WEBVTT 00:00:11.489 --> 00:00:14.289 Welcome to my weekly mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:14.289 --> 00:00:17.550 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:20.410 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:20.570 --> 00:00:23.570 And yes, in case you're wondering, we are back 00:00:23.570 --> 00:00:26.609 after the short hiatus. A couple of weeks ago, 00:00:26.649 --> 00:00:29.589 I posted an episode that kind of explains everything 00:00:29.589 --> 00:00:31.890 that happened and why I took the break that I 00:00:31.890 --> 00:00:34.890 did and did a little. quote unquote season break. 00:00:35.049 --> 00:00:38.070 But now we are back for, if you want to call 00:00:38.070 --> 00:00:41.810 it season two of my weekly mixtape, considering 00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:44.649 the first season went three and a half years 00:00:44.649 --> 00:00:49.049 and 150 episodes season, call it whatever you 00:00:49.049 --> 00:00:52.149 want. I'm excited to be back talking music with 00:00:52.149 --> 00:00:54.770 everyone again. And like I mentioned a few weeks 00:00:54.770 --> 00:00:58.030 ago on the announcement podcast, we're going 00:00:58.030 --> 00:00:59.829 to be doing things a little bit differently this 00:00:59.829 --> 00:01:03.320 week. I do not have a guest. Some weeks I will, 00:01:03.420 --> 00:01:05.760 some weeks I won't. It's going to be a little 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:07.799 bit of everything here at My Weekly Mixtape. 00:01:07.819 --> 00:01:10.659 But this week, I don't have a guest. But what 00:01:10.659 --> 00:01:14.620 I do have in front of me is a list of different 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:18.700 episode ideas that you, the mixtapers, have sent 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:23.099 in to me via email over at myweeklymixtape at 00:01:23.099 --> 00:01:27.219 gmail .com, as well as on all of the social media 00:01:27.219 --> 00:01:30.439 sites at... My Weekly Mixtape. You know I'm on 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:32.560 all of them. Come find me. Come connect. It's 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.159 great to hear from you, as well as the fine folks 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.659 over on the My Weekly Mixtape Patreon, which 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:43.900 is patreon .com forward slash My Weekly Mixtape. 00:01:44.019 --> 00:01:48.019 So I've taken all of their answers to a simple 00:01:48.019 --> 00:01:53.239 request. Send me in names of playlists. End of 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.299 story. They could be anything. They could be 00:01:55.299 --> 00:01:57.319 something serious. They could be genres. They 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.840 could be topics. They could be something completely 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.239 ridiculous. They could be something heartfelt 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:06.099 and sincere. Send in your playlist names. And 00:02:06.099 --> 00:02:09.360 you guys did that and then some. I have well 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.539 over a year's worth of playlist topics loaded 00:02:13.539 --> 00:02:17.819 into an online randomizer. And what I'm going 00:02:17.819 --> 00:02:21.560 to do tonight. is click spin on that randomizer 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.300 and whatever playlist comes up, I am going to 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.300 come up with a 10 song playlist based on that 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:32.539 title on the spot. I have no notes in front of 00:02:32.539 --> 00:02:35.199 me. I am literally staring at a blank screen. 00:02:35.930 --> 00:02:38.770 talking into a microphone and hoping for the 00:02:38.770 --> 00:02:42.090 best. This could turn out to be a really fun 00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:45.550 exercise or it can go into the other direction 00:02:45.550 --> 00:02:48.610 and turn out to be a complete train wreck. But 00:02:48.610 --> 00:02:51.229 you're going to be there listening with me and 00:02:51.229 --> 00:02:53.990 hopefully enjoying this every bit of the way 00:02:53.990 --> 00:02:58.259 as I hope to be. So with that out of the way, 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:02.139 I am so excited to be back at my weekly mixtape 00:03:02.139 --> 00:03:05.759 doing what I love again. Let's waste no more 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.759 time with the pleasantries and get right into 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:12.560 this. I am going to click spin on this randomizer 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:28.020 and see what comes up. Of course, this is the 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:31.280 first time I'm doing this. So, of course, it's 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.099 going to be something that is insanely ridiculous. 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:40.599 So I first want to thank Matt Kennedy, my friend 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:44.319 over at the X Radio X podcast, who was a part 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.560 of the punk rock cover songs episode on season 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:54.300 one of the show. He sent in a six degrees of 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:59.340 Kevin Bacon. Now, you might be wondering, what 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:01.939 does he mean by that? He goes on to explain. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:07.120 Each song has to share an artist who performed 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.400 on it, but are not otherwise from the same band 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:18.899 or artist. Dude, this is diabolical. This is 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:24.319 evil on so many levels, and I applaud you for 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.709 it. You are going to turn this into a train wreck 00:04:28.709 --> 00:04:34.430 from day one. This might be a one and done season 00:04:34.430 --> 00:04:38.949 two of my weekly mixtape, but I am going to give 00:04:38.949 --> 00:04:44.149 this a try. With that being said. Six degrees 00:04:44.149 --> 00:04:48.009 of Kevin Bacon stems from the movies. And in 00:04:48.009 --> 00:04:51.870 the movies, there are always dozens upon dozens 00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:55.490 of actors in the movies. So it's very easy to 00:04:55.490 --> 00:04:59.509 take six movies and work your way through them 00:04:59.509 --> 00:05:02.930 to get to Kevin Bacon. But we're talking about 00:05:02.930 --> 00:05:07.790 music here. And bands don't have dozens and dozens 00:05:07.790 --> 00:05:10.629 and dozens of musicians in them, unless you're 00:05:10.629 --> 00:05:12.910 talking about maybe the early days of Rusted 00:05:12.910 --> 00:05:16.670 Root, or some of the Motown bands, or I don't 00:05:16.670 --> 00:05:20.810 know, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. But yeah, this 00:05:20.810 --> 00:05:25.610 isn't a movie here. These are bands. So 10 songs, 00:05:25.970 --> 00:05:28.689 I think I'm being set up for failure. Plus, it's 00:05:28.689 --> 00:05:32.220 not 10 degrees of Kevin Bacon, it's 6. So what 00:05:32.220 --> 00:05:36.319 I'm going to do is I'm going to take your playlist 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.019 idea and I'm going to become literal Brian here. 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.779 I am going to take it and do it literally. I 00:05:44.779 --> 00:05:48.420 am going to do the ultimate six degrees of Kevin 00:05:48.420 --> 00:05:52.500 Bacon musical playlist, just like in the movies, 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:56.839 only this time through music. Now, realistically, 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:01.759 I wouldn't even know where to begin. to get to 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.300 the Bacon Brothers. I don't even know if the 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:10.560 Bacon Brothers have had any guest musicians on 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.459 their albums. I am not well -versed in the Bacon 00:06:14.459 --> 00:06:18.120 Brothers catalog. I know their music. I'm familiar 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.540 with their music. I've heard their music, but 00:06:20.540 --> 00:06:23.160 I don't know all the band members and who they've 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.459 done stuff with. So Matt, what I'm going to do 00:06:27.459 --> 00:06:30.579 with your topic is I'm going to reverse engineer 00:06:30.579 --> 00:06:35.759 this. Because at the end of the day, yes, you 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.079 could do a six degrees of Kevin Bacon playlist 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.220 and end up on any artist. You can end up on a 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:42.600 Billy Joel. You can end up on a Tom Petty. And 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.660 that's all well and good. But you said Kevin 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:48.879 Bacon. So I want to end up on Kevin Bacon. However, 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:51.240 I don't see any universe that I'm going to be 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.079 able to sit here and talk my way through six 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.040 songs to get to Kevin Bacon. So I'm going to 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.939 reverse engineer it. And like I said, I have 00:07:00.939 --> 00:07:03.160 no idea who's worked with the Bacon Brothers. 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:09.279 However, I do know this. Earlier this year, there 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.500 was a television series, The Bondsman, Helen 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:16.899 Back, and Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles worked 00:07:16.899 --> 00:07:21.839 together on it. So right there, I do have a collaboration 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.860 with a musical artist that I am familiar with. 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.759 Jennifer Nettles is from Sugarland. So I am a 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.560 big country fan. So this is a pretty easy place 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:33.519 for me to start. So what I'm going to do is I'm 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.579 going to start from the end of the playlist and 00:07:36.579 --> 00:07:40.500 work my way back to the front. Six songs in reverse. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.220 And then I'll read it as if I was actually clever 00:07:44.220 --> 00:07:49.139 enough to go from the first song. to the 6th. 00:07:49.259 --> 00:07:52.160 Now, I have heard the Bondsman Hell and Back 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.160 soundtrack, but pretty much like every TV show 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.360 and movie out there, I haven't seen it. However, 00:07:57.500 --> 00:07:59.699 it's a country album, and it's Jennifer Nettles, 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.699 so of course I listened to it. It's got a lot 00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:05.660 of great songs on it. I'll be perfectly honest, 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.620 my favorite song when I'm looking at it on Spotify 00:08:09.620 --> 00:08:13.560 is the least popular song on the album. Our Highway 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.660 was a single. And it was pretty popular this 00:08:16.660 --> 00:08:19.759 summer. But I'm going to go with something as 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.759 kind of a nod to you, Matt, for coming up with 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.660 this idea. Special kind of crazy. It is my favorite 00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:29.600 song on the Bondsman soundtrack. And the song 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.139 just kind of kicks all sorts of ass. Their voices 00:08:32.139 --> 00:08:34.879 work really well together. And to be honest, 00:08:35.019 --> 00:08:37.059 you have to be a special kind of crazy to come 00:08:37.059 --> 00:08:39.759 up with this idea. And I have to be a special 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.860 kind of crazy to try to attempt to make this 00:08:42.860 --> 00:08:46.120 work. So as far as I'm concerned, it's kind of 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.519 poetic, it's fitting, and this is the way I'm 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.820 going to do it. So my first song, which is actually 00:08:51.820 --> 00:08:54.980 the last song, so I'm working backwards here, 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.259 so this is going to be the last song on the playlist, 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.240 is Special Kind of Crazy by Jennifer Nettles 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.759 featuring Kevin Bacon. And God, I wish there 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.259 was a way I could have gotten here from track 00:09:07.259 --> 00:09:10.519 one to this song, but if I don't reverse engineer 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.769 this, this is just never going to happen. So, 00:09:13.830 --> 00:09:17.889 Jennifer Nettles, where do I go with her? That 00:09:17.889 --> 00:09:22.250 one is actually really easy. Because the Bondsman 00:09:22.250 --> 00:09:25.789 has that country sound to it, and she is a country 00:09:25.789 --> 00:09:28.669 artist, the immediate thing that comes to mind 00:09:28.669 --> 00:09:33.309 is the duet she did back in 2005 with Bon Jovi 00:09:33.309 --> 00:09:36.610 on the Have a Nice Day album, Who Says You Can't 00:09:36.610 --> 00:09:39.429 Go Home. It's the song that really broke Bon 00:09:39.429 --> 00:09:42.600 Jovi. from the rock world into the country world. 00:09:42.899 --> 00:09:45.919 And some people, I don't know, some people kind 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.340 of have a disdain for this song for that reason. 00:09:48.419 --> 00:09:50.980 I'm not going to lie. Being a huge country fan, 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.240 I love it. I think it works. I love both the 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.299 solo Bon Jovi version as well as the version 00:09:57.299 --> 00:09:59.460 with Jennifer Nettles. I think their harmonies 00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:02.259 work really well on the track. I think the song 00:10:02.259 --> 00:10:06.759 is ridiculously catchy. It was certainly a hit. 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:09.659 It reached the Billboard Hot 100, obviously a 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:11.940 lot more than the Jennifer Nettles and Kevin 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:15.399 Bacon collaborations did, but it gets me from 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:20.159 six to five in this strange countdown. And somehow 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.879 I've managed to keep it both in the six degree 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:27.059 of Kevin Bacon universe, as well as a serviceable 00:10:27.059 --> 00:10:30.120 playlist universe, given the fact that that country 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.659 sound has kind of morphed from the two Jennifer 00:10:33.659 --> 00:10:37.580 Nettles songs. So there you have, Bon Jovi, which 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:39.779 opens the door for me a little bit because obviously 00:10:39.779 --> 00:10:42.500 you've got Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, even 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:45.259 the other members. They've all worked with different 00:10:45.259 --> 00:10:48.000 musicians. So I'm not kind of tied into just 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.580 a singular artist. They've gone in different 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:53.519 directions. So that does help me here because 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.620 I can go back to the Blaze of Glory soundtrack 00:10:57.620 --> 00:11:00.299 that Jon Bon Jovi did and maybe work some Jeff 00:11:00.299 --> 00:11:02.840 Beck into the mix because he played on that album. 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.179 Or I can go super obvious because Bon Jovi just 00:11:07.179 --> 00:11:11.039 released that legendary edition of their 2024 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:14.779 album Forever that features everybody from Jelly 00:11:14.779 --> 00:11:18.080 Roll to Jason Isbell to The War and the Treaty 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.639 to Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Laney Wilson, 00:11:20.980 --> 00:11:24.259 Marcus King, Avril Lavigne, Bruce Springsteen. 00:11:24.259 --> 00:11:26.559 I mean, everybody's on that friggin album. So 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.559 that would make it real easy. However. Thinking 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.659 back to the My Weekly Mixtape catalog, I had 00:11:32.659 --> 00:11:35.480 Desmond Child on for two episodes and we talked 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.940 a ton of Bon Jovi. And in that, we talked about 00:11:39.940 --> 00:11:44.559 the song that Bon Jovi wrote and performed with 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.980 Cher on her self -titled album back in 1987. 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:52.580 And the song was the second single from that 00:11:52.580 --> 00:11:55.179 album, We All Sleep Alone, the follow -up to 00:11:55.179 --> 00:11:58.730 I Found Someone. The song was written by Desmond, 00:11:58.830 --> 00:12:01.889 Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora, but the performance 00:12:01.889 --> 00:12:04.950 itself on the album pretty much features all 00:12:04.950 --> 00:12:07.309 of Bon Jovi because David Bryan's on there, Alex 00:12:07.309 --> 00:12:10.549 John Sutch, Tico Torres, and Jon even sings some 00:12:10.549 --> 00:12:13.289 background vocals on it. So right then and there, 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:16.690 there's my next place to go. So this is now track 00:12:16.690 --> 00:12:19.769 four, Working Our Way Back. We had Kevin Bacon 00:12:19.769 --> 00:12:22.509 with Jennifer Nettles. We had Jennifer Nettles 00:12:22.509 --> 00:12:25.590 with Bon Jovi. And now we have Bon Jovi with 00:12:25.590 --> 00:12:29.149 Cher on the We All Sleep Alone single. And I'm 00:12:29.149 --> 00:12:30.929 not going to lie. I actually really love that 00:12:30.929 --> 00:12:33.230 Cher album. It's probably my favorite by her. 00:12:33.309 --> 00:12:35.970 I know it's got that 80s rock sound to it. I 00:12:35.970 --> 00:12:37.789 found someone. I mean, it's got Desmond Child 00:12:37.789 --> 00:12:41.519 written all over it. And it works for me. Now, 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.779 if this song isn't ringing a bell for you, or 00:12:43.779 --> 00:12:46.059 if any of these songs aren't ringing a bell for 00:12:46.059 --> 00:12:48.659 you, let me remind you, you can hear all the 00:12:48.659 --> 00:12:51.200 songs that I'm talking about in this episode 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:56.360 over on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.399 Now, Cher is an artist who's worked with, obviously, 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.820 a lot of people. Sonny Bono, you know, she's 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:05.139 done live stuff with Elton John and more modern 00:13:05.139 --> 00:13:08.120 stuff with Miley Cyrus. I'm not going to lie, 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:11.480 the first place my mind went... was i got you 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.580 babe but not the sunny and share version i went 00:13:14.580 --> 00:13:18.100 to the beavis and butthead version from the beavis 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:21.659 and butthead experience cd from the 90s however 00:13:21.659 --> 00:13:24.240 how do you come out of beavis and butthead the 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.399 only other song on there is the one that's actually 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.000 the here's where i go really nerd on all of you 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:34.759 the bonus track after i got you babe is the come 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.019 to butthead reprise that features positive k 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.019 And I don't know a ton about Positive K's music, 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.100 although I did post on social media recently 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:47.500 because a lot of people don't know this. And 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:49.679 this is a total aside here that has nothing to 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.120 do with this episode. But maybe it'll blow your 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:57.559 mind. The woman in Positive K's I Got a Man is 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.879 actually just Positive K's voice. pitch bent 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.840 up to sound like a female Allah, the way the 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.519 chipmunks did it way back in the day. So if you 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.600 didn't know that there's your fun fact for now, 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.759 but coming out of positive K I'd be going down 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:15.220 a hip hop road coming from country. And the only 00:14:15.220 --> 00:14:17.620 positive K collaboration that I can even think 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:20.820 of off the top of my head is an MC light song 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:24.539 that even the name escapes me right now. So I'm 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:26.460 not going to go down the Beavis and butthead 00:14:26.460 --> 00:14:31.240 route, but for share, I'm going to go way, way 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.299 back. And it does include Sonny Bono because 00:14:34.299 --> 00:14:37.919 he's a part of this too. Because on the Ronettes 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:43.559 Be My Baby, Cher and Sonny Bono are singing backup 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:49.139 vocals. So there we go from Cher being the lead 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:52.620 to Cher being the featured artist. taking us 00:14:52.620 --> 00:14:56.100 down to number three in this walk down of six 00:14:56.100 --> 00:15:00.700 degrees of Kevin Bacon in reverse. So what else 00:15:00.700 --> 00:15:03.200 needs to be said about Be My Baby? It's an absolute 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.320 classic song by the Ronettes. Phil Spector doing 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:12.259 his thing. Jay Sweet and I talk a lot about Spector, 00:15:12.259 --> 00:15:14.379 the wall of sound on some of the oldies episodes 00:15:14.379 --> 00:15:17.320 that we've done in season one. I mean, the song 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.519 is included on endless best of lists, top song 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:25.580 lists. And if somebody with the musical prowess 00:15:25.580 --> 00:15:29.419 of Brian Wilson considers the song to be his 00:15:29.419 --> 00:15:32.980 favorite song of all time, I think that's pretty 00:15:32.980 --> 00:15:35.320 much all that there needs to be said about the 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.539 run ads be my baby. And selfishly, what's also 00:15:38.539 --> 00:15:41.480 really nice about choosing this song is the fact 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:49.330 that I can kind of cheat. Because, yes, Be My 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:53.610 Baby is one song. But when the lead singer goes 00:15:53.610 --> 00:15:57.350 and interpolates that song for somebody else, 00:15:57.450 --> 00:16:01.730 I think it counts. And one of my favorite songs 00:16:01.730 --> 00:16:04.470 of all time is Eddie Money's Take Me Home Tonight. 00:16:04.929 --> 00:16:09.169 That features the interpolation of Be My Baby 00:16:09.169 --> 00:16:15.970 with not a sample, but Ronnie Spector. singing 00:16:15.970 --> 00:16:19.490 as a featured artist. It was uncredited, but 00:16:19.490 --> 00:16:22.330 she sang on that track. That was not a sample. 00:16:22.529 --> 00:16:25.529 So as far as I'm concerned, it counts. And I'm 00:16:25.529 --> 00:16:27.730 making up the rules as I go along here, like 00:16:27.730 --> 00:16:31.090 I always do. So coming out of the Ron Ants Be 00:16:31.090 --> 00:16:35.149 My Baby is the interpolation of Be My Baby taking 00:16:35.149 --> 00:16:38.570 us into Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money in 00:16:38.570 --> 00:16:42.870 that number two slot. Now, Eddie Money is not 00:16:42.870 --> 00:16:46.409 somebody that I think of that has a ton of guest 00:16:46.409 --> 00:16:49.549 spots. I love his music, though, man. Shaken, 00:16:49.789 --> 00:16:53.149 Walk on Water, Two Tickets to Paradise. I love 00:16:53.149 --> 00:16:55.649 Eddie Money. I listened to a lot of Eddie Money 00:16:55.649 --> 00:16:58.029 growing up with my father. That was part of our 00:16:58.029 --> 00:17:02.169 Friday night music nights. But also part of our 00:17:02.169 --> 00:17:05.369 Friday night music nights came the random knowledge 00:17:05.369 --> 00:17:08.130 that would come out of my dad every now and then 00:17:08.130 --> 00:17:11.259 when a song would come on. And one of his favorite 00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:17.180 songs was by Kenny Loggins. Now, where do Kenny 00:17:17.180 --> 00:17:20.099 Loggins and Eddie Money come together? Believe 00:17:20.099 --> 00:17:22.599 it or not, and I don't know, again, kind of like 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.599 the positive K thing, I don't know how many people 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.700 know this, but this is just one of the many worthless 00:17:27.700 --> 00:17:30.019 pieces of music knowledge I have stuck in the 00:17:30.019 --> 00:17:33.440 back of my head. Eddie Money sings backup vocals 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.839 on Kenny Loggins' I'm Alright theme from Caddyshack. 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:44.400 Yes, he sings background vocals as well as some 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:46.819 lead vocals during the breakdown. The whole ma 00:17:46.819 --> 00:17:48.799 -ma -ma -ma -ma -man, it makes me feel good. 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:53.279 That's Eddie Money. And Eddie Money aside, this 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.759 is always going to rank as one of my favorite 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.680 Kenny Loggins songs. And I know there's a lot 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.920 of them. I could do an episode of my weekly mixtape 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.220 on Kenny Loggins just between. His solo stuff 00:18:04.220 --> 00:18:07.140 as well as Loggins and Messina. And hell, I even 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:09.619 love the theme from Caddyshack too. Nobody's 00:18:09.619 --> 00:18:13.000 Fool. That song kicks ass. But I'm Alright holds 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.819 kind of a real special place in my heart because 00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:20.759 for years and years and years, and I mean, God, 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:24.720 well over a decade, my father had that as his 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.619 ringtone. And my girls know that song every time 00:18:28.619 --> 00:18:31.579 it comes on. they know Papa Joe is getting a 00:18:31.579 --> 00:18:35.200 phone call. And God, every time I hear it now, 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.359 it does bring a little bit of a smile to my face, 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.660 but it's also a little bittersweet because I 00:18:40.660 --> 00:18:43.920 think that's him calling me to say hi. So when 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.359 I hear that song now, it's got an extra layer 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.640 of something special to me, but I'm all right. 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:53.339 Beyond that, it's just such a fun, fantastic 00:18:53.339 --> 00:18:56.519 song. And believe it or not, musically, fits 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.900 into this backwards six degrees of Kevin Bacon 00:18:59.900 --> 00:19:03.660 in kind of an interesting way. So there you have 00:19:03.660 --> 00:19:08.240 it. That is the first song in this backwards 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:13.039 musical six degrees of Kevin Bacon. So taking 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:16.700 this backwards to the front, I had Jennifer Nettles 00:19:16.700 --> 00:19:19.299 featuring Kevin Bacon, special kind of crazy. 00:19:19.779 --> 00:19:23.299 Bon Jovi featuring Jennifer Nettles, who said 00:19:23.299 --> 00:19:27.220 you can't go home. Cher featuring pretty much 00:19:27.220 --> 00:19:31.119 all of Bon Jovi, We All Sleep Alone. The Ronettes 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:35.619 featuring Cher doing Be My Baby. Then Eddie Money 00:19:35.619 --> 00:19:38.940 featuring Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes doing 00:19:38.940 --> 00:19:42.059 Take Me Home Tonight. And then Kenny Loggins 00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:46.660 featuring Eddie Money, I'm Alright. But in the 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:50.710 spirit of Six Degrees. of Kevin Bacon, let's 00:19:50.710 --> 00:19:55.009 pretend the last nearly 20 minutes of my weekly 00:19:55.009 --> 00:19:59.069 mixtape episode didn't happen. And if I was the 00:19:59.069 --> 00:20:02.029 true musical genius that I hope and aspire to 00:20:02.029 --> 00:20:06.130 be one day, I would have just started by saying, 00:20:06.170 --> 00:20:08.730 let's go with Kenny Loggins and go the Yacht 00:20:08.730 --> 00:20:12.009 Rock route. And let's go with Kenny Loggins' 00:20:12.109 --> 00:20:15.190 I'm Alright theme from Caddyshack. And then I 00:20:15.190 --> 00:20:17.930 would drop the Eddie Money knowledge. And then 00:20:17.930 --> 00:20:21.269 from Eddie Money, we'd go into Take Me Home Tonight 00:20:21.269 --> 00:20:24.829 featuring Ronnie Spector. And then you'd take 00:20:24.829 --> 00:20:28.730 Ronnie Spector and go over to the Ronettes and 00:20:28.730 --> 00:20:31.650 do Be My Baby and then drop that Cher bomb that 00:20:31.650 --> 00:20:34.369 maybe not everybody knows. Even though, yes, 00:20:34.450 --> 00:20:36.410 it's interpolation. It's a little bit of a gray 00:20:36.410 --> 00:20:39.549 area. You know, whatever. I'm going with it. 00:20:39.730 --> 00:20:43.579 Then you go. From Cher being as a part of Be 00:20:43.579 --> 00:20:47.160 My Baby as a background vocalist into her self 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:50.619 -titled album featuring Richie Sambora, Jon Bon 00:20:50.619 --> 00:20:54.299 Jovi, and the rest of the band on We All Sleep 00:20:54.299 --> 00:20:57.140 Alone. Thank you, Desmond Child, for that interview 00:20:57.140 --> 00:21:01.339 to give me that knowledge. Then you go from Bon 00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:03.920 Jovi being the featured artist to Bon Jovi being 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.799 the main artist with Who Said You Can't Go Home 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:11.769 bringing Jennifer Nettles into the mix. with 00:21:11.769 --> 00:21:15.970 Kevin Bacon doing special kind of crazy from 00:21:15.970 --> 00:21:19.109 this year's The Bondsman Hell and Back soundtrack, 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:22.410 which is now streaming on Amazon. And I should 00:21:22.410 --> 00:21:25.029 probably watch it because I've actually heard 00:21:25.029 --> 00:21:27.589 the entire soundtrack a couple of times. I really 00:21:27.589 --> 00:21:31.109 like it. Have not seen the show, which if you 00:21:31.109 --> 00:21:34.069 ever listen to TuneStyles or Playlist Wars or 00:21:34.069 --> 00:21:36.390 my weekly mixtape, really shouldn't surprise 00:21:36.390 --> 00:21:40.210 any of you out there because. I can't even begin 00:21:40.210 --> 00:21:44.450 to count the number of soundtracks that I own 00:21:44.450 --> 00:21:46.970 and have heard but have never seen the movie. 00:21:47.089 --> 00:21:49.109 Probably the most egregious one being Judgment 00:21:49.109 --> 00:21:52.829 Night because that's one of my favorite soundtracks 00:21:52.829 --> 00:21:55.890 of the 90s. Never saw the movie. Loved the soundtrack 00:21:55.890 --> 00:22:00.410 front to back. But I digress. Matt of X Radio 00:22:00.410 --> 00:22:05.089 X, there is your Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon playlist 00:22:05.089 --> 00:22:08.940 here on my weekly mixtape. Thank you so much 00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:11.160 for chiming in with that one. And thank you for 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.660 making this first episode of the random playlist 00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:20.099 attempt. One for the ages. I honestly am still, 00:22:20.140 --> 00:22:22.599 I'm pretty damn proud of myself for coming up 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:24.539 with this one. This is pretty cool. I'm excited 00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:29.160 about it. And I hope I made you guys smile with 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:31.359 some of those song picks there. What would you 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.839 have done differently? Is there a way that you 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.599 would have gotten to a Kevin Bacon collaboration? 00:22:37.670 --> 00:22:40.069 Musically through six degrees of separation, 00:22:40.369 --> 00:22:43.829 because if there are other routes, because Matt 00:22:43.829 --> 00:22:46.329 did say to me on Twitter that if I stayed somewhere 00:22:46.329 --> 00:22:48.769 between Steve Lukather and Michael McDonald, 00:22:48.930 --> 00:22:51.710 I could do okay with this. And somehow I avoided 00:22:51.710 --> 00:22:54.910 both of them. So I would love to hear Matt from 00:22:54.910 --> 00:22:58.200 you or anybody else, how you would get. to Kevin 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:01.359 Bacon through six songs. I think this was a lot 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:03.539 of fun. Thank you for chiming in with it. Thank 00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:06.099 you for being a friend of the podcast. If you 00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:09.220 haven't heard X Radio X, the music podcast, be 00:23:09.220 --> 00:23:11.700 sure to check them out as well. Matt's been on 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:14.920 this show. We've also worked together on Playlist 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:17.140 Wars. I'm still waiting to guest over there, 00:23:17.220 --> 00:23:20.000 guys. So just let me know when. I am game. I 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:21.839 would love to come on and talk music with you 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:25.200 guys, especially going down a... Covers Rabbit 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:27.480 Hole. You guys do some really fun cover songs 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:30.160 episodes over there. Keep up the great work. 00:23:30.299 --> 00:23:33.680 And thank you so much for that incredibly fun 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.759 kickoff to this new era of my weekly mixtape. 00:23:38.539 --> 00:23:41.539 Now, if you're out there listening and you have 00:23:41.539 --> 00:23:44.079 playlist ideas that you want to send my way, 00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:49.369 I am all ears and eyes. Hit me up. myweeklymixtape 00:23:49.369 --> 00:23:53.690 at gmail .com or on any of the social media platforms 00:23:53.690 --> 00:23:57.789 at myweeklymixtape. If you don't know the songs 00:23:57.789 --> 00:23:59.769 that I've talked about in tonight's episode, 00:23:59.990 --> 00:24:03.710 head over to the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:24:03.710 --> 00:24:06.730 .com. I'm embedding a playlist so you can hear 00:24:06.730 --> 00:24:10.309 the ultimate six degrees of Kevin Bacon musical 00:24:10.309 --> 00:24:13.720 playlist in its entirety. 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