Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me tonight as guest curator is Patreon
mixtaper Brandon from Virginia. Brandon, pleasure
to have you on the show, man. It's great to be
here, Brian. Looking forward to it. Well, as
a first -time guest, I'd like to start by asking
you, what does the word mixtape mean to you?
That's a good question. Thinking back, you know,
I was the kid who always had their Walkman on,
on the school bus. You know, I listened to a
lot of Zeppelin IV. And then, you know, we weren't
really making mixtapes because I had so many
records from my brothers. But then a friend of
mine gave me a mixtape that had, it was Misfits
and Iron Maiden on it. And that was like a whole
new world for me. It was like, wow, all this
other music that I've never heard before. outside
of the standard rock norms that my family listened
to. And that's kind of opened me up to everything
I listen to now. Awesome. Well, tonight's topic
is a pretty unique one, inspirational rock songs.
So what were you looking for in the bank of songs
you brought to the recording tonight, along with
the obvious caveat of being inspired, of course?
You know, I was looking for, you know. Different
genres of songs. You know, rock is a pretty expansive,
a lot of music fits into that. So it wasn't just
punk, wasn't just standard rock, but there's
a lot of places we could go with this mix. So
that's really what I was looking for, is where
could we go? Because there's so many places.
And keeping it out of gospel, gospel would have
been really easy, a lot of religious music. So
I wanted different types of rock. Just what gets
you pumped, whether if you're on a bike ride
or working out or sometimes when you're having
a bad day, what brings you out of that bad day?
Awesome. I love the approach. Mine was very much
the same from a musical perspective. Everything
from classic rock to punk and metal and all of
the in -between is in my list. But lyrically
for me, I was looking for songs that sparked
some kind of inspirational tone without being.
too on the nose. Although I'm sure there'll be
some people out there that when I mentioned some
of the songs that I picked, they might think
they're on the nose, but depending on where a
song hits with you, we'll certainly leave that
open to interpretation and discussion. It's a
good way to put it. Yeah. I'd have to agree with
you on that. Well, let's get down to business.
As I mentioned at the top of the show, Brandon
and I will be curating the ultimate inspirational
rock songs mixtape, and we're going to use the
old cassette deck approach. Brandon, as my special
guest, will begin side A with his first song
choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel
best follows up that choice. We'll then flip
-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10
songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape
a proverbial flip. And we'll map outside. Be
only this time, I'll kick things off with Brandon
choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode
is to craft the best inspirational rock mixtape
possible through only 20 songs. At the end of
the show, you can take our conversation to the
next level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape
.com to give our final mixtape a listen via the
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guest, and so much more. And several of the Patreon
mixtapers chimed in with songs they would use
to kick things off tonight, and I want to give
a quick shout out to a few of those. Seeker chimed
in with Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up, saying
he takes these words to heart, but also particularly
Kate Bush's responding lyrics, where she's reassuring
the protagonist. Philip Bergman chimed in saying
that he's tempted to throw in some of the Christian
rock he listened to during his prepubescent phase
and wasn't sure if Owsley's Rise is quote -unquote
rock enough for our definition, but that he really
loves that one along with Firehouse's Hold the
Dream. Ed Kennard said Frank Turner's Get Better
definitely springs to mind for him. Sean Goff
chimed in saying the first song that popped into
his head was Alley in the Jungle by The Hours,
saying the song amps him up. Chad LaMassa chimed
in with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds Fight.
And Tom Hutchison chimed in with The Price by
Twisted Sister, saying how wonderful of a song
it is. Once again, if you'd like to chime in
on future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, come join
the fellow mixtapers at patreon .com forward
slash My Weekly Mixtape. Now, Brandon, with those
picks out in the atmosphere, I'm officially pressing
the record button on our mixtape, and the floor
is yours. What song are you using to kick off
the inspirational vibes with? You know, those
were absolutely great picks, and I think only
a couple of those were in my bank. But I'm not
using any of those. I'm starting off with a song
that really kicked off thrash metal for me. Going
with Suicidal Tendencies, You Can't Bring Me
Down. Nice. That was the first track on Lights,
Camera, Revolution from 1990. I was probably
a sophomore year of high school when that came
out. And that was a total boom, that record.
Suicidal evolved from really skate punk to thrash
metal when Rocky George joined the band. And
then Robert. Chuelo joined the band. That was
his first record with them and really pushed
out the rock, pushed out the funk, which later
turned into Infectious Grooves, that side project
between him and Mike Muir. But that really was
just like, you can't bring me down. And it reminds
me of getting home from work, being pissed off
at your manager. You've had a bad night. Putting
that on in the car on the way home, like. No
matter what, you can't mess me up. You can't
bring me down. Love to pick an album opener to
start things with. So bravo on that. Anybody
who grew up watching MTV's Headbangers Ball back
in the day remembers this iconic video of Mike
Muir in the electric chair. Again, like you mentioned,
this was the first Suck 10 album to feature Robert
Trujillo, now of Metallica on bass. And it was
that bass insanity. Throughout that album, especially
during Send Me Your Money, where Mike goes, now
give me some bass. That whole part made me a
fan of Roberts playing. And an interesting fact
about this song, You Can't Bring Me Down was
nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 91
Grammy Awards. Except they lost to, in an ironic
sense, Metallica. whose cover of Queen's Stone
Cold Crazy took the prize. And that is a great
cover. And it's also funny, was it the year before
Metallica lost at Jethro Tull? Yep. Best metal
performance. That is something I will never forget
sitting there. They had just finished performing
one. And then they came off. You're like, you
know, they're going to win it. They're like Jethro
Tull. And at that point, I actually turned and
said to my father, who? And my dad goes. I love
Jethro Tull. You don't know Jethro Tull, Ed.
We turned the Grammys off because I was heartbroken
at that point. That was the only reason I was
tuning in. And he put on the Aqualung album,
and I'm not going to lie, I became a fan of Jethro
Tull that night, although I'm still mad about
And Justice For All getting a snub. But the other
three nominees that year for Best Metal Album,
you want to talk about a time capsule. Anthrax's
Persistence of Time. Great, great, great. Judas
Priest's Painkiller. Oh, fantastic. And Megadeth's
Rust in Peace. What a year for metal music that
was. Absolutely. Yeah. Played all of that so
often. It was just a great year for metal. And
there were so many great albums that came out
from like 90 to like 95 that just really hit
the ground running. Yeah. And lyrically, the
line for the song that speaks to me is. Stand
up. We'll all sing along together. Ain't nothing
as strong. Won't quit. We ain't in the wrong.
You can't bring me. All right. Well, I'm going
to be perfectly honest. I don't have anything
that heavy in my list, but I think the way to
bring us out of that. is to keep something that
is definitely hard rock and definitely heavy,
but bring it down slightly, especially from the
thrash range, and bring it into something a little
bit more modern, and something that lyrically
truly speaks to me. I brought my whole family
to see this group last year, and this was the
closing song of their set. And the lyrics, be
a fighter, backbone desire. Complicated and it
stings, but we both know what it means. And it's
time to get real and inspired. When you've got
two younger kids listening to rock music with
you, sometimes having lyrics that lift them up
and make them feel strong and make them feel
powerful resonate with me. And Shinedown's Cut
the Chord from 2015's Threat to Survival does
just that. Brent Smith has said both, and I quote,
Cut the Cord is the statement to the world that
you will not give up, you will not give in, and
you refuse to fail. And that it's a wake -up
call reminding us all that we can control our
own destiny by finding the courage and tenacity
to destroy whatever is holding us back. The song
reached number four on the Billboard U .S. Bubbling
Under Hot 100 and number 23 on the Canada Rock
Chart. This has always been one of my all -time
favorite Shinedown songs. And back in 2019, my
wife and I got a free evening out up in New Hampshire.
My father -in -law said to us, hey, Brian, my
neighbor's selling Shinedown tickets. Do you
know who they are? I'm like, yeah, I'm a big
fan. He goes, call her right now. She's selling
them less than face value and they're great seats.
And they were certainly great seats because there
was a... section that was general admission and
then there was a little bit of a rise in the
slope of the venue and then there was a divider
and then there were front row seats and that
is where my wife and i sat for shine down set
in 2019 at the bank in new hampshire pavilion
in guilford new hampshire and i captured one
song in the night and it was cut the cord and
i have that video i will embed it on the episode
page at myweeklymixtape .com because Yeah, this
song just every single time does it for me. You
know, Brian, I will have to say I have heard
zero Shinedown songs. Really? Really. Yeah. There's
like a point, like, so my first son was born
in like maybe in 2004. And from like four to
like 2015. I really heard no new music at all.
Just Baby Shark. Not Baby Shark. Maybe they might
be Giants, maybe Barenaked Ladies. Yep, yep.
Some of the other stuff. But it was like, if
someone from Shinedown walked into me, I wouldn't
even know who they are. So I'm going to have
to check that out. I'm absolutely going to have
to check that one out. Honestly, if I were to
tell somebody you need to check out some songs
by Shinedown, it would be this song. especially
going for the vibe we're going for tonight for
Inspirational Rock, it would be The Sound of
Madness and it would be Unity. Those three songs,
if you don't like them, Shinedown's probably
not for you. But if you do, you might have a
new rabbit hole to go down. Oh, I'm going to
have to check it out when we're done. So now
we've got track three. What are you going to
follow that up with? Track three. You know, we
could continue on that big rock sound, but I'm
going to... Go to another direction here since
we have so many opportunities within rock to
go. I'm going to go with ska punk. Oh, you have
my attention. I'm going to go with ska punk and
one of the originators of the ska punk sound.
It's a band named Operation Ivy. Nice. They're
from Berkeley. They were pre -Rancid, pre -Green
Day. There were just four kids playing in Gilman
Street, which was a... kind of a co -op, a club
out in San Francisco, Berkeley, where all the
kids would play. It was a togetherness atmosphere.
But the song I'm going to go with is a song called
Sound System. Nice. I don't know if you've ever
heard Sound System or not. Yes. Tim Armstrong,
goes by Lint, and Jesse, who are the main songwriters
for the band, write about how music can just
bring you together and bring you up. And, you
know, you click on the radio, You hear the song
that brings you up and there's nothing like when
you put on the radio and that's the song that
gets you going. And this is a perfect ode to
that. How music brings it together. Operation
Ivy split before they got signed to a major label.
They actually decided that we're not going to
go major. We're done. And if you dig into Tim
Armstrong's history, he actually went down a
really bad addiction situation after Operation
Ivy broke up. But his friends intervened, got
him back. he and Matt Freeman joined together,
formed Rancid, and then he really became Tim
Timebomb, as he's known now, within Rancid and
has, you know, Timebomb records, a huge, he's
writing, what was it? Matt Freeman said he writes
a song every day. He's just turned his life around
and is known as a godfather within the punk world.
That he most certainly is. Box in my hand, music
by my side, skank into the rhythm of the music
by my side. The second song on 1989's Energy,
which was only released on vinyl and cassette.
Boo. However, if you snag the 1991 compilation,
which is probably the album most people have,
called Operation Ivy, came out on Lookout Records.
you're covered because the entire energy album
is on there. That's the one I think most people
recognize when they think of operation Ivy, but
I know exactly where I'm going to go from here
because you brought up Scott punk. You brought
up Tim time bomb. You brought up time bomb records.
So I am going to go with my daughter's favorite
band. Who's on time bomb. And that is going to
be the interrupters. and title holder from 2018's
Fight the Good Fight. You gotta fight like a
title holder, stand like a champion, live like
a warrior, and never let them break you down.
I've taken them to see them twice so far. My
youngest knows every word to every song, and
there's something about seeing her sing songs
like this one, that as a parent, Put a huge smile
on my face because she's empowering herself through
these vocals. She's not putting herself down.
She's not knocking herself or saying she's not
good enough. These are songs that prop people
up and make them feel stronger and make them
feel more powerful and give them inspiration.
I know that's the topic of tonight. But seeing
my, the first time we saw them, she was 10 years
old, sitting on my wife's shoulder. singing every
single word to this song. And how can you not
get a tear in your eye as a parent? Because she's
up there feeling like a million dollars because
of a song like this. There's no way this wasn't
making the list tonight. And coming out of Op
Ivy, you made it so easy for me. Oh, oh, you
know, that feeling of, you know, as a parent,
that's definitely one, you know, having a little
one on your shoulders at a show. We did this.
years ago at the Kennedy Center. And we saw,
you know, this is not on the list here, but we
saw they might be giants do a show at this Kennedy
Center. They have this little area called the
Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D .C. And they might be giants played there.
And it was like taking your kids to a huge rock
show, streamers, lasers, everything. And they
just were having such a blast till now this past
summer. We took our kids now that they're 16
and 20 to see the big green day, smashing pumpkins
tour, the savior's tour. And that's what it was
like. Just watching them stinging every word
and just feeling that, that connection to your
kids, that connection and that inspiration of
seeing your kids enjoy something you enjoy. Amen.
100%. But I'm not going that same direction.
I'm going to move away from Scott. I was going
to say, what are you going to do for track five?
So. Fight like a title holder. You're saying
that and made me think of a completely different
genre. Completely different. We go, I'm going
to go that swampy rock sound you get out of Austin,
Texas. All right. There's a band. I don't even
know if they're how well they're known outside
of Austin. It's a band named T -Bird and the
Breaks. They've put out some releases. They went
dormant for a while, but now they came back this
summer. And this song is just like Rocky is the
name of the song. So when you put in fight like
a title holder, all I could think of was, you
know what, what's next? Just like Rocky. And
this song, he calls out, yo, Adrian talks about
Mickey. And in the background, you hear some
horns and all you can think of is Bill Conti
is going to fly from the Rocky films. And the
lyrics of that song is no matter if you're going
down, fight like Rocky, because you got to come
back. You've got to come back. Come on. You got
to do it. Come on, rock. He keeps saying throughout
the song, like Mickey was saying to him during
the movies, the Rocky movies were like Rocky
one to Rocky three was the Rocky four even was
like 79, 80 through 86 or so. I'm going to guess,
um, you know, John Avelstock did that first film
and it was just changed the game and Rocky became
Americana. And that first movie really wasn't
on anything like. three four was it rocky balboa
and it really didn't come back till you know
the creed movies where it was more an intimate
picture it got bigger and bigger but those were
great films and to have someone like t -burn
in the breaks call back to that was just that's
got to go after title holder because we're talking
about rocky and no one else well as someone who's
a huge fan of jj gray and mo fro You had me at
swampy groove and then you bring in the horn
section. These guys are right up my alley. Lyrically,
you've got to reach deep down into the pocket
of your soul. Pull yourself a diamond from a
pocket full of coal. Oh, God, I'm half tempted
to go with a J .J. Graham Mofro song to follow
up T -Bird and Breaks and kind of stay musically
in that atmosphere. But you've given me such
an easy pivot point. I can't pass the lob up.
It's a golden opportunity. We got to work the
Rocky angle here. And you mentioned Rocky III,
Rocky IV. I could go with Eye of the Tiger. I
could go with Burning Heart. But when I played
high school football, our coach had a cassette
that he would put in for every workout. And he
would always start it from the beginning. And
the first song on that tape, so I heard this
song three to four times a week, every week for
my junior and senior year in high school, was
Robert Tepper's No Easy Way Out from the 1985
Rocky IV soundtrack, as well as the title track
to Robert's 1986 album. The song actually reached
number 22 on the Billboard US Hot 100. some things
are worth fighting for some feelings never die
i'm not asking for another chance i just want
to know why you can already hear it you're singing
it even though i'm talking you're singing it
there's no easy way out there's no shortcut home
there's no easy way out given in can't be wrong
you brought up rocky we had to go down the rocky
angle and there's something about this song No
matter how 80s it is, every time I hear it, I
get nostalgic. I'm literally transported back
into the gym, lifting weights with all my friends.
And this song to me will forever be timeless.
So was that the training montage scene in Rocky
IV? There was definitely training montage song
as well, but this was used in the movie as well.
Yeah, because that was definitely, you know,
I think of Rocky and through Eye of the Tiger
through this one. There's always a training montage.
There's absolutely always a training montage.
This even gets parodied in Wet Hot American Summer,
which is a great movie if you haven't ever seen
it. You've seen it, of course. Well, it has everybody
from the state in it. Of course I saw it. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So that's even parodied now and to
the point where I'll put on anything remotely
in my house near that and my 16 -year -old will
say, That music sounds like it was written specifically
for a trading montage, specifically for the end
of a movie. I'm like, yeah, it probably was.
I was going to say, don't show them this movie
yet if they're only 16 and under, but Team America,
World Police, the montage song from that movie.
I have looked for that. I can't find it streaming
anywhere. Maybe it's on Paramount. That's the
one service we don't have. It might be, but.
That soundtrack is absolute gold. The montage
song, we need a montage. All right. Well, montages
aside, we are up to track seven on side A. Where
do we go from No Easy Way Out? So I'm going to
go, you know, and you talked about high school
football, and I think I've even seen this in
a high school football scene. From the TV show
Spalville. Do you remember that? It was like
Superboy, Superman, but not yet Superman. And
I was blown away when I actually heard this song
on a mainstream TV show. And it's Social Distortion's
Reach for the Sky. Nice! From 2004's Sex, Love,
and Rock and Roll. And it's, you know, the lyrics,
once I thought I was invincible, but now I find
myself thinking twice. Never thought about the
future, it was just a roll of the dice. But then
he finds his way out, needs to learn to reach
for the sky. Mike Ness had a hard life. Addiction,
jail time, members of his band's dying. But with
this song, it's like, I've got to carry forward.
I've got to carry forward. And when you go to
their shows and they play this song, everyone
is singing along because it's such an emotional
song. It tells everyone you've just got to keep
reaching for it. There's an acoustic version
out there. I can't say I might have downloaded
it from some service at some point. It doesn't
exist right now in any streaming service as far
as I can find. But it's acoustic guitar, an accordion,
and it just evokes that yearning to move ahead,
that yearning to reach for the sky. That's what
this song does to me. So if you please take this
moment, try if you can to make it last. Don't
think about no future and just forget about the
past and make it last. 2004's Sex, Love and Rock
and Roll. I played in a punk band at this time
and all anybody talked about at any of our shows
was Green Day's American Idiot because that was
the year of American Idiot. And I get it. It
was a big, massive album. but sex, love and rock
and roll was probably one of the most underrated
punk albums. And I feel like because of American
idiot, this album got a little swallowed up.
The song only reached number 27 on the modern
rock tracks chart. It's for me, at least a top
three social D album. I love this album. So,
so much nickels and dimes footprints on my ceiling.
This album is so frigging solid. And I'm shocked
it wasn't a bigger album. And it's one that I
go back to so, so often because there's a lot
of hindsight on the album. And there's a retrospective
nature to this album that I think was missing
from some of their 90s and 80s stuff. I agree
with you on that. I mean, Ness takes a long time
to put records together. He's not in the studio
all the time. Like some artists will bang out
a record once a year, every other year. It takes
him a while to get to that. And he's just so
specific about what he wants to write about and
just takes his time to get the songs there. I
don't think they've had a new album out in at
least a decade, but he just writes these great
songs. He doesn't need to produce anything new,
in my opinion. He just writes these great songs
and he can just keep touring on them, like almost
like who is like Steve Miller. who just keeps
touring in the same songs and doesn't need to
change a thing. Mike Ness is like that too. He
doesn't need to write another song for any time.
He's got a great collection of songs. Couldn't
agree more. Now, and I also got to point out
that Reach for the Sky, just like Title Holder
and You Can't Bring Me Down, all album openers.
So I love that we're going down that road. And
since we have, now I could check off another
box and drop a cover song in here. But it's not
a cover song that most people would expect from
me. Because the original is from 1945. And the
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. And
then you might know the 1963 version by Jerry
and the Pacemakers. The song is called You'll
Never Walk Alone. But to keep in the punk spirit
of social distortion. I am going with Dropkick
Murphy's version from 2017's 11 Short Stories
of Pain and Glory. Walk on, walk on with hope
in your hearts and you'll never walk alone. The
first time I heard this, I'm like, how do I know
that song? And I looked it up. I'm like, son
of a bitch. They redid something from Carousel.
Would not expect it, but it works so frigging
well. The lyrics really hit home. And then they
hit home a second time when the band played it
during the COVID lockdown free live streams they
were doing. So that took on a whole new meaning
there. And I feel like there's definitely some
inspiration there. So coming out of social distortion,
keep the punk vibes going with Dropkick Murphys.
You'll never walk alone. So I grew up listening
to a lot of show tunes. My father. We listened
to a lot of music growing up, as you can tell
by, you know, all my choices here, but country,
rock, and then show tunes. My dad loved show
tunes. So Camelot and Man of La Mancha are. When
I was like seven at my brother's bar mitzvah,
I asked if they knew a song from Camelot. I asked
that of the band. I think I was the only seven
-year -old asking for show tunes. And then Man
of La Mancha, you know, holds a special place,
reminds me of my late father. So having this
in here, a punk version of You'll Never Walk
Alone, like, whoa. You know, when I first heard
this song, it wasn't from Carousel or Jerry and
the Pacemakers, but it was from Pink Floyd. Pink
Floyd incorporates the Liverpool football club
fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone. And their
song Fearless, and that's on Pink Floyd's metal.
Yes. Wow. That's the craziest thing. Ever. The
Europeunk version of that. And I will say this,
Sean Faust, who's been on the show many a times,
is smiling right now listening to this episode.
Huge Pink Floyd fan. I had a chance to jam Fearless
with him in his acoustic Pink Floyd tribute in
the past. And it's one of my favorite Pink Floyd
songs. I didn't even have that in my notes and
I'm kind of kicking myself for that. But thank
you for bringing that point up. I will not look
back on this episode and regret it now. But now
we are at track nine. What is your final song
for Side A? You know, we grew up around the same
time. You know, we're only a couple years different
from each other. So there's a few movie touch
points. We already talked about Rocky. But I'm
bringing up another movie touch point for boys
growing up in the 80s. And that was the Transformers
movie. Oh! You beat me to the punch. Yeah. So.
Stan Bush's The Touch. Yes. So my older son is
deep in Transformers lore, watches all the shows,
knows the history of much of the line. I took
him recently to see a band named Cybertronic
Spree. Yes. Who dresses as the Transformers,
and of course they play The Touch, and they play
Dare from that soundtrack also. They do Dare
to be Stupid as well, but it's like that. Our
80s rock. But that song, the touch, you've got
the touch. You've got the power. When all hell
is breaking loose, you're right in the eye of
the storm. It's that point where you've got this.
You can do this. You've got it. No one else got
it but you. All I can think about is Hot Rod
becoming Rodimus Prime and me wiping the tears
out of my eye when Optimus Prime died. I have
this. Theory about the original movie, and I've
talked about this before, but one of my best
friends and I, we did not know each other during
the 80s growing up. And in college, we watched
the DVD of Transformers, the movie. And when
Optimus Prime's death scene happened, I paused
the movie and I said, can I just ask you a question?
And his eyes lit up as if I was about to say
something that was like a prophecy. And I said,
when this was in the theater, did you remember
him? And before I could finish the sentence,
he goes, he turned to dust. And we both jumped
up like, how the hell did you know that? We didn't
know each other back then. For decades, I have
been saying that in the original movie, Optimus
Prime turned gray and then turned to dust. And
I've tried to find any proof of this. And I have
no idea if it's just one of those things where
you thought the Flintstones, the way it's spelled.
So the Mandela effect for Optimus Prime. I have
the DVD downstairs. He does not on the DVD. He
just turns gray. He just turns gray. But the
return of Optimus Prime cartoon was not done
yet. And I have this theory that so many kids
cried the way I did in the theater. When he did
turn to dust that they removed it from the DVD
and future pressings and put out that episode
to calm us all down and stop our therapy a little
early. That's my opinion. you know what if that's
what is the phrase if that's your headcanon just
go with it brian right right and i guess we can't
mention the touch for some of the younger people
listening without mentioning 1997's boogie nights
because depending on your age oh yeah if you
knew none of the transformers talk we did just
there i'm sure you remember boogie nights all
right well to close outside a you definitely
scooped a touch from me. So before we waste another
moment, I know exactly how we're closing outside
a, and it's going to be another eighties montage
song. And with the power and the head of steam
that Cobra Kai has had for the last several years,
we're going Joe Esposito. You're the best from
1984 is karate kids soundtrack. Never doubt that
you're the one and you can have your dreams.
You're the best around. Nothing's going to ever
keep you down. Definitely a montage from the
All Valley Tournament in the Karate Kid. We had
to go hella 80s there for the end of the side.
I just couldn't think of any other song to come
out of the touch that even quite matched that
energy. Besides, you're the best. I would say
that we definitely hit the 80s on this side.
And I will say this. You're the best. followed
up no easy way out on my coach's workout mixtape
so another one that again i hear the song yes
i think the karate kid but i'm also right back
in the weight room 1994 So had to go with that.
But that mixtapers conclude side A of the ultimate
inspirational rock songs mixtape, which consists
of Suicidal Tendencies, You Can't Bring Me Down,
Shinedowns, Cut the Chord, Operation Ivy Sound
System, The Interrupters, Tidal Holder, T -Bird
and the Breaks, Just Like Rocky, Robert Tepper's
No Easy Way Out, Social Distortions, Reach for
the Sky. Dropkick Murphy's You'll Never Walk
Alone, Stan Bush's The Touch, and Joe Esposito's
You're the Best. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. And now I get to kick things off
for Side B. I actually think I know how I'm going
to kick things off. Normally this would be a
song that I would put at the end of a side. But
starting a side with this song. I think is unique
because it feels like a closing song. And in
reality, it is a closing song because it was
the last official song that Freddie Mercury sang
on a queen album while he was alive on this earth
from 1991's innuendo. The show must go on. Reached
number 40 on the US mainstream rock charts, number
16 in the UK, number 75 in Australia, number
7 in Germany, and number 2 in France. The show
must go on. I'll face it with a grin. I'm never
giving in. On with the show. The fact that this
man sang such a powerful song as he was staring
death in the face is so profound to me. It serves
as... I obviously it's the name of the episode,
but it serves as inspiration. It puts life into
perspective. And this past year I had to deal
with open heart surgery and I was struggling
for a lot of 2024 from both a physical and mental
standpoint. And when this song would come on,
because I listened to nothing but music to try
to get me through this song, just hit a different
way for me. And I got to talk about the recording
of this song because Brian May, I'm going to
read a quote here. Brian May told Total Guitar
Magazine about the recording of this song. Freddie
Mercury just heard it. And now at this point,
Freddie Mercury was very weak. His vocal range
was not very good. And he was very concerned
with how high he was going to sing because it
would destroy his voice. But after hearing the
tracks to this song, and this is the quote from
Brian May. He said, I'll fucking do it. Don't
worry. He downed a couple of vodkas neat, then
propped himself up on the desk and worked his
way through singing all of that song. And it
was amazing. I think he did three or four takes
and he obviously smashed that vocal. It's like
he reached into a place that even he'd never
got to before. And I'm going to leave it with
that. So here, leave me with that one. what can
i say about that what can i say what is the phrase
that gives me all the feels that song you know
queen was is was is still such an influential
band they're really they're still touring they
have that one guy now who's the one guy adam
lambert from american idol american idol yeah
he does a fantastic job i have a blu -ray of
him doing the show must go on And he nails it.
He does. But the funny thing is, like, when Bohemian
Rhapsody came out, that's when my kids started
getting into Queen. And then Queen with Adam
Lambert was on tour. And so I asked the kids
if they want to see it. My younger said, no,
I don't. If Freddie Mercury's not there, I don't
want to see Queen. I only want to see Queen with
Freddie Mercury. I mentioned the Green Day show.
And before Green Day took the stage, they played
two songs. One was Blitzkrieg Bop, and then they
play Bohemian Rhapsody. Everybody sang along.
The entire crowd sang. And then Green Day took
the stage. And those are the two perfect starting
points for a Green Day show. You have the punk
and you have the bombasticity and the stage presence
of Queen. I can't say that Billy Joe at all sings
like Freddie Mercury or carries the stage like
Freddie Mercury, but it was a perfect way to
begin that concert. Oh, the inspiration is definitely
there where you can't listen to American Idiot
and not hear some at least tip of the hats to
Queen. Now, wish I was following up with that
one, but I'm going in. I'm going with the same
vibe for my next song. Same rock vibe. Maybe
not the same show must go on vibe, but I'm going
with the dead. Oh, the Grateful Dead presence
in my house growing up. Ever since, like, the
late 80s when In the Dark came out, I have two
older brothers, and both of them immediately
turned into deadheads. So thinking about what
Grateful Dead song inspires me, and it's got
to be Estimated Prophet. Nice. My time has come
any day. Don't worry about me. No. It's going
to be just like they say, the voices tell me
so. That's just the verses. It repeats that over
and over again. It's like, the show must go on.
You know, my time's going to come. That's where
my brain went with this. And I will have to say,
though, this isn't the album track that I'm going
to go with. I'm going to go with Dick's Picks
Volume 15, which is recorded at Raceway Park
in Ingleshtown, New Jersey. Yes. So that is one
of the seminal recorded versions of that song.
You know, I've read that the Dead really didn't
like the album track. So they stretched it out.
Made it how they wanted to sound. Like many dead
songs don't really come alive until they've played
it in several shows and get the song down right.
And also, it was a song that it's not in 4 -4
time. It's a crazy time signature. And it's not
rock at all. I can't even tell you what it is.
It's just estimated. It's the Grateful Dead in
front of 102 ,000 people. Obviously, if you're
from New Jersey, this show is familiar. September
3rd, 1977, Raceway Park with new Riders of the
Purple Sage and the Marshall Tucker Band. For
me, I grew up in New Jersey, so English Town,
the flea market's been there since forever. If
you listen to any radio stations in the area,
you might remember the commercials for Raceway
Park that they would play with the chipmunk.
Yep. Yeah. It was on the radio nonstop. I love
this song. I like the lyrics you chose, but for
me, like an angel standing in a shaft of light,
rising up to paradise. I know I'm going to shine.
Oh, it's like perfect. So what do you got, Brian?
Where are we going to continue on with? All right.
Tapping into that angel. type vibe that i used
in my lyrics right there i'm gonna go with something
that's not a gospel song but lyrically could
be seen as one and we're talking new jersey here
so let's just tie it all together and go with
bon jovi's keep the faith from the album of the
same name the song reached number 29 on the billboard
us hot 100 number one on the u .s mainstream
rock chart number five in canada and the uk number
10 in australia number two in Greece, and number
one in Norway and Portugal, among others. Lyrically,
you know you're going to live through the rain.
Lords, you've got to keep the faith. Don't you
know it's never too late? Right now, we've got
to keep the faith. Instead of me talking more
about this song, episode 54, the ultimate Desmond
Child playlist, volume one. Desmond Child wrote
this song with Bon Jovi and he tells an amazing
story about it. I'd rather point people to go
listen to that episode because it's coming from
the guy who put the pen to paper for this one.
And he paints such a picture. He puts you into
the writing of this song. So I highly recommend
going to listen to it. But following up Estimated
Profit brings us a little bit out of the classic
rock vein. And as soon as you mentioned English
Town, New Jersey, it was like, oh, New Jersey,
keep the faith, Bon Jovi. We're both New Jersey
boys. I guess I'm considered an expat now. I've
lived in Virginia longer than I've lived in New
Jersey. Yes, yes. But we had to include Bon Jovi.
There's another person we always have to include
if we're talking New Jersey, of course. But when
I moved down here, when I moved in 98, I moved
down here to the D .C. area in Virginia. And
people would find, oh, you're from New Jersey.
So, you know, do you like Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen?
And I would always tell everyone, my age and
younger, they like Bon Jovi more. My age and
older, they like Bruce more. And everyone has
a story. I grew up on the, you know, on the Jersey
Shore area around Ezra Park, Red Bank. So, uh,
Keensburg, you know, Bon Jovi's from Keensburg,
lives now in Navisink. So people would see them
everywhere around town. You know, you would see
people would talk about how they saw Bruce. When
he played the fair before the band started, people
talked about they would know Bon Jovi from playing
bars. But then when people asked me, who do I
like more? I would always say, I like the Smithereens.
Ah, nice. But I'm not going with the Smithereens.
I am going with Bruce. I'm going with Bruce.
And there's a specific song. And I may get teared
up as I'm talking about this. So, you know, my
oldest brother survived 9 -11. He was in the
second Tower hit. He was at the top working for
AIG. They evacuated the building. He and a couple
of coworkers decided they were taking the stairs,
going down. So they start going down and they
gave an all clear. A lot of people went back
to the elevator to go back up. My brother and
his coworkers looked at the line of people in
the elevator and said, we're going to walk all
the way down. We'll get the elevator at the bottom.
We're already walking. He got out and he survived
it. He's one of the few. There weren't that many
people from AIG that survived 9 -11. He was one
of them. You know, and, you know, so it was early.
It was nearly winter 2002. Driving with my middle
brother to go meet up with our oldest brother.
And for a guy's weekend up in Pennsylvania. And
we're just talking and I'm getting choked up
now. And my brother Rob, my middle brother, puts
on The Rising. And I just lost it. We both cried
as we were driving up to New Jersey Turnpike.
Because it's just, you know, can't see nothing
in front of me. Can't see nothing behind me.
Making my way through the darkness. On my back's
a 60 -pound stone. On my shoulder, a half -mile
line. You know, some people say he wrote it actually
about another city. He wrote it about Asbury
Park. But it became about 9 -11. That's what
the song's about for all of us who grew up at
that point in time. Well, one, I am thankful
to hear that your brother was one of the lucky
ones in this tragedy. Call it divine intervention,
call it whatever it is. I was at that exact moment
on a bus heading into the city to go to my job
in radio, watching everything as you come around
the bend from the Lincoln Tunnel, like kind of
right over the water there. And I just vividly
remember people trying to kick the windows of
the bus out. trying to jump out of the windows
of a moving bus with the bus driver saying, we're
turning around. They're not letting people into
the tunnel. You don't need to kick the windows
out. Everyone try to stay calm. And about a week
after, maybe within the first 10 days, they did
the America Tribute to Heroes concert and they
played My City of Ruin. That song was about Asbury
Park. But from that performance on. it's always
been about 9 -11 to me same thing with the rising
the song reached number 52 on the billboard us
hot 100 number 94 on the uk singles chart number
nine in romania and spain number six in italy
and number five in norway none of that matters
this song at least for people that live through
9 -11 in this area the rising became i i want
to call it An album of therapy for people that
lived through this firsthand, whether it was
meant to be or not. It just became that. Come
on up for the rising. Come on up. Lay your hands
in mine. Like there was a point in New York City
beyond 9 -11 where everybody lent a helping hand.
The days following the weeks following, there
was a. love and a friendliness in new york city
that's long since been forgotten but working
in the city at that time and having to be there
because i was in radio covering it day in and
day out and it was the most surreal time obviously
a song like this as inspirational as it is we
got a little serious here but there's something
about this album that just It transcends a lot
of Bruce's catalog, at least for those in the
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut area. I don't
know how this album resonates outside of this
area, but I'm kind of locked into this because
I've lived in New Jersey all except for my couple
of years in North Carolina. And yeah, I really
don't have a way to pivot out of that. I'm just
thankful that your brothers. Was able to make
it through this. That he was safe. And I guess
I'll take this moment to all the people that
didn't make it. We still never forget. And pivoting
from that. This is going to be tough. I'm going
to try to go to something. It's really hard to
come out of this song. And I'm looking through
my list. And I think we're going to keep it mellow.
go with a song that is a little obvious it's
a little classic rock it's a staple but i think
musically coming out of the rising it'll make
sense and then lyrically it'll bring us to a
little bit of a happier place to continue on
and i'm going to go with aerosmith's dream on
from their 1973 self -titled album reach number
59 on the u .s billboard hot 100 number 87 in
canada Rolling Stone ranked at number 199 on
its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
And in 2018, the song was inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame. As far as I'm concerned, one line
sums up the whole song for me. You've got to
lose to know how to win. Cover songs, I always
love talking about covers when possible. Eminem,
it's not a cover, but he interpolated the track
on Sing for the Moment in the 2000s. And then
in 2017, Blacktop Mojo delivered a killer rendition
of the song on their Burn the Ships album. If
you haven't heard that, it's definitely worth
checking out. And hopefully that brings us to
a little bit of a different place to continue
on here. I will say again. As a New Jersey expat,
you know, growing up, what was the rock station?
WNEW -FM. Yes, 1027. 1027. Growing up, listening
to them, you know, Dream On, Walk This Way, and
always hoping they'd play another Aerosmith song.
But until they came around with Love and Elevator,
those were the two songs he heard from Aerosmith.
And I'm like, well, why can't they play Big Ten
Inch? Maybe the FCC would find them with that
double entendre. And I didn't learn until recently
that was a cover song. Yes. So yeah, so I'll
add that in about Dream On, is that a lot of
us, no one thought Aerosmith was going to get
back together and do what they did. Dream On
is such an iconic song for them. And then Run
DMC hit with Walk This Way and kind of built
them up. And then Aerosmith came back with Permanent
Vacation and just blew them all up again. Aerosmith
was dead. Dead. So they came back because of
Run DMC. And I will also point out again that
Desmond Child episode. We talked about Dude Looks
Like a Lady and Angel. All the stuff that Desmond
wrote with Aerosmith as well. Guy has four songs
that have over a billion streams on Spotify.
To put into perspective his strong writing power.
Over a billion streams. Four different songs.
Four different songs. Wow. How much does he make
off of that? You'll wonder. Well, on Spotify,
a billion streams is what, like enough for a
cup of coffee, maybe? Pretty much so, I bet.
All right. So what are you going to follow up
for track six? You know what? I'll look at the
bank of songs and I could go with classic rock
again. You know, you know, we've hit a lot of
classic rock. We can carry on. I was thinking
carry on my wayward son. From Kansas, maybe Miracles
Out of Nowhere, also from Leftoverture. But I'm
going to go back to New Jersey. And I'm going
to bring us a little closer to the pop side of
rock. We're going to go back to New Jersey with
Jack Antonoff and the band Fun. Nice. Carry On
flows between rock and pop. What is my choice?
Is the song Carry On from Fun? You know, it's
a bit slow, but the chorus, if you're lost and
alone or you're sinking like a stone, Carry On.
May your past be the sound of your feet on the
ground. Carry on, carry on. It's just, again,
you know, you may feel low, but you've got to
carry on. You've got to carry on. You hit the
nail on the head with the lyrics, the same lyrics
I would have used if I was talking about this
song. And I guess you could say Jack Antonoff
has been a little busy given his work with, you
know, Taylor Swift and such. But more than a
decade ago. This song helped make the statement
for why he is so busy now. And the song reached
number 20 on the Billboard US Hot 100, number
18 on the Canada Top 100, number 44 in Australia,
and a respectable 126 in the UK as well. But
I like that you went a little pop with this,
a little pop rock. And I'm going to go with a
song to follow up fun. That also stays in that
vein, but brings in a little bit of the pop punk
sound, a little bit of emo thrown in. I don't
know, in the 2000s, pop punk, emo, it all kind
of got lumped together. And this is one of those
groups that some of their songs had the pop punk
sound, and then some of them had a little bit
more of an emotional vibe. And that's this one,
the title track. From their 2005 album, we're
going to go with All American Rejects Move Along.
Reached number 15 on the Billboard US Hot 100
and the Canada Top 40. And it also hit number
42 in the UK and number 73 in Australia. When
all you got to keep is strong, move along, move
along like I know you do. And even when your
hope is gone, move along, move along just to
make it through. That song I have listened to
so many times. I listened to it during workouts.
Yes, it's not a song that's going to get you
pumped up and bench pressing 500 pounds. But
when you're doing a run, there's something about
the tribal drum beat in the song and the chorus.
There's a togetherness in the song. And it's
very, I know it's the title of the episode, but
it's very inspirational. It fits right into that,
that it just makes you feel like you're not alone.
That's a big part of this episode, I think. Absolutely.
You know, when I bike to work and back, this
song comes on, and it's just, you know, there's
points. Again, like you're saying, you're on
a run. It's got that right beat to it. It just
gets your pedals moving, gets your feet moving,
and gets you that extra mile. It's one of those
songs that just can keep you moving. All right.
Well, we are starting to get to the end of things
here. You have two songs left, and I've got one.
So what do you have for track eight? What I got
for track eight, we're going to stick some of
that emo vibe there and go with Jimmy Eat World.
Nice. And the song in the middle. Uh -huh. You
know, and there's a line here. And this, you
know, this came out in 2001. But if I heard this
in middle school, this song, it's exactly how
it felt. That second verse, A, you know, they're
all the same. You're doing better on your own,
so don't buy in. Live right now. Just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if you're good enough for someone
else. Amen. If someone said that to me in middle
school, I would have been like, thank you. I
needed that. So it's just sometimes those songs,
again, they just sometimes it just hits you like
this is what I needed to hear right at this moment
from someone. I have been covering this song
for close to 20 years now in various bands. And
I am not going to lie. The lines that you just
said, I enjoy singing so much in this song because
I always like clockwork. When this song is played,
people are singing along with you. And there's
something about that verse that really resonates
with people. So I know you said people could
use that in middle school. I think people could
use that now. And I think lyrics like that still
resonate and still hit a home, which is why every
time my band starts with the people lose their
shit. The song reached number five on the Billboard
US Hot 100, number two in Canada, number 49 in
Australia, number 26 in the UK. I'll go ahead
and say it. It is a modern. 2000s anthem. Yes,
I said it. Because when we play this song, people
sing along with this song just as much as they
would if you pulled out a Sweet Home Alabama
or a song from classic rock lore. There are people
that are. in my generation that truly resonate
with it. But there's also the generation after
me that know the song because of us. And there's
the generation after us, the millennials, and
even my kids know and love this song. It crosses
boundaries. It crosses age groups. And it's something
that brings a lot of people together. Yeah, I
absolutely agree with you. You know what? Talking
about it, my hair on my arms are standing up
on end because it's just that kind of feeling.
The song is someone gets me. And that's so hard
at various points in your life that am I all
alone? Is it just me? And then you hear this.
I'm like, no, someone gets me. Someone understands
what I'm going through right at this moment.
And that is the power and beauty of music. And
for my last song of the night, I'm going to stick
with this Colbert and company theme here because
the middle always goes over well. And when people
are singing along with that song. I'm going to
go with a song we like to follow it up with because
it's another sing along, but it falls right perfectly
smack into this side of music that we've put
together here. And it hits a little bit of the
classic rock vibe and a little bit of the rock
vibe we've been talking about. And I am going
to go off of my favorite artist of all times,
1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever. Tom Petty's
I Won't Back Down reached number 12 on the Billboard
US Hot 100, number one on the Billboard Mainstream
Rock Chart, number five on the Canada Top Singles
Chart, number 16 on the Australia Aria Chart,
number 28 on the UK Singles Chart, and also hit
number 66 in West Germany and number 49 in New
Zealand. Well, I know what's right. I've got
just one life in a world that keeps on pushing
me around, but I'll stand my ground and I won't
back down. Soon as you get to that, hey, baby,
everybody in the room stops what they're doing.
Their glass is up in the air and it's one united
voice. Episode 95, the ultimate Tom Petty playlist
with Kevin Brown from the Tom Petty Project.
If you want to hear a lot about Tom Petty. Go
listen to that episode. I won't say if this song
makes it or not, but it's certainly making it
tonight because we're talking inspiration. And
because I have followed up the middle with I
won't back down so many times in the set list,
it just works perfectly here. I didn't even know
that. Total serendipity here. Yeah. Again, Full
Moon Fever, you know, it came out of that Woolbury
sound, went right into Full Moon Fever. He still
got Jeff Lidd in there. And that's a seminal
album for so many people. You know, I don't know
if I would have gone with Running Down a Dream
from there. But again, I won't back down. What
was that movie? It was Barnyard, where it has
the character. It's the bull is singing it. And
I think it's Johnny Cash. that they used singing
I Won't Back Down. I'm not positive. In the movie,
it was sang by Sam Elliott, but there is a Johnny
Cash version of that song. Yeah, it's a comedy
movie. It's a kid's comedy about, you know, animals
in a barnyard, but the strong father character
is sitting strumming a guitar, protecting the
animals before the coyotes come and try to get
them all. And he's singing I Won't Back Down.
And it's just like, that's the feeling right
there. I'm not going to back down at all. No
matter what comes to me, I'm not going to back
down. And that, I don't know where I pulled that
out of. Well, Brandon, we have been all over
the spectrum from fun stories to emotional. This
has been a roller coaster of an episode and you
get to take us home with our final song choice
of the night. What are we closing the ultimate?
inspirational rock songs playlist with? So I
brought up radio. I brought up the sound system
and how important that is to bring you up. But
sometimes you just put the radio on and you've
got the feeling of I'm done with this. I'm heading
out. I'm leaving this situation. Put the music
on and let's go. And that's also an inspiration
sometimes. So I was thinking about that. And
there's a New Jersey band. They're an underground
New Jersey band. I think they had two or three
major label releases. Oh, I think I know where
you're going with this. And this band is From
Good Homes. Yes! No. I talked about my older
brothers. My brother Rob is definitely the one
who is estimated. He's definitely the deadhead.
And also, my oldest brother John was the one
who had that first From Good Homes tape. Grr
was the name of it. It eventually got released
on CD and on streaming, but it was impossible
to find anywhere unless you dubbed it. And I
believe Radio On was on it, but this was on their
second release as well. You know, From Good Homes,
they got overshadowed by the Dave Matthews band.
They both struck it around the same time and
had major label deals at the same time and made
a similar sound. So I think Dave Matthews overshadowed
them. But From Good Homes, if you're from northern
New Jersey, You know this band. You've heard
this band. You may even been in a bar watching
this band play. You know, you've got the mix
of bluegrass. You've got the rock. And it's just
this song is I've got the radio on cussing everything
I own. Dreaming in a long dark night, but I got
the radio on. I've got the radio on. Well, I
don't know where I'm going. Don't know what I'm
doing, but I know I'm not going back. Love the
pick. Back in my tune styles days, Jay Sweet
and I had Patrick Fitzsimmons on the podcast
to talk about From Good Homes and their legacy
and their reunion shows. I love this band so
much. Back in 2011, my wife and I went to go
see them in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at an event
called Steel Jam. It was at the Steel Stacks
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And it was them,
ALO, Lubriphonic, Umphreys McGee, a bunch of
different jam bands. And before From Good Homes
came on, I ran into Todd Schaefer before the
set. And I just shook his hand, got a picture
with him and said, hey, Todd, I just want to
let you know that for the last couple of years
when I've been doing my solo acoustic gigs, I've
been playing Maybe We Will at my shows. I hope
to hear it tonight. I love singing along with
it. And he just shook my hand, thanked me so
much, was surprised to hear it. And they went
on stage and did their set. And for the last
song of the night, he kind of looks down at the
stage for a second. He goes, before the show,
I was talking to this guy, Brian, and he said
that he covers Maybe We Will. So, Brian, why
don't you come up on stage and perform the song
with us? And this is on YouTube. I will embed
it on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com.
I got to sing Maybe We Will with From Good Homes.
I got to dance around like an absolute jackass
on stage. I actually, in the studio where I record,
I have a photo that a professional photographer
took of me on stage with him. I was next to Brady
Reimer, pretty much the entire song. Jamie Cohen
from the band was kind enough to play violin
on some songs from my album. Forever was worth
the wait. Like these guys mean so much to me.
They did so much in the New Jersey community.
I'm so, so thankful you close with this because
it's such an amazing song. And yeah, that might've
been the single most fun live performance I've
ever done in my entire life. Getting to sing
with those guys. So, Brian, I saw them many times.
I've seen them play on Sandy Hook at Clearwater
Festival. I've seen them at the Birch Hill. Yes.
The Birch Hill, I've seen them. And the only
time I saw them down here, there used to be this
club in Georgetown called The Bayou. And that
was an iconic club. There's even a documentary
you'll find maybe on some of the PBS streaming
apps. You'll find it. The Bayou was an iconic
club. And I lived down here in the last year
before they closed it down and saw From Good
Homes there. And, you know, they ended the show
on a jam starting with Franklin's Tower and just
went in and ended with Born on the Bayou. But
Todd Schaefer changed it to Burn Down the Bayou
because it was the last few shows at the club.
And now it's an AMC movie theater. Oh, yeah.
And now the Birch Hill Nightclub is townhouses
and condos. Oh, man. There are so many stories
we could trade about that place. As far as I'm
concerned, take Paradise and put up a parking
lot, right? Absolutely. There's so that all the
venues, Club Bonet, long gone, you know. Oh,
and even, what was it, Nazare Park? The Saint
just got knocked down, too. I've played the Saint.
I played Birdchill. Like these places are ingrained
in my New Jersey DNA. For those of you that are
listening to this that are not from New Jersey,
I apologize. But these venues obviously hold
a special place in both of our hearts being from
this area. But more importantly, there you have
it, folks. Side B of the ultimate inspirational
rock songs mixtape, which consists of Queen.
The show must go on. Grateful Dead's estimated.
Profit, Bon Jovi's Keep the Faith, Bruce Springsteen's
The Rising, Aerosmith's Dream On, Fun's Carry
On, All American Rejects' Move Along, Jimmy Eat
World's The Middle, Tom Petty's I Won't Back
Down, and From Good Homes' Radio On. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Well, Brandon,
first, I want to thank you so much for being
a part of the Patreon mixtaper community. But
more importantly, thank you for joining me on
the show tonight. Brian, it was my pleasure.
I know I felt like we probably went a little
too far down the New York, New Jersey, Tri -State
area rabbit hole. But, you know, music brings
you back to your youth. I've read that. Heard
Alan Cross talk about it a couple of times at
that timeframe between like age 15 and 25 are
the most formative years when it comes to what
music you'll be listening to. And where was that?
New Jersey for me, just like you. Well, thank
you very much for being a part of the show and
look forward to having you back on again down
the road here. Have a good night, Brian. And
you as well, my friend. And to those listening,
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