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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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

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Joining me once again from Space Castle is the

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one and only DT Carroll. DT, welcome back to

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the show, man. What's up, dude? I'm always, always,

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always happy to be here. And I am so happy to

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have you back. And this time we're going to do

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a different type of episode. We're creating a

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playlist that I think might confuse some people

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by the name alone. And that name is Summer Vibes.

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Now, when I say Summer Vibes, most people automatically

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go to Jimmy Buffett or country music or beach

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music or oldies music. And kind of all of that

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is correct. But I wanted to create a playlist

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that's more than just. A mix to listen to while

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you're at the beach, although that's part of

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summer. Summer to me is more than the beach.

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It's road trips. It's barbecues and cookouts.

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It's a party or reunion with friends. And tonight

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you and I are kind of tasked with creating a

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soundtrack to more than one of those scenarios

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and having it work musically. Yeah, man. I mean,

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you grew up on the East Coast. You grew up going

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to the beach and doing that whole scene. I grew

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up in Arizona in the desert, so there was no

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beach for me to go to. So my summer experience

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was very, very different. And as such, I have

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a very different interpretation of what summer

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means to me. So when you and I started conceptualizing

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this episode, I was really excited because we're

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getting the opportunity to conceptualize and

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put together a playlist for not just people who

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live in California or Florida or whatever. But

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for kids like me who grew up in like landlocked

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states and like what that vibe and what those

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summers meant to them as well. So I'm super psyched

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to be here. I think this is going to be awesome.

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I think a lot of people are really going to love

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and appreciate what we're doing here. I hope

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so, because to me, summer vibes is a wide open,

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all encompassing, nothing's off the table topic.

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So here's an example for me. A few years ago,

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we were down in Wildwood, New Jersey for our

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summer vacation. And each morning. before the

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kids would get up and the day would get started,

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I would just grab my headphones and go for a

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walk on the boardwalk, run into the people that

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were doing their walk of shame coming in the

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other direction. You have the sun rising. You

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have people grabbing their coffee. You got some

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runners. You got some people on their bikes.

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This walk to me was just something I love to

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do every day when I'm down there. And one of

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the songs that happened to be on my playlist

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that summer was State Champs Criminal from their

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2018 album Living Proof. The lyrics of which

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are, so what's it mean when every dream I have

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is about you now? I can't believe you get to

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me the way you do somehow. It's criminal. Nothing

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summary about that song at all. Yet any time

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I hear that opening line to that track. I am

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immediately back on the boardwalk. The breeze

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is in my hair. I could smell the ocean. The people

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are doing their walk of shame with their head

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down, carrying their eye. Like it all just, I'm

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instantly taken back there. So that song always

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makes my summer playlists, but it has nothing

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to do with summer. Yeah, absolutely. I've got

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a couple of songs like that on my list as well,

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where it's just more about. what I was listening

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to during the summers when I was coming up, especially

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when I was a teenager. There's some tracks on

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my list that literally have nothing to do with

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summer, but they are so quintessential to my

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summer experience as being a kid, going to pool

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parties, going to warp tour, going to concerts,

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and all those experiences that aren't... Well,

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they were for me growing up being traditional

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summer experiences, but not traditional summer

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experiences as you would think of them in a general

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sense. So I love that. I can't wait to see what

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you've got. I can't wait to show you what I've

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got. I think this is just going to rule. Well,

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

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at the top of the show, DT and I will be curating

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the ultimate summer vibes mixtape, and we'll

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use the old cassette deck approach. DT, as my

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special guest, will begin side A with his first

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

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feel best follows up that choice. We'll then

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flip -flop choosing songs until we've mapped

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

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mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside,

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be only this time I'll kick things off with DT

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choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode

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is to craft the best summer vibes mixtape possible

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through only 20 songs. And at the end of the

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show, you can take our conversation to the next

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level 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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and so much more. And several of the Patreon

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mixtapers chimed in with songs they would use

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to kick off our Summer Vibes mixtape, and I want

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to give a few shout -outs. Yeah. Seeker chimed

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in with Summer Nights by Van Halen, saying it's

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truly a great summer, beach, and party track,

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and Eddie is on fire as usual. So I guess fire,

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summer, heat, it all goes together. Chad LaMassa

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tried to cool things down, though, with the summer

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vibe, and he stuck with Van Halen, only he went

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with Ice Cream Man. Excellent pick. David Lee

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Smith said, well, you want summer songs, right?

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So he chimed in with Joe Satriani's summer song.

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So bravo, A+. He knew the assignment. He knew

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the assignment. He nailed it. Tom Hutchinson

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chimed in with Magic by the Cars, saying that

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summer is mentioned a bunch throughout the song.

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Plus, it was the first car song he remembers,

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as well as its use in the opening credits of

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Click, which he saw on his summer vacation. So

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all sorts of summery things going on for Tom

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there. Jen Fink chimed in with Vacation by Thomas

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Rhett. And Philip Bergman chimed in saying that

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there are so many great oldies songs about summer

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that it could be its own episode. But summer

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truly begins. When school's out. So for him,

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it's going to be Alice Cooper kicking the festivities

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off. Yeah. Yeah. And with that, I'm actually

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going to make myself a little note and I'm going

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to put a pin in the ultimate summer golden oldies

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and do what playlist for 2025. So Philip, I hope

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you clear your calendar next spring. We're going

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to make that happen. So spoiler alert, that song

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is not on my list. But if we were doing runner

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ups, that was actually on my list at one point

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and it got bumped, unfortunately. But if we were

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doing runner ups, Alice Cooper, that track would

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have been on my list for sure. Like that's just

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one of the quintessential summertime songs growing

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up. And I'm just going to applaud Philip because

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I didn't even have that one on my radar. So bravo.

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I absolutely love the pick. Yeah. And just as

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a reminder, if you want to chime in for future

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My Weekly Mixtape episodes, you can join the

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Mixtaper family at patreon .com forward slash

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myweeklymixtape. So DT, Summer's here. The sun's

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out. The top's down on our proverbial convertible

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we're riding in right now, which means we need

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some tunes. So I'm officially pressing the record

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button on our mixtape, and the floor is yours.

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What song are you kicking off our Summer Vibes

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playlist with? All right. First of all, shout

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out to my boy Tom for that pick, Magic by The

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Cars. Because my pick to kick off this entire

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shipping is Good Times Roll by The Cars. The

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debut track off their debut album, which ironically

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has also become like their greatest hits album

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because it's just one of the most perfect albums

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ever written. It's just so great. It was released

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in June of 1978. It was released as a single

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from that album. They're self -titled. It was

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written and sung by Rick Okasik. Rest in peace.

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He died a few years back. And it is just a tone

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setter for, I think, this entire playlist. It's

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a slow jam. It's perfectly written for cruising,

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like you said, with a top down on the convertible.

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I know my parents cruised around to it in the

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80s, driving around Metro Center, the mall where

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golf and stuff and all that type of stuff was.

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What I love about the song is that it's entirely

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ironic. And it's not about letting the good times

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roll at all. It's about like... How the good

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times actually kind of suck when you're rock

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and rolling. And like, it's actually kind of

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a downer. And like, you're just kind of getting

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your ass kicked as a kid. But the song is just

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such a jam. It's such a pleasure. It's wonderful.

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The entire album, like I said, is just one of

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the, not only one of the best debut albums ever

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conceived, but one of the just the best, most

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well -rounded albums ever. I just adore it. It

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is the Cars' Good Times Roll off their self -titled

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album. Once again, shout out to Patreon mixtaper

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Tom Hutchinson, as him and I both had magic on

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our playlists. But Good Times Roll, that is truly

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the perfect summer road trip song. And it's from

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my favorite album of all time. So I can't argue

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the pick, but dude, scooping me with the cars

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on track one. We don't have to worry about the

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summer heat for this playlist because apparently

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you're just kicking things off in ice cold fashion

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here. Bringing the heat. Yeah. You got to get

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up pretty early in the morning to get one up

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on me when you let me pick first. Kidding aside,

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the song reached number 41 on the Billboard US

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Hot 100. To me, I'm shocked it wasn't a top 40

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hit, but the Cars would go on to have many of

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them. So if you're a fan of the band. I highly

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suggest going back and checking out episode 39,

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the ultimate cars playlist for a real deep dive

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into their incredible legacy. And I should probably

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point out that Buddy, the mascot for my weekly

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mixtape, my puppy is downstairs currently playing

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with my kids right now. So if you hear that barking

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in the background, I apologize. It's Buddy just

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making himself known. But. cover songs power

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man 5000 1999 tonight the stars revolt they covered

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the song on that album and with that i've talked

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about the car's self -titled album on several

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podcasts most recently the ridiculous rock records

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review podcast i've talked about it on the if

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and love this record podcast i've talked about

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it on pick a disc podcast i'm kind of like the

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Oh, we're going to do an album episode about

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the Cars self -titled. Let's give Brian a go.

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And I'll talk about it 500 times. I love this

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album so much. But since you scooped it and you

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scooped my favorite album. I'm going to kick

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me off the podcast and ban me forever. Yes. Yes.

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Now I got to go find somebody to finish the rest

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of this episode. No, what I am going to do is

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get my favorite artist out of the way. So you

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don't scoop that as well. So we're going to bring

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Mr. Petty into the pick here and we're going

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to stick with the good times roll theme. And

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when you think about a Tom Petty road trip, Hmm.

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Let me think. Good times roll ends and the opening

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guitar riff from Mike Campbell. counts you down

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or walks you down into running down a dream from

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1989 full moon fever reached number 23 on the

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billboard us hot 100 and topped the billboard

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album rock tracks chart running down a dream

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is a quintessential road trip song yeah and let's

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just be honest when you take a road trip in the

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winter and it's cold And you're like all bundled.

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I don't know if in Arizona, I mean, cold for

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you might be like 80. That's Christmas weather

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right there, actually. Yeah, exactly. Literally,

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yeah. So in New Jersey, when it's like 10 degrees

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with a wind chill factor of hovering around like

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two or three, and you're driving up to New Hampshire

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where that's like the high and the low is like

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negative 20, and you're bundled up and you're

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going on a road trip. And every time you get

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out of the car, you got to throw your jacket

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on. It's summertime and you're in a t -shirt

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and shorts with your sunglasses on. You roll

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the windows down. You turn the music up. That's

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a road trip. And Running Down a Dream, when I

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hear that song, I see a sunny, beautiful summer

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day. And Tom Petty is the one who's narrating

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it for me. It's a reason why every country artist

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ever name checks Tom Petty in their song. Tom

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Petty on the radio, I bet you nine times out

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of ten, it's Running Down a Dream. Yeah. What's

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also interesting is Tom Petty name checks. It's

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Del Shannon, isn't it? Yeah. Runaway. Yeah. Runaway.

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Yeah. Me and Del were singing Little Runaway.

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I love the pic. I love the album. I freaking

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love Tom Petty. That was what? It was a single

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off of his first solo album, like Post Heartbreakers.

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And he just knocks it out of the frickin park.

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Like the song is just wonderful. The song is

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actually co -written by Jeff Flynn from Electric

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Orchestra and would also be his bandmate in the

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Tribal Wilburys, which is one of my favorite

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bands of all time. Yeah, Jeff produced both Full

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Moon Fever and Into the Great Wide Open. And

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when you think about the work he did with. George

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Harrison's Cloud Nine, because you've got that

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Traveling Wilburys connection. Roy Orbison's

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album around that time. You had the Traveling

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Wilburys. Jeff Lynne had this kind of like super

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group that kind of spun off. It was like a Marvel

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universe of albums coming from the Traveling

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Wilburys. And Full Moon Fever was one of them.

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Yeah, dude. Jeff Lynne is just one of the all

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-time musical geniuses. Just fantastic. Everything

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around this song is genius. The production, obviously

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the guitar riff. Tom Petty just firing on all

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cylinders. The music video is one of the best

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music videos of all time. It's all black and

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white animated in the style of the old Adventures

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of Little Nemo comic strips from way back in

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the day. The dude who's in the car driving around

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with Tom Petty looks like Flip from that old

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series. It's just super psychedelic. Tom Petty

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had the best music videos in the late 80s and

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early 90s too. The song is just wonderful. I

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agree. It's one of the quintessential road trip

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songs and thus one of the quintessential summertime

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songs too. Love the pick. It's perfect. All right.

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We got the cars. We got Tom Petty. So right now

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we're kind of sitting in this classic rock road

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trip vibe. Where do we go from here? We're going

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to keep on with the road trip and we're going

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to Detroit Rock City back in 1976 by Kiss. Yeah.

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So the track kicks in with one of the most killer

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bass and guitar riff combos ever. It's just iconic.

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It's insane. The song is, again, kind of ironic

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because it's about sort of the self -destructiveness

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of being a rock and roller and like drinking

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and driving and being a motorhead and like cutting

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in and out of traffic and going to shows and

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being an ass and like driving home recklessly.

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And ironically enough, it's actually written

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about somebody who died in a car crash outside

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of a Kiss show in Charlotte in the 70s. And that's

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what kind of sort of inspired the whole theme

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for the track. But it's also... like an anthem

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for like partying and rock and rolling and just

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living like, you know, recklessly and just doing

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what you want and having a good time despite

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the sort of consequences. It's very nihilistic,

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but you can't escape the fact that it's one of

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the all -time great summer songs. It's a great

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cruising song. It's one of the greatest rock

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and roll anthems of all time. Detroit Rock City

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by Kiss from back in 1976. It's got to be on

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the list. It has to be. I mean, they named the

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movie after it about the kids trying to get to

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the, like that to me, speaks volumes and an interesting

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fact the only place detroit rock city ever charted

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was in canada where hit 99 on the canada top

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singles chart what canada knows how to party

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man they get down i guess they're losing their

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minds in detroit rock city but that said it served

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as the opening to many many many kiss concerts

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including all of the stops on their quote unquote

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final tour because who knows i don't know where

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this avatar thing is gonna land but i'm certain

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there'll probably be some avatarian performances

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of detroit rock city to look forward to in kiss's

00:16:36.059 --> 00:16:38.639
future I don't think Kiss is done. How many times

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have they said they're done and they come back

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like two or three years later? Gene Simmons,

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for as much of a musical genius as he is, he

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is a greedy SOB and that man loves money. They're

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going to be back on tour soon enough. I guarantee

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it. I think they should just do like a residency

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in Vegas. I think that'd be wonderful for them.

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And honestly, I'd be fine with them just saying,

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look, guys, we retired the costumes. Go back

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to the late 80s, early 90s vibe and just go out

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there and play your instruments and play the

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songs for the people. Paul Stanley is like 75

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years old. He doesn't need to be ziplining over

00:17:09.970 --> 00:17:12.630
the crowd anymore. Gene Simmons doesn't need

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to be trying to hold a bunch of flammable liquid

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in his mouth and spit fire. They could bring

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it down and just do a chill show. I'd be down

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to see that, honestly. But I also bet you there'd

00:17:21.829 --> 00:17:24.089
be Kiss fans right now that are screaming and

00:17:24.089 --> 00:17:27.019
throwing their... podcast listening devices across

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the room and i understand that because the theatrics

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of kiss are such a huge piece of that puzzle

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but in my mind if they were to go back and say

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look let's revisit the unplugged era that we

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did with mtv and go out and do a tour with no

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makeup i'd be open for that kind of strip the

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songs back a little bit but anyway cover versions

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from the 1994 kiss my ass classic kiss regrooved

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album mighty mighty boss tones did a really cool

00:17:55.269 --> 00:17:57.890
punked up rendition of that track yeah it's dope

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yeah all right so i guess then we're gonna stay

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kind of in this road trippy vibe we got going

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here but i'm gonna bring it a little out of the

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heavier side of the rock and bring it a little

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bit more to the pop rock side of things but well

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One of the songwriters, Jim Valance, wrote on

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the Song Facts message board that when this song's

00:18:23.829 --> 00:18:26.309
demo was recorded, towards the end of the song,

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the singer sang a naughty little part. I know

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what you're talking about. Me and my baby in

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a 69. He had a laugh at the time. And then Brian,

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who is Brian Adams, decided to keep it when he

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did the final recording a month or two later

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from 1984's Reckless. Brian Adams, Summer of

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69, going completely on the nose with the whole

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summer thing. But Brian Adams himself has said

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the song is actually not about the summer of

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1969, but about having sex in the summertime.

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Yeah. And Jim Valance, the co -writer, has gone

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back and said, no, no, no, no. It's about 1969,

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the year I promise. So but look, regardless of

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it's the year. Or the act. I guess it fits in

00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.440
summer vibes in some kind of facet for somebody

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out there. And look, the lyrics, when you think

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about the storytelling in this song, it gives

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you that almost nostalgic feeling of times past.

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And I guess. Summer does come with a lot of nostalgia.

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I know this is not a nostalgia playlist episode.

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Actually, we've got that coming up with our good

00:19:40.230 --> 00:19:42.750
friends at the nostalgia test later this summer,

00:19:42.829 --> 00:19:46.269
a whole episode about nostalgia. However, there

00:19:46.269 --> 00:19:51.569
are a lot of summer songs that feed into nostalgia

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because there are so many happy memories that

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revolve around summer. Yeah. I think there's

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a lot of melancholy memories that center around

00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.460
summer too. People think of summer as like this

00:20:03.460 --> 00:20:05.720
carefree time, but it's also sort of like a reset

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where you're also like thinking about what you're

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going to be doing next. Like whether you're a

00:20:09.619 --> 00:20:10.839
kid who's like going to prepare for the next

00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:12.880
year of school, you're a young adult who's about

00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.299
to prepare to go to college, or you've just graduated

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college and you got to think about getting a

00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:19.180
job and starting a career, or you meet somebody

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at school and you're thinking about, and very

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much with this song, Summer of 69. Are you going

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to settle down and start a family and get married?

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Or are you going to take your first six string

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and go be a rock star and try and live that lifestyle?

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So yeah, it's very much like that sort of clean

00:20:33.190 --> 00:20:34.990
slate. But that clean slate also brings with

00:20:34.990 --> 00:20:37.869
it a lot of anxiety and fear, just as much as

00:20:37.869 --> 00:20:40.529
it does excitement and that freedom. Yeah, completely.

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And just to add my cover song touch to this one

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as well, Bowling for Soup, 2000s, Let's Do It

00:20:48.170 --> 00:20:51.069
for Johnny, great version of Summer of 69, if

00:20:51.069 --> 00:20:53.710
you want to check that one out. Yeah. Thank you

00:20:53.710 --> 00:20:57.890
for not including Boys of Summer. I mean, we're

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not done yet. Please don't include. So when you

00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:04.230
and I started conceptualizing this episode, you're

00:21:04.230 --> 00:21:05.670
like, I think I'm going to add Brian Adams. It's

00:21:05.670 --> 00:21:07.809
like, cool. Yeah, just no Don Henley. Do not

00:21:07.809 --> 00:21:10.329
do Don Henley. I can't stand. I know this is

00:21:10.329 --> 00:21:12.630
like an uplifting, like positive podcast. And

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I don't ever want to say anything bad about anybody.

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But Don Henley is kind of a dick. So I think

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it's fair game. I hate Don Henley. I hate the

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Boys of Summer. I'm giving you Brian Adams is

00:21:21.490 --> 00:21:25.190
like a sacrificial lamb to just to keep you from

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putting Don Henley on your list. Can we make

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a blood pact right now? I'll give you this. I

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don't have Don Henley in my list. And I'm going

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to do it. I'm going to do a spoiler alert, though.

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I have the Atari's cover of it in my bank right

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now. So that is still possible depending on where

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we go. That is a great cover by a great band.

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OK, I'm on board. I dig it. All right. Well,

00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:51.920
following up Summer of 69, whichever direction

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.920
you want to take that song, where do we go from

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here? We're going to keep it discreetly sexy.

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We're going to go a little more poppy. My next

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pick is the May 1985 single from the April 1985

00:22:02.900 --> 00:22:05.359
album by Prince and the Revolution, Around the

00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.039
World. The track is Raspberry Beret. Nice. I

00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:12.380
love this song. This song is just a deceptively

00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:16.160
simple, fun, bouncy bop about... working in a

00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:18.799
dime store and this girl walks into the wrong

00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:20.980
door and she's wearing a weird hat that catches

00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:23.000
your eye and you just want to you can become

00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:24.460
infatuated with her and you want to talk to her

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and ends up turning into like a summer romance

00:22:26.059 --> 00:22:29.259
type thing it's just a fun breezy song that to

00:22:29.259 --> 00:22:32.480
me just encompasses that sort of carefree summer

00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:35.410
day feeling it's one of those just throw on the

00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:37.670
vinyl, get some house cleaning done during the

00:22:37.670 --> 00:22:40.130
summertime. The whole album was like that. It's

00:22:40.130 --> 00:22:43.170
very light and fun and just joyful. And that

00:22:43.170 --> 00:22:45.289
was Prince in a nutshell. Again, rest in peace.

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What a happy human being. Well, he wasn't that

00:22:48.049 --> 00:22:50.349
happy, but he worked to spread happiness and

00:22:50.349 --> 00:22:52.410
joy to everybody he knew, especially through

00:22:52.410 --> 00:22:54.809
his music. And this is one of his more happy

00:22:54.809 --> 00:22:58.630
and joyous and just wonderful, just fun poppy

00:22:58.630 --> 00:23:01.269
songs. So to me, it encompasses the feeling of

00:23:01.269 --> 00:23:03.029
summer. I think it definitely demands being on

00:23:03.029 --> 00:23:05.660
the list. Amongst many other Prince songs, but

00:23:05.660 --> 00:23:08.240
this is the one I'm sticking to. Reach number

00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:12.019
two on the Billboard US Hot 100, which is interesting

00:23:12.019 --> 00:23:15.140
because when you think about the names that kind

00:23:15.140 --> 00:23:18.099
of ruled the charts in the 80s, the Madonnas,

00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.839
the Bruce Springsteens. Prince is in that mix.

00:23:22.059 --> 00:23:24.900
I always assumed Raspberry Beret was a number

00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:26.940
one hit. I was actually surprised to see it only

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:30.880
hit number two. Only two. Only two. I mean, to

00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.640
him, that probably was like a massive failure

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.180
because he was so just hit, hit, hit. Like, it

00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:39.960
was, yeah. But regardless, the song's amazing.

00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.859
The album's amazing. Pace Magazine ranked the

00:23:42.859 --> 00:23:45.380
song number eight on their list of 50 greatest

00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:48.859
Prince songs. And American Songwriter ranked

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:53.039
it at number four on their 10 greatest Prince

00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:55.980
songs. It's like I said, it's deceptively simple.

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It's actually very well written with a lot of

00:23:57.559 --> 00:23:59.240
strings and a lot of orchestration happening.

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And it's a very simple story with just an incredible

00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.940
arrangement behind it. Like that was Prince.

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:08.180
Like he would write like the most like bomb fucking,

00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:10.859
excuse my language, pop song. And then you'd

00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:12.099
be like, this is dope. I'm going to dance to

00:24:12.099 --> 00:24:13.200
this. I need to listen to the lyrics. It's like,

00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:15.759
holy crap, Prince. Like you're a freaking genius.

00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:18.240
Like even like the silliest, most irreverent

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.180
songs he wrote were still like incredibly deep.

00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:23.039
And like there was a lot going on. And the man

00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.059
was just a bona fide genius. Just insane. And

00:24:26.059 --> 00:24:28.819
other artists recognized it. Just like, again,

00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:31.700
sticking with my cover songs where I can kind

00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:35.140
of motif here. In 1990, Warren Zevon's Hindu

00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:38.980
Love Gods covered the song in that rock facet.

00:24:38.980 --> 00:24:41.380
And I'm not going to lie. This is the kind of

00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:44.180
cover you listen to Prince's version. And then

00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:47.279
you listen to Hindu love God's version. And if

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.500
you play them back to back, you might not realize

00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:51.980
you're listening to the same song twice. Yeah.

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:57.400
And I think Warren brought this Neil Young meets

00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:02.420
indie rock REM kind of flair to the track and

00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:06.559
kind of strips away the dance elements, but makes

00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:09.339
it powerful through the lyrics and the storytelling

00:25:09.339 --> 00:25:12.769
that Prince did in the original. So again, a

00:25:12.769 --> 00:25:15.430
strong song can be translated many different

00:25:15.430 --> 00:25:18.529
ways. And I think that's a perfect example of

00:25:18.529 --> 00:25:22.269
taking the genius that is Prince and kind of

00:25:22.269 --> 00:25:24.390
adding your own stamp to it. And I love both

00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:26.789
versions. Yeah. And I love the fact that it's

00:25:26.789 --> 00:25:28.369
not just like a straight cover. It's a different

00:25:28.369 --> 00:25:29.869
interpretation. That's one of the things I love

00:25:29.869 --> 00:25:32.109
about really good cover songs. And Warren Zevon

00:25:32.109 --> 00:25:34.009
is just a genius in his own right too. Like that's

00:25:34.009 --> 00:25:35.470
somebody I could talk for another hour about,

00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:37.710
but I will tie you up. We'll move on to your

00:25:37.710 --> 00:25:39.950
next pick, Brian. Yeah. I'm going to lean into

00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:43.289
the poppier side of. raspberry beret all right

00:25:43.289 --> 00:25:46.390
and i'm gonna go with a song that's an album

00:25:46.390 --> 00:25:49.430
cut meaning it wasn't officially released as

00:25:49.430 --> 00:25:54.289
a single for this artist and it charted in malaysia

00:25:54.289 --> 00:25:58.769
ireland new zealand australia the uk and canada

00:25:58.769 --> 00:26:02.470
and then it reached number 29 on the billboard

00:26:02.470 --> 00:26:07.569
us hot 100 after the song had a viral resurgence

00:26:07.569 --> 00:26:12.190
when clips From Taylor Swift's Eros tour started

00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:16.690
going viral. And I'm going to go with from 2019's

00:26:16.690 --> 00:26:20.289
lover, Cruel Summer from Taylor Swift. Now, I

00:26:20.289 --> 00:26:23.009
know people are screaming and I know the Taylor

00:26:23.009 --> 00:26:26.509
Swift haters out there are angry. But hear me

00:26:26.509 --> 00:26:29.970
out. I am a rock guy, but I love all kinds of

00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:33.630
music. And I have two girls that adore Taylor

00:26:33.630 --> 00:26:39.000
Swift. And hearing them sing these songs. All

00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.980
last summer because of that Eris movie and those

00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:47.019
viral clips. It's so special to me. When I hear

00:26:47.019 --> 00:26:50.299
Taylor's version, I'm always going to hear my

00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:54.680
children in their childhood voices. singing that

00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:58.559
song we're already a year removed and my oldest

00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:01.240
voice has changed it's gotten older a little

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:04.640
more mature my youngest is starting her voice

00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:06.660
is starting to grow up a little bit out of the

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:10.480
child voice and i feel like to me it's one of

00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:12.559
those songs that's always going to be a reminder

00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:15.160
and i'm going to look back at cruel summer years

00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:19.099
from now and remember the summer of 2023 when

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:22.180
the girls Did nothing but sing this song. So

00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:26.619
it's a very special song to me and cover versions.

00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:29.880
I'm going to embed this one on this episode page

00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.279
at my weekly mixtape .com because I've been singing

00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:35.140
this guy's praises since I first discovered him

00:27:35.140 --> 00:27:38.319
at the beginning of the year. And had I known

00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:42.599
that this album was out when you and I recorded

00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:46.640
our songs of 2023, Teddy swims would have made

00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:51.640
the list in a heartbeat, but his cover. of cruel

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.000
summer by taylor swift from the bbc live lounge

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.519
needs to be heard so i'm going to embed that

00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.859
because swifty or not i love what teddy swims

00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:03.440
is bringing to the table musically and it's a

00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.500
great cover so yeah i know the taylor swift haters

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:08.700
are not going to be happy but the swifties who

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:11.380
are listening are yeah okay first of all even

00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:13.880
if you're not a taylor swift fan you can't sleep

00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:17.259
on this track I mean, if you think you don't

00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:18.579
like Taylor Swift and you're more than welcome

00:28:18.579 --> 00:28:20.420
to your opinion, I'm not the hugest fan, but

00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:23.859
Cruel Summer off the album Lover is actually

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:25.720
a really great track. It was actually co -written

00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:29.319
by Annie Clark from St. Vincent. So it's different

00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:31.940
from the rest of Taylor Swift's discography in

00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:35.420
that it's more richly composed. It's very warm

00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:37.779
and synth -based. You can totally hear the St.

00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:41.640
Vincent influences on it. And yeah, it's kind

00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.380
of a weird one because, like you said, the album

00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:47.380
came out in 2019. But it kind of went viral and

00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.259
kind of like became like a chart topper in its

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:51.460
own right. And then people were like, why wasn't

00:28:51.460 --> 00:28:53.480
this released as a single? Like, what was the

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.940
deal, Tay -Tay? Yeah. And she's like, okay, fine,

00:28:57.059 --> 00:28:58.940
let's release it as a single in like 2023, like

00:28:58.940 --> 00:29:00.700
four years later. And then it became a chart

00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:02.700
topper again. And it's actually, like I said,

00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.380
it is a solid, solid pop song. And it's not as

00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:08.730
poppy as you think it would be. A little bit

00:29:08.730 --> 00:29:10.450
darker, a little bit warmer, a little more rich

00:29:10.450 --> 00:29:13.829
than the song she's famous for. And I will never

00:29:13.829 --> 00:29:15.809
sleep on synth pop. I love me some synth pop.

00:29:15.990 --> 00:29:18.549
So I don't think this song needs to be justified

00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:20.269
through the lens of your children enjoying it

00:29:20.269 --> 00:29:21.750
because I think it's a legitimate pick and I

00:29:21.750 --> 00:29:23.390
think it belongs on this list. I think it's great.

00:29:23.549 --> 00:29:25.890
Also, it has summer in the title, so whatever.

00:29:26.309 --> 00:29:29.250
There you go. Well, what are you going to come

00:29:29.250 --> 00:29:32.190
out of Tay -Tay with then? Okay, if we are going

00:29:32.190 --> 00:29:35.190
pop goddesses, we're doing... Well, Cruel Summer

00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:36.829
is not really a dance song, but I feel like dancing,

00:29:36.869 --> 00:29:39.049
Brian. You feel like dancing? It's Memorial Day.

00:29:39.130 --> 00:29:41.170
As of recording this episode, I've had a couple

00:29:41.170 --> 00:29:42.670
of beers. I've had a great time talking with

00:29:42.670 --> 00:29:44.670
one of my good friends about music. I'm in a

00:29:44.670 --> 00:29:46.369
poppy, dancey mood. I'm going to keep that pop

00:29:46.369 --> 00:29:50.009
vibe going. It's Dua Lipa, Break My Heart. It

00:29:50.009 --> 00:29:52.789
was technically a 2020 release as a single from

00:29:52.789 --> 00:29:55.410
the album Future Nostalgia, but the song caught

00:29:55.410 --> 00:29:58.470
on that summer, and it actually was nominated

00:29:58.470 --> 00:30:01.309
as Song of the Summer by MTV Video Music Awards

00:30:01.309 --> 00:30:04.299
that summer. It dominated the airwaves and TV

00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:07.259
and everything everywhere. It's just an awesome

00:30:07.259 --> 00:30:09.740
song. It's got a killer hook. And I'll talk about

00:30:09.740 --> 00:30:11.740
that hook in just a second because a little bit

00:30:11.740 --> 00:30:13.960
of controversy about that hook. But the first

00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:15.220
time I heard the song, the first time I fell

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:17.220
in love with Dua Lipa, I was actually visiting

00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:20.619
Colorado in 2020 during the summertime. And I

00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:22.160
was out visiting some friends and some relatives.

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:24.859
It was like towards the sort of like... We're

00:30:24.859 --> 00:30:26.579
kind of cooling off after COVID type of thing.

00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:28.519
And I just needed to get out of where I was.

00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.400
So I came out, spent some time with friends,

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:33.000
did the whole safe social distancing thing, drank

00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.720
a lot of beers outside. But this song, every

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:37.359
time we turned on the radio or got in the car,

00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:39.480
this song was playing. And I was like... hooked.

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:41.700
By the time I was done with The Long Weekend

00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:43.660
Visit, I knew all the words. And then I came

00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:45.519
back and I listened to Future Nostalgia and I

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:47.420
fell in love with the entire album. The album

00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:50.059
is fantastic. And then I saw Dua Lipa and I fell

00:30:50.059 --> 00:30:51.980
in love all over again because my God, that is

00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:53.440
one of those beautiful women I've ever seen.

00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:56.200
And one of the most talented. The song is just

00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.859
a full -on dance anthem. It is just killer. The

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:03.599
bop is there. The attitude is there. I love it.

00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:06.099
But there is that small caveat I talked about

00:31:06.099 --> 00:31:09.430
in that Michael Hutchins and Andrew Ferris from

00:31:09.430 --> 00:31:11.529
In Excess have actually retroactively been added

00:31:11.529 --> 00:31:15.450
as songwriters for the song due to the fact that

00:31:15.450 --> 00:31:18.210
the main riff is very, very close to Need You

00:31:18.210 --> 00:31:22.250
Tonight by In Excess. So it's like interpolation,

00:31:22.269 --> 00:31:24.309
I guess, would be the term for it. If you go

00:31:24.309 --> 00:31:25.710
back and listen to both songs, it's very close.

00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:28.130
I don't think it was intentional, but it's one

00:31:28.130 --> 00:31:30.630
of those riffs that's just undeniable. So Dua

00:31:30.630 --> 00:31:33.049
Lipa had to pay her dues and issue the apology

00:31:33.049 --> 00:31:35.930
and do a little bit kickback to In Excess because...

00:31:36.250 --> 00:31:37.789
Nietzsche Tonight is a fucking incredible song,

00:31:37.849 --> 00:31:41.170
too. But yeah, my next pick is Dua Lipa, Break

00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:43.849
My Heart, Off of Future Nostalgia. I think she

00:31:43.849 --> 00:31:46.109
just owned the summer of 2020, quite frankly.

00:31:46.630 --> 00:31:49.490
Reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100

00:31:49.490 --> 00:31:52.769
and topped the mainstream top 40. I'm going to

00:31:52.769 --> 00:31:55.690
be honest with you, DT. It was that syncopated

00:31:55.690 --> 00:31:58.910
riff that drew me to the song in the first place.

00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.640
When you think about that from a songwriting

00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:06.539
situation, I kind of understand where Andrew

00:32:06.539 --> 00:32:09.740
Farris and Michael Hutchins obviously came from.

00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:12.920
But if you remove that from the song, I think

00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:14.519
you kind of remove the heart and soul of the

00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:18.180
song. And there's something about it that Dua

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:23.319
Lipa is not aimed at my age demographic. Or mine,

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:32.630
honestly. Yeah, exactly. pays off dividends because

00:32:32.630 --> 00:32:37.029
we then become fans of the respect that the newer

00:32:37.029 --> 00:32:40.250
artists are showing stuff we enjoy. Another example

00:32:40.250 --> 00:32:43.289
of that being Ava Max, whose music I absolutely

00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:47.930
love, like her song, My Head and My Heart, interpolates

00:32:47.930 --> 00:32:52.769
ATC's 2000 dance track, Around the World, La

00:32:52.769 --> 00:32:56.309
La La La La, and it worked there as well because

00:32:56.309 --> 00:32:59.549
people that remember the original Kind of like

00:32:59.549 --> 00:33:02.250
the fact that it's kind of coming back. And you

00:33:02.250 --> 00:33:07.009
can even throw in Katy Perry's Con Calma because

00:33:07.009 --> 00:33:10.349
that called back to Snow's Informer. It's definitely

00:33:10.349 --> 00:33:14.269
done intentionally to keep our age demographics

00:33:14.269 --> 00:33:17.569
still invested in what's new and hip. And it

00:33:17.569 --> 00:33:20.609
works. And I respect it because it was done well.

00:33:20.670 --> 00:33:24.210
But you have to pay your dues. Exactly. Yeah.

00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:26.359
You're going to do it. Just just be honest about

00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:28.480
it. Like include them as songwriters on the track.

00:33:28.619 --> 00:33:30.500
She did it. She was honest about it. It was clean.

00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:33.480
All that said, this song is a frickin bop and

00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:35.519
I love it. And it defined the summer of 2020

00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.599
for me. And it is defined summer since because

00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:39.980
I go back to it all the time. It's a pool party

00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:42.119
song. It's a dance hall song. It's a karaoke

00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.700
song. If you're brave enough. And I am. All right.

00:33:45.779 --> 00:33:48.559
All right. Yeah, I just I love the pic. So, yeah.

00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:50.859
And speaking about karaoke, we got an episode

00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:54.920
coming later this summer on the ultimate. karaoke

00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.259
101 playlist so be on the lookout for that later

00:33:58.259 --> 00:34:00.619
this summer a lot of journey on that playlist

00:34:00.619 --> 00:34:04.920
maybe maybe not we'll have to see but i'm gonna

00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.339
keep this dance vibe going and we're in summer

00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:10.039
so it could get hot in the summer so i'm gonna

00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:13.300
play into that literally i'm gonna go on the

00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:16.559
nose literal brian here and i'm gonna go off

00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:20.550
a 1979 Bad Girls album, and we're going to bring

00:34:20.550 --> 00:34:22.710
in one of the queens of disco, Donna Summer,

00:34:23.010 --> 00:34:27.010
Hot Stuff, number one hit, U .S. Billboard Hot

00:34:27.010 --> 00:34:31.130
100, ranked 104 on Rolling Stone's list of the

00:34:31.130 --> 00:34:34.559
500 greatest songs of all time. And you think

00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.820
about the guitar solo from Jeff Skunk Baxter.

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.699
Yes. Yes. Patreon mixtaper Philip Bergman chimed

00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:45.000
in for an older episode, episode 70, the ultimate

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:48.420
guitar solo episode with Jesse Dayton. And he

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:52.079
had said that the solo on Hot Stuff is just as

00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.239
searing as any arena rock song that came out

00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.780
around that same time. And he's absolutely right.

00:34:57.900 --> 00:35:02.309
This is a rock. disco song and right now i am

00:35:02.309 --> 00:35:06.469
coming off of a major major major concert high

00:35:06.469 --> 00:35:10.590
because last night as we're recording this i

00:35:10.590 --> 00:35:14.210
am one day removed i'm not even 24 hours removed

00:35:14.210 --> 00:35:18.170
from seeing the rolling stones for the first

00:35:18.170 --> 00:35:22.309
time live and it was just a truly transcendent

00:35:22.309 --> 00:35:24.710
experience however before the band came on stage

00:35:24.710 --> 00:35:27.110
when they're trying to get the crowd hyped up

00:35:27.110 --> 00:35:30.039
what are they playing Hot stuff from Donna Summer.

00:35:30.260 --> 00:35:33.659
And it freaking worked. So it's a rock disco

00:35:33.659 --> 00:35:36.900
anthem. And then if you want to tie it into 2020,

00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.400
just like Dua Lipa, that year, Norwegian DJ Kygo,

00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:44.840
I think is the way it's pronounced, released

00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:48.199
a kind of fun and vibrant mix of the song that

00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:52.659
does strip away the rock element of it, but brings

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:56.260
in more of that modern dance. Dua Lipa sound

00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:58.579
using the original vocals from Donna Summer.

00:35:58.980 --> 00:36:01.400
So I almost thought about going with that one,

00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:03.719
but because of the rock music we have at the

00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.460
beginning of the side, I felt like the original

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:09.960
kind of ties the story we've been telling together

00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:12.920
a little better. Yeah, dude, I love the pick.

00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:15.219
I adore it. That whole album, Bad Girls, is incredible.

00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:18.360
That was like Donna Summer sort of breaking away

00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:20.539
from the straight disco sound of going more rock

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:23.849
in general. Guess what, guys? Donna Summer's

00:36:23.849 --> 00:36:25.630
freaking amazing and incredibly versatile, and

00:36:25.630 --> 00:36:28.969
she pulled it off. She went from disco to rock,

00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:31.110
and it was like, yeah, it's just Donna Summer.

00:36:31.230 --> 00:36:33.969
It just works. It's amazing. Like you said, that

00:36:33.969 --> 00:36:36.670
guitar solo from Jeff Baxter, who was in the

00:36:36.670 --> 00:36:39.170
Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, face melted her

00:36:39.170 --> 00:36:40.989
in the middle of what most people would have

00:36:40.989 --> 00:36:42.630
thought was just going to be another disco song.

00:36:42.750 --> 00:36:44.610
It took everybody by surprise, blew everybody

00:36:44.610 --> 00:36:47.090
away, topped the charts, reinvigorated Donna

00:36:47.090 --> 00:36:49.800
Summer's, and just reinvented her. And like you

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:52.019
said, it absolutely defines like dancing in the

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:54.460
summertime. Like it's just a killer track from

00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:57.599
an amazing all time artist. I love it. Definitely

00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.460
belongs on the list. No question. Perfect. All

00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:03.820
right. We went from a rocking road trip to a

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:06.559
kind of a dance party. Where do we go from? Where

00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.440
do we go from here? So we've hit rock. We've

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:11.539
hit pop. We've hit a little bit of disco. Why

00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:13.219
don't we throw a little hip hop in there? Because

00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:14.840
I think hip hop is very important to the summer

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.179
as well. All right. I'm on board with that. This

00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:20.639
is May 1992 single from the February 1992 album

00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.880
Mac Daddy by Sir Mix -A -Lot. This track is called

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.820
Baby Got Back. And I don't honestly even need

00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:29.559
to talk about the track anymore because everybody's

00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.300
already playing it in their head. They know exactly

00:37:31.300 --> 00:37:32.679
what it's all about, but I'm going to keep talking

00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:34.800
about it anyway. It topped the Billboard Hot

00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.679
100. It spent five weeks at the top. It was the

00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.940
second best -selling of 1992. It just set the

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:43.739
world on fire. It was inescapable. It is still

00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:45.699
largely inescapable. It is one of the greatest

00:37:45.699 --> 00:37:49.000
hip -hop songs of all time. It is awesome. People

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.039
were angry when this song came out because they

00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:53.000
thought it objectified women. It was too overtly

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.639
sexual. I disagree with that. And Mix -A -Lot

00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:57.559
disagrees with that. I think it's empowering

00:37:57.559 --> 00:37:59.780
to women of all body types. I think it's nothing

00:37:59.780 --> 00:38:02.619
but body positivity. I think the song has a fun,

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:05.739
awesome, sexy, empowering message. I can't get

00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:07.360
enough of that song. I can't get enough of Sir

00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360
Mix -A -Lot. And that album is one of the greatest

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.599
hip hop albums of all time. It really sort of

00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:13.320
set the tone for a different sort of structure

00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:17.070
of hip hop in the 90s. And it was like... It

00:38:17.070 --> 00:38:19.090
was okay to have like pop hip hop and like have

00:38:19.090 --> 00:38:21.289
like chart topping hip hop songs at the time.

00:38:21.769 --> 00:38:23.590
I think it's revolutionary. I think the song

00:38:23.590 --> 00:38:26.369
is perfect. And it absolutely just destroyed

00:38:26.369 --> 00:38:29.050
in May of 1991. It set the tone for hip hop in

00:38:29.050 --> 00:38:32.030
1991. It still sets the tone for summers to this

00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:34.730
day. It's always in my rotation whenever I'm

00:38:34.730 --> 00:38:36.710
doing playlists for like pool parties or something

00:38:36.710 --> 00:38:38.489
or just going out and partying in the summertime.

00:38:39.130 --> 00:38:41.909
Sir Mix -A -Lot, Baby Got Back. That's it. Here

00:38:41.909 --> 00:38:44.849
we go. Mac Daddy is such an incredible album.

00:38:44.869 --> 00:38:47.230
I think people think that every song on it is

00:38:47.230 --> 00:38:49.469
just like another rendition of Baby Got Back.

00:38:49.550 --> 00:38:52.269
But One Time's Got No Case, which is the opening

00:38:52.269 --> 00:38:55.349
track on that album, is an absolute banger of

00:38:55.349 --> 00:38:57.829
a hip hop track. Sir Mix -a -Lot is incredible.

00:38:58.110 --> 00:39:00.150
And I've watched him do interviews where he said,

00:39:00.210 --> 00:39:01.989
you know, look, at the end of the day, people

00:39:01.989 --> 00:39:04.329
ask me if I'm ashamed of Baby Got Back. He goes,

00:39:04.409 --> 00:39:06.550
I've never had to work a day in my life from

00:39:06.550 --> 00:39:08.809
that one song. Why would you be ashamed of such

00:39:08.809 --> 00:39:12.190
a great song, though? Who doesn't like big asses?

00:39:12.210 --> 00:39:14.929
Everybody loves big asses. Come on. And everybody

00:39:14.929 --> 00:39:18.409
loves the song. And there's a reason I say that

00:39:18.409 --> 00:39:21.809
statement. There are so many covers of this song.

00:39:22.570 --> 00:39:26.070
In 2001, Throwdown covered it for the two legit

00:39:26.070 --> 00:39:29.349
for the pit Hardcore Takes the Rap album. A year

00:39:29.349 --> 00:39:32.010
later, Richard Cheese and the Lounge Against

00:39:32.010 --> 00:39:34.690
the Machine covered it in that comedic lounge

00:39:34.690 --> 00:39:39.449
style. In 2007, The Grand Scheme, that's S -K

00:39:39.449 --> 00:39:43.170
-E -E -M, covered the song for kind of a punk

00:39:43.170 --> 00:39:46.480
rock. variety almost kind of scott -esque it's

00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:48.860
really hard to describe the chorus it's one of

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:50.940
those songs that you want to kind of like dance

00:39:50.940 --> 00:39:55.019
like it's 1929 like doing the charleston to a

00:39:55.019 --> 00:39:57.300
song about big asses yeah yes yes you definitely

00:39:57.300 --> 00:39:59.380
do with the charleston during the chorus of their

00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:03.179
version it's awesome and then in 2008 vanilla

00:40:03.179 --> 00:40:07.940
ice covered the song but he didn't use that rock

00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:10.460
sound he had been bringing to albums in the late

00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:14.170
90s early 2000s instead He did it as a straight

00:40:14.170 --> 00:40:17.190
color by numbers rendition. So it's almost jarring

00:40:17.190 --> 00:40:22.150
because he's covered his own songs in new metal

00:40:22.150 --> 00:40:25.269
form. If you look up his hard to swallow album,

00:40:25.469 --> 00:40:28.349
there's a track on it called too cold. And too

00:40:28.349 --> 00:40:31.230
cold is basically the new metal version of ice

00:40:31.230 --> 00:40:33.849
ice baby. So I was kind of surprised he didn't

00:40:33.849 --> 00:40:36.730
bring that flair to baby got back. But regardless,

00:40:36.849 --> 00:40:41.090
I love, love, love that pick. And to close outside

00:40:41.090 --> 00:40:45.199
a here. I'm going to lean into that hip hop and

00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.500
I'm going to stay right around the same summer

00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:50.119
because I remember that summer. Well, that was

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.079
the summer of my freshman year in high school

00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.579
and baby got back was all over the radio along

00:40:55.579 --> 00:40:58.639
with this song. Sometimes neck and neck fighting

00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:00.840
it out. This song only reached number four on

00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.199
the billboard us hot 100, but was this duo's

00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:08.519
highest charting single and topped the us R and

00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:12.260
B hip hop songs and hot rap songs charts. And

00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:14.960
it won a Grammy Award for the best rap performance

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:19.400
by a duo or group. That would be DJ Jazzy Jeff

00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.980
and the Fresh Prince's Summertime from 1991's

00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:28.280
Homebase. The song samples exactly as Will Smith

00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.619
states. This is the Fresh Prince's new definition

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:34.619
of summer madness. Summer madness originally

00:41:34.619 --> 00:41:37.630
recorded by Kool and the Gang. There's something

00:41:37.630 --> 00:41:40.849
about this song that immediately puts my mind

00:41:40.849 --> 00:41:43.530
at ease. Now, I didn't grow up in Philadelphia,

00:41:43.590 --> 00:41:47.710
but it doesn't really matter where you grew up.

00:41:48.070 --> 00:41:50.610
Think of the summers of the past. Adjust the

00:41:50.610 --> 00:41:54.250
bass and let the alpine blast. Pop in my CD and

00:41:54.250 --> 00:41:56.469
let it run a rhyme and put your car on cruise

00:41:56.469 --> 00:41:59.849
and lay back because this is summertime. That

00:41:59.849 --> 00:42:04.269
screamed my 90s childhood. Then you throw in

00:42:04.269 --> 00:42:06.789
kind of the. Rest of the lyrics of the song that

00:42:06.789 --> 00:42:09.670
talk about hanging out at the park, barbecues,

00:42:09.670 --> 00:42:13.449
hanging with your friend. It's all there. And

00:42:13.449 --> 00:42:16.010
I need to kind of make a note to myself here

00:42:16.010 --> 00:42:19.429
because I mentioned that nostalgia episode of

00:42:19.429 --> 00:42:22.130
my weekly mixtape that's coming up with our friends

00:42:22.130 --> 00:42:25.070
at the nostalgia test. I think I found a dead

00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:29.190
ringer for that song bank as well. Nice. I love

00:42:29.190 --> 00:42:32.920
the pick. I love that album. The song is. By

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.000
their own admission and by very definition, a

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:36.760
sort of setback from all the other dance tracks

00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:38.599
that were coming out at the time. And I really

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:41.659
dig the vibe. Yeah, like you said, Will Smith,

00:42:41.739 --> 00:42:43.380
he got the sample from the producers. Like, this

00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:45.260
is going to be your next big track. Smith sat

00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:47.219
down and he wrote the song in like one sitting

00:42:47.219 --> 00:42:49.699
in like an afternoon. The lyrics just came to

00:42:49.699 --> 00:42:51.059
him. Like you said, it's all about just growing

00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:53.239
up in Philly and going to barbecues and chilling

00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:55.699
and just the overall summer vibe. What's also

00:42:55.699 --> 00:42:57.579
really cool is the fact that he wrapped the song

00:42:57.579 --> 00:43:00.159
in a lower register than he usually did, which

00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:02.340
has added to the smoothness and the different

00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:04.980
feel of it from even the rest of the album. Because

00:43:04.980 --> 00:43:06.659
I think he was out partying pretty hard last

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:08.920
night and he wore his voice out. So he just couldn't

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:11.099
hit that sort of highest, sort of almost nasally

00:43:11.099 --> 00:43:13.340
register that you know the Fresh Prince for.

00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.559
And it's actually sort of like a precursor to

00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:18.960
his rap career as he got older, like when he

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:20.099
was doing like movie soundtracks and whatnot,

00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.480
because it's got that lower register, that sort

00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.820
of smoothness to it. And less of that sort of

00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:26.739
like high energy, like, you know, almost like

00:43:26.739 --> 00:43:28.860
trying to get you riled up and almost kind of

00:43:28.860 --> 00:43:31.739
be obnoxious sort of childish attitude. Not to

00:43:31.739 --> 00:43:33.840
say it was childish, but the vibe is there. But

00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:36.760
I love the track. It's summertime, man. It's

00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:39.739
the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Like it belongs

00:43:39.739 --> 00:43:42.780
on the list without question. Just a great track.

00:43:42.820 --> 00:43:47.019
Great album. Awesome pick. Drums, please. And

00:43:47.019 --> 00:43:49.860
that, mixtapers, concludes side A of our Summer

00:43:49.860 --> 00:43:52.760
Vibes mixtape, which kicked off with The Cars,

00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:56.019
Good Times Roll, Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream,

00:43:56.380 --> 00:43:59.699
Kiss, Detroit Rock City, Bryan Adams, Summer

00:43:59.699 --> 00:44:03.760
of 69, Prince, Raspberry Beret, Taylor Swift,

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.409
Cruel Summer, Dua Lipa's Break My Heart. Donna

00:44:07.409 --> 00:44:10.269
Summer's Hot Stuff, Sir Mix -A -Lot's Baby Got

00:44:10.269 --> 00:44:13.409
Back, and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince,

00:44:13.690 --> 00:44:16.969
Summertime. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com

00:44:16.969 --> 00:44:19.110
to hear all the songs we've discussed in this

00:44:19.110 --> 00:44:22.670
mix through the playlist embedded on the episode

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:28.250
page. And now we will start side B of our ultimate

00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:31.289
summer vibes mixtape, and I get to kick things

00:44:31.289 --> 00:44:35.380
off this time. And we talked about... How some

00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:37.659
oldies could factor into the playlist. And there

00:44:37.659 --> 00:44:40.739
was no place for us to fit any of that vibe on

00:44:40.739 --> 00:44:44.880
side A. But hey, new side, new vibe. So kicking

00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:46.940
off side B, I'm going to go all the way back

00:44:46.940 --> 00:44:51.460
to 1964. This song reached number four on the

00:44:51.460 --> 00:44:55.300
U .S. Billboard Hot 100 and topped the cash box

00:44:55.300 --> 00:45:01.949
R &B charts. In 2010, it ranked number 487 on

00:45:01.949 --> 00:45:05.010
Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs

00:45:05.010 --> 00:45:09.150
of all time, which is way, way, way too low.

00:45:09.190 --> 00:45:12.849
If you ask me, I am going with the drifters under

00:45:12.849 --> 00:45:16.070
the boardwalk. Quintessential. I love it. Please

00:45:16.070 --> 00:45:20.369
continue. This song leans into what I love about

00:45:20.369 --> 00:45:23.719
summer. With lyrics like, from the park you hear

00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.579
the happy sound of the carousel. You can almost

00:45:26.579 --> 00:45:29.079
taste the hot dogs and french fries they sell.

00:45:29.139 --> 00:45:31.639
When I do karaoke, I love singing this song.

00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:34.659
I love delivering that line. But that's the Jersey

00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:37.099
Shore to me. And I know the Jersey Shore is a

00:45:37.099 --> 00:45:40.079
different animal than other beaches up and down

00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.400
the coast. But to me, I could close my eyes and

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.590
picture what they're singing about. And look,

00:45:47.849 --> 00:45:50.250
I could be on any beach anywhere and be perfectly

00:45:50.250 --> 00:45:52.769
happy. But the Jersey Shore just hits different

00:45:52.769 --> 00:45:56.010
because of my childhood. This song has been covered

00:45:56.010 --> 00:46:01.730
over 150 times. But since as we're recording

00:46:01.730 --> 00:46:03.750
this right now, like I mentioned earlier, I'm

00:46:03.750 --> 00:46:05.730
still on a high from seeing the Rolling Stones

00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:09.030
last night. I'm going to point to their 1964

00:46:09.030 --> 00:46:12.489
version, same year as the Drifters, that appeared

00:46:12.489 --> 00:46:16.809
on their 12 by 5 album. perfect summer track

00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:20.469
as far as i'm concerned under the boardwalk it's

00:46:20.469 --> 00:46:23.050
wonderful man uh the song is wildly influential

00:46:23.050 --> 00:46:25.030
and way ahead of its time too like if you listen

00:46:25.030 --> 00:46:27.440
to it today like It doesn't sound like it should

00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.820
be from 1964. I mean, the chorus goes from major

00:46:30.820 --> 00:46:32.920
chords to minor chords and then back again. It's

00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.360
like, who did that in 1964? Yeah. Yeah. The single

00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.079
was released in 1964. It's wonderful. It's actually

00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:41.000
got a weird story. If I can kind of like bring

00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:42.960
the vibe down a little bit, if you don't mind.

00:46:43.139 --> 00:46:45.000
Sure. Just a little bit of music history. The

00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.829
lead singer, Rudy Lewis. actually passed away

00:46:47.829 --> 00:46:49.630
the night before they were scheduled to record

00:46:49.630 --> 00:46:51.949
this song and the band got together and they

00:46:51.949 --> 00:46:53.510
were grieving and they were like what do we do

00:46:53.510 --> 00:46:55.329
like do we've got the studio time we've got this

00:46:55.329 --> 00:46:57.349
song do we just cancel it and just move on or

00:46:57.349 --> 00:46:59.730
do we just use the studio time to record it like

00:46:59.730 --> 00:47:02.110
almost in his honor uh they ended up recording

00:47:02.110 --> 00:47:03.909
the song with their other vocalist johnny moore

00:47:03.909 --> 00:47:07.130
and it became one of like the most famous songs

00:47:07.130 --> 00:47:10.219
of all time So it's got sort of a melancholy

00:47:10.219 --> 00:47:12.539
feel to it because you know it's like this happy,

00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.440
joyful song about two people in love who go on

00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:18.179
a tryst in like a seaside town and like, you

00:47:18.179 --> 00:47:19.360
know, they're enjoying each other's company and

00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:21.679
having all this romance and sort of like a little

00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:23.519
bit of a tragedy as far as the history of the

00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:25.659
writing of the song. So it's interesting to me.

00:47:25.739 --> 00:47:27.679
I don't want to bring the vibe down. I know we're

00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.019
all about the good time summer vibes, but it's

00:47:30.019 --> 00:47:32.619
a historic song and the history behind the song

00:47:32.619 --> 00:47:35.119
is so fascinating too. I love the pick. I think

00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.860
it's quintessential. 100 % belongs on this list.

00:47:38.190 --> 00:47:41.070
I love it. So what do we follow it up with, sir?

00:47:41.670 --> 00:47:44.530
Let's move forward in time just two years. And

00:47:44.530 --> 00:47:47.650
it's going to be the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon.

00:47:47.769 --> 00:47:50.349
It's just, for me, it's one of those summer vibe

00:47:50.349 --> 00:47:53.570
songs. Now, a little bit of weirdness again.

00:47:53.670 --> 00:47:55.329
This is weird how the songs are tying together

00:47:55.329 --> 00:47:56.769
where there's a little bit of like a sort of

00:47:56.769 --> 00:47:59.219
a melancholy sad back sort of the song. Frontman

00:47:59.219 --> 00:48:01.619
Ray Davies for the Kinks, I'm a huge Kinks fan,

00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:04.199
actually suffered a nervous breakdown prior to

00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.360
writing and recording his album, which resulted

00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:09.199
in a massive shift in their sound. It used to

00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:10.880
be sort of like heavy guitar riffs and almost

00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:13.059
like precursor to punk rock. Very much in the

00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:15.159
vein of like The Who and whatnot of the time,

00:48:15.179 --> 00:48:17.380
where they were very crunchy and heavy guitar

00:48:17.380 --> 00:48:19.739
riffs and just rock and roll. And this whole

00:48:19.739 --> 00:48:23.400
album, face to face, is much slower. It's taking

00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.130
its time. It's very ponderous. And it's actually

00:48:26.130 --> 00:48:28.650
almost sort of considered to be the first concept

00:48:28.650 --> 00:48:31.070
album, if you can believe that, where the songs

00:48:31.070 --> 00:48:33.010
don't necessarily tell a story, but they all

00:48:33.010 --> 00:48:35.949
have the same concept of sort of reflection and

00:48:35.949 --> 00:48:38.449
sort of social observation and whatnot. So the

00:48:38.449 --> 00:48:40.409
song is just a vibe. Like I said, the song is

00:48:40.409 --> 00:48:44.809
about a man who is kind of a piece of crap, obviously

00:48:44.809 --> 00:48:47.070
comes from old money, and he's just wandering

00:48:47.070 --> 00:48:50.269
around his very lavish estate, and he's drinking

00:48:50.269 --> 00:48:52.849
and just vibing, despite the fact that the IRS

00:48:52.849 --> 00:48:55.059
has taken away all his money. His girlfriend

00:48:55.059 --> 00:48:56.760
just left him and took the car the night before

00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:59.260
and he just doesn't care. He's just lazing on

00:48:59.260 --> 00:49:01.699
this sunny afternoon and he's just drinking,

00:49:01.780 --> 00:49:04.980
walking around his house. And it's a weird melancholy

00:49:04.980 --> 00:49:07.679
song, but if you listen to it, it's also weirdly,

00:49:07.739 --> 00:49:10.599
strangely melancholy upbeat. And for me, it's

00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:12.059
just one of those like get in your car and drive

00:49:12.059 --> 00:49:14.139
type of songs. It's just got that vibe to it.

00:49:14.179 --> 00:49:17.480
It's just got that steady, awesome, cool, almost

00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:19.800
lackadaisical sort of feel to it. And I adore

00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:23.579
it. So the kinks sunny afternoon from their 1966

00:49:23.579 --> 00:49:26.880
album face to face. I love the fact that you

00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:29.000
leaned into the melancholy in it, because to

00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:31.900
me, Ray Davies is such a genius songwriter because

00:49:31.900 --> 00:49:35.219
lyrically it is very melancholy. But musically,

00:49:35.300 --> 00:49:37.559
if you were to say to me, Brian, describe this

00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:41.960
song musically in three words, I would describe

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:49.170
it as bluesy, bouncy and breezy. Yeah. But the

00:49:49.170 --> 00:49:53.849
lyrics counterdict that entire vibe and it creates

00:49:53.849 --> 00:49:58.570
this tension that makes a really happy song kind

00:49:58.570 --> 00:50:01.329
of pull on your emotions as well because you're

00:50:01.329 --> 00:50:04.030
trying to figure out how to feel. And that's

00:50:04.030 --> 00:50:07.469
strong songwriting right there. So totally shines.

00:50:07.550 --> 00:50:11.349
Reach number 14 on the Billboard US Hot 100 and

00:50:11.349 --> 00:50:16.269
number 200 on Pitchfork Media's list of. the

00:50:16.269 --> 00:50:19.750
200 greatest songs of the 1960s. I think that

00:50:19.750 --> 00:50:22.090
one should be a little bit higher, but that's

00:50:22.090 --> 00:50:25.409
just me coming out of that. I feel like we've

00:50:25.409 --> 00:50:27.929
gotten to a point now where we're talking summer

00:50:27.929 --> 00:50:32.329
vibes and we haven't really leaned into. And

00:50:32.329 --> 00:50:35.449
I started to do it with the drifters, but I really

00:50:35.449 --> 00:50:39.170
want to lean into what people think when they

00:50:39.170 --> 00:50:42.590
think beach and that side of the summer vibe.

00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.460
And there are so many artists you can go with

00:50:45.460 --> 00:50:48.780
here. And I want to cheat because I want to get

00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:52.099
so many artists in. I'm going to do just that.

00:50:52.179 --> 00:50:53.920
And I'm going to bring in a little bit of country

00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:56.500
and I'm going to make the parrot heads happy

00:50:56.500 --> 00:51:00.460
at the same time. Okay. Okay. All right. I think

00:51:00.460 --> 00:51:01.780
I know where you're going with this. It could

00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:04.820
be a number of songs actually, but yes, he's,

00:51:04.820 --> 00:51:07.519
he has Jimmy Buffett has teamed up with a lot

00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.239
of different country artists. However, I, I,

00:51:10.699 --> 00:51:13.559
Didn't want to go down the road of Margaritaville.

00:51:13.699 --> 00:51:16.519
I just, as a musician who's been an acoustic

00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:20.039
musician for many, many decades, I know people

00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.239
love that song and I respect the hell out of

00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.019
anyone who enjoys it. But as a musician, there

00:51:25.019 --> 00:51:27.400
are just certain songs where when someone requests

00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:32.579
it, you just kind of, oh, all right. And I play

00:51:32.579 --> 00:51:35.860
it as if I'm playing any song, but inside I'm

00:51:35.860 --> 00:51:39.880
just like, I've heard it so many times. It's

00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.820
hard to kind of infuse a little bit of excitement

00:51:43.820 --> 00:51:46.760
hearing the song for the millionth and one time.

00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:50.980
However, that vibe is exactly where I want to

00:51:50.980 --> 00:51:53.719
go. So I'm going to go with Zach Brown Band's

00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:56.380
Knee Deep from 2010's You Get What You Give.

00:51:56.659 --> 00:51:59.219
I kind of wanted to go with Zach Brown Band's

00:51:59.219 --> 00:52:01.380
Toes because of the whole toes in the water,

00:52:01.539 --> 00:52:04.880
ass in the sand, kind of the whole Mexican flair

00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:07.340
that they brought to that song. I love that.

00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:10.500
But here I get to bring in Zac Brown's style

00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:13.579
with Jimmy Buffett and include them. I could

00:52:13.579 --> 00:52:16.260
have went with Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson.

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:20.579
It's five o 'clock somewhere, but I don't know.

00:52:20.619 --> 00:52:24.039
I love both songs, but Zac Brown Band to me is

00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:26.840
just one of those groups that kind of falls a

00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:29.000
little bit more into the rock side of things

00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.820
where we have on side A, where it's not such

00:52:31.820 --> 00:52:34.880
a huge leap into the country ville because Zac

00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.300
Brown Band does rock. as well as due country,

00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:41.400
as well as due Island. And I feel like it kind

00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.980
of slides into the vibe. The song reached number

00:52:43.980 --> 00:52:49.539
18 on the U S billboard, hot 100 easily top the

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:52.500
U S hot country charts. And the only worry in

00:52:52.500 --> 00:52:54.940
the world is the tide going to reach my chair.

00:52:55.059 --> 00:52:59.480
What would Jimmy Buffett do? Right? Yeah. Yeah.

00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:01.800
So Zac Brown Band in and of itself is just a

00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:04.099
vibe, man. Like almost all their albums and songs

00:53:04.099 --> 00:53:06.000
could be classified as like a summer vibe if

00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.579
you wanted to. I love the foundation. You get

00:53:08.579 --> 00:53:10.239
like chicken fried. You get toes, like you said,

00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:12.519
where it's about tripping down to Mexico and

00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:14.079
looking at the pretty ladies and drinking way

00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:16.159
too much and running out of money and just driving

00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:19.199
back home to Georgia. It's great. Yeah. But I

00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:20.980
mean. The thing I love about the Zac Brown band

00:53:20.980 --> 00:53:23.440
is the fact that it's all the best parts of like

00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.280
casual country rock. And they have heavier stuff,

00:53:25.460 --> 00:53:27.940
but it's all about just the good times and like

00:53:27.940 --> 00:53:29.820
enjoying the little things. Chicken fried, you

00:53:29.820 --> 00:53:32.219
know, a pair of jeans that fit just right, cold

00:53:32.219 --> 00:53:33.780
beer on a Friday night, like all that stuff.

00:53:33.940 --> 00:53:36.039
It's just, it's rad. And I love the fact that

00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:37.840
Jimmy Buffett and they had become such good friends

00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:39.360
that they collaborated multiple times. Again,

00:53:39.380 --> 00:53:42.199
rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett, man. But yeah,

00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:44.000
no, that whole album, You Get What You Give from,

00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:46.400
you know, where you pulled that track is, again,

00:53:46.500 --> 00:53:49.079
it's a great album. They're just a vibe and they're

00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:51.900
super cool and chill to listen to. And they're

00:53:51.900 --> 00:53:54.900
versatile and fun and great. And I love the pick.

00:53:54.980 --> 00:53:57.000
I think it perfectly encompasses summer. Once

00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.469
again, you're a brilliant, sir. And two birds,

00:53:59.570 --> 00:54:01.869
one stone, because I felt like if we did not

00:54:01.869 --> 00:54:03.409
include Jimmy Buffett, there would have been

00:54:03.409 --> 00:54:06.070
hate mail. And if we didn't include some kind

00:54:06.070 --> 00:54:07.989
of country, there would have been hate mail.

00:54:08.070 --> 00:54:10.510
So I'm super stoked to have found that loophole

00:54:10.510 --> 00:54:13.130
and made this possible. So that way I know in

00:54:13.130 --> 00:54:15.670
my heart country and Jimmy have been represented

00:54:15.670 --> 00:54:18.889
on this playlist. But what's more important is

00:54:18.889 --> 00:54:21.949
what's your next pick? OK, so I'm going to keep

00:54:21.949 --> 00:54:25.480
on with the sort of like rock vibe, but. Unfortunately,

00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:27.699
I'm not doing this on purpose. I swear to God,

00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:29.940
Brian. I'm bringing down the vibe just a little

00:54:29.940 --> 00:54:33.820
bit, unfortunately. Yeah. So this track was a

00:54:33.820 --> 00:54:36.579
July 1996 single that was released, unfortunately,

00:54:36.860 --> 00:54:39.099
two months after the death of its lead singer

00:54:39.099 --> 00:54:42.780
in May of 1996. The song is What I Got, the reprise

00:54:42.780 --> 00:54:45.280
version, not the side one track, but two version

00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.500
from the album of the same name by Sublime. It's

00:54:49.500 --> 00:54:51.440
a sad song because it's almost like a tribute

00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:53.360
to the life of Brad Knoll at this point, but

00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:54.780
it's also one of the quintessential summertime

00:54:54.780 --> 00:54:57.539
songs for me growing up as a kid in Arizona.

00:54:57.860 --> 00:55:00.260
The simplified version, again, I prefer over

00:55:00.260 --> 00:55:02.920
the original version earlier in the album. It

00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:05.380
just encompasses those hot summers and those

00:55:05.380 --> 00:55:08.239
pool parties because Phoenix growing up was always

00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:11.409
sort of like referred to as like LA Junior. Because

00:55:11.409 --> 00:55:13.469
we always kind of got like sort of the wash over

00:55:13.469 --> 00:55:15.250
of like the music scene and all that type of

00:55:15.250 --> 00:55:18.010
stuff from LA as it came over. And when Sublime

00:55:18.010 --> 00:55:20.110
carried over into Arizona, it was massive for

00:55:20.110 --> 00:55:23.269
all of us who grew up there. So it's an album

00:55:23.269 --> 00:55:25.690
that is in heavy rotation for me all the time.

00:55:26.050 --> 00:55:28.130
It was in heavy rotation whenever we had pool

00:55:28.130 --> 00:55:30.250
parties or we're just hanging out or just driving

00:55:30.250 --> 00:55:32.610
around. And this is the one song in the album

00:55:32.610 --> 00:55:34.550
that everybody would sing along to in sort of

00:55:34.550 --> 00:55:37.170
a carefree fashion. It's an awesome song. It's

00:55:37.170 --> 00:55:39.510
a jam. It's sort of like borderline acoustic.

00:55:40.170 --> 00:55:42.440
It's just... fully encompasses the genius of

00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:45.539
Brad Knoll. And it's bittersweet because it was

00:55:45.539 --> 00:55:48.539
released very shortly after his death. But ironically,

00:55:48.699 --> 00:55:51.019
it also became the band's greatest radio hit.

00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:54.619
And it became an anthem for punk ska kids like

00:55:54.619 --> 00:55:57.760
me who grew up in that whole scene. And to me,

00:55:57.780 --> 00:56:00.340
that song is just summer. That whole album is

00:56:00.340 --> 00:56:04.480
summer to me. Absolutely love this pick. Reach

00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:07.380
number 11 on the mainstream rock charts. That's

00:56:07.380 --> 00:56:09.260
the original track too, like you talked about.

00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:11.380
I love the fact that you went with the reprise.

00:56:11.480 --> 00:56:16.059
I love the live, almost free -flowing feel. It

00:56:16.059 --> 00:56:17.800
feels a little bit more loose and a little bit

00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:21.039
more fun. Not that the original version isn't

00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:23.630
more fun, but the original. Version track two

00:56:23.630 --> 00:56:27.090
is definitely more tight and more produced for

00:56:27.090 --> 00:56:29.989
radio, where the other one felt like they were

00:56:29.989 --> 00:56:33.269
just kind of enjoying themselves. Yeah. Performing

00:56:33.269 --> 00:56:35.650
the track. This has been a Colburn and Company

00:56:35.650 --> 00:56:38.070
closer for the better part of the last decade.

00:56:38.110 --> 00:56:42.010
We do it as part of a medley that the band and

00:56:42.010 --> 00:56:45.130
I put together, which consists of Sublime's What

00:56:45.130 --> 00:56:49.579
I Got into Chumbawamba's Tump Thumping. Back

00:56:49.579 --> 00:56:53.320
into Sublime's What I Got. Into Peter Gabriel's

00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:56.920
Sledgehammer. Back into Sublime's What I've Got.

00:56:57.380 --> 00:57:03.599
Into Fly by Sugar Ray. Into Mbop by Hanson. And

00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:06.739
then back into What I've Got to jam out the night.

00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:09.340
Thank everybody for coming and close out the

00:57:09.340 --> 00:57:11.539
night. The Hanson is to make sure people are

00:57:11.539 --> 00:57:14.320
paying attention and they're always paying attention.

00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:18.000
Michael Franti and Spearhead covered this song

00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.059
on the 2005 Sublime Tribute. Look at all the

00:57:21.059 --> 00:57:23.800
love we found. And I love that version so much,

00:57:23.900 --> 00:57:26.719
especially where he plays with the cursing a

00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:29.539
little bit. And he says, and I could play that

00:57:29.539 --> 00:57:32.860
guitar like a mother. Shut your mouth. Really

00:57:32.860 --> 00:57:35.840
great cover. If you haven't heard that one. And

00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:37.659
I love that you brought a little reggae into

00:57:37.659 --> 00:57:40.119
this because now I could dig a little deeper.

00:57:40.460 --> 00:57:44.159
Oh, and I'm going to dig a little deeper. Do

00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:46.579
it. Go back to a song that we originally talked

00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:49.340
about. I'm going to spoiler alert. Episode 28,

00:57:49.579 --> 00:57:52.820
the ultimate ska punk playlist with Scott Kloppenstein

00:57:52.820 --> 00:57:56.239
of Real Big Fish and the Littlest Man Band. But

00:57:56.239 --> 00:57:59.860
here's a refresher. The song came out in 2014

00:57:59.860 --> 00:58:03.880
on the album The New International Sound of Hedonism,

00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:06.519
and I'm going to go with Jaya the Cat's Here

00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:10.699
Come the Drums. They're a Dutch -American reggae

00:58:10.699 --> 00:58:14.559
ska punk rock band that started in Boston, Massachusetts,

00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:17.599
but they are now based out of Amsterdam. They

00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:21.340
have a very unique ska punk sound, and even though

00:58:21.340 --> 00:58:25.469
the song is a decade old, it's pretty much been

00:58:25.469 --> 00:58:28.130
on my summer vibes playlist ever since because

00:58:28.130 --> 00:58:32.010
it mixes a lot of emotions into one song from

00:58:32.010 --> 00:58:36.469
a musical and lyrical perspective the song just

00:58:36.469 --> 00:58:39.829
has such a groove to it it keeps your head bopping

00:58:39.829 --> 00:58:43.789
it's breezy but it's powerful and emotional it's

00:58:43.789 --> 00:58:47.070
perfect coming out of sublime too it's absolutely

00:58:47.070 --> 00:58:51.289
perfect it's a ska punk reggae chef's kiss yeah

00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:54.039
just a killer album Again, one of those bands

00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:55.780
that just has an immaculate vibe. They're just

00:58:55.780 --> 00:58:58.099
super cool, super chill. I've heard they are

00:58:58.099 --> 00:59:01.420
incredible live, actually. And people don't realize

00:59:01.420 --> 00:59:03.159
it. They've been around forever. They've been

00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:05.059
around since the mid -90s or something. Right

00:59:05.059 --> 00:59:07.719
around the same wave as Sublime, even. I love

00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:10.780
the pick. I will take the ska, reggae vibe all

00:59:10.780 --> 00:59:13.059
day, every day. Like I said before, that largely

00:59:13.059 --> 00:59:15.079
encompasses a lot of the feeling of summer for

00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:17.400
me. So if you got more of those picks, throw

00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:19.519
them at me. That's it. That's a high point. It's

00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:22.139
an awesome pick to round it off, for sure. So

00:59:22.139 --> 00:59:23.860
what are you going to follow up this pair of

00:59:23.860 --> 00:59:27.119
ska reggae songs with? I think I'm keeping with

00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:29.320
the vibe. I'm going a little left field, but

00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:32.019
I don't think it's too far off. It's going to

00:59:32.019 --> 00:59:34.619
be the B -52's Love Shack. I think it's one of

00:59:34.619 --> 00:59:37.179
those. Yeah, it's off the album Cosmic Thing.

00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:40.000
For a lot of reasons, the song is really special,

00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:41.579
not least of which is the fact that it was sort

00:59:41.579 --> 00:59:43.320
of a resurgence and it kind of brought the B

00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:45.820
-52s back to life. They kind of went quiet in

00:59:45.820 --> 00:59:47.539
the 80s for a number of reasons, some personal

00:59:47.539 --> 00:59:50.679
and some just changing trends of music. But yeah,

00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.679
it was like a massive hit for them. It was their

00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:56.039
biggest hit ever. It was their first certified

00:59:56.039 --> 00:59:58.780
million copy seller ever. So it just brought

00:59:58.780 --> 01:00:00.920
them back into the spotlight in a big way. And

01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:03.599
it's just a fun, like literal dance song. It's

01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:05.460
fun and bopping. It's silly and it's campy and

01:00:05.460 --> 01:00:08.139
it's goofy. And it's based on an actual club

01:00:08.139 --> 01:00:11.099
out of what's like Athens, Georgia, I think.

01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:13.440
And it was a club that looked like an old rundown

01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:15.059
shack. And then when you go inside, they just

01:00:15.059 --> 01:00:17.320
had always like amazing live bands playing all

01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:19.519
the time. And it was people from all ethnicities,

01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:21.699
all walks of life, all just getting together

01:00:21.699 --> 01:00:24.460
to dance and sing and play music and enjoy life.

01:00:24.579 --> 01:00:26.800
And I think that's what it should all be about,

01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:30.219
all being encompassing. And the place did have

01:00:30.219 --> 01:00:33.059
the actual love shack. It wasn't called a love

01:00:33.059 --> 01:00:34.719
shack, but the place that the song is based on.

01:00:35.070 --> 01:00:38.570
actually also does have an old tin rusted roof.

01:00:39.670 --> 01:00:41.630
So that's where the lyric comes from as well.

01:00:41.750 --> 01:00:44.750
But just a great song. The B -52s are so wonderful

01:00:44.750 --> 01:00:47.170
and so campy and so genuine and sweet and fun.

01:00:47.590 --> 01:00:49.989
And Love Shack for me is just one of those songs

01:00:49.989 --> 01:00:53.670
that took off in, it was like June of 1989 and

01:00:53.670 --> 01:00:55.369
it's just never stopped being a summer anthem

01:00:55.369 --> 01:00:58.489
for me. All right, you're a karaoke. Let me hear

01:00:58.489 --> 01:01:05.119
your best tin roof rusted. Your what? Tin! roof

01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:10.699
rusted not bad bravo all right yeah got me a

01:01:10.699 --> 01:01:13.139
chrysler it's as big as a whale and it's about

01:01:13.139 --> 01:01:17.599
to set sail that album is so much fun the title

01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:20.840
track is actually in my bank which was not a

01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:24.880
hit but cosmic thing there's something so Fun

01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.480
about that song. I was thinking about it in that

01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:29.820
spot that I ended up using Donna summer's hot

01:01:29.820 --> 01:01:32.780
stuff with. So I'm glad the B 52 is actually

01:01:32.780 --> 01:01:36.000
got included tonight. Reach number three, not

01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:37.980
a number one hit that actually surprised me,

01:01:38.019 --> 01:01:43.079
but it did get named. one of the 365 songs of

01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:46.880
the century by the RIAA, and it made Rolling

01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:49.760
Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

01:01:50.019 --> 01:01:52.480
I have personal memories of this song because

01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.440
it was one of the big hits of my wedding reception,

01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:59.159
even though that was 2005. This song went over

01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:02.159
as if it was like the bop of the summer for some

01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:06.059
reason. Yeah, man. It's a great song. But I'm

01:02:06.059 --> 01:02:09.219
going to lean into this. Little bit of an 80s

01:02:09.219 --> 01:02:11.320
vibe, but I'm going to dive a little bit deeper

01:02:11.320 --> 01:02:13.820
into the 80s. But keep this dance vibe going.

01:02:14.179 --> 01:02:17.880
This was originally released as a single in 1983

01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:22.179
and then was released on this band's 1984 self

01:02:22.179 --> 01:02:26.539
-titled album. But it wasn't until a little film

01:02:26.539 --> 01:02:31.579
that us 80s and 90s kids grew up with. The Karate

01:02:31.579 --> 01:02:35.960
Kid that elevated this song to number nine. On

01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.860
the Billboard US Hot 100. You know where I'm

01:02:38.860 --> 01:02:41.420
going with this. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Bananarama,

01:02:41.519 --> 01:02:44.880
Cruel Summer. 100%. I mean, this is the second

01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:46.840
time I'm pulling out a Cruel Summer for this

01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:50.460
playlist. We got Tay -Tay on side A. We got Bananarama

01:02:50.460 --> 01:02:53.840
on side B. So the full spectrum. It's a summary

01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:57.260
of Cruel Summer. We've got from Tay -Tay to Bananarama.

01:02:57.500 --> 01:03:01.940
In 1998, Ace of Base covered this song. And their

01:03:01.940 --> 01:03:05.739
version also was a top 40 hit. Only hit number

01:03:05.739 --> 01:03:10.119
10, which was one step behind. It missed topping

01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:16.099
Bananarama by one spot. I personally prefer Bananarama's

01:03:16.099 --> 01:03:18.519
version. I think it's timeless. There's an energy

01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:23.039
that still sounds fresh and original now. Point

01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:26.239
being. The Ghostbusters Frozen Empire trailer,

01:03:26.380 --> 01:03:29.280
the use of this song in that felt like we were

01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:32.579
listening to new music, but it's still a throwback

01:03:32.579 --> 01:03:35.320
to people our age. And it felt like it worked

01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:39.119
in 2024 in that trailer. Yeah. I think the song

01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:40.500
is timeless. I think you're absolutely right.

01:03:40.579 --> 01:03:41.980
I think it's one of those songs that you just

01:03:41.980 --> 01:03:46.159
immediately know from the intro that it's wonderful.

01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:48.940
And it's become such a huge part of pop culture

01:03:48.940 --> 01:03:51.000
because it was so closely tied to the Karate

01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:54.139
Kid, which is just a massive part of the pop

01:03:54.139 --> 01:03:56.480
culture lexicon at this point. Weirdly enough,

01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:59.179
they allowed the song to be included in the movie,

01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:01.440
but Bananarama did not allow the track to be

01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:02.900
included on the officially released soundtrack.

01:04:03.300 --> 01:04:05.420
Yeah. But it didn't matter because the song still

01:04:05.420 --> 01:04:07.199
became a cultural phenomenon and did exactly

01:04:07.199 --> 01:04:09.079
what it needed to do for them. It became a massive

01:04:09.079 --> 01:04:11.369
hit. It's awesome. I also love the song because

01:04:11.369 --> 01:04:14.150
it's almost an anti -summer song. It's not about

01:04:14.150 --> 01:04:16.489
good times in the summer and hanging out. It's

01:04:16.489 --> 01:04:19.989
like sweltering heat and the loneliness that

01:04:19.989 --> 01:04:21.929
sometimes come with summertime because you're

01:04:21.929 --> 01:04:23.409
off on your own. You don't have your friends

01:04:23.409 --> 01:04:26.070
around. People are on vacation. School is out.

01:04:26.210 --> 01:04:27.989
You're on your own. And sometimes summer can

01:04:27.989 --> 01:04:30.250
drag on forever and feel cruel and terrible.

01:04:30.550 --> 01:04:32.929
And I mean, that lent itself as well to what

01:04:32.929 --> 01:04:34.989
Daniel -san was going through in The Karate Kid,

01:04:35.070 --> 01:04:37.389
where he moved across the country. He was lonely.

01:04:37.550 --> 01:04:39.070
He was being bullied. He just felt like shit.

01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:41.019
He liked a girl who kind of thought he was a

01:04:41.019 --> 01:04:43.679
dipshit at first. But yeah, I love the song.

01:04:43.780 --> 01:04:46.519
And it's such an important part of pop culture.

01:04:46.579 --> 01:04:48.880
And it deserves to be on this list. It deserves

01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:50.440
to be on a lot of lists because it's wonderful.

01:04:50.659 --> 01:04:54.059
And the yin and yang again. Poppy, breezy song,

01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:57.119
just like the kinks earlier with these darker

01:04:57.119 --> 01:04:59.900
lyrics. If you want to really feel those darker

01:04:59.900 --> 01:05:03.320
lyrics, look up. And I'll embed this over at

01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:05.880
the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com as well.

01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:10.889
Evanescence. Amy Lee did a piano only cover for

01:05:10.889 --> 01:05:14.789
the target edition of their last album, bitter

01:05:14.789 --> 01:05:19.789
pill. And the piano version that she does is

01:05:19.789 --> 01:05:23.869
so hauntingly beautiful. You could really pay

01:05:23.869 --> 01:05:27.829
attention to the lyrics and it gives you an entirely

01:05:27.829 --> 01:05:30.630
new perspective on the track. I've never heard

01:05:30.630 --> 01:05:31.969
that. And I'm going to go listen to it as soon

01:05:31.969 --> 01:05:33.550
as we're done recording here. Cause that sounds

01:05:33.550 --> 01:05:36.050
amazing. I just imagine Amy Lee's vocals just

01:05:36.050 --> 01:05:39.980
being like, stellar and like melancholy and sad

01:05:39.980 --> 01:05:42.280
and just like holy crap i can't wait to listen

01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:44.000
to that it's i might stop it right now and just

01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:45.539
go listen to that like give me five minutes i'm

01:05:45.539 --> 01:05:47.340
kidding and you're gonna thank me when you do

01:05:47.340 --> 01:05:50.579
you're gonna i promise you you will text me saying

01:05:50.579 --> 01:05:53.099
dude that evanescence song thank you for bringing

01:05:53.099 --> 01:05:54.639
that to my life it's the first time i heard of

01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:58.260
them like this is everything i love about effinescence

01:05:58.260 --> 01:06:00.340
and this is everything i love about cover songs

01:06:00.340 --> 01:06:02.980
yeah and even on top of the cover songs like

01:06:02.980 --> 01:06:05.000
banana rama recorded like three or four different

01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:06.840
versions of the song just by themselves. So like

01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:08.960
you're going to almost go make like an entire

01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:10.980
afternoon of listening to different interpretations

01:06:10.980 --> 01:06:13.699
of Cruel Summer, even like multiple interpretations

01:06:13.699 --> 01:06:16.519
by the band who wrote it. So just a song that

01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:18.260
everybody loves and gravitates to. And it's just

01:06:18.260 --> 01:06:21.599
so rife for reinterpretating and rewriting and

01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:23.820
coming up with songs or cover songs and whatnot.

01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:26.139
It's just, it's just such a versatile track.

01:06:26.340 --> 01:06:28.559
It's just, it's just great. So what are we going

01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:31.800
to follow it up with then? So this is funny.

01:06:32.059 --> 01:06:34.630
We're going back to hip hop. But we're staying

01:06:34.630 --> 01:06:37.849
with the upbeat, but also like the melancholy,

01:06:37.849 --> 01:06:39.989
like, wait, what is this song actually about

01:06:39.989 --> 01:06:43.610
type of lyrics? So an outright cultural phenomenon

01:06:43.610 --> 01:06:47.150
that was the lead single to the release of a

01:06:47.150 --> 01:06:51.050
double album by Outkast in August of 2003, actually.

01:06:51.289 --> 01:06:53.690
It was Speakerbox and Love Below. It was the

01:06:53.690 --> 01:06:56.989
lead release for the Love Below, which was Andre

01:06:56.989 --> 01:07:00.289
3000's half of that dual release. It is Hey Ya.

01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:04.099
And holy crap, did that song take over the goddamn

01:07:04.099 --> 01:07:07.199
world when it was released. You couldn't get

01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.000
away from it. And thank goodness it was a great

01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:11.519
song because it was inescapable. It was everywhere.

01:07:11.940 --> 01:07:14.940
It's become a dance anthem. It is a karaoke favorite.

01:07:15.179 --> 01:07:17.780
It takes over weddings, like we said before about

01:07:17.780 --> 01:07:20.239
previous tracks. And what's wild to me is the

01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:22.780
song is like so upbeat and such a dance bop and

01:07:22.780 --> 01:07:25.719
such a jam, but it's all about like... relationships

01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:28.199
being doomed from the start and like people of

01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:30.139
my generation having no idea how to keep a relationship

01:07:30.139 --> 01:07:32.340
together like our parents did and it's like what

01:07:32.340 --> 01:07:34.139
are we doing here but at the same time you just

01:07:34.139 --> 01:07:35.960
want to get up and sing along a dance it's so

01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:39.559
genius in its dichotomy of delivery versus message

01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:42.699
and i love outcast in general but this song is

01:07:42.699 --> 01:07:44.699
just great and here's a weird thing here's a

01:07:44.699 --> 01:07:47.789
really weird thing The song, because of the line,

01:07:47.869 --> 01:07:50.329
shake it like a Polaroid picture, it actually

01:07:50.329 --> 01:07:52.469
revitalized the Polaroid company who had filed

01:07:52.469 --> 01:07:56.690
for bankruptcy in 2001. They actually ended up

01:07:56.690 --> 01:07:58.929
refiling for bankruptcy in 2008, but they had

01:07:58.929 --> 01:08:02.570
a five -year stretch where they were selling

01:08:02.570 --> 01:08:04.889
cameras and their film like hotcakes because

01:08:04.889 --> 01:08:07.829
the song was so popular. So to say the song was

01:08:07.829 --> 01:08:10.090
a cultural phenomenon and a global massive hit

01:08:10.090 --> 01:08:12.550
is an understatement. It literally affected the

01:08:12.550 --> 01:08:14.429
economy in different ways besides just selling

01:08:14.429 --> 01:08:17.550
records. It's insane, but it's an awesome track

01:08:17.550 --> 01:08:19.689
that I think deserves to be on there. Not because

01:08:19.689 --> 01:08:22.369
it's directly associated with summertime itself,

01:08:22.449 --> 01:08:25.630
but just because it owned that summer in 2003

01:08:25.630 --> 01:08:28.590
and it just continues to be a huge part of pop

01:08:28.590 --> 01:08:31.470
culture in general. Hey Ya is one of those songs

01:08:31.470 --> 01:08:37.050
that I liken to timeless wedding reception songs.

01:08:37.310 --> 01:08:40.550
A song that you know like September by Earth,

01:08:40.590 --> 01:08:42.880
Wind & Fire. When you hear that, you know it's

01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:44.500
pretty much going to be played at every wedding

01:08:44.500 --> 01:08:48.180
ever. You've got Hey Ya by OutKast. You've got

01:08:48.180 --> 01:08:51.699
Uptown Funk. You've got Happy by Pharrell. This

01:08:51.699 --> 01:08:55.600
fits in that group of songs. And people recognize

01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:57.779
it. There are a lot of covers. I mentioned Richard

01:08:57.779 --> 01:09:00.579
Cheese earlier in the night and Lounge Against

01:09:00.579 --> 01:09:04.939
the Machine on his 2004 album I'd Like a Virgin

01:09:04.939 --> 01:09:08.180
with the cover being a spoof of Madonna's Like

01:09:08.180 --> 01:09:11.939
a Virgin. He does a cover on that. Super Suckers

01:09:11.939 --> 01:09:14.739
did a cover on Devil's Food, a collection of

01:09:14.739 --> 01:09:17.279
rare treats and evil sweets that came out, I

01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:21.020
want to say, in 2005. And Panic at the Disco,

01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:23.380
this kind of sucks because it's only a Spotify

01:09:23.380 --> 01:09:27.840
single, did a cover of it in 2018 for the Spotify

01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:32.020
singles. Yeah. Definitely an upbeat, put a smile

01:09:32.020 --> 01:09:36.369
on your face, feel good song. Yeah. As soon as

01:09:36.369 --> 01:09:38.909
I hear one, two, three, like I got a drink in

01:09:38.909 --> 01:09:40.630
my hand and I'm going off to the dance floor.

01:09:40.729 --> 01:09:43.529
Like, here we go. It's time for DT to embarrass

01:09:43.529 --> 01:09:47.170
himself. Well, hopefully I don't embarrass myself

01:09:47.170 --> 01:09:48.970
with my last pick of the night, but I'm going

01:09:48.970 --> 01:09:51.869
to stick with this fun vibe we've got going here

01:09:51.869 --> 01:09:54.449
towards the end. And I'm going to go back to

01:09:54.449 --> 01:09:59.050
1986. And lyrically, could you speak to me as

01:09:59.050 --> 01:10:02.090
a human being more personally than a line like

01:10:02.090 --> 01:10:06.869
summer nights and my radio? From 5150, I am going

01:10:06.869 --> 01:10:10.029
with Van Halen's Summer Nights, the first song

01:10:10.029 --> 01:10:14.090
recorded by the Van Hagar lineup of Van Halen,

01:10:14.149 --> 01:10:18.149
but sadly never released as a single. Once again,

01:10:18.270 --> 01:10:20.550
shout out to Seeker who chimed in with this one.

01:10:20.609 --> 01:10:23.270
I think he hit the nail on the head with his

01:10:23.270 --> 01:10:26.229
comments because it is really a perfect summer

01:10:26.229 --> 01:10:29.829
beach and party track. And he's right. Eddie's

01:10:29.829 --> 01:10:32.779
playing. There's no weather in Arizona that's

01:10:32.779 --> 01:10:35.760
as hot as Eddie Van Halen on guitar. I'm sorry.

01:10:35.800 --> 01:10:38.619
I know it gets hot over there, but Eddie definitely

01:10:38.619 --> 01:10:42.760
overcooks that. And no spoilers here, because

01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:45.399
I like to try not to spoil when possible. Sometimes

01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:50.960
I do. Sometimes I don't. But there's a mammoth

01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:54.520
-sized My Weekly Mixtape Van Halen episode, which

01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:58.460
is episode 46 that features Eric Senech of the

01:10:58.460 --> 01:11:01.989
Van Halen News Desk. and Patreon mixtape or Cactus

01:11:01.989 --> 01:11:04.449
Pete. I'm not going to spoil if Summer Nights

01:11:04.449 --> 01:11:07.010
made the cut, but if this pick got your attention

01:11:07.010 --> 01:11:09.529
tonight, check out that episode for some kind

01:11:09.529 --> 01:11:12.909
of like Van Halen goodness. Yeah, this is a quintessential

01:11:12.909 --> 01:11:17.050
pick. This is a wonderful pick. 5150 had a lot

01:11:17.050 --> 01:11:19.409
to prove because David Lee Roth was no longer

01:11:19.409 --> 01:11:22.029
in the picture. They brought Sammy Hagar on and

01:11:22.029 --> 01:11:23.470
a lot of people were like, is this going to even

01:11:23.470 --> 01:11:27.079
work? And guess what? It freaking did. And this

01:11:27.079 --> 01:11:28.720
song, like you said, should have been a single

01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:30.560
off this album because it's just perfect. It's

01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:33.060
one of the best summertime jam songs of all time.

01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:35.300
And this album became one of the band's biggest

01:11:35.300 --> 01:11:37.319
hits. I think it even topped like 1984, which

01:11:37.319 --> 01:11:39.060
is one of my favorite Van Halen albums of all

01:11:39.060 --> 01:11:41.899
time. Yeah, I mean, it's a great album all around.

01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:44.920
Why Can't This Be Love? That's probably my favorite

01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:47.119
pick off that album. But in terms of like summer

01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:49.079
jams, like you can't beat Summer Nights with

01:11:49.079 --> 01:11:52.159
just, like you said, Eddie just going berserk.

01:11:52.600 --> 01:11:55.420
And Hagar filling that role beautifully. That

01:11:55.420 --> 01:11:58.199
was big shoes to fill, but he pulled it off.

01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:00.619
And like they wrote one of the quintessential

01:12:00.619 --> 01:12:02.359
summer anthems of all time while they were at

01:12:02.359 --> 01:12:05.520
it. Like, come on, like Van Halen freaking geniuses.

01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:11.500
Well, sir, you have the pleasure or horror of

01:12:11.500 --> 01:12:15.340
closing out our ultimate summer vibes mixtape.

01:12:15.619 --> 01:12:18.439
It's a pleasurable horror every time. It's pressure.

01:12:19.870 --> 01:12:22.409
People in Amsterdam and Germany pay good money

01:12:22.409 --> 01:12:28.409
for this type of discomfort. But okay, so we

01:12:28.409 --> 01:12:29.710
talked at the very beginning of the episode about

01:12:29.710 --> 01:12:31.850
how the whole summer experience is very different

01:12:31.850 --> 01:12:33.630
for me than it was for a lot of people, yourself

01:12:33.630 --> 01:12:36.289
included, who grew up near bodies of water and

01:12:36.289 --> 01:12:39.430
like boating and rafting and going to the beach

01:12:39.430 --> 01:12:41.770
and all that type of thing was just never part

01:12:41.770 --> 01:12:43.710
of my summer experience growing up in the Arizona

01:12:43.710 --> 01:12:47.710
desert. But what was, was going to Warped Tour.

01:12:48.250 --> 01:12:50.510
It was massive for me and my friends every summer,

01:12:50.550 --> 01:12:52.350
despite the fact that it was like 4 ,000 degrees

01:12:52.350 --> 01:12:54.890
out and like bottles of water cost eight bucks

01:12:54.890 --> 01:12:57.149
to get up early in the morning and drive across

01:12:57.149 --> 01:13:00.470
town and spend like nine, 10, 12 hours in the

01:13:00.470 --> 01:13:03.350
sweltering heat watching like 50 bands in rapid

01:13:03.350 --> 01:13:06.109
succession. And one of the bands that encompassed

01:13:06.109 --> 01:13:08.090
one of my favorite Warped Tour experiences, and

01:13:08.090 --> 01:13:09.670
I'll get that in just a minute because it's a

01:13:09.670 --> 01:13:12.270
cool one. is a band called My Chemical Romance,

01:13:12.310 --> 01:13:15.149
and they released their biggest hit of an album,

01:13:15.289 --> 01:13:17.689
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in June of 2004.

01:13:17.949 --> 01:13:20.310
The single came out a little while afterwards

01:13:20.310 --> 01:13:22.489
in the fall, but they didn't even need to release

01:13:22.489 --> 01:13:24.430
it as a single because they instantly became

01:13:24.430 --> 01:13:26.630
one of the biggest bands in the world, one of

01:13:26.630 --> 01:13:28.729
the biggest draws to Warped Tour for years to

01:13:28.729 --> 01:13:31.670
come, and they just exploded into massive popularity.

01:13:32.029 --> 01:13:34.569
They became one of the foremost groups in both

01:13:34.569 --> 01:13:37.619
the emo and alternative and punk scenes. And

01:13:37.619 --> 01:13:40.180
the song is I'm Not Okay, which is the biggest

01:13:40.180 --> 01:13:43.520
hit off that album. The song is certified platinum.

01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:47.140
It reached that almost instantly. The band just

01:13:47.140 --> 01:13:49.699
launched into superstardom almost immediately.

01:13:50.180 --> 01:13:51.979
And it was a very important song for me because

01:13:51.979 --> 01:13:54.760
I was in my late teens at the time. I was going

01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:56.520
to work tour, going to concerts. I was really

01:13:56.520 --> 01:13:59.020
sort of discovering myself and who I was going

01:13:59.020 --> 01:14:01.659
to be as a young adult because I grew up with

01:14:01.659 --> 01:14:05.159
social anxiety. I grew up with just awkwardness

01:14:05.159 --> 01:14:10.010
and shyness. Those years, the late 1990s and

01:14:10.010 --> 01:14:11.590
early 2000s were those years where I started

01:14:11.590 --> 01:14:13.670
going to shows and meeting musicians and talking

01:14:13.670 --> 01:14:15.810
to people and realizing that all the people I

01:14:15.810 --> 01:14:17.710
looked up to were nerds like me and it was okay

01:14:17.710 --> 01:14:20.250
to be nerds. And I actually ended up meeting

01:14:20.250 --> 01:14:22.130
My Chemical Romance and hanging out on their

01:14:22.130 --> 01:14:24.729
tour bus, that Warped Tour. And they were the

01:14:24.729 --> 01:14:26.750
sweetest guys ever. And they were sitting there

01:14:26.750 --> 01:14:28.529
playing with Star Wars action figures while we're

01:14:28.529 --> 01:14:31.420
chatting and hanging out. They were super cool.

01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:33.859
Like Gerard Way and Ray Toro were just the biggest

01:14:33.859 --> 01:14:36.840
sweethearts ever. The entire band signed autographs

01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:39.159
for this girl that I liked in high school who

01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:41.239
happened to be at Warped Tour as well. And she

01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:43.180
flipped out over that. And they just were the

01:14:43.180 --> 01:14:46.039
kindest, coolest dudes you can imagine. But on

01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:48.680
top of that, I'm Not Okay is an absolute banger.

01:14:48.979 --> 01:14:51.880
Just this killer alternative rock track with

01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:54.939
Ray Toro just shredding on guitar. It's super

01:14:54.939 --> 01:14:57.060
catchy. The music video is done up in the style

01:14:57.060 --> 01:14:59.329
of almost like... like the trailer of like a

01:14:59.329 --> 01:15:03.149
1980s John Hughes movie sort of thing. The schoolboy

01:15:03.149 --> 01:15:05.329
suits, everything just encompassed this full

01:15:05.329 --> 01:15:08.649
on sort of like coming of age feel. And that

01:15:08.649 --> 01:15:11.550
song just owned the radio and owned MTV and owned

01:15:11.550 --> 01:15:13.890
Warped Tour of that summer. It's been called

01:15:13.890 --> 01:15:15.869
multiple times as one of the greatest summer

01:15:15.869 --> 01:15:18.789
jams ever, both ironically and unironically.

01:15:18.869 --> 01:15:20.489
It's been voted as such. And the band kind of

01:15:20.489 --> 01:15:22.430
took that as sort of a gag and ran with it. And

01:15:22.430 --> 01:15:23.770
they still call it one of the best summer jams

01:15:23.770 --> 01:15:26.029
ever. It was sort of like a pseudo ego thing

01:15:26.029 --> 01:15:29.020
just to like get the crowd riled up. But it's

01:15:29.020 --> 01:15:30.960
a track that's just important to me because it

01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.420
just encompassed an entire summer. You couldn't

01:15:33.420 --> 01:15:35.260
get away from another radio. So we just fully

01:15:35.260 --> 01:15:36.840
embraced it. And it was always on the radio.

01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:39.560
We're cruising around. They're incredible live,

01:15:39.619 --> 01:15:41.319
too. They were one of the best bands I saw that

01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:43.920
day at Warped Tour. Yeah, it's just a band that

01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:47.399
just absolutely owned the summer of 2004. And

01:15:47.399 --> 01:15:49.720
I think they've written what is honestly, without

01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:52.159
any irony, one of the best summer jams ever.

01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:55.279
So I'm rounding out the playlist with I Am Not

01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:58.420
Okay, in parentheses, I Promise. by My Chemical

01:15:58.420 --> 01:16:01.359
Romance off of 2004's Three Cheers for Sweet

01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.899
Revenge. Making New Jersey proud. You know, people

01:16:04.899 --> 01:16:07.699
don't realize there is a great punk scene in

01:16:07.699 --> 01:16:10.340
New Jersey. Oh, yeah. My Chemical Romance, you're

01:16:10.340 --> 01:16:13.439
welcome, world. The Gaslight Anthem, you're welcome.

01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:16.560
The Bouncing Souls, you're welcome. The Misfits

01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:18.810
going way back, you're welcome. Like there was

01:16:18.810 --> 01:16:21.949
some great music coming out of New Jersey. And

01:16:21.949 --> 01:16:24.130
My Chemical Romance was out cutting their teeth

01:16:24.130 --> 01:16:26.750
in a lot of the bars and clubs that my bands

01:16:26.750 --> 01:16:29.109
would play all the time. So I would see them

01:16:29.109 --> 01:16:32.449
in the Aquarian and EC Rocker. And then I started

01:16:32.449 --> 01:16:35.109
seeing them getting spots on different shows.

01:16:35.210 --> 01:16:36.670
And it's like, oh, they're starting to get bigger

01:16:36.670 --> 01:16:38.289
and bigger and bigger. And then they exploded.

01:16:38.569 --> 01:16:40.930
And you love to see that because these are bands

01:16:40.930 --> 01:16:43.710
that played on the same stage as you did. So

01:16:43.710 --> 01:16:46.859
as another band at the time, it gives. other

01:16:46.859 --> 01:16:50.000
local bands hope, because if you can find what

01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:53.119
connects with people, New Jersey is a hotbed

01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:55.579
for great music. And they proved it with this

01:16:55.579 --> 01:16:58.760
song reached number 86 on the billboard, us hot

01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:04.319
100. It was a hot 100 punk hit. Yeah. And that's

01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:08.600
crazy. It's right. And an awesome way to close

01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:10.579
out because it kind of goes back to the rock

01:17:10.579 --> 01:17:14.819
side of Side A. But we closed out, I think, our

01:17:14.819 --> 01:17:18.260
Summer Vibes playlist in fashion as Side B kicked

01:17:18.260 --> 01:17:21.340
off with The Drifters, Under the Boardwalk, The

01:17:21.340 --> 01:17:24.640
Kinks, Sunny Afternoon. Zach Brown Band with

01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:27.180
Jimmy Buffett, Knee Deep, Two Birds, One Stone.

01:17:27.380 --> 01:17:30.180
That part is me, not the song title. Sublime's

01:17:30.180 --> 01:17:33.800
What I Got, the reprise version. Jaya the Cat's

01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:37.260
Here Come the Drums. The B -52's Love Shack.

01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:41.100
Banana Ram is Cruel Summer. Outkast's Hey Ya.

01:17:41.619 --> 01:17:45.220
Van Halen's Summer Nights. And My Chemical Romance,

01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:48.859
I'm Not Okay. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com

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to hear all the songs we've discussed in this

01:17:50.979 --> 01:17:54.510
mix. through the playlist embedded on the episode

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page. So DT, you've been on this show many a

01:17:57.449 --> 01:17:59.909
times, but why don't you remind people a little

01:17:59.909 --> 01:18:02.109
bit about Space Castle and where they can connect

01:18:02.109 --> 01:18:04.470
with you? Sure, yeah. You can find me on YouTube

01:18:04.470 --> 01:18:06.569
at Space Castle Show, or you can just look me

01:18:06.569 --> 01:18:09.369
up at spacecastle .net. I'm doing YouTube videos

01:18:09.369 --> 01:18:11.270
that explore all kinds of nerdy subject matter

01:18:11.270 --> 01:18:13.489
on a regular basis. I've been doing them every

01:18:13.489 --> 01:18:15.279
other week. I'm going to start breaking. into

01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:17.640
weekly videos and doing short form videos on

01:18:17.640 --> 01:18:20.079
top of the more story driven videos. But it combines

01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:22.380
my love of graphic design, my love of film production.

01:18:22.579 --> 01:18:24.899
I went to film school with my love of all things

01:18:24.899 --> 01:18:27.340
nerdy. I have a blast doing it. The reception

01:18:27.340 --> 01:18:29.819
to it has been amazing. I'd love it if everybody

01:18:29.819 --> 01:18:31.680
listening today would want to jump on board and

01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:33.579
hang out with me and talk nerdy stuff. Well,

01:18:33.699 --> 01:18:36.060
I always have a blast having you on the show,

01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:39.819
man. Thank you so much for joining me again on

01:18:39.819 --> 01:18:41.760
my weekly mixtape. Look forward to having you

01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.350
back very soon. i can't wait dude i love doing

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