzy whenever Randy Rhodes died
<v Speaker 2>and the guitarist from Night Ranger came in and subbed
<v Speaker 2>until you know, whenever they got Zach Wild or whatever
<v Speaker 2>it is. I guess it's just this song though. Oh
<v Speaker 2>my gosh, this is Baker Street good man. I mean
<v Speaker 2>the bill, the soft piano this and then the the
<v Speaker 2>drums with the bill, Oh my gosh, so good. And
<v Speaker 2>here's the thing. They recorded the song over one hundred times.
<v Speaker 2>Kelly Kegy, the drummer who's singing Yeah, is so pissed
<v Speaker 2>off at having to do the song over again. So
<v Speaker 2>the engineer says, Okay, guys, do it again after over
<v Speaker 2>one hundred takes, and Kelly Kegy, the guy who's singing,
<v Speaker 2>the guy who's playing the drums, is so pissed off
<v Speaker 2>that when it gets to the end of the song, he,
<v Speaker 2>instead of playing the drums, just chucks his drumsticks as
<v Speaker 2>hard as he can across the room and just belts it.
<v Speaker 2>Out and then the engineer is like, okay, come in here,
<v Speaker 2>and they all go in and he's like, okay, we're done.
<v Speaker 2>And it's not because he's pissed off. It's because that take,
<v Speaker 2>that angry, drumless take, was the take that was perfect,
<v Speaker 2>and that's the one that we know today. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we've talked for five minutes about this song and
<v Speaker 3>you haven't mentioned Boogie Knights yet.
<v Speaker 2>So it was on my list of things to mention. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>So this song made it back into world awareness in
<v Speaker 2>the mid nineties whenever Boogie Knights was released because it
<v Speaker 2>is the most intense scene in the movie. It's Alfred
<v Speaker 2>Modina dot coc Yeah as a drug dealer right right,
<v Speaker 2>and there's this little Chinese kid walking around throwing the
<v Speaker 2>throwing these little firework poppers, and these guys are there
<v Speaker 2>to try to rob him. So you get this intense scene. Well,
<v Speaker 2>I heard Blades talk about it and he says, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we're watching the movie. We see this scene where our
<v Speaker 2>song is and all of a sudden, I look over
<v Speaker 2>and we're both sweating bullets. And we talked afterwards, were like,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like we've been to that guy's house. I
<v Speaker 2>feel like, we've been in that scene before. I know
<v Speaker 2>that guy in North Hollywood. We've bought drugs from him before. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I saw Jack Blades seeing for Damn Yankees in
<v Speaker 3>the nineties. So he goes on to build a band
<v Speaker 3>with Tommy Shawn and Ted Nugent and they put out
<v Speaker 3>a great album as well.
<v Speaker 2>Interesting Comba. We we covered that one of their songs
<v Speaker 2>actually in my band in high school.
<v Speaker 3>I love Damn Yankees.
<v Speaker 2>Man. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, this reached number five on the Hot
<v Speaker 3>one hundred, and I mentioned that they got that call
<v Speaker 3>from their manager said the record company is out of business.
<v Speaker 3>You guys have got to get back in the studio
<v Speaker 3>and put out an album. They had Sister Christian already
<v Speaker 3>written and ready to go.
<v Speaker 2>Nice. Okay, Jason, I've done my number one. It's time
<v Speaker 2>for you, my friend. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So my number one hits number one April twenty first,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty four. It knocked out Footloose by Kenny Loggins. Now, then,
<v Speaker 3>this is the first of seven number one hits from
<v Speaker 3>this artist in the nineteen eighties. Okay, this is the
<v Speaker 3>first one, originally titled how Can You Just Sit There?
<v Speaker 3>Taylor Hackford is making a movie with Jeff Bridges and
<v Speaker 3>Rachel Ward Okay, and he wants to include it in
<v Speaker 3>his movie, so he calls up this guy and says,
<v Speaker 3>do you have anything that you could give us for
<v Speaker 3>this movie? Well, it turns out that he had written
<v Speaker 3>this song for his previous album, but he didn't think
<v Speaker 3>it was good enough to include, so he reworked it
<v Speaker 3>with the movie's title, and it goes on to become
<v Speaker 3>a mega hit.
<v Speaker 2>I know what this song is, okay because this movie
<v Speaker 2>is based on another movie from the nineteen fifties.
<v Speaker 3>Correct it is, You're right.
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe pick this song is number one? What
<v Speaker 2>you are a pop fan and this comes very clear
<v Speaker 2>when you pick as your number one song from nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty four of all people, Phil Collins Against all.
<v Speaker 3>I love Phil Collins, everybody love Phil Collins.
<v Speaker 2>I love Phil Collins. I love this song. I can't
<v Speaker 2>believe you put.
<v Speaker 3>It number one, but I still a favorite man. When
<v Speaker 3>he gets going on his vocals and he leans on
<v Speaker 3>it and he's screaming out against all odds, I love it.
<v Speaker 3>I love this quote for Phil Collins. By the way,
<v Speaker 3>this is his first of seven number one. He goes
<v Speaker 3>on a Rampage.
<v Speaker 2>The Invisible Touch comes out this year, right.
<v Speaker 3>Well, in Visible Touch is eighty six, but that's Genesis.
<v Speaker 3>But even still they get number one hits for Genesis.
<v Speaker 3>So the song is written about his divorce, his wife
<v Speaker 3>and his kids. And we're actually going to talk about
<v Speaker 3>another song on the Miami Vice soundtrack coming up here
<v Speaker 3>in a couple of weeks. But when asked about this
<v Speaker 3>movie against All Odds, which my wife and I joke
<v Speaker 3>that it's the best song for a crappy movie, he said, quote,
<v Speaker 3>the first thing that comes to my mind is the
<v Speaker 3>size of Rachel Wards West is the size of Rachel
<v Speaker 3>Ward's breasts. Oh and I like Jeff Bridges too.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's fantastic, fantastic. Yeah. From Here to Eternity was
<v Speaker 2>the original movie, Burt Lancaster, Is that right? Yeah? Wow?
<v Speaker 2>Same exactly like same poster right with them making love.
<v Speaker 3>On the beach, right it is. This won the Grammy
<v Speaker 3>for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, nominated for an Academy Award,
<v Speaker 3>but he couldn't perform it at the Academy Awards. He
<v Speaker 3>had to watch some dancer lip sync it.
<v Speaker 2>That's really weird. Yeah, that's really really weird. Ladies and gentlemen,
<v Speaker 2>you have heard my top five. You've heard Jason's top five.
<v Speaker 2>I really, I'm I would really like to know from
<v Speaker 2>our fans, but we need to pull this one. We
<v Speaker 2>need to put the Patreon poll out.
<v Speaker 3>Are you saying your top five is better?
<v Speaker 2>In my thought, I am saying that my number one
<v Speaker 2>is better than your number one?
<v Speaker 3>I love Phil Collins.
<v Speaker 2>Uh yeah, well that's okay, that's all right.
<v Speaker 3>Where are my Phil Collins defenders right calling you out?
<v Speaker 2>Come on out, boys and girls. Okay, So we did
<v Speaker 2>this without using any of the albums that we've covered previously,
<v Speaker 2>without also using the ones that we have on the
<v Speaker 2>schedule for this year. That's right, eliminated a few in
<v Speaker 2>and of itself. I don't want to give you too
<v Speaker 2>much there, but we would probably have an entirely different
<v Speaker 2>list if we were able to pick from those albums
<v Speaker 2>that were big in nineteen eighty four. Right, we'll go
<v Speaker 2>back and forth. I'll say my number five, you say
<v Speaker 2>you're number five, Okay, ready? My number five is Purple Rain, Purple.
<v Speaker 3>Rain off the Purple Rain soundtrack, which we just released
<v Speaker 3>like a week ago, re released. Yeah, okay, my number
<v Speaker 3>five is a song called Magic by the Cars.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, this fantastic song, and we've got that one
<v Speaker 2>coming up on a future episode Heartbeat City.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe this Summer versus Reckless by Brian Adams.
<v Speaker 2>Oh those are both so good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're packed with hits.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be great. Gosh all right. My number four
<v Speaker 2>holding out for a hero.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, Bonnie Tylerto.
<v Speaker 2>You got it Footloose, which we also a tractor scene. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>My shoelaces tie around my accelerator just thinking about this.
<v Speaker 3>My number four is Let's Go Crazy.
<v Speaker 2>By Prince Okay. My number three is Hard of Rock
<v Speaker 2>and Roll by Hugh Lewis in the News.
<v Speaker 3>Love it fantastic, right, My number three is Thriller.
<v Speaker 2>My number two is Let's Go Crazy by Prince.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right. My number two is Jump by Van Halen.
<v Speaker 2>Oh good one, good one. My number one is Thriller.
<v Speaker 2>It has to be. That was the year the video
<v Speaker 2>came out. Wow, it was. I mean everywhere I was obsessed.
<v Speaker 2>We've talked about it. There's the reason that this was
<v Speaker 2>our first episode.
<v Speaker 3>I can't argue with that one. Yeah, however, you left
<v Speaker 3>off the song of nineteen eighty four when does.
<v Speaker 2>Cry is that your number one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right, everybody, that's it. We'd love to hear
<v Speaker 3>what you think about our.
<v Speaker 2>List, guys. Like I mentioned earlier, we've got a secret
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<v Speaker 3>All right, So d we have next week. We're back
<v Speaker 3>in session.
<v Speaker 1>Man.
<v Speaker 3>This is season five that Shirley Can't Be Serious podcast.
<v Speaker 3>We are comparing Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop versus Eddie
<v Speaker 3>Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop two.
<v Speaker 2>Another throwback to our first season. We compared trading places
<v Speaker 2>to coming to America. We love Eddie Murphy, but this
<v Speaker 2>year we have Beverly Hills cop Axel Foley coming out,
<v Speaker 2>so we may be able to sneak review in that.
<v Speaker 2>I'll uh top gun Maverick like we did, and hopefully
<v Speaker 2>it's good. I've got my fingers crossed for it.
<v Speaker 3>All right, fantastic, We'll see you back here next week.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks guys, see you then.
<v Speaker 3>Whoa, okay, well that just oh okay, no, no, that's it.
<v Speaker 3>That's it.
<v Speaker 2>That's it.