Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me once again as guest curator is Patreon
mixtaper Tom Hutchinson. Tom, welcome back to
the show, man. Thank you, Brian. It's always
a pleasure. I love listening and I love being
a part of this. And this is going to be a fun
episode for me and you. Yeah, we are going to
have a lot of fun tonight because tonight we're
going to be talking about two... very popular
topics on past My Weekly Mixtape episodes, and
that is punk rock mixes and workout mixes. So
what I'm going to do is merge them together to
create, well, the ultimate punk rock workout
mixtape. Uber creative, right? Now, Tom, what
were you looking for the songs that you brought
in your bank of tunes for this evening from both
a punk rock and workout perspective? So with
me working out, I play hockey. I like real, real
heavy, fast, drawn out music, but I don't like
it to be too long, you know, two and a half,
three minutes. So punk rock is perfect for that.
Also, you know, I was on the Tony Hawk episode
and a lot of that music was punk based and it's
what I've listened to since I was a kid. So I
have a mix of songs that are near and dear to
me that I grew up listening to that got me into
this genre. And then I have songs that I have
on my playlist when I'm in the locker room for
hockey. So there's a mix of both. It's a good,
good mix of that I brought to the table tonight.
And with mine in a similar fashion. A lot of
these songs are what I listen to now when I'm
doing cardio or doing my weight workouts. But
a lot of these songs were also the tunes I listened
to when I was getting ready to head out onto
the football field in high school and in college.
So some of these play a dual role with the newer
tunes in my fold being stuff that I've listened
to. more often during the cardio portion of my
workouts now. I like that fast, upbeat stuff,
the stuff that you're trying to keep your feet
going to the beat, trying to keep those BPMs
up to keep your heart rate going. So I think
punk rock is the perfect avenue for a good cardio
workout, and I hope I'm able to represent that
tonight. And I know, judging by the songs you
picked on that Tony Hawk episode, that you're
going to be bringing the heat as well. I definitely
have a few here that I think are going to surprise
some people and they're going to go, really?
You didn't pick this or you pick that instead.
I know I'm going to make a few enemies with this,
but I have some good stuff that hopefully people
are going to go. Yeah, that's a pretty kick ass
song. And I'm hoping I can make the same convincing
arguments for the songs I picked as well. So
with that, let's get down to business. As I mentioned
at the top of the show. Tom and I will be curating
the ultimate punk rock workout mixtape, and we'll
use the old cassette deck approach. Tom, as my
special guest, will begin with his first song
choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel
best follows up that choice. We'll then flip
-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10
songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape
a proverbial flip and we'll map outside. Be only
this time. I'll kick things off with Tom choosing
second. Our overall goal for the episode is to
craft the best punk rock workout mixtape possible
through only 20 songs. At the end of the show,
you could take our conversation to the next level
by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape
.com to give our final mixtape a listen. via
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There you can find ad -free episodes of the show,
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in on future topics, become a guest curator,
and so much more. And a few of the Patreon mixtapers
chimed in with songs they would use to kick things
off tonight. And I want to give a shout out to
a few of those. Sean Goff chimed in with Against
Me's Transgender Dysphoria Blues, saying not
only is it a kick -ass song with some real attitude,
but that Laura Jane Grace is awesome. Chad LaMassa
chimed in with The Subway's Rock and Roll Queen,
saying he feels this band is criminally underrated.
Chris Pazica chimed in with Rancid's Roots Radicals.
And Philip Bergman chimed in with The Clash's
Train in Vain Stand By Me. Once again, if you'd
like to chime in for future My Weekly Mixtape
episodes, come join the fellow mixtapers at patreon
.com forward slash myweeklymixtape. So, Tom,
with that said, I'm officially pressing the record
button on our mixtape and the floor is yours.
What song are you kicking off our punk rock workout
mixtape with? Well, first off, the mixtapers
got it going on tonight. They had a couple of
good suggestions. Against Me is a really good
one to start. And I love The Clash and Train
to Bane is my favorite Clash song. So good picks
on that one. But I'm going to go off the beaten
path. You know, I'm going to kick it off big
with the song that is big to me. And it gets
me going something that's in my workout mix.
And it comes from a band called the Smut Peddlers.
And it's buck naked on a big wheel. Now, now
this song, I remember it being in a motocross
video as a kid. I want to say it's terra firma.
And I remember hearing it for the first time
and being like. That is a funny song. I laughed
about it, but it got me in a headspace that I
was like, this is awesome. And it slowly started
turning gears for seven -year -old me to get
into more and more punk rock music. And to this
day, Smut Peddlers is one of my favorite bands.
They put on a wonderful live show, I was going
to say, and I think that's a great kickoff. It's
fast, it's hard, and it's just an easy song to
enjoy. Loud, obnoxious. Perfect. From 1995's
Failure, Down a Huge Hill, 100 Feet to Go, Lift
Your Feet, or Lose a Toe. I mean, you can't get
better than this. Now, however, while this is
perfect for a punk rock song, it might not be
the best workout routine suggestion. But to those
that are listening, I mean, you do you. And if
the name of this band sounds familiar, but you're
not sure why, their music is kind of intertwined
with Jackass as well, because their song Let's
Get F'd Up is featured on the Jackass 1 soundtrack.
And I think it's If You're Gonna Be Dumb is featured
on the Jackass 2 soundtrack. And they also have
a bunch of songs on The Game. soundtrack, as
well as episodes on the MTV show. So these might
be, if you go down the smut peddlers rabbit hole,
these might be songs that you know, but you don't
know, you know, especially if you watch jackass.
A hundred percent. And I was going to say they're
actually first two albums. They re -released
as like a compilation and jackass pulled, I think.
out of the like 30 plus songs, like seven or
eight songs from it. So if you've seen the movies,
the TV shows, even Viva La Bam, anything that
has to do with the Jackass crew, you've heard
the Smut Peddlers. You just probably don't know
it. Well, following that up, I'm going to stick
with this kind of raw vibe we got going here.
And I'm going to go all the way back to 1982
with my first pick of the night. And I'm going
to go off of. an album cover art that I drew
on so many of my paper bag book covers because
kids back when I was at high school, you had
to wrap your textbooks with inside out paper
bags and tape. And I can't tell you how many
of my textbooks in high school and in college
had Milo from the descendants. Milo goes to college
album on my textbooks because well, one, it's
pretty easy to draw. But from that album, the
Descendants love to use the suffix age in their
songs and in their titles. For example, Tony
-age, my -age, and their live album Live -age
are three examples. However, I'm not going with
any of those. I am going to go with the song
Bike -age, which is a tune about a drug -addicted
prostitute. Real happy, upbeat music we got going
here. With the bike reference meaning, and I'm
going to channel Austin Powers here. She's the
village bicycle. Everybody's had a ride. At this
time in their career, Descendants were aggressive,
raw, and they, just like the Smut Peddlers, wore
their sense of humor on their sleeves. Because
you think about songs like Wienerschnitzel, which
if you're a movie person, you might remember
from the Pump Up the Volume film. Not on the
soundtrack, but in the film. I Like Food, which
Taking Back Sunday covered on the Tony Hawk American
Wasteland soundtrack. And if you recall, Tom
and I talked about that one on episode 65, the
Ultimate Tony Hawk Pro Skater Soundtracks playlist.
This, however, Bikage is my favorite Descendants
song. And then you add the fact, depending on
what you started with. I could have went in two
directions here. I went with the raw Descendants
version, but I could have very easily just went
one year behind you and pulled Face to Face's
cover from their 1994 album, Big Choice. You
can't go wrong with either version, but I think
I'm going to stick with the original here because
it works really well being back to back with
Smut Peddlers. Not to mention, you've got big
wheels and now you've got bikes. I mean, it's
a match made in heaven, and I'm so happy you
brought up the face -to -face version because
I love face -to -face. Great band. It's one of
those bands that doesn't get enough love, so
I'm glad you brought it up. But Descendants were
just so raw at this time, and it was such a different
point of view. And they changed a lot over the
years, but it's still just so beautiful of what
they were doing at the time. I am also going
to go with a very, very raw band. We're going
to stay in the 80s here, but I'm going to kind
of make a little bit of a turn. So I'm going
to go with a Dead Kennedy song that was performed
once at the Bay Area Music Awards as kind of
a middle finger to everybody in the crowd. And
that is Pull My Strings. This is my favorite
Dead Kennedy song because Jello just stopped
caring about what everybody says and even opens
it up with, we're not a punk rock band, we're
a new wave band as the big F you to everybody
that brought them to this award show. And it's
a fun song. It's not safe for work, but it has
a good beat. It gets fast, it gets slow. you
know, if you're lifting weights, this is a song
I lift weights to, you know, this is just one
of those songs. And I think it fits well behind
the descendants and really takes this mixtape
to the next level. That it does from 1987. Give
me convenience or give me death compilation.
The only album you can find it on a live recording
from March 25th, 1980. Hold it. We got to prove
we're adults now. I love this song and Tom is
very, very right. It is not safe for work. You've
heard our warnings. If you listen to it at work
and get in trouble, Tom and I are not responsible.
And this also two out of three now bands we talked
about on the Tony Hawk soundtracks episode, but
I'm not going to say if. this dead Kennedy song
made the mix or not, but we definitely talked
at Kennedy's on the Tony Hawk episode. A hundred
percent. We did. I was going to say, and that
was police truck we used on that. So another
one of my personal favorites, not to spoil it
for everybody, but, but you're spoiling it. Why
not? It's just one song. We don't know where
it's at. They'll have to listen to the episode
and figure it out. Well, going on from the dead
Kennedy's, I have, Four songs from this band
in my bank right now. And I'm trying to decide
which one I want to pull from. Because my favorite
album from this band is 1994 Stranger Than Fiction.
Yes, I'm talking bad religion here. But you could
conceivably go with a walk off The Gray Race
or Punk Rock Song or Incomplete off of Stranger
Than Fiction or the re -recorded 21st century
digital boy. But I think I'm going to go back
one year from Stranger Than Fiction and go off
of 1993's Recipe for Hate. This was Bad Religion's
first charting album in the U .S. It hit number
14 on Billboard's Heat Seekers chart, and it
also hit the charts in Germany, reaching number
34, and Finland, where it reached number 29.
I could go with the two singles from the album,
American Jesus or Struck a Nerve, even though
neither of them charted. They were all over MTV.
But when it comes to workout songs, I don't think
you can get any more intense than the title track,
Recipe for Hate. And following up the Dead Kennedys,
I think that's where we got to go from here.
Bad Religion, Recipe for Hate. I was going to
say that's kind of the kick in the leg, you know,
kick in the butt you need to get rolling. I was
going to say it's a good follow up and it works
well with the Dead Kennedys. And I love Bad Religion.
I was going to say American Jesus is my personal
favorite. But good choice here, Brian. I really,
really think that's going to work really well.
It's going to make you work up a sweat because
if you try running to the BPM of that song, you're
getting the workout going. You can't cool down
to this song. Not at all. And that's kind of
where I'm going with my next one. So this is
going to be tough because I feel. I mean, there's
a follow up and I can go two ways with this.
Both are Tim Armstrong projects, so you can't
be mad about it. You know what? I'm going to
pick transplants here and this might make some
people a little sad, but. I'm going to go talk
hands in the air. This is just a song that I
ride when I go to the gym. This is a song that
I get on the bike to, and it just gets me a little
angry. And I hate to ride the bike. I hate to
run, but it gets me moving. And, you know, there's
a lot of fun parts that are also not safe to
work to sing in this song. So that's another
thing that gets me going. From their self -titled
2002 album, we got Distillers, AFI, LFB, and
Crystal Sound. Transplants are fearless and the
most original. Yes, original, because it rhymes
with sound. Talk hands in the air, let me see
them, blank, blank. The album hit number 96 on
the Billboard 200. And talk hands in the air
is actually the B -side. to their single Diamonds
and Guns. If you ask me, it's the better of the
two, as much as I love Diamonds and Guns, so
bravo on the pick. Blink -182's Travis Barker
lays down a ridiculous beat in this one, and
then you add Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Rob Astin
to the fold. You get one of the most unique and
original punk albums, maybe of the decade. Oh,
for sure. I was going to say that. I would say...
even possibly all time. I was going to say, to
me, I love Rancid, don't get me wrong, but this
Transplants album, for me, is better than Operation
Ivy. This is the album. This is something that
I absolutely could listen to over and over again
and never get sick of. And like you said, Travis
Barker's drum beat is what is just so infectious
about this song. Following that up, you see,
that kind of gives me a clean slate here. Because
there's a little bit of everything in the Transplants
sound. But I think what I'm going to do is stay
in 2002. Because when I discovered the Transplants
album, I also discovered this other band around
the same time. And I was listening to both albums
back and forth and back and forth. And I honestly
can't decide between the two which ones I like
more. But this band's a little bit more straight
ahead punk rock. With Chris Waller, Chuck Reagan,
George Rebello, and Jason Black featuring additional
guitars from Brian Baker of the before -mentioned
Bad Religion, I am going to go with Hot Water
Music and their 2002 album, Caution. Now, Tom.
Being the Tony Hawk fan you are, you might know
the opening track Remedy from Tony Hawk's Underground,
but I'm actually going to go with the Chris Waller
penned Trusty Chords. Quite possibly my favorite
hot water music song and maybe one of my favorite
punk rock songs ever. This band is so incredibly
consistent. They're still going strong to this
day. Their latest album, 2024's Vows, easily
makes my albums of the year list for 2024. But
Trusty Chords, oh my God, there's just such a
drive and such an intensity to it. And you just
want to sing along with it. And it just keeps
that exact vibe going out of the transplants
into this song. And I feel like the energy is
just still hitting 10, 10, 10, 10 with every
song we've picked so far. So following up the
transplants, trusty chords from hot water music.
It's a song I completely forgot about until you
just brought it up. It's been a long time since
I've heard that. And that is a great song that
actually fits really well after transplant. So
that's going to give me a curve ball here. I
mean, Gaslight Anthems has done it live. A lot
of bands have covered it. To me, it gives you
that little bit of inspiration, I guess you would
say. Because to me, Hot Water Music is a very
inspirational punk band of the modern era, let's
say. 100%. And I think that's going to really
throw my next pick. Another band that tries to
do the same thing. And that's Rise Against, one
of my personal favorites. And I'm actually going
to go with their 2004 single, Give It All. Now,
this song matches the energy. I mean, it's up
there. It's very, very fast paced. It has a good
message. You know, just one of my personal favorite
songs. And I had it between that and Prayer of
the Refugee and Give It All fits a lot better
with trusty chords. And it's going to come out
not only with a good message, but you're going
to feel good. You're starting to kind of wind
down your workout. You might not be pushing as
hard, but you want to give it all. From 2004's
Rock Against Bush compilation with a different
version appearing on the same year's Siren Song
of the Counterculture, this was Rise Against's
breakthrough single. It actually reached number
37 on the Billboard U .S. Alternative Songs chart.
And without this song making the impact it did,
I don't think you get 2006's The Sufferer and
The Witness, which is where I had pulled a couple
of songs from being injection and ready to fall.
I had those in my bank, but I think you went
with a perfect song going with give it all. And
I'm going to I'm feeling this 2000s punk vibe
we got going here. So I'm going to stay in this
vibe and I'm going to stay in 2006 because along
with the sufferer and the witness from Rise Against,
I also had a New Jersey band represented from
the same year. And I am going to go with. Another
group you and I talked about on episode 65, the
Tony Hawk Soundtracks episode, and I also talked
about on episode 10, the ultimate 2000s punk
rock playlist, and that is the Bouncing Souls.
Now, I'm going to go with a different song than
I talked about on those other episodes, and I'm
not going to spoil what that song is. I'm going
to leave it floating. in the punk rock atmosphere.
So if you want to go back and find out if you're
a Bouncing Souls fan, you'll have to do that.
But I'm going to go with the quasi -title from
their 2006 album, The Gold Record, and I'm going
to go with The Gold Song. You're going to hear
that bottle jingling on the ground before the
song kicks in. The album was actually released,
I'll never forget this, on June 6th, 2006, which
was six... six, six, which the band referred
to this album as the release of the beast, little
nod to iron maiden there. This song, if you think
we were calming down a little bit during, give
it all, this is going to get you going back up
to full throttle. This is. kind of the interval
workout we're doing here and we're going to kick
it up to 10 and you're going to be chanting the
haze along with the band and getting that heart
rate up because this song just every time it
comes on, even if I'm tired, it gets my adrenaline
going. It gets me excited. It makes me happy.
It makes me want to work out more. It definitely
kicks the adrenaline up a notch for me. So bouncing
souls, the gold song, which Perfect, perfect
pick for it. And I love the Bouncing Souls. I
was going to say Comet is one of my favorite
songs altogether. It's just such a great song.
And the ending guitar riff in Comet is fantastic.
But the gold song, a great, great, great song.
But we want to keep rolling. And what better
than do this with Blink -182? But I'm going to
go old Blink -182 talking Dude Ranch. So before
Travis Barker. When Scott was still in the band
and I'm not going to go with Damn It. That's
not what I want to do. Everybody loves that song.
I am going to go with Josie. Josie to me is just
a punk rock song through and through fast paced.
Let's go. Here's the lyrics. And the music video
always cracks me up. I was going to say Mark's
got purple hair and I believe Tom has orange
or red hair in the music video. I mean, it's
straight. 90s punk before they really, really
made it big in who they were. And it's probably
my favorite Blink -182 song to this day. This
was the last single that featured Scott Rayner
for Blink -182. I got to admit, Travis Barker
holds it down when he plays it live, but this
is a classic Blink song. It actually reached
number 50 on the US Alternative Radio and Records
chart and number 31 on the Australia ARIA chart.
So this one actually helped pave the way for
Enema of the State. And I don't think, just like
I mentioned with Rise Against, I don't think
you get to Enema of the State if Dammit and Josie
don't hit. Because Cheshire Cat in 95 didn't
make much of a dent. This was kind of the start
of what would become Blink -182's kind of legacy,
at least in terms of mainstream success. A hundred
percent. I mean, They had Eminem's off the first
album and it wasn't a huge hit. But if you watch
the music video, I believe Alyssa Milano is also
in the Josie music video, too, which was a huge
name at the time in the mid to late 90s, which
kind of brought them mainstream popularity. They
were getting on MTV and they were 120 minutes
back in the day they would be on. So that's exactly
what helped them. And I think kind of robbing
Travis from the Aquabats also kind of helped.
I mean, he's still in the band. How many years
later? So that worked out for the best. You know,
Scott left and they robbed Travis. So I was going
to say bravo on the way to include Travis with
the transplants, but not with your blink pic.
Very ingenious way of playlisting there, my friend.
Very much so. I've learned from the best. Well,
you went with Blink -182. So I think the only
logical follow -up is going to be, I'm going
to go back to my Pop Sucks tour of 2002. You
went Blink. I'm going to go with Green Day. Although
you went with an album where Blink was going
into the mainstream, I'm going to go with the
album where Green Day said F the mainstream.
And believe it or not, is my favorite Green Day
album. I'm going to go off of 1995's Insomniac
and I'm not even going to go with Brain Stew
or Geek Stink Breath or Walking Contradiction.
I'm going to go with a deep cut from this album.
So their most raw, not pop friendly album and
one of the deepest cuts from it, Babs' Uvula
Who, which is a reference to an old Saturday
Night Live skit. It's one of my favorite Green
Day songs of all time. Definitely falls into
the underrated category because according to
the Green Day Live Guide, it's only been played
once, November 3rd, 1995 at the Worcester Memorial
Auditorium in Worcester, Massachusetts. Those
guys got lucky because this is one of my all
-time favorite Green Day songs. And this year
in 2024, they did the... dookie american idiot
in its entirety i have my fingers crossed that
1995 sees insomniac in its entirety because i
think a lot of people don't realize the brilliance
of this raw unfiltered against pop punk release
from green day it's definitely their angriest
album of all time and i think a fun way to close
out side a Oh, yeah. I mean, it's definitely
one of their most underrated albums. I was going
to say that Nimrod, everybody just kind of pushes
to the side and says, oh, well, you know, it's
not American Idiot. It's not Dookie. Why are
we listening to it? It has some very, very raw,
like California punk sound that people don't
hear from Green Day often. And I'm not a Green
Day fan. I mean, I appreciate them. They're great
for the music, but I've never been into them.
But that album. Sounds like an old black flag
or an adolescence album from 10 years prior coming
out of the Bay Area or California punk scene.
I mean, it's got that feel to it. And if you
are a fan of 80s California punk, that is the
Green Day album. I would push at you 100%. It
is the Green Day album. I push at anybody who
says, where should I start with Green Day? A
lot of people look at me like I have 10 heads
because they go, why not American Idiot and Dookie?
I said, well, that's those are the obvious picks.
If I'm going to push something forward, I want
to push one that might be less than obvious,
because if you dig Insomniac, you might become
a bigger Green Day fan outside of Dookie and
American Idiot. 100 percent. And I was going
to say it goes the way with their later catalog,
too, when they did the Uno Dos Tres albums. And
like the 21 Guns album, stuff like that, that
was somewhat mainstream, but didn't really take
off like American Idiot or Duty. And that, mixtapers,
concludes side A of the ultimate punk rock workout
mixtape, which consists of smut peddlers buck
naked on a big wheel. Don't try this at home.
Descendants, bikeage. Dead Kennedys, pull my
strings. Bad religions, recipe for hate. Transplants,
tall cans in the air. Hot water musics, trusty
chords. Rise Against's Give It All, Bouncing
Soul's The Gold Song, Blink -182's Josie, and
Green Day's Babs' Uvula Who. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. All right, and now we're going
to kick off Side B, and I think I'm going to
do so in classic style here. I'm going to go
with a song that I absolutely loved in middle
school all the way up through right this very
moment. It's this band's cover of a Johnny Cash
classic, which is, in my humble opinion, one
of the best cover songs ever from their 1990
self -titled album and their 2007 greatest hits
album, that version being a rerecording. I am
going to go with Social Distortion's incredible
cover. of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, reached
number 25 on the Billboard U .S. Alternative
Airplay chart. And there's a chance, a small
chance. We also discussed this song on episode
26, the ultimate punk rock cover songs playlist,
because like I said, one of the best cover songs
ever. And it's punk, so yeah. But Social Distortion,
man, this is one of those covers that... If you're
going to cover Johnny Cash, you better do it
right. And Mike Ness knocked this one out of
the park where even fans of Johnny Cash respect
this version. And that's hard to do because Johnny
Cash is an outlaw as much as the punk rock genre
is in and of itself. And Social Distortion was
able to put their stamp on this song and still
respect the original. 100%. And Mike Ness is
just such a genius. And when you think of lead
singers and punk music, he's one of the first
ones that come to mind. But I'm going to do something
with my next pick. You know, punk rock's all
about symbols. You know, bands that have symbols.
Misfits has the ghost skull. Social Distortion
has the skeleton. And the next band, Black Flag,
has its own little logo of four little black
bars. And I am going to go with my personal favorite
Black Flag song of 1984, Slip It In, Drinking
and Driving. This was used in Jackass when Henry
Rollins drives around and Steve -O gets a tattoo.
It is fast -paced. It makes you angry. And it
has a good message because it's not about drinking
and driving. It's about not doing it, but how
pretty much peer pressure will get you in a bad
spot every time. It's a fun song. Rollins has
a great time singing it when he does it by himself,
when he was doing it with Black Flag. It is high
energy and it brings that punk rock sound right
out of Social Distortion. And I know how much
you love cover songs. So it turns the tide a
little bit and gets us back on the path. While
drinking, of course, apparently. Yes. I love
this song. I immediately thought of the jackass
scene as soon as you said the title of the track.
So I'm glad you mentioned that. And like you
said, I want to hit on a point you made. It's
interesting, the delivery of this song. And only
Henry Rollins can do it this way. Because lyrically,
it almost sounds like a let's get drunk and wasted
punk rock song. But it's not that. And it's not
a straight edge don't drink song. It's somewhere
in the gray area that lives between the two.
And I think that's the genius of Henry Rollins.
100%. And if you do listen to that Slip It In
album, there's many songs like that where you're
just like, what are they telling me? Are they
telling me one thing or another? And the title
track from that album is a perfect example. It's
a fun album no matter what, but Rollins' delivery
is what makes that song so iconic and so... Well,
we've got two incredibly influential bands to
start off side B, Social Distortion and Black
Flag. So I think I'm going to keep running with
that and go with another extremely influential
band and song. Now, this song was never released
as a single, but it remains this band's probably
most beloved and well -known quote unquote hit.
And it was covered by everybody from the Red
Hot Chili Peppers. to Ryan Adams, the Dead Milkmen,
Mustard Plug, and a band you mentioned earlier,
Rancid. This song was inspired by Ian McKay's
short -lived project, Embrace, and not wanting
the same thing to happen with Fugazi, he wrote
the song Waiting Room about finding the right
people at the right moment. And this song, the
opening, is so intense between this baseline
that doesn't know if it wants to be a funk baseline
or a punk baseline. But it's one of those baselines
that as soon as you hear it, you're immediately
sucked in. And for 20 seconds, the song just
builds. And then at the 20 second mark, it pauses
for four seconds of silence. And then after that
uncomfortable moment, it brings you right back
in. It's so powerful. It's been featured on Pitchfork's
200 Best Songs of the 1980s, Blender's The 1001
Greatest Songs to Download Right Now, Pop Matter's
The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the 1980s,
and NME's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. I know
it's the obvious on -the -nose pick for Fugazi,
but I'm a bass player. What can I say? That bass
line is punk rock royalty as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, you hear the first two notes of that song
and you instantly know what it is. And it got
so bad with this song that my detailer, when
I worked in the car dealership as a mechanic,
he would play it every day and I knew how long
the song was going to take. I would walk up and
get coffee every morning because I got so tired
of hearing that bass line. Oh, man. Hey, I love
it now. But when you hear it every day for three
years, you're like, I am done. I don't care anymore.
I don't care if I hear another Fugazi song ever.
But going off incredible bass lines, guitar riffs,
I am going to make a pick here that is probably
going to get you some hate mail here, Brian.
Oh, no. I don't know. This band is a pop punk
metal -ish band. and to me, I would consider
them pop punk, and the band is A Day to Remember.
Okay. This comes off for those who have heart,
and it is the heavy guitar riff, The Plot to
Bomb the Panhandle. Now, this is a song that
I listen to every time I get ready for a hockey
game, I work out, I'm just driving in the car,
and I'm angry. The riff to it is so heavy, and
it feels punk -ish. And it's just got a good
rhythm and pushback to it where I feel like it
fits really well off Fugazi with that bass riff.
You can tell me I'm wrong, but I think it works
really well. And it's just a fun, very heavy
song from a band that has gone away from being
as heavy as they used to be. Yeah. This album
is definitely a different beast than some of
their newer stuff, but this album actually reached
number 17 on the billboard top heat seekers chart.
And then the re -release of it hit number 43
on the billboard top independent albums chart.
And that is due to the fact that they put out
a cover of Kelly Clarkson's since you've been
gone from that re -release. And you know what?
I think I'm going to have a little fun with this.
No, I'm not going to go with. There since you've
been gone cover, although I love it. I'm going
to go with another cover song for this side.
Yes, I already did social distortions ring a
fire, but I'm going to go with another punk band
covering a female pop song, but I'm going to
go back to their 2001 album go. And Jay sweet.
And I talked about this song all the way back
on episode 10. the ultimate 2000s punk rock playlist.
And we are going to go with, is it punk? Is it
hardcore? It's a little bit of both. The hidden
track, H2O's Like a Prayer, the Madonna cover.
This cover is again, one of my absolute favorites
because I'm not going to lie. I know this is
a punk rock episode. I actually love Madonna's
original Like a Prayer. I always love the song.
I love the video. I love everything about it.
The song is catchy. The song is a pop anthem
of the 90s. Taking it and turning it into a punk
rock hardcore song on paper doesn't sound like
it could work, but it works. so, so well. I'm
shocked more bands have not taken this song and
put their stamp on it. And I just love the fact
that we get to sneak a band like H2O in this
mix because as much as I love them being from
the New Jersey, New York area, I feel like the
rest of the country and maybe the rest of the
world isn't as familiar with H2O as they should
be. So I'm hoping by putting this on there, more
people get to go down a rabbit hole and discover
them because this is one group that I think is
just, Insanely underrated. Listen, if it wasn't
for you, I would have never heard this song.
And I love, love, love, love this version. And
it's thanks to your podcast I heard it. But Like
a Prayer, one of my favorite Madonna songs. It's
my go -to karaoke song. And I am so glad you
included this because the H2O cover is phenomenal.
And they have a whole album of covers that are
just... insanely good and i know the one that
gets a lot of flack is there i want to live ramones
cover people dog it every time but i actually
enjoy it being it's you know one of the better
songs that the ramones did in that period but
h2o does a great job and it's just a great song
so thank you for including that one brian had
to revisit it it needed to be done oh it's so
good Well, I am going to go with another song
to me that it has a lot of energy. It's a very,
very near and dear song to me, and it's from
the band Legwagon. And I know Legwagon gets a
lot of love or hate, but I am going to go with
Know It All. Now, this song to me, growing up,
I played the NCAA video games. And there was
one year they had a soundtrack and they picked
a killer soundtrack with Lagwagon, Therapy, NoFX,
tons of great punk bands and got me really into
the music. And this song was on that soundtrack.
And it has been a staple for almost 20 plus years
of me listening to. It's fast paced. It's fun.
It brings me back nostalgia as being a kid. To
me, I think Legwagon is a super underrated band.
I think Hoss as an album is one of their better
albums. Granted, the song is not off that album,
but go listen if you haven't to Hoss through
and through and your views will change on Legwagon
and punk music. This is actually your right from
1994's Trashed album. I love this one. I love
the message. Know it all. Did you really listen
to that song? Could you ever write what you call
wrong? Right being W -R -I -T -E. Not right,
R -I -G -H -T. Brilliant lyrics about following
a band until they make it big. This band can
finally pay their rent, not travel around in
a van with a busted up cot in the back of it.
Finally get to be able to make some money. with
music as your career only to be called sellouts
otherwise known as tall poppy syndrome in canada
australia and new zealand for those of us in
the u .s tall poppy syndrome is essentially attacking
something simply based on its success and i'm
sorry i could take this all the way back to metallica
if you want to go metal anytime a band breaks
into the mainstream. It's happened with Offspring,
Green Day, Blink -182. All of these bands that
found worldwide success got slagged at some point
by their fans as almost being offended that they
got to the next level. And I've never understood
that because if a band doesn't get to the next
level, there's not a chance that that band will
be around in the future because they might not
be able to afford to be around. So this song,
Just nails that message. And I love the pic.
A hundred percent. I mean, even Alice in Chains
dog Metallica for cutting their hair. So other
bands dog other bands. Well, following up Lagwagon,
I'm going to go with another song that might
catch some flack because this song created a
rift between the band that I'm about to choose,
which was mentioned by one of our Patreon mixtapers.
And a song, Tom, by a band that you picked, Rise
Against. And the song I'm going to choose is
by Against Me. Shout out once again to Patreon
mixtaper Sean Goff, who chimed in with Transgender
Dysphoria Blues, which is an awesome tune. I
love it. But coming out of Lagwagon, I got to
go with I Was a Teenage Anarchist off of 2010's
White Crosses. I think it hits perfectly in this
spot with no disrespect to Sean's pick. I love
it. Garbage's Butch Vig produced this song and
it shows in the production of the album. I love
Butch Vig's production work. I mean, you hear
it on Nirvana's Nevermind. You hear it on the
Foo Fighters' Wasting Light. Against Me sounds
incredible on this album and White Cross's as
a whole. I'm probably going to catch flack for
this too. Might be my favorite against me album,
but the riff that it caused was because of the
lyrics. Do you remember when you were young and
you wanted to set the world on fire in 2011 on
rise against track architects, they expanded
on those lyrics saying, do you remember when
you were young and you wanted to set the world
on fire somewhere deep down? I know you do. Do
you remember when you were young and you wanted
to set the world on fire? Well, I still am. And
I still do. So there was a little bit of a punk
rock riff going on between these two bands. But
regardless, I think we got a lot of kick ass
music out of it. Whatever side you're on. Hundred
percent. You scoot me on against me. So what
I had from them was a call to enemies. That's
my favorite against me. Another good pick. But.
You know, it's hard to pick which side you want
to be on with Rise Against Against Me because
I love both bands very much and they do a great
job. But I'm going to kick it back a little bit
because there's one band that I kind of noted
on when we talked about H2O's cover and that
was the Ramones. Ah, I. Personally love this
song. School of Rock made me fall in love with
this song. And that's Bonzo Goes to Bitford.
Yes. It's about President Reagan. And I believe
Joey Ramone wrote the song about being angry
with Ronald Reagan. And it was re -released as
My Head is Hanging Upside Down or something along
those lines because they didn't want to keep
throwing it out there at Reagan because it's
kind of a slam against him. And when it was used
in School of Rock, that's kind of when it started
going by its old title. But it's just a great
song. You have the chime in the heavy guitar
riff, and it's something that I like to work
out to. It's a good cool down song for me, and
it gets me thinking about where I want to be
at with this workout or how I want to play this
hockey game. It's a very good mind setting song
for me. I think you and I would be doing a disservice
to punk rock. and to working out if we didn't
include the Ramones on this list. I personally
had, do you remember rock and roll radio in my
bank of songs? Because I discovered, I kid you
not, I discovered that song on one of my parents'
old K -Tel albums called Rock 80. And it was
one of my favorite songs as a kid. I used to
stomp around the living room to do you remember
rock and roll radio? One of my favorite Ramones
songs ever. But Bonzo's another killer track
and it keeps that same energy. Just, I don't
know, minus the horn section, if you will. Yeah,
very much. But you get, I don't know if it's
a xylophone, but you get some kind of chiming
in instead of horn. So yeah, there you go. You
trade one for the other. Perfect. I'll take it.
And now we're down to one pick each. And I'm
really concerned right now because there's a
song that I think should close out this playlist.
especially because we're recording in 2024 and
I want to pick it, but I just have a feeling
because their name has popped up a couple of
times in discussion tonight that I think you're
going to be on the same wavelength as me. And
I hope you are. If not, I'm going to take that
risk and I'm going to pivot out of the Ramones
because we haven't gotten any Irish punk into
the mix. So I'm going to. go out in style with
my last pick of the evening with Dropkick Murphy's
2011 title track, Going Out in Style, which features
Fat Mike from NoFX. Excuse me, had something
in my throat there. Chris Cheney from The Living
End and actor Lenny Clark in the vocals. This
is a chorus that's a sing -along of epic proportions.
A lot of Dropkick Murphy stuff is, but for a
workout mix, going out in style just does that
for me. I could really give a shit. I'm going
out in style for my last pick of the evening,
Dropkick Murphy's Baby. Ah, such a wonderful
pick and such a wonderful band, a band that I
have loved and loved for many years. But... Catching
your drift and kind of reading your mind. Was
I obvious with my hints? You were very, very
clear, and I would never leave this band off
a list. I knew I was going last, and I wanted
to slam the door shut with no effects. These
guys are leaving us to never tour again, in air
quotes, because you know how Motley Crue did
that multiple times. Yeah, I don't ever believe
that. since it's some 41s doing it as well i
don't believe it it's only a matter of time motley
crew lincoln park i feel like even led zeppelin
after many years did the 2007 reunion at the
o2 i i in my heart i don't want to believe that
it's the end of no effects so go no i will never
never not love this song and it comes off 1994's
punk and droveling It is linoleum. Yes. My absolute
favorite song that no effects has done. And everybody's
going to go, Oh, it's their most popular. It's
the most popular for a reason. It's covered constantly.
You go to YouTube. There's. 200 pages of linoleum
covers. Even NoFX made a stab at it and made
a music video during the pandemic with a bench
sevenfold about how many bands have covered this
song. It's a wild one. If you haven't seen it,
it's a good one. And Streetlight Manifesto does
the best cover, but the original will always
stay near and dear to my heart. I love this song.
I have sat and cried to this song. I have worked
out to this song. I have enjoyed this song through
and through, and I think this is the absolute
best way to end this mixtape. And send Noah FX
off with a thank you and a goodbye. Closing our
playlist out with the opening track from Punk
and Drublick, my closest friend. Guitar World
actually ranks the Punk and Drublick album number
four on the 51 Most Essential. pop punk albums
of all time. And Kerrang! ranks at number six
on their 51 greatest pop punk albums ever. One
of the band's most iconic songs, and it's a song
without a chorus, a very no effects thing to
do. I mentioned Sum 41. In LA, Sum 41 covered
Linoleum. As a way to tip their hat to both bands
kind of quote unquote going out in style. I'm
glad you took my hint there. It was really on
the nose. And I'm sure the punk fans out there
listening are kind of groaning at the fact that
I really love that one to you. But I'm so glad
you did it because considering no effects is
calling it a day in 2024. And again, I'll use
air quotes on that because we just don't know.
Thank you. Fugazi's Waiting Room, Adata Remembers
the Plot to Bomb the Panhandle, H2O's Like a
Prayer, Lagwagon's Know It All, Against Me's
I Was a Teenage Anarchist, Ramones' Bonzo Goes
to Bitburg, Dropkick Murphy's Going Out in Style,
and NoFX's Linoleum. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. Tom, as I've said before, I'll
say it once again. First off, thank you so much
for being such a huge part of the Patreon mixtaper
family. And once again, thank you for joining
me on my weekly mixtape. Look forward to having
you back in the near future, man. Absolutely,
Brian. It's always a pleasure. I love the Patreon
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