Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (1984): Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>All right, everybody, welcome back to be Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious podcast. We are continuing with our series on
<v Speaker 1>the summer of nineteen eighty four, and I was just
<v Speaker 1>thinking about something interesting. In addition to all of those
<v Speaker 1>incredible movies that we talked about last episode and all
<v Speaker 1>those incredible songs that we talked about last episode, there
<v Speaker 1>was also a big event going on involving the president
<v Speaker 1>of the United States. It was the election year where
<v Speaker 1>Ronald Reagan was running against Walter Monde.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I remember that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I remember it well. Yeah, And even though I
<v Speaker 1>was eight or nine years old, it was fascinating to me.
<v Speaker 1>And mister Reagan was one of those guys who completely
<v Speaker 1>misunderstood the lyrics to the first song that we're going
<v Speaker 1>to talk about.
<v Speaker 3>I know, I can't wait to dive into that story.
<v Speaker 1>He's famous for talking about this patriotism and George will
<v Speaker 1>has this kind of famous quote that's also a misunderstanding
<v Speaker 1>of it. And then Walter Mondale after Bruce was like
<v Speaker 1>he's missed the point here. He was like, oh, so
<v Speaker 1>Bruce supports me, and Bruce say, whoa tiger? Yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 1>not back in either one of you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, you know, for me, just on the summer
<v Speaker 3>of nineteen eighty four, one of the big things the
<v Speaker 3>Olympics in LA in summer of eighty four. We're huge,
<v Speaker 3>Mary lou Reddin.
<v Speaker 1>We're in the star spangled banner on her tights, right, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And you had what you had Bart Connor, and
<v Speaker 3>you had Mitch Gaylord who shows up later in the
<v Speaker 3>movie American Anthem. Yeah, you have Carl Lewis, Edwin, Moses,
<v Speaker 3>Mary Decker who tripped and fell. She was like the
<v Speaker 3>favorite in the American race. And she she and Zola
<v Speaker 3>Bud I think is her name, they got their feet
<v Speaker 3>tangled and she fell, and just the heartbreaking images of.
<v Speaker 1>Her like it, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, So the Olympics in La.
<v Speaker 1>That that was an amazing year.
<v Speaker 3>Nineteen eighty four is an amazing year in the eighties.
<v Speaker 1>And you know what, an amazing album of that year
<v Speaker 1>was born in the USA.
<v Speaker 3>Let's get into it track by track.
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<v Speaker 3>So the first song on the album is the title track,
<v Speaker 3>Born in the USA.
<v Speaker 1>Listen to this drum beat, I'm telling you, Max Weinberg, Baby,
<v Speaker 1>you've got Bruce who's been this, you know, sort of
<v Speaker 1>folks sort of rock guy, and you've got a quick
<v Speaker 1>piano followed by a synthesizer.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That was another big thing in nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>A repeating yeah synthesizer.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So this song was everywhere and you sent me
<v Speaker 1>something that're like, hey, is this song hard to play?
<v Speaker 1>And so I sat down, I'm like ding dong ding,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, okay, two chords, whole song, two chord and
<v Speaker 1>then I played the melody. I'm like three notes. So
<v Speaker 1>two chords, three note melody, and you have one of
<v Speaker 1>the biggest hits of the decade.
<v Speaker 3>They got a hook and they wrote it all the
<v Speaker 3>way for four minutes. You better like that hook if
<v Speaker 3>you're going to like the song. Yeah, iconic song, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>fist pumper, Yes, patriotic.
<v Speaker 1>No, No, I mean so, let me tell this story.
<v Speaker 1>So you're born to run and you get born in
<v Speaker 1>the USA. I always know, you know Jason Bourne in
<v Speaker 1>the future. Now, anyway, he's got born to Run, which
<v Speaker 1>is not a flattering song for New Jersey, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean this town will rip the skin from your back.
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's not good right right, your back anyway.
<v Speaker 1>And New Jersey completely misunderstanding the song, was like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we should make that like our state song. Dude, No,
<v Speaker 1>that's this is not a flattering song. They're trying to
<v Speaker 1>get out of this town, right, We've got to get
<v Speaker 1>out of this town.
<v Speaker 3>So the US says New Jersey, hold my beer.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So if you think that this song is a
<v Speaker 1>patriotic song, let's just listen to the lyrics real quick, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Born down in a dead man's town. The first kick
<v Speaker 1>I took was when I hit the ground you end
<v Speaker 1>up like a dog that's been beat down too much
<v Speaker 1>till you spend half your life just covering up. That's
<v Speaker 1>not flattering, yeah yeah, but it's this amazing thing where
<v Speaker 1>he takes these grueling lyrics in the verse and then
<v Speaker 1>puts them against this very patriotic sounding chorus.
<v Speaker 3>It's a fist bumper.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it is a total fist bumper, which is interesting
<v Speaker 1>because as the song goes on, this is a song
<v Speaker 1>about a Vietnam Vet, right, I mean, he grew up poor,
<v Speaker 1>he had to join the army in order to get
<v Speaker 1>out of going to prison. They send him off to
<v Speaker 1>a foreign land to kill the yellow Man. His brother
<v Speaker 1>gets killed, he's all gone, and he's back and everybody's
<v Speaker 1>kind of spitting on him like he's gotten nowhere to run,
<v Speaker 1>nowhere to go. This is like the plot of First Blood. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>out by the gas fires of the refinery, I'm ten
<v Speaker 1>years burning down the road, nowhere to run to, got
<v Speaker 1>nowhere to go. And so the idea of what was
<v Speaker 1>happening with the Vets at this time, that you know,
<v Speaker 1>they had gone and fought in the name of the USA,
<v Speaker 1>and they come back and they're the people who are
<v Speaker 1>waving the flag, and all patriotic are kind of forgetting
<v Speaker 1>about the vets. They're treating them like crap. That's the
<v Speaker 1>same thing that happens in the song. The chorus is
<v Speaker 1>so loud and powerful, you completely lose the message of
<v Speaker 1>the song. My first kick was when I hit the ground. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>USA. So here's a part of Ronald Reagan's speech, right,
<v Speaker 3>ron O'reagan his son. I heard him son talking about this.
<v Speaker 3>Ronald Reagan had no idea who Bruce Springstein was right,
<v Speaker 3>So he says in his speech, he said, America's future
<v Speaker 3>rests in the thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests
<v Speaker 3>in the message of hope in songs. So many young
<v Speaker 3>Americans admire New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen, and helping you
<v Speaker 3>make those dreams come true is what this job of
<v Speaker 3>mine is all about. Somebody asked him, what's your favorite
<v Speaker 3>Bruce Springsteen song? Yes, and an aide stepped forward and
<v Speaker 3>said his favorite song is Born to Run. And Johnny
<v Speaker 3>Carson said, if you believe that I got a couple
<v Speaker 3>of tickets to the mondel Ferraro inaugural ball.
<v Speaker 1>I might sell it.
<v Speaker 3>I thought that was funny. Yeah, So Born in the
<v Speaker 3>USA is released October thirtieth of nineteen eighty four, so
<v Speaker 3>the song reaches number nine on the Billboard Hot one
<v Speaker 3>hundred and like we've done before, I wanted to know
<v Speaker 3>what are the eight songs that are better than Born
<v Speaker 3>in the USA at this time in nineteen eighty four
<v Speaker 3>with all this cool stuff happening. Sure, okay, so here
<v Speaker 3>they are. I was less than impressed. Like a virgin
<v Speaker 3>Iconic Ages song number one, Yes All I Need by
<v Speaker 3>Jack Wagner Cheesy crap. Okay, You're the Inspiration by Chicago.
<v Speaker 3>It's on the make Out List of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner. It's
<v Speaker 3>on the make Out List of nineteen eighty four. Easy
<v Speaker 3>Lover by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins.
<v Speaker 1>Ok.
<v Speaker 3>I like it, but Iconic eighties. I mean, you know
<v Speaker 3>it's a catchy you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like, oh I remember those songs. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But What Run to You by Brian Adams, great song
<v Speaker 3>off the Reckless album.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's my favorite song. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Wild Boys by Duran Duran.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, I mean it's a good.
<v Speaker 3>Duran Duran song. We Belong by Pat Benattar. There you go,
<v Speaker 3>that's where we are.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>I mean they're all good songs, but are they better
<v Speaker 3>than Born in the USA?
<v Speaker 1>Right?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I want to talk about the creation
<v Speaker 3>of this song.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go okay to it.
<v Speaker 3>This is a nugget that blew me away.
<v Speaker 1>I love it, Okay. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So this song was written in nineteen eighty one as
<v Speaker 3>the title for a film by Paul Schrader, and he
<v Speaker 3>sent him the script for this movie that he wants
<v Speaker 3>to make with Bruce Springsteen, called Born in the USA.
<v Speaker 3>So Bruce Springsteen makes this song, writes this song, and
<v Speaker 3>then the movie kind of flounders. And then by the
<v Speaker 3>time that they're ready to make the movie, the song
<v Speaker 3>has already lived its life and so he can't call
<v Speaker 3>it Born in the USA anymore. And so they changed
<v Speaker 3>the title and they changed the actors. This movie is
<v Speaker 3>called Light of Day and it stars Michael J. Fox
<v Speaker 3>and Joan Jett.
<v Speaker 1>Right. I think I watched some of that movie just
<v Speaker 1>because it had Michael J. Fox in it back in
<v Speaker 1>the mid eighties. Yeah, and couldn't finish it.
<v Speaker 3>I watched it like a year ago.
<v Speaker 1>This is depressing me.
<v Speaker 3>This is pressing.
<v Speaker 1>It's not a happy movie. Now, okay, so yes, that
<v Speaker 1>is the creation of the song. And for a long
<v Speaker 1>time this was just an acoustic song. It was just
<v Speaker 1>him with an acoustic guitar singing, but it changes in
<v Speaker 1>this amazing organic way. So they've been in the studio
<v Speaker 1>recording ruling session, all of the members are worn out,
<v Speaker 1>and they all go into the booth and then at
<v Speaker 1>some point one of the band members goes back out.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was Bruce, and he starts just playing
<v Speaker 1>just the riff on the guitar, and then at that
<v Speaker 1>point Max Weinberg is like, I think I got a
<v Speaker 1>different idea here, and he walks out and he hits
<v Speaker 1>that hard snare, hard snare, and like, okay, this is
<v Speaker 1>making it sound a little different. And one by one
<v Speaker 1>each of the members of the band come back into
<v Speaker 1>the recording studio and they play it in a completely
<v Speaker 1>different way. It's more like an anthem than like this
<v Speaker 1>sad guitari folk song. And when they get done, they're like,
<v Speaker 1>I think we just found something.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no doubt.
<v Speaker 1>They played it one more time to see if they
<v Speaker 1>still had it. Then they played it one more time
<v Speaker 1>and that's what's on the record.
<v Speaker 3>That's incredible. Yeah, I love stories like this where the
<v Speaker 3>song is just kind of birthed and it takes on
<v Speaker 3>a life of its own aim becomes this rock eighties anthem. Yeah, wow,
<v Speaker 3>I got a couple little nuggets for you.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Patty LaBelle covered this song in nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's interesting.
<v Speaker 3>Also, you may remember Cheach Marina still Man. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you're born in East la Well, let's see your green card.
<v Speaker 1>Huh green card.
<v Speaker 3>I'm from Eastill Laurel.
<v Speaker 1>And who's president.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>A parody of the song called Born in the East La.
<v Speaker 1>I forgot about that. That's awesome. Made it into a movie. Yeah, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's funny.
<v Speaker 3>Born. He's feeling one more quick nugget. This video was
<v Speaker 3>directed by a guy named John Sales.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>He's a guy who wrote the Howling. He wrote Alligator
<v Speaker 3>was kind of an eighties movie, and he directed eight
<v Speaker 3>min out. So he's a guy who's done some things.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, eight min out. Yeah, Okay, that does it for
<v Speaker 1>Born in the USA. On the song number two cover.
<v Speaker 5>Me, So the beginning of the song blowing in sounds
<v Speaker 5>like the fabulous Thunderbirds to me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I could go with that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, once again, you've got another song. About the guy
<v Speaker 1>who's just been beaten down. Right, he has been beaten
<v Speaker 1>down so much that all he's looking for is someplace
<v Speaker 1>to hide where the person will cover him up.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, somebody. I need somebody to love me and cover me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This is the second single released July thirty first, nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty four. This reached number seven on the Hot one Hunter. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>we're still a little better than Born in the USA.
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy. That's crazy now, I mean this is a
<v Speaker 1>good song, better than Born in the US.
<v Speaker 3>I know, I can't believe it. This song was written
<v Speaker 3>for Donna Summer.
<v Speaker 1>I know, right. Can you imagine a disco version of
<v Speaker 1>the song?
<v Speaker 4>No?
<v Speaker 3>No, Donna Summer is a great singer, but she is
<v Speaker 3>a little bit more pop and definitely more disco, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But John Landau listened to it and thought this sounds
<v Speaker 3>like a hit. We might want to hang onto this one,
<v Speaker 3>so they gave her the song called Protection instead.
<v Speaker 1>This was one of the songs that was recorded at
<v Speaker 1>the Hit Factory, Yes, which several of the songs were
<v Speaker 1>recorded at. And it's simple, it's a more emotional song.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, this song is a good song.
<v Speaker 1>I like it.
<v Speaker 3>It's upbeat, even though the lyrics are kind of like depressing,
<v Speaker 3>but this is a toe tapper. This is a great
<v Speaker 3>concert song.
<v Speaker 1>Again, listen to those drums, listen to how the music
<v Speaker 1>plays against the meaning of the lyrics, and you've got
<v Speaker 1>this magical combination on almost all of these songs.
<v Speaker 3>It's crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>No music video for this song. Yeah, that's interesting, which
<v Speaker 3>is kind of weird. And it's still made it to
<v Speaker 3>number seven. Yeah, wow, great song like it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I love it all right? Song number three Darlington County.
<v Speaker 1>All right, I got a FEVA and the only prescription
<v Speaker 1>is book cow Bell. I know right.
<v Speaker 3>That Cowboll is very prominent in this song.
<v Speaker 1>I give it up Max.
<v Speaker 3>So the first time I heard this, I thought, and
<v Speaker 3>that sounds a lot like Honkey Tnk Woman by the
<v Speaker 3>Rolling Stones.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, very yeah, similar intro.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, And as I did my research, I found out
<v Speaker 3>that in concerts he would play the first few bars
<v Speaker 3>of Honckey Tonk Woman and blends right into this song
<v Speaker 3>on my and on.
<v Speaker 1>The back awesome way to go you thank you.
<v Speaker 3>This could have easily been a single.
<v Speaker 1>It's one of my favorites on the album Great Solvent
<v Speaker 1>Great Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Lyrically This is about a guy driving to Darlington County, Towork.
<v Speaker 1>People of Lucas. There you go look for work, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I would say, looking to get laid. Okay, we're just
<v Speaker 1>going down there to try to pick up some chicks.
<v Speaker 5>Man.
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes that's work. It's Southwest work.
<v Speaker 3>Darlington County is in South Carolina.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're they're going to go down and talk to
<v Speaker 1>the girls about being these big New York City boys
<v Speaker 1>even though they're just a couple of Pelucas, and try
<v Speaker 1>to get them to, you know, come over here and
<v Speaker 1>sit down, like get radio with me in my car.
<v Speaker 3>Sounds good to be. A guy named Jeff Stevens and
<v Speaker 3>the Bullets took the cover version to number sixty nine
<v Speaker 3>on the Hot Country Songs in nineteen eighty seven.
<v Speaker 1>It's got a very country feel too, except that the
<v Speaker 1>guys are talking about being from the city.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, one more quick thing on this song before we
<v Speaker 3>move on. Springsteen originally wrote this song in nineteen seventy
<v Speaker 3>eight for the album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>it didn't make the cut. He reworked it re recorded
<v Speaker 3>in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, and here we have it.
<v Speaker 3>In nineteen eighty four, awesome, fantastic. Okay, moving on to
<v Speaker 3>a song called.
<v Speaker 1>Working on the Highway.
<v Speaker 6>Gonnare week on the bird Okay, this one is screaming
<v Speaker 6>bo deadly at me once again.
<v Speaker 1>It's a guy who's screwed up his life.
<v Speaker 3>More depressing lyrics.
<v Speaker 1>The music is so good, it's catchy. It's got that
<v Speaker 1>nineteen fifties early sixties absolutely pop rock song sound about it.
<v Speaker 3>But it sounds like summertime blues to me.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so you've got this guy, he's talking about everybody's
<v Speaker 1>getting off of work, talking about getting hurt on the weekend,
<v Speaker 1>and you know these you know, some guys are going
<v Speaker 1>to go drink and some guys are going to go
<v Speaker 1>look for a fight and all this stuff. And then
<v Speaker 1>about what he's going to do. And he's got this
<v Speaker 1>because he's holding his flag working on the highway. He's
<v Speaker 1>got this girl on his mind.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 1>So the people that I've heard talk about this, they
<v Speaker 1>seem to think like he's working on the highway, he
<v Speaker 1>meets up with his underage girl, gets in trouble, ends
<v Speaker 1>up in the penitentiary, and is working on the highway
<v Speaker 1>for the penitentiary. Yeah, I think it's already happened. Like
<v Speaker 1>I think at the beginning of the song, Rus is
<v Speaker 1>throwing you off with the lyrics about what the other
<v Speaker 1>guys are going to do with their weekends. I think
<v Speaker 1>this guy is already a penitentiary inmate because he did this,
<v Speaker 1>and that's why the girl is on his mind, because
<v Speaker 1>he mentions it in the first first But the idea
<v Speaker 1>of the song either way is this guy decided to
<v Speaker 1>fall in love with the girl who was too young.
<v Speaker 1>He talks to her dad does an honorable thing, and
<v Speaker 1>her daddy says, don't you know, she's just a girl,
<v Speaker 1>and then he takes her down to Florida. You're all
<v Speaker 1>the right back there for a second. He took hard left. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and so yeah, brothers show up with cops and it's
<v Speaker 1>off to the penitentiary with him and he's just working.
<v Speaker 3>On that, working on the highway.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This song was originally called child Bride.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, working on the Highways A better time?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, how about that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because nobody it's hard to understand what Bruce says, right,
<v Speaker 1>I know. And this, by the way, I listened to
<v Speaker 1>several of the songs off of some of the other albums,
<v Speaker 1>and his very first album the Greetings from Asbrey Park.
<v Speaker 1>The first single off of that album was blinded by
<v Speaker 1>the Light, and I was like, did he cover? He
<v Speaker 1>do a cover as his very first sing No, Bruce
<v Speaker 1>Springsteen was the guy who wrote blinded by the Light.
<v Speaker 1>No idea. I thought manford Man was the original. Yeah, yeah, No,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't come along until seventy six. I was like, what,
<v Speaker 1>but this is the rare circumstance where I can understand
<v Speaker 1>Bruce better than I can understand what the banford Man did.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there was all kinds of misunderstood lyrics whenever
<v Speaker 1>it was listening to the Manfred Man Goose was not
<v Speaker 1>deuce right, not wrapped up like a dude? Not yes
<v Speaker 1>that's right, you got it. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So anyway, working on the Highway catchy song, another fun song. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>moving on song number five. This song is called down
<v Speaker 3>Bound Train. Dude. That's the rolling Stones right there.
<v Speaker 1>Oh so strong. The stones are strong with this one.
<v Speaker 1>And wait for it, here it is. Max Cummins comes
<v Speaker 1>in with that snare I'm telling you, yeah, I'm telling
<v Speaker 1>you except for that. Now this song, this song, the
<v Speaker 1>music matches the sadness of the words and the song
<v Speaker 1>right oh, my gosh downbound train like the guy's like.
<v Speaker 1>Life was pretty good. And then the factory shut down
<v Speaker 1>and my wife left me. And then I had a
<v Speaker 1>dream that she was calling me back, and I walked
<v Speaker 1>into a dark, empty room. Okay, I'm gonna go kill myself.
<v Speaker 1>What Bruce, come on, man, find some happy, find you happy,
<v Speaker 1>plays Brown.
<v Speaker 3>There's an author called Debbie Bull. She called the saddest
<v Speaker 3>song ever written.
<v Speaker 1>It is. Yes, he did not bring the happy, Happy,
<v Speaker 1>go lucky music along with his sad song so you
<v Speaker 1>Got Sad music?
<v Speaker 3>Sad song at the end of the Nebraska Sessions. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>it was recorded with Working on the Highway and they
<v Speaker 3>called it the Electric Nebraska Sessions.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, okay, this one I still like. Uh so
<v Speaker 1>far we've we've gotten. I've liked every single song on
<v Speaker 1>this say, They're all good. I mean, even if it
<v Speaker 1>does make me suicidal, it's still it hits a nerve
<v Speaker 1>that sometimes you got to hit. Sometimes songs are supposed
<v Speaker 1>to make you feel sad. Yeah, that's why they call
<v Speaker 1>it the Blips, and that's why they call it the
<v Speaker 1>No Not that well John, right, John Again, what he
<v Speaker 1>seems to do on this album to me is put
<v Speaker 1>songs on each end of each side that are like
<v Speaker 1>his tent pole songs like these are the best songs
<v Speaker 1>on the album. Let's put them on each end, okay,
<v Speaker 1>which brings us to the song number six, I'm on Fire.
<v Speaker 3>This starts off. I like it right away. It's a hit.
<v Speaker 3>You can hear it in my ears immediately.
<v Speaker 1>I'm all the way and this is beautiful, beautiful song.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This was the fourth single released February sixth, nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 3>It reached number six. Wow, another top ten hit.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah four single. Yeah, so this song number one? When
<v Speaker 1>we get that, Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
<v Speaker 1>I really hope when he says daddy he means boyfriend,
<v Speaker 1>because if he actually means daddy, this is super gross.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna assume boyfriend. But then, as I'm as
<v Speaker 1>I'm listening to these lyrics, this is the song of
<v Speaker 1>a crazy man, Like this is the song of someone
<v Speaker 1>who is disturbed and has a fire that is not
<v Speaker 1>an appropriate fire, right, Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
<v Speaker 1>Did he go and leave you all alone? I got
<v Speaker 1>a bad desire? Oh, I'm on fire. He's struggling with
<v Speaker 1>some demons here, right, and he brings that home with
<v Speaker 1>the last part of the song, which I mean the
<v Speaker 1>lyrics on this song I think may be the most poetic.
<v Speaker 1>And we're talking about huge poetry on every single song here.
<v Speaker 1>But sometimes it's like someone took a knife, Baby Edgy
<v Speaker 1>and Doll and cut a six inch valley through the
<v Speaker 1>middle of my skull. At night, I wake up with
<v Speaker 1>the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through
<v Speaker 1>the middle of my head. Only you can cool my desire.
<v Speaker 1>Oh oh, I'm on fire. Wow. It's so powerful and
<v Speaker 1>so creepy and so beautiful and haunting and amazing and
<v Speaker 1>two minutes and thirty seconds long.
<v Speaker 3>All right. This video was filmed in March of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty five, okay, which is the same month that Huey
<v Speaker 3>listened the news filmed Bad Is Bad?
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, we're the film in the same place.
<v Speaker 3>Both in New York, one in La one in San Francisco.
<v Speaker 1>It's a long ways apart. By the way, twos Oklahoma
<v Speaker 1>boys are like oh right next door. Both the gelp
<v Speaker 1>like a seven hour.
<v Speaker 3>Directed again by John Sales.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 3>This video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best
<v Speaker 3>Male Video. Yeah, okay, so the video is Bruce is
<v Speaker 3>a mechanic and this fantasy woman comes in. We never
<v Speaker 3>see her face.
<v Speaker 1>Turned nails as he gave at them, stroking the side
<v Speaker 1>of the car he's working on.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if it's implying if the she is
<v Speaker 3>she a real person or is he just like fantasizing
<v Speaker 3>about her or what? Is she just unattainable? But it's
<v Speaker 3>kind of like the dark version of Billy Joel's Uptown
<v Speaker 3>Girl video Hang on hand, I Got something for you
<v Speaker 3>on this?
<v Speaker 1>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>You ready for this?
<v Speaker 1>Yes?
<v Speaker 3>The B side to the single I'm on Fire Yes,
<v Speaker 3>is a song called Johnny Bye Bye written by It's
<v Speaker 3>like fused from Chuck Berry. A Chuck Berry song. Okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so he had written parts of it and Springsteen took
<v Speaker 3>those parts and kind of made a song out of it.
<v Speaker 1>But this was.
<v Speaker 3>Written just before Chuck Berry went to jail for three
<v Speaker 3>years for violating the Man Act of nineteen sixty two.
<v Speaker 1>That's ironic, how about that? Given my interpretation?
<v Speaker 3>Seriously? Yeah, and for those who don't know what the
<v Speaker 3>Man Act of nineteen sixty two is, that is transporting
<v Speaker 3>women across side state lines for immoral purposes.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Whoa, he's on fire.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let's see what Johnny Byebox sounds like.
<v Speaker 4>With the Red song.
<v Speaker 3>It's the party and nine down on them This time
<v Speaker 3>I'll be going down Ariunit D come man on the radius.
<v Speaker 3>All right, So just one little tidbit on this song. Yes, okay,
<v Speaker 3>Bruce Springsteen and his pianist Roy Baton and his drummer
<v Speaker 3>Max Weinberg are sitting around the first version of this
<v Speaker 3>song was just the three of them because everybody else
<v Speaker 3>was taking a leak or on break or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>Right, smoke him if you got that's right, that's it.
<v Speaker 3>That's it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. So Roy Baton has come up before. Do you
<v Speaker 1>remember his nickname is the Professor. Yeah, he was one
<v Speaker 1>of the handful of guys that bon Jovi got to
<v Speaker 1>help him record run Away. So go check out our
<v Speaker 1>bon Jovi. Yes, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>It's the part one of the slipperwin wet New Jersey
<v Speaker 3>Battle of bon Jovi. All right, time to hit stop
<v Speaker 3>on you tape player, kick it out and flip it
<v Speaker 3>over side too. First song, No Surrender, kicking it.
<v Speaker 1>Off, strong piano, sounding like the old fifties song you
<v Speaker 1>Got the Harmonies Coming in here, I'm already loving it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you about temp pole on each side. This
<v Speaker 1>is a great song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, absolutely, this is a feel good song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah wait, what a positive I know, a positive sounding
<v Speaker 1>and positive lyrics song. What is it doing on this alum?
<v Speaker 3>I know, I know. This is a great song. This
<v Speaker 3>reminds me kind of a bon Jovie. I mean, it's
<v Speaker 3>a feel good working man camaraderie.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we're in this together and we're not giving up.
<v Speaker 3>See it through being on a prayer.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. I really feel like this is something that probably
<v Speaker 1>he had with his bandmates where he was like that
<v Speaker 1>they had to say to themselves because I mean, just
<v Speaker 1>keep keep in mind, his first album came out in
<v Speaker 1>seventy three. This is eleven years later. Born to Run.
<v Speaker 1>Had so much hope and he's built up all of
<v Speaker 1>this fan base, but he's not really had a commercial
<v Speaker 1>success and so he has to rally the troops. Right. Yeah, yeah, guys,
<v Speaker 1>we were in this together. No Retreat, No Surrender.
<v Speaker 3>This song almost didn't make the album.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This was the last song in Wow. It was only
<v Speaker 3>at the insistence of Stephen van Zane. He had left
<v Speaker 3>the band, but it was still friends with everybody. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he was pursuing his solo career yep. And when he listened,
<v Speaker 3>he's like, guys, we got it. I mean, this is
<v Speaker 3>a great song. You got to include this one. This
<v Speaker 3>song was originally titled Brothers under the Bridges.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh?
<v Speaker 3>And quickly have you ever seen the Jung Claude van
<v Speaker 3>Dam movie called No Retreat, No Surrender?
<v Speaker 1>I have never No, I have not seen that.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, not a great movie. He's the bad guy, but
<v Speaker 3>the movie title comes from this song.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, is it about a band who's blood Brothers Underneath
<v Speaker 1>the Stormy Night?
<v Speaker 3>No, it's Karate Oh.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, song number I don't know, number two on
<v Speaker 1>side two, Number.
<v Speaker 3>Two on side two. This song is called Bobby Jean.
<v Speaker 1>So this song is about the loss. I can't tell
<v Speaker 1>if it's a friend or a lover or a friend
<v Speaker 1>that he wanted to be a lover right like they
<v Speaker 1>were obviously close growing up. And she leaves without notice. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and he's just hoping that maybe someone out there she'll
<v Speaker 1>hear this song on the radio and know it's better.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure it's a sheet it could be he Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's true, I mean true.
<v Speaker 3>Bobby Jean could be a male or female, true, and
<v Speaker 3>it's never really specified in the song. Some people think
<v Speaker 3>it's it's like, you know, Steven van z Aunt leaving
<v Speaker 3>the band and oh man, good luck to you, will
<v Speaker 3>miss you, that.
<v Speaker 1>Type of thing. It's Billy Jean's sister.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's Billy Jeen's sister. This song was
<v Speaker 3>not released as a single, but it did make it
<v Speaker 3>to number thirty six on the mainstream rock charts.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, all right, good song.
<v Speaker 3>It doesn't get me real fired up?
<v Speaker 1>No, this is I would say, probably my least favorite
<v Speaker 1>song on the album. I won't call it a skipper.
<v Speaker 1>I would just say, if you get to lose one
<v Speaker 1>on the album, this one's probably it. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Have you seen the live performance when Eddie Vedder from
<v Speaker 3>Pearl Jam comes on stage and they sing this together?
<v Speaker 1>No but I must there you go. Wow, that will
<v Speaker 1>be fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Done with Bobby Jean. We're now moving on to the
<v Speaker 3>sixth single, released August twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. This
<v Speaker 3>song is called and Going Down.
<v Speaker 1>I want that nasty guitar, all right, bring it in,
<v Speaker 1>max Y.
<v Speaker 3>Call side why I can't feel it?
<v Speaker 1>Dot comment?
<v Speaker 4>I going up look.
<v Speaker 1>Give me your little back.
<v Speaker 4>I'm way up. I'm you let out, wanna your mood
<v Speaker 4>side where little where? I'm looking to you, guys, I'm going.
<v Speaker 1>I love this song. This is a guy who's had
<v Speaker 1>enough of her crap. Amen bro, tired of your crown,
<v Speaker 1>used to love on me, and now you just beat
<v Speaker 1>me down like a dog.
<v Speaker 3>This song reached number nine on the US Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 3>Another top ten hit.
<v Speaker 1>So how many is that?
<v Speaker 3>That's the fifth one that we've talked about. That's five
<v Speaker 3>top ten hits and we haven't even gotten a few songs.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, Okay, little repetitive this song. I love it,
<v Speaker 1>but a little bit repetitive for me.
<v Speaker 3>It's catchy, it's I Yeah, it's it's it's andy.
<v Speaker 1>It is a good it's a good song.
<v Speaker 3>I'm done with this one.
<v Speaker 1>Moving on to song number ten on the album, assibly
<v Speaker 1>my favorite song on the album.
<v Speaker 3>This song is called Glory Days.
<v Speaker 4>Where and.
<v Speaker 1>Song the punch. I love the guitar. I want to go.
<v Speaker 1>I want to go get a board and a baseball glove,
<v Speaker 1>and I want to go pitch a little bit on
<v Speaker 1>the mound. And I was never a pitcher in high school.
<v Speaker 3>Let's go get a bucket of balls and some pine
<v Speaker 3>tire and let's get out there.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, this one is. It's iconic. It is amazing.
<v Speaker 4>I'm all want to go down to.
<v Speaker 3>Me.
<v Speaker 1>If you say Bruce Springsteen, this is where my head
<v Speaker 1>goes immediately.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, I'm totally with you.
<v Speaker 1>Understand every word he says in the song belly Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and it's it's a it is a feeling that I
<v Speaker 1>can understand as well, you know, like I mean this
<v Speaker 1>when we're here, right, nostalgia Like these people unfortunately, it's
<v Speaker 1>kind of that idea that the best days that they
<v Speaker 1>ever had were their high school days, right, and they're
<v Speaker 1>stuck there, right, They're just stuck in trying to relive
<v Speaker 1>those days. But you know what, that's okay, that's kind
<v Speaker 1>of what we're doing here.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, well that's we are having a blast talking about I.
<v Speaker 1>Love talking about the glory a little of the glory.
<v Speaker 1>So that's right.
<v Speaker 3>So this song was the fifth single released May nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty five. So this reached number five, Yeah, and the
<v Speaker 3>just hot one hundred. Yeah, I'm spiking the football. This
<v Speaker 3>is my favorite Bruce Springsteen.
<v Speaker 1>Song of all times.
<v Speaker 3>Come Gone Down, Yes, love it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I have no I won't fault you.
<v Speaker 1>This is probably up until we did this podcast, this
<v Speaker 1>was my number one.
<v Speaker 3>So this was actually based on a true story. Bruce
<v Speaker 3>Springstey and this guy named Joe Depew were classmates and teammates,
<v Speaker 3>like little league teammates, right, And this guy, Joe Apeugh
<v Speaker 3>was a really good player. And one day he's walking
<v Speaker 3>into a bar. Joe Depeugh is walking out and he says, hey, Joe,
<v Speaker 3>how's it going, man? And they turn back around, they
<v Speaker 3>go back in, they sit down and have a big,
<v Speaker 3>long conversation about the glorious right, which I thought was
<v Speaker 3>really cool. And this is his quote on this right.
<v Speaker 3>He said, the first verse actually happened, the second verse
<v Speaker 3>mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening. Right, beautiful, right, nice, fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Here's the cool thing about this. I ran the sound
<v Speaker 3>system for the baseball team this year. Okay, at my
<v Speaker 3>son's high school baseball games. Played it. It's still killed.
<v Speaker 3>People are loving it.
<v Speaker 1>I mean so good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was so good. Here's the interesting thing the video.
<v Speaker 3>Stephen van Zandt had left the band two years prior
<v Speaker 3>to Yeah, but he's he's all over the video. He's
<v Speaker 3>having a ball.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and there's another qud up on the stage with
<v Speaker 1>him as well.
<v Speaker 3>Let's talk about her.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, go ahead, there is a qute.
<v Speaker 3>Up on stage with him, all right. But here's the thing.
<v Speaker 3>Julianne Phillips was Bruce Springstein's wife at the time. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>if you say to yourself, Juliane Phillips, who is that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>if you've ever seen the movie Skin Deep, of which
<v Speaker 3>I'm a big fan, never seen it, Okay, Fletch Lips,
<v Speaker 3>seeing that Fletch Lives. She is the love interest in
<v Speaker 3>Fletch Lips.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>She was married to Bruce Springstein from nineteen eighty five
<v Speaker 3>to nineteen eighty nine.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so when did this video come out?
<v Speaker 3>Nineten eighty five. She's actually in the video.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So they were married at the time came.
<v Speaker 3>And she's actually yeah, she's in the video. Okay, But
<v Speaker 3>apparently down the road the other girl in the band,
<v Speaker 3>her name is Patty. I think her name is Patti
<v Speaker 3>Siaffa if I'm saying that right, Okay. She and Bruce
<v Speaker 3>were kind of calm out together, and so Julianne Phillips said,
<v Speaker 3>I'm out of here. And now Bruce and Patty are
<v Speaker 3>now married and have been married for a long time
<v Speaker 3>and have kids.
<v Speaker 1>And all that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so's here's something funny I think about this song. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so we've already established that Bruce has never had a
<v Speaker 3>real job, even though he sings about the working man
<v Speaker 3>all the time, right, and now he's talking about his
<v Speaker 3>glory days, he said, like on concers. He's like, let
<v Speaker 3>me be clear, I hated high school, right, so it
<v Speaker 3>doesn't have the fondest memories of high school.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Still not a standout student, not cool enough even to
<v Speaker 1>be the class clown. That's right. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Still great song. Hell yeah, best song on the album
<v Speaker 3>for me, spiking the football all right. Moving on to
<v Speaker 3>a song called Death and in the Dark.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, The beginning sounds in this song are very similar
<v Speaker 1>to the Born in the USA beginnings, Like you've got
<v Speaker 1>that same synthesizer that's going all but the beat is
<v Speaker 1>a little faster, a little more fun. And it's because
<v Speaker 1>it's a dance beat, because dancing is in the name
<v Speaker 1>of the song.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 1>But as we talked about in our last episode, this
<v Speaker 1>was the song that he wrote out of frustration because
<v Speaker 1>John Lando said, you don't have a hit yet. Boy
<v Speaker 1>was he wrong about that. He was a little no,
<v Speaker 1>he was right, you don't have a hit. You have
<v Speaker 1>six hits, yes, right, I'm.
<v Speaker 3>A little worried because the other songs only sound like
<v Speaker 3>you know, six top ten hits, right.
<v Speaker 1>So he they have their fight. Landau storms out. He's frustrated.
<v Speaker 1>And this, I mean, his life up until that point
<v Speaker 1>was he starts working in the evening and they record
<v Speaker 1>through the night, and he falls asleep in the morning.
<v Speaker 1>So the idea that I get up in the evening
<v Speaker 1>and I ain't got nothing to say, that is him.
<v Speaker 1>That is I've been doing this. I've been spending all
<v Speaker 1>night for months on end, and you're asking me for
<v Speaker 1>another song. I've got nothing left to say. I've done
<v Speaker 1>this eighty times, I've used all my words. I'm done,
<v Speaker 1>and then I come home in the morning, go to bed,
<v Speaker 1>feel in the same way. So because to bed in
<v Speaker 1>the morning, gets up in the evening. This is the
<v Speaker 1>life of a musician, friends and followers, This is what
<v Speaker 1>you hoped for to become a rock star. But at
<v Speaker 1>this point, after all of this, he's nothing but tired
<v Speaker 1>and just bored with himself. He could use just a
<v Speaker 1>little help. I mean, the meaning means so much more
<v Speaker 1>now that I know that it's the result of this
<v Speaker 1>big fight that he has after killing himself and getting
<v Speaker 1>told you haven't done enough yet. Isn't that cool? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>This is why I love what we do. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The deep dive makes me appreciate these guys creations even more. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I want to say somewhere stop.
<v Speaker 1>Stop.
<v Speaker 3>This song was released May ninth of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>That was just a cold days ago, and it reached
<v Speaker 3>number two on the US Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>All right, you want to know what's better than Dancing
<v Speaker 3>the Dark? Yeah, it turns out there's two songs better.
<v Speaker 3>It was blocked for two weeks by two different songs.
<v Speaker 1>Oh what okay?
<v Speaker 3>All right, so it was blocked by Deran Duran's The Reflex.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that was a big one.
<v Speaker 3>That's a big one, right, one, that's a huge one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and then the week after when Doves.
<v Speaker 1>Cry and another huge one, huge one. Yeah. Wow, Well
<v Speaker 1>that's unfortunate, but this is.
<v Speaker 3>Still a fantastic It's still a fantastic song.
<v Speaker 4>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>So I think now now that I know the story.
<v Speaker 1>I gotta say, Glory Days has to move down to
<v Speaker 1>the number two spot for me, and this song is
<v Speaker 1>not my favorite song on the album.
<v Speaker 3>O heay, fantastic l us.
<v Speaker 1>Without this song, we might not have had Courtney Cox,
<v Speaker 1>which means we might not have had a girlfriend on
<v Speaker 1>Family Ties, which.
<v Speaker 3>Means we might not have had Monica on France.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, how about that. Thank you John Landau for being
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a d and making Bruce write
<v Speaker 1>just one more song.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, Thank you so much. You ready to talk
<v Speaker 3>about the music video? Yeah, because we're moving there right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So you've got a young Courtney Cox as you mentioned. Yep,
<v Speaker 3>if he doesn't pull her out of the crowd pull
<v Speaker 3>her up on stage. That is her with the short
<v Speaker 3>hair in case you got by you there. Okay. This
<v Speaker 3>was filmed in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They played the song
<v Speaker 3>twice so they could get all the footage they needed.
<v Speaker 3>It was directed by Brian de Palma.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Yeah, I would not have picked that. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Now, then here is the funny part about this song,
<v Speaker 3>all right. The dance that Bruce is doing on stage
<v Speaker 3>later became the Carlton from Fresh Prince Villair.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, one little nugget I thought was hilarious when I
<v Speaker 3>heard about this nugget about dancing the dark.
<v Speaker 1>You're ready for this? Okay.
<v Speaker 3>According to Rolling Stone, this is the only Springsteen song
<v Speaker 3>that Bob Dylan ever covered. Okay, Okay, imagine Bob Dylan
<v Speaker 3>singing dancing in the dark.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I have no trouble with that.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, so when he did it, so apparently this is
<v Speaker 3>January twelfth, nineteen ninety Bob Dylan flubbed most of the
<v Speaker 3>words and the performance was so bad people didn't even
<v Speaker 3>realize what he was singing. They had no idea.
<v Speaker 1>That's that's awkward. They were like, what is this?
<v Speaker 3>What is it?
<v Speaker 1>Dancing in the dark?
<v Speaker 3>What great song? Feel good song, poppy ear candy.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, and a great story behind it? Everything I need this.
<v Speaker 1>This is the new number one.
<v Speaker 3>This was voted the single of the year by Rolling
<v Speaker 3>Stone listeners.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, finishing strong with another tenth Pole song,
<v Speaker 1>and we've got three in a row here Glory Days,
<v Speaker 1>We're dancing the dark, and then we have my hometown
<v Speaker 1>sal running with dim Mine.
<v Speaker 4>Bust up man.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, this is not a fist bumper, No but after
<v Speaker 1>hearing this song, I don't know how many times in
<v Speaker 1>preparation for this, I still almost teared up because the
<v Speaker 1>imagery is so vivid of this little kid running down
<v Speaker 1>the street, the diamond his hand, getting a paper for
<v Speaker 1>his old man, sit on his lap in that big
<v Speaker 1>old buick and steer as we drove through town, and
<v Speaker 1>he tossled my hair and say, son, take a good
<v Speaker 1>look around. This is your hometown. And that warm fuzzy
<v Speaker 1>memory leading into the racial tension that happens while he's
<v Speaker 1>in high school and the slow spy roll down of
<v Speaker 1>the town. By the time that he's an adult and
<v Speaker 1>he's got his own little boy, he's talking with his
<v Speaker 1>wife about getting the heck out of there, but then
<v Speaker 1>he's riding with his son in his lap with the
<v Speaker 1>steering wheel, saying, son, this is your hometown.
<v Speaker 4>Ah.
<v Speaker 1>It is so emotional, so amazing A love love love
<v Speaker 1>the song. Nice.
<v Speaker 3>So this song was released November twenty one of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty five. It reached number six on the Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Now, for those of you keeping track at home, that's
<v Speaker 3>seven singles, all of them top ten smashes.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Now, just a little addendum to that this song reached
<v Speaker 3>number one on the Adult Contemporary, which to date is
<v Speaker 3>his only number one hit.
<v Speaker 1>In any category.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, wow, how about that.
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>I know that is crazy because this was released so
<v Speaker 3>close to Thanksgiving. The B side to this is Santa
<v Speaker 3>Claus Is Coming to Town, which I hear a lot
<v Speaker 3>during the Christmas time.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's fun, Bruce having fun for once in
<v Speaker 1>its life.
<v Speaker 3>Before we wrap up the album, I want to throw in.
<v Speaker 3>I want to talk about one song, just briefly. This
<v Speaker 3>is a song that didn't make the cut.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Pink Cadillac.
<v Speaker 3>Girls Money was supposed to be on Born in the USA.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 3>It didn't make the cut, but they later released it
<v Speaker 3>as kind of a B side, and it reached number
<v Speaker 3>twenty seven. I mean, that's the power of this album
<v Speaker 3>that a song not even good enough to make the
<v Speaker 3>album still was a top thirty hit.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm riding in my pink like Prince's little red Corvette.
<v Speaker 3>It's a it's a little metaphor for a female. There
<v Speaker 3>you go, pink Cadillac. Take a ride in your pink Cadillac.
<v Speaker 1>Awkward, there you go? All right, So fantastic album. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>from beginning to end. Maybe one song out of the
<v Speaker 1>bunch that I would go it is okay. The rest
<v Speaker 1>of them are amazing, amazing lyrics, great music, better in
<v Speaker 1>my opinion, than anything he had done up until that point.
<v Speaker 1>And as we've said before, I'm a radio for friendly,
<v Speaker 1>big hits, Bruce Sky, so that's why I like this
<v Speaker 1>album better than his other albums. But given the success
<v Speaker 1>of the album, this is obviously an opinion that's shared
<v Speaker 1>by many other people. So that's the end of this part.
<v Speaker 1>Join us next week.
<v Speaker 2>When we go into Huey Lewis and the News, the
<v Speaker 2>history of Huey Lewis, and then we go track by
<v Speaker 2>track through the album Sports, which also was one of
<v Speaker 2>the few number one albums of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 1>Tune in next week you can hear all about the
<v Speaker 1>albums that reached number one in the year nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>four because there aren't very many and born in the
<v Speaker 1>USA in Sports, where two of.
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