WEBVTT 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.679 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:16.660 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.660 --> 00:00:19.160 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:22.559 Joining me once again as guest curator is Zach 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:24.699 Derby from the Neatcast. Zach, welcome back to 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:27.019 the show, my friend. Hey, thank you for having 00:00:27.019 --> 00:00:29.199 me back. And I know this has been, you and I 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.140 have gone back and forth about this for a while, 00:00:31.219 --> 00:00:33.920 and we've changed topics a couple of times of 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.939 what we were going to make a mixtape about, but 00:00:35.939 --> 00:00:39.700 this one is going to be a lot of fun. I'm actually 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:41.880 really, really excited about this one because 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.539 anybody who's listened to this show for a hot 00:00:44.539 --> 00:00:48.000 minute knows that one thing I talk about pretty 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.259 much every week is the fact that I love album 00:00:51.259 --> 00:00:54.560 opening tracks. And tonight we get to talk about 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.479 them 20 times in a row. How wonderful is that? 00:00:57.789 --> 00:01:04.209 And all 90s opening tracks. I mean, the 90s was 00:01:04.209 --> 00:01:07.510 so good for movies and music. And I'm sure I'm 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:10.010 a bit biased because it's what I remember the 00:01:10.010 --> 00:01:13.090 most with growing up. But, man, 90s was awesome. 00:01:13.450 --> 00:01:16.650 90s is an incredible decade of music. How tough 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:19.390 was it for you, Zach, to narrow down your bank 00:01:19.390 --> 00:01:23.620 of 90s rock album openers? Even though we're 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:26.340 kind of narrowing the scope here in terms of 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:29.980 decade and genre, the word rock in and of itself 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:34.239 is pretty vague, especially in the 90s. Yeah, 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.159 once you get to 90s, I mean, granted, you go 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.459 back to the 80s. Yeah, there's different genres 00:01:40.459 --> 00:01:44.340 of rock and roll. And it has since expanded now 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:48.219 into the future of what 80s rock was and where 00:01:48.219 --> 00:01:51.390 it is labeled. 90s, though. Like, you started 00:01:51.390 --> 00:01:54.870 with rock, but it quickly became the alternative 00:01:54.870 --> 00:01:58.950 grunge, the hardcore, a lot of other versions 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:01.750 of rock that was a bit more prominent than just, 00:02:01.750 --> 00:02:04.409 oh, that's rock and roll. And this was pretty 00:02:04.409 --> 00:02:07.879 difficult because... I have enough to make another 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.520 album, I'm sure. When we get done with this, 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.240 I'm going to have leftover songs. I have 40 songs 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.479 in my bank. Of course you do. Of course I do. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.939 Ready to go, because I don't know what direction 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:23.340 you're going in, and I want to try to have ammunition 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:26.979 to go and either follow along or take us in a 00:02:26.979 --> 00:02:29.379 new direction, depending on where we go with 00:02:29.379 --> 00:02:32.580 this. So tonight, as I mentioned at the top of 00:02:32.580 --> 00:02:34.639 the show, Zach and I will be curating the ultimate 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.379 90s rock album openers mixtape, and we'll use 00:02:38.379 --> 00:02:41.360 the old cassette deck approach. Zach, as my special 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.620 guest, will begin side A with his first song 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:45.979 choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel 00:02:45.979 --> 00:02:48.520 best follows up that choice. We'll then flip 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:50.960 -flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.009 songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape 00:02:54.009 --> 00:02:56.469 the proverbial flip and we'll map outside. But 00:02:56.469 --> 00:02:58.650 only this time, I'll kick things off with Zach 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:01.490 choosing second. Our overall goal for this episode 00:03:01.490 --> 00:03:05.229 is to craft the best 90s rock album openers mixtape 00:03:05.229 --> 00:03:08.710 possible through only 20 songs. At the end of 00:03:08.710 --> 00:03:10.389 the show, you can take our conversation to the 00:03:10.389 --> 00:03:14.009 next level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:03:14.009 --> 00:03:17.330 .com to give our final mixtape a listen via the 00:03:17.330 --> 00:03:19.590 embedded playlist. And if you like what you're 00:03:19.590 --> 00:03:21.689 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 00:03:21.689 --> 00:03:24.229 telling a friend, leaving the show a five -star 00:03:24.229 --> 00:03:26.389 review wherever you're tuning in, or becoming 00:03:26.389 --> 00:03:29.750 a part of the Patreon mixtaper community at patreon 00:03:29.750 --> 00:03:33.789 .com forward slash My Weekly Mixtape. 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So he's going with an opener 00:04:12.629 --> 00:04:16.290 that he thinks straddles both genres. And that 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:19.810 is Sister Havana by Urge Overkill, which opens 00:04:19.810 --> 00:04:23.709 up the magnificent album Saturation. Ben from 00:04:23.709 --> 00:04:26.129 the Too Vague podcast chimed in with Bjork's 00:04:26.129 --> 00:04:31.449 human behavior from her 1993 debut. Well, debut. 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.379 Rob chimed in saying if Ben Folds Five counts 00:04:35.379 --> 00:04:38.779 as a rock band and he thinks they do, then Narcolepsy 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:42.439 from the unauthorized biography of Reinhard Messner 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.579 or on a completely different level of rock, Pantera's 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:49.699 Mouth of War off Vogel Display of Power. And 00:04:49.699 --> 00:04:51.620 he says now that he's actually thought about 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:54.439 it, it has to be Bomb Track by Rage Against the 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.800 Machine, doesn't it? Tom Hutchinson chimed in 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.980 saying he's going with Cherub Rock by the Smashing 00:04:59.980 --> 00:05:02.660 Pumpkins, saying it's a great start to an even 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:06.180 more incredible record. Chad LaMassa chimed in 00:05:06.180 --> 00:05:08.500 with Mr. Self -Destruct from Nine Inch Nails' 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.100 The Fragile, calling it one of his favorite songs 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:14.000 from the band. Philip Bergman chimed in with 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.639 a trio of songs, kicking off with Two from U2, 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.199 Disco Tech from Pop, as well as Hold Me, Thrill 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.759 Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me from the Batman Forever 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.529 soundtrack. And he also chimed in with Smells 00:05:26.529 --> 00:05:29.550 Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana off of Nevermind. 00:05:29.750 --> 00:05:32.589 And finally, Brandon from Virginia chimed in 00:05:32.589 --> 00:05:36.170 with So So Many, as he put it. Robbie Robertson's 00:05:36.170 --> 00:05:39.569 Night Parade from Storyville. Suicidal Tendencies 00:05:39.569 --> 00:05:42.009 You Can't Bring Me Down from Lights Camera Revolution. 00:05:42.689 --> 00:05:45.970 Bad Religion's Generator. Fish's Julius from 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:49.529 Hoist, and Soundgarden's Rusty Cage, just to 00:05:49.529 --> 00:05:52.350 name a few. Once again, if you'd like to chime 00:05:52.350 --> 00:05:55.189 in for future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, join 00:05:55.189 --> 00:05:58.290 the Mixtaper community at patreon .com forward 00:05:58.290 --> 00:06:01.910 slash myweeklymixtape. Now, Zach, I don't know 00:06:01.910 --> 00:06:05.269 about you, but if the Patreon Mixtaper's barrage 00:06:05.269 --> 00:06:08.129 of picks doesn't scream that you and I are in 00:06:08.129 --> 00:06:10.230 for kind of a tough one tonight, I don't know 00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:13.829 what does. Yeah, there was a lot that I heard. 00:06:13.889 --> 00:06:15.470 I'm going, oh man, they're really good at picking 00:06:15.470 --> 00:06:18.449 these songs. I got that one. I got that one. 00:06:18.509 --> 00:06:20.629 Oh, I didn't have that one. These guys might 00:06:20.629 --> 00:06:23.410 be a little bit better at this than I am. Well, 00:06:23.649 --> 00:06:26.709 the mixtapers do not mess around when it comes 00:06:26.709 --> 00:06:29.649 to something like song choices. But with that 00:06:29.649 --> 00:06:34.649 said, Zach, I think we should take deep and cleansing 00:06:34.649 --> 00:06:37.680 breaths. And I'm going to press the record button 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.980 on the ultimate 90s rock album openers mixtape 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:45.620 and pass the mic to you. What 90s rock album 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:49.980 opener do you deem worthy enough to open our 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:54.800 mixtape of 90s rock album openers? That is a 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.600 lot of pressure. When you say it like that, it's 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.420 a lot of freaking pressure, man. Going through 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:07.870 what I have here. I think I'm going to go from 00:07:07.870 --> 00:07:14.449 the 1992 album Dirt, Alice in Chains, Them Bones. 00:07:14.629 --> 00:07:19.949 Nice. The album is a solid album. And I didn't 00:07:19.949 --> 00:07:22.389 own every album by Alice in Chains, but this 00:07:22.389 --> 00:07:26.329 was one of my favorite songs by them. And it 00:07:26.329 --> 00:07:29.850 just, I think it's a damn good start. Oh, dude, 00:07:29.930 --> 00:07:32.110 it's an incredible start. You scooped me right 00:07:32.110 --> 00:07:36.899 from the jump. both Them Bones from Dirt as well 00:07:36.899 --> 00:07:40.279 as Rotten Apples from Jar of Flies in case we 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.199 were going in a more mellow, mellowness direction. 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.579 That one just, oh my God, that opening of that 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:49.279 song is so hypnotic, but you didn't start with 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.000 that. So we'll talk about that another time. 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:57.399 Them Bones. What a massive riff that is. This 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:01.610 pummels you. There is some metal in the grunge 00:08:01.610 --> 00:08:03.790 with Alice in Chains. I think they're the heaviest 00:08:03.790 --> 00:08:09.490 of the big four. Easily, yeah. I would lean to 00:08:09.490 --> 00:08:13.410 them as, quote, the heavy of the big four. And 00:08:13.410 --> 00:08:16.350 surprisingly, Them Bones is not a long song. 00:08:16.829 --> 00:08:20.410 It's only two and a half minutes. And as I'm 00:08:20.410 --> 00:08:23.370 listening to it, I always felt it was a little 00:08:23.370 --> 00:08:26.259 bit longer just because of the cadence. It never 00:08:26.259 --> 00:08:28.800 bothered me until I looked up to add it and go, 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:30.300 oh yeah, it's only two and a half minutes. All 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:33.279 right. Short start. It's a short start, but it's 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.940 two and a half minutes that aired on a lot of 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:39.240 radio stations because it reached number 24 on 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.820 the US mainstream rock chart, number 26 on the 00:08:42.820 --> 00:08:46.820 UK singles chart, number 22 in Ireland and number 00:08:46.820 --> 00:08:52.340 93 on the Australia ARIA chart. So maybe not 00:08:52.340 --> 00:08:55.700 a number one hit. But this song just has a timeless 00:08:55.700 --> 00:08:59.000 nature to it that if you put it on right now 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.740 and you tell somebody, hey, this song is 33 years 00:09:03.740 --> 00:09:10.139 old. I feel old now. It sounds like it could 00:09:10.139 --> 00:09:13.460 have came out yesterday. Yeah, it still holds 00:09:13.460 --> 00:09:16.139 up. I mean, and a lot of that I attribute to 00:09:16.139 --> 00:09:19.279 the polish and the editing and everything that 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.200 they did to put it together. Because some audio 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.259 you hear over time. Go, yeah, that's old. That's 00:09:24.259 --> 00:09:27.220 a little bit even digitally when it's remastered, 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:30.460 it still got a little bit of age on it. This 00:09:30.460 --> 00:09:34.320 feels 90s, but also doesn't. It's a weird it's 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.720 a weird song, but I like it. Well, I think I 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.740 know what I'm going to follow that up with, because 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:42.480 you've already started the big four. You've opened 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:47.240 that Pandora's box. So for track two, I'm going 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:52.579 to go with an album opener called Once. Okay, 00:09:52.579 --> 00:09:56.039 I see what's going on here. All right. Honestly, 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:59.379 I could have went with Go off of Versus or Laxed 00:09:59.379 --> 00:10:02.659 Exit from Vitology, but I'm sticking with their 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:05.480 1991 album, 10, and I'm going to go with Pearl 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.740 Jam. Depending on where you listen, Master Slave 00:10:09.740 --> 00:10:12.159 is part of that, which is the opening instrumental 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:16.259 piece that plays before the song. Personally, 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.340 if I had any say in it, I would go with the remixed 00:10:19.340 --> 00:10:24.570 version from 2009. I feel like the remix truly 00:10:24.570 --> 00:10:27.909 sounds like it could have been released in any 00:10:27.909 --> 00:10:31.110 decade. And the 1991 original, as much as I love 00:10:31.110 --> 00:10:34.769 it, there still is that early 90s, late 80s sheen 00:10:34.769 --> 00:10:37.549 on top of the album. Still kind of drowned in 00:10:37.549 --> 00:10:39.990 reverb. I think the newer version is a little 00:10:39.990 --> 00:10:42.769 bit more raw. But Once was always one of those 00:10:42.769 --> 00:10:46.210 songs. And don't ask me why. Anytime I go to 00:10:46.210 --> 00:10:49.100 a pool hall. And this has nothing to do with 00:10:49.100 --> 00:10:51.399 the song in any way, shape, or form. I just feel 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:53.840 like this is a badass song to shoot around a 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.899 pool to. I can hear that. It's the most random 00:10:56.899 --> 00:11:00.879 of things, but it works. Next time you're shooting 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.399 pool, give this song a play. I'm going to have 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.159 to pull that up and go, all right, Brian said, 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.340 listen to Once while you're sucking at pool. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.559 Okay, I can do that while I'm being hustled. 00:11:13.580 --> 00:11:19.830 Yep. All right. So since I kicked it open and 00:11:19.830 --> 00:11:23.509 you continue to open the door, now I'm committed. 00:11:24.789 --> 00:11:27.690 Okay. So whatever you pick now, my next pick 00:11:27.690 --> 00:11:29.669 will be the other one. So let's just get this 00:11:29.669 --> 00:11:31.289 out of the way. Pretty much. I think we need 00:11:31.289 --> 00:11:35.070 to do this just because we have to. I am going 00:11:35.070 --> 00:11:39.470 to go with, yeah, I think this is the right choice. 00:11:39.529 --> 00:11:45.000 1991 from Bad Motor Finger. Rusty Cage, because 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.779 that first little intro of the guitar, just back 00:11:47.779 --> 00:11:50.259 and forth a little bit, and then it comes in 00:11:50.259 --> 00:11:55.580 and it just goes and goes, even though about 00:11:55.580 --> 00:11:58.580 three quarters of the way through, all of a sudden 00:11:58.580 --> 00:12:00.740 they go a completely left direction and you go, 00:12:00.820 --> 00:12:03.879 what is this? But it kind of snaps you back to 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.559 it because you're kind of just in this mood, 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.659 this mode with Rusty Cage. I enjoy that. that 00:12:09.659 --> 00:12:11.419 can plead out of left field where they go with 00:12:11.419 --> 00:12:15.720 the song. But this was such a kick -ass start 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:18.919 to the album. I love Rusty Cage. Oh, Bad Motor 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.779 Finger is probably, it's not probably, it is 00:12:21.779 --> 00:12:25.500 my favorite Soundgarden album. Yes, I know. I 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:28.240 know. But this one to me just had all the rawness 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:33.340 and a little bit more heft. Then I got, I, people 00:12:33.340 --> 00:12:36.059 are going to get so pissed. I know how much people 00:12:36.059 --> 00:12:39.720 love super unknown and zero disrespect to it, 00:12:39.779 --> 00:12:43.759 but bad motor finger did it for me. Shout out 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.820 to Patreon mixtape or Brandon from Virginia, 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:48.720 who also chimed in with this one. And while it 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.519 didn't chart here in the U S it did reach number 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:54.940 41 on the UK singles chart and number 80 on the 00:12:54.940 --> 00:12:58.200 Australia Aria chart. So the UK and Australia 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.700 got it right. We messed this one up in the US 00:13:00.700 --> 00:13:03.860 for sure. And I should also mention, because 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:06.580 we have to talk cover songs, and it also happened 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:09.379 in the 90s, while it didn't start the album, 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.899 Johnny Cash with a backing band of, oh, I don't 00:13:13.899 --> 00:13:16.240 know, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.580 1996 album Unchained did a brilliant reimagining 00:13:20.580 --> 00:13:23.720 of this track. I played this. All the time on 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.620 my country radio show in college, because to 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:30.539 me, it's Johnny Cash and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 00:13:30.539 --> 00:13:35.080 covering Soundgarden. And Cash, I mean, that's 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.200 an entirely different conversation. But later 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.559 on in his life, he did some very interesting 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:47.100 covers that kind of introduced me to his earlier 00:13:47.100 --> 00:13:49.980 music because I knew the name Johnny Cash. I 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:53.720 knew. a couple of his main hits from way back 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:58.399 in the day. But then when he covered Hurt, and 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.480 then he did a few more, and it was, okay, I know 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.659 this guy. This is a little bit different. And 00:14:05.659 --> 00:14:07.899 then I was able to go back and go, holy shit, 00:14:07.899 --> 00:14:12.299 sugar, honey, iced tea. It's like, this is such 00:14:12.299 --> 00:14:16.000 a weird direction, but I like his covers. I will 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.279 say this was one of the times that Rick Rubin 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.340 truly hit a home run and knocked it out of the 00:14:21.340 --> 00:14:25.399 park because just what you said, Rick Rubin saw 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:29.019 the potential to introduce Johnny Cash to a new 00:14:29.019 --> 00:14:31.919 generation of people that again, probably knew 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.740 the name from their parents, but what he did 00:14:35.740 --> 00:14:37.600 in the late nineties and early two thousands 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:42.960 made him cross generational adored by our generation 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.360 and the one before. And it was amazing. I'm perfect 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:51.490 cover, but okay. obviously for track four, I 00:14:51.490 --> 00:14:53.850 have to go Nirvana here or else it's going to 00:14:53.850 --> 00:14:56.429 bug me for the rest of this episode. However, 00:14:56.529 --> 00:14:58.350 here's where I'm going to piss everybody off. 00:14:58.690 --> 00:15:01.690 Okay. I am not going to go with smells like teen 00:15:01.690 --> 00:15:03.870 spirit off of nevermind. Although I will give 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:05.950 a shout out to Patreon mixtape or Philip Bergman 00:15:05.950 --> 00:15:08.909 who chimed in with that one. And I'm not going 00:15:08.909 --> 00:15:11.429 to go with serve the servants from in utero. 00:15:12.470 --> 00:15:17.149 I am going to go off the bands, 1992 compilation 00:15:17.149 --> 00:15:21.470 incesticide. Yes, I'm being serious. A compilation. 00:15:22.149 --> 00:15:27.570 However, Dive coming out of Rusty Cage, I just 00:15:27.570 --> 00:15:30.289 feel musically works a little bit better than 00:15:30.289 --> 00:15:33.610 Smells Like Teen Spirit. And Smells Like Teen 00:15:33.610 --> 00:15:37.769 Spirit is the obvious pick here. And I wanted 00:15:37.769 --> 00:15:41.289 to go a little bit off the beaten path. See if 00:15:41.289 --> 00:15:43.870 you're really out there listening. Have you write 00:15:43.870 --> 00:15:47.049 it and be like, how dare you not put smells? 00:15:47.129 --> 00:15:49.629 Honestly, I love Smells Like Teen Spirit. The 00:15:49.629 --> 00:15:52.629 song never got old for me. It really didn't. 00:15:52.669 --> 00:15:57.210 But Dive is probably one of my top three favorite 00:15:57.210 --> 00:15:59.850 Nirvana songs of all time. It was originally 00:15:59.850 --> 00:16:04.250 a B -side to the band's Sliver single that was 00:16:04.250 --> 00:16:07.429 released in 1990. And then they re -recorded 00:16:07.429 --> 00:16:09.990 it during the Nevermind sessions and it ended 00:16:09.990 --> 00:16:14.539 up on Incesticide. My God, I just imagined this 00:16:14.539 --> 00:16:18.940 song on Nevermind. And I know they decided at 00:16:18.940 --> 00:16:21.360 the end that it didn't fit, but I kind of think 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.899 it does. So throwing a curveball here, we are 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:26.500 going with Nirvana, but dive for track four. 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.340 You know, it's kind of interesting that when 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:31.879 you hear about what bands and artists do, like 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:33.980 after the fact, when they're working with the 00:16:33.980 --> 00:16:35.259 producers, all right, what are we going to put 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:37.960 on the album? And then you hear. Some of the 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.000 songs that were considered and used for a later 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.480 album or a non -album release or something. And 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.299 you sit there and you go, why didn't this make 00:16:47.299 --> 00:16:51.539 the album? Because sometimes, in my humble opinion, 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.559 sometimes these songs work better than some of 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.700 the songs on the album. So I always sit there 00:16:57.700 --> 00:17:00.940 and wonder how much of this was someone fighting 00:17:00.940 --> 00:17:04.539 for creative control. Now, with Nirvana, I did 00:17:04.539 --> 00:17:07.569 look at them. I think of the big four. If I have 00:17:07.569 --> 00:17:09.670 to put them in order, they're in fourth place. 00:17:10.130 --> 00:17:13.650 They came up with a lot of unique. They definitely, 00:17:13.789 --> 00:17:16.069 I think, one of the most unique sounding of the 00:17:16.069 --> 00:17:19.690 four. They just weren't my favorite. But for 00:17:19.690 --> 00:17:22.329 me, if I was going to go, I was actually going 00:17:22.329 --> 00:17:24.910 to go with the MTV Unplugged in New York. Oh, 00:17:25.029 --> 00:17:29.509 I forgot about a girl. Yeah. For me, that is 00:17:29.509 --> 00:17:33.289 one of my favorite Nirvana albums. There's just 00:17:33.289 --> 00:17:37.519 something about. How they all sound, just hanging 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.779 out, playing, unplugged. The versions that they 00:17:40.779 --> 00:17:43.099 play and the direction that they take with all 00:17:43.099 --> 00:17:45.640 those songs, especially with About a Girl, I 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.299 was like, God, this is really, I like this. Completely 00:17:48.299 --> 00:17:51.460 different from their album stuff that they released, 00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:54.519 their studio albums. But it was either that or 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.380 Soundgarden or Rusty Cage. No, I'm going to go, 00:17:57.500 --> 00:17:59.579 I like a bit more Soundgarden, so that's why 00:17:59.579 --> 00:18:01.799 I went with them. instead of nirvana i'll be 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.519 honest with you zach had you gone with about 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.559 a girl from the unplugged album i was going to 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:09.519 be picking rusty cage so you could have gotten 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.759 both picks i could have damn it all right well 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.039 it's okay you know what we're still off to a 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.880 good start that we are so now i'm throwing it 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:18.720 back to you for track five what are we doing 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.579 after the big four well now that we got that 00:18:21.579 --> 00:18:25.740 out of the way uh so i'm gonna go a bit different 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:30.980 direction i'm gonna head out of america And I'm 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:35.480 going to find, let's see, this was also 1991. 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:40.500 And I always screwed up saying the album name 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:43.420 because I wasn't really sure. But Ak -Tung Baby, 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:49.180 is that how you say it? From U2, 1991. I wanted 00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:53.119 to go with Zoo Station. Nice. Which it's not 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.559 a song that you hear all that often on the radio 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.930 in a lot of airplay. Like we've used it when 00:19:00.930 --> 00:19:03.730 we do like A to Z. It's one of the last songs 00:19:03.730 --> 00:19:07.809 you play. But I hear it's just a fun song that 00:19:07.809 --> 00:19:10.210 it's a little earworm that when I hear it, I 00:19:10.210 --> 00:19:12.670 go, OK, I like Zoo Station. I can go with this 00:19:12.670 --> 00:19:16.029 for you, too. I love the fact that you went with 00:19:16.029 --> 00:19:19.970 this one because even though Patreon mixtape 00:19:19.970 --> 00:19:22.670 or Philip Bergman chimed in with both discotheque 00:19:22.670 --> 00:19:25.569 from pop and hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill 00:19:25.569 --> 00:19:28.069 me from the Batman Forever soundtrack. Mm hmm. 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:32.660 Zoo Station, in a kind of a similar fashion to 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:36.180 Dive, like you said, from Nirvana, these are 00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:39.680 not hit songs, but my God, they kick off the 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.519 album listen with authority. And I can't imagine 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.799 Octoong Baby starting off any other way. I mean, 00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:50.220 the fact that the U2 UV Octoong Baby residency 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:53.720 that took place at the Spear in Las Vegas opened 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:57.400 with this song. I think they have enough trust 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.880 in the track that it's, like you said, it's not 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.119 a household song that people automatically go 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:06.480 to. But anyone who's a U2 fan, I think it's a 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.420 classic in the discography. And if you're not 00:20:09.420 --> 00:20:12.319 a U2 fan, you may not be familiar with it. Well, 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:14.839 it's going to be on the playlist, so you'll be 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.319 able to hear it. I think it's a banger. I like 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:20.079 it. That's a great song. And I think to follow 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:21.980 that up, because we got out of that kind of the 00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:23.700 heavier stuff a little bit, and I'm not saying 00:20:23.700 --> 00:20:26.119 you two can't be heavy. They can. They have their 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:28.140 moments. They have their moments, but I'm going 00:20:28.140 --> 00:20:31.019 to kind of stay in this just straight ahead rock 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:34.519 vibe. And I'm going to go with one of my favorite 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:39.160 albums that I got to see during this tour for 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:42.500 this album. And on this tour for this album, 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:46.500 I got to see a young. Taylor Hawkins from the 00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:49.859 Foo Fighters showing the world what he was made 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:53.839 of. And that was on Alanis Morissette's Jagged 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.539 Little Pill tour from her 1995 album. Well, now 00:20:57.539 --> 00:20:59.980 obviously Jagged Little Pill. I'm going to go 00:20:59.980 --> 00:21:02.839 with All I Really Want. The opening harmonica, 00:21:02.859 --> 00:21:05.559 the kind of little bit of doodling that happens 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:08.940 before the song kicks in. There's something that's 00:21:08.940 --> 00:21:14.660 so 90s about this song. And this is Alanis. reintroducing 00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:18.359 herself to the world a lot of people this is 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:20.519 the introduction to alanis morissette because 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:22.559 the first song at least here in the u .s that 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.440 people knew from alanis for the most part was 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.359 you ought to know and then everybody went out 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:30.920 bought jagged little pill and all i really want 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.279 was the start of the show she has two other albums 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.789 that came out in canada prior to Jagged Little 00:21:37.789 --> 00:21:40.269 Pill. So for the US listeners, this song is a 00:21:40.269 --> 00:21:42.670 different experience than maybe some of our Canadian 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:45.769 friends listening. But this song reached number 00:21:45.769 --> 00:21:50.089 14 on the US alternative airplay chart, number 00:21:50.089 --> 00:21:54.809 59 on the UK singles chart, number 58 in Scotland, 00:21:54.930 --> 00:21:58.970 and number 40 on the Australia ARIA chart. To 00:21:58.970 --> 00:22:02.589 me, God, I hate to say like it doesn't get better 00:22:02.589 --> 00:22:05.200 then, but for Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.000 Pill is an absolute masterpiece. And as much 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.920 as I still pick up all of her albums as they 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:14.980 come out, I could put on Jagged Little Pill anytime. 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.299 If I start at the beginning of All I Really Want, 00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:20.880 I have to hear it all the way through. It's just 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.839 a perfect album opener. It's a good album. And 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:28.420 one of the things I always don't judge an album, 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:30.900 but how I kind of... categorize them is like 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:33.099 all right can i listen to this from cover to 00:22:33.099 --> 00:22:35.740 cover and there's a lot of albums that i can 00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:39.279 and then there's some that i just can't because 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:42.980 there's enough songs on there that i go there 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:46.880 was potential but you guys put it into only one 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:51.099 or two songs and usually that happens later on 00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:53.740 in certain bands careers when they're under pressure 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:55.920 from the label company all right you gotta churn 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:57.559 out you gotta churn this out you gotta churn 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:00.400 this out well we all had A decade to make our 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.859 first album. Now we've had six months to make 00:23:02.859 --> 00:23:05.380 our next one. You can't put the same amount of 00:23:05.380 --> 00:23:08.200 love into it, but it's a solid album from her. 00:23:08.660 --> 00:23:11.660 All right. So now we are back to you for track 00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:16.160 seven. Of course. Yeah. Well, going a different 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:22.480 direction is never bad. So I think from the late 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:27.240 90s, whenever I hear the name of this band, this 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:30.339 is the song. That always comes to mind. It was 00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:34.440 played everywhere in the late 90s, late 97 into 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:39.779 early 98. The Verve with Bittersweet Symphony 00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:44.259 from Urban Hymns. And this was kind of their 00:23:44.259 --> 00:23:48.599 big breakthrough album where it went, I don't 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:50.619 know, over 10 times platinum or something. It 00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:55.500 had a number of hits on it. It was played all 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:59.539 over the world. A lot of airplay here in America. 00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:02.599 Yeah. Number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100. 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:06.000 Number one on the Canada Rock and Alternative 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.900 chart. Number two on the UK Singles chart. Number 00:24:08.900 --> 00:24:11.960 11 on the Australia Aria chart. And it cracked 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:16.119 the top 10 in Spain, Italy, Finland, Scotland, 00:24:16.539 --> 00:24:21.380 Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, and Norway. Total worldwide 00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:24.559 hit here. I worked in a record store when this 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:28.819 album was out. We could not keep it in stock. 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:34.119 I mean, like when the weekends hit and kids would 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:36.559 get their allowance, like we knew to make sure 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.559 we were stocked up on this album for the weekend 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:43.740 rush every single week. And then as fast as it 00:24:43.740 --> 00:24:46.579 like took off, it was at that time when CDs were 00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:52.720 the medium, not like now, but the next one would 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:55.019 hit. And then that would be the big jump. I want 00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:59.250 to say, Chumbawamba, their album with Tub Thumping. 00:24:59.289 --> 00:25:02.930 They both hit similar. I also think Brimful of 00:25:02.930 --> 00:25:05.990 Asha from Corner Shop also hit around this time. 00:25:06.190 --> 00:25:09.089 We could not keep those albums in stock. And 00:25:09.089 --> 00:25:12.890 I think also sometimes it's weird because Americans 00:25:12.890 --> 00:25:15.950 will all of a sudden will focus on a completely 00:25:15.950 --> 00:25:18.890 different style of music, especially if it comes 00:25:18.890 --> 00:25:22.349 from across the pond. And then something hits 00:25:22.349 --> 00:25:25.170 like that and they're like, oh. This is completely 00:25:25.170 --> 00:25:27.750 different than anything we have here, and this 00:25:27.750 --> 00:25:30.750 will now be mine. And they kind of focus on that 00:25:30.750 --> 00:25:32.470 for a little while until the next big thing. 00:25:32.529 --> 00:25:35.710 We've seen that even through today. You know, 00:25:35.809 --> 00:25:38.190 you have these one -off bands that'll have a 00:25:38.190 --> 00:25:40.809 major single that comes over here to America, 00:25:40.869 --> 00:25:44.670 and it takes off because it's so different. Exactly, 00:25:44.750 --> 00:25:49.250 exactly. And we don't want to forget the fact 00:25:49.250 --> 00:25:52.609 that... Limp Bizkit covered Bittersweet Symphony 00:25:52.609 --> 00:25:56.130 as a medley with Motley Crue's Home Sweet Home 00:25:56.130 --> 00:26:00.390 on their 2005 Greatest Hits album. I just want 00:26:00.390 --> 00:26:04.930 to make sure. I forgot all about that. Oh, wow. 00:26:05.769 --> 00:26:08.529 Limp Bizkit and Disturbed are like two bands 00:26:08.529 --> 00:26:10.329 that are like every once in a while they'd be 00:26:10.329 --> 00:26:13.210 like Disturbed did it like kind of album to album 00:26:13.210 --> 00:26:15.150 and Limp Bizkit every once in a while be like, 00:26:15.250 --> 00:26:18.769 let's do this cover. All right. That was unique. 00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:22.930 But I like the way you kind of took it down musically 00:26:22.930 --> 00:26:26.309 because I didn't know how or where I was going 00:26:26.309 --> 00:26:29.970 to fit this one in. But you just literally lobbed 00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:34.130 me the perfect pitch that I think that I hope 00:26:34.130 --> 00:26:36.970 I'm going to hit out of the park here. And I 00:26:36.970 --> 00:26:39.930 am going to go off of my favorite album from 00:26:39.930 --> 00:26:43.450 this band. And that is 1992's Automatic for the 00:26:43.450 --> 00:26:46.369 People. We are going to go with R .E .M.'s Drive. 00:26:46.849 --> 00:26:51.769 Oh, this was on my list. Reached number 28 on 00:26:51.769 --> 00:26:54.750 the U .S. Billboard Hot 100, number 7 on the 00:26:54.750 --> 00:26:57.609 Canada Top Singles Chart, number 11 on the U 00:26:57.609 --> 00:27:00.509 .K. Singles Chart, number 34 on the Australia 00:27:00.509 --> 00:27:03.410 ARIA Chart, and cracked the top 10 in New Zealand, 00:27:03.609 --> 00:27:08.170 Greece, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, and Switzerland. 00:27:08.769 --> 00:27:13.369 To me, it's hard to start off an album slow and 00:27:13.369 --> 00:27:17.140 still manage to capture people's attention. And 00:27:17.140 --> 00:27:19.779 while bittersweet symphony is kind of a mid tempo 00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:28.000 song drive is a brooding slow. Yep. The fact 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:31.259 that they had the wherewithal to open up this 00:27:31.259 --> 00:27:33.819 album, because I love automatic for the people. 00:27:34.099 --> 00:27:36.680 And if you take any other song from that album 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:39.279 and put it in the one slot, it's a completely 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.480 different experience for the album. Yeah. Yeah. 00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:45.619 I like, I love man on the moon, but it would 00:27:45.619 --> 00:27:48.950 be, quite a different start to the album if that 00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:51.609 was track one yeah i don't think you can get 00:27:51.609 --> 00:27:54.130 to and everybody hurts unless you start the album 00:27:54.130 --> 00:27:56.430 with drive because you think about the album 00:27:56.430 --> 00:27:59.470 before this which was out of time you're coming 00:27:59.470 --> 00:28:02.349 from the land of shiny happy people and losing 00:28:02.349 --> 00:28:06.230 my religion people were expecting shiny happy 00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:10.150 people too a little bit different but to me it's 00:28:10.150 --> 00:28:12.869 their masterpiece and i and and i look no disrespect 00:28:12.869 --> 00:28:16.660 to their 80s stuff in any way shape or form automatic 00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:22.500 is is my top rem album okay um well let's see 00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:26.660 i've been out of the states for a bit and this 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:28.539 is my this is my last one for this side right 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:32.019 yes you are on track nine now oh cheesy crazy 00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:36.519 lemon squeezy all right so uh you know what this 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:42.019 is a band that i haven't seen them live but i 00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:46.779 did see one of the brothers live uh and hopefully 00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:49.500 i'll be able to see them now that they've reconciled 00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:53.319 and they were actually on tour supporting this 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:58.299 album from 1990 shake your money maker the black 00:28:58.299 --> 00:29:01.579 crows i want to kick it off with twice as hard 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.460 I actually had a feeling this is where you were 00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:06.059 going because you said you wanted to come back 00:29:06.059 --> 00:29:08.440 to the U .S., that you were overseas for a while. 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:10.539 And had you not said that, I would have been 00:29:10.539 --> 00:29:12.500 debating the whole time if you were talking about 00:29:12.500 --> 00:29:15.519 the Black Crows or Oasis before you revealed 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.880 the Black Crows twice as hard. Reach number 11 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.000 on the Billboard U .S. Mainstream Rock Charts 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.740 and number one in my heart, my all -time favorite 00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:29.109 Black Crows song. I got to see them this past 00:29:29.109 --> 00:29:31.670 summer for the first time ever at the Wind Creek 00:29:31.670 --> 00:29:34.710 Entertainment Center. Second song of the night. 00:29:35.349 --> 00:29:39.250 Twice as hard. Absolutely. You know, it's funny. 00:29:39.609 --> 00:29:42.710 I went with Pearl Jam in the two slot with once. 00:29:43.430 --> 00:29:45.630 This was originally what I was going to do for 00:29:45.630 --> 00:29:48.690 track two. Twice as hard. Ha ha. But when you 00:29:48.690 --> 00:29:52.250 started with Alice in Chains, I felt like. Yep. 00:29:52.269 --> 00:29:54.509 We have a vision when we go into this and then 00:29:54.509 --> 00:29:56.609 one of us will do something. We're going to switch 00:29:56.609 --> 00:29:59.769 that around now. Yes, by all means. I mean, I 00:29:59.769 --> 00:30:03.289 will never forget getting this cassette for Christmas 00:30:03.289 --> 00:30:07.049 and playing it over and over and over again. 00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:11.109 And this was one of those first albums that when 00:30:11.109 --> 00:30:15.670 CDs became mainstream, this was one of the first, 00:30:15.730 --> 00:30:19.109 I need to replace my cassette with a CD of moments. 00:30:20.509 --> 00:30:25.549 Absolutely love the pick. And to close out side 00:30:25.549 --> 00:30:30.009 A, I'm going to stay in 1990, I think. Okay. 00:30:30.150 --> 00:30:33.150 And I'm going to start by saying, ladies and 00:30:33.150 --> 00:30:36.769 gentlemen, we have more influence over your children 00:30:36.769 --> 00:30:41.670 than you do, but we love them too. Born in and 00:30:41.670 --> 00:30:46.289 a gift of Los Angeles, Jane's Addiction. However, 00:30:46.509 --> 00:30:48.750 if you don't know what I'm talking about, most 00:30:48.750 --> 00:30:52.329 people know the opening as Senoras y Senoras. 00:30:52.690 --> 00:30:55.269 And I am not going to do the rest because I am 00:30:55.269 --> 00:30:57.210 not Spanish and I am not going to butcher it. 00:30:57.750 --> 00:31:01.269 I am going off of 1990s ritual de lo habitual 00:31:01.269 --> 00:31:04.329 and we are going with stop. Reach number one 00:31:04.329 --> 00:31:07.490 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chats chart on two 00:31:07.490 --> 00:31:11.559 non -consecutive weeks. My favorite album from 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:14.359 Jane's Addiction. Obviously, Been Caught Stealing 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.640 was the big single. But when you bought the album 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:20.720 for that big single and you put it in and you 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:23.500 heard that opening and then you've got Perry 00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:27.180 Farrell screaming, here we go. Oh, my God. And 00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:29.359 it's kind of funny that we're ending the side 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:31.920 with him saying, here we go. But it is an album 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.440 full of album openers. So as far as I'm concerned, 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.839 all bets are off. However, the song Stop closes 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:42.190 out. side a and you know the way the song ends 00:31:42.190 --> 00:31:46.289 on that just and stop and it just ends i think 00:31:46.289 --> 00:31:48.970 the perfect way to close out this side that's 00:31:48.970 --> 00:31:54.630 very appropriate that jane's addiction oh gosh 00:31:54.630 --> 00:31:57.049 i who knows if we'll ever see them live again 00:31:57.049 --> 00:32:01.190 unfortunately yeah i mean i loved i mean they 00:32:01.190 --> 00:32:04.230 they had a bit of space uh in between a couple 00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:09.799 a few of their albums that was 80 87 88 was nothing 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:13.799 shocking yeah 88 was nothing shocking and i'm 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:18.240 personally mountain song was my jam i just love 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:21.519 mountain song and i mean of course bencott stealing 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.259 and jane jane says and there's a lot of them 00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:25.920 that you hear on the radio but mountain song 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.059 was that was my love i love that song i got to 00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:31.380 see them do that live with believe it or not 00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:35.670 the band that opened this side of this tape Alice 00:32:35.670 --> 00:32:38.049 in Chains. It was Jane's Addiction opening for 00:32:38.049 --> 00:32:41.210 Alice in Chains. And Mountain Song was the highlight 00:32:41.210 --> 00:32:43.650 of the entire set for me, as far as I'm concerned. 00:32:43.750 --> 00:32:47.250 It was just such a monster live. I really hope 00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:49.950 Perry can get it together because people still 00:32:49.950 --> 00:32:53.069 want to see them. It's a total shame what happened 00:32:53.069 --> 00:32:56.230 with them. One of my former coworker was telling 00:32:56.230 --> 00:32:59.369 me about how she went to Ninja when it was Nine 00:32:59.369 --> 00:33:01.650 Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction. And she said 00:33:01.650 --> 00:33:05.319 that was a hell of a show. I can imagine. I would 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:08.680 have loved to been here. Yeah. Man, we haven't 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:10.279 gotten Nine Inch Nails in yet either. Anyway, 00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:14.519 and that mixtapes concludes side A of the ultimate 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.759 90s rock album openers mixtape, which consists 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.259 of Alice in Chains' Them Bones, Pearl Jam's Once, 00:33:21.619 --> 00:33:26.400 Soundgarden's Rusty Cage, Nirvana's Dive, U2's 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:29.160 Zoo Station, Alanis Morissette's All I Really 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.700 Want, The Verbs' Bittersweet Symphony, REM's 00:33:32.700 --> 00:33:36.799 Drive, The Black Crow's Twice As Hard, and Jane's 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:39.720 Addiction Stop. Head over to myweeklymixtape 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.099 .com to hear all the songs we've discussed in 00:33:42.099 --> 00:33:45.380 this mix through the playlist embedded on the 00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:48.960 episode page. And now, Zach, I am going to kick 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:52.559 off Side B by saying, hey, batter, batter, hey, 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:54.619 batter, hey, batter, batter, hey, batter, batter, 00:33:54.660 --> 00:33:56.519 hey, batter, hey, batter, batter, hey, batter, 00:33:56.619 --> 00:34:00.550 hey, batter, hey, batter, hey, batter, hey. Swing. 00:34:00.550 --> 00:34:04.170 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Power of Equality, 1991's 00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:08.170 Blood Sugar Sex Magic. My favorite Red Hot Chili 00:34:08.170 --> 00:34:11.889 Peppers album. My favorite opening to a Red Hot 00:34:11.889 --> 00:34:15.469 Chili Peppers album. The song tackles everything 00:34:15.469 --> 00:34:21.230 that is as relevant now as it was in 1991. Equality, 00:34:21.329 --> 00:34:25.809 prejudice, sexism. And the song channels public 00:34:25.809 --> 00:34:27.909 enemy. Hell, he calls out public enemy in the 00:34:27.909 --> 00:34:32.000 song. And we talked about him earlier. Rick Rubin 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.539 produced Masterpiece. Rick Rubin, there's a lot 00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:40.219 that he's done that I really enjoy. When he's 00:34:40.219 --> 00:34:43.380 on point with, I think, the right collaboration 00:34:43.380 --> 00:34:46.599 of creative minds, they can really come together 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:50.199 and make something. As long as everybody's willing 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.639 to work together. Because there's been some stuff 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:55.559 that Rick has done, and I think maybe the people 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:58.880 he was collaborating with. weren't of same sound 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.559 mind and they weren't willing to work with him 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.699 so the finished product i went well wasn't awful 00:35:05.699 --> 00:35:08.800 but i felt like there could have maybe been a 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.199 bit more potential from that but you know maybe 00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.019 next time not every hit is a home run but i'll 00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:18.420 tell you rick has done a lot more albums that 00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:22.059 have blown my mind than albums where i kind of 00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:26.750 go I could go on just the albums that he's done, 00:35:26.869 --> 00:35:29.849 Beastie Boys, License to Ill, Death Magnetic. 00:35:29.889 --> 00:35:33.829 You think of even Black Sabbath's 13. If the 00:35:33.829 --> 00:35:37.530 album to me is lackluster, I don't blame Rick. 00:35:37.710 --> 00:35:40.769 I am more inclined to be like, something broke 00:35:40.769 --> 00:35:45.309 down outside of Rick than Rick himself. All right. 00:35:45.349 --> 00:35:48.449 Well, what are we following up the power of equality 00:35:48.449 --> 00:35:56.389 with? Okay. Okay. Okay. So let's let's do this. 00:35:56.610 --> 00:35:59.150 This one, I'm pretty sure somebody mentioned 00:35:59.150 --> 00:36:03.329 I was never the biggest fan of this band, but 00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:05.750 they had some really good songs that I would 00:36:05.750 --> 00:36:08.610 enjoy. Mostly the radio hits. That's just how 00:36:08.610 --> 00:36:10.610 I would hear them. But every once in a while 00:36:10.610 --> 00:36:12.389 I go, all right, well, let's check out a few 00:36:12.389 --> 00:36:16.510 of the albums. And I did have. It's somewhere 00:36:16.510 --> 00:36:20.670 down in storage. Siamese Dream from 1993, Smashing 00:36:20.670 --> 00:36:26.710 Pumpkins. Cherub Rock is just a fun, alternative, 00:36:26.909 --> 00:36:30.889 kick -ass, grungy kind of guitar sound to start 00:36:30.889 --> 00:36:35.150 the album. Similar to Rusty Cage. It has a similar 00:36:35.150 --> 00:36:38.449 kind of energy to it. Oh, by all means. You scooped 00:36:38.449 --> 00:36:41.010 me on the band and you scooped me on the song. 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.860 I actually was thinking about putting Tonight 00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:46.019 Tonight in my bank for Melancholy and the Infinite 00:36:46.019 --> 00:36:50.659 Sadness, but there is the song Melancholy and 00:36:50.659 --> 00:36:53.300 the Infinite Sadness beforehand, the little three 00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:56.599 -minute instrumental piece. It's just an instrumental, 00:36:57.500 --> 00:37:01.440 Brian. You know, technicality. But at the end 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:04.699 of the day, if I was going to put Cherub Rock 00:37:04.699 --> 00:37:06.840 on the playlist, I was actually thinking of it 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:11.349 coming out of Soundgarden. But I obviously went 00:37:11.349 --> 00:37:13.409 with Nirvana because you talk big four. But at 00:37:13.409 --> 00:37:14.909 the end of the day, I think there's some people 00:37:14.909 --> 00:37:17.230 out there listening. That would say that the 00:37:17.230 --> 00:37:19.809 Smashing Pumpkins need to be in the conversation 00:37:19.809 --> 00:37:23.010 of the big four. Cherub Rock reached number seven 00:37:23.010 --> 00:37:25.329 on the U .S. Alternative Airplay chart, number 00:37:25.329 --> 00:37:29.389 31 on the U .K. Singles chart, number 91 on the 00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:32.389 Canada Top Singles chart, number 87 on the Australia 00:37:32.389 --> 00:37:37.190 Aria chart, and number 16 in New Zealand. Another 00:37:37.190 --> 00:37:39.889 worldwide hit for the band. Maybe not as high 00:37:39.889 --> 00:37:43.030 as some of the bigger hits from them, but definitely, 00:37:43.030 --> 00:37:46.349 as far as I'm concerned, an absolute staple from 00:37:46.349 --> 00:37:49.650 the Smashing Pumpkins. An all -time classic album 00:37:49.650 --> 00:37:52.369 from them as well. It's still successful and 00:37:52.369 --> 00:37:54.670 people still know it. Oh my God, yeah. And I 00:37:54.670 --> 00:37:58.730 think I'm going to go a little heavier now. Cherub 00:37:58.730 --> 00:38:02.190 Rock's heavy. It's got a vibe. Power of Equality 00:38:02.190 --> 00:38:06.139 is heavy in a way. Cherub Rock is heavy in a 00:38:06.139 --> 00:38:10.559 way. Yep. Bomb Track from Rage Against the Machine 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:16.960 is heavy in another way. Yes. And as a bassist, 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.039 that opening bass guitar run to open the album, 00:38:20.179 --> 00:38:24.739 that was one of the first things I said to my 00:38:24.739 --> 00:38:27.300 teacher at the time, I need to learn how to jam 00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:30.809 to this song. There's just something so massive 00:38:30.809 --> 00:38:33.170 about it. The self -titled Rage Against the Machine 00:38:33.170 --> 00:38:36.349 album is one of my favorite quote unquote heavy 00:38:36.349 --> 00:38:40.050 albums of all time. If you're a 90s movie fan, 00:38:40.190 --> 00:38:44.630 you obviously will remember the use of this song 00:38:44.630 --> 00:38:48.289 during the prison breakout in Natural Born Killers 00:38:48.289 --> 00:38:51.750 with Woody Harrelson. Okay, yep. And I mean, 00:38:51.769 --> 00:38:56.070 this is another instance where this song is 34 00:38:56.070 --> 00:39:00.909 years old. Stop saying things like that. Don't 00:39:00.909 --> 00:39:03.989 do that. It hurts. I mean, Stone Sour covered 00:39:03.989 --> 00:39:07.449 this song for the Metal Hammer Goes 90s compilation 00:39:07.449 --> 00:39:10.250 and put it on the deluxe edition of Hydrograd. 00:39:10.510 --> 00:39:13.489 And if I play it back to back with Rage Against 00:39:13.489 --> 00:39:16.550 the Machines, Rage Against the Machines still 00:39:16.550 --> 00:39:19.789 sounds just as heavy and just as timeless as 00:39:19.789 --> 00:39:23.510 a newer band covering it from decades earlier. 00:39:24.130 --> 00:39:29.000 Wow. I was also contemplating Rage. But I actually 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.739 was not thinking that album. I was, and maybe 00:39:32.739 --> 00:39:35.960 on a future episode, if we have to keep doing 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:40.340 these, I was thinking the Battle of Los Angeles, 00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:45.019 sneaking in at the very, very end of 99 with 00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:47.039 Testify. That's another great one. They always 00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:49.719 know how to open their albums. I mean, People 00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:52.480 of the Sun from Evil Empire, they know how to 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:56.750 album open with authority. Yeah. And that was 00:39:56.750 --> 00:39:58.489 one of the ones that when I heard that album, 00:39:58.590 --> 00:40:02.489 it was like, Jesus, this is this is rage. And 00:40:02.489 --> 00:40:05.110 it's also the last studio album of original material 00:40:05.110 --> 00:40:07.730 you'd ever hear from them. So there's that, too. 00:40:08.409 --> 00:40:11.670 True. True. It's timeless now. It's a classic. 00:40:12.429 --> 00:40:14.789 All right. Well, we are up to you now for track 00:40:14.789 --> 00:40:22.679 four. Oh, boy. OK, so I. I'm going to go a little 00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:26.099 bit different direction, out of the heavy. And 00:40:26.099 --> 00:40:32.599 with this band, I had like five albums to choose 00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:35.599 from from the 90s if I really wanted to. And 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.639 it still was kind of difficult because I was 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:45.400 leaning Nimrod from 97, but I decided to go back 00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:50.260 to Dookie instead from 94 and go with Burnout. 00:40:50.750 --> 00:40:53.750 Green Day finally makes the discussion. You knew 00:40:53.750 --> 00:40:56.710 it had to happen. I could have went with any 00:40:56.710 --> 00:40:59.929 Green Day album opener. I mean, let's just stick 00:40:59.929 --> 00:41:02.769 with the Trey Cool years here, okay? Yeah. You 00:41:02.769 --> 00:41:05.730 had 2000 Light Years Away from Kerplunk. You 00:41:05.730 --> 00:41:10.130 had Burnout from Dookie. You had Armitage Shanks, 00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:12.630 which opened Insomniac, which is my favorite 00:41:12.630 --> 00:41:15.690 Green Day album. Yes, I said it. My favorite 00:41:15.690 --> 00:41:19.440 Green Day album. When I first saw Green Day Live 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:22.500 in the 90s, Armitage Sanks was the song they 00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:25.019 opened with. And it's got one of my favorite 00:41:25.019 --> 00:41:28.199 Green Day lyrics, I must insist on being a pessimist. 00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:31.760 I love that line. And then you have Nice Guys 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:34.159 Finish Last from Nimrod. But I digress on all 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.260 of that. Just like Rage Against the Machine opened 00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:41.099 up albums with authority, so did Green Day. You 00:41:41.099 --> 00:41:43.559 scooped me on the band. I had every single one 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.690 of these songs in my list. Yeah. And honestly, 00:41:47.909 --> 00:41:50.449 it just came down to which album I listened to 00:41:50.449 --> 00:41:54.050 more between Dookie or Nimrod. And just Dookie 00:41:54.050 --> 00:41:56.230 was the one that I just always kept going back 00:41:56.230 --> 00:41:58.909 to that I just would put. That was a cover to 00:41:58.909 --> 00:42:01.690 cover one. I just pop it in and be like, all 00:42:01.690 --> 00:42:04.110 right, I'm good for whatever it was, 40 minutes, 00:42:04.329 --> 00:42:06.929 something like that. It was somewhere around 00:42:06.929 --> 00:42:09.130 there. And either one I would have been happy 00:42:09.130 --> 00:42:11.250 with. Had you scooped it from me, I would have 00:42:11.250 --> 00:42:14.639 been totally happy with it. Now. You pivoted 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.260 out of Heavy going to Green Day from Rage Against 00:42:17.260 --> 00:42:21.000 the Machine. I'm going to pivot back to Heavy. 00:42:21.900 --> 00:42:24.699 Okay. And I'm going to, like I did on Side A 00:42:24.699 --> 00:42:26.900 with Nirvana, I think I'm going to piss some 00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:30.320 people off right now. Oh, what? No. Yeah, yeah. 00:42:30.380 --> 00:42:32.940 No, sweet baby boy, no. Yeah, this is definitely 00:42:32.940 --> 00:42:37.960 going to stir up some shit. Okay. All right, 00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:41.150 let's hear it. Off of 1996's Load, I'm going 00:42:41.150 --> 00:42:45.150 with Metallica's Ain't My Bitch. Oh, wow. Okay, 00:42:45.170 --> 00:42:47.869 everybody is thinking the same thing. Why didn't 00:42:47.869 --> 00:42:50.590 you go with Enter Sandman? Or why didn't you 00:42:50.590 --> 00:42:55.469 go with Fuel? Or why didn't you go with, I don't 00:42:55.469 --> 00:42:57.110 think many people are mentioning Free Speech 00:42:57.110 --> 00:42:59.269 for the Dumb from Garage Inc., even though I 00:42:59.269 --> 00:43:03.090 love Mia Cover's album, but there's a reason 00:43:03.090 --> 00:43:05.670 I picked Ain't My Bitch. The song reached number 00:43:05.670 --> 00:43:08.090 15 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, but 00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:11.369 that's not the reason. Okay. Back in the 90s, 00:43:11.369 --> 00:43:14.670 kids, there was no such thing as, well, maybe 00:43:14.670 --> 00:43:17.969 there was, but it was very rare to get your hands 00:43:17.969 --> 00:43:22.150 on an advanced copy or a leaked album like you 00:43:22.150 --> 00:43:24.889 do now, where an album can sometimes be leaked 00:43:24.889 --> 00:43:28.750 months before it's supposed to drop. But head 00:43:28.750 --> 00:43:33.050 back to 1996 and... Young, healthy, and happy 00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:35.650 Brian was walking through the Meadowlands flea 00:43:35.650 --> 00:43:39.329 market before heading down to Six Flags Great 00:43:39.329 --> 00:43:41.030 Adventure to meet up with a group of friends. 00:43:41.170 --> 00:43:44.090 And one of the music stores that I frequented 00:43:44.090 --> 00:43:48.510 had a booth at the flea market. So I went over 00:43:48.510 --> 00:43:50.650 and said, hey, I'm going to be in on Tuesday. 00:43:51.210 --> 00:43:53.289 The new Metallica album comes out. I've been 00:43:53.289 --> 00:43:56.170 waiting five years for this one. He goes, well, 00:43:56.210 --> 00:43:58.909 why wait until Tuesday? And he pulled out a box. 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:02.880 And he had a box of 30 copies of load. And I 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.539 was like, I'll take it. And we drove all the 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:08.480 way down to six flags, which at the time was 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.460 like an hour and a half with traffic. Yeah. We 00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:14.920 went and had a great time. And on the way out, 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.480 I was telling my buddies that I had load three 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:21.420 days early and people were fighting over who 00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:23.599 wrote home with my buddy and I, so that they 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.639 could hear the album for the first time. So I 00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:29.269 think there's. that memory is attached to this 00:44:29.269 --> 00:44:32.750 story a little bit. But to me, when I first heard 00:44:32.750 --> 00:44:36.289 that ain't my bitch riff, it just resonated with 00:44:36.289 --> 00:44:38.449 me. And I know load is one of those controversial 00:44:38.449 --> 00:44:41.929 Metallica albums, but I'll be the first to say, 00:44:42.030 --> 00:44:47.489 I frigging love it. So ain't my bitch. So congratulations. 00:44:48.469 --> 00:44:51.550 You did scoop one of mine. I think we've discussed 00:44:51.550 --> 00:44:57.329 it before that I, I am a slightly. big metallica 00:44:57.329 --> 00:45:00.349 fan they are the band i've seen the most that 00:45:00.349 --> 00:45:02.650 i listen to the most that i have all the albums 00:45:02.650 --> 00:45:06.349 i they're just the ones that i listen to no matter 00:45:06.349 --> 00:45:11.789 what even the shitty stuff lulu i listen to uh 00:45:11.789 --> 00:45:15.269 and i understand what it is what it is but when 00:45:15.269 --> 00:45:18.570 i was looking at 90s load and reload came up 00:45:18.570 --> 00:45:21.309 they were albums that i listened to again cover 00:45:21.309 --> 00:45:24.960 to cover but i understand why some people dislike 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:27.179 them because it was not what they grew up with 00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:31.320 in the 80s it was a shift for the band but i 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:33.800 also was looking at ain't my bitch because the 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:38.380 last time i was on i had fuel on the playlist 00:45:38.380 --> 00:45:43.820 so i didn't want to choose it again even between 00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:47.280 the two i think i like fuel just because it is 00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.880 that fast kind of a little bit thrashy type of 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:54.230 sound to it which is a lot of fun But ate my 00:45:54.230 --> 00:45:57.630 bitch is a little bit kind of heavier sound. 00:45:57.809 --> 00:46:00.690 And I was going, well, that I think would be 00:46:00.690 --> 00:46:03.070 the one because I feel like we probably should 00:46:03.070 --> 00:46:05.150 have Metallica somewhere if I can work it in 00:46:05.150 --> 00:46:08.070 here. So that was the one I was going to go. 00:46:08.130 --> 00:46:11.469 All right. A full on scoop. I love it. So now 00:46:11.469 --> 00:46:15.090 coming out of Metallica track six, we're at the 00:46:15.090 --> 00:46:17.530 second half of side B. Where do we go from here? 00:46:17.909 --> 00:46:19.929 Oh, that's right. This is me now. Damn it. I 00:46:19.929 --> 00:46:23.590 was talking Metallica. I'm distracted. All right, 00:46:23.610 --> 00:46:25.170 I'm going to pivot again. We're doing a lot of 00:46:25.170 --> 00:46:27.289 pivoting on this side, which is fine. So is the 00:46:27.289 --> 00:46:29.429 90s was one big pivot. Let's just be honest. 00:46:29.550 --> 00:46:31.789 It was. It was all over the place. From Friends 00:46:31.789 --> 00:46:36.510 all the way to the music. Pivot. So I'm going 00:46:36.510 --> 00:46:40.570 to go again with late 90s. When this band dropped 00:46:40.570 --> 00:46:43.929 this album, I think. This might have been one 00:46:43.929 --> 00:46:46.889 of my Columbia House things that maybe you signed 00:46:46.889 --> 00:46:49.269 up for and you got and then debated paying and 00:46:49.269 --> 00:46:51.610 all that stuff. I forget exactly. I know it was 00:46:51.610 --> 00:46:54.789 late 90s and I fell in love with this band and 00:46:54.789 --> 00:46:56.969 I actually didn't even know that they had three 00:46:56.969 --> 00:47:00.030 albums because they kind of, I guess the marketing 00:47:00.030 --> 00:47:03.449 fell off after the second album. But from 1998, 00:47:04.130 --> 00:47:08.670 the self -titled Eve Six from Eve Six. Okay. 00:47:08.769 --> 00:47:13.840 With how much longer? And this was a little bit 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.719 back more to the alternative, a power poppy, 00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:20.800 I think at times they had in their songs. But 00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.440 every once in a while, they just had a fun, riffy 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:25.460 alternative song that they put in there. And 00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:28.480 this album, I just fell in love with. It's still 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.679 one of my favorite albums that I can just sit 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.800 down and listen to. Horoscope, I love as their 00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:36.519 second album, a little bit different, a little 00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:39.670 bit more poppy, but I still enjoy it. I'll be 00:47:39.670 --> 00:47:42.449 perfectly honest with you, man. Self -titled 00:47:42.449 --> 00:47:46.929 horoscope. It's all in your head. And 2012 speaking 00:47:46.929 --> 00:47:50.309 code are all front to back listens for me. I've 00:47:50.309 --> 00:47:53.349 seen these guys several times in concert. They're 00:47:53.349 --> 00:47:57.369 always a great show. And I love the fact you 00:47:57.369 --> 00:47:59.489 went with this one because honestly, it's the 00:47:59.489 --> 00:48:02.610 only Eve six album you could go with. Yeah. So 00:48:02.610 --> 00:48:05.250 you were kind of tied by the decade by that one, 00:48:05.269 --> 00:48:08.059 but. I know everybody looks at the album cover 00:48:08.059 --> 00:48:10.719 and they automatically think inside out. And 00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:12.820 as much as that was the song that introduced 00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:17.599 pretty much everybody to Eve six, to me, it's, 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:19.679 there are other songs on the album that are even 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:21.760 stronger than that, including the followup single 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:26.079 leech, how much longer showerhead. I mean, inside 00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:28.159 out is a great song and it was obviously the 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.099 most marketable one. So I understand why they 00:48:30.099 --> 00:48:33.340 went with that as a single, but this was a very, 00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:36.699 very, very strong album. From a very, very, very 00:48:36.699 --> 00:48:39.380 young group at the time. And their potential, 00:48:39.380 --> 00:48:43.260 I think, was realized on Horoscope. And then 00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:45.980 it continued on. It's all in your head. But I 00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:49.780 think musically, the tides were turning at that 00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:53.159 point. Not just for the band, but I think with 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.579 radio in a lot of ways. Just even though I was 00:48:56.579 --> 00:48:58.840 in the industry at that time, a lot of bands 00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:00.500 that I had grown up with through the 90s just 00:49:00.500 --> 00:49:02.579 kind of disappeared or you didn't hear about 00:49:02.579 --> 00:49:05.320 what they were doing. It was so weird to be in 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.079 the industry, also be with like top 40s stations 00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:11.840 and not be hearing about this stuff and then 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:15.000 learn like years later, oh, that band did a thing? 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:18.579 Papa Roach released music? Power Man 5000 is 00:49:18.579 --> 00:49:21.000 pop? Eve Six had a third album? What the hell 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:24.159 happened? Why did I not know any of this? Well, 00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:27.059 we've been pivoting and pivoting and pivoting. 00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:30.780 So I am leaning in. We're weaving now at this 00:49:30.780 --> 00:49:33.800 point. Yes. Back and forth between lanes, and 00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:37.019 I don't care. Now, we've given Rick Rubin his 00:49:37.019 --> 00:49:39.960 flowers tonight for sure, but we haven't given 00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:43.519 him his wildflowers. So we have to go off of 00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:48.360 1994's wildflowers. Tom Petty, of course I was 00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:51.039 going here at some point tonight. Reached number 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:53.639 16 on the Billboard Hot Rocks chart, even though 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:56.739 it was never released as a single. That's how 00:49:56.739 --> 00:49:58.539 good it is. He doesn't even have to put it out 00:49:58.539 --> 00:50:01.639 as a single. Radio picks it up because he is 00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:03.960 the best. He's my favorite. Everyone knows that. 00:50:04.340 --> 00:50:06.940 Episode 95, the ultimate Tom Petty playlist. 00:50:07.340 --> 00:50:10.559 You can hear me wax poetic about the man with 00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:14.179 Kevin Brown from the Tom Petty Project. Awesome 00:50:14.179 --> 00:50:17.440 show he does over there. And we talk well over 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.519 an hour about Tom Petty. And I don't want to 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.159 say if we do or do not include this song, but 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.159 we talk about the album, obviously. So I'll just 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.860 leave it at that. It's a perfect album. Rick 00:50:27.860 --> 00:50:31.019 Rubin. I noticed I purposely left it out earlier 00:50:31.019 --> 00:50:33.619 when we were talking about Rick Rubin. But talk 00:50:33.619 --> 00:50:36.860 about pulling something out of an artist. It's 00:50:36.860 --> 00:50:39.019 my favorite Tom Petty album. So, of course, I 00:50:39.019 --> 00:50:42.309 was sneaking that in tonight. Petty is one of 00:50:42.309 --> 00:50:46.210 the artists that is on my list that I missed. 00:50:46.610 --> 00:50:50.630 And it's one of those regretful things that you 00:50:50.630 --> 00:50:53.869 take for granted when you're, I play a lot of 00:50:53.869 --> 00:50:57.269 these artists daily. And it never really hit 00:50:57.269 --> 00:51:00.610 me until, I think it was right around when Tom 00:51:00.610 --> 00:51:03.670 died of, oh shit, I need to start seeing these 00:51:03.670 --> 00:51:06.409 guys. I can't just keep pushing them off because 00:51:06.409 --> 00:51:09.219 I missed him. Coming to town, I missed Rush. 00:51:09.539 --> 00:51:12.840 Last time they came to town, there's been a number 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:14.920 of bands that have come to town. I'd be like, 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:16.619 oh, I'll get them next time. I'll get them next 00:51:16.619 --> 00:51:21.139 time. Thank God I have tickets to ACDC because 00:51:21.139 --> 00:51:25.260 I am not missing them again. After Brian said, 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:28.980 I'm deaf. I can't tour. Oh, come on. Damn it. 00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:32.139 But now check them off my list. Thank goodness. 00:51:32.260 --> 00:51:37.460 But man, Tom, such talent. Such amazing sounds 00:51:37.460 --> 00:51:40.820 and songs that he could create. He could do something 00:51:40.820 --> 00:51:44.059 rocking like you wreck me. But then he comes 00:51:44.059 --> 00:51:46.800 up with something like wildflowers. And this 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.739 song has a special meaning to my wife because 00:51:48.739 --> 00:51:51.760 at our wedding, this was a song that she danced 00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.480 with her stepfather. Oh, it's beautiful. It's 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:57.199 a beautiful, beautiful song. I love it. And now, 00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:58.920 of course, I hear it. Now I just think of them 00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.059 and I start welling up. It's like, oh, emotions. 00:52:01.500 --> 00:52:06.900 Why? Stop it. So we have been zigging and zagging 00:52:06.900 --> 00:52:09.300 all over the place here. How are you coming out 00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:13.340 of wildflowers from Tom Petty? I have nothing 00:52:13.340 --> 00:52:16.099 good. I can tell you that. I have nothing good 00:52:16.099 --> 00:52:19.219 to follow that, but I am going to, we are, we're 00:52:19.219 --> 00:52:22.659 going to keep hopping back and forth here. I 00:52:22.659 --> 00:52:26.239 am going to, I'm going to pop back over out of 00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:30.190 America. We're going to go close to middle. All 00:52:30.190 --> 00:52:35.949 right, middle of the 90s. This is 94. This band 00:52:35.949 --> 00:52:40.610 has a particular sound, as certain Brit bands 00:52:40.610 --> 00:52:42.929 would. Kind of the Brit pop, I think, is what 00:52:42.929 --> 00:52:46.130 they fall under. But in 1994, I'm going to go 00:52:46.130 --> 00:52:50.349 with Park Life from Blur. That was kicked off 00:52:50.349 --> 00:52:54.599 by Girls and Boys. Reached number 49 on the Billboard 00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.940 US Hot 100, number 27 on the Canada Top Singles 00:52:58.940 --> 00:53:02.219 Chart, number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, number 00:53:02.219 --> 00:53:05.699 19 on the Australia ARIA Chart, among others. 00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:08.579 I know because of the stadium aspect of things, 00:53:08.820 --> 00:53:12.039 Blur is now more widely known for Song 2, but 00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:14.599 I think you can't deny the popularity of this 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:16.820 song. Heck, this song charted higher than Song 00:53:16.820 --> 00:53:21.000 2 at the end of the day. It's my last song pick 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.679 of the night, and I'm still riding on a recent 00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:29.199 high because several episodes back, I had the 00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.920 honor of bringing the original Counting Crows 00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:35.159 drummer Steve Bowman on the show. Okay. And we 00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:40.099 talked at length about 1994's August and Everything 00:53:40.099 --> 00:53:43.599 After. And I am going to go with the opening 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.719 song from that album and second single, Round 00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:50.590 Here. Go back to that episode to hear about the 00:53:50.590 --> 00:53:53.750 transition that Round Here made from Adam Durrett's 00:53:53.750 --> 00:53:56.530 first band, the Himalayans, because believe it 00:53:56.530 --> 00:53:58.829 or not, Round Here is a cover song. Well, it's 00:53:58.829 --> 00:54:00.630 Adam's song that he did with his old band and 00:54:00.630 --> 00:54:04.050 he brought it to the Counting Crows. And if you 00:54:04.050 --> 00:54:07.309 hear both versions back to back, there's some 00:54:07.309 --> 00:54:09.570 similarities a little bit here and there, but 00:54:09.570 --> 00:54:13.250 I'll just embed the Himalayans version on the 00:54:13.250 --> 00:54:16.090 episode page at my weekly mixtape. So you can 00:54:16.090 --> 00:54:19.110 check it out. It's definitely worth it. But August 00:54:19.110 --> 00:54:21.650 and everything after I talk about it for an hour 00:54:21.650 --> 00:54:24.670 on that album dive episode. So go check it out. 00:54:24.690 --> 00:54:27.409 One of my favorite albums of the nineties. And 00:54:27.409 --> 00:54:31.289 I'm just picturing the crescendo at the end of 00:54:31.289 --> 00:54:34.309 this song, kind of taking us out to the last 00:54:34.309 --> 00:54:40.309 song of the evening. Oh boy. Man. I mean, from 00:54:40.309 --> 00:54:43.389 what I remember of trying to remember 90. three 00:54:43.389 --> 00:54:46.409 94, whatever it was. I remember hearing Mr. Jones 00:54:46.409 --> 00:54:49.530 everywhere on the radio round here. I don't remember 00:54:49.530 --> 00:54:52.150 as much. I do remember hearing it somewhere, 00:54:52.389 --> 00:54:55.469 but I don't think I heard it as much. Yeah. And 00:54:55.469 --> 00:54:57.150 that makes me wonder if it's a difference of 00:54:57.150 --> 00:54:59.550 markets between you and I, because being towards 00:54:59.550 --> 00:55:01.630 the New York city radio stations, maybe there 00:55:01.630 --> 00:55:03.789 was a reason for that, but yeah, around here 00:55:03.789 --> 00:55:06.190 is going to close out my song choices for this 00:55:06.190 --> 00:55:10.489 evening. Oh, shoot we are at the end yes you 00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:13.710 have to you you we've got about 75 songs you 00:55:13.710 --> 00:55:16.110 could choose from um no matter which one you 00:55:16.110 --> 00:55:18.849 pick everybody's gonna be angry that you didn't 00:55:18.849 --> 00:55:21.630 pick something else so there's zero pressure 00:55:21.630 --> 00:55:24.489 no i made him made him angry at the beginning 00:55:24.489 --> 00:55:26.489 and let's piss him off at the end there's always 00:55:26.489 --> 00:55:28.530 volume two though so don't worry about it yeah 00:55:28.530 --> 00:55:31.210 you know what there is there is always volume 00:55:31.210 --> 00:55:41.130 two okay so um Even though this band is probably 00:55:41.130 --> 00:55:46.329 thought of as more of classic rock, 70s, 80s, 00:55:46.329 --> 00:55:50.210 and they've had lineup changes over the years, 00:55:50.309 --> 00:55:56.250 not due to their own choices. Of the 90s, there's 00:55:56.250 --> 00:56:00.849 two hard rock albums that come to mind. And I 00:56:00.849 --> 00:56:05.710 like to end a concert or end an album pumping 00:56:05.710 --> 00:56:11.590 things up. Driving fast, having fun. And I'm 00:56:11.590 --> 00:56:18.150 going to go with 1990s, The Razor's Edge with 00:56:18.150 --> 00:56:21.289 Thunderstruck. Awesome. Because whenever I hear 00:56:21.289 --> 00:56:25.139 this song, whenever I play this song. I can't 00:56:25.139 --> 00:56:27.199 but help. But just, you know, you're tapping 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:30.579 your hands to the guitar once it starts. If you're 00:56:30.579 --> 00:56:32.780 in the vehicle, if you're on the bike, you stop 00:56:32.780 --> 00:56:35.039 looking at the speedometer because you're going, 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.539 I don't want to look down. I'm just having fun. 00:56:37.780 --> 00:56:40.559 And if I look down, I know I'm in trouble. This 00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:44.420 is one of my favorite ACDC songs. And a lot of 00:56:44.420 --> 00:56:46.940 the songs I love from them aren't even ones that 00:56:46.940 --> 00:56:51.320 really tracked well, that hit the charts. A lot 00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:54.519 of them, you know, they are the... far more popular 00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:57.880 overseas than they are here in America. But Thunderstruck 00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:02.099 is, you hear that opening guitar sound and you 00:57:02.099 --> 00:57:05.679 go, oh, I know what song this is. Absolutely 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.639 iconic opening guitar part. I mean, there's so 00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:13.239 many iconic opening guitar parts from ACDC and 00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.920 Angus Young. So I think that's kind of a given 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:19.960 when you talk about ACDC. Now you talked about 00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:23.400 Deep Cuts being your favorite. We are sitting 00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:26.460 here in 2025 recording this and they're touring 00:57:26.460 --> 00:57:31.199 this year and they're opening with my favorite 00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:34.380 ACDC song of all time. And they decided to skip 00:57:34.380 --> 00:57:38.380 New Jersey. And that is, if you want blood, you've 00:57:38.380 --> 00:57:42.940 got it is the tour opening song right now. Oh, 00:57:42.980 --> 00:57:47.260 but anyway, the lead single from 1990s, the razor's 00:57:47.260 --> 00:57:51.650 edge. Chris Slade slamming those kick drums over 00:57:51.650 --> 00:57:56.570 his head with the mat. Like the song is thunderous. 00:57:57.269 --> 00:58:02.030 I mean, really this was ACDC reclaiming their 00:58:02.030 --> 00:58:06.409 sound because the albums prior to that got a 00:58:06.409 --> 00:58:09.710 little bit heavy in the eighties reverb and production. 00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:13.860 Blow Up Your Video and Flick of the Switch. Fly 00:58:13.860 --> 00:58:16.760 on the Wall. Fly on the Wall all had that really 00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:19.960 reverb -y sound. And this was where they went 00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:24.119 back to just being the raw ACDC that people fell 00:58:24.119 --> 00:58:27.260 in love with on Back in Black. And I know there's 00:58:27.260 --> 00:58:29.239 some people that actually say, oh, it just goes 00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:31.960 from Back in Black to Razor's Edge. No, no, no. 00:58:32.099 --> 00:58:33.920 For those about to rock, it's a killer album, 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.460 too. No, that is, I will argue, I will get in 00:58:37.460 --> 00:58:39.699 a fist fight. For those about to rock, it's a 00:58:39.699 --> 00:58:44.400 damn good album. But I understand, Back in Black, 00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:48.099 it made a statement, similar to Metallica's Black 00:58:48.099 --> 00:58:51.219 album. It was a statement, and then after that, 00:58:51.300 --> 00:58:54.949 okay, yes, it was a little bit different. For 00:58:54.949 --> 00:58:58.170 those about to rock is still a damn good album. 00:58:58.289 --> 00:59:00.550 Not everything was a chart topping single, but 00:59:00.550 --> 00:59:02.949 there's still good songs on there. Oh, God. Yeah. 00:59:03.010 --> 00:59:07.170 I mean, look, there's not an ACDC album I don't 00:59:07.170 --> 00:59:11.489 like. So I love this close. The song reached 00:59:11.489 --> 00:59:13.869 number five on the US mainstream rock chart, 00:59:14.010 --> 00:59:17.130 number 20 on Canada's top singles chart, number 00:59:17.130 --> 00:59:20.590 13 on the UK singles chart, number four in Australia, 00:59:20.670 --> 00:59:24.019 and was a top 10 hit in Belgium. Finland, where 00:59:24.019 --> 00:59:27.059 it hit number one. Ireland, the Netherlands, 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.420 Hungary, Sweden, New Zealand, and Switzerland. 00:59:31.539 --> 00:59:36.340 And it also hit number 10 on side B of the ultimate 00:59:36.340 --> 00:59:39.960 90s rock album opener's mixtape, which kicked 00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:42.199 off with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Power of 00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:45.820 Equality, Smashing Pumpkins' Cherub Rock, Rage 00:59:45.820 --> 00:59:48.559 Against the Machine's Bomb Track, Green Day's 00:59:48.559 --> 00:59:52.260 Burnout, Metallica's Ain't My Bitch, Eve's Six 00:59:52.260 --> 00:59:55.579 is How Much Longer, Tom Petty's Wildflowers, 00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:59.300 Blur's Girls and Boys, Counting Crows Round Here, 00:59:59.539 --> 01:00:03.780 and ACDC's Thunderstruck. 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