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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 from the Album Divers podcast

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is Trevor Dale. Trevor, thank you so much for

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joining me on My Weekly Mixtape. Hey, thank you

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for having me. This is awesome. I've been listening

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to your podcast. I was following you in your

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prior one. I think we've collaborated a little

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bit in the past as well, but I really love what

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you're doing with this new one. This is great.

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Happy to be on. I'm glad to have you, and I get

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to start by asking you my first -timer's question,

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and that is, Trevor, what does the word mixtape

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mean to you? Well, that's a great question. As

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a guy that's devoted an entire podcast to the

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album format with Album Divers, obviously, I

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think song order matters a lot. Since I'm not

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somebody that can actually create music, I think

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the closest thing I can do is creating a mixtape

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for friends. It's something that I grew up doing.

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girl in my awkward junior high and high school

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years that I couldn't figure out any other way

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to communicate with. So creating some sort of

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mixtape, I'd put these songs together and go,

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I think she knew what I was trying to say with

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that one. Did it work? Not very often, but it

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was still fun to put that together. So I think

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a mixtape for me in short, it's just using somebody

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else's art to... create another piece of art.

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It's an extension of yourself that you might

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not be able to say in a different way. So like

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I said, I'm happy this podcast exists and it's

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definitely something I did a lot growing up and

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still do with the playlist formats in terms of

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digital that we have today. And that's what we're

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going to do tonight. And tonight we're going

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to be talking about a topic that is divisive.

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It's fun. And it's certainly one that people

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see in a different way. And that is 90s one hit

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wonders. And let me start by saying we should

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probably define our criteria for a one hit wonder

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tonight because everybody sees it differently.

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So for tonight, our terminology that you and

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I went back and forth with for those that are

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listening is the fact that the artist or band

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can only have one song if that. That cracks the

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Billboard Top 40. Now, with that said, a Top

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40 hit isn't a requirement. Because if we're

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going back to the 80s, a lot of people remember

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Modern English as a one -hit wonder with I'll

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Melt With You. That song, as much as everybody

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has it in their musical lexicon, only reached

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number 78 on the Billboard US Hot 100. But regardless,

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they are still... A one hit wonder, even without

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a top 40 hit. They're actually a no hit wonder,

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which is using our criteria at least. And the

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reason we say only one song is because sometimes

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there is the lesser known second hit. Two examples

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of that would be Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

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Everybody knows Good Vibrations as their huge

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hit song. However, they had a follow up single.

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Wild Side, which sampled Lou Reed and Wild Side,

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that reached number 10 on the Billboard US Hot

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100, although it didn't have as much longevity.

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Along the same lines, Snow's Informer was a number

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one hit, but he had a follow -up, Girl, I've

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Been Hurt, and that reached number 19. So it

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was a top 20 hit. But for some reason, Snow keeps

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making one -hit wonder lists. So I find that

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whole part interesting. And then on the flip

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side of that spectrum, Patreon mixtaper Chad

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LaMassa chimed in saying that he brought up a

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90s one hit wonders list and it included the

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song Loser by Beck. And his commentary was, what?

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How is Beck a one hit wonder? Now, I personally

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don't see him as one. However, using our terminology

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tonight, Loser is Beck's only song to crack the

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Billboard Top 40 because Where It's At, which

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was another massive hit, only hit 61. So technically,

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technically, Beck is a one -hit wonder. But with

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five other songs cracking the Top 100, is he

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really, though? Exactly. We were talking about

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Sinead O 'Connor by this criteria is a one -hit

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wonder and kind of no way, right? I was looking

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up the other one that gets tossed around a lot

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is if people name off their 90s one -hit wonders,

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Spin Doctors is always thrown out. They are technically

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not. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong is also something

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that charted. So we're a little loose with this,

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I guess, is kind of what you're saying. By all

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means. And at the end of the day, the term one

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-hit wonder is not meant to be offensive. To

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me, I consider it endearing because as a songwriter

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myself, I would give anything to have one hit.

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I mean, Baby Got Back has made Sir Mix -A -Lot

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over $100 million. I don't care if there's a

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stigma behind it. I think it's an endearing term

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because how hard is it to have a hit song? It's

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not easy. Think about all the bands out there.

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And even if it is only one, that is a monumental

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thing. Absolutely. And as we were compiling this,

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as I was getting into the 10 that I picked, some

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of these songs are some of my favorites. Some

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of these artists are still some of my favorites

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as well. So yes, it does not demonize them to

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just this one particular part of the music shelf

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in history. I think there's some amazing music

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that we'll get into today. Agreed. And so with

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those semantics out of the way, Trevor, what

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were you looking for in your bank of songs that

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you're choosing from this evening? Yeah. So when

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you gave that criteria, I thought, OK, this is

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going to be kind of hard because I'm really going

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to have to find the ones that meet. And and what

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we discovered or what I discovered is there's

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a lot that could meet that criteria. So it actually

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ended up it opened the door to a lot of choices.

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So I felt like instead of just saying, OK, here's

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the 10 that I found. I could sort of decide exactly

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how I wanted this list to sound. And so I did

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personalize a little bit. The caveat for me is

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I guess what I would call this is like the Trevor

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retrospective on 90s because these are all songs

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that I still want to listen to. You're not going

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to hear the earworms that I wish never made their

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way into the radio streams back in the day. And

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get stuck in your head. These are songs that

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if I listen to now, and I have been, as I've

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compiled this list for the show here, they're

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great songs. So that was my only criteria is

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that it met the terms that you laid out, but

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that I still love it. That's what these are about

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for me. Same here. Basically, meeting the criteria,

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when we were discussing it, I said, wow, I hope

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I'm not setting myself up for hours of digging.

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And believe it or not. Within a couple of searches,

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I found a list where I was almost overwhelmed

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with the amount of songs. So for me, this list

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is not only a one hit wonders list. It also kind

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of doubles as an underrated artists list. Well

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said. People define them as the one hit wonder.

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And then they think, oh, there's nowhere else

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to go from here. And I think all the artists

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that I have in my bank tonight. have a deep catalog

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of music that even if you were to just go to

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their artist page on Spotify or Apple Music,

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you're going to discover a lot more than that

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one hit. Well said. You're going to have to stop

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me from gushing about a couple of these as we

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go here. Well, let's get down to business. Tonight,

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as I mentioned at the top of the show, Trevor

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and I will be curating the ultimate 90s one -hit

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wonders mixtape, and we'll use that old cassette

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deck approach. Trevor, as my special guest, will

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begin side A with his first song choice, and

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then I'll add a song that I feel best follows

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up that choice. We'll then flip -flop choosing

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songs until we've mapped out 10 songs for side

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A. We'll then give our mixtape a proverbial flip,

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and we'll map out side B, only this time I'll

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kick things off with Trevor choosing second.

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Our overall goal for the episode is to craft

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the best 90s one -hit wonders mixtape possible

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through only 20 songs. At the end of the show,

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you can take our conversation to the next level

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by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape

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.com to give our final mixtape a listen. via

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the embedded playlist. And if you like what you're

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hearing on the show, you can help me out by either

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telling a friend, leaving the show a five -star

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episodes of the show, become a future guest,

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

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chimed in with the songs they would use to kick

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off our 90s One Hit Wonders mixtape. And I want

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to give a few quick shout outs there. Chad LaMassa

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chimed in with the Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be

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500 Miles, saying that he had sort of forgotten

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about the track. And then when him and his wife

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rewatched How I Met Your Mother, and the song

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was featured in several episodes, as it was the

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cassette single stuck in Marshall's cassette

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tape deck, kind of brought it back to the forefront.

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This was an interesting pick, Chad, because the

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song was actually released in 1988. and charted

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at number 11 on the UK singles chart, along with

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topping the charts in Australia, Iceland, and

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New Zealand, it wasn't until 1993 when Benny

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and June made it a hit in the US where it reached

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number three. So you are correct, it is a one

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-hit wonder of the 1990s, and technically...

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the 1980s as well. And the song has some awesome

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punk covers by Down By Law and MXPX, but I digress.

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Next up, Ben from the Too Vague podcast was savage

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with his pick of Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy,

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saying that, true story, he used to fill the

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jukebox with at least six or more plays with

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the song before he and his friends left the pool

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hall. He said, I was kind of a jerk back then,

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but it made me laugh. The thought of the quote

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unquote serious pool players having to listen

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to it over and over and over. So that makes me

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wonder if that's how the song became a number

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one hit in the first place. Tom Hutchinson chimed

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in with Bound to the Floor by Local H, saying

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he knows it didn't hit the mainstream charts,

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but it did clock in at number 10 on the modern

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rock charts, and that it was such a heavy, hard

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song that has that distinct mid -90s sound through

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and through. And by our quote -unquote rules,

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a song doesn't have to crack the Billboard Top

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40, so totally fair game, and I love that pick.

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Philip Bergman chimed in with the dance remix

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of December 1963, Oh, What a Night, because technically

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it was the one hit for the four seasons in the

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1990s. However, he decided to, oh, how shall

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we say, piss the Oh, What a Night away and choose

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Chumbawamba's tub thumping instead. Seeker chimed

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in with Standing Outside of a Broken Phone Booth

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with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods.

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Sean Goff chimed in with Disbelief that Linda

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Perry is a One -Hit Wonder on the performing

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side of the spectrum. And he went with Four Non

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-Blondes What's Up, saying this was the song

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that had everyone screaming at the top of their

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lungs in 1993. And Jen Fink chimed in with a

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pick for Missy, The Things That You Do by Gina

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Thompson. Or asking if we should go with the

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most requested TRL song, Tom Green's The Bum

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Bum Song, saying, hey, you didn't say the song

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had to be good. And I'm not going to lie, I have

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that on several of my 90s playlists. And it was

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also talked about on episode 76, the ultimate

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guilt -free 90s guilty pleasures playlist with

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neat cast Zach Derby. So if you want to hear

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more about Tom Green's bum. That's a good place

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to start. But with that said, Tom's bum is not

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alone. If you know the song, you'll get that

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reference because David Owens also chimed in

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with that track. Once again, if you want to chime

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in for future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, consider

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joining the Mixtaper family at patreon .com forward

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slash My Weekly Mixtape. So Trevor, with that

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musical food for thought out in the atmosphere,

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I'm officially pressing the record button on

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our mixtape and the floor is yours. Why don't

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you dive into the song you chose to kick off

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Side A? All right. I think I took this in kind

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of a unique way. I've been listening to a lot

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of your episodes and I know a lot of times that

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first song needs to just knock your socks off.

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Totally support that. But I guess the way I would

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say it is it's got to draw you in. And that can

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do that if the song's got a lot of energy around

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it. Number one song on a mix often does that.

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This one's a little bit different in the way

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it does. And I think it's fitting for ours. It

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fits our criteria. I chose Everybody's Free to

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Wear Sunscreen off of Baz Luhrmann's 1998 album.

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The song actually came out in 97. And so this

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is a song, if you've heard it, all about advice

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for people. As they're graduating, it starts

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off, the very first words are, ladies and gentlemen

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of the class of 1999. And then it goes on to

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sample some music, lots of good advice in general.

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I just think it's a good place to start. If I'm

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doing a retrospective of music, if I could send

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this back to my 90s self, I feel like not only

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is this the music I should be listening to, I

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feel like this is the advice I should be listening

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to. So this is track one on our mix. Kicking

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us off on a positive note, reach number 45 on

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the Billboard US Hot 100. The thing about this

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song, to me at least, was that it was hypnotic.

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I don't ever remember seeking out this song to

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say, let me put it on. But when it came on the

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radio, it just took over the moment I was in,

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driving out with my friends, and it just mesmerized

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you to the point where you were kind of taken

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back. By the message, because the 90s was very

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much a very aggressive decade for music. A lot

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of pushback as you got the punk rock attitude,

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the grunge attitude. This was a very positive,

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uplifting song that musically could have fit

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with any of the songs that had the opposite lyrical

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perspective. If you think about the mid to late

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90s. And to me, that was very refreshing. Obviously,

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Baz went on to do amazing stuff with like the

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Moulin Rouge soundtrack and all other things.

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But this might be one of his finest moments because

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it does capture such a unique moment in 90s music.

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Yeah, no question about it. This one did make

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it on its way to a lot of mixtapes. So 98, if

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I may, Brian, when did you graduate from high

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school? I was 95. So at that point, this song

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would be more of my college graduation single

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than high school. There you go. I was a little

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after this, but still, this was floating around

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on mix. It would be mixed CDs when I was in high

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school. So definitely this is one that I had

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some memories with as well. And yeah, exactly.

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It's in that place in the 90s where your post

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-grunge. kind of trying to find footing in terms

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of the next place. And I just thought a little

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advice is probably a good place to do it. Nice

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place to start off. I think a mix of some music

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here. Yeah. Now we've got this good feeling going

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through our systems and I want to keep that good

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feeling going. And I do want to bring it a little

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bit more to that nineties rock sound that we're

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used to. And I'm going to go with one that I

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feel like coming out of. Everybody's free to

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wear sunscreen. We'll kick off kind of the fun

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atmosphere of the mixtape because we've already

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got the positive vibes going. Let's have a little

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bit of fun and go off of 1998's Maybe You've

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Been Brainwashed 2. And I'm going to go with

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the new radicals, You Get What You Give. Just

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like Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, the

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track reached number 45 on the US Billboard Hot

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100. It was ranked number 37. On Rolling Stone's

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50 best songs of the 90s, not even one hit wonders,

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just overall songs of the decade. Number 11 on

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VH1's greatest one hit wonders of the 90s and

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number 64 on VH1's greatest one hit wonders ever.

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To me, this song was catapulted largely in part

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to the music video. Because a lot of my friends

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at the time were talking about, you know, that

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song, the guy with the hat. That was kind of

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how, because at the time we didn't have the ability

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to Shazam a song and have it pop up on our phone.

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You had to either wait for the DJ to say what

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it was, wait for the video to end to get those

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credits, or hopefully one of your buddies knew

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the answer. And this one was a song that a lot

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of people were talking about. The album exploded.

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everybody was rocking this song was all over

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the radio and then that was it and i'm always

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taken back by that because this song was just

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so infectious i'm shocked that the label didn't

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push some more songs from the album to try to

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get this band to the next level because songwriting

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wise this is songwriting perfection as far as

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i'm concerned i love this one i don't know how

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you can't not love this song i i was just about

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to say the music video is the part that stands

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out probably the most for me on this one as well.

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I would have been 14 at the time this song came

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out. So MTV was still something I was kind of

00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:27.240
like sneaking around my parents as being on the

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TV at our house. And yes, I remember the skinny,

00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.500
bald, very, very confident guy in the fisherman

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hat for the song. In fact, that might be what

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I walked into the record store. And like you

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said, you couldn't Shazam it in that day. The

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guys that worked at these record stores, they

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didn't get enough credit for knowing what people

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were talking about when they walked in. Okay,

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it's this one song, and I saw it, and the guy

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had the hat on. I think we did that a lot in

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the 90s. And somebody was able to pull this up

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for me off of that description. So yeah, what

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a great song. Love that you kept the positivity

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going. I think this is a great pick for number

00:19:03.930 --> 00:19:07.559
two. And I will say, having worked during the

00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.500
late 90s at a music store, there were more times

00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:14.380
that people would come in and just start to hum

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a song or drop a line. And one of the ones I

00:19:18.019 --> 00:19:20.960
remember for this song specifically, somebody

00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.480
came in and said, OK, I'm looking for this song.

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And the only thing I could tell you about it

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is there's some part about Beck and Hanson and

00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.460
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson. And I'm like.

00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:33.619
I know exactly what song you're talking about.

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So love the pick, obviously, because, well, yeah,

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I chose it anyway. Moving, heading back now to

00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:46.000
you, Trevor, for track three. All right. I'm

00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.500
going to keep the good vibes going in a certain

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way. I will admit that this is one I had to dig

00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:55.680
into the lyrics to know that the good vibes were

00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.720
still going because we're going to transition

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a little bit from. good vibes sound and lyrically

00:20:01.289 --> 00:20:05.069
to just more on the lyrical side. The sound though

00:20:05.069 --> 00:20:07.289
is going to throw back into some of that 90s

00:20:07.289 --> 00:20:11.109
grunge sound and that is In the Meantime by Space

00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:16.670
Hog. This one is from 1995. And so it's funny

00:20:16.670 --> 00:20:18.890
as I'm compiling these songs here, I'm putting

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the date of each one here. I think I can pinpoint

00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:25.980
exactly when my coming of age years... started.

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I think it's like March of 96 or something. So

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this particular song, to be honest, is back to

00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.240
this being a Trevor retrospective. This is one

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that I've appreciated since those years. I don't

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know when I discovered Space Hog, but this was

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not the walking into the record store saying,

00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:45.220
what's that music video with the guy with the

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hat or whatever's going on with this music video.

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So with that being said, I dug into lyrics and

00:20:52.019 --> 00:20:54.460
things a little bit later, so different. phase

00:20:54.460 --> 00:20:57.559
of mind in analyzing these. And there's a lot

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of positivity in these songs. The chorus is talking

00:21:00.259 --> 00:21:04.740
about, we love the all, the all of you. We love

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the all of you. I think this is kind of a nice

00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.079
way to segue into what's going to end up being,

00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.779
you know, a little bit more on the nose with

00:21:12.779 --> 00:21:18.220
some 90s moping and angst as it should. But let's

00:21:18.220 --> 00:21:19.940
keep those going a little bit longer with Space

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Hog. This is an awesome song and I'm glad I got

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to put this together as an adult and to kind

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of decide what songs really make the cut, this

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does. Well, I'll be perfectly honest with you,

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man. If you didn't pick this one, I was. This

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was a song that I definitely sought out in a

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record store. And my criteria for looking for

00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:43.079
this song was it starts off with one of the most

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ridiculous bass lines, almost a bass solo. To

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start the song. And the guy behind the counter

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said. I know exactly what you're talking about.

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And he actually had it. The CD behind the counter.

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And he played it to confirm it for me. And I

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bought Resident Alien. Senior year in high school

00:22:00.619 --> 00:22:04.900
for me. That bass line just. Captured. I mean

00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:07.599
as a bass player myself. As soon as you hear

00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:09.799
that opening. You're going my god. This is a.

00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:13.539
Is this a funky song? What are we doing here?

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And then it goes to kind of this big soaring.

00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:23.119
Beautiful vocals, powerful lyrics. I mean, the

00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:26.500
song was also used in a nostalgic sense with

00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:29.380
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. So there's

00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:31.500
that newer connection that's introducing this

00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:34.480
song to younger generations who might not have

00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.960
been around for its initial run. The song reached

00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.859
number 32 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. So

00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:43.480
we're moving up a little bit. And yeah, I mean.

00:22:43.819 --> 00:22:46.039
One of my favorite bass lines of the 90s, hands

00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:50.000
down. Love the song. And coming out of it, you

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.220
did mention that we've been in a kind of a positive

00:22:53.220 --> 00:22:56.180
vibe here, but the 90s weren't always positive.

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And I'm going to introduce a little bit of that

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angst that we talked about, but I'm going to

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:04.779
do it in the most perfect of power pop ways.

00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:08.980
Now, this song only reached number 17 on the

00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:12.539
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, so it never

00:23:12.539 --> 00:23:17.650
even hit. Hot 100. So this most certainly falls

00:23:17.650 --> 00:23:22.470
under underrated as far as I'm concerned, because

00:23:22.470 --> 00:23:26.710
I feel like super drag should have been a massive,

00:23:26.730 --> 00:23:31.930
massive group, especially after 1996 is regretfully

00:23:31.930 --> 00:23:35.529
yours and the power pop perfection of sucked

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out. I've talked about this song on the show

00:23:38.029 --> 00:23:41.710
before. To me, when you get that perfect power

00:23:41.710 --> 00:23:45.980
pop song, It stays enduring for generations.

00:23:46.339 --> 00:23:50.000
I think about the car's magic. I think about

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:53.539
Fountains of Wayne, Stacy's mom. These are songs

00:23:53.539 --> 00:23:56.799
that decades later are going to still make people

00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.220
smile because there's that sense of rock. There's

00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:03.609
that sense of heft and power. To it, there's

00:24:03.609 --> 00:24:06.710
a drive, there's an energy, almost a punk spirit

00:24:06.710 --> 00:24:10.569
that's woven into a beautifully crafted and well

00:24:10.569 --> 00:24:13.569
-written pop song that is hooky, catchy, and

00:24:13.569 --> 00:24:16.150
you can sing along with. And Sucked Out just

00:24:16.150 --> 00:24:19.809
checks off all of those boxes as far as I'm concerned.

00:24:19.910 --> 00:24:23.200
One of my favorites. And I love the story on

00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:25.500
this one. So, this is another one that I kind

00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:28.180
of discovered later. But, you know, the lyrics,

00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:30.259
if you break them down, it's sort of a giant

00:24:30.259 --> 00:24:33.140
middle finger to the music industry, which was

00:24:33.140 --> 00:24:35.500
sort of ironic. What I didn't realize is this

00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:38.859
was like an after fact for them. Their album

00:24:38.859 --> 00:24:41.920
was done. They then went ahead and threw this

00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.799
out at the record industry and they just completely,

00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:47.000
the record label rather, I think it was Elektra.

00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:49.279
He just completely stopped everything and said,

00:24:49.299 --> 00:24:50.619
no, no, no, this has got to be on the album.

00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:53.039
Got all this momentum behind it. And sort of

00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.880
like as a joke, this became, it was sort of art

00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.400
imitating life, so to speak. Very interesting.

00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:02.960
And what a perfectly poetic way to do it too.

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:06.980
But I will say this, super drag is so much more

00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:10.200
than sucked out. Please go dive into the rest

00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:12.099
of that album and some of the follow ups because

00:25:12.099 --> 00:25:14.900
they are just a fantastically wonderful band

00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:19.059
that is, again, pigeonholed in that one hit wonder

00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:22.380
basket. But I feel there's so much more than

00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:25.720
that. Well said. Well, OK, what I'm going to

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.099
do then is let's keep a little the irony going

00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:31.940
on this. And I will also say this is another

00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:36.019
one where please buy more than just this single.

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And that is going to be. Harvey Danger's Flagpole

00:25:39.819 --> 00:25:44.059
Sitta. Nice. Also from 1997. And this is one,

00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:45.579
Brian, where you're probably going to have to

00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:47.859
tell me to stop talking because I think of all

00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:50.619
my songs on the list. Harvey Danger is probably,

00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:53.400
it's one of my favorite bands as a whole. And

00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.200
I just absolutely love this song. I think anytime

00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.480
you've got a band that does meet that criteria

00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:01.819
with this one hit, but you love the rest of their

00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:03.960
music, I think the common phrase that people

00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:05.980
throw out is like, that's not even close to their

00:26:05.980 --> 00:26:09.500
best song. I will still say, I still absolutely

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:12.460
love this song. Is it my favorite of their songs?

00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:15.119
Probably not. But that's not to downgrade this

00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.500
one by any means. I think Flagpole said about

00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:21.319
Harvey Danger, it was so hilarious because back

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:23.140
to the irony, I mean, they're sort of making

00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:27.000
fun of the very people that are listening to

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.220
and grabbing this music. Pierce my tongue, it

00:26:30.220 --> 00:26:33.140
doesn't hurt, it feels fine. I just love the

00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:36.180
wit, the sardonic sense of humor that he had,

00:26:36.259 --> 00:26:39.880
both in this song and his music as a whole. Harvey

00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:42.660
Danger, over the course of several years and

00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:45.180
lots of breakups and coming back together, put

00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:48.819
out three incredible albums. Absolutely encourage

00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:51.119
anybody to dive into this one and their other

00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:54.960
two. But Flagpole Seda had to make my list. That

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:58.960
was actually on the first ever, at least in the

00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:03.140
US. Now that's what I call music compilation.

00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:06.920
So there's a little fun fact for that one. When

00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:10.079
I worked in a music store again during that same

00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:15.680
time, that song, I vividly remember people coming

00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:18.700
in saying, okay, I'm looking for a song, but

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:22.720
hear me out. It's not Rage Against the Machine.

00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.839
However, it's a happier upbeat song that talks

00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.599
about. Rage Against the Machine. I said, well,

00:27:29.619 --> 00:27:32.180
it's actually saying Rage Against the Machines,

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:34.099
but I know exactly what song you're talking about.

00:27:34.380 --> 00:27:37.380
Handed them a copy of Where Have All the Merrymakers

00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:40.460
Gone? And it left the store shortly thereafter.

00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.380
It peaked at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot

00:27:44.380 --> 00:27:48.279
100 Airplay chart. And unfortunately, that was

00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.880
it on the charts for this band and probably shouldn't

00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:55.059
have been. Again, this song was so big. I go

00:27:55.059 --> 00:27:58.079
to see cover bands to this day. And this song

00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.700
is still played and everybody in the room lights

00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:04.859
up. This song has a timeless nature to it. It's

00:28:04.859 --> 00:28:07.740
very endearing. It's very fun. It's pop. It's

00:28:07.740 --> 00:28:09.819
angsty. It's got a little bit of the punk vibe.

00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:13.319
I've heard people put this on pop punk playlists

00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:17.539
and it unironically works there. And I feel like

00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:19.640
this is a band that, like you said, people need

00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.180
to know more about. So I'm glad that that made

00:28:22.180 --> 00:28:25.039
the list because. I mean, hell, going all the

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:27.319
way back, New Radical, Space Hog, Super Drag,

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:30.980
Harvey Danger, all underrated. No offense to

00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:34.579
Baz, but he had Moulin Rouge. I think he's well

00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:38.440
-established as a rated, quote -unquote, entity.

00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:41.180
Yeah, Baz is doing all right. Baz is doing all

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:43.960
right. Yeah, and if you do want to know more

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.519
about Harvey Danger, I have to at least admit,

00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:49.380
my favorite album of theirs is their early 2000s

00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:52.049
one. It's called Little by Little. And we were

00:28:52.049 --> 00:28:54.309
fortunate enough to have Sean Nelson. No, his

00:28:54.309 --> 00:28:57.150
name is not Harvey Danger, lead singer. Sean

00:28:57.150 --> 00:28:59.809
Nelson on Album Divers to break down every single

00:28:59.809 --> 00:29:02.390
track of Little by Little. So if you'd like to

00:29:02.390 --> 00:29:05.470
check that out, that's available too. Fantastic.

00:29:05.490 --> 00:29:08.289
And now we talked earlier about art imitating

00:29:08.289 --> 00:29:12.019
life. Well, before I get into that. I love the

00:29:12.019 --> 00:29:14.160
fact that you brought up the fact that his name's

00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.180
not Harvey Danger, because I sometimes have to

00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:20.200
explain to people that Leonard Skinner is not

00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:23.319
the name, nor is Marshall Tucker, nor is Jethro

00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:25.940
Tull. And that is definitely a band name that

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:28.259
you could throw into the mix. So that might be

00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:30.880
a future episode there. Band names that aren't

00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.420
actually people. That's a good point. I think

00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:35.640
the thick glasses on Sean made him kind of look

00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.299
like his name could be Harvey. But yes, Sean

00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:40.940
Nelson. So now we're going to go into art, imitating

00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:44.200
life, imitating art. And I mentioned this band

00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.220
earlier when I talked about Stacy's mom, and

00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:49.119
that is Fountains of Wayne. But Fountains of

00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.319
Wayne did have more than Stacy's mom. Radiation

00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:54.759
Vibe was a hit in the 90s. They have a ton of

00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:58.059
stuff. However, Adam Schlesinger, who we sadly

00:29:58.059 --> 00:30:00.859
lost at the beginning of COVID, wrote a song

00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:04.660
in the 90s that was not performed by him, but

00:30:04.660 --> 00:30:08.920
was a... Close to top 40 hit, it reached number

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:13.500
41 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, number

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:18.160
22 on the adult contemporary chart, number 18

00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.579
on the adult top 40 chart, and number 24 on the

00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:28.440
top 40 mainstream chart. As well, in 1996, several

00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:31.599
oldies stations added this song to their rotation.

00:30:32.399 --> 00:30:35.319
alongside of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and

00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.839
the Dell Vikings. That song being the fictitious

00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:43.259
band, the Wonders, not the Oneeders, that thing

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:46.559
you do from the movie of the same name, probably

00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:50.980
my favorite movie of all time. The song was nominated

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:55.559
for a 1996 Golden Globe Award, as well as Academy

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:59.089
Award for Best Original Song. On the soundtrack,

00:30:59.289 --> 00:31:01.329
it's repeated twice. Again, one of my favorite

00:31:01.329 --> 00:31:03.349
movies. Of course, I own the soundtrack. Track

00:31:03.349 --> 00:31:07.009
15 is the live at the Hollywood Television Showcase

00:31:07.009 --> 00:31:09.509
version that you see in the movie. And as far

00:31:09.509 --> 00:31:12.690
as cover versions go, this song has made waves.

00:31:12.750 --> 00:31:16.809
The Knack recorded a version for their 1998 hits

00:31:16.809 --> 00:31:20.230
collection. Newfound Glory covered it on their

00:31:20.230 --> 00:31:23.849
2000 EP From the Screen to Your Stereo. And Billy

00:31:23.849 --> 00:31:26.710
Joe Armstrong of Green Day covered this on his

00:31:26.710 --> 00:31:31.400
2020. No Fun Mondays. The album was released

00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:34.519
on Playtone Records, the quote -unquote label

00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.680
from the movie, which is actually a real record

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.240
label. Playtone Records has distributed soundtracks

00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.440
over the years, including The Sopranos, both

00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.059
of the soundtracks from that, Bring It On, Josie

00:31:48.059 --> 00:31:51.660
and the Pussycats, Band of Brothers, My Big Fat

00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:54.059
Greek Wedding, and a couple of others as well.

00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:56.680
So Playtone Records is a legit label. And this

00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:01.589
song, to me, Coming out of the energy of Flagpole

00:32:01.589 --> 00:32:05.089
Sitta just keeps that kind of boppy energy going.

00:32:05.750 --> 00:32:09.609
Awesome pick. I love that this is a fictitious

00:32:09.609 --> 00:32:14.750
band supposedly in the 60s with a 90s one hit

00:32:14.750 --> 00:32:19.099
written by a guy who had a... one hit in the

00:32:19.099 --> 00:32:21.599
2000 this is nice nicely done bringing all that

00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.839
together this is great and what an awesome song

00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.900
this is one i would not have even thought of

00:32:25.900 --> 00:32:28.799
to put on this list but i think it works so well

00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:30.900
but yeah you just don't even think about this

00:32:30.900 --> 00:32:32.779
as being a i think of it as the movie i think

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:35.470
about a song for the movie but It fits the criteria,

00:32:35.589 --> 00:32:38.569
and I'm so glad it's on here. What an awesome

00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:40.509
movie, too. I didn't realize that was your favorite,

00:32:40.569 --> 00:32:43.349
but one of my favorite movies for sure from that

00:32:43.349 --> 00:32:46.670
era as well. It's tough, man. The 90s and 2000s

00:32:46.670 --> 00:32:49.329
were so great. Three of my favorite movies ever

00:32:49.329 --> 00:32:53.430
were That Thing You Do, Empire Records, and High

00:32:53.430 --> 00:32:55.630
Fidelity. And wouldn't you know it, they're all

00:32:55.630 --> 00:32:58.130
centered around music. Almost Famous could be

00:32:58.130 --> 00:33:01.230
thrown into that discussion. So yeah, I like

00:33:01.230 --> 00:33:03.509
movies based about music. You'd be shocked to

00:33:03.509 --> 00:33:07.049
find out. Yes. All right. What are you going

00:33:07.049 --> 00:33:10.269
to follow up that thing you do with? All right.

00:33:10.269 --> 00:33:12.329
Well, definitely we're going to keep sort of

00:33:12.329 --> 00:33:14.630
this dancey vibe going because you can definitely

00:33:14.630 --> 00:33:17.710
move to that song. And I'm going to cheat a little

00:33:17.710 --> 00:33:22.750
bit. This is a song from 1997. The album was

00:33:22.750 --> 00:33:24.910
called When I Was Born for the Seventh Time.

00:33:25.369 --> 00:33:28.230
And the name of the band is Corner Shop. This

00:33:28.230 --> 00:33:31.750
song is called. Rimful of Asha. Don't ask me

00:33:31.750 --> 00:33:34.589
what that means. As I mentioned, I'm cheating

00:33:34.589 --> 00:33:36.470
a little bit on this track. This did not make

00:33:36.470 --> 00:33:40.750
the top 100 at all. It did make number 16 on

00:33:40.750 --> 00:33:44.009
the Modern Rock Charts, number 35 on the US Dance

00:33:44.009 --> 00:33:47.089
Singles. And I think the reason I had to put

00:33:47.089 --> 00:33:48.869
this on, in addition to just the fact that I

00:33:48.869 --> 00:33:52.519
love this song, is... Technically speaking, this

00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:55.880
is the first concert I ever went to. And it was

00:33:55.880 --> 00:34:02.500
in 1997. I was going to see Oasis. And this is

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:06.819
the band that opened. I was literally that this

00:34:06.819 --> 00:34:12.000
song is on my list. And in 1997, I saw Oasis

00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.519
with Corner Shop opening. And again, this was

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.579
one of those songs that at the music store I

00:34:17.579 --> 00:34:21.670
worked at, they had a. where you could spin new

00:34:21.670 --> 00:34:25.170
albums and everybody kept going to the booth

00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:30.530
with Corner Shop on it. This was a weird 90s

00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:33.170
single. I say weird in a good way because it

00:34:33.170 --> 00:34:37.090
was dancey, but it was rock, but it almost had

00:34:37.090 --> 00:34:40.420
this. atmospheric element to it on top of it

00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:44.199
all it's very hard to kind of define what brimful

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:48.760
asha is as a song and it charted at 16 on the

00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:52.599
modern rock charts and number 35 on the dance

00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.960
singles charts so it had this weird crossover

00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:59.679
appeal and i'm so glad you mentioned the oasis

00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:01.739
connection there too because i was i saw that

00:35:01.739 --> 00:35:04.400
show when it ran through new jersey Totally.

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:06.900
I mean, talk about pinpointing my coming of age

00:35:06.900 --> 00:35:09.059
years. I think I said it was sometime in 96,

00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:12.219
but it wasn't that long after here in 97 that

00:35:12.219 --> 00:35:14.940
I'm writing from Yakima, Washington, where I

00:35:14.940 --> 00:35:18.139
grew up, in my friend's dad's car, because of

00:35:18.139 --> 00:35:21.739
course we can't drive yet, wearing clothes that

00:35:21.739 --> 00:35:24.820
they really didn't want us to be wearing. I paid

00:35:24.820 --> 00:35:27.960
probably way too much for an Oasis t -shirt at

00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.780
the merch table. So, I just have so many memories

00:35:30.780 --> 00:35:33.909
of being at this concert and thinking of this

00:35:33.909 --> 00:35:35.989
time where music is starting to seep into who

00:35:35.989 --> 00:35:39.769
i am and corner shop of course just sort of battery

00:35:39.769 --> 00:35:42.369
rammed its way into that being the opening track

00:35:42.369 --> 00:35:43.949
and yes my buddy and i were kind of looking at

00:35:43.949 --> 00:35:45.869
each other throughout the opening going what

00:35:45.869 --> 00:35:49.090
the hell is this and both of us of course since

00:35:49.090 --> 00:35:51.269
have bought the album and and listen to it and

00:35:51.269 --> 00:35:54.250
yes weird is is a good description though i will

00:35:54.250 --> 00:35:57.050
say they are a band that has continued to put

00:35:57.050 --> 00:35:59.949
out music and one of the things that we do on

00:35:59.949 --> 00:36:02.110
album divers is the very last episode we pick

00:36:02.110 --> 00:36:05.050
our five favorite albums of the year and in 2020

00:36:05.050 --> 00:36:06.989
which is the first year we started our podcast

00:36:06.989 --> 00:36:10.449
corner shops england is a garden album in 2020

00:36:10.449 --> 00:36:12.809
is was one of my favorite albums of that year

00:36:12.809 --> 00:36:14.809
and made my top five so they're still doing a

00:36:14.809 --> 00:36:18.050
lot of good things here well i'm gonna tap into

00:36:18.050 --> 00:36:21.929
that weirdness i think for my next pick and go

00:36:21.929 --> 00:36:24.630
with a song that does have a little bit of a

00:36:24.630 --> 00:36:27.699
weird feeling to it Definitely an indie vibe,

00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:31.380
little bit of punk. It's a song that's hard to

00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:34.360
nail down, just like Corner Shop. And it came

00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.719
out in 1995 on their album, I Am an Elastic Firecracker.

00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:41.820
And I'm going to go with a song by Tripping Daisy

00:36:41.820 --> 00:36:46.199
and I Got a Girl. Reach number six on the Billboard

00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:49.639
Modern Rock Tracks chart did not make the Hot

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:54.619
100. But this band to me was... Pretty iconic

00:36:54.619 --> 00:36:57.460
because every time I turned on an alternative

00:36:57.460 --> 00:37:00.619
radio station and I went to college in North

00:37:00.619 --> 00:37:04.340
Carolina in 1995, but I also graduated high school

00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:07.079
a few months earlier in New Jersey. Everywhere

00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.960
I went from state to state when I was driving

00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:12.579
from New Jersey to North Carolina and you'd be

00:37:12.579 --> 00:37:15.059
switching radio stations trying to find something

00:37:15.059 --> 00:37:18.039
on your car trips, I Got a Girl was on the radio,

00:37:18.260 --> 00:37:21.880
always on the radio. There was just something

00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:26.360
so endearing about this song. Sadly, after their

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.639
lead guitarist, Wes Bergeron, passed away in

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.739
1999, the band did break up with a bunch of the

00:37:32.739 --> 00:37:35.480
members going on to form the Polyphonic Spree,

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.719
which are still out making music. Tripping Daisy

00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.179
did reunite in 2017 for a few live shows, but

00:37:42.179 --> 00:37:44.360
that was sadly it. Hopefully, maybe there's more

00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:48.440
on the table. Again, underrated. Definitely comes

00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:51.219
to mind here. A little weird, a little fun. I

00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:54.880
got a girl, but she's got a guy. Nice to keep

00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:57.920
the weird going on that one. Yeah, so back to

00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.219
the difference between an 11 -year -old and a

00:38:00.219 --> 00:38:02.719
13 -year -old. I did not know about this song

00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:06.099
in 1995 either. So this is one that I discovered

00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:08.820
later. Didn't know about the connections until

00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:12.059
just now, you talking about that. polyphonic

00:38:12.059 --> 00:38:14.679
spree and everything else. So yeah, this is a

00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.059
good one. I think this is one where if in 1995

00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:20.940
I walked by the album cover in a record store

00:38:20.940 --> 00:38:24.099
being an 11 -year -old, I think I probably would

00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:25.980
have freaked out and just kept walking. So I'm

00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:28.380
not surprised that this is one that didn't jump

00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:31.199
into my radar until later. But I'm glad to hear

00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:34.280
that it's worth getting back into the album as

00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.099
a whole because I know the song and I don't know

00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:38.219
the rest of their history or anything else they've

00:38:38.219 --> 00:38:40.369
put out. So I'll have to do that. Could be a

00:38:40.369 --> 00:38:42.530
future Album Divers episode for you because the

00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.190
album is fantastic. But what are you going to

00:38:45.190 --> 00:38:49.289
follow up I Got a Girl With? Good question. Let

00:38:49.289 --> 00:38:52.849
me think of what I have left here. So we'll go

00:38:52.849 --> 00:38:55.429
a little bit forward here. One year later. This

00:38:55.429 --> 00:38:59.170
is 1996. And I think we're just going to throw

00:38:59.170 --> 00:39:03.030
a little bit of distortion, a little bit of energy

00:39:03.030 --> 00:39:06.070
back into this one. A little more straight up

00:39:06.070 --> 00:39:09.280
rock song. I'll harken back to my first list

00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.980
here with a little bit of, in this case, tongue

00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:15.900
-in -cheek advice for you in the 90s. This is

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:19.340
the band Not A Surf and their song, their most

00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:23.239
popular song, popular, coming out in 1986. I

00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:25.500
cheated again on this one. This one reached 51

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:29.579
on the US radio songs, 11 on US alternative airplay.

00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:34.320
But for me in 96, again, I think this is probably

00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.280
the month that I... decided i was starting to

00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.239
get into music this was all over the place radio

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.079
friends playlists all these different things

00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.500
i just have a lot of memories with this one right

00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:48.460
around high school in the car with friends uh

00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:50.360
this is definitely one that i had to put on the

00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.719
list i think it follows trip and daisy pretty

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:56.760
good oh it certainly does 1996 is high and low

00:39:56.760 --> 00:40:01.699
was produced by rick okasik of the cars and there

00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:04.780
was something about his production in the 90s

00:40:05.210 --> 00:40:09.349
That I just went head over heels for. Obviously

00:40:09.349 --> 00:40:13.269
he produced Weezer's Blue Album. He produced

00:40:13.269 --> 00:40:16.429
Bad Religions, The Gray Race. And he produced

00:40:16.429 --> 00:40:19.409
Not A Serf's Popular. And all it took was for

00:40:19.409 --> 00:40:22.730
me to hear that he produced this album. For me

00:40:22.730 --> 00:40:25.090
to go out and buy it. Because no matter what

00:40:25.090 --> 00:40:27.730
the sound was, I knew he was going to bring something

00:40:27.730 --> 00:40:31.360
to it. That resonated with me. I've mentioned

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:34.179
many a times that The Car Self -Titled is my

00:40:34.179 --> 00:40:36.280
favorite album of all time. There's something

00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:40.920
about what Rick brought to these albums in the

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:44.420
90s. He was forward thinking, but also did enough

00:40:44.420 --> 00:40:48.920
elements from the past to make it relevant, but

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:53.329
also engage a wider audience. And that was what

00:40:53.329 --> 00:40:55.750
I loved about the car's self -titled album was

00:40:55.750 --> 00:40:58.869
because he was pushing grounds forward while

00:40:58.869 --> 00:41:02.050
also looking back simultaneously. And that's

00:41:02.050 --> 00:41:05.010
how he helped usher in with the rest of the cars,

00:41:05.070 --> 00:41:09.389
breaking the new wave into the mainstream. I

00:41:09.389 --> 00:41:12.829
really wish Not A Surf had more. quote unquote

00:41:12.829 --> 00:41:16.349
popularity after this song, because I think there's

00:41:16.349 --> 00:41:18.590
so much more than popular. They've put out a

00:41:18.590 --> 00:41:21.429
ton of amazing albums throughout the nineties

00:41:21.429 --> 00:41:23.449
and the two thousands, and they're still out

00:41:23.449 --> 00:41:26.110
there doing it. And this is a band that I think

00:41:26.110 --> 00:41:29.110
people should really dive deep and go through

00:41:29.110 --> 00:41:31.050
their catalog and do a dive because they're in

00:41:31.050 --> 00:41:33.269
for a treat. No question. Yeah. We'll put that

00:41:33.269 --> 00:41:36.510
underrated label on this as well. So to close

00:41:36.510 --> 00:41:38.349
outside a, I'm going to choose a song that we

00:41:38.349 --> 00:41:41.489
talked about all the way back on episode three,

00:41:41.630 --> 00:41:46.969
the ultimate songs of 1993 with Ed Kennard. And

00:41:46.969 --> 00:41:50.210
this, to me, I talked about the baseline earlier

00:41:50.210 --> 00:41:53.530
that you chose with space hogs. In the meantime,

00:41:53.730 --> 00:41:56.030
I'm going to go with another baseline that immediately

00:41:56.030 --> 00:42:00.510
grabbed my attention. And that is the breeders

00:42:00.510 --> 00:42:05.989
cannonball from 1993 is last. When that bass

00:42:05.989 --> 00:42:12.489
line comes in, like, that's all it takes. If

00:42:12.489 --> 00:42:16.690
I was on Name That Tune, all I would need is,

00:42:16.710 --> 00:42:19.670
and it's like, okay, boom, I'm chiming in. I

00:42:19.670 --> 00:42:23.409
know the song. It's that much of an earworm.

00:42:23.690 --> 00:42:27.670
And the song is amazing. And I would say, capping

00:42:27.670 --> 00:42:30.989
off a side that has a ton of underrated artists,

00:42:31.789 --> 00:42:34.289
The Breeders has to be included in that conversation.

00:42:34.570 --> 00:42:39.769
Not a top 40 hit, hit number 44. But I think

00:42:39.769 --> 00:42:44.349
its impact on music is bigger than its chart

00:42:44.349 --> 00:42:47.789
history. I think bands like Veruca Salt, bands

00:42:47.789 --> 00:42:51.349
like Garbage, hell, even songs that are outside

00:42:51.349 --> 00:42:56.550
of The Breeders indie rock sound, no doubt. Female

00:42:56.550 --> 00:42:59.409
rock was alive and well in the 90s, but you had

00:42:59.409 --> 00:43:02.130
that side that was more of the Lilith Fair, which

00:43:02.130 --> 00:43:05.389
was the Jewel, the Indigo Girls. The Breeders

00:43:05.389 --> 00:43:07.670
helped usher in the fact that, no, women are

00:43:07.670 --> 00:43:10.829
here to rock too. And they did it with authority.

00:43:11.050 --> 00:43:14.110
And I love the fact that they're still out there

00:43:14.110 --> 00:43:17.150
playing songs now because they were out touring

00:43:17.150 --> 00:43:19.869
with, I want to say it's Olivia Rodrigo, which

00:43:19.869 --> 00:43:25.059
how amazing is that for a modern pop? artist

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:28.099
to bring out somebody like the breeders and give

00:43:28.099 --> 00:43:32.139
their music and introduction to this generation

00:43:32.139 --> 00:43:35.239
and hopefully what we're doing here as well tonight.

00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.719
So closing outside a cannonball by the breeders.

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:42.159
That what a great choice. Yeah, this is one where

00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:44.599
I feel like you cheated on many levels putting

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.059
this one on and I'm totally fine with it. I'm

00:43:47.059 --> 00:43:49.360
so glad you did that. Like you said, it was 44.

00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:52.679
It's not quite on the 40. Fair enough. Close

00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:54.719
enough. And then, you know, the breeders, like

00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:57.780
we're talking about the extensions into the pixies.

00:43:57.780 --> 00:43:59.480
And so there was a part of me that's going, wow,

00:43:59.739 --> 00:44:02.980
you know, that's definitely taken some liberty.

00:44:03.179 --> 00:44:05.780
But again, I'm so glad you did. I almost put

00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:08.659
Hunger Strike on here by Temple of the Dog. But

00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:10.599
then I was like, oh, that's, you know, but that's

00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:12.320
Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. I can't really mix

00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.360
that. So now I'm thinking I probably could have

00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:17.059
because this fits into that criteria as well.

00:44:17.420 --> 00:44:19.880
Such a great song. I'll sound like a broken record

00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.739
here, but because 93, it's another one that I

00:44:22.739 --> 00:44:26.340
didn't discover until later and understand the

00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:28.260
connections to the Pixies and all those different

00:44:28.260 --> 00:44:31.760
things as well. Yeah, you said it well with that

00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.119
bass line that starts it off. This is just one

00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:35.920
that if you heard it once, you've heard it a

00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.079
thousand times. And I'm glad a lot of people

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.019
have heard it a thousand times. So it definitely

00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:44.599
deserves to be on this top hits from the 90s

00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:46.940
like we're doing here. Well, there you have it,

00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:50.300
folks. Side A of our ultimate one -hit wonders

00:44:50.300 --> 00:44:53.099
of the 90s playlist, which kicked off with Baz

00:44:53.099 --> 00:44:56.059
Luhrmann's Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen,

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.719
New Radicals You Get What You Give, Space Hogs

00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:03.519
in the Meantime, Super Drags Sucked Out, Harvey

00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:06.900
Danger's Flagpole Sitta, The Wonders That Thing

00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:10.460
You Do, Corner Shop's Brimful of Asha, Trippin'

00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:13.400
Daisies' I Got a Girl, Not a Surf's Popular,

00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:17.659
and The Breeders' Cannonball. Head over to myweeklymixtape

00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:20.199
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in

00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:23.239
this mix through the playlist embedded on the

00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:26.699
episode page. Now, Trevor, before we flip our

00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:29.300
proverbial mixtape over to Side B, why don't

00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:31.500
you tell people a little bit about Album Divers

00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:34.559
and what you guys have going on over there? Sure.

00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:37.539
So instead of baking sourdough bread when the

00:45:37.539 --> 00:45:40.989
pandemic hit, I started thinking what I could

00:45:40.989 --> 00:45:42.869
spend some of my time doing, and we decided,

00:45:43.070 --> 00:45:45.829
a buddy of mine and I decided to start this podcast

00:45:45.829 --> 00:45:48.309
called Album Divers. Really, we just decided

00:45:48.309 --> 00:45:51.510
it would be kind of a time capsule for our friendship

00:45:51.510 --> 00:45:54.250
and a way to revisit old albums. Our only rule

00:45:54.250 --> 00:45:57.170
on that podcast is we have to alternate between

00:45:57.170 --> 00:46:00.829
a new album and an older, so a new meaning has

00:46:00.829 --> 00:46:03.050
to come out in the year that we're doing that

00:46:03.050 --> 00:46:05.449
particular podcast. Of course, we're in 2024

00:46:05.449 --> 00:46:08.440
now, so... We're doing new albums from 2024.

00:46:08.739 --> 00:46:11.699
And then every other episode goes back into something

00:46:11.699 --> 00:46:14.739
from the past. And that's been kind of fun because

00:46:14.739 --> 00:46:17.820
we're both guys getting into our late 30s, early

00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:21.000
40s. And I think the tendency to want to get

00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.559
pigeonholed into a particular type of music from

00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:26.719
your past nostalgia as we're doing here. I'm

00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:28.739
glad we're doing that. Breaks me out of that.

00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.000
So that's what it's all about. Sometimes we get

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.139
some artists on there. We break down every single

00:46:33.139 --> 00:46:35.440
track from the album because we believe that

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:39.460
the Album format is a holy thing. And we just

00:46:39.460 --> 00:46:42.320
have fun talking about it. So we release episodes

00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.800
whenever we feel like it. So I cannot believe

00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:48.900
my weekly mixtape. I'm very impressed every single

00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:51.480
time you get an episode out every week. If you

00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:53.840
tune in, you'll get episodes here and there.

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:57.260
So that's what we do. Yeah, I didn't think about

00:46:57.260 --> 00:46:59.440
that when I named it, that I was basically setting

00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:03.179
myself up for an expectation. Hey, it's a good

00:47:03.179 --> 00:47:05.599
little bit of structure that forces you to do

00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:09.500
it. There you go. Well, moving over to side B,

00:47:09.619 --> 00:47:12.559
I'm going to keep the female vibe that we ended

00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:16.219
side A with, which was the Breeders' Cannonball.

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:18.420
And I'm going to go with a song that when I say

00:47:18.420 --> 00:47:22.900
the band name, yes, it is a one hit wonder. But

00:47:22.900 --> 00:47:26.519
the lead person in that band has written so many

00:47:26.519 --> 00:47:30.059
songs that are hits. It's almost hard for me

00:47:30.059 --> 00:47:33.960
to quantify including this one. However. For

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.739
the band Four Non Blondes, What's Up was their

00:47:36.739 --> 00:47:41.539
biggest hit song. Reached number 14 on the Billboard

00:47:41.539 --> 00:47:44.840
US Hot 100. I think as of right now, that's the

00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.460
highest chart topping song we've talked about

00:47:47.460 --> 00:47:50.440
tonight. However, when you look at her songs

00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:54.000
outside of Four Non Blondes, she's written Can't

00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:58.099
Let Go by Adele, Candyman and Beautiful by Christina

00:47:58.099 --> 00:48:02.670
Aguilera, Danger Zone by Gwen Stefani. Pink's

00:48:02.670 --> 00:48:06.369
Get the Party Started, My Love by Celine Dion,

00:48:07.010 --> 00:48:11.050
Superwoman by Alicia Keys. Like, Linda Perry's

00:48:11.050 --> 00:48:16.090
a massive songwriter. I'm shocked that that didn't

00:48:16.090 --> 00:48:19.329
hit more with Four Non Blondes. They're a great

00:48:19.329 --> 00:48:23.210
band. If you listen to the Led Zeppelin tribute

00:48:23.210 --> 00:48:26.469
album that came out in the 90s, they do an insane

00:48:26.469 --> 00:48:29.369
version of Misty Mountain Hop. Her voice is incredible.

00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:32.900
The song is fantastic. I know this one could

00:48:32.900 --> 00:48:35.500
be a little divisive for some people, but Lainey

00:48:35.500 --> 00:48:39.360
Wilson put out a cover on her most recent album,

00:48:39.420 --> 00:48:41.860
and that kind of brought it into modern country

00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:45.099
flavor now. And I also want to give a shout out

00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:47.539
to Patreon mixtaper Sean Goff, who had chimed

00:48:47.539 --> 00:48:49.559
in with this one. But yeah, let's kick off side

00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.159
two with one that everybody's familiar with.

00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:55.199
For Non Blondes, what's up? This is one you could

00:48:55.199 --> 00:48:56.920
not escape on the radio. You mentioned this one

00:48:56.920 --> 00:48:59.760
being somewhat divisive. I'll admit that I'll

00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.179
probably fall on the I've heard it enough times

00:49:02.179 --> 00:49:05.340
side of this one. But I think Linda Perry deserves

00:49:05.340 --> 00:49:07.699
to be on this list for sure. And if I just think

00:49:07.699 --> 00:49:10.219
about it in terms of true, you know, complete

00:49:10.219 --> 00:49:13.119
nostalgia, this being on the radio when I was

00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.260
a kid, I remember this one as well. I'm surprised

00:49:16.260 --> 00:49:19.900
to see it was 1993. I don't know how many weeks

00:49:19.900 --> 00:49:23.059
it spent on that Hot 100. But I feel like, you

00:49:23.059 --> 00:49:24.440
know, again, my coming of age year has been a

00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:26.420
little later than that. I feel like it was still

00:49:26.420 --> 00:49:28.909
on the radio all the time. when I was listening

00:49:28.909 --> 00:49:32.329
to music mostly in the later 90s. All right,

00:49:32.389 --> 00:49:34.449
so following that up, what do you have for track

00:49:34.449 --> 00:49:37.409
two? All right, well, let's see. What's Up was

00:49:37.409 --> 00:49:40.309
one of the picks by one of your listeners, your

00:49:40.309 --> 00:49:42.809
Patreon listeners. I believe I heard you say

00:49:42.809 --> 00:49:46.230
this one was as well, and we're going to go forward

00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:49.909
a couple years here. This is March of 96, and

00:49:49.909 --> 00:49:52.929
that's Primitive Radio Gods. It's standing outside

00:49:52.929 --> 00:49:55.469
of a broken phone booth with money in my hands.

00:49:56.190 --> 00:49:59.250
I can't even tell you what I love about this

00:49:59.250 --> 00:50:01.610
song. I mean, I can tell you, I can break down

00:50:01.610 --> 00:50:03.929
all these different elements of it, but it's

00:50:03.929 --> 00:50:05.750
definitely one of those greater than the sum

00:50:05.750 --> 00:50:09.389
of its parts musical experiences is what I want

00:50:09.389 --> 00:50:11.789
to call this even more so than a song. I mean,

00:50:11.809 --> 00:50:14.409
you've got the B .B. King sample, you got the

00:50:14.409 --> 00:50:18.349
church bells, the piano I appreciated so much

00:50:18.349 --> 00:50:21.409
more even just re -listening to this as I compiled

00:50:21.409 --> 00:50:23.849
these lists of songs. And then I just even think,

00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.360
Him coming back in and singing the same B .B.

00:50:28.380 --> 00:50:31.079
King sample with his own voice just adds a really

00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:34.159
cool element to it. This is almost like just

00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.199
a meditation from the 90s or something like that.

00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.539
So I had to have this one on there. In terms

00:50:39.539 --> 00:50:43.260
of memories, this is one that I believe was playing

00:50:43.260 --> 00:50:46.460
from one of my friend's older brother's stereo

00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:48.820
when I was coming over. So I just have memories

00:50:48.820 --> 00:50:51.539
of playing with Legos but having this going in

00:50:51.539 --> 00:50:54.269
the background. Just a great song. I had to have

00:50:54.269 --> 00:50:57.349
it on the list. I first discovered this song

00:50:57.349 --> 00:51:02.750
on the soundtrack to 1996's The Cable Guy. That's

00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:07.070
right. At least advertised as a slapstick comedy,

00:51:07.210 --> 00:51:09.969
but was actually a very dark comedy from Jim

00:51:09.969 --> 00:51:13.489
Carrey and Matthew Broderick. And I remember

00:51:13.489 --> 00:51:15.849
hearing it in the movie and getting the soundtrack.

00:51:15.989 --> 00:51:18.670
And I was so stoked when Rocket finally came

00:51:18.670 --> 00:51:20.690
out because I got to kind of dig more into this

00:51:20.690 --> 00:51:23.730
group. Reach number one on the Billboard U .S.

00:51:23.730 --> 00:51:26.650
Modern Rock Track charts and number 10 on the

00:51:26.650 --> 00:51:30.050
U .S. Hot 100 Airplay charts. Love the B .B.

00:51:30.070 --> 00:51:32.420
King sample. Like that was something about the

00:51:32.420 --> 00:51:37.019
90s. They really dove into sampling great music.

00:51:37.059 --> 00:51:39.239
You think about what a tribe called Quest did,

00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.739
sampling like these iconic jazz bass lines and

00:51:42.739 --> 00:51:46.019
jazz movements in their music. And it moved its

00:51:46.019 --> 00:51:49.079
way into the rock side of things with groups

00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.940
like Primitive Radio Gods. And yes, shout out

00:51:51.940 --> 00:51:54.639
to Patreon Mixtape Seeker who chimed in with

00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:57.500
this one as well. I didn't have this on my list

00:51:57.500 --> 00:52:01.710
because. I felt like I hit the weird part of

00:52:01.710 --> 00:52:04.889
my spectrum with the Trippin' Daisy kind of stuff.

00:52:05.130 --> 00:52:07.769
But I'm so glad that it's being included here

00:52:07.769 --> 00:52:10.690
because there is that element of the 90s that's

00:52:10.690 --> 00:52:13.570
just inescapable. No question about it. Yeah,

00:52:13.590 --> 00:52:18.090
I even think of DJ Shadow introducing all of

00:52:18.090 --> 00:52:19.809
that. You're right, the sampling. I didn't think

00:52:19.809 --> 00:52:21.250
about it until you brought that together. But

00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:24.269
there was a ton of that going on. And this song

00:52:24.269 --> 00:52:27.250
brought that to the mainstream. This was on everybody's

00:52:27.250 --> 00:52:30.500
radio for sure. I think I'm going to do a song

00:52:30.500 --> 00:52:33.260
to follow it up that is a little bit of a pivot.

00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:36.860
However, this song was produced by Brian Eno.

00:52:37.820 --> 00:52:41.119
And the band originally thought that this song

00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:44.119
should have been a B -side. And it was Eno's

00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.679
pushing that led them to release it on the album,

00:52:46.780 --> 00:52:49.340
which was a smart move. It reached number 61

00:52:49.340 --> 00:52:53.139
on the Billboard US Hot 100, which again, not

00:52:53.139 --> 00:52:56.519
a top 40 hit. But I have never seen a cover band,

00:52:56.599 --> 00:52:59.210
at least in New Jersey. And I am one of them

00:52:59.210 --> 00:53:02.250
because I love performing the song. Get through

00:53:02.250 --> 00:53:05.829
a three set night without strumming the opening

00:53:05.829 --> 00:53:10.510
to James Laid from 1993. For people that are

00:53:10.510 --> 00:53:13.130
a little older, it was the theme to the American

00:53:13.130 --> 00:53:17.250
Pie franchise. And if you saw the movie American

00:53:17.250 --> 00:53:19.070
Wedding, the version you hear at the opening

00:53:19.070 --> 00:53:21.670
is not James' version. That is actually Matt

00:53:21.670 --> 00:53:24.949
Nathanson covering it. However, if you know the

00:53:24.949 --> 00:53:27.849
American Pie movie franchise, you're familiar

00:53:27.849 --> 00:53:32.909
with this song. The riff is simplistically perfect.

00:53:33.710 --> 00:53:36.650
There's something that it's a real simple riff

00:53:36.650 --> 00:53:39.539
to play. But as soon as you hear it. People's

00:53:39.539 --> 00:53:42.019
faces light up. They love singing along with

00:53:42.019 --> 00:53:44.980
it. The falsetto notes, most people can't hit

00:53:44.980 --> 00:53:47.119
it, but they try anyway, and it becomes a lot

00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.340
of fun. And the song, again, underrated, underrated

00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:54.960
band. James has the greatest hits album. There

00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:58.699
is more to James than just laid. However, this

00:53:58.699 --> 00:54:02.320
was their one flirtation with the Billboard charts,

00:54:02.619 --> 00:54:05.019
at least in the Hot 100, and I feel like it deserves

00:54:05.019 --> 00:54:08.159
a mention here. Good choice. Yeah, yeah. Being

00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:10.519
a little bit younger, for me, it was the American

00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:13.320
Pie movies that brought this into my awareness

00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.380
for sure. Yeah, this is like, it's got that kind

00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:20.159
of like sleazy lounge sound. It's not just the

00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:21.980
lyrics, it's just the way that he sings it, the

00:54:21.980 --> 00:54:25.199
kind of pizzazz that he puts on it, the energy

00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:29.659
that he does. I was discussing this, my other

00:54:29.659 --> 00:54:32.659
job is I'm a physical therapist. I have this

00:54:32.659 --> 00:54:34.840
patient that loves music and so I was saying,

00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:38.019
all right. While I work on your foot here, what

00:54:38.019 --> 00:54:39.699
are your favorite songs from the 90s or your

00:54:39.699 --> 00:54:43.000
one hits from the 90s? I mentioned this song

00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:46.139
as an idea. And he, being a little older than

00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:48.019
me, he said, oh, yeah. He said, I've seen them

00:54:48.019 --> 00:54:50.360
live. And he's like, that's what did it for me.

00:54:50.739 --> 00:54:53.000
I didn't think much of James until I saw them

00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:55.360
that way. And just I love that song ever since.

00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:58.159
So if I get a chance to do that, that would be

00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.519
pretty awesome. All right. What are you going

00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:03.579
to follow up Laid With? All right. You know,

00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:05.420
I deliberated on some of the other ones here,

00:55:05.500 --> 00:55:09.480
but you've set me up here. If we're into the

00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:13.619
sexy part of our mix here, we'll keep that part

00:55:13.619 --> 00:55:16.619
going. We'll jump forward a few years here, and

00:55:16.619 --> 00:55:20.639
we're in 1997, and that is going to be Marcy

00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:23.179
Playground off their self -titled, and this song

00:55:23.179 --> 00:55:27.210
is Sex and Candy. Nice. We're in that time period

00:55:27.210 --> 00:55:29.510
here as the 90s start to close off where it's

00:55:29.510 --> 00:55:32.110
that purgatory between that post -grunge. People

00:55:32.110 --> 00:55:36.449
aren't really sure what to do after Nirvana and

00:55:36.449 --> 00:55:40.150
some of these bands are no longer going here.

00:55:40.250 --> 00:55:43.530
But not quite into wherever we get into those

00:55:43.530 --> 00:55:46.469
early 2000s. But I think some bands, some songs

00:55:46.469 --> 00:55:48.090
did that a little bit better than others. And

00:55:48.090 --> 00:55:50.550
Marcy Playground does an awesome job of borrowing

00:55:50.550 --> 00:56:06.820
what really worked from... Couldn't agree more.

00:56:06.860 --> 00:56:09.539
Reach number eight on the U .S. Billboard Hot

00:56:09.539 --> 00:56:12.800
100. So as of right now, our highest charting

00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:16.150
song of our discussion this evening. This song

00:56:16.150 --> 00:56:19.869
was featured in 1999's Polka Power from Weird

00:56:19.869 --> 00:56:22.550
Al's Running With Scissors. So if you're featured

00:56:22.550 --> 00:56:26.210
in a Weird Al polka, it was a hit song. And this

00:56:26.210 --> 00:56:28.789
is the first Weird Al polka featured song this

00:56:28.789 --> 00:56:31.650
evening. So I feel like that definitely deserves

00:56:31.650 --> 00:56:35.630
its own spotlight in and of itself. And to give

00:56:35.630 --> 00:56:37.710
this song a little bit more of a modern spin.

00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:41.400
maroon 5 actually covered the song as a bonus

00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:46.780
track on their 2014 album five so if you want

00:56:46.780 --> 00:56:48.940
to look up an interesting version they do a pretty

00:56:48.940 --> 00:56:52.500
cool job of it i'm not the biggest maroon 5 fan

00:56:52.500 --> 00:56:54.519
on the planet but they definitely have moments

00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:57.760
where they write extremely catchy tunes and they

00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:00.579
did a great cover of it so definitely worth looking

00:57:00.579 --> 00:57:03.760
up i saw marcy playground on one of the 90s package

00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:07.159
tours i want to say about a decade ago it was

00:57:07.860 --> 00:57:12.840
Marcy Playground, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Sugar Ray,

00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:16.000
and Everclear. It was a really fun 90s afternoon

00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:19.619
of music. But wow, coming out of Sex and Candy,

00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.199
I'm going to pull away from the sexy time that

00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.099
we had going on with the last two songs, but

00:57:25.099 --> 00:57:28.960
I'm going to stay in 1997. And I'm kind of shocked

00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:31.980
we haven't had a number one hit yet, and we're

00:57:31.980 --> 00:57:35.480
still not. This song reached number two. But

00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:38.039
it's one of those songs that when I say it, you

00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:40.420
almost question how wasn't it a number one hit

00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:44.179
because of its endless, endless airplay on top

00:57:44.179 --> 00:57:47.980
40 stations, on rock stations, on AOR stations.

00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:52.059
This just crossed all sorts of genres. And I'm

00:57:52.059 --> 00:57:54.780
going to go with Meredith Brooks' Bitch from

00:57:54.780 --> 00:57:58.820
1997's Blurring the Edges. Talk about a song

00:57:58.820 --> 00:58:02.679
that was completely inescapable no matter what

00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:06.570
station you went to. And it was catchy. And it

00:58:06.570 --> 00:58:11.130
was infectious. And I never got sick of it. The

00:58:11.130 --> 00:58:14.269
song just, as soon as it started, it had almost

00:58:14.269 --> 00:58:17.949
that guitar riff that was reminiscent of The

00:58:17.949 --> 00:58:21.230
Who's Baba O 'Reilly. But it's done in a poppy

00:58:21.230 --> 00:58:25.250
way. And the song just always lured me in. It

00:58:25.250 --> 00:58:28.849
never got old. Here we are decades later. And

00:58:28.849 --> 00:58:31.989
anytime it comes on, I still dig the song as

00:58:31.989 --> 00:58:35.639
much as I did in 97. Shout out to Meredith Brooks.

00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.380
Again, dive into the album. There's more on that

00:58:38.380 --> 00:58:40.900
album than bitch, but this was the one song that

00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:44.920
truly catapulted for her. Nice pick. This is

00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:47.619
genius, I think, because you got the FCC that's

00:58:47.619 --> 00:58:50.039
like, all right, you can't say any bad words

00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:53.579
at all, but you can say bitch. Why? I don't know.

00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:57.139
You can't say a -hole. You can't say the D word.

00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.159
All of these things, there might be typical insults

00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.710
for a man, but feel free to... throw a bitch

00:59:02.710 --> 00:59:04.469
out as much as you want. And I think Meredith

00:59:04.469 --> 00:59:08.030
Brooks as a woman in the late 90s was like, okay,

00:59:08.190 --> 00:59:10.250
you're allowed to say that word. I'm just going

00:59:10.250 --> 00:59:11.989
to own that. I'm going to write a song about

00:59:11.989 --> 00:59:14.150
it. I'm going to say it over and over and over

00:59:14.150 --> 00:59:16.309
again. And you're going to play it constantly.

00:59:17.070 --> 00:59:20.030
And she empowered the word too. Exactly. Exactly.

00:59:20.190 --> 00:59:22.869
She took charge of it. Perfect pick for this

00:59:22.869 --> 00:59:25.210
and very reminiscent of, I think, a woman in

00:59:25.210 --> 00:59:27.510
the 90s just grabbing onto something like that

00:59:27.510 --> 00:59:28.909
and making it her own. I think that's great.

00:59:29.369 --> 00:59:31.269
All right. So, what are you going to follow that

00:59:31.269 --> 00:59:35.829
up with? All right. How do I, I feel like there's

00:59:35.829 --> 00:59:39.329
some sort of transition here from bitch to this

00:59:39.329 --> 00:59:43.590
one. So, we've got a woman claiming the word

00:59:43.590 --> 00:59:46.630
bitch, putting out a hit that way. And then we're

00:59:46.630 --> 00:59:50.469
going to go to a man and we're going same year

00:59:50.469 --> 00:59:53.969
here. This is 1997, putting out a song called

00:59:53.969 --> 00:59:58.489
Your Woman. And that is an artist called Whitetown.

00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:01.480
And I suppose this could have fallen into the

01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:04.460
weird part of our mix. I didn't know we were

01:00:04.460 --> 01:00:07.219
going to have a weird and a sexy part and this

01:00:07.219 --> 01:00:11.539
women empowerment gender bending part. But here

01:00:11.539 --> 01:00:14.079
we are in the 90s with all these different sub

01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:16.800
parts of our mix. And I think, yeah, I think

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:19.239
White Town, Your Woman, this is one, 97, again,

01:00:19.300 --> 01:00:24.940
I'm 13. I'm not quite super accepting of all

01:00:24.940 --> 01:00:26.920
the, you know, there's just a lot of things that

01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:29.039
I'm trying to wrap my mind around still as a

01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:31.519
13 year old. So this one, I think, stood out

01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:34.199
not only for the sound, but also just because,

01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:36.260
again, I thought it was strange and you can't

01:00:36.260 --> 01:00:38.760
help thinking about and dissecting these lyrics

01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:41.019
of this man singing, I could never be your woman.

01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:44.719
And it just had this kind of hypnotic. kind of

01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.400
cult -like sound to it that I just couldn't help

01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:49.219
playing over and over again and listening to.

01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:50.860
And I think, again, it's one that I remember

01:00:50.860 --> 01:00:53.460
from my coming of age years because of that,

01:00:53.539 --> 01:00:56.219
but probably one that I've revisited as I've

01:00:56.219 --> 01:00:58.500
gotten older and appreciated more and more. I

01:00:58.500 --> 01:01:01.280
haven't kept up with what Whitetown did after

01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:04.380
this hit, but I just felt like I wanted to cement

01:01:04.380 --> 01:01:07.440
this one on our mix from the 90s here. I'm so

01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.860
glad you did. This was one that fell off my radar

01:01:09.860 --> 01:01:13.150
for such a long time. And I want to say, God,

01:01:13.150 --> 01:01:17.030
in the last decade, we were in Kohl's or something

01:01:17.030 --> 01:01:20.050
like that. Target, one of these stores. And the

01:01:20.050 --> 01:01:23.969
song was playing over the Muzak. But we had walked

01:01:23.969 --> 01:01:26.769
in just at the end. So all I was hearing was

01:01:26.769 --> 01:01:33.110
almost like the Imperial March from Star Wars.

01:01:33.250 --> 01:01:36.869
But it's done differently. And all that took

01:01:36.869 --> 01:01:40.349
was that little like 10 seconds of earworm. And

01:01:40.349 --> 01:01:43.250
for the rest of the day, I was. Walking around

01:01:43.250 --> 01:01:48.309
going, like tapping my head. And it started driving

01:01:48.309 --> 01:01:49.969
me nuts because I didn't have enough time to

01:01:49.969 --> 01:01:53.210
shazam it. And I called up a couple of friends

01:01:53.210 --> 01:01:55.550
just humming that part. I'm like, we're going

01:01:55.550 --> 01:02:00.110
back to the 90s for this. Any idea? Any idea?

01:02:00.150 --> 01:02:02.369
And finally, someone said, oh, dude, White Town,

01:02:02.489 --> 01:02:05.110
your woman. And I went and looked up the album

01:02:05.110 --> 01:02:09.550
and realized that this song was everywhere. But

01:02:09.550 --> 01:02:13.460
just as fast as it exploded. I feel like it sadly

01:02:13.460 --> 01:02:17.300
disappeared. And musically, we're bringing back

01:02:17.300 --> 01:02:19.920
some of that sampling like we talked about from

01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:24.059
older songs like we did on Primitive Radio Gods,

01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:27.940
as well as some stuff on Side A, and done in

01:02:27.940 --> 01:02:31.280
such a way that just made it feel so modern and

01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:34.460
fresh. And it reached number 23 on the Billboard

01:02:34.460 --> 01:02:37.860
US Hot 100. And then sadly, that was, you know,

01:02:37.860 --> 01:02:41.440
unfortunately, at least in the... mainstream

01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:45.159
realm it for white town but such a big statement

01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:48.360
and while i don't have anything weird in my list

01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:52.539
i can tap into that horn section loop that's

01:02:52.539 --> 01:02:55.440
going on in white town and pivot into another

01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:59.400
one hit wonder that is definitely going to genre

01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:01.840
bend us a little bit here but damn it i think

01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:03.659
musically these two are going to work really

01:03:03.659 --> 01:03:06.380
cool back and forth and i'm going to go off of

01:03:06.380 --> 01:03:09.650
1993's hand on the torch And we're going to get

01:03:09.650 --> 01:03:12.050
some jazz sampling from an album that was released

01:03:12.050 --> 01:03:14.170
on Blue Note Records. And we're going to go Us

01:03:14.170 --> 01:03:18.590
3, Cantaloupe, Flip Fantasia. Reach number nine

01:03:18.590 --> 01:03:21.510
on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. And I want to

01:03:21.510 --> 01:03:24.349
say our first song that's incorporating hip hop

01:03:24.349 --> 01:03:27.349
into the mix tonight, which is awesome. And this

01:03:27.349 --> 01:03:30.070
song, again, genre bending. Yes, it was a hip

01:03:30.070 --> 01:03:33.349
hop song. But a lot of top 40 stations and even

01:03:33.349 --> 01:03:35.849
some rock stations played it because of the vibe

01:03:35.849 --> 01:03:38.710
that the song brought. The energy that the song

01:03:38.710 --> 01:03:41.489
brought crossed it over, at least in the New

01:03:41.489 --> 01:03:43.889
York market. And I think that is what speaks

01:03:43.889 --> 01:03:47.690
to the endurance of a track. The fact that it

01:03:47.690 --> 01:03:51.250
could speak equally on different radio stations,

01:03:51.349 --> 01:03:54.489
across different airwaves, to different audience

01:03:54.489 --> 01:03:57.409
demographics. And this one did it effortlessly.

01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.340
So coming out of Your Woman, let's get a little

01:04:00.340 --> 01:04:03.420
Flip Fantasia in the mix here. Nice little head

01:04:03.420 --> 01:04:05.559
jerk on this one. Yeah. Okay. I didn't see this

01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:09.039
one coming. 92, right? This was 93. Hand on the

01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:12.239
torch. 93. Okay. Okay. So I was nine years old

01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.500
at the point where this come out. And yeah, I

01:04:14.500 --> 01:04:16.280
remember this one not only being on the radio

01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:19.489
as a kid there, but. I used to go watch this

01:04:19.489 --> 01:04:22.230
CBA basketball team in Yakima, Washington, the

01:04:22.230 --> 01:04:24.909
Yakima Sun Kings. And this was like warm -up

01:04:24.909 --> 01:04:27.389
song amongst many others that was just playing

01:04:27.389 --> 01:04:30.449
constantly. So this takes me back to those memories,

01:04:30.510 --> 01:04:32.389
riding the car with my dad, going to these basketball

01:04:32.389 --> 01:04:34.889
games and hearing this song. And yeah, what a

01:04:34.889 --> 01:04:38.150
great way to follow up the horn section loop

01:04:38.150 --> 01:04:40.989
that we've got in White Town. I'm excited to

01:04:40.989 --> 01:04:42.769
listen to our mix when it's all done because

01:04:42.769 --> 01:04:44.389
I think that's just going to feed in perfectly.

01:04:44.789 --> 01:04:47.340
Nice, nice pick. I like it. All right. We're

01:04:47.340 --> 01:04:49.619
coming up to the home stretch here. You got two

01:04:49.619 --> 01:04:52.559
picks. I've got one. What do you got left? All

01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.280
right. Yeah, I've only got two left. I know what

01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:57.659
I think I have to end with. So that means I'm

01:04:57.659 --> 01:05:00.619
slotting this one in after cantaloupe here. I

01:05:00.619 --> 01:05:02.260
don't know how the transition is going to sound,

01:05:02.300 --> 01:05:05.380
but I feel like that's the 90s. Every year was

01:05:05.380 --> 01:05:07.480
a little bit different. So if you don't have

01:05:07.480 --> 01:05:10.559
one that sticks out, then it really doesn't encapsulate

01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:15.309
the decade. And that's where 1994. Possum Kingdom

01:05:15.309 --> 01:05:18.969
by the Toadies is going to slot in here. So this

01:05:18.969 --> 01:05:23.369
is one, I mentioned the 96, 97 -ish years being

01:05:23.369 --> 01:05:26.070
my coming of age. So I would have thought in

01:05:26.070 --> 01:05:27.809
self -reflection on this one that I wouldn't

01:05:27.809 --> 01:05:31.409
have remembered it as a child. I didn't remember

01:05:31.409 --> 01:05:34.010
it listening to it in 94. I think I was a little

01:05:34.010 --> 01:05:35.989
too young for that. But I was young enough. It

01:05:35.989 --> 01:05:39.369
probably did pop in for me around 96, 97. And

01:05:39.369 --> 01:05:42.230
sometimes one of those songs that though was

01:05:42.230 --> 01:05:45.380
big just a few years ago, especially as a one

01:05:45.380 --> 01:05:47.940
-hit wonder, passes through. But this one had

01:05:47.940 --> 01:05:50.340
a resurgence at least among my friend group.

01:05:50.500 --> 01:05:52.219
Even though if we were listening to stuff that

01:05:52.219 --> 01:05:56.480
was coming out in 96, 97, 98, a lot of my friends

01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:00.000
still went back to 94 to put this song on mixtapes

01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:02.500
for me in the 90s. And I don't know, man. This

01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:05.260
is just one that you talked about the bass line

01:06:05.260 --> 01:06:09.320
for Breeders' Cannonball. That guitar part to

01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:14.360
start this, I mean, that just grabbed me immediately.

01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:16.900
And then once I got into what the lyrics were

01:06:16.900 --> 01:06:21.699
about as an angsty teenager with this weird story

01:06:21.699 --> 01:06:25.099
about these vampires, pre -Twilight era, by the

01:06:25.099 --> 01:06:27.460
way, if anybody's listening, this is not your

01:06:27.460 --> 01:06:31.440
PG version of the vampire story. I just loved

01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:34.219
it. So, Possum Kingdom Toadies had to make my

01:06:34.219 --> 01:06:37.829
list. Believe this one does meet the meet the

01:06:37.829 --> 01:06:40.110
criteria. If not, it was close, but I had to

01:06:40.110 --> 01:06:42.710
had to put it on anyways. As far as I'm concerned,

01:06:42.829 --> 01:06:45.489
it meets the criteria. It reached number nine

01:06:45.489 --> 01:06:48.349
on the Billboard US mainstream rock charts, and

01:06:48.349 --> 01:06:51.429
they did have a follow up single away, which

01:06:51.429 --> 01:06:54.610
only reached 23 on the mainstream rock track

01:06:54.610 --> 01:06:58.719
charts. So in terms of Hot 100. Toadies are actually

01:06:58.719 --> 01:07:02.400
a no -hit wonder band. Okay, all right. But that

01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:06.019
said, charts be damned because, again, cover

01:07:06.019 --> 01:07:10.260
bands, I see Possum Kingdom to this day played

01:07:10.260 --> 01:07:14.960
a lot in bar rooms still. That riff is iconic.

01:07:14.980 --> 01:07:18.480
It's an iconic 90s opening riff. So sometimes

01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:23.119
a hit song is not defined by the level it charted.

01:07:23.420 --> 01:07:26.340
It's it's endurance. It's legacy. And Possum

01:07:26.340 --> 01:07:30.579
Kingdom has that. No doubt about it. So coming

01:07:30.579 --> 01:07:33.199
out of that, I have one song left and I'm going

01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:36.000
to go right on the nose with this one with a

01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.699
band that I feel like because a lot of the bands

01:07:38.699 --> 01:07:41.559
I picked was underrated. And this is one that

01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:44.139
I think I don't want to say tops that chart,

01:07:44.219 --> 01:07:46.699
but is up there with some of the most underrated.

01:07:46.739 --> 01:07:51.239
I first saw these guys live in 1998 opening for.

01:07:52.010 --> 01:07:54.989
Soul Asylum and Matchbox 20, they were the opening

01:07:54.989 --> 01:07:57.909
band. And the one thing I will never forget is

01:07:57.909 --> 01:08:02.210
the opening piano part and drums were played

01:08:02.210 --> 01:08:06.349
by the drummer at the same time. I had never

01:08:06.349 --> 01:08:10.389
seen anything like this in my life, and it absolutely

01:08:10.389 --> 01:08:14.929
blew my mind. From 1998's Feeling Strangely Fine,

01:08:15.150 --> 01:08:17.489
I'm going to go with Semisonic's Closing Time.

01:08:18.140 --> 01:08:20.840
Number one on the U .S. Billboard Modern Rock

01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:24.560
Tracks chart. But shockingly, not on the Hot

01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.100
100. They had other songs, Singing in My Sleep,

01:08:28.260 --> 01:08:31.300
Chemistry, that are all amazing tunes, didn't

01:08:31.300 --> 01:08:36.340
chart. Semisonic is a fantastic power pop rock

01:08:36.340 --> 01:08:40.420
group. Please dive into their catalog. They are

01:08:40.420 --> 01:08:42.539
still putting out music. It's still amazing.

01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:45.739
Unfortunately, when people hear the name Semisonic,

01:08:45.739 --> 01:08:47.720
though... The first thing they think about is

01:08:47.720 --> 01:08:51.199
closing time written about a bar room. Maybe

01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:53.800
there's been a lot of talk that the song is written

01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:55.819
about the birth of a child, which when you listen

01:08:55.819 --> 01:08:58.060
to the lyrics through that light, it makes it

01:08:58.060 --> 01:09:01.800
a much more powerful song. And I've seen countless

01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:05.399
cover bands and shows with this song. Not once

01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:09.159
have I seen a band open up set one with it. So

01:09:09.159 --> 01:09:11.619
I now put this out as a challenge to all the

01:09:11.619 --> 01:09:14.579
cover bands out there listening some food for

01:09:14.579 --> 01:09:17.470
thought. Open the show with closing time and

01:09:17.470 --> 01:09:19.630
see how it goes over and then let me know because

01:09:19.630 --> 01:09:22.289
I want to see the look on people's faces when

01:09:22.289 --> 01:09:26.390
the first song of the night is Semisonic's closing

01:09:26.390 --> 01:09:29.130
time. That would be a good one. Well, I think

01:09:29.130 --> 01:09:33.430
you didn't quite have the nerve to do it higher

01:09:33.430 --> 01:09:36.390
up in our list there, but I'm glad you kept it

01:09:36.390 --> 01:09:41.729
where it would be here. I couldn't see it coming

01:09:41.729 --> 01:09:43.770
out of Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free to Wear

01:09:43.770 --> 01:09:46.750
a Sunscreen quite as strong as New Radicals did

01:09:46.750 --> 01:09:49.399
at that part of the mixtape. You did a good job,

01:09:49.420 --> 01:09:52.659
and rightfully so. It ends up here close to the

01:09:52.659 --> 01:09:55.359
end here. Yeah, man, lots of memories of this

01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:58.180
one as well. Again, 98, I was into the throes

01:09:58.180 --> 01:10:00.319
of listening to music, so I bought this album

01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.920
immediately. I could probably tell you the track

01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:05.760
list order if I had to right now off the top

01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:10.460
of my head. And yeah, but back to being underrated.

01:10:10.500 --> 01:10:12.859
We have a lot on the list. I think Semisonic,

01:10:12.859 --> 01:10:15.420
and then I'll just even say Dan Wilson as a...

01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:18.960
artist. He's released some solo stuff. He's a

01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:21.500
great writer. He's got a lot going on up there

01:10:21.500 --> 01:10:23.619
in terms of his writing skills. So I think the

01:10:23.619 --> 01:10:26.840
one about Birth of a Child, probably I'm leaned

01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:29.180
towards being the meaning of this one just in

01:10:29.180 --> 01:10:30.859
the context of how well he writes everything

01:10:30.859 --> 01:10:34.039
else. But yeah, what a great band, what a great

01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:38.399
album and a great song to end your part. So can

01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:40.619
I cap us off here at the end? Yeah, you get to

01:10:40.619 --> 01:10:43.680
put the cherry on top of our 90s one hit wonders

01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:45.859
mixtape. What are we closing out the night with?

01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:50.060
I feel honored. All right. So if we start off,

01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:52.739
you know, building the energy from the beginning,

01:10:52.779 --> 01:10:54.659
you got something pulling you in a little bit

01:10:54.659 --> 01:10:57.140
with Baz Luhrmann and the advice to the 90s.

01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.939
We're going to fade out here at the end. And

01:11:00.939 --> 01:11:05.920
that is Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. Ooh, okay.

01:11:07.149 --> 01:11:10.529
This one came out in 93, so true to form. This

01:11:10.529 --> 01:11:13.289
is one I discovered later. In fact, I'm embarrassed

01:11:13.289 --> 01:11:16.670
to say, much, much later. It's probably a few

01:11:16.670 --> 01:11:19.449
years ago that I really understood. I think I

01:11:19.449 --> 01:11:21.390
knew this song. I mean, if it came on, I would

01:11:21.390 --> 01:11:24.510
hear it. In fact, I was calling this to my podcast

01:11:24.510 --> 01:11:27.739
co -host, sort of this... Moby Dick song for

01:11:27.739 --> 01:11:30.819
me because I would hear it. It would be on in

01:11:30.819 --> 01:11:32.539
the background at work or something. It seemed

01:11:32.539 --> 01:11:35.380
like any playlist of any artists that I like,

01:11:35.479 --> 01:11:40.239
somehow this also seeped in. And because I feel

01:11:40.239 --> 01:11:42.779
like it has a timeless quality, I just assumed

01:11:42.779 --> 01:11:44.899
it was a more recent artist. In fact, I think

01:11:44.899 --> 01:11:47.619
it was popping up when I was putting in Angel

01:11:47.619 --> 01:11:49.840
Olsen or somebody like that. And I could hear

01:11:49.840 --> 01:11:53.699
her doing this song. I assumed it was a recent

01:11:54.029 --> 01:11:56.550
track. And it wasn't until doing a lot of digging

01:11:56.550 --> 01:11:58.810
and asking around that I figured out this is

01:11:58.810 --> 01:12:03.609
1993. So one of the fun things about listening

01:12:03.609 --> 01:12:05.689
to music today when you can have some of these

01:12:05.689 --> 01:12:08.229
algorithms throwing music at you is I don't know

01:12:08.229 --> 01:12:10.729
that this one would have creeped back into my

01:12:10.729 --> 01:12:13.050
consciousness had I not done it that way. And

01:12:13.050 --> 01:12:15.949
I'm glad that I finally caught my Moby Dick and

01:12:15.949 --> 01:12:18.449
I'm glad that it's ending this album because

01:12:18.449 --> 01:12:21.930
Fade Into You, Mazzy Star in general is an artist

01:12:21.930 --> 01:12:24.909
that everybody should know. And you can add me

01:12:24.909 --> 01:12:28.710
to the list now. Love the song. Absolutely. I'm

01:12:28.710 --> 01:12:30.470
going to just say it. It's a beautiful song.

01:12:30.850 --> 01:12:34.210
Reach number 44 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100

01:12:34.210 --> 01:12:37.850
from the album So Tonight that I might see. And

01:12:37.850 --> 01:12:39.710
I also want to throw out there, because we talked

01:12:39.710 --> 01:12:42.130
about it earlier in the night, just like Harvey

01:12:42.130 --> 01:12:46.489
Danger, Mazzy Star, band name, not an artist

01:12:46.489 --> 01:12:49.310
name. So just put that out there when we do that

01:12:49.310 --> 01:12:51.510
Jethro Tull, Leonard Skinner, Marshall Tucker

01:12:51.510 --> 01:12:54.720
episode. Harvey Danger and Mazzy Star will probably

01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:58.239
make that discussion as well. But what a perfect

01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:01.880
way to close out Side B. There you have it, folks.

01:13:02.119 --> 01:13:06.039
Side B of our ultimate 90s one -hit wonders mixtape,

01:13:06.060 --> 01:13:08.500
which kicked off with four non -blondes. What's

01:13:08.500 --> 01:13:12.100
up? Primitive radio gods standing outside a broken

01:13:12.100 --> 01:13:15.560
phone booth with money in my hand. James Laid.

01:13:15.859 --> 01:13:19.199
Marcy Playgrounds. Sex and Candy. Meredith Brooks,

01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:23.359
bitch. White Town's Your Woman, Us Three's Cantaloupe,

01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:27.399
Flip Fantasia, Toadie's Possum Kingdom, Semisonic's

01:13:27.399 --> 01:13:31.199
Closing Time, and Mazzy Star's Fade Into You.

01:13:31.380 --> 01:13:34.380
Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all

01:13:34.380 --> 01:13:37.039
the songs we've discussed in this mix through

01:13:37.039 --> 01:13:40.779
the playlist embedded on the episode page. Well,

01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:42.699
Trevor, why don't you let people know where they

01:13:42.699 --> 01:13:45.760
can learn more about Alvin Divers and connect

01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:48.649
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01:13:51.569 --> 01:13:54.250
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01:13:54.250 --> 01:13:56.550
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01:14:11.060 --> 01:14:13.680
has been an absolute blast. Thank you so much

01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.039
for joining me on My Weekly Mixtape and looking

01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:18.359
forward to having you back again soon, man. Sounds

01:14:18.359 --> 01:14:20.239
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01:14:20.239 --> 01:14:22.260
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