Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me once again as guest curator is fellow
Pantheon Podcast Network mate, Jason Whistle,
host of the It's Not That Bad and There Can Only
Be One podcast. Jason, welcome back, my friend.
You know, it's funny. I was listening to one
of your older episodes, the underrated 90s rock
episode that you had Jay Sweet on. And he mentioned
something about the five -timer club, and there
were some board shorts involved. So I'm wondering,
I'm pretty darn skippy. This might be number
five. So I'm wondering when the board shorts
are going to come across the border. Oh, I have
to see about that. Import charges are very expensive
for board shorts, apparently, because you guys
don't have many places to use them. I'm sure
I can bring a bucket of sand near a puddle somewhere.
Well, I appreciate you coming back once again.
Over those times you've been on the show, Jason,
we have covered a ton of genres and topics. But
every now and then I want to have just a little
bit of fun with the concept of what my weekly
mixtape is about. See episode 24, the ultimate
summer cookout and barbecue playlist with a twist,
where on that episode we didn't. actually put
together a playlist to use at a summer cookout
or barbecue, but instead chose songs that had
to be something you would eat or drink at a cookout
or barbecue. So today's topic is a little bit
along those lines because recently I was on a
road trip with the family and a few songs came
on in a row where the word, whoa, was either
featured as a lyric in the song or used as a
part of the song's melody. And it happened song
after song. I said, this could be a topic. Now,
Jay, we've talked about, like I said, a lot of
different things over the episodes you've been
on my show and vice versa. This might be one
of the more unique themes we've tackled here.
Well, I'd like to say that I may be uniquely
qualified for this episode because much like
Keanu Reeves, I am Canadian. I'm a bassist. So
I'm going to get this out of my system right
now. Whoa. we'll get that out of the system now
i'll try not to keanu reeves all over the place
here but i was actually really fascinated when
you tossed this to me because like you i kind
of like to go a little bit extra so i have spent
the last week or so going through artists and
lyrics and specifically looking for whoa as in
not wow not oh i'm not gonna rick flair here
and go I'm also not going to go ooh -ee, ooh
-ah -ah, or ting -tang, or walla -walla -bing
-bang. So I guess the witch doctor is kind of
out of the question on this. Specifically looking
for woes. And I know you, playing in Colbert
and Company, I'm sure you have a few woe songs
in your set list. Oh, of course. And it works
as an exclamation. It works as a lyric. It kind
of works as a feeling as well. Yeah. And just
like you, as I was going through this, see, this
is why I bring you on the show, Jay, because
as I was going through my songs, I actually went
into Apple Music's lyric feature and was looking
for the whoa. If you don't have a you don't have
a whoa. So there are certain songs like Baltimore's
Tarzan Boy, which immediately came into my mind.
Because I thought the Tarzan call in the opening
of the song was, whoa, and it's actually, oh.
And now that I've heard myself say that sentence,
I can officially say that we have gone off the
rails already here. Well, it's funny because
as I was getting home from work on the way to
record today, White Lightning from Def Leppard
came on and I was like, oh, okay, cool. There's
a whoa in there. And then I look at the lyrics
like. No, they're singing Run. I can't use that.
I'm like, White Lightning, Def Leppard, I love
that song. Look at the lyrics. Can't use that
song. Okay, delete, delete, delete. Well, let's
get down to business tonight. As I mentioned
at the top of the show, Jason and I will be curating
the ultimate woe. mixtape and we'll use the old
cassette deck approach jason as my special guest
will begin side a with his first song choice
and then i'll add a song that i feel best follows
up that choice we'll then flip -flop choosing
songs until we've mapped out 10 songs for side
a we'll then give our mixtape a proverbial flip
and we'll map outside be only this time i'll
kick things off with jason choosing second our
overall goal for the episode is to craft the
best Whoa. Mixtape possible through only 20 songs.
At the end of the show, you can take our conversation
to the next level by visiting the episode page
at myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape
a listen via the embedded playlist. And if you
like what you're hearing on the show, you can
help me out by either telling a friend, leaving
the show a five -star review wherever you're
tuning in, or becoming a Patreon mixtaper at
patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. And
a few of the Patreon mixtapers chimed in with
the songs that make them go, whoa. And I want
to give a quick shout out to a few of those.
Philip Bergman chimed in with U2's With or Without
You. Ben from the Too Vague podcast chimed in
with Van Halen's Hot for Teacher. Sean Goff chimed
in with what he calls two fun retro sounding
songs from Butch Walker going with either Synthesizers
or Summer of 89 because he couldn't decide between
the two. Tom Hutchinson chimed in with Jimmy
Eat World's Sweetness, saying it's the best he's
got for this difficult of a task. Chad LaMassa
chimed in with Fallout Boys, My Songs Know What
You Did in the Dark. Seeker chimed in with Toto's
Hold the Line. And Christopher Stile chimed in
with Paramore's Woe and Eraser's Love to Hate
You. Once again, if you'd like to chime in for
future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, come join
the fellow mixtapers at patreon .com forward
slash. my weekly mixtape. Now, Jason, if Kesha
was here with us, she would announce right now
that this place about to woe. Now, after everyone's
done cringing and moaning at that, you can go
ahead and start with the first track to get us
woeing right along. Well, I'm going to. put a
woe to any expectations that people may have
figured of songs that i would pick first because
you know i've been on a few times and i'd like
to bring the rock i like to bring the hard stuff
but no no no no i'm bringing the country right
off the bat i'm bringing a song off of the ever
the bridesmaid my cover band set list and we're
going to start with man i feel like a woman by
shania twain nice it's a little staccato whoa
because it's what oh but everywhere i go and
every time every city we play this song in guaranteed
to go over no matter what we were actually playing
in hamilton recently and we had an encore for
the first set we had to fill the first set a
little bit so we told ask the crowds like would
you like to hear the time warp from the rocky
horror picture show Or would you like to hear
some Shania Twain? And damned if they weren't
ready for their Shania and they freaking love
that song goes over every time. So, man, I feel
like a woman to get us off on a country start.
I love where you're going with that. And thank
you for actually saying the whoa, oh, oh, because,
you know. It's a different delivery of the word
of the day. I feel like this is like a Pee Wee's
Playhouse episode where when the word of the
day happens, everybody screams and yells. And
that's if you guys are playing at home or in
your car, why don't you do that? Every time one
of us say, whoa, everyone just starts screaming
wherever you're at. Thank God you went with the
Pee Wee's Playhouse thing, because if you turn
this into a drinking game, your entire audience
will be drunk by the end of Side A. I was about
to say probably by the end of the song. And that's
a great pick, man. You know, first time you're
talking about Shania Twain, but not the first
time we're talking about Shania Twain, because
she also came up in the Ultimate 90s Canadian
Artists playlist. And that was a song I chose
that time. So this is actually the second time
we're talking Shania, only it's just you. This
song was where she was definitely going more
into the pop side of things. And it really just
crossed over so well. And I think that crossover
is what gave it such longevity when you think
about the fact that here in 2024, people are
still going nuts when your band plays it. That
just shows that this song has a legacy well beyond
what she did in the 90s. So great pick and obviously
an iconic woe. Man, following that up. I'm not
going to lie. I don't have much country in my
list, but I think I can tap into that crossover
appeal I was just talking about. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to go with a song that
is poppy with a little bit of country as well.
But I'm going to fast forward up to 2013 and
I'm going to go off of Global Meltdown, Mr. 305,
Pitbull featuring Kesha and Timber. Number one
on the U S billboard, hot 100. And if you look
up the lyrics, there are a lot of O's in the
song, but the post chorus is whoa. Oh, timber.
Whoa. Oh, timber. No, I'm not going to attempt
to sing Kesha, but this totally works for it.
And it keeps that dance vibe going. It's the
only thing even close to country I've got in
my list. So damn it. You better move us closer
to rock coming out of this one. But you know
what's funny? I think I actually have the perfect
bridge song for that. And you may have to correct
me on this, but I think this might be the first
time that this artist may have ended up on a
My Weekly mixtape. You have my attention. I'm
gonna go with Another Way Out by Hollywood Undead.
This song is actually one of their more tamer
songs as far as... profanity and you know mature
lyrics in their song but it's got a very good
driving almost that mix between rock and dance
club vibe and I freaking love Hollywood Undead
I'm gonna get a chance to see them again live
this summer I've seen them live a few times now
this is off their notes from the underground
album so if you like Hollywood Undead this is
actually a good introduction song like because
there are some Hollywood Undead songs where if
you throw that as the first Hollywood undead
song for someone to listen to they'd be like
whoa I'm out another way out is a good way to
ease someone into the Hollywood undead vibe and
they slay live they're on tour this summer with
I prevail so if you get a chance to go check
them out by all means do so Yeah, when you first
said Hollywood Undead, my brain went, where the
hell is he going with this one? Because a lot
of the stuff is definitely not PG by any stretch
of the imagination, but they're a hell of a group
and they've had some longevity because I remember
they've been around for a long time now and consistently
putting out music and consistently touring. I
will say, too, during the pandemic, because we
were all kind of starved for live music. Some
of the bands. got out there and they started
doing live pay -per -view basically like live
stream pay for the concert and you know what
it meant supporting the band i got three of those
pandemic live stream pay -per -view type concerts
the first one was the anthrax 40th anniversary
because nice naturally the second one was the
nixons because naturally that's what i would
do hollywood undead put out a phenomenal one
it was totally worth the money and filled that
live music gap that i was missing during those
years where live music was not happening i was
doing a bunch of those as well between the dropkick
murphys doing several that were free and then
some that were paid Corey Taylor did a forum
one that was live. That was really good. I ordered
two or three of Blackberry Smokes. If you're
a fan of Southern Rock, they are one of my absolute
favorites. And they put on an incredible live
show. At the time, that was like it felt like
an event, even though you were still sitting
in the same living room you had been the whole
time. Oh, yeah. The lights are out. The TV was
on and the speakers were up. Yes. So what I'm
going to do now is bring the first pick from
a. patreon mixtaper into the fold here because
i think coming out of hollywood undead it actually
really works and i'm gonna go with fallout boys
my songs know what you did in the dark light
them up shout out to patreon mixtaper chad lamasa
this one reached number 13 on the billboard us
hot 100 and i'm not gonna lie this is not the
punk rock fallout boy that you got in the early
days with sugar we're going down and dance dance
and america's sweethearts this is definitely
a poppier side of the band but for some reason
this song the first time i heard it i said you
know i'm not necessarily a massive fan of the
pop side of fallout boy i said but this one is
different and i haven't been to a sporting event
since that song is released that i haven't heard
it so it's kind of transitioned into a stadium
anthem of the modern day oh absolutely and I
will say you scooped me on the artist. I didn't
have that when I had Tiffany Blues from the Follie
A Deux album. Nice. But you had to think the
Fall Out Boy was going to end up with this. Oh,
I know where I'm going to go. Okay. So it's a
little rock. It's definitely sports. And people
on the My Weekly Mixtape Discord server, because
I know there's a wrestling room on there, are
going to love this pic. I'm going to go with
a song that used to be the opening theme song
for Monday Night Raw and My Youngest Son's favorite
band right now, To Be Loved from Papa Roach.
Nice! Still a live staple, still a banger, and
Papa Roach absolutely slays live. We actually
brought My Youngest to his first outdoor concert,
and it was Papa Roach. Hailstorm, Volbeat, and
Default. I don't know if you guys remember Default
at all, but holy crap, were they good. I was
surprised just how good they sounded. Papa Roach.
It's hard to say they blew everybody off the
stage because Hailstorm really can't be beat.
But holy crap, does Papa Roach bring the energy
every time. So London, Ontario got served a good
dosage of the Roach. We had a chance to catch
Papa Roach. shined down in spirit box this past
fall and they broke out to be loved. It was one
of the highlights of their set. Their whole set
was fantastic. I mean, they command that stage
as if there's a million people watching and they
always have done that. I saw Papa Roach as the
opening act for Limp Bizkit with feature act,
meaning in between Papa Roach and Limp Bizkit,
some guy named Eminem. And that was a wild show.
And even then Papa Roach is the opening act tour
the place down. Like they just were there on
business and it's nothing personal, but they're
going to bring it at 110 miles an hour. And they
always do that live. And I'm so glad you picked
that. And I'm also so glad that you brought the
wrestling theme into this because I. Had a song
that I knew I was going to put in tonight for
the wrestling fans that listen. But because you
had to go wrestling now, I'm going to go with
it right now. And I'm going to follow you up
with a song that came out in 2016 and currently
serves as Cody Rhodes theme song in the WWE.
I am going to go with Downstate's Kingdom. And
if you've ever seen Cody Rhodes, modern American
nightmare character ring entrance. You know the
exact whoa I'm talking about. And this past spring,
I had a chance to take the whole family to a
Road to WrestleMania event when we were up in
New Hampshire. And Cody Rhodes headlined the
main event against Drew McIntyre in a no -holds
-barred match. And let me tell you, when he came
down to the ring, even though this wasn't on
television, everybody in unison did that whoa
together, including my kids. It was really awesome.
It was a woman for me. If you want to call it
that. Oh my God. We're going to go down that
road. You now need to copyright that word. It's
a woman. Oh, so now I have to come up with a
good woman song for that one. You know what?
It's not wrestling, but it definitely has that
woman kind of vibe and that crowd kind of vibe.
God smack. Put out a video. for their song Unforgettable
from the When Legends Rise album. And in that
video, it had them kind of doing a school visit
and teaching kids how to play the song. And then
at the end of the video, you have an entire arena
floor full of students on drums, students on
guitars, students on microphones. And Unforgettable
is one of those, you know. definitely crowd sing
-along kind of songs with that whoa that's unforgettable
when legends rise is one of my favorite godsmack
albums of all time maybe right behind a thousand
horsepower and the oracle it definitely is in
that stretch of you know that that three album
run freaking love this song it goes over live
so well and i've seen god's back more times than
i care to count because i can't count that high
but i think coming off of the cody rhodes entrance
i think unforgettable definitely fits that vibe
It really, really does. And Godsmack, it has
that WWE feel, even though the song was obviously
not used with them. The title track was as the
song when Legends Rise was used as the WWE Super
Showdown 2020 theme song. So they definitely
have that WWE connection still. And I think I'm
going to go a musical route to follow up Godsmack.
And what I'm going to do is bring up a band that.
I don't know if Godsmack really gets along with
very well because the song Crying Like a Bitch
was about this band or about at least a member
of this band. And I am going to go with Motley
Crue's Kickstart My Heart because literally the
chorus is, whoa, yeah. And musically, it fits
coming out of Godsmack because they did tour
together on Crew Fest. Whether they got along
or not, that's not. Any of my business, we don't
go down that road. There was a ton of drama between
the two bands. And obviously that did not end
very well. But I will say the song did reach
number 27 on the Billboard US Hot 100. So it
was a top 40 hit for Motley Crue. One of their
biggest hits, an anthem. It's definitely a stadium
anthem, a NASCAR anthem. It's been used in commercials,
movies. I mean, even the opening Mick Mars, the
guitar riff. We talked about this song on the
Hard Rock Road Trip mixtape with John Laurie
of Tantric. Why? Because this is a driving anthem.
Even if the lyrics say otherwise. I think you
would be getting, or at least both of us would
be getting hate mail if we did not have Kickstart
My Heart on this mixtape. It would be like, do
you even woe people? Come on. It would be like
that scene in Family Guy where Peter Griffith's
going, woe, woe. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It would
be like we would start to get like mail. It's
basically a copy of that album and a big sign
that says, here's your whoa. That would be it.
I'm just curious to see if somebody wants to
go through and count the number of woes in this
episode. See, at this point, if someone is playing
the drinking game, if they have dialed nine and
one, I hope there was someone nearby to dial
one for them. They're going to need help. OK,
so we knocked off. One completely must have obvious
woe song with Kickstart My Heart. There's another
one out there that needs to be on the list. If
we don't put it in there, people are going to
sit there and go, do you even woe? And that's
Living on a Prayer from Bon Jovi. But I thought
I was going to be clever. I thought I was going
to be clever. I thought I was going to go with
a different version of Living on a Prayer. And
I hoped. I could have used it, but I listened
to it. I'm like, no, no. She actually doesn't
go, whoa. She changes it to an ooh. So it's the
wrong exclamation. So I can't actually use the
2005 recording of this song by Tori Amos from
the Royce Hall Auditorium in Los Angeles. It's
a phenomenal song. It's a phenomenal version
of it because Tori Amos can do no wrong. But
she went ooh. instead of whoa, so we have to
go with the Bon Jovi. Of course, and being from
New Jersey, if this song didn't come up, I'm
sure I would be getting some eyebrows getting
raised. Now, I'm also sure living in New Jersey,
there are people that are groaning that we picked
the Bon Jovi song because it's kind of become
like the state national anthem. When I saw The
Interrupters this summer with Sum 41, The Interrupters
in between songs played. Part of living on a
prayer. So there you have it. Obviously, number
one hit on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. And depending
on how you look at it, it's actually two uses
of the word woe, the woe in the chorus, as well
as if you want to think about what Richie's doing
through the talk box, doing the woe, woe at the
opening of the song. That counts, too. So a double
dose of woe here. And I would be remiss if I
didn't say if you were interested in learning
more about living on a prayer. I highly recommend
you check out episode 54, the ultimate Desmond
Child playlist, as Desmond was co -writer of
Living on a Prayer with Bon Jovi. And on that
episode, we also talk about songs he wrote for
Alice Cooper, Kiss, Joan Jett, Aerosmith, Cher,
Ricky Martin, and Meatloaf, among others. So
highly recommend that one. We even talk about
the key change in the song. So check that episode
out. Also, I had our good friend Sean Faust on
There Can Only Be One when we went through the
Bon Jovi discography because Sean might know
a little bit about Bon Jovi being part of New
Jersey's longest Bon Jovi tribute band. So you
have your choices of episodes to listen to or,
you know, just do us a favor and listen to both.
Yeah. And check out Slippery When Wet when they
come through to your area and tell Sean. that
my weekly mixtape and there can only be one said
hello. I think the only way to close out this
side at this point, because we're going obvious,
kickstart my heart, living on a prayer, closing
outside a, where do we go? Where do we go? Jay
guns and roses, sweet child of mine, the obvious.
Guns N' Roses choice here. I mean, you can't
even get to the words Sweet Child O' Mine without
the whoa -oh -ohs leading into each one. It's
all throughout the song. And really, Motley Crue,
Bon Jovi, and Guns N' Roses back to back to back.
This is the late 80s happening here on this side
of the tape. So we got to keep in the theme.
I feel like if you took a look at those last
three bands, it's like. I'm sure there had to
be a bill where the three of them played together
at some point in time. Maybe. I don't know. But
regardless of, it does feel like the natural
progression. And it's funny because I actually
didn't have Guns N' Roses anywhere on my bank
of songs. Because I've got a bunch here where
I'm just like, how did I miss that? Because I
did. I went into this. pretty much ready for
anything. And I think we kind of hit the everything
on this first side. But yeah, absolutely. Guns
N' Roses is an excellent way to close out the
side. And I'll just say this. It's, believe it
or not, Guns N' Roses' only number one single.
And I always like to say every time I talk about
this song, the radio edit of Sweet Child O' Mine
is one of the worst butcherings of a song I've
ever heard in my entire life. Anytime it comes
on the radio, I have to either change the channel
or... pull up my phone and play the studio cut
because as soon as the opening snare hits at
the beginning of the song, when the band is supposed
to kick in, it goes right into Axl's vocals and
it sounds like it doesn't cut properly and it
drives me absolutely insane. And then the guitar
solo's chopped in half. It's just literally somebody
went in with a hacksaw and said, let's get this
down. Who cares what we cut? Don't let AI shorten
your songs. Well, there you have it, folks. Side
A of the ultimate woe playlist, which kicked
off with Shania Twain's Man, I Feel Like a Woman,
Pitbull and Kesha's Timber, Hollywood Undead's
Another Way Out, Fallout Boys' My Songs Know
What You Did in the Dark, Light Em Up, Papa Roach,
To Be Loved, Downstate's Kingdom, Godsmack's
Unforgettable, Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart,
Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer, and Guns N' Roses'
Sweet Child O' Mine. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. And now, Jay, we are flipping things
over to side B where I'm going to kick things
off. And I'm just going to go with a song that
literally starts off with a whoa. Get us right
into it. And that is Billy Joel, the longest
time from 1983's An Innocent Man. The ode to
the doo -wop era that Billy Joel put out. Reached
number 14 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. I can't
talk about any Billy Joel song and not mention
episode 15, the ultimate Billy Joel playlist,
which featured Liberty DeVito, longtime drummer
for the Billy Joel band. I'm not going to say
if the song made the episode or not. You'll have
to go tune in and find out. Now I know I could
have very easily went with scenes from an Italian
restaurant which includes the whole which is
right before the brendan eddie section of the
song but i decided to go with the longest time
simply so that i can bring up that after credit
scene in how i met your mother that features
both versions of future barney and ted singing
with current version barney and ted their version
of the longest time which is pretty good i might
add but it's a very funny moment in the series
i love this song i love doo -wop and really there
are so many doo -wop songs we could put in here
you could do an entire mixtape of doo -wop woes
easily because that's part of the doo -wop sound
so i figured a way to check off that box was
through this one at that point would it be doo
-wop or doo -wop man i'm telling you people are
unsubscribing from this show faster from your
show and my shows like at this point they're
like delete delete delete completely forget block
and everything bad jokes and dad jokes for days
yeah no you really can't go wrong with billy
joel in that and yeah freaking love billy joel
but there's a travesty here there's an absolute
travesty here that we have not hit this song
yet and i want to make sure that we do get this
song in here and i think this is actually a good
spot for it dear listeners if someone says to
you what's new pussycat if you do not respond
with whoa whoa whoa whoa you have failed miserably
this was actually the second song that i thought
of the minute you pitched this episode man i
feel like one was the first one just because
it's in my set list but literally what's new
pussycat if again if we did not have this song
on the mixtape then we have failed The mixtape,
we have failed the people. We have failed the
word woe. But no, we've solved that solution
now. Yes, we have. Written by Burt Bacharach
and Hal David. Reached number three on the U
.S. Billboard Hot 100. Totally scooped me on
the song. And we were going oldies here, huh?
Well, it's funny because as I was talking about
this list, my mother had actually mentioned,
because we're all kind of watching Lucifer at
this point, Tell me Tom Ellis wouldn't be perfect
in playing Tom Jones in a biographical pick.
Oh, God, yeah. He is such a great actor. He is
incredible. But Lucifer aside here, I think I'm
going to make it, using an old Playlist Wars
reference, an oldies trifecta now and go with
one of the first songs I thought of with this
episode. And this song was written by Jeff Barry,
Ellie Grenwich, and Phil Spector. And it reached
number two. on the billboard us hot 100 from
1963 the massive hit single from the ronettes
be my baby so good let me tell you i wanted to
include eddie money's take me home tonight because
that song interpolates be my baby however in
this version and hell ronnie specter is even
singing on eddie money's version so i'm like
oh two birds one stone and closer to rock however
If you look up the lyrics, she says, uh -oh -uh
-oh in Take Me Home Tonight. And it is wah -uh
-uh -oh in Be My Baby. So we have to go with
Be My Baby by default. I love the fact that you
brought up that you checked the lyrics. We're
such nerds, dude. Oh, dude. I wear it proudly
on my sleeve. Geek for days. So with every song
that I put on my list, I had to double check
the lyrics. Now, there was one song where I'm
like, I guarantee you that's a whoa. But if you
look at the lyrics, it's a wow. There's no way
that wow is pronounced this way. So I'm going
to put it on here right now. Don't at me. I looked.
I disagree with what lyrics .com says, because
if you tell me that the Lemonheads don't sing
whoa, whoa, whoa with their cover of Mrs. Robinson.
You're not listening to this song right. It has
to be a whoa. It's not a wow. There's no way.
It doesn't rhyme. They don't go wow, wow, wow.
Well, here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. Wow, wow,
wow. No. It doesn't rhyme. No, exactly. It's
got to be whoa, whoa, whoa. So I'm going with
the Lemonheads version of Mrs. Robinson because,
yeah, it's a Simon and Garfunkel song. But their
cover of it, I think, is more iconic, at least
for my musical taste. But I think it bridges
us from the oldies into getting back into a more
recent vibe. I appreciate you doing that. You
know me and my love of cover songs. So bravo
on that. I'll go out on a limb here, and I know
I might upset some people with this, but I actually
like the Lemonheads version more than Simon and
Garfunkel's. And that's nothing against Simon
and Garfunkel's. I love it. But for some reason,
maybe it's just because it hit when I was in
college and around that time of my life where
it was my version of the song, quote unquote,
because of when I was kind of, you know, growing
up. But that one always hits hard for me. I mean,
I'm not surprised because if you think about
that based on the do -do -do -do -do, like we're
bassists. I get it. There are certain parts of
certain songs that I know, like if I'm listening
to it and I hear a bass, I'm like, Brian would
like that song. That is right. We've talked about
a bunch of artists that we need to include in
here. And we haven't really gotten anywhere near
the punk side of things. We've gotten a lot of
rock, not a lot of punk. And there's a lot of
woes going on in the punk rock scene. And I think
the first band that comes to mind for me. When
I think of punk rock woes, and that's W -O -A
-H, not W -O -E -S, would be the Misfits. Now,
pretty much I could take any song from their
entire catalog and plug it in here. So what I'm
going to do is just go with my favorite Misfits
song, which is Some Kind of Hate, which was originally
recorded in 1978 for their Static Age album.
But that album wasn't actually released until
1996. I grew up with it as it appeared on the
1985 compilation Legacy of Brutality, where after
the band broke up, Danzig went in and overdubbed
guitars and bass for that version. I mean, really,
you could plug in any song from any era of the
Misfits, because I was also thinking, depending
on where we were going, American Psycho starts
off with the woes from the Michael Graves era.
The Misfits, when you talk about woes in music,
they have to be included here. Oh, absolutely.
I'm surprised we hadn't gotten to punk at this
point because, yes, punk definitely has a lot
of woes. Because that's the crowd call and answer.
And if you've been to any punk show, you know
that's definitely a part of it. That it is. And
unlike the Fall Out Boy we used on Side A, that's
a little bit more of the poppier sound of Fall
Out Boy. So not necessarily like the punk rock
of Sugar We're Going Down and Dance Dance like
they did in the early 2000s. This is more of
the pop sound of Fall Out Boy. So I think this
is the first real dive. into punk rock so what
are you going to follow it up with so i'm going
to follow that one up with a track off of the
offsprings americana album i'm going to go with
the kids aren't all right that song still holds
up today and as i was looking up this song this
is nearing a billion streams on spotify which
is probably only worth about 20 bucks to them
but still The kids aren't all right. I mean,
this is a staple. This is an offspring staple.
And while, you know, there are other songs off
the album that may get more plays, the kids aren't
all right to me is probably the best song on
the album. I'll just say this. Dexter Holland
has a PhD in molecular biology, so I don't think
he needs to really worry about how many streams
he's getting on Spotify. But kids aren't all
right is my favorite song off of Americana. could
be in my top three all time favorite offspring
songs. I absolutely love it. That riff just hits
like that is one of my workout anthems. When
that riff hits, the song is soaring. It's big.
It's not the silly side of the offspring. It's
the serious side, which their serious side truly
kicks ass. I think a lot of people don't give
their serious side enough credit because they're
so focused on the pretty fly for a white guy.
songs from their catalog but there's so much
more than that and i love the pic yeah no i mean
if you take a listen to smash smash kind of has
that you know that cross section between pretty
fly for a white guy and the kids aren't all right
i mean i remember one of the first offspring
songs i heard aside from the songs off smash
was jennifer lost the war because i love those
punk -a -rama compilations They have that serious
side. They have that aggressive side as well
as kind of their boppier punk poppier type songs,
but the kids aren't all right. You're right.
That guitar tone is angry and it's so good. All
right. Oh, I know what song I'm going to go with
here. I just don't know what version. All right.
The original of this song. was released in 1939
by Lead Belly. In 1977, Ram Jam made it their
massive hit, Black Betty, which reached number
18 on the US Billboard Hot 100. However, I know
my Australian friends that listen to this show,
including Patreon, Mixtape, or Seeker, would
be very upset if we didn't go with Spider -Bait's
amazing 2004 version. And coming out of The Offspring,
it just makes more sense. So the song, while
it was number one in Australia, it also charted
in the U .S., reaching number 32 on the Billboard
U .S. Mainstream Rock Charts. So even if those
in the U .S. say, who's Spiderbait? It was popular
around here, just not as popular as it was in
Australia, and obviously not as popular as Ram
Jam's version was. But regardless, whoa, Black
Betty, Ram Balam, or Panda Lamp, or whatever
he's saying. I know that meme that's out there.
this song kicks ass and the woe is really a driving
factor of the song. You know, I'm glad that that
song is on there. And yeah, you scooped me on
the song for sure. But I'm really glad that you
actually went with that version because that
actually answers my question as to what to follow
this next. And I'm going to stay on the continent
and I'm going to go with Lonely Girl by the band
Tonight Alive. And if you've never heard Tonight
Alive, they are very, very Paramore -esque. This
is off their 2013 The Other Side album. It was
released as a single, but never actually charted.
They have only ever had one song that ended up
on any number one, and that was off of the Amazing
Spider -Man 2 soundtrack, their song The Edge.
It hit number 78 in Australia and number one
on the UK rock charts. But I'm telling you right
now, if you like Paramore, like some of the earlier
Paramore stuff, you're going to really like Tonight
Alive. So deep dive it. Trust me, if you're a
Paramore fan, you will thank me if you haven't
already discovered them. Going with a deep pick
and our friends in Australia are going to be
smiling from ear to ear going with back to back
Australia cuts. So I love that. And still in
that kind of punk rock Paramore vibe. Paramore
has kind of shifted away from the punk rock style
of their sound. So I'm glad that there are groups
like Tonight Alive that are still carrying that
torch because I absolutely love. that sound and
that style. And I'm not going to lie, there's
a small part of me that wishes Paramore would
reintroduce some of that punk flavor, even though
I really enjoy where they've gone musically over
their career. Oh, yeah. No, if you like that
punk pop sound that Paramore started, Tonight
Alive and other bands like Against the Current
are definitely carrying the torch for that sound.
Well, you went deep. So I'm going to go deep
for my last pick and then throw it back to you
to close things out for the night. But is it
really a deep pick? Because this is one that
one of the Patreon mixtapers chimed in with.
And it might be a deep pick to some, but to me,
it's certainly not. And like Patreon mixtaper
Sean Goff, I'm going to be honest here. I was
torn between Butch Walker's Synthesizers or Summer
of 89. from his 2011 album, The Spade. I'm going
to go with Synthesizers. Those two tracks and
Closest Thing to You, I'm going to find, are
my three favorites on the album. So the fact
that Sean picked two of them, I knew immediately
I was going to be running with this song somewhere.
And I think here's the perfect spot because I
feel like this is a song that more people need
to know. The music video features Matthew McConaughey.
Reprising his role as David Wooderson from Dazed
and Confused. The song is absolutely incredible.
Butch Walker is a producing genius. However,
you might not know his name. You might remember
the band Marvelous 3. Freak of the Week being
one of their biggest hits. Just this past year,
they put out a killer album that made... I'll
do a little bit of a light spoiler here. The
ultimate 2023 mixtape that I recorded with DT
Carroll from Space Castle and Butch Walker's
episode of Live from Daryl's House. It's probably
my favorite one ever. I love the series. But
Butch Walker is one of the most criminally underrated
songwriters of this generation. I love his work.
And this song fits right into the category. Woes
for days. And it's. fun and it's a little deeper
because on the end of the first side we went
really big and massive all the home run songs
so this side i feel like let's give some people
something to chew on from this episode a couple
of deeper picks you actually had me scooped on
the artist but none of the songs that were mentioned
were the one that i was going to go with i was
going to go with let it go where it's supposed
to off of his peach tree battle ep and you are
absolutely right like butch walker I would be
lying if I didn't say that Butch Walker's name
is on my whiteboard of future episodes to do,
for there can only be one. And that would also
include the Marvelous Three albums, because if
memory serves, there aren't enough Marvelous
Three albums to justify that there can only be
one. So Butch Walker episode could include Marvelous
Three. It'd be a long episode, but holy crap,
that's a ton of good music to go through. But
yeah, you scoop me on the artist, and we're at
the end, aren't we? Yeah. We are at the final.
Whoa. Well, maybe not. You will probably say
it a hundred more times before this episode is
over, but at least for song choices were there.
Yeah. So, so what do I curtain? Whoa. With here?
That's the question. See, there are a couple
of songs here. Like I could go obscure kind of
what we've been going with. I could, you know,
land the plane softly. Like I kind of like to
do with mixtapes, but no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. No, I'm going to end. With a band
that I have been waiting for someone to mention
for a while now on your show. And again, I'll
admit I haven't listened to every episode. Wait
a minute. Thank you for joining, Jay. We'll see
you next time, folks. So you're going to have
to remind me if someone has ever mentioned a
Psycho Stick song on any of your episodes. But
I'm going to end. With number one radio single
off of their sandwich album, the very first lyric
of the song is whoa, as whoa, oh yeah. Even in
the pre -chorus, the lyric is, and this is where
my producer told me to say yeah. This song kind
of pokes fun at the whole idea of how to write
a number one single. Very similar, at least in
tonality, to Please Play This Song on the radio
from NoFX, but very much in that Psycho Stick
vein. If you're looking for fun, funny, rock,
and metal, Psycho Stick is the way to go. And
I've seen them live. They are so hilarious. I
got to see them at a place called The Rock Pile
here in Toronto, where you're really right up
front. It's a small club, and it was the best
show. Absolutely loved it. Number one radio single.
The song will be stuck in your head for the rest
of your life, as the lyrics say. Very much a
send off to the Nickelbacks of the time when
the song came out. You scooped me on the song.
You scooped me on your reference song where you
say it kind of reminds me of that no effect song.
Please play this song on the radio. So you scooped
me twice. And I kid you not, the only other time
that Psycho Stick has ever been mentioned in
my weekly mixtape history up until this moment
was the episode I mentioned at the top of the
show, episode 24, the ultimate summer cookout
and barbecue playlist with a twist. So it seems
like when we go off the rails, Psycho Stick comes
on. So maybe I should. do a Psycho Stick episode
down the line. Oh, you know what? Or we could
just do it. There could only be one on Psycho
Stick because that would be hilarious. That would,
and I would be all in on that one. But there
you have it, folks. Side B of our ultimate woe
mixtape, which by now people are probably tired
of hearing that word, but it kicked off with
Billy Joel's The Longest Time, Tom Jones' What's
New Pussycat, the Ronettes' Be My Baby, the Lemonheads'
Mrs. Robinson, Misfits, Some Kind of Hate, The
Offsprings, The Kids Aren't Alright, Spider Bates,
Black Betty, Tonight Alive's Lonely Girl, Butch
Walker's Synthesizers, and Psycho Stick's No.
1 Radio Single. Head over to MyWeeklyMixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. Now, Jay, if people want to hear
a woe -less episode of There Can Only Be One
or It's Not That Bad, where can they find it?
You know, it's funny. I'm trying to think now
if I've actually had to do a movie with Keanu
Reeves in it, and I don't know if I've actually
covered Keanu Reeves. I know there are some that
are potentially on the list for movies to eventually
be covered, but one day. We'll go down that.
Whoa. But yes, if you like hearing podcasts that
try to find the good things to say about movies,
the unfairly maligned flicks that critics have
poo pooed on, you can follow us on social media
at not that bad cast to catch. It's not that
bad. And our Monday show, keep watch pass, which
is the Mary Boff kill of movie topics. And then
if you like music talk, which you should, because
you're listening to this podcast. You can follow
us on social media at only one cast for there
can only be one where we go through the entire
discography of an artist and pick only one song
from every studio album. And on opposite weeks,
you get spin, shuffle, skip, which is the Mary
Boff kill of albums where you had to pick three
songs, one that you'd spin, one that you'd shuffle,
and one that you would skip. or you can just
go to the website and get everything all at once
at not that bad cast .com. And while you're there,
you can check out our coming soon page. So you
can check out what episodes are coming up and
you can get your chime in there because we'd
love to hear from you guys. As always, man, an
absolute pleasure having you on. And I offer
my sincere apologies for all the hate mail you're
going to receive from this guest appearance,
because people are going to go throughout their
whole day going, if anybody says, whoa, one more
person. Don't worry. If I get any mail sent to
me by snail mail, I will put it in the worst
basket. As always, man, a great time. I'll get
those board shorts out your way very soon. Thank
you for coming back again. And I look forward
to yet another crossover and our continued music
discussions down the road. Probably a little
bit more of a serious topic next time. Yeah.
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