WEBVTT 00:00:11.130 --> 00:00:13.630 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.630 --> 00:00:16.410 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:19.030 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.250 --> 00:00:21.670 Joining me once again tonight as guest curator 00:00:21.670 --> 00:00:24.690 is Ben Checkness, host of the Too Vague podcast, 00:00:24.850 --> 00:00:27.410 as well as one of My Weekly Mixtape's amazing 00:00:27.410 --> 00:00:30.289 Patreon mixtapers. Ben, it's great to have you 00:00:30.289 --> 00:00:32.490 back on the show, man. Yeah, thanks for having 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:34.649 me. I really appreciate it. I had a lot of fun 00:00:34.649 --> 00:00:36.770 last time, and I'm looking forward to a great 00:00:36.770 --> 00:00:39.399 time this time, too. So, thank you. Well, it's 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:41.600 great to have you back. And tonight's topic is 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.399 a very interesting one. Number one hits of the 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.939 1980s. So I guess it's safe to say that there 00:00:47.939 --> 00:00:51.200 are no deep cuts tonight. I mean, literally the 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.380 deepest of cuts we could pick from this list 00:00:54.380 --> 00:00:57.840 are the songs that only charted one week at number 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.619 one. But even then, it was still a number one 00:01:00.619 --> 00:01:03.780 hit. This is true. Number one is number one. 00:01:03.979 --> 00:01:07.519 So trivia time, Ben. We are sticking with the 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:10.709 1980s. If we were on Jeopardy right now, the 00:01:10.709 --> 00:01:14.150 answer would be, this is the number of number 00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:18.810 one hits that happened during the 1980s. Yeah, 00:01:18.849 --> 00:01:21.790 I have no idea how many hits there were. Well, 00:01:21.849 --> 00:01:24.670 the answer is, keeping it in Jeopardy form, what 00:01:24.670 --> 00:01:30.459 is 231 songs? Oh, wow. So this bank of tunes 00:01:30.459 --> 00:01:33.379 is actually a lot larger than some of the band 00:01:33.379 --> 00:01:36.260 themed episodes of my weekly mixtape that have 00:01:36.260 --> 00:01:38.840 happened already. So you and I have this challenge 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:45.000 to whittle down 231 number one hits down to 20. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.920 Was this an easy feat for you to kind of whittle 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.159 down at least a bank of songs that you want to 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:54.079 bring to the conversation tonight? It took some 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.219 time. I'm not going to lie. I did have a little 00:01:57.219 --> 00:02:00.030 bit of. At a moment going down this list where 00:02:00.030 --> 00:02:03.530 I had to come up with a plan, my plan was basically 00:02:03.530 --> 00:02:07.030 the songs that connected with me at that age. 00:02:07.590 --> 00:02:09.990 I don't know if you did it a little differently 00:02:09.990 --> 00:02:16.030 than I did. I went down the 231 songs, and when 00:02:16.030 --> 00:02:18.870 songs jumped out at me, I went, ooh, I remember, 00:02:19.009 --> 00:02:22.490 I love that song. And I created a big list. Then 00:02:22.490 --> 00:02:25.069 I created a massive playlist in my phone, and 00:02:25.069 --> 00:02:27.639 for the last week, I've been listening to songs 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.979 and slowly but surely swiping songs out of the 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:34.099 playlist, and I've whittled it down to 40. And 00:02:34.099 --> 00:02:37.500 now I'm praying that the 10 songs you pick tonight 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:40.560 are all on my list to make me only have to whittle 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.840 it down from 30 to 10. Yeah. I think between 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.740 the two of us and our different musical tastes, 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.360 I think we're going to have a very diverse mix 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.120 tonight. I'm really excited about it. Yeah, I'm 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.599 hoping for a true snapshot of the decade, and 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.280 that's what we're tasked with. So let's get down 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.340 to business. Tonight, as I mentioned at the top 00:03:00.340 --> 00:03:02.819 of the show, Ben and I will be curating a number 00:03:02.819 --> 00:03:06.039 one hits of the 1980s mixtape, and we'll use 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.000 that old cassette deck approach. Ben, as my special 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:11.280 guest, will begin side A with his first song 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.919 choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.460 best follows up his choice. We'll then flip -flop 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:20.300 choosing songs until we've mapped out 10 songs 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:23.169 for side A. We'll then give our mixtape a proverbial 00:03:23.169 --> 00:03:25.509 flip and we'll map out side B. Only this time, 00:03:25.569 --> 00:03:28.110 I'll kick things off with Ben choosing second. 00:03:28.330 --> 00:03:30.789 Our overall goal for the episode is to craft 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:34.210 the best number one hits of the 1980s mixtape 00:03:34.210 --> 00:03:37.889 possible through only 20 songs. At the end of 00:03:37.889 --> 00:03:39.650 the show, you can take our conversation to the 00:03:39.650 --> 00:03:43.370 next level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:03:43.370 --> 00:03:46.740 .com to give our final mixtape a listen. via 00:03:46.740 --> 00:03:49.039 the embedded playlist. And if you like what you're 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.060 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:53.699 telling a friend, leaving the show a five -star 00:03:53.699 --> 00:03:56.219 review wherever you're tuning in, or becoming 00:03:56.219 --> 00:03:59.620 a Patreon mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash 00:03:59.620 --> 00:04:03.259 myweeklymixtape. And a few of the mixtapers chimed 00:04:03.259 --> 00:04:05.219 in with songs they think should kick off our 00:04:05.219 --> 00:04:07.080 playlist tonight, and I want to give a quick 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.969 shout out to those. Cactus P chimed in, starting 00:04:09.969 --> 00:04:12.710 with, do you want me to choose my favorite kid 00:04:12.710 --> 00:04:16.990 as well? No, but this certainly feels like it. 00:04:17.050 --> 00:04:19.730 He chimed in with three songs, Tears for Fears, 00:04:19.790 --> 00:04:22.689 Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Van Halen's 00:04:22.689 --> 00:04:25.389 Jump, and Huey Lewis and the News, The Power 00:04:25.389 --> 00:04:27.769 of Love, saying you can't go wrong with any of 00:04:27.769 --> 00:04:30.629 these, in my opinion. And I would have to agree 00:04:30.629 --> 00:04:33.750 with that. Yeah. Seeker chimed in with going 00:04:33.750 --> 00:04:36.649 with my dearly departed compatriot, Olivia Newton, 00:04:36.790 --> 00:04:40.810 John and physical. It was number one for 10 weeks 00:04:40.810 --> 00:04:45.290 starting in November of 1982. Sean Faust chimed 00:04:45.290 --> 00:04:48.470 in with Bon Jovi's living on a prayer. And Philip 00:04:48.470 --> 00:04:51.050 Bergman chimed in with Sheena Easton's Morning 00:04:51.050 --> 00:04:53.870 Train, nine to five. Interesting pick there. 00:04:54.149 --> 00:04:56.769 So, Ben, with that, I'm officially pressing the 00:04:56.769 --> 00:04:58.889 record button on our mixtape and the floor is 00:04:58.889 --> 00:05:01.829 yours. Why don't you dive into the song you chose 00:05:01.829 --> 00:05:06.110 to kick off side A? OK, this was a difficult 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:10.769 choice. I know that your own you're expecting 00:05:10.769 --> 00:05:12.990 me to start this list, I think, with something 00:05:12.990 --> 00:05:16.500 that's new wave ish. But what I want to do is 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:19.980 I'm going to go counter to that and start with 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:22.040 something that I think that maybe you might have 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.939 connected with back in the day. I'm going to 00:05:24.939 --> 00:05:28.600 start this mix with White Snakes' Here I Go Again. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.360 Nice. Which came out, it was a number one hit 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:36.720 for one week in 1987. So I'm starting the mix 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.420 with White Snakes' Here I Go Again. Absolutely 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:44.129 classic. hair metal song i know i say hair metal 00:05:44.129 --> 00:05:46.509 power ballad whatever you want to call it i know 00:05:46.509 --> 00:05:48.949 white snake was around a long time before the 00:05:48.949 --> 00:05:52.350 hair metal scene but mtv certainly lumped that 00:05:52.350 --> 00:05:54.689 video in with all the other hair bands at the 00:05:54.689 --> 00:05:57.269 time guns and roses all the other groups that 00:05:57.269 --> 00:05:59.589 were kind of being thrown together into that 00:05:59.589 --> 00:06:03.370 hair band monkey or even though they had styles 00:06:03.370 --> 00:06:07.610 that branched outside of the sunset strip look 00:06:07.610 --> 00:06:11.149 however This song was originally recorded on 00:06:11.149 --> 00:06:14.209 their 82 album Saints and Sinners and then re 00:06:14.209 --> 00:06:17.370 -recorded for the version on their self -titled 00:06:17.370 --> 00:06:20.930 87 album and then re -recorded again that same 00:06:20.930 --> 00:06:24.670 year in a radio mix, which is the one that went 00:06:24.670 --> 00:06:27.769 to number one. Oh, wow. So I guess third time's 00:06:27.769 --> 00:06:30.529 a charm for this song. Obviously, if we mention 00:06:30.529 --> 00:06:34.129 this song and not mention the unforgettable Tawny 00:06:34.129 --> 00:06:36.550 Katane. And the music video, I mean, that is 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:39.269 something that made Jaws drop to the ground. 00:06:39.709 --> 00:06:41.910 I was 10 years old at the time and I'm like, 00:06:41.949 --> 00:06:48.550 what? Most certainly that song was on my list. 00:06:48.670 --> 00:06:52.290 I absolutely love it. So I'm raising the metal 00:06:52.290 --> 00:06:55.629 horns to that one. But that said, I'm not going 00:06:55.629 --> 00:06:57.350 to lie. I expected you to start with something 00:06:57.350 --> 00:06:59.529 new wave. So I kind of knew where I was going 00:06:59.529 --> 00:07:03.319 to go from there. However, with this one. You're 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:07.199 throwing in more of a rock vibe. And I don't 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.339 want to go with another power ballad back to 00:07:09.339 --> 00:07:14.180 back, but I want to keep that heft. And in order 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:16.540 to do that, I want to introduce a little bit 00:07:16.540 --> 00:07:19.980 of a pop sound, but a song that's groove is so 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:25.160 undeniable. And playing alongside of Whitesnake's 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:28.939 Here I Go Again music video, another iconic music 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:32.449 video of the 1980s. was the Claymation masterpiece 00:07:32.449 --> 00:07:37.050 known as Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer from 1986 00:07:37.050 --> 00:07:40.110 is so. So we're still within a year of each other, 00:07:40.149 --> 00:07:42.689 these two songs. And just like Whitesnake, it 00:07:42.689 --> 00:07:46.449 was only number one for one week, July 26, 1986. 00:07:46.970 --> 00:07:50.689 So technically, Ben, you and I have started off 00:07:50.689 --> 00:07:54.410 with two very deep cuts for our number one songs 00:07:54.410 --> 00:07:57.129 playlist. Only one week wonders. Yeah, that's 00:07:57.129 --> 00:08:00.620 an interesting choice. I do both. Peter Gabriel 00:08:00.620 --> 00:08:03.360 and what I think I'm going to follow this up 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.600 with were big influences when I was younger. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.899 I was a huge fan of Peter Gabriel even before 00:08:10.899 --> 00:08:15.199 the So album. But big fans of Peter Gabriel and 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:18.500 then, not to bury the lead here, but the next 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:22.779 song. So what I am going to follow this up with 00:08:22.779 --> 00:08:26.439 is not by any stretch of the imagination what 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.529 I thought was their best song. But I do think 00:08:30.529 --> 00:08:34.490 it was iconic in its own time. And it kind of 00:08:34.490 --> 00:08:38.169 put this band more into the mainstream, I think, 00:08:38.169 --> 00:08:41.669 than they had been previously. I think I know 00:08:41.669 --> 00:08:43.710 where you're heading with this one. Coincidentally, 00:08:43.750 --> 00:08:47.610 this band's song was number one the week before 00:08:47.610 --> 00:08:52.289 Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. So I am going with 00:08:52.289 --> 00:08:54.809 the band Genesis and their song Invisible Touch. 00:08:55.590 --> 00:08:59.149 which also was at number one for a week. But 00:08:59.149 --> 00:09:02.230 there is a Genesis -Peter Gabriel connection 00:09:02.230 --> 00:09:05.190 if you go back far enough back into the 70s, 00:09:05.190 --> 00:09:09.009 if you are into that sort of thing. I was definitely 00:09:09.009 --> 00:09:12.750 aware of these two bands growing up. My father 00:09:12.750 --> 00:09:15.750 was a big fan of Peter Gabriel, and my mom was 00:09:15.750 --> 00:09:18.330 a big fan of Genesis. So I got the best of both 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:21.830 worlds, I think. So both really influential bands 00:09:21.830 --> 00:09:24.580 in my childhood. Genesis and Peter Gabriel. So 00:09:24.580 --> 00:09:26.899 that's a good one -two combo, I think. Could 00:09:26.899 --> 00:09:31.679 not agree more. I mean, Phil Collins was the 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.580 1980s. He had seven number one hits outside of 00:09:35.580 --> 00:09:40.179 Genesis. Right. And outside of Genesis, he spent 00:09:40.179 --> 00:09:44.500 13 weeks at number one. So he was all over the 00:09:44.500 --> 00:09:49.500 80s charts. And Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:51.700 and the Genesis connection going back to back. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.080 I think it's a fantastic touch. No pun intended. 00:09:56.860 --> 00:09:59.820 Own it. Own it, man. Pun intended. Pun intended. 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.379 You're right. And looking at what we have so 00:10:02.379 --> 00:10:04.220 far, I know exactly what I'm going to follow 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:07.559 this up with. And it is one that, believe it 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.120 or not, my wife and I completely disagree on. 00:10:11.299 --> 00:10:14.419 Oh, you discuss these things before you record 00:10:14.419 --> 00:10:19.360 shows. Yes. I adore this song. Her, not so much. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:23.240 Huh. Okay. And we've talked at length just about 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.220 this song. And coming out of Genesis, I want 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:31.100 to go back a little bit more and go off of 1984's 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:34.399 Suddenly. This song spent two weeks at number 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.759 one. So I'm doubling our ante here, going from 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:40.519 One Week Wonders to two weeks now. And I'm going 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.000 to go with Billy Ocean, Caribbean Queen, No More 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.720 Love on the Run. It won a Grammy in 1985 for 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.549 best. male R &B vocal performance, which made 00:10:52.549 --> 00:10:56.309 him the first British artist to win in that category. 00:10:56.690 --> 00:11:02.789 To me, this song is sonically amazing. It's definitely 00:11:02.789 --> 00:11:06.149 got that 80s pop vibe, but the guitar work in 00:11:06.149 --> 00:11:11.289 it, the chunky, it's funky. It is smooth. It's 00:11:11.289 --> 00:11:15.049 just a fun, get up and start dancing type song. 00:11:15.769 --> 00:11:18.250 I love Billy Ocean. He's got such a unique voice 00:11:18.250 --> 00:11:21.669 and a unique tone to the way he delivers vocals. 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:25.110 I feel like coming out of Genesis, we're kind 00:11:25.110 --> 00:11:27.009 of leaning a little bit more poppy now. So I 00:11:27.009 --> 00:11:29.750 think it's a perfect song to come out of Invisible 00:11:29.750 --> 00:11:32.409 Touch. Yeah. And you know that that song that 00:11:32.409 --> 00:11:36.710 had two different previous sort of recordings 00:11:36.710 --> 00:11:42.769 where European Queen and African Queen were recorded. 00:11:43.269 --> 00:11:46.129 Really? I had no idea about those. Yeah, check 00:11:46.129 --> 00:11:48.809 those out because you can find those on YouTube. 00:11:49.330 --> 00:11:52.450 But yeah, it was recorded differently before 00:11:52.450 --> 00:11:56.710 it was re -released and I believe re -recorded 00:11:56.710 --> 00:12:01.309 for the US and they chose that Caribbean Queen 00:12:01.309 --> 00:12:06.710 instead of African or European. It's pretty mind 00:12:06.710 --> 00:12:09.330 -blowing. It's just like completely different 00:12:09.330 --> 00:12:12.090 sounding, feeling song with Caribbean Queen. 00:12:12.250 --> 00:12:14.009 And then also the video was really good too. 00:12:14.570 --> 00:12:16.990 Oh, the video is fantastic. I think that's another 00:12:16.990 --> 00:12:19.850 thing. With number one hits of the 80s, I think 00:12:19.850 --> 00:12:22.269 a lot of times you are going to tie a music video 00:12:22.269 --> 00:12:26.149 to it. Oh, absolutely. Because MTV was such an 00:12:26.149 --> 00:12:29.269 integral part of what made a hit song. Oh, yeah. 00:12:29.389 --> 00:12:32.809 I guess Billy had queens all over the world. 00:12:32.889 --> 00:12:35.090 He covered a worldwide market with this track. 00:12:35.149 --> 00:12:37.690 What can we say? You know, everyone loved his 00:12:37.690 --> 00:12:41.289 voice. He had a very, very velvety, smooth sounding 00:12:41.289 --> 00:12:44.879 voice. Yeah. And the music fit that. Definitely. 00:12:45.059 --> 00:12:47.379 Yeah, I'm not going to lie. That was on my list. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.879 It wasn't, hey, hey, you, you, get into my car. 00:12:51.059 --> 00:12:54.879 Who, me? Yes, you. It wasn't that one. I still 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:56.919 like that one. That was License to Drive, man. 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.179 That's true, License to Drive. I completely forgot 00:13:01.179 --> 00:13:05.200 about that movie. Let's see. What am I going 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:10.320 to? Boy, oh boy. Let's keep the pop vibe going 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:14.070 here. I think you mentioned this on my show, 00:13:14.210 --> 00:13:19.470 actually, this song, where you had, there was 00:13:19.470 --> 00:13:22.190 some sort of a carnival or some sort of an event 00:13:22.190 --> 00:13:25.110 that you went to where it was like you could 00:13:25.110 --> 00:13:28.210 record your own singing to a song. Does that 00:13:28.210 --> 00:13:30.950 ring any bells? Oh, it rings plenty. So I know 00:13:30.950 --> 00:13:34.450 exactly the two songs you could be choosing here. 00:13:34.669 --> 00:13:36.970 Okay. Okay. Well, the song that I'm going to 00:13:36.970 --> 00:13:39.409 choose is the Jay Giles Band. Yeah. I'm going 00:13:39.409 --> 00:13:43.019 to choose Centerfold. which was at the number 00:13:43.019 --> 00:13:48.340 one slot for six weeks in 1982. I think that 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:51.460 following that, it's just got an upbeat. I think 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:54.840 with these two songs, as far as their connection, 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.600 it's just they feel upbeat, right? Oh, yeah. 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:59.860 And they're both love songs too, aren't they? 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:02.860 Sort of? Yeah. Love songs, lust songs, I guess. 00:14:02.899 --> 00:14:06.399 Yeah, I'll allow it. Okay, okay. You can kind 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.820 of see my connection there, right? 100%. So I'm 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:12.090 going to go with... Jake Gilespan, centerfold. 00:14:12.269 --> 00:14:17.269 And you are absolutely right because I was, I 00:14:17.269 --> 00:14:20.789 want to say, eight years old and I went into 00:14:20.789 --> 00:14:25.210 the karaoke booth at Hershey Park. It's right 00:14:25.210 --> 00:14:28.230 Hershey Park. Yeah. And you were able to sing 00:14:28.230 --> 00:14:31.210 any song in the big book of tunes that they had 00:14:31.210 --> 00:14:34.190 waiting to go for you. And sure enough, I chose 00:14:34.190 --> 00:14:37.570 the Jay Giles band's Centerfold, which at the 00:14:37.570 --> 00:14:40.590 time, lyrics went right over my head, man. Like, 00:14:40.590 --> 00:14:42.809 I had no idea. And I listened back to it, and 00:14:42.809 --> 00:14:46.070 I'm like, man, I'm like the Kidz Bop back in 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:50.850 the 1980s. But, you know. And then again. Music 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:53.149 video, when he goes and hits the snare fill and 00:14:53.149 --> 00:14:55.429 the snare head is filled with paint and after 00:14:55.429 --> 00:14:57.730 he hits that last fill, all the cheerleaders 00:14:57.730 --> 00:14:59.850 are dancing around the band. It's yet another 00:14:59.850 --> 00:15:02.889 example of a music video making the song bigger 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:06.090 because in the 80s, MTV really had its finger 00:15:06.090 --> 00:15:09.049 on the pulse of hit songs and the more creative 00:15:09.049 --> 00:15:12.149 and the more memorable the music video, the more 00:15:12.149 --> 00:15:15.529 popular the song became. You know, we could do 00:15:15.529 --> 00:15:19.429 a show and let's not limit it to 80s, right? 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:23.419 But best videos, you know, you made the point 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:27.299 that there's a connection between videos and 00:15:27.299 --> 00:15:31.100 audio even today, although it's less of a selling 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:35.399 sort of device. But that's definitely one of 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.539 those things where it's an 80s trope. It's the. 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.559 Put the paint on the drum and hit the drum thing. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.279 Exactly. I mean, I can think of at least a dozen 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.120 videos that do that whole paint thing. And it 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:49.639 was like they were just trying to figure out 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.700 what the medium was and how to grab your attention, 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.000 right? The whole industry of videos and how they 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.360 sold music back, especially in the MTV days, 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.620 is a very interesting sort of thing to think 00:16:01.620 --> 00:16:05.259 about, I think. Oh, it's completely insane what 00:16:05.259 --> 00:16:08.120 they did in the 80s in order to sell songs. And 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.179 I'll tell you right now, the song I'm following 00:16:10.179 --> 00:16:13.320 up Jay Giles band centerfold with you obviously 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.159 scooped me on that one. There was no way that 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.980 wasn't on my list, but I'm going to go one year 00:16:17.980 --> 00:16:22.259 later, February 5th, 1983, one week at number 00:16:22.259 --> 00:16:26.059 one, staying in that pop vibe, staying with an 00:16:26.059 --> 00:16:31.179 iconic music video and sticking around with a 00:16:31.179 --> 00:16:34.360 song that even younger kids are familiar with 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.070 and love now because of Weezer's. popular cover 00:16:38.070 --> 00:16:42.090 i am going with toto's africa from 1982's toto 00:16:42.090 --> 00:16:45.470 4 this song to me it's one of the songs colburn 00:16:45.470 --> 00:16:47.549 and company has been playing for years it's so 00:16:47.549 --> 00:16:50.950 much fun to play this song and as soon as you 00:16:50.950 --> 00:16:55.669 hit those even if people weren't dancing the 00:16:55.669 --> 00:16:58.769 whole night they are up and grooving and singing 00:16:58.769 --> 00:17:02.490 along this song just people love trying to hit 00:17:02.490 --> 00:17:04.930 the high notes and they're incredible They're 00:17:04.930 --> 00:17:09.150 so hard to hit and nail with the energy that 00:17:09.150 --> 00:17:12.069 is brought to Toto's version. And again, it's 00:17:12.069 --> 00:17:14.470 just one of those songs that is timeless. When 00:17:14.470 --> 00:17:17.190 Weezer did it, Toto's went right back up the 00:17:17.190 --> 00:17:19.230 charts, too, because people realized, oh, yeah, 00:17:19.470 --> 00:17:22.170 this song's amazing. One week at number one. 00:17:22.250 --> 00:17:24.430 I swore it was much longer, though, when I was 00:17:24.430 --> 00:17:27.789 growing up. I didn't like. I mean, that was. 00:17:29.379 --> 00:17:31.559 Not to get negative here, but that wasn't one 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:35.059 of my choices. Oh, okay. For some reason, just 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:37.660 that song, it just doesn't connect with me for 00:17:37.660 --> 00:17:39.740 some reason. I mean, I see nothing wrong with 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:41.460 that. If a song doesn't resonate with you, then 00:17:41.460 --> 00:17:43.420 it doesn't resonate with you. It's all subjective. 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.839 Let me just say, though, I think Toto deserves 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.720 to be on this list. The song doesn't bring me 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.240 enjoyment. But I think it definitely belongs 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.799 on this tape because it connected with a lot 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.980 of people. And it's still connected with a lot 00:17:56.980 --> 00:17:59.900 of people today because people, when that whole 00:17:59.900 --> 00:18:03.559 business with, wasn't it a request for Weezer 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.019 to cover that? Someone requested it online? Yes, 00:18:05.019 --> 00:18:07.279 it was an internet request. They were trying 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.819 to just get the band to do it. And then the band 00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:13.099 told everybody by covering Toto, but they released 00:18:13.099 --> 00:18:16.099 Rosanna as a single. And everybody... thought 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:18.339 it was like the greatest troll job, and then 00:18:18.339 --> 00:18:20.339 two days later they put out the cover of Africa 00:18:20.339 --> 00:18:22.960 as well. Yeah, that's great. And that's one of 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.819 those things that it obviously has a connection 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:26.960 with people, so it deserves to be on this list. 00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:30.240 I thought you were going to follow Centerfold 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.799 up with another song that was, when you were 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.480 mentioning people covering, I want to say, was 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.079 it Real Big Fish that covered this? If you're 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.380 talking about A -ha's take on me, the answer 00:18:42.380 --> 00:18:45.789 is yes. No, it was someone else. If it's Come 00:18:45.789 --> 00:18:49.029 On Eileen, that's Save Ferris. Save Ferris, that's 00:18:49.029 --> 00:18:52.410 who it is. So yes, I'm going to follow up Africa 00:18:52.410 --> 00:18:57.190 with Dexy's Midnight Runners from 1983, Come 00:18:57.190 --> 00:19:01.049 On Eileen, which spent one week at number one 00:19:01.049 --> 00:19:04.769 also. Such an amazing song. I love save Ferris's 00:19:04.769 --> 00:19:07.509 version in the nineties so much because the horns 00:19:07.509 --> 00:19:11.210 and that whole real big fish Scott scene. If 00:19:11.210 --> 00:19:13.230 you listen to this show, you know, I'm a huge 00:19:13.230 --> 00:19:16.349 fan of it. The original is amazing. And I'll 00:19:16.349 --> 00:19:20.190 be honest. I was not the biggest fan of come 00:19:20.190 --> 00:19:23.990 on Eileen until I heard safe Ferris's version. 00:19:24.309 --> 00:19:26.589 And then I went back to the original and I'm 00:19:26.589 --> 00:19:29.049 like, Oh, I get this now. I get why this song 00:19:29.049 --> 00:19:32.039 is so amazing. Like as a kid, it didn't, Hit 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.339 me. And then when I heard, say, Ferris do it, 00:19:34.339 --> 00:19:36.940 it made me look at the original with a new light. 00:19:37.059 --> 00:19:39.779 And I've loved the song ever since. I think that's 00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:43.099 also exactly what happens with Toto, right? It's 00:19:43.099 --> 00:19:45.519 like a lot of people did that, too. I'm sure 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:47.920 they hear the Weezer version and then they go 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:49.660 back to the original and they go, oh, man, this 00:19:49.660 --> 00:19:52.200 is so great. And that's why I'm such a huge fan 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.619 of cover songs, because you're paying homage 00:19:54.619 --> 00:19:56.700 to a song that you love and then putting your 00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:59.200 own spin on it. And you would think naturally 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.420 to come out of that, I would go to a cover song, 00:20:01.579 --> 00:20:05.140 but I'm not. But I am going to stick with this 00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:08.579 vibe because I know my band plays Centerfold 00:20:08.579 --> 00:20:11.660 and Africa, and we just got a female singer over 00:20:11.660 --> 00:20:13.539 the last year that's joined us. We're going to 00:20:13.539 --> 00:20:16.740 be doing Come On Eileen. So we've got this section 00:20:16.740 --> 00:20:19.079 of the mixtape that people are up and dancing 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.519 right now. And I want to keep that going. And 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:24.900 I'm going to go with one that might actually 00:20:24.900 --> 00:20:30.059 be seen. As an actual deep cut, because I don't 00:20:30.059 --> 00:20:32.019 know if this would be everyone's go -to song, 00:20:32.140 --> 00:20:35.859 but for me, it's one of my absolute favorites 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:40.059 from the entire decade. The baseline hooks me 00:20:40.059 --> 00:20:42.980 in right from the beginning. And it's just one 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:46.019 of those songs that every time it comes on in 00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:48.599 the car, it always, whoever I'm with, it makes 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.539 them light up. Oh my God. I remember this one. 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.920 Spent one week at number one, November 12th, 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:58.680 1988. From the album of the same name, I am going 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:05.460 with Escape Club, Wild Wild West. Oh boy. Nice. 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.160 I love this song so much, even from the whole 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.960 part where they break it down to this quasi reggae 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:14.859 section in the middle. It's just such a fun dance 00:21:14.859 --> 00:21:18.400 song that my cover band back in the 2000s used 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.130 to break this out. And it got such a pop from 00:21:21.130 --> 00:21:23.869 the crowd because it's one of those earworms 00:21:23.869 --> 00:21:25.950 that when the song starts and the drum beats 00:21:25.950 --> 00:21:28.029 going, you're like, oh, what is this song? And 00:21:28.029 --> 00:21:30.009 then all of a sudden you hear the doom, doom, 00:21:30.029 --> 00:21:32.910 doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. And people 00:21:32.910 --> 00:21:35.549 start going, oh my God, why do I know this? And 00:21:35.549 --> 00:21:38.089 as soon as you start singing the lyrics, everyone's 00:21:38.089 --> 00:21:41.269 like, oh, I remember this one. That's why I'm 00:21:41.269 --> 00:21:43.569 going for that now. Escape Club, Wild Wild West. 00:21:43.970 --> 00:21:46.950 That's a good choice. Good choice. All right. 00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:56.599 Escape Club. Wow. West. Wow. What do I follow 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.640 that up with? My goodness. Okay. I don't know 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:05.160 if there's a direct connection to these two bands, 00:22:05.339 --> 00:22:08.660 but I don't know why Escape Club, when you said 00:22:08.660 --> 00:22:11.759 that, for some reason in excess popped into my 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:17.069 head. So I'm going to go with. Need You Tonight 00:22:17.069 --> 00:22:23.990 by NXS from also 1988, right? That was 1988 for 00:22:23.990 --> 00:22:26.289 Escape Club. So, yeah, I'm going to go with that 00:22:26.289 --> 00:22:30.730 as a follow up to Wild Wild West. Right at the 00:22:30.730 --> 00:22:34.750 beginning, January 30th, 1988, another one week 00:22:34.750 --> 00:22:37.690 hit, but a great one at that. I mean, come on, 00:22:37.710 --> 00:22:41.190 you think about iconic dance songs. The video 00:22:41.190 --> 00:22:44.089 is very memorable. And then you fast forward, 00:22:44.369 --> 00:22:47.880 I don't know, 12. 12 years later and the song 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.240 gets reinvigorated in the pop culture conversation 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:54.900 because of the movie coyote ugly oh yeah yeah 00:22:54.900 --> 00:22:57.759 i mean this song is absolutely fantastic kick 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.680 is my favorite in excess album so i'm so thrilled 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:02.279 you went with that one because that's one less 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.579 one i got to deal with trying to squeeze in and 00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:08.019 i know what i'm going to end the side with you 00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:10.140 started with one that was known as kind of a 00:23:10.140 --> 00:23:12.700 power ballad and i'm going to end the side with 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:16.190 one that's kind of a power ballad This song spent 00:23:16.190 --> 00:23:18.150 two weeks at number one. I'm going to go to the 00:23:18.150 --> 00:23:22.329 end of this spectrum here with July 22nd, 1989. 00:23:23.329 --> 00:23:28.269 From her self -titled 1988 album Martika, I'm 00:23:28.269 --> 00:23:31.470 going with Toy Soldiers to close out Side A. 00:23:31.869 --> 00:23:35.829 Little heft, beautiful song, amazing vocals. 00:23:36.539 --> 00:23:40.059 Again, iconic video. You could not escape that 00:23:40.059 --> 00:23:42.299 song. I'm actually shocked it was only number 00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:44.559 one for two weeks. Because at that point, you 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:46.539 couldn't put on any radio station and not hear 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:49.960 Toy Soldiers. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's a good 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:53.220 closer song. Definitely. Absolutely. Well, there 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:56.359 you have it, folks. Side A of our number one 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.420 hits of the 80s mixtape, which kicked off with 00:23:59.420 --> 00:24:02.359 White Snakes' Here I Go Again, Peter Gabriel's 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.779 Sledgehammer, Genesis' Invisible Touch, Billy 00:24:05.779 --> 00:24:08.519 Ocean, Caribbean Queen, No More Love on the Run, 00:24:09.019 --> 00:24:13.519 Jay Guile's band Centerfold, Toto's Africa, Dexy's 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.279 Midnight Runners, Come on Eileen, Escape Club, 00:24:16.500 --> 00:24:19.160 Wild Wild West, In Excess, Need You Tonight, 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:24.160 and Martika Toy Soldiers. Head over to myweeklymixtape 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:27.200 .com to hear all the songs we've discussed in 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.059 this mix through the playlist embedded on the 00:24:30.059 --> 00:24:33.750 episode page. Now, before we flip our proverbial 00:24:33.750 --> 00:24:36.849 mixtape over, Ben, there's been a lot going on 00:24:36.849 --> 00:24:39.109 over at Too Vague. Why don't you catch us up 00:24:39.109 --> 00:24:41.849 as to what's been going on at the show? Oh, boy. 00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:45.269 Yeah, we've had a lot of connections that we 00:24:45.269 --> 00:24:48.690 made back when I was at Penny Arcade Expo back 00:24:48.690 --> 00:24:52.769 in September. So we've had a lot of developers 00:24:52.769 --> 00:24:55.769 who've been on the show recently, have a new 00:24:55.769 --> 00:24:59.509 somewhat regular co -host in Andrew who has been 00:24:59.509 --> 00:25:03.150 on the show. more frequently now, uh, that he's, 00:25:03.150 --> 00:25:06.829 I like to, maybe I've, maybe I'm taking some 00:25:06.829 --> 00:25:09.730 credit here, but he's, uh, he's gotten into the 00:25:09.730 --> 00:25:14.750 audacity recording himself sort of vibe. So now 00:25:14.750 --> 00:25:17.450 he's excited about doing that. So we're recording 00:25:17.450 --> 00:25:20.250 remotely and, and making good quality stuff together. 00:25:20.329 --> 00:25:23.829 So he's like my, my new regular cohost. We just 00:25:23.829 --> 00:25:26.930 created a new promo that, uh, I think you're 00:25:26.930 --> 00:25:29.289 going to play, right? Sure thing. Let's do it. 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.259 Welcome aboard Two Vague Airlines. We're cruising 00:25:32.259 --> 00:25:35.240 here at 40 ,000 feet. That might be too many 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.660 feet, but what do I know? I'm not really an airplane. 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.819 I'm a podcaster. Actually, I'm a co -podcaster. 00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:44.619 I'm the co -host of several episodes of the Two 00:25:44.619 --> 00:25:47.460 Vague Podcast. If you haven't heard it, you're 00:25:47.460 --> 00:25:49.460 missing out. 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But now we're going 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:29.279 to kick off Side B, and I have the pleasure or 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.859 pain of kicking things off. You know what the 00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:36.859 answer to that question is? Yes. Exactly. Only 00:26:36.859 --> 00:26:39.359 it's not a song by Yes. I am going to go back 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:44.400 to 1985, and I am going to go with a song that 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:48.289 spent two weeks at number one. And I'm not going 00:26:48.289 --> 00:26:50.650 to say much about the song. All I'm going to 00:26:50.650 --> 00:26:53.869 say it's back to the future. Huey Lewis in the 00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:57.769 news. The power of love. Episode 23 with Bill 00:26:57.769 --> 00:27:00.490 Gibson. Please go back and listen to that because 00:27:00.490 --> 00:27:03.549 he talks about the power of love better than 00:27:03.549 --> 00:27:06.650 I ever could because he played drums on the song. 00:27:07.349 --> 00:27:09.549 Absolutely amazing track. One of my favorites 00:27:09.549 --> 00:27:12.210 from the band and kicking off side be the power 00:27:12.210 --> 00:27:16.160 of love. Huey Lewis in the news. Boy. That is 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:22.059 a wonderful choice. The power of love. So let's 00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:26.319 go with a love song or another one of these. 00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:31.539 Is it really a love song kind of songs? I know 00:27:31.539 --> 00:27:35.039 power of love is more about how love can conquer 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:39.319 all, not just love as a concept of you love someone, 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:43.059 right? It's the power of love. of everyone, or 00:27:43.059 --> 00:27:45.119 maybe I'm reading too much into it. Is that kind 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:46.880 of like, what do you think of when you think 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:51.000 of the power of love? I think about love as the 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.579 actual feeling that you have with somebody else 00:27:53.579 --> 00:27:56.019 is the way I always took the song. Yeah. I thought 00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:58.619 of it as more of the power of love makes the 00:27:58.619 --> 00:28:02.299 world go round as in love for your fellow man. 00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:05.380 Sure. That could work too. And that's the beauty 00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:07.779 of these lyrics. You could just take it any way 00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:11.230 you want. Exactly. Well, But that being said, 00:28:11.309 --> 00:28:14.049 I'm going to use your definition of love here 00:28:14.049 --> 00:28:19.130 and I am going to go with the song. For some 00:28:19.130 --> 00:28:21.849 reason, one of my favorite songs, we're going 00:28:21.849 --> 00:28:26.190 to take it back to 1981 and we are going to go 00:28:26.190 --> 00:28:30.829 with actor turned rock music. I don't know if 00:28:30.829 --> 00:28:33.490 it's, I don't know which way it happened if he 00:28:33.490 --> 00:28:36.470 was doing acting and then he became a rock star 00:28:36.470 --> 00:28:39.329 or rock star and then he became an actor. I'm 00:28:39.329 --> 00:28:41.549 not sure I'm going to leave that to you. You 00:28:41.549 --> 00:28:44.009 are the history guy, but I'm going to go with 00:28:44.009 --> 00:28:47.930 to follow up the power of love. Rick Springfield's 00:28:47.930 --> 00:28:50.970 Jesse's Girl, which spent two weeks at number 00:28:50.970 --> 00:28:56.970 one in 1981. Rick Springfield. Absolutely love 00:28:56.970 --> 00:28:59.730 it. Anybody who's ever been in a cover band. 00:29:00.990 --> 00:29:03.960 It's one of those songs where. When you're not 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.680 in a cover band and it comes on, you enjoy it. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.339 If you're playing in a cover band and it comes 00:29:08.339 --> 00:29:10.740 on, you go, oh, God, not again. Because that 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:17.240 is a song that you cannot. It is so iconic. The 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:20.099 riff that Neil Giraldo came up with, who, if 00:29:20.099 --> 00:29:22.420 that name sounds familiar, it's Pat Benatar's 00:29:22.420 --> 00:29:26.519 husband and guitarist, wrote Jessie's Girl, along 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:28.460 with Hit Me With Your Best Shot and all of Pat 00:29:28.460 --> 00:29:32.059 Benatar's amazing hits. Incredible song. Absolutely 00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:38.930 love it. Yeah, just the way it starts out, too, 00:29:39.049 --> 00:29:41.849 is just so great. This song also has a special 00:29:41.849 --> 00:29:44.750 place in my heart because one of my favorite 00:29:44.750 --> 00:29:47.769 albums as a kid in the 80s was Chipmunk Punk. 00:29:48.250 --> 00:29:51.990 And on the album Chipmunk Rock, Alvin and the 00:29:51.990 --> 00:29:57.750 Chipmunks do a version of Jessie's Girl. okay 00:29:57.750 --> 00:30:01.009 all right and i if i'm not mistaken if my childhood 00:30:01.009 --> 00:30:04.470 memory serves me correct it's jesse's got a squirrel 00:30:04.470 --> 00:30:11.910 and i want to make her mine oh boy but absolutely 00:30:11.910 --> 00:30:15.329 i love the song it's on my list totally scooped 00:30:15.329 --> 00:30:18.390 me thank you it's great and i think i know what 00:30:18.390 --> 00:30:20.410 i'm going to come out of that with let me just 00:30:20.410 --> 00:30:23.890 say i have a request if you can find that chipmunks 00:30:23.890 --> 00:30:26.519 version you need to include it as a bonus track 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:29.180 on this thing. Cause I, because we need to hear 00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:31.839 that. I will see if it's on, at least on YouTube. 00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:34.460 If it is, I will embed it over at my weekly mixtape 00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:38.200 .com. Yeah. That'll bring joy to several people's 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:42.000 lives. Yes. Well, following that up, Jesse's 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.319 girls playing, everybody's up on the dance floor. 00:30:44.380 --> 00:30:47.019 We want to keep that dance floor cranked right 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:49.680 now. And I'm going to go with the song that as 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.759 soon as Jesse's girl ends, the drums kick in. 00:30:53.579 --> 00:30:58.079 and we're about to cut loose 1984 footloose three 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:02.039 weeks at number one by the incredible kenny loggins 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:06.519 the soundtrack king of the 1980s bringing the 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:09.099 fire with a song that even when they remade the 00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:12.039 movie and the song was redone by blake shelton 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:14.680 doesn't hold a candle to kenny loggins original 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.279 so much fun such an iconic track and that is 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:20.890 what i am following up jesse's girl with And 00:31:20.890 --> 00:31:23.390 an iconic musician, like you mentioned, like 00:31:23.390 --> 00:31:26.529 as far as movie soundtracks, he was also Caddyshack, 00:31:26.609 --> 00:31:30.049 wasn't he? He had I'm All Right. I don't know 00:31:30.049 --> 00:31:32.490 if that was a number one at any point, but it 00:31:32.490 --> 00:31:34.690 was definitely one of those songs that I remember 00:31:34.690 --> 00:31:37.779 hearing a lot in my youth. We talk about this 00:31:37.779 --> 00:31:41.039 a lot on episode 18, the 80s soundtrack episode, 00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:44.960 because Kenny Loggins was all over the 80s. If 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.119 you think about Caddyshack 1 with I'm Alright, 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:49.500 then you can even fast forward to Caddyshack 00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:52.900 2, Nobody's Fool. You have Top Gun, Danger Zone. 00:31:53.140 --> 00:31:56.099 You have Over the Top, Meet Me Halfway. And then 00:31:56.099 --> 00:31:58.599 you have Footloose as well. Footloose definitely 00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:03.099 is a great song and very dancey. And what are 00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:05.559 you going to follow it up with? Boy, oh boy. 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:09.720 Well, That is the question, Brian. That is the 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:13.640 question. Wasn't Footloose a movie about how 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.559 rock music is bad? It was against the law. Yeah, 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.759 rock music. So let's put this in the face of 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:24.839 that town, right? Let's do this. Let's say the 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.059 next track that I'm going to follow up Footloose 00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:29.680 with is Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' I Love 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.960 Rock and Roll. We'll do that. Because thematically, 00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:35.839 I think it makes sense. You're saying, hey, town. 00:32:36.490 --> 00:32:39.029 No, no, no. I love rock and roll. So let's go 00:32:39.029 --> 00:32:41.769 with that as the connection. Kind of a stretch, 00:32:41.890 --> 00:32:43.990 but you know, hey, I think it connects to the 00:32:43.990 --> 00:32:47.130 movie. So I'm going to do that. Absolutely love 00:32:47.130 --> 00:32:50.430 it. Seven weeks at number one. Again, you scooped 00:32:50.430 --> 00:32:53.849 me, obviously. Recorded by the Arrows originally 00:32:53.849 --> 00:32:57.789 in 1975. We talked about this song on the Songs 00:32:57.789 --> 00:33:01.170 You Didn't Know Were Covers episode because there's 00:33:01.170 --> 00:33:03.730 a lot of people that don't know I Love Rock and 00:33:03.730 --> 00:33:06.589 Roll was originally recorded by the Arrows. And 00:33:06.589 --> 00:33:10.829 just assume Joan Jets is the first one. And it's 00:33:10.829 --> 00:33:14.950 so iconic and so important to rock music in the 00:33:14.950 --> 00:33:17.150 early 80s. People do forget about the Arrows 00:33:17.150 --> 00:33:20.210 version. And then obviously, you know the song 00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:24.490 is important to the world of music because Weird 00:33:24.490 --> 00:33:27.809 Al blessed it with his amazing cover, I Love 00:33:27.809 --> 00:33:31.569 Rocky Road. I mean, you know you're important 00:33:31.569 --> 00:33:34.210 when Weird Al covers your song. This is true. 00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:37.519 So now coming out of that, I actually know what 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.599 I'm going to do. This past weekend, I discovered 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:44.440 a box of old cassettes. Oh, okay. And in that 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:49.380 box of old cassettes was a cassette that was 00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:55.720 made by me in 1987. I was 10 years old. Okay. 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.380 And the cassette was called the Get Down Rock 00:33:59.380 --> 00:34:04.039 Party. The get down rock party. The get down 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:08.019 rock party. And it kicked off in New York. There 00:34:08.019 --> 00:34:11.739 was a radio DJ, Scott Shannon, who had a morning 00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:15.900 show, the Z morning zoo at that point. One of 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:18.599 the people that went around to all the different 00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:21.940 radio promos was a guy named Mr. Leonard. And 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:25.780 this cassette opens up with Mr. Leonard singing. 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:30.440 karaoke over k kaiser's three little fishies 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.800 okay okay now i know i know none of this makes 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.780 sense but it's getting to the point following 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.860 that up i'm sitting there with tears in my eyes 00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:44.780 listening to this song that unlocked a memory 00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:48.679 that i hadn't had in 30 years and then it ended 00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:52.429 and then the cassette did a little Like a couple 00:34:52.429 --> 00:34:53.989 of bits of talking because I was trying to catch 00:34:53.989 --> 00:34:57.210 the right song. And then sure enough, you hear 00:34:57.210 --> 00:35:01.489 a crowd screaming and the drums kick in. And 00:35:01.489 --> 00:35:06.250 I have Billy Idol with his live cover following 00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:09.369 up the I Love Rock and Roll cover of Money Money 00:35:09.369 --> 00:35:12.809 that was released in advance of his Vital Idol 00:35:12.809 --> 00:35:16.969 album. And I think hindsight made me always think 00:35:16.969 --> 00:35:20.230 that the song we heard on the radio was the 81. 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:25.239 Money Money B -side. It wasn't because on this 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:28.380 cassette was the live version and it made me 00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:31.260 go back this past weekend and look up the live 00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:34.179 version is now streaming on Spotify. So this 00:35:34.179 --> 00:35:36.659 was the version they did specifically to promote 00:35:36.659 --> 00:35:40.639 the Vital Idol comp. And let's be honest, the 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.199 song Money Money is played at every single wedding 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.980 that you've ever been to ever. And it was a number 00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:50.139 one hit for him. So it has to be on the list. 00:35:50.590 --> 00:35:55.010 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. All right. You see, that's 00:35:55.010 --> 00:36:02.429 a big. Yeah. Yeah. I'll say, yeah. Yeah. Money, 00:36:02.550 --> 00:36:07.190 money. Boy, what am I going to cover? What am 00:36:07.190 --> 00:36:10.489 I going to cover that with? What am I going to 00:36:10.489 --> 00:36:13.349 follow up that cover with is what I was trying 00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:17.389 to say. So I am going to follow a cover with 00:36:17.389 --> 00:36:20.309 a cover. A cover that follows a cover that follows 00:36:20.309 --> 00:36:24.750 a cover. I guess maybe go back a little bit to 00:36:24.750 --> 00:36:29.829 my sort of what I would consider new wave roots, 00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:32.130 I guess, because I would consider this sort of 00:36:32.130 --> 00:36:34.269 part of the new wave. Even though they had their 00:36:34.269 --> 00:36:36.489 popularity, they were still a little bit under 00:36:36.489 --> 00:36:40.989 the radar. But I'm going to go with Bananarama's 00:36:40.989 --> 00:36:46.849 Venus from 1986. One week at number one, but 00:36:46.849 --> 00:36:51.420 yep. banana Rama Venus. I had that 45. They, 00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:53.599 the three singers sang the whole song together. 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.980 That was kind of like their thing. They didn't 00:36:55.980 --> 00:36:59.840 harmonize. They all sang the same notes together 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:03.840 and it gave a very unique sound. And the original 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.760 done by shocking blue back in 1969 is definitely 00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:11.539 a lot more of a psychedelic kind of rock song. 00:37:11.659 --> 00:37:14.019 So I love that they turned it into a dance anthem 00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:17.019 in the eighties. It works so well. Yeah, absolutely. 00:37:17.900 --> 00:37:21.039 Well, following that up, we've only got two picks 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:24.360 each. Oh, boy. So we got to start bringing the 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:27.800 home run tracks in. Okay. And when I think of 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.159 home run songs of the 1980s, you have to go with 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.719 the artists that kind of dominated the charts. 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:39.360 And this artist had the most number one singles 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.260 of the 80s and spent the most weeks at number 00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:47.929 one. That artist being Michael Jackson. I don't 00:37:47.929 --> 00:37:49.550 think you could talk about a number one hits 00:37:49.550 --> 00:37:52.110 of the 1980s mixtape and not include the person 00:37:52.110 --> 00:37:55.530 who had the most number one songs. But coming 00:37:55.530 --> 00:37:57.829 out of Venus, I got to go with one of my favorite 00:37:57.829 --> 00:38:02.250 tunes ever from him. Billie Jean off of Thriller. 00:38:02.849 --> 00:38:07.409 Song is absolutely incredible. The baseline in 00:38:07.409 --> 00:38:11.250 it is funky. The beat. You think about the moonwalk 00:38:11.250 --> 00:38:14.329 in the music video. There was so much that just 00:38:14.329 --> 00:38:18.300 made this song. Such a moment in musical history. 00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:21.559 Doing the moonwalk on stage when he did the live 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.579 performance, it blew people's minds. Seven weeks 00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:29.159 at number one, starting March 5th, 1983. So when 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.659 you think about it, Billie Jean was one of the 00:38:31.659 --> 00:38:34.480 biggest songs of 1983. The album was released 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:38.260 in 82 and still should be in the conversation 00:38:38.260 --> 00:38:41.780 for both years because Thriller was basically 00:38:41.780 --> 00:38:44.460 all over the charts for the entire reign of that 00:38:44.460 --> 00:38:48.230 album. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And then you 00:38:48.230 --> 00:38:50.429 look at this list and it's just like Michael 00:38:50.429 --> 00:38:53.230 Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson. But 00:38:53.230 --> 00:38:58.670 then as you reach the middle of the 80s, I start 00:38:58.670 --> 00:39:02.010 seeing what I'm going to probably follow this 00:39:02.010 --> 00:39:04.929 up with the artist. You start seeing Janet Jackson, 00:39:05.090 --> 00:39:09.230 Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson here. So I think 00:39:09.230 --> 00:39:12.369 and not to, you know, not to not they were both. 00:39:12.989 --> 00:39:16.610 very different artists i know that janet jackson 00:39:16.610 --> 00:39:19.750 kind of went out on her own with her breakout 00:39:19.750 --> 00:39:23.550 break away from the family album what was the 00:39:23.550 --> 00:39:26.050 name of the album gosh darn it control control 00:39:26.050 --> 00:39:29.869 that was it yes control the control album was 00:39:29.869 --> 00:39:33.630 sort of her kind of i'm gonna do this my way 00:39:33.630 --> 00:39:37.030 sort of thing and then so from that point forward 00:39:37.030 --> 00:39:39.969 you started seeing janet jackson rack up the 00:39:39.969 --> 00:39:44.059 hits and doing it her way right I am going to 00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:46.079 follow this up, the Michael Jackson with the 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.960 Janet Jackson. I don't know if that's, I hope 00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.860 that's not too telegraphed, but I'm going to 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:55.679 go with When I Think of You. It was only at number 00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:58.440 one for two weeks, but I mean, it's definitely 00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:00.960 one of the Janet Jackson songs that I remember 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:06.099 fondly. So 1986, Janet Jackson, When I Think 00:40:06.099 --> 00:40:08.400 of You is what I'm going to follow up Michael 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.119 Jackson with. Is that too predictable to telegraph? 00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:14.880 Do you disagree with that? Not at all. Okay. 00:40:14.980 --> 00:40:18.420 Keep it in the family, man. Yeah, and I think 00:40:18.420 --> 00:40:22.239 Janet Jackson kind of dominated the early 90s 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.760 herself, right? I mean, she started racking up 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.400 the hits on her own. She started. This was on 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:29.679 the Control album, so this was all a big part 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:33.079 of the late 80s, 100%. Oh, yeah. And now I'm 00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:35.199 going to lean into the female aspect of things, 00:40:35.260 --> 00:40:37.119 because you brought on a very popular female 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:40.650 artist of... The 80s. And I have two that I could 00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:43.510 easily flip a coin with. They're two of my favorite 00:40:43.510 --> 00:40:46.710 singers, one that leans more rock and one that 00:40:46.710 --> 00:40:49.750 leans more R &B. And I think looking at this 00:40:49.750 --> 00:40:51.730 side as a whole, the side has been kind of a 00:40:51.730 --> 00:40:55.650 rockier side versus side one. And as my last 00:40:55.650 --> 00:40:58.230 pick of the night, because it is one of my favorite 00:40:58.230 --> 00:41:01.409 power ballads of all time, spent three weeks 00:41:01.409 --> 00:41:06.389 at number one. july 11th 1987 we had toy soldiers 00:41:06.389 --> 00:41:09.849 was my last pick for side a for side b i want 00:41:09.849 --> 00:41:12.849 to close with a big massive power ballot at least 00:41:12.849 --> 00:41:16.789 for my contributions and i'm going off of 1987's 00:41:16.789 --> 00:41:21.550 bad animals the incredible ann wilson and nancy 00:41:21.550 --> 00:41:23.130 wilson you can't you got to keep them both in 00:41:23.130 --> 00:41:26.550 this discussion heart alone their cover again 00:41:26.550 --> 00:41:28.929 another cover song you might not have known was 00:41:28.929 --> 00:41:31.829 a cover but i tended it originally Go back to 00:41:31.829 --> 00:41:33.650 that Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers episode 00:41:33.650 --> 00:41:35.969 to hear more about this one. One of my favorite 00:41:35.969 --> 00:41:38.590 Heart songs ever, cover or not, Heart made it 00:41:38.590 --> 00:41:42.230 their own version, and it's an unbelievable song. 00:41:42.849 --> 00:41:47.769 Oh yeah, absolutely. And I think for me, my thought 00:41:47.769 --> 00:41:50.309 of whenever I heard of Heart, at one point in 00:41:50.309 --> 00:41:53.110 my life, it was always Barracuda. But they were 00:41:53.110 --> 00:41:55.750 really good at doing those anthems, those big 00:41:55.750 --> 00:41:58.909 crowd -pleasing, like Alone is. It just has a... 00:41:59.179 --> 00:42:01.960 Sort of like you can totally feel it being played 00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:05.340 in an arena and getting people juiced, right? 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.159 100%. It's just an amazing song. Yeah, that's 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:12.260 a great choice to wrap it up. And now you get 00:42:12.260 --> 00:42:15.480 to wrap up the whole evening. Yeah. And here's 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:18.019 the thing. This is kind of, I mean, there are 00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:21.940 songs I want to close this off with, but I think 00:42:21.940 --> 00:42:27.139 it would be a crime if we excluded this artist 00:42:27.139 --> 00:42:55.110 from. Please tell me it's the title track to 00:42:55.110 --> 00:42:58.519 Who's That Girl. It is the title track to Who's 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:02.239 That Girl. I love it. Yes. For some reason, that 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.860 movie, I watched it so many times. Love that 00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:09.539 song. And there's a quote from that movie that 00:43:09.539 --> 00:43:12.400 I absolutely love. And I'm going to say it right 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.940 now. It's, you know, Loudon, who is the guy who 00:43:15.940 --> 00:43:19.719 has the Madonna character kind of tagging along. 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.019 They're trying to figure stuff out. He says, 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.400 we did one of your things already. We murdered 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:26.219 the pimp and the fat man. Now it's time to do 00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:29.920 one of my things. So let's wrap it up with that. 00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:33.920 Amazing song. I'll never forget. We were on vacation 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:37.579 in Nantucket. I was with my folks up there for 00:43:37.579 --> 00:43:40.460 a week and we wanted to go to a movie one night 00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:42.139 and that was the only thing showing and my parents 00:43:42.139 --> 00:43:45.050 were like, whatever. I'm sure it's fine. It's 00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:47.829 air conditioned. Let's go. And I loved it. I 00:43:47.829 --> 00:43:49.650 love the song. I went out and got the soundtrack 00:43:49.650 --> 00:43:52.289 afterwards. It's one of my all time favorite 00:43:52.289 --> 00:43:55.650 Madonna songs. So I absolutely love it. Ending 00:43:55.650 --> 00:43:59.070 out. Awesome. Our side B, which kicked off with 00:43:59.070 --> 00:44:01.889 Huey Lewis in the news. The power of love. Rick 00:44:01.889 --> 00:44:05.449 Springfield's Jesse's girl. Kenny Loggins footloose. 00:44:05.670 --> 00:44:08.090 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. I love rock and 00:44:08.090 --> 00:44:11.090 roll. Billy Idol's live version of Moni Moni. 00:44:11.150 --> 00:44:14.380 Banana Ram is Venus. Michael Jackson's Billie 00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:17.780 Jean, Janet Jackson's When I Think of You, Hearts 00:44:17.780 --> 00:44:21.340 Alone, and Madonna's Who's That Girl. Head over 00:44:21.340 --> 00:44:24.179 to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs 00:44:24.179 --> 00:44:27.420 we've discussed in this mix through the playlist 00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:31.360 embedded on the episode page. I asked this on 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.300 the last show, but is there a track that you 00:44:34.300 --> 00:44:37.260 wanted to put in there that didn't quite fit 00:44:37.260 --> 00:44:40.360 for some reason? Because I do have one in mind 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.650 that I really wanted to put in there. But it 00:44:42.650 --> 00:44:45.630 just didn't present itself, the opportunity. 00:44:46.489 --> 00:44:50.989 Well, I feel like in terms of deserving to be 00:44:50.989 --> 00:44:53.909 on there, the two that are missing are one that 00:44:53.909 --> 00:44:55.969 was called out at the beginning of the show by 00:44:55.969 --> 00:44:58.090 Seeker, Olivia Newton -John's physical, because 00:44:58.090 --> 00:45:02.730 it had the longest reign. And then for me, I 00:45:02.730 --> 00:45:05.309 feel awful that I did not include my first ever 00:45:05.309 --> 00:45:08.389 crush in life. Tiffany's I Think We're Alone 00:45:08.389 --> 00:45:11.409 Now cover. I'm actually feeling tangible guilt 00:45:11.409 --> 00:45:14.710 right now because she started her big mall tour 00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:16.710 right here in New Jersey at the Bergen Mall. 00:45:17.349 --> 00:45:21.670 And I didn't include that. I'm looking through 00:45:21.670 --> 00:45:23.690 this list kicking myself. We have to do a volume 00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:25.849 two at some point. There's just no way. What 00:45:25.849 --> 00:45:28.989 kind of Jersey boy are you, man? Not including. 00:45:31.050 --> 00:45:33.989 What was your one that didn't fit? Okay, this 00:45:33.989 --> 00:45:37.179 is more of a guilty pleasure one, right? For 00:45:37.179 --> 00:45:40.840 some reason, I love the song by the Steve Miller 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:44.179 band, Abracadabra. Oh, great. I don't know what 00:45:44.179 --> 00:45:48.079 it was. It was something about that song. I wasn't 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:51.059 a big Steve Miller band fan, but that song, for 00:45:51.059 --> 00:45:54.019 some reason, just was like, it was just a good 00:45:54.019 --> 00:45:56.340 feeling song. It was kind of ridiculous. It was 00:45:56.340 --> 00:45:59.420 like, what does it mean? But then again, I think 00:45:59.420 --> 00:46:02.019 that's kind of the 80s. What does it mean? 100%. 00:46:02.019 --> 00:46:05.369 So, yeah, Abracadabra was great. Yeah, and then 00:46:05.369 --> 00:46:07.889 in the 90s, Sugar Ray did a cover of it, and 00:46:07.889 --> 00:46:11.389 it brought the song back again. Yep, yep. Still 00:46:11.389 --> 00:46:13.829 prefer the Steve Miller version, but... Oh yeah, 00:46:13.929 --> 00:46:16.590 Steve is an icon. Well, if you're out there listening, 00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:18.590 and there was a number one hit that you would 00:46:18.590 --> 00:46:20.670 have added to this mixtape, hit me up on social 00:46:20.670 --> 00:46:23.769 media, at My Weekly Mixtape, or send me an email, 00:46:24.070 --> 00:46:26.869 myweeklymixtape at gmail .com, and let me know 00:46:26.869 --> 00:46:29.489 what song you would add to this mix, and maybe 00:46:29.489 --> 00:46:32.420 we'll add it in... When Ben comes back for volume 00:46:32.420 --> 00:46:34.719 two, Ben, why don't you let people know where 00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:37.199 they can find the Too Vague podcast and get in 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.900 touch with you? Yeah. The Too Vague podcast, 00:46:40.300 --> 00:46:43.559 which the way I describe the show to anyone who 00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.840 hasn't heard it is very simple. One word, two 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:50.260 hosts, stories, trivia, video games. And that's 00:46:50.260 --> 00:46:52.159 basically what it is. It's two people having 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.980 a conversation about the stuff that they enjoy 00:46:54.980 --> 00:46:58.179 and love and memories and things. But then we. 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.099 try and connect it to video games back in the 00:47:01.099 --> 00:47:05.099 second half. So if you're more into the stories 00:47:05.099 --> 00:47:07.760 trivia part, you can listen to the first half 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:11.519 and then disconnect. Although, let me just say, 00:47:11.659 --> 00:47:14.980 the whole episode is definitely stories and things 00:47:14.980 --> 00:47:17.900 throughout. But anyway, if you're interested 00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:19.840 in that kind of thing, go ahead and check out 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:26.739 www .2vigpodcast .com. That's T -W -O -V -A -G 00:47:26.739 --> 00:47:31.369 -U -E podcast. 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You are the 00:47:59.110 --> 00:48:02.869 Zen master of the podcasting realm for me, I 00:48:02.869 --> 00:48:04.750 guess, because I don't know any of this business 00:48:04.750 --> 00:48:07.340 here. Do that for two big podcasts. And while 00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:09.619 you're there, make sure to drop one for my weekly 00:48:09.619 --> 00:48:12.539 mixtape. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Ben, this has 00:48:12.539 --> 00:48:14.480 been a blast. Thank you so much for joining me 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:16.579 again, man. Thank you for having me. I really 00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:18.300 appreciate it. Looking forward to volume two. 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:20.539 We're definitely going to make that happen. 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