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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me tonight, once again, as guest curator

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is my former Tunestiles co -host, Jay Sweet.

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Jay, welcome back, man. Hey, man. Good to be

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here. Never a dull moment. That it's not. And

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tonight, we're going visual. Now, not really.

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It's still an audio -only podcast. I'm not changing

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that. That's too much work. But tonight you and

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I are going to take on a challenge that we haven't

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done in many years. We did this once back in

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our Tunestiles days and it was a lot of fun.

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So I figured why not revisit that with a couple

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of more years of hindsight on our ends here.

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And that is talking about iconic album covers.

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So you, I like to use you as like a guinea pig

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for some of these episode ideas because it's

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very tough. To describe album covers without

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the visual on screen. Right. And now you and

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I are going to have to do that back and forth

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20 times in a row. Well, I think you made it

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easy, though, because we're talking about, you

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know, easily recognizable album covers. Right.

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We've got a list of literally 100. So, you know,

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you could go in any direction. But these are

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from where I pulled from. You wouldn't have to

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describe them. The minute we announce what title

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we're going to go with, for me, what title I

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want to pick, you will automatically see that

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vision in your head. I hope so. But just to be

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safe, I'm going to put all the album covers we're

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talking about tonight in a gallery on the episode

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page at myweeklymixtape .com so you could watch

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the album covers. They're not going to do anything.

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They're just going to be photos of them. But

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you could look at them while we're talking about

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them. It's as close to video as you're going

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to get, people. So I hope you enjoy it as we

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go down this memory lane of iconic album covers

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that we have collectively spent, I'm just going

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to assume, hours and hours staring at growing

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up, be it on album cover, cassette, or possibly

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CD. I know some of mine were CD only, sans some

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of the vinyl re -releases that have happened

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in recent years. But wait, there's a twist. Jay,

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it might be fun for us to rattle off 20 album

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covers and talk about why we like them, and we're

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going to do that. But this is My Weekly Mixtape.

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And in true My Weekly Mixtape fashion, there

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has to be a playlist to attach to it. So, Jay,

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I'm just going to lay this on you now. This is

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the first time you're hearing this. As we go

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through this, you're going to have to pick one

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song from each album. So we could build a playlist

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to go along with these album covers. M. Night

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Shyamalan is in shock. What a twist. Well, given

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the fact we're talking album art over songs here,

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this playlist can either strangely make sense

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or be an absolute train wreck, which if it is

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a train wreck, you won't actually be able to

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see it because it's not video. So. But Jay, it

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would not be a full My Weekly Mixtape conversation

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if we did not include the fellow mixtapers and

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several over on the Patreon mixtaper channel,

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which is patreon .com forward slash My Weekly

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Mixtape chimed in with some of their favorite

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album covers. And I want to give a shout out

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to a few of those. Seeker chimed in from Australia

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saying album covers for many rock and metal bands

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sell the brand as much as the aesthetic of the

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album. I couldn't agree with that more. No more

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so than Iron Maiden, Derek Rigg, and Eddie. As

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to my favorite album cover, it comes down to

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Iron Maiden's Power Slave, Live After Death,

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or Somewhere in Time. Seeker calls it Peak Riggs.

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Why? Well, the Power Slave is majestic, Egyptian,

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and monumental. Live After Death is a dynamic

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representation of their live show. And Somewhere

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in Time is chock full of Maiden -related Easter

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eggs. Having just seen the Future Past World

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Tour this past year, I have to say that Somewhere

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in Time album cover is truly full of Maiden Easter

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eggs, and it's a hell of an album. Philip Bergman

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chimed in with The Beatles' Revolver. Chad LaMassa

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chimed in with Living Colors' Vivid, saying it's

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colorful and hectic and matches the vibe of the

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album perfectly. And finally, Tom Hutchinson

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chimed in with Baroness, the blue record. saying

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all Baroness album art is drawn by the lead singer,

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John, and the artwork for all their albums is

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incredible and so detailed. But the Blue album

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has so many elements and is a conversation piece,

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as well as one of the best stoner rock albums

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of all time, in his opinion. So thank you to

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all the fellow Patreon mixtapers for chiming

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in. And if you'd like to become a part of the

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mixtaper community, you can join for free over

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at patreon .com forward slash my weekly mixtape.

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So Jay, with those Patreon picks out in the atmosphere,

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as Olivia Newton -John would say, let's get visual

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or something like that. Which album cover are

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you choosing to kick things off tonight? We're

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going off with a bang. I'm going with Queen's

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News of the World. Nice. I think that's the perfect

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way to start this off. One of the most iconic

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Queen albums covers, as it were, because of the,

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you know, you've got the giant robot and it's

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holding so many pop culture references because

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even Family Guy took a whole stab at it when

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Stewie was terrified of the album cover. And

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at the end, the giant robot saves the family.

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It's great. But yeah, from where I was coming

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from. when we set out on this project, my thinking

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is, if I say the name of the album, you should

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immediately see that picture in your head. And

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Queen had no shortage of iconic album covers.

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Even the simplicity of A Night at the Opera jumps

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out at me. And then you think about even the

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iconic inside of jazz with the naked women riding

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the bikes. They had no rules or boundaries when

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it came to what they did. For me, I had in my

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bank of album covers. queen two with their four

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faces on the album cover because to me that's

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an iconic image that kind of got portrayed into

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the album but news of the world is certainly

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one of those album covers that i spent a lot

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of time as a kid staring at because it felt almost

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comic book -esque outside of the music being

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absolutely incredible and with that is my follow

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-up you have to pick As our friend Jason Whistle

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over on, there can only be one. You have to pick

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one song from this album to represent it for

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this playlist tonight. You know what? I could

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go with We Will Rock You because it's a great

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album opener. As you've done on this show in

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the past, we've done it on TuneStyles. Fantastic

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opening track. And it's a great way to, it's

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good symbolism to how we're going to open this

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mixtape. But you know what? I'm going to go with

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spread your wings. Wow. Because it kind of gives

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you an idea of where we're going to go on this.

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We're just opening up. Spread your wings. Get

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ready to fly. All right. Well, I think musically,

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I'm going to stay in a similar vein to Queen

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to follow this up because I'm thinking album

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art covers that are iconic. But now we're also

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thinking a mixtape here. So I got to come out

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of queen with something that doesn't left turn

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too much here, but again, captures one of the

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greatest album covers of all time. So, all right.

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I know who I'm going to go with. I just don't

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know the album yet because this person had so

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many iconic album covers off the top of my head.

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Heroes could easily go here. Ziggy Stardust could

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easily go here. But when I think about David

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Bowie, it's tough. I think the most iconic album

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cover for him, and this could be argued because

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he has so many iconic album moments, cover art

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alone. Let's take the music aside here. I'm going

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to go with the follow -up to Ziggy Stardust and

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Aladdin Sane. All right. The androgynous David

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Bowie. That image, just that photo at the time

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was the most expensive album art ever created.

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Yep. Try to wrap your mind around that. And that

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was shot by Brian Duffy. And it is literally

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just Bowie with the red hair and that red and

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blue lightning bolt. And it's been used in Bowie

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concerts over the years, but it's not like it's

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something that he. kind of used all the time

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over the decades. It's just that album cover.

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But for some reason, when people think of David

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Bowie, that's the first image they go to. So

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I think for this episode, that has to be the

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one. Although personally, the album cover I grew

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up staring at the most was Diamond Dogs. I was

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going to say that album was the one my parents

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happened to be playing the most when I was younger.

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So Rebel Rebel and stuff like that. But. At the

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end of the day, Aladdin Sane has to take it here.

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And for songs, I think I'll go with the Gene

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Genie for this one. All right. Good choice coming

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out of Spread Your Wings. Very good. Yeah. Ziggy

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Stardust and that whole persona. Bowie had a

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great habit and propensity to kind of reinvent

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personas for every album that he did. And it

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just spoke volumes, often eclipsing some of the

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music in terms of how it... resonated with his

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listeners, with his fans. So great choice. I

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had it on my list for sure. And The Gene Genie

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is a great tune. So how do I come out of David

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Bowie? Let's stay with the classic rock for now.

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I got a lot of classic rock because they were,

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I mean, you're talking the invention of album

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art, right? And how to sell your records. I feel

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like a lot of the classic rock Album covers are

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going to be at the top of this conversation because

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at the time, when you think about this from a

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marketing perspective, album covers, when people

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were in a record store, were sometimes their

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introduction to that artist's music. That's right.

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So when you think about Queen's News of the World

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and David Bowie's Aladdin Sane, these album covers,

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people saw them. And if you think about the music

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that's on each of those albums, doesn't the cover?

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kind of tell you what you're about to hear and

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maybe not a perfect color by numbers way but

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there is a representation of the music in those

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album covers at least from my humble opinion

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i think so too and i think that's why a show

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like this works so well why this concept works

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so well is because it it pulls back your core

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memory unlocked you know mentality of being young

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and being introduced to music walking into your

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local record store for the first time and seeing

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walls of album art and posters and when you look

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at a cassette and this is kind of where the side

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of a tangent but this is kind of where the formats

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of the media came into play because you know

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back when we were younger when we were kids the

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album art was on the 33s on the albums you couldn't

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really see the cassettes you know you see the

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spines of the cassettes or the cds and For a

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little while, I think that worked for CDs because

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of the long boxes, right? Oh, yeah. Back before

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we got environmentally conscious. Yes. We're

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wasting, killing trees and wasting cardboard.

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But again, iconic art cover, you know, for long

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boxes on CDs, they weren't exactly the most,

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like you can't rifle through them and see. They're

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harder to post on a wall like an album would

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be, like a vinyl record. I think the worst offender

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of those were the cassettes in the 80s where

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they took the album cover, but they squared it

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off at the top. And then the bottom half of the

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cassette J card was just black with the name

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of the artist and the name of the album. Those

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were my least favorite art aspect of any type

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of format ever because it was so tiny and you

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could barely, you had to kind of stare at it

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as if we are looking at anything now, kind of

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holding it right up close and pulling it back

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a little bit. You know, a little blurry as we're

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getting where we are in age. But I digress. Next

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album pick. Let's go with Pink Floyd. We'll nail

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this one off the top as well and go with Dark

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Side of the Moon, of course. Of course. The probably

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most, arguably most iconic. I also could have

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gone with Wish You Were Here and The Wall, of

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course. Very iconic in and of itself. But I think

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when one is describing or introducing a new listener

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to Pink Floyd, one begins with Dark Side of the

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Moon. One of the most iconic prisms of all time.

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I guess. Yeah. Beside the one that was in my

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physics class, right? Yes. That was the whole

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thing about being in physics class that made

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it fun was that my teacher would, you know, Pink

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Floyd, here's why. Here's how that works. Oh,

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cool. And the song from it that you're choosing?

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Oh, for a song. Let's see. Coming out of the

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Gene Genie. I'm going great gig in the sky. Ooh.

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With that gorgeous vocal over the top. the screaming.

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Unbelievable. I don't think anybody our age whose

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parents grew up listening to classic rock. I

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have to add that because there's, I'm sure there's

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some listeners whose parents grew up listening

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to country music. But for those of us that are

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our age that had parents that were in the classic

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rock, my parents had dark side on a track. And.

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there was something about eight tracks that were

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just so, so terrible. I hated eight tracks so

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much. You'd be in the middle of a great song

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and it would just stop and you'd have to wait,

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hear the click, wait for it to start up again.

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And it would like fade back in totally killing

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the vibe. But anyway, dark side of the moon is

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definitely one of those album covers that is

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probably been framed more than any other one.

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There's posters of this album cover and it's

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such a simplistic concept. But its execution

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is perfect. And it really does say what you're

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about to hear. It makes perfect sense. So obviously

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Pink Floyd is on the nose pick. And Queen and

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David Bowie are obvious classic rock staples.

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So I'm going to stay in this classic rock vibe

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we've got going here. And I'm going to go with

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another band who once again has no shortage of...

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iconic album covers physical graffiti houses

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of the holy four three if you think about the

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album cover because you could spin the wheel

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on the album so that was pretty cool my favorite

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led zeppelin album was two but when it comes

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to album art i think you have to acknowledge

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where it all began the original album art which

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was the black and white image of the Hindenburg

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taken by Sam Shear back in the 1930s. And it

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happened in New Jersey. So, I mean, it's like

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local album art, local setting. It's tough, especially

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with that physical graffiti album cover, because

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every time I go to New York, I kind of want to

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go visit that building. And that one is another

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one I spent so many hours staring at. And then

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the house is the holy is. So controversial at

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the time. Yep. And it was one of those album

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covers that went into full landscape mode when

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you open the album. So it wasn't just a square.

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It was actually a rectangular piece of art. Yes.

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But at the end of the day, Led Zeppelin one,

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I think edges out those albums just by a touch.

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And probably because along with Led Zeppelin

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two was. The album I listened to most as a kid,

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but for the song, great gig in the sky. We just

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came out of babe. I'm going to leave you. Beautiful.

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Beautiful. Zeppelin is, uh, this album. I think

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I agree with a lot of what you said as to why

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it edges out all the other Zeppelin covers. And

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mostly it's one. This is our introduction to

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Zeppelin. period is the coming out in the in

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the summer of love kind of you know post woodstock

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extra like real blues rocky different kind of

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like introduction as to where we're where we're

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going to go with this particular band and this

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is kind of you know that's how my how my voice

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got real high there this is kind of no this is

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um this is a one of those very blues very very

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heavy sludgy blues kind of good times bad times

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dazed and confused real kind of sludgy blues

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rock and then they kind of morph into that in

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the rooms where they did a lot of uh like hobbit

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imagery and jr tolkien and but maintain that

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beautiful sound and the shock value i think to

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tie it all back together of that album cover

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is what kind of drives it to all right yeah this

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is what started it all this is our introduction

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to the band and they use that that iconic oh

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the humanity moment to kind of launch their career

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which is not throwing any shade on on the guys

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or on the on the tragedy of that event but it

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really kind of you know pulls you into it for

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sure all right what are we going to follow up

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this four pack of classic rock perfection Well,

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let's stay in England, and we'll go with The

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Who. And again, here's another pick an album.

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You could go any direction with this. But I'm

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going to go with Who's Next because of the controversy.

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I think it's extremely recognizable with the

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boys taking a pee on a monolithic piece of rock.

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And again, just a solid album from track one

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to track nine. Some of their hardest rocking

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tunes on this album for sure. And with that,

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which one are you going to pick for this playlist?

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I want to go with behind blue eyes. Oh, I love

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that song. It is a great acoustic start. And

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then he gets into that bridge section where they're

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just rocking out and picked up by Fred Durst

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a few, a few years later. And I'm not a big Limp

00:19:32.990 --> 00:19:36.390
Bizkit fan. I wasn't really a huge fan of Fred

00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:39.089
Durst and Limp Bizkit. But I really think that

00:19:39.089 --> 00:19:42.829
he did the cover version of this song, Justice.

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So I'll give him some credit there. Give credit

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where credit is due. And yeah, I think that's

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a great song coming out of Babe, I'm Gonna Leave

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You. Look, I love Limp Bizkit. And some of the

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West Borland -inspired album covers that they've

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done over the years, I think are... in a modern

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way, iconic, because I spent so much time when

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I was in college and just graduating, listening

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to those new metal albums that were all the rage

00:20:09.809 --> 00:20:12.470
at that point in time. But when you get it back

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to The Who, man, you could have went with anything

00:20:14.930 --> 00:20:17.609
on this. Won't Get Fooled Again was an obvious

00:20:17.609 --> 00:20:20.869
pick. Baba O 'Reilly, for me, we talked about

00:20:20.869 --> 00:20:23.990
this on Spellbinding Songs. This song always

00:20:23.990 --> 00:20:26.420
leaves me with my jaw on the ground. But I mean,

00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.420
realistically, this album is so stacked, you

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could have picked any song and I would have went,

00:20:29.940 --> 00:20:32.819
yeah, that works. But Behind Blue Eyes is an

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undeniable staple. I won't say Limp Bizkit's

00:20:36.019 --> 00:20:39.299
is better than The Who. It's certainly not in

00:20:39.299 --> 00:20:42.759
any way, shape or form. But it introduced a lot

00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.599
of people that were our age that didn't listen

00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:49.700
to classic rock to The Who from Limp Bizkit's

00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:53.069
version. So I do. think that these covers that

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happened decades later, where it puts a spotlight

00:20:55.869 --> 00:20:58.809
back on the original song that we all grew up

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loving or that a lot of people grew up loving,

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I think is a great thing. Yeah, definitely. And

00:21:03.910 --> 00:21:08.029
following that up, I feel like it'd be silly

00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:11.309
to pivot out of classic rock. Maybe we just continue

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and make side one all classic rock and then take

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side B elsewhere. So with that said. So many

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options here. All right. All right. When my mom

00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:30.500
was pregnant with me, she talked about listening

00:21:30.500 --> 00:21:36.200
to an album every day during her pregnancy. And

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that album was one that for some reason I took

00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:44.160
a liking to when I was on this side of the universe

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and growing up. And I spent a lot of time. Looking

00:21:48.809 --> 00:21:51.890
at this album cover and I was mesmerized by the

00:21:51.890 --> 00:21:57.950
beauty of Stevie Nicks and the arrogance of Mick

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Fleetwood. If you'd call it hubris. Yeah, maybe

00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:05.710
it's proud of himself. Let's go with rumors.

00:22:06.089 --> 00:22:09.950
All right. I mean, the album is an absolute masterpiece.

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We learned that it was a masterpiece again in

00:22:13.450 --> 00:22:15.829
the nineties when they came back, that album

00:22:15.829 --> 00:22:18.930
exploded. And then everyone went back and realized

00:22:18.930 --> 00:22:22.029
how amazing rumors was. You had that nineties

00:22:22.029 --> 00:22:24.930
tribute to rumors that included sister Hazel

00:22:24.930 --> 00:22:27.470
and the cranberries and Elton John was called

00:22:27.470 --> 00:22:30.390
legacy, incredible tribute album. This album

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to me is literally ingrained in my DNA. My mom

00:22:35.059 --> 00:22:37.339
listened to this every night when she was pregnant

00:22:37.339 --> 00:22:39.980
with me. And to this day, I still there's not

00:22:39.980 --> 00:22:42.980
a song on it. I don't love. It's one of my favorite

00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:45.160
albums of all time. And that's what I was going

00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:47.579
to ask. You consider this a perfect album? Oh,

00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:51.019
God. Yeah, absolutely. Perfect. I mean, yeah.

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OK, if I was going to deduct half a point, it

00:22:56.339 --> 00:22:58.759
would be that Silver Springs wasn't on the original

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rumors. All right. I think that's the only criticism

00:23:02.269 --> 00:23:05.430
I can make is that they left the song off because

00:23:05.430 --> 00:23:07.710
that song is so, when you listen to the deluxe

00:23:07.710 --> 00:23:09.670
edition of the album and you hear it on there,

00:23:09.809 --> 00:23:12.670
it's like, oh, wow, I can't picture this album

00:23:12.670 --> 00:23:16.089
without it. So that's my only critique on the

00:23:16.089 --> 00:23:18.230
album. That's how perfect it is. But to pick

00:23:18.230 --> 00:23:23.470
the song to go for this playlist, and I'm going

00:23:23.470 --> 00:23:25.650
to go from a playlisting perspective here because

00:23:25.650 --> 00:23:27.269
you had Babe, I'm Going to Leave You and Behind

00:23:27.269 --> 00:23:31.079
Blue Eyes. I'm going to go with The Chain. Nice.

00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:35.799
Nice. That is, yeah, I would, that's where I

00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:38.059
would have gone as well. I do think that this

00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:40.359
is a perfect album. This is an album you listen

00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:45.019
to with no skips. And the singles that came off

00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:47.779
of this song that have been so far reaching that

00:23:47.779 --> 00:23:52.180
they're still being used by social media influencer,

00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:55.920
musician types, content creators, not necessarily

00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:58.650
influencers, but. These songs just keep coming

00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:02.630
back. And Go Your Own Way is one of my favorite

00:24:02.630 --> 00:24:06.250
songs to play and sing in cover bands that I've

00:24:06.250 --> 00:24:09.309
done a couple of them. And it's that syncopated

00:24:09.309 --> 00:24:12.650
strum pattern that Lindsay has is just unreal.

00:24:13.130 --> 00:24:16.309
Gold Dust Woman is a fantastic album. Closer.

00:24:16.670 --> 00:24:19.910
I just can't say enough good stuff about this

00:24:19.910 --> 00:24:23.210
album. And The Chain is an excellent, excellent

00:24:23.210 --> 00:24:25.900
choice for a song. All right. So what are you

00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:30.059
going to follow that up with? All right. Let's

00:24:30.059 --> 00:24:33.079
start when rock and roll began. I think it's

00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.039
time to talk about the elephant in the room and

00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:40.700
we can get into the Beatles. And I think you

00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:43.519
can't go anywhere with the Beatles without Abbey

00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:48.180
Road. You totally scooped me. I mean, listen,

00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.799
you can use Sergeant Pepper. You could use. the

00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.460
white album, you could please, please me. All

00:24:55.460 --> 00:24:58.119
of them just give you that image in your head.

00:24:58.220 --> 00:25:00.559
But I think that when you talk about Abbey road,

00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:02.960
when they're all crossing the, uh, with the,

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:05.019
the street and the crosswalk with the, with the

00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:08.700
old cars behind them and, and, um, the side story,

00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.140
the conspiracy theory was Paul dead. What does

00:25:11.140 --> 00:25:14.759
it mean is, you know, with. the different meanings

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:17.319
of what they're dressed as in this. And that,

00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.119
you know, John is barefoot. And then what does

00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.839
that mean? And it's such an iconic album cover.

00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:24.500
And I, I just, you'd be remiss if you left that

00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:28.180
off of any list like this. I'm not going to lie,

00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:30.500
dude, that was going to be my side closer for

00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:32.700
this side. So you totally scooped me on this

00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:35.599
one. Philip Bergman chimed in with revolver.

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:38.579
Another one you could easily go with the white

00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:41.809
album. One of my favorite memes. Anytime I see

00:25:41.809 --> 00:25:44.269
it, I always repost it is the one where it says,

00:25:44.390 --> 00:25:48.710
pick up your limited edition t -shirt of the

00:25:48.710 --> 00:25:51.809
Beatles white album for $49 .99. And it's literally

00:25:51.809 --> 00:25:56.950
just a white t -shirt. I love that. There's something

00:25:56.950 --> 00:26:00.029
about the Beatles knew how to capture people's

00:26:00.029 --> 00:26:03.549
attention. And the white album did that in its

00:26:03.549 --> 00:26:07.609
simplicity, in it being so plain. But Abbey Road,

00:26:07.970 --> 00:26:12.650
I can't imagine. The amount of foot traffic that

00:26:12.650 --> 00:26:16.549
street has to this day. How many times a day

00:26:16.549 --> 00:26:18.630
do you think people are trying to recreate that

00:26:18.630 --> 00:26:23.029
photo? Families, just single people. How is that

00:26:23.029 --> 00:26:25.089
that they really should consider shutting that

00:26:25.089 --> 00:26:28.309
section down and just making it a landmark? Because

00:26:28.309 --> 00:26:31.910
so many people probably block traffic to make

00:26:31.910 --> 00:26:34.710
those photo moments happen. And I swear, if I

00:26:34.710 --> 00:26:37.009
ever get back to London again with the family,

00:26:37.130 --> 00:26:38.549
that's going to be one of the first things I

00:26:38.549 --> 00:26:41.759
do. I mean. How the hell can't you? You have

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.059
to. You're not a musician or a music fan if you

00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:48.500
don't. So get over to London, clog the streets,

00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.519
take it all down. Sorry to all our friends in

00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:54.980
the UK listening. We're just being leaf peepers

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:57.059
like we would call the people up in New England

00:26:57.059 --> 00:26:59.680
when you go up there and stare at leaves. That's

00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:01.900
kind of the equivalent overseas as being the

00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:04.240
Abbey Road peepers. That's right. That's right.

00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:08.779
But even I mean, it's so iconic that even. Poor

00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:12.180
people like me can't go to London. And we still

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:14.859
try to do it in crosswalks outside, you know,

00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:18.440
outside the street in Chicago or in Atlanta or

00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.599
New York City. You know, wherever there's a crosswalk,

00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:24.930
people will. We'll try to do New York city. I

00:27:24.930 --> 00:27:26.730
wouldn't recommend that. I was going to say,

00:27:26.730 --> 00:27:28.450
if you're going barefoot in New York city, that's

00:27:28.450 --> 00:27:30.609
a whole other set of problems. The fact that

00:27:30.609 --> 00:27:32.829
you probably get hit by some taxi cab driver

00:27:32.829 --> 00:27:36.410
who, you know, well now the toughest part of

00:27:36.410 --> 00:27:38.829
this one, because Abbey road is another masterpiece.

00:27:39.089 --> 00:27:43.410
Yes, absolutely. Um, what song carry that weight

00:27:43.410 --> 00:27:45.410
is, is gotta be one of my favorite songs off

00:27:45.410 --> 00:27:47.630
this, uh, off this album, but I'm, I'm going

00:27:47.630 --> 00:27:49.009
to, I'm going to stick with the album starter.

00:27:49.170 --> 00:27:50.829
I'm going to go with come together for this one.

00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:54.619
Just because coming out of the chain, that's

00:27:54.619 --> 00:27:57.559
a great dark turn on that. All right. All right.

00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:04.779
Well, we got the Beatles in. So I guess now that

00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:07.660
that's off the table, I'd better scoop the stones

00:28:07.660 --> 00:28:10.859
before you do that next. The age old argument.

00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:14.180
Yeah. And I think we need to save that for a

00:28:14.180 --> 00:28:17.240
separate episode in and of itself. I think that

00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:19.319
Beatles and Rolling Stones argument is a fun

00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.440
discussion. for another time. But personally,

00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:26.279
I'll just start the fire a little bit, a little

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.440
Kindle here. I'm a bigger Rolling Stones fan.

00:28:29.980 --> 00:28:32.579
Don't at me. I'm sorry. I just love the Rolling

00:28:32.579 --> 00:28:34.279
Stones. I got to see them for the first time

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:37.059
last year, and I'm so glad I was able to check

00:28:37.059 --> 00:28:39.539
that off my list. But you think about iconic

00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:44.519
album covers, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street,

00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.700
Beggar's Banquet, the band cover, Some Girls.

00:28:49.450 --> 00:28:54.690
Even Voodoo Lounge in the 90s. But when it all

00:28:54.690 --> 00:28:58.130
boils down to it, I think we have to go with

00:28:58.130 --> 00:29:03.789
Andy Warhol and Sticky Fingers. Oh, nice. When

00:29:03.789 --> 00:29:07.029
you talk about the sex that came from rock and

00:29:07.029 --> 00:29:11.750
roll in that era, this was definitely leaning

00:29:11.750 --> 00:29:15.390
into that with the shot of the crotch and the

00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:20.150
pants. And it's... Very typical of the weirdness

00:29:20.150 --> 00:29:23.390
that kind of comes out in an Andy Warhol album

00:29:23.390 --> 00:29:25.710
cover. I mean, you go all the way back to I'm

00:29:25.710 --> 00:29:28.470
Still Swinging, which was an album that Joe Newman

00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:31.069
put out that Andy Warhol made the album art for.

00:29:31.490 --> 00:29:34.470
That's an interesting album art. Then you take

00:29:34.470 --> 00:29:37.170
into consideration the Velvet Underground and

00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:39.589
Nico with just the banana that you could peel

00:29:39.589 --> 00:29:42.500
off. That was very Andy Warhol. Then you jump

00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:44.900
into the 80s. You had Emotions in Motion by Bob

00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:48.920
Seger and Aretha Franklin's 86 self -titled album.

00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:52.759
All Andy Warhol. I'm not the biggest Velvet Underground

00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:55.539
fan in the world. I respect the album. I respect

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:58.519
the art. And I feel like you can't have an album

00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:01.400
art episode and not talk about Andy Warhol. So

00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:05.839
I'm doing that through sticky fingers. And, oh

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:09.380
God, this is another one you could go in any

00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:13.900
direction. Brown sugar. Can't you hear me knocking

00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:19.859
scandal noted? Oh, you got to move bitch. But

00:30:19.859 --> 00:30:24.480
coming out of come together, I'm going to go

00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:29.579
with wild horses. Great. I mean, tying it into

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:31.500
the nineties, you have the Sunday's beautiful

00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:34.680
version. That was incredible. And they used it

00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.940
in that movie fear, but wild horses is one of

00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:41.029
those songs that. repeatedly gets covered in

00:30:41.029 --> 00:30:43.029
the country music scene over and over again.

00:30:43.130 --> 00:30:45.529
And every time I hear it, I'm like, man, that's

00:30:45.529 --> 00:30:47.210
so good. But then you go back and listen to the

00:30:47.210 --> 00:30:50.569
original, which they played when I saw them.

00:30:50.690 --> 00:30:53.509
Oh, great. At MetLife. There's just something

00:30:53.509 --> 00:30:55.890
about this song that just makes the hair on my

00:30:55.890 --> 00:30:58.529
arm stand up. And because we're going in and

00:30:58.529 --> 00:31:00.950
out with this kind of like heavy and it's kind

00:31:00.950 --> 00:31:03.130
of an ebb and flow, like a classic rock album

00:31:03.130 --> 00:31:07.109
would after the chain has that big ending rocking

00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:09.710
out. And then you have come together with kind

00:31:09.710 --> 00:31:11.809
of bring it down a little bit more for wild horses.

00:31:12.150 --> 00:31:16.109
No, it's great. It's this song was a friend of

00:31:16.109 --> 00:31:18.150
mine when they got married. This was their first

00:31:18.150 --> 00:31:22.349
dance. And I got to DJ that wedding was so having

00:31:22.349 --> 00:31:25.670
that and playing this in cover band in the various

00:31:25.670 --> 00:31:29.609
bands that I've been in just on nearly six minute

00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:32.829
romp through, you know, the softer side of Mick,

00:31:32.990 --> 00:31:35.589
you know, that kind of a thing. And it's a great.

00:31:36.170 --> 00:31:39.150
A little bit of a soft left, right, on the direction

00:31:39.150 --> 00:31:41.410
that we've gone in, but I think we needed a ballad

00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:48.430
here. Coming out of that... Yeah. Hmm. Well,

00:31:48.430 --> 00:31:52.329
you talked about Andy Warhol, and I kind of want

00:31:52.329 --> 00:31:56.630
to talk about those kind of photos. Every band,

00:31:56.630 --> 00:31:59.549
I think, does one of these where it's the members

00:31:59.549 --> 00:32:03.470
of the band in a grid pattern. You know, the

00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:05.910
Beatles had let it be. I mean, we talked about

00:32:05.910 --> 00:32:08.569
Queen, too, which is not necessarily in the squared

00:32:08.569 --> 00:32:11.430
off fashion, but in that essence. Right. Even

00:32:11.430 --> 00:32:13.589
a play on that with Guns N' Roses, Appetite for

00:32:13.589 --> 00:32:18.210
Destruction. And so but I think, you know, talking

00:32:18.210 --> 00:32:20.730
about Andy Warhol and some classic kind of like

00:32:20.730 --> 00:32:25.789
photography, I think Talking Heads Remain in

00:32:25.789 --> 00:32:29.470
Light is a great album cover. It brings the four

00:32:29.470 --> 00:32:31.789
members of the band and it kind of blots out

00:32:31.789 --> 00:32:34.890
their faces in the red to kind of give it an

00:32:34.890 --> 00:32:39.230
air of mystery, if you will. And it really catches

00:32:39.230 --> 00:32:41.210
your eye. And again, I remember as a kid walking

00:32:41.210 --> 00:32:44.450
into the record store and seeing that album and

00:32:44.450 --> 00:32:47.210
thinking, oh, what's this about? I'm interested

00:32:47.210 --> 00:32:49.990
to find out what this is about. And boy, am I

00:32:49.990 --> 00:32:53.109
glad I did, because Once in a Lifetime is an

00:32:53.109 --> 00:32:56.859
amazing, amazing song. And that's the song I'm

00:32:56.859 --> 00:32:58.440
going to obviously, I'm going to go with the

00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.660
obvious on the remain in light track for, for

00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:05.480
the song. Well, you scooped me on the album cover,

00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:08.720
but not on the song. Cause I would have chosen

00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:11.099
when it comes to songs cross -eyed and painless,

00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:13.900
but that's because I'm a big fish fan and I love

00:33:13.900 --> 00:33:17.079
their cover of it. But I do think that this definitely,

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.000
there's a lot of talking heads album covers that

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.529
you could conceivably make a. argument for even

00:33:24.529 --> 00:33:29.450
something like fear of music with just the ridges

00:33:29.450 --> 00:33:32.809
on the album cover that to me, I remember seeing

00:33:32.809 --> 00:33:35.390
that vinyl and holding it and feeling kind of

00:33:35.390 --> 00:33:37.650
the texture on that album cover. That was something

00:33:37.650 --> 00:33:40.109
different. Then you even jump into the eighties

00:33:40.109 --> 00:33:42.690
and you have speaking tongues and little creatures

00:33:42.690 --> 00:33:45.630
that are both very memorable for eighties album

00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:49.140
covers. But I actually appreciate you going with

00:33:49.140 --> 00:33:51.240
talking heads here, Jay, because you made my

00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.339
side closer pretty easy. All right. You stole

00:33:55.339 --> 00:33:57.000
the Beatles from me, which would have been an

00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.640
obvious side closer for a side of classic rock.

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.759
But because you kind of leaned a little bit in

00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:06.140
the new wave here with talking heads, I think

00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:07.819
it's pretty obvious what I'm going to go here

00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:10.320
to close the side. And some people might argue

00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.480
this, including members of the band, because.

00:34:14.670 --> 00:34:17.869
Elliot Easton and David Robinson are not fans

00:34:17.869 --> 00:34:21.590
of this album cover, but I'm going with my favorite

00:34:21.590 --> 00:34:25.289
album of all time, the Cars self -titled album,

00:34:25.510 --> 00:34:29.989
the beautiful Natalia Medvedeva. She is just

00:34:29.989 --> 00:34:33.690
gorgeous. Her smile is so infectious. And I could

00:34:33.690 --> 00:34:37.090
get why some people might not understand why

00:34:37.090 --> 00:34:41.340
this is in the discussion. But to me, I've talked

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:43.900
about this so many times. The Cars ushered in

00:34:43.900 --> 00:34:46.840
a new era and a new genre of music. They were

00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:50.300
one of the people at the forefront of it, making

00:34:50.300 --> 00:34:54.039
new wave mainstream. And this album cover to

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:57.179
me is part of that defining moment. And yes,

00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:01.960
there is a personal bias on this album. And I'm

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:05.010
okay with that because. I host the show and I

00:35:05.010 --> 00:35:07.289
can make up the rules as I go along. That's right.

00:35:07.469 --> 00:35:10.730
I have this one framed on my wall and there's

00:35:10.730 --> 00:35:13.070
got to be some personal bias in this because

00:35:13.070 --> 00:35:15.969
art, just like the music on the album, is very

00:35:15.969 --> 00:35:18.590
subjective. But if you disagree with this one,

00:35:18.650 --> 00:35:20.550
I'd love to hear which Cars album you like more.

00:35:20.610 --> 00:35:23.289
I'm guessing a lot of people might say Candio

00:35:23.289 --> 00:35:26.110
or Heartbeat City because I think both album

00:35:26.110 --> 00:35:29.389
covers, all three of them, are iconic in and

00:35:29.389 --> 00:35:32.130
of itself. And moving on, that's when David Robinson

00:35:32.130 --> 00:35:35.599
started. designing the album art outside of the

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.579
record company who actually made the art for

00:35:38.579 --> 00:35:41.739
the self -titled cars out now picking a song.

00:35:42.099 --> 00:35:45.400
I'm using a loophole here because it's my show

00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:50.659
and I can, and I am choosing bye -bye love moving

00:35:50.659 --> 00:35:54.300
in stereo and all mixed up because at the end

00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:58.260
of the day, those three songs are bridged together

00:35:58.260 --> 00:36:01.469
on the album. If you drop them. Needle on the

00:36:01.469 --> 00:36:04.250
vinyl after You're All I've Got Tonight. Those

00:36:04.250 --> 00:36:07.929
three songs are intertwined as one. And I cannot

00:36:07.929 --> 00:36:11.130
hear the opening to Bye Bye Love and not hear

00:36:11.130 --> 00:36:15.210
Greg Hawk's sax at the end of All Mixed Up. To

00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:18.210
me, it's one piece of music. I have it ripped

00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:21.849
on my phone as one piece of music. I cannot listen

00:36:21.849 --> 00:36:24.889
to any of those songs separately. I feel weird

00:36:24.889 --> 00:36:28.139
when it happens. It feels just wrong. Even in

00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:31.000
Fast Times at Ridgemount High, as much as I love

00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.000
moving in stereo in that movie for some strange

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:35.840
reason, I don't know what that reason is, but

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.719
some odd reason. I have to hear it bookended

00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:42.199
with Bye Bye Love and all mixed up. So closing

00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.579
out Side A, The Cars, self -titled album. Fantastic.

00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:48.420
Yeah, you've talked about that on a previous

00:36:48.420 --> 00:36:50.559
episode, if I'm not mistaken. Probably about

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.000
500 previous episodes. Yes. But yeah, man, again,

00:36:55.099 --> 00:36:57.610
another perfect album, I think. We're talking

00:36:57.610 --> 00:37:01.230
about the origination of what effectively brought

00:37:01.230 --> 00:37:04.110
New Wave to the United States and really turned

00:37:04.110 --> 00:37:08.150
it into a very pop culture phenomenon. Moving

00:37:08.150 --> 00:37:10.090
and stereo being used during the great swimming

00:37:10.090 --> 00:37:16.570
pool scene and Judge Reinhold. Phoebe Cates became

00:37:16.570 --> 00:37:18.610
a household name. What can I say? What can you

00:37:18.610 --> 00:37:21.820
say? But which became lampooned in the something

00:37:21.820 --> 00:37:25.699
about Mary Stiller sometime later. Great way

00:37:25.699 --> 00:37:28.300
to close the album. I love it. I love it. Well,

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:31.039
there you have it, folks. Side A of the ultimate

00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:35.039
iconic album art mixtape, which consists of Queen's

00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:38.599
News of the World and Spread Your Wings, David

00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:42.300
Bowie's Aladdin Sane and the Gene Genie, Pink

00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:44.780
Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Great Gig in

00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:48.230
the Sky. Let's Zeppelin's one and babe, I'm going

00:37:48.230 --> 00:37:51.449
to leave you the who's who's next. And behind

00:37:51.449 --> 00:37:55.309
blue eyes, Fleetwood Mac's rumors and the chain

00:37:55.309 --> 00:37:58.929
Rolling Stone's sticky fingers and wild horses

00:37:58.929 --> 00:38:02.530
talking heads remain in light and once in a lifetime

00:38:02.530 --> 00:38:07.010
and the cars, the cars with bye -bye love moving

00:38:07.010 --> 00:38:10.590
in stereo and all mixed up. Head over to my weekly

00:38:10.590 --> 00:38:13.550
mixtape .com to view all the album covers and.

00:38:14.139 --> 00:38:16.340
Hear all the songs we've discussed in this mix

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:19.679
through the gallery and playlist embedded on

00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:23.239
the episode page. And now, Jay, I get to kick

00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:26.559
things off on side B. And side A, I'd say, was

00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:30.880
a pretty good snapshot of classic rock album

00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.539
covers. So for side B, we're going to go, or

00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:36.519
at least I'm going to start by going off the

00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:38.940
beaten path. You could 180 me right back into

00:38:38.940 --> 00:38:42.619
classic rock land, if you will. We can't talk

00:38:42.619 --> 00:38:45.940
iconic album art and not talk Metallica. Oh,

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.260
yeah. We could talk about Kill Them All, Ride

00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:52.460
the Lightning, my favorite Metallica album, Injustice

00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:55.119
for All. You could even talk the Black Album,

00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:57.940
which is the flip of the Beatles' The White Album

00:38:57.940 --> 00:39:01.920
discussion. Right. I mean, Metallica is known,

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:05.380
especially in those first five albums, for iconic

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:09.599
album art. But I think none is more iconic than

00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:13.510
Master of Puppets. That graveyard with the hands

00:39:13.510 --> 00:39:16.329
and the puppet strings hanging down. Yeah, I

00:39:16.329 --> 00:39:20.329
got chills. I actually have a 3D album art of

00:39:20.329 --> 00:39:23.969
that album cover. It's a 3D art piece based on

00:39:23.969 --> 00:39:27.050
the album cover. I love this album cover so much.

00:39:27.289 --> 00:39:30.769
And in terms of songs, because it's the start

00:39:30.769 --> 00:39:33.250
of Side A, there's no other choice I can use

00:39:33.250 --> 00:39:36.170
but battery. Start off really calm and quiet

00:39:36.170 --> 00:39:40.130
and then just kick you in the face with intensity.

00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:43.179
And I guess that little classical bridge will

00:39:43.179 --> 00:39:46.820
be a way to bring us into side B and ease us

00:39:46.820 --> 00:39:48.840
out of the classic rock world into something

00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:51.940
a little heavier. That's fantastic. Uh, great

00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:54.679
album. Metallica has so many great songs like

00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:57.599
that though, where like your favorite Metallica

00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.420
album is mine as well. And just as for all, uh,

00:40:00.619 --> 00:40:04.539
one comes screaming to mind in that pun intended

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:08.420
because of the, uh, the gorgeous acoustic intro.

00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:12.219
And then the, build into that hammering end of

00:40:12.219 --> 00:40:16.599
darkness. Imprison me. So good. Uh, based on,

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:18.559
uh, that song, by the way, based on Johnny got

00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:21.980
his gun, a novel, um, which I read in 10th grade,

00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.519
I want to say, but wow. Yeah. Batteries. Great

00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:27.719
tune. Uh, great pick. Okay. Let's stay there.

00:40:27.780 --> 00:40:30.320
Uh, let's go with iron maiden. I know, uh, one

00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.260
of your, one of your Patreon supporters had mentioned.

00:40:32.829 --> 00:40:35.329
Iron Maiden. And again, you could go with Power

00:40:35.329 --> 00:40:37.750
Slave. I agree wholeheartedly. Power Slave is

00:40:37.750 --> 00:40:40.550
a great album with the pyramids and the imagery

00:40:40.550 --> 00:40:42.909
there. I'm going to go with Number of the Beast,

00:40:42.949 --> 00:40:45.530
though, because that is the album that I was

00:40:45.530 --> 00:40:48.389
introduced to Maiden with. And it also contains

00:40:48.389 --> 00:40:51.730
some of my favorite Iron Maiden songs to not

00:40:51.730 --> 00:40:53.849
only listen to, but to play as well. Run to the

00:40:53.849 --> 00:40:57.150
Hills. I love soaring on that vocal when I play

00:40:57.150 --> 00:40:59.809
that song. Hollowed Be Thy Name, Number of the

00:40:59.809 --> 00:41:03.090
Beast, obviously, 22 Acacia Avenue, The Prisoner.

00:41:03.849 --> 00:41:07.269
Great, great songs. And I think for the song

00:41:07.269 --> 00:41:08.869
that I'm going to pick off of that, I think I'm

00:41:08.869 --> 00:41:12.130
going to go with Run to the Hills. Nice. And

00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:13.869
Jay, I don't know if you did this on purpose

00:41:13.869 --> 00:41:17.550
or not, but the synergy. Between the puppet strings

00:41:17.550 --> 00:41:20.849
on Metallica's master of puppets and the puppet

00:41:20.849 --> 00:41:24.090
strings that Eddie's using to control Satan in

00:41:24.090 --> 00:41:26.949
the album cover. I feel like that's a theme here.

00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:30.130
And I love that. I love that. Yeah, totally not.

00:41:30.190 --> 00:41:32.429
Totally not coincidental. I did that on purpose.

00:41:32.630 --> 00:41:35.630
Okay. And I love the fact that Eddie is in this

00:41:35.630 --> 00:41:38.530
discussion because when you talk about iconic

00:41:38.530 --> 00:41:42.230
album covers. If you're into metal music, I feel

00:41:42.230 --> 00:41:44.230
like you can't have that conversation without

00:41:44.230 --> 00:41:48.929
Eddie being in the discussion. And along with

00:41:48.929 --> 00:41:52.809
Eddie, when I think of Eddie, I immediately also

00:41:52.809 --> 00:41:57.949
think of Vic Rattlehead from Megadeth. And following

00:41:57.949 --> 00:42:02.349
up Metallica and Iron Maiden, we are definitely

00:42:02.349 --> 00:42:05.670
going to keep this metal thing going. Rust in

00:42:05.670 --> 00:42:11.050
peace. Fantastic. All of the world leaders around

00:42:11.050 --> 00:42:13.030
it. It gets a little political, but it's still

00:42:13.030 --> 00:42:15.869
Vic Rattlehead holding up the kryptonite. You've

00:42:15.869 --> 00:42:19.769
got that body of the alien inside the tube. To

00:42:19.769 --> 00:42:23.389
me, Peace Cells is also an incredible album cover

00:42:23.389 --> 00:42:26.349
and including some of the later ones that they've

00:42:26.349 --> 00:42:29.409
done. Dystopia, I thought was a really cool album

00:42:29.409 --> 00:42:33.610
cover. Absolutely. And Megadeth and Vic is just

00:42:33.610 --> 00:42:37.639
as synonymous as Iron Maiden and Eddie. And I

00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.539
feel like we'd be doing a disservice to not talk

00:42:40.539 --> 00:42:42.480
about them back to back, similar to the Beatles

00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.059
and Rolling Stones on Side A. And as far as music

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:49.460
goes, God, this is another tough one. I can go

00:42:49.460 --> 00:42:52.239
with the title track, Holy Wars, The Punishments

00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:56.599
Do, Tornado of Souls, Take No Prisoners. I'm

00:42:56.599 --> 00:43:00.050
going to go obvious, Hanger 18. Hanger 18. I

00:43:00.050 --> 00:43:02.610
mean, battery run to the hills. It's got to be

00:43:02.610 --> 00:43:06.670
hangar 18, right? Yes, definitely. I had a great

00:43:06.670 --> 00:43:11.789
opportunity in 1999 to cover Woodstock in Rome.

00:43:11.849 --> 00:43:15.630
We lovingly dubbed Rome stock and got to interview

00:43:15.630 --> 00:43:19.409
Dave Mustaine and just rift on this record, particularly

00:43:19.409 --> 00:43:21.849
for a couple of questions. And then, you know,

00:43:21.849 --> 00:43:23.869
talked about the newer stuff that they were doing.

00:43:23.989 --> 00:43:28.329
And it was I mean, that is. Check that box, right?

00:43:28.809 --> 00:43:30.929
That's a dream come true. Wait a minute. All

00:43:30.929 --> 00:43:32.849
the years we've been podcasting and you haven't

00:43:32.849 --> 00:43:36.329
called in a favor to get. Oh, I wish. Dave on.

00:43:36.610 --> 00:43:39.829
This isn't another Donny Osmond moment for me.

00:43:39.869 --> 00:43:42.210
He'll remember you, Jay. Sure. You had board

00:43:42.210 --> 00:43:47.690
shorts on. I am sure of it. There it is. Yes.

00:43:47.809 --> 00:43:50.989
Yeah. Dave, remember the guy that came over and

00:43:50.989 --> 00:43:54.969
he had the board shorts on and WSYR 194 FM t

00:43:54.969 --> 00:43:56.849
-shirt on? Yeah. He's going to be like, yup.

00:43:56.949 --> 00:43:59.429
How could you forget that? Yeah. You'll never

00:43:59.429 --> 00:44:04.570
forget that. Please lose this number. All right.

00:44:05.269 --> 00:44:09.329
Trifecta of metal. What do you got next? Let's

00:44:09.329 --> 00:44:13.429
take a little bit of a veer to the left on this.

00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:20.000
and go heavy punk. I think, you know, we, we've

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:23.280
been doing a lot of like classic stuff, seventies,

00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:25.840
eighties, even, you know, in, in early nineties,

00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.400
heavy metal. Let's talk about some alternative

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:33.380
and, and the, the emergence, the reemergence

00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:35.760
of like punk and how that came into pop punk.

00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:38.940
And I want to talk about the offspring. Oh, smash.

00:44:39.820 --> 00:44:42.860
Nice. With the album art. Being of the Human

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:44.860
Skeleton, and this was kind of my introduction

00:44:44.860 --> 00:44:49.159
to this group back when I was programming the

00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:51.519
college radio station, and we'd flip formats,

00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.159
and it was just, you know, this came out, and

00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:56.519
it was just rocking all the way through. Wow.

00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:59.760
I mean, you've got such great songs on that that

00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.179
were huge radio hits. Come Out and Play, obviously,

00:45:02.179 --> 00:45:05.119
was the big one. Self -Esteem is one of my favorite

00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:08.960
songs. Gotta Get Away. Where can we go with this?

00:45:09.550 --> 00:45:11.849
I know where I would go, but I'm curious to see

00:45:11.849 --> 00:45:14.730
what you pick. Um, let's see coming on a hanger

00:45:14.730 --> 00:45:20.230
18. I'll go with bad habit. Yes. Yeah. I think

00:45:20.230 --> 00:45:22.909
that's a good call. That is the correct answer.

00:45:25.250 --> 00:45:29.789
Drivers. So rude. Such attitude. I love it. It's

00:45:29.789 --> 00:45:33.449
excellent. Yeah. Coming out of metal. That to

00:45:33.449 --> 00:45:37.550
me makes the perfect ease out of metal into punk

00:45:37.550 --> 00:45:41.380
from that album. But now you've opened up Pandora's

00:45:41.380 --> 00:45:45.820
box, Jay, because now we're in the punk universe.

00:45:46.219 --> 00:45:49.059
Yes. All intentional, friend. We got to shake

00:45:49.059 --> 00:45:51.079
this up a little bit. Yeah, and that we are.

00:45:51.300 --> 00:45:54.519
And I mean, obviously, when you think punk, there's

00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:57.880
the Ramones self -titled album. Bad Religion

00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.800
has some incredible album covers, Social Distortion.

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.780
But when I think about punk album covers, I have

00:46:05.780 --> 00:46:09.260
to. go to the one that immediately jumps into

00:46:09.260 --> 00:46:13.280
my mind with the logo being modeled after Elvis

00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:17.039
Presley's album and the iconic image of Paul

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:21.400
Simon and smashing his base. There is only one

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.840
on the stage at the Palladium in New York city.

00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:27.940
It's London calling by the clash. I mean, when

00:46:27.940 --> 00:46:30.500
you think about an album cover that tells you,

00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:34.239
this is what you're about to hear. This says

00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:38.530
it. And again, Train in Vain, Death or Glory,

00:46:39.030 --> 00:46:44.369
The Guns of Brixton, Brand New Cadillac. This

00:46:44.369 --> 00:46:48.030
album is just perfect. But I'll go title track.

00:46:48.250 --> 00:46:50.849
I'll do opening track and title track, London

00:46:50.849 --> 00:46:53.349
Calling, just like I did with Battery on Master

00:46:53.349 --> 00:46:56.369
of Puppets. It sets the tone for what you're

00:46:56.369 --> 00:46:58.590
about to hear. Could have gone with Revolution

00:46:58.590 --> 00:47:01.449
Rock as well. Another, you know, just kind of,

00:47:01.449 --> 00:47:03.949
hey, this is what you're in for. Buckle up. But

00:47:03.949 --> 00:47:06.550
what a, you know, what a great introduction into

00:47:06.550 --> 00:47:09.389
the punk world. And then, you know, obviously

00:47:09.389 --> 00:47:12.510
the clash kind of separated out a little bit

00:47:12.510 --> 00:47:15.329
and did a big audio dynamite. And we had a whole

00:47:15.329 --> 00:47:17.530
bunch of different things that train in vain

00:47:17.530 --> 00:47:20.230
was kind of a departure for the rest of the album

00:47:20.230 --> 00:47:23.349
as well. Right. And that kind of sparked off

00:47:23.349 --> 00:47:25.150
where Joe Strummer was going to take the band

00:47:25.150 --> 00:47:27.889
and in the future. And, but I, I really agree

00:47:27.889 --> 00:47:30.210
with you on this London calling. You can't leave

00:47:30.210 --> 00:47:33.539
that off a list. One of the most. iconic punk

00:47:33.539 --> 00:47:37.539
images ever maybe maybe absolutely uh i mean

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:41.019
it describes exactly uh what the punk movement

00:47:41.019 --> 00:47:43.980
was and again you know you mentioned uh and how

00:47:43.980 --> 00:47:47.139
that influenced you know without the clash without

00:47:47.139 --> 00:47:50.420
black flag you don't get half of that stuff green

00:47:50.420 --> 00:47:54.000
day bowling for soup you don't get blink 182

00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:57.800
uh which is you know more of the the pop fun

00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:00.940
side of things but uh you know Good music is

00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:03.420
good music, man. You can't go wrong. Every single

00:48:03.420 --> 00:48:05.519
one of those that you just mentioned could easily

00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:07.679
go into this list. I mean, I think about Green

00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.579
Day's Dookie as an iconic album cover. I mean,

00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:13.300
yeah, a lot of people are going to think that

00:48:13.300 --> 00:48:16.900
iconic album art is mainly in classic rock. And

00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:18.880
I like where we're going here on side two, kind

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:21.500
of dipping into some different genres here. What

00:48:21.500 --> 00:48:23.559
do you got now? Because we're starting the second

00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:27.739
half of side B. I'm going to feel really badly

00:48:27.739 --> 00:48:30.480
if I don't do this, but I'm going to feel really

00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:34.719
badly if I do. Okay. I'm going to, uh, take us

00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.719
completely off the road here and I'm going with,

00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:41.480
uh, I'm going to go into, uh, hold your breath.

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:45.599
Uh, I'm going to go into a new genre that we

00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:47.699
haven't covered yet that we really need to cover.

00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:52.159
And that is hip hop and R and B. Thank you. Yeah.

00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.659
I think it's time to get some love in here for

00:48:54.659 --> 00:48:59.360
that genre. And growing up and, and, uh, little,

00:48:59.500 --> 00:49:02.860
everybody was related to each other town in upstate

00:49:02.860 --> 00:49:06.519
New York. You know, I took to nineties hip hop.

00:49:06.659 --> 00:49:10.980
Like it was, it was insane how well I can still

00:49:10.980 --> 00:49:13.960
perform some of these songs and people look at

00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:17.760
me like I'm crazy. Uh, but I loved a tribe called

00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:22.019
quest and theory. So I'm going to put that right

00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:27.280
here. It is a very hard right from the clash.

00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:29.519
But I think, you know, how we how we keep that

00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:33.760
tied in is the fact that that genre in that time

00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:39.380
period was kind of punk in its own right. And

00:49:39.380 --> 00:49:43.659
it did an amazing tectonic shift in American

00:49:43.659 --> 00:49:46.739
society and in American culture, you know, calling.

00:49:47.340 --> 00:49:51.639
Those fights into the spotlight, public enemy,

00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:56.880
tribe, and even more of the West Coast stuff

00:49:56.880 --> 00:50:00.840
that was coming out. And getting right up into

00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:05.559
Jay -Z and Biggie Smalls and Cypress Hill. And

00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:10.179
it all started with guys in the corner grousing

00:50:10.179 --> 00:50:15.469
about the fight that they were in. that's iconic

00:50:15.469 --> 00:50:18.530
in and of itself to me in terms of the contribution

00:50:18.530 --> 00:50:22.210
to the music scene that R &B and that hip hop

00:50:22.210 --> 00:50:26.610
genre brought. Punk was counterculture and hip

00:50:26.610 --> 00:50:30.050
hop was counterculture. And from that standpoint,

00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:33.869
musically, yes, the genre might be a little bit

00:50:33.869 --> 00:50:36.539
of a pivot. But I can't tell you how many playlists

00:50:36.539 --> 00:50:39.619
I have that combine hip hop songs and rock songs

00:50:39.619 --> 00:50:42.320
and punk songs together because it's a vibe.

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:45.960
It's not necessarily a genre anymore. I work

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:48.219
out to hip hop songs all the time. Absolutely.

00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.480
Ice Cube's Wicked goes right into any song by

00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:54.300
Korn or Limp Bizkit or into Metallica and then

00:50:54.300 --> 00:50:57.920
into Bad Religion. They all get me hyped up and

00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:01.420
excited to do whatever I'm doing. So I feel that

00:51:01.420 --> 00:51:05.440
from a. musical perspective as well as from a

00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:09.159
counterculture perspective yeah you you're saying

00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:10.940
the exact same thing that i was trying to say

00:51:10.940 --> 00:51:14.159
but far more eloquently than well what's the

00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.039
song are you choosing from low end theory because

00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:17.860
to me that's the hardest question of them all

00:51:17.860 --> 00:51:21.619
oh man uh i mean scenario is a great tune uh

00:51:21.619 --> 00:51:23.880
was my introduction of course to the to the band

00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:27.659
off mtv but uh i would be remiss if i didn't

00:51:27.659 --> 00:51:29.980
go check the rhyme i think that's that's the

00:51:29.980 --> 00:51:35.440
way you go with it Hell yeah, man. An undeniable

00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:41.179
classic album. My favorite Tribe album. So glad

00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:43.239
they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, deservedly

00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:46.059
so. They changed the face of hip hop forever.

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:49.079
Absolutely. And what they did on this album is

00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:54.539
just nothing short of masterful. And I am going

00:51:54.539 --> 00:51:56.960
to follow that up because I talked about just

00:51:56.960 --> 00:52:00.059
now the fact that I love mixing rock. and rap

00:52:00.059 --> 00:52:03.980
and punk all into my playlists together. And

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:06.940
I think one of the reasons I enjoyed doing that

00:52:06.940 --> 00:52:10.860
was because of my love for this next album. So

00:52:10.860 --> 00:52:12.860
yes, it's going to fall a little bit into the

00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:15.719
hip hop side of things like you're doing with

00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:18.019
a tribe called quest, but it's also going to

00:52:18.019 --> 00:52:21.039
harken back to side a and some of our classic

00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:24.239
rock roots, because this band sampled Led Zeppelin

00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:28.820
a lot on this album. And you bring in Rick Rubin.

00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.000
When he's young and hungry and trying everything

00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:35.780
under the sun and throwing spaghetti at the wall

00:52:35.780 --> 00:52:38.559
to see what sticks. And you get a masterpiece

00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.340
like the Beastie Boys License to Ill. Talking

00:52:42.340 --> 00:52:47.639
about an album cover that I stared at on cassette,

00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:53.179
then on CD, and then on vinyl. I owned all three.

00:52:53.219 --> 00:52:55.639
Now I only own the CD and the vinyl. My cassette,

00:52:55.780 --> 00:53:00.070
sadly, is no longer with me. that album art of

00:53:00.070 --> 00:53:03.489
the smashed airplane in the side of the mountain,

00:53:03.610 --> 00:53:06.469
where if you hold it into a mirror, the number

00:53:06.469 --> 00:53:09.530
on the side spells out, eat me and everything.

00:53:09.590 --> 00:53:13.650
It signifies like a broken joint in the cover

00:53:13.650 --> 00:53:18.309
as well. It's so symbolic and so intriguing.

00:53:18.989 --> 00:53:23.909
And this, I'd say continues that mindset of when

00:53:23.909 --> 00:53:25.670
you look at the album art and then you hear the

00:53:25.670 --> 00:53:29.280
music. it does tie together really well. And

00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:34.139
the fact that Eminem presented his Kamikaze album

00:53:34.139 --> 00:53:39.300
using a play on this album art. So arguably the

00:53:39.300 --> 00:53:42.320
greatest, if not one of the greatest hip hop

00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.679
artists of all time paying homage to this album

00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:49.380
says to me that the album art inspired future

00:53:49.380 --> 00:53:52.699
generations and deserves a spot on this list.

00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:56.699
Now, when it comes to songs, And look, I completely

00:53:56.699 --> 00:53:59.159
understand why the band distanced themselves

00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:02.559
from girls as they matured and got older. They

00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:05.559
even referenced it in Sure Shot. And, you know,

00:54:05.619 --> 00:54:08.199
look, young people say stupid things sometimes,

00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:11.579
and maybe it was even a hindsight is 2020 moment

00:54:11.579 --> 00:54:15.099
for them. I also understand that the song Fight

00:54:15.099 --> 00:54:18.019
for Your Right to Party didn't go over with the

00:54:18.019 --> 00:54:19.940
message that the band had in mind, and people

00:54:19.940 --> 00:54:23.400
actually took it as a party song. And, you know,

00:54:23.420 --> 00:54:25.639
some of those things happen. But at the end of

00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:28.519
the day, it's so tough to pick something on this

00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:33.500
album. Brass Monkey, The New Style, Paul Revere,

00:54:33.780 --> 00:54:37.719
Slow and Low. There's so much to go from here.

00:54:38.219 --> 00:54:41.199
Then there's the fact that Rhyming and Stealing

00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:43.460
is one of my favorite Beastie Boys songs ever.

00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:48.079
However, No Sleep Till Brooklyn has to be my

00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:52.539
pick. Because of my wife and my story of when

00:54:52.539 --> 00:54:55.559
we were dating, driving up to New Hampshire,

00:54:55.739 --> 00:54:58.559
this song came on as we were crossing over the

00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.599
then Tappan Zee Bridge. And I made a mention

00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:04.360
that Kerry King from Slayer plays the guitar

00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:08.199
solo on No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Three hours later,

00:55:08.340 --> 00:55:10.519
we were passing the Holyoke Mall in Massachusetts,

00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:12.980
ready for a pit stop. So we pull off into the

00:55:12.980 --> 00:55:15.969
mall, go have lunch and walk around. And I said,

00:55:15.989 --> 00:55:18.070
by the way, if you could tell me who played the

00:55:18.070 --> 00:55:21.210
guitar solo in Beastie Boys, No Sleep Till Brooklyn,

00:55:21.329 --> 00:55:23.969
I will buy you an engagement ring right here

00:55:23.969 --> 00:55:28.630
and right now. That didn't go over so well. But

00:55:28.630 --> 00:55:32.530
we are married 20 something years later. So I

00:55:32.530 --> 00:55:35.030
ended up doing it eventually. But at the time,

00:55:35.030 --> 00:55:37.929
that became an inside joke between the two of

00:55:37.929 --> 00:55:40.829
us. And anytime the Beastie Boys came on, she

00:55:40.829 --> 00:55:42.750
would be like, really, really, really. And just

00:55:42.750 --> 00:55:46.119
recently, Kerry King. made an appearance at WrestleMania.

00:55:46.860 --> 00:55:49.800
And she turned to me and she said, the no sleep

00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.139
till Brooklyn guy, huh? And I said, finally.

00:55:52.219 --> 00:55:55.059
There it is. There it is. 20 something years

00:55:55.059 --> 00:55:59.559
later, this has paid off. This story has a conclusion.

00:56:00.179 --> 00:56:03.099
So that is my song choice for tonight. I love

00:56:03.099 --> 00:56:05.739
it. That's fantastic. Yeah, you're absolutely

00:56:05.739 --> 00:56:08.420
right. This is another perfect album. You could

00:56:08.420 --> 00:56:12.369
have picked any song off of that. And again,

00:56:12.510 --> 00:56:14.550
girl scandal noted. But yeah, rhyming and stealing

00:56:14.550 --> 00:56:17.269
is a great one. And I really like No Sleep Till

00:56:17.269 --> 00:56:19.789
Brooklyn as a choice on that. That's coming out

00:56:19.789 --> 00:56:23.389
of Tribe. That'll work. And I could have easily

00:56:23.389 --> 00:56:26.409
went with Paul's Boutique as well. Another iconic

00:56:26.409 --> 00:56:29.670
album cover, especially for those living in the

00:56:29.670 --> 00:56:31.650
five boroughs in New York and New Jersey, the

00:56:31.650 --> 00:56:34.349
tri -state area. Sure. People know that location.

00:56:35.010 --> 00:56:39.039
And that was iconic as well. However. I spent

00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:41.980
so much time staring at the J card of License

00:56:41.980 --> 00:56:44.800
to Ill when you spread it open and then like,

00:56:44.860 --> 00:56:46.780
you know, really squinted at those song lyrics

00:56:46.780 --> 00:56:48.960
because they were tiny. I think that's why I

00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:51.739
have eye problems now, but I digress. Track eight,

00:56:51.780 --> 00:56:54.860
Jay, what do we got coming out of metal, punk,

00:56:55.059 --> 00:56:59.199
hip hop? And then the mix, a mix of hip hop and

00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:02.579
rock, I think will dovetail us back onto the

00:57:02.579 --> 00:57:07.539
rails of classic rock. And let's. one of my favorite

00:57:07.539 --> 00:57:13.659
albums my favorite perfect albums 1976 is boston

00:57:13.659 --> 00:57:18.619
self -titled oh of course i had this in my list

00:57:18.619 --> 00:57:22.519
for side a and we didn't get there and i was

00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:25.599
already feeling guilt about it so thank you for

00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:29.679
writing this wrong jay i have to ask this might

00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:33.820
be a personal question how old were you when

00:57:33.820 --> 00:57:36.800
you discovered that it was an upside down guitar

00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:40.639
on the Boston album cover and not a spaceship.

00:57:40.900 --> 00:57:43.239
I think it was, I was in high school for sure.

00:57:43.739 --> 00:57:46.559
I'm pretty sure when that moment hit, because

00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:49.039
let's be honest, we all looked at that album

00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:51.739
for many years before we realized it. And then

00:57:51.739 --> 00:57:53.480
one of your buddies came over and it's like,

00:57:53.500 --> 00:57:58.539
is that a guitar? And it's like, yeah the big

00:57:58.539 --> 00:58:00.780
uh the how i met your mother the glass shattering

00:58:00.780 --> 00:58:05.239
but all of their albums right were um were a

00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.320
theme and variation on that so don't look back

00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.519
had the biodome in the center the sound hole

00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:13.739
and then third stage was uh was the new modern

00:58:13.739 --> 00:58:17.159
electric guitar with the biodome at the at the

00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.099
pickups and that was theme and variation this

00:58:20.099 --> 00:58:25.809
is an album for me had i bought a pinky tip worth

00:58:25.809 --> 00:58:29.710
of the talent that brad delp had vocal talent

00:58:29.710 --> 00:58:33.889
i mean the notes that that guy could stratospherically

00:58:33.889 --> 00:58:37.349
just him and uh the lead singer steelheart like

00:58:37.349 --> 00:58:39.789
i don't want to butcher his name right now so

00:58:39.789 --> 00:58:42.769
you know every time i heard it there's something

00:58:42.769 --> 00:58:45.889
i could inspire to and when you and i met 25

00:58:45.889 --> 00:58:49.989
years ago we went out to some karaoke bar in

00:58:49.989 --> 00:58:55.480
jersey somewhere and you said all right do more

00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:57.739
than a feeling and i thought oh god here we go

00:58:57.739 --> 00:59:00.639
and i nailed it i was really proud of myself

00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:03.320
but uh i could not i could not replicate that

00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:09.340
not not anymore for a song i there again perfect

00:59:09.340 --> 00:59:12.539
album where do you go every song was a hit every

00:59:12.539 --> 00:59:15.760
song yep let's see coming out of coming out of

00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:18.400
the beastie boys with no sleep till brooklyn

00:59:20.809 --> 00:59:23.489
I have a pick for sure. I don't know. I want

00:59:23.489 --> 00:59:25.170
to see what you go with, but I have an obvious

00:59:25.170 --> 00:59:28.190
one. I love foreplay long time. Yeah, I really

00:59:28.190 --> 00:59:32.610
do. All right, let's go with it. Sorry, I'm swaying

00:59:32.610 --> 00:59:35.570
the decision there, but oh my God, that opening.

00:59:36.150 --> 00:59:39.670
Smokin' is another great driving blues rock song,

00:59:39.730 --> 00:59:42.750
though. It's so good. There's not a bad song

00:59:42.750 --> 00:59:45.190
on the album. No, definitely, definitely. But

00:59:45.190 --> 00:59:47.369
yeah, let's stick with foreplay long time on

00:59:47.369 --> 00:59:50.760
that one, just because it's anthemic. All right,

00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.340
we each have one pick left, Jay. And for my last

00:59:54.340 --> 00:59:57.599
pick of the evening, I'm going to go with a concept

00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:03.719
more so than a singular album cover. Because

01:00:03.719 --> 01:00:07.800
I guess if at first you don't succeed, try, try,

01:00:08.139 --> 01:00:12.800
try, try, try again. Not that there was a lack

01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:15.739
of success the first time this happened. So the

01:00:15.739 --> 01:00:17.400
first time is going to be the one I'm going to

01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:21.349
go with. However. When you recreate an album

01:00:21.349 --> 01:00:25.489
cover five different times after the original,

01:00:25.570 --> 01:00:29.769
I think it means you like the concept. And when

01:00:29.769 --> 01:00:33.130
Weezer did the blue album, the green album, the

01:00:33.130 --> 01:00:36.570
red album, the white album, the teal album and

01:00:36.570 --> 01:00:39.789
the black album, it's a concept that to me is

01:00:39.789 --> 01:00:47.750
so simple. But in terms of standing out, people

01:00:47.750 --> 01:00:52.750
talk about. the Weezer color albums more than

01:00:52.750 --> 01:00:56.730
anything that outside of Pinkerton. Yeah. People

01:00:56.730 --> 01:00:59.769
talk about one Pinkerton's the one album that

01:00:59.769 --> 01:01:03.329
really for Weezer fans jumps out in the conversation.

01:01:03.369 --> 01:01:06.329
But otherwise it's like, Oh, I'm a blue album

01:01:06.329 --> 01:01:08.309
guy. I'm a green album person. Some people do

01:01:08.309 --> 01:01:10.849
like the red album. Obviously the white teal

01:01:10.849 --> 01:01:13.809
and black albums have love and hate a teal being

01:01:13.809 --> 01:01:16.889
all cover songs. Right. I love, but I can understand

01:01:16.889 --> 01:01:18.710
why people don't like it because they were a

01:01:18.710 --> 01:01:21.969
little color by numbers for the cover songs.

01:01:22.469 --> 01:01:25.429
However, the blue album is what started this

01:01:25.429 --> 01:01:29.710
off. I thought about going with Nirvana's Nevermind

01:01:29.710 --> 01:01:33.389
here because that's another icon. I mean, Jay,

01:01:33.570 --> 01:01:36.500
my brain, I'm thinking about. grunge and i'm

01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:38.360
thinking about the 90s and i'm thinking about

01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:40.860
even simple albums like counting crows august

01:01:40.860 --> 01:01:42.980
and everything after sure rage against the machine

01:01:42.980 --> 01:01:45.980
self -titled album all these iconic album covers

01:01:45.980 --> 01:01:48.360
we haven't even scratched the surface yet yeah

01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:52.260
and so i guess just for the sake of throwing

01:01:52.260 --> 01:01:56.380
in something 90s just we have the offspring smash

01:01:56.380 --> 01:01:59.280
and we have a tribe called quests the low -end

01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:02.300
theory but i wanted something that was a distinctly

01:02:02.300 --> 01:02:06.760
90s vibe and a distinctly 90s moment. And I think

01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:10.579
the Blue album, in its simplicity, captures that.

01:02:10.860 --> 01:02:15.000
Maybe as much as Nevermind, but not quite to

01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:16.980
the stratospheric heights because the Nevermind

01:02:16.980 --> 01:02:20.940
album cover has become pop lore over and over

01:02:20.940 --> 01:02:22.960
and over again over the years, especially with

01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.239
the kids suing Nirvana and then suing them again

01:02:25.239 --> 01:02:28.980
and then going out and doing appearances but

01:02:28.980 --> 01:02:32.340
suing them again. I don't know. I mean... Fighting

01:02:32.340 --> 01:02:35.460
the hand that feeds you. Yeah, I mean, whatever.

01:02:36.039 --> 01:02:40.059
With all that said, Weezer's Blue Album and...

01:02:40.059 --> 01:02:47.099
Surf Wax America. Oh, beautiful. I know it's

01:02:47.099 --> 01:02:49.719
weird musically coming out of foreplay and long

01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:52.679
time, but I just love that song so, so much.

01:02:52.699 --> 01:02:55.480
There wasn't really any way to kind of come back

01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:57.619
unless you wanted to go back into the pure classic

01:02:57.619 --> 01:02:59.920
rock. I was going to say, maybe Say It Ain't

01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:03.360
So might. fit musically better after foreplay

01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:05.559
and long time. Cause it has a little bit of that

01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:09.179
classic rock edge to it. Sure. Especially in

01:03:09.179 --> 01:03:13.320
the, with the chorus, but surf wax America is

01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:17.840
just such a fun song. And for my last pick of

01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:19.039
the night, I want that to have a little fun.

01:03:19.179 --> 01:03:22.719
I love it. I blue album is one of my favorite

01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:25.460
albums of all time. Favorite out. Definitely

01:03:25.460 --> 01:03:26.780
one of the favorite albums to come out of the

01:03:26.780 --> 01:03:29.280
nineties. It holds a great meaning for me. Again,

01:03:29.420 --> 01:03:31.739
you know, that was we were celebrating the the

01:03:31.739 --> 01:03:35.480
format flip went out to a bar up on the hill

01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:38.659
that on the SU Hill that has closed and opened.

01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:40.719
And I won't mention it by name. It's closed and

01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:44.579
open so many times because of reasons. And let's

01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:47.900
say so. But we were all sitting in that in that

01:03:47.900 --> 01:03:50.639
bar that night and Undone the Sweater song came

01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:54.539
on. And we were just having a pitcher sangria

01:03:54.539 --> 01:03:57.420
and having a great time. And in, you know, that

01:03:57.420 --> 01:04:02.460
is a fantastic album. Great pick. Um, leaving

01:04:02.460 --> 01:04:05.039
me with the big clothes. Yeah. You have to close

01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:07.719
this up tonight, man. And these are, I mean,

01:04:07.719 --> 01:04:11.760
for, for all intents and purposes, 19 incredible

01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:16.340
game changing album covers. And you have to put

01:04:16.340 --> 01:04:19.719
the cherry on top of this one. No pressure. No.

01:04:20.380 --> 01:04:25.179
This is easy. One album cover to rule them all.

01:04:25.579 --> 01:04:33.039
Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm going to end this the

01:04:33.039 --> 01:04:39.519
way I started it. 1969, a group that blended

01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:47.000
jazz, rock, and a little bit of funk, maybe a

01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:49.760
little R &B in there. And then all of a sudden

01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:53.159
hooked up with David Foster and became what Brian

01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:56.139
would consider the worst ballad band on the face

01:04:56.139 --> 01:04:58.679
of the earth. Although I disagree with that.

01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:01.079
I love Look Away, man. I love Look Away. Yeah.

01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:05.300
Chicago Transit Authority, the first album. Wow.

01:05:06.420 --> 01:05:10.300
Again, it's a hard right coming out of Weezer.

01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:13.360
Yeah, a little bit. What a great way to, you

01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:16.190
know, it's the album that started. That band,

01:05:16.449 --> 01:05:19.590
again, it's one of those buckle up, bumpy ride,

01:05:19.670 --> 01:05:22.769
this is what you're in for kind of thing. This

01:05:22.769 --> 01:05:27.869
is unlike anything that the 82 to 89 era produced.

01:05:28.309 --> 01:05:31.530
And again, I throw no shade at David Foster.

01:05:31.829 --> 01:05:33.929
I think he's a brilliant songwriter, good producer.

01:05:34.090 --> 01:05:38.130
But I think that Chicago Transit Authority is

01:05:38.130 --> 01:05:42.329
an absolute gem of an album. And it really did

01:05:42.329 --> 01:05:45.519
its job to introduce us to... robert lamb and

01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.219
peter satira terry kath uh rest in peace and

01:05:49.219 --> 01:05:53.639
the greatest horn section like amazing amazing

01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:59.079
music to come off of that as for songs um how

01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:03.559
do you where do you go uh from from wheezers

01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:07.079
surf wax america where do you go south california

01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:13.079
purples maybe um Or just stick with the greats

01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:14.739
and go with, does anybody really know what time

01:06:14.739 --> 01:06:19.960
it is? I think that's where we close. Wow. Unbelievable

01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:23.840
way to close. The painted shingle is what the

01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:27.420
album is titled on Chicago's website. And I remember

01:06:27.420 --> 01:06:29.619
when you and I were talking about this, when

01:06:29.619 --> 01:06:31.849
you were living in New Jersey, we were. driving

01:06:31.849 --> 01:06:34.329
around talking about Chicago because that's the

01:06:34.329 --> 01:06:36.969
kind of stuff you and I do. Basically, all this

01:06:36.969 --> 01:06:39.210
episode is when I bring you on is just you and

01:06:39.210 --> 01:06:41.909
I having any conversation we would have normally

01:06:41.909 --> 01:06:45.409
in the car just recorded. That's how TuneStyles

01:06:45.409 --> 01:06:48.849
was born. Exactly. We were talking about Chicago's

01:06:48.849 --> 01:06:51.389
80s stuff and you said, you know, it's such a

01:06:51.389 --> 01:06:54.469
180 from what they did on the Chicago Transit

01:06:54.469 --> 01:06:56.969
Authority. And at the time, even though my parents

01:06:56.969 --> 01:07:00.320
own the album. The only songs that I really remembered

01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:02.579
was Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

01:07:02.659 --> 01:07:04.639
And Beginnings, I think, was the other one that

01:07:04.639 --> 01:07:08.260
really stuck out at me. But then you put on Introduction,

01:07:08.260 --> 01:07:10.960
and I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot how amazing

01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:13.400
this album is. And Jay, I don't know if you've

01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:16.300
heard it, but online, you can hear it on any

01:07:16.300 --> 01:07:18.079
of the streaming sites, as well as there's a

01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:20.820
CD and vinyl version. There's a 50th anniversary

01:07:20.820 --> 01:07:24.159
remix of the album. And if you want to hear this

01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:26.099
like you've never heard it before with instrument

01:07:26.099 --> 01:07:28.969
separation, that you feel like you're surrounded

01:07:28.969 --> 01:07:32.230
by the Chicago transit authority. You need to

01:07:32.230 --> 01:07:35.449
look this remix up. It is on frigging believable

01:07:35.449 --> 01:07:39.750
on the same level as some of the stuff that Steven

01:07:39.750 --> 01:07:42.550
Wilson did for the Jethro Tull remixes. When

01:07:42.550 --> 01:07:44.650
did that come out? A couple of years ago, the

01:07:44.650 --> 01:07:46.670
50th anniversary. So I want to say it was 2019.

01:07:46.889 --> 01:07:49.230
Yeah. Yeah. That had to be okay. I'll have to

01:07:49.230 --> 01:07:51.190
check that out. I have that, that missed my radar

01:07:51.190 --> 01:07:54.329
completely, but yeah, when I moved back to New

01:07:54.329 --> 01:07:58.280
York in 2016, I kind of got, you know, reintroduced

01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:00.579
to that album, if you will, by one of my ops,

01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:04.559
who's a big fan of music and was playing that

01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:07.199
song while cleaning out one of the storage closets

01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:11.380
and playing that album. And it was just, I was

01:08:11.380 --> 01:08:14.599
like, oh, yeah, Steve Wynwood influences on I'm

01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:19.539
a Man. Just amazing, amazing writing, amazing

01:08:19.539 --> 01:08:23.500
musicianship, musicality. You know, it's late

01:08:23.500 --> 01:08:27.520
60s, early 70s production. You can't analog production,

01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:31.659
right? But I imagine that judging that up in

01:08:31.659 --> 01:08:34.560
the 50th anniversary release has got to sound

01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:37.520
super good. And they don't brick wall it. They

01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:40.720
don't compress it too much. It sounds very open

01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:43.720
and very cool. It's an experience. Let me just

01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:46.420
say that. Yeah, I'm going to find that right

01:08:46.420 --> 01:08:48.449
after we're done here. Well, let me get you out

01:08:48.449 --> 01:08:51.310
of here then. There, folks, concludes side B

01:08:51.310 --> 01:08:54.890
of the ultimate iconic album art episode, which

01:08:54.890 --> 01:08:57.670
kicked off with Metallica's Master of Puppets

01:08:57.670 --> 01:09:00.670
and Battery, Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast

01:09:00.670 --> 01:09:03.789
and Run to the Hills, Megadeth's Rust in Peace

01:09:03.789 --> 01:09:07.989
and Hanger 18, Offspring's Smash and Bad Habit,

01:09:08.029 --> 01:09:10.949
The Clash's London Calling with the title track,

01:09:11.250 --> 01:09:13.750
A Tribe Called Quests, The Low End Theory with

01:09:13.750 --> 01:09:16.680
Check the Rhyme, Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill

01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.819
with No Sleep Till Brooklyn, Boston, Self -Titled

01:09:19.819 --> 01:09:23.260
with Foreplay and Long Time, Weezer's Blue Album,

01:09:23.340 --> 01:09:26.319
Green Album, Red Album, White Album, Teal Album,

01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:29.439
and Black Album, but going with Surf Wax America

01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:33.039
from the Blue Album, and Chicago Transit Authority's

01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:36.140
Self -Titled with Does Anybody Really Know What

01:09:36.140 --> 01:09:39.420
Time It Is. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com

01:09:39.420 --> 01:09:42.619
to view all the album covers and hear all the

01:09:42.619 --> 01:09:45.380
songs we've discussed in this mix. through the

01:09:45.380 --> 01:09:48.420
gallery and playlist embedded on the episode

01:09:48.420 --> 01:09:52.600
page. Jay, once again, I think it goes without

01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:56.239
saying that there will be a volume two for this.

01:09:56.579 --> 01:09:58.960
We are not doing this back to back the way we

01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:01.460
did a few months ago with fictitious bands. So

01:10:01.460 --> 01:10:03.220
we'll have to put a pin in that for now. But

01:10:03.220 --> 01:10:05.779
if you are out there listening and there is an

01:10:05.779 --> 01:10:08.880
iconic album cover that you feel Jay and I missed.

01:10:09.330 --> 01:10:12.649
chime in, email me at myweeklymixtape at gmail

01:10:12.649 --> 01:10:15.590
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01:10:15.590 --> 01:10:18.449
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01:10:18.449 --> 01:10:22.050
you would include on this list of iconic album

01:10:22.050 --> 01:10:24.829
covers. And Jay, as always, thank you so much

01:10:24.829 --> 01:10:27.289
for joining me on My Weekly Mixtape. Look forward

01:10:27.289 --> 01:10:29.090
to the next time, man. Thanks for having me,

01:10:29.109 --> 01:10:31.380
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01:10:52.010 --> 01:10:54.369
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01:10:54.369 --> 01:10:57.289
Mixtape, and I will see you next week with another

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