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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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

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Joining me tonight as guest curators are Dan

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and Manny from the Nostalgia Test podcast. Gentlemen,

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thank you so much for joining me on My Weekly

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Mixtape. Brian, thank you so much for having

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us. It's been a while. It's been a minute, so

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I'm excited. I am too. We've talked together

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on Playlist Wars. I've guessed it on the nostalgia

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test before. I'm excited to go down that nostalgia

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road. But before we do that, I get to ask you

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each my first timers question. And Dan, we'll

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start with you. What does the word mixtape mean

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to you? Oh, this is it's fun because mixtape,

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it reminds me of my childhood of putting together.

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the best songs or the songs that I love the most

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that I want to share with someone else. Right.

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And that ability to do that was so fun because

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you can curate a whole experience. And then you

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got to like put in like little jokes or maybe

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inside jokes as well inside the mixtape. So I

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loved it. It was like creating a collage for

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someone else. And it was just so fun to do. Manny,

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same question to you. So it makes me think about

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my wife because when we first started dating,

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she made me a couple of mixtapes. But it was

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mixed CDs at the time. CD -ROM was big. You could

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get it printed. You even print out your whole

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track list. It was basically her love notes to

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me. So I had three or four of them. So anytime

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I think mixtape, there's this one specific mixtape

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that she made for me that always pops in my head.

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It's just a great time. I have an ADHD brain,

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so I'm like all over the place. So a mixtape

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means perfect because it could go from like this

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gloomy song to this like EDM to some just like

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Bon Jovi song. Like what is happening is just

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awesome. So I love it. I love it. Well, tonight

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in a very meta coincidence, the three of us,

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like I said, are curating a playlist filled with

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the most nostalgic songs that music has to offer.

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Now, we're not talking about the songs that each

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of the three of us are. personally nostalgic

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for we're talking about songs that are specifically

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written about being nostalgic for something it

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could be times past an old relationship or something

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as simple as a photograph so with 125 plus episodes

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of nostalgic discussions on the nostalgia test

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dan what were you looking to bring to the table

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with your song choices tonight Yeah, this was

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interesting because I was thinking about also

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when we we did an episode with someone, Georg

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Charman, who is this guy, a scholar from Vienna.

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And something he said on our episode, episode

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81, was like. the idea of like one part of nostalgia's

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romanticization and then there's also some like

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melancholy to it and also something about he

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said like shared experience so i'm trying like

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when i was choosing the songs i was like which

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songs create an experience that can be shared

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amongst a bunch of people even if it's like and

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the other thing about too is like These don't

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also have to be great songs. That was something

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we talked about with him too. It's like something

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nostalgic doesn't necessarily have to be amazing.

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It does that thing that creates the experience

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of shared. So I was like, what songs can I put

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on here that create a shared experience between

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us three and then outwardly even more people?

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Manny? It's like, is it? Of course, I went to

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songs that make me feel nostalgic, but then the

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fact that this is also meta to the point where

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it's talking about it, I found it interesting

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and I wanted to bring songs that no matter what

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decade you were listening to this, even if they

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weren't talking about what your high school was

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like or what your past was like, you could understand

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the storytelling that was going on and then relate

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it to you. Like in my brain, there's certain

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songs here I want to say right away that I'm

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like, yeah, I didn't grow up that way, but like...

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There was this that I did that was kind of like

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that. So you like, you like live in that song,

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but in your own way. And the songs that make

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you do that, even though you didn't, you know,

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maybe a song was written so long ago, it doesn't

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matter. So I thought that's what I wanted to

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bring to the table. And for mine, I went with

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three different things. One, trying to invoke

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that. Yeah, things have really changed since

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back then. Two. The song's nostalgic references

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hit close to home for me personally, where a

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song actually is about nostalgia, but something

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that I personally relate to. Or three, the song

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is just frigging awesome and happens to fit the

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theme. So I think with the bank of songs I choose,

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I'm hitting on all three. So with that said,

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let's get down to business. Tonight, as I mentioned

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at the top of the show. Dan, Manny, and I will

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be curating the ultimate nostalgia mixtape, and

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we'll use the old cassette deck approach. But

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since I have two guests this evening, the format

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will be slightly altered from the usual. Tonight,

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Dan will begin side A with his first song choice,

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and then we'll roundtable the panel until we've

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mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give

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our mixtape a proverbial flip, and we'll map

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outside, be only this time Manny will kick off

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the roundtable discussions. Our overall goal

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for this episode is to craft the best nostalgia

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mixtape possible through our 21 songs, or seven

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song choices each. At the end of the show, you

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can take our conversation to the next level by

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visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape

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embedded playlist. And if you like what you're

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and so much more, such as chiming in on episode

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topics like this one, which a few of the Patreon

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mixtapers have done, and I'd like to give a quick

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shout out to a few of those. Sean Goff is getting

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nostalgic over his pick Bon Jovi's Never Say

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Goodbye, saying it brings back great memories

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from his high school years. And speaking of memories,

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Tom Hutchinson chimed in with Weezer's Memories,

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which features the cast of Jackass, both on backing

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gang vocals as well as in the video, saying that

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the song will always be his favorite Weezer song

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and how it holds a special place as Ryan Dunn

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passed shortly after the song came out. Chad

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LaMassa chimed in with the St. John's Josephine,

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as well as the revivalists Keep Going. Mike Daly

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said Hold On by Triumph might fit well into tonight's

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discussion. Seeker said Yesterday by Guns N'

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Roses was the first song that came to his mind.

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Philip Bergman chimed in with a number of songs,

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including Weird Al's Good Old Days, and since

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he was the guest on episode 56, the ultimate

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Weird Al playlist, I kind of would have been

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shocked if he didn't include that one. But along

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with that, he also chimed in with Leslie Gore's

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The Old Crowd, Elvis Presley's Memories, Little

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Caesar and the Romans, Those Oldies But Goodies,

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and Stevie Wonder's I Wish, among others, saying

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that while it's not the most rockin' playlist,

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nostalgia often has a calming effect at times,

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so it seemed appropriate. And finally, Brandon

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from Virginia chimed in with Stevie Wonder as

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well, only he went with Sir Duke, along with

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both Blues Traveler and From Good Homes Back

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in the Day, which, while they're both the same

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song title, they're completely different tunes.

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Remember, if you want to be part of future episode

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chime -ins, become a Patreon mixtaper at patreon

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.com forward slash My Weekly Mixtape. So Dan,

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I'm officially pressing the record button on

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our mixtape and turning the mic over to you.

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What song have you chose to get that nostalgic

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vibe churning for us this evening? All right.

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So the, the first song that I chose, it comes

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off the 2006, my chemical romance album, the

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black parade. Welcome to the black parade. Nice.

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This song is the song that I came across. Like

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I didn't listen to my chemical romance, but.

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this song always came up on mixes on spotify

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when i was listening to certain bands and i just

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got so attached to it and it's that opening note

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calls out to you but the story in it is what

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the nostalgic part of it for me and the idea

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that this song starts with a story about a guy

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reminiscing going to this parade with his father

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and like that idea really called out to me and

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i feel like calls out to a lot of people in terms

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of the shared experience of like going somewhere

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with a parent or reminiscing on going to a thing

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maybe traditionally with a parent and having

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conversations and reminiscing back on really

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important conversations and it also has that

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really rocking sound that I feel like nostalgic

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rock songs have. They're like endemic in a way

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where like you feel like you're with a group

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listening to it. So this is, yeah, the beginning.

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Welcome to the Black Parade, My Chemical Romance.

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I like this song a lot. I actually did listen

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to My Chemical Romance. This is one of my favorite

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songs of them. I rock out to this song like constantly

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when I'm brewing. The beginning of this is phenomenal.

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I agree with Dan. Like it brings me back to when

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I used to go to like punk shows and emo shows,

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but it also like, it does make me feel like energized

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when I'm listening to this, like no need for

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coffee with this one. And I just feel like I'm

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at a show every time. So I love it. When I was

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a young boy, my father took me into the city

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to see a marching band. Reach No. 9 on the U

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.S. Billboard Hot 100, No. 32 on the Canadian

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Hot 100, as well as No. 1 on the U .K. Singles

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and Rock and Metal chart. It also held that coveted

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No. 1 spot in Venezuela and Scotland. Rolling

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Stone also included it in its 100 best songs

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of 2006. This is one of those songs that if I

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was ever on Name That Tune. I could name it in

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one note. That first piano note, I already know

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exactly what song it is. You know when you hear

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that piano, you're about to go on a musical adventure.

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And this is by far my favorite My Chemical Romance

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album and actually song as I think about it too.

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So I love the way you're starting with this.

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Awesome way to kick things off tonight. Manny,

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we are now going to you for track two. Well,

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the one I chose was When we were young by the

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killers. I mean, this whole thing just screams

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nostalgia. It puts me into this like different

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mode of like, for some reason I take it as like,

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I don't want to say my grandfather, but like

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I worked with my grandfather when I was young.

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And like, there's something about this song.

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Just like when gentlemen were gentlemen, I don't

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like, I don't know how to say this. Just looking

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up to somebody and listening to all their wisdom

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and learning from them. And like, also like feeling

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like I could. conquer the world when i was a

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kid and like just remember how things were just

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people were more respectful to people and stuff

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that's just kind of how it makes me feel and

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i just love the killers so like it's just this

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is like one of my favorite songs that they play

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you know i'm looking at the lyrics and and it

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makes me think especially in that song they say

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you know brandon flowers says like and sometimes

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you close your eyes and you see the place where

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you used to live when you were young and that

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really screams out that nostalgic experience

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of listening to a song and hearing a lyric and

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it bringing you to that space like giving you

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that warm nostalgic feeling of remembering maybe

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where you grew up and as I've grown up and lived

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in different places like I can see each place

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that I've lived at and then also places that

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like my parents lived at and there's a photograph

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of a house my mom grew up in in South Ozone Park

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and it's like A house that doesn't look like

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any other house on the block. And it's so amazing

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looking and beautiful. But when I see it, I get

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nostalgic for even just being inside that house.

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And also the killers are, to me, taking the torch

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from Bruce Springsteen and writing those long

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anthemic songs that are nostalgic and telling

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those long stories. So it's a great pick. And

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sometimes you close your eyes and see the place

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where you used to live when you were young from

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2006 is Sam's town reached number 14 on the U

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S billboard, hot 100 number five on the Canadian

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singles chart and number two on the UK singles

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chart. It was also a top 10 hit in Australia,

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Europe. Ireland and Scotland. And in 2009, UK

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radio station XFM ranked the song number 37 on

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their 100 greatest songs of all time. Cool way

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to start tonight because we went with two songs

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from the 2000s. And I know a lot of people talk

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about. How 80s music had a sound and how 90s

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music had a sound. But when you got to the 2000s,

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after nu metal and all of that kind of died down,

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I feel like music kind of went off in many different

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directions. And it's harder to define the 2000s

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as a musical sound. But when you bring up bands

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like My Chemical Romance and The Killers. There

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was a musical sound in the 2000s. And I think

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that's what I'm going to tap into for my first

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pick of the night, which will be track three.

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And I should probably start by saying that with

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my pick, all three songs are going to be from

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the 2000s. So if I'm looking at it from where

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I sit at age 46 right now, the nostalgia arrows

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pointing directly at you, 1980s and 1990s. Maybe

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we're showing our age here. Maybe we're wearing

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it on our sleeves. But I'm going to go with a

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song that will make my wife cringe and will probably

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make a lot of listeners cringe. And I don't care.

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And I'm going to defend this one. And there's

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going to be people that are going to be screaming

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at the top of their lungs. But I teased it at

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the top of the show. And I'm just going to dive

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right into the deep end from 2005's All the Right

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Reasons. We're going with Canada's finest, at

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least in the 2000s, Nickelback and Photograph.

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Reach number two on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100.

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Number three in Australia. Number one on Canada's

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Hot ACT. top 30, number one on the UK rock and

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metal chart and was a top 10 hit in Belgium,

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the Netherlands and New Zealand. The song is

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two times platinum in the US, platinum in Canada

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and gold in both Australia and the UK. So everyone

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who says they hate the song, maybe they do, but

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they're listening to it. And I get it. The lyric,

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look at this photograph. Every time I do, it

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makes me laugh. That's the one that everyone's

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mind is going to go to because it created, let's

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be honest, one of the greatest memes of all time.

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And I'm very thankful for that. But if you dive

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into the song, and this is where I'm going to

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get serious for a second, the lyrics, we used

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to listen to the radio and sing along with every

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song we know. We said someday we'd find out how

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it feels to sing to more than just the steering

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wheel. As a guy who played in bands from high

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school, and still currently plays in bands, those

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lyrics actually hit me in the feels a little

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bit. Yeah, I'm talking about Nickelback. But

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those lyrics for any musician, we've all been

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there. You all dream about what if we were one

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of those bands. And as much as everyone hates

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them, check out the 2023 documentary, Hate to

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Love Nickelback. It might give you a new perspective

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on them. It is nostalgic. I mean, there's no

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doubt about it. This is a song that at its core,

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it is nostalgia. I mean, the line, remember the

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old arcade blew every dollar that we ever made.

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I mean, that. is something especially if you

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grew up with arcades and going to classic arcades

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not like the new arcade where like you pay one

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price you could play everything where like you

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are actually having to continually get quarters

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and wait online and you know sit there and watch

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one person like dominate that whole thing it

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brings you into those moments and without talking

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about nickelback which doesn't matter because

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it's like it is about the nostalgia part nickelback

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is also like just even saying like they also

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are nostalgic at this point like that sound that

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they created is nostalgic so everything about

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it is nostalgic whether you like nickelback or

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not it is an amazing pick and this is actually

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the first time i listened to the whole song all

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the way through and i was like okay okay listen

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This song is hilarious. When it comes on, I want

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to hate this song. I want to hate it so bad because

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it just has become just like this photograph.

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And I remember that. But the lyrics are, you

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can't hide away from these lyrics, like everything

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about it. Makes me think about, first of all,

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time when you would look at a photograph, you're

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not looking at your phone to see the past and

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your eyes are so red. Remember when you used

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to use the flash and there was no way to take

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the red out. You don't really get that now because

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your phone is auto -correcting right away. So

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all of that just brings me back. And then like,

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you know, he talks about sneaking out of his

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school and how the second floor is hard to do

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and that he actually broke in a couple of times,

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but only the criminal record shows that it's

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twice. Like it is such a great storytelling song.

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that it's so hard for me to be like, I kind of

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low -key really like this song because it does

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get me in all the feels. I have to give it that

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at least this song, it deserves where it got

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placed because it probably got everybody's feels

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and that's why it got there. All right, Dan,

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we're back to you now for track four. Where do

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we go from Nickelback? So this is funny because

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we've been talking about nostalgia and like it

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being... having an 80s sound or a 90s sound i

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just turned 42 but like the song i'm about to

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give is from 2016 it's from the california deluxe

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edition of the blink 182 album california and

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it's called parking lot and it is also from the

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era of blink 182 when alkaline trio frontman

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matt skiba was in the band um is an interesting

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two album space of time for blink -182 i actually

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love their albums actually during this period

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as well i think the songwriting was amazing and

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this song just gets me every time i hear it if

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you've ever went to shows traveled on the train

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pre -gamed in that way and had a group of friends

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that just loved going to concerts but also lived

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in the suburbs and this is also the core part

00:19:53.609 --> 00:19:56.990
of it this song is going to make you feel all

00:19:56.990 --> 00:19:59.609
the nostalgic feelings and all the memories coming

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back i mean right when it's like starts with

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matt's voice which is a great voice remember

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the days we would drink on the train on our way

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to the show chicago and i'm just like immediately

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thinking of all the shows i went to taking the

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long island railroad into manhattan drinking

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southern comfort like a degenerate going to a

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show and then like having to take that train

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home but it it is such an interesting thing is

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that idea that living so far, but so close to

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a city and being in a suburbs and being this

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weird, like forgotten population that also loves

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that being in those spaces. So I love this song.

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I play the song so much. I don't want to constantly

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repeat Dan, but when we grew up together, this

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is the reason why we have a podcast together.

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And he did remind me of that, Dan, like going,

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you know, we were still in high school, even

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though you weren't supposed to be drinking, that

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was the time you were drinking to go, to go to

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the shows that. you know weren't you like miniola

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did have a really good like punk well more emo

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scene yeah and we had like deja was a place to

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go but most of the time we were going in the

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city and that was the time when we were doing

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whatever there's no parents around we had no

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cell phones then so it was like maybe we had

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a beeper or one of us two of us maybe had it

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but it totally brings me there such a great song

00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:20.750
just makes me feel so good Underneath fluorescent

00:21:20.750 --> 00:21:23.789
lights, we'll waste the best nights of our lives.

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F this place, let's put up a parking lot. Reach

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number 34 on the Billboard US Hot Rock and Alternative

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Songs chart. Dan, I'm with you. I might catch

00:21:33.549 --> 00:21:37.029
some flack for this as well, but I agree. I think

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California is an incredible Blink -182 record.

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Even though Tom's not on it, Matt did a bang

00:21:43.529 --> 00:21:46.990
-up job both vocally and on guitar. And this

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song, I think... along with Bored to Death, are

00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.099
two standout tracks that, at least in the case

00:21:54.099 --> 00:21:57.019
of Bored to Death, Blink is continuing to play

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now with Tom back in the band. So they're recognizing

00:22:00.619 --> 00:22:05.380
that these songs are part of Blink's entire kind

00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:07.880
of catalog. So I love seeing that the Skiba era

00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:12.500
is being recognized with the reunion happening.

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So I think that's pretty awesome. Yeah. Manny,

00:22:15.569 --> 00:22:21.089
we're back to you now for track five. Okay. Now,

00:22:21.150 --> 00:22:24.369
if you know me, you know I'm a big Macklemore

00:22:24.369 --> 00:22:27.970
fan. I love his lyrics. I chose Good Old Days.

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Featuring Kesha, this song is everything great

00:22:33.069 --> 00:22:35.789
about, like obviously the Good Old Days, it's

00:22:35.789 --> 00:22:38.609
a lyric in many songs. It talks about how these

00:22:38.609 --> 00:22:41.559
are the good old days. You know, like they didn't

00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:43.460
know it was the good old days. The whole song

00:22:43.460 --> 00:22:46.740
is about them going to like shows, playing garages

00:22:46.740 --> 00:22:48.799
and all that stuff and just getting in a van

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and going and didn't realize like those were

00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:54.799
the journey. And that was the good old days that

00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:56.599
that was going to be what they were going to

00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:58.740
think about. And like, even though there were

00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:01.900
rock stars now, those times were like what made

00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:06.019
the greatest memories. And that just listening

00:23:06.019 --> 00:23:08.319
to the way Kesha says, these are the good old

00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:10.509
days. Forget about even if you're not in a band.

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It makes me think about just like the friends

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that you had from right after high school, during

00:23:18.269 --> 00:23:21.009
college, right before you had to become an adult

00:23:21.009 --> 00:23:24.809
and everything you did was just such a good time.

00:23:24.869 --> 00:23:26.869
Like we didn't really have that many responsibilities.

00:23:27.130 --> 00:23:29.930
We didn't have that many bills and you were just

00:23:29.930 --> 00:23:32.269
in it. Everybody would just wake up. What are

00:23:32.269 --> 00:23:36.430
we doing today? And you were in the moment. Just

00:23:36.430 --> 00:23:38.670
thinking about that, like when I'm so stressed

00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:41.049
out and bills to pay and all these other things,

00:23:41.069 --> 00:23:43.250
I'm like, man, we didn't even know what we had.

00:23:43.470 --> 00:23:45.990
And I even say to like my nieces and nephews

00:23:45.990 --> 00:23:49.650
now, I'm like, don't rush this. Even if you have

00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:52.150
a crappy day or your friend, you guys were just

00:23:52.150 --> 00:23:54.009
hanging out in the backyard. You didn't do anything.

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You just hung out. Those are going to be the

00:23:56.789 --> 00:23:59.230
best memories you've ever had because to get

00:23:59.230 --> 00:24:01.940
together with anybody now. You need to put on

00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:04.460
your freaking eye calendar because there's just

00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:06.599
so many things that come up. There's so many

00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:09.720
things to do. And like, you won't know that they're

00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:11.880
the good old days until it's gone. And like,

00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:14.940
you just got to sit and appreciate it. It gets

00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:16.640
me all the time. I'm like, joke up thinking about

00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:21.839
it. Okay. So I was listening to this and I was

00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.279
thinking it was like making me cry as I was walking

00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.000
to this workshop I was going to because it was

00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:31.430
making me think like, You're right, Manny. Like

00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:34.890
we didn't know how good we had it, but also like

00:24:34.890 --> 00:24:38.410
having those memories is so important because

00:24:38.410 --> 00:24:40.930
when we are struggling, that's when nostalgia

00:24:40.930 --> 00:24:43.809
kind of comes in. It's just like we got through

00:24:43.809 --> 00:24:47.009
even things then, but we also like look at everything

00:24:47.009 --> 00:24:48.990
we've already done, right? Sometimes we feel

00:24:48.990 --> 00:24:51.930
like we haven't done anything. I was like crying

00:24:51.930 --> 00:24:53.890
just thinking about everything I've done, the

00:24:53.890 --> 00:24:56.849
people I've met in my life and the love I have

00:24:56.849 --> 00:24:59.230
in my life. I was like. oh my god this song is

00:24:59.230 --> 00:25:02.289
doing all that and it was it was quite a listening

00:25:02.289 --> 00:25:05.230
experience wish i would have gotten out of my

00:25:05.230 --> 00:25:07.990
shell wish i put the bottle back on that shelf

00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:10.779
Wish I wouldn't have worried about what other

00:25:10.779 --> 00:25:13.200
people thought and felt comfortable in myself.

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Talk about a verse that hits you like that spoke

00:25:17.299 --> 00:25:20.059
to me. I mean, to me, I think Macklemore and

00:25:20.059 --> 00:25:22.920
I think thrift shop. And when he hit me with

00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:25.539
that verse, I'm like, oh, my God, am I am I catching

00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:29.880
the feels from Macklemore here? But. From 2017's

00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.539
Gemini, the song reached number 48 on the Billboard

00:25:32.539 --> 00:25:36.039
US Hot 100. Surprised it wasn't a top 40 hit.

00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:40.500
Hit number 78 in the UK, so neither place it

00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:44.380
was a top 40 hit. However, it was a top 40 hit,

00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:48.180
hitting number 40 on the Canadian Hot 100, as

00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:51.519
well as cracking the top 40 all over the world,

00:25:51.539 --> 00:25:55.420
including New Zealand, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia,

00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:59.279
Czech Republic, Ecuador. Hungary, Switzerland,

00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.940
and Ireland. This is a worldwide hit. And you

00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:05.220
want to know where its highest worldwide chart

00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:10.240
position was? Number eight in Australia. Wow.

00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:12.900
Of all the places. Of all the places. I thought

00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:14.940
you were going to say Ireland. No, Australia,

00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:17.660
the highest chart position for good old days.

00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:21.220
This song, it really hit me. I was not the biggest

00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:24.299
Macklemore fan outside of thrift shop. And hearing

00:26:24.299 --> 00:26:26.640
this song for the first time, I'm going. Man,

00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.019
this guy knows how to hit you in the feels. And

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:33.339
I think that's what I'm going to use to pivot

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:35.799
off of because we went from rock and now we're

00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:38.680
into hip hop land. And if we're going nostalgic

00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:42.319
and we're going with hip hop, I'm going to spoil

00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:45.640
the next song with two words. Drums, please.

00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:50.240
From 1991's Home Base, we're going with DJ Jazzy

00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:54.220
Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Yes, Will Smith. Summertime.

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.700
Reached number four on the Billboard US Hot 100,

00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.579
their highest charting single ever. Number 29

00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:04.640
on Canada's top singles chart and number eight

00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:08.400
on the UK singles chart. It also won a Grammy

00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.519
Award for best rap performance by a duo or group.

00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.980
Now, I talked about this song on episode 75,

00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:19.180
the Ultimate Summer Vibes playlist with DT from

00:27:19.180 --> 00:27:23.140
Space Castle. And man, I have to revisit these

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:28.109
lyrics that... For my age at 46, just immediately,

00:27:28.269 --> 00:27:31.990
I am back in high school. When I think of the

00:27:31.990 --> 00:27:35.190
summers of the past, adjust the bass and let

00:27:35.190 --> 00:27:39.029
the alpine blast pop in my CD and let it run

00:27:39.029 --> 00:27:42.569
a rhyme and put your car on cruise and lay back

00:27:42.569 --> 00:27:45.950
because this is summertime. Now, hell, during

00:27:45.950 --> 00:27:50.990
episode 75, I actually say in the episode that

00:27:50.990 --> 00:27:54.420
this song will make my list. for the ultimate

00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:57.720
nostalgia playlist. And I knew I was going to

00:27:57.720 --> 00:27:59.940
use it tonight. I just didn't know where, but

00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:02.680
thanks to you, Manny, for bringing Macklemore

00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.420
into the discussion. I don't even have to try

00:28:05.420 --> 00:28:08.660
to wedge a square into a circle here. It's the

00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:13.160
perfect segue summertime. Oh man. Listening to

00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:16.160
that song again was like, ah, summer songs. Just

00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:17.960
like, that's the thing when I hear this too,

00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:23.559
it reminds me of like how music. and summer were

00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.940
so connected that like nowadays yes everyone's

00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:28.619
like what's the song of the summer but it's like

00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:31.140
yeah then it was like what are the songs of the

00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:34.539
summer it was like a whole event like you had

00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:37.500
summertime like with fresh prince and dj jazzy

00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:39.960
jeff and like for us it was like anytime it comes

00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:42.319
to summer i'm throwing sublime on again i'm doing

00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.490
all these so like It's not just a single song

00:28:45.490 --> 00:28:48.049
of the summer. It's like, what kind of curation

00:28:48.049 --> 00:28:50.150
of summer can I do with music? And this song

00:28:50.150 --> 00:28:55.450
always has to be on it. Oh, yes. I mean, I love

00:28:55.450 --> 00:28:57.789
this choice. Thanks, Brian. This is an amazing

00:28:57.789 --> 00:29:01.089
choice. From the beginning, you transform. I

00:29:01.089 --> 00:29:03.609
want to put flip -flops on. I want to just be

00:29:03.609 --> 00:29:06.769
at the beach by the dock drinking a cocktail

00:29:06.769 --> 00:29:09.809
or just hanging out. Even again, when this song

00:29:09.809 --> 00:29:12.200
came out, I was in... We were in high school,

00:29:12.259 --> 00:29:14.359
maybe even middle school at the time. I'm 43,

00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:16.339
so I'm just trying to, I can't do the math that

00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:19.259
fast, but it was a jam. And you were going to

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:22.359
be listening to this from Memorial Day all the

00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:25.420
way to Labor Day. And like, it was playing everywhere.

00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:29.980
C100, Hot 97, like no one didn't have this on.

00:29:30.380 --> 00:29:33.059
And like you said, Dan, it does, and it even

00:29:33.059 --> 00:29:34.859
brings me back. The greatest thing is that this

00:29:34.859 --> 00:29:36.970
is always on. Like, this is like. You know how

00:29:36.970 --> 00:29:39.289
people make Christmas songs and they're like,

00:29:39.410 --> 00:29:41.769
oh, I could live off of just that because it's

00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:43.630
being played all the time. This is like that

00:29:43.630 --> 00:29:47.869
song. It will not not be played. Who's not going

00:29:47.869 --> 00:29:50.829
to play this? Nostalgically, ironically, it gets

00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:53.490
put on now even with social media. It's a soundbite

00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:56.430
that you put on when you want to just show that

00:29:56.430 --> 00:30:00.650
it's summertime. It is such a great banger. Love

00:30:00.650 --> 00:30:03.319
this thing. Could listen to it all day. Well,

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:05.859
now, Dan, we're back to you for track seven.

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:09.299
Where do we go from here? So I feel like we are

00:30:09.299 --> 00:30:12.000
making pivots like every three songs. Like I

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.759
had to throw something on there and I had a bunch

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:17.059
of songs in my head that I was like, I need to

00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:19.140
get on there. And I was like, you know what?

00:30:19.339 --> 00:30:21.940
This one won it out. And it's that's what friends

00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:26.039
are for. Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight,

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.299
Stevie Wonder, written by Burt Bacharach and

00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:31.799
Carol Byers -Sager. And it's almost like people

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:34.420
don't have to say anything about why this is

00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:36.640
here. And like, but, and especially me, but I'm

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:39.160
like, this is a song you put on and it's just

00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:42.980
like, sit back, let your whole life come be flashed

00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:45.519
right in front of you and all the amazing moments.

00:30:45.579 --> 00:30:49.019
That's what this song does. And it gave me all

00:30:49.019 --> 00:30:52.299
the nostalgia feeling. all of them they reminded

00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:54.400
me of all the graduations that i've heard this

00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:59.059
at you know from fifth grade on just like doing

00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:02.000
that to us it was like crying and but also like

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.180
the friends that i've had and like i moved several

00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:07.099
times and then like the friends i had in colorado

00:31:07.099 --> 00:31:09.859
like when i would do my mfa there and like you

00:31:09.859 --> 00:31:12.700
know then i haven't seen them since and but like

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:14.799
we kind of keep in touch and it's that idea it's

00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.420
like Friends are for a lot of different things

00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:19.519
when like you need them, but also in different

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:21.279
moments of your life. And I feel like this song

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.240
really puts it out there. And plus, I mean, who's

00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.000
going to hate like Dionne Warwick, John Gladys

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.619
Knight, Stevie Wonder. You put them all on a

00:31:28.619 --> 00:31:31.759
track and just magic happens. It's like, let

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:33.480
them sing the phone book. Just like let James

00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:35.539
Earl Jones, rest in peace, you know, read the

00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:37.079
phone book. It doesn't matter. It's going to

00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:39.220
be a banger. It's going to be amazing. But yeah,

00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:42.839
love this song. All the nostalgia feels. Okay,

00:31:42.940 --> 00:31:46.789
Dan, you took me here. With this one. I used

00:31:46.789 --> 00:31:49.609
to work for a DJ company. And I used to go to

00:31:49.609 --> 00:31:52.390
Bar Mitzvahs in Sweet 16. This is how you ended

00:31:52.390 --> 00:31:54.630
at Bar Mitzvah in Sweet 16 all the time. And

00:31:54.630 --> 00:31:58.289
everybody circled up. And you just sung it. You

00:31:58.289 --> 00:32:01.549
sung it. Again, this is another one where it's

00:32:01.549 --> 00:32:05.170
like every single lyric in here gets you. It

00:32:05.170 --> 00:32:07.630
makes you think about anybody who's that close

00:32:07.630 --> 00:32:09.250
to you. You might not be talking to them for

00:32:09.250 --> 00:32:12.650
like 10 years. And you still. are like, yeah,

00:32:12.809 --> 00:32:15.309
that is what friends are for. Especially when

00:32:15.309 --> 00:32:17.950
the lyric is like, I'm glad that I got the chance

00:32:17.950 --> 00:32:20.930
to say that I believe I love you. And if I should

00:32:20.930 --> 00:32:23.809
ever go away, just close your eyes and try to

00:32:23.809 --> 00:32:27.670
think about this moment, these times. And that's

00:32:27.670 --> 00:32:30.190
what friends are for. There's nothing more I

00:32:30.190 --> 00:32:32.769
could say. I was like, really? This is where

00:32:32.769 --> 00:32:36.410
we went from Jazzy Jeff? And then we're like,

00:32:36.529 --> 00:32:40.329
oh, this, let's slow down, sit back and think

00:32:40.329 --> 00:32:43.460
about it. There are a group of friends that we

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:47.299
have that I may not see for years, but I know

00:32:47.299 --> 00:32:49.619
if I pick up a call right now, they'll pick up

00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:53.000
and that's what they're for. And Dan, like you,

00:32:53.039 --> 00:33:02.079
I'm 99 .9999999 % certain I sang this at several

00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.339
grammar school chorus concerts growing up because

00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:09.400
as soon as you said the song title, my brain

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:12.920
went, keep smiling. Keep shining, knowing you

00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:17.559
can always count on me. For sure. Yeah, everybody's

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:20.440
singing along right now. If Jay Sweet and I were

00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.480
to ever do a volume two to episode 33, wait,

00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:27.839
that's a cover song playlist. This song is a

00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.700
perfect candidate because Rod Stewart originally

00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:34.980
recorded this in 1982 for the Night Shift soundtrack.

00:33:36.529 --> 00:33:40.609
Whoa. Wow. Wow. This is a cover song. Nobody's

00:33:40.609 --> 00:33:43.509
talking about Rod Stewart's version because Deanne

00:33:43.509 --> 00:33:45.950
Warwick made it her own. But man, you got to

00:33:45.950 --> 00:33:47.650
give Rod some love here. You got to give Rod

00:33:47.650 --> 00:33:50.309
some love. Yeah. All right. Love to Rod Stewart.

00:33:50.569 --> 00:33:53.259
Yeah. This version reached number one on the

00:33:53.259 --> 00:33:55.799
Billboard U .S. Hot 100 and was the number one

00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:59.960
single in the U .S. for all of 1986. It also

00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:02.880
reached number one in Australia and Canada and

00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.680
won the Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:10.119
by a Duo or Group with Vocals, as well as Song

00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:13.599
of the Year, because of course it did. Manny,

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:18.199
from that, where do you go for track eight? Okay,

00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:22.340
so I'm going to... Ed Sheeran's Castle on the

00:34:22.340 --> 00:34:25.659
Hill. There's a lot behind this one. First of

00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:28.059
all, me and my wife went to Ireland and we were

00:34:28.059 --> 00:34:30.780
chasing castles and we listened to this on repeat.

00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:33.960
But just listen to even the lyrics. He's again

00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:37.300
talking about old friends, growing up, breaking

00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:39.460
his leg, getting in fights with brothers and

00:34:39.460 --> 00:34:42.719
sisters. There's this whole thing. Why I chose

00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.099
all these songs is it didn't matter that I wasn't

00:34:45.099 --> 00:34:47.239
in Ireland and I don't chase castles and there's

00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:50.260
no castle on the hill. But I do remember me and

00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:52.579
my twin sister playing hide and seek and I didn't

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:56.000
break my leg, but I jumped out of a hamper and

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.559
fell and cracked my skull and have a scar from

00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.400
it. You know, so like it just brings back those

00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.739
like even like memories of just like the kids,

00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:05.559
you know, we were talking about that's what friends

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:08.139
for on that one. Even go younger and think about

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:09.639
the friends you have when you were like six,

00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:12.719
seven, eight. Maybe you don't remember specific

00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.360
conversations, but you remember like things you

00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:18.190
did. parties you might have got a pool or something

00:35:18.190 --> 00:35:20.530
cool that happened like you know a race that

00:35:20.530 --> 00:35:22.269
you might have had on the block with your bicycle

00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:26.190
and stuff so great great lyrics on this one ed

00:35:26.190 --> 00:35:28.789
sheeran always killing i mean this is the thing

00:35:28.789 --> 00:35:31.510
a great song about nostalgia or great song that

00:35:31.510 --> 00:35:33.750
gives you those nostalgic feels that you know

00:35:33.750 --> 00:35:36.349
those shared experiences is a song like this

00:35:36.349 --> 00:35:40.320
where it's Just storytelling. Everything is just

00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.119
a lot of like beautiful stories and recollections

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:46.559
and memories. And yeah, like Manny said, like

00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:50.260
I remember. breaking my heel which is the weirdest

00:35:50.260 --> 00:35:53.179
thing to break and like being in crutches for

00:35:53.179 --> 00:35:56.119
like all the summer in after fifth grade and

00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:59.119
like then working as a custodian and like almost

00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.300
breaking my ankle and being in crutches for the

00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:03.159
rest of that summer then going upstate to our

00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.440
friend dave's house shouldn't have done that

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.320
and like been playing beer pong on crutches like

00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:11.179
like you know what i mean like it's just it gives

00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:14.179
you all those things where you're being shown

00:36:14.179 --> 00:36:19.599
your memories by someone else's lyrics. And it's

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.480
kind of interesting to kind of have those two

00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:23.639
things happen at the same time. And this kind

00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:25.719
of this song was doing that really well. And

00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:29.679
it's just a fun type of like, I don't know, like

00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.500
it's not even like a rock song as much as like

00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:33.340
it's almost like folksy in a way. And I love

00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:35.800
that type of feel. Well, Dan, you should reach

00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.099
out to DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and

00:36:38.099 --> 00:36:39.980
have them write an extra verse for summertime

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:45.469
about broken ankles. I think. Found my heart

00:36:45.469 --> 00:36:48.369
and broke it here, just like Dan's ankle. Made

00:36:48.369 --> 00:36:50.949
friends and lost them through the years. And

00:36:50.949 --> 00:36:53.670
I've not seen the roaring fields in so long.

00:36:53.849 --> 00:36:56.969
I know I've grown, but I can't wait to go home.

00:36:57.190 --> 00:37:01.090
From 2017's Divide, reached No. 6 on the Billboard

00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:05.730
US Hot 100, No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, the

00:37:05.730 --> 00:37:09.710
Canadian Hot 100, and the Australia ARIA Charts.

00:37:09.750 --> 00:37:13.019
It also topped the charts in Iceland. Israel

00:37:13.019 --> 00:37:16.420
and Scotland and is currently four times platinum

00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:20.000
in the U .S., six times platinum in the U .K.,

00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.940
nine times platinum in Australia and diamond

00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:27.300
in Canada. This song also made music history

00:37:27.300 --> 00:37:31.760
as it was the first time two songs by the same

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.460
artist debuted on the Billboard U .S. Hot 100

00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:40.139
in the top 10 in the same week as it debuted

00:37:40.139 --> 00:37:43.059
at number six, like I said. with Shape of You

00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:48.179
debuting at number one. Now the story behind

00:37:48.179 --> 00:37:50.980
Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill, there's a little

00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:54.659
bit of sadness to it, a little melancholy. Made

00:37:54.659 --> 00:37:57.860
friends and lost them through the years. And

00:37:57.860 --> 00:38:00.260
that's what I'm going to go with to kind of pivot

00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:02.800
into the next song. But I'm going to make it

00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.340
a little, I'm going to change the, because this

00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:07.820
you said is a little folky. I'm going to take

00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:10.820
this and go back into the. pop punk side of thing,

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:14.360
maybe with a little splash of emo. I mean, there

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.900
is a violin in the song and I'm going to go with

00:38:16.900 --> 00:38:20.719
the title track from yellow cards, 2003 album

00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.940
ocean Avenue. This one hit number 37 on the Billboard

00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:28.280
US Hot 100, which actually surprised me. I did

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.880
not know that Yellow Card had a top 40 hit. It

00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:35.539
reached number 61 in Australia, number 29 on

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:39.519
Canada's CHR Pop Top 30, and number 65 on the

00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:43.260
UK Singles Chart. Variety magazine included it

00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:46.760
in its list of 26 best emo songs of all time.

00:38:47.389 --> 00:38:50.309
Billboard included it on their list of 100 greatest

00:38:50.309 --> 00:38:54.269
choruses of the 21st century. And Spin included

00:38:54.269 --> 00:38:58.269
it in both their list of the 21 best pop punk

00:38:58.269 --> 00:39:02.150
choruses of the 21st century and the 50 best

00:39:02.150 --> 00:39:06.030
alt rock love songs. Now, lyrically, there's

00:39:06.030 --> 00:39:09.110
a place off Ocean Avenue where I used to sit

00:39:09.110 --> 00:39:12.130
and talk with you. We were both 16 and it felt

00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:15.630
so right. Sleeping all day, staying up all night.

00:39:16.380 --> 00:39:21.800
This is the pop punk emo version of Summer Nights

00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.239
from Grease. And I will be hearing nothing else

00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:30.079
on that one. So, yeah, like these lyrics are

00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.659
interesting because there's a friend of Manny

00:39:32.659 --> 00:39:35.639
and I have that we used to party at his house

00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:40.340
all the time. And I would say like. Lots of time

00:39:40.340 --> 00:39:43.320
was spent at this house. And when I see these

00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.840
lyrics, when I hear the song, it reminds me of

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.539
that. Not so much like a singular person, but

00:39:49.539 --> 00:39:52.500
like to me, like it brought me to the nostalgic

00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:56.019
place of a singular place and a singular moment.

00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:58.039
Right. And there are several of them, too. Like

00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.519
that is one of them where it's just like we used

00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.800
to do that. You used to hang out and party in

00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.820
this place. And we all became really close at

00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:07.820
that one point. Right. Like and then all of a

00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:10.639
sudden. We've dispersed all over the country.

00:40:10.900 --> 00:40:12.760
Friendships have ended, things like that. So

00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.000
it definitely like brings us to a moment where

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:18.340
it was one time where we were all together all

00:40:18.340 --> 00:40:21.139
the time. And also like it reminded me also right

00:40:21.139 --> 00:40:24.690
now to like there's a where I did my. MFA in

00:40:24.690 --> 00:40:28.090
Boulder at Naropa University at the Kerouac School

00:40:28.090 --> 00:40:30.429
of Disembodied Poetics, they're getting ready

00:40:30.429 --> 00:40:33.429
to knock down the whole main campus by selling

00:40:33.429 --> 00:40:36.289
it by 2026. So a place where it meant so much

00:40:36.289 --> 00:40:40.070
to me. I met some amazing friends. I met my wife

00:40:40.070 --> 00:40:42.369
for the first time in front of the main building.

00:40:42.610 --> 00:40:46.030
And from that point on, that was how we met.

00:40:46.190 --> 00:40:48.650
And it means so much to me. And it's going to

00:40:48.650 --> 00:40:52.070
be gone in like... two years and so it's really

00:40:52.070 --> 00:40:54.610
interesting to think as i grow older the things

00:40:54.610 --> 00:40:56.929
that i remember the people i know are like going

00:40:56.929 --> 00:41:00.230
to fade and not going to be there but nostalgia

00:41:00.230 --> 00:41:02.469
keeps it alive because some moments like this

00:41:02.469 --> 00:41:04.269
like a piece of music can just like bring it

00:41:04.269 --> 00:41:06.510
back like out of nowhere so i thought it was

00:41:06.510 --> 00:41:10.630
really amazing staying up all night oh it's like

00:41:10.630 --> 00:41:13.389
going my head this is a great song always there's

00:41:13.389 --> 00:41:14.869
obviously yellow car for some reason reminds

00:41:14.869 --> 00:41:17.289
me of not some reason this is a reason for it

00:41:17.289 --> 00:41:20.610
tony hawk's pro skater Just because that it's

00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:23.030
like one of the best like soundtracks ever. The

00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:25.949
first one I would argue. No need to argue that

00:41:25.949 --> 00:41:29.349
one. Episode 65, the ultimate Tony Hawk pro skater

00:41:29.349 --> 00:41:33.369
soundtracks playlist dedicated to all of the

00:41:33.369 --> 00:41:35.769
amazing Tony Hawk pro skater soundtracks. So

00:41:35.769 --> 00:41:38.429
no argument here. Yeah, I got to agree with Dan.

00:41:38.510 --> 00:41:40.929
This is another one where it's like that moment

00:41:40.929 --> 00:41:44.210
in time where you had no responsibilities and

00:41:44.210 --> 00:41:47.269
you could sleep all day and stay up all night,

00:41:47.309 --> 00:41:50.039
especially like. High school love too. Like that

00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:52.539
young love where it was like, you didn't want

00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:54.940
to leave. You didn't want to say goodbye. You

00:41:54.940 --> 00:41:56.719
stayed up. You watched the sunrise. Like what

00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:58.400
was the last time you watched the sunrise? Unless

00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.679
like, you know, because you got to get up to

00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:03.400
go to work or your dog wakes you up or, you know,

00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:05.679
whatever. But where you actually were like, yo,

00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.260
we've been up all night. We might as well not

00:42:08.260 --> 00:42:10.840
go to bed. And we're just going to go watch the

00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:12.719
sunrise. And especially on Long Island, we'd

00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:14.619
be like, let's go drive to Jones Beach and go

00:42:14.619 --> 00:42:17.289
watch. Or let's go to Point Lookout. There was

00:42:17.289 --> 00:42:19.869
a couple months ago, actually, my younger niece,

00:42:20.130 --> 00:42:22.889
her and her boyfriend were like, I'm like, what

00:42:22.889 --> 00:42:24.090
are you guys doing tonight? She's like, oh, we're

00:42:24.090 --> 00:42:25.949
going to go watch Sunrise. And I was like, I

00:42:25.949 --> 00:42:27.389
remember, I look at my wife, I was like, remember

00:42:27.389 --> 00:42:29.550
when we used to do that? It's just like life

00:42:29.550 --> 00:42:31.769
gets in the way. And this song just is just like,

00:42:31.789 --> 00:42:35.710
so like, keeps me young. I love it. I love it.

00:42:36.130 --> 00:42:38.869
All right, Dan, you kicked off Side A, but the

00:42:38.869 --> 00:42:41.989
way this episode works, you get to close it out

00:42:41.989 --> 00:42:44.230
as well. So what are we closing out Side A with?

00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:48.480
okay i love this song i don't care what anyone

00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:52.099
says and truthfully it is one of the most covered

00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:54.099
songs too and we'll talk about how many times

00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:57.199
this song was covered by so many people and it's

00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.139
rainbow connection off the muppet movie original

00:43:00.139 --> 00:43:04.579
soundtrack sung by kermit the frog and it is

00:43:04.579 --> 00:43:09.079
a great song and in terms of nostalgia right

00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.639
away the first verse where it's like why are

00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:14.019
there so many songs about rainbows and what's

00:43:14.019 --> 00:43:16.739
on the other side rainbows are visions but only

00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:18.980
illusions and rainbows have nothing to hide and

00:43:18.980 --> 00:43:22.179
i'm like this song is just about for me when

00:43:22.179 --> 00:43:25.460
i hear it the nostalgia of not just childhood

00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:29.460
but hyper childhood imagination that everything

00:43:29.460 --> 00:43:32.519
is possible that like you know what's on the

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:34.139
other side of that rainbow when you're a kid

00:43:34.139 --> 00:43:36.639
you're told it's gold on the other side of the

00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:38.760
rainbow is a pot of gold. When you become an

00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:41.099
adult, you look at it. It's like, yeah, it's

00:43:41.099 --> 00:43:42.880
just, you know, cool rainbow, whatever, what

00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:44.460
do I got to do? And then like, you're walking

00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:47.039
past it. So like, it's interesting for me when

00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.920
I would listen to the song, it makes me come

00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.539
back to that nostalgic feeling of like anything

00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:57.559
my imagination is thinking about. I can create.

00:43:58.019 --> 00:44:02.139
And like that nostalgia of that sort of. invincibility

00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:04.699
of my imagination is something i want to remind

00:44:04.699 --> 00:44:08.159
myself of and this song does that i i love this

00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:11.760
song and just real quick this song was covered

00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:15.179
by and there's a whole list of people it was

00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:18.980
covered by gwen stephanie the singer to my morning

00:44:18.980 --> 00:44:23.300
jacket lisa lobe maddie pope casey musgraves

00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:26.659
and willie nelson barbara streisand vonda shepherd

00:44:26.659 --> 00:44:30.119
less than jake manny They covered it. Kenny Loggins.

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:32.599
I mean, it goes on. The Carpenters, everyone.

00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:35.280
This is one of those songs that I think really

00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.460
impacts a lot of people. You were bringing back

00:44:38.460 --> 00:44:41.059
the childhood imagination. And the fact that

00:44:41.059 --> 00:44:43.539
Kermit the Frog is singing it, really definitely

00:44:43.539 --> 00:44:46.320
that voice. You can't not know that it's Kermit

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:48.920
the Frog if you grew up in that era. And the

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:51.219
fact that he's singing it, so is a Muppet singing

00:44:51.219 --> 00:44:54.920
it. You're imagining, listening to those lyrics

00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:57.679
about, you're okay with the fact there's a Muppet.

00:44:58.090 --> 00:45:00.730
singing about imagination and dreaming and kids

00:45:00.730 --> 00:45:03.590
doing that. And I, I like what you said, Dan,

00:45:03.590 --> 00:45:07.190
about like, as we grow older, you kind of lose

00:45:07.190 --> 00:45:12.250
that. And listening to this, you should try to

00:45:12.250 --> 00:45:14.650
get that back to keep dreaming, to keep looking

00:45:14.650 --> 00:45:17.469
for the, the rainbow connection. So thank you

00:45:17.469 --> 00:45:20.929
for putting it on there. Now, Dan, you said this

00:45:20.929 --> 00:45:25.699
song is great. I normally don't argue with people

00:45:25.699 --> 00:45:27.699
on this show, but I'm going to have to argue

00:45:27.699 --> 00:45:34.360
with you here. This song is not great. It's the

00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.320
greatest song ever written. This is actually

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:41.139
my favorite song of all time. I've talked about

00:45:41.139 --> 00:45:44.719
it several times in all of these episodes. I

00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.280
danced with my mom to this song when I was three

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:51.119
years old, and I danced with my mom to this song.

00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:55.539
At my wedding for my mother -son dance. This

00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:58.099
song means more to me than any other song on

00:45:58.099 --> 00:46:00.679
the planet. And I really expanded upon those

00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:03.400
stories in other episodes. So instead of doing

00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.119
that again, I'm going to bring some new information

00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:09.000
to the table tonight about Rainbow Connection.

00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:11.559
Because believe it or not, no matter how many

00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:14.539
times I've talked about this song, I've never

00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:17.780
mentioned the fact that Rainbow Connection was

00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:22.619
a top 40. hit for Kermit the Frog, reaching number

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:27.900
25 on the Billboard US Hot 100, and it charted

00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:31.940
even higher in Australia, reaching number 14.

00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:36.159
This song is the greatest song ever. What a way

00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:39.940
to close out Side A mixtapers. That is Side A

00:46:39.940 --> 00:46:43.360
of the ultimate nostalgia mixtape, which consists

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.480
of My Chemical Romance, Welcome to the Black

00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:51.099
Parade. The Killers, When You Were Young, Nickelback's

00:46:51.099 --> 00:46:55.280
Photograph, Blink -182's Parking Lot, Macklemore

00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:59.039
featuring Kesha, Good Old Days, DJ Jazzy Jeff

00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.659
and the Fresh Prince's Summertime, Dionne Warwick's

00:47:02.659 --> 00:47:05.650
That's What Friends Are For. Ed Sheeran's Castle

00:47:05.650 --> 00:47:09.369
on the Hill, Yellow Card's Ocean Avenue, and

00:47:09.369 --> 00:47:12.829
Kermit the Frog's Rainbow Connection. Head over

00:47:12.829 --> 00:47:15.690
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs

00:47:15.690 --> 00:47:18.750
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist

00:47:18.750 --> 00:47:22.929
embedded on the episode page. Now, Manny, since

00:47:22.929 --> 00:47:26.070
Dan kicked off Side A, I'm passing the mic to

00:47:26.070 --> 00:47:29.730
you to keep our nostalgic vibes going for Side

00:47:29.730 --> 00:47:34.119
B. What song are you starting off with? I'm going

00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.940
with Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen. This song

00:47:37.940 --> 00:47:41.059
always got to me. It's literally about a song

00:47:41.059 --> 00:47:43.699
about being at a bar. There's a guy who uses

00:47:43.699 --> 00:47:46.179
superstar and he lives like, so it could, this

00:47:46.179 --> 00:47:48.099
could be almost a sad song, like almost like

00:47:48.099 --> 00:47:50.360
a depressing song, but also like great songs

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.739
because it's like the guy's living through his

00:47:52.739 --> 00:47:55.179
glory days. Like they were superstars in high

00:47:55.179 --> 00:47:58.059
school. Now the life's just gotten to them and

00:47:58.059 --> 00:48:01.409
like, they're just sitting there. drinking and

00:48:01.409 --> 00:48:03.690
thinking about the glory days to make them feel

00:48:03.690 --> 00:48:06.369
better so it could look bad but like this whole

00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:10.190
show is about songs about making us feel great

00:48:10.190 --> 00:48:13.730
about the glory days the good old days whatever

00:48:13.730 --> 00:48:16.690
you want to call it and it's such a great song

00:48:16.690 --> 00:48:18.909
like the way it's written the way bruce sings

00:48:18.909 --> 00:48:23.550
it it's just i again know some of these people

00:48:23.550 --> 00:48:27.010
i've caught myself living in the glory days you

00:48:27.010 --> 00:48:30.030
know when i go to watch wrestling tournament

00:48:30.030 --> 00:48:33.309
now with all the alumni's and then we end up

00:48:33.309 --> 00:48:35.409
at the bar afterwards and we're all just talking

00:48:35.409 --> 00:48:38.110
about all the great times we had at tournaments

00:48:38.110 --> 00:48:40.650
and like all the championships we won but and

00:48:40.650 --> 00:48:42.769
it was feeling great like we're hugging we're

00:48:42.769 --> 00:48:45.289
hanging out and then like afterwards you're like

00:48:45.289 --> 00:48:47.650
oh yeah but now like reality so like everyone

00:48:47.650 --> 00:48:49.769
does this and that's why the song is so great

00:48:49.769 --> 00:48:52.599
yeah i mean it's bruce springsteen I mean, as

00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.659
soon as you hear it, it's like, yeah! It pulls

00:48:55.659 --> 00:48:58.360
you into that nostalgic space that Springsteen

00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.440
has been cultivating and creating his entire

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:05.420
career. It's almost like he's built a separate

00:49:05.420 --> 00:49:08.579
universe of nostalgia that as soon as his voice

00:49:08.579 --> 00:49:12.380
starts, you get sucked into, right? And remember,

00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:14.780
I know that him and Tom Waits are coming up at

00:49:14.780 --> 00:49:16.579
the same time, so when you put on Tom Waits'

00:49:16.579 --> 00:49:19.619
nostalgic, but it's also like... a little scarier

00:49:19.619 --> 00:49:22.159
it might be i love tom waits but sometimes it's

00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:24.659
like oh boy behind this door i don't know what

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:27.659
valvulian craziness is going to happen but with

00:49:27.659 --> 00:49:31.920
springsteen it's a constant group hugs i feel

00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:34.179
like i feel like it's always like group hugs

00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:36.980
lots of high fives and also it makes me think

00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:39.019
of this is the thing when manny and i grew up

00:49:39.019 --> 00:49:41.460
together so like living in minneola and wilson

00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:43.440
park through the bar there was a bar of memories

00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:47.239
and like springsteen was constantly sung this

00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:52.400
song was karaoke'd by the same guy all the time

00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:56.019
every week and everyone was like yeah i was like

00:49:56.019 --> 00:49:58.900
we sang this last week but i think it didn't

00:49:58.900 --> 00:50:01.980
matter it was that feeling and so it was great

00:50:01.980 --> 00:50:04.000
listening to it i mean it's springsteen it was

00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:07.909
amazing being a new jersey musician i I think

00:50:07.909 --> 00:50:11.150
I'm contractually obligated by the state of New

00:50:11.150 --> 00:50:14.550
Jersey. I think it's in like the bylaws of the

00:50:14.550 --> 00:50:17.590
state constitution that if you are playing a

00:50:17.590 --> 00:50:20.829
gig, you have to play at least one song from

00:50:20.829 --> 00:50:23.730
the boss. I'm not 100 % sure. I have to reread

00:50:23.730 --> 00:50:27.150
that again. But from 1984 is born in the USA.

00:50:27.210 --> 00:50:29.630
The song reached number five on the Billboard

00:50:29.630 --> 00:50:33.989
US Hot 100 and also hit number 17 on the UK singles

00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:37.869
chart and Canada's top singles. chart, as well

00:50:37.869 --> 00:50:41.329
as number 29 in Australia. And if you're a fellow

00:50:41.329 --> 00:50:44.409
Bruce Springsteen fan, be sure to check out episode

00:50:44.409 --> 00:50:48.230
53, the ultimate Bruce Springsteen playlist featuring

00:50:48.230 --> 00:50:52.210
fellow Pantheon podcast network mate, Jesse Jackson,

00:50:52.409 --> 00:50:55.389
host of set lusting Bruce. We may or may not

00:50:55.389 --> 00:50:58.570
talk about glory days on this episode. I don't

00:50:58.570 --> 00:51:00.869
want to spoil it, but we've got something in

00:51:00.869 --> 00:51:03.889
there for both diehards and casual fans alike.

00:51:04.590 --> 00:51:06.630
Manny, you did talk about the fact that, yes,

00:51:06.730 --> 00:51:10.030
the song is happy, but in true Bruce fashion,

00:51:10.369 --> 00:51:12.690
you've got everybody singing along with this

00:51:12.690 --> 00:51:15.889
happy song. But when you really dive into the

00:51:15.889 --> 00:51:19.150
lyrics, we just sit around talking about the

00:51:19.150 --> 00:51:22.409
old times. She said when she feels like crying,

00:51:22.429 --> 00:51:26.260
she starts laughing, thinking about. Glory days.

00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:29.739
There's a little bit of a melancholiness to it.

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:33.559
It's happy and sad at the same time. And he was

00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:37.260
really able to teeter that line. And I think

00:51:37.260 --> 00:51:40.320
what I'm going to do is tap right into that feeling.

00:51:40.820 --> 00:51:44.219
And I'm going to keep us in that same musical

00:51:44.219 --> 00:51:47.769
style as well. And I'm going to go with my favorite

00:51:47.769 --> 00:51:50.210
musical artist of all time since Dan brought

00:51:50.210 --> 00:51:53.789
up my favorite song of all time. I think it's

00:51:53.789 --> 00:51:56.510
only fitting to bring up some Tom Petty and the

00:51:56.510 --> 00:52:01.010
Heartbreakers here off of 1979's Damn the Torpedoes.

00:52:01.010 --> 00:52:04.690
I'm going to follow up Glory Days with Even the

00:52:04.690 --> 00:52:10.260
Losers. Two cars parked on the overpass. rocks

00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:13.539
hit the water like broken glass i should have

00:52:13.539 --> 00:52:17.039
known right then it was too good to last god

00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:21.079
it's such a drag when you live in the past i

00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:24.119
feel like that taps into the melancholy part

00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:27.639
of nostalgia similar to glory days you're looking

00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:31.179
back at the past with love but also a little

00:52:31.179 --> 00:52:34.480
bit of sadness and strangely enough while this

00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:38.610
song is considered an absolute classic In the

00:52:38.610 --> 00:52:41.909
Tom Petty catalog, it was never released as a

00:52:41.909 --> 00:52:44.750
single except for in Australia. I have no idea

00:52:44.750 --> 00:52:47.789
why. Australia is getting it all right, but it

00:52:47.789 --> 00:52:50.949
was not released in the U .S. as a single. However,

00:52:51.289 --> 00:52:54.809
it made Tom Petty's 1993 greatest hits album.

00:52:55.269 --> 00:52:58.530
It's a concert staple through all of the decades.

00:52:58.650 --> 00:53:02.030
It made the live anthology. Rolling Stone ranks

00:53:02.030 --> 00:53:05.960
this as Tom Petty's 19th best song. And the Washington

00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:09.440
Post has it in their top 10 Tom Petty tracks

00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:13.460
of all time. God, I got to whittle down Tom Petty's

00:53:13.460 --> 00:53:16.139
catalog pretty soon for an upcoming Tom Petty

00:53:16.139 --> 00:53:18.619
and the Heartbreakers episode. I don't know how

00:53:18.619 --> 00:53:21.860
the holy hell I'm going to do it. But even the

00:53:21.860 --> 00:53:25.099
losers, for somebody who grew up sometimes kind

00:53:25.099 --> 00:53:27.340
of doubting himself growing up, like we talked

00:53:27.340 --> 00:53:30.840
about with the Macklemore song, this song really

00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:33.739
speaks to me. Even the losers do get lucky sometimes.

00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:39.019
Yeah. I mean that line, this feels like a lot

00:53:39.019 --> 00:53:43.980
of the experiences that I had is like in middle

00:53:43.980 --> 00:53:45.699
school and high school, especially middle school

00:53:45.699 --> 00:53:49.789
going into high school because I moved to. Wilson

00:53:49.789 --> 00:53:52.489
Park, Mineola, right in the middle of fifth grade.

00:53:52.630 --> 00:53:54.789
And then it was like, it was over. And then I

00:53:54.789 --> 00:53:56.130
was in middle school, but everyone had already

00:53:56.130 --> 00:53:58.110
solidified their friends. So I was still trying

00:53:58.110 --> 00:54:00.730
to figure it all out. But I think the thing too

00:54:00.730 --> 00:54:04.090
here is that you doubt yourself so much. And

00:54:04.090 --> 00:54:06.909
I've dealt with this my whole life and thinking

00:54:06.909 --> 00:54:09.190
I'm never going to have the things I have or

00:54:09.190 --> 00:54:11.789
meet the people, like have love in my life or

00:54:11.789 --> 00:54:14.789
have success or anything. And then you finally

00:54:14.789 --> 00:54:17.510
figure like all that doubting was for nothing.

00:54:18.059 --> 00:54:20.179
the other thing is that melancholy stuff that

00:54:20.179 --> 00:54:21.940
you're talking about too with nostalgia that

00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:25.619
is really i think important too because with

00:54:25.619 --> 00:54:29.500
nostalgia there is that trap of being stuck there

00:54:29.500 --> 00:54:32.900
because that happens and that is also the scary

00:54:32.900 --> 00:54:35.380
part too here because like you could go to that

00:54:35.380 --> 00:54:37.780
part about like sitting on the roof and all those

00:54:37.780 --> 00:54:40.219
things and that's cool like that's oh you remember

00:54:40.219 --> 00:54:43.400
we used to do that but it's like yeah but a lot

00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:46.219
of people live there still and so live in that

00:54:46.219 --> 00:54:49.039
memory and you can't like you can't live in that

00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:51.619
memory like that's the trap i feel like of nostalgia

00:54:51.619 --> 00:54:54.739
the trapping of it but yeah love this song love

00:54:54.739 --> 00:54:57.179
it i mean you guys said a lot you just pretty

00:54:57.179 --> 00:54:59.099
much said it all i'm just gonna i guess i'll

00:54:59.099 --> 00:55:01.579
talk about the love story of it i mean he obviously

00:55:01.579 --> 00:55:05.760
was talking about that moment of like being together

00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:08.219
with this person meant so much and then like

00:55:08.219 --> 00:55:11.239
just like that He might think about the moments

00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:13.500
all the time. And just like that, she forgot.

00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.760
And that is like, whoa, you know, like where,

00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:19.239
where then you, you think about your perception

00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:21.000
of life and your perception of everything. And

00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.559
they're like, what you may think was like, like

00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:25.199
what you said, Dan, you get trapped in living

00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:27.639
in this like crazy experience. And this moment

00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:29.960
meant so much. And, but yet somebody else is

00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:33.400
just moving on or they didn't take it as much.

00:55:33.460 --> 00:55:36.599
So that's gotta hurt when you realize that. And

00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:38.260
you're like, oh, I was lucky. It was such a great

00:55:38.260 --> 00:55:41.349
time. How do you forget that quickly? How did

00:55:41.349 --> 00:55:45.630
you forget me? That's like a weird thought. It

00:55:45.630 --> 00:55:48.050
is melancholy. Like it feels so great. I felt

00:55:48.050 --> 00:55:50.550
great. But at the same time, like that sucks,

00:55:50.690 --> 00:55:52.809
you know, like, cause I didn't get it back. So

00:55:52.809 --> 00:55:55.369
yeah, this was a great choice. It's still a great

00:55:55.369 --> 00:55:58.489
song. And it's funny that we love, I always say

00:55:58.489 --> 00:56:00.309
like, you ever like when you're depressed, you

00:56:00.309 --> 00:56:02.489
listen to depressing songs to make you feel better.

00:56:02.750 --> 00:56:05.210
Like it's weird that humans do this. Like that.

00:56:05.449 --> 00:56:08.949
A lot of these songs are very. melancholy that

00:56:08.949 --> 00:56:12.550
we have that we've had on and yet we love listening

00:56:12.550 --> 00:56:15.730
we feel good even after sometimes you know there

00:56:15.730 --> 00:56:17.409
are times we feel a little bit worse depending

00:56:17.409 --> 00:56:20.309
but it's just that's what what's so great about

00:56:20.309 --> 00:56:22.150
these songs i guess and that's why they did so

00:56:22.150 --> 00:56:24.489
well and they still are songs that we listen

00:56:24.489 --> 00:56:29.250
to all right dan you got to follow up bruce and

00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:33.849
tom petty where do we go from here this song

00:56:33.849 --> 00:56:36.769
i okay i'm just gonna get right into it it's

00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:40.369
right field by peter paul and mary and i just

00:56:40.369 --> 00:56:42.210
want to read the opening lyrics like saturday

00:56:42.210 --> 00:56:44.710
summers when i was a kid we'd run to the schoolyard

00:56:44.710 --> 00:56:47.030
and here's what we did we'd pick out captains

00:56:47.030 --> 00:56:49.710
we'd choose up the teams i was always a measure

00:56:49.710 --> 00:56:52.510
of my self -esteem and then you know the whole

00:56:52.510 --> 00:56:54.849
story of playing right field and being all it's

00:56:54.849 --> 00:56:57.989
okay to be awkward it's okay to be this i love

00:56:57.989 --> 00:57:03.739
this song I love baseball songs. I love baseball

00:57:03.739 --> 00:57:08.300
movies. I think in terms of Americana, it is

00:57:08.300 --> 00:57:12.480
one of the most nostalgic pieces of culture that

00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:15.719
we have is the game of baseball. As soon as the

00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:17.840
field of dream starts, I'm crying from beginning

00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:21.480
to end. As soon as this song is on, I was crying

00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:24.119
and I was trying to explain why I chose this

00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:26.960
to someone and I couldn't get through explaining

00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:30.429
it. practice so like it wouldn't happen on here

00:57:30.429 --> 00:57:33.590
but i played baseball i played little league

00:57:33.590 --> 00:57:37.449
this was my story i played right field i played

00:57:37.449 --> 00:57:40.329
you know the outfield i wasn't great at all i

00:57:40.329 --> 00:57:45.530
wasn't good but baseball is such an american

00:57:45.530 --> 00:57:51.619
nostalgia cultural that I was like, it has to

00:57:51.619 --> 00:57:55.980
go on here. Plus, if you had the VHS tape of

00:57:55.980 --> 00:57:58.920
the 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie,

00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:01.739
the first thing that came on before that movie

00:58:01.739 --> 00:58:05.480
was a Pizza Hut commercial with this song and

00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:08.860
the last verse on it. And I was just like, holy

00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:11.780
crap, that's what this is. And I love this song.

00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:15.880
Super nostalgic. Dan keeps taking all my bangers

00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:18.840
of saying what I want to say. Dan. I knew you

00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:20.880
were going to put this on. I know how much you

00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:22.760
love baseball. We both went to Field of Dreams

00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.800
together. I don't really love this song. I love

00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:28.539
the way it makes you feel. The one thing about

00:58:28.539 --> 00:58:30.900
this is it's very poetic, and I know that's why

00:58:30.900 --> 00:58:34.920
you love it so much. And that scene is all I

00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:37.719
can remember is the little kid, and he raises

00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:40.659
his arm, and the ball comes to his glove. And

00:58:40.659 --> 00:58:44.480
I smiled just for that. But it isn't my – I'm

00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:48.139
not listening to this song ever. But I appreciate

00:58:48.139 --> 00:58:51.679
you, you know, for you. Right field. It's easy.

00:58:51.739 --> 00:58:53.699
You know, you could be awkward and you could

00:58:53.699 --> 00:58:56.539
be slow. That's why I'm here in right field.

00:58:56.659 --> 00:59:00.599
Just watching the dandelions grow from 1986 is

00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:03.920
no walk to freedom. The song was not a single.

00:59:03.940 --> 00:59:07.500
It didn't chart, but obviously it charts in Dan's

00:59:07.500 --> 00:59:09.920
heart. And anyone that played sports can listen

00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.639
to this song. and understand if you played baseball,

00:59:13.820 --> 00:59:18.079
at least in Little League, where I grew up, every

00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:20.679
player got a chance to kind of play every position.

00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:24.320
And before I found my place in Little League

00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:27.320
as catcher, I spent a lot of time watching the

00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:31.099
grass grow in the outfield because at the younger

00:59:31.099 --> 00:59:34.119
ages, the ball never got hit out there. So you

00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:37.079
were just literally standing there, just watching

00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:41.760
time pass. The part of this song I love, is the

00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:45.139
whistle for the solo, which is kind of the slight

00:59:45.139 --> 00:59:47.719
interpolation of Take Me Out to the Ball Game,

00:59:47.860 --> 00:59:55.280
but not exactly. It's a nice play on their part

00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:59.760
to put that into the song. And with that, Manny,

00:59:59.860 --> 01:00:03.440
we're back to you for track four. Right. This

01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:06.920
one, I'm going to one of my favorite artists,

01:00:06.940 --> 01:00:09.219
especially to go cross country with. If you're

01:00:09.219 --> 01:00:12.119
going cross country. Grab yourself some Otis

01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.199
Reddick and put him on repeat. I'm going sitting

01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:19.119
on the dock of the bay, wasting time. Again,

01:00:19.179 --> 01:00:22.679
another song that I didn't grow up during Otis'

01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:26.440
time. I didn't necessarily have a dock on the

01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:30.579
bay, but there are so many times that I can remember

01:00:30.579 --> 01:00:34.119
going with friends to the Roslyn Duck Pond with

01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:38.519
my wife before we were really dating and going

01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:41.590
and just like. sitting there and staring at body

01:00:41.590 --> 01:00:44.849
of water and just wasting time, sometimes not

01:00:44.849 --> 01:00:49.730
even talking, but saying everything. So I think

01:00:49.730 --> 01:00:53.429
the song is perfect. I think it's such a relaxing

01:00:53.429 --> 01:00:56.969
song and brings you so many different avenues

01:00:56.969 --> 01:00:59.500
of the universe while listening to it. I mean,

01:00:59.539 --> 01:01:01.940
Otis Redding is a soundtrack basically to our

01:01:01.940 --> 01:01:06.039
cross -country trip. It is the music we listen

01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:08.599
to the most on top of Jadakiss for some reason.

01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:10.880
Yeah, which is so funny. So weird. So weird.

01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.639
It was so weird. It was a very weird cross -country

01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:18.179
trip, Brian. But I think this song, too, brings

01:01:18.179 --> 01:01:20.760
me back to I was first introduced to this song

01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:25.280
by my dad, but also in a way. my mom who would

01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:27.780
make fun of this song for some reason because

01:01:27.780 --> 01:01:30.019
my dad like she didn't really like this song

01:01:30.019 --> 01:01:33.340
so she would make fun of this song but I love

01:01:33.340 --> 01:01:36.599
this song and it makes me think of exactly what

01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:39.710
Manny's saying that idea of reminiscing reflecting

01:01:39.710 --> 01:01:42.909
and thinking but also sometimes in a group like

01:01:42.909 --> 01:01:44.650
you do that where it's like either in a duck

01:01:44.650 --> 01:01:47.989
pond or the beach or on our cross -country trip

01:01:47.989 --> 01:01:51.090
like moments of silence like in a way with a

01:01:51.090 --> 01:01:53.750
group of people and i felt like that's what this

01:01:53.750 --> 01:01:56.769
is and it's that nostalgia for those moments

01:01:56.769 --> 01:02:00.349
together i i love this song and pretty much every

01:02:00.349 --> 01:02:03.260
otis writing song Looks like nothing's going

01:02:03.260 --> 01:02:06.079
to change. Everything still remains the same.

01:02:06.340 --> 01:02:09.360
I can't do what 10 people tell me to do. So I

01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.179
guess I'll remain the same. I've been playing

01:02:12.179 --> 01:02:14.699
this song for well over a decade with Colburn

01:02:14.699 --> 01:02:17.619
and company. Every time we start the opening,

01:02:17.780 --> 01:02:21.460
people just stop what they're doing and they

01:02:21.460 --> 01:02:23.940
kind of just get sucked into the song. It's so

01:02:23.940 --> 01:02:27.340
hypnotic. It just pulls you in. And in 1968,

01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:31.719
it became the first. Posthumous song to reach

01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:35.019
number one on the Billboard US Hot 100 chart.

01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.139
It also hit number seven on the Canada RPM top

01:02:39.139 --> 01:02:42.260
singles chart and number three on the UK singles

01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:45.719
chart, among others. This song was recorded three

01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:49.860
days before Otis Redding tragically died in a

01:02:49.860 --> 01:02:53.630
plane crash. And to think what might have come

01:02:53.630 --> 01:02:56.050
from him beyond this song, because this song

01:02:56.050 --> 01:03:00.590
is an all time classic and all time great lyrically

01:03:00.590 --> 01:03:04.489
just grabs you. And again, it's hypnotic. It

01:03:04.489 --> 01:03:10.349
pulls you in and just demands and commands your

01:03:10.349 --> 01:03:13.530
attention. Yeah. And I love the song. I'm kind

01:03:13.530 --> 01:03:15.829
of curious to see how that bounces back and forth

01:03:15.829 --> 01:03:18.929
with Jadakiss, but I'll have to. Put that on

01:03:18.929 --> 01:03:21.050
when we're done recording here and see what that

01:03:21.050 --> 01:03:24.130
sounds like. I'll put myself in Dan and Manny's

01:03:24.130 --> 01:03:26.210
shoes for a little bit. You have to know Dave

01:03:26.210 --> 01:03:30.269
to understand that. You have to know Dave. I

01:03:30.269 --> 01:03:32.949
think what I'm going to do to follow that up

01:03:32.949 --> 01:03:34.750
is do a little bit of a pivot here. And I'm going

01:03:34.750 --> 01:03:37.070
to give another shout out to Patreon mixtaper,

01:03:37.150 --> 01:03:39.750
Brandon from Virginia, because he chimed in with

01:03:39.750 --> 01:03:43.070
this one. And when you chime in with another

01:03:43.070 --> 01:03:46.289
one of my favorite bands of all time, I'm going

01:03:46.289 --> 01:03:49.099
to run with it. And I'm definitely going to run

01:03:49.099 --> 01:03:52.440
with Blues Travelers back in the day from 2001's

01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:56.900
Bridge. Please check out episode 41, the ultimate

01:03:56.900 --> 01:04:00.179
Blues Traveler playlist featuring the band's

01:04:00.179 --> 01:04:03.480
bassist, Tad Kinchela. We dive deep into the

01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:07.539
band's catalog and touch on tunes from all spectrums

01:04:07.539 --> 01:04:12.840
of their catalog. Now, lyrically, John Popper

01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:16.030
nails this one for me. I close my eyes and feel

01:04:16.030 --> 01:04:18.630
like it was back in the day, but those times

01:04:18.630 --> 01:04:21.829
have long been through. The dying of the light

01:04:21.829 --> 01:04:24.889
is gone, but it's back in the day, like a wish

01:04:24.889 --> 01:04:28.449
that comes half true. John, if you're listening

01:04:28.449 --> 01:04:31.630
and I can ever get you on this show, I don't

01:04:31.630 --> 01:04:33.849
want to talk about the music. I just want to

01:04:33.849 --> 01:04:36.329
dive into some lyrical discussions with you.

01:04:36.670 --> 01:04:40.110
John Popper and Adam Duritz from The Counting

01:04:40.110 --> 01:04:43.500
Crows are two. 90s musicians that I would love

01:04:43.500 --> 01:04:47.219
to just talk lyrics with for a long time and

01:04:47.219 --> 01:04:50.480
this song for some reason if you know the story

01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:53.619
behind the bridge album and the passing of the

01:04:53.619 --> 01:04:56.239
band's original bass player Bobby Sheehan in

01:04:56.239 --> 01:05:00.280
1999 and then how the band kind of went through

01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.969
the changing and brought in Chan's brother, Tad

01:05:03.969 --> 01:05:06.170
into the band and Ben Wilson on keys. This was

01:05:06.170 --> 01:05:09.250
a new era for blues traveler. This is blues traveler

01:05:09.250 --> 01:05:12.329
2 .0. And this was the first song of that era.

01:05:12.809 --> 01:05:15.050
And when you think about the lyrics, there's

01:05:15.050 --> 01:05:17.869
again, a melancholy touch to it. You're looking

01:05:17.869 --> 01:05:20.510
back at the past, but you're also kind of looking

01:05:20.510 --> 01:05:22.869
towards the future of what the future might hold.

01:05:22.929 --> 01:05:27.150
And damn, I love this song so much. Yeah. These

01:05:27.150 --> 01:05:31.260
lyrics, you know, I'm not the biggest blues traveler

01:05:31.260 --> 01:05:34.760
fan, but like the lyrical aspects to their songs

01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:37.280
and the depth of the storytelling is just so

01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:41.480
it's undeniable. And this song, now that I live,

01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:43.940
I live in LA and I've been living here for about

01:05:43.940 --> 01:05:47.280
eight years now. And when I go back home for

01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:49.380
a holiday or something or back to my parents'

01:05:49.460 --> 01:05:53.340
house, this is like how I feel. It's weird. Like

01:05:53.340 --> 01:05:57.320
you remember the place that you used to live.

01:05:58.309 --> 01:06:01.190
exactly the way you left it but it's not like

01:06:01.190 --> 01:06:04.230
that and it will never nothing will ever be like

01:06:04.230 --> 01:06:07.329
that so things have changed people are changing

01:06:07.329 --> 01:06:11.550
businesses are gone but at the same time it's

01:06:11.550 --> 01:06:14.110
weird because you call it i'm coming home but

01:06:14.110 --> 01:06:15.929
you're you're actually just going to a place

01:06:15.929 --> 01:06:19.230
that's exactly What is this idea of home? And

01:06:19.230 --> 01:06:21.409
nostalgia kind of could play on your memory like

01:06:21.409 --> 01:06:23.530
that because there's a lot of things that you

01:06:23.530 --> 01:06:25.550
go past. It's like, oh, that used to be this

01:06:25.550 --> 01:06:28.150
or that used to be that. And this way we used

01:06:28.150 --> 01:06:30.349
to hang out like that whole line. There was a

01:06:30.349 --> 01:06:32.210
time when it was easy to find a hangout that

01:06:32.210 --> 01:06:35.429
you knew was yours. Manny and I, like if we could

01:06:35.429 --> 01:06:38.369
remember several places like that that don't

01:06:38.369 --> 01:06:40.670
exist like that anymore, you know, and it's really

01:06:40.670 --> 01:06:43.670
interesting. It gave me a lot to think about

01:06:43.670 --> 01:06:46.460
in terms of this idea of home. But I was. Yeah,

01:06:46.500 --> 01:06:49.300
it's melancholy, but beautifully told, like even

01:06:49.300 --> 01:06:52.099
just reading it as a story in a way. Yeah. When

01:06:52.099 --> 01:06:54.559
my wife and I go back to visit the church we

01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:57.320
got married in, they remodeled the church and

01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:01.179
the stairs that we came down with my family and

01:07:01.179 --> 01:07:04.440
friends all standing on it. That's now a wall

01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:07.519
and the entrance is on the other side. So every

01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:10.699
time I hear this song, I kind of turn to my wife

01:07:10.699 --> 01:07:13.179
and I say, it's like the stairs that aren't there

01:07:13.179 --> 01:07:18.039
anymore. Yeah. So I'm also not that much of a

01:07:18.039 --> 01:07:20.039
Blues Traveler fan. I guess what I'm going to

01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:22.539
bring to this one is I really enjoyed how he

01:07:22.539 --> 01:07:26.280
sings it. Just like the tone of the song, the

01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:29.400
sound of the Blues Traveler. It's just like,

01:07:29.460 --> 01:07:33.400
for some reason, it's fun. I'm like, ooh. And

01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:35.679
yet, he's talking about all these things that

01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:38.739
can be melancholy, but just like the groove is

01:07:38.739 --> 01:07:42.050
what I enjoyed about this song. There's definitely

01:07:42.050 --> 01:07:44.570
something that they bring to a lot of their tracks

01:07:44.570 --> 01:07:47.570
as a groove, especially in Blues Traveler 2 .0.

01:07:47.889 --> 01:07:50.349
And yeah, you nailed it on that one. But Dan,

01:07:50.550 --> 01:07:54.250
we have the second half of Side B. Where do we

01:07:54.250 --> 01:07:56.909
go from here for track six? Yeah, I mean, this

01:07:56.909 --> 01:08:00.630
song has been a song that I listen to like multiple

01:08:00.630 --> 01:08:03.969
times a week. The Story by Brandi Carlile. And

01:08:03.969 --> 01:08:08.110
I love. this song her voice and every i mean

01:08:08.110 --> 01:08:10.909
just musically unbelievable and you know and

01:08:10.909 --> 01:08:13.190
produced by t -bone burnett i mean this is a

01:08:13.190 --> 01:08:15.829
killer song but right away in the first verse

01:08:15.829 --> 01:08:18.329
like when i think of nostalgia i do think about

01:08:18.329 --> 01:08:21.350
reflection right and like thinking on life not

01:08:21.350 --> 01:08:23.710
like trying to remember but reflecting which

01:08:23.710 --> 01:08:25.310
is like a little different it's like this idea

01:08:25.310 --> 01:08:28.510
that all these lines across my face tell you

01:08:28.510 --> 01:08:31.310
the story of who i am so many stories where i've

01:08:31.310 --> 01:08:34.779
been but also like It's not even just that because

01:08:34.779 --> 01:08:37.539
that's part of it, but that there's a person

01:08:37.539 --> 01:08:41.239
in your life that knows those stories, knows

01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.039
those lines. And like you share them together

01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:48.439
in some way. And like I listen to the song and

01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:51.520
this song makes me cry. Like I did a problem.

01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:53.520
My students in class being like, what's your

01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:57.039
go to cry song? And at the moment of that prompt,

01:08:57.220 --> 01:08:59.939
this was it. And like it is unbelievable. But

01:08:59.939 --> 01:09:03.489
yeah, I love this song. Unbelievable. Yeah. Again,

01:09:03.609 --> 01:09:09.229
Dan's taking all my rights. Can I go first? No.

01:09:09.970 --> 01:09:12.689
Randy's phenomenal. One of my wife's favorites.

01:09:13.109 --> 01:09:16.289
So this gets played on a lot. And me and my wife

01:09:16.289 --> 01:09:19.470
were together for like, dated for a very long

01:09:19.470 --> 01:09:21.430
time. We knew each other since high school. This

01:09:21.430 --> 01:09:24.229
comes on and it's like the lyric I was made for

01:09:24.229 --> 01:09:28.529
you is like gut -wrenching and amazing at the

01:09:28.529 --> 01:09:31.970
same time. We went through ups and downs not

01:09:31.970 --> 01:09:35.329
to get so like relationship in this, but we made

01:09:35.329 --> 01:09:38.390
it through and this song touches a long way.

01:09:38.470 --> 01:09:43.029
And her voice is just so good with this song.

01:09:43.130 --> 01:09:45.329
This song was made for her. I mean, obviously,

01:09:45.409 --> 01:09:47.409
but I don't even want the song to be covered.

01:09:47.590 --> 01:09:49.770
I just want her to keep singing it all the time.

01:09:50.029 --> 01:09:53.750
So like, just because like her soul in this song,

01:09:53.810 --> 01:09:56.170
in a lot of her songs, but especially this one,

01:09:56.229 --> 01:09:59.899
that definitely gets you. It is definitely. Get

01:09:59.899 --> 01:10:03.060
some tears going. Yeah, Dan. And you even stripped,

01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:05.560
as you've noticed, I've been pulling a line of

01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:08.600
lyrics out of every song tonight to kind of highlight

01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:11.699
where it sits with me. You pulled the exact line.

01:10:11.819 --> 01:10:15.159
So many stories of where I've been and how I

01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.779
got to where I am. And then Manny to bounce off

01:10:18.779 --> 01:10:22.319
the cover song thing. Yes, I agree. I think Brandy's

01:10:22.319 --> 01:10:25.699
is the definitive version, but. Country loves

01:10:25.699 --> 01:10:28.420
this song. Leanne Rimes covered it on her Remnants

01:10:28.420 --> 01:10:32.020
album, and Dolly Parton covered it on the Cover

01:10:32.020 --> 01:10:35.979
Stories compilation, which is the entire album

01:10:35.979 --> 01:10:38.720
being covered by a bunch of different artists,

01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:42.340
including Pearl Jam, the Indigo Girls, Old Crow

01:10:42.340 --> 01:10:45.640
Medicine Show, and Adele, among others. This

01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:48.380
song reached number 75 on the Billboard US Hot

01:10:48.380 --> 01:10:52.659
100. And hit number 44 in Australia, number 16

01:10:52.659 --> 01:10:55.979
in Switzerland, number three in Norway, and number

01:10:55.979 --> 01:10:59.500
one in Portugal. So Portugal got it right. I

01:10:59.500 --> 01:11:01.840
don't know how the hell it only hit number 75

01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:03.920
in the US. Because the Portuguese are amazing.

01:11:04.260 --> 01:11:09.039
That's why. This song is absolutely incredible.

01:11:09.380 --> 01:11:12.899
And Brandi Carlile, there's a reason why when

01:11:12.899 --> 01:11:15.659
she performs on award shows, people stop dead

01:11:15.659 --> 01:11:19.069
in their tracks. Brandi Carlile is so underrated

01:11:19.069 --> 01:11:23.250
musically. She is one of the most gifted, sorry,

01:11:24.050 --> 01:11:27.630
storytellers of the modern musical era. And I'm

01:11:27.630 --> 01:11:30.710
so glad you chose this song. So with that, Manny,

01:11:30.890 --> 01:11:34.789
track seven. We're going. Good riddance, time

01:11:34.789 --> 01:11:38.149
of your life, green day. There wasn't a graduation

01:11:38.149 --> 01:11:42.109
party you can show to. I think it was our song,

01:11:42.170 --> 01:11:44.609
right? Class of 2000 song or something. Was it?

01:11:44.689 --> 01:11:47.949
I think so. the best part of this song to me

01:11:47.949 --> 01:11:51.210
is the beginning when like it strums it stops

01:11:51.210 --> 01:11:55.890
strum stop and then get into it like that pause

01:11:55.890 --> 01:11:59.029
every time i don't know i love it another turning

01:11:59.029 --> 01:12:02.270
point a fork stuck in the road like just like

01:12:02.270 --> 01:12:05.329
thinking about where am i gonna go now looking

01:12:05.329 --> 01:12:07.229
into the future also thinking about the past

01:12:07.229 --> 01:12:10.869
what choices do i have to make and it just it

01:12:10.869 --> 01:12:14.569
brings me back to that era and even when we were

01:12:14.569 --> 01:12:18.640
there that would even bring me back further to

01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:21.159
think about what i did to get to where i was

01:12:21.159 --> 01:12:25.000
and where i'm going so this song is just great

01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:28.140
it always makes me feel good yeah it's interesting

01:12:28.140 --> 01:12:30.800
i i have such a weird relationship with green

01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:33.300
day in terms of their music like it's like a

01:12:33.300 --> 01:12:35.100
it's like a roller coaster for me where like

01:12:35.100 --> 01:12:37.579
there's moments where i'm like oh you and then

01:12:37.579 --> 01:12:40.180
there are parts where i'm like yes and manny

01:12:40.180 --> 01:12:43.560
and i saw green day on a whim once like we were

01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:45.750
looking around me like You're now the oldest

01:12:45.750 --> 01:12:48.409
people at the concert yet, but this is a great

01:12:48.409 --> 01:12:51.390
song. It is. It's a great song and it marks a

01:12:51.390 --> 01:12:53.609
time. And it's like, Brian, you were talking,

01:12:53.630 --> 01:12:55.970
one of the mixtapers talked about that song,

01:12:56.109 --> 01:12:59.729
the Weezer song memories. And I feel like the

01:12:59.729 --> 01:13:02.850
same way that song with this song, it's one of

01:13:02.850 --> 01:13:06.149
those songs that like lets you reflect as you're.

01:13:06.430 --> 01:13:08.250
it's weird like in this abstract way move like

01:13:08.250 --> 01:13:10.710
walking forward like away from whatever it is

01:13:10.710 --> 01:13:13.289
like you're sitting there it was a time my life

01:13:13.289 --> 01:13:15.310
but it's also this idea of like good riddance

01:13:15.310 --> 01:13:17.770
because we're moving forward in a way that's

01:13:17.770 --> 01:13:20.449
how i always saw it it's like i have to let go

01:13:20.449 --> 01:13:23.609
i can't be there and nostalgia is like this weird

01:13:23.609 --> 01:13:26.069
thing where it's like you have to let go of it

01:13:26.069 --> 01:13:29.229
you can visit but you can't always be there and

01:13:29.229 --> 01:13:32.090
i feel like that's the thing here that i feel

01:13:32.090 --> 01:13:34.300
like in terms of green day says and Funny thing,

01:13:34.340 --> 01:13:37.020
I saw Billy Joe Armstrong perform in one of the

01:13:37.020 --> 01:13:39.359
smallest venues ever in New York, the Bowery

01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:42.239
Ballroom, with singer -songwriter Jesse Mallon.

01:13:42.319 --> 01:13:44.859
And it was really crazy to see him in a room

01:13:44.859 --> 01:13:48.159
full of 40 people. It was just like, oh my God.

01:13:48.300 --> 01:13:51.340
Yeah. So it really brought all sorts of memories

01:13:51.340 --> 01:13:56.220
back. Well, from 1997's Nimrod, Manny, you stole

01:13:56.220 --> 01:13:59.850
my lyrical line that I pulled for this one. reach

01:13:59.850 --> 01:14:02.369
number two on the billboard us alternative airplay

01:14:02.369 --> 01:14:05.750
chart number 11 on the uk singles chart number

01:14:05.750 --> 01:14:09.109
five on the canada top singles chart and number

01:14:09.109 --> 01:14:13.329
44 on the australia aria charts this song was

01:14:13.329 --> 01:14:16.409
an interesting point in green day's career because

01:14:16.409 --> 01:14:20.409
there was a lot of green day fans that were like

01:14:20.409 --> 01:14:25.529
the audacity that acoustic ballad how dare they

01:14:25.529 --> 01:14:28.789
like like people were pissed when this song came

01:14:28.789 --> 01:14:31.369
out and when i first heard it i kind of thought

01:14:31.369 --> 01:14:33.789
to myself and if i ever got a chance to interview

01:14:33.789 --> 01:14:36.130
anyone from green day or billy joe i'd love that

01:14:36.130 --> 01:14:38.890
opportunity i would actually ask was there ever

01:14:38.890 --> 01:14:42.689
a point where this song was written to be a fast

01:14:42.689 --> 01:14:46.069
punk song or was it always meant to be acoustic

01:14:46.069 --> 01:14:51.289
because in my brain before Nimrod, there wasn't

01:14:51.289 --> 01:14:53.810
a lot of that ballady part of Green Day. But

01:14:53.810 --> 01:14:57.449
then after Nimrod, you get the warning album

01:14:57.449 --> 01:14:59.810
that introduced a lot more acoustical elements

01:14:59.810 --> 01:15:03.829
into it. So I wonder, this was a turning point

01:15:03.829 --> 01:15:07.310
in the band, literally and figuratively. But

01:15:07.310 --> 01:15:10.229
for me, this song always brings a tear to my

01:15:10.229 --> 01:15:14.649
eye and chokes me up because when my oldest graduated

01:15:14.649 --> 01:15:19.060
preschool. They sang this song or screamed it,

01:15:19.100 --> 01:15:21.600
however you want to call it. And every time I

01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:25.199
hear it, it chokes me. I literally am getting

01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:28.060
a lump in my throat now because I just hear them.

01:15:28.060 --> 01:15:30.859
And the whole time she sang it, she just looked

01:15:30.859 --> 01:15:35.020
me right in the eyes and sang it to me. And it

01:15:35.020 --> 01:15:39.720
was so beautiful. When she graduates high school,

01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:42.079
I'm going to embarrass the shit out of her and

01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:45.479
play this video at her graduation party for high

01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:48.680
school and college. And probably when she gets

01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:51.899
married and I'll, I'll never forget it. It's

01:15:51.899 --> 01:15:54.520
my, and I'm sorry. I love green day. They're

01:15:54.520 --> 01:15:57.279
one of my favorite bands ever, but that'll forever

01:15:57.279 --> 01:16:00.079
be my favorite performance of good riddance time

01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:04.210
of your life. But now. Getting the, let me wipe

01:16:04.210 --> 01:16:06.289
my eyes here for a minute. Who's ever chopping

01:16:06.289 --> 01:16:09.489
onions in the room and move on to the next song.

01:16:10.090 --> 01:16:13.729
If you were to call a good riddance, one of those

01:16:13.729 --> 01:16:15.909
moments where people would hold up their lighters

01:16:15.909 --> 01:16:18.609
in the air at a punk concert or their cell phones

01:16:18.609 --> 01:16:21.789
for the younger kids, I'm going to hold up lighters

01:16:21.789 --> 01:16:24.869
for our generation and be nostalgic for, because

01:16:24.869 --> 01:16:27.350
we haven't gotten any power ballads in this mix.

01:16:27.390 --> 01:16:30.810
And there are, there's, I definitely hold a place.

01:16:31.390 --> 01:16:35.250
just for power ballads alone. Episodes 16 and

01:16:35.250 --> 01:16:39.529
38 are completely dedicated to 80s and some 90s

01:16:39.529 --> 01:16:42.930
power ballads that we get nostalgic for. However,

01:16:43.109 --> 01:16:46.109
when you wake up to the sound of falling rain,

01:16:46.409 --> 01:16:49.130
you know exactly what song I'm talking about.

01:16:49.189 --> 01:16:52.050
Remember yesterday, Walking Hand in Hand, Love

01:16:52.050 --> 01:16:55.850
Letters in the Sand from 1989 Skid Row. I Remember

01:16:55.850 --> 01:16:59.289
You, reached No. 6 on the Billboard US Hot 100,

01:16:59.550 --> 01:17:03.949
No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 14 on the

01:17:03.949 --> 01:17:07.789
Canada Top Singles Chart, and hit No. 12 in Australia.

01:17:08.350 --> 01:17:11.310
I love my punk covers, being we were just talking

01:17:11.310 --> 01:17:14.449
about Green Day, the Ataris, I'd be remiss if

01:17:14.449 --> 01:17:17.770
I didn't mention their amazing cover of I Remember

01:17:17.770 --> 01:17:20.770
You, where they even sample some parts of Sebastian

01:17:20.770 --> 01:17:23.949
Bach's original vocals and mix it in. Totally

01:17:23.949 --> 01:17:27.430
awesome cover. I mean, I know there's so much

01:17:27.430 --> 01:17:29.609
drama with Skid Row now. You'll probably never

01:17:29.609 --> 01:17:32.289
see that reunion, but hell, Oasis is doing it.

01:17:32.609 --> 01:17:36.850
This song, it's probably a top five all -time

01:17:36.850 --> 01:17:39.909
power ballad for me. So Skid Row's I Remember

01:17:39.909 --> 01:17:45.390
You. Okay. I love this. this song i love this

01:17:45.390 --> 01:17:48.149
song it is again like you're right there was

01:17:48.149 --> 01:17:52.210
a moment in time of like there's this very specific

01:17:52.210 --> 01:17:56.149
80s sound and this was on all the time especially

01:17:56.149 --> 01:18:00.449
on mtv like the this video and this song vh1

01:18:00.449 --> 01:18:02.430
mtv so like it wasn't even just you heard it

01:18:02.430 --> 01:18:05.350
you saw it it was on it was on tv when they were

01:18:05.350 --> 01:18:07.710
playing this even though it came out in 89 though

01:18:07.710 --> 01:18:09.930
this was all coming out right but the thing is

01:18:09.930 --> 01:18:14.050
this i love sebastian bach and the thing i will

01:18:14.050 --> 01:18:16.250
always remember sebastian bach from now from

01:18:16.250 --> 01:18:19.670
now on as well is his part that he played his

01:18:19.670 --> 01:18:22.229
recurring character in gilmore girls because

01:18:22.229 --> 01:18:26.090
he was on that show not just one episode he was

01:18:26.090 --> 01:18:30.109
on a lot he was in a band in that show with these

01:18:30.109 --> 01:18:32.289
other kids of main characters and they had a

01:18:32.289 --> 01:18:34.789
band together and sebastian bach was on a show

01:18:34.789 --> 01:18:39.390
for many many episodes but man this song The

01:18:39.390 --> 01:18:42.409
80s sound that makes that nostalgic 80s sound

01:18:42.409 --> 01:18:47.170
is like this song, Ozzy. i'm coming home is like

01:18:47.170 --> 01:18:49.949
that kind of same type of feeling but like it

01:18:49.949 --> 01:18:52.149
was that time where like ballads also in a way

01:18:52.149 --> 01:18:54.890
also would get fans angry i i think like at that

01:18:54.890 --> 01:18:56.810
time too like true metal fans were like getting

01:18:56.810 --> 01:18:59.090
you know kind of angry but they're the audacity

01:18:59.090 --> 01:19:02.750
sorry yeah i mean there's gonna be an episode

01:19:02.750 --> 01:19:04.829
of the nostalgia test coming out about the black

01:19:04.829 --> 01:19:07.670
album and we talk all about that album for quite

01:19:07.670 --> 01:19:10.229
a bit but yeah i love this song it brings you

01:19:10.229 --> 01:19:12.029
back to that moment there's nothing i don't remember

01:19:12.029 --> 01:19:13.930
for some reason it brings me back to my cousins

01:19:13.930 --> 01:19:17.300
and hanging out with them and like skid row it's

01:19:17.300 --> 01:19:18.840
skid row it's sebastian bach there's nothing

01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:22.340
you can say we spent the summer with the top

01:19:22.340 --> 01:19:25.899
rule down i wish ever after would be like this

01:19:25.899 --> 01:19:29.460
you said i love you without a sound that right

01:19:29.460 --> 01:19:32.939
there brings me back to like i said on the dock

01:19:32.939 --> 01:19:35.300
of the bay all the times when you're not talking

01:19:35.300 --> 01:19:38.399
you're with that young love and you didn't have

01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:41.689
to say anything and you just knew the song is

01:19:41.689 --> 01:19:44.590
awesome i love it it's a great ballad i got nothing

01:19:44.590 --> 01:19:47.590
more to say than that all right we each got one

01:19:47.590 --> 01:19:51.109
song left we're up to track nine because we go

01:19:51.109 --> 01:19:53.329
to track 11 because i have to get one in to make

01:19:53.329 --> 01:19:56.010
it an even seven for each of us dan what do you

01:19:56.010 --> 01:19:59.430
got for your final song pick of the night look

01:19:59.430 --> 01:20:02.869
i went back and forth on everything on this list

01:20:02.869 --> 01:20:06.250
and i had a lot of songs on this list and i was

01:20:06.250 --> 01:20:09.569
like had this particular song i was like It's

01:20:09.569 --> 01:20:13.090
got to be on there no matter what. And it's Juicy

01:20:13.090 --> 01:20:16.510
by Notorious B .I .G. At this point, in my opinion,

01:20:16.649 --> 01:20:20.569
you could play this song anywhere, in any event,

01:20:20.710 --> 01:20:22.949
at any moment. And this is the type of song that

01:20:22.949 --> 01:20:27.699
crosses all sorts of lines of. generation, culture,

01:20:28.039 --> 01:20:30.359
everything, and brings people together. People

01:20:30.359 --> 01:20:32.220
are going to dance. People are going to get hyped

01:20:32.220 --> 01:20:34.979
up. People are going to remember an amazing point

01:20:34.979 --> 01:20:39.079
in hip hop, but also in music, 94. And we just

01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:41.970
had someone on about. 90s cinema who said 1994

01:20:41.970 --> 01:20:44.649
was one of the most important times in cinema

01:20:44.649 --> 01:20:47.149
in the 90s and i would say in hip -hop right

01:20:47.149 --> 01:20:50.970
around this point was so amazing that it will

01:20:50.970 --> 01:20:53.810
never be repeated again but this song and just

01:20:53.810 --> 01:20:56.189
the lyric i mean super nintendo sega genesis

01:20:56.189 --> 01:20:58.890
as soon as you hear that everyone's gonna everyone's

01:20:58.890 --> 01:21:02.350
like yep but i mean we can't say the intro on

01:21:02.350 --> 01:21:05.109
this show but when you hear the intro to this

01:21:05.109 --> 01:21:07.510
before the rapping even starts you're like yep

01:21:07.510 --> 01:21:10.659
we're here i'm there break out my baggy pants,

01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:12.880
and I'm ready to go. This is a super nostalgic

01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:17.100
song, and I love it. Love it to this day. Great

01:21:17.100 --> 01:21:20.579
choice, Dan. Great choice. I just love it. Obviously,

01:21:20.739 --> 01:21:24.060
one of the better storyteller rap artists of

01:21:24.060 --> 01:21:27.819
our time. I didn't grow up making it that big

01:21:27.819 --> 01:21:30.760
like he did, but even when you're hearing him

01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:34.399
tell the story about his time growing up, how

01:21:34.399 --> 01:21:37.199
he used to eat sardines for dinner, now he's

01:21:37.199 --> 01:21:40.859
drinking champagne. He's now being interviewed

01:21:40.859 --> 01:21:44.239
with Robin Leach. So it's like he had a dream.

01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:47.140
Didn't even realize it was going to blow up like

01:21:47.140 --> 01:21:51.340
it did. Unfortunately, you know, he's no longer.

01:21:51.579 --> 01:21:55.300
But this almost is just like another like summertime

01:21:55.300 --> 01:21:58.380
vibe. Obviously, like when this was on, this

01:21:58.380 --> 01:22:01.479
was on all the time. Such a, you know, like,

01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:03.359
again, you're either dancing, you're hanging

01:22:03.359 --> 01:22:05.979
out, you're bobbing your head. You're remembering

01:22:05.979 --> 01:22:09.670
great times. Who doesn't like this song? If you

01:22:09.670 --> 01:22:12.449
don't like it, I don't understand why you even

01:22:12.449 --> 01:22:16.010
listen to music then. It was all a dream. I used

01:22:16.010 --> 01:22:18.649
to read Word Up magazine, Salt -N -Pepa, and

01:22:18.649 --> 01:22:21.810
Heavy D up in the limousine from 1994's Ready

01:22:21.810 --> 01:22:25.109
to Die. Reached No. 27 on the Billboard U .S.

01:22:25.109 --> 01:22:28.710
Hot 100 and No. 72 on the U .K. Singles Chart.

01:22:28.909 --> 01:22:32.369
This is my senior year in high school. Every

01:22:32.369 --> 01:22:35.229
single time we won a football game, we would

01:22:35.229 --> 01:22:38.170
go back into the locker room, and I was the one,

01:22:38.189 --> 01:22:40.149
believe it or not, big shocker here with the

01:22:40.149 --> 01:22:43.779
boombox wedged up. Above my football locker.

01:22:43.979 --> 01:22:46.199
And I was the one that controlled the music.

01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:49.659
Hit play on the tape deck. That line started.

01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:53.380
And we started celebrating the victory. I mean.

01:22:53.460 --> 01:22:56.119
God. And then Saturday nights. There was this

01:22:56.119 --> 01:22:59.439
18 and under dance club. We used to go to. Called

01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:02.340
Bam Bam's in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. This song

01:23:02.340 --> 01:23:04.779
always played there. This was just part of my

01:23:04.779 --> 01:23:08.220
senior year. So many amazing memories. As soon

01:23:08.220 --> 01:23:11.439
as I hear that opening line. I'm back in 1994.

01:23:12.100 --> 01:23:15.800
Yeah. Manny, your last song pick of the night.

01:23:16.439 --> 01:23:19.039
Okay. This was brought up, obviously, during

01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:21.279
our, because we did a Billy Joel. So it's Billy

01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:24.260
Joel seen from an Italian restaurant. Nice. With

01:23:24.260 --> 01:23:26.920
Glory Days on this side. I feel like it has almost

01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:30.159
the same vibe where, you know, Brendan and Eddie

01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:31.680
with the Populous Daddies and the King and the

01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:34.300
Queen and the Prom. Those were their Glory Days.

01:23:34.479 --> 01:23:36.560
And then it goes into a whole thing of where

01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:39.220
they're no longer having Glory Days, but you

01:23:39.220 --> 01:23:44.069
are. And it's just such a great song to me. I

01:23:44.069 --> 01:23:46.329
always rush out to it. And I love that it goes

01:23:46.329 --> 01:23:49.029
from like, you're in an Italian restaurant, having

01:23:49.029 --> 01:23:51.829
a good time, rocking out. And then you go back

01:23:51.829 --> 01:23:54.489
to being slow. There's nothing wrong with this

01:23:54.489 --> 01:23:57.630
song. It's an amazing time. Nostalgic all the

01:23:57.630 --> 01:23:59.670
way. Because you always knew a Brenda and Eddie.

01:24:00.310 --> 01:24:02.689
And you always thought they would always find

01:24:02.689 --> 01:24:05.880
a way to get by. Okay, so. Brian, the way you

01:24:05.880 --> 01:24:08.380
said, like, you know, if you're in a band in

01:24:08.380 --> 01:24:11.319
New Jersey, it's by law that you have to play

01:24:11.319 --> 01:24:14.539
a Bruce Springsteen song. I knew I didn't have

01:24:14.539 --> 01:24:17.319
to pick a Billy Joel song because Manny was here.

01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:19.819
And I'm like, one of us is going to do it because

01:24:19.819 --> 01:24:22.699
living on Long Island, if you don't, if you're

01:24:22.699 --> 01:24:24.800
making a list of any sort, I don't even care

01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:27.279
what it is. Billy Joel's coming up at some point.

01:24:27.420 --> 01:24:29.979
And it wasn't even a surprise. It's like, absolutely.

01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:34.590
And it's funny because this song is so. it's

01:24:34.590 --> 01:24:37.390
both so new york but also so universal and that's

01:24:37.390 --> 01:24:39.329
what makes it nostalgic that shared experience

01:24:39.329 --> 01:24:41.869
thing that we talked about on our episode with

01:24:41.869 --> 01:24:45.149
georg because everyone like you said knew a brenda

01:24:45.149 --> 01:24:48.170
and eddie right but at the same time i was listening

01:24:48.170 --> 01:24:50.770
to the song the other day and i was like man

01:24:50.770 --> 01:24:54.050
if they just didn't buy that waterbed with the

01:24:54.050 --> 01:24:57.500
bread that they saved up They might've been fine,

01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:00.960
but they blew it all on that waterbed. And who

01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:03.140
buys a waterbed? Like as a kid, you're like,

01:25:03.199 --> 01:25:04.920
yeah, it's a good idea. As an adult, you're going

01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:07.520
to be like this bad, this whole thing's a bad

01:25:07.520 --> 01:25:10.979
idea. Love this song. Billy Joel is just the

01:25:10.979 --> 01:25:14.079
epitome of nostalgia. And he is the, and especially

01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:17.279
in New York. I mean, it does nothing to say it's

01:25:17.279 --> 01:25:22.430
nostalgic. Cold beer. Hot lights. My sweet romantic

01:25:22.430 --> 01:25:28.449
teenage nights. From 1977's The Stranger. Obviously

01:25:28.449 --> 01:25:32.369
a huge staple of Billy Joel's live shows. Never

01:25:32.369 --> 01:25:35.699
released as a single. I know I've talked about

01:25:35.699 --> 01:25:38.039
cover songs a bunch of times tonight, but I do

01:25:38.039 --> 01:25:39.920
have to bring up one that I'm going to embed

01:25:39.920 --> 01:25:44.140
over on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com,

01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:48.600
done by the middle -aged dad jam band, which

01:25:48.600 --> 01:25:52.380
is Ken Marino and David Wayne from The State.

01:25:52.420 --> 01:25:55.079
If you remember that show on MTV with a whole

01:25:55.079 --> 01:25:58.439
group of artists, including that one Weird Al

01:25:58.439 --> 01:26:00.760
Yankovic, who we've mentioned tonight, doing

01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:04.399
an incredible... cover of scenes from an Italian

01:26:04.399 --> 01:26:06.720
restaurant that you definitely need to check

01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:10.260
out. Like I said, I'll embed it over at myweeklymixtape

01:26:10.260 --> 01:26:13.199
.com. And while you're there, I have to refer

01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:16.960
people back to episode 15, the ultimate Billy

01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:20.199
Joel playlist, which featured Billy Joel band

01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:23.520
member, Liberty DeVito. We talk about this song

01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:27.760
because you kind of just, you have to. Billy

01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:30.680
has stated that scenes from an Italian restaurant

01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:34.829
was influenced. by Side 2 of the Beatles' Abbey

01:26:34.829 --> 01:26:38.109
Road. So that makes my last pick of the night

01:26:38.109 --> 01:26:43.069
tonight very easy. Dan, you already picked my

01:26:43.069 --> 01:26:45.449
favorite song of all time. I got to talk about

01:26:45.449 --> 01:26:48.050
my favorite artist of all time in Tom Petty.

01:26:48.189 --> 01:26:51.810
While it's not from Abbey Road, we have to talk

01:26:51.810 --> 01:26:54.489
about a band that is a lot of people's favorites.

01:26:54.710 --> 01:26:57.930
And what better way to close out than a song

01:26:57.930 --> 01:27:02.539
from 1965's Help if you're in the UK. And 1966

01:27:02.539 --> 01:27:05.020
is yesterday, and today, if you're here in the

01:27:05.020 --> 01:27:08.420
U .S., let's go with yesterday. I've talked about

01:27:08.420 --> 01:27:11.579
cover songs several times tonight over this episode.

01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:16.779
This song is one of the most covered songs in

01:27:16.779 --> 01:27:21.199
the history of recorded music, with over 2 ,200

01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:24.989
versions and counting. And I'm now going to go

01:27:24.989 --> 01:27:28.350
through them one by one. No, I'm kidding. The

01:27:28.350 --> 01:27:30.609
song reached number one on the Billboard US Hot

01:27:30.609 --> 01:27:33.109
100, as well as top in the charts in Sweden,

01:27:33.289 --> 01:27:36.369
Belgium, Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands.

01:27:37.350 --> 01:27:40.390
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.

01:27:41.010 --> 01:27:43.729
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.

01:27:44.189 --> 01:27:49.029
Oh, I believe in yesterday. With such a melancholy

01:27:49.029 --> 01:27:52.010
close, it's a kind of a beautiful and powerful

01:27:52.010 --> 01:27:56.079
ending. to the mixtape tonight and i mean there's

01:27:56.079 --> 01:27:58.319
a lot of people out there that'll say the beatles

01:27:58.319 --> 01:28:01.760
are the cherry on top of a nostalgia mixtape

01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:05.199
it's such a staple song and also like it's a

01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:08.100
staple in my house in terms of like my mom is

01:28:08.100 --> 01:28:11.239
a huge beatles fan so like i heard these songs

01:28:11.239 --> 01:28:14.119
and i was in listening to it like it brings me

01:28:14.119 --> 01:28:16.659
back to all those moments that i heard the song

01:28:16.659 --> 01:28:21.460
but also that it is a song that people are whether

01:28:21.460 --> 01:28:24.199
you're a rock and roll fan or not the beatles

01:28:24.199 --> 01:28:26.960
transcend those spaces so like that's the thing

01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:29.159
about nostalgia is that this song transcends

01:28:29.159 --> 01:28:31.560
all those things to create that shared experience

01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:35.479
between people of a yesterday we all have that

01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:38.619
and so like this song is just perfect way to

01:28:38.619 --> 01:28:42.319
end it as well absolutely yeah this song's perfectly

01:28:42.319 --> 01:28:45.590
melancholy it's one of those ones that You should

01:28:45.590 --> 01:28:47.829
feel really sad about, but you feel good while

01:28:47.829 --> 01:28:50.529
listening to it. I love the suddenly I'm not

01:28:50.529 --> 01:28:54.329
half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging

01:28:54.329 --> 01:28:57.090
over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly. Like how

01:28:57.090 --> 01:28:59.329
fast things can go. And I don't know about you

01:28:59.329 --> 01:29:03.350
guys, but lately after 40, I just like things

01:29:03.350 --> 01:29:05.470
that like, you know, summers are going a lot

01:29:05.470 --> 01:29:08.329
quicker. Like time is just like so much quicker

01:29:08.329 --> 01:29:11.609
than it used to be. And this song like defines

01:29:11.609 --> 01:29:14.229
all that. So yeah, this is a perfect choice.

01:29:14.909 --> 01:29:17.529
And that, mixtapers, concludes side B of the

01:29:17.529 --> 01:29:20.430
ultimate nostalgia mixtape, which consists of

01:29:20.430 --> 01:29:23.810
Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days, Tom Petty's Even

01:29:23.810 --> 01:29:26.869
the Losers, Peter, Paul, and Mary's Right Field,

01:29:27.289 --> 01:29:29.989
Otis Redding's Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay,

01:29:30.529 --> 01:29:34.029
Blues Traveler's Back in the Day, Brandi Carlile's

01:29:34.029 --> 01:29:36.829
The Story, Green Day's Good Riddance, Time of

01:29:36.829 --> 01:29:40.649
Your Life, Skid Row's I Remember You, The Notorious

01:29:40.649 --> 01:29:44.130
B .I .G.'s Juicy, Billy Joel's scenes from an

01:29:44.130 --> 01:29:46.949
Italian restaurant and the Beatles yesterday.

01:29:47.369 --> 01:29:50.510
Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all

01:29:50.510 --> 01:29:53.069
the songs we've discussed in this mix through

01:29:53.069 --> 01:29:57.090
the playlist embedded on the episode page. Well,

01:29:57.130 --> 01:30:01.720
Dan and Manny, we have talked a lot about. nostalgia

01:30:01.720 --> 01:30:04.720
this evening why don't you let listeners know

01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:07.579
where they can find out if they want even more

01:30:07.579 --> 01:30:11.800
of a nostalgia fix over at the nostalgia test

01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.579
yeah first of all brian thank you for having

01:30:14.579 --> 01:30:18.579
us this was such a blast we had a great episode

01:30:18.579 --> 01:30:21.680
with brian back in 2021 billy joel's greatest

01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:25.739
hits um episode number 53 but if you love nostalgia

01:30:25.739 --> 01:30:29.359
and you love hanging out with your best friends

01:30:29.960 --> 01:30:32.260
In a basement somewhere, in a garage, late into

01:30:32.260 --> 01:30:34.619
the night, talking nonsense about movies and

01:30:34.619 --> 01:30:37.159
music and everything. And interrupting each other.

01:30:37.500 --> 01:30:39.560
Yeah. And interrupting each other. You'll love

01:30:39.560 --> 01:30:41.739
the nostalgia test podcast. You could find us

01:30:41.739 --> 01:30:45.039
at the nostalgia test dot com. We are like one

01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:47.180
hundred twenty five episodes in. And right now

01:30:47.180 --> 01:30:50.420
we're also interviewing scholars from all over

01:30:50.420 --> 01:30:53.340
the world. The creator of Tickle Me Elmo is on.

01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:57.119
The creator of Qbert was on at one point talking

01:30:57.119 --> 01:30:58.659
about how they created Qbert. So we're doing

01:30:58.659 --> 01:31:01.399
professionals, scholars. We have many episodes

01:31:01.399 --> 01:31:04.760
coming up. Nostalgia test. Now we are now covering

01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:07.699
the gauntlet of nostalgia. We're currently doing

01:31:07.699 --> 01:31:10.579
90s. Yeah. We're putting a bunch of 90s stuff

01:31:10.579 --> 01:31:14.199
to the test. Music, movies, TV shows, commercials,

01:31:14.359 --> 01:31:17.439
just because we're obsessed with that era right

01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.380
now. Last year was like 80s, but doing the 90s.

01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:23.739
So wherever you get your podcast, follow the

01:31:23.739 --> 01:31:26.560
nostalgia test. Follow us. Thank you so much,

01:31:26.579 --> 01:31:28.319
Brian, too, for having us on. It was an honor.

01:31:28.380 --> 01:31:30.359
It was great. Before you go, can I ask you a

01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:33.020
question as if you were on our show? Sure. Do

01:31:33.020 --> 01:31:34.500
you like Rocky, by the way? All the Rockies?

01:31:34.500 --> 01:31:38.229
Sure. Of course. Okay. Can you give us your favorite

01:31:38.229 --> 01:31:41.949
to your least favorite one through six? Sure.

01:31:42.710 --> 01:31:49.510
Rocky four, Rocky Balboa. Wow. Rocky one, three,

01:31:49.750 --> 01:31:57.539
two, and five. All right. Wow. A four, six. A

01:31:57.539 --> 01:32:00.840
461, maybe. A 461 is new, but that's respectable.

01:32:00.979 --> 01:32:03.359
I love it. Because two and five definitely deserve

01:32:03.359 --> 01:32:05.539
to be in the back end of that list. Two doesn't

01:32:05.539 --> 01:32:08.659
exist without one. Get out of here. Well, gentlemen,

01:32:08.779 --> 01:32:11.500
this has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you

01:32:11.500 --> 01:32:14.140
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01:32:14.220 --> 01:32:17.140
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