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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me tonight as guest curators, that's

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right, with an S, is Jim and Lindsay Butler,

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the co -hosts of Children of the 80s. Jim and

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Lindsay, thank you so much for joining me tonight.

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Thanks for having us, Brian. We're honored. We're

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so excited to be here. Well, I'm excited to have

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you. And now I get to start by asking you each

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my first time guest question. And Lindsay, we'll

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start ladies first. What does the word mixtape

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mean to you? Okay. I actually put a lot of thought

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into this because I had a feeling you might be

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going to ask me this. And I wanted to get it

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right because the mixtape has always meant so

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much to me. Started out mixed tape and then went

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on to mix CD when I was in college. So this is

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what I came up with. It's a medium that allows

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me to revisit a time in my life and all the memories

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and emotions that go with it. All right. I could

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pull a tape out or a CD out that I've still got

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somewhere and pop it in and I would instantly

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go back to that time in my life. Well, Jim, same

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question to you. Well, as a child of the 80s,

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Brian, you know that you would sit by the radio

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just waiting for the song that you wanted to

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come on, that you wanted to hit record, wait

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for the DJ to quit talking over the intro, and

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then hit record. And why did they always talk

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over the intro? Like they were plotting against

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us. So to me, that's what I think of when I hear

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mixtape. You know, me trying to get the songs

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that I wanted to hear over and over and over

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again. All on the same tape. Well, tonight, our

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episode is going to be a little bit of a different

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animal because even though we are talking 80s

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music and you guys are children of the 80s, so

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I think we're in the right wheelhouse for that

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one. Instead of taking that audio cassette and

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putting it into the boom box, we're actually

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going to be tuning our set top boxes to MTV or

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much music if you're one of our friends listening

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in Canada. And talk about some of our favorite

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80s music videos, because I'm going to drop a

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truth bomb here. Not only did I make mixtapes

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for audio growing up, but I did have a VHS tape

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that I set to the slow speed. So it was like

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six hours of space. And I use that as my video

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mixtape. So I would always look for certain videos

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and just add it to them. quote unquote, mixed

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VHS tape as time went along. I love that. So

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coming up with the songs that I wanted to bring

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to the table this evening was hard because I

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know I have at least six hours of those endless

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memories in my mind. Lindsay, starting with you,

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how hard was it for you to narrow down some of

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your choices tonight? It was hard because I instantly,

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I sat down and I ticked off four right out of

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the gate. And then, you know, a day or two goes

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by and I'm like, hmm. And then another day or

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two goes by and I'm like, oh, it's hard. This

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is not easy because there's so many more that

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I could have come up with. We could do multiple

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episodes. And that's usually the sign that we

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have a good topic at hand. Right. Jim, same question

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to you. Yeah, so I probably thought, Brian, of

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about 25 or 30 different videos that were just

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iconic to me. And trying to narrow it down was

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not easy. What do I go with? Do I go with a lot

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of early stuff from MTV because those are my

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first memories and those are the videos that

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probably meant the most to me? Or do I go with

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something that was groundbreaking, you know,

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a video that nobody had ever seen before, anything

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like that? Or do I go with something that's a

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really good song in just an average video? And

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I tried to rule those out and get something that

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truly stuck in your memory. So I think I've got

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it all over the 80s here. That was my approach

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because there's a lot of times where you can

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hear a song and the first thing you think about

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is the music video for it. And I'll use a reference

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that's outside of the 80s, but any OK Go song.

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Someone mentions the song title, I immediately

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think of the ridiculously creative video they

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came up with for that concept. Even going as

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far back as to their Here I Go Again with the

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Treadmills, one of the first viral videos to

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actually get out there. I thought of the songs

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I picked in terms of that, where you think of

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the song, and the first place your mind goes

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is the music video. So with that, let's get down

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to business. Now tonight, as I mentioned at the

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top of the show, Lindsey Jim and I will be curating

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the ultimate 80s music videos mixtape. And instead

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of using the usual cassette deck approach, since

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we're talking music videos here tonight, our

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list is going to essentially take over the MTV

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or much music airwaves for an hour. So assume

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an average song length of four minutes. a couple

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of VJ talk -ups, and throw in some K -Tel commercials

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here and there. We are going to roundtable the

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panel until we've mapped out a dozen 80s music

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video classics for everybody tonight. At the

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end of the show, you can take our conversation

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to the next level by visiting the episode page

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at myweeklymixtape .com, where you can watch

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all of the videos we've discussed tonight via

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and so much more. And a few folks in the mixtaper

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community told us what songs they would kick

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off their hour of programming with. And here's

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what they had to say. Seeker checked in from

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Australia with a pair of choices from Twisted

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Sister. We're Not Gonna Take It and I Wanna Rock,

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both starring the band and Mark Metcalf riffing

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on his role from Animal House. Awesome. Love

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them both. Jimmy Mitchell recalls the early days

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of MTV with his pick The Bangles' Head Over Heels.

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And sticking with the Bengals, Chad LaMassa chimed

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in with their Walk Like an Egyptian video saying

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he fell in love with Susannah Hoffs from that

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video. And believe it or not, there's actually

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a meme about the Walk Like an Egyptian video,

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which is just a still frame of her looking off

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camera slightly. And it reads, every guy over

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45 knows this part of the video by heart. And

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I have to say that's a pretty damn accurate meme.

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I would agree. Ben from the Too Vague podcast

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is going to go with something he calls a super

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obscure pick, Peter Bauman's Strangers in the

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Night, calling it a masterclass and making a

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video with the most 80s tropes and elements.

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Brandon from Virginia chimed in with Billy Squire's

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Rock Me Tonight, calling it the video that completely

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destroyed his career trajectory. So I think he

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went with more of the infamous. video choice

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here. And finally, Sean Goff promises that he's

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not pandering to the My Weekly Mixtape host,

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but the first song that he couldn't wait to see

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the video play again, while also loving the song,

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was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Don't Come

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Around Here No More. A video that's so good,

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I don't consider it pandering in the slightest,

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though I'm a bit biased being the host, so I

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digress. Once again, if you'd like to chime in

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Mixtaper community at patreon .com forward slash

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My Weekly Mixtape. And now, Lindsay, with all

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those choices out in the atmosphere, what video

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are you kicking off our hour -long MTV block

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with? Right out of the gate, I got to go with

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a strong one. Simply Irresistible, Robert Palmer.

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Nice. When you say 80s, one of the first things

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that I think about 80s music videos, I think

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about those female backup dancers and his backup

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musicians and their little dresses that they're

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wearing and their quirky little funky little

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dance that they're doing. That with his, oh,

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I'm trying to think, I can't think of a word

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other than sexiness, sorry, in his suit. It's

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the perfect combo. It is one of the iconic videos.

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I feel like what he did was he went out and he

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got a bunch of fembots and he dressed them up

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all the same with the same hair, the same makeup

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and everything. And they're all dancing, you

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know, close together. And the video switches

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back and forth between him singing and then all

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the ladies there, all the models that he has

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there. And so her picking that is a good way

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to start out the show. But don't you think that

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In total, that video cost like $100 to make.

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And considering it got 6 .6 million streams on

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YouTube as of this recording, I think it's safe

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to say it's made its money back. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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I've always felt like somebody at the label or

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Robert Palmer's management said, look, we love

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the concept to the Addicted to Love video. However,

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let's just get those pesky instruments out of

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the way. shoot the exact same video as addicted

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to love and maybe toss in just a little bit more

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sex because the addicted to love video the dancers

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are behind him really poorly playing their instruments

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oh yeah like they're not even in time their hands

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are nowhere near where the actual and that's

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the music nerd in me i wasn't supposed to be

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paying attention to the instruments but i was

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a music nerd so i was Then when 1988's Heavy

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Nova came out and I was 11 and then they took

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away the instruments, basically my jaw was just

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smack on the ground watching the video because

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it just kind of oozed that sexiness that was

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like, uh, what am I watching? They don't even

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try to hide it. The chest shots and the butt

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shots. I mean, they. They are not trying to be

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subtle at all with what they're saying. No, and

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one thing about 80s music videos, sex sells.

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Yep, absolutely. The song reached number two

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on the US Billboard Hot 100, number one on the

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Australia ARIA chart, number 44 on the UK Singles

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Chart, number 57 in West Germany, and number

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six in New Zealand. And it won the Grammy Award

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for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance that year.

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Love the pick. It's actually... a top three Robert

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Palmer song for me, probably along with addicted

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to love and sneaking Sally through the alley.

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I think those three, maybe there might be another

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one that might push addicted to love in and out.

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But then again, you got weird Al's addicted to

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spuds. So that one has to stay in. Anyway, I'm

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going off topic. Jim, what are you following

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up? Simply irresistible with. So I mentioned

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earlier that I like the early and I like the

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weird. So I'm going to go back to 1983. And I

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am going to choose Men Without Hats, the safety

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dance. Oh, it's just the strangest video. It

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makes zero sense, right? You've got a guy dressed

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up in old dark ages kind of garb. He is traveling

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with a little person that's almost dressed up

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kind of like a jester. They're walking through

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this field. They see some strange, crazy lady

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who's dancing around for no reason. And they

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all decide to start following her as they go

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through a town. And it's almost like they're

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in like a Renaissance fair type thing. It makes

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zero sense with the song at all, but it's hilarious

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to me and it cracks me up. And it's one of those

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early MTB memories for me. Who's on acid here?

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Like whoever came up with this was on some kind

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of an acid trip because there's no other way

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to explain what's going on. This was one of those

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videos that just became synonymous with MTV.

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They could pretty much throw anything at the

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wall and it could be spaghetti and ice cream

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and everything else, whatever sticks becomes

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part of. And there were a lot of music videos

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that did that. It was just like, what the hell

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am I watching? But from a music perspective,

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I feel like the safety dance and the human leagues.

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Don't you want me? We're both. pivotal parts

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of my synth pop introduction in the 80s. So from

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a song perspective, I feel it's extremely important.

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It's from 1982's Rhythm of Youth, and the video

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currently has 6 .1 million streams on YouTube

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as of this recording. It reached number three

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on the US Billboard Hot 100. number 11 on the

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Canada's top singles chart, and was a top 10

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hit in the UK, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland,

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Norway, Sweden, and New Zealand, and was a number

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one hit in Denmark, Portugal, and South Africa.

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So worldwide smash here, video or not, but most

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importantly, in 1984, Weird Al parodied the song

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as the Brady Bunch on the In 3D album. So I think

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if it's gotten Weird Al's stamp of approval,

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because when you talk about 80s music videos,

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like the three of us discussed on your episode

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celebrating Weird Al, it's in the back of my

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head with every song pick tonight. Oh, wow. Yeah,

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I didn't even put that together when I chose

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that, but that's a good point, Brad. All right.

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Well, to follow that up, when I think of iconic

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music videos of the 80s, This is the first one

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that comes to mind for me. And the funniest part

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about it that I've learned later in my nerd life

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is it wasn't the first music video for this song.

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And it wasn't the first recording of this song

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either. The song was originally recorded and

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released in the UK in 1984 and had a completely

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different music video. Basically, the band was

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performing against this blue backdrop. But the

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song didn't take off. So a year later, on 1985's

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Hunting High and Low, A -ha released the international

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version of Take On Me, which is the one that

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pretty much everybody knows, and brought in film

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director Steve Barron to create this absolute

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masterpiece of a music video that took that...

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recognizable look. As soon as you say, take on

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me, everybody knows what you're talking about.

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That's a technique called rotoscoping. And it

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combines the pencil sketch animation with the

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live action footage. And it took them 16 weeks

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to rotoscope 3000 frames for this video. And

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if you want to put that into perspective, I have

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a filter on my Snapchat that I could take a picture

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of myself and in five seconds have the exact

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look from the Take On Me video. But 40 years

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ago, this video was on another level and it has

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over 2 billion streams on YouTube alone. Reached

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number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 as well

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as hitting that top spot in 11 other countries.

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And then because we're talking about the song,

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I have to point out the incredible version of

00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:53.440
Take On Me that the band released in 2017. There

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was an MTV unplugged performance and they did

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a version of this song. If you haven't heard

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it, please, please, please check it out. It's

00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.579
absolutely brilliant. They slow it down to a

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ballad and it pulls on your heartstrings like

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you didn't think could possibly happen with Take

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On Me. And then obviously. My ska punk fan has

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to come out in the 90s. Real Big Fish's amazing

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ska punk cover of Take On Me has to be talked

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about tonight. But we're not here talking about

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90s ska. We're talking about the music video.

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And as a kid, this hypnotized me over and over

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and over again. It was one of the first videos

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I had on that VHS tape. So you sniped me on this

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one because this was definitely one of the ones

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that I had. that i wanted to include so i'm glad

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that you've chosen it i think of aha's take on

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me is one of the most iconic if not the most

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iconic video of the 80s as i was going through

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preparing for this trying to figure out how am

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i going to narrow my list down i was watching

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like i said i watched 25 or 30 videos trying

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to narrow this down and i had forgotten about

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the part about how they come back out of the

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drawing and he's banging his head against the

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wall and trying to figure it out. And she looks

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so worried. I had completely forgotten about

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that. So just going through, trying to just narrow

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it down and watching videos was a lot of fun

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for me leading up to this. So glad you picked

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that. And now I guess I got to pivot and go someplace

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else with my next pick. So to me, the 80s, it

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was all about making music videos that really

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had nothing to do with the words to the song.

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So this one kind of bothers me a little bit.

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And the fact that What's going on with the woman

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in the diner and she goes into the magazine and

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she falls in love. That has nothing really to

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do with the music. So I had a hard time like

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getting on board with it. But I know it's iconic.

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I will accept it for that. But I have one question.

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What do the race car drivers have to do with

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anything? I mean, I'm going to answer this from

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seven -year -old Brian and say race cars are

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awesome. Okay. I'll give it to you. All right,

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Lindsay. Well, with that, we are back to you

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now for track four. Okay. Really, this was easy

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for me. I didn't have to think at all about this

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one. Girls just want to have fun, Cindy Law.

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And one of the reasons, I love Cyndi Lauper,

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but one of the reasons I picked this was I loved

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the crossover between Cyndi Lauper and professional

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wrestling. And the fact that Lou Albano is in

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this video and plays her dad, it's a perfect

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music video. This is the start of the MTV Rock

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and Wrestling connection, Brian. I know you're

00:19:50.819 --> 00:19:53.880
a wrestling fan from the 80s as well. And so

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her getting Lou Albano, I believe, and you probably

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know this story better than I do, but I believe

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they were on a plane ride together and just started

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talking and became friends and she invited him

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to be on the video. And then he invited her into

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his world and that started to grow Vince McMahon's

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empire because now all of a sudden he had a lot

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more eyes on his product as they're airing essentially

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pay -per -views on MTV hosted by Alan Hunter.

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And this video... started all of that and really

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exploded wwf professional wrestling at the time

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yeah definitely wwf i will recommend uh if you

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have netflix the mcmahon documentary that is

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on there they actually cover this for a lot in

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the first episode and without cindy lopper you

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might not have the wwe you have today so it's

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an important part if you're a wrestling fan believe

00:20:47.049 --> 00:20:52.160
it or not but From 1983's She's So Unusual, it

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reached number two on the U .S. Billboard Hot

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100, but hit number one in Canada, Australia,

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and eight other countries. The video currently

00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:06.960
has over 1 .5 billion streams on YouTube, and

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we may or may not have included it in episode

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104, the Ultimate Feel Good Songs playlist with

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my good friend Jay Sweet, because, you know,

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this song kind of just makes you feel good. Indeed.

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It's a fun song. Amen to that. Jim, we are back

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to you for track five. I'm going to fast forward

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a couple of years here. And like I said, I like

00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:30.759
the weird, but this was certainly groundbreaking.

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I remember when this video came out, I wasn't

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even a fan of the song. I had heard the song

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on the radio and wasn't a huge fan, but then

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heard friends because I was in middle school

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talking about the video. And they're like, you

00:21:41.339 --> 00:21:43.539
got to go watch this video. And so I went to

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watch the video. And of course, that made me

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a fan of the song. Peter Gabriel's hammer. Yes.

00:21:52.769 --> 00:21:57.009
Just the most iconic, strangest video I think

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I've ever seen. There's a lot going on here.

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I don't even know how I would begin to describe

00:22:01.809 --> 00:22:04.450
it. I hope, hoping maybe you have the words to

00:22:04.450 --> 00:22:06.190
describe it, Brian, because to me, it's like

00:22:06.190 --> 00:22:08.430
a mind freak. You know, there's just so much

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going on and Peter Gabriel sitting there singing

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and there's stuff coming out of his ears and

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stuff coming out of his mouth and going around

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in circles. And it is animatronics. And I don't

00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:18.700
even know if animatronics is the right word for

00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:21.680
it. It's actually a mix of claymation and stop

00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:24.900
animation. Okay, thank you. Yes, it was genius.

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It was brilliant. And again, nothing to do with

00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:29.940
the song, right? And to me, the most iconic part

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:32.500
that I remember is him looking as if he's riding

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on a roller coaster. When I first started thinking

00:22:34.539 --> 00:22:37.130
of... iconic videos, and this was one that popped

00:22:37.130 --> 00:22:39.230
into my head. I thought of the roller coaster

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and I had forgotten how much you had to go through

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before you got to the roller coaster portion

00:22:44.049 --> 00:22:48.309
of the song. So I love Peter Gabriel. I like

00:22:48.309 --> 00:22:52.250
this song. I don't like this video. Whoa. Something

00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:56.089
about the effects that it like hurts my eyes.

00:22:56.170 --> 00:22:58.910
I can't focus on it. And I don't, I can't even

00:22:58.910 --> 00:23:03.130
really put it into words, but I can't stare at

00:23:03.130 --> 00:23:07.529
the screen and watch it. But it's such an odd

00:23:07.529 --> 00:23:11.069
video. Again, I wonder, what were they thinking

00:23:11.069 --> 00:23:14.369
when they were like, hmm, let's make a raw chicken

00:23:14.369 --> 00:23:17.170
dance? What were they thinking? I don't know.

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I have to disagree, Lindsay. As a kid, I was

00:23:21.849 --> 00:23:25.170
nine years old when this came out. And I had

00:23:25.170 --> 00:23:28.190
grown up with the Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer

00:23:28.190 --> 00:23:32.150
specials around the holidays, the Christmas claymation

00:23:32.150 --> 00:23:36.759
specials. the California raisins videos in the

00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:39.980
commercials with the claymation. So claymation,

00:23:40.059 --> 00:23:42.779
I always thought was really cool. This was the

00:23:42.779 --> 00:23:47.819
first time I saw it done in a rock aspect. So

00:23:47.819 --> 00:23:51.440
this was a rock star using something that would

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.700
be more aimed towards kids, but making it feel

00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:58.579
modern and fresh and adult like such as like

00:23:58.579 --> 00:24:00.420
what Jim said, that whole scene where his head

00:24:00.420 --> 00:24:03.440
is going through the roller coaster. If you watch

00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.180
that stop animation and you realize how many

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:12.079
frames it took to complete that, it is so groundbreaking.

00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.900
And I think the absurdity of all of it is just

00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:18.940
the fact that what is happening. And again, this

00:24:18.940 --> 00:24:22.099
is a total guess here. It's as if you're getting

00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:24.579
bludgeoned with a sledgehammer because it's all

00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:28.980
just coming at you so fast and furious. It was

00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:32.240
from his 86th album, so as far as I'm concerned,

00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:35.819
his masterpiece. It was number one on the Billboard

00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:39.460
US Hot 100 and Canada's singles chart, as well

00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:41.720
as number four in the UK and number three in

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.099
Australia. And it was a top 10 hit in a dozen

00:24:45.099 --> 00:24:49.059
other countries. And it won nine MTV Video Music

00:24:49.059 --> 00:24:53.559
Awards in 1987, which was the most awards a single

00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:57.859
video has ever won. Time magazine has been accredited

00:24:57.859 --> 00:25:01.460
saying it's the most played video on MTV of all

00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:05.259
time. And it was ranked MTV's number one animated

00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:10.380
video of all time. So nine -year -old Brian has

00:25:10.380 --> 00:25:13.119
to approve this one. I've watched it several

00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:15.839
times on YouTube over the years. And so have

00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.500
a lot of people because it's got over 81 million

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:24.319
streams on YouTube as of now. So along with the

00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:31.359
aha video, Sledgehammer was on my VHS tape. And

00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:33.680
because it was one of the videos I watched the

00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:38.099
most, I have to follow this up exactly as it

00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:42.259
happened on that VHS tape. I had these two videos

00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:44.619
back to back, so we're in the same time frame.

00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:49.579
We're in 1986, 1987, in that era. And Sledgehammer

00:25:49.579 --> 00:25:52.579
would end, and you'd see this little pink room.

00:25:53.150 --> 00:25:56.190
Chevy Chase and Paul Simon would walk in and

00:25:56.190 --> 00:26:00.390
sit down. From 1986's Graceland, You Can Call

00:26:00.390 --> 00:26:03.589
Me Al. Reached number 23 on the Billboard US

00:26:03.589 --> 00:26:06.630
Hot 100, number 11 on the Canada Top Singles

00:26:06.630 --> 00:26:10.190
Chart, number 2 in Australia, and was a top 10

00:26:10.190 --> 00:26:13.589
hit in Belgium, Finland, Ireland, South Africa,

00:26:13.730 --> 00:26:17.329
the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Now, just like

00:26:17.329 --> 00:26:20.789
AHA's take on me, the video with Chevy Chase

00:26:20.789 --> 00:26:25.279
was not... the first music video shot for You

00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.599
Can Call Me Al. The original, and I'll make sure

00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:31.380
I embed this on the episode page at myweeklymixtape

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:34.559
.com, is a completely different concept. It's

00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.680
actually Paul performing on Saturday Night Live,

00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:41.880
but you're watching it through a video monitor

00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.299
as if you're in the control room. So it gives

00:26:45.299 --> 00:26:49.079
it this really strange Wayne's World public access

00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:54.359
TV look. And Paul was not a fan of it. And neither

00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:58.599
am I. So it was actually the brainchild, partly

00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:00.799
Lauren Michaels of Saturday Night Live, that

00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.980
came up with this concept for Chevy Chase and

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:07.339
Paul Simon to do this video. And as simple of

00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:11.259
a concept that this video is, Chevy just cuts

00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:14.279
off Paul Simon and starts lip syncing. Paul looks

00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:16.920
at him surprised, walks off camera. He kind of.

00:27:17.130 --> 00:27:19.509
Sits back down for the chorus and just twiddles

00:27:19.509 --> 00:27:22.869
his thumbs, singing the, if you'll be my bodyguard,

00:27:23.049 --> 00:27:27.329
the background vocals. It was just a silly, fun

00:27:27.329 --> 00:27:30.390
video. The choreographed dance at the end, warts

00:27:30.390 --> 00:27:35.450
and all. It just works. It's fun. It's light.

00:27:35.990 --> 00:27:39.250
It's simple. But it's something you always remember.

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.319
And as of right now, the video has 135 million

00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:46.019
streams on YouTube. So hopefully I'm not the

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:50.519
only one that likes this track. You are not.

00:27:50.619 --> 00:27:54.400
I like this, too. This was such a simple video.

00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:56.180
Like you said, the camera is just it's just a

00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.599
one shot deal, right? The camera just sits there.

00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:01.779
There's maybe a couple of cuts in the video.

00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:04.839
So I'm guessing it was a couple of cameras set

00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.079
up and they just shot it. Yeah. And it's genius

00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:10.799
to have Chevy lip sync and all of Paul's parts.

00:28:10.859 --> 00:28:13.299
And then Paul kind of fiddling around outside

00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:15.160
and coming back in with different instruments

00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.759
and just lip sync in the background. I just,

00:28:17.819 --> 00:28:21.220
I think it's genius. It's so simple to me that

00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:23.839
it's genius. And that's why I went with it because

00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.539
of the fact that a lot of the videos, they kept

00:28:26.539 --> 00:28:29.319
trying to go for bigger and more and bolder.

00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:31.720
And sometimes the ones that you remember are

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.720
just like, Hey, that was creative and fun. And

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.779
at this time, Chevy Chase could do no wrong.

00:28:37.940 --> 00:28:41.740
So this was like a big deal in the mid 80s. So

00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:44.859
this one was going to be on my list. So a little

00:28:44.859 --> 00:28:49.339
irritated with you that you beat me, but I don't

00:28:49.339 --> 00:28:52.140
blame you for doing that. Yeah, you guys, you've

00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:55.359
already said it like the simplicity of it. I'm

00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:58.200
a huge Chevy Chase fan. So, of course, I love

00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:00.000
that he's in the video. I love that he's lip

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.279
syncing. The one thing that always cracks me

00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.799
up, is that a piccolo that Paul Simon comes out

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.640
and plays a piccolo? It's perfect for him. The

00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.240
size difference between Paul Simon and Chevy

00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.640
Chase, and he's got his little piccolo. I love

00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.859
it. It's perfect. Well, with that, Lindsay, we

00:29:19.859 --> 00:29:23.200
are about to start the second half. of our hour

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.000
of MTV music videos. And my apologies for scooping

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:28.980
you on Paul Simon, but I'm throwing it back to

00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:34.359
you for the next pick. So this is a song where

00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:39.059
I always do think of the video first. So if I

00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:41.920
ever hear the song, the video and what plays

00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.500
in the video is what comes to mind. And that

00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:49.599
is We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. I

00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.720
love the fact that We go back and forth between

00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.039
the different scenes that are going on in a kitchen

00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.420
through different eras of time. And he's always

00:30:00.420 --> 00:30:03.799
in the background, kind of hanging out, sort

00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:06.099
of observing what's going on. And then we always

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:09.660
did flash over to just the simplicity of him,

00:30:09.700 --> 00:30:11.880
you know, sitting at that table with his sunglasses

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:14.880
on. And then, you know, just the really powerful

00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:17.180
pictures in the background that are flashing

00:30:17.180 --> 00:30:24.019
across the screen. You guys might kick me off

00:30:24.019 --> 00:30:27.980
the podcast when I say this, but it might be

00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:32.000
the first Billy Joel song that I learned as a

00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.380
little kid. It doesn't matter when you got introduced.

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:39.039
It's just that you got introduced. Yeah. And

00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:42.380
so, of course, Little Lens couldn't even comprehend

00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:44.640
really probably the ultimate meaning to this

00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.640
song, but it was different. and i had never heard

00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.279
anything quite like it and it it definitely got

00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:55.039
my attention all right so billy joel had just

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.079
some iconic videos in the 80s right uptown girl

00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:03.619
pressure uh this billy joel tom petty and then

00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:05.480
somebody else that i think i'm gonna pick next

00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:07.960
are like my three favorite artists of all time

00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.079
and So I love this video. I love the fact that

00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.980
it starts out, he starts out, you know, talking

00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:16.319
in the early fifties with his references and

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:19.119
he's like, it's like he's in Lucy and Ricky's

00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:21.680
apartment. Right. And then as he moves on through

00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.700
the sixties, the kitchen kind of changes and

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:26.680
it goes looking a little bit more hippie ish

00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.819
and then into the seventies and then eventually

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:32.079
the eighties. And essentially the song's about,

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:35.000
it's a history lesson, but it's also about things

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.599
just keep going on. Right. And human nature doesn't

00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.509
change. And so. We can't stop it, right? We can't

00:31:41.509 --> 00:31:45.450
put out the fire. And so I, you know, the video's

00:31:45.450 --> 00:31:47.750
phenomenal, but to me, the song's even better.

00:31:48.329 --> 00:31:51.769
I cannot believe the two songs that you rattled

00:31:51.769 --> 00:31:54.250
off when you were talking about Billy Joel videos,

00:31:54.289 --> 00:31:58.150
because I actually had two Billy Joel videos

00:31:58.150 --> 00:32:02.269
in my list. And they were Uptown Girl and Pressure

00:32:02.269 --> 00:32:04.609
because those are the first two. But I'm showing

00:32:04.609 --> 00:32:08.109
my age because We Didn't Start the Fire was towards

00:32:08.109 --> 00:32:10.950
the latter half of the decade. Still love the

00:32:10.950 --> 00:32:14.410
video. But when I think 80s, We Didn't Start

00:32:14.410 --> 00:32:17.170
the Fire is so close to the end of the decade

00:32:17.170 --> 00:32:20.809
that sometimes I even equate it to early 90s

00:32:20.809 --> 00:32:24.880
because 89 and 90 to me. is one two -year block.

00:32:25.819 --> 00:32:29.259
That's the one blind spot I have on music. And

00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:31.740
it was probably my most developmental year in

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:34.839
music, where I was choosing my musical path.

00:32:35.299 --> 00:32:37.859
And there are some albums I'm like, that was

00:32:37.859 --> 00:32:40.559
89. I look, nope, that was 90. That was 90. Nope,

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.940
that was 89. Stormfront was one of those. We

00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:47.119
had to learn. Every lyric to this song in seventh

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.319
grade, and we had to do a test on this song,

00:32:50.420 --> 00:32:53.359
so there's a little bit of PTSD from that lesson,

00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:56.619
but I do respect the song now. When I hear it,

00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:58.700
though, sometimes I kind of go, oh, God, did

00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:00.640
I get that one right? You know, it kind of comes

00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:03.539
back to me. But it reached number one on the

00:33:03.539 --> 00:33:06.619
U .S. Billboard Hot 100, number two on the Canada

00:33:06.619 --> 00:33:09.769
Top Singles chart. number seven on the UK singles

00:33:09.769 --> 00:33:13.029
chart, number two on the Australia ARIA charts,

00:33:13.150 --> 00:33:15.970
and was a top 10 hit in West Germany, Australia,

00:33:16.210 --> 00:33:20.130
Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, and New Zealand.

00:33:20.250 --> 00:33:24.910
The video has over 184 million streams on YouTube.

00:33:25.589 --> 00:33:29.769
And on episode 15, the ultimate Billy Joel playlist,

00:33:30.190 --> 00:33:34.150
I was blessed enough to have Liberty DeVito.

00:33:34.770 --> 00:33:38.390
longtime billy joel drummer who played on we

00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:40.289
didn't start the fire well he played on everything

00:33:40.289 --> 00:33:43.750
from turnstiles all the way up through the river

00:33:43.750 --> 00:33:47.190
of dreams and we curate the ultimate 20 song

00:33:47.190 --> 00:33:51.849
billy joel playlist so love the pick love the

00:33:51.849 --> 00:33:56.170
song love the video and now i am throwing it

00:33:56.170 --> 00:34:01.289
to jim to follow that up all right well i've

00:34:01.289 --> 00:34:04.289
got to pivot away from billy joel now And I'm

00:34:04.289 --> 00:34:06.910
going to go with my other favorite artist from

00:34:06.910 --> 00:34:09.190
the 80s after Tom Petty and Billy Joel, and that

00:34:09.190 --> 00:34:13.269
is Huey Lewis and The News. Nice. I am doing

00:34:13.269 --> 00:34:17.670
it all for my baby. Oh, okay. Now, they had a

00:34:17.670 --> 00:34:20.590
bunch of iconic videos as well, but I really

00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:22.650
like this one because it's almost like a movie.

00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:24.769
It's almost like a quick little five -minute

00:34:24.769 --> 00:34:27.570
movie before the music even starts. You know,

00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:30.530
they break down. Huey's videos were always kind

00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:32.840
of goofy and silly. But they break down and the

00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:34.900
car falls on them and they can't pull him out

00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:36.500
and they just figure he's dead. So they leave

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:38.900
him there for dead. And then they go into this

00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:42.000
scary kind of Dr. Frankenstein type mansion.

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.280
And next thing you know, there's Huey Lewis dressed

00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.559
almost like Doc Brown from Back to the Future

00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:50.280
as the music kicks in and he starts singing,

00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.980
doing it all for my baby. I think it's just a

00:34:52.980 --> 00:34:55.780
video that a lot of people maybe forget about,

00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:59.739
but it's so, it's just so Huey. It's just so

00:34:59.739 --> 00:35:02.769
Huey Lewis in the news. They just like to have

00:35:02.769 --> 00:35:06.210
fun. They didn't take anything seriously. And

00:35:06.210 --> 00:35:11.050
the video to me is iconic. I love that the van,

00:35:11.110 --> 00:35:13.289
well, I don't love that the van falls on Huey,

00:35:13.329 --> 00:35:16.030
but I think it's funny that the van falls on

00:35:16.030 --> 00:35:19.250
Huey and the band's like, eh, we'll go get something

00:35:19.250 --> 00:35:22.710
to eat. Eh, let's go. And they leave him. But

00:35:22.710 --> 00:35:26.090
then also the funny part is someone comes along

00:35:26.090 --> 00:35:29.269
later and they have a... a hand saw and they

00:35:29.269 --> 00:35:31.610
try to like they first they tried to move the

00:35:31.610 --> 00:35:33.610
van to get him out and then they try to saw his

00:35:33.610 --> 00:35:37.050
legs off i mean just the absurdity it just makes

00:35:37.050 --> 00:35:40.550
me laugh and i love huey lewis so great video

00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:44.949
i have to agree this is when in 1986 they were

00:35:44.949 --> 00:35:48.090
working off of sports money so this is where

00:35:48.090 --> 00:35:50.630
the video concepts they were allowed to spend

00:35:50.630 --> 00:35:52.730
a little bit more because they were a proven

00:35:52.730 --> 00:35:55.570
entity because of the fact that they were so

00:35:55.570 --> 00:35:58.519
iconic because of videos like If this is it,

00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.500
that was the one that was in my list, where their

00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:04.480
heads are sticking up out of the sand. Not to

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:08.599
be a promo whore for older episodes, but Bill

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:11.239
Gibson, drummer for Huey Lewis in the News, was

00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:14.380
my guest on episode 23, where we crafted the

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:17.019
ultimate Huey Lewis in the News playlist. And

00:36:17.019 --> 00:36:19.300
I actually got to talk to him about shooting

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:22.739
some of their iconic videos. So really, really,

00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:25.960
really cool story in that one. The video currently

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:28.719
has over 3 million streams on YouTube, and I'm

00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.559
talking about doing it all for my baby again.

00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.179
The song reached number six on the Billboard

00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:37.099
US Hot 100, which I kind of thought was interesting,

00:36:37.260 --> 00:36:39.539
Jim, because you had said it was an oft -forgotten

00:36:39.539 --> 00:36:42.400
-about tune, but I guess in comparison to the

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.159
hip -to -be -squares, the Jacob's Ladder, the

00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:47.139
heart of rock and roll, heart of soul, yes, this

00:36:47.139 --> 00:36:50.059
one kind of falls down, but it was a top -ten

00:36:50.059 --> 00:36:52.980
hit. And it hit number 30 on the Canada singles

00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:57.159
chart, number 93 in Australia. And it was a video

00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.519
that continued to push the musical boundaries

00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:03.360
for the band. And I'll be honest, they're one

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.380
of my favorites of the 80s as well. Jim, I feel

00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:08.000
like you and I are kind of like musical kindred

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.579
spirits here because we are kind of on the same

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:14.079
page with some of these. Absolutely. Love Huey,

00:37:14.099 --> 00:37:16.039
all his videos. But this one is the one that

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.880
sticks out to me the most. Well, I'm going to

00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:23.269
go back to my. VHS mixtape for this one. And

00:37:23.269 --> 00:37:26.469
this was one of those songs where I found a song

00:37:26.469 --> 00:37:29.769
that I liked. I recorded the video. I showed

00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:33.550
it to my father and he says, Oh, you want to

00:37:33.550 --> 00:37:37.869
hear the original? And my father pulls out toys

00:37:37.869 --> 00:37:42.090
in the attic and puts on the original walk this

00:37:42.090 --> 00:37:46.929
way. But in 1986 for raising hell, The amazing

00:37:46.929 --> 00:37:49.929
Rick Rubin decided to pull that exact same album

00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:53.750
out in front of Run DMC, load up Walk This Way,

00:37:54.110 --> 00:37:58.449
let them freestyle over it, and then push them

00:37:58.449 --> 00:38:02.110
to record something with it. The band was originally

00:38:02.110 --> 00:38:06.230
against it. Run DMC was not in on this song at

00:38:06.230 --> 00:38:09.389
first. They brought in Joe Perry, who recorded

00:38:09.389 --> 00:38:11.550
the guitar and bass. They brought in Steven Tyler

00:38:11.550 --> 00:38:14.710
to do the vocals. The band still wasn't sold

00:38:14.710 --> 00:38:17.130
on it. They didn't want to release it as a single,

00:38:17.190 --> 00:38:21.130
but the label pushed and they recorded this little

00:38:21.130 --> 00:38:25.610
music video and it exploded. Even though Run

00:38:25.610 --> 00:38:28.170
DMC wasn't sure about releasing it, it hit number

00:38:28.170 --> 00:38:31.530
four on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100, number six

00:38:31.530 --> 00:38:34.949
in Canada, number one in New Zealand, number

00:38:34.949 --> 00:38:37.949
nine in Australia, number eight in the U .K.,

00:38:37.949 --> 00:38:40.989
and was a top ten hit in six other countries.

00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:44.539
VH1 ranked the collaboration number four on their

00:38:44.539 --> 00:38:47.880
list of the 100 greatest hip hop songs. And the

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.400
video currently has 133 million streams on YouTube.

00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:58.380
But most importantly, this song was a piece of

00:38:58.380 --> 00:39:03.420
the puzzle that saved Aerosmith as a band. Aerosmith

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:08.800
had a rough start to the 80s, raising hell into

00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:12.809
permanent vacation. changed this band's trajectory

00:39:12.809 --> 00:39:18.590
forever. And it also made Run DMC a household

00:39:18.590 --> 00:39:21.369
name. So I feel like there's an importance to

00:39:21.369 --> 00:39:24.670
this video. Hip -hop was around and it was respected.

00:39:25.309 --> 00:39:28.230
But Run DMC with this song, I'm not going to

00:39:28.230 --> 00:39:30.929
say single -handedly, but along with a lot of

00:39:30.929 --> 00:39:33.329
other hip -hop songs that were crossing over

00:39:33.329 --> 00:39:36.530
and mixing rock and hip -hop together, the Beastie

00:39:36.530 --> 00:39:41.079
Boys and stuff like that, made hip -hop. mainstream.

00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:43.360
And I feel like this is an important song in

00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.099
the video when Steven Tyler smashes through the

00:39:46.099 --> 00:39:48.639
wall. And I don't know, that might've been symbolic

00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:51.599
for something, but regardless the dance at the

00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.300
end, I have mimicked that dance. I mean, my kids

00:39:54.300 --> 00:39:58.239
have the just dance video game. And if you play

00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:00.320
with the controllers, one of the, I forgot what

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.460
year has it, but there is Aerosmith and run DMCs

00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:07.099
walk this way and you have to do the dance. With

00:40:07.099 --> 00:40:09.500
the three steps and the kick at the end of the

00:40:09.500 --> 00:40:13.440
video. And it is so much frigging fun. Just like

00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:17.199
the dance at the end of You Can Call Me Al. Very

00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.239
similar. Oh, wow. That's a comparison I wasn't

00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:25.320
expecting. Oh, Brian, good job. The shuffle shuffle

00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:28.420
kick dance. It was totally an 80s thing. It was

00:40:28.420 --> 00:40:30.760
a thing. I'm glad you brought this up because

00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:33.750
I would have said. and i would defer to you because

00:40:33.750 --> 00:40:35.710
i feel like you know music better than i but

00:40:35.710 --> 00:40:37.909
i would have said that this is the song that

00:40:37.909 --> 00:40:40.789
made hip -hop mainstream or at least led to it

00:40:40.789 --> 00:40:43.250
becoming mainstream and i remember this video

00:40:43.250 --> 00:40:46.590
i actually was an aerosmith fan prior to this

00:40:46.590 --> 00:40:49.690
video so i'm a little bit older than you and

00:40:49.690 --> 00:40:53.329
my parents played aerosmith a lot as a kid my

00:40:53.329 --> 00:40:55.730
best friend up the street actually had aerosmith's

00:40:55.730 --> 00:40:57.869
greatest hits so he would bring that tape down

00:40:57.869 --> 00:41:00.409
and we would listen to it And so I knew Walk

00:41:00.409 --> 00:41:02.750
This Way before I ever knew who Run DMC was.

00:41:03.150 --> 00:41:06.730
But when you listen to just Walk This Way, it's

00:41:06.730 --> 00:41:11.829
the perfect song to turn into rap because he's

00:41:11.829 --> 00:41:14.449
almost kind of rapping as he goes because he's

00:41:14.449 --> 00:41:17.389
spitting out the lyrics so fast. And so I thought

00:41:17.389 --> 00:41:19.989
it was genius to put those two together. But

00:41:19.989 --> 00:41:21.809
like you said, this saved Aerosmith's career

00:41:21.809 --> 00:41:25.019
and it was a really cool video. I think having

00:41:25.019 --> 00:41:28.300
them perform on, you know, either side of the

00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:30.840
wall and then they break the wall. I mean, I

00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.780
think that's the perfect like visual of what

00:41:34.780 --> 00:41:38.239
they did for their respective genres and music.

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:41.440
That wall was the boundaries that they broke

00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:44.699
through. And as symbolic as it is, it's just

00:41:44.699 --> 00:41:48.320
a badass moment on top of it. Little Lens in

00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:51.559
Atlanta, Georgia with older parents, I wouldn't

00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.690
have known Run DMC otherwise. I just wouldn't

00:41:54.690 --> 00:41:57.210
have. That's just not something, you know, on

00:41:57.210 --> 00:42:00.789
my radar. But because of that video, I was introduced

00:42:00.789 --> 00:42:04.429
to them. And then it goes from there. All right.

00:42:04.429 --> 00:42:06.530
Well, with that, we are back to you to follow

00:42:06.530 --> 00:42:09.150
up with your last choice of the evening. What

00:42:09.150 --> 00:42:14.190
do you got? OK, I'm taking it there. Parents

00:42:14.190 --> 00:42:21.800
just don't understand. I picked this one because

00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:26.199
it makes me laugh. Start to finish, it's funny

00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:30.000
to me from his, what looks like to me is Huey,

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:33.380
Dewey, and Louie sheets on his bed, you know,

00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:36.420
to the clothes that his mom makes him wear, to

00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:38.880
the girl he picks up, you know, turns out she's

00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:43.139
12. Like the whole thing is just a hoot to me.

00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.699
And, you know, Fresh Prince in the, what, late

00:42:47.699 --> 00:42:51.920
80s, early 90s. couldn't beat him i remember

00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.519
the first time that i saw this video i was over

00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:56.519
at a friend's house a real good friend's house

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:58.840
and we would always be outside doing something

00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.119
we were hardly ever inside but we for whatever

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:04.920
reason this time we were inside i turn on mtv

00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:08.920
and this video's on and i'm like what is this

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:12.320
and to me this was the first even though we had

00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:16.659
run dmc we had the beastie boys i hadn't started

00:43:16.659 --> 00:43:21.010
listening to nwa yet but This was the first rapper

00:43:21.010 --> 00:43:25.050
to actually speak to me as a kid, right? You

00:43:25.050 --> 00:43:26.510
know, he's talking about how parents just don't

00:43:26.510 --> 00:43:28.090
understand. He's talking about how your parents

00:43:28.090 --> 00:43:30.670
embarrass you because they go buy you clothes

00:43:30.670 --> 00:43:33.630
that you don't want to wear to school. You know,

00:43:33.650 --> 00:43:36.469
most of the time it's for monetary reasons, right?

00:43:36.590 --> 00:43:38.449
And that's what it seemed like with his parents.

00:43:38.530 --> 00:43:41.090
And so to me, I could totally relate. I thought

00:43:41.090 --> 00:43:43.769
the graffiti and the artwork on the wall was

00:43:43.769 --> 00:43:46.050
really cool. Just very simple, just white walls

00:43:46.050 --> 00:43:48.369
with artwork on it. I thought that was really

00:43:48.369 --> 00:43:51.519
cool. Him deciding to take his parents Porsche

00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:53.420
out while they're out of town. Right. Even though

00:43:53.420 --> 00:43:55.559
he's not 16 or he doesn't have a license yet.

00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:57.860
You know, we can all relate to just kids just

00:43:57.860 --> 00:44:00.039
making stupid decisions, especially as teenage

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:03.119
boys. I feel like we get dumber before we get

00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:06.440
smarter as we go through life. But yeah, just

00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.760
it's an iconic video for the late 80s. Oh, by

00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:12.099
all means, that backdrop that he has with all

00:44:12.099 --> 00:44:15.340
the graffiti on it's so colorful. And they shot

00:44:15.340 --> 00:44:17.840
several different videos using that. The Girls

00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:19.860
Ain't Nothing But Trouble video used some of

00:44:19.860 --> 00:44:23.420
it. Even the Fresh Prince of Bel -Air is in that

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:27.659
for a moment. There was even a, not a music video,

00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.539
but a commercial. Remember when artists used

00:44:30.539 --> 00:44:36.000
to do 1 -900 numbers? They had 1 -900 -909 -JEFF

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.420
and it was a hip hop song. And you could call

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:41.079
that number and the commercial was filmed. on

00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:43.980
that set. So it was almost like their lair at

00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:46.920
the time. But I'll make sure I embed that commercial

00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.519
over on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com

00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.619
so you could check that one out. But back to

00:44:52.619 --> 00:44:56.059
Parents Just Don't Understand. I loved this song.

00:44:57.260 --> 00:45:00.639
1988s, he's the DJ, I'm the rapper. The song

00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.000
reached number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100,

00:45:03.260 --> 00:45:06.340
number 28 on the Canada Top Singles Chart, number

00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:10.289
87 in the UK, and number 49 in Australia. won

00:45:10.289 --> 00:45:13.730
a Grammy award for best rap performance at the

00:45:13.730 --> 00:45:17.929
1989 Grammys. And it was one of the two rap songs

00:45:17.929 --> 00:45:20.349
to get that award before they discontinued it.

00:45:20.909 --> 00:45:25.309
The other one, Young MC's Bust a Move. So back

00:45:25.309 --> 00:45:27.110
to back ones. They're another great video, actually,

00:45:27.130 --> 00:45:29.530
now that I think about it. Parents Just Don't

00:45:29.530 --> 00:45:32.989
Understand, ranked number 96 on VH1's 100 Greatest

00:45:32.989 --> 00:45:35.730
Songs of Hip Hop. And the video currently has

00:45:35.730 --> 00:45:39.710
over 15 million streams on YouTube. I'm actually

00:45:39.710 --> 00:45:41.469
surprised. I thought that number was a little

00:45:41.469 --> 00:45:43.510
low, to be perfectly honest. Even a little low.

00:45:43.550 --> 00:45:46.610
Feels it. Yeah. All right. Well, Jim, we are

00:45:46.610 --> 00:45:49.170
back to you now for your last pick of the night.

00:45:49.269 --> 00:45:52.170
All right. I am going to pivot away from the

00:45:52.170 --> 00:45:54.429
hip hop here and go with something a little bit

00:45:54.429 --> 00:45:57.030
heavier that would actually become even heavier

00:45:57.030 --> 00:46:00.750
on a cover in the early 2000s. And I know that's

00:46:00.750 --> 00:46:02.170
one of your favorites, Brian, because I think

00:46:02.170 --> 00:46:05.440
we've talked about it over. X or Twitter or Facebook

00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.699
or something. And I am going to go with the video

00:46:08.699 --> 00:46:12.159
that I always think of with puppets. And that

00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:17.760
is Genesis Land of Confusion. Nice. This video

00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.519
sends me to a land of confusion. So it wasn't

00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.519
just a clever title. Yeah, right. You got the

00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:27.960
puppets of, you know, what you can only assume

00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.219
to be Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan at the beginning,

00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:33.219
you know, and then I love the Phil Collins puppet.

00:46:33.530 --> 00:46:35.889
i mean it's you talk about just like when people

00:46:35.889 --> 00:46:38.809
draw caricatures of people you know that's what

00:46:38.809 --> 00:46:40.670
these puppets were like right they were drawn

00:46:40.670 --> 00:46:42.710
caricatures of people i love the phil collins

00:46:42.710 --> 00:46:45.010
puppet you know there's a whole lot of famous

00:46:45.010 --> 00:46:47.170
people in there it was going by so fast when

00:46:47.170 --> 00:46:49.829
i was watching this trying to narrow stuff down

00:46:49.829 --> 00:46:52.969
that i can't even remember all the famous people

00:46:52.969 --> 00:46:55.570
there but i believe i saw margaret thatcher but

00:46:55.570 --> 00:46:58.510
the phil collins puppet and the ronald reagan

00:46:58.510 --> 00:47:00.769
puppet to me are the two that stick out the most

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:03.920
Puppets when you're talking about Phil Collins,

00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:06.159
because if you watch the band performance video,

00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:09.679
Phil Collins is in front of the microphone singing.

00:47:09.780 --> 00:47:12.059
But if you look very carefully in the background,

00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.360
he pops up on drums. It just kind of waves his

00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.760
arm around and then drops back down. So there's

00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:20.659
actually two Phil Collins puppets on stage. So

00:47:20.659 --> 00:47:22.300
right. I totally forgot about that. Yeah, he's

00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:25.260
in the background acting like animal from. Yes,

00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:30.059
I'm pretty sure I saw Dolly Parton in one scene.

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:33.260
Did you you didn't see Dolly? Well, there's that

00:47:33.260 --> 00:47:35.659
whole spoofing towards the end of the do they

00:47:35.659 --> 00:47:37.699
know it's Christmas and we are the world video.

00:47:37.739 --> 00:47:40.800
So you had I think I know there was a Bruce Springsteen,

00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:43.619
a Madonna and a Michael Jackson puppet in there

00:47:43.619 --> 00:47:46.320
as well. So, I mean, if you talk about budgets,

00:47:46.420 --> 00:47:48.380
this one had to have one because those puppets

00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:50.719
were probably not cheap to make. That's what

00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.500
I would think. And I'm totally drawing a blank.

00:47:53.579 --> 00:47:56.420
But at the end of the video, one of you I know

00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:59.639
can help me out. The. puppet that's supposed

00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:02.500
to be i believe ronald reagan he hits a button

00:48:02.500 --> 00:48:05.079
he was supposed to hit the button for nurse and

00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.559
he hit the button for new that's it that makes

00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.980
me laugh every time yeah that was definitely

00:48:10.980 --> 00:48:14.539
part of the cold war era type music video stuff

00:48:14.539 --> 00:48:17.980
but done only like i don't know if every band

00:48:17.980 --> 00:48:20.800
could have gotten away with that video but for

00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:24.809
some reason genesis could And the song is just

00:48:24.809 --> 00:48:26.929
incredible. Like you said, the Disturbed cover,

00:48:27.190 --> 00:48:31.329
10 ,000 Fists album. I absolutely love it. From

00:48:31.329 --> 00:48:34.150
1986's Invisible Touch, it reached number four

00:48:34.150 --> 00:48:37.050
on the Billboard US Hot 100, number eight on

00:48:37.050 --> 00:48:40.210
the Canada Top Singles Chart, number 14 on the

00:48:40.210 --> 00:48:43.010
UK Singles Chart, number 21 in Australia, among

00:48:43.010 --> 00:48:46.289
others. And it won the Short -Lived Grammy Award

00:48:46.289 --> 00:48:51.570
for Best Concept Music Video. but lost the MTV

00:48:51.570 --> 00:48:55.050
Music Award to another video we talked about

00:48:55.050 --> 00:48:57.289
this evening. Lindsay, you're not going to be

00:48:57.289 --> 00:49:02.449
happy about this, but Sledgehammer. Oh. And this

00:49:02.449 --> 00:49:04.969
video currently has, again, a low number, I think,

00:49:05.030 --> 00:49:08.730
14 million streams on YouTube. And when we say

00:49:08.730 --> 00:49:10.989
14 million being low, we're talking about the

00:49:10.989 --> 00:49:13.329
fact that we're comparing it to the 2 billion

00:49:13.329 --> 00:49:17.190
of Take On Me. 14 million seems like pennies

00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:20.980
at that point. Exactly. All right. So I get to

00:49:20.980 --> 00:49:24.159
take us home tonight and close out the evening

00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.480
with a music video. And there is one music video

00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:31.199
that stuck in my mind more than any other music

00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:34.000
video from the 80s. It was seeing this music

00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.639
video that made me come up with the idea of doing

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:41.539
this episode. It was the music video that made

00:49:41.539 --> 00:49:43.920
me hide under every blanket and pillow on our

00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.349
couch the first time I saw it. from the get away

00:49:47.349 --> 00:49:51.489
all the way to the end with the eyeballs 1982

00:49:51.489 --> 00:49:57.349
michael jackson's thriller reach number four

00:49:57.349 --> 00:50:00.150
on the u .s billboard hot 100 number three on

00:50:00.150 --> 00:50:02.849
the canada top singles chart number 10 on the

00:50:02.849 --> 00:50:05.670
uk singles chart number four in australia and

00:50:05.670 --> 00:50:09.510
number one in argentina spain belgium france

00:50:09.510 --> 00:50:13.489
and portugal this video currently has over a

00:50:13.489 --> 00:50:16.349
billion streams on youtube So again, putting

00:50:16.349 --> 00:50:18.090
it into comparison with some of those other ones

00:50:18.090 --> 00:50:22.530
we just mentioned. And once again, just like,

00:50:22.650 --> 00:50:25.449
I think it's a theme among my videos for this

00:50:25.449 --> 00:50:29.170
evening. Not fully because Take On Me doesn't

00:50:29.170 --> 00:50:33.050
have a dance per se at the end, but You Could

00:50:33.050 --> 00:50:36.170
Call Me Al has a dance at the end. Walk This

00:50:36.170 --> 00:50:40.570
Way has a dance at the end. And Thriller has

00:50:40.570 --> 00:50:45.530
a dance at the end. And that is one of the most

00:50:45.530 --> 00:50:50.150
iconic, if not the most iconic 80s dance. When

00:50:50.150 --> 00:50:53.389
the zombies do the arms up and they, oh my God,

00:50:53.510 --> 00:50:57.429
I was horrified as that as a child, but then

00:50:57.429 --> 00:51:00.329
my parents made me watch the making of it. And

00:51:00.329 --> 00:51:02.550
I think in a weird way, it kind of fueled my

00:51:02.550 --> 00:51:06.650
love of video and multimedia because I already

00:51:06.650 --> 00:51:10.190
had a music bug in me, but I'm also a video multimedia

00:51:10.190 --> 00:51:13.210
guy and Thriller was one of those things that

00:51:13.210 --> 00:51:15.510
just, made me enthralled with the concept because

00:51:15.510 --> 00:51:19.650
here I was pretty much crying watching it. And

00:51:19.650 --> 00:51:21.429
then when I see it's all fake and you go back

00:51:21.429 --> 00:51:25.070
and watch it again, it's like, wow, that's mind

00:51:25.070 --> 00:51:27.489
blowing and the choreography. And it's just incredible.

00:51:27.550 --> 00:51:29.869
So thriller to close this out for the night.

00:51:30.650 --> 00:51:33.369
This was one that had to be picked. Right. And

00:51:33.369 --> 00:51:37.130
I having listened to your show enough, I always

00:51:37.130 --> 00:51:39.650
go, oh my gosh, are they going to leave the song

00:51:39.650 --> 00:51:40.829
out? Are they going to leave? I can't believe

00:51:40.829 --> 00:51:42.110
they're going to leave the song out. And you

00:51:42.110 --> 00:51:44.579
always come around to it. So I kind of figured

00:51:44.579 --> 00:51:48.019
you might go here, which is why I left it. I

00:51:48.019 --> 00:51:49.320
don't know if you remember, Brian, because you're

00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.280
a little bit younger than me, but this was like

00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.199
an event. Yes. It was a buildup to the release

00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:57.300
of the video for like months and months. They

00:51:57.300 --> 00:52:00.659
kept talking about it. And so they aired it and

00:52:00.659 --> 00:52:02.659
then immediately afterwards aired the making

00:52:02.659 --> 00:52:05.059
of Michael Jackson's Thriller. And we got our

00:52:05.059 --> 00:52:09.400
VCR out. We taped the video in its entirety.

00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:13.400
And then we taped. the making of Michael Jackson's

00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.579
thriller. And I'm telling you, I watched that

00:52:15.579 --> 00:52:19.239
thing anywhere from 25 to 50 times growing up

00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:22.500
because we, A, were fascinated with Michael Jackson,

00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:25.980
right? He was like Taylor Swift is now. And B,

00:52:26.179 --> 00:52:28.699
I wanted to learn the dance, right? And I was

00:52:28.699 --> 00:52:30.639
just fascinated. I had already seen American

00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:33.239
Werewolf in London, right? With John Landis and

00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:36.559
Rick Baker doing the makeup and the special effects.

00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:39.800
And so I was already fascinated with the turning

00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:43.400
of a human into a werewolf. and then it being

00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.480
michael jackson just made it it was like taking

00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:49.980
it and going to the 10th power and so to me this

00:52:49.980 --> 00:52:51.639
was an event this was something that i watched

00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:54.880
over and over and over again i still love the

00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.079
video i could still go back and watch the making

00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.019
of thriller now i've probably forgotten most

00:53:00.019 --> 00:53:02.280
of the dance moves but i'm telling you Ten years

00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:05.460
old, I knew all of the dance moves. I was just

00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:07.519
going to ask you, even though this is an audio

00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.000
-only podcast, if you would get up and show us

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.119
what you remembered. This blew Little Lynn's,

00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:17.400
this blew her mind. The fact that it was a music

00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:22.099
video, but it was kind of a small film, I just

00:53:22.099 --> 00:53:25.019
never, it was beyond anything that I could ever

00:53:25.019 --> 00:53:27.460
come up with or picture that this was even a

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:30.909
possibility. I loved it. It kind of scared me

00:53:30.909 --> 00:53:34.710
half to death. And just at the end when I think,

00:53:34.869 --> 00:53:37.769
oh, okay, everything's okay. And then we get

00:53:37.769 --> 00:53:40.969
that last shot of his scary, creepy eyes. And

00:53:40.969 --> 00:53:44.409
that's what sticks with you as the video ends.

00:53:44.670 --> 00:53:48.030
I love it. Somebody had to pick it. I'm so glad

00:53:48.030 --> 00:53:51.349
you did. Well, there you have it, folks, our

00:53:51.349 --> 00:53:55.969
one hour block of 1980s MTV music videos, which

00:53:55.969 --> 00:53:59.250
consists of Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible,

00:53:59.409 --> 00:54:02.769
Men Without Hats, The Safety Dance, Aha's Take

00:54:02.769 --> 00:54:05.710
on Me, Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have

00:54:05.710 --> 00:54:09.349
Fun, Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, Paul Simon's

00:54:09.349 --> 00:54:12.050
You Can Call Me Al, Billy Joel's We Didn't Start

00:54:12.050 --> 00:54:14.809
the Fire, Huey Lewis and the News, Doing It All

00:54:14.809 --> 00:54:18.050
for My Baby, Aerosmith and Run DMC's Walk This

00:54:18.050 --> 00:54:21.250
Way, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's Parents

00:54:21.250 --> 00:54:24.869
Just Don't Understand, Genesis' Land of Confusion,

00:54:24.889 --> 00:54:27.969
and Michael Jackson's Thriller. Head over to

00:54:27.969 --> 00:54:30.869
myweeklymixtape .com to see all the videos we've

00:54:30.869 --> 00:54:33.570
discussed through the video playlist embedded

00:54:33.570 --> 00:54:37.570
on the episode page. Jim and Lindsey, why don't

00:54:37.570 --> 00:54:39.230
you tell listeners a little bit about Children

00:54:39.230 --> 00:54:41.429
of the 80s and where they can connect with you

00:54:41.429 --> 00:54:44.710
both? Yeah, we're a podcast that we talk about

00:54:44.710 --> 00:54:47.250
everything that was important to us. when we

00:54:47.250 --> 00:54:49.349
were kids growing up and things that we look

00:54:49.349 --> 00:54:53.150
back on now with fond memories, even if it wasn't

00:54:53.150 --> 00:54:55.130
important to us, even if we didn't like it, then

00:54:55.130 --> 00:54:57.949
we now look back on it with fond memories because

00:54:57.949 --> 00:55:00.210
the further you get away from childhood, it seems

00:55:00.210 --> 00:55:02.369
like the more you want to go back there. So you

00:55:02.369 --> 00:55:04.269
can find us anywhere. We're on all the major

00:55:04.269 --> 00:55:07.550
platforms, Spotify, Apple podcasts, where children

00:55:07.550 --> 00:55:11.269
of the eighties, you can find us on Twitter,

00:55:11.309 --> 00:55:15.940
X, Facebook threads. at children of underscore

00:55:15.940 --> 00:55:19.820
80s. Well, Jim and Lindsay, this has been an

00:55:19.820 --> 00:55:22.159
absolute pleasure. Thank you both for joining

00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:24.739
me tonight on my weekly mixtape. And I look forward

00:55:24.739 --> 00:55:28.360
to doing a volume two on this because there are

00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:30.880
way too many songs that we have not talked about

00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:33.619
yet. Absolutely. Thank you so much for having

00:55:33.619 --> 00:55:35.840
us. It's been a real honor. Thank you. Yeah,

00:55:35.900 --> 00:55:37.719
you could definitely get a couple more episodes

00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:41.769
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00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:27.079
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00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:30.199
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