Top 5 Songs of 1988!

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast. We have a very special episode tonight.
<v Speaker 1>We are going back thirty five years in time.
<v Speaker 2>But before we do that, how you doing, buddy, Well?
<v Speaker 2>I went to a party last Saturday night, didn't get
<v Speaker 2>laid and got in a fight, which is probably good
<v Speaker 2>because it hadn't been the other way around, my wife
<v Speaker 2>would have been really mad.
<v Speaker 1>It ain't no big thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, nineteen eighty eight the year that the King of
<v Speaker 2>pop still held his throne, but the hair bands were
<v Speaker 2>storming the gates.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, yes, I can't wait to talk about. This
<v Speaker 1>is like my wheelhouse, man, I know this is so
<v Speaker 1>in your wheelhouse.
<v Speaker 2>Now. We've got a few albums from nineteen eighty eight
<v Speaker 2>that we've covered before. We did nineteen eighty three, the
<v Speaker 2>Best of nineteen eighty three earlier this year, and obviously
<v Speaker 2>Michael Jackson's nineteen eighty two album Thriller was its huge
<v Speaker 2>and I think you've had two on your top five
<v Speaker 2>from that album. I had won myself same one, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now in nineteen eighty eight we got Michael Jackson has
<v Speaker 2>just released Bad in nineteen eighty seven, and again he's
<v Speaker 2>all over the place. So I'm pretty confident I can
<v Speaker 2>guess where at least one of your artists is going
<v Speaker 2>to be on the top five.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, you know what else just kind of mirroring that
<v Speaker 1>same track is def Leppard You got it? Pyromania. Then
<v Speaker 1>five years later here comes Hysteria and same type of deals.
<v Speaker 1>It's perfectly in tune with eighty three and eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>And these are exactly the guys that we were talking
<v Speaker 2>about when we were running together back in two thousand
<v Speaker 2>and eight, I know, right, fifteen years ago. Can you
<v Speaker 2>believe that fifteen years ago we were talking about these
<v Speaker 2>bands and now here we are talking about them again.
<v Speaker 2>Isn't that crazy?
<v Speaker 1>It's great, man, I'm having so much fun. I'm so
<v Speaker 1>glad we do this.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, well, it was fun to jump into eighty eight
<v Speaker 2>before we get fully into our top five. Though. I
<v Speaker 2>got a question, yes, which was harder to pick your
<v Speaker 2>top five from nineteen eighty three or five from nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty eight?
<v Speaker 1>Eighty eight? Harmer set Really yes, it was totally the
<v Speaker 1>other way for me.
<v Speaker 2>Really like this one. I had. I had two songs
<v Speaker 2>that I was kind of waffling on number five, but
<v Speaker 2>other than that, it was an easy five pick for me.
<v Speaker 2>There's plenty of songs that I like, but there was
<v Speaker 2>no question about what my top five were. Okay, with
<v Speaker 2>eighty three, I had two pages worth of songs that
<v Speaker 2>I was like, it could be any of these.
<v Speaker 1>See that's the exact opposite for me. I had children
<v Speaker 1>that I had to cut off and kick out of
<v Speaker 1>the house. Like the ones that I left off. I'm
<v Speaker 1>like bleeding that they're not on this list, but hey,
<v Speaker 1>it is what it is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, Jason. Before we jump into these songs, we
<v Speaker 2>have to give a shout out to our executive producer,
<v Speaker 2>Miss Melissa Mingle.
<v Speaker 1>What's up, Melissa? She was our good friend and she
<v Speaker 1>actually joined us for an episode last spring where we
<v Speaker 1>did Deranduran's Rio episode.
<v Speaker 2>She is a super fan, she is.
<v Speaker 1>She loves John Taylor.
<v Speaker 2>She does, yes, can't blame her for that. He's a
<v Speaker 2>handsome man.
<v Speaker 1>She and her husband Mark are good friends of mine,
<v Speaker 1>and we go to church together. And she and Mark
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<v Speaker 2>You get access to all of our one hit Wonder episodes. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>great stuff over there. So we're going to go into
<v Speaker 2>our top five for the year. We're going to have
<v Speaker 2>a couple of honorable mentions and a couple of maybe
<v Speaker 2>rediscoveries or new discoveries that we'll talk about before we
<v Speaker 2>hit our number one. But would you like to start off?
<v Speaker 2>Would you like to talk about your number five first?
<v Speaker 1>I do, but let me set the stage for us
<v Speaker 1>just a little bit, so just to kind of bring
<v Speaker 1>you back to what was going on in pop culture
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, I've got a few things
<v Speaker 1>that I want to bring up, just just to remind
<v Speaker 1>people where we're talking about. Okay, okay, So we have
<v Speaker 1>talked several times about the Tyson Speinks fight in the
<v Speaker 1>summer of nineteen eighty eight. Yes, you went to go
<v Speaker 1>get chips and what happened.
<v Speaker 2>And the fight was over, got a coke, some chips,
<v Speaker 2>the fight was over.
<v Speaker 1>Was twenty nine seconds I think was what the fight was.
<v Speaker 2>I think it was ninety I think it was almost ninety.
<v Speaker 1>Seven, okay, And that is the first time Michael Speach
<v Speaker 1>has ever been down in a professional fight.
<v Speaker 2>And he's down again.
<v Speaker 1>A right hand right on the chain. It was way short,
<v Speaker 1>it was.
<v Speaker 2>It was definitely if you just sneezed, you to miss it.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>And in eighty eight for you, you bought your swatchwatch that
<v Speaker 2>your friends.
<v Speaker 1>All about the girl version. On accident, I didn't realize
<v Speaker 1>there's a guy version of girl version. Yeah, yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So here's just a couple of other things. So Kirk
<v Speaker 1>Gibson hits the game winning home run in the World
<v Speaker 1>Series is one of the standout moments for the Dodgers.
<v Speaker 1>The US basketball loses the gold medal in the Summer
<v Speaker 1>Olympics in Soul, which four years later USA Dream Team
<v Speaker 1>in ninety two Barcelona, which is one of my favorite
<v Speaker 1>teams of all time.
<v Speaker 2>Screw this. We're not using the amateurs anymore.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you guys in your pros. We're sitting out
<v Speaker 1>pros exactly. Nike created the just Do It campaign in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>It's a good one. Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Bon Jovi releases New Jersey. Well, I'm sure we might
<v Speaker 1>get into that a little bit. My mom checked me
<v Speaker 1>out of school just so I could go and buy it.
<v Speaker 1>I brought it to school with me. Check it out, guys,
<v Speaker 1>I got my copy for me.
<v Speaker 2>Eighty eight was this year my mom took me to
<v Speaker 2>buy Poison and I got to get both albums I got.
<v Speaker 2>I got both. Look what the cat dragged in and
<v Speaker 2>opened up? Say sweet Sweet.
<v Speaker 1>This was the first year that CDs out sold vinyl.
<v Speaker 1>Oh Wow in nineteen eighty eight. And then, of course,
<v Speaker 1>this New York City cop got involved in this terrorist
<v Speaker 1>in Knakotomy Plaza on Christmas Eve in nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like I'm ordered beats.
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, let's get into it, man A. We're gonna
<v Speaker 1>give each other sort of much.
<v Speaker 2>So a little different than our eighty three. We're gonna
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna give each other a little hints and see
<v Speaker 2>if we can guess it before we announce what each
<v Speaker 2>of ours is. I've written my notes in code over
<v Speaker 2>here so that you can't even peek and try to
<v Speaker 2>figure it out. But this is just to let you
<v Speaker 2>guys know. This is the way we do it on
<v Speaker 2>our Patreon episodes. When we're at the end of the
<v Speaker 2>episode and it's one person's turn to choose, we give
<v Speaker 2>little clues and let the other guy try to guess it.
<v Speaker 2>And so that's what we're gonna do now. And I'm
<v Speaker 2>gonna let Jason start us off. Give me a couple
<v Speaker 2>of clues. I'm just just one guess, and then you
<v Speaker 2>have to tell me yes or no when we go.
<v Speaker 1>All right, all right, right, all right, five, all right,
<v Speaker 1>here we go. So this song was inspired by a
<v Speaker 1>cough and starts with a sigh.
<v Speaker 2>I think this may be a song that I have
<v Speaker 2>as well.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, is it?
<v Speaker 2>Every rose has its thorn by poison?
<v Speaker 1>Every rose has this thorn by poison.
<v Speaker 2>I did not know that it was. Oh now I know. Now,
<v Speaker 2>I know what it is. Okay. I knew the inspiration,
<v Speaker 2>but I didn't realize what the sound was. I got you, okay,
<v Speaker 2>So if I may, yes. So this song was written
<v Speaker 2>by Brett Michaels, lead singer for Poison Yes, and he
<v Speaker 2>was on the road. He had a girlfriend named Tracy
<v Speaker 2>he called home, and what I had in my notes
<v Speaker 2>was that he heard a man in the background. What
<v Speaker 2>you're telling me from your clue is he heard the
<v Speaker 2>manly cough.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've heard Brett Michaels actually say this. He was
<v Speaker 1>talking to his girlfriend and in the background he heard
<v Speaker 1>a male and he's like, who in the heck is there? Right?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, somebody getting a physical.
<v Speaker 1>Yes exactly, And so that led him to believe that
<v Speaker 1>his girlfriend, we'll see another man in that broke his heart.
<v Speaker 1>He was on the road in Dallas.
<v Speaker 2>So since that's on my list, let's keep talking about
<v Speaker 2>that one when we get a little bit higher on
<v Speaker 2>the list, and I'll give you my clue, okay for
<v Speaker 2>my number five?
<v Speaker 1>Alrighty, you're ready, Okay five.
<v Speaker 2>The title character of this song. It was confusing for
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people for a while until the lead
<v Speaker 2>singer finally set the record straight in a rare explanation
<v Speaker 2>of one of his songs. The song is about Tipper
<v Speaker 2>Gore of the p m RC.
<v Speaker 1>Wow Ah wowd thing by tone low no good good,
<v Speaker 1>try good try Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So the song is mother Bye Danzig.
<v Speaker 1>Wow Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Right. So this song came out in nineteen eighty eight,
<v Speaker 2>which to me, I mean, holy cow's awesome, right.
<v Speaker 1>Well, tell you two to noths of what my was.
<v Speaker 2>But most folks didn't really know it for five years.
<v Speaker 2>Like you had your Misfits fans and Danzig fans that
<v Speaker 2>were familiar with this song. Yeah, but it wasn't until
<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety three when they remixed it. Made it sound
<v Speaker 2>like a live recording, like a on stage recording, but
<v Speaker 2>really they just dubbed in crowd voices. And then they
<v Speaker 2>also released the video from one of their Halloween shows
<v Speaker 2>I think of ninety two, and that was when this
<v Speaker 2>thing skyrocketed, but release was nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>Interesting.
<v Speaker 2>So Glenn Danzig formed the Misfits as kind of a
<v Speaker 2>rebellion against the pop rock of the time, Journey, those
<v Speaker 2>kind of things. And so you's not gonna like he's
<v Speaker 2>not gonna like that. We probably will not like your list.
<v Speaker 2>He is not radio friendly guy. Yeah, Okay, So Glenn
<v Speaker 2>Danzig has the Misfits, which I've seen their shirts all
<v Speaker 2>over the and I didn't realize, like, yeah, yeah, exactly
<v Speaker 2>a cool font on it, which I think they kept
<v Speaker 2>for the Danzig stuff. But anyway, he goes on to
<v Speaker 2>form another band named Sahan, and in nineteen eighty seven,
<v Speaker 2>a guy that we've talked about before when we had
<v Speaker 2>our episode with Def Dave himself, a producer happens to
<v Speaker 2>catch the Sam Haynes show and he comes up to
<v Speaker 2>Glenn Danzig afterwards, and he's like, Hey, you're awesome. Your
<v Speaker 2>group kind of sucks. How about we form a power group.
<v Speaker 2>So Rick Rubin says to Glenn Danzig, let's start a
<v Speaker 2>new band. We'll name it dan Zig, and we will
<v Speaker 2>get an entirely new band to play for you.
<v Speaker 1>Interesting, okay.
<v Speaker 2>So then they get this guy named John Christ to
<v Speaker 2>play the guitar. He is John Christ, Yes, and most
<v Speaker 2>people do not associate Christian values with dan Zig, but yes.
<v Speaker 1>John Jesus himself, right, yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 2>And then of course we have Beavis and butt Heead
<v Speaker 2>love this song, and as they're watching the video say,
<v Speaker 2>I bet he scores with chicks and gets in fights
<v Speaker 2>a lot.
<v Speaker 1>Anytime we can bring up Beavis a butt Heead, it's
<v Speaker 1>a win. Okay. Let's move to my number four, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>all right, four? Okay. There are songs that are panty droppers, yes,
<v Speaker 1>and then there are songs that if you play the
<v Speaker 1>music too loud with your windows down as you drive,
<v Speaker 1>you by women will actually chase your car and throw
<v Speaker 1>their panties at the car.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this is not a good clue.
<v Speaker 1>This is a panty dropper of panty droppers.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, okay, now.
<v Speaker 1>We've actually gone deep on this song already.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 1>This is the song that caused me to believe that
<v Speaker 1>women actually wear guarter belts to Walmart and stuff like that. Right, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is on the Makeout List of nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>And if this was not on your make out list
<v Speaker 1>of eighty eight, you were doing it wrong. You know
<v Speaker 1>where I'm at on this one.
<v Speaker 2>Dude, you are giving me. You're giving me nothing here.
<v Speaker 2>Give me a clue about the song, not just that
<v Speaker 2>it's a really big panty drop. Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 1>This was a music video that had the woman Tanya
<v Speaker 1>Coleridge in it. And this is a former goody two
<v Speaker 1>shoes pop star who was stretching his legs and became
<v Speaker 1>a force in nineteen eighty eight. In fact, his album
<v Speaker 1>may have been the biggest selling album of nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>You've got me. I do not know the answer to this.
<v Speaker 2>Who came me with it? All right?
<v Speaker 1>This is George Michael's father Figure.
<v Speaker 2>Awesome. I love it. I had completely forgotten this part
<v Speaker 2>of things, but now that you say that, Yes, Father
<v Speaker 2>Figure is a masterpiece and my favorite song on the album.
<v Speaker 1>Face Absolutely, It's such a great song and romantic Dark
<v Speaker 1>Haunting hit number one in nineteen eighty eight and was
<v Speaker 1>a huge song for George Michael.
<v Speaker 2>Guys, if you haven't heard our George Michael Faith versus
<v Speaker 2>Inxcess kick, go back and check out those two episodes.
<v Speaker 2>We are both big fans of those pop icons of
<v Speaker 2>that era. Yes, both released in October of eighty seven.
<v Speaker 2>Is that right? And I remembering that right?
<v Speaker 1>That's right, You're exactly right, yeah, and both in Excess
<v Speaker 1>and George Michael were competing in my mind for spots
<v Speaker 1>on this top.
<v Speaker 2>Five or top panty droppers of all panty droppers?
<v Speaker 1>Is this a panty dropper?
<v Speaker 2>All right? Well, I will tell you that of my
<v Speaker 2>list my short list of songs, never Tear.
<v Speaker 1>Us Apart was on there, but Never Tear Us Apart
<v Speaker 1>was on my near Missus.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, okay, so.
<v Speaker 1>That wraps up my number four. What is your number
<v Speaker 1>four top song in nineteen eighty eight?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? Four? I think the only clue that I can
<v Speaker 2>give you is going to be a dead giveaway.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So just like my number five, this was a song
<v Speaker 2>that came out in eighty eight but didn't hit it
<v Speaker 2>big until the nineties.
<v Speaker 1>So what is this?
<v Speaker 2>Even later in the nineties, this group became popular because
<v Speaker 2>of a band we've covered, Nirvana, who said Kurt Cobain said,
<v Speaker 2>all he was trying to do was imitate this band.
<v Speaker 2>And then the song became super big in my mind,
<v Speaker 2>maybe for others earlier than this, but in my mind
<v Speaker 2>became super big when it was the conclusion song of
<v Speaker 2>the movie Fight Club.
<v Speaker 1>So I remember the end of Fight Club and all
<v Speaker 1>the buildings come down? Is this the Pixie song?
<v Speaker 2>You got it?
<v Speaker 1>Okay?
<v Speaker 2>The name of the song is where Is My Mind? Okay? Now,
<v Speaker 2>I gotta tell you this. This is a beautiful piece
<v Speaker 2>right here. They took a que from weird Al Yankovic
<v Speaker 2>when they recorded this song, and that eerie little that
<v Speaker 2>you're hearing they recorded it in the bathroom.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, So that is one of the musicians, one
<v Speaker 2>of the not lead singers of the band, named Kim Deal.
<v Speaker 2>She was the real deal. She was very good. She
<v Speaker 2>kind of got frustrated at the fact that she kept
<v Speaker 2>getting pushed to the side because Frank Black, the lead singer,
<v Speaker 2>kind of was I mean it self admitted egocentric guy
<v Speaker 2>and wanted to sing his own stuff. Well. Ultimately, the
<v Speaker 2>Pixies broke up after a very short amount of time
<v Speaker 2>being a band together because of this ongoing fight. Kim
<v Speaker 2>Deal then goes on to form a group with her
<v Speaker 2>sister called the Breeders.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, there you go.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So this song where is My Mind inspired by
<v Speaker 2>a snorkeling trip where a fish kept following Frank Black
<v Speaker 2>around and trying to figure out what was going on
<v Speaker 2>with this weird snorkler guy, and this is what inspired
<v Speaker 2>the lyrics to this song. Interesting, it has been used
<v Speaker 2>countless times in various movies and shows specific Fight Club,
<v Speaker 2>but usually it happens when somebody is questioning reality.
<v Speaker 1>So to me, this is a more of a ninety
<v Speaker 1>song just because of Fight Club. That's where it rests.
<v Speaker 2>In my mind, absolutely. And what's interesting is they broke
<v Speaker 2>up long before Fight Club happened, obviously, and then in
<v Speaker 2>ninety three with Kurt Cobain talking about how much the
<v Speaker 2>Pixies meant to him with Fight Club coming out, in
<v Speaker 2>ninety nine they get this cult following, and sure enough,
<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and four they get back together again
<v Speaker 2>after geez over a decade of being a part and
<v Speaker 2>start touring. Do you know James Buckley some money or something?
<v Speaker 2>Because I know he and I have the same taste
<v Speaker 2>in certain circumstances, There's some overlap there. But yes, my
<v Speaker 2>top my number five and my number four both were
<v Speaker 2>on his list.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and I'm gonna mention this at the end when
<v Speaker 1>we look at David Wright's list. I had my list
<v Speaker 1>written down before David Wrights is in. Okay, I'm just
<v Speaker 1>throwing that out there, all.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Very good, very good, Okay, Okay, Now Jason, we're
<v Speaker 2>to your number three. What have you got three?
<v Speaker 1>Okay? So my number three is the song that we
<v Speaker 1>have already deep dived on. This song was written about
<v Speaker 1>Aaron Everley, daughter of one of the Everly brothers. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>you already know what it is.
<v Speaker 2>I can tell you the band anyway.
<v Speaker 1>This started as a joke. Slash. The guitarist was warming
<v Speaker 1>up and decided that he was going to try to
<v Speaker 1>make circus music with his guitar.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, so this is guns n' Roses.
<v Speaker 1>This is not Paradise City, right, This is not.
<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the Jungle. This is Sweet Child of Mine.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds like a circus.
<v Speaker 1>It sounds like a circus and a number one hit.
<v Speaker 2>Can I just say that it presses me to watch
<v Speaker 2>Slash doing like insurance commercials playing this. It's depressing.
<v Speaker 1>It is depressed. Does it see money?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know. But literally yesterday we
<v Speaker 2>were watching something that ad came on and Brock is like,
<v Speaker 2>who is that? And I'm like Slash. He's like from
<v Speaker 2>the band. I'm like yeah. He's like, why does he
<v Speaker 2>look so young? I'm like, well, wearing the same outfit.
<v Speaker 2>We're in the same outfit that he was wearing in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, that's right. This song reached number one in
<v Speaker 1>September of nineteen eighty eight, and I would argue was
<v Speaker 1>the rocket fuel that saved appetite for destruction.
<v Speaker 2>Making Aaron Everlea the rocket Queen.
<v Speaker 1>If you will, Yes, Sheryl Crow did a copy of
<v Speaker 1>this song, and this is one of the few eighties
<v Speaker 1>videos that has been viewed over a billion times on YouTube,
<v Speaker 1>along with Aha, which we covered on our Patreon episode
<v Speaker 1>If You're not following us on Patreon, you are missing
<v Speaker 1>some great stuff. For five bucks, you get all these
<v Speaker 1>incredible stories behind.
<v Speaker 2>The songs exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Also, as a reminder, you can go back. We've already
<v Speaker 1>covered Appetite for Destruction. That was one of our early
<v Speaker 1>episodes and we accidentally coincided with it's thirty fifth and
<v Speaker 1>a verse. You remember that. We just looked up and
<v Speaker 1>we're like, oh my gosh, Appetite for Destruction.
<v Speaker 2>We did Appetite for Destruction versus Back and Black by
<v Speaker 2>ac DC, and that was one of the toughest choices
<v Speaker 2>we've ever had to make. That was a phenomenal matchup
<v Speaker 2>to phenomenal album.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, the end of the song, Axel Rose was sitting
<v Speaker 1>with the producer and he was asking, how are we
<v Speaker 1>going to wrap up this song Sweech out of Mind?
<v Speaker 1>I don't really know, Like so he says, so where
<v Speaker 1>do we go? Like, where do we go now? And
<v Speaker 1>the producers like, bingo, that's it, finish it up. And
<v Speaker 1>that's how you get the where do we go now?
<v Speaker 1>Ding to Sweech out of Mine? Okay, d number three.
<v Speaker 2>To you three all right, number three. As I mentioned before,
<v Speaker 2>it was on my list. I'm just going to tell
<v Speaker 2>you this is Every Rose Has Its Thorn. In my opinion,
<v Speaker 2>it is the definitive rock ballad of the eighties. I
<v Speaker 2>know you're picking Motley Crew for that, but for me,
<v Speaker 2>I'm spiking the football. This is the rock ballad of
<v Speaker 2>the eighties.
<v Speaker 1>They don't want to read you love it. This was
<v Speaker 1>on my list at number five. Yeah, I told you
<v Speaker 1>I had a buddy for my fifteenth birthday. Gave me
<v Speaker 1>Open Up and Say Ah by Poison. And at the time,
<v Speaker 1>the only single released was Nothing but a Good Time,
<v Speaker 1>which could have easily been on this list, but it
<v Speaker 1>had I remember on the sticker it said contains the
<v Speaker 1>hit songs Nothing but a Good Time and Every Rose
<v Speaker 1>Has Its Thorn. And I remember at the time going,
<v Speaker 1>how do they know it's going to be a hit?
<v Speaker 1>Like they were convinced out of the gate that it
<v Speaker 1>was going to be a hit.
<v Speaker 2>So here's the thing. They didn't want to release it
<v Speaker 2>as a single because it wasn't the heavy metal image
<v Speaker 2>that they were trying to give the band at the time.
<v Speaker 2>But they said, we've played this live several times. The
<v Speaker 2>crowd loves it. It is a rock ballad, not just
<v Speaker 2>a ballad. We think you should, and they pushed and
<v Speaker 2>they got it. They were successful. They were the ones
<v Speaker 2>that convinced the record company to release this as a single.
<v Speaker 2>But the first station that played this song was a
<v Speaker 2>country station out in Dallas, Texas. I know, right, So
<v Speaker 2>this song was number one rock, number one hop, and
<v Speaker 2>in the top forty for country. It's crazy.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>And just to go back to our original story about him,
<v Speaker 2>you know, running into trouble with his girlfriend, the idea
<v Speaker 2>is that Rose is his career which is taken off,
<v Speaker 2>and the thorn is his relationship which is ending.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, I saw an interview with her, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and she's like, he's accusing me of infidelity, which I
<v Speaker 1>thought was hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>Well, rock musicians are kind of known for their double
<v Speaker 2>standards as far as they go.
<v Speaker 1>I'm above this. I can sleep with whoever. I This
<v Speaker 1>is a perk of the job.
<v Speaker 2>I am a rock star. That's what happens.
<v Speaker 1>I'm working hunt.
<v Speaker 2>It's part. It's part of the requirement, honey, part of
<v Speaker 2>the requirement. So this one after he had that conversation
<v Speaker 2>with her. Next day, he was a laundromat and wrote
<v Speaker 2>this down inside of a laundermat. How cool was that?
<v Speaker 1>It's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>So guys, we're going to be covering this album in
<v Speaker 2>future episodes.
<v Speaker 1>Poisons open up and say uh yes versus Living Colors
<v Speaker 1>Vivid album, both released on the same day in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>Same day. Okay, So that does it for My number
<v Speaker 2>three is your number two?
<v Speaker 1>Okay?
<v Speaker 2>Two?
<v Speaker 1>So this is going to be difficult for me to
<v Speaker 1>give you any clues because we've already deep died on
<v Speaker 1>this song. Okay, all right, all right, yeah, so this
<v Speaker 1>reached number two the summer of nineteen eighty eight. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>number two two, okay, blocked by hold On to the
<v Speaker 1>Knights by Richard Marx, which I have had some hard
<v Speaker 1>feelings about. But when I went back and listened to
<v Speaker 1>that song, I like, huh, hold on the Knights is
<v Speaker 1>a great song too.
<v Speaker 2>Is this a Mutlin song?
<v Speaker 1>It is a mutlanth song.
<v Speaker 2>Hold on to that because it's coming up for me
<v Speaker 2>in just a minute.
<v Speaker 1>Ooh, okay, all right, so I'm putting number two down
<v Speaker 1>the road, yes, two, So to my number two kind
<v Speaker 1>of already have brought this up, but I'll go ahead
<v Speaker 1>and throw your clue out there and see if you
<v Speaker 1>can guess it.
<v Speaker 2>This song contains quotes by two presidents and one mover
<v Speaker 2>and shaker of the Black power movement in the sixties.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, this is cult a personality, got it? Oh my gosh. See, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this song is freaking amazing. I absolutely love it. It's
<v Speaker 1>going on my list Brady nine.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I mean I understand. Yeah, I mean it came
<v Speaker 2>out in the middle of eighty eight, but it was
<v Speaker 2>really the eighty nine performance at SNL that kind of
<v Speaker 2>kicked it up a notch. But yes, I understand you
<v Speaker 2>put this in in eighty nine.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>And again I've got another one that's on James buck
<v Speaker 2>Pleay's list. So I'm just going to tell you I
<v Speaker 2>also had my list before James Buckley.
<v Speaker 1>Had this list, Okay, just to talk about culture personality
<v Speaker 1>a little bit longer. Yeah, we're going to cover this
<v Speaker 1>here in a month or so. I can't wait to
<v Speaker 1>do it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The musicianship from these guys will blow your friggin socks off.
<v Speaker 2>These guys, I mean these the drummer and the guitarist
<v Speaker 2>Ernie Reid, who was kind of the head of the band.
<v Speaker 2>Really yeah, they were already established jazz musicians. I mean
<v Speaker 2>they were freaking incredible. I mean, jazz is hard. I'm
<v Speaker 2>just saying that jazz is hard. If you say metal
<v Speaker 2>is hard, no, metal is easy compared to jazz. And
<v Speaker 2>these guys had the chops to play jazz and they
<v Speaker 2>brought it into heavy metal. And just a quick story
<v Speaker 2>the lead singer, Corey Glover, Yes, there's a great little
<v Speaker 2>bit and we'll talk about it when we do our
<v Speaker 2>full episode on this, but he was talking about his
<v Speaker 2>musical influences. He said he had had older siblings and
<v Speaker 2>his parents and his grandparents and all of their musical
<v Speaker 2>influences played a part of his musical library. Right, But
<v Speaker 2>he said there was one album that influenced them all,
<v Speaker 2>like it came out and it was just like everybody
<v Speaker 2>loved it, and this was Miles Davis. Bitches brew Okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>talked a little bit about Miles Davis when we did
<v Speaker 2>our Prince episode. Right, But he starts listening to that.
<v Speaker 2>He's listened to several other black singers and musicians and
<v Speaker 2>here then he hears led Zeppelin and he's like, I'll
<v Speaker 2>never be able to do that. I will never be
<v Speaker 2>able to do that until his parents take him to
<v Speaker 2>go see Jesus Christ Superstar in New York City and
<v Speaker 2>he hears Carl Anderson as judas Is Scariot singing this
<v Speaker 2>rock power song and he says, maybe I can do this,
<v Speaker 2>and that's what inspires him to go and become a singer.
<v Speaker 1>Fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>He ends up years later playing the part of Judas
<v Speaker 2>Is Scariot with the same guy Ted Neely who played
<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar on his own.
<v Speaker 1>Really yeah, fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>So three quotes. You have Malcolm X from his message
<v Speaker 2>to the grassroots from nineteen sixty three. You have John F.
<v Speaker 2>Kennedy from his inaugural dress in nineteen sixty one.
<v Speaker 1>And this is not what your country can do for you.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, And finally you have FDR with his inaugural
<v Speaker 2>speech from nineteen thirty three.
<v Speaker 1>And during the few moments that we have left.
<v Speaker 2>That's the first one. Oh okay, yeah, that's the Malcolm
<v Speaker 2>X quote. It ends with FDR.
<v Speaker 1>It's fear itself.
<v Speaker 2>There we go.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, cool, awesome. I can't wait to dive into that
<v Speaker 1>whole album. I can tell you exactly where I was
<v Speaker 1>when I heard that song for the first time. I
<v Speaker 1>was on a Ski Trip the spring Break of nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty nine. Yeah, and my buddy Bomber, who I talked about,
<v Speaker 1>he's a Patreon member of ours. He's like, dude, have
<v Speaker 1>you heard this song where you know, sharing headphones on
<v Speaker 1>the blow of my Mind?
<v Speaker 2>Right? It's amazing. It's lasting power is amazing, it's subject
<v Speaker 2>matter is amazing. This is a powerhouse of a song
<v Speaker 2>in all regards. I can't wait to dive fully into it.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay, very good. So that's your number two.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So that does it for our first four for
<v Speaker 2>each of us. Yeah yeah, okay, so before we jump
<v Speaker 2>into number one, I have some honorable mentions and some discoveries.
<v Speaker 1>Right yeah, i'd say that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, tell me what you got, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So these are my honorable mentions, Like this is six
<v Speaker 1>and seven okay, okay. So the last time we talked
<v Speaker 1>about this song, I think you couldn't believe the words
<v Speaker 1>that were coming out of my mouth. So, okay, this
<v Speaker 1>song was written by Glenn Ballard and Sida Garrett.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, I remember this a little bit. Keep going, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>The video for this song has one smidge of the artist,
<v Speaker 1>but otherwise as a collection of newsworthy events from the day,
<v Speaker 1>including Baby Jessica being pulled out of the pipe.
<v Speaker 2>This is only an honorable mention for you, only an
<v Speaker 2>honorable mention the song you described as the best song
<v Speaker 2>on both albums, Yes, only an honorable miss Yes, you
<v Speaker 2>had two Michael Jackson songs in your top five for
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty three I Know in nineteen eighty eight, which
<v Speaker 2>has the album that you Love more than You Love
<v Speaker 2>Thriller right, the number one song, and you've only gave it.
<v Speaker 1>An honorable mention until you hear my number one.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, guys, This is Man in the Mirror
<v Speaker 2>by Michael Jackson.
<v Speaker 1>D That key change is irresistible. The video makes me
<v Speaker 1>cry every time I see it. Besiaca Yes with Baby Jessica.
<v Speaker 1>Sida Garrett said she downloaded this from God Almighty and
<v Speaker 1>she gave it to the Gloved One and he liked
<v Speaker 1>it so much that he invited her to sing on
<v Speaker 1>a song called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, which
<v Speaker 1>also hit number one. Dude Cider Garrett's eighty seven eighty
<v Speaker 1>eight was off the charts and this song was unbelievable.
<v Speaker 1>I love it Man in the Mirror Honorable mention number one.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I like it.
<v Speaker 1>This hit number one March twenty sixth, nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>All right, my second honorable mention d as you can see,
<v Speaker 1>I flip flop, I changed my mind. Okay, yeah, my
<v Speaker 1>second honorable mention hit number eight in October of nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty eight. Here's your clue. Former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick
<v Speaker 1>Taylor played the guitar solo and it's a song about
<v Speaker 1>sexual anger power.
<v Speaker 2>I know this the butt.
<v Speaker 1>No No.
<v Speaker 2>It was a big hit at eighty eight. Okay, no,
<v Speaker 2>naughty girls need love to no oh, okay.
<v Speaker 1>But I love Samantha Fox. I know you do. This
<v Speaker 1>song has since been turned into an anthem for Monday
<v Speaker 1>Night Football. This is I Hate Myself for Loving You
<v Speaker 1>by Jon Jet.
<v Speaker 2>Heck yeah, man, I am so glad. This was one
<v Speaker 2>of those ones that I was like, this is a
<v Speaker 2>really good song.
<v Speaker 1>So this song was written by Jone Jet and Desmond Child.
<v Speaker 2>Desband Child who gave us bad medicine and you give
<v Speaker 2>love a bad name with bon Jovie, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>And remember he talked about how you take the things
<v Speaker 1>that are opposite and you throw them together.
<v Speaker 2>Something like dude looks like a lady.
<v Speaker 1>Dude looks like a lady. Yeah, I hate myself for
<v Speaker 1>loving you brilliant. There you go.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I love that's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, those are my two honorable mentions. D Okay, honorable
<v Speaker 1>mention number one for me.
<v Speaker 2>The one that I struggled on whether to put this
<v Speaker 2>on the list is a song that we can possibly
<v Speaker 2>cover as a one hit wonder all right, Okay, So
<v Speaker 2>this song is Wild Wild West by The Escape Club.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, so I told you I was looking at this.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, I gotta figure out which one of
<v Speaker 2>these songs to pick, which one falls in the five
<v Speaker 2>slot and which one falls out? And well, Glenn Danzig
<v Speaker 2>is more interesting than the Escape Club, so Danzig wins
<v Speaker 2>out on this one. But I love the song. I
<v Speaker 2>think it's got staying power and talking about time capsules.
<v Speaker 2>The lyrics of this song. I mean, we're talking about
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty eight. It is the end of the Reagan era,
<v Speaker 2>and this song is two and four him, right, this
<v Speaker 2>is all kinds of stuff that are going on, living
<v Speaker 2>in the eighties, headed for the nineties.
<v Speaker 1>I love it. It's a perfect time capsule, right, it is
<v Speaker 1>headed for the nineties, living in the eighties. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>love it, Okay, cool.
<v Speaker 2>And then the other one I already mentioned earlier that
<v Speaker 2>I had a hard time not putting on the list
<v Speaker 2>was the one that we compared to George Michael. It
<v Speaker 2>was never Tear Us Apart by in excess, not even
<v Speaker 2>one of the best performers off of the album. There
<v Speaker 2>were other songs that charted far better than this one.
<v Speaker 2>It did chart super well, but to me, this song
<v Speaker 2>is killer and it stands the test of time as
<v Speaker 2>far as the songs off this album go. I love
<v Speaker 2>the song.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, that is a fantastic song, and that album is fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>If you missed our inexcess Kick album, we went track
<v Speaker 1>by track that is packed full of fantastic songs, including
<v Speaker 1>Never Tear Us Apart, which was a near miss for me.
<v Speaker 2>Now you had a rediscovery or a new discovery, what
<v Speaker 2>do you gut?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So for my rediscovery, it's a song by the
<v Speaker 1>pet Shop Boys, and they wanted to do a duet
<v Speaker 1>with an established artist, and they kicked around the idea
<v Speaker 1>of doing this duet with Barber Streisan or maybe Tina Turner,
<v Speaker 1>when their manager suggested, how about Dusty Springfield.
<v Speaker 2>Son of a preacher man.
<v Speaker 1>Son of a preacher man. She had had some big hits,
<v Speaker 1>you know, pulp fiction kind of revived her career whatever,
<v Speaker 1>but she had kind of fallen into this life of
<v Speaker 1>drugs and alcohol, and when they pulled her out, it
<v Speaker 1>revived her career. That song, of course, is called What
<v Speaker 1>I Done to Deserve This?
<v Speaker 2>Dude, that's a good rediscovery.
<v Speaker 1>I love this song.
<v Speaker 2>It's been a minute since I've heard this one, so
<v Speaker 2>that's good. That's a good one. Thank you. Okay, this one,
<v Speaker 2>I think you're gonna like this. Have I don't think
<v Speaker 2>i've heard this since maybe nineteen eighty eight. This is
<v Speaker 2>a This is like a diamond in the rough. This
<v Speaker 2>is a really hidden one. I'm gonna play it for
<v Speaker 2>you now see if you recognize it? All right, all right?
<v Speaker 1>I wish you all could see my face right now.
<v Speaker 2>How could I let nineteen eighty eight go by without
<v Speaker 2>rickrolling my best? Butte just kidding, just kidding. That is
<v Speaker 2>not it's not the song my refine. There will my
<v Speaker 2>rEFInd And I gotta, I gotta, I gotta do a
<v Speaker 2>quick shout out, okay, because I struggled with this one.
<v Speaker 2>But my rEFInd is the promise by winning Rome friend,
<v Speaker 2>I got no song facts about this one. I just
<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, I couldn't have told you the
<v Speaker 2>name of this or the band, but I love this song.
<v Speaker 2>But quick shout out to our friend Chris Webber because
<v Speaker 2>one of his bands that he's really wanting us to
<v Speaker 2>cover is the Smithereens, and they had a fantastic song
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty eight called only a Memory.
<v Speaker 1>Great. Okay, So I can tell you one thing about
<v Speaker 1>that song, the promise. Yeah, I know that the closing
<v Speaker 1>credits for Napoleon Dynamite are to the promise. How about that?
<v Speaker 2>Perfect? I know they don't tell.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, Patreon member I'm a good friend, delle's
<v Speaker 1>Selby said we would be failing if we did not
<v Speaker 1>mention Rick Astley's huge hit never Gonna Give You Up.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't let you down. I never write you down.
<v Speaker 1>You did it. Okay. So since I have a ninety
<v Speaker 1>percent idea of your number one, yes, why don't you
<v Speaker 1>go first?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? Fair enough? One? So this song and I hate
<v Speaker 2>that you already know what it is because it was
<v Speaker 2>already on your list, because my clue was going to
<v Speaker 2>be This song was inspired by a cartoon band. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know how you pick any other song, Deaf Dave.
<v Speaker 2>This is my crossover with you, my friend. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know how you pick any other song as the number
<v Speaker 2>one song from nineteen eighty eight other than def Leppards
<v Speaker 2>or Some Sugar.
<v Speaker 1>On Me Guss from my Head to.
<v Speaker 2>It is definitive of not only nineteen eighty eight, but
<v Speaker 2>the eighties in general. Like you can easily put this
<v Speaker 2>on a top five list for the decade, so it
<v Speaker 2>is unstoppable. It will never be hired, it will never
<v Speaker 2>be old at. It's always good no matter how many
<v Speaker 2>times I hear it, and even my gen Z kids,
<v Speaker 2>every single one of them love this song.
<v Speaker 1>It's absolutely a top five head of the eighties. It
<v Speaker 1>comes off my favorite album of all time, Hysteria. It
<v Speaker 1>pained me to move it down from number one to
<v Speaker 1>number two, which I'm gonna make a case for here
<v Speaker 1>in just a second. We talked about this on our
<v Speaker 1>Hysteria episode def Leppards Pour Some Sugar On Me ruled
<v Speaker 1>the world in the summer of nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>This was my introduction to def Leppard for sure. Remember
<v Speaker 2>the school dance where I heard it for the first
<v Speaker 2>time just to give you a little That cartoon band
<v Speaker 2>that I was referring to was the Archies and the
<v Speaker 2>song was Sugar Sugar. If you listen to the last
<v Speaker 2>bit of the song, my buddy Jason noted, Hey, this
<v Speaker 2>song ends with the lines pour some sugar on me, honey, honey.
<v Speaker 1>We gotta listen to that right here. That blew my
<v Speaker 1>freaking mind.
<v Speaker 2>And again another song that almost wasn't on the album
<v Speaker 2>last few days of recording, Mutt Lang says, I think
<v Speaker 2>we need another hit single.
<v Speaker 1>On this went to get coffee, came back. Joe Elliot's
<v Speaker 1>just strumming on an acoustic guitar or a little sugar
<v Speaker 1>on me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And then to get the lyrics, he went to
<v Speaker 2>one side of the room, Mutt Lang went to the
<v Speaker 2>other side of the room. They both just kind of
<v Speaker 2>riffed noodled some lyrics into a microphone and then they
<v Speaker 2>just took that made the lyrics this song.
<v Speaker 1>That's right. Joe Elliott heard Muttling's voice and said that
<v Speaker 1>sounds like the words love is like a bomb.
<v Speaker 2>Love is like a bomb, baby, come and get it on.
<v Speaker 1>Based on run DMC's walk This Way with Aerosmith, It's
<v Speaker 1>like a rock rap thing.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, if they can do it, we can do it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, this reached number two. I love this song. How
<v Speaker 1>can I not have it at the top of my
<v Speaker 1>list for nineteen eighty eight?
<v Speaker 2>That's the question I'm asking myself right now. Okay, a
<v Speaker 2>drum roll, please, Jason's going to give me clues to
<v Speaker 2>his number one. Okay, one.
<v Speaker 1>I think there's a legitimate case that you could put
<v Speaker 1>this song in nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty eight, and
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty nine. Okay, all right now, then my first
<v Speaker 1>clue to you is Cory Glover from Living Color a
<v Speaker 1>verbal argument with this person from the stage in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty eight. Okay, this band went through the roof in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, we're talking about a band and a banner. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>keep going.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, the title of this song came from some cautionistic
<v Speaker 1>words from a hobo at a bus station.
<v Speaker 2>Got it?
<v Speaker 1>What is it?
<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the jungle baby. I can't fault you. I
<v Speaker 2>can't fault you. Okay, I mean I.
<v Speaker 1>Did you were ready to kill me?
<v Speaker 2>Which I was, well, no, no, no, no, I just
<v Speaker 2>I was on the edge of my seat to see
<v Speaker 2>what it was, but it is no surprise because that
<v Speaker 2>as well could be on top five songs of the
<v Speaker 2>entire decade.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, this was originally released in nineteen eighty seven, YEP.
<v Speaker 1>Didn't really do all that much because MTV refuse to
<v Speaker 1>play the video. David Geffen himself had to get involved
<v Speaker 1>and call the station and say, you guys have got
<v Speaker 1>to start playing this video. So when they did, it
<v Speaker 1>hit a little bit in early eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 1>Sweet Child of Mind goes to the roof in the
<v Speaker 1>summer of eighty eight.
<v Speaker 2>YEP.
<v Speaker 1>They re release it in October of eighty eight, and
<v Speaker 1>it reaches number seven Christmas Eve nineteen eighty eight, and
<v Speaker 1>it's played at every single football game. We go to
<v Speaker 1>it right now.
<v Speaker 2>They played this video to appease the Geffen Records folks
<v Speaker 2>and the MTV folks who are at odds. They played
<v Speaker 2>this video. They were going to do it one time,
<v Speaker 2>a one off deal. They played it at four o'clock
<v Speaker 2>in the morning, right and then the switchboards. This is
<v Speaker 2>not an exaggeration caught on fire with people calling in
<v Speaker 2>to say, play that again, what was that? It's it's
<v Speaker 2>a mammoth, it's a bohemoth.
<v Speaker 1>It is it is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's aw. Yeah, that's great. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>I love it all right, d I got a little
<v Speaker 1>PostScript for you, okay, all right. Now. Then you had
<v Speaker 1>your list before we started. I had my list before
<v Speaker 1>we started. Listen to this. You owe James Buckley some
<v Speaker 1>money or something because this is his list. Are you
<v Speaker 1>ready for this?
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Number five, I Don't Believe in Love by Queen's Reich,
<v Speaker 1>Under the Milky Way by the Church, Where Is My Mind?
<v Speaker 1>By the Pixies. There you go, Only a Memory by
<v Speaker 1>the Smithereens.
<v Speaker 2>Oh right, nice, good?
<v Speaker 1>How about that? And then Cults Personality, Living Color.
<v Speaker 2>He's got good taste.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, you and JB are on the same wavelength.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Now, then listen to this. David Wright sent me his
<v Speaker 1>top five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, listen to this.
<v Speaker 1>Marry Mary by runding Him, See Naturally, Pour Some Sugar
<v Speaker 1>on Me by death Leport.
<v Speaker 2>It's the best. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Ragged All by Aerosmith.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's a good one. I actually had raged. I
<v Speaker 2>had Angel on my short list. Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, every Rose has its thorn by Poison.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, there you go, more overlap.
<v Speaker 1>And of course Cocomo by the Beach.
<v Speaker 2>If you know deaf Dave. That's his beach Boys will
<v Speaker 2>win every day.
<v Speaker 1>There you go, our buddy, Brad Moore. I asked him
<v Speaker 1>and he sent me his stuff. Here's his list, and
<v Speaker 1>of course it's very close to ours. Finished what you
<v Speaker 1>started by Van Halen, The Flame by Cheap Trick. That
<v Speaker 1>was my first out. Oh yeah, exactly. That's number like eight. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>Kissed Me Deadly by Leada Ford, which you alluded to
<v Speaker 1>at the beginning of the episode. Just like Paradise by
<v Speaker 1>David Lee Roth yep, cold personality. Yes, every Rose has
<v Speaker 1>his thorn. Patience by Guns n' Roses.
<v Speaker 2>I was on my short list too.
<v Speaker 1>And won by Metallica. Oh ok, came out at the
<v Speaker 1>very end of eighty eight for me. That's kind of
<v Speaker 1>an eighty nine song.
<v Speaker 2>It's well into eighty nine for me. That would definitely
<v Speaker 2>be on my eighty nine list.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there you go, Brad, Thanks for getting that to us.
<v Speaker 2>Awesome.
<v Speaker 1>A couple other people who wrote in and gave us
<v Speaker 1>their list. Genie Alexander Patreon member Gene Alexander good friend
<v Speaker 1>of mine. Okay, she said, I don't really know the
<v Speaker 1>top five, but don't know what you got. By Cinderella
<v Speaker 1>has to be on that list, right, which was in
<v Speaker 1>the top ten for me, just missed.
<v Speaker 2>It is the number one Cinderella song in my book.
<v Speaker 2>So good.
<v Speaker 1>And then our buddy Jeff Johnson also sent me his
<v Speaker 1>top five.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, this was great.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so he gave number five bon Jovie Bad Medicine.
<v Speaker 1>There's a case for that, right, Yeah. Number four Tracy
<v Speaker 1>Chapman's Fast Car.
<v Speaker 2>That's a good one. That's not really like I love
<v Speaker 2>that song, but it's a really good song.
<v Speaker 1>He said that. I'm just as surprised as you are
<v Speaker 1>that he put it on it, right, Yeah. Number three
<v Speaker 1>every Rose has His Thorn? Yeah, Number two the Pixies,
<v Speaker 1>Where is My Mind? Hey?
<v Speaker 2>There you go see?
<v Speaker 1>And number one n WA straight out of Coms.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, not what I was listening to at the time,
<v Speaker 2>but for those that were, that was a power It
<v Speaker 2>was huge, right, it was a mammoth song. That is awesome. Guys,
<v Speaker 2>be sure and go check out Jeff Johnson's podcast, A
<v Speaker 2>Film by with his friend Brad and they do some
<v Speaker 2>awesome stuff over there, checking out the lesser known but
<v Speaker 2>worthy films of some of the most famous directors.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, all right, we'd love to hear from you. Guys,
<v Speaker 1>send us your top five from nineteen eighty eight. We'll
<v Speaker 1>put it on Facebook or whatever. It'd be fun.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, hey, guys, we wanted to tell you about a
<v Speaker 2>very special episode that is with us, but not our podcast.
<v Speaker 2>We would love for you guys to go check out
<v Speaker 2>the White Rocket Podcast with mister Van Allen Plexico.
<v Speaker 1>They figured out that we love ready Player one, and
<v Speaker 1>we love Ready Player one, we do. They invited us
<v Speaker 1>to come on. We're talking about the book first, then
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna talk about the movie, and then we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>have some trivia. So White Rocket Podcast. The first episode
<v Speaker 1>drops on our discussion with Van Allen Plexico and David
<v Speaker 1>Wright about the book Ready Player one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we put a link to that episode in our
<v Speaker 2>show notes. Be sure and go down there, click that
<v Speaker 2>and you can hear us talk about the book Ready
<v Speaker 2>Player one. Well, guys, that does it for our list
<v Speaker 2>of best of nineteen eighty eight. Please go check out
<v Speaker 2>those episodes that we talked about. Please god to Patreon
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<v Speaker 2>can subscribe and get what do we have? Like ten
<v Speaker 2>eleven different?
<v Speaker 1>I think we're eleven now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so we're they're covering one hit Wonders of the
<v Speaker 2>eighties and other areas.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it is.
<v Speaker 2>Some of our best stuff. Guys, I promise worth the
<v Speaker 2>five bucks a month. Totally go subscribe and enjoy those
<v Speaker 2>extra episodes.
<v Speaker 1>We've got some other nineteen eighty eight stuff coming down
<v Speaker 1>the pipe patch. I'm really excited about. So here in
<v Speaker 1>a few weeks, we're covering Twins versus Big I mean
<v Speaker 1>Big Twins, right, We're covering Vivid versus Open Up and
<v Speaker 1>Say I'm both released on the same day. Nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>We've got the Great Outdoors. We've got Long Cold Winter
<v Speaker 1>by Cinderella versus Van Halen's Oh You Ate one two,
<v Speaker 1>which was huge in the summer. We're gonna have a
<v Speaker 1>lot of fun messing around in the summer of nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eight eight.
<v Speaker 2>He has joined us. There see you guys, then, thank
<v Speaker 2>you so much. I'll talk to you next time.