ah, welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not gonna say it. I there's something missing here tonight, something missing which was an intro. Yeah, we're live now.
Speaker 2:Um oh, hold on you know what I have to.
Speaker 1:I have to go uh into uh facebook and it makes me make the shit. I have to make it public so people can comment. So let me see Edit privacy Go public, okay, and I won't be able to see that. Oh fuck, I won't be able to see that at all. Hang on.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 1:How am I going to see the comments?
Speaker 4:It's not coming up in your screen.
Speaker 1:This is fucked.
Speaker 2:Great live show. It's an abomination this is so fucked right now.
Speaker 1:This is evidently people love to see failure.
Speaker 4:That's right, it's a train wreck, a train wreck and that's right.
Speaker 1:It's a train wreck, a train wreck, and that's exactly what's going on right here a fucking train wreck. Uh, and where am I live? I'm not even training. I'm live on this and I'm not even seeing where I'm live. Oh, you know what? Because facebook is still messing with me on one of my pages, I can see Mark's comment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just made a comment.
Speaker 4:I can't see them. Let me see. We'll read them to you Overlay.
Speaker 1:So you just wrote test, okay. Okay, I'll figure this out. This is going to be rough. This is going to be rough, this is going to be rough. It's unscripted, unscripted, and I just lost it again. Here we go. Okay, we're talking about 1981 tonight 1981 technology Mark don't know.
Speaker 4:1981 technology Mark's skipping out. My fucking computer won't update because I don't have.
Speaker 1:Wi-Fi. It tells me I need to get Wi-Fi, but it won't let me update, and so I have to go to my laptop. And then I go to the laptop and I have to plug everything into the laptop that I've never used for this before. Hold on. I need some strong coffee and uh, I need you know what I need?
Speaker 1:cheers, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you need. Um, yeah, it's the the facebook. The other facebook page won't they're? They're screwing with me on that one. It's not connecting with Restream, so I'm only live on one Facebook page, which is fine. It's not about that. It's about the fucking podcast, what I am. So that's right.
Speaker 4:I'm frazzled right now. Oh boy, 1981.
Speaker 1:If I was you, I'd be throwing a fucking mouse. I'd be throwing them. Do it. Uh, you know what? You know that I'm not gonna say we're streaming live where I don't even know where we're streaming live right now. Um yeah, thank you, amanda, for not having that wonderful introduction worst introduction ever. You know what? Let's just get right into it. I see like two little screens. I'm all over the place now.
Speaker 4:We're live on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're live on YouTube. It's just one of my Facebook pages. And what's funny is, Lou, I can't see your face. I have like live covering your face because it's's the shortened screen. I had to mush the screen so everything slides over okay, I see lou's body and then I see a square that says 1080p right on his shoulders well, you know he's your buddy, so why don't you switch us?
Speaker 4:Oh my, face is coming. That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1:Do you hear what Lou said?
Speaker 2:Lou said it, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1:Who did I talk to twice in two days? That's right.
Speaker 2:That's right, you're right. I have to show.
Speaker 1:Lou, I have to show Mark some attention sometimes. Yeah, he got some one-on-one time this Sunday and Monday. Yeah, yeah, that's always good, well, only because Lou won't answer the phone much.
Speaker 2:I'm sloppy seconds.
Speaker 1:Lou looks at the phone. He says I don't have enough time to talk to this fucking guy right now.
Speaker 4:Between you and your brother sending me attachments I cannot open.
Speaker 1:Well, you got to get rid of that Razer phone. That's not a Razer phone. You got to get rid of that Nokia.
Speaker 2:Chocolate phone Chocolate.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's get right. Let's get into 45 poker. Let's just jump right into it. So the object of the game is I have a box of 45s, mark has a box of 45s and a box of 45s and we're talking old 45s, like the little records for you, gen xers and gen zers that aren't listening um, and you know, each one it's a single. So we got singles and so I'm going to pull out one at a time. Three of right, you know two rounds of three, and then mark will come in with the flop card as mark shows his box and I get the exact same box, which is still fucking hilarious to me.
Speaker 2:What did it? By Deloitte and Touche?
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, okay, here we go. Here we go. Let's pull it out. I'm going to start with me. Let's start with me this week. Okay, it's all about you. I'm not looking. I it's all about you Not looking, going to pull something, pull it out, let's see, oh boy, capitol Records. No, dunhill, dunhill ABC. Yeah, dunhill ABC. See, right there, I don't know. See, you can see it. Yeah, but it's a Capitol sleeve.
Speaker 2:So Jeremiah was a bullfrog 47-year-old dust on that yeah.
Speaker 1:Three, it was a bullfrog, 47 year old dust on that. Uh, let me, yeah, three dog night, three dog night. Let me serenade you on one side and, oh, jesus storybook feeling on the other side. I'm all that's, I don't know what to write down those were singles those were singles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a loop, I'm assuming that capitalizing on on the popularity of them at the time yeah, just fucking release, release, everything right, yeah, um, okay, let's go to mark. Here you go mark, let me get my. We got got RSO, records, rso Records, right. All right RSO with the pig.
Speaker 2:Small breeches Ever Clapton.
Speaker 1:Cow that looks like a pig. Now you have, I get my nice headphone. I get my new Shure headphones on tonight.
Speaker 3:Yes, they're a lot lighter.
Speaker 1:Nice, I do like those old ones. These, these are, these are really nice headphones, nice for summer, it's the ear fatigue yeah, ear fatigue. Uh, all right, all right, mark, get a good one. It was a hit. It was certainly a hit uh, yvonne elliman, if I can't have you, oh yeah yeah love that song yep, that was a good one written by the gibbs, the gibbs, yeah yeah let's see, yeah, it says, uh, from saturday night, fever blah, blah, produced by, uh, freddie perrin perrin p-e-r-r-e-N.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, alright, here we go. This is for Lou Lou, here we go. Bell Records. Bell Records. Wasn't the Fifth Dimension on Bell, records, I think they were. I think they were. Let's see, oh boy, oh lou, vicky lawrence, you know what song it is connect to listen out in georgia that's right, that was a biggie. Right there, buddy, he's in the lead.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I can't have you.
Speaker 1:It's pretty big too well that's true, we're gonna have to go to. True, we're going to have to go to the numbers. We're going to have to go to the numbers then.
Speaker 2:I think we're tied.
Speaker 1:It'll be on like gold All right, right now we'll call it a tie. Let's see what garbage I can fucking salvage.
Speaker 4:We have to check the country charts on that one too.
Speaker 1:So my brother, he's watching on YouTube and it says right. And so my brother, colin, just comments in is this you live? No, this is yeah, it is. It's live via videotape. Yeah, sheep, it's live via pre-recorded videotape. All right, what do I get at? Go records Records, atco Records. What do you know about them?
Speaker 4:Lou Cream maybe, no, I don't know. That's a late 60s record.
Speaker 1:Okay, I haven't looked yet.
Speaker 4:I put cream on them, but I'm not going to go.
Speaker 1:Let's see Atco Records. That's what the label looks like. Could be a good one yeah, could be, could be, could be. Uh, but it's, but it's not, it's not a good one, it is not a good one. Uh, oh, wait, wait a minute. The cornelius brothers, oh, it's too late to turn back down. Good song, man, I believe. I believe, I believe I'm falling in love, right, that got me in the game. Yeah, got me in the game.
Speaker 4:That's one I would have picked, gotten picked for me. Okay all right. Almost not quite top 10. That might have been a bigger hit than we think.
Speaker 1:It has longevity. It's still played today. It's more than a middling R&B hit. Yeah, yeah, all right, here we go, let's get. You know, I have to move the screen because I I can't. Well, it's not going to make a difference. Not seeing like lou's face, just it's kind of just weird man.
Speaker 4:You see hands. Weird, it's like hands I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's like shoulders. I see a whole torso. I see the microphone. It leads right up to the little box.
Speaker 2:All right, Anyway, back to Capitol Records. What are you, buffalo Bill? I see a torso, I see shoulders.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go, mark. Another Capitol Records, another Capitol Records. Frankie baby, ooh, this is a good one, all right, yeah, mark's, definitely this is going to be tough. He's got wings, Let him in. Oh, that's a good one, so he's got two charters right there. That could have been number one, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Somebody's knocking at my door. All right, lou, let's see Got to get a goal somebody's knocking at my door.
Speaker 1:Alright Lou, let's see gotta get a goal yeah, it's from. I don't even know the name of the fucking record company here we go.
Speaker 2:Willie's Records, acme Record Company arranged by.
Speaker 1:Russ Turner and Gene Payne. Is it Stone Diamond Music Company? No, it's Tamiya.
Speaker 4:Tamla.
Speaker 1:Tamla Tamla Records. Yeah, Okay. It's subdued, it's like how the fuck do you read that? Oh, it's Stevie Wonder's label, right?
Speaker 2:It's like how the fuck do you read that like oh, it's stevie wonder's label. Right, it's done with the bottom.
Speaker 1:So I think so uh, well, the the artist is, uh, smoky robinson. Oh okay, he was pretty good, smoky robinson. Uh, baby, that's back at you. Or, just passing through, maybe that's back at lucy. You jinxed yourself, buddy, one of those middle-of-the-road.
Speaker 3:R&B songs you jinxed yourself.
Speaker 4:I've heard that song.
Speaker 1:It's not a bad song, but All right, I mean Mark definitely, unless he pulls fucking. Yeah, like unless he pulls Disco Duck out of his ass, there's a hit. Yeah, and I got disco duck out of his ass.
Speaker 4:There's a hint.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I got too late to turn back now and storybook failing on a three-dog night Lou has just passing through or baby. Back at you.
Speaker 2:Baby got back at you.
Speaker 1:And Vicky Lawrence night the lights went out in Georgia and Mark's got wings let him in and Yvonne Elliman. If I can't have you. I don't want nobody baby If I can't have Lou.
Speaker 2:All right, so I'm picking for Scott. You got the flop card.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just finish me off. Put the fucking bullet in my head.
Speaker 2:Soul City Records. Soul City Records Great Spectacular. Yeah, finish me off, put the fucking bullet in my head soul city records. Soul city records, great spectacular yeah uh, wait a second, it's the fifth dimension. Oh, this one's a little tricky though. Medley aquarius, let the sunshine in.
Speaker 4:That's it man, it man.
Speaker 1:That's the hit.
Speaker 4:That's the one.
Speaker 2:And the Flesh Failures, no the medley.
Speaker 3:Okay, that was the number one I think it was huge.
Speaker 4:It was huge. Okay, it's two songs, but where they segue into the Let the Sunshine End.
Speaker 1:Oh, so I got Cornelius Brothers in that. Oh, I might pull this one out again.
Speaker 4:I'm going to need Stairway to Heaven or something.
Speaker 2:They didn't Too long for a 45. Come on, mark, give yourself some garbage. I might have just pulled this one out. I might have pulled it off. Wait, hold on. I got to look over here a second now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, come on junk Fucking disco duck. Yeah, yeah, come on, junk Fucking disco duck. Come on Columbia Records, Columbia.
Speaker 2:Records Blood, sweat and tears. Oh, oh, you've made me so very happy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go. That's the winner, that's sealed it for you. That's sealed it for you.
Speaker 2:You know, the away fans can just go home. It's over, game's over. But let's see, here comes Lou.
Speaker 4:It's the Archies, donnie and Marie.
Speaker 2:It is a signed Elvis Presley 45. He wins now.
Speaker 1:Signed huh.
Speaker 2:By who Me White whale record? White whale record. Jesus, have you ever heard of white whale records? White?
Speaker 3:whale records. Ever hear white whale?
Speaker 4:mobi didn't mobi dick, his mobi dick by led zeppelin renee and renee, oh, lo mucho ktk oh, what do you have that fucking 45 for is the question.
Speaker 2:Back with Mournin'. Do you know these songs?
Speaker 4:I don't think so. I doubt it, I shouldn't.
Speaker 2:I got it from one of my sisters, I don't know man.
Speaker 1:Wow, it was a hit, though Not that big of a hit Sorry Lou, not that big of a hit, and the winner is Mark Smith.
Speaker 4:He's got two. Now Got two wins under his belt. I'm smart, he's smart.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Wait, we're quiet. This isn't good. Enough of that. Wait, we're quiet. This isn't good.
Speaker 1:Enough of that, I had one 45 left in the box. I haven't shuffled this in like fucking two months. The last 45 before I reshuffle is Andy Gibb. Love is Thicker Than Water. That's biggie. That was biggie. That might have been his first one wasn't it?
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh, by the way, shut, I'm going to shuffle these for next week. That's biggie. That was biggie. Yeah, that might have been his first one, wasn't?
Speaker 3:it yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, by the way, scott, I'll be shuffling these for next week. What's up? If you put the show on YouTube on your phone, you can see all the comments.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm doing. Ah, look.
Speaker 4:Check out the fucking brain on schmitty tom I saw.
Speaker 1:I saw that my patch dog show means my brother just doesn't have the patience and he's gonna just he's gonna wait to watch it because I don't see I don'tone's comment.
Speaker 2:Is he commenting on YouTube? Yeah, Wait wait. Oh, I think I blocked him forever from my phone. That's why he's on the restream.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, he's on the restream, let's see, I lost all the comments on restream.
Speaker 4:Allison's apologizing for being late.
Speaker 1:Oh, she's apologizing. How dare you Really Allison's apologizing for being late, oh she's apologizing. How dare you, really, really, how dare you Allison, how dare you?
Speaker 2:Allie, go back and watch the beginning of the show. You won't apologize.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know we were live.
Speaker 1:You definitely won't be apologizing, that's for sure. I wish there was just another way I could fucking watch. Let me see 6, 6, 6, nine, nine, nine. And let's see how do I pull up.
Speaker 2:Fucking thing. So, Lou, you know that. Uh, we're going to fill in here that blue is your cult Facebook page. You turn me on to those. Those are like really cool people on that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I haven't heard any contentiousness yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope I don't. Yeah, there's just a bunch of old music fans like us, you know.
Speaker 4:And apparently there was a Long Island Hall of Fame ceremony and it was the two guys that are with BOC now the bass player and the drummer, jan Witt, joe and Albert Bouchard. So there's a picture of the four of them. Oh wow.
Speaker 2:That's Pretty cool. Pretty cool Was Randy.
Speaker 4:Jackson there. I hope he was. Who knows, they were outside some building. Everybody looked happy. Why are you?
Speaker 1:guys talking about Blue East Cult. They suck.
Speaker 2:There you go, they suck. You've been talking to Perry, Perry Dedovich and Tom too.
Speaker 1:Why are you talking about them? They suck. No, the new album sucks.
Speaker 2:If you like the new album, you suck, you don't know what you're talking about the new album sucks.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Fact, fact.
Speaker 1:Let's see Okay, let's jump into. I'm going to have a hard time reading this.
Speaker 2:I can tell you that Get new specs.
Speaker 1:Let's see, all right, oh my God For some reason, I think we already did 81, but I'm going to do it again anyways.
Speaker 2:You got a very clean ceiling there, Scott.
Speaker 1:Oh fuck me, Look at that.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:I'm glad this isn't like like the primary, you know.
Speaker 2:Somebody's watching tonight because they heard about the show and they said let's check the show out. We have a lot of money to invest.
Speaker 1:It's not in that show the guy from Wayneville. January doesn't give a date. I'm assuming it's between the 1st and the 10th, because the next one is on January 10th. Nearly a year after the suicide of Ian Curtis, the surviving members of Joy Division plus Gillian Gilbert, now under the name New Order, released their debut single, ceremony Single. In its B-side it's a Lonely Place are both re-recordings of songs originally written and performed by Curtis. What do you think of that?
Speaker 2:You'd have to buy it Controversial.
Speaker 1:What do you think of that right Something? Doesn't sound right about that.
Speaker 4:They released it. What should they have done with it?
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, he wrote it and he performed it, and now they take it, they re-record it, make it theirs and put it on their album. You know what they should have done?
Speaker 2:write fucking new songs, or did they think they were paying tribute to him?
Speaker 4:or yeah did. I'm sure he's got a credit on it.
Speaker 1:Maybe some of that money went somewhere all right, still seems lazy, I don't know. I don't know if I would do that, but how long was their?
Speaker 1:career as new order not not long with like something okay four years, maybe, I think, maybe, yeah, uh. January 10th 1981 a revival of the gilbert and sullivan operette, the pirates of panzance, opens on broadway starring linda ronstadt rex with. I remember they made a big deal out of that, that's right, yeah, yeah, uh. January 11th 1981, uh, country singer Hank Williams Jr releases his 32nd album, rowdy certified gold. January 18th 1981. Oh, this one, she was a. I don't know a lot about her, but I'd love to see a documentary on Wendy O Williams from the Plasmatics oh yeah that she had more issues than fucking sports illustrated.
Speaker 1:Tell you that uh, wendy o williams of the plaza is arrested in milwaukee for simulating masturbation with a sledgehammer on stage. In a scuffle with police, williams is pinned to the floor and receives a cut above the eye requiring 12 stitches 1981, not 1965, but 1981.
Speaker 2:She was arrested for that.
Speaker 1:She must have really been working that sledgehammer. She must have really been working that thing. I don't think there was simulation there.
Speaker 2:I think it was probably a sex act are you saying she got water from a stone?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh, uh, um. On january 24th 1981, aerosmith lead singer steven pedophile tile tyler is uh injured in a motorcycle crash that leaves him hospitalized for two months.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that.
Speaker 4:Was he riding on the back of it?
Speaker 1:I don't know, february 9th 1981, phil Collins releases his first solo album, face Value, whose opening track In the Air Tonight popularizes the gated reverb drum sound that would become ubiquitous. Ooh what a word Ubiquitous, ubiquitous, ubiquitous, yeah, ubiquitous For the next 10 years. While the album would end up a smash success, collins would remain a member of Genesis until 1995. February 12, 1981, rush released the highly regarded album Moving Pictures. There you go. You know what I forgot to do tonight.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah, that still works hey, scott, how you doing hi, scott, I forgot to do that I like doing those seems like a real show now.
Speaker 4:What's that? It seems like the real show now yes, it's the show is official. Now we've got our big dramatic opening.
Speaker 1:No music, nothing look at my microphone. Who do I look like?
Speaker 2:well, you need to have the light on half side. That's Bane.
Speaker 1:I got the mic right here For sure, for Bane. No, hey Perry.
Speaker 2:How you doing, oh, mark. And then this is me. I got to go to bed, guys. I got to go to bed, guys, guys, I got to go to bed.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see. Yep, they release moving pitches, which eventually becomes the band's sixth platinum album. Valentine's Day Valentine's Day, as I know people to actually say that. 1981, ultravox reached number two on the UK singles charts with Vienna. Ultravox reached number two on the UK singles charts with Vienna, but despite huge radio play and massive sales, it has subsequently held off the top position for two consecutive weeks by Joe Dolce's novelty song Shut Up you Face. That's cruel Ultravox. They were held back by Shut Up you Face.
Speaker 4:Are you?
Speaker 1:fucking kidding me Like oh Lord, oh Lord.
Speaker 4:Utter humiliation.
Speaker 1:Oh man, how could you live that down? Also, on Valentine's Day 1981, Billy Idol leaves the band Gen X to begin his solo career. He's in the Rock Hall of Fame right.
Speaker 2:Believe. So I remember being kind of disappointed, like really I know he had a lot of hits, but of all the other bands not in there, Well, considering what's in there now, he should be in there, didn't he coin the term Generation X?
Speaker 1:Did he name it Gen X?
Speaker 4:He was the first person to use that term. Yeah, okay, makes sense.
Speaker 1:February 25th 1981. The 23rd Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Paul Simon. Christopher Cross, with his self-titled debut album and its single Sailing, becomes the first artist to win all four General Field Awards and a single ceremony controversially beating Pink Floyd's the Wall for Album of the Year. Wow, wow, ooh. I don't know If I knew that I forgot about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's because Michael McDonald sang background. What is the biggest?
Speaker 1:slap in the face Jethro Tull beating Metallica for Heavy Metal Band or Christopher Cross beating the Wall for Album of the Year. What's the worst travesty?
Speaker 2:Jethro Tull, because that's like a bad referee making a bad call at a game. Right, they shouldn't have been in that Metall. So that's metallica had the bigger slap in the face, really, I think I mean it was terrible that the wall didn't win, but it was, uh, two albums of music. But for a non-metal band to kick out a metal band for winning a category, they should have won.
Speaker 4:You know, I wonder how many people had both copies of the wall and christopher cross me. Yeah, well, they were both big albums I bought them both.
Speaker 2:I was 10 years old. I bought them both.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah oh yeah, big head, todd the wet sprocket, I'm here entertain me, hey, what did I miss? I listened to the beginning of the show. You missed everything we missed. Then you'll find out. I don't have much to say about what you missed because I still don't know what the fuck we missed.
Speaker 2:Just go back and watch he'll laugh, yeah, yeah he'll.
Speaker 1:he'll relish in this. Oh, speaking of relish, uh-oh, he was mentioned too.
Speaker 2:You can't say that word, Remember. The lawyer said no.
Speaker 3:I like how you're both in the sunlight.
Speaker 1:I like how you're both in the sunlight. That means it's normal. Up there now it's not like dark. You guys are in these fucking dark dank.
Speaker 4:It's going to get dark soon, though. I'm under high wind alert too, so I might lose internet too. It's windy up here too well, let's get this shit done.
Speaker 1:March 14th 1981, suffering from bleeding ulcers, eric Clapton is admitted to the United Hospital in St Paul Minnesota. Clapton's 60 city tour the US, the US is canceled and he remains in hospital for a month. You know how? You can tell how someone, a British person, wrote this. Because in America we say the 60-city tour is canceled and he remains in the hospital for a month, the British say he remains in hospital for a month. They never put the in front of hospital. Oh, he's in hospital.
Speaker 3:Well, you're at lunch.
Speaker 2:You're at lunch. You're at dinner. You're in hospital. He's in a bit of stress.
Speaker 1:Mark, how did you even come up Like how do you? Where did that compare? He's got the sugar, if I wasn't in such a fucked up place on my computer right now.
Speaker 2:Penalty box oh yeah, Lou, we can't get put in the penalty box.
Speaker 1:I can but I have to rearrange my screens, and well, you're not fucking worth it.
Speaker 4:I had my fill last week.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go, here we go. March 21st, moving right along, 1981, yellow Magic Orchestra released their fourth studio album. And nobody gives a fuck album. And nobody gives a fuck uh. March 27th 1981, ozzy osbourne notoriously that's. I add that in uh becomes a a bigger legend that he ever, ever, ever could have been when he bites the head off of a dove at a CBS record label gathering in Los Angeles. There's a picture of that. He's got the fucking little blood spill on his fucking head and he's holding it with his teeth.
Speaker 2:What the fuck, how fucked up do you have to be to do that, to kill a fucking dove a white, dove I can see a bat. If he did that today.
Speaker 1:If he did that today with social media, he'd be fucking destroyed. It's like shooting a puppy.
Speaker 2:Did you read his book?
Speaker 1:Any chances of her becoming a vice president?
Speaker 4:candidate. She shot a fucking puppy.
Speaker 2:Did you ever readzzy's autobiography? So he alludes to going outside naked with a trench, coat on and a rifle and killing all his chickens one morning. He had issues, I mean he, and he felt bad about it, but he said, you know, next thing, I knew all the chickens were dead. Like he blacked out. And I think maybe he blacked out when he did that too, you know he was on drug, he was doped up, he was drunk and fucking high and yeah it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's always regretful the next morning. Right loo, that's right.
Speaker 2:It seemed like a good idea at the time when you got that chinese food on your right covered in blood and feathers like what the hell?
Speaker 1:Or your nose is bleeding as long as you're only bleeding from your nose. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go. April 1st 1981, the Go-Go's signed to IRS Records.
Speaker 2:Awesome, I love me some Go-Go's.
Speaker 1:April 4th 1981, british pop group Bucks Fizz wins the 26th annual Eurovision and nobody gives a fuck. April 11th 1981, van Halen's lead guitarist, eddie Van Halen, marries Valerie Bertinelli. April 12th 1981, soviet orchestral conductor Maxim Defects.
Speaker 2:Shostakovich.
Speaker 1:Whatever the fuck his name is. April 18th 1981, yes, announced that they are breaking up, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:That drama tour didn't do too good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they would reunite. I was going to say the first of many. And then it says they would reunite frequently in the years to come. April 20th 1981, the mamas and the papas. John Phillips is sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty not to pedophile. That's the other guy, isn't it? Oh no, that was peter paul. Peter paul and mary uh, sentenced to five years in jail john phillips.
Speaker 4:Mckenzie phillips said that he he raped.
Speaker 1:Oh that, that's right she did yeah, she did say that, yeah, whoa whoa, is that his daughter? Yeah.
Speaker 2:One day at a time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one day at a time. Yeah, yeah. So that's a screwed up trio. Well, that's what she hey. Once you make the accusation, there's no pulling it back, it just popped up now.
Speaker 4:He was popped up now he was all he was in rough shape. Jagger was babysitting them. One time I read in rolling stone where uh, jagger was trying to help phillips go straight, jagger slept with her too. That this is documented. She was like 16, yeah and uh, but he said, like john phillips had like these like quarter million dollar royalty checks stuck like in the couch. You know, the guy was just all this money to burn, just totally out of it though.
Speaker 1:Yeah Gross. He pleads guilty to drug possession charges. That sentence would be suspended after 30 days in exchange for 250 hours of community service. April 22, 1981, Eric Clapton is taken to the hospital suffering from bruised ribs and a lacerated shin following a car accident. He's having a rough year in 81, huh.
Speaker 2:Lacerated shin. Did you ever clock your shin on something, man?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, dude, I have two scars. I have two scars identical Like one about an inch above the other, right on the shin bone. Uh, one of them. I forget where the first one came from, but the second one, a quarter inch piece of fucking plywood slid down this fucking piece of wood and hit me right in the shin. Ouch. And you know, quarter quarter inch plywood isn't light. Number one and number two it's fucking sharp edges. It's fucking. I'm like, oh, not again. And the thing about that is when, any when anything hits your foot, you stub your toe, you bang your shin, anything down the lower extremity of your body, it takes about two seconds to two to three seconds to get to your brain. You know it's coming. It's like, oh, here it comes, one, one thousand. And then it's like, ah, you know it's coming, it's like fuck me here and it's excruciating, which is torturing itself.
Speaker 2:Knowing here it comes, you bring the pain yeah, try breaking your femur cleanly in half and saying to yourself when's the pain gonna hit? Because that happened to me and I said to the paramedic I don't feel anything yet is it coming? He goes, we're gonna medicate you just leg twisted around all right, let's see.
Speaker 1:April 26th and 27th and 28th, gary newman performs three sold out farewell concerts at wembley arena. People forget he had a huge following. Yeah, uh, following his announcement to retire from live work at the height of his popularity, he returned to live performances less than two years later. Yeah, he goes out on tour today and he still sells out wherever he goes. It might be smaller clubs, smaller venues, but he still has a following.
Speaker 2:He's got a loyal fan base yeah.
Speaker 1:April 27th 1981, ringo Starr and Barbara Bach marry. I remember that.
Speaker 4:Let's see. Didn't they make her in the filmmaking of Caveman?
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably. Yeah, Was that 81? Yeah.
Speaker 4:So they made Zug Zug on their wedding night. What the fuck, dude. That was part of the dialogue. Penalty box, penalty box, penalty box. I kind of already in it, because you can't see me Fuck you.
Speaker 1:You're testing me, Lou. You're testing me.
Speaker 2:I thought you guys were friends. I guess you're not. We're all friends.
Speaker 1:I'll be calling you a lot more, mark, don't worry. All right, here we go, may 2nd 1981.y coming up on a hardy uh, british vocalist. I thought she was scottish sheena easton, me too, she's british, I thought she was scottish yeah, I'll do a check yeah, hits number one in the us with morning train. My baby takes the morning train. I got to Penalty box. She sounds just like that, following a swift rise to fame as a result of a reality TV show.
Speaker 2:She was born in Belshill, Lancashire, Scotland.
Speaker 3:I thought so.
Speaker 4:She was on a reality show. They had reality shows.
Speaker 1:Then she made her big appearance on Miami Vice.
Speaker 4:She was Crockett's girlfriend. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:May 9th 1981. Adam and the Ant single Stand and Deliver. Stand and Deliver. A big adam ants fan uh did yoko ono just make a guest appearance. Todd yeah uh enters the uk singles charts at number one. It remains at number one. So adam and the ants, they, they pop in at number one. They're rolling along and malcolm mcdowell comes along and breaks them up like what the fuck?
Speaker 2:how do you break them up? What do you do?
Speaker 1:again, he had the convinced the ants to uh kick him out of the band, and then they became bow. Wow, wow yeah brought in the fucking uh, luella, luella, whatever her name is uh, the drummer went to um.
Speaker 4:Tears for fears, I think did he?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think yeah, he was never an official part of Tears for Fears they weren't having any of that, that's right. That's why they didn't play Live Aid. He's still Joe Walsh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, not an Eagle, no.
Speaker 1:Nope, let's see. It remains at number one for five consecutive weeks and will sell over one million copies, becoming the year's third best-selling single. How do you fuck that up like you bring in a manager who just totally stabs you in the back, happens a lot. May 11th 1981. It was a very sad day, although at the time I didn't really appreciate. I didn't care like that. But as time went on I became a bigger fan and I started to respect Bob Marley. But he died on that day, may 11, 1981. Very young, yeah, at the age of 36.
Speaker 2:Yep 36. By the way, I just saw the sun set. That's incredible. One minute it's blinding.
Speaker 4:and then boom, that was cool, he's not paying attention, scott I think his screen froze, you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, um, I can't be put in the penalty box.
Speaker 1:No, no, you guys are fucking chalking up, fucking ious I'll tell you, you are chalking them up. I might do the first 15 minutes next week with you guys sitting there watching in the penalty room. Hey cool, I'm adding up time as we go. I'm taking notes of time. Video of soccer I assessed it all in one time.
Speaker 2:I saw the sunset. It was cool.
Speaker 1:Okay, may 14, cool. Okay, may 14th 1981, diana Ross signs with RCA Records, leaving Motown, her label, for 20 years. That was a big coup. Well, in 1981, she got paid. How much do you think she got paid to sign that contract with RCA?
Speaker 3:One.
Speaker 1:Four million.
Speaker 3:Take a guess Four million More.
Speaker 2:I'm going to do 12 million.
Speaker 4:More.
Speaker 2:What 50.
Speaker 4:Lower 45. Lower 36. 40.
Speaker 2:Lower lower 31.
Speaker 4:Lower I'm doing this to drive the listeners crazy by 29, just it's below 20 000, but above 10 it's 20 million.
Speaker 1:She signed, which uh is the most lucrative recording contract in history at the time I wonder, if they recouped that, I mean she had hits but that's a lot of money in 81. I don't know how much more she had in her after that. There must have been some bidding war, yeah. Well, I wonder what came with it. You know her catalog and everything, and maybe, yeah, so mark, you're, uh, you're flickering her catalog was not written by her.
Speaker 4:no, that that's right, it wasn't yeah.
Speaker 1:May 15th 1981, a riot breaks out at the Ritz Rock Club in New York when Public Image Limited plays behind a video screen while completely different music plays over the club's speakers.
Speaker 2:Wow, those assholes, what Wow.
Speaker 1:They played behind a video screen screen. They're playing while different music is coming over the speakers. What, how does? What is that even all about?
Speaker 2:unless they just had a bad sound mixer. Was that part of the whole?
Speaker 4:show tour, was that just a?
Speaker 1:one I don't know, may 16th 1981, adam and the ants tops the uk charts. Uh, album charts for the 10th consecutive week with kings of the wild frontier. It's a good album. Yeah, uh, may 30th 1981, a reformed the human league have their first commercial success as the sound of the crowd climbs to number 12. I don't remember that that was on the uk singles chart. So, uh, june 4th 1981, you two appears on the tomorrow show with tom schneider, I've seen video of that he's great is he alive?
Speaker 1:uh, no, oh I don't think he is I don't think he is. That's great, let's see for that. That was their first us television appearance, june 5th 1981, the tv series night flight they you know what you ever see that on facebook they have their own channel now and no, they had some interesting shit on night flight tonight on night flight right usa was a network back wow yeah, they had um night flight would have like weird, they'd have music, they'd have like concert footage they they never host.
Speaker 1:I don't think it did, it was just a voice. Yeah, with that logo, that that kind of real 80s logo. A variety show featuring yep music, documentaries and videos is premiered on the USA Network. June 6, 1981, kerrang Magazine publishes its first issue, angus Young, is on the cover.
Speaker 2:I have a ton of them in a box somewhere. I've got to find that was a great magazine.
Speaker 1:June 30, 1981, jerry Lee Lewis is rushed to the hospital in Memphis for emergency surgery for a tear in his stomach. Ouch, despite being given less than a 50% chance to survive, he eventually pulls through. That's why he's the killer, that's right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, just from a tear in your stomach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's all. It is July 13th 1981.
Speaker 1:Something ripped me out. July 13th 1981, Duran Duran released the single big one Girls on Film, accompanied by a highly controversial music video that is censored for airplay on MTV and banned by the BBC. So I started listening to Public Enemy again, right, Just kind of started popping into it and I loaded up to my finely manicured playlist on Spotify and there's a song on there called by the Time I Get to Arizona, and it was written because New Hampshire and Arizona were the last two states to not recognize Martin Luther King Day, right, and so I think New Hampshire finally broke down and Arizona was holding out. So Public Enemy writes this song the time I get to Arizona, and the video was only played once on MTV. It's like there's a whole segment of them killing politicians, like going into the office and shooting them and hanging them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that might be a little edgy.
Speaker 1:It was fucking great. It was fucking great. Just a little edgy. It was fucking great, it was fucking great A little, just a little edgy. Never showed it again. That was like 1990, I want to say it was two, 1992, maybe 91, 91? Yeah, I haven't looked for the video recently but I remember that was a whole big deal. Man, I didn't see that, let's see. So yeah, july 27th 1981. Stevie Nicks releases debut solo album, bella Donna. I love that album Sold four million copies.
Speaker 2:Someone watching loves that album.
Speaker 3:Four hits on it.
Speaker 2:My sister Allie, every time, stop Dragging my Heart. Came around, she'd blast it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Her favorite album, yeah Right Allison.
Speaker 1:August 1st 1981, mtv broadcasts for the first time on cable television in the United States, playing music videos 24 hours a day. First to air is, as we all know, what it was the first song.
Speaker 4:What was?
Speaker 1:it Video killed the radio stuff. Oh fuck you, I can't believe. I just fell for that Penalty.
Speaker 4:And there ain't nothing you can do about it. No, that was just me, you just got me.
Speaker 3:That was it Come on, Lou he's hosting.
Speaker 2:He's under pressure.
Speaker 1:Leave him alone. Oh, we're having a night here. That's why my mood is like I'm not as ornery as I usually am.
Speaker 2:I'm just fucking getting through this and we won't take care of the dedication of that.
Speaker 1:No, way, I should send you a picture of my setup. It's, I mean, it's not bad, but to me it's fucking. It's chaos. Um, I got a laptop on one of those, the telescopic stands that you can put them on and raise them up.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's how I'm looking like Nobody cares. Also, on August 1st 1981, the success of Stars on 45 leads to a short-lived medley craze. Yeah, the most successful imitator of Stars on 45 format. Rather unexpectedly, the royal hill philharmonic orchestra, who's hooked on classics, parts one and two, reaches number two in the charts. So wasn't that that? That?
Speaker 2:song in the 70s.
Speaker 1:Life is a rock. Life is a rock.
Speaker 3:Life is a rock.
Speaker 1:Don't they mention all these fucking?
Speaker 3:groups and all these songs.
Speaker 4:B-Bumble and the Stingers yeah.
Speaker 1:Look at you, I didn't even. I brought that up. Yeah, like a rap.
Speaker 4:I want to rock, but the radio told me or something, but the radio told me August 15th 1981.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it paid off Recorded this. So she signs a contract with RCA. But Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, recorded for the song for Motown, oh, and it was used as the theme song for the film whatever.
Speaker 4:Blue Lagoon, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:I don't know, produced by Richie and arranged by Gene Page Endless.
Speaker 3:Love.
Speaker 2:The movie.
Speaker 1:It was released as a single from the film soundtrack in 1981. Yeah, how did that happen? They must have paid RCA to use her.
Speaker 2:I don't know. August 23rd 1981.
Speaker 1:The violent femmes are discovered by members of the Pretenders busking outside a Milwaukee venue and are invited to play a 10-minute acoustic set as a second opening act in the Pretenders show that night. Wow, you know they're still touring.
Speaker 2:Who Pretenders or Violent Femmes? Violent Femmes, yeah, they didn't know too much about them.
Speaker 1:No, they were the best band in the world at playing untuned guitars, right. That's kind of the thing it made. They made it work. I mean, they really fucking made it with that that's got to take a little talent to make that work right, not like the.
Speaker 4:They might be giants in a way, you know two guys or three guys, but you know they go. We're gonna play the snare drum, yeah you might not play a full kit Right.
Speaker 1:Whatever. September 5th 1981. Soft Cell tops the UK single charts with Tainted Love Ah great one. And it was a hit in America too. September 11th 1981. Iron Maiden fires lead singer.
Speaker 2:Paul D'Anno there you go Best thing they ever did, even though he was singer. Paul D'Anno, there you go Best thing they ever did, even though he was good.
Speaker 1:You know where we've hit our stride. When I can just stop and one of you just answers it right away. You know the difference between my hesitating when I say something and when I'm looking See how this works. See how this works. Synchronicity works, synchronous, smooth. And to think one of these days, one of you two is gonna fuck this up.
Speaker 3:Oh, really well, one of you, I didn't say you lou.
Speaker 1:I just said one of you two, because you're gonna have, life is gonna get in the way and you're gonna have to go. And I don't have to. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:I'm just always waiting for the other shoe to drop you mean, like one of us all have to leave the show.
Speaker 1:I knew it was going to be, jack. It was eventually going, it was just a matter of time after. It was going to be like oh, I talked to Jack today. He said hello, gentlemen.
Speaker 2:Cool, Say hi Jack.
Speaker 1:I will, let's see. September 19th 1981, Simon and Garfunkel perform a free reunion concert at Central Park attended by 500,000 fans. This was the year of Adam and the Ants. Adam and the Ants have their second chart-topping single of the year, as Prince Charming reached number one in the UK singles charts, remains at number one for four consecutive weeks and becomes the year's fourth best-selling single. So they had two out of the top five best-selling singles that year.
Speaker 2:And Malcolm McLaren goes and fucks it all up.
Speaker 1:September 25th 1981, the Rolling Stones opened their US tour in Philadelphia. I remember that one. So that was the Tattoo you tour right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And they put out the live album from that tour which sucked.
Speaker 3:How can?
Speaker 2:you put 45 minutes of music representing a Rolling Stones show.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:Start me up.
Speaker 1:Start me up the next day, September 26, 1981, Iron Maiden hires.
Speaker 3:Bruce.
Speaker 1:Dickinson.
Speaker 2:Who is that?
Speaker 1:Huh, bruce Dickinson, beat me to it. Actually this is how it says. It says Iron Maiden hires Samson, lead singer Bruce Bruce.
Speaker 2:That was his name in Samson.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's stupid Bruce Juice. Was it just Bruce Bruce or Bruce Bruce Dickinson?
Speaker 2:I think it was Bruce Bruce. I had a Samson album. I think that's what it said on there. Was it just Bruce Bruce or Bruce Bruce Dickinson? I think it was Bruce Bruce. I had a Samson album. I think that's what it said on there.
Speaker 4:Was it any good?
Speaker 2:It was Samson they were good, they were okay, but he definitely got better. Bruce, bruce, bruce-y. It's Sunday morning, bruce juice on WNW.
Speaker 1:October 16th 1981, the Human League released Dare, a huge commercial and critical success. It would spend 69 weeks on the UK album charts, including 4 weeks at number 1, certified platinum in the UK and gold in the US. October 26th 1981 Iron Maiden plays its first show with Bruce Bruce, now known as Bruce. Dickinson as the new lead singer in Bologna, italy. Bologna, bologna, bologna Don't piss off. Lou.
Speaker 4:As long as it's made of beef, yeah.
Speaker 1:October 27th 1981, the British phonographic industry takes out newspaper ads unveiling its new slogan Home taping is killing music. 1981, the British phonographic industry takes out newspaper ads unveiling its new slogan Home Taping is Killing Music Wow.
Speaker 2:Which made me want to fucking record even more.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 2:Those mixtapes distributed made a lot of bands more successful because you went out and bought the album. Yep.
Speaker 1:Yep, or you just recorded the album. Album you just fucking recorded the album.
Speaker 4:Hey, let me borrow your album and you didn't care.
Speaker 3:There was the occasional.
Speaker 1:There was the occasional. I paid for this. I paid for this. Well, let me fucking record it, but I paid for this really someone said that to you, no oh, because I'm sure somebody said that yeah, there's always people like that it's always people like that, but I paid for it. Why should I give it to you for free? Shut up, shut up shut the fuck uh, the ads advocate a levy on blank cassette tapes.
Speaker 2:I think they got it October 31st Halloween, 1981.
Speaker 1:Punk band Fear makes a memorable appearance on Saturday Night Live. The group of fans stormed the stage and damaged TV. I saw that A moshing result in the show cutting to commercial.
Speaker 2:That.
Speaker 1:Halloween I dressed up as Adam Ant. Did you really? I did it pretty fucking good too, I'll bet you.
Speaker 4:I looked like him when I was younger, I did look like him when I was younger, huh, you did really.
Speaker 2:You have pictures, you could no.
Speaker 1:Back then, 81, there was no phones. If somebody had a fucking Instamatic. It lucky, yeah, you know to be carrying around, but it became kind of a a thing, um, through the years with the ladies. Don't go any further than that, yeah, uh, let's see. November 18th 1981, while sitting in Tom's restaurant in New York City you know where this is going. Susanna Vega composes the song Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Speaker 4:I am sitting in the sweet.
Speaker 1:Now you know the whole thing behind that. Tom's Diner was an acapella song, right, it's just her vocals. So this group there's these two guys in la decide in the 90s they're going to take that and they're going to add beat to it, they're going to put, put music to it, and they came up with that. You know the whole. Yeah, yeah, real funky. It was a huge hit.
Speaker 1:So what happens is it becomes a hit in la, like k uh, ktla in in la, uh plays it. And it becomes and I was, I was there then when it, when all this broke it becomes a fucking monster, right. So, uh, suzanne vegas, people hear about this and they're like you can't do this. They're like this is a hit dude. Like are you fucking? You might want to roll with this, right, right. So they say okay, but she's gonna get, she's gonna start getting paid for this, right, yeah? So what they do is they grab all these clips of different videos from her and they put them together. So if you ever go and watch Tom's Diner, it's a collage of her old video clips, because they had to get something out to put out on the video so people would start catching on to this and that's a big hit. I still love that song.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's great. I'd never get sick of listening to it.
Speaker 1:It's a great beat.
Speaker 4:There was a single that she put on an album.
Speaker 1:No, it was just a single, A single okay. Because she had already put that song out on an album. Right, right. Like I said it was just an a cappella song.
Speaker 4:You know, scott, was that before or after Luca?
Speaker 2:After Luca.
Speaker 1:My name is Luca. I get beat up on the second floor. Oh Well, it was. That's what it was about. Yeah, she didn't say that, but that's what it was about.
Speaker 2:What were you saying, mark? It's funny Going back when you're talking about girls on film, and I was going to comment that. Anytime you're listening to the radio and you hear that, and then the drums come in for girls on film, you turn it up right. Same thing with Tom Steiner when I hear that, I turn it up.
Speaker 1:It's a great intro. That drum beat those guys. They did a good job. Dna was the name of it, let's see. November 21st 1981, orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. I never really caught on with them. They had a couple of good songs but they hit number three on the UK album charts with their third album, architecture and Morality, including three UK top five singles Souvenir, joan of Arc and Maid of Orleans. December 11th 1981, the Human League reached number one in the UK singles charts with. I Was Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar that much is true.
Speaker 2:I think you sang that to Jack one night, didn't you?
Speaker 1:No, I said that to him when I said don't ever forget, Jack, Don't ever forget that you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I first met you. Don't, Don't you want me? It's always a good one to throw at people, Like Mark, you can do it at work. You know you're talking to somebody and just fucking throw that line at them. Don't you ever forget.
Speaker 4:Like somebody that owes you something right. Well, I can use that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, big head Todd.
Speaker 4:You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't forget that. Don't forget that. It's better when you say it to a guy too. Oh, yeah, yeah, he was a waitress. I get punched my birthday, december 18th 1980. I turned 17 years old that year. I graduated when I was 17. Look at that December 18th 1981. December 18th an estimated 35 million people around the world watch a live satellite transmission of a Rod Stewart concert at the Los Angeles Forum. It's the first broadcast of its kind since Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii in 73. Wow, rod, really. I don't remember.
Speaker 2:I was drunk that night, so that's probably why I didn't watch that shit, just hitting a bunch of soccer balls into these, yeah.
Speaker 1:And on New Year's Eve, I love these ones, I love this. This is always my favorite. New Year's Eve, 1981, the 10th annual New Year's Eve, new Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC with appearances by the Four Tops Rick Springfield, barry Manilow, alabama. This is a perfect example of one of these does not belong. This is a perfect example of one of these does not belong. Four Tops, rick Springfield, barry manilow, alabama.
Speaker 2:and rick james bitch he probably was best, better than all the others.
Speaker 4:Rick james, what the fuck uh, let's see four tops, I think alabama alabama's. That's a sore thumb too. Yeah, the guy with the beard hey, that's the okra boys.
Speaker 2:no, there's a guy in al too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the guy with the beard. That's the Oak Ridge Boys.
Speaker 2:No, there's a guy in Alabama that had a beard, not the long beard, but he had the large beard.
Speaker 1:I love how the laziness of this, Also in 1981, it's like they found out this shit afterwards and instead of putting it in chronological order, they just add it to the end oh shit Like God, fuck this shit. Oh, by the way, what? Oh, by the way? Oh, it's an. Oh by the way. Yeah, let's see Alice Cooper drastically changes his appearance, leaving behind his trademark makeup and donning a military uniform.
Speaker 2:I don't know about all that. He was never much after the 70s anyways, those early 80s albums were not too long ago.
Speaker 1:Ah, this is see. This was my time. This is why Right here.
Speaker 1:Right here is why 1981 is when it all began, guys, usually a little before, but this is when Synthpop enjoys mainstream popularity in the UK, with groups such as Ultravox, depeche Mode, orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark and the Human League releasing hit singles and albums. Yep, yeah, and you know, tainted Love, don't you Want Me Baby? So it says the Human League's Don't you Want Me Baby? And Soft Cell's Tainted Love become the year's best-selling singles in the UK. That's where my synth pop infatuation began. Yeah, that was good. Late, late 70s, right into this. Uh, let's see. Brad whitford leaves arrowsmith. It was placed by rick.
Speaker 2:Don't do fee dufe poor rick dufe, because he did some great stuff when he replaced him, but that that era was just doomed to be. Yeah, rocking our place. Still still say it's a great album.
Speaker 1:Uh, let's see what do we got here. Which which category is this that I have now because I'm moving back. Done with that. Let's go previous page and let's go back to the previous page. This is a lot fucking easier sorry listeners, this is this is an one Bands that were formed in 1981.
Speaker 3:Ha.
Speaker 1:Bands that were formed in 1981. 10,000 Maniacs Ugh.
Speaker 3:I liked them, man, I liked.
Speaker 4:Natalie Merchant. I liked her alone. I liked her solo a lot.
Speaker 1:It was a nice change. I just thought it was a change and it reminds me of the Philippines too, In my tribe and all those songs it was nice to listen to in the middle of the night when you don't want to chase anybody around. It's another story. The Alarm was formed in 1981. Anthrax, anthrax, yeah.
Speaker 4:Asia, new York, one hit wonder.
Speaker 2:Super Band. Who's an Anthrax? Who's?
Speaker 4:an Anthrax.
Speaker 2:Scott Ian.
Speaker 4:Scott Ian, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:They did a great version of Bring the Noise with Public.
Speaker 3:Enemy yeah.
Speaker 2:And the Joe Jackson song Time. They did a great version of that.
Speaker 4:Really.
Speaker 1:Asia the one hit wonder, super band Bananarama, bananarama.
Speaker 4:My.
Speaker 1:Girls, my Girls, bananarama.
Speaker 4:And probably the most formed in anyone.
Speaker 1:These are formed yeah, and probably the most talented of all the girl bands at the time the Bengals, the Beastie Boys. Yep, the Beastie Boys in, formed in 81. Then there's this group, and I, I mean, they were everywhere. This fucking group was everywhere. They're called the Better Beatles. Remember them? No, that's the a reason. When you call yourself the better beatles, no one's gonna fucking listen to you. Did you know about them? No, no, I just saw that and I was like how dare you, yeah, really not even like you're an asshole.
Speaker 2:It's just how dare you you know must have been the gallagher brothers talk about trying to get fucking you.
Speaker 1:you know, attention, right, yeah, yeah, what you got.
Speaker 4:What do you have?
Speaker 1:What you got, I'm not even going to click on the link that shows me all about them. Fuck them the better Beatles.
Speaker 2:I'll take it. I'll take the hit.
Speaker 1:The better, assholes. Uh, big country, big country was formed. One hit wonders. One Hit Wonders, lead singer killed himself. Yeah, the Blow Monkeys. One Hit Wonders, what's that?
Speaker 2:I didn't know. He killed himself, hung himself.
Speaker 4:In Hawaii. Yeah, stuart Adamson, stuart Adams, stuart Adams.
Speaker 1:Adamson. Yeah, another Scottish band, the Blow Monkeys. Big Head Todd the Wits Rocket Like them too.
Speaker 4:Great name for a band.
Speaker 1:Yeah, had todd the wet sprocket, like great name for a bang. Yeah, the blow monkeys. They had a. Uh, they had a one-hit wonder. Tell me, why am I digging your scene? I must have died. Yeah, baby, I, I love. So todd sent me a bunch of his, his old vinyl and that was one of the extended play LPs in it. Wow, yeah, let's see who else was from the Butthole Surfers. Never bought into it, never bought into it.
Speaker 2:I listened to them for about six months and I got off it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Another band that said let's come up with a funky name.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, get a little attention. Culture club. Culture club was formed in 1981. Uh, let's see who else. Uh, dumpy's rusty nuts was was was lou, come on.
Speaker 2:That was where your band right in high school rusty nuts was formed in 1981 that's my next 45 poker pick.
Speaker 1:I think dumpy's rusty nuts yeah yeah, great uh force mds. Force mds was an r&b really kids there was. Some had a great song uh, uh, what is it? Uh? Some it was kind of a love song nice song, nice song, nice song, fun Boy 3 is one of those pop bands. British pop, yeah, pop Green Jelly. I never really I heard them and they were around but I never really focused on them much. The Honey Drippers Come with me.
Speaker 3:That was a good album.
Speaker 1:That was good. I liked it. I liked that shit he was doing then.
Speaker 4:That swing song they did. Yeah, Rockin' at.
Speaker 2:Midnight.
Speaker 3:Rockin' at Midnight yeah.
Speaker 2:That had Jeff Beck and, see a Love, had Jimmy Page right. Or is it the other way?
Speaker 1:around? I think you're right. The Hoodoo Gurus that had Jeff Beck and See a Love had Jimmy Page right. Or is it the other way around?
Speaker 4:I think you're right, I think so the Hoodoo Gurus never really kind of skirted that.
Speaker 3:It was all right.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see, let's go to the next page.
Speaker 4:You know I looked up the better Beatles did. Beatle covers.
Speaker 2:I was just reading, I was going to read that yeah, and they put out one single. It was a Beatles song.
Speaker 1:Lords of the New Church that was a kind of a it's Dark Wave type. They were like somewhat of a super group in that realm of Dark Wave. But British Metallica Metallica was born On 1981. California man of uh dark wave but british metallica.
Speaker 2:Metallica was born, uh, in 1981, the california bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah ministry al jorgensen's uh uh ministry, the first incarnation of them.
Speaker 2:That's the stuff I did at cpi. It was more techno, had a lot of beats.
Speaker 1:If a man wants to kill his own animal, that's his then they went to total industrial, like that was the biggest fucking left turn, and I listen. If there's a bigger left turn in music history, please fill me in on it well, you know what label they were on.
Speaker 2:I don't't like wax tracks you ever hear you guys I have.
Speaker 1:That's why. That's why I have you guys on the show. You know that shit.
Speaker 2:A little old cassette factory in hillsdale, new jersey was the sole manufacturer of wax tracks. So all those industrial bands were on that label and uh, so I heard all that because I was mastering, I was doing the production masters. So that's when I heard ministry for the first time. That greatest hits ministry with that. We just did that for about seven years.
Speaker 1:Every day is Halloween. Yeah, another one Every day, every day. Yeah, see, lou Lou Mark says he never contributes to the show. He's like you guys know. I just kind of I'm like he always, like he comes up with that. That's the shit I'm the color commentator.
Speaker 4:That's when he's paying attention.
Speaker 1:See what happens when you pay attention, Mark.
Speaker 2:No, I've got all these people. I've got all these people saying where's the show and I'm telling them where to listen to it. Seriously, I believe you. Nobody I know cares is on linkedin while he's doing the show.
Speaker 1:he's trying to no no, no, hey, I'll tell you my dating life is separate than my professional life my uh their professional lives is all that matters my other podcast, the vets connect podcast. Fucking, linkedin is the place, man, really. Yeah, yeah, that's a great network and that I'm getting, uh, some nice little traction with that over there, when I'm not looking for an executive like Lou I don't even look for executives because I'm married to a PhD. So, I can't go below that.
Speaker 4:No, you can't. I'm trying to go uptown.
Speaker 2:Well, Lou just showed a flash of class. We're trying to do the same thing. Watch this.
Speaker 4:Uptown Lou, I'm rearranging my cataracts, mark, that's what.
Speaker 2:I was doing oh.
Speaker 3:Oh, all right.
Speaker 1:Motley Crue was born in 1981. Born, they shut up. Nina, nina, the important to shout out, nina, nina, uh, the infamous hairy armpit girl, that's that, she, she's legendary, acceptable on her. Yeah, I it, dude, that was. If you ask any fucking kid from the 80s about 99 loose balloons and nina, they're gonna say hairy armpits. She mortified america, fucking mortified us like. I was like damn she's hot, oh she's cute. Look at her. And then she has that black tank top on and she lifts her hands up. It's like, ah, Ah, what the fuck.
Speaker 2:I was 12 years old, so what does that tell?
Speaker 1:you about our society? Like fucking hair under the arm was like a total. Like ah, ah, she might as well have been a fucking alien.
Speaker 4:Well, when Dustin Hoffman did Tootsie, he had to shave all his body, hair and stuff and he told those he goes. I wouldn't do it. If I was a woman, he goes, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1:Well, he was way ahead of his time. Because that's all these fucking kids today do. Anyways, I'm going to shave my arms. Fucking metrosexuals, beta males, name them, they're out there. Pantera was born in 1981 they were like a?
Speaker 2:um, let me tell you something though did you ever hear their first album? They were like kind of hair metal. They were not that thrashy style, they were a different kind of they were trying to fit in mark.
Speaker 4:Yeah, do you remember the band, the old girl band pantera, by us around?
Speaker 2:that? Yes, yes, I think they're the ones I got told to take their name.
Speaker 4:I think so yeah, there's a old. Do you remember the band the old?
Speaker 2:girl band Pantera by us.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, I think they're the ones that got told to take their name away. I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was an old girl metal band called Pantera.
Speaker 4:Mark, your camera keeps flashing.
Speaker 1:I know, I know it's the whole night. Don't even mess with it, it's just the way this shit's happening.
Speaker 2:I might blow up my apartment. We're on a roll right now, so let's not fuck with this shit.
Speaker 1:Uh, reflex, the group reflex. You know the song, you know what their one hit wonder was no reflex politics of dancing oh yeah oh, okay, I saw them uh I saw them back up. Jonah, I'm a trading oh, the catchy song yeah uh, run, run, run run. Ddmc was born in 1981. Scandal Goodbye to you, born in 1981.
Speaker 3:She wrote a big thing, let's see.
Speaker 1:Oh, this group, this is a group that Lou the sex execs See.
Speaker 3:They were born in 1981.
Speaker 1:They're all 72 now so I don't know if Lou's you know, I was 20 in that band. A lot of metal bands. Slayer was born in 1981.
Speaker 2:You know what? You had the new wave of British heavy metal right now hitting from England. So these young guys like Slayer, they were picking that up, but they were making it something different.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, uh, sonic youth was born in 1981 kim gordon. I always liked her. Hmm, uh, solace has a sexy fucking voice. I've never heard her talk sexy voice yeah, but they're, they're, they're, they're rock, they're like an alt band oh.
Speaker 2:I know the music. I just was thinking talk, and I've never heard her talk.
Speaker 1:No, when she sings like she sings and says it sexy Soul Asylum, Soul Asylum in 81? Didn't they break in like 91? No even later.
Speaker 4:No, it was probably late 80s.
Speaker 1:What is the fucking? Oh, like the runaway train song.
Speaker 4:I think that was late 80s, early 90s and there was a 90s song they were formed in 81 when they were successful. When that album came out, they were on their last legs. Yeah, that was something they were. They were pretty done.
Speaker 1:At least they went out on top a little bit Then.
Speaker 4:that album kind of brought things back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Talk Talk was born in 1981.
Speaker 2:That was a good band.
Speaker 1:He passed away in the last couple of years. Tears for Fears was born in 1981. Tesla, the band I always said wow, is the probably the most intelligent music of that whole uh hair metal that they got caught up in which they didn't belong in I'm a cowboy no, they're a good band, they're really
Speaker 4:good yeah that's you guys. I know that one song they had they were roots rock.
Speaker 2:They had a they. You could say lids up on that. I hate saying that, but they had a 70s vibe about them.
Speaker 3:I'll send you one of their songs afterwards.
Speaker 1:It's a really good song. They were lumped in with the hair metal bands but they were more of a 70s style hard rock band. No Way Out was a jam. Yes, that was a fucking jam.
Speaker 2:And I love the guitar sound. It didn't have any effects, it was just in your brown sound, that's all yeah, tom Tom Club leftovers from Talking Heads, yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is only two of them so.
Speaker 3:Tina, and let's see what else. Who else was born in 1981?
Speaker 4:We're almost done here with this one.
Speaker 2:Wham, wham.
Speaker 1:Was born in 1981. Thank you, man. Okay, and Houdini, the freaks come out at night. Oh my God, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Things you forget about. You know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, bands that broke up in 1981. Let's see, you had. The Bay City Rollers broke up in 1981. On a Saturday night, I Saturday night, all right, the buzzcocks broke up in 1981.
Speaker 3:Uh, generation X yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, generation X, as we heard earlier. Uh, the knack broke up in 1981, but reformed in 1991. But uh, let's see Sam and Dave. Sam and Dave finally split up in 1981, but reformed in 1991. Let's see Sam and Dave finally split up in 1981.
Speaker 4:Sam didn't like Dave. Too many knife fights in the dressing room.
Speaker 3:Was it that bad they?
Speaker 4:hated each other's fucking guts. They didn't speak to each other. The last 10 years they performed together. Wow.
Speaker 3:Terrible.
Speaker 1:The Slits broke up in 1981. Steely Dan broke up in 1981. You know why?
Speaker 4:Because, that reformed in 93.
Speaker 1:And then Paul McCartney and Wings broke up in 1981.
Speaker 4:How do Wings break up? You know, it's not like. You know what I mean. It's Paul McCartney, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know that last Back to the Egg came out and he tried to tour and he got arrested for drugs and tour didn't happen. I feel bad for those new guys that were in the band on Back to the Egg, Lawrence.
Speaker 4:Huber and.
Speaker 2:Steve Holley, they were good.
Speaker 4:That was a good record. Actually, it was very good yeah.
Speaker 2:But didn't they have Tem, have temporary secretary on it? No, that's mccartney too, my the worst paul mccartney song to me. I know you and lou, you and perry like it. I just said temporary secretary I had fucking.
Speaker 1:I had a whole list, fuck me of you make the call and I fucking, oh, oh, you know what?
Speaker 3:Let me try. I'm going to try to pull it up.
Speaker 1:I think I have a way to pull it up. Hold on, that's what she said. Hold up, wait a minute, here we go. I think I can save this. I think I have enough intelligence here to save this.
Speaker 4:Let me see my friend Tiffany's here.
Speaker 1:Oh, what's up, Tiff? Let's see, I'm going to save this. I know I'm going to save this. Here we go. All right, docs, it's right here. I know I got it Lucky. I kept it and it's on the laptop. You're going to find it. You're going to pull it out of the air, but I got shit spinning everywhere. This computer's gonna crash. What it's gonna do, it's gonna crash how hot is it?
Speaker 4:hot like it's boiling hot right now it's a good one too fuck, come on, don't do this to me.
Speaker 2:No, don't do this to me so lou.
Speaker 4:Uh, what was the first boyster cult show you ever saw? It was 1981, actually, on the fire of a fire of unknown origin, tour, wow I never saw him.
Speaker 2:It was a letdown yeah because, albert buchard was not with him.
Speaker 4:He got fired, like the show before I went to see them, so they had the lighting director was playing drums like who the fuck is this guy?
Speaker 2:and you were. You were ready to see albert buchard I was ready to establish.
Speaker 4:And not only that, when I got to my seat, some kid, some young teen, was in it, thrown up all over. So I said where's your seat, kid? So was he young, young lou with chinese food, or no, no, no, he a porky. He drank too much Southern Comfort probably.
Speaker 2:Remember the old days you go to a concert and kids vomiting everywhere.
Speaker 4:It's constant. I was just like, oh boy, it was a lot too. I thought I like concerts, but I'm not really big on.
Speaker 1:After the show. I'll tell you what I used to do After the show.
Speaker 4:Oh, after the party this is a Patreon party. I think our band should play more than eight songs.
Speaker 3:All right, here we go Yay.
Speaker 2:This deserves another clap All right here we go Ring ring ring.
Speaker 1:What's going on? All right, here we go. What you put in you ready, yeah, you make the call. Yeah, you make the call. Uh, the first, the first shot is boston, first the cars.
Speaker 4:Okay, verse, okay all right mark, maybe not I didn't know if it was me. Oh no, he froze he pulled a loo ladies and gentlemen, scott mclean is frozen.
Speaker 1:Knew this was. Oh, am I back?
Speaker 2:kind of you choppy your video is choppy how's your uh wi-fi reception rolling, yeah, yeah around here I'm gonna shut close some of those tabs that's the tabs.
Speaker 1:I am, I am. I got a lot of open tabs. I need those, I need this. All right, can you hear me now? Yes, no, you can.
Speaker 2:You go in and out, you're fine and boom, wait, keep closing tabs. Do you have something running like a program? You don't need to run tab uh, let me oh shit, he put himself in the penalty box, so they only did eight songs in that concert they did long extended songs, guitar solos.
Speaker 4:You know godzilla. You know I can live without hearing godzilla, you know, but it was the big production. You know the whole. It's their lucky man yeah you know joe bouchard sang his obligatory one solo vocal hot rails to hell when there was. They've been doing that since the beginning. You know they had to get the drummer trained and he didn't learn all the songs well, he was the lighting director he was a All right, I'm good.
Speaker 2:Right now You're a little choppy, but you should be good.
Speaker 1:All right, let's get through this. Let's get through this. Yeah, all right, mark, you make the call. Foreplay long time or let the good times roll. This is Boston versus the cars.
Speaker 2:I'll go with my initial reaction when I heard foreplay when I was a kid Whoa Foreplay long time. It's Epic Gone with that.
Speaker 4:Lou. Let the good times roll.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're leaving this one up to me, huh.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 1:I gotta go Let the good times roll. It's not an easy pick, though I'm not saying that with surety. It's a gut feeling, yeah, yeah, it's like, oh, these are desert, it's always Desert Island. Right, it's always Desert Island. Yeah, okay, mark.
Speaker 4:Peace of Mind Okay.
Speaker 1:Mark, Peace of Mind or my best friend's girl gonna have to go with peace of mind.
Speaker 4:That's a great song lou, my best friend's girl I knew it.
Speaker 2:Great solo, great guitar work in that song.
Speaker 1:I'll go with peace of mind. I'll go a peace of mind, yeah, yeah, these aren't. These weren't easy for me to put together. Yeah, all right, mark more than a feeling, big one. More than a feeling, or you're all I've got tonight. I need you fuck more than a feeling, or you're all I've got tonight. I need you Fuck More than a feeling, or you're all I've got tonight.
Speaker 2:You know it's making me look like I'm not a Cars fan, but I'm going to have to go with more than a feeling To me it's overplayed. It's overplayed, but it is a great fucking song. It's so positive. It's the ultimate summer song more than a feeling.
Speaker 4:When you were young you know, lou, I don't care if you hurt me some more. I'm not the biggest boston fan. These are kind of easy for me actually.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, uh, I'll go with, you're All. I Got Tonight, yeah, mark, smoking or moving in stereo.
Speaker 2:Moving in stereo. That's a quirky song and I like quirky songs, so I'm going with moving in stereo.
Speaker 1:Are you sure you're not doing it just to break that? No, I like smoking.
Speaker 2:But you know what? The second side of Boston's debut is great, but it's a little bit less than the second side of Boston's debut is great, but it's a little bit less than the first side and it's a great song.
Speaker 1:It's like that Tubes album. The Tubes' second side of their debut album is the greatest second side in music history, if you ask me.
Speaker 2:Side two I mean, but moving the stereo is always weird. That's the weird side of the cars and I like that.
Speaker 4:I think I know what Lou's going to say. Actually, I'm going against the grain. It's smoking. That's one of the Boston songs I like the best.
Speaker 2:The organ solo is killer.
Speaker 1:You're switching it up, I like the beat.
Speaker 4:I like the whole feel of it. I like moving in stereo too. That's a hard call because it's such a weird song.
Speaker 1:Well, I have to go with just for one reason, and one reason only I have to go moving in stereo because Phoebe Cates Fast. Times at Ridgemont Eye.
Speaker 2:Does anybody knock anymore?
Speaker 1:Phoebe Cates Red Bikini.
Speaker 2:Is that the song playing?
Speaker 3:That's the song that's playing. Yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1:She's walking in slow motion. That is a great scene. That's the song, that's playing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, wow. She's walking in slow motion. That is a great. That's the scene right there, so I gotta go moving in stereo. Can anyone do? I'm gonna marry her can.
Speaker 2:Can anyone do judge reinhold's face when she walks in the bathroom?
Speaker 4:you're representative of captain jack's fish and chips has anybody commented? I'm missing, uh I'm missing comments on marie mary martin. I like the new name plates oh, okay um todd sockerman. You are ruining it for me, but that was earlier. Oh, I know his comment before that was yo, ono is back, and then you are. You are ruining it for me.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, that's part of my purpose here, let's see. Next one up is let me slide this over. I got to fucking you make the call, mark, hitch a ride. Hitch a ride or bye-bye love by the cars.
Speaker 2:Hitch a ride by boston or bye-bye love by the cars. I think the same reason I said most other songs. Hitch a ride is a summer, windy, hot day song is breezy. You know what that is. It's almost like uh, it's almost like yacht heavy rock. To me it's it's, it's really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going with that. All right, lou, hitch a ride. Or bye-bye love. Oh okay, I like that little guitar. I have to go.
Speaker 4:Bye bye love for the guitar solo yeah yeah, good structure all right what are you going with?
Speaker 1:scott, no mark, I'm going with. Bye, bye love. I'm getting a little. Bye bye love. Uh, mark, let me take you home tonight, or all mixed up all mixed up.
Speaker 2:I think let me take you home. Tonight is the one song on their debut. I'm just, and ironically, it's the only song recorded in a studio with different musicians, you know.
Speaker 4:But um, yeah, yeah I'm going with the cars.
Speaker 2:That wasn't the boston band on there they were bugging him and he went to LA and he recorded that song. Listen to the drums. They sound totally different than the rest of the album.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Let me take it Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go with. Let me see here.
Speaker 4:Dave Phillips says hello boys.
Speaker 1:Oh hey, Dave. Oh, all right, I don't have any fucking. This is crazy.
Speaker 2:Jeez, what's going on? Is it Friday the 13th?
Speaker 1:I don't know. This is out of control here.
Speaker 2:This is out of control that hole or something my name is bono and we're out of control, but we're flying by the seat of our pants.
Speaker 4:We're doing, there we go.
Speaker 1:It's the most underrated song on the album. Yeah, definitely the most underrated song. Love those vocals, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yep most underrated song love those vocals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my favorite vocalist in the band. I like his vocals better, yep absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's all mixed up. That's the song right there. That's a great song. You know what that is. I just played that right, and I don't know the 72 people that might listen to this oh my God, I'm nervous now Are going to go. Oh shit, I'm going to go play that.
Speaker 3:Oh, I forgot about that song.
Speaker 2:It's a perfect album track. You know those tracks that they're just as good as the singles, but they never made it to a single, yeah last song on the album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, last song on the album, right, okay, now we're gonna jump into a little bit of uh, bad company versus bob zieger, all right, so mark you make the call. Can't get enough bad company or bob seger. Rock and roll never forgets uh, I can't get enough.
Speaker 2:That's a great tune and you knew it doesn't sound good. Unless you turn it impossibly loud, the drums sound great, you know right.
Speaker 4:Great kickoff to their debut album same, because every little band in the 70s we all played that song. Yeah without fail. It was, it was is that, and that had freebird, obviously, but can't get enough.
Speaker 2:That was and shooting star. Every band I was in played Shooting Star. Okay, well, okay cool. Do any of you remember Wayne's World 2, when Christopher Walken was dancing to that with Tia Carrere? He's like let's go dance. And then they're playing it in the club and he's doing, he was dancing.
Speaker 1:Good, you know Well he's a trained dancer, so he's one of them. Old school Hollywood guys. Guys, man, excuse me all, right. Next one bad company, bad company, right the song bad company, or night moves love them both.
Speaker 2:But night moves to me is is so. It's so eerie when he does. Woke last night to the sound of thunder that just that hit me as a kid. Hearing that line, I'm gonna go with night moves, that's like. I love his ballads, bob Seger, you know so.
Speaker 1:I gotta go with night moves too, yep, although bad company is a good song it's a fucking good song, but Night Moves is one of those songs. Yeah, it's definitely uh Ready for Love. Ready for Love, bad Company or Main Street that's a tough one, real tough.
Speaker 4:That's a double A side man.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I think Ready for Love is a great jamming song.
Speaker 2:It's so 70s, it's typical of that sound. But again the haunting melodies of Bob Seger. I got to go with Main Street that you know the guitar and everything, main street ready for love.
Speaker 4:It's my favorite bed company. It's my it's my favorite bed company song really, and I think I think the drums are fantastic on it. Yeah, he's a guy. No one talks about simon kirk. He plays very high. Yeah, no, I, I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I gotta go ready for love. It's not. Yeah. And again, as I said earlier, I don't say that with ease, I don't say that surely. Don't call me surely With surety. I don't say it with surety. Alright, last one, gentlemen, last one. It's kind of a Bob Dylanylan one. Um, all along the watchtower, jimmy hendrix version, of course, all along the watchtower. Or hurricane by bob dylan pistol shots ring out in a bar room night, all along the watchtower. Now, this is your playlist.
Speaker 4:This is your desert island playlist hendrix's version of all on the watchtower I'm going with it's
Speaker 3:hendrix's version, of course, that's nah, that's not, and I hate to say it, and I hate to say it love you too but even their version isn't that good.
Speaker 2:You know, um, I'm gonna go with bob dylan, because when you play hurricane loud it's epic. I'm gonna go with hurricane great lyrics definitely hurricane. I love that album too yeah, is that more cup of coffee? Isis sarah?
Speaker 1:yeah yeah, I gotta, I, I have to, I have to go with Hurricane Just a great story. The violin that they incorporate into it, yeah, and it's just the pace of it.
Speaker 4:The pace of it is constant. The drums are cool. It's a real driving song too. It's got a great beat and some of the language he uses.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A little different than Ricky Lee Jones going the N word out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah he's just a crazy.
Speaker 3:He's just a crazy.
Speaker 1:Hold on one second.
Speaker 4:He could have been the champion of the world.
Speaker 1:He's just a crazy.
Speaker 2:Hey, you got it, man, you can censor yourself yeah yeah, yeah, I don't think youtube will definitely shut me down on that one now.
Speaker 1:Do you all right? Do you remember the first time, like when I first?
Speaker 2:heard that song. My sister had the album and I played it and I'm a young kid and I'm listening to the story of the song. I didn't know about ruben hurricane carter, so I was enthralled with that. It's like one of the first songs I heard where the lyrics were like captivating to me.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, not everybody was behind that song either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah because he only spent like 40, 40 years behind the course yeah, I mean he didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did help get him out, though, and then he goes and gets arrested when he gets out again for domestic violence or something like that. Yeah, yeah, I remember that happened. It was like, oh, it wasn't a big deal, but of course they made a big deal out of it. Let's see top 10 this week in 1981. I can't stand it. You're moving around. I can't stand it. You're moving around. I can't stand it.
Speaker 1:You're running around. I can't stand it. I do like that song. Eric Clapton and his band Great drums on that song.
Speaker 4:That's Roger Hawkins With Muscle Shoals.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 1:You know what? I forgot about that, so I'm gonna have to Put that into my Finally, my finally, procured playlist.
Speaker 3:Spotify playlist. I got to make a new one. I got to start a new one.
Speaker 1:I just keep adding, and you know what A lot of it is the same songs I've had in other places. Like I can't lose them, I try to put all new music in, but I eventually end up putting old songs that I just can't shake them.
Speaker 2:I can music in, but I eventually end up putting old songs that I just can't shake them. I can't fucking shake when you do shows like this. Like I talk to you guys and I talk to lou and perry on music relish, I remember old songs so but I look them up, put them in the playlist yeah number nine this week in 1981, living inside myself gino Vanelli.
Speaker 1:Inside myself. Number eight this week in 1981. While you see a chance, take it. Find romance and make it. This was a big one. This was a big one. Number seven this week in 1981. Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Collins.
Speaker 2:This was a big one Number seven this week in 1981, Betty Davis' Eyes by Kim Collins. She's got a day.
Speaker 1:Great song. Didn't really care anything after that. But she left her mark Number six this week in 1981, Rapture by Blondie, Number five this week in 1981 on the singles charts Kiss on my Lips. Rapture by Blondie, Number five this week in 1981 on the singles charts Kiss on my list. Daryl.
Speaker 3:Hall and John Holmes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, number four this week in 1981 on the singles charts. Angel of the Morning. Juice Newton, you are my angel of the morning. That's a cover, just get the fuck out of my bed.
Speaker 4:What was your name? I thought that was it. That's a cover from like a late 60s kind of country song, but she had a bigger hit.
Speaker 1:Oh, Juice Newton, it was more of an upbeat song right, oh right oh, yeah, yeah didn't dolly parton do the original angel of the morning?
Speaker 4:I think it was her um, I don't, I don't think so, I don't know I've heard dolly parton uh old of dolly parton album I don't think that's the, the country hit that it was in yeah, seven or whatever dolly did, I will always love you too.
Speaker 2:You know she did a lot of songs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, number three this week in 1981 on the singles list oh boy, when smokey sings baby being with you. Being with you, I'm saying when, okay, not the song, when Smokey sings, but when Smokey sings.
Speaker 3:Being with you, being with you.
Speaker 1:Ah, smokey, that's my motherfucker, right there.
Speaker 2:The best from that scene from Motown. I love Stevie Wonder, but Smokey did so much work that other artists in R&B have done too. I just discovered in the last five years how many songs he wrote that he didn't sing. He's a. He's a modern day classical composer, smoke you know, right yeah yep, and that's the.
Speaker 1:That, that's the abc song. When smoky sings, he talks about it, he talks about in there. You know what does he say? Says uh, um, uh, marvin wasn't, uh wasn't, uh was an innovator. And talks about Sly Stone. And he talks about James Brown. James Screams, but nothing could compare when Smokey sings.
Speaker 4:Perry just chimes in and that's it no.
Speaker 3:I'm reading this Angel of the Morning with Merrily.
Speaker 4:Rush oh, yep, 1968. Oh, it was no. I'm reading this list.
Speaker 1:Angel of the Morning with Merrilee.
Speaker 4:Rush.
Speaker 1:Oh, yep, 1968. Oh, it was, oh, okay.
Speaker 4:Do you remember the little?
Speaker 1:commercial. Dave Phillips says Smokey is the man right. He wrote my Girl. Is that what he said? Yeah, my Girl. Betty Davis Eyes Great Cha-Cha. Perry says Merrilee Rush, Angel and more. No, I see them right now. Eric Clapton, son of a bitch, is braver and getting braver. Yeah, that's Hurricane. I'm just catching up on these, Don't mind me. Number two this week in 1981 in the singles charts Just the two of us, Grover Washington Jr. Oh smooth, Just the two of us, grover Washington Jr.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's a good one, smooth. Just the two of us, and there's someone else on that.
Speaker 1:We can make it if we try.
Speaker 2:That's the sailing of smooth jazz. Sailing is the ultimate yacht rock song. That is the ultimate smooth jazz song. Right, just awesome. Yeah, yeah, that was one of the ultimate get it getting down.
Speaker 1:That's a warm-up, that, that, that's all. That's all the uh, that's the precursor, that's the, that's the what do they call it? The petting right before you have sex the boston song. That's a foreplay song right there, just the two of us. That's a foreplay song. Right there, just the two of us.
Speaker 4:That's a four-play song right there. That's Bill Withers on that too. Really, Bill Withers.
Speaker 1:And Greg Washington. Yeah, that's right. Yep, and number one this week in the singles charts in the great year of 1981, my baby takes the morning train. You get Sheena Easton Morning Train. My baby takes the morning train, sheena Easton Morning train. Let's go to the top ten album charts, although we're going to talk about albums next week, but there was a lot more than ten of them last year.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're going to discuss that.
Speaker 1:In that year. So we're going to talk next week. We're going to do the albums and movies of 1981. See, I'm finding these new rabbit holes. Oh, I just fell in a rabbit hole. Nurture these. We might go back and do other years that we might have maybe touched on instead of really focusing on.
Speaker 1:Let's see Number 10 this week on the album charts in 1981. Dad Loves His Work by James Taylor. Number 9 this week on the album charts in 1981, Double Fantasy, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. She has to get the credit of the damage.
Speaker 4:She fucking didn't do anything. Todd Salkin just said goodnight Lou, Mark and Yoko.
Speaker 1:Fucking asshole. Love you, todd. Yeah, fuck you, todd. Yeah, fuck you. Todd oh, fuck yourself. Number eight this week on the album charts in 1981, Dirty Deeds Done Dirty by ACDC. Number seven this week on the album charts in 1981, another Ticket by Eric Clapton, number six this week on the album charts in 1981. Another Ticket by Eric Clapton, number six this week on the album charts in 1981. Moving Pictures by Rush. See, these match up a little bit. These kind of have a little match up to the top tens. We've done years where it's like this fucking top ten song but the album's not one song from an album makes the top ten. It's weird. Let's see uh, number five this week in the album charts in 1981. Wine light by grover washington just the two of us number four this week on the album charts in 1981. Not such a great album, but face dances I like that face dances tonight.
Speaker 1:The who. It was kind of I don't know that face. The song is kind of quirky to me. I don't know no highs you better.
Speaker 4:You bet on it. Yeah, and the creepy song don't let go the code that one is about another tricky day.
Speaker 2:That was a good song, yeah, I like.
Speaker 4:Tricky Day yeah.
Speaker 1:Number three this week on the album charts. Arc of a Diver, Steve Winwood. Number two this week on the album charts in 1981. Paradise.
Speaker 2:Theater. It's a great song. It's got a whole fucking album that will make history paradise. It's a great song.
Speaker 3:It's the album it's got tonight's the night that will make history.
Speaker 2:That's a great song.
Speaker 1:You're definitely over the penalty box next week. You're starting to show off in the box.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna show my vinyl with the laser etched sticks logo on it.
Speaker 1:You're fucking going you're going, dude, keep pushing you're gonna get a fucking major? You're not.
Speaker 2:You're in a double minor right now. I'm out of control. I'm out of control. I can't stop now.
Speaker 1:Snowblind. Hey, mark, do me a favor, can you check some hockey?
Speaker 2:scores. You know what I'll put on the TV.
Speaker 1:No, just go in the Google NHL scores Number one this week in 1981. This was a biggie on the album charts High Infidelity.
Speaker 2:The REOSB wagon.
Speaker 1:You know what's funny about that album I bought it years later on CD.
Speaker 2:It was a big album but there's a lot of songs on it I don't like, like it had to me a lot of filler, like you know, but those singles were great.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I can't stop loving you, that's a great record. What does Perry mean by Yacht Rock? Sounds more like crotch rock.
Speaker 2:He doesn't like Yacht Rock. He doesn't like it.
Speaker 4:It sucks.
Speaker 1:Hey, Mark, was that Rolling Stones album you were talking about earlier? No, that was a comedy.
Speaker 2:Still, I think it was called called still life. It's a live album. They had their cover of um, that old r&b song, um shit. Remember they had a hit with a live song going to a go-go. Remember that when they had that, that was on that album that's right, yeah, by the way, yeah, boston is tied with the nicoleys. All right, what period? It'll be? Third end of first. All right, what period End?
Speaker 1:of first. Oh, okay, good. The album of the year, right? Christopher Cross was ranked at number 27 this week. It's an awesome album.
Speaker 2:That was a climb to the top right there. The Wall's my favorite album of all time, bar none but that Christopher Cross album. When you look at the musicianship in it Eric Johnson was on it, Michael McDonald, it's an awesome album, Michael O'Martian.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, he was a pretty hot guitar player in the studios. Yeah, I just see a live show with America and he came out and did some of the Dan Peake songs.
Speaker 2:Michael O'Martian.
Speaker 4:No, eric Johnson, no, the guy with.
Speaker 2:Christopher Cross. Oh, he's a great guitarist. Did you know that he filled in for Richie Blackmore at a Deep Purple show back in 74? Really, yep, it's true, it's been authenticated.
Speaker 4:I believe that he was known as a session guitar player, I think yeah before he had a solo record.
Speaker 2:And richie met him years later and he thanked him. He said thanks, yeah, he couldn't make it.
Speaker 1:But imagine buying tickets to cd purple and there's a guy you don't know playing guitar, you know well, yeah, jesus, yeah, it's almost as bad as going to see black sabbath.
Speaker 2:Oh stop it, fuck, that was a disappointment fucking, fucking, devil horns shove them up his ass stop he's, he's dead right, this is a major.
Speaker 4:He is right, he's dead mark, he's dead.
Speaker 1:Oh good, oh, you're opening up a can of whoop-ass that is growing up.
Speaker 2:That was one of my idols. Stop, stop, stop, stop holy diva shut the fuck up brutal get some.
Speaker 1:Fucking that dude should have been in hair club for men, by the way. That fucking that hanging on to that shit. How do you?
Speaker 2:know it wasn't real. You never know Jesus.
Speaker 1:None of that was real, because he was fucking bald up top and he had long hair. He looked like a fucking heavy metal.
Speaker 4:Larry Fine from the fucking Three Stooges. It's like the Founding Fathers look in Arizona.
Speaker 2:I was thinking more uh, steve, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 1:Founding Fathers, look, the founding fathers, look, look at the line of the night right there. I get that. That's a bed. Personally, I think he was said it's curly like it's curly and it's wet, like he had fucking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he had the fucking. Uh, what do you call it? What do the brothers call that? The cherry curl juice? I was thinking more uh, I was thinking more.
Speaker 2:Stephen Wright he channeled right, that's a good call.
Speaker 1:That's a good call, all right, hey, you know what time it is. It's time for this Day in Music. We're moving right along this Day in Music. Oh, get the fuck off my screen. I can't wait till the show is over.
Speaker 4:Your camera guy. I can only see the top of your head now, I guess I can see your ceiling there we go this. I thought we were on the moon.
Speaker 1:There's your keyboard we'll just keep it like that for the rest of the show, can?
Speaker 2:I one-up, scott, let me get my camera.
Speaker 1:Now Spider-Man and Iron man are headless, right you?
Speaker 3:never turn Iron man on.
Speaker 1:Let me get through this fucking show Iron Man's off. Yeah, I know, because watch how it looks on the screen. Isn't that really bright. It's pretty cool. All right On my screen it looks really bright Like.
Speaker 2:No, it looks cool. It's got a little bit of a halo around um Liverpool. You suck Jorgen's retiring, quitting and you can't win a fucking game for him. You guys fucking suck Okay.
Speaker 1:Sorry for him. You guys fucking suck, okay, sorry, okay, bye, go ahead. This isn't. This isn't letting me go in. What the fuck is going on here? Something's required for me to read this. I. I think I have to bypass this day of music, gentlemen. I think I got this.
Speaker 2:Oh, jack, I'm not messing around with it, jack is listening now going damn it. I wanted to hear this day of music well, you know what?
Speaker 1:I don't have anything, I can't read it and I'm not even going to fucking deal with it. I'm done. Gentlemen, we had a good show. It was a good show. We fought through this bullshit oh God, almost two hours. But how am I going to fucking upload this now, oh shit.
Speaker 1:Well, this might not be coming out on podcast for a couple of days. I know, I know the hundreds of people are going to be disappointed. Whatever it is, I don't know, I don't know. But you know what, gentlemen, as I always say, I'm not even going to get the other shit. You know, you know you, as I always say, I'm not even going to get the other shit. You know, you know, you know, I always appreciate you. I want to thank you for your time, thank you for your knowledge and, most of all I always mean this Thank you for your friendship. You've been nothing but a plus in my life and a major asset for this podcast, a huge, huge addition that I was telling Mark the other day.
Speaker 1:It was kind of a rough start. You guys, our cadences were off. I couldn't figure out like Lou, I couldn't figure out your like and that's how I say it your cadence, how you talk, you stop and you start and you process things and then you talk and Mark is just like this kind of laid back and he doesn't really. And it was really a kind of a try to figure each other out and you guys had already known how I talk, but I can jump into things too. But it worked out. Everybody, you know people, oh, we love Jack. Where's Jack? But no one says that anymore.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see, Come on.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. You guys have established your own roles in this people. You have your followers, trust me. I get comments from people all the time. Uh, people love mark, they love lou, they love the whole thing.
Speaker 4:So that's why uh, what's that? Any professionals like resumes? I can.
Speaker 1:Just wait for me to hit fucking lotto. That's all you got to do.
Speaker 3:Wait for me to hit lotto. I'll take care of you guys for the rest of your lives.
Speaker 2:We'll deliver. Man, we'll deliver. Hey Scott, if Lou wins the lotto, we're going to work for him.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's fine. Hey, you want to buy milk crates from me?
Speaker 4:Name your price. It's up for sale. It's up for sale.
Speaker 1:Intellectual rights. Then Lou's doing the show, then me and Mark are the co-hosts. Lou gets to run the show. I can do whatever the fuck I want to do with it.
Speaker 2:Penalty box penalty box.
Speaker 1:Penalty box penalty box, but everybody listening and watching. Thank you for putting up with this disaster of a show that we just said this I had, I had. I was having a meltdown in my head the whole show watching this. You know how I like shit structured and fucking right.
Speaker 2:So you had that concert where the lights didn't work or the monitors didn't work. Every artist goes through that. Yeah, you can't hide it back there.
Speaker 1:Nothing was worse than when I first started doing the King of Facebook show, the live stream, and I had no idea how to use any of this equipment. And those were real life meltdowns right in front of everybody.
Speaker 2:um are they still up there? Can I watch them?
Speaker 1:yeah, they're all there go you can go to the uh, the youtube channel, it's the king of facebook youtube channel. Yeah and uh, there's 120 shows there or something. Wow, yeah, I did it all for through the since I started, you know, and and just like this show you watch it progress, it gets better and better. The better quality, better you know, you start adding shit in and taking the shit out, and fine, we can testify to that a lot yeah, okay, listen, you guys are the kings of that shit, fucking telephones.
Speaker 2:Hello Perry Lou, I don't want to overstep you.
Speaker 3:You're the kings of that.
Speaker 1:But everybody, I want to thank you for watching, thank you for listening. You are the engine that runs this machine. Without you, it would just be me talking to these two and that's always fun, as I always say doing this show for you. To quote my favorite artist, morrissey the pleasure, the privilege is mine and we'll be back next Thursday with a more well-produced show. Technical difficulties it might take me a week to get it fixed, but all right, everybody, let me open this up and say where do I oh end stream? It's there, it is good night.