WEBVTT 00:00:11.109 --> 00:00:13.910 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.910 --> 00:00:17.170 celebrates the lost art of the mixtape. I'm your 00:00:17.170 --> 00:00:19.609 host, Brian Culber. Joining me for tonight's 00:00:19.609 --> 00:00:22.089 collaboration is the underrated rock book and 00:00:22.089 --> 00:00:25.250 the underrated rock book two author, Jim Santora. 00:00:25.449 --> 00:00:28.129 Jim, thank you for joining me tonight. Well, 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:30.350 Brian, it's always a pleasure. I always seem 00:00:30.350 --> 00:00:32.469 to be on your shows, so it's a wonderful thing. 00:00:33.109 --> 00:00:35.409 Always looking forward to it. Always appreciate 00:00:35.409 --> 00:00:38.729 you bringing me on and always enjoy talking music 00:00:38.729 --> 00:00:41.530 with you. So glad to be here. Likewise. So let's 00:00:41.530 --> 00:00:44.909 get down to it. Jim, what does the word mixtape 00:00:44.909 --> 00:00:48.770 mean to you? Well, it's been a real long time 00:00:48.770 --> 00:00:51.350 since I've made any kind of a mixtape or even 00:00:51.350 --> 00:00:54.630 a CD version of a mixtape, but going back to 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:56.969 my high school days, you know, I was really big 00:00:56.969 --> 00:01:00.530 on cassettes and my earliest parts of maybe a 00:01:00.530 --> 00:01:03.210 mixtape is going back and listening to the radio 00:01:03.210 --> 00:01:06.030 and waiting for it. those particular songs to 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:08.150 come on the radio and and you know hit record 00:01:08.150 --> 00:01:11.609 and kind of have some sort of loose mixtape but 00:01:11.609 --> 00:01:13.250 you know when you got to the point where you 00:01:13.250 --> 00:01:15.549 had like the dual tape decks where you kind of 00:01:15.549 --> 00:01:18.090 sit there or the if you still had vinyl it would 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:21.930 record everything and i was pretty big on putting 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:25.090 those kind of tapes together a lot of them always 00:01:25.090 --> 00:01:27.569 were the rock especially like a lot of the 80s 00:01:27.569 --> 00:01:31.079 rock hard rock metal Always had that kind of 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.879 stuff going on. Probably up until the 90s, until 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.040 I really started getting into CDs. But even then, 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:38.060 I still remember even when I was a mobile disc 00:01:38.060 --> 00:01:41.659 jockey, I used to give away CDs and used to make 00:01:41.659 --> 00:01:45.560 mixtapes based on that. A lot of different hits, 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:47.700 you know, whether it was pop hits, rock hits, 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.700 whatever it was. And I would just give those 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:51.760 away, though I'm sure that was definitely illegal 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.920 at the time. Luckily, nobody died me out at the 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.299 time. But I used to love making the mixtapes. 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.620 I always enjoyed that. well jim you get to go 00:02:00.620 --> 00:02:03.620 down that road once again so for the folks listening 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:06.480 tonight jim and i will be curating a mixtape 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:11.240 of 80s hard rock tunes i for one am extremely 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.599 excited to go down this rabbit hole as this era 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.979 is truly one of my favorites right now i have 00:02:16.979 --> 00:02:20.639 a bank of no less than 35 songs just waiting 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.379 to go and it's going to be damn near impossible 00:02:24.379 --> 00:02:28.620 for me to not feel an extreme amount of guilt 00:02:29.180 --> 00:02:32.979 and shame for the overwhelming number of incredible 00:02:32.979 --> 00:02:36.180 songs that probably won't make the cut tonight 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:39.500 jim what were you looking for in the songs that 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:41.879 you've brought to the table in your bank of tunes 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.879 this evening well you know the thing i was looking 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.400 at and a lot of times you know back in the day 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.560 when i was cruising around in a 1977 beautiful 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.560 saber with a tape deck that was actually an eight 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.800 track deck but it was it was old school adapter 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.300 that would go in and had it stuck out it might 00:03:00.300 --> 00:03:02.300 have been about five feet long but it had one 00:03:02.300 --> 00:03:05.039 spot where you put the cassette in but it was 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:06.939 a lot of times just cruising around with my friends 00:03:06.939 --> 00:03:10.819 or my brother or whatever and so the songs didn't 00:03:10.819 --> 00:03:14.539 have to be always super popular but it had to 00:03:14.539 --> 00:03:17.680 be good music to cruise around to you know and 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.759 just kind of find the different mixtapes you 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.080 know the kind of you know back then trying to 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:23.840 impress the girls or something that were hanging 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.360 around you know you didn't want to have anything 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.270 too cheesy for them. But when you're cruising 00:03:29.270 --> 00:03:31.889 down the road and all of a sudden the right song 00:03:31.889 --> 00:03:33.889 comes on that mixtape and all of a sudden the 00:03:33.889 --> 00:03:36.270 foot goes to the pedal just a little bit more. 00:03:36.490 --> 00:03:39.229 And my tastes were all over the place during 00:03:39.229 --> 00:03:42.669 this time period. So the mixtapes that I would 00:03:42.669 --> 00:03:43.969 have put together would have been definitely 00:03:43.969 --> 00:03:46.229 all over the place. But definitely a lot of bands 00:03:46.229 --> 00:03:48.870 people would know for that time period that I 00:03:48.870 --> 00:03:52.169 was into and then my friends as well. As I mentioned 00:03:52.169 --> 00:03:54.449 earlier, tonight Jim and I will be curating an 00:03:54.449 --> 00:03:57.009 80s hard rock mixtape, and we're going to use 00:03:57.009 --> 00:03:59.669 that old cassette deck approach, meaning our 00:03:59.669 --> 00:04:02.229 mixtape will be broken up into two sides, side 00:04:02.229 --> 00:04:05.770 A and side B. Jim, as the special guest tonight, 00:04:06.030 --> 00:04:08.729 will begin side A with his first song choice, 00:04:08.889 --> 00:04:11.870 and then I'll add a song that I feel best follows 00:04:11.870 --> 00:04:14.990 his choice up. We'll then flip -flop choosing 00:04:14.990 --> 00:04:18.290 songs until we've mapped out 10 songs for side 00:04:18.290 --> 00:04:21.399 A. We'll then give our mixtape a proverbial flip 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:24.720 and we'll map out side B. Only this time, I'll 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.680 kick things off and Jim will choose second. Our 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.540 overall goal for tonight is to craft the best 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:34.699 80s hard rock mixtape possible with only 20 songs. 00:04:34.939 --> 00:04:37.279 At the end of the show, you can take our conversation 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.459 to the next level by visiting the 80s hard rock 00:04:40.459 --> 00:04:43.959 page at myweeklymixtape .com and giving our final 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.389 mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist. Finally, 00:04:47.470 --> 00:04:49.170 if you like what you're hearing on the show, 00:04:49.350 --> 00:04:52.310 please consider becoming a Patreon mixtaper at 00:04:52.310 --> 00:04:56.870 patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. Jim, 00:04:56.970 --> 00:04:59.209 before I turn it over to you to reveal your track 00:04:59.209 --> 00:05:01.910 one, some of the fellow mixtapers who follow 00:05:01.910 --> 00:05:06.250 us at myweeklymixtape on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 00:05:06.490 --> 00:05:09.689 and TikTok have chimed in with their ideal opening 00:05:09.689 --> 00:05:13.649 tracks for tonight. Amy Borchin chimed in with 00:05:13.649 --> 00:05:16.009 Joan Jett and the Blackheart's I Love Rock and 00:05:16.009 --> 00:05:19.930 Roll. Eric Chael chimed in with Dio's Holy Diver. 00:05:20.269 --> 00:05:23.350 Scott Van Sickle chimed in with Kiss's Creatures 00:05:23.350 --> 00:05:26.850 of the Night. Banger Timo chimed in with Husker 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:30.949 Du's New Day Rising. Ben from the Too Vague podcast 00:05:30.949 --> 00:05:34.810 chimed in with Van Halen's Hot for Teacher. Kuya 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:37.889 Ozzy chimed in with Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar 00:05:37.889 --> 00:05:41.189 on Me. Our friends at the Ridiculous Rock Record 00:05:41.189 --> 00:05:43.490 Reviews chimed in with Whitesnake's Slide It 00:05:43.490 --> 00:05:46.839 In. and several mixtapers chimed in with both 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.379 Van Halen and Motley Crue songs. So we've got 00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:53.279 some great food for thought tonight. Jim, with 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.660 that, I've officially pressed the record button 00:05:55.660 --> 00:05:58.579 on our mixtape, and the floor is yours. So why 00:05:58.579 --> 00:06:01.339 don't you dive into the song you chose to kick 00:06:01.339 --> 00:06:05.720 off Side A? All right. Well, first of all, with 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.399 those selections that those people have made. 00:06:08.939 --> 00:06:11.420 The Husker Du one, though not technically hard 00:06:11.420 --> 00:06:13.879 rock. I totally love that song, New Day Rising. 00:06:14.019 --> 00:06:17.300 But aside from that, we got to kind of refocus 00:06:17.300 --> 00:06:21.240 here. So we hit record. And the first song I'm 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.980 going to go with is actually going to be Metallica. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:28.660 And the song is For Whom the Bell Tolls. And 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:32.680 just from the opening alone, you get that full 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.410 on in your face sound. When I'm looking at this 00:06:36.410 --> 00:06:38.850 mixtape, I want to just throw it down right out 00:06:38.850 --> 00:06:41.689 the gate. And that is a song, in my opinion, 00:06:41.730 --> 00:06:45.490 that totally opens up the gates for what's going 00:06:45.490 --> 00:06:48.230 to be an awesome mixtape. Absolutely love it. 00:06:48.269 --> 00:06:50.490 I want to give a shout out to my friend Tim from 00:06:50.490 --> 00:06:53.209 the 2010 Minutes podcast, who also chimed in 00:06:53.209 --> 00:06:56.949 with For Whom the Bell Tolls. Great song as a 00:06:56.949 --> 00:07:00.430 bass player. I want to rock that opening, man. 00:07:00.490 --> 00:07:02.870 I know it's the drums and the guitar, but that 00:07:02.870 --> 00:07:08.050 bass line. Like, oh, it's so much fun to play. 00:07:08.129 --> 00:07:11.769 It gets the hair on your arm standing up. Now, 00:07:11.870 --> 00:07:14.810 I normally consider Metallica to be more of the 00:07:14.810 --> 00:07:18.750 thrash metal, but For Whom the Bell Tolls does 00:07:18.750 --> 00:07:23.750 take on that hard rock vibe. have no problem 00:07:23.750 --> 00:07:26.730 including them in this hard rock discussion i 00:07:26.730 --> 00:07:29.649 love love love that pick yeah it's one of those 00:07:29.649 --> 00:07:31.550 bands and again you know the one thing i remember 00:07:31.550 --> 00:07:34.370 from early even the early metallica even though 00:07:34.370 --> 00:07:37.529 being more to thrash metal at least when i was 00:07:37.529 --> 00:07:39.649 listening to the radio those songs were getting 00:07:39.649 --> 00:07:42.050 airplay from that ride the lightning album you 00:07:42.050 --> 00:07:43.829 know fade the black you know that kind of stuff 00:07:43.829 --> 00:07:45.810 so so even though they were kind of more thrash 00:07:45.810 --> 00:07:49.089 metal they still had a little bit of a radio 00:07:49.089 --> 00:07:52.199 ish but that was definitely a throwdown song 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.500 that can kick off any mixtape well i think i 00:07:55.500 --> 00:07:59.379 have the perfect answer for track two then because 00:07:59.379 --> 00:08:02.680 obviously anybody that's in our age range remembers 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:07.120 the infamous tour that featured faith no more 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:12.959 metallica and my track two pick Guns and Roses. 00:08:12.980 --> 00:08:16.339 And I am going to go off 1987's Appetite for 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:18.680 Destruction. And I'm going to go with the perfect 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:23.500 number two song because it's track two on Appetite, 00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:27.040 as well as Guns and Roses opening track for the 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.980 Not in This Lifetime Tour. I am going with It's 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:35.340 So Easy. This song is hard rock. It's punk. It's 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:38.659 metal. everything i love about music it's everything 00:08:38.659 --> 00:08:42.840 i love about guns and roses it's sleazy it's 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:47.019 angry it's aggressive it's everything that rock 00:08:47.019 --> 00:08:49.399 and roll is meant to be and i'll be perfectly 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:52.779 honest if it's so easy kicked off appetite for 00:08:52.779 --> 00:08:54.899 destruction i would love it just the same as 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:57.700 much as welcome to the jungle is the obvious 00:08:57.700 --> 00:09:00.600 open and the song that everybody probably would 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.620 think for 80s hard rock it's so easy it's a little 00:09:03.620 --> 00:09:07.450 deeper But for any Guns N' Roses fan, there's 00:09:07.450 --> 00:09:10.850 no denying it. Plus, again, that bass line, opening 00:09:10.850 --> 00:09:14.049 it up. I'm a bass player. It resonates. So track 00:09:14.049 --> 00:09:17.309 two, Guns N' Roses, it's so easy. Well, I tell 00:09:17.309 --> 00:09:21.049 you, I do love that song. I will say that while 00:09:21.049 --> 00:09:24.950 I think that album tends to get a little overplayed 00:09:24.950 --> 00:09:27.789 these days with the hits, but that is one song 00:09:27.789 --> 00:09:31.009 that has always stayed solid for all this time. 00:09:31.190 --> 00:09:33.429 I perfectly agree. That's the perfect second 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:36.669 song. to get on this mixtape. All right. Well, 00:09:36.730 --> 00:09:38.570 you're back up. So what are you putting in for 00:09:38.570 --> 00:09:41.809 track three? Well, now we've made it really a 00:09:41.809 --> 00:09:43.830 challenge. You know, the list that I have kind 00:09:43.830 --> 00:09:46.570 of goes all over the place. So it's going to 00:09:46.570 --> 00:09:49.450 be a tough one here to kind of follow up while 00:09:49.450 --> 00:09:53.370 we got two total bangers to start this off. I 00:09:53.370 --> 00:09:58.889 am going to go with Ronnie James Dio, Rainbow 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:03.590 in the Dark. Nice. Just the opening guitar line. 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.360 And then you got a little bit of that synth work 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.340 that was in the beginning. And then just Ronnie's 00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:11.899 vocals. It's like that song absolutely rocks. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.399 It's probably the first time I really was introduced 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.259 to Ronnie James Dio. And I mean, that song still 00:10:17.259 --> 00:10:20.340 slams when I hear it today. So I'm sure I had 00:10:20.340 --> 00:10:23.679 it on a mixtape somewhere in my youth. And I'm 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.860 glad it's on a mixtape today. So that's our third 00:10:25.860 --> 00:10:28.519 track here on this mixtape. It's a great song. 00:10:28.970 --> 00:10:31.809 Oh my God, this tape slays already. I'm loving 00:10:31.809 --> 00:10:34.210 where we're going so far. This is, I mean, come 00:10:34.210 --> 00:10:36.799 on. You got to raise the metal horns for that 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:40.799 one. I love Dio. Obviously, we mentioned that 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.799 Eric Chael chimed in with Dio. Holy Diver is 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.580 another great one. I can go with Black Sabbath's 00:10:46.580 --> 00:10:49.200 Heaven or Hell, which is from 1980. That still 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.399 fits in. Dio, really, man, he nailed it in the 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.779 80s. I loved his stuff with Rainbow. But in the 00:10:56.779 --> 00:10:59.779 80s, he really took it to the next level with 00:10:59.779 --> 00:11:02.639 his solo outings, as well as the stuff he did 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:06.240 with Sabbath. can't fathom an 80s Hard Rock playlist 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:09.980 without it so I absolutely love the pick but 00:11:09.980 --> 00:11:13.399 now it's getting hard because we've got Metallica 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.019 Guns N' Roses and Dio how are we gonna follow 00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:20.559 that up yep what do you got for us oh I'm scrolling 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.399 up and down my list right here okay I think I 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:25.960 know what I'm gonna do with this one I'm gonna 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:31.039 go a little glam but still the heaviest of glam 00:11:31.769 --> 00:11:34.590 And I'm going to go from 1987's Girls, Girls, 00:11:34.690 --> 00:11:37.769 Girls. I'm going to go track four, Motley Crue, 00:11:37.889 --> 00:11:44.070 Wild Side. Okay. Probably Mick Mars' greatest 00:11:44.070 --> 00:11:51.509 riff ever. The song absolutely slams. It's heavy. 00:11:51.610 --> 00:11:55.169 It's aggressive. It's everything I love about 00:11:55.169 --> 00:11:57.809 Motley Crue. And I know Eric, Time to Get Ill, 00:11:57.830 --> 00:12:00.320 chimed in with Shout at the Devil. I also want 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.259 to give a shout out to my friend Jason Whistle 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:04.759 at the It's Not That Bad podcast because he chimed 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:09.360 in with Wild Side as well. Man, this is the best 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.899 thing, all the best things about Motley Crue 00:12:12.899 --> 00:12:15.759 in one song. Track four, Motley Crue, Wild Side. 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:19.080 Motley Crue, yeah, you can't go wrong with Wild 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.679 Side. I will agree on that. And speaking of Nick 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.860 Mars, I just want to say that you don't realize. 00:12:26.909 --> 00:12:32.230 How much that band owes Mick Mars for just the 00:12:32.230 --> 00:12:36.289 creative genius and as under a radar guitarist 00:12:36.289 --> 00:12:39.289 as can be for some of the stuff that he's put 00:12:39.289 --> 00:12:41.629 together. If you had any other guitarists in 00:12:41.629 --> 00:12:43.570 that band, I don't think Motley Crue is the same. 00:12:43.730 --> 00:12:46.809 Wild Side definitely rocks. Yeah. And so far, 00:12:46.850 --> 00:12:49.090 I'm really enjoying this mixtape right now where 00:12:49.090 --> 00:12:52.480 we're not even halfway in the side one. But, 00:12:52.539 --> 00:12:55.580 man, you're making it tough here as we keep throwing 00:12:55.580 --> 00:12:59.919 song after song here. So I am going to go. So 00:12:59.919 --> 00:13:02.720 we're now track number five, right? Yeah. So 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.960 where do you go from? You just put together four 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.259 excellent songs. So let's see. I'm going to go 00:13:11.259 --> 00:13:15.899 number five. And this is more for the guitars. 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:18.340 Then, you know, I'm trying to keep it more with 00:13:18.340 --> 00:13:20.559 the guitars and where this thing's headed here 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.149 on side one. And I'm going to go back to a band 00:13:23.149 --> 00:13:26.750 not as popular as the first four artists that 00:13:26.750 --> 00:13:28.730 were here. But I'm going to go with the band 00:13:28.730 --> 00:13:34.269 Loudness from Japan with Crazy Nights. Nice. 00:13:35.350 --> 00:13:37.990 Akira Takasaki, who's the guitarist for that 00:13:37.990 --> 00:13:40.629 band. In fact, going back to Motley Crue, the 00:13:40.629 --> 00:13:42.429 first concert I ever went to was Motley Crue 00:13:42.429 --> 00:13:45.529 in the Theater of Pain tour. And Loudness was 00:13:45.529 --> 00:13:47.509 the opening act. So that was the first time I 00:13:47.509 --> 00:13:49.850 actually got to experience them. and heard that 00:13:49.850 --> 00:13:53.330 album and the song crazy nights just alone like 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:57.509 they just were a phenomenal guitar metal band 00:13:57.509 --> 00:14:02.389 and that song absolutely just slays with just 00:14:02.389 --> 00:14:05.190 a guitar work alone i think it fits right after 00:14:05.190 --> 00:14:07.509 wild side wild side kind of has its thing and 00:14:07.509 --> 00:14:09.129 then when it kind of fades out i could see this 00:14:09.129 --> 00:14:11.370 song just kind of kicking the doors in again 00:14:11.370 --> 00:14:15.049 and keeping this tape alive that it certainly 00:14:15.049 --> 00:14:19.149 is and speaking about staying alive Loudness, 00:14:19.149 --> 00:14:21.909 their first album came out in the early 80s. 00:14:21.909 --> 00:14:25.370 I want to say it was 81. Yeah. And they're still 00:14:25.370 --> 00:14:28.350 going strong. They put out an album back in 2021. 00:14:29.009 --> 00:14:31.850 Yes. They're still out there putting out music 00:14:31.850 --> 00:14:34.570 and they put out a ton. They haven't slowed down. 00:14:35.309 --> 00:14:37.629 Yes. They are a band that is, you know, and it 00:14:37.629 --> 00:14:39.730 was amazing when I first heard them. I didn't 00:14:39.730 --> 00:14:41.909 know who they, you know, obviously I didn't know 00:14:41.909 --> 00:14:44.370 who they were. But then to go back and listen 00:14:44.370 --> 00:14:47.289 to their earlier stuff and they were kind of 00:14:47.289 --> 00:14:49.389 a different band. You know, when it got to the 00:14:49.389 --> 00:14:52.690 States, they kind of got more within what the 00:14:52.690 --> 00:14:56.149 U .S. metal sound was like. But prior to that, 00:14:56.169 --> 00:14:58.490 they were like in some songs, they were almost 00:14:58.490 --> 00:15:01.809 kind of proggish in their delivery. And I remember 00:15:01.809 --> 00:15:03.870 when I first came to the States, they were compared 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:06.389 to like the combination of like Van Halen and 00:15:06.389 --> 00:15:09.370 Deep Purple kind of stuff, just in the tones 00:15:09.370 --> 00:15:12.360 and stuff like that. but yeah awesome song and 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:15.360 uh glad to have it as number five well i'm gonna 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.019 move on to number six here and now following 00:15:18.019 --> 00:15:20.259 that one up i feel like i have a little bit more 00:15:20.259 --> 00:15:23.320 of a liberty to try something different and i'm 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.340 gonna go with a band that's a household name 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:30.220 but a song that maybe necessarily isn't and i'm 00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:35.960 gonna go from 1989's pump i'm gonna go aerosmith 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.779 but i'm gonna go with voodoo medicine man one 00:15:40.779 --> 00:15:44.620 of the non -singles from the album now aerosmith 00:15:44.620 --> 00:15:47.220 fans will know that this song was also on the 00:15:47.220 --> 00:15:51.120 1990s live release a little south of sanity an 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.740 incredible version on that as well so to me in 00:15:53.740 --> 00:15:56.419 the aerosmith universe it might not be a deep 00:15:56.419 --> 00:15:59.080 pick but when you look at it against the hits 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.679 of loving an elevator janie's got a gun what 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.100 it takes the other side this song falls off the 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:08.539 radar and it shouldn't so in underrated rock 00:16:08.539 --> 00:16:12.289 book fashion jim i have to say this is easily 00:16:12.289 --> 00:16:15.730 errol smith's most underrated song that should 00:16:15.730 --> 00:16:19.370 have been a hit but i guess stephen tyler singing 00:16:19.370 --> 00:16:22.190 about masturbating with a noose is probably a 00:16:22.190 --> 00:16:23.950 reason why they didn't release it as a single 00:16:23.950 --> 00:16:27.970 but musically it's one of those joe perry riffs 00:16:27.970 --> 00:16:30.990 that's just so funky and heavy at the same time 00:16:30.990 --> 00:16:35.230 it's completely underrated so my track six going 00:16:35.230 --> 00:16:37.710 a little deeper here Aerosmith Voodoo Medicine 00:16:37.710 --> 00:16:41.210 Man. That is a very interesting choice. An interesting 00:16:41.210 --> 00:16:43.409 choice was, and I know that we're not putting 00:16:43.409 --> 00:16:47.110 the same artist in here, but it's interesting 00:16:47.110 --> 00:16:51.710 to note that in my 20 songs that I did have a 00:16:51.710 --> 00:16:56.350 song from the same album. Really? Yes. And I 00:16:56.350 --> 00:17:00.370 was going to select Fine at some point, but not 00:17:00.370 --> 00:17:02.529 going to disagree with the song that you have 00:17:02.529 --> 00:17:04.710 here. I mean, that's a solid album and that's 00:17:04.710 --> 00:17:06.740 a good choice, but yeah. definitely something 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:08.839 that kind of you know i've kind of put a song 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.519 that's kind of a little bit under the radar now 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.920 we've kind of and this is what i like about the 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.000 mixtape because the variety of what you could 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:20.220 do you know we could sit there and slam out all 00:17:20.220 --> 00:17:22.480 the popular bands but now we're kind of going 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.759 you know the deeper cuts you know the band's 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.359 not so you know some of the bands that aren't 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.880 so great or not i shouldn't say great great to 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.460 us maybe not great to others right um so that 00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:37.279 gets us to number seven on this side so interesting 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.059 choice of where i go as far as a direction because 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:44.180 i think we've kind of gone we had some heavy 00:17:44.180 --> 00:17:46.579 stuff and we're kind of sliding because i want 00:17:46.579 --> 00:17:48.819 to say the voodoo medicine was a little more 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:53.480 funky right so i think this is about a time where 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:55.700 of course i'm going to do this because i probably 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:59.039 did this in later mixtapes in my lifetime i'm 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.019 going to throw a little king's x in this mixtape 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:03.619 and i'm going to go with the song summerland 00:18:04.199 --> 00:18:07.059 Nice. I'm going to go with that little bit of 00:18:07.059 --> 00:18:09.720 Tide to Board guitar there at the open song. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.619 You know, the Doug Pinnock vocals. You can't 00:18:12.619 --> 00:18:15.079 go wrong there. They kind of have that element. 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.359 You know, it's a hard rock song, but it kind 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:21.079 of has kind of that. Is it a little bit psychedelic? 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.480 Is a little bit progressive? You know, it's got 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.140 a nice little groove to it. And I think it transition 00:18:27.140 --> 00:18:30.380 wise, it kind of gets us into a another part 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:33.779 of where this mixtape is going to go. Yeah, I 00:18:33.779 --> 00:18:36.480 think that was always a solid song from that 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.359 band and one of their more popular tracks as 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:41.960 well. But I think it fits very easy as far as 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.019 how we're going along here in this mixtape. So 00:18:44.019 --> 00:18:47.259 track number seven will be King's X and Summerland. 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:51.519 I have to ask, man, how is it possible in this 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:56.180 universe that King's X isn't a household name? 00:18:57.180 --> 00:19:01.640 Yeah, I mean, you know, it really kind of boggles 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.880 the mind. A band like King's X, no matter what 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:09.519 they did, they always ended up not being successful. 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.240 They're a band that played at Woodstock. You 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.400 know, all the popular bands that were at Woodstock, 00:19:14.619 --> 00:19:17.859 94, and, you know, they played. And a lot of 00:19:17.859 --> 00:19:20.319 people said that was one of the best performances 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:23.960 of that Woodstock. And, you know, they thought 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:26.000 for sure that they were going to get a lot of 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.619 big because it actually got played on MTV for 00:19:28.619 --> 00:19:31.339 that. and then nothing and it's just you know 00:19:31.339 --> 00:19:34.160 they just have a whole chronicle of history of 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:38.599 just having every opportunity and just for whatever 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.480 reason and it's like somebody once told me kings 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.400 x you either get it or you don't and there's 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.680 for whatever reason a lot of people that didn't 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:48.740 get it or they're finding out about them now 00:19:48.740 --> 00:19:51.660 and didn't realize what they were 30 something 00:19:51.660 --> 00:19:54.660 years ago i couldn't agree more and i truly wish 00:19:54.660 --> 00:19:56.859 more people got it because they're an incredible 00:19:56.859 --> 00:20:00.900 band But now following that up, I actually think 00:20:00.900 --> 00:20:04.640 I know what I'm going to go with. Because we 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.759 had Voodoo Medicine Man, which is, I don't want 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:08.579 to say it's a funky song, but the riff's got 00:20:08.579 --> 00:20:11.160 a little bit of a funky vibe to it. King's X 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.180 has a little bit of a prog feel. I wouldn't say 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:16.140 funky, but there's something going on with the 00:20:16.140 --> 00:20:18.220 bass there that I could say would lean towards 00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:21.680 funk. They are the groove machine. Yeah, so I'm 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.220 going to stick with that groove. And I'm going 00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:26.299 to go with something I think is kind of funky 00:20:26.299 --> 00:20:28.859 and definitely hard rock. but not one of the 00:20:28.859 --> 00:20:31.019 heavier songs on the album and i'm gonna go with 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:35.339 1989's the real thing and i'm gonna go with faith 00:20:35.339 --> 00:20:38.480 no more but i'm not gonna go with epic here i'm 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.019 gonna go with falling to pieces because falling 00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:46.400 to pieces has a little bit more of the musicality 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.819 that would fit in with a king's x and that voodoo 00:20:49.819 --> 00:20:51.740 medicine man song that we were talking about 00:20:51.740 --> 00:20:55.240 it's still funky but it's a little more melodic 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:58.339 and you get a little bit more of mike patton's 00:20:58.339 --> 00:21:01.039 vocals in this song he sings a little bit more 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.440 in this one than the rapping in epic which right 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.980 might lean a little too heavy into rap rock which 00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:09.599 i don't see in this hard rock playlist so far 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.759 so my track eight is faith no more falling to 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:16.380 pieces well i listen that's probably one of my 00:21:16.380 --> 00:21:19.160 favorite faith no more songs that's a really 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.039 good song that album is tremendous by the way 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.440 I mean, I still remember when they had the album 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.339 before that with We Care A Lot. I remember really 00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:28.220 being introduced to that band by that album. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.819 But they follow that up with the real thing. 00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:33.059 And it's great stuff. And that follow the pieces 00:21:33.059 --> 00:21:36.519 song is great, which really kind of I'm looking 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:38.500 at my list right now. And it's really putting 00:21:38.500 --> 00:21:41.900 me in quite a predicament right now as to how 00:21:41.900 --> 00:21:46.359 I follow that. So I guess I'll go, you know, 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:50.639 none of these bands are really considered. though 00:21:50.639 --> 00:21:53.680 there's stuff like maybe you could kind of see, 00:21:53.819 --> 00:21:57.220 I shouldn't even say proggy as much as I would 00:21:57.220 --> 00:22:00.180 say, you know, the musicianship of all these 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:03.680 bands are particularly very, very solid, especially 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:05.539 these last couple of tracks, you know, musically, 00:22:05.619 --> 00:22:07.740 we can all sit there and say, man, there's some 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:10.160 great feelings to all these songs that are out 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:16.720 there. So I'm going to go back to 1982. The band 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:20.740 Rush. from the album singles and i'm going to 00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:24.720 go with the analog kit which is the second song 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.440 after subdivisions from that album that is a 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:31.900 song where i just like i mean again we've been 00:22:31.900 --> 00:22:33.740 talking a lot about the bass players well mostly 00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:35.759 you've been talking about bass players but the 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:39.980 getty lee bass lines in that song are tremendous 00:22:39.980 --> 00:22:43.180 it's also a song because that's a song that you 00:22:43.180 --> 00:22:45.650 know that that's a a song where they really kind 00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:47.329 of get a little more heavier in some keyboard 00:22:47.329 --> 00:22:50.910 stuff, but Alex Lifeson still shines on it as 00:22:50.910 --> 00:22:52.890 a, as a guitarist. And of course, Neil Peart's 00:22:52.890 --> 00:22:56.269 amazing. And it's, and it's a quicker song. So 00:22:56.269 --> 00:22:57.950 I think we've kind of gotten into some songs 00:22:57.950 --> 00:23:00.970 where a little bit funkier, not really a faster, 00:23:01.049 --> 00:23:04.849 you know, not really a fast song per se, where 00:23:04.849 --> 00:23:07.769 the analog kid kind of comes back and even Summerland's 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:11.150 not really considered a fast song. You know, 00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:13.410 they're kind of a little bit slower or deliberate, 00:23:13.549 --> 00:23:16.630 but Analog Kid kind of picks up the pace as far 00:23:16.630 --> 00:23:18.710 as this mixtape goes. So I think we kind of went 00:23:18.710 --> 00:23:21.890 heavy, kind of slid down into this other reservoir 00:23:21.890 --> 00:23:25.390 of really good songs, but kind of entered a funk, 00:23:25.549 --> 00:23:29.430 groovy type portion. And now, you know, Analog 00:23:29.430 --> 00:23:32.170 Kid kind of gets us into a little bit more of 00:23:32.170 --> 00:23:36.690 a faster pace. So track number nine, Rush, Analog 00:23:36.690 --> 00:23:41.819 Kid. All right. Man. Well, you scooped me on 00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:45.160 Rush because I had Tom Sawyer from Moving Pictures 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.660 ready, just waiting for the right time. As long 00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:52.980 as Rush made this playlist, we're good. I mean, 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.180 really. Requirements for me would have been back, 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:56.880 especially back in the day when I'm doing these, 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:59.700 there would have to be a Rush something on there. 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.019 And a King's X. So far, I've gotten them both 00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:06.500 on side one. So that's good for me. All right. 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:08.519 Well, now I got to close the side out. And you 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:13.119 know what? We opened with such a monster song. 00:24:13.859 --> 00:24:17.440 I want to close with a monster song for this 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.859 side because this is the end of the side. So 00:24:19.859 --> 00:24:22.359 we want to make a statement. So I know you picked 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.000 the speed up a little bit, but I want to make 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.559 people headbang so slowly that it's like a slow 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.519 motion. I want fists pumping. And then I wanted 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.240 to build into that manic close. So I am going 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:40.200 to go back to 1981. And I'm going to go with 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:44.000 the title track from ACDC's For Those About to 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.200 Rock, We Salute You. The ultimate closing rock 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.019 anthem. It should close the entire tape, but 00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:55.240 I don't get to pick track 10 on side B. That's 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:59.259 your choice. So I am closing side one in an epic 00:24:59.259 --> 00:25:03.880 fashion with one of my favorite rock songs of 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.819 all time. For Those About to Rock, We Salute 00:25:06.819 --> 00:25:10.299 You. that is a tremendous song. And I could see 00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:12.900 what you might do here with this mixtape is that 00:25:12.900 --> 00:25:15.079 now that that song is now the end of side one, 00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:17.220 you know, remember they used to have the tapes. 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.059 I think Memorex used to have the tape with the 00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:21.299 stickers, with the numbers. So I could see you 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:23.680 put it, I could see you switching this as a number 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:26.140 two and a number one side, just so you can get 00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:29.500 ACDC on. See what you're doing here, Brian. It's 00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:35.059 not going to work. Nice try. Nice try. But no, 00:25:35.180 --> 00:25:37.420 it is a great song. I mean, first of all, what's 00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:39.920 not to love about acdc right we could have put 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:42.400 any acdc song in here to close this out and i 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:44.740 think it would have it would have fit in but 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:46.579 for those about the rock is a tremendous song 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:48.279 that's probably another one that's probably high 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:52.079 on my list of acdc songs so definitely a perfect 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.000 song to close the side well with that mixtapers 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.319 we've concluded side a of our 80s hard rock mixtape 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.299 which consists of metallica for whom the bell 00:26:02.299 --> 00:26:06.490 tolls guns and roses it's so easy Dio, Rainbow 00:26:06.490 --> 00:26:10.490 in the Dark, Motley Crue's Wild Side, Loudness, 00:26:10.529 --> 00:26:13.970 Crazy Nights, Aerosmith, Voodoo Medicine Man, 00:26:14.589 --> 00:26:18.250 King's X, Summerland, Faith No More, Falling 00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:22.869 to Pieces, Rush, The Analog Kid, and ACDC's For 00:26:22.869 --> 00:26:27.180 Those About to Rock, we salute you. Visit MyWeeklyMixtape 00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:29.380 .com to hear all of the songs we've discussed 00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:31.940 in this mix through the playlist embedded on 00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:35.299 the episode page. Now, before we flip our proverbial 00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:37.880 mixtape over to Side B, Jim, why don't you tell 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:40.059 listeners a little bit more about The Underrated 00:26:40.059 --> 00:26:44.240 Rock Book 2? All right. Well, in October of 2022, 00:26:44.579 --> 00:26:48.279 I released my second book, The Underrated Rock 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.750 Book 2, 200 more overlooked albums. This book, 00:26:52.809 --> 00:26:55.130 if you're familiar with book number one, basically 00:26:55.130 --> 00:26:58.309 picks up where the original underrated rock book 00:26:58.309 --> 00:27:03.170 left off. 200 artists, 200 albums, and it covers 00:27:03.170 --> 00:27:07.549 the whole gamut of all things rock. So we don't 00:27:07.549 --> 00:27:09.829 leave any stone unturned. So if you like hard 00:27:09.829 --> 00:27:11.730 rock, it's there. If you like southern rock, 00:27:11.789 --> 00:27:16.930 it's there. New wave, punk, even some more into 00:27:16.930 --> 00:27:20.410 some metal or metalcore bands. alternative rock 00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:22.849 it covers everything so if you're a fan of rock 00:27:22.849 --> 00:27:26.170 music in general all different genres and styles 00:27:26.170 --> 00:27:29.730 uh the underrated rock book two is uh for you 00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:32.109 and also if you're not familiar with original 00:27:32.109 --> 00:27:34.910 underrated rock book you can check out both books 00:27:34.910 --> 00:27:36.910 um actually they're kind of interchangeable so 00:27:36.910 --> 00:27:39.769 while i have two books uh underrated rock book 00:27:39.769 --> 00:27:42.549 two I know Brian had made a joke earlier today, 00:27:42.730 --> 00:27:45.210 but about, you know, whether the other one was 00:27:45.210 --> 00:27:48.150 underrated rock book one, but you know, there's 00:27:48.150 --> 00:27:50.569 a reason why the underrated rock book two is 00:27:50.569 --> 00:27:53.150 T -O -O and number two, because they really could 00:27:53.150 --> 00:27:55.710 be interchangeable. You can read underrated rock 00:27:55.710 --> 00:27:59.029 book two first and then go back to the original 00:27:59.029 --> 00:28:00.930 book and you're not really losing anything. We 00:28:00.930 --> 00:28:03.450 don't really rank anything one to 200 and this 00:28:03.450 --> 00:28:07.349 one's not 201 to 400. So you can go in and find 00:28:07.349 --> 00:28:10.109 your favorite artists or discover new ones. And 00:28:10.109 --> 00:28:13.029 it's a good conversation piece that you can share 00:28:13.029 --> 00:28:16.009 with your friends or any other music lovers that 00:28:16.009 --> 00:28:18.369 you have, you know, that you know and your family 00:28:18.369 --> 00:28:20.450 and so on. For more information, you can check 00:28:20.450 --> 00:28:24.170 out underratedrockbook .com. The book is available 00:28:24.170 --> 00:28:27.970 on Amazon in paperback, also in Kindle. And then 00:28:27.970 --> 00:28:30.029 there's also other sites like Barnes & Noble 00:28:30.029 --> 00:28:32.829 where you can get it in the e -book variety. 00:28:33.150 --> 00:28:35.410 And also, if you go to the website, there's other 00:28:35.410 --> 00:28:37.490 places you can pick it up. Smashwords is one 00:28:37.490 --> 00:28:39.750 of the locations as well. If you want to get 00:28:39.750 --> 00:28:42.970 the ebook as opposed to the paperback. And if 00:28:42.970 --> 00:28:44.829 you like what you, you know, or if you want to 00:28:44.829 --> 00:28:47.170 comment about it, you can always send information 00:28:47.170 --> 00:28:50.970 to me at contact at underratedrockbook .com. 00:28:51.069 --> 00:28:53.269 Always love to hear what people think of the 00:28:53.269 --> 00:28:56.309 book. And also if you have suggestions for a 00:28:56.309 --> 00:28:58.470 underrated rock book three, which I'm not saying 00:28:58.470 --> 00:29:01.049 is going to happen or not, but you never know. 00:29:01.210 --> 00:29:04.009 So we'll just kind of leave it, leave it at that. 00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:06.710 So having read both books, I could definitely 00:29:06.710 --> 00:29:10.690 say for the. rock fan in your life whether it's 00:29:10.690 --> 00:29:12.470 you or somebody in your family this is definitely 00:29:12.470 --> 00:29:15.390 both books are worth picking up now we've flipped 00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:18.210 over side two and i'm hitting record and i get 00:29:18.210 --> 00:29:21.670 to run with track one tonight and i'm actually 00:29:21.670 --> 00:29:24.569 gonna double dip for the first time on my weekly 00:29:24.569 --> 00:29:26.410 mixtape and i know we're really early in the 00:29:26.410 --> 00:29:29.789 show it just so happens that a song that i picked 00:29:29.789 --> 00:29:32.569 on episode one which was the greatest opening 00:29:32.569 --> 00:29:36.750 guitar riffs also fits perfectly in 80s hard 00:29:36.750 --> 00:29:40.319 rock And I think there's no denying when I talk 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:43.380 about this song, the logic behind including it 00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:47.000 and the logic of kicking off aside with it, because 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:50.640 it is the opening track on 1998's Vivid. I'm 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.279 going with Living Color, Cult of Personality. 00:29:54.019 --> 00:29:59.099 Vernon Reed, using the word again, is the most 00:29:59.099 --> 00:30:02.519 underrated guitarist of that decade. And maybe. 00:30:03.130 --> 00:30:05.470 one of the most underrated guitarists of all 00:30:05.470 --> 00:30:09.329 time. How he is not included in top guitarist 00:30:09.329 --> 00:30:12.069 conversations just blows my mind. He is an absolute 00:30:12.069 --> 00:30:15.970 living legend. The riff is such a monster. It 00:30:15.970 --> 00:30:21.130 crushes you in 2023 as much as it did in 1988. 00:30:21.470 --> 00:30:24.690 So my track one, Living Color, cult of personality. 00:30:25.410 --> 00:30:28.750 Yeah, I mean, that is a, for a band, many may 00:30:28.750 --> 00:30:32.859 consider Living Color a one -hit wonder. And 00:30:32.859 --> 00:30:36.380 if so, I mean, give or take, but if anybody was 00:30:36.380 --> 00:30:38.920 to know this band, that's the song they know. 00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:42.799 And that song is such a iconic song and it's 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:46.900 just a blast. That whole Vernon Reed, Corey Glover, 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:50.500 like the vocals and stuff like it's just so impressive. 00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:52.759 I remember that came out in college and I remember 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.190 the interesting thing about that song. was that 00:30:56.190 --> 00:30:59.549 it got played on college radio charts for months 00:30:59.549 --> 00:31:02.289 and months before it really kind of took off 00:31:02.289 --> 00:31:06.049 on MTV and then, you know, kind of became a more 00:31:06.049 --> 00:31:08.490 of a massive song. But it really, really took 00:31:08.490 --> 00:31:11.569 a long time for it to get the push. But, you 00:31:11.569 --> 00:31:13.430 know, once it got the push, it's become a song 00:31:13.430 --> 00:31:15.650 that people know as soon as you hear that opening 00:31:15.650 --> 00:31:19.009 guitar riff or even the opening with the talking 00:31:19.009 --> 00:31:21.150 parts there at the beginning. Right. And then 00:31:21.150 --> 00:31:23.750 then the guitar parts like people already identify 00:31:23.750 --> 00:31:27.079 what song that is. But yeah, tremendous song 00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:31.200 to start us on side two, which really puts me 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:33.380 in a predicament of what I'm going to go with 00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:37.420 here, because I don't know. I don't know. You 00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:38.980 know, definitely want to find something that 00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:43.900 fits. So I think I'm going to go with a song 00:31:43.900 --> 00:31:49.539 from 1987 from a band called The Cult. The album 00:31:49.539 --> 00:31:54.220 was Electric, and I'm going to go with Love Removal 00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:58.500 Machine. I'm looking at it from following a song 00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:01.640 like Cult of Personality. I'm looking for something 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:04.079 that still follows that hard rock tradition, 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.640 but I don't want to get too glammy. And I obviously 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:11.220 don't want to get too metallic, though Living 00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:15.839 Color kind of rides that line as far as the heaviness 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:19.200 goes. So the next best thing is to add a band 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:22.289 like the Cult. And Love Removal Machine, I think 00:32:22.289 --> 00:32:25.849 it's kind of got that ACDC stomp, which is where 00:32:25.849 --> 00:32:28.650 they were kind of edited during that time after 00:32:28.650 --> 00:32:30.690 what they did with the Love album, which was 00:32:30.690 --> 00:32:32.750 more obviously they were a new wave band. And 00:32:32.750 --> 00:32:34.769 then all of a sudden they went full on rock, 00:32:35.069 --> 00:32:37.589 which I think a great album. This is a great 00:32:37.589 --> 00:32:41.049 song. Billy Duffy is another very under the radar 00:32:41.049 --> 00:32:43.650 guitarist that definitely deserves more credit 00:32:43.650 --> 00:32:47.049 than he gets sometimes for his guitar work. But 00:32:47.049 --> 00:32:50.099 yeah, track number two. Side two, Love Removal 00:32:50.099 --> 00:32:53.319 Machine from the Colts. I'm getting scooped again. 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.359 Although I had a different Colts song chosen. 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.680 I went off of 89 Sonic Temple and I had Fire 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:03.539 Woman ready to go. But Love Removal Machine is 00:33:03.539 --> 00:33:07.039 absolutely perfect. I love that song. And I actually 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.720 know what I'm going to follow that up with. I'm 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.599 going to go all the way back to 1980. And I'm 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:14.599 going to follow this up with the opening track. 00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:17.700 from women and children first and i'm going with 00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:23.680 van halen and the cradle will rock i mean love 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:27.420 removal machine has this vibe personality has 00:33:27.420 --> 00:33:30.819 this vibe side two we're going with the swagger 00:33:30.819 --> 00:33:34.380 the hard rock swagger and and the cradle will 00:33:34.380 --> 00:33:38.299 rock has it just in droves so yes and the cradle 00:33:38.299 --> 00:33:41.079 will rock i do want to give a shout out to gomez 00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:45.089 from playlist wars And obviously the Sleevy G 00:33:45.089 --> 00:33:48.210 Show, he chimed in with Hot for Teacher. But 00:33:48.210 --> 00:33:50.309 I'm going with End the Cradle Will Rock because 00:33:50.309 --> 00:33:53.049 with these songs before it, it just seems to 00:33:53.049 --> 00:33:56.609 fit perfectly. Yeah, I actually had Van Halen 00:33:56.609 --> 00:34:00.269 on my list, but it was probably the wrong type 00:34:00.269 --> 00:34:02.569 of mixtape for the song I was picking. I was 00:34:02.569 --> 00:34:05.089 actually going to go with Summer Nights was my 00:34:05.089 --> 00:34:08.429 selection. 5150. But I think it was really depending 00:34:08.429 --> 00:34:10.429 on the theme of where this was going. I think 00:34:10.429 --> 00:34:13.260 if we did this mixtape in July. we might have 00:34:13.260 --> 00:34:15.920 a different all together theme. Oh, yeah. I was 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.320 always impressed by the 5150 album. That was 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:21.320 always my favorite track from that album and 00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.280 probably one of my favorite Van Halen tracks. 00:34:23.539 --> 00:34:26.280 I think it's just impressive. But The Cradle 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:30.679 of Rock is definitely turning in side two, starting 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:33.599 to really slam pretty hard with The Rock. This 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:36.039 is definitely something I could see cruising 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:40.099 down the road with. So with that. I got to find 00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:43.480 a song that's kind of in that same vein as what 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.900 we're already doing here. And I'm going to go 00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:51.019 with a band from Canada. We've already done Rush 00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:52.699 for Side Ones. We're going to go with another 00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:55.360 Canadian band here. I'm going to go with Triumph 00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:58.880 from the album Never Surrender. And the song 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.199 is called When the Lights Go Down. This song 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:07.099 really goes into what it's like to be on the 00:35:07.099 --> 00:35:11.139 stage, right? And the best part of this song 00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:14.079 is when we get into the Rick Emmett guitar solo, 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:16.699 he's doing a lot of stuff with the wah -wah pedals 00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:18.699 and stuff like that. And there's just stuff like 00:35:18.699 --> 00:35:20.940 in the middle of this song, he goes in there 00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:23.539 and it's like wah, wah, wah, wah. I'm like, yeah, 00:35:23.739 --> 00:35:26.039 like, you know, this is one of those songs where, 00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:29.800 you know, that happens. And then, you know, the 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.780 vocals kick back in. It's just one of those songs 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:34.260 you want to just turn up the volume on. I think 00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:37.860 it fits perfectly behind Dan Halen in this mixtape. 00:35:38.170 --> 00:35:40.849 So track number four, right? If I do my math 00:35:40.849 --> 00:35:43.789 correctly. That is correct. Triumph, When the 00:35:43.789 --> 00:35:48.670 Lights Go Down. Another underrated group. You're 00:35:48.670 --> 00:35:51.070 picking between that and loudness. Obviously, 00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:54.670 it's not just a clever name, sir. You know how 00:35:54.670 --> 00:35:57.230 to live with the underrated and I love it. Triumph 00:35:57.230 --> 00:35:59.050 is definitely one of those bands that I feel 00:35:59.050 --> 00:36:01.570 didn't get their just due. Yeah, you know, it's 00:36:01.570 --> 00:36:03.750 interesting to find out they have a documentary 00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:05.730 that's out right now. It's called Rock and Roll 00:36:05.730 --> 00:36:08.190 Machine. I just checked it out a couple of weeks 00:36:08.190 --> 00:36:10.789 ago. You know, it's very interesting that they 00:36:10.789 --> 00:36:14.090 were a fairly popular band, but they were so 00:36:14.090 --> 00:36:16.389 much a popular under the radar band that you 00:36:16.389 --> 00:36:18.989 could be like, you know, they played like the 00:36:18.989 --> 00:36:21.690 M3 Festival. They did all these different things. 00:36:21.730 --> 00:36:24.150 They had popular albums, but I don't think they 00:36:24.150 --> 00:36:28.480 were ever considered like a top tier band. though 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.400 they did everything that all the top tier bands 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.519 did in the 80s you know they kind of came in 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:34.980 in the 70s but then the 80s they had like a couple 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:37.760 stellar records but i remember this song when 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.059 i first heard it i was like oh man this song 00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:43.699 just kicks everybody's ass i mean it's just a 00:36:43.699 --> 00:36:46.440 phenomenal tune so uh but i got on the next take 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:49.579 well coming out of that i actually have a tough 00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:52.980 one so i'm gonna switch it up a little bit that 00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:56.139 goes slightly heavier but i'm gonna keep a little 00:36:56.139 --> 00:36:59.380 bit of that swagger going okay side two side 00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:02.719 one was the might and i feel like side two is 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:05.059 still got some heft but it's got a little bit 00:37:05.059 --> 00:37:08.360 more and i said it again swagger and i'm gonna 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.340 go all the way up to 1988. my favorite song from 00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:15.099 the band even though i have several that are 00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:17.679 like right there right underneath it but this 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:21.039 one just edges it out it was actually my introduction 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:23.659 to this band and i was able to go backwards and 00:37:23.659 --> 00:37:25.719 forwards with them throughout their career from 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:30.000 this song it's 1988's reach for the sky and i'm 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:36.099 going with rat way cool junior absolutely love 00:37:36.099 --> 00:37:39.860 that song it's bluesy it's got a sick groove 00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:45.070 the guitar riff is undeniable and it's one of 00:37:45.070 --> 00:37:49.030 the most memorable 80s hard rock tunes just from 00:37:49.030 --> 00:37:51.809 the fact the video the horns everything just 00:37:51.809 --> 00:37:54.969 worked and i know for rat fans it might be a 00:37:54.969 --> 00:37:57.190 little too over produced when you add in the 00:37:57.190 --> 00:38:00.150 horns and everything else but damn did it blow 00:38:00.150 --> 00:38:02.670 my mind when i heard it and i look i would not 00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:04.610 be a rat fan today if it wasn't for the song 00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:09.820 so my track five is rats way cool junior I'm 00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:12.400 hearing the shuffle, that shuffle in the song 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.780 with the little bit of guitar. But yeah, you 00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:18.039 know, you can hum. That's the kind of song that 00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:22.019 you can listen to it and you can hum along to 00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:24.599 that song. And that's a really cool choice. I 00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:28.099 did have a Rat song in my list. I had Slip of 00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:31.199 the Lip. Nice. But we're kind of going in a different 00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:34.119 direction. So it wasn't going to make the list 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:36.659 here, unfortunately. But great choice. Way Cool 00:38:36.659 --> 00:38:39.099 Junior is... And I think sometimes that song 00:38:39.099 --> 00:38:42.079 is, you know, obviously the, the round and rounds 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.519 and stuff obviously would have gotten on another 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:47.500 day, their choice, but way cool. Junior is definitely, 00:38:47.539 --> 00:38:50.000 you know, funny thing for our way. Cool. Junior 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.559 could have filled side one too, but we're going 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:54.300 a different direction here. And I, I get the 00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:56.199 little bit of that. It's almost a little swagger, 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:57.920 almost getting a little cocky here with side 00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.920 two. Definitely what we got. Well, I will say 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.940 one thing, Jim. Yes. Round and round would go 00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:07.719 perfect on your hard rock summer songs along 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.760 with Van Halen's Summer Nights that you talked 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:12.139 about earlier. It would. It would. We'll revisit 00:39:12.139 --> 00:39:15.900 that in July or something. It sounds like a plan, 00:39:16.059 --> 00:39:19.260 man. Track six, what do you got? Yeah, so track 00:39:19.260 --> 00:39:23.159 six, man, we're really rolling down through the 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.239 songs here. You know what? You know what I've 00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:29.539 noticed? So we don't have a bout. Not yet. We 00:39:29.539 --> 00:39:32.340 don't have anything to oppress the ladies. You 00:39:32.340 --> 00:39:34.019 know, we're going through this mixtape, especially 00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:36.159 we were cruising around. Some of the girls at 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:37.719 least we were cruising around like they might 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:39.380 not like all the other stuff we're doing. You 00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:41.400 know, I like the balance, you know, because it's 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.340 got that little bit of a pop edge there. I'm 00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:47.840 going to go with Dokken from the Tooth and Nail 00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.639 album. And I'm going to go with Alone Again. 00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:56.380 Yes. Listen, this is a song that it's a killer 00:39:56.380 --> 00:39:59.019 ballad. It may not have been like a top 40 type 00:39:59.019 --> 00:40:04.630 song, but. While it's a ballad, it still carries 00:40:04.630 --> 00:40:10.190 enough weight to make it a heavy rock song. You 00:40:10.190 --> 00:40:13.010 know, the docking vocals, the George Lynch guitar, 00:40:13.190 --> 00:40:15.989 especially the guitar solo that he does in this 00:40:15.989 --> 00:40:19.110 song is just killer. And I think, you know, we've 00:40:19.110 --> 00:40:20.670 gotten to this point where it's like, you know, 00:40:20.670 --> 00:40:22.590 we're just kind of smashing and breaking windows 00:40:22.590 --> 00:40:25.210 with everything. And like, I think this is about 00:40:25.210 --> 00:40:27.429 the point in this mixtape where we could go in 00:40:27.429 --> 00:40:29.889 and kind of, hey, you know what? Now's the time 00:40:29.889 --> 00:40:32.329 to kind of slow it down a little bit. You know, 00:40:32.369 --> 00:40:35.050 we're cruising by. I can see right now I'm rolling 00:40:35.050 --> 00:40:37.409 in the Burger King, you know, and a couple of 00:40:37.409 --> 00:40:39.210 girls hanging in the car. Yeah. You know, just 00:40:39.210 --> 00:40:41.449 in time for the docking song to play and then 00:40:41.449 --> 00:40:43.809 just kind of slide it into the parking lot there. 00:40:43.949 --> 00:40:46.630 But yeah, I was always a big docking fan. So 00:40:46.630 --> 00:40:49.670 I knew I had to pick my place here as far as 00:40:49.670 --> 00:40:51.789 where I was going to put that song. And I think 00:40:51.789 --> 00:40:55.230 I've achieved my success there in getting it 00:40:55.230 --> 00:40:58.599 on site, too. Yeah, it really works. That's a 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:00.900 fantastic ballad. It's one of the more under, 00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:04.199 here I say it again, underrated power ballads 00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:08.039 of the 80s because it doesn't get the limelight 00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:11.739 when you think about the Bon Jovi ballads, the 00:41:11.739 --> 00:41:15.280 Poison ballads, the Warrant ballads, Skid Row's 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.760 I Remember You. It never quite got to that level, 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:20.039 but it was just as damn good as all of them. 00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:23.900 So surprising that it didn't, but you couldn't 00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:25.480 have picked a better ballad. So what I'm going 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:30.880 to do. is follow it up half and half okay gonna 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.159 see your ballad and raise you a quarter of a 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.139 ballad but then i'm gonna bring it back into 00:41:37.139 --> 00:41:40.500 the rock again okay and that all happens in one 00:41:40.500 --> 00:41:43.659 song and normally this one might not have made 00:41:43.659 --> 00:41:45.860 the mix where we were going on side one and side 00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:48.500 two but when we want to bring people back for 00:41:48.500 --> 00:41:51.059 kind of the closing of this tape i think because 00:41:51.059 --> 00:41:53.380 if you go right from the only ballad and you 00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:55.739 kind of jerk people back with something quick 00:41:55.739 --> 00:41:59.039 or heavy or fast it might be jarring on this 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:01.940 mixtape so we're going to ease back into it and 00:42:01.940 --> 00:42:06.639 i'm going to go with 1987 the album is pride 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.840 and i'm going to go with white lion's weight 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:13.059 okay yes so you got a little bit of that ballad 00:42:13.059 --> 00:42:14.860 in the opening and then you kind of get into 00:42:14.860 --> 00:42:17.230 another rock song so we're back We're up and 00:42:17.230 --> 00:42:19.530 moving again. You got the windows down. This 00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:21.630 is the kind of song you want to cruise with the 00:42:21.630 --> 00:42:25.070 top down to. It's a definite driving song, but 00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:26.869 it's got that beautiful opening. So coming out 00:42:26.869 --> 00:42:29.389 of Alone Again, it really works, at least in 00:42:29.389 --> 00:42:32.530 this mixtape that we're making tonight. I feel 00:42:32.530 --> 00:42:35.489 it works. I totally agree. I mean, I like White 00:42:35.489 --> 00:42:38.170 Lion. I like that song. I think we would have 00:42:38.170 --> 00:42:40.030 a different issue if we said, hey, let's put 00:42:40.030 --> 00:42:44.139 When the Children Cry on here, right? But, I 00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:48.500 mean, this song fits, and I agree 100 % with 00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:50.480 you. It's not really, you know, much like the 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.940 dock in Alone Again is a ballad, but not in the 00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:55.860 sense of like we're saying, like the warrant 00:42:55.860 --> 00:42:58.320 ballads or things like that. And I think a song 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.280 like Wait kind of is a little bit more up -tempo. 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:03.039 It's not necessarily a ballad, but it's kind 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.679 of that pseudo, you know, it's a, for lack of 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.900 a better word, it's a very safe song that... 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:12.559 You can kind of just kind of in general, like, 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.159 hey, it's hard rock, but it's kind of soft. But 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.960 these guys are still killer. Like the musicianship 00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:20.880 of that band was was really good, too. So, yeah, 00:43:20.940 --> 00:43:23.480 I think that's a great choice following up right 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:26.280 after Doc. And I'm afraid if I say the word, 00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:27.980 people are going to think there's like a drinking 00:43:27.980 --> 00:43:31.800 game going on. But Vito Brada, when you talk 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.730 about guitarists of that era. What's one word 00:43:35.730 --> 00:43:37.909 you would describe him as? And I'm not just saying 00:43:37.909 --> 00:43:39.929 it to get you to plug the name of the book again, 00:43:40.030 --> 00:43:43.909 but really. He is definitely overlooked and underrated 00:43:43.909 --> 00:43:46.929 more than you could say. Like, I really think 00:43:46.929 --> 00:43:49.630 I think the band White Lion, even though that 00:43:49.630 --> 00:43:51.949 was really a popular record. I mean, there's 00:43:51.949 --> 00:43:55.449 songs like Wait and When the Children Cry, obviously, 00:43:55.469 --> 00:43:59.570 were smashes. But Vito Brada was on another planet, 00:43:59.650 --> 00:44:03.440 his guitar playing. It's a shame. He never got... 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.340 I mean, there's so many guitarists that never 00:44:06.340 --> 00:44:09.659 get their due, right? Right. And here we are 00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:12.039 talking about White Line. White Line was a great 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:14.460 band. I had heard one time years ago, they kind 00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:16.719 of got compared to Triumph, though I never really 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:20.599 heard it. Maybe later years of Triumph. But yeah, 00:44:20.659 --> 00:44:23.960 you could kind of hear a little bit of that in 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:26.340 some of their songs. But I think they were definitely 00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:29.219 more melodic than Triumph was. Yeah, I would 00:44:29.219 --> 00:44:32.119 agree with that. So coming out of that, track 00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:35.719 eight. So track eight, and I could go one of 00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:39.659 two ways. I could go definitely, well, I think 00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:41.699 we've kind of killed the ballad thing now, kind 00:44:41.699 --> 00:44:43.880 of raising the bar. Like we've kind of sloped 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.260 it down there. We're kind of coming up. So I 00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:48.920 need to kind of find a song in here that's going 00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:52.380 to back up White Lion's weight. And I think I 00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:55.599 got the song here. I'm going to go with the band 00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:58.360 Cheap Trick. And the song is Tonight It's You. 00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:02.920 Nice. And I think when we're segueing back into 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:06.380 this, that's a song that I think it's very much 00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:09.920 like the song Wait. I mean, it's a rock song. 00:45:10.340 --> 00:45:12.780 It's kind of a hard rock song. Their cheap trick 00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:15.380 has always been kind of all over the place musically. 00:45:15.619 --> 00:45:18.199 But I think you can fit them in as a hard rock 00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:22.019 band. And this is one of their strongest songs. 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:24.760 And I think, you know, going into the 80s, especially 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:27.880 when they go to like the next album and where 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.139 it's going to be. Where they kind of continue 00:45:30.139 --> 00:45:31.920 on that or not the next album, the next album 00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.719 after that. But as far as this mixtape goes, 00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:38.699 I think we've really started to build back up 00:45:38.699 --> 00:45:42.480 how we're going to finish this side. And I think 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:44.820 Cheap Trick follows up the White Lion, which 00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:47.480 follows up the Doc and very nicely in this tape. 00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:51.199 I had Cheap Trick on my list, Jim, although I 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.900 had chosen from 82's One on One. I went with 00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:57.219 She's Tight. because in my mind that riff is 00:45:57.219 --> 00:46:00.860 iconic steel panther covered it obviously talk 00:46:00.860 --> 00:46:04.480 dirty to me in one way shape or form rip the 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.539 riff off maybe yes yes i mean like i when i first 00:46:07.539 --> 00:46:09.159 heard talk dirt in me i'm like wow they're doing 00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:11.960 cheap trick and then yeah it was a totally different 00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:16.039 song and i like them both but it was really close 00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:18.139 like one of those ones that really makes you 00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:21.460 raise your eyebrow yeah i love the pick for tonight 00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:27.000 it's you and it's damn near impossible to pick 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.639 because this is now my last song but we've upped 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:34.300 the energy again and we've upped kind of the 00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:36.780 power coming out of docking into white lion and 00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:39.900 now cheap trick one thing our list is missing 00:46:39.900 --> 00:46:43.179 though i feel like we need to bring in some female 00:46:43.179 --> 00:46:45.340 power to this list and i want to do that for 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:48.940 my last track i really feel like we need that 00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:52.159 touch on this mix and i'm going to go to 1988's 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.940 lita And I'm going to go with Lita Ford, Kiss 00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:59.119 Me Deadly. Massive hit. Obviously, I could have 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:01.019 went with Close Your Eyes Forever, which was 00:47:01.019 --> 00:47:03.260 with Ozzy Osbourne, but that's a real downer. 00:47:03.260 --> 00:47:05.380 And I'm not feeling that coming out of Cheap 00:47:05.380 --> 00:47:09.320 Trick. But Kiss Me Deadly is one where Dokken 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:11.920 was, you said, one for the ladies. Wait was definitely 00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:16.199 a pop song. I remember hearing it on Z100. Tonight, 00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:18.340 it's you, Cheap Trick. While they are hard rock, 00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:20.780 they've always had that pop element to them. 00:47:21.130 --> 00:47:24.510 And I feel like kiss me deadly is a little bit 00:47:24.510 --> 00:47:29.329 more leaning pop, but man, that album introduced 00:47:29.329 --> 00:47:32.210 me to some female rock singers, because at that 00:47:32.210 --> 00:47:35.530 point MTV was pretty much clouded with all men 00:47:35.530 --> 00:47:38.869 rock bands. So her cutting through and Joan Jets, 00:47:38.869 --> 00:47:40.889 I hate myself for loving you cutting through. 00:47:41.090 --> 00:47:43.510 They were kind of the only shining lights on 00:47:43.510 --> 00:47:47.199 MTV at that time. So I feel like. These songs 00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:50.500 need a spotlight in this mix. And somehow, coming 00:47:50.500 --> 00:47:53.119 at a cheap trick, I just think Kiss Me Deadly 00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:56.440 for track nine works pretty well. Yeah, I mean, 00:47:56.539 --> 00:47:59.940 I'll admit it. I'm not the biggest fan of this 00:47:59.940 --> 00:48:04.260 song, but I do respect the place that we have 00:48:04.260 --> 00:48:07.559 it on this mixtape. And also, remember, by the 00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.519 time we got to the docking, we already pulled 00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:12.880 into the Burger King. And we're hanging out. 00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:15.380 And so now these songs are all kind of playing 00:48:15.380 --> 00:48:17.380 and they're kind of the, you know, they're kind 00:48:17.380 --> 00:48:19.599 of the safe bet here where we're hanging out, 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.000 like, you know, before we go back and, you know, 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:26.079 terrorize the town later on. Right. So it's a 00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:28.920 good song. I think it fits. It kind of goes right 00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.980 in, you know, after the cheap trick and everything 00:48:30.980 --> 00:48:33.760 else that we've done so far. So solid number 00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:37.619 nine there, which I guess brings us to the last 00:48:37.619 --> 00:48:42.869 track on this mixtape. Yes. I too, and I got 00:48:42.869 --> 00:48:46.389 stuff on my list where it's like, can't go there. 00:48:47.349 --> 00:48:52.090 I'm thinking we have to start kicking the door 00:48:52.090 --> 00:48:55.829 down one last song and just kick everything down. 00:48:55.989 --> 00:48:57.849 We're going to terrorize again because the tape's 00:48:57.849 --> 00:48:59.269 going to flip over. We're going to go right back 00:48:59.269 --> 00:49:03.010 to the side one and play the stuff again, unless 00:49:03.010 --> 00:49:04.610 there's another mixtape that's out there that 00:49:04.610 --> 00:49:07.070 we can make this into, right? We may only have 00:49:07.070 --> 00:49:12.030 one mixtape. So I am going to go. with twisted 00:49:12.030 --> 00:49:17.130 sister to close out this mixtape and the song 00:49:17.130 --> 00:49:20.369 is shoot them down oh this is like one of those 00:49:20.369 --> 00:49:23.630 ones i just was looking at this song and saying 00:49:23.630 --> 00:49:28.090 you know what this is a good throw down song 00:49:28.090 --> 00:49:31.829 that if i'm if i'm putting a mixtape together 00:49:31.829 --> 00:49:35.030 and i want to close it out I've kind of played 00:49:35.030 --> 00:49:37.550 some songs that are kind of nice. And then I 00:49:37.550 --> 00:49:39.849 want to get right back into the roar. I want 00:49:39.849 --> 00:49:42.809 to get back into that insanity that was Twisted 00:49:42.809 --> 00:49:46.789 Sister and how this song is just in your face. 00:49:47.150 --> 00:49:49.670 And it's got a lot of attitude. We had a lot 00:49:49.670 --> 00:49:52.849 of swagger at the beginning of this. So one more 00:49:52.849 --> 00:49:56.230 song that kind of brings that swagger back before 00:49:56.230 --> 00:49:58.809 it clicks over and goes back to side one. So 00:49:58.809 --> 00:50:02.429 Twisted Sister to close side two with Shoot Em 00:50:02.429 --> 00:50:06.619 Down. Man, I love it. I did have Twisted Sister 00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:10.159 on my list as well, but I had from 84's Stay 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.980 Hungry, I Wanna Rock. That one for me was just 00:50:14.980 --> 00:50:19.239 one of those songs as a kid that I absolutely 00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:23.019 adored. And growing up, it always stayed with 00:50:23.019 --> 00:50:26.300 me. It was cool in college. Dee Snider is one 00:50:26.300 --> 00:50:30.000 of a kind, an absolute legend. And this song, 00:50:30.099 --> 00:50:33.679 come on. I mean, even SpongeBob. yes we did it 00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.920 as the gooby goober rock song like i mean come 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.199 on how could you not love it twisted sister is 00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:43.840 such an iconic band great way to close it twisted 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:46.159 sister i feel like stays in that little bit of 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:50.019 a mainstreamy kind of end we had there and we 00:50:50.019 --> 00:50:52.539 really covered an amazing spectrum here going 00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:56.219 back through side b we had living colors cult 00:50:56.219 --> 00:50:59.500 of personality the cult love removal machine 00:50:59.500 --> 00:51:03.400 van halen and the cradle will rock Triumph, When 00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:07.539 the Lights Go Down, Rat, Way Cool Junior, Dokken, 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:11.280 Alone Again, White Lions, Wait, Cheap Trick, 00:51:11.500 --> 00:51:14.599 Tonight It's You, Lita Ford, Kiss Me Deadly, 00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:19.699 and Twisted Sister, Shoot Em Down. Visit myweeklymixtape 00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:22.539 .com to hear all the songs we've discussed on 00:51:22.539 --> 00:51:25.619 both sides of this mix through the playlist we've 00:51:25.619 --> 00:51:29.059 embedded on the episode page. Jim, now before 00:51:29.059 --> 00:51:32.780 we eject this amazing... 80s hard rock mixtape, 00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:36.000 which I will say we don't see each other's songs 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.960 before we record. We put together what I think 00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:43.300 is a top notch mixtape. And the beauty of this 00:51:43.300 --> 00:51:48.260 is there's always room for a volume two. There 00:51:48.260 --> 00:51:50.460 is. And you know what? It's funny because I'm 00:51:50.460 --> 00:51:52.300 looking at my list and I've crossed out all the 00:51:52.300 --> 00:51:54.599 ones that we've either mentioned or, you know, 00:51:54.619 --> 00:51:56.920 bands that were taken away. I mean, I'm still 00:51:56.920 --> 00:52:00.619 sitting on seven songs. So it's like, wow, I 00:52:00.619 --> 00:52:03.019 wish I would have had space to put those seven 00:52:03.019 --> 00:52:05.719 songs on somewhere, anywhere. But yeah, you're 00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:07.719 absolutely right. There's probably plenty of 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.320 room to get a second tape together and then roll 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:13.599 out even the rest of these songs. So, but yeah, 00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:15.860 definitely happy with the choices that we put 00:52:15.860 --> 00:52:18.360 on here. A lot of fun putting these things together. 00:52:18.500 --> 00:52:21.860 It brings back a lot of memories of doing it 00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:23.780 back in the day. You know, it's too simple to 00:52:23.780 --> 00:52:25.559 do it now. Well, I don't know, I guess. if you 00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:28.059 counted spotify playlists and stuff like that 00:52:28.059 --> 00:52:29.780 where you can make your own stuff i guess that 00:52:29.780 --> 00:52:32.800 kind of works out too so yeah it does but you 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:35.079 don't get that feeling of accomplishment when 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.000 you drag the songs i still curate my playlists 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.559 they're not meant to be played on random they're 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:42.820 meant to be played in order from start to finish 00:52:42.820 --> 00:52:46.159 start to finish yeah yeah but i just feel like 00:52:46.159 --> 00:52:48.400 the feeling of accomplishment when you finish 00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:51.099 dragging your 20 songs over just isn't the same 00:52:51.099 --> 00:52:54.750 i agree i agree Well, before we eject our final 00:52:54.750 --> 00:52:56.789 mixtape, Jim, why don't you tell people once 00:52:56.789 --> 00:52:59.469 again, where they can pick up a copy of the underrated 00:52:59.469 --> 00:53:02.590 rock book two, as well as part one while they're 00:53:02.590 --> 00:53:05.909 at it. 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