This is Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions winner
Alex Jacob. You're listening to My Weekly Mixtape
with Brian Colburn, and I hope you enjoy our
picks. 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 Alex
Jacob, 2006 United States Poker Championship
winner, as well as Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions
winner. Alex, thank you so much for joining me
on My Weekly Mixtape tonight. Hey, no problem,
Brian. Thanks for having me. Absolute pleasure.
I'd like to start by asking you the same question
I ask everybody at the top of each show. Alex,
what does the word mixtape mean to you? Oh, boy.
Well, I'm old enough where... We did have cassette
tapes when I was a kid. I did have some cassette
tapes, but I don't think I was too young to actually
make mix tapes on cassette tape. I don't think
I ever did that. I was more in the era of burning
mix CDs, which I did plenty of times with MP3s.
So I'm very familiar with that. So I guess that
would be more my mix tape, the mix CD. All right.
Well, that is perfectly fine, because whether
it's a mixtape, a mix CD or a playlist, the thought
process is still there. And I know, Alex, you
are a big movie and Oscars buff. I think that's
safe to say. Yes, absolutely. So tonight, Alex
and I will be curating a mixtape of 2000s movie
soundtrack songs. And this decade, like I mentioned
in our 80s and 90s movie soundtrack episodes.
was the decade where soundtracks became less
of an importance because of the advent of digital
downloads and streaming. However, make no mistake
about it. There were still a ton of great songs
to appear on soundtracks throughout the decade.
They just weren't the events that soundtracks
were in the 80s or 90s. But there's a ton of
great music to choose from. Alex. Being such
a movie buff and somebody that really pays attention
to the films that are out and the reputation
that they have, what were you looking for in
the songs that you brought to the table this
evening? Well, I guess I was looking for songs
that kind of remind you of that movie. They were
kind of so iconic that when you think of that
song, you can't help but think of that movie.
You know, I guess more than anything, I'm looking
for songs that kind of create a vibe because
that's kind of what you really need in a song
used in a movie. It was a tough one because this
was not an easy one to pull up a list of best
songs from movies in the 2000s. It was kind of
a very specific thing, so you could kind of look
at soundtrack albums, but that really wouldn't
get you what you're looking for. So you kind
of had to... look through and try to find the
gems i think there's some good ones out there
all kinds of different vibes so we'll see what
we can come up with Well, let's get down to business.
Tonight, as I mentioned earlier, Alex and I will
be curating the ultimate 2000s movie soundtrack
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. Alex, 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 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our
mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside.
Be only this time, I'll kick things off with
Alex choosing second. Our overall goal for the
episode is to create the best 2000s movie soundtrack
mixtape possible through only 20 songs. At the
end of the show, you can take our conversation
to the next level by visiting the 2000s movie
soundtrack page at myweeklymixtape .com to give
our final mixtape a listen. via the embedded
playlist. Finally, if you like what you're hearing
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And speaking of Patreon mixtapers, a few have
chimed in with some of the songs they would use
to kick off their 2000s movie soundtrack mixtape
with. Patreon playlister David Owens chimed in
with Foo Fighters The One from Orange County.
And Patreon playlister Cactus P chimed in with
two songs, Lustrous Scotty Doesn't Know from
Eurotrip and Steel Dragons We All Die Young from
Rockstar. Elsewhere on the socials, those who
follow me at My Weekly Mixtape on Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter and TikTok also chimed in. And here's
what they had to say. Paul Moriella chimed in
with Yes's Roundabout from Almost Famous. Ben
from the Records Revisited podcast chimed in
with Blue Foundation Eyes on Fire from Twilight.
Eric Time to Get Ill chimed in with Dropkick
Murphy's I'm Shipping Up to Boston from The Departed.
Sean Faust chimed in with Electric Apricot Hey
Are You Going to Burning Man from Electric Apricot
Quest for Festaroo. Matt Kennedy from the X Radio
X podcast chimed in with Santa Esmeralda's Don't
Let Me Be Misunderstood from Kill Bill. And Mass
Beer Buddy chimed in with Tomoyasa Hotei's Battle
Without Honor or Humanity from the same movie.
The Media Path podcast chimed in with the School
of Rock's cover of ACDC's It's a Long Way to
the Top If You Want to Rock and Roll from School
of Rock. Jay Hall from the Okie book cast chimed
in with Eminem's Lose Yourself from 8 Mile. Ryan
Pack from the Soundtrack Your Life podcast chimed
in with Foo Fighters The One from Orange County.
Bobby from the F 'n Cultured podcast chimed in
with Queen's Don't Stop Me Now from Shaun of
the Dead. Prahi chimed in with Lustrous Scotty
Doesn't Know from Eurotrip. And Chris Darling
chimed in with the Soggy Bottom Boys' I Am a
Man of Constant Sorrow from Oh Brother, Where
Art Thou? All right, Alex, with that laundry
list of songs out in the open, I'm very curious
to see how you're going to kick things off tonight.
So with that, I'm officially pressing the record
button on this mixtape and throwing it over to
you. Alex, what song are you kicking off tonight's
2000s movie soundtrack mixtape with and why?
Okay, well, I believe when you... told me about
this theme this was the one song that came to
mind and i and i even told you right then that
um you can cross this one off your list because
i will be starting the mixtape with this one
um this was a number one hit this was an oscar
-winning song so i'm sure this won a couple grammys
this song uh inspired the name of the artist
uh restaurant where they serve mom's spaghetti.
Of course, you're talking about Lose Yourself
by Eminem from 8 Miles. It's just an all -time
banger. A song that really needs to be good because
the whole movie is built around the idea that
this is a real talent. It's a moment that he
needs to nail. I would say everyone would agree
that he just nails it. Oh, yeah. It's a great
song to start off an album, I think. A mixtape
gets you pumped up right off the bat. And so
I figure we'll start off with that one. I know
this is a collaborative effort, but I'm a competitive
guy. I'm always playing to win. So if there's
a way to win or lose here, I want to try to win.
So I'm going to try to take this one off the
board because I feel like this would be one that
you would want to pick. So I want this one for
myself. I completely get it. I'm a competitive
guy as well. And that's something that we do
on Playlist Wars. And you are absolutely right.
I did have Lose Yourself on my mix. It was the
first ever hip hop song to win an Academy Award
for Best Original Song. It's iconic. When we
did sports anthems, when I had Frank the Tank
from Barstool Sports on. It obviously made the
sports anthems mix. The song is so iconic. When
you play it in a stadium, everybody knows what
you're talking about. Everybody knows what's
happening. It is a universally beloved song,
and I think it's a perfect way to kick things
off. Now, I don't have a ton of hip hop on my
list. However, I do have a song that I feel like
because Lose Yourself did have a little bit of
a rock vibe because of the guitar loop that went
underneath the bars he was dropping. I feel like
I could lean into this with a little bit of a
new metal touch and still keep the vibe going.
And I'm going to go off of a movie that, well,
let's just say is not very popular among comic
book fans. And that would be 2003's Daredevil.
the Netflix, and soon -to -be Disney Plus show
a lot more. However, the movie did spawn a great
soundtrack, and one of the songs exploded a band
into the mainstream who has been around since
2003. Because of the song Bring Me to Life, featuring
Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, I'm going with Evanescence.
Bring Me to Life. Their debut album, Fallen,
is seven times platinum. So people tend to forget
that their signature song came out on the Daredevil
soundtrack three months prior before Fallen ever
hit the shelves. And it's just a kick -ass song.
So I am following you up with Evanescence, Bring
Me to Life. Oh, boy, great choice. Yeah, I would
have not known. I mean, that was kind of the
classic rock radio. hit when i was a kid and
i i know i would i had no idea that was from
daredevil movie yeah another song it just really
uh it really brings a vibe so that's that's a
great one i'm trying to see what i could go to
match with that one this is where the challenge
lies now yeah you know what i got one that kind
of um has kind of a similar moody yeah emo type
vibe that kind of could you could pair it with
with that a little bit not the exact same but
this one was a it was a cover of a song and um
i wasn't really familiar with the song by tears
for fears the original until i saw this cover
version in the movie and this was like one of
these movies that was kind of like a cult classic
for uh if you're of a certain age that kind of
Either it blew your mind or you didn't get it
or whatever. The movie is Donnie Darko and the
song is Mad World. It's by Gary Jules and Michael
Andrews, this version. But it's very stripped
down. I don't know if you have you seen the movie,
Brian. But a lot of my friends are a massive
fan of that movie. So, yeah, yeah, it's one of
those. I don't know if a lot of people have gone
back and watching it, but maybe it's kind of
one of those where you had to be there. But it
might hold up. It's a weird movie. It probably
holds up well. But I haven't seen it in a while
myself. But that song really stands out from
that movie and just kind of just a really haunting
version of that song. That's my pick. Hard to
describe a song that you haven't heard, but I'm
sure you're going to hit me with a couple songs
that I haven't heard either. Actually, believe
it or not, I am a cover song fanatic, so I know
the song. I should have known. But I do not know
the movie. However, in my defense, both the 80s
and 90s soundtrack episode, I brought up songs
from soundtracks that I own to movies that I've
never seen. So it's kind of a common theme with
me being the music nerd and all. But I love the
fact that you went with a cover and I am going
to follow you up with a cover, but it's going
to be a different style of cover. Whereas this
version was a kind of a brooding vibe. I think
you'd go with the song that I'm going to pick
is far from brooding and certainly more upbeat
and more bombastic. And this cover came out in
a little movie. from 2009 called the watchman
this song originally recorded by bob dylan in
1965 was remade by my chemical romance and that
song is desolation row to me that i love movie
cover songs oh because you're familiar with the
song already but then you hear a new take and
when you put it into the watchman It makes perfect
sense. And coming out of your cover, I'd like
to follow a cover with a cover because I don't
have a ton of covers in my list. But coming out
of Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, I feel like
this one actually makes sense. So My Chemical
Romance, Desolation Row from The Watchmen. Nice,
nice. Yeah, that's a good one. I think that movie
also, I was going to start with Times are Changing
by Dylan as well. That's a good one. All right.
What should we be doing next? All right. I'm
going to go with a song that really is one of
these songs that I think of when I was talking
about a song that really creates a vibe. And
this is a song in a movie where... They reach
the title location, and it's kind of glorious.
And the song plays. And the song is Porcelain
by Moby. The movie is The Beach. And it's kind
of one of these, I wish I could try to sing it
for you. It's kind of one of those riffs that
if you hear it, you will, if you don't know the
song by the title, you would recognize it by
hearing it. And it's just kind of the perfect
song. They show up to the beach and it's just
like beautiful and party time. And yeah, it's
a vibe. It's a great song. And believe it or
not, the way that you're going with a song that
kind of signifies the entire movie, that gives
me something that I can easily bounce off of.
I'm not the most massive Moby fan, but that is
a song that you're absolutely right is a vibe
in and of itself. And I think the song that I
picked, while it's a different style musically,
I think achieves the same thing that you were
looking for in Moby's contribution to the beach.
And this was a movie that came out in 2008. And
at the time, Mickey Rourke was on a career explosion.
And he reached out to Bruce Springsteen and asked
if he could write a song for his upcoming movie.
Springsteen subsequently did and gave it to Mickey
Rourke and the director without charging them
a fee, which is really cool. And the song did
win a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. And
it was featured on the soundtrack to 2008's The
Wrestler, as well as a bonus track on Bruce Springsteen's
2009's Working on a Dream. I'm going with Bruce
Springsteen, The Wrestler. Yeah, I agree. And
I think they snubbed it at the Oscars, if I recall.
And it was kind of a... It's kind of a shock,
especially after it won the Golden Globe. I thought
it was a lock. I have no idea how that one did
not win. I mean, what an amazing song to capture
the essence of that movie. And Bruce Springsteen
really captured that moment well. So to me, that
song is a vibe because when you hear it, you're
immediately brought into the movie. Like, I can't
not picture the movie hearing that song. Yeah,
exactly. Let's see what else I got. Well, here's
another one that also kind of just reminds me
of that movie. Although this song has taken on
a life of its own, for sure. But if you've seen
this movie, it's used very memorably in the movie.
And I realize my lead -up has not given any...
Any interesting details or facts would give anything
away. But I was like, how could I? I really haven't
hinted at anything at all. But I'll just say
it. The song is The Blower's Daughter by Damien
Rice from the movie Closer. Another one of these
songs that maybe you wouldn't recognize the title
or a lot of people would, but maybe if you didn't,
you've almost certainly heard it. And just kind
of one of those all -time haunting. that just
kind of makes you feel something right away.
And that is used especially well in Closer, which
I especially like. So that is my pick for the
next one. That is actually a movie, again, that
I haven't seen, but I am familiar with Damien
Rice. And that is a fantastic pick, especially
coming out of Bruce Springsteen. It actually
makes sense on both a movie and musical level.
So coming out of Damien Rice, I'm actually going
to go with another cover song. But I feel like
this is one of those covers where it's a let's
be honest moment. Most people didn't know it
was a cover song. The original came out in 1913.
So obviously our parents, parents, parents. Maybe
knew the song. And there were several notable
renditions. Once again, Bob Dylan did a 62 version
as well as Ginger Baker's Air Force in 1970.
But the song that I am choosing is the version
that was created for the 2000 movie. Oh, brother,
where art thou? And I'm going with the Soggy
Bottom Boys. I am a man of constant sorrow. Once
again, it's a vibe in and of itself. It's that
bluegrass. And seeing George Clooney, he almost
convinced me that he was singing it in the movie.
Like he he handled that part well, because I
know that's not him singing it. And it was convincing
enough in the movie because it was almost like
another movie, which I might bring up later.
So I'm going to put a pin in that for now and
not talk about it yet. But when you see an actor
you're very familiar with taking on a singing
role. knowing that they probably can't sing,
they have to really sell it for you to buy the
role. And I bought the role that he played in.
Oh brother, where art thou? So I'm going to go
with that one. The soggy bottom boys. I am a
man of constant sorrow. Yeah. Yeah. That was,
that one was, uh, it was on my list. I should
have, uh, I should have called that one out sooner.
Take that one away from you. Yeah. Definitely
a good pick. Definitely one. That's a new, uh,
And you hear that, you get that visual of George
Clooney kind of straining his face close to the
microphone. Yeah. Singing that one. So what should
I do to follow up with that one? Well, I guess
I will go with one. You know, maybe it's not
the best connection, but... It kind of feels
like it's a similar song and this might be an
obvious one, but I am, uh, I'm a sucker for the
counting crows and, uh, not everyone is a fan
of that, but this is obviously, it was a massive
movie song and a massive movie. Um, you know,
whether you like it or not. trek 2 song is accidentally
in love i think it comes right in the beginning
of the movie and there's a real extended sequence
um with it and this kind of sets the tone and
gets you in a good mood and um you know they
can write a melody and a lyric so um yeah that's
my pick absolutely love it i have two kids that
oh my god if i Saw the Shrek movies any less
than 500 times now. And there's something about
that song that every time it comes on, I'm like,
I'm kind of all right with this. And it's kind
of that feeling that like when I explained in
the 90s movie soundtrack episode for a song,
like if you see a movie a bunch of times, a song
really needs to be strong in order to give you
a connection to that movie. So my favorite movie
of all time is that thing you do. And quote marks
in the air here, the wonders play that song no
less than a dozen times in the movie. And no
matter how many times I've seen the movie and
how many times I've heard the song, I never get
sick of it because Adam Schlesinger was able
to write the perfect pop earworm that just sinks
into your soul throughout the movie. And counting
crows do that exact same thing. And they are
a fantastic group. I absolutely. Love the song.
And I actually know what I'm going to close out
Side A with. It's from a movie that, to put it
nicely, was one that I certainly did not enjoy
very much. I guess that's the nicest way I could
put it. However, the soundtrack produced one
of my favorite songs of the entire decade, movie
soundtrack or not. And that song is Teenage Dirtbag
by Wheatus. And the movie is 2000's Loser. The
soundtrack came out several months before the
band's first album. Again, this is not a movie
that I would, if we were just talking about movies,
I would not put the movie Loser in the same conversation
as 8 Mile, Donnie Darko, The Watchmen, The Beach,
like, come on. But the song coming out of The
Counting Crows actually works. And I'm going
to close out Side A with Wheatus, Teenage Dirtbag.
Yeah, this is another one that was, you know,
very familiar to me growing up and was kind of.
almost inescapable if you were in my age group
but i did not really connect it with the movie
loser at all i mean maybe because i never saw
the movie loser you're not missing much yes it
was okay yeah but great song obviously her name
was noel just one of those like choruses that
just like get stuck in your head and just like
will never go away great song Couldn't agree
more. And that, mixtapers, concludes side A of
our 2000s movie soundtracks mixtape, which consists
of Eminem's Lose Yourself from 8 Mile, Evanescence'
Bring Me to Life with Paul McCoy of 12 Stones
from the movie Daredevil, Gary Jules and Michael
Andrews' Mad World from Donnie Darko, My Chemical
Romance' Desolation Row from The Watchmen, Moby's
Porcelain from The Beach, Bruce Springsteen's
The Wrestler from the movie The Same Name. Damien
Rice's The Blower's Daughter from Closer. The
Soggy Bottom Boys' I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
from Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Counting Crows'
Accidentally in Love from Shrek 2. And Wheatus'
Teenage Dirtbag from the movie Loser. 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, Alex, as I
mentioned at the top of the show, you were a
Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions winner, as
well as the 2006 United States Poker Championship
winner, and you've also played in the World Championship
for poker. So a question that I am wondering,
if you had to choose between the two, for you
as a competitive person, like you said earlier,
which was more of a stressful competition for
you? Was it poker or was it Jeopardy and why?
Probably Jeopardy, primarily because I was a
lot older when I was on Jeopardy versus when
I was playing in poker tournaments. And I just
feel like you feel that weight more, you know,
when you're young, it's kind of like, oh, you
know, I've got infinite opportunities to come
back and be especially. Something like a poker
tournament where you literally do have the next
poker tournament to come back to versus Jeopardy
that can just be a one and done. If you lose,
then you don't get a chance to come back and
try again. So I would probably say Jeopardy.
But, you know, it's kind of different things.
Obviously, the stress of kind of making all these
tough decisions. You can definitely add up versus
on Jeopardy, you're kind of just firing on instinct
and giving your answer, you know, giving answers
for a lot of the time. You don't have time to
think. It's kind of more fast paced. Whereas
Nolam and Holden, they kind of say it's kind
of like hours of boredom and then moments of
terror, you know. So with that, in playing poker.
You have to go all in on bets and you have to
kind of take your chances when you feel it's
time to strike. And I feel like you took that
approach when you play Jeopardy by doing the
all in on the daily double. Was that based on
your experiences in the poker tournaments as
almost as a way to maybe. I don't want to say
play mind games with your opponents, but to kind
of like psych them out, to show a confidence
that here I am, take everything I've got and
throw it at this one question that I don't even
know what the question is. It's like maybe be
like a byproduct and maybe like maybe a bonus.
But no, like it's more just based on a strategy
of kind of maximizing, you know, if I feel like
I have a good chance of. getting the answer right
and you know the situation is it's worth a lot
to kind of have more than double your opponent's
score at the end because then you don't have
to kind of have a lock runaway game and you don't
have to worry about potentially losing the game
in final jeopardy right so a lot of times you
know it makes sense to try to put the game away
early because the question of the daily double
will a lot of times be easier than the question
that you'll have to get right in final jeopardy
anyway so if you're gonna bet on one or the other
you might as well you know bet on the daily doubles
so um yeah it's kind of just if you connect it
to poker it's just kind of that mindset that
like well if i'm a big favorite in this hand
i want to risk all my money you know i want to
bet all the money i want that the most money
i possibly can because i know i'm a big favorite
to win this hand or answer this question correctly
you know as the case may be well alex in december
of 2021 you took your jeopardy experience to
another level and created the school of trivia
which is both a trivia newsletter and a quiz
league can you tell the my weekly mixtape listeners
a little bit about what you're doing over there
yeah sure so it's on the sub stack monday through
friday you get a uh email in your inbox that
um Basically, I write about a trivia topic or
a famous person or an event or a movie or something
like that. And then I'll have a five -question
quiz kind of inspired by that topic, not directly
based on it, but kind of playing off it in some
way. Then everyone submits their – there's a
link to submit your answers, and the answers
are due at the end of the week. And I score all
those up. We have a bunch of different skill
divisions. So you're kind of paired up against
people who are kind of roughly have the same
knowledge level as you. And we have a new season
every month. So kind of we add up the scores
and the top finishers in each division kind of
move up and the bottom finishers move down and
kind of continue like that. It's kind of like
the Premier League type system of promotion and
relegation. That's basically how it works. People
have been giving me a lot of good feedback about
it. We've been going for, like you said, about
a little over a year now and got a little over
300 players at this point. So people are having
fun with it. It's going well. Fantastic. We'll
talk about that a little bit more after we go
through Side B, which I get to kick things off
with now. And I think I'm going to start off
Side B with a rock song. That is actually a cover
and it's by a fictitious band that was created
for the movie based off of loosely a real band
in the 1980s. And I'm going to go with 2001's
Rockstar. Earlier, I mentioned that if you're
an actor and you have to perform a song in a
movie, you have to convince me. And Mark Wahlberg.
I knew he was a musician because of Marky Mark
and the Funky Bunch. But when I heard he was
in a rock movie based off of what was the 80s
Judas Priest story loosely, I wasn't buying in
on it at first because I said, how is he going
to pull off an 80s rock star? And sure enough,
he actually did a bang up job on the part. genuinely
enjoy this movie, but this fictitious band, Steel
Dragon, is actually made up of some amazing musicians.
You had Miljenko Matojevic of Steelheart on vocals,
Zach Wild of Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne
on guitar, Jeff Pilsen of Dokken and Farner on
bass, and Jason Bonham, son of John Bonham, on
drums. Now, the singer actually originally recorded
this song We all die young with his band Steelheart,
who was known for their hair band hit. I'll never
let you go in 1990, but in 1996 on their album,
wait, they recorded this song. We all die young.
And when they made the rock star movie, the song
was re -recorded by this all -star band for the
movie. And Marky Mark did a great job lip syncing
it because he sold the part. So I'm kicking things
off with. 2001's Rockstar, and Steel Dragon,
We All Die Young. All right. Well, I'm going
to have to look that one up. That's definitely
a blind spot, both that movie and, I guess, obviously,
if I haven't seen the movie, I probably wouldn't
have heard the song. Trying to see. So it's kind
of like an 80s, 80s rock. Picture a late 80s
hard rock. Think Poison. Think Warren. Think
Bon Jovi. That kind of middle ground hair band,
so to speak. Okay. And Mark Wahlberg. He said
he really nailed it. He doesn't sing the song,
obviously. No, he lip synced it, but he lip synced
it well enough where like George Clooney did
in the Soggy Bottom Boys, you actually believed,
you know, he was embodying that role. So it's
kind of an original song, but not quite. It's
half and half. Exactly. All right. I have one
that kind of connects on that basis and not in
my shell. That's fine. I believe the actors are
singing this song. And I think they, like Wahlberg,
although he's not actually singing it, I think
they nail it too. And this song, it turned out,
could not be eligible for the Oscars because
it was not an original song technically because
it had been written first for the director's
Romeo and Juliet film. It came out earlier, but
they decided to not use it. I don't know why
they wrote a song for that movie, if they planned
Leo to sing, or if it was before they had cast
it, or what the issue was. But for whatever reason,
the song was written for the Romeo and Juliet
movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.
They did not use it. It ended up in the movie
Moulin Rouge, and the song is Come What May.
performed by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman
in the movie. And it's one of these songs where
they kind of repeat the title or the chorus over
and over again and just like harder and harder
and harder until it's just like kind of breaking
your ears and just like the intensity of it.
Come on, you know, it just keeps going. And I
feel like it's a semi connection based on the
half original nature of it. But that's what I
picked there. Well, I had Moulin Rouge in my
list, but I had Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim,
Pink and Maya's Lady Marmalade because you couldn't
escape that song in 2001. But the whole movie
is filled with fantastic songs. And that's another
great one from the soundtrack. Actually. like
that pick more with where we're going, because
I feel like I have something that I could follow
that up with. Whereas if it was Lady Marmalade,
I would have been lost in the water because looking
through my list, it's a lot of rock music and
Lady Marmalade was sticking out like a sore thumb.
So I'm actually kind of thankful that you got
something else from that movie in. And I'm going
to go back to the year 2000 again, and I'm going
to go with another super group of performers.
This song was written by the movie's director,
Cameron Crowe, along with Nancy Wilson of Heart.
And the performers on the track include Pearl
Jam's Mike McCready as lead guitarist, the aforementioned
Nancy Wilson on rhythm guitar, and Marty Fredrickson,
who is an amazing music producer on lead vocals.
Now, as soon as I say the movie name. Almost
Famous. Everyone's going to think of Elton John's
Tiny Dancer from that iconic scene in the movie.
However, I was trying to keep my created for
the movie parameters that I set for myself. And
the song that I'm choosing is the quote unquote
original song Fever Dog by the fictitious band
Stillwater from the movie Almost Famous. Right.
I thought about doing something like that. Yeah,
I thought the same thing about Tiny Dancer. And,
you know, that song is too famous outside of
the movie, I think, for my frame. Not quite associated
enough with the movie, even though you do think
of that scene when you think of the movie. A
Fever Dog. Yeah, I remember the movie well. And,
yeah, great movie, great movie. Really? And I'll
tell you, I highly recommend they only have it
on DVD for some reason, but there is a director's
cut, which, yeah, there's certain movies where
I'm like, sometimes less is more in a movie,
but we're talking Cameron Crowe here. And the
movie actually with the added scenes, I feel
like enhances the movie more and kind of brings
it to the next level where sometimes the director's
cut, you kind of understand why they trimmed
it down. for succinctness sometimes, but not
in this one. Yeah, yeah. I've seen that longer
version. There's some, there's a couple weird
things in there. Of course, with everyone. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Overall, it's worth it. Cameron Crowe
had like a great run and then like, he's kind
of one of these guys who just like completely
fell off. I mean, who knows? Hopefully he'll
be back one day. I hope so. He'll be back on
top. Yeah, yeah. Great director. He's kind of
in a cold streak right now. We bought a zoo in
Aloha land. Yep. Okay. So you went with fever
dog, you know, this is a similar, well, not that
similar, but this might be the closest thing
I have kind of a rock vibe. This band I grew
up with was kind of a local band to my area in
South Florida. And, um, they, uh, We're part
of this genre that was real big when I was a
kid, which is like this pop punk emo type blanch.
The band is Daspor Confessional, and they put
together probably one of the more mainstream
type songs they ever put together. They kind
of harnessed. all of their like raw emotion that
is in like their more whinier songs but kind
of with a more like a song that you could actually
put as the lead single for you know a movie a
soundtrack to a movie like spider -man 2 and
it kind of still works and he sells the vocal
you know you you believe that he is vindicated
he knew it all along you know I don't know. I
just remember seeing that one in the theaters.
And I was like, oh, wow. That's where Confessionals
got the Song of the Spider -Man movie. Look at
this. And I don't know. That one hits for me.
I'm sure this might be a polarizing one. This
might be a love it or hate it. But I guess I'm
more of a maximalist. So I'll take all the extra
emotion and whatever. Well, I love it. I'm a
big comic book movie fan. Like I said, once a
movie is chosen, it's off the table. But you
have removed Spider -Man 2 from the list, which
means I could easily follow this up. And I'm
going to follow this up with a song from a few
years earlier on 2002's Spider -Man soundtrack.
It's a different movie. So it counts. They both
came out in the same decade. Sure. Sure. It's
fair. And following it up, I'm going to go with
the song was originally on the soundtrack released
by Corey Taylor alone. And the song is called
Bother. However, when the song exploded, Stone
Sour took the song onto their self -titled album,
which the soundtrack to Spider -Man 1 came out
in April and Stone Sour released their debut
album. In August of 2002. But the song Bother
is such a beautiful acoustic ballad. That when
you're coming from Slipknot. And you're starting
this new project. And you can almost tell they
didn't know if it was going to just be Corey
Taylor. Or if it was Stone Sour. So on the soundtrack
it's listed as Corey Taylor. But on the Stone
Sour album it's a band song. Now I never thought
these words would come out of my mouth. But the
Dashboard Confessional song is actually. quote
-unquote heavier than the Corey Taylor song,
but it fits the Spider -Man theme, and I love
the fact that we both had songs from comic book
movies in this fold, and I feel like following
up Dashboard Confessional with Corey Taylor and
Stone Sour just works really well here. So I'm
going to Spider -Man 1, Corey Taylor, and Bother.
Oh, I guess. I mean, I knew you were going to
hit me with the deep cuts, of course. I mean,
we're in kind of, obviously we're on your turf
here and this is your world. And so this one
is another blind spot for me. I'll definitely
admit Corey Taylor bought it. So it's kind of
an acoustic. Really mellow, really acoustic.
The opposite of Slipknot. Gotcha. Gotcha. All
right. Well, if we're going. down to chill and
just kind of a kind of beautiful acoustic song
kind of lush orchestration i think of this band
and i had a couple songs from this band that
i was deciding between and um one of them is
from the movie vanilla sky and i think it's near
the end of the movie and just kind of this haunting
scene. I know I keep using that word, but I guess
that's the vibe I've chosen for a lot of the,
talk about another word I keep using. But I didn't
go with that one. I went with a song also at
the end of one of my favorite movies called The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The song is,
I think it's called Starry Fur, which I believe
means staring elf. It's by the Van Sigur Rós
Icelandic band. So this is in the movie. If you've
seen it, it's the scene where they, you know,
in the movie, they're kind of, Steve Z. Stu,
played by Bill Murray, is kind of searching for
this jaguar shark that ate one of his crewmen
and his friend. You know, they finally encounter
the jaguar shark at the end of the movie, and
this song plays, and it's just this beautiful
moment. At one point, Bill Murray says, I wonder
if it remembers me. It's this solid moment, everyone
puts their hands on him. It's hard to explain,
but I guess if you know the band Sigur Rós, then
you have an idea of the type of thing I'm talking
about, but just the really beautifully composed
song. Certainly is definitely one of Bill Murray's.
That was when he was doing a lot of stuff like
the Lost in Translation. He was doing a lot more
serious stuff, whereas finally post 2010 was
where he started to dabble back into comedies
again with his little cameo in Zombieland, as
well as the hit that he did in Ghostbusters Afterlife,
which was not as much a comedy. But I'm glad
to see that. He was branching out and doing these
other movies because they were absolutely fantastic.
But what I'm going to do now is we've had Dashboard
Confessional, Stone Sour, and Corey Taylor's
acoustic. We had Seger Ross. I want to pick back
up the pace again because we got four songs left.
We got two picks each. And I want to kind of
pick the pace up and get us moving again to kind
of close out with a bang. And I think in order
to do that, I'm going to go with a song that
I also talked about. On our sports anthems episode.
So it's a newer song. And yet. In a short time
since 2006. It has become. A sports anthem. Mostly
in the Boston area. But also Notre Dame plays
this song. And it is from the movie The Departed.
And I'm going with Dropkick Murphys. I'm shipping
up to Boston. This song will probably make every
punk list I do for the decade. It'll make sports
anthems, and it's definitely making soundtracks.
It was not recorded for The Departed, so I'm
breaking my rule here. But the 2000 soundtracks
were definitely tougher to find original material,
and I kind of wanted a... pick up the pace a
little bit and go with something a little heavier.
So drop kick Murphy's I'm shipping up to Boston
from the amazing departed. Right. Yeah. That's
an iconic one for sure. This, that's the bagpipes
come in, right? That, that one. Yeah. This was
a, this was a tough test coming up with these
songs. Cause it's not, like you said, it's like.
I feel like a lot of the ones we've named are
definitely iconic movie songs, but a lot of these
might struggle to make an all -time list. Like,
Lose Yourself would, probably, and Man of Constant
Sorrow, but some of the other ones, maybe not.
But anyway, still some good music. Yeah, the
2000s were kind of an anomaly when it comes to
soundtracks, because at this point... you had
downloads, you had streaming, and the soundtracks
were not as much of an event as they were in
the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So we're kind of following
that path and you're seeing it come out in these
songs, but it doesn't mean that they're not great
songs. However, they weren't as iconically attached
to the movies as they were in the past. Yeah.
All right. So I don't really I'm kind of running
out of picture. He took some of mine and I don't
know that I really have anything that would really
follow up with Dropkick Murphy's very well. I
may have to just do a complete 180. I mean, most
soundtracks are nothing but 180s. So to have
that incorporated in these episodes is perfectly
fine to me because at the end of the day. not
all soundtracks are stuck to a specific genre.
And I feel like we've represented that pretty
well tonight, actually. Yeah. All right. Well,
you know, if we're, you know, you pick the song
that went hard, I guess I will, I will go with
a song. Well, I'm nervous. I only have a couple
of picks here and I'm nervous. This one, neither
of these will probably fit with your pick. But
one of them is more likely that you'll steal
it. But then I don't think you will steal it,
really, realistically. So I probably am fine.
But if you do steal it, I may have to scramble
and think of another solid grip. Hmm. I guess
I'll just gamble a little bit and go with this
one. And like I said, it doesn't really fall
under the dropkick Murphys. Although, I would
say... This song does go hard, so maybe it does
kind of fit along with that. It goes hard, just
like the Dropkick Murphys go hard. And I guess
I'll just simply say, Charlie, how your angels
get down like that. It's Independent Women, part
one, Destiny's Child from Charlie's Angels. You
know, a number one hit song, just kind of a song
that... you couldn't really escape at the time.
Obviously Beyonce went out, went out to, uh,
greater things, but, and, um, yeah, just, uh,
kind of a classic from that era, I would say.
Absolutely. Of course. 100%. And look, even though
it's a pop song. Destiny's Child went hard. You
think about songs like Survivor, you think about
songs like this. Like, I get what you're saying.
They do go hard in a different style. So I love
the pick, actually, coming out of Dropkick Murphys,
because I do look at the list and there's not
a lot of female artists represented, not a ton.
And so I'm glad we're finally getting, you had
Nicole Kidman. And Evanescence. That's true.
So I'm glad to see that. And I think I'm going
to follow it up with another female artist who
the band has delved into pop more recently. However,
when you rewind back, I'm going to go with when
they were a little bit more on the rock side
of the spectrum. And I'm going to say the truth.
I've never seen this movie. And as soon as I
say it, your immediate response is going to be
like. sure you haven't seen that movie brian
but the movie is 2008's twilight i kid you not
i have never seen it but i do own the soundtrack
and i own the soundtrack for a couple of songs
but the reason i bought it was decode by paramore
i absolutely love hayley williams voice and she's
done stuff with bob she did airplanes and if
you listen to paramore's newer music it's definitely
more pop oriented so i feel like coming out of
destiny's child another powerful female vocalist
goes really well here and you know the twilight
movies i hope i hope that's not the one i'm stealing
i hope that wasn't your your closer because this
was definitely a big And when I had Collective
Soul on the show, Will Turpin was talking about
Tremble for My Beloved, which came from this
album. And we talked about the fact that Twilight
was one of your last tentpole soundtracks that
everybody was running out to get that wasn't
a Disney movie. And it's really true. This was
the last time a movie soundtrack was really sought
after, not. Withstanding musicals like in the
2010s, The Greatest Showman and stuff like that.
And then obviously Frozen and Moana and your
Disney movies. But Twilight was the last big
original music for a soundtrack soundtrack, if
that makes sense. Oh, yeah. I mean, I may shock
you. I haven't seen it either. All right. At
least I'm not alone. Yeah, I don't say that proudly
or anything because I actually. You know, I hear
that, you know, people are kind of reclaiming
those movies and they just, you know, kind of
say they're fun. And maybe I will, you know,
get to them at some point. But for whatever reason,
yeah, I never had the sense of urgency to see
those either. But I love Paramore. I'm going
to have to check out that song. Oh, it's fantastic.
It could be my favorite song from them. I probably
heard it. I probably heard it. And I just don't
know it by the title. It's not one of those songs
where the title is used in the song. So I'm almost
positive if you're a fan of Paramore, you know
this song. It's a little slower, a little heavier,
a little melodic. So I feel like it still fits
the vibe that we're actually creating throughout
Side B here. But now you have the, as the honor
of kicking things off, which you did in grand
style with Eminem's Lose Yourself from 8 Mile,
you get to close this out tonight. with the final
song of the night okay so you said it's this
is paramour but it's more it's slower and and
uh more melodic but it's still still kind of
upbeat or it's it's slower and heavier for sure
but it's it's it's it's more of a melodic emo
power ballad if that makes sense oh all right
well i guess well what is your philosophy if
i could end it on a up note or a chill you would
want to more end it on an up right sure you think
or or because i have like a more chill one it's
like it's kind of like uh doesn't really move
the needle well let's move that needle then all
right well actually i guess i have one that would
kind of fit the slower and heavier but That kind
of way it's, I mean, that's kind of the vibe
we got on the back half, right? I guess that's
just more of the same, right? Yeah. Yeah. I guess
I'm trying to think if I should go forward with
the, the dropkick Murphy's independent women
vibe or the, uh, cigar Ross type vibe. All right.
I'll just go with this. It's kind of a slower
and heavier song, but it's, uh, I think it's
a good one. Artist is back. song is everybody's
got to learn sometime from one of my favorite
movies probably of all time eternal sunshine
on the spotless mind yeah just one of those where
the chorus just hits you and yeah it's kind of
more of a downbeat thing maybe it's not the best
to end the uh the album with but uh It kind of
goes with what we're going with here. The moment
of the song. Do you know the song? Yeah, I'm
a fan of Beck. I think that's a great way to
click. Because this side is a little bit more
rock leaning. It's a little bit. There's some
downer. I don't want to say down as in downtrodden,
but there's some definitely slower songs on this
side. It's a little more introspective. And I
love this pick to close it, especially coming
out of Paramore. I think it works really well.
Well, thank you. I appreciate it. You're very
positive, Brian. You're a very good collaborator
here. Likewise. Likewise. Well, here we go. We
now have side B mapped out. We started with Steel
Dragons. We all die young from the movie Rockstar.
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman's Come What May
from Moulin Rouge. Stillwater's Fever Dog from
Almost Famous. Dashboard Confessionals Vindicated
from Spider -Man 2. Stone Sour or Corey Taylor,
depending on how you look at it. Bother from
Spider -Man. Seeger Ross, Star Lafore from The
Life Aquatic. Dropkick Murphys, I'm Shipping
Up to Boston from The Departed. Destiny's Child,
Independent Women Part 1 from Charlie's Angels.
Paramore's Decode from Twilight, and Beck, Everybody's
Gotta Learn Sometime from Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind. Head over to myweeklymixtape
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