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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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

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Joining me once again as guest curator is fellow

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Pantheon Podcast Network mate, Jason Whistle,

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host of the It's Not That Bad and There Can Only

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Be One podcast. Jason, welcome back again, my

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friend. So happy to be back. You know I love

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coming on the show. I have so much fun being

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on these episodes. Bringing with me an arsenal

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or in this case, a guitar arsenal of songs to

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work with. Well, tonight's a topic that it's

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been requested several times since I started

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this show over a year and a half ago. So I'm

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glad to finally bring it to fruition. And that

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is the 90s acoustic slash unplugged scene, because

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make no mistake. It was a scene. It was a movement.

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For those of us in the U .S., the words MTV Unplugged

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became a staple of the decade with countless

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memorable and iconic performances, many of which

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became hit albums for said artists and bands.

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Now, Jason, you're hailing once again from the

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great white north up in Canada. Did the unplugged

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movement receive that same push on much music?

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Oh, absolutely. Like there was a lot of crossover

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and we got to see a lot of those unplugged concerts.

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But the reason I'm happy to be on this show today

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is because this allows me to scratch an itch

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that I don't get to normally scratch over on

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There Can Only Be One. So to anyone who has not

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listened to that show, where we go through an

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entire discography's worth from an artist. But

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we eliminate the live albums. And I'm not going

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to lie. Some of the MTV unplugged albums that

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came out in the 90s are arguably my favorite

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albums from those artists. So not being able

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to talk about those albums at all, it cuts me

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a little. It cuts real deep. Well, tonight you

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get to scratch that itch. Like always, when you

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and I do an episode, we kind of throw around

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some ground rules before we get started to make

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the show a little easier or slash harder on us,

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depending on how you look at it. And for tonight,

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those rules are one, the song or album had to

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be commercially released and available on streaming.

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So sadly, this does eliminate some extremely

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popular performances such as. Aerosmith's full

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acoustic set, LL Cool J's massive acoustic Mama

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Said Knock You Out, Midnight Oil's Beds Are Burning,

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which I absolutely loved, and Page and Plant's

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No Quarter Unleaded, because that, as of now,

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is unavailable on streaming. Now, I have to note,

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Unleaded is absolutely incredible. It's an amazing

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90s album. And you could still find it on CD.

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However, if you can't find the CD, you can purchase

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the album digitally. There's a site called Qobuz,

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which is a site that I use a lot to buy music

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that's not available on CD or streaming. It's

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Q -O -B -U -Z if you want to look them up. They

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also have a high resolution streaming option

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as well if you're looking for something outside

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of Apple Music or Spotify. So that's definitely

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worth checking out. But unfortunately, Unleaded

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is off the table for tonight. Luckily, luckily,

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there are some compilation CDs out there that

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have covered. some of the unplugged tracks that

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I was looking for. So I kept to the rules. It

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had to be available on Spotify to be played.

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So there are some versions of songs out there

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that I kind of wish I was able to talk about.

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And I did try to keep the releases to released

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or recorded in the 90s. So it handcuffed me a

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little bit, but I'm here to join the party. And

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then I'll add one other thing to that list. We

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decided to go with songs. That were acoustic

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versions of non -acoustic songs. So you have

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these amazing unplugged moments like Neil Young's

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Harvest Moon, the Eagles' Tequila Sunrise, and

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Dennis Leary's Life's Gonna Suck. I bet you forgot

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that episode of MTV Unplugged. Anyway, those

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songs were originally acoustic to begin with.

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So an acoustic version of an acoustic song kind

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of felt like. missing the mark for this episode.

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Yeah, no, the handcuffs are on, but I'm not going

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to lie. Thankfully, there are some fantastic

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live performances out there that allowed me to

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be able to get some of these songs. And even

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if the song originally was in the 80s for me,

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so long as the recording or the performance was

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in the 90s, I put it on my list. Same here. So

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with that said, let's get down to business tonight.

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As I mentioned at the top of the show, Jason

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and I will be curating the ultimate 90s acoustic

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slash unplugged mixtape, and we'll use the old

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cassette deck approach. Jason, as my special

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guest, will begin side A with his first song

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choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel

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best follows up that choice. We'll then flip

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-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10

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songs for side A. We'll then give our mixtape

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a proverbial flip. And we'll map outside. Be

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only this time, I'll kick things off with Jason

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choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode

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is to craft the best 90s acoustic unplugged mixtape

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possible through only 20 songs. And at the end

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of the show, you can take our conversation to

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the next level by visiting the episode page at

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myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape

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a listen via the embedded playlist. And if you

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There you can find ad -free episodes of the show,

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chime in on future topics, become a future guest,

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and so much more. And a few of the Patreon mixtapers

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chimed in with songs they would use to kick off

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our acoustic unplugged set tonight. And I want

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to give a few quick shout outs. And tonight we're

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going to start with brand new Patreon mixtaper,

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Brandon from Virginia, who chimed in with the

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first season of MTV Unplugged and his choice,

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the Smithereens and Graham Parker doing Behind

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the Wall of Sleep. Brandon, welcome to the My

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Weekly Mixtape Patreon family. Glad to have you.

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And look forward to talking with you in the Patreon

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forums. Also coming in from the Patreon mixtapers,

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Chad LaMassa chimed in saying it's probably a

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bit obvious, but he doesn't care and neither

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would I. He went with Nirvana's cover of David

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Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World. Jason Donchus

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chimed in saying that it's a great topic, I couldn't

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agree more, and that he already has a playlist

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on his phone dedicated to this, but he chose

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to avoid the obvious picks and go with a personal

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favorite of his, that being Blind Melon's Paper

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Scratcher from the 2 Meter Sessions in 93. Philip

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Bergman also went a little deep, chiming in with

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Jewel's Cold Song, a B -side of her You Were

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Meant For Me single. Christopher Pazica chimed

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in saying he was always partial to Stone Temple

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Pilots plush from MTV Unplugged. Tom Hutchinson

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chimed in with Bush's Come Down. off the Australian

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version of 16 Stone, saying a local DJ in the

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Detroit area played it every Sunday morning,

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and it's by far one of his favorites. He also

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shared in the Patreon a YouTube link to that

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version, but I'll be sure to include that over

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on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com,

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just in case anybody wants to check it out. And

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I do have to kind of add a little commentary.

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Why did all the other countries get the bonus

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tracks? Australia, Japan, Europe. They always

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got the good stuff. And I always sought out those

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extra bonus copies. I don't know about you, but

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that's certainly something I was always looking

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for imports. See, I got a bone to pick with the

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imports from bands that probably shouldn't be

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imports. You know, I'm a massive fan of Harem

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Scaram. They're from Ontario, the Toronto area.

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Do you think you could find a Harem Scaram CD

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in the mid to late 2000s that wasn't an import?

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Nope. Had to pay the extra, but it was Harem

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Scaram, so it was totally worth it. 100%. And

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finally, Mike Daly chimed in with what he defers

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to as an oldie, but a goodie. Eric Clapton's

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Before You Accuse Me from his unplugged release,

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saying really any song on the album is a great

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way to start off. and acoustic playlist. Once

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again, if you want to chime in for future My

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Weekly Mixtape episodes, you can join the fellow

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mixtapers at patreon .com forward slash My Weekly

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Mixtape. So Jason, let's unplug those pedals,

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turn the amps off, and get this 90s acoustic

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jam started. What song are you kicking things

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off with tonight? Well, now that I've plugged

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my microphone back in, I can actually get my

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pick in here. Probably one of the hardest questions

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you have to think for the 90s is and this is

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probably going to spark some debate amongst all

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of your listeners here. What is the actual best

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MTV unplugged CD that was ever released? Some

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people will say Nirvana. Some people will say

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Stone Temple Pilots. Some people will say Kiss.

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For my money. alison chains had the absolute

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best unplugged cd of all time so what better

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way to start this mixtape than with the song

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that started that album nutshell arguably my

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favorite alison chain song of all time and if

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the day ever comes to do it there can only be

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one on alison chains i would be so hurt because

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i couldn't pick this version of it and it's not

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even just the fact that the song is good by itself

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there is something about mike inez's bass tone

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on that acoustic bass guitar the one that said

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friends don't let friends give friends haircuts

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i freaking love that but there's just something

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about the way that it's the the tone kind of

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swelled at certain parts of the song i was like

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that is such a good good tone it's the exact

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reason why i love the fact that i have an acoustic

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electric bass guitar of my own and i have done

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a few acoustic shows that song is on the i need

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to play it somewhere list what a great pick i

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had down in a hole from that album on my song

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bank you could pick anything from that unplugged

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album it truly is a snapshot it's haunting and

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harrowing to listen to now with hindsight being

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2020 knowing where lane was headed but his voice

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is so powerful and in the wave of his passing

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it makes the album as a whole just feel a little

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bit darker a little bit more somber you could

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feel the pain coming out of the songs but oh

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my god it's such an incredible performance one

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that i think truly set the standard for what

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people think about when they think about 90s

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acoustic slash MTV unplugged moments. Oh, absolutely.

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And just the falsetto in that song alone, like

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a you're kicking off your acoustic performance,

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your entire concert with a song that is arguably

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much more dialed back than a lot of the other

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songs in that set list. But I mean, that was

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a statement. That was like, we're coming out

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and we are giving you a mood and a vibe for the

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show, not just putting on a regular concert.

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Agreed, agreed. And what I'm going to do to follow

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that up, I'm actually going to go with a curveball

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for my first pick in the number two slot. Now,

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MTV Unplugged was already a thing in 1989. And

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there were episodes with Squeeze and The Smithereens

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and The Alarm, and then that kind of moved into

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1990. However, in 1990, this song became the

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first, that I can recall at least, live acoustic

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song to start getting played on the radio. And

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it was played so much, it actually reached number

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eight on the Billboard US Hot 100. Now, this

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song is actually a cover song. The original reached

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number three a couple decades earlier. But when

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you name the album Five Man Acoustical Jam, being

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a nod to the original band, Five Man Electrical

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Band, you got to bring Tesla into this. And Tesla's

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Signs was one of the first songs that I recall

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being one of those live acoustic songs that really

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got from the screen on MTV to the radio. And

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while it might not be the song that jump -started

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the acoustic movement, I feel like it's one of

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the most important ones that really showed the

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labels and the networks. We might be on to something

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here. Now, back on episode 43, I had the honor

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of having Frank Hannon from Tesla on my weekly

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mixtape, and he told a great story about signs.

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So I'd like to take a moment and just run that

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short clip now. We really didn't have an idea

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that it would blow up, but we did know that we

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loved the song. And signs is an example of when

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a lead vocalist. feels the lyrics of a song and

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they deliver it. You know, Jeff Keith, our singer,

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loved the lyrics of that song. And we would just

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goof around on it and play it at radio stations.

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And we were goofing around at a radio station

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in Boston. And we played signs and goofing around

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and they recorded it. From that particular recording,

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their telephone started ringing. People were

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calling them and saying, hey. We want to hear

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that song Signs again. And so we did get a notion

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that people loved the song and they could feel

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that Jeff, our singer, was delivering it. And

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so that's when we decided that, well, heck, let's

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release it from that Philadelphia show. And then

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the rest is history. Now, if you want to hear

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more about Five Man Acoustical Jam. There's a

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lot more discussion on episode 43, so I highly

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suggest going back and giving that episode a

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listen. But I kind of wanted to start with a

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little bit of a curveball, and I feel like this

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is one that a lot of people listening to this

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episode might go, huh, I didn't even think about

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that one. Oh, I thought about that album. I thought

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about that album a lot. And, you know, our good

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friend Sean Faust joined me on There Could Only

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Be One to go through the entire Tesla discography.

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And this was one of the few episodes where we're

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like, you know, we say no live albums, but we're

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going to make an exception in this case. And

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rightfully so. Like, it really was kind of the

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kickoff point that, you know, MTV and VH1 looked

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and says, huh, that actually sounds pretty damn

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good. And it works. Let's do more of that. And

00:16:43.190 --> 00:16:46.340
let's start putting out those CDs. But the thing

00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:50.379
about five man acoustical jam is that it didn't

00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:54.500
feel somber. It didn't feel it felt like a fun

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hangout kind of show. Like you could hear them

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kind of joking with each other on stage. The

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fact that they did the surprise song on that

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album. Dear listeners, you have to now go and

00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:09.420
listen to surprise. That's pretty much the entire

00:17:09.420 --> 00:17:13.660
song, but it's fun. It's absolutely fun. And

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their cover of Mother's Little Helper on that

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album is also so, so good. And yeah, that's one

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of those albums that I think and we kind of talked

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about this before recording the show. There were

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certain albums that needed to be brought up.

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on this show or else we were going to have a

00:17:29.549 --> 00:17:31.490
trios episode again where it's like, are you

00:17:31.490 --> 00:17:33.089
going to take Rush? Are you going to take Rush?

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Are you? And no one did. So thankfully, we've

00:17:36.509 --> 00:17:39.549
got the five man acoustical jam album off the

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docket early. Please, listeners, put the torches

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down. We got you covered. And I will say that

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is an awesome, awesome episode with Sean Faust

00:17:48.930 --> 00:17:51.130
of There Can Only Be One. If you're a Tesla fan,

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make sure to check that one out, too. I know

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Tesla's a little bit. More on the bluesier, hard

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rock side of things coming out of the grunge

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of Alice in Chains. I could have really leaned

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into the grunge, but I feel like the unplugged

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movement covered a wide swath of genres. And

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I kind of wanted to set you up to go anywhere

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you wanted from here. So we've got Alice in Chains

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nutshell. We've got Tesla's signs. Where do we

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go from here? Well, now we've got an acoustic

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version of a song from Firehouse off of their

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1996 Good Acoustics album. I'm going to go with

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their version of Don't Treat Me Bad. It's a fantastic

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song to begin with, but listen to the acoustic

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version and the fact that it sits kind of in

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a lower register vocally, it actually adds a

00:18:51.289 --> 00:18:54.740
bit more coziness. to the song and it becomes

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more of a i don't want to say a coffee house

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jam vibe but i'm going to say it's a bit more

00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.140
of a coffee house jam vibe it feels like the

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kind of song you would hear with an acoustic

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group playing at a brewery something like that

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and people just sitting down having a good beer

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personally i think it made don't treat me bad

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which was already a good song even better i I

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love the fact that you went with this. You not

00:19:20.589 --> 00:19:23.349
only scooped the album, you scooped the song.

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It's my favorite Firehouse song. We're still

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all getting over the sad and tragic passing of

00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:32.410
CJ Snare this year. Such a monster vocalist.

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And you're right. This was when I first heard

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it, I'm like, oh, wow, they kind of tuned this

00:19:36.269 --> 00:19:40.109
down a little bit. But as an album, Good Acoustics,

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it's not live. It's an actual studio acoustic

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album, which. I don't know how much of that's

00:19:47.009 --> 00:19:48.829
going to get represented tonight because there

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weren't as many of those as there were the live

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ones, which created more quote unquote events

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and moments. But oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank

00:19:59.750 --> 00:20:02.130
you for picking that because that gives me a

00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:04.390
little bit more room to play around here with

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some other songs I wanted to dive into. Oh, yeah.

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I mean, like, as soon as I saw the track listing

00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:12.680
on Good Acoustics, I went to first take a listen

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to Love of a Lifetime. And all she wrote is all

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she wrote is my favorite Firehouse song of all

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time. But no, no, no, no. Don't Treat Me Bad

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actually elevated from the original version.

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So had to put that one here. And we should also,

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because we are talking about Firehouse, mention

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that there is a. spin shuffle skip episode where

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you and i dive into the self -titled firehouse

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album which unfortunately we had recorded prior

00:20:43.380 --> 00:20:48.039
to cj's passing but it's still a great celebration

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of an incredible album oh absolutely and i still

00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:55.140
spin that disc today it's that good oh man i

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hmm all right We went with a couple of songs

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that might fall under the kind of 80s side of

00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:05.119
things. So I'm going to bring us back to the

00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:09.599
90s and go all in on the 90s. And I think I'm

00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.240
going to do one that is going to put a smile

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on a lot of listeners' faces, definitely overseas

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for sure, and as well as across the U .S. But

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I'm going to go with a little bit of a deeper

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pick here again. And this was originally released

00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:29.839
as a B -side. for this band. And the single was

00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.480
not included on their hit album. I don't want

00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.099
to say the name yet because I kind of want to

00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:38.680
lead into it. As well as a few years later, this

00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.700
band put out a B -Sides compilation and again

00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:45.140
didn't include this song. And it just so happens

00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:47.859
to be one of my favorite songs from the band,

00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:52.700
period. And that single, as any person who has

00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:55.480
played in a cover band or owns an acoustic guitar,

00:21:56.089 --> 00:22:00.029
is familiar with is Wonderwall. And we're going

00:22:00.029 --> 00:22:03.690
to go with an infamous MTV Unplugged performance,

00:22:04.230 --> 00:22:10.150
maybe the most infamous one, because Liam Gallagher,

00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:12.690
depending on who you talk to, either showed up

00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:18.609
with A, a sore throat, or B, completely schnockered.

00:22:18.710 --> 00:22:22.170
Depending on who you ask, it's all out there

00:22:22.170 --> 00:22:26.789
in the brothers. ongoing saga of the decades.

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But hey, we are in a world where Oasis is coming

00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:34.529
back in 2025. The song I'm going to go with is

00:22:34.529 --> 00:22:40.430
Round Our Way, which, while the MTV Unplugged

00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:44.069
concert was never officially released on the

00:22:44.069 --> 00:22:46.730
deluxe edition of What's the Story Morning Glory,

00:22:47.069 --> 00:22:51.990
they included this MTV Unplugged version. And

00:22:51.990 --> 00:22:55.640
you know, We all know the story. Noel took lead

00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:58.000
vocals for the entire night. I actually really

00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.799
enjoyed the set. Hearing his take on the lead

00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.960
vocals was actually a lot of fun, even with Liam

00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.259
drinking and smoking and heckling him from the

00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:11.059
audience. I'm actually shocked that, like I said,

00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:14.099
this was a B -side. This has a great horn section

00:23:14.099 --> 00:23:17.119
in it. It's so much fun. It's got this power

00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.190
pop vibe. And I also want to take a moment to

00:23:20.190 --> 00:23:22.990
give a shout out to Kuyazi over on the My Weekly

00:23:22.990 --> 00:23:26.029
Mixtape Discord channel because we've been talking

00:23:26.029 --> 00:23:28.849
about this Oasis reunion for a while over there.

00:23:28.910 --> 00:23:31.430
And I hope he does get the chance to see them

00:23:31.430 --> 00:23:35.170
next year. Hopefully, Oasis will take this tour

00:23:35.170 --> 00:23:38.029
to the U .S. and give him that opportunity. I

00:23:38.029 --> 00:23:41.789
don't think you could talk about the 90s unplugged

00:23:41.789 --> 00:23:45.490
and not talk about this performance in the discussion.

00:23:45.849 --> 00:23:49.029
And this was... kind of my only way around it.

00:23:49.069 --> 00:23:52.269
This would have fallen under the off limits had

00:23:52.269 --> 00:23:55.809
they not tacked this one amazing just so happens

00:23:55.809 --> 00:23:59.269
to be my favorite Oasis song from that performance

00:23:59.269 --> 00:24:03.630
on the deluxe edition. Look, you can like Oasis

00:24:03.630 --> 00:24:06.690
or you can not like Oasis, but you cannot deny

00:24:06.690 --> 00:24:10.730
that they had some good songs and those songs

00:24:10.730 --> 00:24:15.119
have lasted the test of time. The fact that we're

00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.059
still talking about those songs and we're still

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:20.660
kind of humming them along. I know people are

00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:22.099
going to sit there and go, oh, great, Wonderwall

00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:24.539
again. But no, no. The reason why it still gets

00:24:24.539 --> 00:24:26.940
listened to today is because it is still a good

00:24:26.940 --> 00:24:31.359
song. Anytime we've started the opening chords

00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.500
to Wonderwall, which we refer to as Wonderwheel,

00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.220
if anybody remembers the movie The Toy with Richard

00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:41.740
Pryor, as soon as that opening note hits, people's

00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:46.140
faces light up. Whatever stigma is wrapped around

00:24:46.140 --> 00:24:49.559
that song, I've seen the opposite playing this

00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:52.559
song live. People love that song. Oh, yeah. I

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:54.180
mean, there's a reason why people are still like,

00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:58.319
play Wagon Wheel, play Freebird. Doesn't matter

00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:01.619
if the song is overplayed. If the song is good,

00:25:01.779 --> 00:25:04.059
people will still get up and sing and dance.

00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:07.519
That is the power of a song. Now, 2025 still

00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:09.940
feels a long ways away. So I'm sure the Gallaghers

00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:11.599
still have a chance to screw this reunion up.

00:25:13.080 --> 00:25:17.119
But I know where I'm going with this. And I'm

00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.359
going with an album that was released in the

00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.980
end of the decade. And it's a band that I guarantee

00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:27.519
you will never get back together. Because the

00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:29.920
lead singer has said, no, it's not going to happen.

00:25:30.539 --> 00:25:34.839
Off of the Neon Ballroom album from Silverchair,

00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:38.119
I'm going to go with the acoustic version of

00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:42.680
Anna's song. i have talked about how good neon

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.079
ballroom is before and when we did the trios

00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.660
episode i had to drop emotion sickness because

00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:50.839
that is a fantastic song and his song is probably

00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:53.420
the second best song on the album personal opinion

00:25:53.420 --> 00:25:56.740
but the acoustic version again much like how

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:59.640
firehouse elevated don't treat me bad with the

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.359
good acoustics album and his song sounds better

00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.579
acoustic like a lot of songs do But it is probably

00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:10.180
their best ballad that they've ever released.

00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:13.759
Yeah, I would completely agree with that. And

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.579
I'm so impressed that you've been kind of weaving

00:26:16.579 --> 00:26:21.079
outside of the live performances angle with some

00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:23.819
of these picks. That's one that as soon as you

00:26:23.819 --> 00:26:27.019
said the band name, I went, how did I forget

00:26:27.019 --> 00:26:31.160
that? Because sometimes in the U .S. they would

00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:34.500
tack on an acoustic version at the end. Not always.

00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:37.619
Usually went to the overseas albums, but every

00:26:37.619 --> 00:26:40.460
now and then we got lucky. And this is one of

00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:43.640
those instances. And God, Neon Ballroom might

00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:47.299
be my second favorite silver chair album versus

00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:50.059
Frog Stomp. Oh, it's better than Frog Stomp.

00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:52.240
Personal opinion. It's better than Frog Stomp.

00:26:52.339 --> 00:26:55.119
It's better than Freak Show. There isn't a better

00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:57.720
silver chair album than Neon Ballroom. But again,

00:26:57.819 --> 00:27:00.680
that's personal opinion. Well, I'm going to see

00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:05.779
your silver chair and I'm going to keep with

00:27:05.779 --> 00:27:08.940
the S's for a while here. And I'm going to go

00:27:08.940 --> 00:27:12.940
with a song that is a kind of a rearrangement

00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:16.000
of the original. Because the one thing I liked

00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:20.000
about the unplugged movement is bands got a chance

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.359
to kind of flip a song on its side and see how

00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:29.019
the reaction went. And sometimes it was a miss

00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:33.079
and sometimes it blew people's minds. And this

00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:35.660
is one where it blew my mind because the original

00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:40.160
of this song is fast and furious with a killer

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:44.440
electric guitar riff. But on this MTV unplugged

00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.480
version, it's pulled back with violins replacing

00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:55.160
the lead guitar and slowed down to take a fast

00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.509
and heavy song. Somebody to Shove and turn it

00:27:59.509 --> 00:28:04.589
into an acoustic ballad. From their 1993 MTV

00:28:04.589 --> 00:28:08.569
Unplugged performance, as well as on their now

00:28:08.569 --> 00:28:13.210
complete Unplugged NYC 93 release, we're going

00:28:13.210 --> 00:28:16.769
to go with Soul Asylum's Somebody to Shove. You

00:28:16.769 --> 00:28:19.410
very easily could have went with Black Gold or

00:28:19.410 --> 00:28:22.329
Runaway Train. That was a little bit more suited

00:28:22.329 --> 00:28:26.380
to the acoustic sound. Of the Unplugged era.

00:28:26.740 --> 00:28:30.119
But Somebody to Shove was the unexpected twist

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:34.480
in that performance. That as much as I loved

00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.420
Grave Dancers Union. When I heard and saw this

00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:43.220
performance on MTV. I became a bigger Soul Asylum

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:47.799
fan. Hands down. Because here was now a version

00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:50.319
of the song that was just as good as the original.

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.529
But you can listen to on a chill mixtape. which

00:28:54.529 --> 00:28:57.809
it just blew my mind at the time. Yes. Scooped

00:28:57.809 --> 00:29:04.230
me on that one. That is a fantastic song. I love

00:29:04.230 --> 00:29:07.150
that song. I love this version of that song.

00:29:07.150 --> 00:29:09.789
And you're right. The violins just add so much

00:29:09.789 --> 00:29:13.049
more to it. It's funny because I was listening

00:29:13.049 --> 00:29:16.049
to a bunch of songs on my Spotify and as I was

00:29:16.049 --> 00:29:17.970
trying to come up with my list and all of a sudden

00:29:17.970 --> 00:29:21.069
Within Temptation came on because you know me.

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.900
I love my dramatic rock, especially from overseas.

00:29:24.259 --> 00:29:28.119
And Dave Perner actually does a fantastic duet

00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:30.940
with temptation on the song. The whole world

00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:33.339
is watching. They reminded me. It's like, oh,

00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:35.220
yeah, so this item's got some good acoustic stuff

00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:37.519
as well. So I wouldn't had that on my list. And

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:40.420
it's like, yep, no, you scoop me. You bloody

00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:42.819
well scoop me on that one. I know you're not

00:29:42.819 --> 00:29:45.819
sorry, but I mean, look, hey, we agreed on the

00:29:45.819 --> 00:29:48.740
song. So at least there's that. Oh, there was

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:50.980
no denying that that was going to be on my list

00:29:50.980 --> 00:29:53.099
because it is arguably one of my favorite Soul

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:58.099
Asylum songs of all time. But it had to be on

00:29:58.099 --> 00:30:01.180
the list. Agreed. So what are we going to follow

00:30:01.180 --> 00:30:03.940
that up with? Well, I know exactly where I'm

00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:05.839
going to go. I know exactly where I'm going to

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:07.079
go, but it might not be the song that you're

00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.519
probably thinking. When we talk about those all

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:13.920
time MTV unplugged albums, Nirvana definitely

00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:18.210
has to be in the mix. But I'm not going to go

00:30:18.210 --> 00:30:19.789
with where did you sleep last night? And I'm

00:30:19.789 --> 00:30:22.789
not going to go with all apologies. You know,

00:30:22.829 --> 00:30:25.849
the song that gets played all the time. I'm going

00:30:25.849 --> 00:30:29.569
with the absolute second most haunting version

00:30:29.569 --> 00:30:34.690
of the song. Something in the way. This song

00:30:34.690 --> 00:30:38.309
got darker with this performance. And really,

00:30:38.430 --> 00:30:40.630
it took the Batman to make it even that much

00:30:40.630 --> 00:30:45.410
darker. But with the solo cello performance on

00:30:45.410 --> 00:30:48.480
this. It just adds so much. And I've had a chance

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.500
to play this song live. And after hearing the

00:30:51.500 --> 00:30:54.319
MTV unplugged version, I'm like, if I ever play

00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:56.640
this again, it needs to be on an upright bass

00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:58.920
as opposed to an electric bass, because that

00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:03.259
just adds so much to it. You definitely. I mean,

00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.420
there was no way we were not talking about Nirvana's

00:31:06.420 --> 00:31:10.140
MTV unplugged. I did have. Where did you sleep

00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:14.319
last night on my list? I mean, the performance

00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:18.500
as a whole. From start to finish, almost a funeral

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:22.160
-like setting. It's up there with Alice in Chains

00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:28.259
as this iconic, haunting, powerful moment. But

00:31:28.259 --> 00:31:31.759
they didn't just trot out the hits. They played

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.900
a couple of songs that were hit songs. They did

00:31:34.900 --> 00:31:37.670
Come As You Are. They did About a Girl. They

00:31:37.670 --> 00:31:40.849
did All Apologies. But then they go and do three

00:31:40.849 --> 00:31:43.509
meat puppet songs in the middle of the set. They

00:31:43.509 --> 00:31:46.210
do the cover of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold

00:31:46.210 --> 00:31:49.289
the World that Chad LaMassa chimed in with. This

00:31:49.289 --> 00:31:54.450
was an important moment in Nirvana's career.

00:31:54.730 --> 00:32:00.349
A sad closing for the band, but a statement of

00:32:00.349 --> 00:32:03.549
an album that showed that Nirvana was so much

00:32:03.549 --> 00:32:08.049
more. Than just one of those grunge bands. And.

00:32:08.650 --> 00:32:13.490
God. Something in the way. For where you placed

00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:18.069
it on this side. Is so perfect. And I want to

00:32:18.069 --> 00:32:21.490
keep with that. Because we kind of went from.

00:32:22.089 --> 00:32:25.750
That upbeat. Don't treat me bad. Round our way.

00:32:26.150 --> 00:32:28.369
Then we started bringing it down a little bit.

00:32:28.390 --> 00:32:31.369
With Anna's song. And then more with somebody

00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:34.730
to shove. And then something in the way. It's

00:32:34.730 --> 00:32:38.650
hard to go much darker, but I think another iconic

00:32:38.650 --> 00:32:42.390
performance that might be able to summon that

00:32:42.390 --> 00:32:48.069
same spirit, if you will, was from 1992's MTV

00:32:48.069 --> 00:32:52.990
Unplugged, and we're going to go with Pearl Jam's

00:32:52.990 --> 00:32:57.930
Black. This wasn't released as a solo release

00:32:57.930 --> 00:33:00.849
for the band until record store day of 2019,

00:33:01.150 --> 00:33:04.220
and then it finally came out. on CD and streaming

00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:07.819
a year later. But I think about that second verse

00:33:07.819 --> 00:33:10.019
where Eddie Vedder changes the melody of the

00:33:10.019 --> 00:33:13.420
lyrics. I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded

00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:16.920
by some kids at play, and he just screams it.

00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:23.660
This version, it's chilling, and it's the gold

00:33:23.660 --> 00:33:26.680
standard. Because when Aaron Lewis of Stained

00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:32.240
covered the song, he uses... That MTV unplugged

00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:36.420
delivery in his cover. Eddie Vedder's vocals

00:33:36.420 --> 00:33:41.660
on this rendition are so powerful and so visceral

00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:47.000
that this version is just as heavy as the studio

00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:51.380
version from 10 without the distortion. And to

00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:55.700
me, that speaks volumes for where this band was

00:33:55.700 --> 00:34:00.250
dialed into musically, as well as. the emotion

00:34:00.250 --> 00:34:03.130
they brought out of this performance i was i

00:34:03.130 --> 00:34:06.250
also had porch depending on where our playlist

00:34:06.250 --> 00:34:08.130
was going because that version of porch kicks

00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:11.690
all sorts of ass as well but coming out of something

00:34:11.690 --> 00:34:15.429
in the way black just feels like a perfect spot

00:34:15.429 --> 00:34:20.510
here i didn't have any other song but black on

00:34:20.510 --> 00:34:23.269
my list from that performance because to me when

00:34:23.269 --> 00:34:26.650
it comes to 10 And I know you love that album.

00:34:26.789 --> 00:34:30.769
There is no other song but Black on that. Yes,

00:34:30.789 --> 00:34:32.909
I recognize Even Flow is good. Yes, I know Jerry

00:34:32.909 --> 00:34:34.809
Wayne. The whole album is good. I'm not saying

00:34:34.809 --> 00:34:39.050
the album isn't good. But Black, to me, off that

00:34:39.050 --> 00:34:43.989
one, cements that album as more than just Seattle

00:34:43.989 --> 00:34:46.670
grunge. There was dynamics to this. There was

00:34:46.670 --> 00:34:50.670
a depth to Black. And it just added so much.

00:34:50.710 --> 00:34:54.320
And the acoustic version. This is the one song

00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:57.199
that needed to be played dark and acoustic off

00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.639
that album, out of their entire discography.

00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:03.300
And yeah, you scooped me. You bloody well scooped

00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:06.179
me. Well, I'm not going to lie. We're actually

00:35:06.179 --> 00:35:08.820
scooping each other a lot on this side so far

00:35:08.820 --> 00:35:11.699
down to the song, which doesn't usually happen

00:35:11.699 --> 00:35:14.539
with you and I. We usually surprise each other

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:17.099
with scooping the band, but kind of going with

00:35:17.099 --> 00:35:20.179
a different song. Well, it's time to pick it

00:35:20.179 --> 00:35:23.550
back up, I think. Because we've brought down

00:35:23.550 --> 00:35:25.690
the mood a little bit. You know, we've got the

00:35:25.690 --> 00:35:27.630
crying towels out. It's time to pick it up a

00:35:27.630 --> 00:35:30.190
little bit. And I'm going to go with a song that,

00:35:30.269 --> 00:35:34.210
while there weren't many performances of their

00:35:34.210 --> 00:35:36.010
performance on MTV Unplugged that's out there,

00:35:36.190 --> 00:35:38.309
it's only about three songs that are available

00:35:38.309 --> 00:35:43.409
acoustically. But Dangerous by Roxette. This

00:35:43.409 --> 00:35:47.150
song all of a sudden had a fun jam style to it.

00:35:47.170 --> 00:35:51.719
Like, it's just the two of them. When you listen

00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.639
to it and you listen to them singing, you can

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:58.320
almost hear the smiles as they're singing. This

00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.599
is the kind of song that works well in a stripped

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:05.280
down acoustic setting. And it feels it sounds

00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:08.760
like it's in a small room performance. And it's

00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:13.139
fantastic. What an incredible pick. And I'll

00:36:13.139 --> 00:36:19.039
be perfectly honest. I did not know that there

00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.630
was a version. available on streaming of that

00:36:22.630 --> 00:36:27.050
i vividly remember recording and watching that

00:36:27.050 --> 00:36:30.349
mtv unplugged performance by roxette and i loved

00:36:30.349 --> 00:36:33.309
it i had no idea that any of those songs were

00:36:33.309 --> 00:36:35.869
available on streaming so you just kind of blew

00:36:35.869 --> 00:36:39.530
my mind right there it's on spotify you can add

00:36:39.530 --> 00:36:41.610
it to your liked songs now you know along with

00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:43.610
the other probably 10 or 20 000 songs you have

00:36:43.610 --> 00:36:49.929
already liked okay Okay, so I got to close out

00:36:49.929 --> 00:36:53.429
Side A, and we've kind of gone a little bit all

00:36:53.429 --> 00:36:57.110
over the place here, and you scooped me with

00:36:57.110 --> 00:37:01.050
Alice in Chains at the beginning. However, there

00:37:01.050 --> 00:37:04.809
are always workarounds, and I've got a workaround.

00:37:05.369 --> 00:37:10.030
And to close out the side, you talked about Roxette's

00:37:10.030 --> 00:37:12.750
Dangerous being a little jammy. I'm going to

00:37:12.750 --> 00:37:16.429
go with one that's a lot jammy. It's almost 10

00:37:16.429 --> 00:37:21.599
minutes of jammy. And this was done in 1997 during

00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:24.920
the Don't Call Us, We'll Call You radio broadcast

00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:31.480
on KSJO. And it was immediately bootlegged and

00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:35.360
pressed on those live import, I'm using quote

00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:38.260
marks in the air, those CDs that you'd find in

00:37:38.260 --> 00:37:42.800
the racks for $25 or $30 at your local CD stores

00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.840
at the time. There was one out there called Acoustica.

00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:51.989
But about a year later, on 1998's Garage Inc.,

00:37:51.989 --> 00:37:56.829
Metallica put it out officially. And again, I'm

00:37:56.829 --> 00:37:59.130
going with a cover song. You know me and my covers.

00:37:59.510 --> 00:38:04.969
But this cover featured Metallica with Lynyrd

00:38:04.969 --> 00:38:09.170
Skynyrd's Gary Rossington, Corrosion of Conformity's

00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:12.869
Pepper Keenan, Blues Traveler's John Popper,

00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:18.690
Primus' Les Claypool, And in a nod to the first

00:38:18.690 --> 00:38:22.690
song on the playlist, Alice in Chains, Jerry

00:38:22.690 --> 00:38:26.710
Cantrell. I'm going with Tuesday's Gone, their

00:38:26.710 --> 00:38:30.489
cover of the Leonard Skinner classic. I was lucky

00:38:30.489 --> 00:38:33.230
enough to see Metallica perform their Garage

00:38:33.230 --> 00:38:36.889
Inc. show at the Roseland Ballroom as part of

00:38:36.889 --> 00:38:42.309
their Garage Barrage Tour. It was by far... Probably

00:38:42.309 --> 00:38:46.829
the largest band I've ever seen in a small venue,

00:38:46.929 --> 00:38:50.570
except for Lincoln Park at the Birch Hill nightclub

00:38:50.570 --> 00:38:55.110
before hybrid theory truly exploded. Sadly, they

00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:58.469
didn't perform Tuesday's Gone at this show, but

00:38:58.469 --> 00:39:01.510
the set list they did play that night, which

00:39:01.510 --> 00:39:04.590
was nothing but covers, and it actually featured

00:39:04.590 --> 00:39:06.969
a Metallica cover band, Battery, opening the

00:39:06.969 --> 00:39:09.590
show. I don't know if Tuesday's Gone would have

00:39:09.590 --> 00:39:12.409
jived with a set list that featured So What,

00:39:12.670 --> 00:39:16.389
Die Die My Darling, Merciful Fate, Last Caress,

00:39:16.429 --> 00:39:19.690
Green Hell. I think the slowest they went was

00:39:19.690 --> 00:39:21.909
Turn the Page that night, and that was the single

00:39:21.909 --> 00:39:26.130
at the time. But Tuesday's Gone was the moment

00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:28.789
on Garage Inc. that really blew my mind because

00:39:28.789 --> 00:39:32.130
this was Metallica kind of being a jam band.

00:39:33.279 --> 00:39:36.440
And letting John Popper kind of run with a harmonica

00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:39.460
solo in a Metallica song. This was different.

00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:42.679
This was something that they never went back

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.460
to. And I feel like it was an important part

00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:47.440
of Metallica. And I think a cool way to close

00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:50.019
out the side, kind of circling back with that

00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:52.159
little nod to Alice in Chains at the beginning

00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:56.159
of the side here. See, you threw me for a loop

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.599
here. Because the minute you said Acoustica,

00:39:58.820 --> 00:40:01.829
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The 2001

00:40:01.829 --> 00:40:08.670
Scorpions Acoustica album isn't on Spotify. Plus,

00:40:08.730 --> 00:40:11.570
it was also recorded in 2001. The minute you

00:40:11.570 --> 00:40:13.110
said Acoustica, I'm like, oh, he's going there.

00:40:13.210 --> 00:40:17.389
Because on that album by the Scorpions is a cover

00:40:17.389 --> 00:40:22.050
of Drive by The Cars. And I'm like, had it not

00:40:22.050 --> 00:40:24.809
been recorded in 2001, that should have been

00:40:24.809 --> 00:40:27.889
on your list. But no, you're right. Especially

00:40:27.889 --> 00:40:32.639
a band like Metallica. goes out and does covers

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:36.420
and you know i know you love your covers covers

00:40:36.420 --> 00:40:41.280
are fun and covers is a nice way of letting the

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:45.000
fans kind of see your musical influences so to

00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:48.739
see a band do a full covers show that would be

00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:53.239
fantastic absolutely fantastic very very memorable

00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:57.719
it aired on mtv and is available on YouTube to

00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:00.320
watch it in its entirety. So I'll make sure to

00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:04.900
post that concert on the episode page at myweeklymixtape

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:07.619
.com if you would like to check it out. But there

00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:11.260
you have it, folks. Side A of our 90s acoustic

00:41:11.260 --> 00:41:14.440
unplugged mixtape, which kicked off with Alice

00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:18.800
in Chains' Nutshell, Tesla's Signs, Firehouse,

00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:23.039
Don't Treat Me Bad, Oasis, Round Our Way, Silver

00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:26.739
Chairs, Anna's Song, Soul Asylum's Somebody to

00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:30.380
Shove, Nirvana's Something in the Way, Pearl

00:41:30.380 --> 00:41:34.719
Jam's Black, Roxette's Dangerous, and Metallica's

00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:38.179
Tuesday's Gone. Head over to myweeklymixtape

00:41:38.179 --> 00:41:40.820
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in

00:41:40.820 --> 00:41:44.280
this mix through the playlist embedded on the

00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:48.420
episode page. And now we are flipping the tape

00:41:48.420 --> 00:41:51.320
over to Side B and I get to kick things off and

00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.199
you kicked... Things off on Side A with an iconic

00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:58.780
MTV Unplugged performance. But you went with

00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:01.260
an album opener. And you know I love my album

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:05.260
openers just as much as I love my cover songs.

00:42:06.179 --> 00:42:08.719
Now I'm going to cause some controversy with

00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:12.019
this pick. I know it. Because I'm going to bring

00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:14.940
up one of the most iconic MTV Unplugged performances

00:42:14.940 --> 00:42:18.360
of all time. And I'm not going to go with the

00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:21.179
song that everybody thinks. And I'm going to

00:42:21.179 --> 00:42:26.920
go from 1995's MTV Unplugged and their 1996 Unplugged

00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:31.880
album, the first non -Alive Kiss live album.

00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.380
And I am going to go with a Kiss track, but I'm

00:42:34.380 --> 00:42:37.719
not going to go with the reunion songs. I'm not

00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.139
going to go with rock and roll all night. I'm

00:42:40.139 --> 00:42:43.599
going with the album opener, Coming Home, which

00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:47.639
was originally on Hotter Than Hell. And I will

00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:51.739
tell you right now. I like the version on Unplugged

00:42:51.739 --> 00:42:55.920
more than Hotter Than Hell. It is amazing. Paul

00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:59.340
Stanley's vocals on it are incredible. I love

00:42:59.340 --> 00:43:01.380
the performance. And I know there's Kiss fans

00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:04.280
out there right now who are screaming at the

00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.880
top of their lungs that I didn't bring up the

00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.900
iconic pairing that would lead into the 1996.

00:43:11.179 --> 00:43:14.639
reunion tour that i was so lucky to be able to

00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.820
see on new year's eve in new jersey in 1996 at

00:43:19.820 --> 00:43:23.519
the continental airlines arena where the band

00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:25.880
played rock and roll all night that aired on

00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.280
dick clark's new year's rock and eve i got to

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.719
see the kiss live on the reunion tour and yet

00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.500
i picked a song that had no reunion members on

00:43:34.500 --> 00:43:38.219
it this was the current members of kiss but coming

00:43:38.219 --> 00:43:42.840
home was such a great Little precursor to what

00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.539
was about to happen at the end of the show. And

00:43:46.539 --> 00:43:50.059
such a great opener for the MTV Unplugged album

00:43:50.059 --> 00:43:53.539
that I feel like, yeah, let's stir up some shit

00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:56.500
tonight. Let's cause some controversy. Kiss coming

00:43:56.500 --> 00:44:00.480
home from Unplugged. There's no question you

00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:02.639
scooped me on the album, but you didn't scoop

00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.380
me on the song. But I'm with you. I didn't go

00:44:06.380 --> 00:44:10.260
with any of the reunion songs either. I had two

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:13.119
on my list. I had Going Blind, because I love

00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:16.980
that song, and I Still Love You. Oh, my God.

00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:21.659
Yes. The best Paul Stanley live performance ever.

00:44:21.820 --> 00:44:27.039
That whole album. Yes. Alive, Alive 2, Alive

00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.780
3. They're good. They're good. Unplugged? Unplugged

00:44:31.780 --> 00:44:34.139
is their best live performance, period. bruce

00:44:34.139 --> 00:44:38.400
kulik for my money if i'm putting together like

00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:41.440
the dream kiss lineup bruce kulik is on guitar

00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:44.139
and i'm cool with either eric carr eric singer

00:44:44.139 --> 00:44:47.460
on drums because they're both fantastic that

00:44:47.460 --> 00:44:50.840
was when kiss was firing on literally every cylinder

00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:54.739
the revenge lineup was to me the best kiss lineup

00:44:54.739 --> 00:44:58.880
bar none and that performance i know it led into

00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:01.119
the reunion and that was cool we got psycho circus

00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.559
out of that I wanted more of that revenge lineup.

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:06.739
And yes, we did get that with Carnival of Souls,

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.619
which was kind of like half released and half

00:45:09.619 --> 00:45:12.800
finished. But to me, that was that was the best

00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.099
kiss. I'll tell you right now, it is thundering

00:45:16.099 --> 00:45:19.199
like a mofo outside right now. I'm not sure if

00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.360
it's bleeding into my mic or not, but I don't

00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.039
know if it's because of the actual weather or

00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:26.400
if you and I are just pissing off the kiss gods

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:32.780
so much with our wild fan theories. But I will

00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:37.699
100 % agree with you that I Still Love You is

00:45:37.699 --> 00:45:41.360
an incredible live performance from that album.

00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:45.400
I just felt like starting off a side with a power

00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.800
ballad might have been a little aggressive, even

00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:53.719
more so than going with the album opener. I think

00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:55.380
it's a great way to start the side. Absolutely.

00:45:55.619 --> 00:45:58.420
And I know exactly where I'm going to go from

00:45:58.420 --> 00:46:01.829
here. And I'm going to go with another MTV unplugged

00:46:01.829 --> 00:46:04.849
performance. And it's not a band that I normally

00:46:04.849 --> 00:46:09.150
would have found myself listening to. But when

00:46:09.150 --> 00:46:12.349
10 ,000 Maniacs put out their cover of Because

00:46:12.349 --> 00:46:14.909
the Night, the Springsteen and Patti Smith covers

00:46:14.909 --> 00:46:18.210
on what they did, like I wasn't as familiar with

00:46:18.210 --> 00:46:20.849
10 ,000 Maniacs as maybe I should have been.

00:46:21.130 --> 00:46:24.190
But their cover of Because the Night, this to

00:46:24.190 --> 00:46:27.769
me solidified that it wasn't just. your standard

00:46:27.769 --> 00:46:30.269
rock kit bands that could pull this off. 10 ,000

00:46:30.269 --> 00:46:32.590
Maniacs brought it and then some of that performance

00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:35.190
and it really kind of opened my eyes to their

00:46:35.190 --> 00:46:38.690
full discography after that. Natalie Merchant

00:46:38.690 --> 00:46:43.429
is a treasure. Her voice is incredible. This

00:46:43.429 --> 00:46:48.369
performance, I think, introduced 10 ,000 Maniacs

00:46:48.369 --> 00:46:50.210
to a lot of people. They had plenty of hits.

00:46:50.889 --> 00:46:53.550
prior to MTV Unplugged or else they would have

00:46:53.550 --> 00:46:58.489
never had an MTV Unplugged. But this cover introduced

00:46:58.489 --> 00:47:04.530
them to so many people that went back and discovered

00:47:04.530 --> 00:47:07.750
10 ,000 Maniacs. And I'll be perfectly honest,

00:47:08.030 --> 00:47:11.869
I am one of those people. I was not a 10 ,000

00:47:11.869 --> 00:47:15.130
Maniacs fan until Because of the Night. So I

00:47:15.130 --> 00:47:18.690
love the pick. I think it's the perfect song.

00:47:19.420 --> 00:47:23.159
To kind of be a snapshot of the MTV Unplugged

00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:26.579
era, because it was one of those moments, just

00:47:26.579 --> 00:47:29.940
like the Kiss album. And I think coming out of

00:47:29.940 --> 00:47:32.840
that, I'm going to go with a song that musically

00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:37.179
is going to continue that 10 ,000 Maniacs vibe,

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:41.920
but also pivot things, I'd say, in a unique way.

00:47:42.420 --> 00:47:46.280
Now, we've talked about MTV Unplugged a ton so

00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:51.360
far. But we haven't talked about VH1 Storytellers.

00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:56.719
And that's another huge piece of 90s televised

00:47:56.719 --> 00:48:01.219
concert nostalgia, if you will. So from their

00:48:01.219 --> 00:48:06.300
acoustic VH1 Storytellers performance, but released

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:11.099
on 1998's Across a Wire live in New York City,

00:48:11.300 --> 00:48:13.860
I'm going to go with The Counting Crows' Rain

00:48:13.860 --> 00:48:17.590
King. Now, this version takes a song that is

00:48:17.590 --> 00:48:22.030
originally upbeat, happy, you know, that jangly

00:48:22.030 --> 00:48:27.289
90s pop, and it reinvents it as a slow, mellow

00:48:27.289 --> 00:48:30.730
ballad. And let me tell you, if you listen to

00:48:30.730 --> 00:48:34.130
the studio version of Rain King from August and

00:48:34.130 --> 00:48:36.369
everything after, and then follow it up with

00:48:36.369 --> 00:48:40.630
this version, you're getting two entirely different

00:48:40.630 --> 00:48:44.630
experiences. This version brings out the, okay,

00:48:44.750 --> 00:48:50.110
storytellers, story in the lyrics. And the vocal

00:48:50.110 --> 00:48:52.710
harmonies are front and center and they're just,

00:48:52.809 --> 00:48:56.030
I'll say it, they're beautiful. Something you

00:48:56.030 --> 00:48:58.650
don't get listening to the original studio cut

00:48:58.650 --> 00:49:01.369
because you're likely up dancing and getting

00:49:01.369 --> 00:49:04.809
lost in that version's experience. Colburn and

00:49:04.809 --> 00:49:08.250
Company covers Rain King all the time. But it

00:49:08.250 --> 00:49:11.429
all depends on the setting. We have both versions

00:49:11.429 --> 00:49:14.750
of this song locked and loaded and ready to go

00:49:14.750 --> 00:49:18.269
in our set list because if it's a quiet set one

00:49:18.269 --> 00:49:21.050
and people are just sitting at their tables at

00:49:21.050 --> 00:49:25.349
a winery sipping wine, we break out the across

00:49:25.349 --> 00:49:28.449
a wire version because it gets people kind of

00:49:28.449 --> 00:49:30.449
looking up at the stage and kind of acknowledging

00:49:30.449 --> 00:49:33.190
that this is a song they know, but it almost

00:49:33.190 --> 00:49:35.969
makes them go, oh, that's a Counting Crows song.

00:49:36.489 --> 00:49:38.809
But if they're already drunk and up and dancing

00:49:38.809 --> 00:49:41.369
by the time we're playing, we go with the original

00:49:41.369 --> 00:49:44.809
studio cut. So this is kind of similar to what

00:49:44.809 --> 00:49:47.369
I was saying about Soul Asylum, somebody's shove

00:49:47.369 --> 00:49:51.070
on side A. Only this time, we're not taking a

00:49:51.070 --> 00:49:54.309
heavy song and flipping it on its side. It's

00:49:54.309 --> 00:49:58.030
taking an upbeat, happy song and just kind of

00:49:58.030 --> 00:50:01.349
mellowing it out, bringing it down to a musical

00:50:01.349 --> 00:50:04.280
simmer, I guess you want to call it. Now, unfortunately,

00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:06.619
every time I've seen the Counting Crows live,

00:50:06.780 --> 00:50:11.000
I've seen them do the OG studio version. But

00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.980
let me tell you, man, what I would give to hear

00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:16.940
the Across a Wire slowed down version of Rain

00:50:16.940 --> 00:50:21.159
King live. Oh, my God. To me, there are certain

00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:26.300
albums that were almost created with MTV Unplugged

00:50:26.300 --> 00:50:28.559
and VH1 Storytellers in mind. And August and

00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:31.280
everything after. is kind of that very similar

00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.739
to how when you listen to tori amos's little

00:50:34.739 --> 00:50:37.699
earthquakes that seem to be almost tailor -made

00:50:37.699 --> 00:50:40.559
for that acoustic experience and august everything

00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:43.400
after definitely has that feel you can say the

00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.039
same thing too a little bit too while it's a

00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:48.920
little bit heavier seven mary three's rock crown

00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:52.320
kind of fits into that tailor -made for an acoustic

00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:55.340
experience now i will be honest that you did

00:50:55.340 --> 00:50:58.179
scoop me on the album because i did have round

00:50:58.179 --> 00:51:02.349
here On my list. Another good one. However, also

00:51:02.349 --> 00:51:06.070
beside that note on my list is, but it's counting

00:51:06.070 --> 00:51:09.409
crows and it's Brian. So you cannot scoop him

00:51:09.409 --> 00:51:12.949
like you did on the trios episode to Sean with

00:51:12.949 --> 00:51:15.070
the tea party. I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry.

00:51:15.389 --> 00:51:17.809
But I wasn't going to take the counting crows

00:51:17.809 --> 00:51:20.989
from you. Well, I appreciate that, sir. But I

00:51:20.989 --> 00:51:24.050
want to take this moment then to mention. When

00:51:24.050 --> 00:51:27.050
I guessed it on There Can Only Be One for your

00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:31.250
Counting Crows episode, Across a Wire being a

00:51:31.250 --> 00:51:35.690
live album wasn't in contention for the discussion.

00:51:36.329 --> 00:51:39.429
But had we made an exception, because you made

00:51:39.429 --> 00:51:43.050
the exception with Sean on Tesla, so I don't

00:51:43.050 --> 00:51:45.369
know. Maybe I should have pushed a little harder

00:51:45.369 --> 00:51:48.489
for this one, but Rain King would have been my

00:51:48.489 --> 00:51:50.969
only one pick. Well, I think when you take a

00:51:50.969 --> 00:51:53.010
look at Five Man Acoustical Jam, you kind of

00:51:53.010 --> 00:51:55.750
have to make the exception for that album, given

00:51:55.750 --> 00:51:59.489
the impact on Tesla's career that it had. So

00:51:59.489 --> 00:52:02.670
Sean got the plus one for that one, but he got

00:52:02.670 --> 00:52:05.489
the minus one for the tea party. So I guess we're

00:52:05.489 --> 00:52:07.730
even on that. Yeah, it all balances out in the

00:52:07.730 --> 00:52:12.630
end. OK, so now we've got Kiss, 10 ,000 Maniacs

00:52:12.630 --> 00:52:16.250
and Counting Crows. It's quite the trio in and

00:52:16.250 --> 00:52:18.980
of itself right there. Jason, where do you go

00:52:18.980 --> 00:52:23.179
from here? You know what? For all the times that

00:52:23.179 --> 00:52:26.679
I have been on your show, I have not had a chance

00:52:26.679 --> 00:52:31.880
to pick one singer that has always been one of

00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:35.099
my go -tos. And I've probably seen this artist

00:52:35.099 --> 00:52:40.539
live more times than any other artist I've seen.

00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:45.039
And that's Chris DeBerg. So I'm going to go with

00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.070
his 1995 album, beautiful dream so what he did

00:52:49.070 --> 00:52:51.590
with this album was he went into the studio and

00:52:51.590 --> 00:52:55.449
brought a full orchestra in and did covers and

00:52:55.449 --> 00:52:57.409
acoustic versions of some of his older songs

00:52:57.409 --> 00:53:00.489
so for my pick i'm going to go with a song of

00:53:00.489 --> 00:53:04.050
his that he redid called snows of new york it

00:53:04.050 --> 00:53:08.429
is massive absolutely massive song the orchestra

00:53:08.429 --> 00:53:10.250
sounds great on it but if you like your covers

00:53:10.750 --> 00:53:12.789
There were some fantastic covers on here, including

00:53:12.789 --> 00:53:15.690
this cover of John Waits Missing You and The

00:53:15.690 --> 00:53:18.690
Beatles Girl, which was actually the second song

00:53:18.690 --> 00:53:21.050
I had on there. But I'm going to put a little

00:53:21.050 --> 00:53:24.349
Krista Berg on the tape with Snows of New York.

00:53:24.829 --> 00:53:27.710
Going with some Krista Berg. I actually really

00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:31.670
love that cover of Missing You. That is a fantastic

00:53:31.670 --> 00:53:35.110
cover. Shocked you went with Snows of New York.

00:53:35.150 --> 00:53:38.010
I'm not going to lie. That is a very. interesting

00:53:38.010 --> 00:53:41.809
pick here a very interesting choice oh it was

00:53:41.809 --> 00:53:45.429
a fantastic album it was a fantastic tour and

00:53:45.429 --> 00:53:47.590
i think the thing with snows of new york is that

00:53:47.590 --> 00:53:50.110
it wasn't one of those songs that i already knew

00:53:50.110 --> 00:53:53.449
it was one that i was familiar enough with but

00:53:53.449 --> 00:53:56.170
it didn't really leap off the album originally

00:53:56.170 --> 00:53:59.510
when it first released on this one with the orchestra

00:53:59.510 --> 00:54:02.289
and that tour was fantastic the fact that he

00:54:02.289 --> 00:54:04.210
had a string section with him on tour which he

00:54:04.210 --> 00:54:06.789
doesn't normally do More often than not, when

00:54:06.789 --> 00:54:09.829
I've seen him, it's just been literally him and

00:54:09.829 --> 00:54:13.090
an acoustic guitar or a piano, which are fantastic

00:54:13.090 --> 00:54:15.230
performances. I've seen him with a full band

00:54:15.230 --> 00:54:18.769
as well. He is fantastic live. Actually, it's

00:54:18.769 --> 00:54:21.869
funny. I saw him only about like two years ago,

00:54:21.969 --> 00:54:24.070
so not that long ago. And, you know, he's a little

00:54:24.070 --> 00:54:25.789
long in the tooth, but he still puts on a great

00:54:25.789 --> 00:54:29.750
show, especially when he gives the security the

00:54:29.750 --> 00:54:31.610
what for to make sure that people are still allowed

00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:34.849
to dance. So Krista Berg still rock and roll.

00:54:35.469 --> 00:54:37.590
I think I'm going to lean into that rock and

00:54:37.590 --> 00:54:42.409
roll and go with another iconic MTV unplugged

00:54:42.409 --> 00:54:45.130
moment. Because something that we haven't talked

00:54:45.130 --> 00:54:48.769
about yet is the fact that a lot of these unplugged

00:54:48.769 --> 00:54:53.949
performances reintroduced classic rock artists

00:54:53.949 --> 00:54:58.750
to a new generation. I don't want to say so much

00:54:58.750 --> 00:55:00.969
the Kiss performance. I feel like people knew

00:55:00.969 --> 00:55:04.159
who Kiss was. But there were artists that it

00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:08.099
really introduced people and reintroduced a new

00:55:08.099 --> 00:55:10.440
generation to an artist. And I think one of those

00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.800
would be back in 1992 when this single went to

00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:18.739
number 12 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. And

00:55:18.739 --> 00:55:21.659
this was the kind of rendition that MTV Unplugged

00:55:21.659 --> 00:55:24.940
was made for. An artist takes a song that everybody

00:55:24.940 --> 00:55:28.199
knows, in this case, Derek and the Dominoes.

00:55:28.570 --> 00:55:31.230
And the original artist, Eric Clapton, goes and

00:55:31.230 --> 00:55:34.730
flips it on its ear. Hell, even on the album,

00:55:34.929 --> 00:55:38.510
he says, see if you could spot this one before

00:55:38.510 --> 00:55:42.469
he starts the opening riff to Layla. And this

00:55:42.469 --> 00:55:46.489
version of Layla is so unique to the original.

00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:50.639
it became a hit in and of itself. And the band

00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:52.440
he had on stage with him for that performance

00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:55.780
was Top Notch. Being a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

00:55:55.780 --> 00:55:59.059
fanatic, Steve Ferron was on drums. And then

00:55:59.059 --> 00:56:01.980
you have Chuck Lavelle playing a ridiculously

00:56:01.980 --> 00:56:04.679
underrated piano line throughout this entire

00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:09.400
song that both fills and flourishes throughout

00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:12.079
the song and complements what Eric Clapton's

00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:15.849
doing on acoustic guitar. I would... Safely say

00:56:15.849 --> 00:56:20.590
that this specific version introduced maybe a

00:56:20.590 --> 00:56:23.570
lot of our generation to Eric Clapton's music,

00:56:23.610 --> 00:56:26.989
because I vividly remember having conversations

00:56:26.989 --> 00:56:29.190
in high school with friends and they were saying,

00:56:29.269 --> 00:56:32.389
I just got this CD and my parents knew half the

00:56:32.389 --> 00:56:36.170
songs on it. So I feel like this was one of those

00:56:36.170 --> 00:56:38.510
moments, at least for me, where I could bond

00:56:38.510 --> 00:56:42.730
with my parents musically and also feel like

00:56:42.730 --> 00:56:47.070
I was. in touch with modern music because here

00:56:47.070 --> 00:56:52.030
it was a hit again how do you take a song that's

00:56:52.030 --> 00:56:55.389
arguably one hell of a rocker because the original

00:56:55.389 --> 00:56:57.489
derrick and the dominoes version that's got some

00:56:57.489 --> 00:56:59.889
swagger to that with the guitar and especially

00:56:59.889 --> 00:57:03.030
the piano end that you have to think kind of

00:57:03.030 --> 00:57:06.530
inspired the ending of zizek's road by stone

00:57:06.530 --> 00:57:10.119
sour but then you take it And you flip it on

00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:12.780
its head into almost like a jazz swing style.

00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:17.480
And that's fun. I love when bands take a song

00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:19.739
and then they're like, yeah, you know it. But

00:57:19.739 --> 00:57:23.039
now you got to know it this way. At first, I'll

00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:25.800
be honest. I wasn't as familiar with Derek and

00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:29.159
the Dominoes as I was after Eric Clapton's unplugged

00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:30.920
performance. And I'm like, oh, yeah, no, this

00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:33.039
is a good song. It's got a cool swing to it.

00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:34.820
It's all good. And then you hear the original.

00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:39.949
It's like, oh, oh, oh, they went there. And personally,

00:57:40.010 --> 00:57:42.489
I think I prefer the unplugged version. But I

00:57:42.489 --> 00:57:44.449
think I know where I'm going to go with this

00:57:44.449 --> 00:57:49.849
one. And I need to go to one of those CDs that's

00:57:49.849 --> 00:57:52.889
a little bit of a saving grace right now. So

00:57:52.889 --> 00:57:54.590
there was a series of CDs that were released

00:57:54.590 --> 00:57:57.630
and they are available on Spotify called Released

00:57:57.630 --> 00:58:00.409
the Human Rights Concerts. And they are a collection

00:58:00.409 --> 00:58:05.590
of live acoustic performances. And on one of

00:58:05.590 --> 00:58:09.480
them. is an acoustic live performance of In Your

00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:13.659
Eyes from Peter Gabriel and Yusu Nador. A, it's

00:58:13.659 --> 00:58:16.539
probably the best Peter Gabriel song out there,

00:58:16.699 --> 00:58:21.559
period. B, the CDs have live performances from

00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:25.199
the likes of Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain.

00:58:25.900 --> 00:58:29.340
radio head there are some fantastic live acoustic

00:58:29.340 --> 00:58:31.980
performances on those i think there's at least

00:58:31.980 --> 00:58:35.239
three cds that are available on spotify so definitely

00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:37.880
go and check them out but i mean if you like

00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.940
i mean who doesn't like in your eyes that not

00:58:40.940 --> 00:58:46.139
only is it a staple of 80s movies but live that

00:58:46.139 --> 00:58:51.380
song is fantastic what a great pick when you

00:58:51.380 --> 00:58:55.849
think about songs that were meant For the acoustic

00:58:55.849 --> 00:58:59.389
rendition in your eyes, because the original

00:58:59.389 --> 00:59:03.789
has that kind of 80s sheen on it. And when you

00:59:03.789 --> 00:59:07.570
strip all that back, you realize what an incredible

00:59:07.570 --> 00:59:10.070
I mean, I don't think it's a big shock to people

00:59:10.070 --> 00:59:12.130
out there. I might be blowing some minds, but

00:59:12.130 --> 00:59:14.730
Peter Gabriel knows how to write some good songs

00:59:14.730 --> 00:59:16.829
like you could go all the way back to Genesis

00:59:16.829 --> 00:59:20.190
and realize that. But when you strip out the

00:59:20.190 --> 00:59:23.130
80s sheen on the version of so and you take it.

00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:27.699
To what it is. This is a brilliant. Brilliant

00:59:27.699 --> 00:59:32.059
song. And to strip it down like this. And it

00:59:32.059 --> 00:59:36.739
feels so personal. And so vulnerable. Even more

00:59:36.739 --> 00:59:40.159
so. Than the version that everybody knows. In

00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:43.280
Say Anything. When John Cusack is holding up.

00:59:43.340 --> 00:59:46.940
The boom box over his head. Imagine this version

00:59:46.940 --> 00:59:49.900
being played. At that moment in the movie. Oh

00:59:49.900 --> 00:59:54.460
absolutely. Now admittedly. I was a sucker for

00:59:54.460 --> 00:59:57.380
the secret world live version of the song because

00:59:57.380 --> 01:00:00.360
of course he had Paula Cole on tour with him

01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:04.320
as, as the backup vocalist and that version of

01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.679
don't give up with her singing. Like Kate Bush

01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:11.179
is good. Don't get me wrong. Paula Cole live

01:00:11.179 --> 01:00:14.360
with Peter Gabriel will take your breath away.

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.159
Incredible vocalist. She is just unbelievable.

01:00:18.980 --> 01:00:23.730
Hmm. All right. I want to bring us back into

01:00:23.730 --> 01:00:25.590
the 90s a little bit. I feel like this side's

01:00:25.590 --> 01:00:29.110
been touching a little bit classic Rocky. And

01:00:29.110 --> 01:00:31.670
I want to remember this is a 90s episode. So

01:00:31.670 --> 01:00:35.949
we got to go with one that is distinctly 90s.

01:00:36.389 --> 01:00:38.949
And I feel like I haven't given as much love

01:00:38.949 --> 01:00:41.889
to the Patreon mixtapers this episode as I should.

01:00:42.309 --> 01:00:45.530
And I feel like. Christopher Pazica nailed it

01:00:45.530 --> 01:00:48.309
with his song choice. So let's just go off their

01:00:48.309 --> 01:00:52.809
1994 MTV unplugged performance released on the

01:00:52.809 --> 01:00:55.949
deluxe edition of core. Finally, that would be

01:00:55.949 --> 01:00:59.889
stone temple pilots and plush. The DeLeo brothers

01:00:59.889 --> 01:01:05.369
shine in this version. In the original, the guitars

01:01:05.369 --> 01:01:09.630
are grungier and sludgier and they almost mask

01:01:09.630 --> 01:01:12.710
each other. And the vocals kind of become the

01:01:12.710 --> 01:01:15.369
forefront. Now, don't get me wrong. Scott Weiland's

01:01:15.369 --> 01:01:18.989
vocals on the acoustic version are incredible.

01:01:19.769 --> 01:01:24.050
But when you listen to Dean's nuanced guitars,

01:01:24.210 --> 01:01:27.869
when he's playing the chords to plush acoustically,

01:01:27.929 --> 01:01:31.949
and you hear the separation between that and

01:01:31.949 --> 01:01:36.090
Robert's, I'll just say it, incredible bass line

01:01:36.090 --> 01:01:40.400
shining through on this performance. People kind

01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:44.059
of discount Stone Temple Pilots a lot. And I

01:01:44.059 --> 01:01:46.380
don't think they realize just how ridiculously

01:01:46.380 --> 01:01:50.300
talented the DeLeo brothers are. And in this

01:01:50.300 --> 01:01:56.460
version, I think it truly shows just the insane

01:01:56.460 --> 01:01:59.519
amount of talent that this band had. This almost

01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:03.960
brings out a Beatles -esque. to a song that when

01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:06.539
you listen to the original, you might not think

01:02:06.539 --> 01:02:09.239
that. There's other songs in the STP catalog

01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:12.280
that you'll go, oh, I hear a little bit of the

01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:15.260
Beatles influence. I hear a lot of it. But on

01:02:15.260 --> 01:02:18.199
Plush, people automatically go to that grunge

01:02:18.199 --> 01:02:21.420
sound. But this acoustic version, it's hidden

01:02:21.420 --> 01:02:24.119
in there, and it's beautiful. Oh, yeah, no, I

01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:26.239
had Creep from that performance on my list for

01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:29.639
sure. And really, Stone Temple Pilots are just...

01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:32.400
Freaking fantastic live and having a chance to

01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.219
see them in a couple of different incarnations.

01:02:35.219 --> 01:02:36.719
I never got to see the Scott Weiland version,

01:02:36.860 --> 01:02:39.699
but I did see the Jeff Gutt version. And I did

01:02:39.699 --> 01:02:41.719
get a chance to see them with Chester Bennington

01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.260
at the Shindig Festival in Baltimore. And that

01:02:45.260 --> 01:02:47.639
was in hindsight. It's one of those things where

01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:49.639
I'm like, thank God I got to see that performance

01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:52.179
because Chester Bennington was fantastic with

01:02:52.179 --> 01:02:55.059
them. That was the one iteration of the band

01:02:55.059 --> 01:02:58.610
I did not see. I did see. Scott Weiland with

01:02:58.610 --> 01:03:01.130
the band, unfortunately, was during one of the

01:03:01.130 --> 01:03:05.449
more tumultuous tours where he wasn't at his

01:03:05.449 --> 01:03:09.289
best. He had moments and then there were moments

01:03:09.289 --> 01:03:11.349
where you could see the brilliance and then there

01:03:11.349 --> 01:03:14.110
were moments where you could see the sad side

01:03:14.110 --> 01:03:16.949
of it. I have seen them with Jeff Gutt and Jeff

01:03:16.949 --> 01:03:20.110
Gutt is an incredible performer and he's really

01:03:20.110 --> 01:03:22.949
carrying the torch for the band now. And I feel

01:03:22.949 --> 01:03:26.239
like. Again, the DeLeo brothers are ridiculously

01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:28.920
talented. Stone Temple Pilots have put out fantastic

01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:32.360
original material. The self -titled album with

01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:36.139
Jeff Gutt, to me, is right up there with some

01:03:36.139 --> 01:03:38.500
of the band's best. And I know I'm probably,

01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:42.380
again, pissing some people off, some purists,

01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:46.039
but the band is ridiculously talented. And that

01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:50.440
version of Creep was also on my list, especially

01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:55.420
because there was that moment in the second verse

01:03:55.420 --> 01:03:59.079
where scott goes up with the think you're kind

01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:01.559
of neat then she tells me i'm a creep friends

01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:04.519
don't mean a thing and he goes high the way that

01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:08.280
eddie vetter does in black oh i love those moments

01:04:08.280 --> 01:04:12.940
i feel like i'm doing my country a disjustice

01:04:12.940 --> 01:04:17.000
if i don't make a a slight not a hard left turn

01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:20.980
just a slight left turn and i have to bring up

01:04:20.980 --> 01:04:24.780
alanis morissette's unplugged performance and

01:04:24.780 --> 01:04:28.059
i'm going to go yes with head over feet probably

01:04:28.059 --> 01:04:31.619
one of my favorite songs from her right up there

01:04:31.619 --> 01:04:35.619
with forgiven a the acoustic performance is fantastic

01:04:35.619 --> 01:04:38.519
but and i'm just going to put this out there

01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:43.079
if you are an alanis morissette fan you need

01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:46.739
to go see the stage performance of jagged little

01:04:46.739 --> 01:04:51.260
pill it is amazing got a chance to see it in

01:04:51.260 --> 01:04:55.500
toronto and I was blown away because I'm not,

01:04:55.500 --> 01:04:59.099
I'll admit, I'm not exactly the biggest. I don't

01:04:59.099 --> 01:05:01.239
go out and immediately put in a last more set

01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:05.519
album into the CD player. The stage play changed

01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:09.280
that because what they did with the songs, especially

01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:13.059
Head Over Feet and Forgiven, it brought new life

01:05:13.059 --> 01:05:18.860
to them. And you don't often get that, that almost

01:05:18.860 --> 01:05:22.659
second or third life. You hear the album. OK,

01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:24.739
it's cool. You see some of the videos. Sometimes

01:05:24.739 --> 01:05:26.360
that changes your opinion and brings them to

01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:29.639
life. You hear it live like an unplugged. It's

01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:32.300
fantastic. But then the stage play an entirely

01:05:32.300 --> 01:05:35.780
different life. And if you like Alanis, you will

01:05:35.780 --> 01:05:38.059
love the show. Even if you don't like Alanis,

01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.539
but you just happen to like live theater, you're

01:05:40.539 --> 01:05:43.920
going to have a fantastic time. I have not sadly

01:05:43.920 --> 01:05:46.460
seen the show. It's on my bucket list to see.

01:05:46.539 --> 01:05:51.559
But thank you for scooping me on. Alanis Morissette

01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:54.360
unplugged because that makes my last choice very

01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.340
easy. Talk about squeezing the 90s down to the

01:05:58.340 --> 01:06:01.440
last drop. This album actually was released November

01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:05.139
9th, 1999. So, I mean, talk about getting it

01:06:05.139 --> 01:06:07.800
in right in the nick of time. I actually had

01:06:07.800 --> 01:06:10.960
her version of The Police's King of Pain, big

01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:14.659
shocker, a cover version on the list. But I could

01:06:14.659 --> 01:06:17.099
have also went with that haunting version of

01:06:17.099 --> 01:06:20.289
Uninvited. And the fact that you went with something

01:06:20.289 --> 01:06:23.630
from Jagged Little Pill, I think Head Over Feet

01:06:23.630 --> 01:06:27.469
might be the best Jagged Little Pill rendition

01:06:27.469 --> 01:06:30.610
on the Unplugged album. Oh, absolutely. And by

01:06:30.610 --> 01:06:32.690
the way, if you want a fantastic cover of Uninvited,

01:06:32.829 --> 01:06:36.730
Red Sun Rising put one out, and it is fantastic.

01:06:38.510 --> 01:06:40.710
Oh, man, what a great band. I know they only

01:06:40.710 --> 01:06:43.610
had two albums, and they're now reformed as The

01:06:43.610 --> 01:06:47.420
Violent, but what a great group they were. Yeah,

01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:49.460
no, I got a chance to see them in Philadelphia.

01:06:49.460 --> 01:06:51.480
It was like one of those festival shows and they

01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:53.780
were like one of the first bands. Don't ever

01:06:53.780 --> 01:06:55.940
skip on the opening bands. They're the ones that

01:06:55.940 --> 01:06:58.059
are going to blow your mind with the fact that

01:06:58.059 --> 01:06:59.780
you've never heard them. And then you're going

01:06:59.780 --> 01:07:02.579
to want to hear them all the time. Well, speaking

01:07:02.579 --> 01:07:04.559
about a song that I want to hear all the time

01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:07.000
for my last song of the evening. Now you've made

01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:11.559
it very easy for me. So thank you. And this performance

01:07:11.559 --> 01:07:15.969
might go down as one of the most powerful. acoustic

01:07:15.969 --> 01:07:22.050
performances to me of all time and some guy named

01:07:22.050 --> 01:07:25.570
john paul jones produced this cd and he also

01:07:25.570 --> 01:07:29.289
plays bass on this live performance the album

01:07:29.289 --> 01:07:32.750
came out the year i graduated high school 1995

01:07:32.750 --> 01:07:37.730
the album is called the road home the band is

01:07:37.730 --> 01:07:42.329
heart and the song is once again a cover song

01:07:42.889 --> 01:07:46.050
It was featured on episode 33. Wait, that's a

01:07:46.050 --> 01:07:48.829
cover song with Jay Sweet? Yes, it's a cover.

01:07:48.969 --> 01:07:50.989
I'm not going to get into that now, though. I'm

01:07:50.989 --> 01:07:53.369
just going to talk about the song. And we're

01:07:53.369 --> 01:07:56.690
going to go with Hart's version of Alone from

01:07:56.690 --> 01:08:01.690
The Road Home. Between the string section and

01:08:01.690 --> 01:08:06.210
in Nancy's vocal harmonies and this stripped

01:08:06.210 --> 01:08:12.000
down, slowed down arrangement of the song. Where

01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:15.880
Anne's high notes are held out for lengths of

01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:20.460
time, just showing the world why she is one of

01:08:20.460 --> 01:08:24.800
the greatest female rock vocalists of all time.

01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:29.939
And I say that with authority. I mean, when you

01:08:29.939 --> 01:08:33.039
talk about the greatest rock singers of all time

01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:36.460
for a female perspective, if you don't include

01:08:36.460 --> 01:08:39.449
Anne Wilson on the list. I think you're doing

01:08:39.449 --> 01:08:41.609
something wrong. I don't make a lot of hot takes

01:08:41.609 --> 01:08:44.710
here, but Ann Wilson is one of the greatest female

01:08:44.710 --> 01:08:48.789
rock singers of all time. And this version gives

01:08:48.789 --> 01:08:54.430
me chills every single time I hear it. And then

01:08:54.430 --> 01:08:56.770
obviously that guy, John Paul Jones from some

01:08:56.770 --> 01:09:00.390
band called Led Zeppelin playing bass and producing

01:09:00.390 --> 01:09:05.350
this, he brought such a unique feel to this performance.

01:09:06.380 --> 01:09:09.819
It just feels so like they're in your living

01:09:09.819 --> 01:09:13.819
room just playing for you. And her vocals cut

01:09:13.819 --> 01:09:18.119
through you like a knife. Oh, my God. I got goosebumps

01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:21.359
just talking about it. So to close out my portion

01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:26.020
of the 90s acoustic unplugged from 1995's The

01:09:26.020 --> 01:09:30.439
Road Home, Hearts Alone. No, you're right. Hearts

01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:34.729
needed to be on the list. They are a band I've

01:09:34.729 --> 01:09:37.489
never had a chance to see live. They're on the

01:09:37.489 --> 01:09:41.550
bucket of regret list of live concert I haven't

01:09:41.550 --> 01:09:44.430
had a chance to see. But I know where I'm going

01:09:44.430 --> 01:09:47.449
to go. Because getting to this last song and

01:09:47.449 --> 01:09:51.329
looking at my list, I was dreading. Because there

01:09:51.329 --> 01:09:54.569
were two acts on my list that we hadn't touched

01:09:54.569 --> 01:09:59.850
on yet. And both slot into my favorite artists

01:09:59.850 --> 01:10:04.020
of all time list. And I'm just like, how the

01:10:04.020 --> 01:10:06.220
hell am I supposed to pick between these two?

01:10:07.539 --> 01:10:09.439
And I was sitting there going, please, please

01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:11.880
make this easy. Please make this easy. You made

01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:16.199
it easy. So thank you for that, because now I

01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:18.819
don't have to pick the acoustic version of Sister

01:10:18.819 --> 01:10:21.979
by the Nixons from their scrapbook EP. Instead,

01:10:22.119 --> 01:10:27.840
I'm going to go off of the Live at Montreux 9192

01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:32.619
album from Tori Amos. Up there with Krista Berg

01:10:32.619 --> 01:10:34.880
as one of the artists I've seen probably the

01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:37.300
most of all time. And again, this is the guy

01:10:37.300 --> 01:10:41.119
who came on Playlist Wars to do an Anthrax episode.

01:10:41.500 --> 01:10:44.060
I've seen Tori Amos more than Anthrax. I've seen

01:10:44.060 --> 01:10:46.000
Tori Amos more than Queensrack. And by the way,

01:10:46.020 --> 01:10:47.619
I didn't pick a Queensrack song either. So it

01:10:47.619 --> 01:10:49.680
was really getting hard at this last one. But

01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:55.039
I'm going to go with Precious Things. It's a

01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:59.550
fantastic performance. I will admit that off

01:10:59.550 --> 01:11:01.770
the To Venus and Back album is another fantastic

01:11:01.770 --> 01:11:05.750
version of that. But here it's just Tori and

01:11:05.750 --> 01:11:09.390
a piano. And if you've ever had the chance to

01:11:09.390 --> 01:11:13.270
see that kind of performance from her, you are

01:11:13.270 --> 01:11:17.430
in for a treat. Now, unfortunately, she has a

01:11:17.430 --> 01:11:21.029
list of like a long list of bootleg live CDs

01:11:21.029 --> 01:11:23.329
that she has on Spotify. And there were a number

01:11:23.329 --> 01:11:24.890
of covers on there that I could have gone with,

01:11:24.949 --> 01:11:28.390
but they were all released. in the 2000s at least

01:11:28.390 --> 01:11:31.489
here it's live at montreal 9192 so it kind of

01:11:31.489 --> 01:11:33.770
definitely puts a pin on things but precious

01:11:33.770 --> 01:11:36.869
things off of that little earthquakes album it's

01:11:36.869 --> 01:11:40.670
really hard to find a bad song at all there are

01:11:40.670 --> 01:11:44.569
some really really good covers on disc two her

01:11:44.569 --> 01:11:47.090
cover of smells like teen spirit and since we

01:11:47.090 --> 01:11:48.770
talked about led zeppelin there's their cover

01:11:48.770 --> 01:11:52.699
of Whole lot of love and thank you. So if you

01:11:52.699 --> 01:11:54.739
love your covers, Tori Amos does some fantastic

01:11:54.739 --> 01:11:57.579
ones and they're on here. But for my money and

01:11:57.579 --> 01:12:00.300
for my last song, I finally get to pick a Tori

01:12:00.300 --> 01:12:03.140
Amos one. I'm going with Precious Things. What

01:12:03.140 --> 01:12:08.380
a trio of powerhouse female vocalists to close

01:12:08.380 --> 01:12:11.720
this out. Alanis Morissette, Head Over Feet,

01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:15.899
Hearts Alone, and Tori Amos' Precious Things.

01:12:16.579 --> 01:12:20.060
I love it. I absolutely love it. And there you

01:12:20.060 --> 01:12:24.239
have it, folks. Side B of our ultimate 90s acoustic

01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:27.640
unplugged playlist, which kicked off with Kisses

01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:31.140
Coming Home, 10 ,000 Maniacs Because the Night,

01:12:31.460 --> 01:12:35.420
Counting Crows Rain King, Krista Berg's Snows

01:12:35.420 --> 01:12:39.340
of New York, Eric Clapton's Layla, Peter Gabriel

01:12:39.340 --> 01:12:43.439
and Yusu Nador's In Your Eyes, Stone Temple Pilots

01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:47.300
Plush, Alanis Morissette's Head Over Feet, Hearts

01:12:47.300 --> 01:12:51.600
Alone, and Tori Amos' Precious Things. Head over

01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:54.739
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs

01:12:54.739 --> 01:12:58.000
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist

01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:01.420
embedded on the episode page. Now, Jason, why

01:13:01.420 --> 01:13:03.539
don't you remind listeners where they can connect

01:13:03.539 --> 01:13:06.579
with you and check out It's Not That Bad and

01:13:06.579 --> 01:13:09.159
There Can Only Be One. We've talked about a bunch

01:13:09.159 --> 01:13:11.800
of the episodes throughout our discussion tonight.

01:13:11.979 --> 01:13:14.180
If they want to hear more, how can they do so?

01:13:14.420 --> 01:13:16.680
Well, if you want to hear more of There Can Only

01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:20.590
Be One myself and a guest suffer through someone's

01:13:20.590 --> 01:13:23.390
discography and try to pick only one song because

01:13:23.390 --> 01:13:26.210
that's a tough one at times that is really tough

01:13:26.210 --> 01:13:29.250
or on the opposite weeks where we do spin shuffle

01:13:29.250 --> 01:13:31.670
skip and we go through an album and pick three

01:13:31.670 --> 01:13:33.949
songs to spin a shuffle and a skip you could

01:13:33.949 --> 01:13:36.369
find us on social media at only one cast and

01:13:36.369 --> 01:13:39.350
if you like your movies where we talk about films

01:13:39.350 --> 01:13:41.270
that are unfairly maligned and have low critic

01:13:41.270 --> 01:13:42.949
scores and we try to find the good things to

01:13:42.949 --> 01:13:45.510
say about them you can find that show it's not

01:13:45.510 --> 01:13:48.550
that bad on social media at not that bad cast

01:13:48.550 --> 01:13:51.649
or one stop shopping. You can go to not that

01:13:51.649 --> 01:13:54.390
bad cast dot com where you can see all of our

01:13:54.390 --> 01:13:57.670
shows. Jason, as always, I look forward to the

01:13:57.670 --> 01:13:59.670
next time having you on. It's always a blast,

01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:02.210
my friend. Oh, you know that all you have to

01:14:02.210 --> 01:14:05.069
do is drop me a message and a topic and I will

01:14:05.069 --> 01:14:08.069
be there within 24 hours ready to go. I will

01:14:08.069 --> 01:14:13.250
say, though, this one was tough because not only

01:14:13.250 --> 01:14:16.840
did I not pick the Nixons. which I'm surprised

01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:19.939
at myself. And not only did I not pick Queensryche

01:14:19.939 --> 01:14:24.479
and I'm surprised at myself, but in preparation

01:14:24.479 --> 01:14:26.800
for this episode, we had talked about how the

01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:29.500
album had to be on Spotify just to make the playlist

01:14:29.500 --> 01:14:32.819
a little bit easier for putting it on the website.

01:14:33.539 --> 01:14:37.460
So I need to point out one album that is not

01:14:37.460 --> 01:14:41.640
available on Spotify. And I was so looking forward

01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:43.859
to dropping this song because it would have been

01:14:43.859 --> 01:14:47.939
fantastic. But that album is not available, so

01:14:47.939 --> 01:14:51.340
I can't talk about it. But it was Tree's Lounge

01:14:51.340 --> 01:14:56.319
live by Hayden, live at Convocation Hall. Now,

01:14:56.319 --> 01:14:58.979
if you've seen the movie Tree's Lounge written,

01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:02.760
starring and directed by Steve Buscemi, it's

01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:05.500
a fantastic film. Hayden is one of those fantastic

01:15:05.500 --> 01:15:08.600
Canadian solo artists, and he has some great

01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:10.260
stuff. And Tree's Lounge is the most electric

01:15:10.260 --> 01:15:13.100
tune that he had done at that time. The string

01:15:13.100 --> 01:15:15.390
quartet. It was actually orchestrated by another

01:15:15.390 --> 01:15:18.329
Canadian artist, Sarah Sleen. And I was at that

01:15:18.329 --> 01:15:21.569
show. And when you hear Tree's Lounge being played,

01:15:21.810 --> 01:15:25.010
you hear like one person in the crowd screaming.

01:15:25.909 --> 01:15:28.050
That's my wife, Carrie. She loves that song.

01:15:29.229 --> 01:15:32.989
Oh, man. Now I feel bad. I should have let you

01:15:32.989 --> 01:15:36.430
pull the asterisk for that one. No, no, no, no,

01:15:36.430 --> 01:15:39.199
no. We stuck to the rules. We live by the it's

01:15:39.199 --> 01:15:41.720
kind of like there can only be one. If we didn't

01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:43.579
talk about the Counting Crows live album, then

01:15:43.579 --> 01:15:45.819
I couldn't talk about Hayden live at Convocation

01:15:45.819 --> 01:15:49.399
Hall on this episode. Fair enough, my friend.

01:15:49.460 --> 01:15:51.439
Thank you again and look forward to the next

01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.920
one. Oh, absolutely. Well, there you have it,

01:15:54.939 --> 01:15:57.479
folks. Remember, you can find My Weekly Mixtape

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