Hi everybody, this is Brian Clem from Suburban
Legends and you are listening to my weekly mixtape
with the very handsome Brian Colburn. I have
a crush, you have a crush, let's have a crush
together. Tune in! 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 as guest curator tonight
is Brian Clem, guitarist for the fantastic ska
punk band Suburban Legends. Brian, thank you
so much for joining me on my weekly mixtape.
Thank you for saying fantastic. I mean, normally
it's just the band name, but we don't get a congratulations
in the beginning of it. So thank you. First things
first, I want to let the listeners out there
know that yes, this is a Songs of Disney episode.
However, Suburban Legends are a ska punk band.
So while some of the topics tonight obviously
are going to be completely family friendly, some
of them might not. So for the parents out there,
if your kids are around, I would suggest giving
this a listen without them first and then deciding
for yourself if you want to play it. for the
kiddos. Now, Brian, as a first time guest, I
like to start by asking you the same question
I ask all of my first time guests. And that is,
what does the word mixtape mean to you? Oh, dude,
that's a heavy thing because listening to your
other podcast, because I'm a fan now. Oh, awesome.
I had some time to do some like thinking about
the mixtape thing. And the first mixtape I ever
got, I still have it. Sarah. 1999, 2000, we started
dating at the very end of high school and she
was Mormon and she was going away to school.
So it was bad timing for us to get wrapped up.
But anyway, she was like kind of like an emo
kid, but she didn't look like it back then. She
was just an adorable, flipped out, cute eight
frame dresses and stuff. And I came back to my
car because I had a 54 Bel Air and it was in
the process of restoring it. I was 17 or 18.
She had left it in my car because she knew it
was unlocked. Because the locks weren't working.
And it was my first mixtape. And it was so cute.
And she put all the bands and everything and
wrote cute little messages and hearts and stuff.
And I swooned hard. I'd never gotten a mixtape
before. And I listened to that mixtape a thousand
times. And that's where I got introduced to The
Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, Reggie and the
Full Effects, Sunday Day Real Estate. But it
was my introduction to that because I was in
the ska band in high school. And I listened to...
blues. And I was in a ska band. I didn't listen
to ska that much. And I just started getting
into ska after I joined Suburban Legends. And
it just meant the world to me because I was so
smitten by this girl. We didn't get a chance
to date very long because it was at the very
end of high school. Literally, we went to prom
together and we went on a couple of dates and
then she went away to school. Heartbroken, just
like, oh, but maybe it was for the better because
I knew what it was kind of like to have a cute
relationship like that and have my heart broken.
But in a cute soft way but i still have that
mixtape and i made her one back and i put on
what they're what i was into at the time and
i just got into the impossibles i don't know
if you know who they are the impossibles ultimate
fake book and i put like kind of like power pop
and ska on one side of band called that i was
obsessed with slow gherkin they were our first
band we ever toured with and on the other side
was a bunch of blues probably didn't care about
awesome Tonight, we're talking about a topic
that's been heavily requested since I started
this show, and that's an episode that's dedicated
to the songs of Disney, be it from movies, TV
shows, you name it. So the listeners out there
might be asking themselves, so why is there a
member of a ska punk band as your guest curator?
And that's where, Brian, I'm going to kindly
ask you to talk about Suburban Legend's connection
to Disney and its music over the years. Oh, man.
Well, that that goes down real deep because my
band, as we were best friends, I mean, the lead
singer, Vince Walker, is my best friend. He's
been my best friend since I was like 13 or 14.
And we're 22 now. So that's a good amount of
time. And all of us had Disneyland passes. You
know, I mean, I don't know if it's still a cool
thing to have a Disneyland pass because you have
to mortgage your house to get one. But I mean,
but for people, they're like, I don't care. I'm
going to pay because I have to get my fix. But
back then, you know, we all had them. And so
we would go to Disneyland literally every single
week. And my trumpet player, Aaron Bertram, he
worked for Disney at that time. And he was determined
to get our band to audition for Disney somehow.
God bless his tenacious attitude and just persistence
because, you know, that's like an impossible
entity to get into. You think, how can I get
into Disney? But he did. Like some sort of wizard.
He got us in. And with that close ties to Disney,
we went into our audition as little kids and
did the whole four suits sitting in chairs in
a white room covered with mirrors in the back
lot of Disney and a bunch of guys going, what
are we doing here? I think we're going to get
found out. We're out of our element and just
played what we did. We played a couple songs
and they liked us. And then we went back for
a second audition to play inside the park in
Tomorrowland Terrace. And so we thought, you
know, we love Disney. Why not throw a Disney
cover in there? And then so we started playing
Under the Sea. And then that kind of turned into
our thing. And then we started playing for Disney
all the time. We started Downtown Disney. We
were the first band to play in Downtown Disney
in Orange County when it opened up. And now bands
have been playing there forever. But we were
the first. And so we thought, why not be more
on brand? And we all love Disney. So we started
covering a couple of Disney songs just to put
them in the set. And we'd do our own rendition
of a Scott Disney song, whatever. Now, I think
the first one we did was Under the Sea. No, first
one we did would be, we did our own funny version
of Gummy Bears. Oh, cool. It's always been kind
of a cult classic that if people dig into the
internet, the very end of the internet, you'll
find our Gummy Bears recording, which was a Disney
cartoon. And so we started doing that. And then
we started touring. And we played the Disney
songs live. We started doing Under the Sea and
Can't Wait to be King. I think those were the
first ones we did. And when you're in Europe,
they're very vocal about things they want there.
And so when we try and sell a CD, because we'd
hawk CDs outside after, you know, hustling. And
they go, is your Disney cover on here? And then
we go, no. Okay, well then fuck off. Like, oh
jeez. That was kind of hostile. But that's how
they talk. They're not really hostile. They're
very sweet people. And so we said, you know,
we should maybe record it. And then it got to
be important. People expected Disney recordings.
And then it just became our thing. We just got,
you know, the moniker of being a Disney band.
And we're okay with that. It's awesome. It's
a badge of honor. I wear it with pride. Well,
let's get down to business. Tonight, as I mentioned
at the top of the show, Brian and I will be curating
a Songs of Disney mixtape, and we're going to
use that old cassette deck approach. Brian, 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 out side
B. Only this time, I'll kick things off with
Brian choosing second. Our overall goal for this
episode is to craft the best songs of Disney
mixtape possible through only 20 songs. At the
end of the show, you can take our conversation
to the next level by visiting the episode page
at myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape
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So Brian, I'm officially pressing the record
button on our mixtape and the floor is yours.
Why don't you dive into the song that you're
choosing to kick off side A? Oh man, I've already
taken up enough of your time with my... gift
of gab that i have that's not necessarily a gift
but a curse uh the first one would be i have
dumb stories attached to each of them uh friend
like me from aladdin nice so the legends everything
was traced back to my band pretty much we were
i don't know if you remember the jerry lewis
telethon yes okay jerry lewis would fly us out
every single year to do the telethon and i mean
you can't see listeners you can't see this but
i'm showing them i have a jerry lewis tattoo
on my arm right there Right next to Groucho Marx.
I grew up being a big Jerry Lewis fan. And so
our old manager did a submission and they liked
us. And Jerry would call me personally. And I'm
a big fan asking me if we would be free to do
the telethon. And so we did the telethon. And
then eventually he hired us to play a private
party for his daughter's birthday at his house
in Vegas. And we'd been working on our next Disney
cover, which was Friend Like Me. which is a song
that has 35 ,000 parts. It's like 50 songs in
one. And we worked endlessly on this cover. Endlessly.
And the only time and the first time that we
played it was at Jerry Lewis's house for his
daughter's birthday. So that is the first last
everything. The only time we've ever played Friend
Like Me. And it was at Jerry Lewis's house in
Las Vegas. And I took a poop in his bathroom.
And I called my parents. I'm like, you're never
going to guess where I'm at. Yeah. I told you
about Jerry Lewis. Yeah. I'm in his bathroom
right now. Should I steal the towels? Well, as
soon as I heard the words friend like me, the
first thing I thought was why haven't suburban
legends covered that song? And now I hear you
have. So now I'm going to be sitting back waiting.
for this version to somehow be recorded in the
studio because it can't just be a one -off the
song's too amazing it is amazing but i don't
know if it was amazing when we did it it was
stressful it was stressful because there's like
five songs in it but we've been notorious our
whole if you call it a career or whatever for
doing songs like that that have 50 million parts
but if you're a ska band I mean, when you're
younger and you're writing these songs, you don't
really know about songwriting. So anything's
possible, you know, like now that we're older,
we like, no, you can't do that in a song. But
if you listen to our first record or rum shake
or whatever, it's like, you shouldn't be putting
two times signature and keys and everything together
like this, but you don't know anything better,
you know? So, so you just do it and we did it.
And it was like that. And I think that it might,
might be laid to rest. I don't know if it was
amazing, but we got through it. Well, the original
to me is so big and so theatrical. It's perfect
for Robin Williams, manic kind of vocal delivery
as the songs are changing because Robin Williams
character, he would always change and do different
voices in his standup. And he brought that to
the cartoon, which is what I loved so much about
this song. You definitely scooped me on the pick.
I had that on my list and I don't know about
you, but I kind of think the Will Smith version
of the song from the live action movie was. A
little hit or miss. I was ready for you to say,
Will Smith's version is my favorite and fight
me on that. No, I actually love the hip hop beat
behind the song because it really suits Will's
delivery. Yeah, totally. But the original is
so ingrained in my childhood because of how zany
Robin Williams was. It was hard for me to hear
it done a different way because I was like, Will
Smith was fun, but he didn't have the zany. down
in that song that it really needed. It was Robin
Williams' gig. He was born for that. Exactly.
He was born for that. I mean, I don't think anybody
else could have done it with that Robin Williams
like he did. It was meant to be that ADHD, manic,
frenetic energy, switching voices, references.
So there was nobody else that could have done
it. That's in our DNA. And now I'm going to go
with a song to follow that up. because I had
in my list under friend like me, why haven't
suburban legends covered this song? This next
one falls under that category as well. And maybe
you have, and maybe I might learn something new
tonight, but I'm going to go back to 1988 Oliver
and company. And I'm going to go with a song
performed by Billy Joel as Dodger. And I'm going
to go with, why should I worry? Wow. I absolutely
love this tune and the whole. I hear in horns
and in my brain, I'm like, I could hear, you
know, a Scott band doing this. Now I do want
to point out that the original song that was
written for Dodger was actually called I'm the
greatest and was written by Liberty DeVito, longtime
Billy Joel band drummer. But instead of listening
to me blabber on about it, go back and listen
to hear the full story straight from Liberty's
mouth in episode 15, the ultimate Billy Joel
playlist, because. There was another song and
it's still somewhere in the Billy Joel vault
called I'm the greatest that may have made it
in this movie, but instead we got one of my favorite
Disney songs ever. Why should I worry? Oh man,
that was a good poll. I had a dead set, certain
songs that I had stories and like, oh, these
songs are important, you know? And then I was
on, I was with sit with my five -year -old yesterday,
the day before flipping through Disney going,
what other songs? I mean, I know. got ties to
every single thing, but Oliver and company, I
don't think is on Disney plus, which it was,
it wasn't in our queue. I would have totally
picked something like that. You're absolutely
right. Can I steal that idea and not give you
credit? Oh, sure. A hundred percent. As long
as you allow me to sing some background vocals
that you guys just mix into the final recording,
we'll call it even. I'd be upset if you didn't,
you could just send the tracks. I would be upset
if you didn't, I will give you that credit. Rock
and roll. Let's make it happen. And now I'm throwing
it back to you for track three. All right. Track
three is Kiss the Girl from Little Mermaid. Suburban
Legends, obviously, we covered this and we did
a video. And the way it came about, because I'm
a massive, massive Little Mermaid fan. I remember
I always loved this song and I always thought,
God, it'd be great if Suburban Legends did it.
But I don't normally want to sing this song.
I don't really care about that because I'm not
the lead singer. But this is one I wanted to
sing because for some reason I just I in my man
cave, I have a whole bookcase full of Little
Mermaid stuff. And Ursula is my favorite Disney
villain. And it's kind of an obscure one. So
it's hard to find things by her. But I have a
whole bookcase full of it. And I even have the
original Little Mermaid Marvel comics when they
came out because I'm a massive comic. And so
I remember once we were playing in Disneyland,
Tomorrowland Terrace. And. I thought in my head,
you know what? I'm really going to mess with
the guys. Because Vince and I, the singer in
Suburban Legends, we go back and forth. We do
banter all the time, tell jokes and stuff. And
Vince will always look to me when he doesn't
know quite what to say on stage and go, all right,
Brian, what do you got to say? And then I went
into it just for fun and I guess to see what
the rest of the band did. And they kicked in.
And we played a little bit of Kiss the Girl.
And at that point, I'm like, oh, it's like I'm
going to get to do the song. It kind of worked
and everybody was singing and it worked out.
And for me, you know, I have a really big tie
to The Little Mermaid because like we talked
about earlier, you know, you and I are roughly
around the same age. And that when that movie
hit, it was so freaking huge. And I was in the
YMCA and I remember, yeah, I was a product of
the YMCA. Big time after school, summer school,
summer camp, everything. And I remember that
during that summer camp, when that came out on
video, that big puffy DHS, you know, the clamshell.
Yep. And it had the wiener on the cover. You
remember that? I still have that. But there was,
there was one room at the summer camp that had
the little mermaid playing the whole time you
were there all the time. And then when it was
nap time, guess what's playing in the nap time
room, little mermaid all the time. And so, you
know, everything, just a lot of it goes literally
make my favorite. That's it. Well, I love your
guys' version of it. Obviously that was on my
short list as well. So great song, great movie.
And yes, I had the clamshell VHS tape as well.
Cause that's what all the movies, cause they
went into the vault. So you had a finite amount
of time that you could buy it or else it went
away. That's right. It wasn't on DVD forever.
And then I remember we were on tour when it came
out on DVD and I was so adamant, like I got to
get two. Because I got to be able to open one
and watch it. And the other, I got a sage. That
was stupid because they just mass produced it.
I still have one somewhere around here in the
package, but wait, hold on. There's more. So
I don't know if you remember back in the day
when you'd order movies at the Disney shop in
the mall. Yes. And then you'd get a watch and
a lithograph and stuff. I just so happened to
have, this is purely just accident. But I have
the lithographs right here from the VHS from
90 -whatever when it came out on VHS. Wow. What
are the odds of just having it right here? Well,
I am going to follow that up with a song from
my wife's favorite. Disney movie of all time,
something that we had a chance to see together
on Broadway. And I had a chance to take her to
see the original film with our girls, with the
symphony playing the music from the movie as
the movie played. And I'm going to go back to
1964's Mary Poppins performed by Dick Van Dyke
as Bert, the chimney sweep step in time. Whoa.
I didn't see that one coming. Good one. Big.
Broadway -like production. And there's a separate
reason why I went with this one as well. Back
in the 80s when I was growing up, Disney would
put out record albums. Yes, I have some! Oh,
snap! Dude! So you remember Mousercise? Dude,
I watched it every freaking morning! When they
had the exercise outfits and right after that
was Winnie the Pooh. When they had the giant
costumes. Yup, it was called Welcome to Pooh
Corner. Wow, I can't believe you said Mousercise.
Yeah. And they would have Mickey come in and
dance with them when they were doing the exercises
and the spandex. Wow. Thank you for bringing
that up. Oh, of course. And with that, the floor
is yours for your next pick. Okay, so I did.
This is Halloween. Nightmare Before Christmas.
Nice. The reason is, I mean, we have a lot of
ties to Danny Elfman. Not a lot of ties, but
I mean, our first record, Rump Shaker. For anybody
who's never doesn't know who we are. We had an
album called Rump Shaker that came out like 2002
or three or four or five or six or something.
And it was produced by the bass player of Oingo
Boingo. I was always a big Oingo Boingo fan.
I went to the farewell tour for Oingo Boingo
in 95 or four. And I still have the t -shirt
in that drawer right over there. I'm pointing
to it like you could see it, but that I bought
in the parking lot. That's it. The bottom of
my drawer sensed it. I've never gotten rid of
it. It's $5. I used to wear it when I was in
middle school. It still fits me now. So the bass
player Boingo produced that record, and I was
obsessed with Nightmare Before Christmas when
it came out before it was a Hot Topic thing.
But the real kicker was when my son got into
it. My son, he's five now, and I think he started
watching it at three or four. But the thing is...
You know, the kid can't remember what I told
him to do five minutes ago, but in the span of
an hour, he memorized all the lyrics just by
watching the movie, not rewinding it, knowing
the words to that song. I don't know anybody
who knows the words to that song. They know.
And then that's it. But I could bring him in
here and go, don't you want to see something
strange? So for some reason, that's just so special
to me now because. That kid is like a fricking
sponge and he just absorbed it. And I was just
so full of pride when I heard him sing it. And
we'd go to the doctor's office for my wife or
I, and he would just start singing it. He would
just, he's so proud that he learned the lyrics
and he, everywhere we went for weeks, he would
just start singing it. All I have to do in the
car when I'm driving. And then he would stop
me and go, dad, no, it's this. Whoa, you're already
a teenager. but uh yeah and so that's that's
why i picked that because it's just for some
reason i just have so much more of a fondness
a new fondness for that movie i mean i loved
it back then but now i love it for a once we
become adults and we become fathers and wives
and mothers and stuff we like things for different
reasons and that just brought a whole new touch
to my heart because after a while i was kind
of sick of it when i saw that it was everywhere
it's like Check out my Aquaphor spread cream
with Jack Skellington on it. Oh, look, it's my
tools that have Jack Skellington on it. It was
just everywhere. It just kind of takes away from
the. Oh, but it was also a good movie before
it was a backpack. It was a great movie. That
stop animation was amazing. Yeah, it was. It
was pretty incredible. And that was revolutionary
to love the movie. Love the pick again. That's
like that was iconic. That animation that happened
at that point. And I feel like the movie. at
the time was popular, but I feel like it has
exploded over the decades to reach levels that
I never remember when the movie was actually
first out. Cause it, it wasn't there. It was,
we was a different time when it wasn't, when
older kids weren't celebrating younger kids things.
And that was seen as a younger kids thing. And
so that was just, it was reserved for that. And
the select older kids. that like that kind of
thing, but you didn't talk about that because
it wasn't cool. And now it's like, oh, I'm a
nerd. I like Disney. It's like, no, you're not
a nerd. You just like Disney. It's fine. It's
okay. All right. Well, following that up, I think
we need to go with a problem -free philosophy.
Oh, snap. And go back to 1994's The Lion King
and go with Hakuna Matata written by Elton John
with lyrics by Tim Rice, performed by Nathan
Lane as Timon the Meerkat and Ernie Sabella as
Pumbaa the Warthog. I mean, this song is so much
fun. When I think of The Lion King, I immediately
go to this song. Probably because of the fact
that Ed doesn't have a song because Ed was always
my favorite character in The Lion King, but he
never had a song. He needs a song. Wait, Ed?
Yeah, Ed. Wait, wait, wait. Teacher, I have a...
Wait, who's Ed? He was the male hyena. Oh, okay.
With Whoopi Goldberg. Okay. It's been a minute.
Yeah. I wouldn't prefer Whoopi Goldberg. I want
to hear what Whoopi Goldberg's song would be.
I am the hyena. I'm the responsible one. I mean,
of course, if that was the song, it would beat
out Hakuna Matata, but unfortunately it didn't
make the final track list. So for the ones that
did, Hakuna Matata is just one of those songs.
Nathan Lane is so good at his delivery and so
good on Broadway, and he brings it to this performance
in the cartoon. And in an otherwise very, you
know, emotional film throughout, this was a moment
of levity. And I know that you guys covered a
song from the soundtrack as well for your 2012
album day job. And I apologize for not picking
that one because I love that song too, but it's
okay. Kuda Matana just edged it out ever so slightly.
I have a feeling that may pop up later. So I
think it's okay. Awesome. So then we're back
to you for track seven. I will go back to Tangled.
When will my life begin? Ooh, okay. The reason
once everything's family and band these days
and life, it's tied to life, which is what music
ties us to. When will my life begin? I just,
okay. So a lot of these things I became really,
really attached to during COVID because we were,
I mean, I loved all these movies and everything
and who doesn't love Mandy Moore? And I love
Mandy Moore even more because she was married
to Ryan Adams. I don't know if you know who Ryan
Adams is. You certainly do. Yeah. And I love
him. But my family started having, we started
culminating these inside jokes. And, you know,
when you're quarantined, we watched certain movies
more than once and we'd quote them. And the quotes
would manifest into some dirty, inappropriate
thing to each other. That's funny to us. And
if anybody else watched it, it would be stupid.
but my fiance sent me a video of somebody filming
a montage with their dog. And I think it was
a box or something. I don't know. I'm sure someone
on the internet will correct me. And it was to
this song, but the words were changed to a dog's
day. And he'd be like, so I'll wake up now. Then
I'll eat my food. I'll poop in the yard and lay
some more. They'll lick my butt. And I'll lick
some more. And I wonder, will I ever get to eat
again? And I wonder, will I eat again? And we
just sang it so much. And it was just so funny.
And I was just in there with my lady before this
with my son. And I was singing it to them. She
goes, babe, that's a good idea. I said, I know.
That's why I picked it. So that's why I picked
it. Great song. That whole soundtrack is fantastic
between Donna Murphy's Mother Knows Best. Yes.
And at the end, Grace Potter, who's one of my
favorite female vocalists. She has something
that I want on that soundtrack. That's just an
amazing soundtrack all around. Aren't you going
to say anything about the contributions of America's
sweetheart, Mandy Moore? Of course. Mandy Moore
is absolutely incredible. I love her voice. And
she's wonderful. I think I'm going to follow
that up with another female voice that's ingrained
in my DNA because I have two daughters, one that
is in high school and one that is in middle school.
You're a brave man. I'm not going to argue that.
But if you do the math, in 2013, I heard the
song Let It Go by Idina Menzel as Queen Elsa.
about 5 million times. And as soon as my oldest
finally outgrew Let It Go, my youngest daughter
came right in and got another four years. So
I have had an eight -year run of hearing Let
It Go. And I'll just say it, the song never got
old to me. It's a good song. Look. Every Disney
movie has its big musical moment, and Frozen
has a ton of fantastic songs. But let's be honest,
Let It Go is that movie's big musical moment.
Newfound Glory does a great punk cover of it,
so it does kind of creep out into the punk world.
But with two girls, how can I not pick it? I
wish you were wrong. I wish you were wrong, but
you're not. Sometimes when that song comes up,
it's like a... oh god my lady's gonna kill me
because she's a big house music fan house head
but you know when the drop comes it's like let
it go let it go it's like you're waiting for
that drop for the key change like give me the
key change that's it you know it's a good song
it's a great song i think we talked about covering
it but i shouldn't mention that hint hint nudge
nudge i guess we'll have to just wait and find
out but with that we are at track nine your last
song for side a what do you got all right let's
see what we got let's do oh yes beauty and the
beast the ballad we recorded it too and it's
not because we recorded it this came along the
time when we were doing downtown disney and it's
like right when we were in the midst it must
have been i think it was before our even our
first record came out or no yeah it was before
because we used footage of this one show that
i'm about to talk about for our video of a song
called high fives you know the ballad tale is
all this time god it's such a good freaking song
and it hits you and all the lyrics hit you in
all those little holes that need to be filled
and like god why is this so good and why can't
i write a song like this but also we were doing
Downtown Disney so much. And at this point, the
angels were in the world series or the playoffs
for the world series. And I guess it was a big
deal. They hadn't done it in a long time or ever.
I don't know. So downtown Disney started getting
a little bit more popular because they put a
stage out there with a TV. So people could watch
the games out there. And then all of a sudden
they were in the playoffs and they wanted to
do a pep rally for the angels. And my best friend,
Dave. I did it for you. There you go. He back
then it was, it was like before people could
put DVD players in their car and he got one in
his car and it was awesome. But that's right
when the beauty and the beast DVD came out. So
we were watching it all the time. Cause I was
driving to Disney every single day to play. And
he and I would carpool because he was best friends
with the band. He was even got naked on. mtv
during that show dismissed wearing our shirts
and singing he even sang a song called desperate
that i wrote and they'd play our music all over
it but uh so we would watch that movie non -stop
and for some reason we okay so disney set up
this massive like it was like a stadium side
stage 40 foot jumbotron i'm exaggerating but
it may not have been 40 foot but it was like
at least 20 foot jumbotron on this massive stage
they're going to hold a pep rally for the angels
And rumor has it that Queen was supposed to play,
I think, with Paul Rogers singing. And we were
going to play and then they were going to play
and then the angels were going to come up and
do their little ceremony. But Queen ended up
getting a star on the Walk of Fame. Legend has
it that day. So they didn't. So we ended up opening
for ourselves in front of 10 to 15 ,000 people
on this massive stage. And we're all like 20.
And we have like maybe 12 songs. We didn't have
enough material. We finished our first album
when we were in the studio. So repeating a lot
of songs and they wanted us to play two like
hour and a half sets. Yeah, it was bad. I mean,
it wasn't bad. It was awesome. I mean, it was
really cool. And I even brought my old man up
on stage and he was wearing his cargo shorts
and his Birkenstocks and I made him dance in
front of 15 ,000 people. It was awesome. And
we even used footage from that show for our...
We had a song called High Fives. And the footage
from that is in there. So for some reason, when
I think about that, I think of that song. And
not my band's version, but just the version from
the movie. And just fond memories of that. It
was cool. I'd never played in front of that many
people in my life. And I was so nervous and scared
I was going to break a string that I couldn't
enjoy the moment. Well, that is an awesome song.
I took my wife to see that on Broadway. It's
a such it's again, it's a big, beautiful song.
I love the version that Suburban Legends does
on Dreams Aren't Real. But these songs are that
came out back in 2013. Such a funny P. I'll make
sure that I embed both the songs that we're talking
about from Disney tonight, as well as a separate
Suburban Legends playlist for you to check out
on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com.
But now talking about these last few songs, which
is essentially back -to -back massive Disney
ballads. So now I have to close out side A. Okay.
And I'm going to do so with a little bit of a
loophole. But because it's my show, I can make
up the rules as I go along. Because YOLO, right?
Yeah, exactly. I am going to go with a song that
came out in 2011's The Muppets. But if I'm being
honest, I'm going back to 1979's The Muppet Movie,
which was not a Disney movie, even though they
own it now. Written by Paul Williams and made
perfect by Kermit the Frog. It's my absolute
favorite song ever recorded. I danced with my
mom to this song when I was two and three years
old. Oh, you're going to make me cry. Come on.
I danced with my mom to this song the day I got
married. I'm going to call my mom. My mom's in
her 70s. I'm going to go dance with her to this
song. I danced with both of my girls to this
song when they were two and three. And one day,
maybe I will dance with both of them when they
get married. I am going with Rainbow Connection.
because it is the just most beautiful song ever.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes does a fun cover
of it, and Rivers Cuomo and Hayley Williams of
Paramore do a good version, but nothing tops
Kermit the Frog. What is Brian's version? I don't
know if I would ever perform that, because I
don't know if I'd be able to make it through
without getting a lump in my throat. Except for
right now. Oh, you're going to start, you're
going to get, you're going to get misty eyed.
If I tried to sing it right now, a hundred percent.
Yeah, definitely. Isn't it crazy when you, before
you have kids, you like Disney for one reason
and then you have kids and then it's just a whole,
like everything doesn't matter anymore. And all
that matters is these little moments with your
kids and enjoying these Disney songs and movies
all over again for a different reason. Oh, I
could not agree more with that one. 100%. And
while we're on the topic of my favorite song
of all time, I do have to point out that thanks
to Record Store Day, they re -released one of
the years, the Muppet movie, the original soundtrack.
My friend Chris, the keyboard player from Colburn
and Company, was kind enough to find a copy for
me on record store day. So he got it for me.
And now I have a sealed vinyl copy of the Muppet
movie soundtrack that I can give to my daughter
on her wedding day. Good job, Brian. But then
we had another daughter. And with that came the
thought. Oh, crap. Now I need to find another
copy. And my cousin, thank you. Thank you. Thank
you. Was at a record show out in Pennsylvania.
And he found me a sealed original 1979 copy.
No way. So I have both of them covered. You're
winning as a dad. And you have to understand,
I'm taking a big chance right now, gambling on
the fact that chances are pretty solid that my
kids don't listen to this podcast. But if they
do, I'm so sorry, honey. I may have just spoiled
one of your wedding day presents. wow good job
dad i'm leaving my kids a bunch of stupid gibsons
and you're leaving a moment in time that was
so special to you and it's like hey jameson here's
a bunch of guitars that your father toured around
the world with but i didn't give you a muppet
soundtracks deal because i don't have anything
special to give you jeez i gotta all right i
gotta go i gotta go rethink my parenting Well,
there you have it, folks. Side A of our Songs
of Disney mixtape, which consists of Friend Like
Me from Aladdin, Why Should I Worry from Oliver
and Company, Kiss the Girl from The Little Mermaid,
Step in Time from Mary Poppins. This is Halloween
from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hakuna Matata
from The Lion King, When Will My Life Begin from
Tangled, Let It Go from Frozen, Beauty and the
Beast from the movie of the same name, and Rainbow
Connection from The Muppets. 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, Brian, while we have you here,
I was thinking we've been talking about Suburban
Legends Disney Connection tonight a lot, but
not about the band's original ska punk tunes.
So I want to remedy that for a second. Before
we started recording tonight's episode, I put
together a list of five songs that I feel best
define Suburban Legend's musical legacy. And
so now what I'd like to do is ask you the question,
what five songs do you feel best define Suburban
Legend's musical legacy so we can see where we
align and where we differ? Okay, so you're asking
my favorite five songs? They don't necessarily
have to be your favorite. Ones that you feel
define the band's musical legacy. Oh, okay. So
it's a little bit of a different spin than the
choose between your children question. No, I
got this. I got it. So it'd be Bright Spring
Morning, probably Dog Kales. Maybe it's a newer
song, but people seem to like it. Worry on my
mind. High fives, obviously. God, what would
be another one? It's got to be there. Come on,
Brian. If only you were in the band. Look around
your room. Maybe there's some things to fudge.
Can you give me a hand? Don't miss something.
I need one more. Toot alert. All right. Well,
that one speaks to the hairband fan in me for
sure. Love it. And I have a signature guitar
pedal coming out by a company called Rude Tech.
And it's going to be available. The same company
did, you know, the band, the Aquabats. Oh, of
course. So they did Eagle Bones. Ian did a signature
pedal with them. And it's the same company doing
it for me. And it's a doodler pedal based on
a pedal that I built 13 years ago and has never
been able to duplicate. But everyone's always
like, what is that pedal? And I just go, I don't
know. I just soldered it. I don't know what I'm
doing. But anyway, so Doodler. Yes, because it's
like a slowed down version of Kickstart My Heart
With Horns. Yes, it's a frigging awesome one.
Oh, thank you. Okay, well, that's my five. Great
list. And I'm going to vary it up a little bit
with some of my picks here. So I like where we're
going. My five, we were in lock with High Fives
from 2003's Rum Shaker. I'm going with This Cherry
from 2006's Dance Like Nobody's Watching. I love
that song. That song's so much fun to play. It
rocks. It rocks. Just Be Happy from 2012's Day
Job. So many people, we lied for doing Disney
and stuff. We censored that song. So it says,
don't be a motherfucker. Yes. We changed it to,
don't eat my chicken fingers. And so everybody
in the crowd says, don't, don't, don't, don't,
don't eat my chicken fingers. And everybody sings
that, but they all smile knowing it's don't be
a motherfucker. And so people have said, are
you ever going to do your censored version? No
one's, no one ever asked for a band. Can you
please release your censored version? Because
I liked that one as well. So I go ahead. No problem.
Then I'm going to go off of, cause I bought this
CD in 2010, the 2010 going on tour EP dance,
dance, dance. Oh yeah. We still replay that song.
And that's the only way you can get it. It's
on that. Yes. Good one. And then I'm going to
go back to Day Job and I'm going to go with Whoa
for my last song. All right. Those are all good
ones that I like playing too, Brian. So you have
my heart. Fantastic. Now, in 2009, the band collaborated
with MC Lars and a band you just mentioned, the
Aquabats, MC Bat Commander on the Nerdcore Ska
classic. this gigantic robot kills. And then
in 2015, you teamed up with Lars along with Roger
Lima of less than Jake on sublime with Rome is
not the same thing as sublime. Can you talk about
how those nerd core collaborations came together?
Because Scott nerd core really works well together.
You know, we're all just people, so it should
all just work together and just, but unfortunately
everybody has to be in genres and stuff. But
it came about because we took Lars on tour with
us twice in the US and I think once in the UK.
And I'm a massive, massive, massive hip hop head.
And you may not know that by anybody who follows
the band or anything, but that's primarily what
I listen to. Hip hop has probably saved my life
so many times. And so Lars and I always had a
lot of intelligent conversations about hip hop
because Lars is a very, very, very smart guy.
And by the way, he talks and his banter. I mean,
I'm sure you can gather it, but he's a very deep
thinker. He's incredibly intelligent. And he
just said, Hey, I got this song and would you
help me with it? And so he, I think he and I,
I don't know. I'm not sure if Joe from patent
pending, I think Joe worked on it with us too.
And we wrote it at my band's warehouse. Vince
and I and Lars. And I think I want to give Joe
credit. Cause I think he was there or he had
a hand in it, but what Lars did there was pretty
much a masterpiece helping out the Scotty pointing
out like, Hey, we never left and we were still
here and we're still fun. And you know, when
you feel like it's cool to like us again, come
on back. Scott is not dead. God, exactly. Scott,
you wait on one second. Ah, dude, Brian, I'm
so fricking prepared for this interview. It's
not even funny. Look at this. Nice. And guess
what it says on the back, Brian? Ska is not dead.
I absolutely love it. Are you seeing it as C
-H -T -O -N -G -A -D? Is that what it looks like
to you? I do. I was so ready for this. I'm awesome.
Well, while we're on the topic of collaborations,
I do want to bring up one more track from 2012's
day job. And that's the closing song. Can't stop
it. That features lyrics born another amazing
hip hop artist. This one just missed my top five
because it's so ridiculously catchy. And I'm
kind of curious how that collaboration came together.
And if the band has ever considered a full on
crossover album with a hip hop artist, because
all three. collaborations i've talked about tonight
are so damn good oh brian you're just tickling
me right now without your hands you're just doing
it through my ears dude okay so i've been a lyrics
born fan and a literics fan like i said i'm hip
-hop is my life and it's i can't even stress
that enough how important it is to me and how
while we talked about my stuff and you know working
with kids and reading and how hip -hop mcs were
the first to in the streets to say, knowledge
is power, read, you know, and that's how you
empower yourself. And I'd taken that mentality
working with kids. But anyway, I love lyrics
born. I think he's a smart, incredible lyricist.
And we played a festival with them and the God,
this touches home at so many points. So we played
with them and I was so excited to see him because
I love lyrics born. I love the T -Rex. He came
up to me afterwards, and he's like, dude, that
was really good. I'm like, okay, well, I'm a
fan, so thank you. And we watched a little bit.
I was nervous. We'd met so many cool people and
everything, but I don't get starstruck that often,
but somebody I really respect and like comes
up to me and says, I really like your band. I'm
like, oh, well, thank you. And then had a little
liquid courage at the end of the festival that
we played. It was in Modesto, too. When does
Modesto make relationships happen? But it did.
And I said, Hey man, we have a track that we're
looking for an MC on. Cause I originally wanted
to hit up Charlie tuna from Jurassic five. I
said, Hey, would you be interested in doing a
track? He said, take down my information right
now. Yes. Yes. And so I took it down and another
guy came up to me. His drummer said, Hey man,
you're a ska band. I said, yes, we are. And he
said, have you ever heard a band called big D
and the kids table? I said, yes, I actually used
to play guitar for Big D and the Kids Table.
He goes, oh, that's funny. So did I. I used to
play drums for them. Long story long, that dude
ended up filling in in Suburban Legends on drums
a couple of times for Disney shows and out of
town stuff and playing in my blues band. But
so that was just another connection. And so we
just kept in touch with him. And when the track
was done, sent it to him and he came back with
that. And I'm just so and every once in a while
I'll get a text from like, hey, man, I got this
new record. Can you post it on your Facebook?
on your socials to promote your bands and i'm
just thinking yes lyrics born whatever you want
yes tom because we're friends now so yeah that's
how it came about and i would love oh my god
i would love to love to bride have more hip -hop
mcs because i really want to get charlie tuner
from j5 and you know in uh i used to be in a
band called the english beat i don't know if
you i'm sure you know who they are but i used
to play guitar for him yeah dave wakeling Yeah,
exactly. He was my boss. And they always have
a thing called a toaster, which is almost the
guy that is like a hype man, but also raps. And
I'm thinking that's almost like hip hop and ska,
but why can't you do them both? I would love
to contact hip hop MCs and have them guest on
ska songs. If that were even a possibility to
have, that would be a dream collaboration come
true to do a record of that. I would never miss
a second in the studio because. That's like I
said, that's my lifeblood is hip hop. Awesome.
Well, I want to mention one other cover song
because I am a fan of cover songs that's outside
of Disney tunes. And I'm going to go to your
2015 album Forever in the Friend Zone. The band
covered Andrew Gold's Thank You for Being a Friend.
And if those out there listening. are wondering
why that song sounds so familiar. It's probably
because they're more familiar with Cynthia Fee's
cover, which serves as the theme song to the
Golden Girls. Yes. I'm curious what the band's
criteria is in choosing cover songs. Is it personal
connections, songs that you know the fan base
will like, or something entirely different? You
know what it comes right down to? Vince and I
going, oh my God, I love this song. Or he'll
just, I'll send a video to him. Or, I mean, you're
a father, so I'm sure you watched Bluey at some
point. Oh my God, I've seen Bluey. Oh yeah, God,
that's the perfect show for a parent because
everything just speaks to the parent. And then
kids like it too. But I mean, I could just say
like, Vince, why haven't we covered the Bluey
soundtrack? And then five minutes later, I'll
get a track to play on. Do it. I already set
it up. Come on, let's do it. Quick, quick, quick.
You know, we cover what we like. Cause I don't
know if you, if you, how much you've dove into
our catalog, but we have a lot of songs about
friendship, you know, and that's the main reason
why we're still doing it because we stopped touring
so heavily. And it's an excuse for her to see
my best friends because everybody has lives,
families, wives, and kids and all that stuff.
And, you know, it's like the only chance we get
to see each other and have fun and play music
together, which is why we all became best friends
in the first place. Cause see my band are my
best friends. I've toured with so many bands
and had a great time with them, but just touring
with your best friends is such an incredible
treat and gold. That's why we've stayed together
for so long. And so we've written all these songs
about friendship and Vince sent me this song.
And I think he sent me another Andrew Gold song
too. I was like, this is so good. He goes, well,
guess what? He did the Golden Girls theme and
he sent me that. And I think we said, do we need
to cover this? Oh, we sing so many songs about
friendship and this is like the perfect one.
And so that's how there's the criteria for a
cover song for Suburban Legends is personal relation.
Will we make it funny? Does it need to be funny?
And do we feel compelled to cover this? It's
got to have some sort of relation and hit home
somehow with us. And every single cover song
we have has hit home. We're not doing it just
to do it. It's got a story behind it. And there's
not enough time in the podcast to talk about
them all. Well, as somebody who's seen Suburban
Legend several times over the years when you've
been out in New Jersey, it definitely shines
through in the band's music. So I absolutely
love it. Oh, I'm glad. Well, now we're going
to flip over to Side B and I get to kick things
off tonight. And I am going to start off Side
B with a very big show -stopping song from a
movie we've already talked about. So let us pull
up a chair as the dining room proudly presents.
That's the one I was going to pick, Brian. That's
the one I was going to pick. Can I just say it,
please? Absolutely. Or should I say, be my guest.
Be your guest? Hell yeah. We were supposed to
cover that, Brian. I'm so upset that I didn't
pick that because on this record, that was going
to be one of the ones that I was going to sing.
Oh my God, really? Yes. I love that song. So
many times people will say something. Like, is
this good? And I'll go, try the gray stuff. It's
delicious. Don't believe me. After dishes, they
could sing. They could dance. After all, this
is friends. We're service here is never second.
That's going to take a glance. Sorry. Not at
all. When the music hits, it's still good. Absolutely
love that song. And one of my favorite things
to do at Disney is the Mickey's PhilharMagic
in Walt Disney World, where they do the 4D cartoon.
And they literally do this song, and it's coming
out of the screen, and you smell the pies. They're
holding it out. It's so wild. Why are you telling
me this? You haven't seen that one yet? Oh, dude,
it's incredible. Mickey's PhilharMagic. The only
time that we do Disney Florida is when we're
on tour and someone signs us in there. We've
never played Disney Florida, but I love it so
much. But I'm just so glad that you picked to
be our guest, because that should have been on
my freaking list. You stole it, Brian. Well,
I am passing the mic back to you now to follow
it up with something that is on your list. All
right. There's not a whole story behind this,
but it's just a great song. The Encanto's Surface
Pressure. Nice. During the summer, I teach first
through fifth. I work at a writing school where
I teach first through fifth where the kids get
to write and publish their own book. and illustrate
by the end of it. Oh, awesome. It's really cool.
And that's when Encanto came out. And there was
a kid in my class named Bruno. So every time
he'd get called, everyone says, we don't talk
about Bruno. And then he'd always get bombed.
And so I'd always switch the narrative to, I'd
immediately go into, yeah, that song's great,
but what are the pressure? And I'd mess up the
lyrics just to piss off the kids. And they go,
no, that's not how it goes. And I go, yeah, I'm
the adult. And I'm telling you, that's how it
goes. But the song, the way it's structured,
the lyrics, the melody, the story, how it goes
up, and then it gets all sensitive with her.
And it's just a great song. I love that song.
I think the music in that movie was perfect.
I mean, obviously, Lin -Manuel Miranda just does
so much. It's like lyrical acrobatics. So I obviously
had We Don't Talk About Bruno on my list as well
because it kind of brought the whole ensemble
in. And that song became like a moment. The way
Let It Go became a moment. But I'm glad that
this movie is represented because musically,
it's probably one of the stronger ones. The recent
ones, yes, absolutely. And the story in the movie
is just great. The family aspect and everything
about it is great. Like you said, the Bruno thing
was a moment in time for people. And I'm going
like, hey, but what about the pressure song?
Remember when she grabbed the donkeys? Come on.
That's good, too. Unbelievable. Well, I am going
to go now. You went with a newer movie. So I'm
going to go way back. And I'm not even going
to go with a movie. I'm going to go with a song
that was featured in a Disney cartoon short.
But it's still one of my favorite Disney tunes
ever. And it has been featured on a soundtrack.
for Disney's House of Mouse. The cartoon is called
In the Bag, and it's from 1956. And the song
is called The Humphrey Hop. I don't believe you.
I'm checking it right now. If that song doesn't
sound familiar, it's... First you stick a rag,
put it in the bag, bump, bump. Then you bend
your back, put it in the sack, bump, bump. That's
the way it's done. It's a lot of fun, bump, bump.
Cutting capers, putting papers in the bag. And
it's just this stupid cartoon with all these
bears cleaning up the park. And the ranger is
singing this song, counting them in, and they're
all dancing and cleaning up. And I watched this
cartoon so many times when the Disney Channel
was playing cartoon shorts in the 80s growing
up. And this one was always one of my favorites.
So that is my, I usually go with a deep pick.
I'll be very curious how many Disney fans out
there remember that one. So if you do make sure.
I'm trying to bring it up on Disney right now.
Is it even on Disney Plus? Well, it's definitely
on YouTube. So what I'll do is I'll embed it
over on the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com
in case anybody out there hasn't seen it. Well,
I grew up having the Disney channel back. Like
you said, like we talked about earlier with the
Jazzercise and Mousercise. Because my old man
owned and operated a cable construction company
for like 50 years. And so we used to get free
cable all the time. So I'd watch Disney Channel
nonstop. And they had, do you remember the Disney
Sunday movie? Oh, yeah, of course. Sorry, this
is a trip down memory lane for me. No problem.
Our moment of time that we had with Disney is
going to be completely different than our kids.
Of course. And which is, I mean, it's awesome
because our special time is, you know, what we
had. And we're remembering it fondly. Maybe they'll
remember this special time fondly. I don't know.
I hope they do. Completely agree. I took it a
little deep. We're talking Disney. So that's
not a problem because usually heavier moments
are followed by moments of levity. And with that,
we're back to you for our next pick. Okay. Well,
why don't we do the toy store? You got a friend
in me. Nice. Because, I mean, obviously the band
did a video for it. And I think that's one of
our funnier videos. where I get pregnant with
my friend Vince's baby from a high five. So if
you don't have an allergic reaction to latex,
then you should start wearing a glove when you
give somebody a high five because you can get
pregnant. But I was a big Toy Story fan back
in the mid -90s when it came out, like 94, 95?
95, yep. Once again, I told you when I pre -ordered
the stuff at Disney for the videos. the puffy
cases, the clamshell cases. I did that for Toy
Story. I think I got all the Burger King toys
and my son, God, I got one from Burger King that
you press the button on Woody's chest and it
says, you're my favorite deputy. And it's actually
Tom Hanks voice. You know, you don't get the
real voices anymore. And so that was what. How
many years ago? And the battery still works.
I have a five -year -old and the battery still
works. And so I ordered it and it came with the
lithographs and it came with a Buzz Lightyear
watch. And I actually have the Buzz Lightyear
watch right there. So yeah, I was a big, big
Toy Story fan. And I was in eighth grade. We
took a class trip to Disney. And I said, all
I want to do is just buy as much Toy Story stuff
as I can. And I still have an alien. Still in
the package on my wall that every time my son
comes in my man cave. Dad, can I have it? Nope.
Okay. Dad, can I have it? Nope. Okay. But I've
given him a lot of my old Toy Story toys. Except
that one. He's not going to touch that one. Maybe
on his wedding day. No, no, no. He's going to
get a he's going to get a Mary Poppins one. There
you go. Well, I mean, obviously, Randy Newman
classic. That song, as soon as you hear the opening
notes, you know exactly what movie it is. And
when it first came out, Pixar was separate from
Disney. And this was this new kind of like, what
is this? This is so different. And yeah, it was
so different than what was out there. And it
was so iconic. And the fact that they've been
able to keep such a strong narrative through
three sequels really speaks to the volume. Like
when you know you're getting a toy story. They
never really slip down from the first one. No,
they've never. You know what you're going to
get. You know you're going to have the feels.
You know you're going to have the funny. You
know you're going to guess about the new voices.
And you're okay with the message. You can watch
that movie a thousand times. Any one of them.
Find new things. And you can watch it with your
kid as many times as you want. And I doubt you'll
get sick of it. I once, during COVID, my missus
was working from home. And I wasn't working because
COVID. And so I was with them all day. So I said
I would go and say, hey, dude, guess what we're
going to do? We're going to do all four Toy Story
movies. And you know what? To this day, one of
my favorite ones is the dinosaur one. Have you
ever seen the dinosaur short? Yes. It's so freaking
good. It's so good. Anyway, so I just I have
a very fond attachment. I bought the soundtrack
when it came out when I was in eighth grade.
I bought all the toys and the fact that my band
gets to cover it. And then on top of that, I
told you I do. I read to kids at the library.
I'm an employee of the city of Huntington Beach
for doing story tanks for kids. And that's one
of the songs I sing. And more often than not,
the parents are the ones that are singing loud
in the crowd than the kids. Of course. That's
our music. I'm like almost playing to them. And
the kids are just like, all right, mom and dad,
get your song over with. Well, following that
up, I'm going to go back about 20 years. to a
movie that I grew up with a lot watching, renting
a lot from the VHS store, from the video store
growing up as a kid. And that is The Jungle Book.
And I'm going to go with a song that was performed
by Phil Harris as Baloo and Bruce Reitherman
as Mowgli. And I'm going with The Bare Necessities.
Have you heard Bowling for Snoop's cover? Oh,
that's exactly what I was just going to say.
Their cover is so freaking amazing. Dude, they
did it. I wanted the legends to cover it. And
then I remember seeing it on, on Disney. Cause
I used to listen to radio Disney and watch Disney
channel a lot. They used to play our stuff on
radio Disney in the background. Yes. But that
song, they did such a great cover. We toured
with Boeing for soup and I didn't even mention
it to them. I should have. Oh man. Their cover
of that is fantastic. And that's exactly why
there's that punk element to the song that I
love their cover so much. I would always play
that version for my kids because it's like, Hey,
you know, some of dad's music's cool too. Look,
see dad's music likes Disney too. You know? Yeah.
That's, you know, that's another reason why we
did our Disney covers and now because so many
of our fans have kids now and they all say like,
can you make a Disney record so I can play it
for my kids? Cause I can't. play all of your
record stuff for my kids. And I'm like, yes,
we should. And we did. I'm bummed that they got
to it before us, but they did a good job covering
it. They did a great job. Definitely. And now
I'm going to throw it back to you to follow that
up with your next pick. All right. Let's see.
All right. So this is another song that I so
badly wanted to cover. And it's almost like 50
songs in one. And once again, it goes back to
my favorite movie, Little Mermaid. And I just
love Ursula. Her attitude and her swagger, her
voice. Like maybe she used to smoke for 40 years.
Poor Unfortunate Souls. Awesome tune. It's such
a good song. And I just remember being a little
kid. Like I told you when I was at YMCA in the
nap room. And it's just like. me and my friend
would, when we're taking naps and we'd be like,
it's all about, you know, and it's just like
those little quotes and just, it's just a great
song, a great, great song. And I love it. I wish
we covered it, but alas, it wasn't in the cards,
but I love that song. And there's still plenty
of time. Maybe it is in the cards for the future.
Who knows? Right. We talked about doing a Disney
covers record of doing one side, happy and the
other side villains. I probably shouldn't be
saying that now just in case we do it sometime,
but yeah. If you do end up doing it, then I got
a scoop on my show. So I'd be pretty happy about
that. Absolutely. Well, two songs ago, we had
a song that Bowling for Soup covered that you
wish you covered. Then you followed it up with
a song that you wish you covered. I'm going to
follow up Poor Unfortunate Souls with a song
that you did cover and is one of my favorites.
And it's a theme song. Because you cannot talk
about Disney music and not talk about the theme
from DuckTales. So I am dropping that. All right.
Looks like I have to scrape that off my list.
Thank you, Brian. Good one. I mean, you mentioned
it when you talked about your five songs that
you feel describes Suburban Legends. I love your
version of it so much. The original, again, it
hits every nostalgia point because we watched
DuckTales after school growing up. And the song
is so catchy. And even as adults, we love this
song and it's something that the kids get into
and parents and kids can relate to and i love
going back and watching the reruns of the old
show with my kids and they brought it back for
a new generation even though i'm partial to the
original you're absolutely right the new one
is good but the original is it has the heart
yes that's you'd hit the nail on the head so
have to throw in the ducktales theme here yeah
definitely so with that song That was almost
like one of our sleeper hits. That's one of our,
in the millions, that stream. And we didn't know
that it was going to be that big of a hit. We
were just, a lot of these songs we didn't do
because they think that people would be like,
we'd get the streams or anything. We're just
like, wow, we just really like this song. And
it's a vehicle to perform the song. Same with
Kiss the Girl. I always loved that song. I always
wanted to do it. And the band was a vehicle to
do it. And same with DuckTales. And Aaron Barrett
from Real Big Fish did the guitar solo on that.
And the thing that hurts, the thing that cuts
is everyone's like, oh, that's such a good solo
on DuckTales. And all I can go is, thank you.
I can't say anything else after that. Just thank
you. He's a better guitar player than I am. So
that's my story about DuckTales. I love it. Well,
now I'm throwing it back to you. We're at the
home stretch here. We only got a few songs left.
So what do you have for track eight? Okay. Well,
I'm going to have to cut down my list because
DuckTales was on there. But so let's do Can't
Wait to Be King. Obviously, because of Lion King.
That was the second one of our two Disney songs
that we released and that people would just go
apeshit for. When anybody asks like, oh, send
me a video of your band. I send them a video
of us playing Can't Wait to Be King at the Forum
in London in front of 2 ,500 people dancing to
Can't Wait to Be King. Because it makes me look
cool. And you know the song. So you go, oh, I
like this song. I know the song. Oh. People must
think his band's popular, even though they were
there for Real Big Fish. They weren't there for
us. Maybe two of them were. So my trombone player,
Brian Robertson, he and I don't agree on anything.
It's almost like a brother -brother relationship
where we butt heads all the time. And the two
things that we've ever agreed on that we both
like, everything else is like, no, I don't want
to butt heads. But it's brotherly love. One would
be that we both like Waterworld and nobody else
likes it. That and the other one is, The Lion
King. That's the only things that we've ever
agreed on in our entire life. Everything is no,
no, no, no. And I even saw that on Broadway many,
many moons ago and it was phenomenal. And to
see how they did it and they brought it to live
action and just the songs are just, the songs
are really good. And the heart in that movie,
everything, it just tugs on the heartstrings,
especially being a father and wanting to see
your kids succeed. So that's what I got. All
right. I absolutely love the song. I had went
with Hakuna Matata on side A, but I love the
fact that you got this in here because I love
your cover, which was on 2012's Gay Job. I think
you guys do an amazing version of it. That's
again in my list, but I wanted to, during the
middle of the episode, talk about your original
tune. So I'm glad we're able to get this one
in here. And now for my last song of the night,
it's going to double up as my last pick. But
it's also going to be a humble request that maybe
you guys consider this one going forward. Because
I could completely hear a Ska cover version of
this song. And I'm going to go back to 2016's
Moana. And I'm going to go with Dwayne The Rock
Johnson as Maui. And I'm going to go with You're
Welcome. Oh, dude, I can't believe I missed that
one. I'm so glad you did, bro. That's the jam
right there. It's okay to say you're welcome.
I swear to God, when that first came on Disney
+, my daughter kept saying, can we watch that
song again? Can we watch that song again? And
I was like, sure, because it's so catchy. I never
got sick of it. And that would make such a, I
can hear the horns. I can hear everything of
this song being a ska punk song. So that's my
last pick of the night. You're welcome. You're
welcome, I guess. You know what? That didn't
go unthought of on our part. I kept on thinking
like, how could we cover that song? And plus
I'm a massive wrestling fan. And so I love The
Rock, even though The Rock is The Rock and he's
great by himself, but he's also an incredible
wrestler. And it's amazing that I've found someone
to procreate with because I have a room full
of like wrestling stuff and comic books and Disney
stuff. I'm in a man cave right now that's surrounded
by Disney, comic books, Kiss and music gear.
So, but yes. So that means I have two more, huh?
No, there's one song left. Oh, shoot. I ran out
of fingers to count on. Okay, so I'm going to
talk about kind of introing our new single. We
did Eye to Eye from Goofy Movie. Yes. I think
we all grew up with Goofy Movie, the first one.
And just even as much as recently, I was watching
it with my son. And, you know, they're getting
ready to go on this BS vacation that, you know,
Max doesn't want to go on. And Goofy's like,
what do you think, Max? He's like, oh, God, Dad,
I just want to get to the Powerline concert.
Well, my son, this guy right here, can you see
him? Yes, I can. Okay. Told you he'd make an
appearance. He's like, Dad, I don't think I ever
want to go on a vacation like this with you.
And then at the end of the movie, he goes, Dad,
I want to go on a vacation like this with you.
It's like, all right, I'm done. I'm done. Parenting,
you're doing it right. Exactly. And it's like,
that's what I was coming back to before about.
Disney having an effect on you in so many different
aspects of your life. Like as a kid, you love
Disney in one way. As an adult, you love Disney
in a different way. As a partner, you love Disney
in a different way. As a father, a mother, you
love Disney in a different way. You have different
reasons to love these things. And I think we
all love Goof Troop. 100%. Goof Troop. Represent.
And what I'm going to do is instead of chiming
in. I've received permission in advance to play
a clip of Eye to Eye from the Suburban Legends.
How dare you? Did you get it from Pirate Bay?
Napster? Did someone post it on MySpace? It was
somebody sent it to me via AIM. That's legit
then. I'll accept that. All right. Well, then
enjoy this clip of Eye to Eye from Suburban Legends.
And with that, Mixtapers, concludes Side B of
our Songs of Disney Mixtape, which consists of
Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast, Surface
Pressure from Encanto, Humphrey Hop from the
short In the Bag, You've Got a Friend in Me from
Toy Story, The Bare Necessities from The Jungle
Book, Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little
Mermaid, The DuckTales Theme from DuckTales,
I Just Can't Wait to be King from The Lion King,
You're Welcome from Moana, and Eye to Eye from
the Goofy Movie. 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, Brian, looking into Suburban
Legend's Crystal Ball, is there anything that
fans can look forward to in the coming months?
Maybe, I don't know, another Disney theme song
cover or something? Brian, these are very in
-depth. captivating questions you're asking and
we're doing the darkwing duck theme song yes
yeah we're doing that we did it i mean i'm sure
we all grew up some of us grew up with darkwing
duck and we did an awesome interesting ska metal
take on the theme song oh i can't wait to hear
that we've got some more gems coming out after
that too so stay tuned I cannot wait. And earlier
you were talking about something where you read
for young kids and you do something called rock
and roll reading. Can you just kind of let people
know a little bit about that and how they can
learn more? Yeah. And you can find rock and roll
reading on, on Facebook and where I'm performing
and you can find rock and roll reading on YouTube.
Just, I have like two kids music videos, like
Chris ground. I think you guys have talked to
him on the other podcast. He did a video for
one of my songs called big old gorilla. And that's
just where I, trying to get kids to read, trying
to get parents to find a way to get their kids
to put down the tablet. I know it's a necessary
evil, but put it down for a second, spend a minute,
read to them because we all remember what it
was like to have our parents read to us. Don't
remember what they said, but you remember how
it felt. And so every Friday in front of 150
kids, I read books and play guitar and I have
a little Britney Spears wireless mic and I run
around and try and make the parents laugh and
the kids laugh and read books to them. And hopefully
the parents will go, wait a minute. this guy's
a clown. We could do this at home. And then maybe
they go try and recreate it at home. And that's,
I'm a city employee of Huntington beach to do
that. So. Unbelievable. Well, Brian, this has
been such a fun discussion tonight. Thank you
so much for joining me on my weekly mixtape.
Oh, thank you for having me on your weekly mixtape.
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