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My name is Ben Checkness from the Too Vague Podcast

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and you're listening to My Weekly Mixtape with

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Brian Colburn. Get your leg warmers, get your

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checkerboard shoes, maybe a Rubik's Cube. We're

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heading to the 80s. Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape,

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a podcast that takes the classic mixtape approach

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to building a modern playlist. I'm your host,

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Brian Colburn. Joining me tonight as guest curator

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is Ben Checkness, host of the Too Vague podcast,

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as well as one of my weekly mixtapes, Amazing

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Patreon Mixtapers. Ben, thank you so much for

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joining me on the show. Oh, thank you for letting

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me be on. I really appreciate it. I'm excited

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to have you. So let's start with the same question

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I ask all my guests. Ben, what does the word

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mixtape mean to you? Mixtape is something from

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my, I guess I would associate it with childhood.

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It is something that I associate to, this is

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just free -flowing, first words come to mind.

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For some reason, malls, roller skating rinks,

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all these 80s things come into my head whenever

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I think of a mixtape. It's an expression. It's

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an expression of your love of music. making it.

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In general, I made it for other people, but they

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were also used for road trips or things like

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that. I have a connection with the late 80s,

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early 90s. That's what a mixtape means to me,

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the time I spent in my quote -unquote childhood.

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Absolutely love it. And tonight we are curating

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a mixtape of new wave classics. And I want to

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make sure I just say new wave classics and not

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80s new wave classics because new wave really

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began in the late 70s. And there's simply way

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too many iconic new wave songs that came out

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between, let's say, 77 and 1980, as well as all

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of the. well -known songs from the 1980s. Agreed.

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What were you looking for in the songs that you

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brought to the table this evening? Well, I was

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looking for basically what you said, those new

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wave coming out of the rock and roll or popular

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music of the 70s, trying something new, something

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that's sort of alternative in the time, but it's

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a group of bands that kind of pioneered. a lot

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of the new music using a lot of electronic sort

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of methods and things. But that doesn't necessarily

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mean that that is a new wave band. It's just

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some people coming out of the UK and then also

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just the new wave of popular bands coming to

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the forefront. Some of them made it. Some of

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them stayed true to that sort of new wave approach

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and became alternative. I think there's a distinction

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to be made with the difference or the similarities

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between new wave and alternative. There's kind

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of a transition there. Once we hit about 86,

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your new wave bands are established, right? So

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they're either pop rock or some other genre or

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alternative. What do you think about that? I

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feel like in the mid to Second half of the 80s

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bands kind of took these pivots where it would

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have been indie. It would have been almost that

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80s punk sound, which was not like the punk,

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like the Ramones, but a little bit more of a

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punky spirit in the music. And then the ones

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that went alternative. Which I feel like those

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three, even though they kind of come from the

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same musical lineage, they are three vastly different

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directions. So finding the songs that fit the

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mold, so to speak, is the challenge with this,

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because there are some songs where I'm looking

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at it saying to me. This is an indie band. I

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know they're lumped into New Wave, but I don't

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necessarily feel the New Wave vibe from them.

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And then there's other groups where it's almost

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the opposite, where they're not a New Wave band

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in the slightest. But because of that style of

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music being in the mainstream at the time, bands

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adapted to the New Wave sound. became a different

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extension of who that group was musically. And

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I've got a couple of examples of that that I

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might pull out tonight as well. The first thing

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that comes to mind is David Bowie. I mean, he

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embraced the quote unquote new wave going from

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his music, which was very like, I don't know

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if emo is the right word. Glam is the right word,

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but. He made the transition and then you had

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your other bands who made those transitions or

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rose to the top, should I say, of the new wave

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of artists. But to answer your question from

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a while ago, I just think mostly electronics,

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new wave synthesizers, drum machines, but used

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in an interesting way. That's kind of where I

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was going for. And then also that time period,

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what you said, which was between the late 70s.

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And early to mid 80s. Well, I'm excited about

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this one. So let's get down to business. All

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right. Tonight, as I mentioned at the top of

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the show, Ben and I will be curating a new wave

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classics mixtape. And we'll use that old cassette

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deck approach. Ben, as my special guest, will

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begin side A with his first song choice. And

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then I'll add a song that I feel. Best follows

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

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songs until we've mapped out 10 songs for side

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

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

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kick things off with Ben choosing second. Our

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overall goal for the episode is to craft the

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best New Wave Classics mixtape possible through

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only 20 songs. At the end of the show, you can

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take our conversation to the next level by visiting

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the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give

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our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.

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And if you like what you're hearing on My Weekly

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Mixtape, please consider becoming a Patreon mixtaper

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at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape.

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And while we're on the topic of Patreon mixtapers,

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a few of them chimed in with what they feel would

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best kick off. a New Wave Classics mixtape, and

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I'd like to give a few shout -outs to them. Cactus

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Pete chimed in with Tears for Fears, Everybody

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Wants to Rule the World. Mally Hart chimed in

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with Depeche Mode's Photographic. And Kevin Seeker

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chimed in with Talking Head's Psycho Killer,

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specifically the version from the Stop Making

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Sense live album. And Ben, before I turn it over

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to you to reveal your track one, some of the

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fellow mixtapers who follow me at My Weekly Mixtape

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on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and

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Spoutable have chimed in with their ideal opening

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tracks. And just to give you a small sample of

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what some of those picks included, we're talking

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The Human League, Don't You Want Me, Duran Duran,

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Girls on Film, as well as Rio, The Smiths, A

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Rush and a Push and The Land is Ours, Dead or

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Alive, You Spin Me Round, Depeche Mode, Personal

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Jesus, Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This,

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Joy Division, Love Will Tea, The Buggles, Video

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Killed the Radio Star, A Flock of Seagulls, I

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Ran So Far Away, and New Order, Blue Monday,

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just to name a few. So, Ben, with that musical

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thought out in the atmosphere, I'm officially

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pressing the record button on our mixtape, and

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the floor is yours. Why don't you dive into the

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song that you chose to kick off, Side A. Okay.

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This was a difficult decision because I wanted

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to establish the mood of this tape, and I wanted

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to give it a little bit of punch. This artist

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is probably more associated. With her more popular

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song, which is Kids in America. You said that

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one of your favorite songs was from her. What

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was the cover that you really liked from her?

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Oh, You Keep Me Hanging On. I love her cover

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of that. That came out in the mid -80s there.

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That was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that

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one. Well, this track, I don't know if we call

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it a deep cut. I'm going to call it a deep cut.

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It's from her Teases and Dares album, which is

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the album. that she released when she moved over

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to mca records i am starting with the track the

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touch by kim wilde from her 1984 album teases

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and dares love the song love the pick an interesting

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way to start things off because as soon as you

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said kim wilde i immediately thought you were

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going for kids in america because that was the

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song that everybody gravitated to and then When

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you called me out on You Keep Me Hanging On,

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I immediately knew you weren't going for that

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one. So an interesting approach to the song choice.

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It's more about the mood. I mean, if you listen

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to that song, it screams 80s. It screams, let's

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go roller skating. I can imagine myself just

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with the way it starts out. It sounds like kind

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of an organ you would hear in a hockey rink or

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whatever. And it just. turns into an electronic

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masterpiece. So that's why I chose that one.

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I love it. And you actually are giving me the

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greatest gift in this episode right from the

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beginning. Oh, okay. Because you are letting

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me choose one of my favorite bands as my first

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pick of the night. Anyone that listens to me

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podcasting knows that my favorite album of all

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time is 1978 self -titled album from the cars.

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And I'm struggling right now because every fiber

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in my being wants to choose something from that

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album. I could follow your lead and go with a

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deeper cut like Bye Bye Love. I could go with

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the big hit Just What I Needed or the song that

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kicked off the car's career and, dare I say,

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New Wave in general, Good Times Roll. But musically,

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I feel like all three of those songs don't follow

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up Kim Wilde very well because they're a little

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bit different vibe. Where the cars self -titled

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album leaned into the punk indie rock side of

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the band. I think following up the touch, I have

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to move forward a few years and go with their

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other massive album. Heartbeat city. Oh, because

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musically coming out of the touch as much as

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the self -titled is my favorite album. A song

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like You Might Think follows up the touch musically

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and aesthetically better for this mixtape. So

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I am going to go with You Might Think. Weezer

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covered the song for the Cars movie, so I got

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to see a revival of that one. I've covered the

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song personally on one of my older albums because

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it's one of my favorite songs from the band.

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And to me, Heartbeat City is an absolute classic.

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Second to me. tied in second place with candio

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because i always struggle between that one i

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love both albums equally and with the self -title

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being my favorite of all time candio and heartbeat

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city to me are just equally amazing brilliant

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albums but i think following the touch you might

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think okay by the cars excellent well get to

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cross off the cars off my list i didn't have

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heartbeat city as you mentioned but i did have

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My very first Cars album was Panorama. Yes. Love

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that one. Yeah, that one is very, very electronic

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if you compare it to Candio. It's like they really

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leaned into the synths for that album in general.

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And one of my favorite songs on there is Gimme

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Some Slack. Nice. Okay. That's like one of the

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punkier ones from that album to me. I absolutely

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love Panorama. Give Me Some Slack is probably

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the punkiest song on that album. It's got that

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attitude with the synths built into it. And then

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you got a song that leans into hard rock, like

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Don't Tell Me No, which wasn't necessarily a

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big hit for the band, but the band recognized

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it on the two CD Just What I Needed greatest

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hits. And this is really telling me that I need

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to do an episode on the car. So I'm going to

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write that down right now. And then throw the

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playlist back to you for track three. All right.

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Excellent. You might think, man, that had a poppy

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piano part to it. Man. Let's see. You know what?

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I'm going to go with this because one of my favorite

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bands of all time is the band Devo. If you can't

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tell by looking at my picture on Twitter, which

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is a cover. from an album cover from Are We Not

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Men, We Are Devo. But let's go with Devo. I think

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we should go to something that's closer to what

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their pop sound was. And Devo in interviews has

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always said they tried to remain as unproduced

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as they could because people always wanted them

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to be like the cars for some reason. They said,

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you know, like, we'll make it sound like the

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cars. And it's like, no, we are Devo. That's

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what we do. So let's go with something poppy.

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Let's go with something on their Oh No, It's

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Devo album, which was featured on an episode

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of Square Pegs, season one, episode nine, Muffy's

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Bar Mitzvah. Do you remember Square Pegs or are

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you a little too young for that? That one I'm

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not familiar with, actually. Square Pegs was

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Sarah Jessica Parker. She'll probably come back.

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Just put a pin in that. Sarah Jessica Parker.

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Yeah. But the song that was featured on that

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show, on that episode, was the song That's Good.

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So I am going with That's Good by Devo. Well,

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that's a good pick. And that was a horrible pun

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coming out of the song. Love the band. You obviously

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scooped me on them. I went with something a little

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more mainstream for them. I had from 1980s Freedom

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of Choice, Whip It. Oh, yeah. I felt like that

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had that punky flair that kind of sat in the

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new wave vibe with a lot of songs. And I feel

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like the punk bands that I listened to in the

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90s and the 2000s all covered songs from the

00:15:27.259 --> 00:15:30.860
80s new wave era. And there's a reason for that

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because it's not too far removed musically. And

00:15:34.409 --> 00:15:36.350
following up Devo, I think I'm going to bring

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in my first female choice of the night because

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we kick things off with Kim Wilde's The Touch.

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So I am going to go to 1981. This song I owned

00:15:47.490 --> 00:15:50.850
on 45 as a kid growing up, and it was one of

00:15:50.850 --> 00:15:55.100
my absolute favorite. songs as a child i spun

00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:58.919
this 45 so much it drove my parents nuts and

00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.860
this song has been covered on punk compilations

00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:04.980
it's been redone by pop artists it's been done

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a lot because it is to me power pop perfection

00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:13.840
embodied into this new wave sound and i'm gonna

00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.059
go off of 1981's beauty and the beat i'm gonna

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go with the go -go's our lips are sealed good

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one good one And you scooped me on The Go -Go's.

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The Go -Go's, I remember that was one of my first

00:16:27.379 --> 00:16:31.000
albums, that Beauty and the Beat. I had for The

00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.519
Go -Go's on Beauty and the Beat, You Can't Walk

00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.460
in Your Sleep If You Can't Sleep. Nice. I don't

00:16:37.460 --> 00:16:39.080
know if you're going to notice a theme here,

00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.759
but generally what I try to do with my mixtapes

00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:47.299
is, you know, I assume you know the hit, right?

00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:50.820
I assume that you know the Go -Go's hits. I assume

00:16:50.820 --> 00:16:54.340
you know the Devo's hits. I assume you know the

00:16:54.340 --> 00:16:58.000
cars. But I want to kind of expose you to other

00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.159
stuff, and that's kind of my focus. I don't know

00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.919
if you've been able to tell so far. So far, yeah,

00:17:03.019 --> 00:17:05.619
definitely. I'll be curious if you pull out some

00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:07.160
hits, though. Oh, no, no, I'm going to. I'm going

00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.599
to. Trust me. But, yeah, you scoop me on that.

00:17:10.109 --> 00:17:13.009
Get Up and Go is another one on vacation that

00:17:13.009 --> 00:17:15.549
was really cool. And Head Over Heels, also on

00:17:15.549 --> 00:17:19.450
my list from talk show from 84 before their fantastic

00:17:19.450 --> 00:17:23.049
breakup. But yeah, Our Lips Are Sealed is an

00:17:23.049 --> 00:17:28.289
excellent pick. Love it. All right. Well, you

00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:31.710
know, there was always an association for some

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reason between the Go -Go's and the Bangles.

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I think there were comparisons made. It was one

00:17:38.859 --> 00:17:42.839
of those record industry things where they kind

00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.799
of linked them because the Go -Go's hit it before.

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And you were always trying to get that next great

00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:50.640
thing. So there was some sort of an association

00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.380
there. Although when I think of the Bangles,

00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:56.880
besides Susanna Haas, I just think of their sound

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as more radio friendly in general. What I want

00:18:01.500 --> 00:18:06.180
to do with this following the Go -Go's. is a

00:18:06.180 --> 00:18:10.240
song that you may know from them from 1984's

00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.460
All Over the Place album. It's called Hero Takes

00:18:13.460 --> 00:18:17.640
a Fall. Nice. I think it did get some radio airplay,

00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:22.180
but it does have a really cool rock and feel

00:18:22.180 --> 00:18:25.819
to it. And then also Susanna Hoff's vocals, of

00:18:25.819 --> 00:18:29.289
course, stellar. Absolutely unbelievable. I love

00:18:29.289 --> 00:18:31.490
her voice. Manic Monday is one of my favorite

00:18:31.490 --> 00:18:34.450
songs of all time. And then if you want to fast

00:18:34.450 --> 00:18:36.430
forward a couple of years later, which this one

00:18:36.430 --> 00:18:39.789
wasn't so much New Wave, but their cover of Hazy

00:18:39.789 --> 00:18:42.789
Shade of Winter, I think redefines the song.

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Like, unbelievable. For the New Wave aspect of

00:18:47.549 --> 00:18:50.130
this, I actually had Walk Like an Egyptian from

00:18:50.130 --> 00:18:53.630
86's Different Light in the mix because that

00:18:53.630 --> 00:18:56.380
still had that. New wave flair to it, but Hero

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Takes the Fall. Excellent, excellent pick. And

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coming out of that, I think I'm going to go with

00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.480
something which is what I talked about at the

00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:09.900
top of the show. Here's a band that was not really

00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:14.980
known for this sound. And the band I'm going

00:19:14.980 --> 00:19:19.799
to talk about is The Beat. Oh, yeah. Or known

00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.440
in the US as The English Beat. And this is a

00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.660
band that I've seen live, and they are a ska

00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:34.059
band. They fuse pop music, reggae, punk, and

00:19:34.059 --> 00:19:37.259
ska into this sound. And if you go back and you

00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:40.400
listen to their 1980 album, I Just Can't Stop

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It, to me, it's an absolute second wave ska masterpiece.

00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:50.039
However, on 1982's special beat service, they

00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:51.920
brought in a little bit of a different sound.

00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.839
And that different sound resulted in one of the

00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.579
band's biggest hits and a song that to me is

00:19:59.579 --> 00:20:02.299
iconic in the new wave sound. And that is Save

00:20:02.299 --> 00:20:05.220
It For Later. Oh, yeah. You scooped me on that

00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:07.900
one. The exact track this time. Yep. That was

00:20:07.900 --> 00:20:12.359
on my list. This song is unbelievable. And it

00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.960
is a song that is beloved. Because if you think

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.799
about the movie 200 Cigarettes, Harvey Danger

00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.980
covered it. Pete Townsend covered it as a bonus

00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:27.119
track on one of his later CDs. I mean, this song

00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.200
is amazing. Pearl Jam has included it in a live

00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.380
rendition of Better Man, which is something that

00:20:32.380 --> 00:20:34.880
my band started incorporating when we saw Pearl

00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.920
Jam do it once. And to me, the song is just so

00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.359
catchy. It's so fantastic. It's so new wave.

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And it is kind of an outlier when you watch the

00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:49.650
English beat live. But for this playlist, I feel

00:20:49.650 --> 00:20:52.089
like it fits perfect. Oh, it does. Absolutely.

00:20:52.390 --> 00:20:55.509
So following you up, the English beat, Save It

00:20:55.509 --> 00:20:58.769
For Later. Yeah. And that, you know, the saxophones

00:20:58.769 --> 00:21:03.910
and the piano in that song. Oh, so good. So good.

00:21:04.329 --> 00:21:07.670
Definitely an excellent pick. Boy, English beat.

00:21:07.849 --> 00:21:12.190
They are so excellent. I am such a huge fan of

00:21:12.190 --> 00:21:19.549
their stuff, too. Do I do this? Oh, boy. And

00:21:19.549 --> 00:21:23.150
I don't know if you would consider this. Do we

00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:26.809
consider it a new wave? I think it was more considered.

00:21:27.549 --> 00:21:30.869
I'm just going off the reggae sound, right? What

00:21:30.869 --> 00:21:35.450
I'm going to choose is Eddie Grant from Killer

00:21:35.450 --> 00:21:39.029
on a Rampage. I'm going to choose Electric Avenue.

00:21:39.289 --> 00:21:42.490
Yes! Because I think that will follow up our

00:21:42.490 --> 00:21:46.609
sort of punk ska. and make it just kind of reggae,

00:21:46.650 --> 00:21:49.289
reggae -ify it. I don't know where you're going

00:21:49.289 --> 00:21:52.230
to go with it from there, but I mean, definitely

00:21:52.230 --> 00:21:56.589
heavy synths, really catchy. I was thinking about

00:21:56.589 --> 00:21:58.750
Killer on a Rampage using that one, but that

00:21:58.750 --> 00:22:03.029
seems more guitar -ish and less along the lines

00:22:03.029 --> 00:22:05.910
of New Wave. So I'm going, like I said, with

00:22:05.910 --> 00:22:09.950
Eddie Grant from his 1982 Killer on a Rampage

00:22:09.950 --> 00:22:13.390
album, Electric Avenue. You definitely scooped

00:22:13.390 --> 00:22:16.630
me on that one. One of my favorites. Oh my God.

00:22:16.670 --> 00:22:19.349
Yeah. I had that on 45 and that is one of my

00:22:19.349 --> 00:22:24.069
favorites from that era. I absolutely love that

00:22:24.069 --> 00:22:27.450
tune. I think it's one of the most underrated

00:22:27.450 --> 00:22:31.150
songs to come out of the decade because it's

00:22:31.150 --> 00:22:34.430
something that was sampled in hip hop in later

00:22:34.430 --> 00:22:37.609
years. It's been redone over and over again.

00:22:37.650 --> 00:22:41.569
This song is iconic. And when people hear it,

00:22:41.740 --> 00:22:46.180
Everybody knows the song, but not everybody knows,

00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.940
quote unquote, who Eddie Grant is. Oh, yeah.

00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:53.019
And that's the weird part. Yeah. Somehow his

00:22:53.019 --> 00:22:56.339
embracing this sort of electronic sound of Electric

00:22:56.339 --> 00:23:00.019
Avenue just kind of hit with me and was one of

00:23:00.019 --> 00:23:04.400
my father's favorite LPs, too. Awesome pick.

00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:07.079
Well, I am going to follow that up. I'm going

00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.319
to lean into that synth that you're throwing

00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:12.019
out with Electric Avenue. Okay. And I'm going

00:23:12.019 --> 00:23:14.380
to go with a band that if we don't include them

00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:17.259
in this discussion, we'd probably be doing the

00:23:17.259 --> 00:23:20.960
discussion a disservice in a way. And to me,

00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:24.140
this song is my absolute favorite by the band.

00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:25.859
And I know there's going to be some people that

00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:27.799
are going to be upset that I'm kind of going

00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:31.579
with a grand slam home run. But I've heard everybody

00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:34.900
from Dave Matthews to the used cover this song.

00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:39.660
And as cool as their versions are, no version

00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:43.240
is better. Then Talking Heads, Burning Down the

00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:47.799
House from 1983's Speaking in Tongues. And for

00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.200
a movie reference, I always think about Fireball.

00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:55.500
Fireball. Fireball from Revenge of the Nerds.

00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:58.839
The Alpha Beta frat member sets the whole frat

00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.599
house on fire. And then you cut to this song.

00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:04.660
It's so perfect. Yeah. And the song is just awesome.

00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.460
So I think you can't have a New Wave mixtape

00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:11.660
without talking. about the talking heads. Oh,

00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:14.240
yeah. So I want to get them in there. So Burning

00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:17.039
Down the House for track eight. Perfect. Yeah,

00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:19.559
and coming out of their sound, you know, their

00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.799
70s sound, it was definitely, it was a turning.

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:25.180
It was kind of, you know, they had their synth

00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:27.440
sounds, but that was like what put them on the

00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:30.259
map, Burning Down the House, I believe. I mean,

00:24:30.259 --> 00:24:34.359
that was such a great song. You mentioned Revenge

00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.619
of the Nerds. Fun fact, where I live in Tucson,

00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:43.420
On campus is the, I believe it's the Tri -Lam

00:24:43.420 --> 00:24:47.339
house that they used for the movie. Really? So,

00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.079
yeah. Yeah, I used to, when I moved out here,

00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:51.940
I used to go by it all the time and go, hey,

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:54.660
that's the Revenge of the Nerds house. Oh, that's

00:24:54.660 --> 00:24:57.279
awesome. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's still there,

00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:00.259
but I haven't been by there in a while. And then

00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:04.460
one other thing about our, what you said with

00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:08.619
the talking heads scooping me, I went with something.

00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:13.359
a little bit earlier than that. I think I mentioned

00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:16.680
on your channel before the song that I really

00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:19.880
liked from Speaking in Tongues, you had a, hey,

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:21.440
what would you lead off? You know, what's your

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:23.920
favorite track from this album, Speaking in Tongues?

00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:27.599
And it was Pull Up the Roots. But I really had

00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:31.819
my heart set on putting from Remain in Light,

00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:35.900
1980, Cross -Eyed and Painless. Oh, great song.

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.480
Phish does such an amazing cover of that one.

00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.799
They do? Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's another

00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:45.880
one that I think fits as far as, you know, the

00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.480
sound. It's just kind of like rolls, right? So

00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:52.700
good. 100%. But anyway, okay, burning down the

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:56.039
house. What score here? We're at track nine.

00:25:56.259 --> 00:26:01.619
Track nine. Ah, closers. Coffee is for closers.

00:26:02.730 --> 00:26:11.849
So I'm told, but boy, oh boy. There's so many.

00:26:13.529 --> 00:26:16.829
Well, you know what? With the popularity of that,

00:26:16.970 --> 00:26:20.430
every fiber of my being wants to go something

00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:23.549
obscure, but I can't right now. I think that

00:26:23.549 --> 00:26:27.650
it's not going to follow this well. So what I'm

00:26:27.650 --> 00:26:32.819
going to do is I'm going to go with a song. That's

00:26:32.819 --> 00:26:36.460
one of my favorites. That's kind of got a driving

00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:39.740
beat that I think compliments Burning Down the

00:26:39.740 --> 00:26:43.960
House. It is from the Sweet Dreams Are Made of

00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:48.640
This album in 1983. The Eurythmics, Somebody

00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.220
Told Me. And it's got this bass that's kind of

00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:55.059
very haunting and almost sounds like it's being

00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:58.619
played backwards. Like the whole sound feels

00:26:58.619 --> 00:27:02.269
like it's... So it's kind of haunting, but it's

00:27:02.269 --> 00:27:07.029
also got a really cool rhythm to it. And also,

00:27:07.109 --> 00:27:11.009
oh, well, oh, well, oh, well, that's that's what

00:27:11.009 --> 00:27:13.309
that's like the chorus. So anyway, are you familiar

00:27:13.309 --> 00:27:15.670
with that song from the year? Yes, I am. Yes,

00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:18.269
I am. You definitely scooped me on the band.

00:27:18.369 --> 00:27:20.789
There was no way we were not talking about the

00:27:20.789 --> 00:27:23.789
Eurythmics in some aspect, depending on which

00:27:23.789 --> 00:27:26.950
direction we went. I had sweet dreams. the title

00:27:26.950 --> 00:27:30.569
track from that album. And I also had what I

00:27:30.569 --> 00:27:32.789
lie to you, but that's a little bit more leaning

00:27:32.789 --> 00:27:36.849
into the punky kind of horn driven version of

00:27:36.849 --> 00:27:38.809
the band. And I didn't really know if that would

00:27:38.809 --> 00:27:41.670
fit here. I would associate that more with pop,

00:27:41.789 --> 00:27:44.970
like right by your side, kind of that feel, right?

00:27:45.230 --> 00:27:49.390
Yeah, that's good. I mean, at least we got the

00:27:49.390 --> 00:27:52.680
arithmetics and cross that off the list. Yes,

00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.779
most certainly. And now we've got two big names.

00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.059
And I think I know how I'm going to close outside

00:27:59.059 --> 00:28:02.819
a because to me, if I'm going to close out any

00:28:02.819 --> 00:28:05.279
part of it, I want it to be a big statement,

00:28:05.420 --> 00:28:09.240
one where it unites the room. And if anybody

00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:11.900
wasn't familiar with every single song on the

00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:15.240
list, here's one that everybody. Hopefully we'll

00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:17.680
be familiar with, and I'm going to make a fist

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:20.759
and raise it up in the air as I'm walking across

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.339
a football field. And I'm going to go back to

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:26.920
1985 is the breakfast club soundtrack and go

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.240
with the closing anthem from the breakfast club.

00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:34.160
Simple minds. Don't you forget about me? To me,

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:39.220
this is probably one of the more beloved, well

00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:43.410
-known new wave classics, like a. crowd pleaser

00:28:43.410 --> 00:28:46.670
all the way around where this is a song where

00:28:46.670 --> 00:28:50.450
even if you're not a fan of the genre this song

00:28:50.450 --> 00:28:53.470
kind of crosses over and resonates with a lot

00:28:53.470 --> 00:28:55.529
of different people so i felt like this is the

00:28:55.529 --> 00:28:58.170
home run song to close out the side with and

00:28:58.170 --> 00:29:02.849
then you think 1985 was starting where the music

00:29:02.849 --> 00:29:05.970
was starting to shift away from new wave and

00:29:05.970 --> 00:29:08.740
this was one of the Kind of, I don't know what

00:29:08.740 --> 00:29:11.619
we'd call it, the encores before that tactical

00:29:11.619 --> 00:29:14.059
musical shift. So that's how I'm going to close

00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:17.380
out side A with Simple Minds, Don't You Forget

00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:20.079
About Me. Let me just say, there are so many

00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:23.920
John Hughes -influenced choices that you could

00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.000
have made there, right? I mean, in all of his

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.559
movies, he's very particular about the soundtrack.

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:33.220
Like, you look at Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty

00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:35.680
in Pink. Like, all of those had really iconic

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:38.869
songs in them. that you can't help but associate

00:29:38.869 --> 00:29:42.930
a movie to it. And that's exactly what Don't

00:29:42.930 --> 00:29:45.789
You Forget About Me does. You can't not think

00:29:45.789 --> 00:29:48.869
of The Breakfast Club, right? I was just going

00:29:48.869 --> 00:29:51.329
to say, it's no shock that if you go back and

00:29:51.329 --> 00:29:54.349
listen to our 80s soundtrack episode of My Weekly

00:29:54.349 --> 00:29:57.529
Mixtape, spoiler alert, this is one of the songs

00:29:57.529 --> 00:30:00.089
we talked about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's one

00:30:00.089 --> 00:30:01.789
of those ones where it's like you can't help

00:30:01.789 --> 00:30:05.029
but think about it, the movie, when you hear

00:30:05.029 --> 00:30:08.069
this song. Great way to wind up side one here.

00:30:08.250 --> 00:30:11.349
I agree. And that, mixtapers, concludes side

00:30:11.349 --> 00:30:14.609
A of our New Wave Classics mixtape, which consists

00:30:14.609 --> 00:30:17.910
of Kim Wilde, The Touch, The Cars, You Might

00:30:17.910 --> 00:30:22.029
Think, Devo, That's Good, Go -Go's Our Lips Are

00:30:22.029 --> 00:30:25.710
Sealed, The Bangles, Hero Takes a Fall, The English

00:30:25.710 --> 00:30:29.009
Beat, Save It for Later, Eddie Grant's Electric

00:30:29.009 --> 00:30:32.190
Avenue, Talking Heads, Burning Down the House,

00:30:32.630 --> 00:30:36.079
Eurythmics, Somebody Told Me, And simple minds,

00:30:36.299 --> 00:30:39.720
don't you forget about me. Head to myweeklymixtape

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:42.200
.com to hear all of the songs we've discussed

00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:45.500
in this mix through the playlist embedded on

00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:49.359
the episode page. Now, before we flip our proverbial

00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.220
mix over to Side B, Ben, why don't you tell the

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:54.420
My Weekly Mixtape listeners a little bit more

00:30:54.420 --> 00:30:58.279
about Too Vague? Yes, the Too Vague podcast is

00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:02.670
a podcast I started. As sort of a passion project

00:31:02.670 --> 00:31:05.750
that I associate with the death of my father

00:31:05.750 --> 00:31:08.329
and it helped me move on. It's about connecting

00:31:08.329 --> 00:31:12.650
with people. It's a video game sort of show where

00:31:12.650 --> 00:31:16.009
we take a word. In fact, we had you on a couple

00:31:16.009 --> 00:31:19.349
episodes back doing the word mixtape. Yes. We

00:31:19.349 --> 00:31:22.690
take a word and we examine the definition and

00:31:22.690 --> 00:31:26.529
then we tell stories about it and inject some

00:31:26.529 --> 00:31:31.029
trivia in there. And then we move on connecting

00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:34.849
it to video games somehow. And I kind of was

00:31:34.849 --> 00:31:37.569
inspired by you on your show to do the arcade

00:31:37.569 --> 00:31:42.529
mix where we were doing the same thing. We were

00:31:42.529 --> 00:31:44.990
trying to go back and forth. Because one thing

00:31:44.990 --> 00:31:47.950
that I think of, like I said in the intro, arcades

00:31:47.950 --> 00:31:51.670
and mixtapes kind of are in the same sort of

00:31:51.670 --> 00:31:54.849
drawer, if you will. Oh, by all means. But anyway,

00:31:55.029 --> 00:31:58.500
yeah, a show about... Personal stories, trivia,

00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:01.619
video games. Try and keep it positive, as positive

00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:05.079
as possible. And been doing it for going on two

00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.380
years now. It's going to be two years in a week.

00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.839
Awesome. Really love doing it. And I appreciate

00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:13.460
you being on. Oh, by all means. And I hope anyone

00:32:13.460 --> 00:32:15.420
out there that's listening will go back and check

00:32:15.420 --> 00:32:18.400
out other episodes of the show as well as the

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.269
one that we did on Mixtapes. Getting me to talk

00:32:21.269 --> 00:32:23.329
video games is totally out of my comfort zone,

00:32:23.470 --> 00:32:26.029
but we put together a pretty cool arcade there

00:32:26.029 --> 00:32:29.029
in my weekly mixtape style, I have to say. Yes,

00:32:29.069 --> 00:32:33.089
I had a lot of fun. Same here. So moving on to

00:32:33.089 --> 00:32:37.109
side B, I get to kick things off. And I'm going

00:32:37.109 --> 00:32:41.869
to go to 1981 for my first song choice. When

00:32:41.869 --> 00:32:45.289
I was a kid, I made all of my mixtapes, which

00:32:45.289 --> 00:32:47.589
is kind of the impetus for inspiring what we

00:32:47.589 --> 00:32:50.829
do each week on this show. However, every now

00:32:50.829 --> 00:32:52.670
and then my parents would end up bringing home

00:32:52.670 --> 00:32:56.690
a record that was a mixtape. They were put out

00:32:56.690 --> 00:33:00.250
by K -Tel. Oh, yeah. K -Tel. Yeah. I haven't

00:33:00.250 --> 00:33:02.869
thought about them for a while. I know. Talk

00:33:02.869 --> 00:33:05.549
about dusting some cobwebs off your brain here.

00:33:05.710 --> 00:33:08.170
Yeah, no kidding. In 1982, they had a record

00:33:08.170 --> 00:33:12.069
called Hit Express. Now, as a five and six -year

00:33:12.069 --> 00:33:15.829
-old kid, there's a train crashing through what

00:33:15.829 --> 00:33:19.809
looks like glass. And there's Hit Express written

00:33:19.809 --> 00:33:22.930
across the top. And this was kind of just a mix

00:33:22.930 --> 00:33:25.710
of every popular song on the radio at the time.

00:33:25.730 --> 00:33:28.069
Like Joan Jett's I Love Rock and Roll, Loverboy's

00:33:28.069 --> 00:33:30.710
Working for the Weekend, Journey's Don't Stop

00:33:30.710 --> 00:33:33.170
Believin', In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins.

00:33:33.430 --> 00:33:36.710
Like it was just a who's who of music. And the

00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:41.009
opening song on this compilation was the New

00:33:41.009 --> 00:33:44.609
Wave classic, Human League, Don't You Want Me.

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:49.619
from their 1981 album dare and to me this song

00:33:49.619 --> 00:33:54.700
just oozes new wave oh yeah it's got this swagger

00:33:54.700 --> 00:33:58.740
to it that has a rock vibe but it's brought into

00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:01.720
the synth there's almost this punky aspect of

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.839
it and when real big fish and zoloft the rock

00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:08.019
and roll destroyer covered the song in the 2000s

00:34:08.019 --> 00:34:10.579
they brought a little bit more of the punk guitars

00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:15.010
to their cover of it and to me It works both

00:34:15.010 --> 00:34:17.769
ways because it's just as heavy and it rocks,

00:34:17.889 --> 00:34:20.650
but it's also something you could dance to. It's

00:34:20.650 --> 00:34:23.190
something you could groove to. And it's kind

00:34:23.190 --> 00:34:25.269
of everything I love about new wave because it's

00:34:25.269 --> 00:34:28.030
got that rock vibe, but it's not necessarily

00:34:28.030 --> 00:34:31.170
a rock song. So I'm going with human league.

00:34:31.269 --> 00:34:34.110
Don't you want me to kick off side B? Oh, wow.

00:34:34.309 --> 00:34:37.449
That's such a great track to lead with the human

00:34:37.449 --> 00:34:40.610
league. Of course, scoop me on that. But I have,

00:34:40.610 --> 00:34:45.239
uh, from their hysteria album, the Lebanon and

00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.559
love actions off of dare, which was more of a,

00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.420
you know, it's a, it's a lesser known song. Right.

00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:56.400
So, but yeah, don't you want me? That's excellent.

00:34:56.519 --> 00:35:00.820
Excellent choice. Well, geez, now I got my work

00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:04.760
cut out for me here. I think songs that put people

00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.880
on the map. I don't know if I want to go to,

00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:15.030
well, Hmm. This is a tough one for me because

00:35:15.030 --> 00:35:19.710
I want to go with something more synthy. For

00:35:19.710 --> 00:35:21.929
some reason, it feels like, and I don't know

00:35:21.929 --> 00:35:24.309
if this is true or not, but Side 1 felt more

00:35:24.309 --> 00:35:29.090
pop -oriented, less electronic than I wanted

00:35:29.090 --> 00:35:31.909
initially. And I don't know if this is going

00:35:31.909 --> 00:35:34.389
to be a pivot for you or not, but it's a song

00:35:34.389 --> 00:35:38.369
that I associate with bands like the Human League,

00:35:38.570 --> 00:35:43.250
although they had a lot of other hits. What I'm

00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:49.389
going to go for is a song that I believe was,

00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:55.110
speaking of your 1980s movie show, a song that

00:35:55.110 --> 00:35:59.710
was on Streets of Fire. Do you remember the movie

00:35:59.710 --> 00:36:02.469
Streets of Fire from 1984? Of course I do. Yeah,

00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:05.570
definitely. Michael Perret also in that one.

00:36:05.670 --> 00:36:08.489
I think you talked about Eddie and the Cruisers,

00:36:08.489 --> 00:36:12.289
right? Yes. So I'm going to go with a song off

00:36:12.289 --> 00:36:15.150
of the soundtrack from that album. And it was

00:36:15.150 --> 00:36:18.489
also on the Reach the Beach album released here

00:36:18.489 --> 00:36:23.489
in the States. In 1983, the song is Sign of Fire

00:36:23.489 --> 00:36:27.110
by The Fix. I mean, I was going to possibly go

00:36:27.110 --> 00:36:29.110
with Saved by Zero or something a little bit

00:36:29.110 --> 00:36:32.309
more upbeat. Or upbeat, but you know what I mean.

00:36:32.349 --> 00:36:34.829
Like something a little bit more notable as far

00:36:34.829 --> 00:36:37.679
as their catalog. A one thing leads to another

00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.400
as another one I could have gone with, but I

00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:42.639
love sign of fire so much. So I want to put that

00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:46.179
on sign of fire by the fix. Well, you scooped

00:36:46.179 --> 00:36:48.119
me on the band, but I actually had one of the

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.280
songs you just mentioned. One thing leads to

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.039
another on my list. Yeah. To me, that one, it's

00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:56.119
got a little like that opening that it's got

00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:59.380
that like almost funky new wave vibe to it. And

00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:02.539
you as a bassist, right? Oh yeah, exactly. I

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:05.360
mean, the bass part is very standout on that

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.769
song. Definitely. And following it up, I have

00:37:09.769 --> 00:37:12.409
a couple different ways I can go here. And I'm

00:37:12.409 --> 00:37:15.570
going to go with one of my, like I did on Side

00:37:15.570 --> 00:37:18.510
A, bands that are not necessarily known for New

00:37:18.510 --> 00:37:22.909
Wave, but definitely had a New Wave hit. And

00:37:22.909 --> 00:37:26.150
I'm going to go back to 1985 for this one. And

00:37:26.150 --> 00:37:29.309
this is a band that former guest Jim Santora,

00:37:29.530 --> 00:37:32.429
author of the underrated rock book, chimed in

00:37:32.429 --> 00:37:36.389
with this one. And I could not agree more. And

00:37:36.389 --> 00:37:40.449
I'm going to go with the album is Love. The band

00:37:40.449 --> 00:37:44.269
is The Cult. And I'm going to go with She Sells

00:37:44.269 --> 00:37:48.050
Sanctuary for my pick. It's a little bit more

00:37:48.050 --> 00:37:51.510
rock heavy. Yeah. There's definitely a guitar

00:37:51.510 --> 00:37:55.170
element to this song that hasn't been a lot of

00:37:55.170 --> 00:37:59.050
in the songs we've discussed. But make no mistake,

00:37:59.190 --> 00:38:01.429
this is a new wave song and Love is a new wave

00:38:01.429 --> 00:38:03.869
album. But when you think about Colt, most people

00:38:03.869 --> 00:38:06.250
think of kind of the rockier stuff that came

00:38:06.250 --> 00:38:09.769
after Love. But this was an era of the band that

00:38:09.769 --> 00:38:13.449
I think was truly amazing and fits really well

00:38:13.449 --> 00:38:15.210
with the bands we've been talking about tonight.

00:38:15.489 --> 00:38:18.170
Oh, yeah. For some reason, I always associate

00:38:18.170 --> 00:38:21.710
She Sells Sanctuary with, for some reason, alternative

00:38:21.710 --> 00:38:24.650
more than I associate it with new wave. And I

00:38:24.650 --> 00:38:26.389
don't know why, that's just probably the way

00:38:26.389 --> 00:38:28.909
my brain works, right? There are certain bands,

00:38:29.130 --> 00:38:32.190
you mentioned Depeche Mode early on, someone

00:38:32.190 --> 00:38:35.150
had a suggestion. For some reason, my brain,

00:38:35.150 --> 00:38:38.610
at the time that I really started loving that

00:38:38.610 --> 00:38:41.349
music, I link it, you know, not to New Wave,

00:38:41.369 --> 00:38:44.150
I link it to that. But I mean, She Sells Sanctuary

00:38:44.150 --> 00:38:47.530
is definitely a very cool song to put on here.

00:38:47.630 --> 00:38:50.789
I wasn't expecting that, actually. So, good one.

00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:56.400
I am not a deep cut new wave person. So my thought

00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:59.039
was maybe the little curve balls, like bands

00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.679
that don't normally do the new wave sound, like

00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.039
the English beats, save it for later. And this

00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.920
pick would be kind of my way to branch this episode

00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.960
out a little bit because I really, some of these

00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.110
bands I am. When I scroll through my list, it's

00:39:14.110 --> 00:39:17.150
just hit after hit after hit. So I kind of wanted

00:39:17.150 --> 00:39:20.289
to think outside the box a little bit in kind

00:39:20.289 --> 00:39:23.050
of what I bring to this mixtape. And I agree,

00:39:23.210 --> 00:39:26.130
the cult could veer a little outside of New Wave,

00:39:26.150 --> 00:39:30.050
but there's just enough where musically it ties

00:39:30.050 --> 00:39:32.789
into what we're doing here. Yeah. But that leaves

00:39:32.789 --> 00:39:35.289
me in sort of a pickle here. Do people still

00:39:35.289 --> 00:39:37.190
say that? Leave me in a pickle? I don't even

00:39:37.190 --> 00:39:42.679
know. Just visually, that's weird. She sells

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:47.860
sanctuary. So let's... She sells sanctuary. Boy.

00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:52.119
I think I may have to do a 180 here, man. Okay.

00:39:52.179 --> 00:39:54.460
But I'm trying to think of something that would

00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:59.480
kind of match the pace or match the feeling of

00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:03.460
She Sells Sanctuary. Okay. All right. I think

00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:07.340
I got it. So one of the most difficult album

00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:12.920
names to pronounce from 1982. in my opinion,

00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:21.280
was Shibu Shiba. And that album was by NXS. And

00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.840
so the song that I'm picking from that album

00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.880
is The One Thing. So I've got that on. I think

00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:33.219
that's a good sort of connector with She Sell

00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:36.699
Sanctuary. It's guitar -ish. It's more the rock

00:40:36.699 --> 00:40:41.130
side of New Wave, I think. So, yeah, I'm going

00:40:41.130 --> 00:40:45.250
with In Excess, The One Thing. Love it. I went

00:40:45.250 --> 00:40:47.869
a little further down into their career, and

00:40:47.869 --> 00:40:51.449
I went with the, again, obvious pick, 1987's

00:40:51.449 --> 00:40:54.750
Kick and Need You Tonight. Yeah. Which, again,

00:40:54.849 --> 00:40:57.530
you think about that's where I come from musically

00:40:57.530 --> 00:40:59.690
very much from a rock perspective. The songs

00:40:59.690 --> 00:41:02.610
that I'm picking all kind of lean a little bit

00:41:02.610 --> 00:41:07.079
in some aspect. And I think because The Cars

00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:09.579
was my first love of the genre, I think that's

00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:12.260
why. Because the self -titled album from The

00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:15.679
Cars is very guitar driven. Yeah. With the synth

00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:19.019
mixed in. Yeah. So there are a lot of songs that

00:41:19.019 --> 00:41:20.860
you've picked tonight that really lean into the

00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:23.280
synth. And I hope we're complimenting it. And

00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:26.260
I think In Excess is the perfect pick to come

00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:28.579
out of the cult. Especially The One Thing is

00:41:28.579 --> 00:41:32.500
one of those. It basically goes from that synth

00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:36.809
sound in the first part. to a guitar it transitions

00:41:36.809 --> 00:41:39.230
it uses both it's kind of a call and response

00:41:39.230 --> 00:41:42.630
thing where maybe it's more of a harmony thing

00:41:42.630 --> 00:41:45.349
but it just it sounds like it's a synthesizer

00:41:45.349 --> 00:41:53.190
and a guitar together you know right the so it's

00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:55.889
like call and response you get your guitar you

00:41:55.889 --> 00:41:58.510
got your keyboard you got your guitar you got

00:41:58.510 --> 00:42:00.349
your keyboard so i think it works pretty well

00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:02.820
And I think I know exactly what I'm going to

00:42:02.820 --> 00:42:04.980
follow that up with because I'm going to lean

00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:09.199
into that guitar and synth playing well together.

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:14.280
And I'm going to go to 1982. And this is one

00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.079
of those songs where when I say the band name,

00:42:16.179 --> 00:42:20.059
you might not immediately jump because the band

00:42:20.059 --> 00:42:23.500
name is not, at least in the U .S., a household

00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:28.280
name. But the song is. And I'm going to go. From

00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:32.639
1982, the band is After the Fire, and the song

00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:37.380
is Der Kommasser. Yeah, yeah. And that song has

00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:42.619
the guitar. But then you've got the heavy synth

00:42:42.619 --> 00:42:46.119
underneath it. So I feel like that aspect of

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.059
the song plays really well coming out of the

00:42:49.059 --> 00:42:51.579
one thing by In Excess. Yeah, that's perfect.

00:42:51.739 --> 00:42:53.699
That's perfect. And it also gives me an opening.

00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:57.480
So that's awesome. Yeah, I do like that. And

00:42:57.480 --> 00:42:59.639
it gives me an excuse to go with something a

00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:03.139
little bit more synthy, too. So, yeah. Anything

00:43:03.139 --> 00:43:07.800
by... Who was the... Rock Me Amadeus was also

00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.500
one of the... It wasn't After the Fire, though.

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:16.800
It was... That was Falco. Yeah, Falco. Okay.

00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.940
Let's... And what year was that again? 82. 82.

00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:26.619
All right. Let's stick with 82. And let's...

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:30.579
go with. This is going to be tricky for me because

00:43:30.579 --> 00:43:34.380
I love Thomas Dolby. I have an association with

00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:38.219
that. I remember listening to The Golden Age

00:43:38.219 --> 00:43:41.019
of Wireless on my cassette tape when I was in

00:43:41.019 --> 00:43:43.739
the morning and going for my runs in the morning.

00:43:44.420 --> 00:43:47.900
Absolutely love that. It was released, actually,

00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:50.019
Golden Age of Wireless, I believe, was released

00:43:50.019 --> 00:43:53.920
twice. It was released once before She Blinded

00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:57.730
Me with Science. And then afterwards, including

00:43:57.730 --> 00:43:59.869
She Blinded Me With Science, because that was

00:43:59.869 --> 00:44:03.650
such a huge hit for Thomas Dolby. Very iconic

00:44:03.650 --> 00:44:07.869
for him. But what I'm going to do, as far as

00:44:07.869 --> 00:44:10.070
Thomas Dolby is concerned, I'm going off his,

00:44:10.190 --> 00:44:13.429
I believe, his second album, The Flat Earth.

00:44:14.050 --> 00:44:20.530
And this is a song that was released originally

00:44:20.530 --> 00:44:24.210
under a different band and a different style.

00:44:24.889 --> 00:44:29.070
The song was the musical part of it, which Thomas

00:44:29.070 --> 00:44:32.710
Dolby produced. This was before his solo release.

00:44:33.929 --> 00:44:38.409
Houdini's Magic's Wand. That is the music. If

00:44:38.409 --> 00:44:40.690
you listen to that. Did you used to watch Soul

00:44:40.690 --> 00:44:44.409
Train or American Bandstand? I vaguely remember

00:44:44.409 --> 00:44:47.710
it. Yeah. I used to love Soul Train just for,

00:44:47.789 --> 00:44:50.530
you mentioned the train before, just the animated

00:44:50.530 --> 00:44:54.530
train. intro was amazing. But I think I heard

00:44:54.530 --> 00:45:00.329
this song at some point, Magic's Wand, on Soul

00:45:00.329 --> 00:45:05.030
Train. But I didn't hear the song that he made

00:45:05.030 --> 00:45:09.210
before it was used for that. The song is called

00:45:09.210 --> 00:45:14.250
Puppet Theater. And it is a deep cut sort of

00:45:14.250 --> 00:45:17.289
B -side. I believe the B -side to I Scare Myself.

00:45:17.829 --> 00:45:21.769
Puppet Theater is my choice. from Thomas Dolby's

00:45:21.769 --> 00:45:27.769
The Flat Earth album in 1984. That is a deep

00:45:27.769 --> 00:45:30.150
pick for sure, because I'll be perfectly honest,

00:45:30.730 --> 00:45:33.769
I had She Blinded Me With Science on my list.

00:45:33.849 --> 00:45:37.530
I am not that deep into Thomas Dolby's music,

00:45:37.570 --> 00:45:41.469
so completely stumped me on that one. I have

00:45:41.469 --> 00:45:44.369
not heard that album. Yeah, it wasn't really

00:45:44.369 --> 00:45:47.369
super duper popular, but it definitely kind of

00:45:47.369 --> 00:45:50.949
leaned into his He started getting into more

00:45:50.949 --> 00:45:53.829
just synth, like straight up synth. But back

00:45:53.829 --> 00:45:57.969
in those days, in the 82, he had kind of a funky

00:45:57.969 --> 00:46:01.150
kind of R &B feel. He was just fascinated by

00:46:01.150 --> 00:46:06.170
New York R &B stuff. And Puppet Theater is interesting

00:46:06.170 --> 00:46:09.050
because if you listen to the version that was

00:46:09.050 --> 00:46:12.829
put out by Houdini, and you listen to this, the

00:46:12.829 --> 00:46:15.969
version that he put out, it uses the same music,

00:46:16.010 --> 00:46:19.949
but it sounds completely different. One sounds

00:46:19.949 --> 00:46:23.150
like a rap song. One sounds like straight up

00:46:23.150 --> 00:46:26.869
new wave. So Thomas Dolby did a lot of writing

00:46:26.869 --> 00:46:29.409
of songs for people. Like one of the tracks I

00:46:29.409 --> 00:46:32.989
was going to have on my list that is, I'm going

00:46:32.989 --> 00:46:35.130
to cross it off since Thomas Dolby has been used,

00:46:35.210 --> 00:46:38.070
but Lena Lovitch released a song that was entirely

00:46:38.070 --> 00:46:42.869
written by Thomas Dolby called New Toy. Is that

00:46:42.869 --> 00:46:46.380
also a stumper for you? Yes, I am not deep in

00:46:46.380 --> 00:46:49.159
the Thomas Dolby catalog, to be perfectly honest.

00:46:49.219 --> 00:46:51.980
Well, I apologize for leaving you a large share,

00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.500
but yeah, Thomas Dolby, Puppet Theater is my

00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:59.099
pick. I cheated and put my phone up to my ear

00:46:59.099 --> 00:47:01.480
while you were talking, so I had you talking

00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:03.539
in my right ear, and in the left ear I was giving

00:47:03.539 --> 00:47:06.000
a little preview of Puppet Theater, so that way

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.780
musically I can bounce off of it. Oh, yeah. And

00:47:08.780 --> 00:47:11.880
I think I know what I'm going to do. That song

00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:14.639
has much more synth than probably anything else

00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:19.340
in my list. But I think musically, that vibe

00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:22.960
I could capture by leaving the 80s for a second

00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:27.900
and going back to 1979. And believe it or not,

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.900
this was on another one of those K -Tel compilations.

00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:33.440
And that K -Tel compilation was another one my

00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.039
parents had. It came out in the 1980s because

00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:40.070
it was called K -Tel Rock 80. But the song I'm

00:47:40.070 --> 00:47:44.030
going for is from 1979's The Pleasure Principle.

00:47:44.030 --> 00:47:47.269
And I'm going to go with The Amazing Cars by

00:47:47.269 --> 00:47:51.650
Gary Newman. Oh, yeah. Song kicks absolute ass.

00:47:51.809 --> 00:47:55.309
It's got such a, again, this might lean into

00:47:55.309 --> 00:47:58.610
a little bit more of the rock vibe. Because the

00:47:58.610 --> 00:48:02.070
song, even though it's mostly synth driven, is

00:48:02.070 --> 00:48:05.599
a rock song. In synth clothing, so to speak.

00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.340
And there's a reason why Fear Factory covered

00:48:08.340 --> 00:48:11.860
this song in the 90s. And just all they had to

00:48:11.860 --> 00:48:13.820
do was add a little bit of distorted guitar.

00:48:13.900 --> 00:48:16.960
And people were like, this song rocks. It rocked

00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.699
originally in 1979. So that's why I'm going with

00:48:19.699 --> 00:48:22.820
it. Gary Newman's Cars. And did you see that

00:48:22.820 --> 00:48:27.719
Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails fame, also on stage

00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:31.699
had Gary Newman. They did a live version of Cars.

00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.639
for one of his shows because apparently that

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:37.980
was one of Trent Reznor's big influences was

00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:41.500
Gary Newman, Two -Boy Army. Yeah, that's an excellent

00:48:41.500 --> 00:48:45.199
pick. I 100 % had that on my list. So we are

00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:48.239
at track eight and you have two picks left and

00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:52.840
I have one. Okay. Boy, oh boy. Let's go with

00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.880
something from, you know, an association I make

00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:00.099
with that song for whatever reason is a song.

00:49:00.590 --> 00:49:04.670
by someone probably not very well known, goes

00:49:04.670 --> 00:49:11.050
by Robin Scott, but the band is called M, and

00:49:11.050 --> 00:49:15.389
the album is New York, London, Paris, Munich,

00:49:15.469 --> 00:49:21.650
and everybody talk about pop music with a K is

00:49:21.650 --> 00:49:27.050
going to be my pick to follow up Cars from 1979's

00:49:27.050 --> 00:49:29.920
New York, London, Paris, Munich album, M. or

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.099
Robin Scott's pop music. Love that song. That

00:49:34.099 --> 00:49:37.679
one is a lot of fun. And I don't know why I associate

00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:40.219
those two songs, because they are different sounds.

00:49:41.019 --> 00:49:44.460
Maybe I saw them back -to -back videos or something,

00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:48.159
but something about the feeling for each one.

00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:52.400
One is really high up. It's kind of like a compression

00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.079
and a release thing, right? So you've got Gary

00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.239
Neumann. Car is sort of a driving kind of song.

00:49:59.699 --> 00:50:02.500
And then you've got this, which is kind of on

00:50:02.500 --> 00:50:06.039
the opposite side of the coin, but still using

00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:09.460
a lot of synths and feeling like it's jaunty

00:50:09.460 --> 00:50:13.260
even. By all means, I absolutely love this song.

00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:17.780
And I know the movie music and lyrics was a spoof

00:50:17.780 --> 00:50:22.619
on the band Wham. However. The songs they produced

00:50:22.619 --> 00:50:26.360
for Hugh Grant reminded me of that pop music

00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:30.280
vibe. Oh, yeah. And that's actually I'm not a

00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.380
huge romantic comedy person, but that one I've

00:50:33.380 --> 00:50:35.340
seen several times over the years with my wife.

00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:36.960
And I always thought it was a really well done

00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:39.840
movie. Great soundtrack. Fun songs. Good stuff.

00:50:40.349 --> 00:50:42.769
for some reason new york london paris munich

00:50:42.769 --> 00:50:45.650
everybody talk about pop music is something that

00:50:45.650 --> 00:50:48.590
just pops into my head and i just say it no one

00:50:48.590 --> 00:50:50.809
knows what the hell i'm talking about unless

00:50:50.809 --> 00:50:55.570
they're from the 80s but exactly well following

00:50:55.570 --> 00:50:58.710
that up i think i know how i'm gonna go because

00:50:58.710 --> 00:51:01.010
this is my last song pick of the night so i wanted

00:51:01.010 --> 00:51:06.139
to do another massive crowd pleaser Similar to

00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:08.460
the way I ended Side A with Don't You Forget

00:51:08.460 --> 00:51:10.539
About Me. For my last song of the night, I wanted

00:51:10.539 --> 00:51:13.820
to do something that, to me, screams new wave,

00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:18.059
screams 80s, screams this vibe, but also has

00:51:18.059 --> 00:51:21.559
the entire room singing in unison. And one of

00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:23.949
the songs from the 80s that... does that. Oh,

00:51:24.050 --> 00:51:27.409
so well, as well as for the nineties babies,

00:51:27.530 --> 00:51:30.809
because real big fish did a fantastic cover of

00:51:30.809 --> 00:51:34.130
this song in the movie basketball. I am going

00:51:34.130 --> 00:51:39.550
with aha. Take on me from 1985 hunting high and

00:51:39.550 --> 00:51:42.929
low. Let's get the whole room singing in unison,

00:51:42.989 --> 00:51:46.289
dancing and having a great time because that's

00:51:46.289 --> 00:51:48.750
part of what new wave music is all about. It's

00:51:48.750 --> 00:51:52.230
a fun genre and a fun vibe. And I wanted to really,

00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.599
go out for the night on a fun note. So take on

00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:58.980
me. Perfect. Excellent video too. Just the way

00:51:58.980 --> 00:52:01.659
they did that video is fabulous. One of the greatest

00:52:01.659 --> 00:52:05.599
music videos ever. Agreed. Hands down. And if

00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:07.860
you want to look up a fun version of the song,

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.960
look up the MTV unplugged version that the band

00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:14.159
put out about five years ago. Oh, okay. Beautiful,

00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.639
beautiful version of the song. Not as fun as

00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:20.800
the original, but. Man, that music video, when

00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:23.000
I think of music videos, easily one of the first

00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.579
five that come to mind. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely.

00:52:25.940 --> 00:52:28.980
A -ha was one of my favorite bands of all time.

00:52:29.260 --> 00:52:32.340
I had on my list, from Hunting High and Low,

00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:35.800
The Blue Sky, which was kind of another one of

00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.420
those sort of constantly moving kind of songs.

00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:45.380
And from Scoundrel Days in 1986, Cry Wolf. Oh,

00:52:45.380 --> 00:52:48.579
okay. Yeah, I don't know how into... uh -huh

00:52:48.579 --> 00:52:52.119
you were but i was a big fan i was more than

00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:56.719
casual i knew more than take on me but for this

00:52:56.719 --> 00:53:00.079
mixtape i felt like take on me was where it needed

00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.739
to go coming out of pop music yeah that's true

00:53:02.739 --> 00:53:05.579
that's true and now you have to close out the

00:53:05.579 --> 00:53:12.159
whole mixtape too all right well you know what

00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.320
okay you might be angry at me and this might

00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.610
not be in the spirit of My weekly mixtape. But

00:53:19.610 --> 00:53:21.829
I am going to end this the way I wanted to end

00:53:21.829 --> 00:53:26.949
it, even though it might not fit. And I think

00:53:26.949 --> 00:53:30.250
you may approve because this artist was mentioned

00:53:30.250 --> 00:53:34.309
in a couple of your movie episodes as far as

00:53:34.309 --> 00:53:38.789
tracks that you wanted to include. So when I

00:53:38.789 --> 00:53:42.750
think of the 80s, I think of this person who

00:53:42.750 --> 00:53:47.719
started on a show called Dr. Demento. And I don't

00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:50.199
know if you ever listened to Dr. Demento back

00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:54.059
in the 70s and 80s. Yep. Well, Weird Al likes

00:53:54.059 --> 00:53:58.139
to do what he calls style parodies. And one of

00:53:58.139 --> 00:54:00.940
the style parodies he did was Devo, which we

00:54:00.940 --> 00:54:04.699
already included on the mix. So I am going with

00:54:04.699 --> 00:54:08.420
a different style parody he did of undeniably

00:54:08.420 --> 00:54:12.099
one of the New Wave bands, I believe from Georgia,

00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:17.570
the B -52s. And the style parody he did was a

00:54:17.570 --> 00:54:20.670
song called, you mentioned K -Tel, and this kind

00:54:20.670 --> 00:54:24.170
of fits in the same category, called Mr. Popeil.

00:54:24.309 --> 00:54:28.489
Yes! So I want to close out our mixtape with

00:54:28.489 --> 00:54:33.349
Weird Al Yankovic's style parody on his In 3D

00:54:33.349 --> 00:54:38.969
album, Mr. Popeil. What a fantastic way to close.

00:54:39.389 --> 00:54:43.409
Oh my God. I mean, look. Weird Al is a household

00:54:43.409 --> 00:54:46.570
name, and this is going to be the curveball at

00:54:46.570 --> 00:54:49.170
the end of the episode where people are now gripping

00:54:49.170 --> 00:54:51.269
onto their wheel trying to figure out what just

00:54:51.269 --> 00:54:55.909
happened. But when you listen to this playlist

00:54:55.909 --> 00:55:00.090
on myweeklymixtape .com, you will see just how

00:55:00.090 --> 00:55:05.030
fantastically perfect this pick is. I 100 % approve,

00:55:05.449 --> 00:55:08.190
and I applaud this, Ben. This was a fantastic

00:55:08.190 --> 00:55:11.769
way to close out the side. Yeah, it's just fantastic.

00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:14.199
Listen to his style parodies. Like he did Devo

00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:17.739
better than Devo on Dare to be Stupid. 100%.

00:55:17.739 --> 00:55:21.619
I don't know if you ever saw, there was an interview

00:55:21.619 --> 00:55:25.559
on one of these Weird Al Yankovic sort of documentaries,

00:55:25.820 --> 00:55:29.500
right? Where Mark Mothersbaugh was talked to

00:55:29.500 --> 00:55:32.400
about Dare to be Stupid, the song. And he says

00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.019
basically that it's so beautiful and that he

00:55:35.019 --> 00:55:39.619
hates him because of it. Because it's so perfectly

00:55:39.619 --> 00:55:44.670
Devo. And it's not, you know, Devo. So but yeah,

00:55:44.769 --> 00:55:48.989
the style parody, the B -52s, undeniably a band

00:55:48.989 --> 00:55:51.829
from that new wave era. You know, you could have

00:55:51.829 --> 00:55:55.349
gone with them with Rome if you want to go a

00:55:55.349 --> 00:55:58.090
little bit later on. But I decided to go with

00:55:58.090 --> 00:56:01.730
the style parody instead. So there we go. Bravo.

00:56:02.269 --> 00:56:05.929
There you have it, folks. Side B of our new wave

00:56:05.929 --> 00:56:08.829
classics mixtape, which kicked off with the Human

00:56:08.829 --> 00:56:12.300
League. Don't you want me? The Fix, Sign of Fire,

00:56:12.619 --> 00:56:16.699
The Cult, She Sells Sanctuary, In Excess, The

00:56:16.699 --> 00:56:20.840
One Thing, After the Fire, De Commissar, Thomas

00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:25.300
Dolby, Puppet Theater, Gary Newman, Cars, M,

00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:30.280
Pop Music, Aha, Take on Me, and Weird Al Yankovic.

00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:33.820
You heard it right, folks. Mr. Popeil. Head over

00:56:33.820 --> 00:56:36.900
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs

00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:39.769
we've discussed. through the playlist embedded

00:56:39.769 --> 00:56:43.409
on the episode page. One other thing I wanted

00:56:43.409 --> 00:56:46.449
to, before we close out the episode. Sure. Is

00:56:46.449 --> 00:56:49.110
there a band that you think you should have included

00:56:49.110 --> 00:56:52.010
that you didn't get to? Because I've got one

00:56:52.010 --> 00:56:56.429
specific artist that for some reason just didn't

00:56:56.429 --> 00:56:59.889
fit. And I think he definitely belongs in this

00:56:59.889 --> 00:57:01.610
list, but I didn't have a chance to. Do you have

00:57:01.610 --> 00:57:04.190
any artists like that on your list? I most certainly

00:57:04.190 --> 00:57:06.030
do. And if you want to do a round of honorable

00:57:06.030 --> 00:57:08.329
mentions, I'm completely down for that. Oh, yeah.

00:57:08.449 --> 00:57:11.190
Perfect. You've got the next one. All right.

00:57:11.210 --> 00:57:14.829
Sounds good. So then my honorable mention is

00:57:14.829 --> 00:57:19.110
from 1983's Power, Corruption, and Lies, New

00:57:19.110 --> 00:57:22.090
Order's Blue Monday. Oh, yeah. Boy, I delivered

00:57:22.090 --> 00:57:26.510
many a pizza to that song. Yep. I'm so upset

00:57:26.510 --> 00:57:29.789
I didn't get a chance to fit that in, and I was

00:57:29.789 --> 00:57:31.969
kind of flip -flopping it, and I ended up going

00:57:31.969 --> 00:57:35.659
with After the Fire instead. Yeah. Which I think

00:57:35.659 --> 00:57:37.380
was the right choice. I think it was the right

00:57:37.380 --> 00:57:40.900
choice. One of the songs, and speaking of going

00:57:40.900 --> 00:57:43.480
all over the place and experimenting, one of

00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.079
the bands that I really wanted to include, not

00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:48.820
really a band, a person, Joe Jackson. Oh, yeah.

00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.099
He had so many different hits. He had that sort

00:57:52.099 --> 00:57:55.199
of the beat crazy album was sort of like, you

00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:59.119
know, big band music kind of sounding. And, you

00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:01.699
know, everyone knows Steppin' Out, right? Just

00:58:01.699 --> 00:58:05.739
the way that that song goes. But one of my favorites

00:58:05.739 --> 00:58:09.800
from him is it kind of has a reggae vibe to it,

00:58:09.820 --> 00:58:11.239
and I probably could have used it when we were

00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:14.639
in the reggae realm. The Sunday Papers off of

00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:19.380
his 1978 album looked sharp. So I wish I would

00:58:19.380 --> 00:58:21.719
have had a chance to fit some Joe Jackson in

00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.920
there, but if it wasn't, just none of those really

00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:28.880
fit. Completely agree. Great picks. Ben, this

00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:31.360
has been so much fun, man. Why don't you let

00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:33.320
people know where they can find out more about

00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:36.239
the Too Vague Podcast? Yeah. Too Vague Podcast.

00:58:36.699 --> 00:58:40.019
Go ahead and point your browser. I don't know

00:58:40.019 --> 00:58:44.820
how people say it these days, but www .TooVaguePodcast

00:58:44.820 --> 00:58:49.840
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00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:53.159
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00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:57.420
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00:58:57.699 --> 00:59:00.250
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00:59:00.250 --> 00:59:02.630
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00:59:02.630 --> 00:59:05.929
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00:59:05.929 --> 00:59:08.989
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00:59:08.989 --> 00:59:14.090
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00:59:14.090 --> 00:59:21.969
go. www .twovepodcast .com. Well, Ben, thank

00:59:21.969 --> 00:59:24.449
you so much for being a guest tonight. And I

00:59:24.449 --> 00:59:28.289
also thank you. For being a Patreon mixtaper

00:59:28.289 --> 00:59:30.670
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00:59:30.670 --> 00:59:33.190
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00:59:33.190 --> 00:59:34.969
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00:59:34.989 --> 00:59:36.670
I'm so glad you were able to come on the show

00:59:36.670 --> 00:59:39.469
to do it with me tonight. Absolutely. I'm so

00:59:39.469 --> 00:59:42.110
happy to do that. And it's a, you know, I love

00:59:42.110 --> 00:59:44.690
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