Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me once again as guest curator, once
again as once again from five minutes ago, is
my former Toon Styles co -host, J Sweet J. Welcome
back, even though it feels like I just talked
to you. It's good to be back, Brian. Yeah, it's
a week later in real time, but in Jay and my
universe, it's only been five minutes. It's kind
of like Marvel -esque, but a little bit different.
So yeah, really no small talk to have here, because
if you listened last week to our fictional bands
episode, you already know what's happening here.
But however, if you haven't, let me first give
you a warning that this is the first time in
my weekly mixtape history that we are doing a
volume two back to back with a volume one. Unless
you take into consideration the 100th episode
celebration that ran for three episodes, which
was not actually an episode. It was more of a
compilation thing, but I digress. So if you're
listening to this episode now and you haven't
heard volume one, you might be a little confused
because we're going to be referencing volume
one at some points here, I'm guessing, because
it's kind of a part two. So obviously some bands
we're going to be talking about tonight. We didn't
talk about volume one and vice versa. So if you
want the full fictional band experience, pause
this episode now and go back to last week's and
make sure you finish volume one first. But Jay,
I've got 40 other songs to go here. What's your
bank looking like? Yeah, about the same. I narrowed
it down to about 35, 40 more that we could go
with. And we have to whittle that down to 20.
So tonight, as I mentioned. Jay and I will be
curating the Ultimate Fictional Bands Mixtape
Volume 2, and we're going to continue to use
that old cassette deck approach. Jay, as my special
guest, will begin side A with his first song
choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel
best follows up that choice. We'll then flip
-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10
songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape
a proverbial flip, and we'll map out side B.
Only this time, I'll kick things off with Jay
choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode
is to craft the best fictional bands mixtape
possible through only 20 songs. At the end of
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Jay, you know this spiel. I'm pressing the record
button. What do you got? For volume two, track
one. We are starting off strong on volume two.
It really occurred to me that it would have been
an absolute sin to leave off the life of the
dragon. And I am going with Steel Dragons, We
All Die Young. Nice. We have talked about this
song several times on this show. A hundred percent.
This movie was another one of those semi -monumentary
biopic kind of movies. originally supposed to
be based loosely on the story of judas priest
but judas priest kind of was like you know what
maybe we shouldn't let's not do that so they
kind of created this fictitional band this wonderful
tribute band steel dragon and it was voiced by
i mean you kind of hinted in in volume one just
about 10 minutes ago that we there were this
is a super group You've got Zach Wilde, you've
got Jason Bonham and Miljenko Metagevic from
Steelheart, who wrote the song and had actually
put that out as Steelheart before this movie
was even a thought. And by the way, you're not
giving the bass player any love here, so you
can't forget Jeff Pilsen of Dokken. Of course,
of course, Jeff Pilsen from Dokken. Gotta show
the bass player some love, man. Jesus. Everybody
forgets the bass player. Jeez. But it's such
a great band, and the music is fantastic. And
again, this is one of those groups where you
talked about in Volume 1, I don't understand
how a Stillwater, how these guys didn't have
a full album. an actual super group recording
career. So you would have had like steel dragon
and you, you would have had traveling Wilburys
and Asia, right? The power station. I don't know.
Just pulling things off top of my head. But those
are the, those are the kinds of things that,
you know, that this movie just nails down everything.
That is the eighties anthemic stadium rock and
roll. And for those of you that don't know the
movie that Jay's talking about, it's called Rockstar.
Oh, I didn't mention that because, you know,
yeah. And that features Marky Mark showing off
his vocal prowess. Well, lip syncing prowess.
But he does a great job in this movie. It's actually
a fantastic movie. Jennifer Aniston. Yes. If
you're a big fan of that 80s overindulgent. Rock
scene. This really hits the nail on the head.
And I mean, it's funny, Jay, you mentioned like,
you know, how could Steel Dragon not be out and
about doing, you know, bigger things in my mind.
I take that a step further. And how the hell
did Steelheart's original not get bigger? I understand
that Steelheart had I know I'll never let you
go was a big hit for the band. Their biggest.
Yes. But after that, they still continue to put
out great records. And I feel like. It's wrong
that they quote unquote peaked at I'll never
let you go because there's so much more than
that. I think it was unfortunately just the timing
of everything, because while their later stuff
was like in the early 90s and grunge had kind
of taken over and hair metal was kind of on the
decline. But it's firehouse. It's alias, right?
It's that kind of, you know, power ballads were
the thing. And I think that's when hair metal.
kind of got a bad rap if you will you know grunge
took over right in 91 and then power ballads
were considered passe that's right and you know
what i'm not gonna lie we're here in 2025 and
i listen back to power ballads and i don't feel
that they seem as dated maybe it's just me because
i am dated from that era but some of them some
of them some of them definitely feel dated don't
get me wrong yeah some of them have that 80s
sheen in that 80s production sound but We All
Die Young, which came out in 2001 with the Rockstar
movie, alludes to that 80s sound, but it definitely
is a song that I can listen to now and still
say it feels like a modern rock song. Well, that
song, I think we've talked about this on previous
episodes as well as TuneStyles. When Steelheart
put out We All Die Young, it was a much different
version than Steel Dragons. It's a little bit
more mellow. It still has the same lyrics and
the same theme. And I've mentioned that he wrote
that when his mother was sick. That was a whole
different vibe from what you hear from the Zach
Wilde charged guitars and Jeff's thumping bass
there. I made it up. Thank you. Yes. But I mean,
yeah. And just pounding on the drums with Jason
Bonham behind him. And it's an incredible song
to listen to. And the kind of monologue that
he does in the intro of the song before the end.
Right. Where he's mimicking basically Bobby Beers
is original when he sees him live in concerts.
Like he kind of says the whole thing about, you
know, it's important for us to kind of continue
moving forward because. And then the kid in the
front row is like, we all die young. That's right.
We all die young. And he realizes Mark Wahlberg
realizes that there's more to life than this.
Like I walked away from a pretty good life with
Jennifer Aniston and then he goes and becomes
the vert, uh, the vert pike, right? Colorful.
One of my favorite songs on that soundtrack.
No question about it. All right. Well, I'm going
to write a wrong from volume one right away because
I just could not find a spot in volume one to
sneak this in. And I guarantee you that future
Brian, when these episodes air, will have fielded
emails over the fact that Harry Shearer, Christopher
Guest, and Michael McKeon were not discussed
in volume one. And what the hell were we thinking?
We got to make up for it. We got to go spinal
tap. And I'm going to go big bottom. Nice. I
mean, you can't have a fictional band episode
and not talk about Spinal Tap. And I feel like
we messed that up in volume one, even though
volume one is awesome. I feel like that's going
to be the thing that people dangle in front of
me. Like, why the hell did you have Spinal Tap
is kind of the impetus for what drove this episode.
Like, I heard one of their songs come on. I'm
going, oh, my God, these guys aren't even a real
band. And Big Bottom is awesome. How the hell
is this band not real? And I think a lot of times
during volume one, we talked about like, these
are really fantastic songs at the end of the
day. We're not just calling out fictitious bands
to say, well, this band is fictitious. So it
makes the list maybe in Zach attack. I mean,
right. You know, I think I'll be honest, Jay,
you started off volume two, a lot stronger than
you started off volume one. We all die young.
Just, but. We All Die Young is a song that 25
years later, I mean even longer from the original,
still is incredible. And Spinal Tap's music is
still incredible. And they're one of those ones
that, like the Blues Brothers, they started as
a fictitious band, but then technically they're
still a fictitious band. But are they really?
Because they put out Break Like the Wind, which
even though there's some humor to it, it charted.
Right. And they also put out back from the dead
in 2009 and that charted. And now there's a sequel.
Right. For this is spinal tap. Does it count?
I think as a fictional band anymore, because
they've kind of crossed over and transcended.
They transcended fictional bands. This isn't
like the lone Rangers in airheads where they
just had the one song and the one movie. And
then they continued on spinal tap kind of, are
they really fictitious at this point? I don't
know. And that's a, Rhetorical question I'm going
to ask all the listeners. Do you consider Spinal
Tap to be a fictitious band or a actual band
in 2025? So if I'm not mistaken, Big Bottom was
written sometime between their drummer spontaneously
combusting and the Stonehenge incident while
they were figuring out that their amps go to
11. Spinal Tap is one of those bands, again,
that just it's cemented in pop culture. It's
been. rift on in all sorts of other shows that
kind of spoof that type of, of music and that
type of, of show that movie. And I'll be very
curious in the sequel, if they're going to reference
break like the wind and back from the dead as
fictitional lore for the sequels. Because if
that's the case, then it does make these albums
part of the fictitious narrative and takes away
any relevancy of them actually being Spinal Tap
albums. And then I'll also throw out there that
I'm going into the Spinal Tap sequel with a little
bit of pause because there's been a lot of sequels
that have come out over the last decade. That
were 10 or 20 years in the making. Anchorman
2. Dumb and Dumber, the sequel. Right. The one
with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Zoolander 2.
Coming to America, the sequel. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
I feel like a lot of these had high expectations
that were impossible to meet. And Spinal Tap,
I put in that same category. Yes. It's going
to take a miracle for them to capture the lightning
in a bottle that is 1984's This Is Spinal Tap.
And I really want them to do it. I hope they
do it. I hope it succeeds. And if there was any
group of comedians that could make this happen,
I feel like it is the members of Spinal Tap.
You know, Rob Reiner, this movie was was genius.
I think it was it was put together perfectly.
They didn't play to the laugh, which was hilarious.
The fact it was we talk about wet hot American
summer. And I think that that movie played 100
percent to the laugh. It got just ridiculous
at the end. This is Spinal Tap didn't play to
the laugh. They played it straight and it was
just perfectly done. Well, Jay, we are back to
you now for track three. Where do we go from
here? Let's stay in this vein. I know we talked
about Tenacious D. We talked about Jack Black.
And I want to go to School of Rock with the School
of Rock. That is a fantastic movie as well. That's
a great cast. You've got Jack Black. You've got
Sarah Silverman. You've got... A very young iCarly
is in it, right? I mean, that movie is fantastic.
It's so good that they spawned a Broadway musical.
And of course, you had great star power in the
movie too. And perfect marketing because School
of Rocks are everywhere. That's right. I've got
one around the corner from the apartment. And
we get a little extra Jack Black in the discussion
because in volume one, we talked about Barry
Jive in the Uptown Five. Let's get it on. But
School of Rock is fantastic. It had that ACDC
vibe to it. The kids are so talented in it. I
actually read that they did a reunion recently
and two of the kids from the movie are now married
in real life. They stayed in touch all the years
and now they're married. That's cool. Jack Black
and all the kids still get together and they
go out to dinner. They stayed close all these
years, which I think is awesome. Fun movie, fun
soundtrack. I've watched it with my kids. It
still holds up 20 years later. But following
up School of Rock is tough, but maybe not so
much because this amazing person just popped
into my head and we have to go there because
we haven't talked about them yet. And that is
the lovely Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo. She
wrote amazing music with Letters to Cleo, but
also did music for the soundtracks to The Craft
to 10 Things I Hate About You. She performed
in Jesus Christ Superstar alongside of Gary Cherone
in Extreme. That's pretty cool. Back in the day,
yep. She also wrote the music for the Disney
cartoon Doc McStuffins. She wrote music for Star
Trek's Strange New Worlds Subspace Rhapsody episode.
She was the guest on episode 44, the Ultimate
Letters to Cleo playlist. And we talk about all
of those things along with Josie and the Pussycats,
Three Small Words. It's a little different musically
from Steel Dragon, Spinal Tap, School of Rock,
where you got that hard rock thing going. This
brings it to a little bit more pop, but it's
Josie and the Pussycats, man. You have to. They're
like an iconic fictional band. Absolutely. I
mean, again, we talked about in Volume 1, we
talked about the Hanna -Barbera cartoons and
Josie and the Pussycats was there. And I was
trying to rack my brain out thinking, all right,
come on, what was the song that they did? What
were some of the songs that they did in the cartoon?
And it took the movie, I think, to really to
kind of cement that they had with Rachel Lee
Cook and Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson. They made
it very believable. And I'll tell you, we recently
watched. Josie and the Pussycats, and it held
up. It's still a good movie. It's fun. It's a
fun family movie. There's a couple of parts that
are maybe not good for the youngest youngins
in the house, but it's a fun movie. It's a very
fun movie. Absolutely. All right, let me stay
in that vein. And this is a movie that's been
remade a couple of times in different iterations,
but I want to talk about the Jamie Lee Curtis
and Lindsay Lohan vehicle. freaky friday oh okay
the band pink slip with take me away which is
actually a cover song it was originally recorded
by a group out of australia called lash and it
was a hit in australia reaching number 33 i had
this on my list if you haven't figured it out
yet nice freaky friday is one of those ones that
my kids fell on to is when they were young and
i've seen it so many times and it's so good and
just like spinal tap This year is getting a sequel.
Only time will tell if it captures the lightning
in a bottle that the 2003 movie was. Because
at the end of the day, yes, that was even a remake
from the original Freaky Friday. But I think
given our age, they did a great job with that
one, modernizing it, keeping the same vibe. Believe
it or not, I think Lindsay Lohan did an excellent
job in that movie. And Jamie Lee Curtis was fantastic.
She's fantastic in anything and anything. True
lies. All of it. She's just hands down. Incredible.
But this movie was fun and the music was perfect.
I definitely, they definitely Popeye's the version
for freaky Friday, the take me away song, but
I love it. I love the pick. Yeah. And you've
got a great, you mentioned the great soundtrack
is again, bowling for soup recording baby one
more time for the soundtrack as well. It's just
terrific to kind of hear that, that new. kind
of feel that that soundtrack puts out for the
movie and again that the theme has been done
from the 70s george burns right with um 18 again
a very similar vein of of you know something
magical happens and the adult is transferred
into the body of the child and vice versa didn't
fred savage do something with with that as well
fred savage was with judge reinhold and vice
versa Yes, exactly what I was thinking. Then
you also have 17 again, which was the Matthew
Perry version of it. That's right. So again,
you've got a ton of variations on the theme and
it just the movies. You could take them, relieve
them. But the soundtrack for the 2003 Freaky
Friday was so good. Oh, it was so great. And
to follow that up, I'm going to drop a bomb on
this episode now. All right. Because we haven't
gone off the rails. I mean, a little bit in some
instances. I think Zack Attack on volume one
was going off the rails right from the beginning.
But how could we do a fictitious bands episode
and not talk about prestige worldwide and boats
and hoes? Oh, yes. That's great. Oh, my God.
Brothers is one of the funniest movies of the
last two decades by far. so quotable we're not
going to quote any of it here we're not even
going to talk about the lyrics of boats and hoes
here it's filthy the movie is just terrible but
there's so many lines in it i find myself using
in everyday life if i walk into a room that's
not messy in our house with some of the kids
toys or just day -to -day life you know I'll
walk in and say, there's so much room here for
activities. I mean, it's just one of those quotable
movies and boats and hoes at the end of the day
is just a fun frigging song that I have on my
comedy playlist. And I laugh every single time
I hear it. It's tough because I could have easily
went with Dewey Cox because Jesse Riley is so
funny. He's got such a great. rapport on screen
anytime with whoever he's with he's just knows
how to like make the scenes work and he does
it so well with will ferrell you've got two amazing
movies they did together in step brothers and
talladega nights then they did that sherlock
holmes one that i don't remember seeing but i've
heard from a lot of people it's not very good
but that aside yeah it doesn't get any better
than prestige worldwide as far as i'm concerned
so good it's your catalina wine mixer That's
so good. I love it. I love it. And another great
movie with a great cast. You know, we could go
on for, for hours about the place that that holds
in my heart. I'll never look at a drum set the
same way. Did we just become best friends? That's
so good. All right. What are you following it
up with? All right. Wow. That's a hard one to
come out of. Let's take it back. Let's, let's
do a little bit of a reset. And I know we, we,
we kind of talk about these. A lot of these movies
are, are just. Amazing. But I'm going to go back
to welcome everybody back to the Death Delay
Club. We're going to do a song tonight that will
live on in the hearts and minds of fans of Animal
House forever. This is Otis Day in the Nights
with their hit song, Shama Lama Ding Dong. Whoa.
I thought you were going to go with Shout. Oh,
yeah. I'm going to go with Shyamalan. That scene
in the movie, a fantastic movie. National Lampoon
just nails them when they put these things out.
Cannot make that movie today, just like Blazing
Saddles. I think SR -71 said it best in the song,
Politically Correct. You cannot make that movie
today. And I think that's why our generation,
and maybe this is a big soapbox moment for me,
but I feel like our generation has been prepped
via movies. like Animal House and Revenge of
the Nerds and Porky's and anything by Mel Brooks.
And then in standup comedy between the likes
of Richard Pryor and George Carlin and Sam Kinison
and Dice, we have a threshold for offensiveness
that I think is higher than other generations
because of what we grew up with. That's right.
Absolutely. And Animal House is a perfect example
of that. Otis Day is another example of an artist
that was fictitional. but has taken that on and
it's become his career. He still tours his Otis
day in the nights, which I love. All right. I'm
going to go serious. Kind of serious. Oh, it's,
I mean, it's a serious song. I think it's a fair
to say, and this song has been recorded by the
Stanley brothers, Bob Dylan, ginger Baker's air
force. Ooh, but I'm going to go with the movie
that came out. in 2000 by the coen brothers oh
brother where art thou oh and i'm gonna go with
the soggy bottom boys i am a man of constant
sorrow that's fantastic it's a total 180 from
shamalama ding dong being an oldie song but i
feel like it's gonna be hard to kind of come
out of the oldies with anything right now i mean
obviously i could have went with the wonders
but you stole that from me in volume one And
I feel like this can kind of pivot us in many
different directions. And this version is so
good. It actually charted the soggy bottom boys
version. It hit number 35 on the U S hot country
charts. And it's a frigging incredible song.
Definitely movie aside. Like I love this song.
It was produced by T -bone Burnett who produced
so many frigging incredible albums, including
counting crows, August and everything after,
which I just did an episode about. But yeah,
man, this is this is different. This one is one
of those songs that it's like this could have
been a massive hit for any band at the time.
And it just happened to be in a movie by a fictitious
band. Part of the beauty of Oh Brother Where
Art Thou is that the Coen brothers put together
really good movies. They're very dry sense of
humor kind of movie, which is great. I like that
kind of stuff a lot. But the soundtrack to the
movie almost was bigger than the movie itself.
And the movie's great. Don't get me wrong. But
more people were talking about the soundtrack
than they were the movie itself. The plot of
the movie itself. Yes. That kind of music is
just, what is it? Swampy, kind of bluesy, bluegrassy.
Americana. Americana, right? It's just one of
those things like doing banjos from Deliverance.
You hear it and you're like, you know, the movie
was kind of, Oh my God, that's kind of weird.
But the song kind of takes you to a place. Yeah.
You know what I mean? And I think you can thank
Dan Tominski from that. Dan is part of Alison
Krauss's band union station. Yes. So you already
know that there's talent behind this song and
they were able to bring it out. And the performance
that George Clooney and crew give in the movie,
make it really believable. And it really just
works so, so well. So yeah, it's definitely a
pivot at a shamalama ding dong, but. Not horribly,
because Shamalama Ding Dong is a mellower song.
Had you gone with Shout, I might not have gone
with Man of Constant Sorrow here. Fantastic.
All right. So I kind of talked about how this
is a kind of a swampy, bluesy, Americana, bluegrass
kind of song. I'm going to take us into some
blues next. And I just this movie straight up
mockumentary. I remember. One of my favorite
parts of the movie with this particular song
focuses with the camera shots. And that is the
thing that made this such a big thing for me.
The commitments covering Aretha Franklin's I
Have Never Loved a Man As Much As I Love You.
And I just remember the lead singer in the band,
the seductive, hypnotic swaying and the tight
close -ups on her face as she's singing the words
into the microphone is just... Gorgeous. And
I was I'm like, is this made up for the movie?
And then I had to go back because I don't know
all of Riri's catalog. But man, I got to tell
you, that is a beautiful cover. And the commitments
really, really did a great job. Another one of
the soundtracks that just took off even further
than the movie. I was just going to say that.
I feel like I had them on my list, but I had
their cover of Mustang Sally, which I know, I
know, I know. I've been in cover bands for years.
Mustang Sally, believe it or not, and I know
I'm going to offend cover band musicians here.
It's never gotten old for me. I love Buddy Guy's
version. I love the version from The Commitments.
I don't know why, because I've heard and played
that song more times than I could fathomably
count. But I never got sick of it. And the Commitments
version is incredible. I love their take on Aretha's.
I have never loved a man as much as I love you.
The movie's, again, underrated. I think people
talk about the soundtracks more than the movie.
Definitely. Well, you're in blues now. Blues
-ish. And I don't have a lot of blues stuff.
Well. All right. I do, actually. I'm going to
switch a song. but I'm going to go with the same
group. And remember how I said at the beginning
of volume one, that I was going to add an asterisk
and say that the band could be part of cartoons,
television shows, movies, and or pop culture
culture. Yep. All right. I'm going to use my
pop culture, fictitious band right now. Okay.
I'm about, I'm about to blow your frigging mind
and blow everybody's mind. Listening. Are you
ready for this? Yep. Okay. The song banana Hill,
the band. The Rockafire explosion from Showbiz
Pizza. The animatronic band that you sat and
watched at Showbiz Pizza. The big bad competition
for Chuck E. Cheese. Right. Mic drop closing
out the side. This is a cover of Blueberry Hill
by Fats Domino called Banana Hill. And yes, I
have unlocked core memories. for you via the
look on your face right now. I don't like this
song. I love it. This is genius. I didn't even,
you know how long it's been since I've even thought
of, oh my. And you're there right now. You can
taste the pizza right now because this is where
you sat and ate your pizza. That's right. And
listen, I got to tell you, kids, when. Chuck
E. Cheese was in the 80s and early 70s when they
first started. Chuck E. Cheese was actually legitimate
food. The pizza was actually pretty damn good.
And now it's like cardboard with spaghetti sauce
on it. Yeah, but showbiz was their competition.
And I don't know. Here's the thing. I don't know
how regional showbiz was. Very. So I'd be very
curious. Who is listening to this that actually
remembers Showbiz Pizza? That's why I had to
bring in the Chuck E. Cheese reference. And there
are videos all over YouTube. There's a documentary
about the Rockafire Explosion. And they actually
put out the Rockafire Explosion soundtrack for
2025's Record Store Day on vinyl. No, that is
awesome. Slow clap, man. Slow clap. That's fantastic.
What a closer. Well, there you have it, folks.
Side A of Volume 2 of the Ultimate Fictional
Bands playlist, which consists of Steel Dragons,
We All Die Young from the movie Rockstar, Spinal
Taps, Big Bottom from This Is Spinal Tap, School
of Rocks, School of Rock from School of Rock,
Josie and the Pussycats, Three Small Words from
Josie and the Pussycats, Pink Slips, Take Me
Away from Freaky Friday. Prestige Worldwide's
Boats and Hoes from Step Brothers. Otis Day in
the Nights. Shama Lama Ding Dong from Animal
House. The Soggy Bottom Boys. Man of Constant
Sorrow from Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The Commitments.
I have never loved a man as much as I love you
from The Commitments. And the Rock of Fire Explosions
Banana Hill from the pizza eating memories of
our youth at Showbiz Pizza. Head over to MyWeeklyMixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. And now, Jay, I get to kick things
off for side two. And I'm going to drop one that
is a song that I vividly remember the song. But
I might be hard -pressed to tell you much about
the show. I remember watching it all the time.
of my core memory but the theme song is always
front and center because when you say we're kids
incorporated you know the response is k i d s
and i am going with the theme from disney's kids
incorporated i can't tell you a damn thing about
the show but i remember the song and i remember
the bloodhound gang covering it Anybody that
was around. Oh, my God. Yeah. Bloodhound Gang
do an incredible punk cover of Kids Incorporated.
And it's fantastic. And you need to check it
out. I'll be curious if Kids Incorporated falls
under the Rockafire explosion level of when was
the last time I heard those words? Oh, my gosh.
So what I can tell you is I'm just a hair older
than you. And get this. Spawn the careers of
which you may know. Martika. Fergie Ferg. formerly
of the Black Eyed Peas and then solo artist.
Also Mario Lopez, who we talked about in Zack
Attack. And Jennifer Love Hewitt. And Jennifer
Love Hewitt. So you've got a great vehicle there
for some real up and coming stars. That is fantastic.
I love it. I love it. Well, how are you going
to follow that up? Well, Brian, let's go to the
mall. Robin Scherbatsky was a... Well, it's Robin
Sparkles. Well, now, yes, of course. Under her
stage name, Robin Sparkles, before she had a
real dark encounter with Dave Coulier. Why does
everybody think it's always him? It was a great
riff on How I Met Your Mother on the Alanis Morissette
story that Robin Sparkles wrote a song about
going to the mall. And it's bubblegum, it's pop,
it's Canadian, it's perfect. It's a play on Alanis
Morissette because a lot of people don't know
that Alanis' first two albums released in Canada
were pop albums. That's right. Before Jagged
Little Pill. I also think it's definitely a hat
tip and a nod to Tiffany because Tiffany was
the one who started the whole mall craze in the
80s with I Think We're Alone Now. She did the
mall tours. That's right. And I feel like it's
a hat tip to both of them. And Jay, I don't know
if you know this, but on streaming services.
There is an album called how I met your music.
And it is the soundtrack to how I met your mother.
That includes let's go to the mall in full version.
Sand castles in the sand. Nothing suits me like
a suit. Marshall versus the machines. Two beavers
are better than one. You just got slapped. Both
the piano version and the version with boys to
men. And then a bang. Bang, bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. So
great. How I met your mother is my wife and my.
OK, it's too late to start watching anything
that's going to take any bit of brain power.
Yep. We just go on and we put on an episode.
And if we pass out halfway through, we pick it
up the next night. It is our kind of end of the
night show. We've watched the show. about as
many times as friends. And every single time
we do a run through of the series, we just talk
about how creative the writing was on that show.
It was genius. I understand that people have
a problem with the ending of the show, and I'm
not going to spoil it if you've never watched
it. However, there are callbacks in season seven
that go back to a joke that started in season
two, and they ping pong, and you'll notice things
that go back and forth. throughout the entire
series. Oh, Barney with the entire long -term
setups of the gags that he does, the bats and
the craziness. It's stuff that they started way
back in the early seasons, to your point. It
goes right through up to season seven. What a
setup! It's fantastic. Great writing, ensemble
cast. And I have another tip of the hat there
from the Alanis Morissette piece because she
was in a television show called You Can't Do
That on Television. So it follows Kids Incorporated
perfectly. Yeah. There was no band on You Can't
Do That on television. Right. Just barf with
the barf burgers. That's right. I'll say this.
How I Met Your Mother, it was not a musical,
but every single song, especially Let's Go to
the Mall, because I say it, my brain is going.
I mean, we did the bang, bangity bang. Two beavers
are better than one. These songs get stuck in
your head. They are so well written, so well
done. Say nothing more. If you haven't watched
How I Met Your Mother all the way through, do
it. Love the pick. We're dropping bombs this
side, aren't we? Yeah. All right. Coming right
back at you. Rex Manning, Say No More, Mon Amour,
Empire Records. There it is. It had to happen.
Had to happen. I don't think, you know, Let's
Go to the Mall is about a mall and Empire Records
is about a record store. So it's slightly different.
But we just rewatched Empire Records recently.
And this past fall, I went to see the stage play
in Princeton, New Jersey. They did a month -long
residency where the Princeton Record Exchange,
the record store, actually provided. all of the
set design for it. So the stage was set up like
a record store. It had the bins and the booths
and everything. Incredible stage play, great
music, great new music that was created just
for the stage version. I really hope it gets
a bigger, wider release. Empire Records is a
cult classic. I know there's two versions of
the movie. If you have the original DVD, you're
looking at the crappy fan edit of the movie.
Make sure to get the Blu -ray and watch the theatrical
version because that is the version. Yes. It's
a classic. Say No More, Mon Amour, Rex Manning
Day. People celebrate it every year. It had to
be included. I'm so upset I didn't include it
in volume one. No, we saved the best for the
end, I think. Again, we talk about great movies,
very cult -following movies, all -star cast,
who's who of stars in that movie. Joey Lauren
Adams, Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler, just... went
on to incredible stardom. And you could have
gone with, what was the, is it Sugar High or
Sugar Rush? Sugar High, I thought about going
with Sugar High. Okay, let me talk about this.
I really thought about going with Sugar High.
So Sugar High is written by Coyote Shivers. And
his name in real life is Francis Coyote Shivers.
And he is a Canadian -American musician and actor.
So it's actually his song. However, the movie
version that you watch on screen, Renee Zellweger's
character sings a verse. Right. That verse is
not included on the soundtrack. So technically,
the movie version is a fictional band for the
likeness of the movie because Renee Zellweger
sang the part of that song. That's right. But
on the album. It's a song by a real person. Okay.
Similar to what you did with SpongeBob and Sweet
Victory on volume one. I decided let's go for
the full fictitious character. Yes. And Rex Manning.
It was hard to pull, but Rex Manning is not on
the soundtrack to Empire Records. That was a
misstep in my opinion. Sorry. Got to say it.
I agree wholeheartedly. My goodness. So you've
got. We mentioned in volume one Love Actually
and the Gary Marshall movies and these giant
rom -coms with multiple cast members and these
multiple stories that go on within the show.
And Billy Mac was a fictional character in Love
Actually who had, you know, the whole thing about
Valentine's Day and they were going to, you know,
do this great song. I could go there. I'm not
going to. I'm going to go deep. I don't think
anybody is going to be. There are very few people
who are going to know this one. Coming out of
Say No More, I think I'm going to go with Buckaroo
Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers and their
cover of Since I Don't Have You. Peter Weller
and Jeff Goldblum in a movie. Wow. I don't even
know how to categorize this movie other than
mountains of cocaine. This movie is actually
titled The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across
the Eighth Dimension. That's right. It's shortened
by. a lot of people to just buckaroo bonsai.
Right. I'm not going to lie, Jay. My parents
took me to see this in the theater. Nice. I was
seven. Can you imagine what this movie did to
a seven? I sat there just kind of like, you know,
when you talk to your dog and your dog tilts
their head to the side, as if to say, I hear
you're talking, but I don't quite know what you
mean. I did that for the entire run length of
the movie. And I'm not going to lie. It is now
41 years old. And I think if I were to watch
it again, I might be doing the same thing. Oh,
I did. No, totally. The last time I watched was
last year, I want to say, or a year and a half
ago, I watched it again. And because I found
my friends, Super Pot Hero cast did the show.
They pulled it as one of the shows, the movies
that they were going to review. And I was like,
I have not seen that movie since it came out.
And I got it. Yeah. So you've got RoboCop, right?
And you've got Jeff Goldblum, who's Jeff Goldblum.
He's just great and everything. Don't forget
Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Lloyd and Clancy
Brown, who was the John Lithgow. I mean, there
was everybody. Oh, John Lithgow's character is
hysterically funny. The movie is in a word. stupid
it's just it's and in another word terrible it's
not great it's not cohesive but it's so bad it's
good it's so bad it's good exactly exactly and
so if you don't know the movie it's i guess it's
an alien fighting movie right superhero kind
of ish ish where these cowboys kind of with kung
fu like abilities are traveling and they're in
a band And John Lithgow's character is an Italian,
but he gets possessed by some alien. And he's
trying to bring other aliens. It's so great.
It's fantastic. I feel like I was just sitting
in the writer's room as you were describing it
there. They sat around a table. Again, mountains
of cocaine. And just, here, I got an idea. let's
do aliens and cowboys like just hilarious and
i'm not talking about the fun john favreau harrison
ford aliens and cowboys movies like this is just
craziness 80s sci -fi it's great well it's funny
you mentioned harrison ford because being you
went with the sci -fi routine i'm going to do
the same because jay we've gone an episode and
three quarters and we haven't talked about Figurine
Don and the Modal Nodes, otherwise known as the
Cantina Band in Star Wars. Oh, my God. He went
with the Modal Nodes. Yes. How can we not talk
about, we're talking about fictitious bands.
People don't even, look, if you're a Star Wars
fan, you know Figurine Don and the Modal Nodes,
but I had to say the Cantina Band because most
people refer to them as the Cantina Band. And
this song, I mean, I can't tell you how many
times I watched star Wars and no, I'm not calling
it a new hope. I'm calling it star Wars. It was
called star Wars. When I was a kid, the movie
screen said star Wars and it was star Wars until
they changed it to a new hope. I still refer
to it as star Wars and I love the cantina song.
It's fun. It's goofy. It's John Williams. Who's
just a frigging genius because he captured the
essence of that scene. In a way that it actually
felt like music you might hear in outer space.
It actually felt like, man, this doesn't sound
like humans would be playing this. There was
such a vibe to this song. And it is just a testament
to how amazing John Williams is. 100%. The world
building that came out of that movie is undeniable.
Prequels be damned and sequels suck and we get
it. But the original world that George Lucas
built in his head and how that translated to
the big screen in 1977 cannot be denied. You
could have gone with Cy Snoodles and the Max
Rebo Band, but no. And the Cantina song is probably
one of the most recognizable pieces of music
out there. In fact, Miko, right? Redid that in
the 70s as a disco style. So pretty cool stuff.
All right. So coming out of that, I think it's
going to be this is actually pretty easy. Family
Guy, who's been mentioned several times now in
this last two volumes. And a lot of connections
to Star Wars. Yep. A lot of connections. In fact,
having done Blue Harvest, which was a parody
of Star Wars, and then Something Something Dark
Side, which was Empire Strikes Back. And then
the last one was It's a Trap. which was return
of the Jedi in that show. And in the parody,
the after figuring Dan and the modal nodes are
done playing, they're like, yeah, great. Thanks
for coming out. Let's play that song again, the
exact same song. And then they go back into.
So anyway, that being said, Peter and Glenn later
on in the show form a band, like Simon and Garfunkel,
Garfunkel and oats kind of band called Griffin
and quagmire. And they had a very big hit with
a song called Butter on a Pop Tart. And that's
where I'm going. It's so freaking good. Okay.
Oh, my God. I mean, you could have picked so
many songs out of the family guy lore. I'm actually
shocked. We haven't gone down this road. I'm
actually shocked. We haven't gone down the South
park road yet. Like we are just, and we're getting
towards the end of side B of volume two. And
my list still feels endless at this point, but
that is absolutely hysterical because that is
one of my favorites from the series. It's so
dumb. Yes. And so just ridiculous. But the song.
is actually half catchy even though the lyrics
are asinine so yep and i could have dude i could
have gone with everyone from florida is stupid
but i don't want to tick off anybody who listens
to the shows yeah dude i get some good numbers
in florida so i i disagree with i'm offended
by that song it's offensive right yeah it's especially
to all the florida mixtapers yeah i lived in
florida for 10 years not everybody is But they
also had what was Home Bowl. Yeah, that that
whole that whole episode was so funny. Oh, my
God. So funny. But most of those songs are really
not safe for work. Kind of. You had the uncensored
versions of the show, which was what I was watching.
And there it just adds a layer of how in the
world did you get away with this? Yeah. And throwing
it back to the whole how I met your mother thing,
why they didn't put out a Griffin and Quagmire
digital EP. I'm shocked. Because Family Guy does
have a Symphony Orchestra live album out. So
I'm actually surprised they never took it to
that kind of breaking the fourth wall by putting
the album actually out on streaming services.
But I digress. That's tough to come out of. I'm
not going to lie. But I'm going to pivot here.
A little bit of a record scratch. Just a small
one. Just a tiny little record scratch there.
And go in a different direction and go with a
song that's a little bit more serious. And something
that I've talked about on this show and I've
talked about on perfectly good podcast, which
is another member of the Pantheon podcast network
with Sylvan and Jesse over there. They put on
a great show and I'm going to go to the country
bear soundtrack. Now the country bears is a movie
that came out in 2002. And my now wife and I
were dating at the time we're up in New Hampshire
and they had a movie theater chain up there called
Smitty's. And at the time, This movie theater
chain basically started what you see in theaters
now where you'd have the reclining chairs and,
you know, kind of be able to order food. They
were a full service restaurant. But instead of
sitting in chairs like movie theater chairs,
you sat in. They took the chairs out of Lincoln
Town Cars. Oh, and. You sat in those chairs.
They actually converted them. So they were big,
fluffy, comfortable chairs that leaned back slightly
enough, not all the way. Right. But there was
a table in between you and your guest and you'd
order your food and dinner. So at the time we
were dating, we said, let's go to dinner at one
of these movie things. So we got there at dinnertime.
And what was the only movie showing? Country
Bears. So we said, ah, screw it. We're going
to just. try the experience out. Let's just go
see whatever the movie is. Right. And as soon
as the movie was done, I made us go to a record
store and buy the soundtrack because the lead
singer of the country bears is John Hyatt. Who's
one of my favorite singer songwriters. As soon
as I heard the opening, I'm like, that's John
Hyatt. Oh my God. And the whole movie just features
cameo after cameo after cameo of famous musicians.
However, the last song of the movie, the kind
of the grand finale straight through the heart
of love. is a collaboration of John Hyatt, Don
Henley, Bonnie Raitt, and Colin Hay from Men
at Work. Very cool. And you put all those people
on stage together. Now, obviously, in the movie,
it's the country bears, but I know the voices.
And Don Henley and Bonnie Raitt, I know for sure,
made cameos in the movie. I'm not 100 % sure
about Colin. I think he did, but it's been a
long time since we've seen the movie. But the
soundtrack. Hearing all those voices together
is a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful song.
And I mean, John Hyatt's one of the greatest
songwriters ever, period. Yeah, so I got to admit,
this one wasn't on my radar. That was right around
the time that I had left New York City to go
back to Syracuse post 9 -11. And, you know, and
the medical problems my dad was having. So, you
know, there was right before the time where I
met my wife and my stepdaughter. So, right. Just
missed it. Just missed it. But the soundtrack
is fan. Fantastic. So I'll be honest, Christopher
Walken's the big bad in the movie. So it's definitely
worth a watch if you want something that's, you
know, it's made for kids, but there's a lot of
wink, wink, nudge, nudges to the adults in it.
And if you're a music fan, a lot of fun cameos
that really kind of put a smile, at least on
my face. Right, right. Yeah. I mean, love Bonnie
Raitt, love Don Henley. Of course, John Hyatt,
love Colin A. So you can't go wrong with that
for sure. Yeah, fictitional supergroup, so to
speak. Well, let's see. You put that down. That's
kind of a reset point. I think I'm going to...
Oh, come on. You're telling me butter on a Pop
-Tart wasn't a reset? Fair. Valid. But then again,
so was the Cantina song. Yeah, right? It's been
just nothing but resets here. Yeah, I think we're
all over the place. All right. You know what?
It hasn't been mentioned, and I think we need
to talk about... Bill S. Preston Esquire and
Ted Theodore Logan as wild stallions and be excellent
to each other. The song that saved the world.
Thank God it wasn't the song at the end of Bill
and Ted's Excellent Adventure, because that was
when George Carlin said they do get better. They
do get better. Maybe we should practice. I'll
be honest. I wasn't blown away by Bill and Ted's
Face the Music, but I didn't hate it. Right.
It wasn't a bad movie. It was, again, we've talked
about it several times, that long delay between
sequels. There was just no way for it to reach
the heights of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. That was a
lightning in a bottle movie and sequel. They
did the best they could and made a fun movie.
But at the end of the day, it's really hard to
reach such stratospheric bars. And there's already
talk about the Goonies getting a sequel. Yeah.
I don't know. I wouldn't do that. Even if you
do the whole they're the adults this time. I
mean, maybe there's a maybe there's a way to
that the adults recapture their youth through
another adventure. I mean. I think about the
Muppets 2011 movie and they were able to pull
off that plot point with Walter, the Muppet.
So maybe the Goonies can do that. I'll be very
curious, but I have pause. Love the fact that
you went with wild stallions because yeah, I
mean, come on, put them in the Iron Maiden. Iron
Maiden. Excellent. All right. Okay. So you went
with an all times world saving song. We're down
to our last picks. each for volume two. And you
and I have now been, this is the longest we've
ever recorded in all of our years recording together
in one false stretch. Sans for the interview
with Matthew Nelson of Nelson. I think that was
the longest episode. These two episodes combined
will equal our longest. And I ended episode one
with a song from the Blues Brothers. And I followed
up your Eddie and the Cruisers pick with Eddie
and the Cruisers 2. So I'm going to use that
same kind of mindset and close my fictitional
band picks for the night with what I feel might
be the greatest fictional band ever, ever, ever.
And it's from the sequel to the Blues Brothers,
the oft maligned Blues Brothers 2000. But I am
going to go with the Louisiana Gator Boys. Very
nice. Otherwise known. As Jeff Skunk Baxter,
Gary U .S. Bonds, Eric Clapton, Clarence Clemens,
Don Dejanette, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Dr. John,
Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Preston, Lou Rawls,
Joshua Redman, Paul Schaefer, Coco Taylor, Travis
Tritt, Jimmy Vaughn. grover washington yeah grover
washington jr willie weeks steve winwood and
as malvern gasperson bb king on vocals and guitar
doing bb's classic hit how blue can you get can
you get is it a cover song Is it a fictional
band? Yes, because BB is known as Malvern Gasperson.
So for the movie, he's fictional. Yes, it's him
singing his original song, but I'm pulling the
SpongeBob card once again. But I mean, come on.
As a last pick of the night, this is a fictitional
super group that I would have paid top dollar.
Imagine being in that movie. The people that
got to see that filming witnessed history. The
movie is awful. I'm sorry. I don't trash things
much. The movie is just an excuse to tie together
these incredible musical segments. Yep. The first
Blues Brothers movie is a masterpiece of a movie
with a masterful soundtrack. Blues Brothers 2000
is a masterful soundtrack tied together with
a really tough to follow plot, if you can even
call it that. But this scene, to be in that room,
it's as they show the meme. With the hands up
in the air of Martin Scorsese, absolute cinema.
Yes, definitely. Definitely. I mean, you cannot.
I laugh and say, you know, the Wu -Tang Clan,
because when I saw them live, there's a gazillion
people up on that stage. But you can't go wrong
with the names that you just listed off. And
that song is so good. And that version is so
good. Like B .B. is still in his prime at that
point. I mean, he was in his prime until the
day he left this universe. Absolutely. Let's
just be honest. No question. And that delivery,
that performance is live. That wasn't a canned
recording. Right. They did that on stage. That's
the live recording on the soundtrack. And holy
shit, what a jam. One of the greatest jam sessions
I've ever witnessed. Definitely. Could have been.
That is a great example of this would have been
a better tour. than a movie. Um, and, and I think,
you know, they did that right. They, they kind
of did a tour with, uh, with Jim Belushi and
Dan Aykroyd. And it kind of got together as the
blues brothers, 2000, they put out an album,
they did a tour. It was, and it's great, great
closing pick for you. I love it. All right, dude,
we are at the end of volume two, this two week
back to back episode run. So many that are going
to be left on the table. So many. There's a volume
three coming, but I'm tired. I don't want to
record it today. No, we'll do it later. But I
want to go with something that I am going to
be sure that very few people know. Oh, that's
good. Give something that nobody cares about
for the end. Yes, but it is going. I'm ending
this on the most epic note ever, and it's going
to be a song composed 40 % by the drummer Carl
Burnett. 40 % by the lead guitarist Franklin
Frank Enya, contributing another 40%. And 20%,
the sweet, sweet 20%, written by keyboard player
William Billy Red J. Regan. They form B -E -R,
and the song The Night Begins to Shine. Are you
talking about Teen Titans? Teen Titans Go, where
Cyborg transforms into Optimus Prime. The single
stupidest cartoon. Again, it's one of those things
where it's right up my alley, like so many pop
cultural references for the adults to kind of
take in, but dumb enough for the kids to just
cackle. And they're like, why is he turning into
a white truck? Like, what's going on? This is
the coolest thing in the world. And it gets stuck
in everybody's head and they try to destroy the
tape and it just crushes Cyborg and he can't
go on till they bring it back. It's so great.
I am so glad you went with that. My kids went
nuts for Teen Titans. They both had their phase.
And what a fun way to close this, dude. Bravo,
because I did not have that on my list. which
means you didn't scoop me on another one. So
from a personal standpoint, I've still got plenty
of picks for a volume three. So thank you for
that. Woo. But with that kids side B of volume
two of the ultimate fictional bands playlist,
which kicked off with kids incorporated kids
incorporated from kids incorporated Robin sparkles.
Let's go to the mall from how I met your mother.
Rex Manning's Say No More, Mon Amour from Empire
Records. Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers,
Since I Don't Have You. Figurine Dawn and the
Modal Nodes, the Cantina Song from Star Wars.
Hard stop. No A New Hope. Griffin and Quagmire,
Butter on a Pop Tart from Family Guy. The Country
Bears, Straight Through the Heart of Love from
The Country Bears. Wild Stallions, Be Excellent
to Each Other from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
the Louisiana Gator Boys' How Blue Can You Get
from Blues Brothers 2000, and BER, The Night
Begins to Shine from Teen Titans Go. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Now, folks, Jay
and I have dropped over the last two weeks 40
fictional bands for your listening pleasure.
If you have a fictional band we haven't talked
about, I want to hear it. Hit me up on social
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favorite fictional bands so that way maybe Jay
and I can get them in for a volume three. Jay,
once again, dude, this has been a blast. Thank
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