Top 5 Songs of 1989

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<v Speaker 2>beating with just one mind. Every little step of this episode.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna take a little patience, but if you'll just
<v Speaker 2>hanged off with us as we pick our songs for
<v Speaker 2>the best of nineteen eighty nine, we're gonna tell you
<v Speaker 2>what songs were the greatest. After all, it is our prerogative.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my line?
<v Speaker 3>Oh did I?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Well, when I showed up at your house today,
<v Speaker 4>I was I was like, you may not love these songs,
<v Speaker 4>but you're gonna love the stories. And I was gonna
<v Speaker 4>follow that up with but that's my prerogative because it's
<v Speaker 4>my list, but you stole my thunder. It was a
<v Speaker 4>brilliant intro though, Thank you so much for that two
<v Speaker 4>Hearts Beating with just one mind. I really really from
<v Speaker 4>your intro alone, think that we are not going to
<v Speaker 4>have any overlap. I predict one song I've got seven songs.
<v Speaker 4>You've got seven songs. We've got top five and two
<v Speaker 4>honorable mentions. I think we will have an overlap on
<v Speaker 4>one song. I'm not gonna say what it is.
<v Speaker 2>I will be shocked if we have any overlap.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, that's fair.
<v Speaker 2>So we talked about there's a difference between our last
<v Speaker 2>episode that we did on this was nineteen eighty four. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>everybody was watching MTV. It was the same twenty songs
<v Speaker 2>that we all experienced. It's all I mean, that's just
<v Speaker 2>how it was. Everybody's taste was the same. Yeah, by
<v Speaker 2>this time, MTV had branched out. You had headge Ball,
<v Speaker 2>you had Goo MTV raps, you had.
<v Speaker 4>Had they started Real World at this point they had
<v Speaker 4>hadn't they not?
<v Speaker 2>By eighty nine?
<v Speaker 4>Oh okay, I told you in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen
<v Speaker 4>eighty nine, I had quit listening to popular music, Like
<v Speaker 4>I had started to play guitar, and so the songs
<v Speaker 4>on my CD player or my tape player or Lennard
<v Speaker 4>skinnerd led Zeppelin, the Eagles, like I was getting acquainted
<v Speaker 4>with all of those bands from the seventies, and I
<v Speaker 4>kind of missed this area as a matter of fact,
<v Speaker 4>one of the songs that is going to be on
<v Speaker 4>my list somewhere is a song that I had never
<v Speaker 4>heard until this morning. I texted the group and I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>holy cow, guys, I just heard a song that I've
<v Speaker 4>never heard before. It's by a band that I've never
<v Speaker 4>heard of, and it was popular in ninet eighty nine.
<v Speaker 4>It will probably not be one that many of our
<v Speaker 4>listeners have heard of, but I am happy to introduce
<v Speaker 4>it because it is a banger of a song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's kind of missing the nostalgic factor on this.
<v Speaker 4>That's okay. I mean, the fact is somebody out there
<v Speaker 4>to us has some nostalgia for this song because it
<v Speaker 4>played on MTV. It was a big success for this
<v Speaker 4>band as far as they go. But okay, I mean
<v Speaker 4>there are some people out there who are, like, I
<v Speaker 4>guarantee you they're gonna go, oh, I loved that album
<v Speaker 4>or I loved that band or whatever it is. So
<v Speaker 4>I think that that will be fun. Now. The thing
<v Speaker 4>is is that you guys are probably thinking, if you
<v Speaker 4>haven't heard our stuff before, well, guys, how are you
<v Speaker 4>gonna pick any songs from eighty nine that everybody doesn't know. Well,
<v Speaker 4>the answer is we have eliminated all of the songs
<v Speaker 4>of all of the albums that we have previously covered
<v Speaker 4>or that we have on the schedule to cover this year.
<v Speaker 2>Right, And that's a lot, man, that is a whole lot.
<v Speaker 4>So we've got Bonjo v New Jersey off the table,
<v Speaker 4>Cinderella Long Cold Winner off OU eight one two, Appetite
<v Speaker 4>for Destruction, skid Row, Doctor, Feel Good, Hysteria, Vivid Batman,
<v Speaker 4>Open Up and Say Ah, George Michael's Faith, The Cure, Disintegration,
<v Speaker 4>Depeche Mode, Violator. Those are all off of the table.
<v Speaker 4>And we've got some Patreon episodes that we've done where
<v Speaker 4>we've covered some of the one hit wonders of eighty
<v Speaker 4>nine and we're gonna cover some more. We got one
<v Speaker 4>coming up.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're doing Bust to Move and Funky Colem Medina
<v Speaker 2>along with wild Thing and Principal's Office kind of a
<v Speaker 2>four way one hit wonder from Young MC and Tone Loke,
<v Speaker 2>and all those are off the table as well.
<v Speaker 4>We had a huge sequence of episodes on all of
<v Speaker 4>the parts of We Didn't Start the Fire, so that
<v Speaker 4>one's off the table. That was a huge hit in
<v Speaker 4>eighty nine. So guys, you're about to hear a top
<v Speaker 4>five list of songs that are not gonna be on
<v Speaker 4>any other top five because if you want to hear
<v Speaker 4>the good stories behind the big songs, you could check
<v Speaker 4>out those episodes.
<v Speaker 2>Go check out those episodes. There's tons of great songs,
<v Speaker 2>great stories. Those are great fun episodes. Yeah, we just
<v Speaker 2>want to dive a little bit deeper, stretch our legs
<v Speaker 2>a little bit on this exactly.
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<v Speaker 4>page out. Now, enough selling, Let's get into the songs.
<v Speaker 4>Right ready, who's going first? Not you?
<v Speaker 5>Me?
<v Speaker 4>You?
<v Speaker 5>You?
<v Speaker 3>Sure?
<v Speaker 1>You?
<v Speaker 4>Five? Okay? All right?
<v Speaker 2>This song is number five. I will tell you that
<v Speaker 2>I made a little playlist on Spotify.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I listened to it on the way home, and by
<v Speaker 2>the time I had gotten home, I had rearranged the order.
<v Speaker 4>Well, I mean, I've put my order together five seconds
<v Speaker 4>ago before we started the podcast, right, and I didn't
<v Speaker 4>mention for those who haven't listened before. The way that
<v Speaker 4>we do this is we tease up the song. We
<v Speaker 4>just don't come all right out and say it. We
<v Speaker 4>tease it up to try to get the other guy
<v Speaker 4>to guess what the song is. So audience members. You
<v Speaker 4>can participate in that. Try to figure out what this
<v Speaker 4>song is before we name it. Okay, all right, all right,
<v Speaker 4>here we go.
<v Speaker 2>All right, my number five. We're going to do five
<v Speaker 2>and then, excuse me, we're going to do five, four
<v Speaker 2>three two. Honorable mention, Dona mention number one.
<v Speaker 4>Yep, okay.
<v Speaker 2>This song was released February of nineteen eighty nine. This
<v Speaker 2>has children singing in the background.
<v Speaker 4>Shut the crap up. We've already got an overlap?
<v Speaker 3>Are you serious?
<v Speaker 4>Is one of the children, Fergie and the other children.
<v Speaker 4>Another one of the children, Jennifer love Hewitt, not that
<v Speaker 4>I know of. I may be blowing your mind with
<v Speaker 4>that information. Okay, you keep going because I think I
<v Speaker 4>know what it is. Keep going.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, Okay, now you're blowing me off my thing here,
<v Speaker 2>I dare say this is the only song on the
<v Speaker 2>Countdown that mentions ring around the Rosie Hopscotch, g I, Joe, Barbie,
<v Speaker 2>London Bridge, all the all the Oxen free.
<v Speaker 4>Keep going, keep going, Yeah, okay, with.
<v Speaker 2>The ball paper dolls, hacky sack hangman.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>It even has a great breakdown in the middle of
<v Speaker 2>the song where it's singing the children are singing. Jack
<v Speaker 2>and Susie sitting in a tree kiss I n G.
<v Speaker 4>How many songs that were big songs in ninet eighty
<v Speaker 4>nine have a children's chorus as a part of the
<v Speaker 4>song so far, I'm not sure that we have the
<v Speaker 4>same song.
<v Speaker 2>Keep going okay, all right, so we have all these
<v Speaker 2>references to childhood games sort of fun. It's very innocent
<v Speaker 2>that the lyrics are very smart. No sex, no drugs,
<v Speaker 2>no alcohol, This is all childhood games. This song begins
<v Speaker 2>with the intro from Mozart's Turkish March as a blistering guitar.
<v Speaker 2>The guitar player on this is legendary like Eddie van
<v Speaker 2>Halen and then Nuno Benncourt. Okay, yes it.
<v Speaker 4>Is okay, keep going. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So this was featured in a movie that we have
<v Speaker 2>covered where chaos is going down at the.
<v Speaker 4>Mall, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you've got Joan of Arc leading in aerobics class.
<v Speaker 2>You've got Mozart playing in the music store. So that's
<v Speaker 2>obviously Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Yes, okay, this song
<v Speaker 2>is by Extreme. This song was released February of nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty nine. It's a crowd favorite. This song is called
<v Speaker 2>play with Me.
<v Speaker 4>I can see Joan of Arc leading the exercise, the
<v Speaker 4>jazzer size session. I can see Beethoven playing on multiple
<v Speaker 4>multiple keyboards, and Genghis Khan riding on skateboards with football
<v Speaker 4>helmet on. Man, I love it. That was that was
<v Speaker 4>That was fantastic. Man.
<v Speaker 2>That was a That was a wide poll too?
<v Speaker 4>Hey did it chart? Was it? I mean? Was it
<v Speaker 4>a on? A?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, nothing, no nothing. This is just one of
<v Speaker 2>your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine. Yes, okay, very good,
<v Speaker 2>beef Oven leading the charge, Yes, very good. Okay, play
<v Speaker 2>with me, Mike extream All right.
<v Speaker 4>Well, fortunately, since I tipped my hand a little bit already,
<v Speaker 4>still I don't know what it is. Yeah, my number
<v Speaker 4>five also involves a children's chorus. Okay, but it's not
<v Speaker 4>nearly as happy and go lucky as yours is. Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>The singer of Mine made her first movie appearance in
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty two as one of the orphans on Annie.
<v Speaker 4>She was not credited in that.
<v Speaker 2>But wait, wait, wait, wait are we talking? Sun will
<v Speaker 2>come out tomorrow?
<v Speaker 4>That Annie nineteen eighty two, Yes, hey. Then in nineteen
<v Speaker 4>eighty four, she was in break into electric boogaloo okay,
<v Speaker 4>and was not a breakout success on this one. Her
<v Speaker 4>kind of intro into fame was in the TV show
<v Speaker 4>Kids Incorporated, which she started doing in nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, keep going, Yeah, I'm stumped.
<v Speaker 4>And then same year she was featured in Mister T's
<v Speaker 4>motivational video called be Somebody or be Somebody's Fool. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>keep going okay. Her character's name is this very This
<v Speaker 4>is not Fergie.
<v Speaker 3>This is Fergy.
<v Speaker 4>It's not Fergie. Okay. No, But as I mentioned, Fergie
<v Speaker 4>is in the children's course, as is Jennifer Love Hewitt.
<v Speaker 4>So her character on Kids Incorporated was Gloria, but that's
<v Speaker 4>not her real name. Her real name is Marta Marta Marino.
<v Speaker 4>Know who that is yet? Okay? That's good because I
<v Speaker 4>didn't want to give it away. The song spent two
<v Speaker 4>weeks at number one in nineteen eighty nine. Middle of
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty nine, the album, which is named after the singer,
<v Speaker 4>was at number fifteen on the Billboard two hundred.
<v Speaker 2>Ah, I have a guess, Keep going, Keep going okay.
<v Speaker 4>This song was sampled by Eminem for one of his
<v Speaker 4>songs that has a similar name and boy, did I
<v Speaker 4>fall down a rabbit hole on that one? I mean
<v Speaker 4>that involves the death of a couple of different rappers.
<v Speaker 4>I mean one of the rappers died and he writes
<v Speaker 4>this song about it, and then the rapper who is
<v Speaker 4>a friend who is playing the part of the deceased rapper,
<v Speaker 4>he gets killed within a few years himself. So just yeah, sorry,
<v Speaker 4>that's the Eminem song, right, fell down that rabbit hole.
<v Speaker 4>The song is about a friend that the singer had.
<v Speaker 4>This is the third song she ever wrote, and the
<v Speaker 4>first two were kind of soft poppy, nothing's yes. This
<v Speaker 4>third song is about a friend who is battling an
<v Speaker 4>addiction to cocaine. Tell me what it is?
<v Speaker 2>I think I know what it is. Yes, this has
<v Speaker 2>to be Toy Soldiers by Martika.
<v Speaker 4>You got it.
<v Speaker 3>Step by step.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, And I would have known it anyway, but
<v Speaker 2>the Eminem clue gave it away. Yeah, so totally remember
<v Speaker 2>this song. I worked at a pizza place. Was my
<v Speaker 2>first job with my now wife. Oh wow, that's where
<v Speaker 2>we hooked up Masias and jeans. You hooked up in
<v Speaker 2>the muss Well, there's a special you know, something going
<v Speaker 2>on in the sauce there. Oh, tell me that summer
<v Speaker 2>that was summer of eighty nine, and this song would
<v Speaker 2>play on over the restaurant overhead all the time. So
<v Speaker 2>great song.
<v Speaker 4>I love the song. Yeah, sweet Yeah. This is one
<v Speaker 4>of those songs that within the last year or so
<v Speaker 4>just kind of came up on Spotify for me. Or
<v Speaker 4>maybe it was in the gym, I don't know, but
<v Speaker 4>I just heard it and I was like, oh, I
<v Speaker 4>really liked that song, and so I kind of investigated Martika.
<v Speaker 4>That was the name that she eventually took, and she
<v Speaker 4>ended up working later on with Prince in ninety one.
<v Speaker 4>They had a song called Love that Will Be Done,
<v Speaker 4>which was another big hit.
<v Speaker 2>I heard of that song, yep.
<v Speaker 4>And then she did other stuff, but eventually just decided
<v Speaker 4>to be a stay at home mom. She did some
<v Speaker 4>eighties you know, tours, cruise, Yeah, toured with Debbie Gibson
<v Speaker 4>and some of the other folks, and she's done that.
<v Speaker 4>But just a little thing that you should know. The friend,
<v Speaker 4>according to the VH one, Papa Video conquered their drug addiction.
<v Speaker 4>So happy ending, happy ending.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, take it to the bank. If Papa Video
<v Speaker 2>said it.
<v Speaker 4>All right, So there you go. There's my number five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this is to my number four, number four, Okay, four,
<v Speaker 2>all right, if I were to, if I were a
<v Speaker 2>betting man, this is the song that I think we
<v Speaker 2>might have in common. Okay, Okay, accept one small detail.
<v Speaker 2>I think you've selected a different song by this artist
<v Speaker 2>than I selected.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, we'll see all right.
<v Speaker 2>So this song was released December of nineteen eighty nine,
<v Speaker 2>so it's really dropping late in the year. It reached
<v Speaker 2>number twenty peeked out in March of ninety. But for me,
<v Speaker 2>I definitely remember it fall of eighty nine because I
<v Speaker 2>bought the tape in the spring due to its first single,
<v Speaker 2>which I've already mentioned in this episode. Okay, this song
<v Speaker 2>is about a fictional woman whose name is Mercy. Now
<v Speaker 2>I will tell you this. The lead singer for this
<v Speaker 2>rock band his real name. He was born John Kennedy Oswald.
<v Speaker 4>I know it. Okay, I know it, and save it.
<v Speaker 4>Save it? Okay, Savior number four, because this also was
<v Speaker 4>the one song. Oh wait, you said it might be
<v Speaker 4>a different song. I think it's a different song. You
<v Speaker 4>think it's a different song.
<v Speaker 2>Let's hold it and we'll talk about it when we
<v Speaker 2>hit yours. Okay, all right, I think it's a different song.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough, all right to.
<v Speaker 2>Your number four, sir, my number four.
<v Speaker 4>All right. This song, my number four, was written by
<v Speaker 4>a Canadian DJ about an American Army sergeant and sung
<v Speaker 4>by somebody that the DJ acted with in a kid
<v Speaker 4>show in the mid eighties. That doesn't give it away
<v Speaker 4>for you.
<v Speaker 2>I got nothing on that man.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. The song. The bass line in the song Everybody
<v Speaker 4>Thinks is a fretless bass because the bass player didn't
<v Speaker 4>normally play a fretless bass, and so eventually they asked him.
<v Speaker 4>The bass player's name Steve Webster, you recognize that name. No,
<v Speaker 4>he was the bass player when we talked about Billie
<v Speaker 4>Idol Rebel Yell. He's the bass player on that one.
<v Speaker 4>So he was also the bass player on the song.
<v Speaker 4>And what he said was, I didn't play the bass
<v Speaker 4>on this song. This fretless bass is a synthesizer sound
<v Speaker 4>that one of the other co writer who also produced
<v Speaker 4>this song used to record the bassline. Okay, okay, all right, okay.
<v Speaker 4>The songwriter that was a DJ was also Canada's first
<v Speaker 4>Like Canada did not have MTV, they had a show
<v Speaker 4>called City Limits which was a precursor of the Much Music,
<v Speaker 4>which was the Canadian version of MTV. Okay, and his
<v Speaker 4>name is Christopher Okay, Okay. I was gonna throw you
<v Speaker 4>off by saying that the the co writer on this
<v Speaker 4>one was Mike Tyson. The producer's name is David Michael Tyson.
<v Speaker 4>I just was like, they'd be funny if I told
<v Speaker 4>Jason that Mike Tyson played the bass on this one.
<v Speaker 2>All Right, I have no clue. I have no clue.
<v Speaker 4>I think you're gonna get there, but I just there's
<v Speaker 4>so much in this show that he did the City
<v Speaker 4>Limits show, they had bon Jovion in the early eighties
<v Speaker 4>before he was very popular. Okay. He also had Mike
<v Speaker 4>Myers on regularly playing Wayne Campbell in the mid eighties,
<v Speaker 4>like ten years before Saturday Night Live. And the guy
<v Speaker 4>who wrote this song was basically the precursor to Garth
<v Speaker 4>Albar No Way Way, Okay, here we go, and Mike
<v Speaker 4>Myers and the lady that sings this song were in
<v Speaker 4>another music video that this guy wrote. The song was
<v Speaker 4>called Boys and Girls Again, Mike Myers is playing the
<v Speaker 4>Wayne Campbell part. I think that was like his one
<v Speaker 4>trick Pony for a while. I can't wait to show you.
<v Speaker 2>The only music video I can think of is Justify
<v Speaker 2>My Love or whatever it was they did with Madonna.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, So in ninety seven, this guy who wrote
<v Speaker 4>the song became a member of Ming Tea, which is
<v Speaker 4>a band with Mike Myers, Susannah Hoffs, and Matthew Sweet.
<v Speaker 4>James Buckley is listening and he's like, oh, I know,
<v Speaker 4>I think I know it is now right, Okay, song itself,
<v Speaker 4>as I mentioned, it's about an American Army sergeant. Title
<v Speaker 4>of the song could refer to a painting style, it
<v Speaker 4>could to clothing, it could refer to hair dye that
<v Speaker 4>this particular American Army sergeant wore, or it could refer
<v Speaker 4>to his voice. Because you probably don't know him as
<v Speaker 4>an army sergeant. You know him as one of the
<v Speaker 4>greatest singers of all time and his portraits were frequently
<v Speaker 4>painted on the black velvet.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I got it. So you did tell me the
<v Speaker 2>name of the song, right then, this is clearly Alana
<v Speaker 2>Miles Black Velvet.
<v Speaker 3>Morning, Mississippi.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. So this song he wrote after in nineteen eighty seven,
<v Speaker 4>ten year anniversary of Elvis' death. Right he was on
<v Speaker 4>a bus full of fans going to the tenth anniversary
<v Speaker 4>of his death celebration, and he was just amazed by
<v Speaker 4>the craze that still existed ten years later for this guy.
<v Speaker 4>And that was the inspiration for this song about Elvis.
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic. So here's the deal, the story behind this song.
<v Speaker 2>For me, I would bet my last paycheck. This song
<v Speaker 2>peaked out about March of nineteen ninety because I went
<v Speaker 2>on a trip to Florida with Patreon member Chris Bauer
<v Speaker 2>and this is one of those songs that in that
<v Speaker 2>fourteen hour drive to Florida they played about every half
<v Speaker 2>hour or so.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, so it was big that song.
<v Speaker 2>I associate it strongly with that trip. This is a
<v Speaker 2>great song. Her voice is smooth and silky and soulful,
<v Speaker 2>and it's got that low down, dirty Mississippi blues feel
<v Speaker 2>to it. I love it.
<v Speaker 4>Great. Call a Lot of Miles was actually Chris Wart's
<v Speaker 4>girlfriend by the time they got together on this song,
<v Speaker 4>and she's smoking back then. The album was released March fourteenth,
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty nine, so I thought, well enough with an
<v Speaker 4>eighty I call it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, right there, you go, all right to my
<v Speaker 2>number three number three three Okay. I don't think I'm
<v Speaker 2>bending the rules and including it on this list.
<v Speaker 4>Sure you are. That's what you do.
<v Speaker 2>It is what I do.
<v Speaker 4>That's what you do.
<v Speaker 2>However, we've talked extensively about this song without technically covering it.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>It was inspired by an English folk song. The title
<v Speaker 2>was Okay Okay. This reached number two on the Hot
<v Speaker 2>one hundred in October of nineteen eighty nine, blocked by
<v Speaker 2>miss You Much by Janet Jackson Okay Okay, which was
<v Speaker 2>a that's a that's no shame. That was a big song,
<v Speaker 2>right sure yeah Okay. Song was written in June of
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty seven. It has a reference to Margaret Thatcher
<v Speaker 2>and the Conservative Party when she won her third term.
<v Speaker 2>You want me to give you the line in the song.
<v Speaker 4>No, it is the artist who sings this song involved
<v Speaker 4>in what your number one song was from nineteen eighty four,
<v Speaker 4>No okay, keep going okay.
<v Speaker 2>So here's the line from the song Okay, politician Granny
<v Speaker 2>with your high ideals, have you no idea how the
<v Speaker 2>majority feels?
<v Speaker 4>Okay?
<v Speaker 2>Trying not to sing it?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, No, I still do.
<v Speaker 2>When you watch this video, you are overwhelmed with Sixties nostalgia,
<v Speaker 2>Egyptian Oks and Sunflowers and the Beatles's This Oasis.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, keep going, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>We recently covered an album by this band, and when
<v Speaker 2>we discussed.
<v Speaker 4>It, I got it. Yeah, I keep going.
<v Speaker 2>We discussed it, we talked about what was her your
<v Speaker 2>favorite song by them, and I said, this was my
<v Speaker 2>favorite song. This is six minutes of imitating the Beatles
<v Speaker 2>and nailing it.
<v Speaker 4>Landor's a ball Hurt Smith Tears for Fears.
<v Speaker 2>This song is called Sowing the Scenes of Love.
<v Speaker 4>I love it. It's a great song. It's a great song.
<v Speaker 4>Amanda Janic mentioned that she just absolutely loves this song.
<v Speaker 2>Go back and check out the podcast on Songs from
<v Speaker 2>vic Chair where we covered each song from that album
<v Speaker 2>from Tears for Fears. That was a great episode and
<v Speaker 2>it was like five episodes ago.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, it's this season, so check it out.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, very successful episode for us. Yeah, Sowing the Seeds
<v Speaker 2>of Love.
<v Speaker 4>Very good to you. Number three, sir, number three, All right,
<v Speaker 4>this song probably would have ranked higher for me, but
<v Speaker 4>it's cover. In nineteen seventy three, the song reached number four.
<v Speaker 4>Who was written by the same guy who sang it
<v Speaker 4>and as a matter of fact, he not only sang
<v Speaker 4>it and wrote it, he played every single instrument when
<v Speaker 4>he did it back in nineteen seventy three. He recorded
<v Speaker 4>it May twelfth, nineteen seventy three, which I mean you
<v Speaker 4>were officially like eight days old. Eight days old, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>Three months later he was in a car crash which
<v Speaker 4>left him in a coma for four days and caused
<v Speaker 4>him to lose his sense of smell and sense of
<v Speaker 4>taste temporarily as well, which is tragic because he also
<v Speaker 4>had lost his sense of sight as a young child.
<v Speaker 4>So I've kind of given away who did the first
<v Speaker 4>version of It's one of your favorites from the eighties, Yes,
<v Speaker 4>but this version of the song by this other band
<v Speaker 4>was their first big Like they had three or four
<v Speaker 4>albums before.
<v Speaker 2>This, this was their first big hit.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I'm just gonna mention a few things on how
<v Speaker 4>big a hit their version is. It was used to
<v Speaker 4>promote FX's The Ultimate Fighter. It was used as the
<v Speaker 4>soundtrack for Disney's Space Mountain Journey from January to April
<v Speaker 4>two thousand and seven. Total Guitar called it the second
<v Speaker 4>greatest cover ever. Okay. In nineteen ninety. It was nominated
<v Speaker 4>for Breakthrough Video and the Video Music Awards.
<v Speaker 2>Wait.
<v Speaker 4>This was the band's This song was off the band's
<v Speaker 4>fourth studio album. This is the first album that they
<v Speaker 4>did after they lost their lead guitarist 'llel Slovak to
<v Speaker 4>a heroin overdose. He died at twenty six. He had
<v Speaker 4>been the guitarist on the previous three albums then Hellel.
<v Speaker 4>His position was taken by Sean Frushanti. And because I
<v Speaker 4>know that you're not super familiar with this band, I
<v Speaker 4>know that I can throw these names out and you're
<v Speaker 4>not quite gonna get it yet.
<v Speaker 2>I don't even have it fenced in yet.
<v Speaker 4>Right after Hellel Slovak died, their drummer, Jack Irons left
<v Speaker 4>the band as well, so they brought in new drummer.
<v Speaker 4>New guitarist had the same lead singer. By the way,
<v Speaker 4>the lead singer's dad was in a part in Lethal Weapon,
<v Speaker 4>which we covered in our first season.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I know who we're talking about, the band, Yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>all right, so this I have a gat I know,
<v Speaker 2>I think I know the song.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, it's about reincarnation.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe I'm not a Chili Peppers guy, and I'm definitely
<v Speaker 2>not a Stevie Wonder guy, which you're hitting me my
<v Speaker 2>Achilles Hill both spots here. Yes, the only song I
<v Speaker 2>can think of is Mother's Milk.
<v Speaker 4>Mother's Milk is the name of the album that it's
<v Speaker 4>came off of. The name of the song is called
<v Speaker 4>Higher Ground.
<v Speaker 2>I know that song. I love that song. I didn't
<v Speaker 2>know the name of it. Jackson RT is punching his
<v Speaker 2>radio at this moment, taking the phone at you. I
<v Speaker 2>had no idea that was a Stevie Wonder song.
<v Speaker 4>Are you kidding me?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Though Stevie Wonder version is great. To listen to
<v Speaker 4>this so funky.
<v Speaker 2>Wow the whole time, I'm just like, isn't she lovely? Superstitious?
<v Speaker 2>I just called to say I love you?
<v Speaker 4>Wow?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, great song, love it fantastic. By the way, you
<v Speaker 2>mentioned his dad. His dad Rigs shoots him at the
<v Speaker 2>very beginning to leave the weapon at the Christmas Tree
<v Speaker 2>Christmas Tree drug deal.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yes, indeed, and Anthony Keatis is in point break.
<v Speaker 4>He gets shot in the which is absolutely hysterical. He
<v Speaker 4>screams his head off.
<v Speaker 2>Poor child.
<v Speaker 4>The Patrick Swayzey movie which might later different Patrick Swacy movie,
<v Speaker 4>But I'm gonna save that save that too much? All right,
<v Speaker 4>all right, dancing number three, there's my number three.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, are we onto my number two?
<v Speaker 4>Onto your number two, sir two?
<v Speaker 2>All right for my number two. I'm a little worried
<v Speaker 2>about my street cred on this one, okay, because this
<v Speaker 2>is a pop band.
<v Speaker 4>I was expecting more pop than I've gotten from you
<v Speaker 4>so far, So you're totally fine.
<v Speaker 2>This is a pop band who I think stretched their
<v Speaker 2>legs and tried to do a rock ballad.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, yep, and I think they nailed it. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the interesting story about them. This was released in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty eight in Europe. They're a European band.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>They found success in the United States due to a
<v Speaker 2>foreign exchange student. Okay, you don't know this story, no,
<v Speaker 2>all right. An American goes over to this other country,
<v Speaker 2>listens to the radio, hangs out in this foreign country,
<v Speaker 2>and there's this pop act over there that's pumping out
<v Speaker 2>hit singles. So he likes them. He buys the tape.
<v Speaker 2>When he returns back to Minneapolis, he goes to his
<v Speaker 2>local radio station, hands the DJ of the tape and says,
<v Speaker 2>you guys have got to play this. This is amazing.
<v Speaker 2>This is what's happening in Europe. These people are huge
<v Speaker 2>over there, by the way, start with this song right here.
<v Speaker 2>Now it's not the one I'm picking, but it was
<v Speaker 2>their first single. Once that Minneapolis DJ started playing it,
<v Speaker 2>people responded, started calling the rail station, started requesting it.
<v Speaker 2>Eight weeks later, it's number one in the United States.
<v Speaker 4>Is the American involved with Paisley Park at all?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, keep going no.
<v Speaker 2>So this is the technically the third single in the
<v Speaker 2>United States. I think it was the second single in Sweden.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Okay, they're from Sweden.
<v Speaker 2>They're from Sweeden, right The third single, over there was
<v Speaker 2>the first single over here went to number one in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty nine. You would know, you would think that
<v Speaker 2>they're more of like a duo. Is a I and
<v Speaker 2>a girl.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The woman, her name is Marie Fredrickson.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>She kills it vocally on this song, and it slowly
<v Speaker 2>intensifies like it starts out as a slow power ballad,
<v Speaker 2>and as power ballads do, the intensity increases throughout the song.
<v Speaker 2>Her vocals she starts shredding at the end of this song. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>you have a great false ending you have all these
<v Speaker 2>wonderful things. The video is fantastic. All the crowd is
<v Speaker 2>swaying and waving the lighters and all this stuff. The
<v Speaker 2>singer for this song, her name is Marie Fredrickson. She
<v Speaker 2>died in twenty nineteen. I've got the band. Okay, what
<v Speaker 2>you got rock set? It is rock set.
<v Speaker 4>But there are a couple of songs that were big
<v Speaker 4>in eighty nine.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 4>You gotta keep going, so I know which song it is? Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this particular song hits number one in the US
<v Speaker 2>in November of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, Okay, I'm going
<v Speaker 2>deep on a clue for you here, Okay, Okay, okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try. I'm reaching deep for a clue here.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>There is a Bible verse Jeremiah seventeen to nine, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>that says the heart is seedful above all things and
<v Speaker 2>beyond cure. Who can understate it?
<v Speaker 4>Okay? So I got it? Yes, So I'm guessing that
<v Speaker 4>the original number one that is not the song you're.
<v Speaker 2>Picking, Yes, is the look that's correct?
<v Speaker 4>And I'm guessing the song that you're picking is Listen
<v Speaker 4>to your Heart.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, So good It is amazing.
<v Speaker 4>It's a great one. I anticipated that you would pick
<v Speaker 4>a rock sette song. I didn't know which one it
<v Speaker 4>was going to be, but and I didn't. I didn't
<v Speaker 4>even look at them because I thought Jason's kind of
<v Speaker 4>grabbed that.
<v Speaker 2>The look was a favorite of mine too.
<v Speaker 4>So huge. Yeah, so we don't get to know who
<v Speaker 4>the Minneapolis for an exchange student was.
<v Speaker 2>His name was Dean Cushman.
<v Speaker 4>Does he do anything other than discover Roxette?
<v Speaker 2>Shout out Dean Cushman. If you're listening, call in email
<v Speaker 2>this to the podcast. We want to have you on
<v Speaker 2>as a guest. Okay, he went over to Sweden brought
<v Speaker 2>back a tape.
<v Speaker 4>It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Next thing, you know, the looks number one in the
<v Speaker 2>United States.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, awesome, man, awesome.
<v Speaker 2>All right, you're number two.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. So ironic that you had a band from Speed
<v Speaker 4>Speeden for your number two, because my number two is
<v Speaker 4>from Denmark. I mentioned at the beginning of this episode
<v Speaker 4>that there was a song that I had not heard
<v Speaker 4>until this morning. Yes, and this is that song. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now, this is hard because if you give clear if
<v Speaker 2>you've never heard of it, maybe I haven't heard of it.
<v Speaker 4>It's very, very possible that you have not heard of it.
<v Speaker 4>But I will tell you this. This song got to
<v Speaker 4>number twenty three on the US album Rock Tracks. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>Okay didn't chart on the top of one hundred. The
<v Speaker 4>album hit one sixteen. The name of the album is
<v Speaker 4>called No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims that clue yeni Okay,
<v Speaker 4>all right? The album sales were to this day, this
<v Speaker 4>band's still around to this day. The album sales are
<v Speaker 4>six hundred. I mean that's barely gold and gold. That's
<v Speaker 4>that is right. There were one hundred thousand sold in
<v Speaker 4>the US and two hundred and seventy five thousand sold
<v Speaker 4>in Denmark, and then you do the math for where
<v Speaker 4>they sold in other countries. Right? Is this real? This
<v Speaker 4>is okay, this album, this is this is how I
<v Speaker 4>I go. There are people out there who support my
<v Speaker 4>position on this, even though I just discovered this song today.
<v Speaker 4>This album was featured in twenty nineteen Rolling stone fifty
<v Speaker 4>Greatest hair Metal Albums of All Time? What an album
<v Speaker 4>that only sold six hundred thousand copies? How is that
<v Speaker 4>is on Rolling Stones fifty Greatest hair Metal Albums of
<v Speaker 4>All Time?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, hair metal, you got my attention with hair metal.
<v Speaker 2>Let's keep going.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. The band is from Copenhagen, Denmark.
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to think like Denmark. We're talking like Hanoi rocks.
<v Speaker 4>No, okay. So their first album was called Call of
<v Speaker 4>the Wild that was released in eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>The largest concert, the largest concert that these guys have
<v Speaker 4>ever done, was when they were an opening act for
<v Speaker 4>something called Boise on Celts forgive me all of our
<v Speaker 4>Danish listeners, their farewell festival in two thousand and five.
<v Speaker 4>There were one hundred and twenty thousand people in the audience.
<v Speaker 4>That's the as an opening act.
<v Speaker 2>That's their big Well, that's pretty freaking big.
<v Speaker 4>But the music video was directed by Andy Morehan, who
<v Speaker 4>we've talked about countless times suns. It's primarily set in
<v Speaker 4>a bedroom. It got pretty heavy rotation on MTV.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>The name of the band was originally Disneyland After Dark.
<v Speaker 2>Is This Dangerous Toys?
<v Speaker 4>No? Okay? Because they didn't want to get sued by Disney.
<v Speaker 4>When they ultimately got their record deal, they changed their
<v Speaker 4>name to just the first three letters D dash, A
<v Speaker 4>dash d K. I'm guessing you've never heard of this
<v Speaker 4>band either, I don't think so, okay.
<v Speaker 2>Disney after Dark, Disneyland after dark.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yes, And this is actually kind of the theme
<v Speaker 4>of the song because it's about after dark, anything can
<v Speaker 4>have happen, right, okay, And the song is about how
<v Speaker 4>he sleeps during the daytime and has his fun at night.
<v Speaker 4>I haven't gotten you anything yet.
<v Speaker 2>Have I Slaughter up all night? Sleep all day is
<v Speaker 2>the only thing I got right now.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm just gonna tell you because I have no
<v Speaker 4>more information than this, because surprisingly, the Wikipedia page is very,
<v Speaker 4>very small, and it doesn't appear on so common and
<v Speaker 4>it doesn't have any other supporting information.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, before you play it for me, let me ask
<v Speaker 2>you this. Yeah, how did you find this song? Just
<v Speaker 2>like googling nineteen eighty nine songs?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean I typed in nineteen eighty nine to Spotify,
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, Taylor Swift, Swift bottle what no, no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 4>I don't want Taylor Swift. Yeah. So I did that,
<v Speaker 4>found a rock playlist, and some genius out there put
<v Speaker 4>this on there and and introduced it to me. Today.
<v Speaker 2>Let's go.
<v Speaker 4>I'm ready to okay, So I'm just tell you the
<v Speaker 4>name of the song now, since I'm sure you don't
<v Speaker 4>know it. Okay. Name of the song is called is
<v Speaker 4>by Dad. It's called Sleeping My day Away. You're going
<v Speaker 4>to love it. Tell me you don't love it.
<v Speaker 2>It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. So I'm listening to it. I'm grooving along. I
<v Speaker 4>kept I'm in the gym, I'm my pedal rate has increased.
<v Speaker 4>And then I'm like, this is great, and I keep listening.
<v Speaker 4>It's levels up. Two minutes and forty five seconds in,
<v Speaker 4>it levels up, great breakdown here comes.
<v Speaker 2>I love that with the build. I'm on board. Count
<v Speaker 2>me in.
<v Speaker 4>How much gonna ask? Does this thing? What the heck?
<v Speaker 4>That is so good? How have I never in the
<v Speaker 4>last thirty five years heard this song before. It's called
<v Speaker 4>Sleeping My day Away? D A dash.
<v Speaker 2>D adding it to my playlist? It sounds great, man, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>it's on the workout playlist now. It has all the
<v Speaker 2>ingredients of a great hair metal it does.
<v Speaker 4>The guy's voice is spot on. They've got the look.
<v Speaker 4>See what they look like on the album cover.
<v Speaker 2>They look like Faster Pussy gat.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Tesla, any number of Yeah, any number of bands
<v Speaker 4>that were big at that time. Yeah, of course. And
<v Speaker 4>you know what I'm crediting the fact that they weren't
<v Speaker 4>a huge blowout success to the fact that they're still
<v Speaker 4>together making music today. Love it, yeah, love it great. Fine,
<v Speaker 4>It's kind of like this is something Power Rangers theme
<v Speaker 4>made it to number one because I was like.
<v Speaker 2>Holy cow, this is so good. Yeah yeah, hair Metal magic.
<v Speaker 2>We lived through the greatest time of music.
<v Speaker 4>I hair metal. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I've hit up Jays Beckley before. We almost missed out
<v Speaker 2>on Appetite for Destruction. The record company almost killed it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure there are albums out there that we missed
<v Speaker 2>out on that just didn't enter our consciousness. Here we
<v Speaker 2>found one. There we go, there you go. All right,
<v Speaker 2>honorable mention time. Oh right, okay, so I'll do the
<v Speaker 2>first honorable mention. I think this one's gonna blow your
<v Speaker 2>skirt up. Okay, yeah, all right. I think you're gonna
<v Speaker 2>be shocked that I picked this particular song because it's
<v Speaker 2>very much out of my normal realm of taste.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this reached number twenty four in the US in
<v Speaker 2>April of nineteen eighty nine, but it was in number
<v Speaker 2>one in England for three weeks. Okay, this particular song,
<v Speaker 2>it's like a chant almost, it's just a chorus repeating
<v Speaker 2>itself throughout the whole song. It's about a river in
<v Speaker 2>Venezuela that is seventeen hundred miles long. But also the
<v Speaker 2>name of that river is a studio in London where
<v Speaker 2>they recorded this album.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, the river's only in Venezuela, apparently seventeen
<v Speaker 4>hundred miles long. Yes, okay, keep it up. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So here's the interesting quote from the manager of this artist. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>the manager for this artist, he got mad at the
<v Speaker 2>record company because the record company was beating him up
<v Speaker 2>about singles. He's like, listen, this artist doesn't really make singles. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we're just trying to make an album. He goes, this
<v Speaker 2>is his quote. Sometimes you sign acts to make money,
<v Speaker 2>sometimes you sign acts to make music. So this wasn't
<v Speaker 2>really intended to be a single. All right, here's the
<v Speaker 2>big clue that's going to give it away for you,
<v Speaker 2>I think.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>There are some songs that have been featured in movies,
<v Speaker 2>not written for movies, but are used in movies and
<v Speaker 2>have taken on a life of their own because of
<v Speaker 2>the movie. For example, a clockwork orange stole singing in
<v Speaker 2>the Ring I destroyed it right, okay, Reservoir Dogs and
<v Speaker 2>Stuck in the Middle with You took Stuck in the
<v Speaker 2>Middle with You and change that song for the movie
<v Speaker 2>that stole this song and made it a whole different thing.
<v Speaker 2>Is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
<v Speaker 4>I've seen The Girl with the Dragon Kattoo a couple
<v Speaker 4>of times.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So David Fincher movie.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it typically is a nine inch Nails score that
<v Speaker 4>we get with David Fincher. Is this this isn't a
<v Speaker 4>Trent Reznor song? Is this is not no nine inch nails?
<v Speaker 4>So okay, I'm sure there are people out there that
<v Speaker 4>I have got it by now. But here's by the way,
<v Speaker 4>and apologies to the folks who are concerned about nine
<v Speaker 4>inch nails. I'm sorry. It's not gonna make mine. I
<v Speaker 4>don't I know, it's not gonna make yours. They had
<v Speaker 4>a decent beginning hit in eighty nine, but it wasn't
<v Speaker 4>until September, and their big one came in nineteen ninety.
<v Speaker 4>So that's the reason it didn't make my cut. But
<v Speaker 4>please continue, all right.
<v Speaker 2>So The Girl the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher and Daniel
<v Speaker 2>Craig are sitting around going this murderer is an artist.
<v Speaker 2>When he commits these acts, he plays music, and so
<v Speaker 2>what song would he murder to? And Daniel Craig is
<v Speaker 2>scrolling through his Spotify list and he found this one
<v Speaker 2>and they played it and they're like, that's the one.
<v Speaker 4>I don't remember it. I mean, I don't remember what
<v Speaker 4>the song is. The plays at that point. I remember
<v Speaker 4>the scene like this is where Daniel Craig is being
<v Speaker 4>tortured by the I don't want to give it spoil
<v Speaker 4>the movie, but it's right, tortured by the killer, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, yeah, I don't remember the song. One last
<v Speaker 2>clue for you, Okay, not a great clue, it's just
<v Speaker 2>a little tidbit.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The record producer, his name is Rob Deacons. I know
<v Speaker 2>that name, Rob Deacons. Yeah, okay, he's actually mentioned in
<v Speaker 2>the song. The lyrics say we can steer, we can
<v Speaker 2>near with Rob Dickens at the wheel.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, got nothing.
<v Speaker 2>Let me play it for you and see if it
<v Speaker 2>rattles anything.
<v Speaker 6>Lucie, Okay, yeah, this is Enya sail Away.
<v Speaker 4>Yes. Wow, oh I had totally forgotten. But that was
<v Speaker 4>in the Girl the Dragon Tattoo. I owned this album.
<v Speaker 4>I owned the CD. Yes, yeah, it's great. I mean
<v Speaker 4>it's the new Age sound that came in and sail Away,
<v Speaker 4>sail Away, sail away. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Technically the name of the song is Orinoco Flow.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't know that part.
<v Speaker 2>Orinoco is the name of the river in Venezuela.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 2>But it constantly says sail away, sail away, sail away.
<v Speaker 4>That's it.
<v Speaker 2>Enya. By the way, a good friend of mine in college,
<v Speaker 2>we were driving back from Colorado. We had been driving
<v Speaker 2>all night long, and we decided at three o'clock in
<v Speaker 2>the morning that the good thing to do would be
<v Speaker 2>listened to Enya. Not a good idea, no, not if
<v Speaker 2>you're trying to.
<v Speaker 4>Stay away right exactly, and it'd be like hypnotic out.
<v Speaker 4>I don't mention, well, that's great. That was a good one.
<v Speaker 4>I was a good one. It's good. Yeah, Okay. My
<v Speaker 4>honorable mention was written by the guy who sang the song,
<v Speaker 4>which I won't mention yet, okay, our friend Desmond child
<v Speaker 4>Ooh okay, yeah, I know i'd pick your interest with that.
<v Speaker 4>I know you do. And it's right in his wheelhouse
<v Speaker 4>of you know, the good and the bad, you know,
<v Speaker 4>mixing those two things up, all right, yes, And then
<v Speaker 4>the third writer on the song is Cindy Lauper's guitarist.
<v Speaker 4>His name's John McCurry. Okay, okay, Now, this album was
<v Speaker 4>the singer's eighteenth album. Okay. He had not had a
<v Speaker 4>top ten hit in the US in twelve years and
<v Speaker 4>then in the UK in sixteen years, so we're talking
<v Speaker 4>nineteen seventy seven, nineteen seventy three. This song hit number
<v Speaker 4>seven in the US, huge comeback for him, number two
<v Speaker 4>in the UK. There were two videos. The model in
<v Speaker 4>the video is Ronick Kennedy. They had to do two
<v Speaker 4>videos because she's topless in part of it, and so
<v Speaker 4>they had to have a daytime video in a nighttime video.
<v Speaker 4>But as it turns out, it's not actually her. It's
<v Speaker 4>body double and I think it's actually kind of easy
<v Speaker 4>to tell that it's not her, But anyway happened. This
<v Speaker 4>song has been covered eight times, most recently this year
<v Speaker 4>twenty twenty four by Exit to Eden. It was first
<v Speaker 4>covered in nineteen ninety three by the Vandals. It was
<v Speaker 4>in the movie Tango and Cash, The Jackal End of Days,
<v Speaker 4>The new Peter Pan Mean Creek and Pineapple Express. You
<v Speaker 4>don't know what you do? You well?
<v Speaker 2>I remember Genie Alexander bringing up the Tango and cash
<v Speaker 2>Terry Hatcher scene with a rasure.
<v Speaker 4>This has nothing to do with the racuer or Seashells
<v Speaker 4>to Seashells. Okay, I'm going to give you the clue
<v Speaker 4>that I believe will give it away. Okay, knowing you
<v Speaker 4>the riff that John McCurry used in this song, he
<v Speaker 4>had actually used with one of your favorites, John Waite,
<v Speaker 4>back in nineteen eighty six. Okay, I think I got
<v Speaker 4>it in eighties. John Waite, the singer John Waite is
<v Speaker 4>not the singer of this song. Okay, okay, okay, I'm
<v Speaker 4>gonna play for you the John Wait song from nineteen
<v Speaker 4>eighty six, which you're going to immediately hear that guitar rift.
<v Speaker 4>And if you don't know what the lions are from
<v Speaker 4>this song, you're not the man who I thought you were.
<v Speaker 4>No pressure, Are you ready? Here you go? This is
<v Speaker 4>the John Weight song encircled, so you're anybody who knows
<v Speaker 4>the song who's listening is like scratching their hat at
<v Speaker 4>these lyrics, because here's the intro to this song.
<v Speaker 2>I got it.
<v Speaker 4>Oh you needed that roaring guitar to get it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this very nearly made my list. Desmond Child, I
<v Speaker 2>should have got it with Desmond Child, you said, Desmond Child,
<v Speaker 2>I should have jumped on it right there. Okay, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>you were leading me and the clues were excellent.
<v Speaker 4>This is Alice Cooper, you got it.
<v Speaker 2>This is poison. Oh almost made my list, same guitargraphy.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that was confusing me there for a second. Total
<v Speaker 2>comeback for him. Oh yeah, big album, big song. What
<v Speaker 2>did this reach? I mean this climbed the charts.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. This was number seven in the US, number two
<v Speaker 4>in the UK. The album was called Trash. I don't
<v Speaker 4>have where it charted on my list here, but it was.
<v Speaker 4>It was.
<v Speaker 2>My kids love the song. It's a great song. Yeah, great, Yeah, okay, love.
<v Speaker 4>It, love it? Okay, next honorable mention.
<v Speaker 2>Next honorable mention. Okay, all right, So this song was
<v Speaker 2>released in October of nineteen eighty nine. Okay, peaks out
<v Speaker 2>in January of nineteen ninety Okay, okay. So this particular
<v Speaker 2>artist and his guitar player were sitting around. They were
<v Speaker 2>trying to write a song, as you do hanging out,
<v Speaker 2>think think, think I need to write a song what
<v Speaker 2>we Got, And he started to craft lyrics about his
<v Speaker 2>frequent trips up and down a particular street in La.
<v Speaker 2>After he built the lyrics around this particular street, he
<v Speaker 2>built a chorus and as soon as he like it
<v Speaker 2>was one of those Eureka moments, He's like, this is
<v Speaker 2>a hit, this song. Okay, how am I gonna phrase this?
<v Speaker 2>So this song glorifies appreciating pop culture, appreciating your religious background,
<v Speaker 2>and most of all, loving your mouth, loves your mom,
<v Speaker 2>loves geezes in America. Nothing, all right. The name of
<v Speaker 2>the street is Ventura Boulevard.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Yeah, this is Tom Petty Yeah, love it, love it? Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>this is free Falling you got it? Also almost made
<v Speaker 4>on my list. Fantastic song, all right, Okay I mentioned
<v Speaker 4>second honorable mention. All right, My honorable mention was written
<v Speaker 4>by John Hyatt and a guy named Fred Kohler, who
<v Speaker 4>was a big collaborator with Shelle Silverstein. Yeah, the Giving Tree. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>they wrote a ton of songs together, right, Okay, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>but shel Silverstein Stein not involved in this particular song.
<v Speaker 4>This song was released as the second single off of
<v Speaker 4>the album in April of eighty nine, he got to
<v Speaker 4>number five on the Hot one hundred. Band is named
<v Speaker 4>after the lead singer, and he is a Canadian blues
<v Speaker 4>rock jazz guy. Played grown up, played in Toronto.
<v Speaker 2>The only thing I can think of so far is
<v Speaker 2>no no winger.
<v Speaker 4>Okay. The singer was adopted when he was a baby,
<v Speaker 4>lost his sight before he was one. Don't don't give
<v Speaker 4>it away yet, I gotta. I just got to share
<v Speaker 4>this with you party, all right. I know that you
<v Speaker 4>know it because you covered the movie that it features
<v Speaker 4>in with thirty something daily podcast. You got it. So,
<v Speaker 4>As it turns out, when they were recording this album,
<v Speaker 4>this nineteen eighty eight album called See the Light Clever Yes,
<v Speaker 4>at that same time, their producer, Jimmy Ivy producer manager
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy Ivy was involved with a movie and they the
<v Speaker 4>guys who were making the movie, said Hey, we're looking
<v Speaker 4>for songs for this movie. Here's the script. See what
<v Speaker 4>you can find for us. Now he's in the middle
<v Speaker 4>of producing this album as he reads the script written
<v Speaker 4>by a guy named r. Lance Hill who used the
<v Speaker 4>pen named David Lee Henry. Okay, as he's reading the script,
<v Speaker 4>he's the writer of The script specifically mentions that there
<v Speaker 4>is a a band, a house band at this bar
<v Speaker 4>where the singer is blind and plays the guitar laying
<v Speaker 4>flat on his lap. Now he's producing this band's first
<v Speaker 4>album at the same time, and they're like, what, how
<v Speaker 4>could he possibly you know, how could these things possibly happen? Well,
<v Speaker 4>as it turns out, the writer of the story behind
<v Speaker 4>this movie grew up in Toronto, which is where this
<v Speaker 4>lead singer is from, and he had seen the lead
<v Speaker 4>singer before he became famous, and that was his inspiration
<v Speaker 4>for this house band in this movie called Roadhouse.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, the name of the song is Angelies Got It
<v Speaker 2>by Jeff Heally Band.
<v Speaker 4>That Jeff Healy band.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, E love it.
<v Speaker 4>Man, it's a great song, such a good song, And
<v Speaker 4>what a weird coincidence that Jimmy Ivy would be producing
<v Speaker 4>the album at the same time that he gets handed
<v Speaker 4>this script. And so not only does he say, well,
<v Speaker 4>I've got that band, but Jeff Healy is a major
<v Speaker 4>part of that movie, like he and Patrick Swayzey have
<v Speaker 4>conversations throughout the movie, and he's obviously a key component
<v Speaker 4>of the bar scene that's going on. I was very
<v Speaker 4>sad to learn. I had no idea. He passed away
<v Speaker 4>back in two thousand and eight, just forty one years old.
<v Speaker 4>He had he had sarcoma that he had had removed
<v Speaker 4>from his lungs and legs, but it ultimately it ultimately
<v Speaker 4>took his life.
<v Speaker 2>Do you get a chance go back and listen to
<v Speaker 2>the thirty something movie podcast where we talked about Roadhouse Roadhouse?
<v Speaker 2>That was like my first podcast maybe ever, I can't.
<v Speaker 4>Remember, might avoid the new one. Is what I heard?
<v Speaker 4>I heard it starts well and then whenever is it
<v Speaker 4>O'Connor the name of the Connor McGregor, Connor McGregor. There
<v Speaker 4>you go, I know it something like that. Yeah, he
<v Speaker 4>kind of runs it from what I hear.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, we're up to our number ones, number
<v Speaker 2>one one.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I'm puzzled, and I'm gonna do my number one
<v Speaker 4>first since you've you've but you've gone first on all
<v Speaker 4>this other stuff. Yes, I'm gonna do my number one
<v Speaker 4>first because you know the band already. Yes, right, but
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna tease it up for our listeners. I just
<v Speaker 4>find it hard to believe that you didn't pick this
<v Speaker 4>song before.
<v Speaker 2>You say what you're gonna say, yeah, I am spiking
<v Speaker 2>the football. The song that you're getting ready to talk about,
<v Speaker 2>I believe was much more successful, but I've always liked
<v Speaker 2>mine better, But go ahead.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right. This song was originally written by the
<v Speaker 4>singer and the drummer when they were in a band
<v Speaker 4>before this band band was called Plain Jane. The band
<v Speaker 4>had actually been around for a while before they lost
<v Speaker 4>their singer and their drummer and they had audition new people,
<v Speaker 4>and so this singer and this drummer came in and
<v Speaker 4>became the new singer and drummer for this band. Right.
<v Speaker 4>The video stars Tracy Allen. It's filmed at a live
<v Speaker 4>concert in Kansas City, Kansas, other locations in Kansas City,
<v Speaker 4>and a little bit in New York City as well.
<v Speaker 4>As you mentioned, the singer has a different name his
<v Speaker 4>stage name. Yes, he is a boy with a traditionally
<v Speaker 4>girl's name. Yes, who married a model from a subsequent
<v Speaker 4>video who had a traditionally boys name, and who had
<v Speaker 4>another person with the same name who was a boy
<v Speaker 4>who had a big hitting eighty nine as well.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, my productive true.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think I gave a little bit too much
<v Speaker 4>away right there. Oh my goodness. Okay. So the producer
<v Speaker 4>of this album, his name was Bohill, and he hated
<v Speaker 4>this song. He fought with them, didn't want them to
<v Speaker 4>have it on the album. He didn't want to include it.
<v Speaker 4>They fought back, they won. But basically he did a
<v Speaker 4>subpar performance on producing it. So the record company brought
<v Speaker 4>in another producer whose name was John Jansen. He reworked it,
<v Speaker 4>and the record company went, no, that's not it either.
<v Speaker 4>This kind of sucks, but let's just put the album out.
<v Speaker 4>And so the first two hundred and fifty thousand copies
<v Speaker 4>of this album have a subpar version of this song.
<v Speaker 4>But this song starts to gain success, and when it
<v Speaker 4>gets really rolling, the record company is like, well, back up,
<v Speaker 4>we're gonna produce more albums, but we have to re
<v Speaker 4>record this song to give it quote a bigger radio sound.
<v Speaker 4>Didn't even ask the band to do it. They just
<v Speaker 4>went in and redid it themselves. It spent two weeks
<v Speaker 4>at number two.
<v Speaker 3>Ah.
<v Speaker 4>Serious, that's frustrating enough until you find out what held
<v Speaker 4>it back. It was a song called Blame It on
<v Speaker 4>the Rain by a group called Millie Vanilly.
<v Speaker 2>We have got to talk about Milly Vanilli.
<v Speaker 4>So how upset would you be if your song got
<v Speaker 4>second place to a band that was lip syncing other
<v Speaker 4>people sinking?
<v Speaker 2>That's true, and this is really one of the biggest
<v Speaker 2>power album songs of the eighties.
<v Speaker 4>We talked about it in our episode that shall remain
<v Speaker 4>nameless because it's a mystery episode on the Patreon page.
<v Speaker 4>Of nine was the year for rock ballads, and this
<v Speaker 4>one probably laid the foundation for what it meant.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why we really haven't covered this album yet.
<v Speaker 2>There's lots of great songs on this It was very
<v Speaker 2>popular slow dance Makeout City right exactly.
<v Speaker 4>This is definitely on the Makeout list. Album is called
<v Speaker 4>Dirty Rotten, Filthy Stinking Rich, Yes, which they got Dirty Rotten,
<v Speaker 4>Filthy Stinking Rich after making this album. Yep, And unfortunately
<v Speaker 4>the lead singer taking the girl's name John Kennedy Oswald.
<v Speaker 4>John Kennedy Oswald. He died of acute alcohol poisoning August
<v Speaker 4>of twenty eleven. His funeral was attended by a great
<v Speaker 4>many hair band masters, including Great.
<v Speaker 2>White, performed I Believe It his funeral.
<v Speaker 4>Oh Nice. The video was directed by Nick Morris, who
<v Speaker 4>had also directed the Final Countdown by Europe okay, and
<v Speaker 4>also recorded a song called Kyrie by mister Mister, which
<v Speaker 4>I mentioned that for the last thirty years I've been
<v Speaker 4>singing give me a Days. Yeah, that's not what they say.
<v Speaker 4>They don't say give me a days. They say Kyrine
<v Speaker 4>something or other.
<v Speaker 2>Curi a curie a curie a Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Whoever.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, great, that's a great song for eighty six.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this song clearly is Heaven by warranty.
<v Speaker 4>Man. If that doesn't make your heart swell, then you
<v Speaker 4>have no soul.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the deal. I've always wondered why there are two versions.
<v Speaker 4>Of the song.
<v Speaker 2>Now you know, I had the album and the video.
<v Speaker 2>The songs were different, and now I know. Now you know,
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 4>You're welcome. Okay. Now we skipped over your number four
<v Speaker 4>because I identified it as the same band, but you
<v Speaker 4>said it's a different song.
<v Speaker 2>It's a different song.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now I had this album. I love this album. I
<v Speaker 2>was a warrant guy. I love Heaven. I'm swaying and
<v Speaker 2>making out and slow dancing to Heaven as well. Sure,
<v Speaker 2>but to me, my number four has a bit more
<v Speaker 2>emotional pull. I've always felt stronger about this song because
<v Speaker 2>you have kind of this sad story of this woman
<v Speaker 2>whose man walked out on her and left her all alone.
<v Speaker 2>Her name is Mercy by the way. Okay, the songs
<v Speaker 2>called sometimes she cries when SS and you have this
<v Speaker 2>great breakdown at the middle, in sort of the end
<v Speaker 2>of the song where you have this like big cry
<v Speaker 2>of maybe give love just one more shot? And that
<v Speaker 2>always touched me emotionally.
<v Speaker 4>That's great. I've never heard that song before. Wow, and
<v Speaker 4>it has struck me as we've gone through all of
<v Speaker 4>these songs. Guys, remember back when they put music at
<v Speaker 4>the beginning of a song instead of singing right out
<v Speaker 4>of the box. Yeah, that was the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>Give me a long guitar intro, give me a long
<v Speaker 4>solo in the middle. I don't care, because I've got
<v Speaker 4>the attention span to enjoy some quality musicianship.
<v Speaker 2>Fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, good one.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, we both hit on Warren.
<v Speaker 4>That's cool. Yeah, that was the one song that I
<v Speaker 4>thought you would pick of mine. I thought you would pick.
<v Speaker 2>It was a near miss. It was close.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, so we're now to your number one. Oh okay,
<v Speaker 2>so heaven's your number One's my number one?
<v Speaker 4>All right?
<v Speaker 2>I can't wait to talk about this one. I really
<v Speaker 2>am anxious to know. I don't know whether you know
<v Speaker 2>this one or not. Ok So here's the deal. This
<v Speaker 2>only reached number fifty on the Hot one hundred in
<v Speaker 2>the US. It was a bigger hit over the pond.
<v Speaker 4>Okay okay.
<v Speaker 2>It did reach number two on the US Rock charts,
<v Speaker 2>released May second, nineteen eighty nine, very close to my
<v Speaker 2>sixteenth birthday. Now then reached number three in the UK.
<v Speaker 2>Although this song was released May of nineteen eighty nine,
<v Speaker 2>it was not played live until April of ninety two,
<v Speaker 2>three years after its release and several months after the
<v Speaker 2>lead singer's death.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, I have an idea. I have an idea.
<v Speaker 4>But keep okay, all right.
<v Speaker 2>So this song was written by the lead guitar.
<v Speaker 4>Blows it out of the water, Okay, go on.
<v Speaker 2>This song was written by the lead guitarist, and they
<v Speaker 2>actually kind of do a little bit of duetting throughout
<v Speaker 2>this song. He wrote it about his divorce from his
<v Speaker 2>first wife, her name was Christine Mueller, and his new
<v Speaker 2>relationship with British actress Anita Dobson. Anita Dobson was an
<v Speaker 2>actress and she was known for saying this catchphrase and
<v Speaker 2>they turn it into a big song. Okay, okay, now
<v Speaker 2>kind of at the end. But right about the time
<v Speaker 2>this song came out, there were some health issues that
<v Speaker 2>were starting to become more known within the band. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>and this was the time when the singer Di dressed
<v Speaker 2>with aids.
<v Speaker 4>That's the track. So this the band has to be Queen.
<v Speaker 2>It is Queen.
<v Speaker 4>So we're songwriters are Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>they had several big hits and there was one that
<v Speaker 4>almost made my list. Okay, I want you to tell
<v Speaker 4>me which of the songs that they have because I
<v Speaker 4>don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember. You're gonna have to
<v Speaker 4>get You're gonna have to give me the song. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>that's fine.
<v Speaker 2>So this song was off the album called The Miracle.
<v Speaker 2>This song is called.
<v Speaker 5>I Want It All, I Want It Now, I Want
<v Speaker 5>It All, and I Want It Now.
<v Speaker 4>Great pick, great pick. It was hard for me to
<v Speaker 4>eliminate Queen from my list because a lot of great
<v Speaker 4>songs love that band just didn't quite reach my top.
<v Speaker 2>The one thing about this song, it's a it's a
<v Speaker 2>rocker and it's it's like a it's like a F
<v Speaker 2>fourteen Tom Cat. Right, So you've got Brian May killing
<v Speaker 2>it with the guitar and then it blows the afterburners
<v Speaker 2>and it hits and it goes blistering rock, and then
<v Speaker 2>they pull back on the brakes and slow everything way
<v Speaker 2>down and it becomes like an you know, pumper, I
<v Speaker 2>just I love this song.
<v Speaker 4>I always have great song, great pick, can't fault you
<v Speaker 4>at all. Well, we had no overlap. We had one
<v Speaker 4>band that we all have. That's it, and that's all. Wow, fantastic,
<v Speaker 4>good job.
<v Speaker 2>Well, great list.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So, as we mentioned, we didn't cover a whole
<v Speaker 4>bunch of albums. We didn't include them as possibilities on
<v Speaker 4>this episode because we've already covered them and told all
<v Speaker 4>the stories that we know already. Would you like to
<v Speaker 4>tell me what your real top five is?
<v Speaker 2>Let me tell you my real top five?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, quickly okay.
<v Speaker 2>Number five Love Song by Tesla that's coming up here
<v Speaker 2>in just a few months. Number four I Remember You
<v Speaker 2>by skid Row, another power rock. Number three Cult Personality
<v Speaker 2>by Living Color. Go back and check out all these episodes,
<v Speaker 2>of course, Number two Doctor Feel Good by Motley Crue,
<v Speaker 2>and number one eighteen in Life by skid Row, honorable
<v Speaker 2>mention Firewoman and Lay Your Hands on.
<v Speaker 4>Me by Bye Joby. Throwing my list together very quickly, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I don't have them in any particular order. Here's seven
<v Speaker 4>songs that could be my top five and two honorable mentions. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>Pour Some Sugar on Me by def Leppard. Okay, Love
<v Speaker 4>Song by Tesla yep, which we will cover later on
<v Speaker 4>this season. Yeah, Epic by Faith No More. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 4>Cult of Personality by Living Color yep. Long Cold Winter
<v Speaker 4>by Cinderella, Yeah, which I didn't know before we covered
<v Speaker 4>that album.
<v Speaker 2>Go back to that episode.
<v Speaker 4>I called that such a fantastic album. Father Figure by
<v Speaker 4>George Michael yep. And Personal Jesus by depeche Mode.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, there you go. How about that great list? Good
<v Speaker 2>job you, good job me.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Hit us up on your favorite nineteen eighty nine songs.
<v Speaker 2>This is harder, especially with two hands tied behind our back.
<v Speaker 2>Exactly what are your favorite songs from nineteen eighty nine? Guys,
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