WEBVTT 00:00:11.329 --> 00:00:14.849 What is going on? Welcome to my weekly mixtape, 00:00:14.890 --> 00:00:17.850 the show that takes the classic mixtape approach 00:00:17.850 --> 00:00:21.089 to building a modern playlist. I'm your host, 00:00:21.190 --> 00:00:24.789 Brian Colburn, the mixtape doctor, here with 00:00:24.789 --> 00:00:27.809 a musical prescription to cure whatever ails 00:00:27.809 --> 00:00:30.989 you. Believe it or not, one of my buddies sent 00:00:30.989 --> 00:00:32.710 that in to me and I just had to throw it into 00:00:32.710 --> 00:00:34.950 the intro. Sorry about that. Thank you, Bob, 00:00:35.030 --> 00:00:37.890 for that one. I love it. Hope you guys are doing 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:41.740 well. I am back. With another wheel spin episode 00:00:41.740 --> 00:00:45.500 where I am going to try to build a playlist based 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:49.179 entirely off of one of your suggestions. 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So without wasting 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.719 any further time, let's press the wheel and see 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:45.980 what today's topic is going to be. There it is. 00:01:46.219 --> 00:01:49.739 Thank you, Jay Sweet. I knew I could rely on 00:01:49.739 --> 00:01:52.799 you to get some 80s into this fold, and you did 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.359 that. This actually goes all the way back to 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:00.379 the discussion that you and I had. prior to going 00:02:00.379 --> 00:02:04.040 to see Poison and Cheap Trick, the concert that 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.540 actually launched the Toon Styles concept that 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:10.400 you and I did, and you have not disappointed 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:14.719 with this topic, hair bands that broke the mold 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:21.360 and still sound relevant today. Whew. Well. I've 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.199 got a lot to dissect just in the name of this 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.000 playlist alone before we get to the songs. First 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.439 off, this playlist will be coming from a place 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:38.520 of love. I love 80s hair bands. I want to state 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.939 that with exclamation points and be very clear 00:02:41.939 --> 00:02:46.000 about this. There is no irony in this episode. 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:50.400 80s hair bands was the first time that I branched 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.199 away from my parents and started discovering 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:58.939 music on my own via the radio, via 1480 Z Rock. 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.219 They were an AM radio station that played a lot 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:06.180 of hard rock and heavy metal via MTV. This was 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:09.680 where I started becoming a fan of music. through 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.080 my own choices, not the music that I was listening 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.120 to with my parents. So this is actually a very 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.020 important topic for me. Now, with that being 00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:22.500 said, there's a lot of stigmas around hair bands. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.919 There are a lot of misconceptions with hair bands. 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.659 So let's define the way I'm going to talk about 00:03:29.659 --> 00:03:33.259 hair bands tonight. First off, there are bands 00:03:33.259 --> 00:03:37.379 that are undeniably part of the hair band scene. 00:03:39.389 --> 00:03:44.009 Slaughter, Warrant, Motley Crue, Faster Pussycat, 00:03:44.250 --> 00:03:47.650 Pretty Boy Floyd, Trickster, groups like that. 00:03:47.750 --> 00:03:51.509 Those are undeniable hair bands that anybody 00:03:51.509 --> 00:03:55.449 that listens to Hair Nation on Sirius XM, you 00:03:55.449 --> 00:03:59.750 hear a ton of those bands. Then there's the hair 00:03:59.750 --> 00:04:03.349 band adjacent groups. These are groups that... 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.400 I'd say weave in and out of the hairband sound 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.979 depending on what album you're talking about 00:04:09.979 --> 00:04:14.639 or even diving deeper into a specific song. These 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.279 would be groups like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.220 Skid Row. Then there's the Guilty by MTV Association. 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:27.720 Yes, there are a ton of bands because MTV was 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.680 playing rock music at the time and they would 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.790 just mix all these music videos together. And 00:04:33.790 --> 00:04:36.290 bands got lumped into the hair band slash hair 00:04:36.290 --> 00:04:38.910 metal sound, whether they were a part of it or 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:41.410 not. Right off the top of my head, I can think 00:04:41.410 --> 00:04:45.589 of Aerosmith, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Heart. 00:04:45.769 --> 00:04:49.089 These are 70s bands. Some might refer to them 00:04:49.089 --> 00:04:52.810 as classic rock bands. But in the 80s, they became 00:04:52.810 --> 00:04:56.089 part of that quote unquote hair band conversation. 00:04:56.569 --> 00:04:59.649 Then you have groups like Guns N' Roses and Tesla. 00:05:00.189 --> 00:05:03.529 who to me were more straightforward hard rock. 00:05:03.769 --> 00:05:07.250 And even back on season one, when Frank Hannon 00:05:07.250 --> 00:05:11.649 of Tesla joined the show, he stated himself that 00:05:11.649 --> 00:05:14.050 he never considered Tesla a hair metal band, 00:05:14.209 --> 00:05:17.389 even though they consistently got lumped into 00:05:17.389 --> 00:05:20.129 that category. So if you want to hear more about 00:05:20.129 --> 00:05:23.529 Tesla, definitely check out the Tesla episode 00:05:23.529 --> 00:05:26.750 from season one, one of my favorite hard rock 00:05:26.750 --> 00:05:29.759 bands. But look. They do get lumped into that 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.300 discussion. I guess the big question is, will 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:37.220 they get lumped into my 10 hairband songs that 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:39.819 broke the mold playlist tonight? You're going 00:05:39.819 --> 00:05:43.079 to find out. But first, let me just take a minute 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.040 to remind you, all of the songs I'll be discussing 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.579 tonight can be found over on the episode page 00:05:49.579 --> 00:05:55.279 at myweeklymixtape .com. So as I lead into this 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.379 first pick, I think it's important to talk about 00:05:57.379 --> 00:06:00.459 timing here. Hair bands, people automatically 00:06:00.459 --> 00:06:05.579 lump into the 80s, the late 80s. I'd say 1985 00:06:05.579 --> 00:06:12.259 through 1989. However, there was still all of 00:06:12.259 --> 00:06:17.000 1990 and all of 1991 where hair bands were still 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:22.139 a big deal until that 44 -day stretch. And I 00:06:22.139 --> 00:06:23.579 don't know if you know what I'm talking about, 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.139 but there's a meme that goes out all over social 00:06:26.139 --> 00:06:29.839 media. And it is a stack of cassettes that were 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.800 all released within 44 days of each other, a 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.420 little over a month and a half. That being Metallica's 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:41.540 Black Album, Pearl Jam's 10, Guns N' Roses' Use 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:44.779 Your Illusion 1 and 2, Red Hot Chili Peppers' 00:06:44.939 --> 00:06:48.459 Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden's Bad Motor 00:06:48.459 --> 00:06:52.170 Finger, and Nirvana's Nevermind. From that point 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:57.529 on, the conversation changed. But prior to those 00:06:57.529 --> 00:07:01.730 albums, Skid Row released their follow -up to 00:07:01.730 --> 00:07:05.709 their self -titled album. And it kicked off with 00:07:05.709 --> 00:07:10.410 one of my favorite songs from that era. Now, 00:07:10.410 --> 00:07:13.350 like I said earlier, Skid Row, hairband adjacent. 00:07:13.930 --> 00:07:17.310 Because the Slave to the Grind album in 1991 00:07:17.310 --> 00:07:20.360 is... far from anything that would be considered 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.860 a hair band. However, songs like I Remember You 00:07:24.860 --> 00:07:27.980 get them into that hair band adjacent category, 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:31.620 the big power ballad. It's found on every hair 00:07:31.620 --> 00:07:34.220 band power ballad compilation that's probably 00:07:34.220 --> 00:07:37.319 ever been released. But even taking that into 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.720 consideration, Slave to the Grind kind of thumbs 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:43.360 their nose at anything from the self -titled 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.779 album in a way because the heaviest song on Skid 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:50.800 Row's self -titled could be arguably Piece of 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.199 Me. And I think even that isn't heavy enough 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:59.079 for the sound on Slave to the Grind. Slave to 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.100 the Grind was an album that kind of bridged the 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:06.339 gap between the 80s hairband sound and 90s straight 00:08:06.339 --> 00:08:10.300 -up hard rock and some metal. And that's evident 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:13.000 in the fact that Skid Row brought out Pantera 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.879 on the Slave to the Grind tour in 1992. Talk 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.459 about distancing yourself from that hairband 00:08:19.459 --> 00:08:22.839 discussion. Pantera did it, even though back 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.980 in the early 80s on power metal, Pantera was 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:29.040 at one point also a hairband. But don't expect 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:31.300 to hear them playing any of those songs on their 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:34.919 current reunion tour. But I digress. Back to 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.779 Skid Row and that Slave to the Grind album, the 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:40.240 song that I chose to kick things off tonight 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.259 was the, don't be too shocked by this one, album 00:08:44.259 --> 00:08:49.399 opening track. Monkey business. That insane opening 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:53.240 guitar that is darker and grittier than anything 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.299 that you had heard from Skid Row prior. Sebastian 00:08:57.299 --> 00:09:01.480 Bach's lower register opening verse leading into 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.740 a scream that could probably shatter all the 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:07.919 glass within 50 feet of you. I suggest you don't 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.100 try that at home. It is one of those visceral 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:13.720 screams that will easily go down in history. 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:17.039 as one of my favorite hard rock moments of all 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.000 time. It completely solidified Sebastian Bach 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.720 in the hard rock pantheon of vocalists, as far 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.519 as I'm concerned. I mean, that scream is on such 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:32.399 another level, I almost forgive all of his appearances 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.600 on The Gilmore Girls. No, I'm kidding. My wife 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.460 loves that show, and she has it on all the time, 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.659 and I always walk in and... See him in the episodes 00:09:41.659 --> 00:09:44.019 and then I'll go throw some Skid Row on. And 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:46.139 I'm like, you realize that's the same guy right 00:09:46.139 --> 00:09:49.500 there. But anyway, I digress. Monkey Business 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:54.440 is a song that dropped all the sex and all the 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.840 excess that pretty much became synonymous with 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.230 the scene in and of itself. And I think that 00:10:01.230 --> 00:10:03.029 might be a theme with the songs I'm going to 00:10:03.029 --> 00:10:04.809 pick tonight, because when people think of hair 00:10:04.809 --> 00:10:08.470 bands, they automatically think sex, drugs and 00:10:08.470 --> 00:10:10.250 rock and roll. And the rock and roll is definitely 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:13.629 going to be there. And I don't think I'm shattering 00:10:13.629 --> 00:10:16.330 any proverbial glass here when I say the drugs 00:10:16.330 --> 00:10:19.590 were probably there and then some. And probably 00:10:19.590 --> 00:10:21.889 same goes for the sex. But that was backstage 00:10:21.889 --> 00:10:25.330 after the show. I feel like the songs that I'm 00:10:25.330 --> 00:10:27.389 going to be looking towards tonight are ones 00:10:27.389 --> 00:10:31.409 where. these bands started backing away from 00:10:31.409 --> 00:10:34.110 the sex -fueled lyrics that kind of fueled the 00:10:34.110 --> 00:10:37.629 earlier parts of their career. And I think the 00:10:37.629 --> 00:10:40.470 next song that I'm going to choose after Skid 00:10:40.470 --> 00:10:43.090 Row's Monkey Business is kind of a prime example 00:10:43.090 --> 00:10:46.350 of that, but also a double -edged sword because 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:51.350 the album that it comes from is completely, 100%, 00:10:51.350 --> 00:10:55.450 all in on the sex. And that's Warrant's Cherry 00:10:55.450 --> 00:10:58.649 Pie. But that's not the song I'm choosing tonight 00:10:58.649 --> 00:11:02.029 because Cherry Pie wasn't even originally supposed 00:11:02.029 --> 00:11:07.210 to be on the album. The label demanded the band 00:11:07.210 --> 00:11:11.629 record a radio -friendly song after the album 00:11:11.629 --> 00:11:15.409 was turned in. Jenny Lane wrote Cherry Pie in 00:11:15.409 --> 00:11:19.429 15 minutes and it was recorded very quickly. 00:11:19.710 --> 00:11:22.470 CeCe DeVille came in and played guitar on it 00:11:22.470 --> 00:11:25.899 and they had their sex anthem that unfortunately 00:11:25.899 --> 00:11:31.220 became what Warrant was known for. And I think 00:11:31.220 --> 00:11:34.899 that's unfair because the song that follows up 00:11:34.899 --> 00:11:41.240 Cherry Pie on the Cherry Pie album is truly who 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.740 Janie Lane was as a songwriter. And that is Uncle 00:11:44.740 --> 00:11:49.539 Tom's Cabin. This is a story -driven song. This 00:11:49.539 --> 00:11:53.279 is a serious song. This is a song that paints 00:11:53.279 --> 00:12:00.159 a picture and is dark, haunting, and a complete 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:05.340 180 when it's back to back with Cherry Pie. And 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:08.799 the Cherry Pie album as a whole has its moments 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.799 that would harken back to the dirty, rotten, 00:12:11.820 --> 00:12:15.120 filthy, stinking rich sound. But it was a more 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.809 mature Warrant album. And I truly believe in 00:12:18.809 --> 00:12:22.190 my heart of hearts that had cherry pie not been 00:12:22.190 --> 00:12:26.090 included, Warren's trajectory would have been 00:12:26.090 --> 00:12:28.610 different. They would not have been known as 00:12:28.610 --> 00:12:31.429 the cherry pie band. Now, don't get me wrong. 00:12:31.509 --> 00:12:34.269 I'm sure they love the residuals from it. There 00:12:34.269 --> 00:12:37.230 probably has not been a warrant concert that 00:12:37.230 --> 00:12:40.370 has not featured cherry pie. People do love that 00:12:40.370 --> 00:12:44.950 song. But as far as I'm concerned, it's the lighter 00:12:44.950 --> 00:12:48.019 side of Warren. It's the tongue in cheek side 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:51.379 of warrant. It's not what warrant should only 00:12:51.379 --> 00:12:55.419 be known for. And uncle Tom's cabin is my argument 00:12:55.419 --> 00:12:59.100 for that. Now, regardless of uncle Tom's cabin 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:01.679 or not, warrant is always going to be lumped 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.190 in with the hair band sound. That's just a fact 00:13:05.190 --> 00:13:08.049 they'll never escape. And the next song I'm going 00:13:08.049 --> 00:13:10.070 to pick is another band that is always going 00:13:10.070 --> 00:13:12.789 to be lumped into the hair band sound no matter 00:13:12.789 --> 00:13:15.669 what they do. And I think I have another song 00:13:15.669 --> 00:13:18.750 from this band that makes a good argument that 00:13:18.750 --> 00:13:22.909 they were more than Girls, Girls, Girls and their 00:13:22.909 --> 00:13:25.789 cover of Smokin' in the Boys Room. And yes, I'm 00:13:25.789 --> 00:13:29.529 talking about Motley Crue. Dr. Feelgood is one 00:13:29.529 --> 00:13:32.049 of those albums that... you could tell things 00:13:32.049 --> 00:13:34.409 were changing from the Girls, Girls, Girls era. 00:13:34.909 --> 00:13:37.649 They still had some of that party hairband sound. 00:13:37.809 --> 00:13:40.330 They had the power ballads. But there were certain 00:13:40.330 --> 00:13:42.990 raw, darker moments that were starting to appear, 00:13:43.090 --> 00:13:44.870 hell, right from the get -go in the title track 00:13:44.870 --> 00:13:50.269 of the album. However, back to 1991 again, on 00:13:50.269 --> 00:13:54.149 the Decade of Decadence compilation, they released 00:13:54.149 --> 00:13:58.169 the original single Primal Scream. This is darker 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:01.909 than anything on Dr. Feelgood. It's more aggressive. 00:14:02.450 --> 00:14:06.169 It's more raw. Think about the groove that's 00:14:06.169 --> 00:14:09.149 being laid down in Primal Scream. And then listen 00:14:09.149 --> 00:14:11.429 back to Smokin' in the Boys' Room, Girls, Girls, 00:14:11.529 --> 00:14:17.149 Girls. This is heavy. This is more of the glam 00:14:17.149 --> 00:14:20.049 that you would have gotten on Shout at the Devil 00:14:20.049 --> 00:14:23.529 mixed in with where the music scene was headed 00:14:23.529 --> 00:14:28.330 in the early 1990s. Nicki's bass is driving. 00:14:29.179 --> 00:14:32.759 Then you've got Mick Mars with it. It's a masterclass 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.980 what Mick Mars is doing on this tune. From the 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:40.419 slide guitars to the endless riffage that's happening 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:43.440 on this track. There are so many moments that 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.120 I think you could conceivably pull a riff out 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.919 of Primal Scream and use it as a completely separate 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:53.000 song. And it feels like somehow they were able 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.480 to just put them all together and make it work 00:14:55.480 --> 00:15:00.320 perfectly. Vince Neil's vocals are raw and gritty 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:04.240 and powerful at this time. I know there's a lot 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.740 that people say about his vocals now, but back 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:10.519 in 1991, he was at his peak, and you hear it 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:15.320 on this song. And I feel like Primal Scream was 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.019 leading into what would happen with John Karabi 00:15:18.019 --> 00:15:22.799 on the self -titled album in 1994. However, at 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.309 that point, Vince wasn't in the band. but you 00:15:25.309 --> 00:15:28.350 can hear elements of where they were headed musically 00:15:28.350 --> 00:15:32.929 on Primal Scream. And I don't think I can lump 00:15:32.929 --> 00:15:35.710 anything from the Karabi -fronted self -titled 00:15:35.710 --> 00:15:39.250 album in the quote -unquote hairband sound because 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:43.549 it truly wasn't, truly stands out as a 90s hard 00:15:43.549 --> 00:15:47.629 rock album, period, hard stop. However, Primal 00:15:47.629 --> 00:15:51.750 Scream, while it's leaning towards that 94 sound, 00:15:52.509 --> 00:15:56.029 Definitely still has elements that I think fit 00:15:56.029 --> 00:16:00.710 well into this playlist. So we've got three songs 00:16:00.710 --> 00:16:04.929 so far. All are, I'd say, leaning on the dark 00:16:04.929 --> 00:16:07.950 side of the spectrum. So let's loosen things 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:11.509 up a little bit. And go with a band that is probably 00:16:11.509 --> 00:16:15.669 the poster child for hair bands. And that is 00:16:15.669 --> 00:16:18.730 Poison. The look what the cat dragged in album 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:23.460 cover. I want action. Talk Dirty to Me, then 00:16:23.460 --> 00:16:26.679 following it up with Open Up and Say Ah, Nothing 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.299 But a Good Time, Fallen Angel, Every Rose Has 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:35.299 Its Thorn. Yeah, I get why people consider them 00:16:35.299 --> 00:16:39.360 the poster child for hair bands. But on 1990's 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.899 Flesh and Blood, that same maturing that I talked 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:46.639 about on Warrant's Cherry Pie, sans the title 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:51.700 track, started coming out for Poison. Now, I 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:53.120 know there's some people listening out there 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.399 that are immediately laughing as I'm saying this 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:59.220 because they're thinking, Brian, dude, Unskinny 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:02.700 Bop, come on. And you're right. Unskinny Bop 00:17:02.700 --> 00:17:06.960 is still definitely in that sex, drugs, rock 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.119 and roll, party all the time, hairband sound. 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.200 But very similar to how Uncle Tom's Cabin followed 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:18.299 up Cherry Pie, the song that follows Unskinny 00:17:18.299 --> 00:17:23.329 Bop on... Flesh and Blood is a track called Let 00:17:23.329 --> 00:17:27.329 It Play. It's an album cut, was never released 00:17:27.329 --> 00:17:31.130 as a single, which is a crime as far as I'm concerned, 00:17:31.329 --> 00:17:35.990 because the song is ridiculously catchy, it's 00:17:35.990 --> 00:17:39.849 fun, and it still has that big anthemic chorus 00:17:39.849 --> 00:17:44.190 that's a signature of the hair band sound. Why 00:17:44.190 --> 00:17:46.829 this wasn't released as a single, I'll never 00:17:46.829 --> 00:17:51.220 understand. And it is my absolute favorite Poison 00:17:51.220 --> 00:17:55.400 song of all time. This is a song where you start 00:17:55.400 --> 00:18:00.880 hearing the more mature glimpses of Poison that 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.240 they would take to the next level with Richie 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.579 Kotzen on lead guitar instead of CeCe DeVille 00:18:05.579 --> 00:18:09.140 on 1993's Native Tongue. They weren't quite there 00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:13.400 yet, but this was the transition from the open 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:17.279 up and say ah sound to the Native Tongue sound. 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:21.700 At the end of the song, when Ricky Rocket goes 00:18:21.700 --> 00:18:25.019 double time and the band just starts jamming 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:27.819 out, almost feels gospel -esque in nature. Yeah, 00:18:27.940 --> 00:18:31.819 I said it. The only critique I have of the song 00:18:31.819 --> 00:18:35.019 is that segment should have led into a guitar 00:18:35.019 --> 00:18:38.599 solo where CeCe just took it to the house and 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:41.400 they stayed at that tempo instead of bringing 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:43.640 it right back to close it out. I feel like the 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.819 song should have been longer. I feel like I'm 00:18:45.819 --> 00:18:48.579 missing out. And if I ever get a chance to interview 00:18:48.579 --> 00:18:51.099 somebody from Poison, I'm going to ask if that 00:18:51.099 --> 00:18:54.119 was ever a consideration because I feel like 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.440 had that song been opened up a little bit more, 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:01.259 it'd be your perfect concert closer for Poison. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.180 Yes, even over Nothing But A Good Time. And I 00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:09.039 should also add that Poison is always going to 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.539 get a hall pass from me musically. One, just 00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:13.460 because I simply love their music. I'll never 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.750 be ashamed of it. Some people, when I mention 00:19:15.750 --> 00:19:18.369 I like Poison, they kind of try to give me guff 00:19:18.369 --> 00:19:21.470 about it, and one, I could care less if anybody 00:19:21.470 --> 00:19:23.630 tries to give me guff about any music I enjoy, 00:19:23.730 --> 00:19:26.490 because if there's a song you like, you should 00:19:26.490 --> 00:19:29.390 not give a flying you -know -what about what 00:19:29.390 --> 00:19:32.329 anybody thinks about it. Listen to it and enjoy 00:19:32.329 --> 00:19:34.809 it. That's all that this is about. But that being 00:19:34.809 --> 00:19:38.410 said, Poison was the first band I ever saw live. 00:19:39.549 --> 00:19:45.720 April 7th, 1988, Brendan Byrne Arena. East Rutherford, 00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:49.900 New Jersey. Opening for David Lee Roth on the 00:19:49.900 --> 00:19:54.220 Skyscraper Tour. The first time I sat in an arena 00:19:54.220 --> 00:19:58.119 and the lights dimmed, Poison came out and launched 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.940 into Look What The Cat Dragged In. So as far 00:20:01.940 --> 00:20:05.039 as I'm concerned, they are always going to have 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.819 a special place in my heart for music, period. 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:12.900 But now I'm going to piss some people off. Because... 00:20:13.450 --> 00:20:16.109 I mentioned that there were bands that got lumped 00:20:16.109 --> 00:20:19.970 in. Guilty by MTV Association that I said at 00:20:19.970 --> 00:20:22.869 the top of the show. And I can't talk about my 00:20:22.869 --> 00:20:26.009 first concert with Poison and not bring David 00:20:26.009 --> 00:20:29.730 Lee Roth into the mix. Was David Lee Roth a hair 00:20:29.730 --> 00:20:33.670 band? No. It's Van Halen. Come on. Hair band 00:20:33.670 --> 00:20:38.849 adjacent? No. Van Halen? No. If anything, Van 00:20:38.849 --> 00:20:41.029 Halen at the time would lean more towards arena 00:20:41.029 --> 00:20:44.369 rock than they would hair band. However, David 00:20:44.369 --> 00:20:49.950 Lee Roth's Skyscraper album, MTV, Guilty by Association, 00:20:50.430 --> 00:20:54.210 just like Paradise, was lumped into all the same 00:20:54.210 --> 00:20:56.930 music videos. And hell, Poison was the opening 00:20:56.930 --> 00:20:59.309 band. They were trying to combine the sound, 00:20:59.390 --> 00:21:02.529 opening up David Lee Roth's solo material to 00:21:02.529 --> 00:21:06.529 the sound that was exploding at the time. So 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:09.150 do I consider David Lee Roth a hairband? No. 00:21:09.910 --> 00:21:13.990 But there's a place on this playlist. That he 00:21:13.990 --> 00:21:17.730 deserves to be on it for. And it's the breaking 00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:21.769 the mold part. I mean, Skyscraper is essentially 00:21:21.769 --> 00:21:24.710 David Lee Roth's eat him and smile lineup of 00:21:24.710 --> 00:21:27.710 Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan and Greg Bissonette. 00:21:28.509 --> 00:21:32.509 Except you're adding in Brett Tuggle to the fold. 00:21:32.829 --> 00:21:35.470 That's really the only difference. The talent 00:21:35.470 --> 00:21:39.650 was off the charts for this group. But the song 00:21:39.650 --> 00:21:42.509 that I chose. I don't even know if you'd call 00:21:42.509 --> 00:21:45.130 this a power ballad, but it's definitely a ballad. 00:21:45.390 --> 00:21:48.190 And it's the most ballady thing I think David 00:21:48.190 --> 00:21:51.869 Lee Roth's ever done. And it's a 180 from everything 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:54.710 that you had heard from David Lee Roth, at least 00:21:54.710 --> 00:21:57.190 up until this point. And I'm going to go with 00:21:57.190 --> 00:21:59.950 Damn Good. It was the third single from the album. 00:22:00.829 --> 00:22:03.910 It did track on the U .S. Billboard rock chart, 00:22:04.009 --> 00:22:07.029 but didn't really make a huge dent. But this 00:22:07.029 --> 00:22:11.210 is some Zeppelin -esque, bluesy... masterful 00:22:11.210 --> 00:22:14.650 guitar work from Steve Vai on this track. I mean, 00:22:14.670 --> 00:22:18.029 I get lost listening to the music on this track. 00:22:18.130 --> 00:22:23.490 It is so hypnotizing. And this is David Lee Roth 00:22:23.490 --> 00:22:26.710 singing in a completely different register. You're 00:22:26.710 --> 00:22:29.769 not getting the high screeches. This is Dave 00:22:29.769 --> 00:22:34.930 with a low, mellow, almost reflective swagger 00:22:34.930 --> 00:22:38.210 to his voice. There's such a coolness factor 00:22:38.210 --> 00:22:41.089 to this track. You know, when you think about 00:22:41.089 --> 00:22:44.490 Snoopy and Joe Cool with the sunglasses, this 00:22:44.490 --> 00:22:47.309 is that in musical form. Yeah, I know. Look, 00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:49.410 I like Peanuts. I grew up with Peanuts. Yeah, 00:22:49.490 --> 00:22:52.710 I used a Snoopy reference. Sue me. David Lee 00:22:52.710 --> 00:22:55.569 Roth's Damn Good is just one of those songs that 00:22:55.569 --> 00:23:00.309 takes the idea of a power ballad and just takes 00:23:00.309 --> 00:23:03.009 it to a different level in a way that you could 00:23:03.009 --> 00:23:05.670 have never expected. And when I play this song 00:23:05.670 --> 00:23:08.980 now. Hell, when I announced that I was coming 00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:13.519 back to my weekly mixtape, I used this song on 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:16.759 one of my social media posts and got some thumbs 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:20.859 up from people purely based on that fact. Damn 00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:25.859 Good is indeed damn good. And as far as I'm concerned, 00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:29.299 because it's track five, a perfect way to close 00:23:29.299 --> 00:23:34.299 out the first half of this 1080 songs that broke 00:23:34.299 --> 00:23:38.829 the mold playlist. which I kicked off with Skid 00:23:38.829 --> 00:23:42.509 Row's Monkey Business, followed up by Warrant's 00:23:42.509 --> 00:23:46.609 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Motley Crue's Primal Scream, 00:23:47.250 --> 00:23:50.750 Poison's Let It Play, and in a synergy the way 00:23:50.750 --> 00:23:53.329 Poison opened for David Lee Roth back in April 00:23:53.329 --> 00:23:57.849 of 1988, closed up the side with David Lee Roth's 00:23:57.849 --> 00:24:00.809 Damn Good. Just a reminder, you can hear all 00:24:00.809 --> 00:24:03.910 the songs I'm talking about tonight over on the 00:24:03.910 --> 00:24:09.640 episode page. at myweeklymixtape .com. And now 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.240 for the second half of this 10 hairband songs 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.700 that broke the mold playlist. The song I'm going 00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:17.880 to start with, I feel like, is another example 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:23.160 of MTV adjacent. Are they really a hairband? 00:24:23.339 --> 00:24:27.980 No. They were around a lot longer before Here 00:24:27.980 --> 00:24:33.539 I Go Again and Tawny Kitane made them the MTV 00:24:34.809 --> 00:24:37.849 darlings that they were. And I'm talking about 00:24:37.849 --> 00:24:41.470 White Snake and their self -titled 1987 album. 00:24:41.650 --> 00:24:44.430 This is the closest thing to a quote -unquote 00:24:44.430 --> 00:24:48.490 hairband that White Snake ever became. However, 00:24:48.750 --> 00:24:51.329 Here I Go Again is not the song I'm using here. 00:24:51.609 --> 00:24:56.809 But Still of the Night, that is bluesy, raw, 00:24:57.150 --> 00:25:03.319 aggressive, and it has some... Ridiculous dynamics 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.079 throughout the track. But before we even get 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:10.500 to the rollercoaster that this song is, John 00:25:10.500 --> 00:25:15.700 Sykes' riff is up there as far as I'm concerned 00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:19.359 with Cult of Personality by Living Color. It's 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.119 one of the greatest riffs of the decade. David 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:28.299 Coverdale's vocals are stratospheric on this 00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:31.430 track. To the point where when a band covers 00:25:31.430 --> 00:25:34.829 it, it needs to be demail -fronted. Like when 00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:39.069 Hailstorm did it on their Reanimate EP. And they 00:25:39.069 --> 00:25:40.869 did a hell of a job of it, I do have to say. 00:25:41.309 --> 00:25:44.009 Or a mail -fronted band drops it a few steps 00:25:44.009 --> 00:25:47.410 the way Static X did on Cult of Static back in 00:25:47.410 --> 00:25:51.269 the late 2000s. But this was a song that was 00:25:51.269 --> 00:25:54.210 played on MTV endlessly, looped in with all the 00:25:54.210 --> 00:25:58.349 hair bands. Was it a hair band? No. But... I've 00:25:58.349 --> 00:26:01.309 turned on Hair Nation before on Sirius XM and 00:26:01.309 --> 00:26:05.630 heard this song. So somewhere along the dotted 00:26:05.630 --> 00:26:10.849 line, it got lumped in. So as far as I'm concerned, 00:26:11.049 --> 00:26:14.910 it's fair game for this playlist. Now we talk 00:26:14.910 --> 00:26:18.150 about John Sykes on guitar. He's incredible. 00:26:18.910 --> 00:26:24.569 As is Nuno Betancourt. Another virtuoso. Completely 00:26:24.569 --> 00:26:28.099 undeniable. But when people talk about Xtreme, 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:32.599 they immediately go to More Than Words. Hell, 00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:35.700 Weird Al did the style parody of the More Than 00:26:35.700 --> 00:26:38.400 Words video for his You Don't Love Me Anymore 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:44.559 song. Xtreme is not a hair band. I mean, I'd 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.259 say they're more of a funky hard rock band. Hell, 00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:49.079 there's a song on the album called Get The Funk 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.720 Out, and they use horns on a track called Little 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.430 Jack Horny. And the dad joke loving, ironic person 00:26:56.430 --> 00:26:59.509 that I am considers that to be the chef's kiss. 00:26:59.970 --> 00:27:02.490 Which leads me to the fact that I had a hard 00:27:02.490 --> 00:27:05.470 time getting this cassette in 1990 because there 00:27:05.470 --> 00:27:08.789 was a parental advisory sticker on it. I don't 00:27:08.789 --> 00:27:10.829 know if there's that many curses on this album, 00:27:10.890 --> 00:27:14.349 if any at all. But I had to convince my parents 00:27:14.349 --> 00:27:17.009 that this wasn't going to be another two live 00:27:17.009 --> 00:27:19.500 crew situation. And if you don't know what I 00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:22.339 mean by the two live crew situation, if you heard 00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:24.940 the song Me So Horny on the radio and then your 00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:26.900 parents bought you the as nasty as they want 00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:29.400 to be cassette and you put that cassette in the 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.480 car on the ride home, that car got turned around 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.299 and that cassette got returned faster than you 00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:36.880 can imagine. Why do I say that? Because that's 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:39.400 exactly how it happened. And I learned a tough 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:42.440 lesson in radio versions being completely different 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:45.039 than what you hear on the album. So because of 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.210 that, thank you, Luke Campbell. I had a hard 00:27:47.210 --> 00:27:49.289 time convincing my parents whenever there was 00:27:49.289 --> 00:27:52.529 a parental advisory sticker to get the album. 00:27:53.109 --> 00:27:57.309 And with a title of porno graffiti, Extreme was 00:27:57.309 --> 00:28:01.009 not making it easy on me. My parents truly thought 00:28:01.009 --> 00:28:05.549 that Get the Funk Out was not funk. Thankfully, 00:28:05.549 --> 00:28:08.670 I had older cousins who vouched for the fact 00:28:08.670 --> 00:28:11.869 that it was indeed funk, and they let me get 00:28:11.869 --> 00:28:15.089 the album. And then with some synergy and a throwback 00:28:15.089 --> 00:28:17.269 to Skid Row's monkey business, like I talked 00:28:17.269 --> 00:28:20.750 about on side A of this little 10 song mixtape, 00:28:20.869 --> 00:28:24.369 Skid Row had the other get the you know what 00:28:24.369 --> 00:28:27.470 out on Slave to the Grind. If you got the right 00:28:27.470 --> 00:28:31.210 version, of course. But that said, I discovered 00:28:31.210 --> 00:28:36.369 Extreme on 1480 Z Rock AM radio. And the song 00:28:36.369 --> 00:28:40.490 that blew my mind. was Decadence Dance, the album 00:28:40.490 --> 00:28:44.109 opener. Surprised? Another album opener. Nuno's 00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:48.349 riff on this track is just unbelievable. Gary 00:28:48.349 --> 00:28:50.609 Cherone's vocals, when people talk about, oh, 00:28:50.609 --> 00:28:53.069 well, Gary Cherone, you know, how did he get 00:28:53.069 --> 00:28:55.710 into Van Halen? Listen to the vocals on Decadence 00:28:55.710 --> 00:28:58.730 Dance. I'm sure when Eddie heard that, he said, 00:28:58.829 --> 00:29:03.609 I could work with that. This song is un -friggin' 00:29:03.630 --> 00:29:07.000 -believable. And Nuno... is probably one of the 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.380 most underrated guitarists on the planet. He's 00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:12.940 been in Rihanna's touring band for a long time. 00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:16.039 Recently, when they were paying tribute to Ozzy 00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:19.700 Osbourne on the MTV Video Music Awards, Youngblood 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:21.900 came out and did Crazy Train with who on lead 00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:25.980 guitar? Nuno. People don't talk about Nuno Betancourt 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:28.940 as much as they should. And that paired with 00:29:28.940 --> 00:29:32.319 a song that, as far as I'm concerned, still rocks 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:35.910 to this day, Decadence Dance. definitely makes 00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:40.109 this list. So we've got three songs left in this 00:29:40.109 --> 00:29:43.750 breaking the mold discussion. And while we're 00:29:43.750 --> 00:29:47.569 on the topic of virtuosos, let's stay there. 00:29:48.210 --> 00:29:50.710 I've been blessed enough to say that one of my 00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:52.730 favorite bass players on the planet has been 00:29:52.730 --> 00:29:55.710 a two -time guest on my weekly mixtape in season 00:29:55.710 --> 00:29:58.650 one, that being the legendary Billy Sheehan. 00:29:58.829 --> 00:30:01.509 And I mentioned him earlier because he played 00:30:01.509 --> 00:30:05.960 in David Lee Roth's band. But in 1989, Mr. Big 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:09.500 came out with their self -titled album. And in 00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:12.220 the late 80s, there was this thing called Personics 00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:17.559 Cassettes. What Personics was, was a precursor 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:22.640 to iTunes. Because you can go into a music store, 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:28.140 open up a book, pick out a bunch of songs, fill 00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:31.480 out a card, hand it to the cashier behind the 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:36.119 counter. And they would custom make you a mixtape 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:40.099 with printed labels and all the songs you want. 00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:44.460 You paid by the song. Sound familiar? One of 00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:48.460 the first cassettes I got had Addicted to That 00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:51.779 Rush on it. And if I'm able to dig that out, 00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:54.279 I will take a picture and post it on the episode 00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:58.579 page at myweeklymixtape .com. When I first heard 00:30:58.579 --> 00:31:01.140 that Billy Sheehan bass line opening up the track, 00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:04.480 which... I do want to thank him on the Mr. Big 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.359 episode during his intro. He played that during 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:10.339 the intro, which is one of the coolest moments 00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:12.859 in my weekly mixtape history as far as I'm concerned. 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:16.099 But Mr. Big gets lumped into the hair bands because 00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:19.339 of To Be With You. Of course, the Campfire hit. 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:22.140 And Billy's quite thankful for it. He's talked 00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:24.960 about it on the show. That hit's probably paid 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.460 a ton of bills for him over the years. And who 00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:29.279 wouldn't be grateful for a number one hit song? 00:31:29.950 --> 00:31:33.390 But that's not what Mr. Big is about. Addicted 00:31:33.390 --> 00:31:37.990 to that rush. Sorry, opening track again. 1989's 00:31:37.990 --> 00:31:41.690 Mr. Big. Listen to the absolute insanity that's 00:31:41.690 --> 00:31:44.710 happening at the beginning of this track. And 00:31:44.710 --> 00:31:48.210 there is my case for why it broke the mold and 00:31:48.210 --> 00:31:51.710 deserves to be on this playlist. And anything 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:54.630 I could say about Mr. Big, Billy says much better. 00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:57.809 So be sure to go and check out the Mr. Big episode. 00:31:58.410 --> 00:32:00.990 as well as the episode I did way back at the 00:32:00.990 --> 00:32:03.690 beginning of my weekly mixtape. I want to say 00:32:03.690 --> 00:32:06.769 it was done in the first 15 episodes, all about 00:32:06.769 --> 00:32:09.009 songs from throughout Billy's career, including 00:32:09.009 --> 00:32:12.549 the David Lee Roth era, Mr. Big, Niason, Tallis. 00:32:12.589 --> 00:32:14.750 It's a really, really in -depth, fun interview, 00:32:14.910 --> 00:32:18.430 so be sure to check both of those out. Now, in 00:32:18.430 --> 00:32:20.490 mentioning the whole Billy Sheehan connection 00:32:20.490 --> 00:32:22.589 to David Lee Roth, we talked about Damn Good 00:32:22.589 --> 00:32:26.339 being kind of a power ballad, but not. And I 00:32:26.339 --> 00:32:29.819 feel like we need one of those on side B. But 00:32:29.819 --> 00:32:33.099 I also want to break the mold some more. Because 00:32:33.099 --> 00:32:35.259 there's something we have not introduced into 00:32:35.259 --> 00:32:39.039 this playlist yet. And that's the female element 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.599 of hair bands. Most people don't talk about Vixen 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:47.660 immediately when they bring up hair bands. And 00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:51.240 they really should. Or Girl School. And then 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.420 there were poppin' new wave bands that somehow 00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:56.950 got lumped in. When the bangles did Hazy Shade 00:32:56.950 --> 00:32:59.309 of Winter, it started getting lumped into hair 00:32:59.309 --> 00:33:03.990 bands. I'm like, no, stop. However, you think 00:33:03.990 --> 00:33:07.410 about the Runaways. Then you had Joan Jett come 00:33:07.410 --> 00:33:10.430 out and do Little Liar, and she started getting 00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:14.309 lumped into hair bands. And what? I mean, it 00:33:14.309 --> 00:33:17.130 was written by Desmond Child, who wrote for Bon 00:33:17.130 --> 00:33:19.990 Jovi. who wrote for Alice Cooper, who wrote for 00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:22.589 everybody, two great Desmond Child episodes back 00:33:22.589 --> 00:33:24.990 in the season one catalog. If you want to listen 00:33:24.990 --> 00:33:27.670 to those, he is just an endless source of amazing 00:33:27.670 --> 00:33:30.730 music stories. So highly recommend that. But 00:33:30.730 --> 00:33:33.109 we need to break the glass ceiling here and bring 00:33:33.109 --> 00:33:36.369 in some female representation on this. And I 00:33:36.369 --> 00:33:40.289 think the best power ballad by a female artist 00:33:40.289 --> 00:33:45.269 in the 80s is also a duet with somebody else 00:33:45.269 --> 00:33:48.690 that gets kind of lumped in. to the hair band 00:33:48.690 --> 00:33:52.730 scene undeservedly. And I'm going to go with 00:33:52.730 --> 00:33:55.990 Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne's Close My Eyes Forever. 00:33:56.670 --> 00:33:59.789 It's the highest charting song for either of 00:33:59.789 --> 00:34:03.670 them. Wrap your mind around that. It's Ozzy's 00:34:03.670 --> 00:34:07.029 highest charting song. It's an incredible duet. 00:34:08.050 --> 00:34:11.730 Unbelievable duet. Shattered what people considered 00:34:11.730 --> 00:34:16.050 power ballads to be. This was not Warrant's Heaven. 00:34:16.769 --> 00:34:20.050 Poisons Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Motley Crue's 00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:24.170 Home Sweet Home. This was dark. This was haunting. 00:34:25.329 --> 00:34:28.429 Completely against the grain of what people considered 00:34:28.429 --> 00:34:32.170 a power ballad to be. Do I consider Lita Ford 00:34:32.170 --> 00:34:36.630 a hair metal, hair band? Meh. I consider her 00:34:36.630 --> 00:34:40.409 to be a hard rock artist. But the hair on the 00:34:40.409 --> 00:34:44.010 album cover says otherwise. So there it is. Kiss 00:34:44.010 --> 00:34:48.539 Me Deadly, again. gets lumped in. You can make 00:34:48.539 --> 00:34:52.340 arguments for it in either direction. But Close 00:34:52.340 --> 00:34:57.400 My Eyes Forever is one of those songs that, man, 00:34:57.500 --> 00:35:01.599 especially now with Ozzy gone, just hits on a 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:05.019 completely different level. I mean, Ozzy had 00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:07.860 a ton of great power ballads. Goodbye to Romance, 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.539 Time After Time, Mama, I'm Coming Home. Close 00:35:11.539 --> 00:35:13.860 My Eyes Forever ranked higher than all of them. 00:35:14.670 --> 00:35:17.230 And I have to say his voice and lead is together. 00:35:17.849 --> 00:35:20.909 Unbelievable. It kind of breaks my heart that 00:35:20.909 --> 00:35:22.869 we'll never see them do that collaboration live 00:35:22.869 --> 00:35:25.869 again though. But coming out of that, we need 00:35:25.869 --> 00:35:31.030 to close this playlist up and close my eyes forever. 00:35:31.070 --> 00:35:33.670 It's pretty damn dark. So we need to do a one 00:35:33.670 --> 00:35:38.329 80 record scratch and rock this thing out for 00:35:38.329 --> 00:35:42.329 a close. And during the tune styles days, I was 00:35:42.329 --> 00:35:45.610 fortunate enough. to have Tom Kiefer on the program, 00:35:45.889 --> 00:35:49.989 and we got to talk all things Cinderella, including 00:35:49.989 --> 00:35:53.429 the hairband idea. You know what? That episode's 00:35:53.429 --> 00:35:56.130 kind of been in the archives for a long time 00:35:56.130 --> 00:35:57.969 because when Toon Styles went off the air, it 00:35:57.969 --> 00:36:00.130 kind of disappeared from the internet. I might 00:36:00.130 --> 00:36:03.170 need to bring that back because if I'm looking 00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:05.989 at his catalog correctly, he hasn't released 00:36:05.989 --> 00:36:08.409 anything since, so it's still quote -unquote 00:36:08.409 --> 00:36:11.670 timely, and we dive into a ton of great Cinderella 00:36:11.670 --> 00:36:15.869 stories. Do I consider Cinderella hairband night 00:36:15.869 --> 00:36:19.769 songs? Yes. However, from Long Cold Winter on, 00:36:20.030 --> 00:36:23.710 no. Because that's when he started bringing in 00:36:23.710 --> 00:36:27.389 a lot more of the blues edge. I mean, he really 00:36:27.389 --> 00:36:30.369 brought it on Heartbreak Station, but that's 00:36:30.369 --> 00:36:31.829 not where I'm going. I'm going to stick with 00:36:31.829 --> 00:36:35.110 something from Long Cold Winter here. And we're 00:36:35.110 --> 00:36:38.510 going to go with what I consider to be the ultimate 00:36:38.510 --> 00:36:45.110 80s hard rock hairband. road trip song, that 00:36:45.110 --> 00:36:52.030 being Gypsy Road. Unbelievable, dirty riff, sing 00:36:52.030 --> 00:36:56.489 -along chorus that just raises the roof. One 00:36:56.489 --> 00:36:59.909 of my favorite Cinderella songs of all time and 00:36:59.909 --> 00:37:03.550 something that even now, every time it comes 00:37:03.550 --> 00:37:07.469 on, I have to turn the speakers up as loud as 00:37:07.469 --> 00:37:11.170 I can, lower the windows, put my arm out, and 00:37:11.170 --> 00:37:15.480 just... Take the song in. And I think it's the 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.659 perfect exclamation point to the end of this 00:37:19.659 --> 00:37:24.139 side of 80s hairband songs that broke the mold, 00:37:24.340 --> 00:37:27.619 which kicked off with Whitesnake's Still of the 00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:30.860 Night and then followed up with Extreme's Decadence 00:37:30.860 --> 00:37:35.460 Dance, Mr. Big's Addicted to That Rush, Lita 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:38.019 Ford and Ozzy Osbourne's Close My Eyes Forever, 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:43.090 and Cinderella's Gypsy Road. And just as a reminder, 00:37:43.309 --> 00:37:46.130 I have a playlist of all the songs I've talked 00:37:46.130 --> 00:37:50.170 about tonight embedded on this episode page over 00:37:50.170 --> 00:37:54.090 at myweeklymixtape .com if you want to give any 00:37:54.090 --> 00:37:58.150 of these songs a listen. Now, let's keep this 00:37:58.150 --> 00:38:01.050 conversation going. Is there a song that you 00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:04.150 would add to this playlist? Is there a song that 00:38:04.150 --> 00:38:08.090 you feel broke the hairband mold and still holds 00:38:08.090 --> 00:38:11.650 up to this day? I want you to write me, myweeklymixtape 00:38:11.650 --> 00:38:15.210 at gmail .com. Hit me up on all the social media 00:38:15.210 --> 00:38:18.789 haunts at myweeklymixtape. 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I want 00:38:55.849 --> 00:38:58.190 to hear your playlist ideas. They could be serious. 00:38:58.710 --> 00:39:01.530 They could be fun. They could be nostalgic. They 00:39:01.530 --> 00:39:04.090 could be off the rails. Send them in. I'm going 00:39:04.090 --> 00:39:06.809 to add them in. Let's see what happens here because 00:39:06.809 --> 00:39:10.269 the sky is the limit. I am so excited for what 00:39:10.269 --> 00:39:13.429 we've got going on this season of My Weekly Mixtape. 00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.519 And I hope you're enjoying this new series of 00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:19.099 episodes the way I am enjoying recording them 00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:22.300 and talking music with all of you. Once again, 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.360 my name is Brian Colburn. This has been my weekly 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.159 mixtape. And until next time, enjoy listening 00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:31.760 to the 10 hairband songs that I think broke the 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:35.039 mold and still rock today. Can't wait to hear 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.079 your thoughts. We'll see you next time.