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 is my
former TuneStyles co -host, Jay Sweet. Jay, welcome
back to the show, my friend. Thanks for having
me. I think, what are we, up to 20 times visitor
on the show now? Yeah, I don't know. At this
point, I kind of lost count, so hooray for you
for coming on so many times. I feel like Steve
Martin or Alec Baldwin, like I'm in an elite
club here. Well, tonight we're talking about
fictional bands. Now, that could easily be misconstrued.
Because if you think about the controversies
surrounding things like Milli Vanilli back in
the late 80s and early 90s, technically there
was some fictitious nature to it. But you and
I have established some ground rules for tonight's
episode as to what a fictitious band is. Do you
want to chime in on what you were looking for
in your fictitious artists for this evening?
Yeah, I went straight for things that were made
expressly for cartoons, movies, TV shows. I have
a couple on my list that are you might question
them because, yeah, they may have been covers
of legitimate bands, but we'll note them. All
right. And with that, I'm pretty much in the
same boat. Cartoons, TV shows, movies. But I'm
also going to add pop culture to the stuff I
came up with. And we'll get to that. a little
bit down the way. But for now, let's just get
right down to business. Tonight, Jay and I will
be curating the ultimate fictional bands mixtape,
and we'll use the old cassette deck approach.
Jay, as my special guest, will begin 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 outside.
Be 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
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the mixtapers chimed in with the songs they would
use to kick things off tonight. I want to give
a few quick shout outs. Jen chimed in with the
Hex Girls from Scooby Doo, saying they would
have covered Paramore or Evanescence with no
doubt in her mind. Philip Bergman chimed in with
the Archies Bang Shangalang. Seeker checked in
from Australia going with Sadgasm, which was
the band that Homer Simpson was a part of in
his youth. The song he remembers is Margarine,
which was based on Bush's Glycerine. And there's
even a parody in that episode where Marvin Cobain
calls his cousin Kurt while Sadgasm is performing,
excited about the new sound that is grunge, like
Marvin Barry in Back to the Future. Love it.
Sean Goff chimed in with Degenerated by the Lone
Rangers from Airheads. Chad LaMassa chimed in
with Zartan and the Dreadnoughts Cold Slither
from G .I. Joe. And Brandon from Virginia chimed
in with Radical Posture. from the young ones.
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Now, Jay, I'm officially pressing the record
button on our fictional band's mixtape, and the
floor is yours. What song are you kicking things
off with tonight? I just want to say Chad Lamas,
a great deep cut. Oh, yeah. Cold slither from
G .I. Joe. That's fantastic. So those are the
kinds of things that, you know, that I'm looking
at. I think cartoons in the 70s, early 80s. even
in the in the late 60s the the looney tunes and
the tom and jerry's and things like that kind
of provided a really fun soundtrack for these
kinds of things that you know i think josie and
the pussycats the scooby -doo band jabber jaw
right the hannah barbara lineups but i want to
start off strong i want to start off with a rather
controversial band and i think we're going to
touch on a little bit of a theme throughout this
show and that is that a lot of these songs are
mockumentaries that we're done a show within
a show if you will and i'm going right for it
we're uh if you remember uh in the 90s uh woke
up this morning to the alarm clocks roaring it's
all right because i was saved by zach attack
oh and did we ever have a chance oh my god ac
slater zach morris and kelly kapowski And don't
forget Screech on the tambourine. No, Screech
was keyboards. Oh, that's right. That's right.
Oh, and I forgot Lisa was in the band, too. Yeah,
Lisa was the bass player. Only Jesse wasn't in
the band. According to Wikipedia, Jesse was on
vocals, but I don't remember seeing her in the
performance. She wasn't in the video. Yeah. And
then the band broke up. And she may be the reason
that the band broke up. Was Jesse the Yoko Ono
of Zack Attack? Uh -oh. Hot take. Somebody on
TikTok did a video where they stripped the audio
from the video and do what it would really sound
like. So, of course, the actors are not, you
know, Tiffany Amber, Tate Thiessen. That's it.
Mark Paul Gossard and good Lord, I'm blanking
on all their names now. Do you really not know
them as Zach Morris, A .C. Slater? It's very
true. But they weren't really obviously playing
the instruments that they were supposed to. Oh,
God, no. You know, you got you got Dustin Diamond
mashing on the keys of the keyboard. So the person
on the social media, the video, it was just it
was just a noise. It was hilarious. And Zach
is doing chords on the guitars. Mark Paul Gossard
is doing chords on the guitar that just not fully
formed, not even in a key. They're just all over
the place. sounds hilarious so uh if you get
a chance you should check that out yeah and i
also picture like a jesse spano behind the music
where they're going like jesse didn't do her
part in the band and instead went to las vegas
and became a showgirl okay and now and that was
the fun thing about that that episode of saved
by the bell is that casey casem was the narrator
for the documentary yes the main host of the
show so that's always fun And let me add to this.
I have actually seen a version of that TikTok
you're talking about. I saw a version on YouTube,
so I'll be sure to embed that over on the episode
page at myweeklymixtape .com if you want to check
out the overdubbed Saved by the Bell version
that Jay was just talking about because it really
is funny. All right. You went mockumentary within
a TV show. I'm going to stick with that pop sound
of Did We Ever Have a Chance musically, thematically.
I'm going to try to follow that up with something
that song to song might actually make sense.
And believe it or not, this might even be considered
a deep pick for my first pick. Because this wasn't
a hit by any stretch of the imagination, but
it does have its fans. And I think those people
that know this movie and know this soundtrack
are going to be impressed with the opening pick
for this. So we're going to go back to 2007's
music and lyrics movie. And I'm going to go with
Pop Goes My Heart from Pop. Oh my God. I haven't
thought of that movie in years. Drew Barrymore,
Hugh Grant. Yes. It was a rom -com that for some
reason, my wife and I just both really enjoyed.
There was just something about this movie that
had a fun, light heart to it. Pop goes my heart.
The beginning of the movie is the music video
that they're doing. The old school pop -up video
recreation that used to run on VH1. Yes. And
the song. When you listen to it, it actually
feels like it was from 1984. And that's a big
kudos to co -writer Andrew Wyatt, who also sings
on the song. Andrew Wyatt is a big name in pop
production. He's worked with Dua Lipa, Miley
Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars.
And he also scored the entire Barbie movie. So
the guy really has his finger on the pulse of
pop music. And for a song in 2007 to capture
the essence of 1984 and actually fit and work,
I had to go with this. I kid you not. I have
Pop Goes My Heart on my 80s playlist. I know
it was recorded in 2007, but it just works. Absolutely.
So out of pop goes my heart. I could go in a
couple of different directions there. I could
stick with the Drew Barrymore theme and pick
something from The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler's
band at the beginning of that. Or I could talk
about love, actually, with Bill Nighy, who was
a big aging rock star who wrote a great hit song
for Valentine's Day. But I think I'm going to
go back to cartoons instead and talk about a
friend of ours who has been in and out of pop
music and pop punk forever. And I'm referring
to one, Jarrett Reddick, who formed the fictional
band Love Handle on the show Phineas and Ferb.
written of course by Dan Pavemeyer and Jeff Swampy
Marsh. And you snuck your way right into my heart,
which was a great, great song where at the end
of the Flynn Fletchers have to kind of find each
other. And she drives the car through the crowd
to find him. And they, is that love handle? And
then they're, they passionately embrace it. It's
a wonderful. So I'm not going to lie, man. I
feel like in this song, Jarrett Reddick is really
trying to sound like the singer in Chuck E. Cheese's
band. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. Would
you agree in some way, shape or form? I would
have to say so. Yeah. If you're listening and
you don't understand that reference, Jarrett
also is the voice of the latest voice of Chuck
E. Cheese. Yes. The many branches of bowling
for soup. Yeah. Very, very cool. Well, I'll be
honest. Phineas and Ferb hit at the time where
my kids were. That was around like 2007. So while
I did watch some of it, it didn't become like
the childhood staple because when my oldest was
three and four years old, Phineas and Ferb had
pretty much finished its run. So she picked up
on other cartoons at the time, but I did go back
to this one because I just really loved the show.
It was a lot of fun. So I'm glad you picked this
one. I did not have this one on my list. So thank
you. That's a good pick. I discovered the show
when I moved to Orlando with the family and I
walked into a subway across the street for the
television station that I used to work for. And
there were they did a promotional collab with
Subway. And I'm like, what is this weird drawing
of these two big cartoon characters? And then
I got into it. And to hell with the kids. I watch
it for me because they do. It's one of those.
It's like an Animaniacs type cartoon. And if
you followed me for any. Any length of time,
you know that I love cartoons anyway, and I watch
cartoons because I'm a 50 year old child. But
yeah, that was and I thought that they do all
of those great pop culture references that adults
will get and older children will get or teenagers
and young 20s would get. And it just cracked
me up. I was hooked right from the first episode
I watched. Wow. Well, I'm not sure I'm going
to go cartoons just yet. Because I could follow
this up with something, but I feel like it's
not the right time. So what I'm going to do is
pivot because you snuck your way right into my
heart. Still channels some of that 80s vibe that
we've got going from. Did we ever have a chance?
And pop goes my heart. So I'm going to stay in
that for just a little longer. And I'm going
to go to a song that I actually own. The 45 of,
and this is from a Marvel movie, but before the
Marvel universe, way before the Marvel universe,
I'm going back to 1986. No, but you're close
because of a post credits cameo in one of the
guardians movies. But I'm going to go with Howard.
Oh, very nice. And I am going to go with Howard,
the duck. performed by Cherry Bomb, which was
Leah Thompson on lead vocals, George Clinton
on backing vocals, and Joe Walsh on lead guitar.
So no, Howard's not ripping that solo. That's
Joe Walsh of the Eagles. I love this song, and
I'm not going to lie. Leah Thompson has a good
voice. I love her voice on this song, and I am
actually genuinely shocked they didn't do something
more with her after this movie because the movie.
Let's be honest. I still have it's still nightmare
fuel for me. Absolutely. Many, many decades later.
But the song kicks ass. Jeffrey Jones is that
giant alien thing that going somewhere, Howard.
Oh, my God. I saw that in the theater and I was
not I was nine years old. Yeah, that was like
this went from I mean, think about this. I was
nine years old. Think about Howard the Duck.
And the magazines he was reading in the beginning,
early in the beginning of the show, that was
a PG movie. Oh, yeah. And I've long had to have
this discussion with my wife, how the rating
of PG has been blurred over the years, because
in the 80s, PG was most certainly at minimum
PG -13 now. Yep, for sure. And that was so what
was it? It was Temple of Doom, right? That was
the first PG -13 movie. Believe it or not, I
think it was Temple of Doom was like the catalyst
for it. Well, Temple of Doom and Gremlins. But
I read an article back on The Hollywood Reporter
a long time ago, and I actually remember this
random useless piece of trivia, which is The
Flamingo Kid was the first movie to be rated
PG -13, but that wasn't released until the end
of the year. So Red Dawn, which my parents actually
had on VHS tape, they recorded it off HBO. So
I also remember this. because of the fact that
they wrote the ratings next to the movie. So
as a kid, I knew which movies I could and couldn't
watch. But I digress. Definitely, Indiana Jones
was part of the impetus of creating the PG -13
rating. So yeah, there's your Jeopardy movie
moment from me, which is something that I normally
do for just music. So there you go. So that was
a choice that the MPAA made. Yeah, I'm not going
to say it's the right one in hindsight. Not necessarily.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, but that guitar solo, he's
doing it with the bill. He plays the guitar with
his bill. And, you know, to be honest with you,
I didn't know that that was Joe Walsh. Yeah.
That's pretty freaking cool. And if you go back
and listen to the solo again, you hear it in
a totally different way. You're like, oh, yeah,
you're right. Now that you think about that.
The George Clinton thing, I didn't know as a
kid. That's wild. And when you go back and listen
to it, it's like, oh, yeah, that's totally George.
Sure. And then George Clinton been a couple of
movies because PCU came out a few years later.
He was the whole Parliament Funkadelic was in
that movie at the end with Jon Favreau. So yes,
but they were the real George Clinton. That was
the movie. So they know if they went under a
different name, I totally would have been using
that for this episode. Oh, that's so good. All
right. All right. You know what? Let's keep the
superhero theme going. There was a movie. Oh,
God, this movie is so underrated. We're talking
about a movie called Scott Pilgrim versus the
world. And they had a band in there called Sex
Bob -omb, which was named a little bit of a nod
to Super Mario Brothers, the game franchise.
And their their main song was We Are Sex Bob
-omb. And at the end of that song, they have
defeated X number seven. I'll be honest, dude.
We saw that movie when it first came out. And
we loved that movie. Like, I genuinely enjoyed
that movie. And we haven't seen it since. Like,
this one was like cobwebs that you just broke
off in my head. Because as soon as you said it,
I'm like, oh, yeah. Why didn't I think of that?
And I think that's where the underrated came
in. Because I saw it. I enjoyed it. I remember
the reference to My, My, My Serpentine. And that
was a nod to guns and roses, which I picked up
on that in the movie. I'm like, is that a guns
and roses? Like wink, wink, nudge, nudge. And
sure enough, the my, my, my serpentine in the
lyrics is a callback to that. So Bravo on that
part, because they were thinking outside the
box from both video game references and music
references. So it covers a lot of bases here,
but man, that's a really underrated pick. And
I would have never in a million years. thought
of that one because it was a movie that we saw,
liked, and because I'm not like a big movie buff
that I watch movies over and over again, now
I gotta, god, I gotta watch it again. I remember
loving it. The movie is a literal who's who of
a cast. You've got Michael Cera in the title
character, you've got Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
the lovely Aubrey Plaza, Kieran Culkin, Chris
Evans before he was Captain America. Brie Larson
is in the movie before she was Captain Marvel.
And Brandon Roth as well, before he was Superman.
So you get quite an eclectic cast there. All
right. Well, to follow that up then, I'm going
to go with a movie that also has quite an eclectic
cast. And that cast would be Rob Lowe, Chris
Farley. Oh, I was thinking St. Elmo's Fire. Meatloaf.
Meatloaf? Robert Patrick. Anthony Kiedis, Ed
Harris, Ed O 'Neill. Is this ringing a bell yet,
Jay? If not. You haven't mentioned the two stars.
I haven't mentioned the two stars yet, but Mike
Myers and Dana Carvey. But I'm not going to go
with the theme from Wayne's World. I am going
to go with Crucial Taunt and Ballroom Blitz with
Tia Carrere on vocals. The song was originally
recorded by Sweet. And I grew up knowing the
version from Crocus. But when I saw that movie
in the theater and I heard her take the lead
on Ballroom Blitz, I was like, oh, come on, this
is amazing. And when I heard that that was really
her singing, holy crap, she's got a great voice.
She's got the scream. She has everything that
makes it a fun cover for a movie. And the band
is totally fake, made up just for Wayne's World.
Right. Crucial Taunt and Ballroom Blitz to follow
up We Are Sex Bob -Omb. That's another one to
your career being how did she not have more of
a music career? Because Why You Want to Break
My Heart was also on that soundtrack. And yes,
she has a wonderful rock voice. That cover is
fantastic. And of course, you know, it's the
choice of a new generation. And then Jay, most
recently. If you're a fan of The Struts, they
do a fun cover of Ballroom Blitz if you want
to check that out. I always wanted to cover that
with a couple of the bands that I was in. It's
a little bit more difficult than you would think.
Oh, it's a tough song to sing. I mean, hitting
those high notes, if you hit them with the oomph
that Tia Carrere did in her version, that's not
easy to hit. That's why I love her version so
much. Yeah, that scream had me sounding like
I was gargling razor blades for a few hours afterwards.
For sure. But the vocals aside, because I do
have a naturally higher singing voice, the song's
musical structure is kind of like Carry On Wayward
Son. Yeah. It's a complex song structure. And
having those layered vocals of the real high
harmony stuff, it's tough to pull off. And I
like to be as faithful as I can to the originals
when I cover a song. Maybe you should try to
do Tia's version. That would be fun. All right.
Pop Goes My Heart, you mentioned, was a great
1984 capsule in 2007, and it pulled off some
impressive things for you. We're at lucky number
seven on the track now, and I know I'm going
to scoop you with this, but I'm going to go with
a band that was a very 50s, 60s sound, and I'm
talking about the Oneeders, or the Wonders, and
that thing you do. That's a low blow, man. That's
like John Cena turning heel recently that you're
doing to me, pulling my favorite movie ever.
How dare you? The audacity. Had to do it. You
could go with Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack
7. No, it's Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack
Shooters. Shooters, that's right. Dude, you don't
even know the band names in the movie. I do that
all the time. Oh, man, I'm actually going to
have to use my next pick to try to just scoop
you and not and not actually go for a song that
I want to put on the playlist at this point.
But the point standing, Tom Hanks and of course,
the song written by Adam Schlesinger, we've talked
about that really captured that sound. Tom Hanks,
of course, then formed his own record company
to put out the soundtrack, which very much fell
into the. It had a whole atmosphere surrounding
that record, that movie, that it was very much
a 50s, 60s pop band origin story. Oh, yeah. I
think he captured it. We've gushed on about this
movie for forever. But this, he really, really
captured, they really captured that. I've done
several episodes of other podcasts, Movie Lovers
Unite and Soundtrack Your Life, where I've talked
about that thing you do and the wonders. I mean,
the song was written by Adam Schlesinger. Reached
number 41 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100, number
22 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, number 18
on the Adult Top 40 Chart, and number 24 on the
Top 40 Mainstream Chart. You had mentioned Playtone
Records, Jay. Not only did they put out That
Thing You Do as a soundtrack, they also did a
ton of soundtracks. They did The Sopranos. They
did Bring It On, Josie and the Pussycats, Band
of Brothers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Truth
About Charlie, and Starter for 10. So it actually
became a legitimate label that put out actual
soundtracks, even though it was made fictitiously
for a movie. Right. Cover versions of this song,
The Knack, re -recorded it for their Greatest
Hits collection. Newfound Glory covered it for
the From the Screen to Your Stereo EP. And Billy
Joe Armstrong of Green Day covered this on his
2020 Quarantines cover album, No Fun Mondays.
Damn you, Jay Sweet. All right. You scoop me.
I got to figure out a way to punch back now because
this is on. This is totally on. Marvin Barry
and the Starlighters featuring Marty McFly. Johnny,
be good. Back to the future. Oh, he did it. I
mean, I know you love this movie. If you're going
for the heartstrings, I'm going for yours. Gloves
are off. I. Love Back to the Future so much.
I mean, this is a movie that even with 40 years
of hindsight, you look back, it was just so creative,
so inventive between all three. I love all three
movies. I love watching them when they're on
in a row and you just kind of get that whole,
oh, make no plans. The afternoon is now busy.
We are watching all the Back to the Futures.
And honestly, between part one and part two,
Marvin Barry and the Starlighters have a huge
role in both movies because part two, they keep
running back that scene as they're trying to
navigate through to the end of the movie there.
And then you've got Michael J. Fox, Marty McFly
doing his thing on guitar. The guy actually plays
guitar. So there's a legitimacy to his performance
that maybe is not so much in Zack Attack. Yes.
No. just in comparison so i feel like coming
out of that thing you do it keeps that oldies
vibe kind of going and sticks it to you a little
bit as a thank you it does oh you totally did
scoop me it was absolutely on my list i knew
i should have gone with it earlier but uh that's
all right you know life is about choices and
you might not be ready for that but your kids
are gonna love it um i gotta um that movie is
one of the seminal movies in my life that kind
of shaped my movie watching and it was so popular
it lives on to this day in popular culture family
guy has done it the simpsons have done it there
are so many like riffs on that theme and variation
one of my favorite family guy episodes is the
one where they keep going back and norm mcdonald
playing death keeps taking Peter back to fix
the thing that he did that ends up with him and
Molly Ringwald married and Glenn and Lois are
married. And that episode is great. We're at
the very end of the title back in is Brian gets
up and he's like, Hey man, you gotta, you gotta
play with us. And he does never going to give
you up by Rick Astley on the keytar and everything.
And he's like, Hey, you know that generic monotone
sound that you were looking for? Well, this might
be it. So, so, Hilarious. So very good pick.
Very nice job. Oh, gosh. All right. All right.
Let's let's just do this. We're going 1987, I
believe. And we are talking about he was Joe,
the policeman in the what's going down episode
of That's My Mama. Give it up for Mr. Randy Watson,
a sexual chocolate and the greatest love of all.
Question mark, because. It's not really a cover.
It's... That boy good. Yeah, good and terrible.
I mean, look, he made it his own. He did. That
he did. Wow, what could I possibly say about
that performance? I mean, look, Eddie Murphy
is a damn genius in that movie. I think real...
I mean, he cemented it so many times over in
the 80s. And he could do no wrong. And coming
to America, I remember my grandparents in the
1980s telling my folks, except for one or two
scenes, Brian could probably see that. There's
some dirty language in it, but it's nothing he's
probably not heard before from his friends. But
like, you know, again, blurring the lines. That
was an R -rated movie, though. Yes. So, I mean,
they definitely had carte blanche to do whatever
they wanted. And there's certainly a lot of scenes
that I sure as hell wouldn't be showing my kids
now. But back in the 80s, it was a little different
where the R -rated veil was lifted a little earlier
for our generation, which probably explains a
lot of why we're so screwed up. But anyway. Absolutely.
So how do I follow up sexual chocolate to close
out the side? Oh, actually. This might actually
work. Thank you for the enthusiastic intro, but
we're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're
on the verge of being called Kathleen Turner
Overdrive. However, this evening, we will be
Barry Jive and the Uptown Five from High Fidelity,
their cover of Let's Get It On, Jack Black. It's
listed as Jack Black on the soundtrack. But I'm
sorry, in the movie, it's Barry Jive in the Uptown
Five, so I'm running with it. Who cares who sings
it on the soundtrack? In fictitious land, which
is where we are tonight, Let's Get It On closes
out Side A. Even though that should be an opening
track, I don't care. Coming out of Sexual Chocolate,
it's the only song on my list that actually works.
And I have 50 frickin' bands in my list for tonight.
It's probably the most I've ever had. 50. I got
to say, that is a fantastic pick. I was just
thinking about High Fidelity the other day. So
you got Jack Black, you got John Cusack, and,
I mean, just the comedy. And the guy, come in,
excuse me, can I? Just a minute. It's so great.
Now, this is pre -Tenacious D, Jack Black. No.
Oh, no, it's not. This is simultaneously with
the D. Okay, awesome. Because, I mean, you knew
from that that... Jack was going to be huge.
And he is. Yeah. Tenacious D actually started
in 94, but I think the MTV show was 97. Was it
that early? Yeah, it was. So they were like underground
stars, but this was like Jack Black's one of
his, one of his first movies that really was
like a breakout role for him. Got it. Got it.
And I think I've made mention of this several
times with you and I on shows. The 90s, I drank
a lot. So timelines, forgive me, timelines get
a little jumbled. But oh, man, what a great pick.
What a great pick, Brian. Well, that mixtapers
conclude side A of the ultimate fictional band's
mixtape, which consists of Zack Attack. Did we
ever have a chance from Saved by the Bell? Pop,
Pop Goes My Heart from Music and Lyrics. Love
Handle, You Snuck Your Way Right Into My Heart
from Phineas and Ferb. Cherry Bombs, Howard the
Duck. From Howard the Duck, Sex Bob -omb. We
are Sex Bob -omb from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Crucial Taunts, Ballroom Blitz from Wayne's World,
The Wonders, That Thing You Do from the movie
of the same name, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters,
Johnny B. Goode from Back to the Future and Back
to the Future 2, Sexual Chocolate, The Greatest
Love of All from Coming to America, and Barry
Jive and the Uptown Five, Let's Get It On from
High Fidelity. 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 B and I'm actually going to go with a song.
This is how nerdy I get with this. Sometimes
dude, I am actually going to go with a song that
kicks off side B of the album and soundtrack
that it's from. So I think that's pretty damn
good synergy as far as I'm concerned. And that
song. would be Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Can you picture that from the Muppet movie? I
could talk about this album for a very, very,
very long time. However, instead of doing that,
I'm just going to point people back. I don't
know, two, three months back in the My Weekly
Mixtape archives, I have a one -on -one interview
with Paul Williams, who's the songwriter responsible.
For both the Muppet movie soundtrack and Emmett
Otter's Jug Band Christmas soundtrack. And we
do an album dive into both of those incredible
soundtracks. Two of my favorite of my childhood
and maybe of all time. Can you picture that?
It's so damn incredible. The song just rocks.
It was also the theme song to the Muppets Mayhem
show on Disney+. So it's gotten a revival as
of late. But the song is just awesome. The band
even performed the song, quote unquote, live
at the 2016 Outside Lands Festival. So, I mean,
Dr. Teeth of the Electric Mayhem, quite possibly
one of my favorite fictional bands of all time.
I actually have a painting of them walking downstairs
to my family room. And it's on the wall in the
staircase as you work your way down. So, yeah,
I'm a bit of a nerd about this one. Can you picture
that? That's all right, man. I left that one.
I knew it was on my list and I knew you would
have that. So I gave that one to you. Oh, that
was so kind of you. Because if you did that after
that thing you do, you were in. That's right.
I mean, there was no way you were getting out
of the shit you were dug deep into with that
one. Yeah, based on the Side 1 incident, we will
refer to it from Entsforth, that I left for you.
But I have, yeah, and I have a t -shirt of Dr.
Teeth in the Electric Mayhem because one of my
favorite shows growing up was The Muppets. And
the movie just, it blew my mind. And again, you
want to talk about an all -star cast, you got
Mel Brooks and you got Steve Martins in it. Yeah,
tons of cameo appearances. So you get that, what
we got, Dr. Teeth, Zoot, Lips, Janice, Floyd
Pepper, and Animal, of course, on the drums.
Occasionally, Rolf the Dog would appear as well
in the orchestra of the Muppet Show, kind of
playing alongside all of those guys. So very,
very cool pick. I love it. And I know exactly
where I'm going to go to follow that up. We're
going to stay in Jim Henson's universe, and I'm
going to go with the River Bottom Nightmare Band.
You know, that's almost as bad as the Side 1
incident, Jay. I mean, I just got done telling
you we had Paul Williams on to talk about this
very soundtrack. So, yes, you and I, way back
in the Toon Styles days, actually had a debate.
I don't know where. It was at the end of an episode
where you and I tried to debate over which band
was stronger, the Riverbottom Nightmare Band
or Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. I mean,
we talked about some really serious topics on
Toon Styles, and that was certainly one of them.
And, yeah, I do have to say that I... Think that
if they were to do a 2025 reunion tour, I think
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem would get top
billing based on their series revival and all
of the pomp and circumstance that went around
with that. However, the show got canceled in
true Disney Muppets fashion. So maybe Riverbottom
does squeak out the top billing. I don't know.
I mean, they were kind of a one -hit wonder if
you think about the Riverbottom Nightmare Band.
They were. I think they were a little like so
we talked about it. I think they were a little
bit of the darker side of the psychedelic rock
where Dr. Teeth was a little bit more poppy.
Yeah. Yeah. But that being said, if anybody from
the Henson family or from Disney is listening
to this episode, I would totally take the whole
family to see like Dr. Teeth and the Electric
Mayhem and the Riverbottom Nightmare Band. Oh,
yeah. At a theater. A double bill. Nice. Like
do it full puppet style. Like, I think that would
be an awesome event. And I know Fraggle Rock
is touring right now. So it's not that far out
of the equation to be perfectly honest here.
Also, if anyone from Disney is listening, I'd
like a job. Please pick up my weekly mixtape
and distribute it on Disney plus. Yes. As a new
video series. All right. I'm staying in this
kid's mindset here, dude. And going with another.
group of albums I listened to a lot growing up.
I've talked about Tom Petty so many times on
this show, being my favorite artist of all time.
And I've told the story that I discovered Tom
Petty through Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipmunk
Punk. But I'm going to go with a quote unquote
original from Alvin and the Chipmunks. And I'm
going to go with the theme song, We're the Chipmunks,
which was featured on the songs from our TV shows,
vinyl LP that I had as a kid growing up, along
with Chipmunk Punk and Chipmunk Rock. If you
are in your 40s to 50s, you probably grew up
at some point watching the Alvin and the Chipmunks
cartoon on TV. I know they've remade it now.
I know there were the movies in the 2000s. The
original cartoon just is where it's at for me.
Yeah, I so, of course, we talked about the novelty
songs and Ross Bagasarian had started. the chipmunks
as kind of a novelty record in 1958 with the
witch doctor and of course his song christmas
don't be late propelled him into just super stardom
to a franchise that has been a cartoon and a
movie. And then back to a CG animated cartoon,
right? They were all over the place. Alvin and
the chipmunks. You can't deny have a very high
place in the zeitgeist of, of pop culture. So
very well played. I love that song. I love the,
I love Alvin and chipmunks. So fun. The harmonies
are fun too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people are listening
right now, probably singing dude, dude. Oh, so
good. Alvin Simon Theodore. Oh, my God. Yeah,
that's so good. And then, of course, Jason Lee,
who played Dave Seville in the movies. He may
make an appearance here. We'll see. We'll see.
Oh, I know where you're going with that. I know
that reference. All right. Well, what are you
following up We're the Chipmunks with? All right.
So we've got a cartoon. I'm going to stay in
the cartoon world and we're going to modernize
it a little bit. And this may be what I mentioned
up the top of the show, that this may be one
of those questionable, controversial, maybe hot
take picks because this is a legitimate song
and it was performed by the artist himself during
the show, but it was performed by a bunch of
animated creatures who live under the sea. And
I am talking about the Bikini Bottom Marching
Band featuring conductor Squidward Tentacles
and the cover of David Glenn Isley's Sweet Victory
from the Bubble Bowl Band Geeks episode of SpongeBob
SquarePants. You are really going for the asterisks
in this episode. Let me tell you. Just the most
epic, epic show. The whole sequence at the end.
The show is great. I kind of fell into SpongeBob
a little late, relatively. But that was the show
that got me was, oh, OK, these these dudes are
doing an 80s rock anthem right now at a stadium.
It's so hilariously funny. And I was just the
build up to that song just makes David Glenn
Isley song the perfect fit. Yeah, I'll give you
this one because it was a part of me that soon
as I knew where you were going with it, I'm going,
well, it's really it's kind of a lip sync if
you really want, even though it's a cartoon.
But it's SpongeBob and I'm going to give it the
pass because at the end of the day, the Bikini
Bottom marching band did make it their own. Like
you felt that performance. You felt it felt real.
If they were lip syncing, they fooled me, even
though they're cartoons. I think the best part
about that episode about band geeks is so kind
of like I talk about Family Guy and kind of like
how Family Guy just constantly does Meg dirty
in that show. For 23 seasons, they just abuse
her. Squidward was kind of that in SpongeBob
SquarePants. He never gets his comeuppance except
for this episode. And I thought that was all
right. You know what? You gave Squidward a big
one there. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. By
all means. And obviously something that. my kids
grew up with because it's one of the few cartoons
that no matter how many times it was on I was
like ah you know what I could stop they watched
some stuff growing up that I like oh my god if
I want to get into Caillou I I I had to leave
the room Canadian bastard oh my god like but
Spongebob I actually had no but sometimes the
girls would leave the room And it would still
be on. And I'd be sitting there watching and
kind of rocking out to Goofy Goober Rock or something,
because believe it or not, that's one of the
songs I had in my bank for this evening. And
I'd be like, man, I've been watching this for
another hour without them. Like, I don't care.
My wife has done that to me. She's like, where
are the kids you're watching? Are you watching
Phineas and Ferb? Yes, I am. All right. I'm going
to follow that up. I'm going to try to ease us
out of the cartoons a little bit. But not quite
because it's still animated. But it's something
that I think you really had to be a part of the
80s to appreciate. Because this was clay animation.
And one of the most genius marketing campaigns
of all time. They turned a fruit into a band
that had specials and albums. And it was the
California Raisins and the commercial. I heard
it through the grapevine that became the lead
single from there. The California Raisins sing
the hit songs album that I owned on cassette
and now unapologetically own on CD. And the song,
the California Raisins version reached number
84 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was a top
100 single. covering so many different versions
of this song. But as a kid who didn't love what
the California raisins commercial came on and
they started strutting dance battle. Come on.
It was sugary sweets. I love it. That's so great.
Saturday morning cartoons, memory unlocked after
these messages, we'll be right back. And then
it would go into that California raisins commercial.
It would be one of them in the, in the commercial
block. Such a great pick. I love everything about
it. I would be lying if I didn't tell you that
I asked my mom to buy raisins after. Like, I
mean, it was genius marketing. It worked on me.
I got to tell you, I've been a fan of raisins.
People, you know, this is a hot take from Jay
Sweet, the candy man. I do enjoy raisins. I have
been eating boxes. Do you remember when we were
little, they would come in those little sun made
raisin boxes, tiny little boxes in the snack
packs. And your mom, dad, throw them in the lunchbox
and you go to school with those. I would love
those. I like oatmeal raisin cookies. If chocolate
chip cookies are in front of me, I don't get
grossed out if I bite into a cookie and it's
an oatmeal raisin cookie. I kind of like it.
So I love the flavor of it. But anyway, that's
beside the point. What a great pick. Oh, my gosh.
All right. So that's kind of a palate cleanser.
I'd say so. Yeah. Because it's a commercial.
So we can kind of treat it like a nice segue
there. I'm going to go from these from the cartoons
that we've had and the animated stuff. I'm going
to jump back into some movies. And again, these
these mockumentary type movies that came out
in the in this time period, late 80s, early 90s.
There was one particular John Cafferty and the
Beaver Brown Band were all over. And that was
Eddie and the Cruisers, the fictitious band,
Eddie, who went on to write this hugely popular
song on the dark side. And it is a fantastic
song. It's a great sing along. And the movie,
the movie gets pretty dark. And then its sequel,
which is also it wasn't as good, but it was also.
fairly dark, darker side of the music industry
and how Eddie, without spoiling anything, how
he chooses to cope with it. Man, you are really
pushing all my buttons today because that was
easily scooped for me. One of my favorite soundtracks
of all time on the dark side. Yes, is a great
song, but you had tender years. You had them
doing run around Sue down on my knees. Fire Sweet
Season in Hell. This is an amazing, amazing soundtrack.
And John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band,
I almost wonder for them if it was a blessing
and a curse simultaneously. Because people refer
to John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band as
Eddie and the Cruisers. Right. So when we saw
them live, they did play on the dark side, but
they kind of ignored everything else from the...
of Eddie and the Cruisers, if you will. They
kind of just alluded to it because On the Dark
Side was a massive hit for this band, bigger
than probably any other hit they had. But John
Cafferty also had Hearts on Fire from the Rocky
soundtracks, and they had the Tough All Over
album. They were an established band. They were
part of that Jersey, Springsteen, Southside Johnny.
They all kind of cut from the same mold, if you
will. Damn you for picking this one because I
love this song. And Colburn and Company has been
covering this for years, mashed up with ROCK
in the USA and What I Like About You because
the three songs are all the same chord progression
and they work really, really well together in
a medley. I remember. So what I'm going to do
is actually touch on something you just said.
Because you scooped me on Eddie and the Cruisers,
there is no way on this planet you're going to
scoop me. On Rock Solid. And do you know who
Rock Solid is, Jay? I am not familiar with this
one. Well, if you saw Eddie and the Cruisers
2, this is the band that Joe joins. That's right.
They're called Rock Solid. I'm going to go with
Running Through the Fire. As a sequel follow
-up to you scooping me for on the dark side,
John Cafferty, the beeper Brown band, but now
known as rock solid. That's fantastic. Eddie
and the cruisers to Eddie lives. I'll be the
first to say it. Controversial hot take from
Brian Colburn. I like Eddie and the cruisers
to more than the first one. Oh, you do. Yes.
Oh, wow. It was all right. Because it was set
in the eighties and so meant to be this like.
80s label and it felt 80s and the and the dude
that was all jacked playing the drums that's
right yes and like this is my band man like that
it was it was so bad it was brilliant i remember
reading a review by roger ebert about this movie
that just destroyed it, trashed it. I have the
Blu -ray. It's Eddie and the Cruisers 1 and 2.
And I actually enjoy going back and watching
the sequel more than I would admit to. It's really,
really solid. Rock solid, if you will. Rock solid.
And it would stand the test of time through the
fire. I got it. Yeah, that the band is kind of.
reminiscent of, although to a lesser extent,
Aerosmith's role in Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band, where they do come together
and it's just a very dark and skanky kind of
sound and feel versus Peter Frampton's Sergeant
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fantastic pick.
I love it. And, you know, I can't believe I didn't
remember who Rock Solid was. I wonder if there's
anybody out there listening that. this kind of
move some cobwebs in your brain, be sure to let
me know my weekly mixtape at gmail .com. I'd
love to hear from you on that one. But Jay, what
are you following it up with? I mentioned this
guy just a little while ago, and I think this
is a great song coming out of, of rock solid
because it has that similar kind of feel a little
bit darker energy, a little bit, a little more
stanky rock, you know, kind of early 70s, mid
seventies rock. And it's a documentary. Biopic,
kinda. The movie Almost Famous, which features
a band called Stillwater, fronted by Jason Lee.
And I could go with any number of songs, Fever
Dog, but I really thought You Had to Be There
was very appropriate for this mixtape. Nice.
I had Fever Dog on my list. You scooped me on
the band. I mean, this is a super group. Behind
the scenes. Nancy Wilson, Peter Frampton, Mike
McCready, Marty Fredrickson. I mean, Jesus God,
this is a awesome band that got put together
to make these songs. And they're believable.
These are believable songs. When you look like
they have a version of the DVD of Almost Famous
that comes with an EP of Stillwater songs. Right.
And it's believable. I'm actually shocked they
didn't put out a quote unquote album at the time
of the movie to kind of like. Similar to what
Garth Brooks was trying to do with that Chris
Gaines character, but it never came to fruition.
I almost wonder if they should have released
a Stillwater album when the movie came out, because
Almost Famous is up there. Probably a top 10
all time movie for me. I love that movie. Definitely,
definitely. And you've got Kate Hudson, whom
I absolutely love. And it's just such a it's
a great story about Cameron Crowe. And he was
actually married to Nancy Wilson, which is how
she ends up in the band. So that's pretty freaking
cool, I think. Well, of course, she ends up in
the band because she's Nancy. I was about to
say, I don't think you need nepotism in this,
Jay. I think her musical prowess is just fine
on its own. That's right. Speaking of, I want
another sidebar. I was I started rewatching Family
Guy from the beginning because I had nothing
else to do. And there is the whole episode where
Peter does the Grimm's fairy tales and he's he
does Jack and the Beanstalk and he hires Hart
to sing these beans. And it's actually them.
I died. I love the fact that Seth MacFarlane
could just get these actors and musicians to
kind of make fun of themselves to a certain extent.
It's so perfect. But anyway. All right. So how
do you how do you want to come out of Stillwater?
Oh, man. Well. Following up, you know, believe
it or not, it has nothing to do but your little
sidebar there where you're talking about how
people can kind of laugh at themselves and kind
of have fun with it. Right. This group, which
this one might catch some flack because they
are now considered a band, but they started as
a skit similar to what you were just talking
about in your sidebar there. And I'm going to
go with the Blues Brothers. But if you fast forward
to the 1980 movie, I have to go with the song
that we came out to at my wedding reception.
Everybody wants somebody to love. From the end
of the movie, during the performance. Look, my
wife and I went to see the Blues Brothers in
the 2000s with Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi on
vocals. So it was basically because Jim Belushi
and Dan Aykroyd put out an album, Have Love,
We'll Travel, together. And then they went out
on tour, but they went out on tour as, quote
unquote, the Blues Brothers. And it had some
members of the original band. It had some others
that are part of a backing band. So it was kind
of cobbled together. But at the end of the day,
they started as a fictitious skit when John Belushi
went out on stage because he went out with Sing
on Saturday Night Live every now and then. And
then it kind of became a real band. From the
fictitious nature that they started on SNL. So
there could be a little bit of a gray area on
as if this one fits or not. But it's my show
and I can make up the rules as I go along. And
Blues Brothers has to be included. Well, if I
got sweet victory, then you can have everybody
wants somebody to love. There is no denying,
again, the everywhere -ness. And I just made
that up. It's my patent copyright. Non -disclosure
agreement. There is no denying the everywhere
-ness of the Blues Brothers in popular culture
since that movie, since Saturday Live. But then,
of course, since that movie came out, again,
another all -star cast. And Carrie Fisher's in
that. Aretha Franklin's in it. Ray Charles. Ray
Charles. And just amazing music. I applaud wholeheartedly.
Of course, the Blues Brothers were on my list.
So good job in getting that out there. And that
leaves me to close this out. Yeah, you have the
tough decision to close out. I mean, I've got
still 40 other songs to pick from, but I have
none left for tonight, which this sucks, but
you've only got one. That's right. And do I want
to go with the obvious from a John Belushi to
another John Belushi and maybe hit some Animal
House? I don't think so. I think I'm going to
go super deep, but around the same kind of feel.
of a movie that I think you're going to love
this. You have my attention. This is a 1980 movie,
which again, when you're six years old and you
see these kinds of movies, you, you are not supposed
to be watching them. But, uh, my, my buddy, Derek,
uh, shout out to my buddy, Derek. He was the
first, I think on the block to have HBO. And
we would his and his parents had his dad had
a huge 26 inch TV in their in their basement.
And that's where he would go downstairs and watch
HBO or movies when, you know, when everybody
was home. And when we would go out and hang out
in the neighborhood, we'd go downstairs and turn
on HBO and watch things like Superfuzz or Porky's
or this movie. the hollywood knights yes and
i am going with the angel baby band's version
of run around sue featuring a cut in by robert
wool as new bomb turk with who where he recorded
those two girls in the bathroom talking trash
about the rest of the school and all the other
girls in the school so stinking funny that movie
is hilariously epically stupid funny i love it
i have to ask you dude i am so happy you picked
this how the hell did you find out the angel
baby band name it's in the credits it is oh you
went as far as to watch the credits okay oh yeah
yeah you it's in the credits they because and
i knew because i'm like hold on I remember that
part of the whole movie. But that movie is so
great, and I knew I was going to go deep cut
on that. So I went back, and I'm like, all right,
what was the name of this band? And I couldn't
find it on the internet anywhere. And so when
I went through and watched the movie again the
other day, and I was like, okay. And as the credits
are rolling, I saw it's uncredited. It's a simple
thing where it says Angel Baby parentheses band,
and then it gives an actor's name. So I was like,
that's it. That's them. So I was so excited.
Somebody spiked the punch. I'm actually shocked
you didn't go with New Bump Turk's faithful rendition
of Valore. It does have a little wang to it.
I remember when we were running around the neighborhood,
you know, at six and eight years old. Your ass
is grass and I'm going to be the lawnmower. That
was one of the things that I've carried with
me to this day. Dude, amazing way to close out
side B of the ultimate fictional bands playlist,
which consists of Dr. Teeth and the Electric
Mayhem. Can you picture that from the Muppet
movie? Riverbottom Nightmare Band with the song
of the same name from Emmett Otter's Jug Band
Christmas. Alvin and the Chipmunks. We're the
Chipmunks from the Alvin and the Chipmunks television
show. The Bikini Bottom Marching Band, Sweet
Victory from SpongeBob SquarePants. The California
Raisins, I Heard It Through the Grapevine from
Sings the Hit Songs. Eddie and the Cruisers,
On the Dark Side from Eddie and the Cruisers.
And Rock Solid, Running Through the Fire from
Eddie and the Cruisers 2. Eddie Lives, Still
Waters, You Had to Be There from Almost Famous.
Blues Brothers' Everybody Wants Somebody to Love
from Blues Brothers, and Angel Baby's Run Around
Sue from Hollywood Nights. 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, Jay, I'm going to be very
honest with you here, man. I am already feeling
the slack that I'm about to get because I have
40 other bands. That we haven't talked about
yet. Right. I feel like we need to do a first
here. We always talk about we're going to do
volume two down the road. Yeah. I got a curveball
for you. All right. We're about an hour into
this recording and we're about to wrap up this
week's episode. So how do you say we take a five
minute break and volume to this bitch right away?
Yeah, I'm for it, man. Like you got 40. I've
got at least. 50 or 60 left in my head and on
my list so and i could come up with at least
two dozen more so let's do it yeah all right
so we are going to back to back this one next
week volume two of the ultimate fictional bands
playlist it's a first on my weekly mixtape 100
plus episodes we've never done a back -to -back
volume one volume two before unless you count
the compilation episode that became the ultimate
mixtape. But first Jay, thank you so much for
joining me this week. So you and I can both take
five and get ready for volume two. Sounds good.
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