Hey everyone, I'm Jason Whistle from It's Not
That Bad, and there can only be one. You are
listening to my weekly mixtape with Brian Colburn.
Now, get the big pen out of the cassette. It's
time to rock. 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 for tonight's collaboration
is Jason Wissel, host of the It's Not That Bad
and There Can Only Be One podcast, as well as
my guest in the show's premiere episode, The
Greatest Opening Guitar Riffs. Jason, thank you
so much for joining me once again. I feel like
in the spirit of the theme of this episode we're
about to record, it should almost be like it's
not that bad to Electric Boogaloo. Always happy
to jump on the show. Thank you so much for bringing
me back on. Well, since you're my first repeat
guest, I can't ask you what the word mixtape
means to you because I've already asked you that.
So as a return guest, you get a new question.
What's your go -to mixtape genre and why? When
I was making mixtapes, like right now, if I'm
making mixtapes, I really have only a couple
of, or not mixtapes, but at least playlists on
Spotify. I think I have one that's called Amazeballs
Tracks, and that's about it. But when I was actually
doing mixtapes, I always liked putting together
like the slow song compilations. I don't know
why. I just always connected to slow songs better,
I think, at the time. So I had a lot of very
chill mixes on cassette. Very interesting. And
you know what's interesting about that is those
chill mixtapes, at least when we were growing
up, could be a lot of pop stuff. But then you
got a lot of those hair band ballads that crossed
over into pop radio that really made for interesting
mixes. Because you'd be going from the Poisons
and the Warrants and bands like that into whatever
the pop ballads were at the time. Because Top
40 Radio was playing a combination of both of
those. Oh, it's the only time you'd ever have
a mixtape that would go from Poison to Tori Amos
and actually make sense. There you go. One hundred
percent. Now, tonight, Jason and I will be curating
a mixtape that fans of his podcast. It's not
that bad. Will certainly resonate with. And I
would go as far as to say that tonight's episode
for the two of us is a true crossover discussion
as our topic tonight is great songs. from bad
movies. Now, before we go any further, I want
to immediately specify that neither Jason or
myself are saying that these movies are bad.
In fact, in a lot of these instances, it's quite
the contrary. But we're going with Jason's it's
not that bad criteria of a bad movie. So Jason.
why don't you, as the person who explains this
each and every episode on It's Not That Bad,
explain to the My Weekly Mixtape listeners what
constitutes a quote -unquote bad movie? Well,
we kind of go by the Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer,
if you will. We kind of joke around over here
that if the tomato is green, the movie can be
seen. So the rule is if the critic's score is
under 60%, then we consider that to be quote
-unquote unfairly maligned and that's when we
say that the movie qualifies so for a lot of
these films and i'm just taking a look at my
list that i've prepared of i think i stopped
about 70 songs in preparation for this because
i might have gone a little extra sorry not sorry
but there's some movies here that are very very
good There's some also some movies here that
are very, very crap. I'm not going to sugarcoat
this, but even in some of the worst movies, you
have some of the best songs. So this is going
to be a very interesting film. And I don't know
about you. There are songs that I have set aside
from movies I have never seen. But the soundtrack
got played a lot. Well, as of the last month,
because we have been playing out this little
mini movie series on my weekly mixtape. the mixtapers
have learned that I don't watch a lot of movies.
So a lot of these soundtracks fall under that
category for me. Now, Jason, using your bad movie
criteria there, this was a pretty easy list for
me to come up with because apparently a lot of
the soundtracks I own and movies I enjoy fall
into the it's not that bad category. But I was
both happy. and disappointed simultaneously.
And I'm going to spoil this now. UHF, the classic
Weird Al Yankovic movie, did score a 61 on Rotten
Tomatoes, which makes it ineligible for tonight's
discussion, which is both a blessing and a curse,
I guess, if you want to call it that. But it
was at least worthy of a shout -out on tonight's
episode. Well, to that same token as well, seeing
as we're talking Weird Al Yankovic, Transformers
the movie, the animated movie, has a slightly
over 60 % rating, therefore Dare to be Stupid
would not actually qualify for this one as well.
Well, you had Dare to be Stupid, but the first
song I was looking for was Stan Bush, The Touch.
And sure enough, I went, oh, come on, really?
I was pretty much ready to reach out to a...
and try to get them to go on Rotten Tomatoes
and give it a rotten score just to kind of bring
it down for the sake of tonight's episode. However,
I am going to keep this on the straight and narrow,
100 % legit, and not do that. 60 and under. So
let's get down to business. Tonight, as I mentioned,
Jason and I will be curating a great songs from
bad movies mixtape, and we'll use the old cassette
deck approach, meaning our mixtape will be broken
up into two sides. Side A. and Side B. Jason,
as my special guest, will begin Side A with his
first song choice, and then I'll add a song that
I feel best follows up his choice. We'll then
flip -flop choosing songs until we've mapped
out the 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 Jason choosing second. Our overall goal
for the episode tonight is to craft the best
great songs from bad movies 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 a listen via the
embedded playlist. And finally, if you like what
you're hearing on the show, please consider becoming
a Patreon mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash
myweeklymixtape. And I'd actually like to take
a moment now to welcome several new Patreon mixtapers,
Mally Hart, Jalen, QueenFan05, and Kevin Seeker.
I'd like to personally welcome all of you to
the Mixtaper family, and I thank you all for
supporting the show The Extra Mile. And I'll
also add, within a week of this episode airing
is Kevin Seeker's birthday, so I want to give
him a special birthday shout -out. Cheers, buddy.
Thanks again, and hope you have a great birthday.
Now, before we press the record button on this
Mixtape, some Mixtapers chimed in with the song
they feel would best. kick things off. And I
want to start. So, Jason, you and I have some
food for thought going into this episode. I mean,
I have to add more songs to the list. Yes, exactly.
As if our lists aren't long enough. Kicking things
off, Patreon mixtaper Cactus Pete chimed in with
Lustrous Scotty Doesn't Know from Eurotrip. And
then elsewhere on the socials, people who follow
me at My Weekly Mixtape on Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, TikTok, and now Sproutable. All had
chime -ins as well. Kenneth Eisenberger chimed
in with Irene Cara, The Dream from DC Cab. Joey
Held chimed in with The Eels, Hey Man, Now You're
Really Living from Charlie Bartlett. Sean Faust
chimed in with 38 Specials, Back to Paradise
from Revenge of the Nerds 2. And I want to jump
in and say, I did not take the time to check
all of these chime -ins on the Tomatometer. Prior
to this, so if any of these are actually above
60, you pulled one over on me. Great job. Matt
Kennedy from the X Radio X soundtrack chimed
in with anything from Meet the Deedles. Jason
Spiegel chimed in with Tevin Campbell's Round
and Round from Graffiti Bridge. John D. Gregorio
from Movie Lovers Unite chimed in with Jim Carrey's
Somebody to Love from The Cable Guy. Bob Scott
chimed in with Jon Bon Jovi's Blaze of Glory
from Young Guns 2. Justin Fortune chimed in with
anything from Blues Brothers 2000. Gnarly Thotep
chimed in with Roxette, Almost Unreal from Super
Mario Brothers, the 1993 one, not the new one
that's out in theaters, of course. On Repeat
Records chimed in with Dan Hartman's I Can Dream
About You from Streets of Fire. John Porable
chimed in with Rag and Bone Man, Broken People
from Bright. Philip Bergman chimed in with Devo's
Are You Ready from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
movie. And Greg Vorab chimed in with anything
from the She's the One soundtrack. All right,
Jason, now that we've got those chimings out
in the atmosphere, what song are you kicking
off our great songs from Bad Movies mixtape with?
I'm not going to lie. I breathe a massive sigh
of relief that I get the first song on this one
because there's one song I'm like, oh, please
don't scoop me on this. Okay, I get first song.
I'm good. I'm good. And I have to give a shout
out to you as well because when listening to
your show and when listening to Playlist Wars,
as I would be driving along on my commute into
downtown Toronto, I'd like to play along. With
the show, you know, you sit there and try and
figure out what the next song would be or, you
know, sit there and say, are they going to mention
this song? Are they going to mention this song?
It's very play alongable. There was an episode
of Playlist Wars and I can't remember off the
top of my head which episode it was. Someone
mentioned a Letters to Cleo song. And I think
the comment was, does Letters to Cleo have any
song but what they do for soundtracks? Yes, they
do. Yes, they do. I'm a big Letters to Cleo fan.
But I'm going to go with, and it does make sense
here in a second here, three small words from
Josie and the Pussycats, which has a tomatometer
of 53%. Now, if the vocals sound familiar, if
you haven't guessed it by now, the vocals are
not done by Rachel Leigh Cook. That's Kay Hanley
from Letters to Cleo. However, the song was also
co -written by Adam Duritz from The Counting
Crows. The three actresses actually did do backup
vocals on this. So did Biff Naked. Nice. You
know who Biff Naked is if you're Canadian. But
also, if you take a look at the liner notes of
the Josie and the Pussycats album, Matthew Sweet
is listed as quote unquote unspecified duties.
So I'm just going to assume that he was there
being awesome for the entire record. But I freaking
love that film. That's such a fun film. That's
a great film with a great soundtrack. And we've
talked about this. On the show before, if you
are performing music in a movie, but you're not
singing it. So let's take out the movie with
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born,
because they actually performed those songs in
the movie. But we look at movies like That Thing
You Do, Rockstar, where the actors are lip syncing.
Oh, brother, where art thou? You need to be able
to pull that off. It's not just lip syncing because
it could be very easily figured out if you're
not embodying that singer role. And in Josie
and the Pussycats, you actually believe that
they're performing the music, which is very important
to me watching these movies. Because if it's
unbelievable seeing them perform the music, I'm
taken out of the role. Well, if I remember correctly,
they actually went to, you know, quote unquote
band camp. in preparation for this film. So,
you know, they learned how to play the instruments,
not that they played the instruments in the studio,
but for at least for being on stage. The same
thing, the bootcamp definitely happened in That
Thing You Do. I know Tom Hanks sent The Wonders
for a month to learn the instruments because
if somebody's just sitting there holding a bass,
now you and I are both bass players, and they're
just sitting on the G, the entire song, you and
I know that immediately. But if they're walking
around and actually following the notes, you
kind of learn to understand that. So it's a big
thing to pull off. But besides all of that, Three
Small Words is a catchy song. And it was a good
movie. But we grew up with Josie and the Pussycats.
So I guess at the point that this movie came
out, we weren't parents yet. This movie is over
20 years old now. We were still in our 20s at
this point without children. the nostalgia factor
wasn't hitting anywhere. And I feel like it was
a missed opportunity that they might've wanted
to hold this movie a little longer for it to
truly have the parents love it because it's nostalgia
and kids love it because it's new, like Super
Mario Brothers is doing currently in the box
office. The movie's doing gangbusters because
us as parents remember it from our childhood
and the kids now know it from their childhood.
Plus it's a great movie, but. I digress. But
I think, I think Josie and the Pussycats, rather
than be more of a nostalgia factor, I think it
was more of a, basically a commentary on the
state of boy bands. Because, you know, if you
think about the band Du Jour in the movie, which
of course has Seth Green and Breckin Meyer in
the group, you know, it really pokes fun at that
whole boy band and then taking a rock band and
turning it, like, it just makes fun of. pop radio,
and basically what makes a popular song. Could
not agree more. And now following that up, I
feel like you're in kind of a pop range here,
so I have a little bit of leeway. And when you
think of soundtracks, one of the first names
you think of, especially if you go back to the
80s, is Kenny Loggins. And Kenny Loggins has
a bunch of killer 80s soundtrack tunes. You think
about Footloose, Danger Zone from Top Gun. You
think about I'm Alright from Caddyshack. You
think about Meet Me Halfway from Over the Top.
But he also performed the theme song to a movie
that myself and Gomez from Playlist Wars got
to guest on It's Not That Bad all the way back
on episode 10. And this movie had a tomatometer.
Am I saying that correct? Tomatometer? You're
saying it in a way that Rotten Tomatoes can't
come after me for, I think. So we're good. We're
good. I don't know if it's tomato meter or tomatometer,
however it's pronounced. Let's call the whole
thing off. Yeah. It got a rating of four. And
the audience score got a rating of 17. So I'm
going really with what is pretty much widely
considered a bad movie. And I'm going with 1988's
Caddyshack 2. And I'm going with Kenny Loggins'
Nobody's Fool. Great song. It is a true Kenny
Loggins anthem. Unfortunately, the movie didn't
do as well as the first one, but I love the fact
that he had the lead song in both Caddyshack
1 and Caddyshack 2. Believe it or not, Nobody's
Fool is actually a song I love rocking outside
of soundtrack playlists. It's a fantastic 80s
rock song. You can't go wrong. You need to have
some Kenny Loggins love when we're talking movie
soundtracks. And here's my contribution to that.
Kenny Loggins, nobody's fool from the much maligned
Caddyshack 2. Hey, I said it on the episode when
you guys were on and I'll say it again and I
will say it to anyone who listens. I still prefer
Caddyshack 2 to the first Caddyshack because
when Caddyshack 2 was on on the movie networks.
I was of the age that I was actually able to
watch it. And it was funny enough for me at that
age to get the joke. So it's more about the fact
that that movie was more part of my childhood
as opposed to like the first one. So don't at
me, don't at me, but. So now the question becomes,
do I go with a more classic rock vibe or do I
go similar to genre of the film? Because this
is kind of what I've been looking forward to
for this episode. I've been geared up for this
one because I could follow it up with genre,
I could follow it up with era, or I could follow
it up with movie genre. Yes. Oh, I'm tossed up
here. You know what? Okay. I'm going to stick
in the decade and in sports. And with a tomatometer
of 38 % off the Rocky IV soundtrack, I'm going
to go with Robert Tepper's No Easy Way Out. Freaking
love that song because A, how many montages can
you fit into the movie? Yes, admittedly, fewer
than Dreaming Little Dream, but there's still
a ton of montages. So this is when he's driving
the sports car and flashing back to the first
three movies because they need to apparently
pad the time. absolutely killer song, like all
the way through. And the fact that it was made
into, and I think it was both my Valentine that
did the remake of that recently. The fact that
that slays even now, that song hits hard. It's
a fantastic song. And I'm going to be perfectly
honest. I'm not the biggest movie buff. So you
just blew my mind in the fact that Rocky four
only scored a 34. Like to me, that song is from
what's for all intensive purposes, an iconic
eighties movie. And it's so beloved amongst especially
my generation. I didn't realize it was so trashed
in the actual rate. I'm sure the the user score
for that's got to be much higher. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. But if you take a look at, you know, the
original Rockies, you know, there was this underdog
story. At this point, Rockies got everything
that he needs. There's the giant robot, which,
you know, Polly, I'm pretty sure had an affair
with off camera, just the way that he's, you
know, reacting to it. But it's also very raw,
raw uber patriotism in the middle of the Cold
War. Like, there's a lot to that film. And of
course, it brought us some of the greatest Dolph
Lundgren lines ever. If he dies, he dies. I don't
know if tonally it was the movie for the time,
but in hindsight, it's still, well, it's better
than Rocky V. But then again, everything's better
than Rocky V. Yeah, I have to agree with that.
Rocky V, I don't even think had a soundtrack.
I think they just said screw it for that one,
to be perfectly honest. And if it did, I don't
remember it. Wow. So I'm going to be honest.
Would not have expected a Rocky IV song. To make
this list. So I'm glad it did. Because also on
the Rocky IV soundtrack. Which I can't touch
now. Because you have now removed that movie
from the list. Is Hearts on Fire by John Cafferty.
However. I could tie it to that. Because John
Cafferty. And the Beaver Brown Band. Is also
known. As Eddie and the Cruisers. And in 1989.
Eddie and the Cruisers 2, Eddie Lives, was released
and flopped in movies faster than you could probably
play through the actual movie or soundtrack.
I don't think it lasted a day in theaters. And
on Rotten Tomatoes right now, there's only three
ratings and they're all bad. However, apparently
that rating averages out to a tomatometer of
34%. But! The audience score gives it 72. So
I am going with Eddie and the Cruisers 2, Eddie
Lives from 1989. And the song is Running Through
the Fire from John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown
Band. Now, the opening of this movie, I have
to ask you this question because you're from
Canada. And Eddie and the Cruisers, fictionally
here, let's just talk hypothetically. He is a
world famous musician. Who supposedly died. Moves
to Canada. Grows a mustache. And gets a job in
construction. So this mustache was the only thing
on Earth that separated Joe West from Eddie Wilson
in that movie. But for some reason, he fooled
not only all of Canada, but all of the United
States by growing a mustache. The whole world
completely didn't recognize him, which was the
only part of that. movie that i've always wondered
so if somebody a massive star in the u .s were
to pass away and move up to canada it just grew
a mustache would you wreck it's a very good question
i mean i okay so so talking realistically here
Canadian radio up here, we have CRTC regulations
where it says that a certain percentage of the
songs that are played on radio have to be Canadian
content. So knowing that those CRTC regulations
are there means that some American artists don't
get played up here. And you see that too with
terrestrial radio and considering when Eddie
and the Cruisers came out, you had bands that
were big in certain cities and not so much like
a couple states over. You know, the fact that
it took Triumph to have to go down to, I think
it was Texas, in order to be able to get big.
The fact that Rush got big in Cleveland really
before getting big in Canada, it's a bit of a
different scenario. But to the same token, we
have bands up here that were huge and barely
made any noise south of the border. The Tragically
Hip comes to mind. Yes, they were at Woodstock,
I think it was 99 or 94. Yes, because Dan Aykroyd
got to introduce them, they were on Saturday
Night Live. But really, aside from those moments,
the Tragically Hip didn't make as much noise.
And yet they're considered like the house band
up here. So it's possible. It's very possible.
All right. So maybe the producers of Eddie and
the Cruisers 2 weren't as crazy as I've thought
for all these years. When he shaves his mustache
at the end of the movie, all of a sudden everyone's
like, oh, Eddie Wilson, you're back. Like it
really the mustache was all his disguise was.
Maybe I shouldn't be as shocked that this movie
didn't do well in the theaters. But overall,
realistically, for me personally, at least, I
loved it as a kid. It was it was that pure 80s
cheese. And for some reason, the lead guitarist
always referred to the band as the band. Man,
you're going to be in the band. And it was like.
But there was something that was so bad, it was
brilliant about this movie. And I loved it. And
I have the Blu -ray with both movies on it. I
love watching both of them. I love John Cafferty
and the Beaver Brown Band, whether they are,
quote unquote, Eddie and the Cruisers or just
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. But
Running Through the Fire is a kick -ass song,
especially for 1989. They were still chalking
up great hits at that point. And that's definitely
one of them. You'll have to correct me if I'm
wrong, but I think it was on editing the cruisers.
The song on the dark side was on that soundtrack.
I think the first movie. Yes. Yes. Okay. But
then of course, Corey Taylor did a cover of it
recently on his solo album. And that was killer.
Yeah. Fantastic. Absolutely. Fantastic version.
Oh, where do I go to next? Okay. So Eddie and
the cruisers was released in 1983. So I think
I'm going to go one year later. And a movie that
actually surprised me, the fact that it qualifies
with a 52 % tomatometer. And if you were to ask
Peter Quill, this is the movie where Kevin Bacon
saves the universe through dancing. Off of the
movie or the soundtrack for Footloose, I'm actually
going to go with Holding It for a Hero by Bonnie
Tyler. Wow. There is absolutely nothing wrong
with that song and that soundtrack to it. Like,
I'm not going to lie. Every now and then when
we're trying to figure out movies to cover for
the show, I'm often surprised at some of the
movies that actually do qualify. Footloose, I
always consider that to be a paragon of 1984
cinema going. Doesn't necessarily mean the critics
saw it that way, but I mean, are you surprised
that a movie like Footloose? actually qualifies
am i surprised dude i literally just called it
out at the beginning talking about all the hits
that kenny loggins cranked out for good movies
and talked about footloose in that three songs
ago i am today years old learning that footloose
scored under 60 on rotten tomatoes i oh i just
and again you assume you make an ass out of you
i mean i just made an ass out of myself because
I assumed there was no way that Footloose was
coming in under 60%. Mind blown. Mind blown.
Now the interesting thing is, where do you go
from here? We've hung in the 80s for a bit. It's
hard to pivot out of the 80s when you have this
sound going. And I'm scrolling through my list.
I think I'm going to stay in the 80s because
I feel like we got this vibe going here. And
I'm going to move up to one that I know Gomez
will applaud. For sure. And I'm going to go to
1987 from a movie that scored 20 % on the Tomatometer
with an audience score of 55%. And that movie
is Mannequin. And the song is Starship, Nothing's
Gonna Stop Us Now. Starship got a bad rap in
the 80s. I get that they weren't the Jefferson
Starship that everybody knew and loved from the
70s. But this was a reinvention. But Nothing's
Gonna Stop Us Now was a... ridiculously catchy
pop ballad. And I love the fact that bands like
The Starting Line did punk covers of it. The
song is catchy. And, you know, Mannequin, I saw
back in the 80s. I don't think I've seen it in
30 years. I can't tell you if it held up. In
my mind, it was funny way back in the day. I
just haven't seen it in so long. But this song
definitely holds up. And coming out of Bonnie
Tyler, I feel like staying with the female 80s
sound. But it slows it down a little bit because
we've had a lot of like upbeat songs so far.
So I figured now is the time to kind of dip a
little bit and give you a little bit more to
pivot off from for the rest of this. But my track
six is Starship. Nothing's going to stop us now
from Mannequin. All I'm picturing right now is
like the motorcycle ride with Andrew McCarthy
driving down with him. I can't remember the actress's
name. Kim Cattrall. Kim Cattrall. Yes. Yes. Speaking
of Canadians. Yes. You know what? I know exactly
where I'm going to go with this one. I'm going
to bring this into the 90s, but I like the happy
vibe we got going here. So I'm going to stick
with another movie that A, I'm surprised actually
qualifies, but B, happy, upbeat, catchy as hell
with a tomatometer of 53 % from the soundtrack
of So I Married an Axe Murderer. I'm going to
go with There She Goes from The Laws. This is
kind of like almost like the theme song of the
whole film. One of my favorite Mike Myers films
of all time, just because it's just, and Nancy
Travis absolutely loved her, loved her in Destiny
Turns on the radio, loved her in this. I'm surprised
she didn't do much more like, you know, later
on, at least not that I noticed, but it's such
a fun film. And if you're not sitting there watching
this going, head, move, then you're watching
it wrong. Love the song. I want to give a shout
out back to episode 17 of my weekly mixtape because
we had JT from The Uninvited on and we talk about
the laws. There she goes in that episode. Such
an underrated song. Obviously, everyone automatically
goes to at least in the US when they hear there
she goes, they automatically go to six pence,
none the richer. Because they really brought
that song to pop radio. But the original version
is absolutely fantastic. So I Married an Axe
Murderer is a great movie. And coming out of
that, I think I know exactly what I'm going to
do. Being you got it in the 90s and you're keeping
this upbeat thing going. I am going to go to
a movie that came out in 1995. It's one of my
favorite 90s movies. And it's not that thing
you do because that thing you do does not qualify.
But this one is also centered around music, and
it has a Tomatometer score of 31 with an audience
score of 83. So there's a huge swing in this.
People love this movie. I know a lot of people
love this movie. Gomez and I both guessed it
on The Itch recently in celebration of Rex Manning
Day because of the movie. Empire Records. And
sticking with that upbeat theme, I'm going to
go with Coyote Shivers' Sugar High, which is
the song that's performed at the end of the movie
on top of Empire Records. Now, I will say this.
I prefer the movie version from the soundtrack
version because of the verse that Renee Zellweger
sang in the movie. I actually prefer that version
more. However, it's not released anywhere. So
I am going with the original. The original is
fun anyway. It keeps that indie vibe going coming
out of the laws. There she goes. So Coyote Shivers,
Sugar High from Empire Records. I'm not going
to lie. You scooped me on the movie. I had in
my list till I hear it from you from the Jim
Blossoms and a girl like you from Edwin Collins
set aside for that one. But you scooped me on
the movie. But coming out of the laws, I don't
think either of those songs flow as naturally
as Coyote Shivers does. Oh, very, very true.
Very true. So now where do I go from here? Because
I've only got one song left on this side. And
again, I do like the upbeat vibe. So I'm going
to stay upbeat. A little bit harder, mind you.
But I'm definitely going to stay upbeat as far
as the movie tonality goes. So with a tomatometer
of 52 % from the soundtrack of Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back. I ask you, how many people want
to kick some ass from Stroke 9? Yes! Absolutely
love this song. Love this movie. You totally
scooped me on this one. I had a couple songs
from that soundtrack, and obviously I had Because
I Got High from Afro Man in my back pocket waiting,
but it just kind of feels like with the upbeat
vibe that we're going with. And let's be honest,
like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is one of
the most fun road trippy romp type films that
has come out in the last 20 years. I don't know
why. You know, it's got a 52%. I mean, you've
got cameos from George Carlin, Carrie Fisher.
The entire thing is so self -knowing and self
-referential. You can't go wrong with a moment
of it. Like, to me, this is one of the best Kevin
Smith films, period. From the cinematography
to it, to the action beats, to the writing, to
the comedy, all the way through. Like, it is
front to back hilarious. Could not agree more.
I had two songs from that soundtrack on my list,
depending on where we went. I had Stroke 9's
Kick Some Ass. And even though it wasn't created
for the film, the use of Run DMC's Tougher Than
Leather, I had on my list just in case there
was some hip hop being thrown around because
that use is absolutely fantastic. Love that film.
And I know exactly what I'm going to close this
side with because we've had a lot of fun songs
on this side. And I want to give another shout
out to Patreon Playlister Cactus Pete because
he chimed in with this one and I agree wholeheartedly.
And I'm going to bring us into the 2000s, 2004,
with a Tomatometer score of 47%, but an audience
score of 75%. Which means, once again, big swing
from the audience to the critics. Excusie! I
am going with Lustra's Scotty Doesn't Know. No,
that's not Matt Damon singing. But just like
at the top of the episode with track one, Josie
and the Pussycats were lip syncing. We're ending
the side with that same lip syncing vibe with
Lustra's track Scotty Doesn't Know, which also
made the My Weekly Mixtape episode 10, the ultimate
2000s. punk rock playlist featuring jay sweet
from the tune styles podcast so if you want to
hear more about scotty doesn't know you could
check that one out but closing out side a scotty
doesn't know scotty doesn't know scotty doesn't
know You scooped me on that one. I'm not going
to lie. You definitely scooped me on that one.
I, I had Euro trip for sure in my list. It's
just a matter of, you know, where was the right
time to put it? And it does. It's a, that's the
perfect followup for kick some ass. As soon as
you said kick some ass, I was like, there's no
other song that can go here. There's no other
song. And that mixtapers concludes side a of
our great songs from bad movies, mixtape, which
consists. Of Josie and the Pussycats, three small
words from Josie and the Pussycats. Kenny Loggins,
Nobody's Fool from Caddyshack 2. Robert Tepper's
No Easy Way Out from Rocky 4. John Cafferty and
the Beaver Brown Band running through the fire
from Eddie and the Cruisers 2, Eddie Lives. Bonnie
Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero from Footloose.
Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now from Mannequin.
The Law's There She Goes from So I Married an
Axe Murderer. Coyote Shiver's Sugar High from
Empire Records. Stroke Nine's Kick Some Ass from
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And Lustra's
Scotty Doesn't Know from Eurotrip. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix. through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Now, Jason, before
we flip things over and kick off Side B, besides
It's Not That Bad, which you talked about way
back on episode one, you also now host a brand
new music podcast called There Can Only Be One.
And no, it's not a Highlander -centric show.
So why don't you tell listeners more about this,
what I personally consider to be an amazing podcast.
Well, again, thank you so much, and also thank
you for coming on to the second episode of that
show, going through the entire Tom Petty discography.
So the thing with There Can Only Be One is each
episode, we're going to take an artist, whether
it be a singer -songwriter or a band, and we
go through their entire studio discography, making
our own kind of best -of playlist. But there's
rules. There are rules. A. We ignore live albums
and we ignore greatest hits albums. B, it's NHL
All -Star Game rules. Therefore, every studio
album must be represented. And C, because I'm
cruel and evil, you're only allowed to pick one
song off of each album. So if you have an artist
where there are 10 studio albums, you're picking
10 songs, one from each album. And I'm not going
to lie. There have been some shows. That have
broken me. We did an episode on Pink and two
of my favorite songs of hers of all time were
on the same album and it hurt. It hurt to decide
between one or the other. And it really boiled
down to what song held up better on the studio
version as opposed to the live version. But there
are some deliberations that go on when we're
making some of these picks. I mean, when you
were on, you know, I'm sure there were some Tom
Petty albums where I'm just like, you know, you're
just like you have to choose between, you know,
your your your kids. Which one's your favorite?
That was a. ridiculously tough episode but so
much fun because you really have to go back and
dive through and listen to these albums again
to make sure you're truly choosing the right
song to represent an album so i absolutely love
the format i love the show so much and i think
it's a winning formula for people that love kind
of this fantasy football form of music podcast
similar to what i'm Host here at my weekly mixtape
and what you're doing over there. So I'm really
excited for the future of that one. And I have
to be honest, going back to it's not that bad.
This episode, dude, if nothing else comes from
this episode, it's giving you a treasure trove
of content to pull from for future episodes.
Well, I'm just taking a look at just the movies
that are on my list and realizing that we are
very rapidly coming up, not only on our second
anniversary, but our 100th episode. I'm pretty
sure we have year three covered already with
just the movies that are on this list. Unbelievable.
And now to start off side B, I get to kick that
off. And I'm going to start off with something
completely different to kind of wipe the slate
clean on side B. Because every now and then when
you flip a mixtape over, it could be a totally
different vibe. And I want to kind of open up
the door for some new ideas and kind of types
of songs to flow through here. I'm going to go
back to 1998, and one of the mixtapers chimed
in with this movie, which has a Tomatometer score
of 46%, and in rare form here, an audience score
of 37%. So this one, critics mostly didn't like
it, but audiences really kind of didn't like
it. I saw it in the theater. I wasn't a fan of
the movie, but as soon as the movie was over,
I immediately went to the store and bought the
soundtrack because all the movie was was a series
of performances that made the soundtrack from
1998's Blues Brothers 2000. I am going with the
Louisiana Gator Boys. How blue can you get? Now,
who are the Louisiana Gator Boys? The Louisiana
Gator Boys is Jeff Skunk Baxter. Gary U .S. Bonds.
Eric Clapton. Clarence Clemons. Dak DeJeanette.
Bo Diddley. John Faddis. Isaac Hayes. Dr. John.
Tommy Pipes McDonald. Charlie Musselwhite. Billy
Preston. Lou Rawls. Joshua Redman. Paul Schaefer.
Coco Taylor. Travis Tritt. Jimmy Vaughn. Grover
Washington Jr., Willie Weeks, Steve Winwood,
and the lead singer, B .B. King. When I saw this
scene in the theater, my jaw dropped because
of all of these musical legends on stage at once.
If for nothing else. This movie needed to be
made for that scene alone. Because a lot of these
artists aren't with us anymore. And seeing that
performance was absolutely mind -blowing. I am
sure for the crew and the crowd that was in that
room, that was lightning in a bottle magic. And
for an otherwise meh movie, that scene made it
worth owning the DVD for, worth owning the soundtrack
for, and worth kicking off. Side B of our great
songs from a bad movie mixtape. The Louisiana
Gator Boys. How blue can you get from Blues Brothers
2000? Okay. So I know Justin Fortune mentioned
Blues Brothers 2000. And I know I chimed in.
Worst Super Bowl ever. Aside from Elvis Presto.
Aside from Elvis Presto. I have personally. blocked
that Superbowl from my mind, even though ZZ Top
was there. And even though James Brown was there
at that Superbowl, I have done my best to block
that out of, out of my mind. But now, interestingly,
where do we go from here? Because you've got,
you know, you've got a song with, if I remember
correctly, a bit of groove to it, a bit of, bit
of, yeah. So I think I know where I'm going to
go. And I have to give another tip of the hat
to Playlist Wars. And a previous special guest
that you had. And it's also a tip of the hat,
too. It's not that bad because we have covered
this movie before. I'm talking about, with a
36 % tomatometer, the Canadian film Dog Park.
The song is called Things That I Used To Do from
G -Love and Special Sauce. Nice. Now, if you've
never seen the film, it's written and directed
by Bruce McCullough from Kids in the Hall fame,
but it's also got Luke Wilson, not Owen Wilson,
Luke Wilson, Janine Garofalo, and Natasha Henstridge
from Species fame. The song is just tons of fun.
Like just a great, fun, funk groove. It's actually
the song that opens up the entire film. And it's
just one of those small little films that, you
know, yes, went straight to video. Sorry, went
straight to VHS. Let me age myself here properly.
But it's a fun film if you're looking for something
that's more of an ennui -filmed romantic, not
necessarily comedy, but definitely a lighter
rom -com type thing. So it's not a great movie.
It's not a horrible movie. It is better than
the 36%, but G Love and Special Sauce, things
that I used to do. And there were actually a
few songs that I had on my list from that album.
I also had Stranded from Plum off of that album
set aside. But no, this is the time for G Love
and Special Sauce. All right. Wow. I love G Love.
It's a fantastic song choice. I have never seen
the movie, so I really can't comment to that.
We had blues and then we had this groove of him.
I don't have much that is going to complement
that groove. So I'm going to pivot a little bit.
But the tie I'm going to use is that super group
formed for the movie that I used in my first
song. And musically, this is going to be a record
scratch, right turn, makes no sense. But I do
want to talk about this because this is a very
evenly maligned movie. The Tomatometer score
is 31%. The audience score is 33%. So not a lot
of fans of this movie. Didn't do very well. But
when my wife and I were dating, we went to this
theater up in New Hampshire that at the time
was one of the first theaters that offered movie
dining and drinks during the movie. Meaning you
would sit in these at the time. of Cadillac chairs
that reclined and you had a table in between
you and you ordered dinner and you had drinks
and you watched the movie at the same time. So
it was very much an experience and we wanted
to try the theater out, but they only had one
movie playing. So we went, figuring how bad could
it be. And that movie was 2002's The Country
Bears, Disney movie. You had Jim Henson's Creature
Shop that worked on a lot of the parts. I knew
it was based around music. She's a big Disney
fan. So I figured, oh, you know what? There's
going to be some good music in it. And yes, there
was a lot of great music in it. The Brian Setzer
Trio was in that soundtrack. Some great country
songs. But one of my favorite songwriters of
all time, John Hyatt, commanded a lot of the
songs on the soundtrack. And the last song, the
big signature song for the movie. was one that
when we were watching it, I was again counting
the people on screen, or at least counting the
voices I understood along with, because some
of the bears had voices and I knew who the voices
were, but then there were other actual cameos
in this band. You had John Hyatt, Colin Hay from
Men at Work, Don Henley from Eagles, Bonnie Raitt,
Alvin Chia from the gospel group Take Six. And
E .G. Daly, which if that name sounds at all
familiar, it's the voice of Tommy Pickles from
Rugrats. And the song is by John Hyatt. And it's
called Straight Through the Heart of Love. Starts
off as a beautiful ballad and then transitions
into kind of a kind of a rock and upbeat, happy
close to the movie. Was the movie great? No,
but my wife and I still quote a couple of lines
from it because at the time we were dating, you
kind of remember these moments when you do things
that are out of the ordinary and going to see
the country bears for us was out of the ordinary.
We were still young and single at this theater,
but there's a running joke throughout the whole
movie where this one bear would keep telling
people it's a sign. And he was literally trying
to put it, nail a sign into the ground. So for
the last 20 something years, anytime. We're looking
for an exit. I will point to the exit and be
like, it's a sign. And my wife will do the same
for me. So anyway, John Hyatt straight through
the heart of love from the country bears. I'm
going to go on a wild venture here and guess
that not a lot of people have seen this one,
but if you have, I'd love to hear what you thought
of this song, not the movie, because I'm sure
because of the audience score that not a lot
of people like this one. I'm not going to lie.
Never seen the movie, never heard the song, but
if it's a sign, then it's a sign and you have
to go with the sign. Not a problem there. I'm
surprised I stumped you on a movie to be perfectly
honest. Well, you know, I can't watch them all.
Give me a few more years if it's not that bad
and I'm sure I'll get around to it, but I can't
watch them all. But I think I know where I'm
going to go with this one here. And while it's
not necessarily. a hard left turn it's a slight
left turn i get another film where it's a bit
of a cult classic and critic wise 41 percent
tomatometer but it's one of those films that
came out and the soundtrack was the best part
of the movie and i guarantee you if you grew
up in the 90s you had this soundtrack and even
if you were still buying cds in the early 2000s
i guarantee you you had this cd so from the tank
girl soundtrack i'm gonna go with let's do it
from joan jett and paul westerberg and i had
i'm not gonna lie i had a bunch of songs off
of the cd ready to go like right under the list
right there was army of me from bjork off the
tank girl soundtrack this was to me at least
one of the more iconic soundtracks of that era
and the fact that you know it's a comic book
film or at least based on a graphic novel it
looks like a comic book film so it's faithful
to what the original artwork was and it's just
a ton of fun and the soundtrack definitely went
along with it i had actually mockingbird girl
from the magnificent bastards which was scott
wyland's side project from that soundtrack on
my list for tonight so not it's definitely look
i knew throwing the country bears in there was
just going to be this bomb that exploded the
the list but i like where you took it now because
i know the perfect song to follow up that and
it's another movie from the 90s and it's a cover
song and It's a former It's Not That Bad episode.
So I get to check off a lot of boxes here. So
I'm going to go back to It's Not That Bad, episode
68. And one of my favorite 90s comedies, PCU.
And I'm going to go with the brilliant Elvis
Costello cover by Mudhoney, Pump It Up. The movie
had a 44 score on the tomatometer. And the audience
score was 75 % because... A lot of us in the
90s love this movie. And a lot of us in the 90s
quote this movie because any concert I go to,
if I see somebody wearing the shirt of the band
we're at, I always will nudge my wife and say,
this guy wore the shirt of the band we were going
to go see. He's that guy. And to me, that movie
is very quotable. I actually like Jeremy Piven
more in PCU than I did in Entourage. I'll just
say it. I love this movie. I love your episode
on it. And to me, this song just sums up that
movie. I know people are going to say, well,
actually, no, George Clinton sums up that movie.
Yes, I get it. But musically, I don't want to
go with George Clinton here because coming out
of Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg, Mudhoney musically
fits the format a little bit more of this mixtape
to kind of steer this ship that went from blues
to blues and rap to country. And now we're kind
of the wheel slowing down a little bit in the
center here. So I think we're starting to kind
of steer this ship. So that's what I'm going
with. Mudhoney, pump it up from PCU. You know,
every now and then when we're researching for
It's Not That Bad, you stumble across little
tidbits about the movie where you sit there and
go, this would have made it an entirely, totally
different film. And I completely agree with you
that, you know, George Clinton, P -Funk All -Stars,
Parliament Funkadelic, that's a phenomenal part
of the film. But it... wasn't supposed to be
him originally when they were making the film
they had nirvana written in to the script and
they were going to like you know trash their
instruments at the end of the party but then
they couldn't afford nirvana but their second
choice still wasn't george clinton their second
choice that they were looking at was the goo
goo dolls apparently To borrow a quote from another
movie, Office Space, yeah, about that. Then they're
like, well, I'm not quite sure if anyone's really
going to know the Goo Goo Dolls at that point.
So that's when they went with George Clinton
and Parliament Funkadelic, and it was much more
fun. But PCU always reminded me of this movie
Ski School. And Ski School, again, if you're
looking for that kind of comedy, you have to
go watch Ski School. It is infinitely, infinitely
quotable, just like PCU is. Just remember, gutter
is a tool. gutter is a tool. Gutter is a tool.
But you went with Mudhoney. We're not going to
protest. I think I know. Okay. You went with
Mudhoney. You went with Mudhoney. I know exactly
where I'm going to go with this one. And again,
it's another movie that we covered a long time
ago with a friend of mine, Simon Bennett, that
came onto the show because he likes to cover
the sports movies. So with a 14 % tomatometer.
We have to put Sylvester Stallone behind the
driver's seat with his movie Driven. We're going
to go with Breakdown by Tantric. Look, the movie
is not a good film. It was supposed to be like
this massive three -hour long film. The director,
I don't know what was going on with him behind
the scenes. Go back and listen to it. We explain
everything. But the soundtrack is so much better
than the movie deserved. But the other fun thing
about Driven was that they filmed that in Toronto.
And I remember walking downtown and they had
parts of the road in downtown around University
Avenue cut off so they could actually film the
scenes there. So, you know, I mean, that happens
when you're around Toronto. You're going to come
across film locations because you can't walk
there. But knowing that they were filming Driven
at that time, it's like, OK, this is actually
really, really cool. So that's my one little
connection to Driven. I walked by a filming location
at one point, but it's a killer song and much
better than the movie actually deserved. Absolutely
love the song. Absolutely love the band. Fortunate
to be friends with the drummer from the band,
John Laurie of Tantric, who has been on the show
before. He was on episode nine, the ultimate
greatest drum tracks playlist. And Tantric is
a fantastic band. They're out touring right now.
Definitely go check them out when they come by
your town. They still bring it live. This song
kicks all sorts of ass. This song, that opening
acoustic riff is iconic, especially for the 2000s,
because it's got that kind of post -grunge, new
metal, but it was acoustic, so it almost had
a Days of the New vibe with a little bit more
heft. Absolutely loved the song. Never saw the
movie, so can't speak to that at all. Coming
out of that vibe of song, I have the perfect
follow -up. I talked about this song in episode
20, the ultimate 2000s movie soundtrack. So literally
the last episode of the show. So back -to -back
episodes, I'm talking about this song. And I
think this song deserves back -to -back episode
nods. Because also in 2001, the movie Rockstar
came out. And like Josie and the Pussycats, Steel
Dragons, We All Die Young is a fictitious band
lip -sunk very well by Marky Mark Wahlberg, but
performed brilliantly by Miljenko Matijevic of
Steelheart, Zach Wild of Black Label Society
and Ozzy Osbourne fame on guitar, Jeff Pilsen
of Dockin and Farner on bass, and Jason Bonham,
son of John Bonham on drums. It's a cover of
Steelheart's original. from their 1996 album
Wait, but it was re -recorded for the movie.
The movie had a tomatometer of 53 % and an audience
score of 59%, so both fall below that threshold.
I personally love the movie. I love that era
of music, and I think they did a great job. Is
it true to the Judas Priest story? Probably not.
Is it fictionalized? Probably, but it was still
a fun movie that was a great snapshot of that
era, whether it's true or not. And Marky Mark
pulled off the rock star vibe to the point where
I was fooled. So to do that deserves a nod. Two
episodes in a row, which does not happen here
very often. Steel Dragons, we all die young.
Oh, that's going to be tough to follow up. That
is really going to be tough to follow up. Because
I'm sitting here and I'm looking at my list like,
OK, I could follow up with the era of the film.
Maybe not. I could follow up with. You know,
the rockstarness of the band. Maybe. Maybe. And
you know what? It's going to be a slight left
turn, but we're talking about a bigger than life
rock personality on stage in Rockstar. And I'm
now thinking of a bigger than life rock personality,
lead singer, slight small solo detour, and a
movie that I will defend to the end. Because
now it has not one, but two Oscar winners in
its cast. And yet this film has a 15 % tomatometer.
Featuring 2023 Oscar winner for Best Actor and
2023 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor,
Ki -Hee Kwon. From the Encino Man soundtrack,
You're Invited But Your Friend Can't Come by
Vince Neil. I was flip -flopping between two
songs off of this soundtrack. There was this
one, and there was another one, which unfortunately
I cannot find on Spotify, so you would have had
to do a YouTube link, but that's Feed the Monkey
from Infectious Grooves. But no, I think if you're
coming out of Rockstar, you have to go with a
rock star, and that's Vince Neil. You're invited,
but your friend can't come. I love that song.
I love that soundtrack. I bought that soundtrack
when we were on vacation in the Outer Banks of
North Carolina. The year the movie came out,
I got that and Offspring's Smash in the same
day. And this one had You're Invited But Your
Friend Can't Come by Vince Neil. It had Queen's
Stone Cold Crazy. It had High Sea, Leave My Curl
Alone, the hip hop song. It had a cover of Mama
Said Knock You Out. That soundtrack kicked all
sorts of ass. And believe it or not, hand to
God, you're invited, but your friend can't come
is on my list. So I love it. You've made it easier
for me to make a last pick. And I have one last
song for the night. Coming out of Vince Neil,
I have two directions I can go. I can go with
a great song from a more serious movie. Or a
great song from a very not serious movie. And
I'm not sure which one to go with. Because Encino
Man was certainly not a serious movie. But the
song rocks. I am torn here. Because I want to
end this musically on a good level. So I am going
to go with a drama. But with a song that... is
so absolutely perfect towards the end of a playlist.
I'm going to go back to 1987. This movie had
a Tomatometer score of 50 % and an audience score
of 63%. Now, when people think about Simon and
Garfunkel covers, they automatically go to Disturbed's
cover of The Sound of Silence. And while that's
amazing too, the bangles, hazy shade of winter
from less than zero, to me, in my humble opinion,
is the best Simon and Garfunkel cover ever, with
Disturbed a very, very, very close second. And
we talk about this song, Surprise Surprise, on
episode 18, the ultimate 80s movie soundtrack
playlist with Gomez from Playlist Wars and now
the Sleavy G Show. The other song, just for wonderment's
sake, for those listening, I was debating going
with Tenacious D's Kickapoo. from tenacious d
and the pick of destiny because of the fact that
it had meatloaf and ronnie james dio on it but
the song was a little more silly obviously and
Coming out of Vince Neil, which you're invited,
but your friend can't come, was from a silly
movie, but it was more of a serious song. I felt
like the bangles kind of followed that vibe a
little bit because Vince Neil was bigger in the
80s and early 90s. So I felt like it wasn't as
far of a swing of the pendulum to go all the
way up to 2006 versus trickle back a couple of
years to 1987. So that was my mindset. And who
knows? You might have Kickapoo to close us out
for the night. Who knows? I can definitely say
I do not have Kickapoo. To close this out. Although
that being said, I will let you know that if
you had gone with Kickapoo from Tenacious D and
the Pick of Destiny, I know what I would have
followed that one up with. I probably would have
followed that one up with off of the Mission
Impossible 2 soundtrack, Have a Cigar, which
was done by Foo Fighters and Brian May. Because
of course, Dave Grohl was in Tenacious D and
the Pick of Destiny. But since you went Hazy
Shade of Winter, I have two. ways i can go here
i can go with that same kind of you know slower
darker vibe kind of thing or i can just i can
land the plane softly and i think i'm going to
land the plane softly here with a film that taken
from a a great literary work with a phenomenal
cast and the soundtrack again another one of
those soundtracks that i think was more known
than the movie that the songs came from with
a 39 % tomatometer off of the Great Expectations
soundtrack. I'm going to sign us off here with
Chris Cornell and Sun Shower. Nice way to kind
of, you know, land the plane softly here because,
you know, A, that song is haunting. It's absolutely
haunting. That whole soundtrack, like I played
the crap out of that soundtrack. I had like,
just in this section alone, I had like three
songs off of that soundtrack. There was that
one, Siren from Tori Amos and Breakable by Fisher.
Yeah. That's one of those CDs that was always
a go -to for those slower, chill mixtapes. And,
you know, I've always been a fan of when, you
know, when bands finish off an album. with a
bit of a slower song. Also, to your point on
Simon and Garfunkel covers, don't forget Queensryche's
cover of Scarborough Fair. Oh, yeah. Because
that song was also really well done. Definitely.
That's a great one. And I love, I think you stuck
the landing on this one. I'm not going to lie.
That's a fantastic way. Obviously, Chris Cornell
gone way too soon. One of the greatest rock singers
ever. Side B is very much a musical smorgasbord
of songs. Which is cool because not often does
a playlist veer as much as it does, but still
kind of makes sense. And I think we nailed that.
But before I go through those songs, I want to
throw something out there because I still have,
God, at least two dozen songs here. Jason, I'm
going to ask you a question and I'm going to
answer the same one myself. Do you have any songs
on your list that even because Side B was kind
of a little bit all over the place. But do you
have any songs on your list that were so far
left field? You just couldn't find a way to squeeze
them in anywhere tonight, but you'd love to give
a shout out to an honorable mention, if you will.
Oh, I mean, we had set aside one film for our
50th episode because Carrie and I absolutely
love the film. And we mentioned it on the show
that it's kind of the litmus test to really see
who our friends are. If you like the film, then
you're our people. If you're not, We have to
second question everything here. The film is
Repo the Genetic Opera. It is actually a complete
musical that somehow stars Paris Hilton as well.
But it's also got Sarah Brightman in it. It's
got Alexa Pena Vega. But the song that I had
set aside was Lethal Assassin as sung by Anthony
Stewart Head, who a lot of people will remember
from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That soundtrack.
Like if you love. a rock opera, you're going
to love the film. If you actually want to see
Paris Hilton work well in a role, you're going
to be pleasantly surprised because the role fits
for her. And it's also got the late Paul Sorvino.
So it's a phenomenal film and go into it with
an open mind. But also just in case you went
completely off the rails, I had Like a Cannonball
from Minuto from the Cannonball Run. On the bottom
of my list, just in case, just in case we needed
to throw a curveball. All right. I love it. I
love Cannonball Run 1 and 2. But if you had picked
Blues Brothers 2000 before me, I had the perfect
follow -up because Dan Aykroyd is part of the
Blues Brothers. However, in 1987's Dragnet, him
and Tom Hanks did a hip -hop song, City of Crime.
And it is definitely something to be heard. Maybe
not. I don't know if you'd be a fan of it or
not, but I certainly own the soundtrack CD to
it. And that one was I was hoping you were going
to go with Blues Brothers. But when you didn't,
I figured I'll take the Blues Brothers because
there's really no way to squeeze in City of Crime
otherwise. And the other one, fast forward a
few years later, the only part that I was debating
maybe fitting it in was the comic book angle
of Tank Girl. and pivoting back to 1990s Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and bringing in Partners
in Crime, Turtle Power, T -U -R -T -L -E, Power.
But again, I felt like that was shoehorning in
hip -hop because we really didn't hit a lot of
spaces where hip -hop would work in this mix
other than the brilliant follow -up to the Louisiana
Gator Boys with G -Love and Special Sauce. So
those were my two honorable mentions of the night.
And looking back at Side B, it is definitely,
like I said, a musical smorgasbord of songs,
starting off with the Louisiana Gator Boys' How
Blue Can You Get from Blues Brothers 2000, G
-Love and Special Sauce' Things That I Used to
Do from Dog Park, John Hyatt's Straight Through
the Heart of Love from The Country Bears, Joan
Jett and Paul Westerberg's Let's Do It from Tank
Girl, Mud Honey's Pump It Up from PCU, Tantric's
Breakdown from Driven, Steel Dragons' We All
Die Young from Rockstar. Vince Neil's You're
Invited But Your Friend Can't Come from Encino
Man. The Bangles' Hazy Shade of Winter from Less
Than Zero. And Chris Cornell's Sunshower from
Great Expectations. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. I'm going to throw a little curveball
at you here. I'm going to ask you, Brian Colbert,
looking at this mixtape that both of us have
put together, if you could only pick one song
off of this tape, what would it be? Oh, you're
killing me, dude. You're killing me. Well, I
like to dish out the pain that I have to go through
every episode here, so you're welcome. Yeah,
this is pain. Holy crap. Man. Depending on my
mood this evening, I'm going to have to go with
Stroke 9, kick some ass. But now I'm throwing
it right back at you. What are you doing for
this one? Thank God I knew I was going to ask
you this question, so I prepared for it here.
It's a toss -up. And really depends on my mood
at the time. If I'm in a rocking out mood, it's
going to be Josie and the Pussycats, three small
words. But if I'm just feeling kind of fun and
goofy, it would be G -Love and Special Sauce
things that I used to do. But you're right. Like,
you see how tough things, you know, there can
only be one can be. Also, you mentioned Dragnet.
And no, I definitely wouldn't pick that rap song.
I just wonder, and I feel bad for Alexandra Paul.
How many times people will go to Alexandra Paul
after that movie came out and go, you're the
virgin Connie Swale. So wait, which one you threw
out two songs right there. So there can only
be one. Which one are you picking? Yeah. If there
can only be one, it's Josie and the Pussycats.
Three small words because a, you know, the band
that they put together to make that that entire
album minus the du jour tracks was killer. The
entire soundtrack is fun, but that song. If nothing
else under that movie sticks, it's that song.
It's that good. The minute we talked about this
episode, that was the first song on my list.
It was always good to be the first song on my
list. I freaking love that song. Well, we ended
it the same way we kicked it off. Josie and the
Pussycats, Three Small Words. Jason, thank you
so much for joining us tonight. Why don't you
let people know where they can find It's Not
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Well, Jason, as my first repeat guest, I can
already say, I look forward to having you back
on the show for a third time. Thanks so much,
man, for being a part of this and can't wait
to. continue to talk music with you in the future.
Oh, you know, we're going to have some tough
conversations. The next time you're on, there
can only be one. Looking forward to it. And remember,
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