Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me once again as guest curator is fellow
Pantheon Podcast Network mate, Jason Whistle,
host of the It's Not That Bad and There Can Only
Be One podcast. Jason, welcome back to the show.
I feel kind of guilty for taking over the airwaves
on your show, but see how it's our guilty pleasures
episode. I feel no guilt today. I'm going to
have so much fun with this. Same here. Like you
said, we are talking guilty pleasures, but we're
going to tie it to a decade and we're going to
tie it to the 1980s. And I just want to make
one thing crystal clear to everybody listening
before we get started. For me personally, and
I don't know about you, Jason, I have never and
will never feel guilt. listening to a song that
I truly enjoy. And I don't think any of the listeners
of this show should ever feel guilt enjoying
a song. However, breaking the fourth wall a little
bit, the title of 80s Guilty Pleasures is something
people immediately understand versus the original
title I had, which was the ultimate songs a lot
of people seem to hate, but you actually love
playlist. Oh, I mean, when I was making my list,
it was one of those things where I had to sit
there and put myself into that headspace of when
this came out, if I had the album, was I hiding
the album from my friends at the time? Like right
now, like it's 2024. I don't give a damn what
anyone thinks about the music in my collection,
because if we went through my CD book and started
flipping through the pages, you sit there and
go. Oh, you have that? Oh, I remember when that
was big. It's no longer, oh, you have that. Oh.
The stigma is gone. So, Jason, what approach
did you take coming up with these songs? Because
I have a specific one I know for this particular
episode. I had to put myself back into my 80s
mindset, into the songs that I was listening
to at the time. A. The album release date mattered.
There was one song that the minute we started
talking about this, I was like, oh, this has
to go in. It has to go in. But it was on a 1979
album. And then I'm like, well, maybe there's
that gray area where it's like, oh, maybe it
was released in 1980 as a single. No, it was
released in 78 as a single. Then the album came
out in 79. As much as I wanted to put Rock Lobster
on my list, I could not put Rock Lobster by the
352s on my list. But the way I take a look at
it, a lot of these songs were either songs that
I found myself putting on mixtapes for whatever
mood I was in in the 80s at the time, regardless
of who was going to listen to it, or songs that
if someone put a cover of that song out today,
I would crank it and jam it because the song
carries no matter what the genre would be. Well,
for me, like I said at the top of the episode,
I never felt guilt. But I understand what you're
talking about, because there were tapes where
if I had buddies coming over, it wasn't so much
guilt. It was, dare I use fear, because kids
are horrible sometimes growing up. But once I
got to high school, I felt like the crew I hung
out with were all music people and could care
less as long as you enjoyed it. understanding
going on when i was in high school that i know
a lot of people didn't deal with so what i did
was i sought out articles based on the most hated
songs of the 1980s as well as all time and i
found lists from the likes of rolling stone magazine
npr nme ranker and 80s fan sites and i just pulled
from the songs that they hate And I love. So
I kind of went with that approach. I think there's
also the overplayed factor because some of these
songs are probably going to would also fit onto
a list of novelty songs of the 80s as well. But
they were overplayed like to death to the point
of, you know, wonder how Taylor Swift fans or
non Taylor Swift fans feel now where everything
is Taylor Swift. Think of some of these songs
and how often they were played on the radio.
over and over and over again until it felt like
Stockholm Syndrome that you liked it at that
point and you finally just rebelled against it
and switched the station. I'm curious how many
times, because there's 20 songs on this mixtape,
how many times are we going to say that a song
is a bop? Well, from my bank of songs, it'll
be at least 10. I've lost track of the number
of times of my notes I have here that says it's
a bop. It's still a bop. It could be a bop. All
right. All right. Well, let's get down to business
then and see what we've got going tonight. As
I mentioned, Jason and I are curating an 80s
quote -unquote guilty pleasures mixtape, and
we'll use the old cassette deck approach. Jason,
as my special guest, will begin side A with his
first song choice, and then I'll add a song that
I feel best follows up that choice. We'll then
flip -flop choosing songs until we've mapped
out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our
mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside,
be only this time I'll kick things off with Jason
choosing second. Our overall goal for this episode
is to craft the best 80s guilty pleasures mixtape
possible through only 20 songs. At the end of
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myweeklymixtape. And several of the Patreon mixtapers
chimed in with songs that they would use to kick
off the festivities tonight, and I want to give
a shout -out to those. Chad LaMassa chimed in
with Martika's Toy Soldiers, which... Not only
do I totally agree with being a banger song,
I'll just go on record and say it's one of my
favorite songs of the 80s, hands down, Hard Stop.
I love that tune. Great pick there. Seeker chimed
in with Alice Cooper's Roses on White Lace from
the Raise Your Fist and Yell album. That was
the one that just before Trash or Age of Reason
by John Farnham, who is an Aussie pop rock male
vocalist. And he says Richard Marks comes to
mind as a correlation to listeners here in the
U .S. David Owens chimed in with the song that
was number one on his birthday. Jay Guile's band
Centerfold love the track. Tom Hutchinson chimed
in with Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy. I
have to admit, this one's a little embarrassing.
I had a mixtape as a kid growing up, and I had
the song listed as Stevie Wonder Party All the
Time. I thought it was Stevie Wonder. Oh, well.
Ben from the Too Vague podcast chimed in with
Murray Head's One Night in Bangkok. And then
Ben also followed up with another contender.
I know there's something going on by Frida saying
that Phil Collins drumming is unmistakable. And
last but certainly not least, Philip chimed in
with Brand New Lover by Dead or Alive saying
he doesn't stylistically like similar acts along
the lines of Tears for Fears, Frankie Goes to
Hollywood, Thompson Twins, Simple Minds. However,
Dead or Alive is so over the top, it's hard to
not just let go and enjoy it. So right there,
we've already got a ton of great songs on the
table. Jason, I'm officially going to press the
record button on our mixtape now and turn the
mic over to you. What song are you choosing to
kick off our Guilty Pleasures playlist? Oh, there's
a few on that list that are actually on my list
as well. But I'm going to start with one that
wasn't mentioned and one that would definitely
fit in an 80s one -hit wonders cassette as well.
I'm going to go with I Want Candy from Bow Wow
Wow. Not only do you have a very cool, almost
Caribbean -style tribal drumming going on in
this, but that surf guitar lead. Like, honestly,
if you don't have that little guitar lick in
your head, even the lyrics alone. Okay, the lyrics
are a little annoying after a while, but that
guitar literally is the lead vocalist to me in
this song. And there were a few songs that came
out in that era where the guitar may as well,
if you had put it out as an instrumental. The
guitar would basically be your singer. And I
want candy. I don't care who you are, what decade
it is. This song comes on. You're going to dance.
You're absolutely going to dance and enjoy yourself.
So I'm going to go with the horribly named band
Bow Wow Wow and go with I Want Candy. Now, if
they were called Bow Wow Wow, Yippee Yo, Yippee
Yay, would you change your mind? Only if you
say it in a really lower voice. Honestly, you
had mentioned almost a Caribbean feel. To me,
I hear Bo Diddley through the 80s glasses with
this song. I hear a Bo Diddley song. So I love
that. Oh, absolutely. To me, that was this blues
rock only with this, and I'm using quote marks
in the air, modern sheen of the 80s. Because
when you're a kid, you knew that 80s sound meant
like it's new music, not your parents' oldies
station kind of stuff. And to me, this was a
song that both my parents enjoyed and I enjoyed
as well. So I love that tune. And I'm going to
follow up with another one that certainly fell
under the my parents loved it and so did I. And
this was one that makes pretty much every list
of worst songs of all time. And I've honestly
never understood why. Rolling Stone, I think,
topped off their list with it. But 1985, Knee
Deep in the Hoopla, which was an awesome name
for an album. I'm just going right in headfirst.
Starships, We Built This City. I don't care that
everyone ranks this song as the worst song of
all time. I love it. It always puts a smile on
my face. And hell, in 2011, the Muppets used
the song in the Muppets movie. It was only called
the Muppets, so I couldn't say the Muppet movie
because that was 1979. But I digress. In the
Muppets, it was used as a montage. And my daughter
at the time. fell in love with the song. So she
always asked to play it. And it was one of those
few, my kid likes a song and they're playing
it over and over and over again, songs that never
bothered me. And one other thing I loved about
this song, and this is going to show my radio,
how obsessed with radio I am as a kid. I actually
have a cassette sitting right in front of me.
One of my original mixtapes, it's called the
Get Down Rock Party. I recorded stuff off the
radio and I made it. In 1987 is where I figured
it out because what I did is I googled a bunch
of the songs that were on it. And it looks like
it was right around early 87. And there's a version
of We Built This City on it. However, at the
beginning of the song, Z100, the New York affiliate
radio station, added a jingle for the station
into the actual song. So it made it tied to the
New York City market, which to me I thought was
really cool. And I'm sure... The network did
it for all the stations across the country. But
as far as I was concerned as a kid, there was
that special version that you can only hear on
the radio, which who uses that phrase ever now?
So we built the city. Let's get knee deep in
the hoopla for track two. I think that song hits
on some of those lists more because of where
Jefferson Starship kind of came from. You know,
people who are going to be equated to Jefferson
Airplane sit there and probably have the same.
mindset when they listen to 80s heart versus
barracuda era heart or keyboard era rush versus
2112 era rush so i can see where that kind of
falls into play but it really was the song of
the moment like it was everywhere on tv and in
movies i mean yes when i think movies and jefferson
starship i instantly think of the mannequin It
really was. And one of the songs that would fit
in almost every single possible avenue of media
that you could think of and overplayed. But I
think I know where I'm going to follow up this.
Because I'm going to go with another song that
has been used over and over and over again in
TV shows and movies. I'm going to go with Timbuk3's
The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades. okay
hey it's a fun song and i feel bad that it's
going to get tied in with you know with the movie
dream a little dream which yeah we've done an
episode on that as well so that episode exists
but i mean this song is fun as hell and along
with the i don't know if it's a real harmonica
or a fake harmonica but it definitely kind of
carries that tune and if this comes on the radio
on a road trip No matter how much you may have
been tired of it from the number of times it's
appeared in TV shows, you're going to sing along.
Could not agree more. So far, this is an 80s
guilty pleasures playlist that could completely
double as an 80s party mixtape. Oh, absolutely.
To me, Timbuk3 was one of those songs that as
time went on, people started reminiscing for
it. Because I know when people make 80s mixtapes
now, this is kind of a staple. But at the time,
it was an eye roll. And I think time served this
song well. And following it up, I want to keep
this upbeat kind of party vibe going. And I'm
going to go with a song that NPR listed as one
of its worst songs of the 80s. And I want to
challenge this. And I want to go to 1988. And
the reason I'm going to challenge this is my
old cover band used to play it. And when the
drum beat starts, it could be hundreds of different
songs. However, when the bass line kicks in.
Escape Club, Wild Wild West from 1988 Wild Wild
West. This song is so much fun. It's one of those
songs that every time we played it. people in
the room would stop in their tracks. It was just
an unexpected cover song. And for the first verse,
people are going, why do I know this? Where do
I know this? And by the end, they're all singing
along with it. And then we got to talk about
that breakdown in the middle. Is it reggae? Is
it rap? I don't know what he's doing in it, but
it's just such a snapshot of the 80s where if
you did it now, it would be a mockery. But back
then, it was just pop music. So I love it. Wild
Wild West. I don't have any Fresh Prince on my
list of songs because if you're going to do something
called Wild Wild West and then go with Fresh
Prince, that would have been a future connection,
if you will, because Wild Wild West is definitely
a movie that we'll have to cover at some point.
But how to follow that up? Okay. I think I know
where to go with this because there's a few.
There's a few that are really kind of begging
to be jumped in here. I think I'm going to let
my Canadian show a little bit on this one. So
apologies to anyone who is tired of me pumping
up the tires on various Canadian artists. But
this one needs to go in here. We had our answer,
our Canadian answer to Billy Idol in the 80s.
His name was Corey Hart. Uh -huh. He had the
typical Billy Idol -esque dour look and the spiked
hair and the, you know, don't smile, don't you
dare smile in your videos and had that swagger.
So when you tune on to CBC and video hits comes
on and they start... First song, first album.
The album's called First Offense. The song is
Sunglasses at Night. And if you heard that song
and you didn't try to wear your sunglasses at
night and then accidentally walk into a tree,
you were doing Canada absolutely wrong. But the
song still carries to this day. And it almost
kind of reclaimed itself much in the way that
I remember you showing me that acoustic version
of Aha's Take on Me and how that song kind of
matured into that performance, which that is
a phenomenal performance. Corey Hart is kind
of. come back around and it's like okay no these
songs were actually good and put into that kind
of a setting it would still carry on very well
but trust me when i say sunglasses at night may
have been played as much as the canadian anthem
when it came out dude this is literally just
an 80s dance party episode at this point every
single elementary through middle school dance
I remember sunglasses at night and people would
put sunglasses on in the gym with the lights
going. Yeah. What a vibe that song was. And I
think we could finally use it so far. Every one
of these songs, it's a bop. It's definitely a
bop. And yeah, when you think about the sunglasses
in the gym at the dance, it feels like you're
in and, you know. pretty in pink or not breakfast
club because they were all in the library but
you know one of those teen era type films from
the 80s where you knew the cool kid because they
were wearing the sunglasses no matter what time
of day it almost felt like that attitude in those
films and tv shows came from a song like sunglasses
and when you listen to the song too it's not
necessarily just a straight pop pop it's got
some atmosphere to it as well Most certainly.
And I think that's where that Billy Idol -esque
connection comes into play because Billy Idol
had the heavier side, but he also had a lot of
the pop side. And I think people forget that
that was there. And with Corey Hart, I feel like
the pop side of what Billy Idol did was more
on display because there was less of the guitars
to really kind of make it a gray area between
the pop and the heavier side of things. Oh, absolutely.
So following that up, I'm just going to lean
right into this party thing we got going here.
Because this is all upbeat, all fun, all dancey.
And I'm going to go with a song that Blender
Magazine listed as one of the 50 worst songs
ever. And I have to disagree. Because in 1986,
not only was everybody having fun tonight, everybody
was Wang Chunging tonight. They made Wang Chung
a verb from 1986's Mosaic. I had the 45 and I
spun that thing to the point where my parents
were ready to say, okay, that 45 might be getting
lost if it keeps spinning. I love the song. It's
so much fun. Wang Chung is awesome. And any era
of Wang Chung that gets put on a worse song,
that's just raising your musical snob nose and
looking down at it. Because Wang Chung is just
such a fun band. I don't see how anybody, even
though this one has more pop in it, I don't see
where anybody can hate this group. As much as
Blender Magazine saying the worst of all time.
That's really far -fetched, man. You could argue
that it might have been the most overplayed song
of that year. But that's about the only knock
against the song that you can get. I mean, how
many times where there's just like... nonsensical
lyrics, but just sing along with them because
it doesn't matter. And yeah, everyone I'm sure
had that, you know, oh, hey, you want a Wang
Chung tonight? Because it's literally, it's begging.
It's almost like when Def Leppard put out Let's
Get Rocked. I'm like, we know what you're talking
about. We know exactly what you're talking about.
But it was fun. It was tongue in cheek. And it's
a bop. I'm not going to lie. It's a bop as well.
I'm of two minds on this next song. If I want
to keep the momentum going for what we've got
for this party side, I know what to go with.
Or do I want to, like every high school dance,
about six or seven songs in, throw in a slow
song because that's what you would do at a high
school dance. Maybe it's time to slow it down
a little bit. Let me paint a picture. It was
the 80s, and there were two singers. And you
were either in one camp or you were in the other.
You were either team Debbie Gibson or you were
team Tiffany. I was team Tiffany. Yes. Correct.
Look, I love Debbie Gibson. I love Debbie Gibson.
Tiffany was my first ever crush. Thank you. I
know. I already know the song you picked, but
I'll just let you go ahead. I have the album.
Yeah. Long sleeve sweater, red hair. Count me
in. And again, nothing gets Debbie Gibson. I
love that Debbie Gibson is almost having like
a career resurgence right now. And yes, to tie
it back to, it's not that bad. The very first
episode I ever recorded for that show was on
mega shark versus giant octopus. and she's in
it there's actually a movie i can't remember
which one it was but debbie gibson and tiffany
were both in it and they had so much fun filming
that they actually had like a a fight scene between
their two characters and it was just so like
this is the 80s brawl for all that we wish we
had Just go out. I think it was like Mega Python
versus Gatorade or something like that. Something
absolutely horrible from the asylum, but it gave
us that 80s dream match. But no, you know, it's
could have been. Yes. I get. I think we're alone
now is probably her biggest song of all time,
but could have been as a ballad. And I don't
know if it's the reverb on her voice in that
recording. I mean, it's a great ballad. And I
lost track of the number of slow song mixtapes
I made just because I was really into slow songs
in the 80s at the time. Although, since we're
talking Debbie Gibson here, I'm going to tell
you a story here. I remember one Christmas. I
got the first ever two cassettes in my collection
in that same Christmas. One was definitely me.
It was Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil. The
other was Debbie Gibson. Out of the blue? It
was completely out of the blue. And both. Both.
Figuratively and literally. Yes. But there were
still good songs on both. And I think I have
even put Foolish Beat and like some slow song
off of Shadow of the Devil on the same mixtape
because, well, they were the two tapes that I
had. But yeah, you could like everything. It
was okay. But no, I was Team Tiffany for sure.
Well, anyone that knows me, including my wife,
knows where I stand with this. Now, Tiffany started
her mall tour, fun fact, at the Bergen Mall in
Paramus, New Jersey in 1987. And my mom didn't
take me. So I'm still pissed about that. Oh,
no. Oh, no. Oh, yes. I missed it. And part of
it made the video for the damn song. So imagine
that. I loved that first album. I actually had
two songs in my list from the same album. I had
I Think We're Alone Now. But then I also, depending
on where we went with this, had a deeper cut
from the album just to show my Tiffany fandom.
The album opening track should have been me.
I thought that was a great song, unapologetically.
And I still do. It's still my favorite Tiffany
song. I just know most people would have went,
what? Because they're thinking that it's going
to be, could have been, or I think we're alone
now. So you totally scooped me on that. And now
that we got that, for me at least. awkward middle
school slow dance out of the way. Let's pick
up the pace a little bit as we're easing back
into the end of the side here. And I'm going
to go with a song that I feel gets equal amounts
of hate as it does love. There is such a divide
on this song. So I don't know if this technically
would fit guilty pleasure. Because of the fact
that there are so many people that love this
song. But the amount of hate this song gets,
I feel, is so vocal and so loud that even though
it's half the room, it's worth pointing out.
And I'm going to go back to 1982 in a song that
NPR listed as one of the worst songs of all time.
And I'm going to go with Toto's Africa from Toto
4. I am team love with this one. I always have.
I've always thought this was a great song. This
was a song where, look, my parents listened to
Hold the Line. When Africa came out, it was just
another song from a band they enjoyed. So to
me, it was just continuing down the Toto path.
And anybody that could look and say, oh, well,
Toto is cheesy. Get out of here. I mean, look
at the lineup they had at that point. Bobby Kimball
on lead vocals, Steve Lukather on guitar, David
Peitch, Steve Piccaro, David Huntgate and Jeff
Piccaro. Get out of here. Toto is awesome. And
then the song also hit a modern divide when Weezer
covered it in 2018. Just like when Toto's came
out. there was equal amounts of hate and love
for Weezer's version, which they didn't deviate.
It was a paint -by -numbers cover, slightly downtuned
from the original. But besides that, they didn't
take any liberties with it. Quiet Drive took
liberties with their punk cover of it and turned
it into a high -speed punk anthem. So to me,
if you want to hear a different version of Africa,
that's the one you listen to. But Weezer's was
great. And it was just a modern telling of the
song. They didn't reimagine it. But again, just
as equal amount of love and hate for Toto's Africa
in 1982 and in 2018. So to me, this one kind
of fits in multiple layers as the guilty pleasure.
It's funny. You mentioned those versions of the
song. And I have two saved in my Spotify liked
songs collection. Neither of the two versions
are ones that you have listed yet. And there
are a lot of versions of Todos Africa way back
at the beginning of TuneStyles. Jay Sweet and
I did an entire episode dedicated on the sheer
amount of Africa covers. Oh, absolutely. The
first one that comes to mind is the one from
Chaos Divine. Phenomenal, heavy version of that
song. The other one. is the only one of these
versions that I have actually seen live, and
it's from Chris DeBerg, who was actually able
to pull that falsetto off, because let's be honest,
there are times when a song comes on the radio,
and you know it, and you want to sing it, and
there's no way you're hitting that note, whether
through falsetto or whether you actually have
the octave range to do it, because it ain't happening.
It's just not happening. Like that song comes
on and the chorus comes up and it's like, no,
no, I'm going to save everyone in the car and
just not sing along at this point. And now Jay
and I might need to revisit that Toto Africa
episode of Tune Styles because those are two
other versions we didn't even mention on that
episode. But it is, it's a phenomenal song and
I don't see the hate for it at all. I don't either.
And that's again, why I say. There's no guilt
for me with any of these songs. This whole first
side has just been one banger after another as
far as I'm concerned. There might be a layer
of 80s cheese, as my wife would say, on the sandwich
we're concocting right now, but that's kind of
the beauty of the 80s. It didn't take itself
so seriously. There was a lot of synth, and I
don't know why people equate synthesizers with
cheese. Maybe because it was a product of its
time, but these songs were played in constant
rotation on the radio and none of them bothered
me. I'm going to throw a song in there that you
could argue that maybe Africa kind of qualifies
Toto as a one hit wonder if that's the only song
you know from them, which in some cases it might
actually be. I'm not calling Toto a one hit wonder
by any stretch of the imagination, but for some,
it may at least feel like that. I'm going to
go with a song. that definitely qualifies as
a one -hit wonder and did end up on a few guilty
pleasures list that i did see out there while
i was doing my research and saying am i really
calling this a guilty pleasure because i have
zero guilt at all on this one and this one you
would consider a banger as well and i would love
love to hear a modern retake on this one so i'm
going to lean on you and hopefully you know of
a cover of big countries in a big country that
song I wish I could hear it live. I wish I could
see some band do a modern rock kick -ass version
of this song. But even the original still has
almost like a galloping beat to it. And I freaking
love it. Well, I can help you, but not the way
you're thinking. Because you're looking for a
hard rock version of it. And I don't think I
know a hard rock version of it. However... I
do want to tip my hat to my guest on episode
35. One of my favorite jam bands of all time,
Jim Lachlan of Mo episode 35, the ultimate Mo
playlist Mo covered in a big country for their
2001 album dither. And I highly suggest you look
that version up to me. I like it more than the
original with zero disrespect to the original.
The original was good enough that when I heard
Mo's version, I'm like, Nice. This is a song
I would love to hear a band, maybe like a Paramore,
do a cover of this. Put a little synth in behind.
Why not? Go for it. Or a band like Against the
Current. Great band in New York. And if you like
Paramore, you're going to love Against the Current.
They're the kind of band I could see easily doing
a fun cover of this one as well. Agreed. Agreed.
And I get the. pleasure of putting the stamp
at the end of this side. And I know exactly what
I'm going to do because I don't know how many
playlists this could possibly make. And I would
love to know when I named this song, if you're
out there listening, what playlists you would
put this song on and keep it clean. People be
nice to me, but I am going to Rick roll the entire
audience. 1987. Whenever you needed somebody,
Rick Astley is never going to give you up. Rolling
Stone ranked it one of the worst songs of the
80s. And I'm sorry, the whole Rick Roll thing,
I think it started off being mean. But then I
think because of the Rick Roll, the younger generation
actually started liking the song. And I don't
remember people hating this song in the 80s.
I just remember it being on the radio a lot.
And it's one of those songs that when it was
on Z100, it would be in between all the other
great hits. 1987 was such an amazing year of
music. I vividly remember hearing Never Gonna
Give You Up into Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child of
Mine. 1987 radio, baby. And it worked because
that was top 40 at the time. Top 40 didn't, it
wasn't pigeonholed into one genre. I also remember
at one point hearing Skid Row followed by, I
want to say Vanilla Ice. Maybe I'm wrong, but
artists you normally wouldn't hear back to back.
That was top 40 radio in the 80s. And then over
time, it got a lot more compartmentalized where
top 40 was very much a singular sound and a singular
genre. And that's probably what I love about
the 80s so much. It was so varied. It was so
open and never going to give you up. Yes, it's
a Rick Roll. Everybody has seen that gag, but
I think that's what makes the song enduring.
The fact that the Foo Fighters brought Rick Astley
up on stage to perform it with them in a hard
rock version, Rick rolling an audience of 20
,000 people. The fact that Rick Astley himself
can smile at this, because I'll be honest with
you, I would love if they Colburn rolled people
with one of my songs. Think about the amount
of streams this dude is getting from all the
Rick rolls. I mean, to me, it's brilliant. Whoever
came up with the idea originally, bravo, cheers,
kudos to you, slow golf clap on that one. But
I love the song. And when I get Rick rolled,
I actually let the song play out. That's how
bad it is. I don't hate it at all. So closing
out Side A, Rick Astley's never going to give
you up. When this song comes on in the car, and
if the family is doing a drive and going somewhere
as a group, my oldest, my teenage son, hates
it because everyone else in the car is singing
along and dancing and like you know as much as
you can car dance you know with the maybe the
roxbury head bop that goes along with it because
you're in a car seat you shouldn't be dancing
especially when you're the one driving but it's
one of those things where it's just so infectiously
happy it really is and there were certain songs
that because of the mood of the 80s you can't
help but smile and i think yes it did suffer
from overplay and was also one of those songs
where if you just heard this on the radio and
you heard that voice and you're like okay okay
cool cool cool and then you see the video for
the first time you're like oh pale ginger is
singing this one cool no problem whatsoever didn't
expect that at all But it is. This song has reclaimed
its greatness, and everyone is now at that point
of they appreciate it. It's kind of like the
William Shatner effect, where after, you know,
for a section, William Shatner was just like,
oh, come on, just don't Shatner all over the
place. And now people are like, please, for the
love of God, Shatner all over the place. It's
fun as hell, and we appreciate it. I think Rick
Astley getting on stage with the Foo Fighters,
because that video is fun as hell. That moment.
is literally the moment when Shatner appeared
on Saturday Night Live and they did the Star
Trek convention sketch. And he's like, have you
ever kissed a girl? Because I don't think you
have. And that moment allowed Shatner to reclaim
the cheesiness of his acting and turn it into
something different. I think now Rick Astley
can sit there and laugh all the way to the bank
because people have rediscovered that love. Completely
agree. And I'll be sure to embed the Foo Fighters
Rick Astley video. Over at the episode page on
myweeklymixtape .com. But there you have it,
folks. Side A of our ultimate 80s guilty pleasures
mixtape, which kicked off with Bow Wow Wow's
I Want Candy, Starship's We Built This City,
Timbuk3's The Future is Bright, I Gotta Wear
Shades, Escape Club's Wild Wild West, Corey Hart's
Sunglasses at Night, Wang Chung's Everybody Have
Fun Tonight, Tiffany's Could Have Been, Toto's
Africa, Big countries in a big country, and Rick
Astley's never going to give you up. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Now, Jason, before
we flip this mixtape over to Side B, why don't
you catch everybody up on what's been happening
over at It's Not That Bad, and there can only
be one. Well, thank you so much. Hope you guys
had fun with March on It's Not That Bad because
we just finished up our Razzies month where we
did our grading on a curve, looking at the worst
movies of the year nominees for last year, as
well as four straight Razzie themed episodes
on Keep Watch Pass. Those episodes come out on
Monday. What if you do like our Keep Watch Pass
format? And of course, our It's Not That Bad
comes out on Wednesdays where we not necessarily
just look at films that have a bad rating, but
sometimes it's more of a public service that
you. Just listen to us talk about it. And so
you don't have to watch it. So you're welcome.
And then on there can only be one. You're going
to get an episode every Tuesday. On opposite
weeks, you're going to get an episode where we
take a look at an artist's studio discography
and go through album by album, pick only one
song off of those albums. And on the opposite
weeks, because it takes a while to go through
a discography, we have Spin, Shuffle, Skip, where
we go through one album and pick three songs.
One that you would spin, one that you would shuffle,
and one that you would definitely hit the skip
button on. So that way you have episodes every
week. Those always come out on Tuesdays, and
they are available wherever you get your... podcast
and trust me when i say brian there are a list
of songs and artists and whatnot that we have
to go through i now feel now that you've expressed
your tiffany love that we may have to do a tiffany
episode i am in i am all in on that and the thing
is let me just say when i think of tiffany right
now i'm 46 years old so when i say it now it
comes across as creepy guy gawking over somebody
i was 10 years old when this song came out so
i want people to understand there was an innocence
to my crush on tiffany and i was oh i've always
said to my wife if i meet her i'm gonna tell
her she was my first crush but i don't want it
to come across as you were my first crush like
there was a childhood innocence to it Every time
I hear that music, it actually reminds me of
when I was 10. And it's a different feeling.
It was before life kicked in and everything was
different. It seems so much simpler when you
were 10 years old. Oh, when you think of the
the 80s teenage first crush starter pack, Tiffany
is definitely in there, probably along with the
likes of Debbie Gibson and Alyssa Milano and
Lita Ford. There you go. There you go. It is
literally in the 80s first crush starter pack.
Well, kicking off side B, I'm going to lean into
the Lita Ford side of music, and we're going
to go hard rock. I'm not including Lita Ford
because, A, she doesn't belong here. She's duetted
with Ozzy. That immediately discounts. There's
zero guilt at all, and nobody's ever included
her. on a guilty pleasure playlist because kiss
me deadly and close my eyes forever. Just absolutely
amazing tunes, but I'm going to go with a rock
song that has been just destroyed over the years,
just ridiculed to death. And I've never understood
why both Rolling Stone and NME included this
on their worst songs of the eighties lists. And
I really disagree. It starts off their 1986 album
of the same name. So it's an album opener, something
I love. And being I'm opening the side, let's
go with a big anthemic album opener. And let's
have Europe's The Final Countdown. You already
hear the synthesizer in the beginning, the...
And then the... I mean, the rest of the song
rocks. I think that's the part that everybody
like clings on. And regardless, I still love
it. It was 1986. Synthesizer was in rock. It
was in hard rock. Get over it. I love this song.
And it's a great side opener. Wasn't it Geico
that did a commercial with Europe? Oh, yeah.
In a way, bringing it back and celebrating it
with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge. But at the end
of the day, the song is still incredible. And
Joey Tempest can still hit those notes. And Europe
is still awesome. I just love this band. So,
yeah, the final countdown. I'll admit you scooped
me on the artist because I actually had Carrie
on my list from Europe. There you go. Admittedly,
yes, my wife's name is Carrie. It's spelled differently.
It's spelled differently. Funny story, though.
She didn't know that that song existed until
I played it for her. Really? She had no clue
that there was a Carrie song. Huh. Yeah. Again,
this is another one of those songs that it got
played everywhere. It still gets played everywhere.
Every sports arena, you know, we got the two
minute warning and it's going to play over the
speaker is guaranteed. No question there. And
again, it's just stuck around so long that, again,
I think people just have Stockholm syndrome.
But yes, that keyboard is much like the guitar
lick in I Want Candy. I think we've got another
side starter. that the lead instrument line is
the lyric more so than the actual lyrics themselves.
I know exactly where I'm going to go with this.
And I'm going to go with another album opener
because not only were songs off this album kind
of panned. I get it. The entire band became a
joke. Thanks to Beavis and Butthead. I'm going
to go with the debut album and the lead off track
from Winger. I'm going to go with Madelaine.
Yes. Now, I get it. People are sitting there
going, oh, you like Winger, don't you? Winger
sucks. And if you don't say something like that
in a Beavis and Butthead voice like that, you
didn't live in the 90s. But the thing is, Winger
are a fantastic. Agreed. Of the first two concerts
that I ever saw, the first one my mother brought
me to, it was Krista Berg's Man on the Line tour.
So Krista Berg pre Lady in Red. So the good stuff.
The second concert I saw by myself, skipped school,
waited in line because I wanted to be right at
the front. Kiss is Hot in the Shade tour with
opening act Slaughter and Winger on their In
the Heart of the Young album. That concert. And
again. I'm a bassist. So to see a bassist also
as the lead singer, and then you start to put
two and two together because you watch old Alice
Cooper live concert videos and you're like, hey,
that's the guy from Winger. And you start to
make the connections there. Kip Winger all of
a sudden became like a role model for me as a
bassist because he was also the front man. And
you didn't see that very often. Winger is ridiculously
underrated. became the butt of a joke undeservedly.
They are an extremely talented band. And yes,
I get it. The lyrics to 17, not their finest
moment. Let's just leave it at that. But there
are other songs that they've put out, Can't Get
Enough, Under One Condition. They do a really
good cover of Purple Haze on the self -titled
Winger album. And then you have Pull, which was
a much heavier release. They're still putting
out... Really good music. And Kip Winger did
some solo albums that kind of veer a little bit
outside of hard rock. And they're all incredible,
very talented artists. And I think the Beavis
and Butthead joke is where they became the laughingstock
undeservedly for the entire hair metal movement.
They became kind of the poster child for it for
some reason. And I. I'd say that sucks because
they put out some great songs and Madelaine might
be my favorite all -time winger tune. And again,
album opener, so bravo on that. But I'm going
to jump on something you said there. It's a tour
you saw. Kiss Hot in the Shade. I'm immediately
just going to follow up with Forever. Co -written
by Michael Bolton. Kiss fans lost their frigging
mind when this song came out. I remember so many
of my friends who were big Kiss fans were furious
that Paul Stanley co -wrote with Michael Bolton
and went down the quote unquote AOR style for
Kiss. I don't think a lot of people our age,
at least at the time, knew that Michael Bolton,
and I didn't know this, I only knew how was I
supposed to live without you and all the songs
he had on the radio at the time. I had no idea.
that Everybody's Crazy, which was featured in
the party scene in Rodney Dangerfield's Back
to School, was a Michael Bolton song. Michael
Bolton has a hard rock, quote unquote, AOR slash
type album called Everybody's Crazy that came
out in 1985, as well as a self -titled album
that came out in 1983. And both of those albums
are completely different than the album oriented
rock that he did from that point on. I highly
suggest giving both albums a listen because they
will shock a lot of people. The guy has a great
hard rock voice and he had a hard rock sensibility.
I think Forever is a fantastic power ballad.
It made one of our power ballad episodes. If
you go back with our good friend, Sean Faust,
we had the ultimate. Power ballads of the 80s,
parentheses, and some 90s. So I would check out
volume one and volume two. It's on one of those.
I won't say where. I don't want to spoil it.
Leave a little bit of suspense in the air. But
Forever is a great power ballad. And I think
people were just trying to be too macho to admit
that Kiss wrote good ballads. I mean, I Still
Love You from Creatures of the Night was amazing.
I loved Reason to Live. From Crazy Nights, which
I talked about with Desmond Child on his episode
because he co -wrote that with Paul Stanley.
So the fact that people were shocked that Kiss
was doing ballads when their biggest hit ever
was Beth. Hello. So, yeah, Kiss forever. I think
they're just having flashbacks from Shandy. But
I will say forever. Not only did you scoop me
on the artist, I mean, I was actually going to
go with probably Tears Are Falling off the Asylum
album, but Bruce Kulik era Kiss is my kiss. This
is when I really first started to get into them.
So for me, getting into them in the 80s, and
I still remember actually one of the first albums
that I listened to because my mother had it on
vinyl was Animal Eyes. Yes, I get that's not
Bruce Kulik era. But it still led into the Bruce
Kulik era. So that was my era of Kiss. And then
you kind of work your way backwards. But I don't
understand why people would take a look at a
song like Forever. Any other artist puts that
song out, regardless of whose name is in the
writing credits. It's going to play so well.
If Poison put that song out, it'd be one of their
biggest songs. It actually was my only one when
we did the Kiss episode, because this is also
the first song I ever learned when I bought my
first bass guitar, which I still have that first
bass guitar, and I'm doing the math on it now,
and that bass guitar is so old. and still held
together by duct tape and stickers. So bear with
me on it. But isn't that where the beauty lies
in a bass like that? Oh, absolutely. Like that
bass saw so many shows and the screw on the strap
bolt kept on falling out. So there were times
that I'd have to drop down to my knees on stage.
Like that bass is a beater like you wouldn't
believe. But I remember going out and buying
Guitar Magazine and that song was in it. And
that was the first song I learned to play on
that bass guitar was Forever. Well, now you get
to follow this up, Gene Simmons, with track four.
Well, I know exactly where I'm going to go. And
I'm going to go kind of in that same vein with
a decent band with a lot of synth going on on
their first album. But I'm going to go with an
80s super group. bad english and i'm gonna go
with their song possession oh okay now again
when i see you smile was their big hit but to
me possession is the best song on that album
and again it's heavy keyboard laden and you had
like a lot of talent in that band there's zero
question that whatsoever there But that song,
again, if you had someone do that song today
and replace the keys with some strings, I guarantee
you that song would still go over well. Oh, my
God. We're talking Jonathan Cain, Neil Sean and
Dean Castronovo from Journey. John, wait. I mean,
I love that album. I love Journey. And there
was a part of me that had Journey in my back
pocket for Don't Stop Believing. But at the end
of the day, I felt like. There are way too many
people that love that song that I think ever
felt guilty about it. I really, I don't believe
that that was ever a guilty pleasure, even though
some people have put it on their worst songs
of the 80s list. I think it's more for the overplayed
factor than it is being a bad song. And Bad English,
I thought was great. I loved When I See You Smile.
I'm actually very surprised you went with Possession.
That was one of the singles that it didn't take
off quite like When I See You Smile. And that's
because it wasn't When I See You Smile 2, Electric
Boogaloo. It's kind of like when Warren had Heaven,
and that song was huge, right? And then, of course,
off the same album, they put out Sometimes She
Cries, which wasn't Heaven, but it was still
a good enough song. Although I will admit the
first time I ever saw Warren in any kind of form
was performing, if I remember correctly. When
American Gladiators was on TV, there was also
a roller derby show that was on the same channel
and aired before it that used to have performances
on and warrant was actually on that show doing
heaven. I still remember that show, but I cannot
remember the title of that show. Is that weird?
No, not at all. American Gladiators was just
that big at the time. Well, I'm going to follow
up your is that weird question with one of my
own. I'm team Sometimes She Cries. I actually
like that more than Heaven. And I love both songs.
I have no qualms about power ballads. And I will
say that Warrant is also on one of those two
power ballad episodes. I won't say which one
to leave some room for. And I won't say which
song made it. But I am team Sometimes She Cries.
Man. All right. I'm sticking with The Rock here.
And I'm also going to go back to a guest that
I had on the show back at episode 25. But I'm
going to go back to 1983 and an album that was
so divisive for fans. And we talked about this
on Side A when Toto's Africa was a little bit
of a pivot from Hold the Line. When Starship's
We Built This City was a pivot from Jefferson
Starship and Jefferson Airplane. I don't know
of a musical pivot that really shocked fans.
the way 1983's Kill Roy Was Here did for fans
of Styx. And I am going to go with the opening
track from that album, Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.
On episode 25, Lawrence Gown, who's now the current
lead singer of Styx, talks about the song's revival
in the band's set lists after many years of even
them not playing the song. To me, this was the
song that introduced me to Styx. 1983, I was
five to six years old. My parents got the cassette
at the time of Kilroy Was Here. And that was
the first song I heard. And my dad turned the
speakers up really loud and the synth was swelling.
And it was like Star Wars in music to me as a
kid. And I just loved it. And it fits that rock
side that we're kind of putting together here
for Side B. So Styx, Mr. Roboto. I'm not going
to lie. I love that you had Lawrence Gowan on
your show. And I say that not just as a Canadian,
because I said that as a Canadian, but I mean,
songs like Strange Animal and Criminal Mind.
Criminal Mind is, it's the song I wish Chris
DeBerg wrote, but I'm so happy that Gowan wrote
it because it was so good. But even a song like
Moonlight Desires, like Lawrence Gowan is a phenomenal
songwriter. And if you go back and listen to
his 80s, selection like his discography they
were it was so good so good and i love the fact
that he's still out there and touring and performing
and they're actually doing some gowan songs they
are stick set list and i think that's phenomenal
absolutely deservedly so deservedly so and i
know exactly where i'm going with this really
it's a no -brainer huh i was no -brainer Because
she blinded me with science. You could put these
two on any best of the 80s CDs and it would feel
like it was on the same album. Thomas Dolby.
I mean, honestly, honestly, if someone says science,
just even the word science, tell me you don't
want to respond with science with the finger
up in the air and the. The video was so corny.
The song is so corny, but yet it fits so perfectly
in this pocket. And people will still be like,
yes, by the time the end of the song is there,
you're screaming at the right of science. Guaranteed.
So I guess my only follow up is, were you blinded
by science? Oh, I know that was bad. Sorry. The
only thing that blinded me with science and it
wasn't the experiments because I didn't blow
anything up, allegedly. Just take a look at my
marks and you'll see why I'm not a scientist.
There you go. This song was also the pilot theme
song to the Big Bang Theory before they switched
it to the theme by the Barenaked Ladies. And
I don't think a lot of people even remember that.
But I love this song. I don't care that it was
cheesy. The 80s gave us great science songs.
Between this and Weird Science, I mean, there's
a perfect 80s science single for you. But I'm
not going to use that as my follow up. I'm going
to follow up with a song that you might actually
turn off your camera, log off this and defriend
me on all the social medias, as do everybody
listening. My plays might all of a sudden just
come to a screeching halt and everybody unsubscribes
at once. But hear me out, please. This song features
Glenn Hughes and Pat Thrall to very. Very talented
musicians. And Glenn Hughes sings the chorus
of the song. And both of them appear in the video.
Dressed like pagan suspects being interrogated.
And that video was the theme song to a movie
that could very easily be a not that bad episode.
1987's Dragnet. The song. Dan Aykroyd and Tom
Hanks, City of Crime. Tom Hanks is doing his
best Beastie Boys impression throughout. He's
basically just screaming the words of the song
because in the 80s, Tom Hanks was very, that
was his kind of character and his persona. And
Dan Aykroyd was playing the calm, straight Agent
Friday. And the music video, fun fact, was directed
by Paula Abdul. who a year later would explode
onto the music scene with many music videos and
the incredible Forever Your Girl album. But I
heard this song for the first time. I saw the
video on MTV. I begged my parents to take me
to see the movie. The movie was not really, it
went over my head at 10, 11 years old, but I
still went out and got the soundtrack. I have
the soundtrack to this day on CD. Unapologetically,
I love. This song, it's Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks
rapping. It did not get a lot of love, but it's
one of those songs that I don't know why. As
soon as we said we're doing a guilty pleasures
of the 80s, this was the first song on my list.
So I apologize to everybody who's no longer a
fan, but I'm sure out there, there's at least
three people. who are like, yes, oh my God, somebody
else knows this song but me. If that's you, email
me at myweeklymixtape at gmail .com and let me
know that I'm not alone here. Dan Aykroyd and
Tom Hanks, City of Crime. Guilty pleasure? Well,
that's just the facts. Sorry, sorry. Bad, bad
dad jokes. I find it funny because as I was putting
my list together, I realized there were a number
of actors. That put out singles. And I know,
I know, at some point, someone's going to pitch
to you the ultimate mixtape of actors who put
out singles. And if they don't, I'll just put
my hand up and just volunteer for that one. Yes,
Dragnet is definitely one of those films that
I would absolutely love to do an episode on.
I'm pretty darn skippy it qualifies. Oh, it does.
It's 50 % on the Tomatometer. And only 41 % on
the audience score. That doesn't happen often
where the audience score is less. That is a crime
and a travesty all in one. The Virgin Connie
Swale deserves so much better than this. Yes.
Okay. I know exactly where I'm going. I don't
know how I know this, but I'm going to go exactly
here. I'm going to stay in this actors with singles
out. And probably not the one you think of, because
I know there was one mentioned in the earlier
shout outs, but I'm going to go in a completely
and utterly different direction. And it's a partnership
that actually led to an episode on. It's not
that bad that we did. I'll let you guess. Oh,
crap. It's a partnership. I was going to go with
Bruce Willis with his 80s album. yep i'm right
okay off of his return of bruno album i'm gonna
go with his cover of the staples singer's song
respect yourself so let me let me explain the
partnership here so the album was produced by
robert craft and no not that robert craft if
you're a patriots fan it's not him okay yes but
robert craft then produced hudson hawk Starring
Bruce Willis. And that movie is an absolute goofy,
fun, hot mess. But the friendship between Bruce
Willis' character and Danny Aiello's character
in this is apparently based on the friendship
between Robert Kraft and Bruce Willis. So the
fact that Bruce Willis sounds like he's having
a ton of fun on this album. makes total sense
when you then go and watch hudson hawk so i kind
of enjoy that and it's just goofy fun that someone
who at the time was big for being in moonlighting
puts out a covers album and it's surprisingly
not bad at all yeah there's not like there's
people that obviously Rag on it just for the
sake of doing so. And I think that has to do
with the novelty factor of it all. I mean, it
is an actor putting out an album. So I get that
part of it. It's kind of like when the WWE wrestlers
sang on that pile driver cassette in the 80s.
It's kind of along that line. Like, that's not
really their role. But what the hell? They're
going to do it anyway. I mean, this was rhythm
and blues and soul. We're talking he's covering
Booker T. Jones, The Temptations. This was a
fun album. You don't need to overthink it sometimes.
Was it capitalizing on his popularity at the
time? Sure. But at the same token, you had not
too many years earlier, the Blues Brothers turned
it into a feature length film and a recording
career. So I don't hate it. And yeah, God, I'm
stalling here because I'm trying to think of
how do I follow that up? Because we each only
have one song left. And I'm going through my
list and there's not a lot that really fits after
Bruce Willis. All right, I'm just going to go
with one that Ranker included as one of the worst
songs of the 80s. And certainly if it's not thought
of by a lot of people as one of the worst songs
of the 80s, I will say it will likely be seen
as one of the most controversial songs of the
1980s, if not the entire album. And I am going
to go back to 1989, right to the end. And we
are going to go with the controversial album,
Girl You Know It's True. And I'm going to go
with Milli Vanilli's Baby Don't Forget My Number.
That was the one song on that album where I'm
like, I'm not really big into this Milli Vanilli
thing because they were everywhere. They had
just number one hit after number one hit after
number one hit. This one, I was like, oh, I kind
of like this. And I got the cassette single.
And I like this song. And I've always liked this
song. Mind you, when the videos came on, I was
always like, nah, and I switched the channel
because I didn't care so much about the dance
music at the time. But this song stuck out to
me. And then when everything unfolded with the
lip sync drama and Milli Vanilli, I think back
at that and I still didn't hate the song because
at the end of the day, I really didn't care who
was singing it. I didn't feel duped because I
never paid to see them live or like cared what
they looked like. I just liked the song because
it was a good song. I don't care who was singing
it. So when they said, oh, somebody else was
actually singing on the tape, I'm like, I don't
care. I still like the song. So it's definitely
on every list of the most controversial songs
of all time or albums or events in music history.
But to me, when that whole lip syncing thing
came down, it went from being these number one
hits into a joke that you can only say was a
guilty pleasure. But at the end of the day, no
matter who was actually singing on the song,
it was still a good song sang by a very good
singer that the label was just dumb enough not
to want to put up front and center, which blues
traveler then mimicked and mocked in the runaround
video where John Popper's backstage performing
with the other band up in front, kind of that
whole situation. But baby, don't forget my number.
Total 180 from Europe's the final countdown here.
But I feel like we're closing this mixtape out
and I'm leading us in to be able to let side
B flip back into Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy on
side A. And yeah, we had to talk Milli Vanilli
tonight. We had to. Oh, you absolutely had to.
Like, if you did something 80s guilty pleasure
and the words Millie and Vanille in that order
didn't come out of one of our mouths, then we
have failed the assignment, much like my science
score would blind anybody. So I have to ask then,
which Millie Vanille song did you have in your
bank? Oh, I had Girl, You Know It's True. Okay.
Okay. You went with the title track. All right.
Well, absolutely. But. Up to this point, we have
failed. I feel like we've failed your listeners.
Oh, no. Should we start all over? No. That'll
be volume two. That'll be volume two. But we
have failed your listeners. Because at no point
have we said the words, rock me Amadeus. Falco.
Oh, Falco. And I remember having this vinyl.
Now, admittedly, Rock Me Amadeus was the big
song and the song that I listened to over and
over and over again. And yes, this is the song
I'm putting on this cassette. For personal preference,
I prefer Genie off of this because I had no idea
what they were saying during the verses whatsoever.
And I'm just like, okay, I can picture in my
head what I think they're saying, but at points
it sounds really, really nasty and guttural.
kind of and then all of a sudden the the english
language chorus comes up and you start singing
along and then the verse comes up and you start
mumbling because you have no idea what the hell
they're saying but rock me amadeus again very
much one of those songs that was just stupid
fun you had no idea what the song was really
about but it played over and over and over again
and everyone like everyone on the schoolyard
you got the work In the lexicon. Absolutely.
I'm just glad it wasn't in the actual movie,
Amadeus. Look, I love this song. I had that on
my list. Totally scooped me. And I got to give
a shout out to the Bloodhound Gang. Yes, the
Bloodhound Gang in 1999 on the Hooray for Boobies
album. This was a hit album. This was the album
with the bad touch on it. So they had a song
called Mope. And it was basically a song that
was dedicated to Falco with the sample of Rock
Me Amadeus in it. I love this song. I love the
original. I also had Tacos Putting on the Ritz,
which kind of came from that same vein as Rock
Me Amadeus. Those two go really well back to
back together. But what a way to end Side B,
which kicked off with Europe's The Final Countdown,
Winger's Madelaine, Kisses Forever, Bad English's
Possession, Sticks' Mr. Roboto. Thomas Dolby's
She Blinded Me With Science, Dan Aykroyd and
Tom Hanks' City of Crime, Bruce Willis' Respect
Yourself, Milli Vanilli's Baby Don't Forget My
Number, and Falco's Rock Me Amadeus. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Now, Jason, I do
want to apologize to the Patreon mixtapers. We
did not get to the songs they included. However...
I feel like this has volume two written all over
it. So stay tuned because there's a lot more
we have yet to scratch the surface here. Oh,
I have a list of songs here where I was hoping
there were ones where I was just like, please,
please go down this road so I can throw this
song in. We didn't get to there, but I got back
up for a volume two. And I'm sure that if K -Tel
Records ever decided to have a resurgence, they
should be calling us up right now for the rights
to this mixtape. Amen. 100%. Jason, why don't
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