Stranger Things Soundtrack: Season 1 Episode 1 - The Story of White Rabbit, Africa and More!

<v Speaker 1>Hello, Shirley fans. For the last three years, Jason and
<v Speaker 1>I have been bringing you the stories behind all of
<v Speaker 1>your favorite movies from the eighties. But today we begin
<v Speaker 1>a new series.
<v Speaker 2>In twenty sixteen, the Duffer Brothers introduced the world to
<v Speaker 2>Stranger Things. This show not only changed the way we
<v Speaker 2>all watch television, but surprisingly also truly impacted the music
<v Speaker 2>we listened to, from Africa to Running Up That Hill.
<v Speaker 2>Stranger Things has brought back songs of our past and
<v Speaker 2>introduced them to a whole new generation.
<v Speaker 1>So the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcasts begins a
<v Speaker 1>new series bringing you the stories behind the songs of
<v Speaker 1>Stranger Things.
<v Speaker 2>All right, d I know we're talking about the songs here,
<v Speaker 2>but I feel like we need to do something to
<v Speaker 2>intro these songs, something to get us kicked off.
<v Speaker 1>You're thinking, maybe recap Rap?
<v Speaker 2>Could Doctor Fresh show up today?
<v Speaker 1>I think we can get Doctor Fresh out of his hole? Yes,
<v Speaker 1>all right, let's bring it. Recap Rap Chapter one, The
<v Speaker 1>Vanishing of Will Buyers fires.
<v Speaker 3>Our story d gins in eighty three The Boys Up
<v Speaker 3>Late play a dn D. Will, Lucas, and Dustin are
<v Speaker 3>all at Mike's Fuck the Gout Ahead.
<v Speaker 1>Home on the old school bikes. Okay, here's the hook
<v Speaker 1>of the feature. Will is snatched by some mystery creature.
<v Speaker 1>Next day, Mama Joyce calls the low.
<v Speaker 3>Cool Copper, a big old boy named Chief Jim Hopper.
<v Speaker 1>The search is on, but it's the worst. She fears.
<v Speaker 3>Brother Johnathan is shedding tears. Will is gone and the
<v Speaker 3>guilt Hey bears hold up. One kid missing and another appears.
<v Speaker 1>The new one's a.
<v Speaker 3>Girl named yet unknown, tattoo shaved head and a psyche ward.
<v Speaker 1>Down a psyche board down. Beimy catches our girl stealing
<v Speaker 1>some fries.
<v Speaker 3>We can't get her to talk no matter what, each
<v Speaker 3>except one clue that she is given.
<v Speaker 1>Her name ain't a name, Her name's eleven.
<v Speaker 3>Meanwhile, Nancy, Mike's older sister is mooching upstairs.
<v Speaker 1>With her brand new mister, Steve Harrington.
<v Speaker 3>Steve Harrington, Harrington, Steve Herrington. An agent appears and Benny
<v Speaker 3>gets killed, but they can't stop Eleven.
<v Speaker 1>This girl is skilled.
<v Speaker 3>The boys go searching out in the rain, and suddenly
<v Speaker 3>they find their friend.
<v Speaker 1>No wait, it's a girl, not their body. Will. What's
<v Speaker 1>her name, don't know? Let's call her l Let's call
<v Speaker 1>her El.
<v Speaker 2>That was awesome.
<v Speaker 1>D thanks man, I mean Doctor Fresh lit.
<v Speaker 2>I mean Doctor Fresh obviously.
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<v Speaker 1>Or let us jump in and talk about Stranger Things
<v Speaker 1>music For everybody who is used to us talking about movies,
<v Speaker 1>We're not gonna be talking about the episodes other than
<v Speaker 1>to tell you where you can confined this piece of
<v Speaker 1>music in the particular episode. We'll have discussions about the
<v Speaker 1>awesomeness of Stranger Things later on, but today we're talking music. Guys,
<v Speaker 1>if this is your first time to join us, we
<v Speaker 1>are super excited to jump into all of the songs
<v Speaker 1>behind the Stranger Things episodes. We will be talking about suicides,
<v Speaker 1>we will be talking about serial killers, we will be
<v Speaker 1>talking about LSD, We'll be talking about all kinds of
<v Speaker 1>crazy things, and it's literally nothing to do with the
<v Speaker 1>show itself. These are the stories of the bands and
<v Speaker 1>the musicians behind the music. So this series of episodes
<v Speaker 1>is going to be killer.
<v Speaker 2>That doesn't even include a crazy hang lighting accident and
<v Speaker 2>an attempt to poison the President of the United States.
<v Speaker 2>It's going to be amazing. The stories behind these songs
<v Speaker 2>are crazy crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Before we get into those stories, we need to say
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<v Speaker 2>came on and expressed her on Dine love for John
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<v Speaker 1>November sixth, nineteen eighty three. This is season one, episode
<v Speaker 1>one of Stranger Things. Interestingly enough, when we started looking
<v Speaker 1>at this, I didn't get a whole lot of eighties music.
<v Speaker 1>I was surprised. I was like, okay, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 1>what so I'm gonna take you back because we've got
<v Speaker 1>songs from the sixties but I'm gonna take you further back.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna take you back to the fifties. Okay, I'm
<v Speaker 1>not gonna take you back to the nineteen fifties. I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna take you back to the eighteen fifties. What I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna blow your mind here, my friend. Okay, now listen.
<v Speaker 2>For those of you who are on YouTube and don't
<v Speaker 2>know D very well yet, D likes to chase and
<v Speaker 2>follow down rabbit holes. He is the white Rabbits.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, do you remember? Do you remember the matrix?
<v Speaker 1>That's the very first scene with Neo follow the White Rabbit?
<v Speaker 1>You got the girl with the tattoo? Important. But before
<v Speaker 1>I get to that, let me tell you about eighteen
<v Speaker 1>fifty three. This guy who's a photographer, his name is
<v Speaker 1>Charles Lutridge Dodgson. He's out taking some pictures of a church.
<v Speaker 1>And this is the eighteen fifties. So these little girls
<v Speaker 1>see him and they're fascinated by a camera. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>nobody's seen cameras back then. This is an incredible thing.
<v Speaker 1>So they go over and they start talking to him,
<v Speaker 1>and he befriends them, This twenty something year old man
<v Speaker 1>and these ten twelve year old girls, okay, And he
<v Speaker 1>becomes friends with their family, and he starts taking photographs
<v Speaker 1>of the girls. He just happens to have clothes and
<v Speaker 1>costumes for kids at his studio. Yes, I know, it
<v Speaker 1>sounds a little weird, okay, And he stays friends with
<v Speaker 1>the family. Fast forward a few years to eighteen sixty two.
<v Speaker 1>He and the girls are on a boat ride together.
<v Speaker 1>They're going from Oxford to God's Boat okay, and the
<v Speaker 1>girls are bored, and so he makes up a story
<v Speaker 1>and he uses one of the little girls as the
<v Speaker 1>character in the story. Her name is Alice Liddell. And
<v Speaker 1>she's so impressed with the story, little ten year old Alice,
<v Speaker 1>that she encourages him to write it down. And so
<v Speaker 1>what Charles Lutledge Dodson does is he takes his first
<v Speaker 1>two names and he rearranges the letters to create a
<v Speaker 1>new name. And that new name is Lewis Carroll, and
<v Speaker 1>the little girl Alice becomes Alice in Wonderland.
<v Speaker 2>You're blowing my mind already. We're ten minutes in. You're
<v Speaker 2>blowing my mind.
<v Speaker 1>And we haven't even gotten to the twentieth century yet,
<v Speaker 1>I know, right, Okay, Well, let's jump forward to the
<v Speaker 1>twentieth century. Nineteen fifty three may author named Aldus Huxley.
<v Speaker 1>Have you heard of him before?
<v Speaker 2>No?
<v Speaker 1>So he's he's got a book called he Alice. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>he's got a book called Brave New World. It's kind
<v Speaker 1>of a dystopian future book. Okay. But he's got another
<v Speaker 1>book that you probably have heard of. It's called The
<v Speaker 1>Doors of Perception. You think you've heard of that before.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds familiar.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. We may touch on that here in just a
<v Speaker 1>little bit. Okay. So in fifty three he comes across
<v Speaker 1>this guy, the scientist named Humphrey Osmond, who has been
<v Speaker 1>doing tests with hallucinogenic chemicals found in peyote, and so
<v Speaker 1>Alvius Huxley corresponds with him. They get together, he takes
<v Speaker 1>some of the mescaline from the payote and has a
<v Speaker 1>hallucinogenic experience, which he then writes about in this book
<v Speaker 1>called The Doors of Perception. Humphrey Osmond, by the way,
<v Speaker 1>is the guy who first used the word psychedelic to
<v Speaker 1>describe the feeling that you get when you take these drugs,
<v Speaker 1>and Alvis Huxley was the first one to use the
<v Speaker 1>word in print, and The Doors of Perception later inspired
<v Speaker 1>a band to take their name, and that band was
<v Speaker 1>The Doors. So psychedelic becomes very important in the sixties,
<v Speaker 1>and there's an entire movement of music called psychedelic rock.
<v Speaker 1>And for the first several songs that we have on
<v Speaker 1>Stranger Things, it's psychedelic rock.
<v Speaker 5>It is.
<v Speaker 2>That's for sure, Yes, good much. By the way, for
<v Speaker 2>the record delly Man that I have ever heard of
<v Speaker 2>with the name Alice is Alice Cooper.
<v Speaker 1>School's out for summer, my friend, I said, Aldus, Aldus Huxley. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>all right, okay, So we're gonna go track by track
<v Speaker 1>through this episode as the music appears. Except the very
<v Speaker 1>first song that you're gonna hear is actually the theme
<v Speaker 1>of Stranger Things, which was composed by Kyle Dixon and
<v Speaker 1>Michael Stein, and we will talk about that song, but
<v Speaker 1>not today. There are far too many songs in this episode.
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about those guys. We'll talk about the music
<v Speaker 1>supervisor Nora Felder later on, but today we've got so
<v Speaker 1>much music to cover that we have to just dive
<v Speaker 1>in to the first song, first needle drop, if you will.
<v Speaker 1>The diegetic music, the music that we hear as background
<v Speaker 1>music in the episode first song out of the Gate
<v Speaker 1>Can't Seem to Make You Mine?
<v Speaker 2>I'm okay.
<v Speaker 1>So this song is by The Seeds, off of their
<v Speaker 1>debut album, which was also called The Seeds. At this
<v Speaker 1>point their garage rock. They would eventually become psychedelic rock,
<v Speaker 1>but this one is still more in the garage rock realm.
<v Speaker 1>This song pops up in the episode at sixteen minutes
<v Speaker 1>and thirteen seconds when Hopper arrives at the police station
<v Speaker 1>and everybody is busting his balls.
<v Speaker 2>You know what mornings are for, d Right coffee and contemplation. Right,
<v Speaker 2>coffee and con in place, there's a kidnapped child in Loguit.
<v Speaker 1>So this band formed in La in nineteen sixty five.
<v Speaker 1>That album, The Seeds, was released in nineteen sixty five,
<v Speaker 1>but it didn't chart until they re released it in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty seven, which is about the time that psychedelic
<v Speaker 1>rock is really starting to take off. That's right. The
<v Speaker 1>lead singer for the band is a guy named Sky Saxon.
<v Speaker 1>He wrote this song. The band would later change their
<v Speaker 1>name to Sky Saxon and the Seeds after certain members left,
<v Speaker 1>but this song is really very subtle in the background
<v Speaker 1>of this kind of hilarious scene Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So this is the first song that the Seeds recorded.
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was interesting. They played this song late
<v Speaker 2>at night on AM radio stations and it became like
<v Speaker 2>a sixties cult classic.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. People would stay up late just to hear this song.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and it didn't really even become a hit until
<v Speaker 2>after their song Pushing Too Hard became a hit, and
<v Speaker 2>that was psychedelic rock.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I've got some stuff I want to talk to you about.
<v Speaker 2>Sky Saxon, Tell me about Skysack. All right, So the
<v Speaker 2>lead singer of the Seeds is this guy named Sky Saxon.
<v Speaker 2>They don't really know how old he is because quote
<v Speaker 2>unquote age is not important. Right, We're already getting into
<v Speaker 2>the flowery stuff already.
<v Speaker 1>Honestly, that was one of the conclusions of Aldous Huxley
<v Speaker 1>and his books The Doors of Perception. It's kind of crazy.
<v Speaker 2>There you go, right, keep on going, keep okay. So
<v Speaker 2>here's the deal. So in nineteen seventy three he becomes
<v Speaker 2>a member of this religious group called the Source Family
<v Speaker 2>Religious Group, and it started by this guy named Father Yode.
<v Speaker 2>He also went by the name Yohoah. Okay, okay, all right,
<v Speaker 2>sound like a word you may have heard religious leader
<v Speaker 2>from Yeah, yeah, it's yes. It's a little bit like
<v Speaker 2>Jehovah yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Or yeahweh yeah or you know Yoda. So yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, you have this group called the Source Family
<v Speaker 2>Religious Group. It's born out of this guy and even
<v Speaker 2>father Yode, who had this health food restaurant on the
<v Speaker 2>Sunset Strip. It's organic, it's health food. It's kind of
<v Speaker 2>the hot new thing. And he wasn't just nobody. He
<v Speaker 2>had regular clients like John Lennon and Marlon Brando. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>I mean these are legit people, right. She is Seeds
<v Speaker 2>for the elite exactly exactly. So they start this religious
<v Speaker 2>group in the Hollywood Hills. They have a commune, right
<v Speaker 2>and Sky Sackson jumps right in and he joins in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy three. Okay, Now, the funny part is not
<v Speaker 2>that this lead singer of the Seeds joined this religious group.
<v Speaker 2>The funny part is how this guy, father Yode came
<v Speaker 2>to his unfortunate demise.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, you with me.
<v Speaker 2>So the religious groups in California for a while, and
<v Speaker 2>then he decides he wants to get out of California,
<v Speaker 2>so he moves to Hawaii and then on December twenty sixth,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy four, The day after Christmas, Father Yode decides
<v Speaker 2>I would like to go hang gliding. He's never been
<v Speaker 2>hang gliding in his life. Okay, so go ahead and
<v Speaker 2>go off the highest cliff. So he goes off a
<v Speaker 2>thirteen hundred foot cliff, crashes his hang glider on the beach. Boom.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, I'm totally hurt.
<v Speaker 1>Right, how is he?
<v Speaker 2>So they haul him off to the hospital. Nine hours
<v Speaker 2>later he is dead. So Father Yoda passes away day
<v Speaker 2>after Christmas nineteen seventy four from a tragic overzealous hang
<v Speaker 2>glider accident.
<v Speaker 1>More like Father chowed. Okay, are we done with Are
<v Speaker 1>we done with the seeds?
<v Speaker 2>I am done with the seeds?
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's keep rolling. Song number two that we have.
<v Speaker 1>We get to introduce a band that will be very
<v Speaker 1>important a little bit later on. Okay, and this band
<v Speaker 1>is Jefferson Airplane. So Jefferson Airplane was founded by a
<v Speaker 1>guy named Marty Bayley. Yes, here's the cool part. He
<v Speaker 1>was very business savvy about the way that he did this.
<v Speaker 1>He has this band. He knows that bands have to
<v Speaker 1>play some good clubs to get notoriety. So he starts
<v Speaker 1>his own club. He gets like three other investors to
<v Speaker 1>pay three thousand each and they start this club. And
<v Speaker 1>it's like the club for the musicians to go to
<v Speaker 1>and see other musicians. And so you have bands like
<v Speaker 1>the Grateful Dead, you have bands like the Steve Miller
<v Speaker 1>Blues Band. You have bands like the Doors that come
<v Speaker 1>in there and play. And one of the bands that
<v Speaker 1>came in there and played was the band called the
<v Speaker 1>Great Society, and they had this really groovy chick singing
<v Speaker 1>for them. She had started this band with her husband,
<v Speaker 1>but she was really above and beyond where that band was.
<v Speaker 1>And so a little bit later on Jefferson Airplane loses
<v Speaker 1>their lead singer, their female lead singer. She decides that
<v Speaker 1>she's gonna go start her family. Yeah, she is not
<v Speaker 1>going to be a lead singer for this ban anymore.
<v Speaker 1>So they are looking for another female lead and they
<v Speaker 1>really said, there's only two options, Janis Joplin or Gray Slick.
<v Speaker 1>They're the only two women who are out here singing
<v Speaker 1>in San Francisco right now. And San Francisco is the
<v Speaker 1>hub of the world at this point. If you're going
<v Speaker 1>to San Francisco, sure you're gonna see lots of flowers
<v Speaker 1>in your hair, right, yes, And so they go to
<v Speaker 1>talk to Gray Slick and within minutes she says, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm in. I'm leaving my husband's band, right. And she
<v Speaker 1>brought two songs with her, one of which we'll talk
<v Speaker 1>about it in a little while. The other one Somebody
<v Speaker 1>to Love, written by her brother in law for the
<v Speaker 1>Great Society. She brings that over with them and it's
<v Speaker 1>the band's first really big single.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah for sure.
<v Speaker 1>So this song she Has Funny Cars is the first
<v Speaker 1>song on the first album with Gray Slick, and they
<v Speaker 1>had also gotten a new drummer named Spencer Dryden, who
<v Speaker 1>was a huge force in the band. By the way,
<v Speaker 1>half nephew of Charlie Chaplin, get out of there. I'd
<v Speaker 1>like to blow your mind with these tidbits, right, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So this song she Has Funny Cars is the opening
<v Speaker 1>track of Surrealistic Pillow, one of the very first pioneering
<v Speaker 1>psychedelic albums, and it appears in our episode at twenty
<v Speaker 1>one minutes and forty one seconds where we get the
<v Speaker 1>introduction of young eleven.
<v Speaker 2>You can do whatever you Yes, I've got to throw
<v Speaker 2>this out at you. This is what blew me away
<v Speaker 2>A Jefferson Airplane. You know this, nore my gosh, okay, no,
<v Speaker 2>tell me, you're giving me new information. I'm excited, all right,
<v Speaker 2>I'm on the edge of my seat. This is what
<v Speaker 2>a Jefferson airplane is, so you ready. So it's a
<v Speaker 2>match wooden match that's split in half in order to
<v Speaker 2>work as a roach clip so you can hold your joint.
<v Speaker 2>That's a Jefferson airplane. Okay, I did not know that
<v Speaker 2>kind of makes sense, right, Yeah, I got something for
<v Speaker 2>you on Marty Balen.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Marty Balen is the guy who wrote this song she
<v Speaker 2>has funny cars.
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 2>He's also the co lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. He
<v Speaker 2>had a song in nineteen eighty one. Okay, do you
<v Speaker 2>know that song?
<v Speaker 5>No, I play it for you right, Yeah, I know
<v Speaker 5>that song.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, one hit Wonder from nineteen eighty one. Marty Balen
<v Speaker 2>going solo after breaking out of Jefferson Airplane. With the
<v Speaker 2>song Hearts reached number eight in nineteen eighty one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he was. His departure from the band had to
<v Speaker 1>do with the cocaine that was being used and it
<v Speaker 1>was too much for him.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he couldn't take it. Yeah, by the way. Another
<v Speaker 2>claim to fame by Marty Balen. Yeah, he managed to
<v Speaker 2>get punched out during the Altmont concert, the giant free,
<v Speaker 2>three hundred thousand people concert in California.
<v Speaker 1>Ah, the one where the guy got stabbed.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, a young man who got angry and tried to
<v Speaker 2>storm the stage, and the Hell's Angels with their motorcycle
<v Speaker 2>chains and weighted pulques did not take very kindly. The
<v Speaker 2>Hell's Angels were working security at this concert. They hired
<v Speaker 2>the Hell's Angels, yes, to be security. Yeah, and who
<v Speaker 2>would have thought violence broke out?
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy.
<v Speaker 2>They were paid five hundred dollars worth of beer. Well,
<v Speaker 2>you get what you paint, you get what you paid for. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and Marty Balen managed to get punched out by one
<v Speaker 2>of the Hell's Angels.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we are going to talk more about Jefferson
<v Speaker 1>Airplane and just a little bit when we get to
<v Speaker 1>a slightly more well known song.
<v Speaker 2>Before we leave this song, I want to throw this
<v Speaker 2>at Jack. When was the last time we talked about Jefferson.
<v Speaker 2>I think it was Starship at the time.
<v Speaker 1>Jefferson's Starship. We've talked about him a couple of times, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I talked about Sarah in our very first episode Michael
<v Speaker 1>Jackson Bad versus Thriller. By the way, guys, if you
<v Speaker 1>want to go check that out on the podcast. Great, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>a great couple of episodes. Yeah, but that was were
<v Speaker 1>they were they in that atrocity from nineteen seventy.
<v Speaker 2>You got it. Yes, when we and the guys from
<v Speaker 2>the thirty something podcast got together and we talked about
<v Speaker 2>the Star Wars Holiday special.
<v Speaker 1>There are a few things in life that I like
<v Speaker 1>better than getting together with the guys from the thirty
<v Speaker 1>something Movie podcast. Be sure and go check those guys out.
<v Speaker 1>They are a barrel of fun every single time. But
<v Speaker 1>that is one of my favorite episodes to go listen to.
<v Speaker 1>And yes, cloud City, we built this Cloud City on Rocket.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, because Wookies and Han Solo and Prince Lea means
<v Speaker 2>Jefferson Starship.
<v Speaker 1>Guess okay, sure does?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 1>All right, So we will talk more about Jefferson Airplane
<v Speaker 1>a little bit later on when we get to their
<v Speaker 1>more well known song about this City, not that one, okay,
<v Speaker 1>and we and we will give a little more detail
<v Speaker 1>that it will be fun. But for now, let us
<v Speaker 1>move on to the next song in the episode is
<v Speaker 1>called I Shall Not Care by Pearls Before Swine. This
<v Speaker 1>one appears at twenty six minutes and forty eight seconds
<v Speaker 1>into the episode, where Benny is grilling a burger and
<v Speaker 1>grilling Young eleven, trying to get her to answer some questions,
<v Speaker 1>but she has remained totally silent up until this point,
<v Speaker 1>given them both the grilection. Okay, So this song I
<v Speaker 1>Shall Not Care comes off of the album One Nation Underground, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>and it's this Pearls before Swine is a quote from
<v Speaker 1>the Bible.
<v Speaker 2>It is It's hoss full of Matthew I believe.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's an interesting quote from the Bible that we
<v Speaker 1>don't necessarily need to get into it here. But the
<v Speaker 1>band took that name. The record company is ESP. This
<v Speaker 1>is ESP's most successful album, with somewhere between one hundred
<v Speaker 1>and two hundred and fifty thousand sales. This is probably
<v Speaker 1>not a band that you've heard.
<v Speaker 2>Of as not a band I've heard of, right, So
<v Speaker 2>still psychedelic, but this is more like psychedelic folk.
<v Speaker 1>And we're still definitely in the sixties right on this album.
<v Speaker 1>Other than I Shall Not Care, we have a couple
<v Speaker 1>of other songs. One of those songs is called Oh
<v Speaker 1>Dear Miss Morris. Okay, oh Dear Miss Morse. It is
<v Speaker 1>a banjo and an organ and Morris code, and the
<v Speaker 1>Morris code spells out f you see this is radio friendly.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm not going to say what the last letter is,
<v Speaker 1>but I bet you walk in guess so in North's code.
<v Speaker 2>In Mort's code, yes, so like in a banjo, Moore
<v Speaker 2>is like yeah, I don't.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, okay. So the album cover for this
<v Speaker 1>one is a scene from Bosh's Hell, and as I mentioned,
<v Speaker 1>it's called One Nation Underground. I don't really know that
<v Speaker 1>the air as biblical as their band name may sound. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>but this particular song was based upon a poem by
<v Speaker 1>Sarah Teesdale. Sarah Teesdale was a Pulitzer winning poet, and
<v Speaker 1>the poem that this song is based on is thought
<v Speaker 1>by many to be her suicide note. Okay, interesting, interesting,
<v Speaker 1>you got me nineteen thirty three, she overdosed on pills
<v Speaker 1>and because of the lines of this poem, everybody believed
<v Speaker 1>this was her suicide note. And that's what I Shall
<v Speaker 1>not care is based upon.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, you're blowing my mind right there. That's fantastic, and
<v Speaker 2>that is all I have on this band and this song,
<v Speaker 2>and I have nothing else to contribute. Well, that's okay,
<v Speaker 2>it's minor. It moves on, Okay, let's move along. So
<v Speaker 2>the next song in the episode is Jenny May by
<v Speaker 2>trader Horn.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, Jenny May, I have coming out to play trader
<v Speaker 1>Horn again, another psychedelic folk. We're still in the sixties.
<v Speaker 1>Four songs in and we're still in the sixties in
<v Speaker 1>this obviously eighties throwback series. What's going on?
<v Speaker 2>Right?
<v Speaker 1>All right? I don't know, but let me tell you
<v Speaker 1>about trader Horn. Okay, all right. Trader Horn is a
<v Speaker 1>British duo composed of Judy Diibel and Jackie McCollough. They
<v Speaker 1>only made one album, which is where, of course this
<v Speaker 1>song appears.
<v Speaker 2>That one album is called Morning Way, released nineteen seventy.
<v Speaker 1>Nice good job. So it's not quite sixties. We've moved
<v Speaker 1>on to the seventies, but were still a far afield
<v Speaker 1>from the eighties. And so trader Horn, you like this.
<v Speaker 1>This is a deep hole. This is a rabbit hole.
<v Speaker 1>I followed the white rabbit down this hole. Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So that trader Horn is named after DJ John Peel's nanny,
<v Speaker 1>whose name was Florence Horn. Okay, you remember who DJ
<v Speaker 1>John Peel is. No, we talked about him when we
<v Speaker 1>did our def Leopard episode. He was a DJ in
<v Speaker 1>the UK that was very popular and at the time
<v Speaker 1>was very into punk and new wave, but he thought
<v Speaker 1>def Leopard was great and so he played their EP
<v Speaker 1>over and over again and is probably a key to
<v Speaker 1>them becoming famous.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>So his nanny the Horn. And there was also an
<v Speaker 1>actual explorer named Trader Horn who used to go like
<v Speaker 1>he went down to Africa and tried to free slaves
<v Speaker 1>and a princess that was being held captive. It's very
<v Speaker 1>secondhand lions swashbuckling stuff. Mario, Yeah, right, so this song appears.
<v Speaker 1>This is such a great part. This song appears when
<v Speaker 1>Benny is making a call and Eleven fixes a broken fan.
<v Speaker 1>She does.
<v Speaker 2>She's very handy though.
<v Speaker 1>She is just This comes in at twenty eight minutes
<v Speaker 1>and fifty eight seconds. She is chowing down on some
<v Speaker 1>French fries and there is a squeaky fan and she's
<v Speaker 1>unhappy with it. It's annoying. She stares and suddenly the
<v Speaker 1>fan doesn't work anymore.
<v Speaker 2>It's our first inkling that she has some sort of
<v Speaker 2>supernatural powers again. This is episode one of Stranger Things,
<v Speaker 2>so we're learning all about this universe. There's something special
<v Speaker 2>about this girl.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And at this point when the fan does stop
<v Speaker 1>in the song Jenny May, it cranks up this haunting
<v Speaker 1>verse that Judy Daibel is singing, and it's very creepy
<v Speaker 1>and beautiful at the same time. Very impactful moment just
<v Speaker 1>from this pretty well unknown song from a very un
<v Speaker 1>known band. Right, So I looked a little bit. They
<v Speaker 1>were making their way. They toured with Humble Pie and
<v Speaker 1>Yes and Genesis. They set up a music festival to
<v Speaker 1>like launch the band. They had made their album, and
<v Speaker 1>then just before the music's festival was about to happen,
<v Speaker 1>quit the band. She quit Judy Dible quit the band Okay,
<v Speaker 1>and she went to go make music with her husband
<v Speaker 1>and they did that for a little while, and just
<v Speaker 1>three years later she retired from music. Didn't sing another
<v Speaker 1>beautiful haunting thing again for over three decades, and then
<v Speaker 1>she came back out in two thousand and four. What Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>So she had several releases since two thousand and four.
<v Speaker 1>She just passed away a couple of years ago in
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty, and some of those old Trader Horn songs
<v Speaker 1>have grown in popularity over the years. The singles are
<v Speaker 1>considered by some to be collector's items.
<v Speaker 2>At this point, fantastic, good job, thanks blow my mind.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we're four songs in and we still haven't
<v Speaker 1>hit the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>What's the deal?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But what we have now is young
<v Speaker 1>Nancy in her room getting ready to study. Steve the
<v Speaker 1>tool at this time is sneaking up the fire escape
<v Speaker 1>and we hear Nancy listening to the song that sounds
<v Speaker 1>very eighties. It's called Every Little Bit by Jackie James
<v Speaker 1>and Ian Kernow. The only problem is it was made
<v Speaker 1>in the twenty first century. What So this scene pops
<v Speaker 1>up at thirty eight minutes and nine seconds and we're
<v Speaker 1>well over the halfway mark and just now hearing an
<v Speaker 1>eighties sounding song. It sounds like Madonna almost, but it's not.
<v Speaker 1>It is this new song by Jackie James and Ian Kernow.
<v Speaker 1>You got any info on it?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? So here's what I got on this, Okay. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>So when you and I were talking about this, we
<v Speaker 2>agreed both to us it sounded like Madonna.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>When I was doing some research, I found a bunch
<v Speaker 2>of people who said Budge of UK and European people
<v Speaker 2>who said sounds like Kylie Minogue.
<v Speaker 1>Kylie Mino was the she. I mean, she had a
<v Speaker 1>very Madonna kind of sound.
<v Speaker 2>She did.
<v Speaker 1>She was engaged to Michael Hutchins. Michael Hutchins of Xcess.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about that. Be sure and check out are
<v Speaker 1>Xcess versus George Michael Faith Versus Kick episode on the podcast.
<v Speaker 1>But please go ahead, Kylie.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the deal with Kylie Minogue. Okay, she was a
<v Speaker 2>TV star beautiful.
<v Speaker 1>And I was a fire griver.
<v Speaker 2>My goodness, so she followed the sort of Madonna tremula, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>of let me be as sexy as possible, also make
<v Speaker 2>good music, and I'll say a ton of records, and
<v Speaker 2>that's what happened.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>So you and I both thought it sounded like Madonna.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of other people thought it sounded like Kylie Minogue. Well,
<v Speaker 2>it turns out that Ian Kernow worked with Kylie Minogue
<v Speaker 2>and so there's a definite connection there. So. Jackie James
<v Speaker 2>is a Scottish singer, songwriter and keyboard player. She wrote
<v Speaker 2>a song called Heartbeat for a group called Steps. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so apparently This was huge in the UK was a
<v Speaker 2>number one hit, million seller. By the way, the B
<v Speaker 2>side of that single was a remake of a song
<v Speaker 2>called Tragedy by The Begs. Go back check out our
<v Speaker 2>Beg Saturday Night Fever episode.
<v Speaker 1>Now, I was just sitting here thinking, how Kylie Minogue
<v Speaker 1>the A song that I remember is the Locomotion do.
<v Speaker 2>The Local Motion? Yeah, big hit in nineteen eighty eight
<v Speaker 2>for me, Kylie Minogue is Can't Get You out of
<v Speaker 2>My Head that video. Okay, So, but anyway, Ian Kernow
<v Speaker 2>is a partner with her in this powerhouse music. So
<v Speaker 2>Jackie James writes and sings. Ian Kernow he writes and sings.
<v Speaker 2>But he was a keyboardist in an eighties rock fand
<v Speaker 2>that you may have heard of called Talk Talk.
<v Speaker 1>I don't recognize that.
<v Speaker 2>They had one humongous hit called It's My Life. Oh yeah, yes,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty four, big hit It's My Life. Gwen Stefani
<v Speaker 2>actually redid it and it became a hit again. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>So I and her now keyboardist for Talk Talk.
<v Speaker 1>Nice.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, good back to Jackie James for a second. Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>So Jackie James has written songs for Kylie Minogue okay,
<v Speaker 2>super hot, Jennifer Lopez okay, super hot yea, and Celine
<v Speaker 2>Dion not.
<v Speaker 1>She has her days. No, just as long as she's
<v Speaker 1>not covering ac DC.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that was the worst. I loved how Ian Kernow
<v Speaker 2>he's on Twitter. He's active on Twitter. We maybe need
<v Speaker 2>to tag him in this one, he says. According to him,
<v Speaker 2>making music is the greatest job in the entire world,
<v Speaker 2>except maybe Formula one racers. Okay, there you go. That's
<v Speaker 2>all I got, every little bit a modern song made
<v Speaker 2>to sound like the eighties and they pull it off.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, love it all right, moving on to move on?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So now we're back with Jefferson Airplane once again, and
<v Speaker 1>this is probably their most well known song of all time.
<v Speaker 1>I would have told you had I not gone back
<v Speaker 1>and looked at it like I did, that this was
<v Speaker 1>like one of those epically long songs. It's less than
<v Speaker 1>three minutes long.
<v Speaker 2>Really.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Okay, So the song that we're talking about, second
<v Speaker 1>song by Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit one.
<v Speaker 5>It makes you Larger, makes you soon.
<v Speaker 2>And the ones mothers don't do anything glass. Okay.
<v Speaker 1>So we talked about Alice in Wonderland. We talked about
<v Speaker 1>Alvis Huxley and the Doors of Perception, talked about the
<v Speaker 1>idea of psychedelic and psychedelic rock and how Alvis Huxley
<v Speaker 1>took this mescaline with Humphrey Osmond and had this hallucinogenic experience.
<v Speaker 1>So part of the hallucinogenic movement of this time was
<v Speaker 1>this new drug that had been discovered called lysergic acid
<v Speaker 1>dithalamide better known as l s D. Chest Now, how
<v Speaker 1>does that relate to this song? First, I mentioned earlier
<v Speaker 1>that Gray Slick had written this song while she was
<v Speaker 1>still with the Great Society. Well, she had decided to
<v Speaker 1>try LSD and this song was written as she was
<v Speaker 1>coming down off of that high. Wow, and you sent
<v Speaker 1>me something as far as the first lyrics in this
<v Speaker 1>song go, that really drive that point home.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, So in the lyrics it says one pill makes
<v Speaker 2>you larger, one makes you small, and the one that
<v Speaker 2>mother gives you don't do anything at all, larger, small,
<v Speaker 2>don't LSD?
<v Speaker 1>I love it. I would have never gotten there and
<v Speaker 1>that is fantastic information. Love it.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>So, of course this song is completely based on Alice
<v Speaker 1>in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll that we talked play and
<v Speaker 1>some people even think, oh, did Lewis Carroll drop acid? No,
<v Speaker 1>it hadn't been invented for like fifty years later. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it was not going to be around. And he was
<v Speaker 1>a deacon at an Angelican church there. He wasn't doing drugs, right, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>he just wasn't. All right, He's taken photographs of little girls,
<v Speaker 1>but he was not doing drugs.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Once LSD was discovered, they started using it for medicinal purposes.
<v Speaker 1>They tested it with military, tested it with the FBI.
<v Speaker 1>They used it to try to cure certain things. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>it was treated as a drug, but the psychedelic effects
<v Speaker 1>soon found their home in the counterculture that was going
<v Speaker 1>on in the sixties. One of the guys that was
<v Speaker 1>pushing hard for his students at Harvard to try the
<v Speaker 1>drug was a guy named Timothy Leary. Yeah, I've heard
<v Speaker 1>this guy. Yeah, So he became enemy number one as
<v Speaker 1>far as Richard Nixon was concerned, which brings us to
<v Speaker 1>another interesting story that we'll tell in just a minute.
<v Speaker 1>But because Richard Nixon decided that this lysergic acid dithalamide
<v Speaker 1>was bad stuff. He enacted the Controlled Substances Act thirty
<v Speaker 1>something years ago, and all experimentation and scientific research on
<v Speaker 1>the drug stopped until recently and they started doing stuff
<v Speaker 1>with it again, using it in microdose forms, and it
<v Speaker 1>has actually been effective in curing things like ADHD and
<v Speaker 1>depression and other mental illnesses. So I don't know that
<v Speaker 1>that's what everybody was using it for back then, but
<v Speaker 1>it's just an interesting history on this particular drug.
<v Speaker 2>So you're telling me hyperactive kids, if they get a
<v Speaker 2>little bit of this and they start watching the walls
<v Speaker 2>melt and stuff happen, then they chill out. It makes
<v Speaker 2>still the heck out. It makes still the sense. So
<v Speaker 2>this song was written in December of nineteen sixty five
<v Speaker 2>by Grace Slick. It was released June twenty fourth, nineteen
<v Speaker 2>sixty seven. She wrote it on a piano she bought
<v Speaker 2>for about fifty bucks. Right it was missing keys in
<v Speaker 2>the upper register. She said it didn't matter because she
<v Speaker 2>could hear it in her head.
<v Speaker 1>It's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>Parents thought that this is like encouraging children to drugs.
<v Speaker 2>She wrote it as a slap at parents for reading
<v Speaker 2>us these stories like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan
<v Speaker 2>who sprinkles magic white dust on everything to make everything better.
<v Speaker 1>Wizard of Oz. They fall asleep in the Poppies, right.
<v Speaker 5>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Marty Balen calls this Grace Slicks masterpiece.
<v Speaker 1>It absolutely is. Let me just talk for a minute
<v Speaker 1>about the makeup of the song itself. We haven't talked
<v Speaker 1>to actual music stuff, so I'm gonna nerd music on
<v Speaker 1>you for just a minute, okay, and then we can
<v Speaker 1>get back to just how awesome this song is.
<v Speaker 2>How boykay.
<v Speaker 1>So there's a piece called Ballero by a composer named Ravel.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and I've seen that Bo Derek movie.
<v Speaker 6>That's okay, my kids are gonna watch it. I was
<v Speaker 6>a Cannon movie, by the way, I know.
<v Speaker 7>Right.
<v Speaker 1>So this song, the rhythm and the chord progression and
<v Speaker 1>the scale in the song is based upon Revel's Ballero,
<v Speaker 1>and it's got like the militaristic kind of drum beat
<v Speaker 1>behind it, and you've got a Phrygian scale, which is
<v Speaker 1>more Latin music. That was kind of the thing with
<v Speaker 1>psychedelic rock is they were taking things beyond just the
<v Speaker 1>blues influence of standard rock and bringing in stuff by
<v Speaker 1>Robbie Shankar, who is bringing in the sitar and Eastern influences.
<v Speaker 1>George Harrison was big for bringing that in as well.
<v Speaker 1>But they have a definitely different sound to them than
<v Speaker 1>just a standard rock song. And so you're listening to
<v Speaker 1>this Phrygian scale with this Latin sound, and you would
<v Speaker 1>expect this minor chord to come in, but what he
<v Speaker 1>does instead is he plays a major chord, which is
<v Speaker 1>not what you expect, and so it's unsettling, it's weird.
<v Speaker 1>It makes you feel unusual. It's almost as if you're
<v Speaker 1>in the upside down and Will the cheshire Cat is
<v Speaker 1>smiling at you, but there's evil behind his smile. All
<v Speaker 1>songs that were popular at this time would have a
<v Speaker 1>standard build and then you slow down, build again, have
<v Speaker 1>a break, and it gives people this little release. This song,
<v Speaker 1>there is no break it one build, build, build, just
<v Speaker 1>like Ravel's Ballero. It just keeps on building and you
<v Speaker 1>almost think it's going to break, but then the song
<v Speaker 1>ends and it is entrancing, amazing, mind blowing, and when
<v Speaker 1>they go and they perform it, it would stock. You
<v Speaker 1>can go watch the video on this and I told
<v Speaker 1>you after I listened to it, hair on my neck
<v Speaker 1>and arms were standing up and I was like holding
<v Speaker 1>back the tears. It is incredible what she does with
<v Speaker 1>her voice in this song. Incredible, Grace Slick. I think
<v Speaker 1>I failed to mention that this song comes in in
<v Speaker 1>this episode at thirty eight minutes and fifty seconds and
<v Speaker 1>the little part I like to call ice cream and guns.
<v Speaker 2>Ice cream and guns.
<v Speaker 1>We lose poor Benny.
<v Speaker 7>Ah.
<v Speaker 2>I like Benny.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Benny and eleven are having a conversation while she's
<v Speaker 1>eating ice cream. She's seeing that people can be friendly
<v Speaker 1>and a social worker shows up, except it's not a
<v Speaker 1>social worker, and Benny gets shot on the head. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>And it's this moment that suddenly we eleven. Here's the
<v Speaker 1>gun shots that you get the climax of the song
<v Speaker 1>and it cranks up the volume and it's remember what
<v Speaker 1>the dormouse said, feed your head, Feed your head. And
<v Speaker 1>she's escaped out of the back.
<v Speaker 2>This is her transport to Wonderland essentially.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and before she gets out the back door, she's
<v Speaker 1>confronted by a couple of guys with guns, who within
<v Speaker 1>a few seconds we see lying dead on the floor.
<v Speaker 2>More supernatural powers from eleven. Yeah, so I got some
<v Speaker 2>stuff for young Grace Slick Okay, I got some Gray
<v Speaker 2>Slick stories which I thought were hilarious. Yeay, all right.
<v Speaker 2>So in nineteen seventy one, after she had been married
<v Speaker 2>to Jerry Slick, who was a member of the Great
<v Speaker 2>Society Band, she's in Jefferson Airplane and she hooks up
<v Speaker 2>with Paul Canner okay, and he plays guitar in Jefferson Airplane.
<v Speaker 2>They have a daughter together, and when they're in the hospital,
<v Speaker 2>the nurse comes in and says, oh, little girl, congratulations.
<v Speaker 2>What's her name? And Grace sees a cris fix around
<v Speaker 2>her neck and she says God, and the nurse says,
<v Speaker 2>what was that again? She said God, but we use
<v Speaker 2>a little g because we want her to stay humble.
<v Speaker 2>So the nurse is like, oh my gosh, so she leaves.
<v Speaker 2>She calls the San Francisco Chronicle and says, Grace Slick
<v Speaker 2>just named her daughter God.
<v Speaker 8>This is before Hippa, apparently exactly patient privacy here. Turns
<v Speaker 8>out it was just a joke. Her daughter's name is
<v Speaker 8>actually China. So anyway, Grace Slick story number two, you're
<v Speaker 8>ready for this, Yeah, Grace Slick gets an invitation to
<v Speaker 8>go to a tee at the White House.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, because she went to school with Nixon's daughter.
<v Speaker 2>She's actually ten years older than her, so they didn't
<v Speaker 2>ever attend school together. But she was a Finch College alumni.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, and she got an invotation, but the invitation
<v Speaker 2>was addressed to Grace by her maiden name. So Grace
<v Speaker 2>and a friend hatched this plan that they're going to
<v Speaker 2>go to the White House and they're going to put
<v Speaker 2>LSD in Richard Nixon's t Yes, but when she gets there,
<v Speaker 2>they won't let her boyfriend in because it's women's only,
<v Speaker 2>and she finally just says nope. So Grace Slick was
<v Speaker 2>going to attempt to drug the President of the United States. Also,
<v Speaker 2>Grace Slick is credited with being the first person to
<v Speaker 2>say the old mf or on national television.
<v Speaker 1>Was on The Cabot Show. Yes, by the.
<v Speaker 2>Way, White Rabbit reaches number eight on the Hot one hundred. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there's a whole bunch of songs that I've never heard of,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm not going to go through this list for you,
<v Speaker 2>but number two was a song called I Was Made
<v Speaker 2>to Love Her by Stevie Wonder, and the number one song.
<v Speaker 2>On July twenty ninth, nineteen sixty seven, the week that
<v Speaker 2>White Rabbit reaches its pinnacle of number eight, is a
<v Speaker 2>song called Light My Fire by the Doors.
<v Speaker 1>It comes full circle. I'm really glad that you meant that,
<v Speaker 1>because the Doors took their name after the Alvis Huxley book.
<v Speaker 1>They also played at Marty Balen's club that I was
<v Speaker 1>talking about earlier, right. Another group that played at that
<v Speaker 1>club was the Steve Miller Blues Band, who had a
<v Speaker 1>member that went on to form his own solo band.
<v Speaker 1>His name was bos Skaggs.
<v Speaker 2>Oh Boss Gags. Flashback to our Saturday Night Fever episode.
<v Speaker 1>And the guys who played as his backing band when
<v Speaker 1>he toured would go on to form the band Toto,
<v Speaker 1>who give us our next song, the first actual Eighties
<v Speaker 1>song in the episode, last song on the list. It
<v Speaker 1>comes in at forty one minutes and ten seconds when
<v Speaker 1>Nancy and Steve are studying. Yeah, there's a little bit
<v Speaker 1>of a makeout scene there. And we talked about in
<v Speaker 1>our Toto for episode, and we weren't sure how Africa
<v Speaker 1>had suddenly become popular again, and a lot of our
<v Speaker 1>fans said it had to be this episode. It's right
<v Speaker 1>around that time that this song really took off again,
<v Speaker 1>over one billion downloads of this song. Now we have
<v Speaker 1>covered this song in detail and Toto in detail on
<v Speaker 1>our Toto for podcast episode. And so what we're going
<v Speaker 1>to do because we don't want to try to capture
<v Speaker 1>lightning in a bottle. We want to just throw it
<v Speaker 1>back and let you guys listen to that here.
<v Speaker 2>All right, are we finally there?
<v Speaker 1>We could do an entire podcast series on the song
<v Speaker 1>that's about to come up? Are you ready? Shirley Fans.
<v Speaker 2>One of the best songs of the nineteen eighties, one
<v Speaker 2>of the best songs of all time, songs called Africa.
<v Speaker 1>The beat is on mistake. It's incredible. So for this song,
<v Speaker 1>they had Sony come in and help program the keyboards
<v Speaker 1>that Steve Percaro is playing right, okay, so the marimbas
<v Speaker 1>that you hear are that Sony programmed keyboard marimba sound.
<v Speaker 1>Before they even get there, they say, we got to
<v Speaker 1>have this perfect beat. So they record an entire tape
<v Speaker 1>of just Jeff Pacaro and Lenny Castro play in the
<v Speaker 1>drums over and over, same drum beat, over and over
<v Speaker 1>and over and over and over and over right, and
<v Speaker 1>once they've done it for a full tape, whatever that
<v Speaker 1>might be. They take one measure. They listen to it
<v Speaker 1>all and they find the one measure that's perfect, and
<v Speaker 1>they put that on loop.
<v Speaker 2>That's the one right there, this one right here.
<v Speaker 1>This one right here. And now keep in mind this
<v Speaker 1>is before computer recording. So when we say on loop,
<v Speaker 1>that means that they took the tape. They took that
<v Speaker 1>one measure, cut the tape out, then put it on
<v Speaker 1>the tape recorder, ran it around a MIC's stand, around
<v Speaker 1>a chair, around another mike stand, and onto the next
<v Speaker 1>part of the recorder, so that the tape would just
<v Speaker 1>rotate in a circle. And that is the way that
<v Speaker 1>you have this perfectly synchronized, incredible drum sound for the
<v Speaker 1>entire song.
<v Speaker 2>Once they got that loop that they liked, David Page
<v Speaker 2>and Jeff Piccaro laid down the drums and the pianos
<v Speaker 2>one take, one take, but.
<v Speaker 1>They build off of it, you know. They this is
<v Speaker 1>a pyramid song, and it is starting with the drums,
<v Speaker 1>and then we're introducing the keyboards, and then we're introducing
<v Speaker 1>the vocals, and it just builds and builds and builds
<v Speaker 1>into this amazing collection of music.
<v Speaker 2>Hey boy, let's wait in the field.
<v Speaker 1>And let's talk about how the song was conceived. Right, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>So David Page wrote this song about Africa. Yes, he'd
<v Speaker 1>never been to Africa, never been there, went years like
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it was like twenty first century before
<v Speaker 1>he ultimately got to go to Africa, right, And they're like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>this is such a wonderful song. When did you come
<v Speaker 1>to Africa? And he's like, actually, this is my first time.
<v Speaker 1>How's everybody doing good to see it?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I mean he went to a Catholic school and he
<v Speaker 2>had learned about missionaries, yeah, and had a subscription and
<v Speaker 2>national geographic.
<v Speaker 1>You guys can remember in the eighties when the UNISEF
<v Speaker 1>commercials would come on and they would tell you, these
<v Speaker 1>children in Africa need your help. Right. Well, he talked
<v Speaker 1>about how when he was a kid, those missionaries would
<v Speaker 1>come and talk to it at his school and they
<v Speaker 1>would talk about how they blessed everything, which I don't
<v Speaker 1>really understand, may be a difference between a Catholic and
<v Speaker 1>Protestant thing. But they would bless food, they would bless experiences,
<v Speaker 1>and when it rained, they would bless the rain. And
<v Speaker 1>that's how you get that line, Oh, I bless the
<v Speaker 1>rain down in Africa. But man is a fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Line, doesn't matter. It sounds so wonderful, Okay. So in
<v Speaker 2>addition to this concept of blessing things, one of the
<v Speaker 2>other things that the missionaries talked about was the difficulties.
<v Speaker 2>And obviously difficulties of seeing people in these deprived conditions
<v Speaker 2>was a huge thing. But the other thing that was
<v Speaker 2>difficult for them was being alone and celibate out there.
<v Speaker 2>And so this song is about a guy who's waiting
<v Speaker 2>for a girl to arrive to meet her. Right, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>her plane is coming in, right and he's twelve thirty flight,
<v Speaker 2>twelve flights ready to meet her. And so's that's the
<v Speaker 2>underlying story of the song. And he meets a man
<v Speaker 2>to get some more music, and then the man is like,
<v Speaker 2>it's waiting there for you. And then we jump into
<v Speaker 2>this course and just before the chorus comes on, I
<v Speaker 2>gotta say this. We love this course and it seems simple,
<v Speaker 2>but listen to it.
<v Speaker 1>This way, all right. The first life I bless the
<v Speaker 1>grains down in Africa is it's a very simple melody.
<v Speaker 1>Right when that second line comes in, you add a
<v Speaker 1>second harmony behind it, different notes, and you can hear it.
<v Speaker 1>You can hear the distinct notes that the two people
<v Speaker 1>are saying the same words different notes. And then the
<v Speaker 1>third we add yet a third layer of different notes
<v Speaker 1>which are extremely complicated. You go from simple to complicated
<v Speaker 1>over these three lines. And the magic when you have
<v Speaker 1>that two part harmony behind the very simple underlying chorus
<v Speaker 1>and melody is is magical. I mean magical.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, listen, David Page said God gave this to him.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>We've talked about how there are some songs that are
<v Speaker 2>divinely inspired.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I think Jonathan Kane on the Journey Frontiers albums head Faithfully,
<v Speaker 2>he felt like that God gave that directly to him. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>David Page is the same way God inspired. He says,
<v Speaker 2>I'm talented, but I'm not that talented. God gave this
<v Speaker 2>to me. Now, then keep in mind, particularly after hearing
<v Speaker 2>the song waiting for Your Love, Steve Lucather said, this
<v Speaker 2>is the worst song on the album. Yeah, if this
<v Speaker 2>is a hit, I'll run naked down Hollywood Boulevard.
<v Speaker 1>So what they would say to each other whenever they
<v Speaker 1>didn't want a song on the album is they would say,
<v Speaker 1>maybe you should save this for your solo album. That
<v Speaker 1>is exactly what they said to David Page about this song.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you should save this for you even solo album. David, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I cannot believe it. It's shocking, talk about not knowing
<v Speaker 1>your own stuff. Now.
<v Speaker 2>Steve Piccaro didn't like this song either. I saw an
<v Speaker 2>interview with him. He said, David Page was really into it,
<v Speaker 2>and their agreement was, when you have a song, we're
<v Speaker 2>going hundred percent for you. Because when I bring a song,
<v Speaker 2>I want everybody in on mine. And so they said
<v Speaker 2>that doesn't mean we didn't kill ourselves in this song,
<v Speaker 2>but nobody believed in it.
<v Speaker 1>Right. At some point we mentioned that they've delayed touring
<v Speaker 1>and they went and worked on thriller for this before
<v Speaker 1>they started touring in this one, right, at some point
<v Speaker 1>when they come back, this is this is kind of
<v Speaker 1>like the run DMC story that we talked about with
<v Speaker 1>Walk this Way. They come back and David Page gets
<v Speaker 1>a call and they're like, man, they are playing the
<v Speaker 1>heck out of your song at all of these dance clubs,
<v Speaker 1>and he's thinking Rosanna, He's thinking, make believe you know
<v Speaker 1>one of those? Right, It's like what song? And then
<v Speaker 1>they're like Africa And he said really. Yeah, he couldn't
<v Speaker 1>believe it. And then Africa gets released as a single
<v Speaker 1>and it is their only number one.
<v Speaker 2>So it's the third single. It's released October of nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty two. It's their first and only song to hit
<v Speaker 2>number one on the Hot one hundred. Let's talk about
<v Speaker 2>the video for a second, Okay, So the video is
<v Speaker 2>sort of Raiders of the Lost arkish. He's looking through
<v Speaker 2>some books sure in the library. He's wearing that pith hat.
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, Raiders the Lost Ark was impactful at
<v Speaker 2>this time because Hungry, like the wolf of that video
<v Speaker 2>is definitely impacted by ra Yeah. Yeah, so, and then
<v Speaker 2>they're all kind of miniatureized. They're on a stack of books.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they said that the stage is really weird. It was. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they painted it all to look like they're standing on
<v Speaker 1>top of these books and it looks like he's looking
<v Speaker 1>for a map or something in the library.
<v Speaker 2>He's got a torn paper and he's looking through the
<v Speaker 2>book and it's like the biggest dog ear, not very mysterious.
<v Speaker 1>And then you get you've got this African American lady
<v Speaker 1>as the librarian, and then suddenly there's a spear being thrown.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say that this video would not pass must
<v Speaker 1>at in the day's world, right, I'm just I don't
<v Speaker 1>think it would. So you've got David Page singing and
<v Speaker 1>then also he's singing the first part, and then of
<v Speaker 1>course Bobby Kimball comes in with the second part. And
<v Speaker 1>can we talk just a second about his freestyling at
<v Speaker 1>the end of the song. Yeah, holy cow, it's amazing.
<v Speaker 1>I talked about that build that they have on the chorus,
<v Speaker 1>and then when he throws in that freestyle, let's listen
<v Speaker 1>to it.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>I'm stealing your info here, okay, because we talk, we talk,
<v Speaker 1>and this is so I'm gonna steal you. Said that
<v Speaker 1>Bobby Kimball has an amazing voice, but just not all
<v Speaker 1>the time, right, And so if you watch the live show,
<v Speaker 1>it's a little cringy. Yeah, you're like, you're missing you're
<v Speaker 1>missing here. Yeah, but when he would hit it was
<v Speaker 1>so good. So these being studio musicians, they knew how
<v Speaker 1>to go up, do it again, do it again, do
<v Speaker 1>it again. Ah, there we go.
<v Speaker 2>That's the one word.
<v Speaker 1>That's the bat word. Yep, that's the one we need.
<v Speaker 1>And man, they wove it together in an amazing tapestry
<v Speaker 1>and to bring it full circle. I love this. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>Joe Pacar, the guy who said to David Page, need
<v Speaker 1>to meet my son Jeff. Yes, he's playing the marimbas
<v Speaker 1>in the chorus.
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>It is fantastic. So this song was a huge hit
<v Speaker 1>embyer one surprised to everybody in the band. Yep, lasts
<v Speaker 1>for a long time, and then, as all any songs do,
<v Speaker 1>it falls out of favor. Now I can remember with
<v Speaker 1>absolute clarity, twenty eighteen. That's four years ago. I walk
<v Speaker 1>in to the kitchens almost nineteen now. So she's she
<v Speaker 1>would have been fourteen or fifteen at the time, okay,
<v Speaker 1>and she is rocking out to Africa.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>I've given her a lot of good songs, right, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I molded her musical education. As I mentioned, she's a
<v Speaker 1>big Metallica fan thanks to me, bon Jovi fan, thanks
<v Speaker 1>to me. But I'd never played Africa for her. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not this huge Toto guy. So when I walk in
<v Speaker 1>the kitchen and she's jamming out to Africa, I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>where have you heard this song? And she's like, it's
<v Speaker 1>just around. It's awesome, Dad. I'm like, yeah, it is awesome,
<v Speaker 1>but how do you know it? And then I find
<v Speaker 1>out somehow this song is becoming incredibly popular again.
<v Speaker 2>It's viral. Yeah, And have I looked.
<v Speaker 1>At my old text from like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
<v Speaker 1>and I could talking to my brother about this. I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>how is it this song is becoming big again? It
<v Speaker 1>doesn't make any sense to me. And people try to say, well,
<v Speaker 1>it was the Weezer thing, but that was after that
<v Speaker 1>was after.
<v Speaker 2>That, that was in response to its popularity exactly.
<v Speaker 1>And I, as deep as I have dug, I cannot
<v Speaker 1>figure it out. Something happened. I know it is Japan,
<v Speaker 1>I know is China. I don't know what happened. But
<v Speaker 1>somehow this song hit that tipping point again in the
<v Speaker 1>last five years and suddenly it was everywhere again. I
<v Speaker 1>guess I don't get it. And so there was a
<v Speaker 1>fourteen year old girl who developed the Twitter handle at
<v Speaker 1>Weezer Africa.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I love this story.
<v Speaker 1>And her soul mission was to get the band Weezer
<v Speaker 1>to cover the song Africa right, And so she gets
<v Speaker 1>so much exposure she becomes viral with this thing that
<v Speaker 1>Weezer to troll her records A version of Rosanna.
<v Speaker 2>This is hilarious.
<v Speaker 1>Me too.
<v Speaker 7>They're like, oh, we got the wrong songs so far,
<v Speaker 7>and Rosanna ends up doing very well for them, and
<v Speaker 7>so finally they're like, well, crap, maybe we should record
<v Speaker 7>And sure enough it becomes their biggest.
<v Speaker 1>Hit in like ten years or something like that. They
<v Speaker 1>hadn't had a hit since the early two thousands, and
<v Speaker 1>suddenly their version of Africa is hitting the charts.
<v Speaker 2>You know who plays the lead singer in the video.
<v Speaker 1>Our best friend, mister weird Al. Yank such a fantastic video.
<v Speaker 1>So they take the Weezer concept that blue backscreen. Was
<v Speaker 1>it the Sweater song? I think it was the Sweater song?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 1>And so they do. They recreate that exact play of
<v Speaker 1>the video, except that it's weird Al doing the lead
<v Speaker 1>singing in the song. It's great.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, There is some sort of sound installation device in
<v Speaker 2>the Nabib Nabib I, like David Page, have never been
<v Speaker 2>to Africa. So the Nabib desert. Yes, that plays Africa
<v Speaker 2>on loop infinitum, just again and again and again. It
<v Speaker 2>is solar powered out dre in the middle of the desert.
<v Speaker 2>There's Lay in Africa by Toto.
<v Speaker 1>So all of humanity is going to cease to exist,
<v Speaker 1>and the recording of Africa will live forever. Yes, yes, great.
<v Speaker 1>The Aliens when they come will be like, well, I
<v Speaker 1>do the civilization, but they knew what was good music.
<v Speaker 2>Once again, Steve Lucather thought it was the worst song
<v Speaker 2>on the album, but he did not dance down Hollywood
<v Speaker 2>Bolivar naked, Steve Lucather, the ball is in your court.
<v Speaker 2>We expect you naked down Hollywood Boulevard. It's been a
<v Speaker 2>huge hit twice in like two different centuries. It's incredible.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible. One of the best songs of the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>Spike in the Football, It's one of the best.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us on
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<v Speaker 1>Let's do it all right Before we go, though, I
<v Speaker 1>got one more thing. I mentioned a club that Marty
<v Speaker 1>Bayalin founded in order to launch Jefferson Airplane. Yes, I
<v Speaker 1>mentioned that other bands like The Doors, the Grateful Dead,
<v Speaker 1>the Steve Miller blues band Boz Skaggs all played there.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't mention the name of the club. Okay, it
<v Speaker 1>was called The Matrix.
<v Speaker 2>Get out of here. That is mind blowing right there.
<v Speaker 1>So we know that The Matrix starts off with the
<v Speaker 1>White Rabbit. We know that it is largely influenced by
<v Speaker 1>Alice in Wonderland. We after watching episode one, season one
<v Speaker 1>of Stranger Things, can also see the tie ins here.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, will Byers is Alice. The Upside Down is Wonderland.
<v Speaker 1>It's just Alice in Wonderland. The horror movie if you will.
<v Speaker 1>So it was the perfect I don't know if I
<v Speaker 1>don't know if the writers were the ones that came
<v Speaker 1>up with this. I don't know if the Duffer brothers
<v Speaker 1>were the ones that came up with this, or if
<v Speaker 1>Nora Felder, the music supervisor, was the one that said
<v Speaker 1>we should have the White Rabbit as kind of our
<v Speaker 1>climactical song. But whoever, it was pure genius. And they
<v Speaker 1>also use that song on the recent fourth movie in
<v Speaker 1>the Matrix series as the key because, as we know,
<v Speaker 1>one pill will take you one place and one pill
<v Speaker 1>will take you another place. There you go. That's awesome. Okay, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>We're going to take a quick break and do our
<v Speaker 1>surely showcase. Today we have an amazing special guest to
<v Speaker 1>give us his opinion on Core versus Dirt. We have
<v Speaker 1>mister Ira Fleischer, who is the drummer for a band
<v Speaker 1>called Lounge Fly. That name may sound familiar to you
<v Speaker 1>because it's an STP song.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, lounge Fly is the premiere tribute band for Stone
<v Speaker 2>Tumble Pilots, and our new buddy Ira reached out to
<v Speaker 2>us and wants to give his opinion on Core versus Dirt.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see what he has to say.
<v Speaker 9>Hey, everybody, this is Ira and I'm the drummer in
<v Speaker 9>Lounge Fly, the premiere tribute to Stone Tumble Pilots. So
<v Speaker 9>it's September twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two, and I'm working
<v Speaker 9>at a CD store and I'm the drummer in a
<v Speaker 9>heavy hair mital type of band.
<v Speaker 1>Both Dirt and Core drop.
<v Speaker 9>On the same day, and I'm at work and I'm
<v Speaker 9>there selling these albums to all kinds of people that
<v Speaker 9>want them right away, and very quickly, Dirt resonates with
<v Speaker 9>me because it's heavy and the vocals were insane, and
<v Speaker 9>it was very much what I was used to. It
<v Speaker 9>was a heavy metal album, really, and while Core was cool,
<v Speaker 9>I really knew it more from the singles from MTV
<v Speaker 9>and they didn't really hit me as hard. It wasn't
<v Speaker 9>until I listened to Coorr and those heavy, deep tracks
<v Speaker 9>like Piece of Pie and Where the River Goes hit
<v Speaker 9>me hard, and that's what grew on me. I think
<v Speaker 9>the timelessness of the songs, the tightness of the songs
<v Speaker 9>from Core are what really stuck with me the longest,
<v Speaker 9>which is why it's nudged over Dirt for me all
<v Speaker 9>these years later, while both albums are in my heavy
<v Speaker 9>rotation to this day. I just really love where Core
<v Speaker 9>has gone and how it's matured for me. Wyland's vocals
<v Speaker 9>on that record are lush and they're complex, and he
<v Speaker 9>does so many different things with his voice. Of course,
<v Speaker 9>Lane's got one of the best voices of all time,
<v Speaker 9>one of my favorites in rock and roll history. I've
<v Speaker 9>really just learned to appreciate how many different things Wiland
<v Speaker 9>has done with his voice on all the different records.
<v Speaker 9>So I have to give a little bit of a
<v Speaker 9>nod to Core, but that's just the way it aged
<v Speaker 9>for me, and it was just amazing to be there
<v Speaker 9>when both albums were dropped on the same exact day.
<v Speaker 9>So thanks for listening.
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate it.
<v Speaker 9>Again. This is Ira and I'm the drummer in Lounge Fly,
<v Speaker 9>the premiere tribute to Stone Tumble Pilots. Please check us
<v Speaker 9>out on Facebook and we're at Lounge Fly Tribute. We
<v Speaker 9>play with a Foo Fighters band and we put shows
<v Speaker 9>on all over the place called Nineties Rockfest. We'd love
<v Speaker 9>you to come out and see us, and I'll see
<v Speaker 9>y'll soon. Take care.
<v Speaker 1>That was awesome. I mean, I can you imagine to
<v Speaker 1>be there in the store, working in the store when
<v Speaker 1>both of these albums drop, and I love that He's
<v Speaker 1>like it was dirt at first, but then Core eventually
<v Speaker 1>won me over, which is probably why he's, you know,
<v Speaker 1>being the drummer in the STP Premiere tribute band right now.
<v Speaker 1>So you know, there you go.
<v Speaker 2>I remark us down if you guys come to town,
<v Speaker 2>we are coming to see you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let us know when you get to Oklahoma City.
<v Speaker 1>For our fans out there, Shirley fans, be sure and
<v Speaker 1>go check these guys out on their Facebook page. You
<v Speaker 1>can find out wherever it is that they're playing, and
<v Speaker 1>go and get your nineties fill.
<v Speaker 2>They got some cool stuff on YouTube as well.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks Iver, begin to spall. Okay, guys, thank you so
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<v Speaker 2>Guys, we will see you back here next week when
<v Speaker 2>we cover Stranger Things season one, episode two, and it
<v Speaker 2>is cram packed with songs major one hit wonder from
<v Speaker 2>the eighties, maybe one of the biggest of the eighties.
<v Speaker 1>Can't wait.
<v Speaker 2>See you back here next week.