Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Milk Crates and Turntables is a Music Discussion Podcast. Each week Scott chooses a different music topic and discuss and debate the good, the bad and the ugly side of that particular topic. Maybe you'll agree or maybe you'll disagree. Listen in and find out.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 161 - Celebrating Music's One-Hit Wonders
Join us for an unforgettable episode of Milk Crates and Turntables, where we celebrate the eclectic charm of one-hit wonders with the sharp insights of Perry Dedevich from the Music Relish show. With Lou temporarily out of action due to Hurricane Helena, Perry steps in to bring his unique perspective, diving into the rockabilly vibes of Kitty, Daisy, and Lewis. We share laughs about Lou's absence and our new show intro, before turning our focus to the nostalgic tunes that have left a lasting impact on our musical journey. Expect spirited debates over iconic hits like "Tainted Love" and "Take On Me," and a playful journey down memory lane with tracks like "Mambo No. 5" and "I'm Too Sexy."
Ever wondered how AI technology is shaping music content creation? We explore that very topic with our personal experiments using ChatGPT, creating intriguing games and trivia around one-hit wonders. While AI is improving, it sometimes offers hilarious inaccuracies, especially with classic bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Our discussions highlight the fun and unpredictability of working with AI, and how it spices up our show with dynamic, tech-driven interactions. We even delve into the infamous toilet paper shortage of early COVID-19 days, blending humor and nostalgia in a way only we can.
The episode wraps up with a nostalgic look at memorable tracks and personal stories. From the playful game of "45 Poker," where we pull classic records, to humorous anecdotes about tattoos and past school crushes, we're all about celebrating the music and moments that shaped us. Perry's contributions are invaluable, and we’re thrilled to promise more engaging discussions next week. So tune in, enjoy the laughs, and let’s keep the music playing!
Well, here we are, episode 161. Yeah, baby. And on this episode we have one half of the wrecking to his head Mark Smith, luke Colicchio, still recovering from Hurricane Helena that took on Asheville and Asheville won. I don't care what anybody says and in his place we have an AI. Yeah, add a little juice to the show. One and only Perry Dedevich from the Music Relish podcast or show, whatever they want to call it. So, yeah, it's going to be an interesting show. Tonight we're talking about one-hit wonders and what makes them a one-hit wonder, and all the other stuff that goes with milk pizza turntables. So sit back, enjoy the show.
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Scott McLean:Hey buddy, what's up, what's up, what's up. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. I'm so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside. Good show tonight. You know Lou's not here. Oh well, I'm sorry, I got ahead of myself. I drank a little too much double turbo iced coffee before the show.
Scott McLean:Let me start that again. Thank you, amanda, for that wonderful introduction. I would be remiss if I didn't say that, because young Amanda puts a lot of work into those, into that intro. So I do not want to disqualify that. Is that a woke thing? I disqualified you. I don't want to get into that. Mark smith is coming on, so I don't want to start that. It's too early, it's not, it's not even a thing. Forget, I even said that it doesn't exist, yeah, anyway. So good show tonight.
Scott McLean:Let me see I'm just running down my list here the new intro song I think it's pretty fucking cool and if you've never listened to them, right, it's a brother, two sisters, the father and the mother, and they're this band and they're called Kitty, daisy and Lewis, and go check them out. I mean, that song is just, it's just tight. It's just tight, let me. Let me get this connected. I want to. I said I want to play that without intro because it's just such a cool song and they have such a cool sound, so let's give them a little shout-out. Here we go, let's get this going. Let's see.
Scott McLean:I'm used to getting the copyrights now. Yeah right, love this shit. They all play their instruments, they all play every instrument, but the intro was this song. Love this song. You got that old school rockabilly sound and they dress like it. The mom playing the stand-up bass, dad playing the piano in the background and they jump around. Everyone plays the guitar, the drums, the harmonica. It's a great, great little band. Check them out Kitty, daisy and Lewis. Again, I'm going to get a copyright hit for this, but I don't care at this point. Two weeks ago I had 21, 22 copyrights in one episode and I'm still here. God damn it. So while this is playing, let's bring on the one and only Mark.
:Smith, the Rocky Smith, the Rocky Smith. What do you? Think buddy, can I? I love this. This is good, right, this is really good.
Scott McLean:While we're in the groove let's bring on the one, the only, the man that made this all possible, the one that brought the Wrecking 2 into the Milk Crates and Turntables universe, the germinator. He's quiet, he's a kingmaker. The one, the only, perry Denevich. Hello, hello, what's up, buddy? This opening music kicks ass. Right, it kicks ass, yeah, yeah.
:People should go listen to them. Nobody will hear what we say because you'll get a copyright claim.
Scott McLean:That's okay. No, you know what they do now. Let me turn this off, just in case. Yeah, you know what they do now is they'll say they'll monetize it, like whoever owns the song will monetize the video. It's not a strike against my channel, it's like I can't make money off it.
:Well.
Scott McLean:You're not.
:Well, you just made hot sauce. I've never been in it for the money.
Scott McLean:Correct, and if you monetize, then you won't be able to play any of that music. Yeah, oh wait, let's get this going. Here we go. Here's the chat. Well, the chat thing here it is. Patty says what's up guys, hey Patty, hello, yeah, he's awesome. My main man, marky, nice Good to see my man, Scott James Alston.
:I told James to check in tonight.
Scott McLean:There you go, buddy. He came in on a good show. Say the band's name again. The band is Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. Go check them out on YouTube and get a feel for how they dress. And the name of the song is Say You'll Be Mine. Where are they from? Do you know? I'm not sure, Mark.
:Keep talking, I'll find out.
Scott McLean:Yeah, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. They're not like a no, I don't know, I don't want to say and sound like an idiot. Well, I'm used to that. No comment there. Say no more. Wait, where's Lou when I need him? Who fucking Lou's out there cleaning up people's fucking houses and saving lives and drinking a lot of wine and you guys are jumping me. Your buddy's not here. I'm seven minutes into the show and I've been attacked.
:Here you go. Kitty, daisy and Lewis are a British band. British, yes.
Scott McLean:Wow.
:Yeah, they formed in 2000.
Scott McLean:Cool, yep, they've been around for a while. They've sold over a quarter million albums, and that's respectable for a band that didn't get a big push. Well, gold was half a million, so they are on their way, hopefully.
Scott McLean:Yeah, you know they're just a really cool, interesting band that I stumbled into when, you know, I think all the three of us are we're rabbit holers when it comes to music, like hearing music when I used to work, when the government was paying me handsomely, uh, toward the end of my career, like the last year or two of my career I was I was in international trade, which was, like you know, going from canine to international trade is like going to be from a plumber to a lawyer. You know, like it's all this is a lot. It's very kind of technical and uh, sometimes I would act like I was working and I would uh be listening to amazon music, and amazon music is pretty good at like connecting you with songs, just like this one, and I would go down all these rabbit holes and it.
Scott McLean:It was like I found a shitload of good music. Well, because you've liked that, perhaps you'll like this. Let's hear it. No, no, that's what Amazon does.
:Oh, that's what they do. Yeah, yeah, and you'll like this too, yeah.
Scott McLean:And it was usually good. Okay, so look at Patty. Oh, that's very nice of you.
:Patty. Patty is our super fan. I used to be in a band with Lou for years and we've written lots of songs together.
Scott McLean:There he is, lou and myself, yep.
:There, you go.
Scott McLean:Thank you All. Right, enough of that. Oh, now it's even bigger. Holy shit, take over the whole screen. How do I undo this? Do it Make it go away? There we go. Make it go away, please make the bad AI go away. Ai, yes, yes. And may I say that he's got a card.
:He's reading off a cue card. I've got cue cards. Oh, by the way, it's an index card. What's up? I had this prepared for Perry because you know, yeah, yeah, oh geez yeah. That's our resident. That's our resident. Ai saying hi, perry razor or something.
Scott McLean:Let's see something over here. Let me uh. All right, you know what, let's get into uh 45. Polka perry is a uh. Allison made it there. You go buddy there you go, that's mark's sister allison, yes, it is.
:Yes, it is vermont up in vermouth. Yeah, she for most.
Scott McLean:Uh, let me see. Uh, I'm getting getting text messages while I'm doing this, but I'm I'm speaking of ai. I'm going to test something out right now. Okay, um, let me see 20. Give me something like let's do a, I'm going to bring you guys in on this. Let's do a. Uh, you make the call, right? Yeah but how I have to do it into the AI, into chat, gpt is I have to say like 20 this or that, like, as opposed so 20 this or that as pertaining to like, rock and roll, like, or so, should we do it with one hit wonders, like and see if it comes up with one hit wonders versus each other?
:That's not bad, you know.
Scott McLean:So let's see 20 this or that, one hit wonders. Let's see what it does.
:Yeah, Perry, he laid off his writing staff, so he depends on AI.
Scott McLean:Oh, this is interesting, is interesting. Oh boy, this is actually pretty. It's getting better the more it knows me, and that isn't that, ai right it trains to what you want it to do. It's your friend. Yeah, uh, this is wow. This is this mark. Remember how horrible they were when I first started doing this, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Oh, this is good because this touches on pretty much everything that we're going to talk about Nice. And then should we do that after? Should we do it before or after we talk about One Hit Wonder, it doesn't matter right, we could do 45 poker. And then, yeah, we're going to do 45 poker. Then you want to do the. You make the call and then talk about because I, you want to do the, the, uh, you make the call and then talk about, because I'm sure all these songs are on our list, I'm sure that's what I wanted to hear. You make the call. Yep, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, we'll do that. And then it's pretty fucking good. Wow, perry, I don't know if you'd listened about, I wouldn't mind. Mark, I started doing this about a month and a half ago, yeah, and like more than that, you were doing food, you were doing yeah yeah, but I came to the music and it was like it was horrible, like I'm like these aren't even close, it wasn't even right.
Scott McLean:No, yeah, I did. I did a like a a fact check thing. I think it was like about emerson, like a palmer, yeah, and mark's like no, that's not. That's not the song. That's now. It came up with this, a sub song, and the answer was this song and it was trivia and you told me I was wrong and I'm like that was the elp and I said do not do it.
:Yeah, do not tell me I'm wrong if I know I'm not wrong, I was like no, I'm like hey, ai, doesn't lie, you lose the only time you ever had your back against the wall, you were like.
Scott McLean:But it says fucking ai doesn't know shit about emerson. No one knows shit about emerson. Barke, smith and yeah, yeah all right, there we go. That's this is let's not bring this into the music relish realm.
:Oh yeah, by the way, perry, there's no freedom of speech on this show. You can get in the penalty box for just anything. Oh yeah, watch the penalty box.
Scott McLean:Yeah, he won't put you in.
:He'll be nice to you.
Scott McLean:Oh, I don't know about that, dude Mark. I've been subscribed to this show since 2021.
:Longer than me Very familiar with it.
Scott McLean:But to be fair, he put himself in the penalty box. Perry knows my algorithm?
:Yeah, but to be fair, he has put himself in the penalty box many times.
Scott McLean:I have, yes, I have.
:We have to talk about operas. We have to talk about opera music.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, yeah, perry does know my algorithm so Better than any of us. Yeah, yeah, of us. Yeah, yeah, he can. He can read that, he can read the episode, he can read the room he knows your algorithms are regular and daily.
Scott McLean:Here we go all right, let's do 45 poker. For those that don't know, maybe first time listening, 45 pokers. I have a stack or a box of old 45s that our super fan, patty yassi, gave me. She sent them to me. They smell like patchouli and incense. Cool, uh, because she used to smoke weed in her room and she thought the incense would hide it. I've covered that story.
:Cool that's but it's still funny.
Scott McLean:So everything in her room smelled like incense, evidently because even her 45s look I I'll pull one Yep Smells like incense.
:Smells like incense Cool After all these years they were.
Scott McLean:And what's good is the odor. See, now I'm an odor expert because when you work a drug dog with US Customs, you have to understand odor and molecules and how it sits and how it permeates and the length of time and how it stays contained and yada, yada, yada. So I'm not only a professional storyteller, I am an odor expert. Wow, yeah, I'm diverse. Mark, You're odorous. I'm odorous-erungus from Gua. Look at Patty, she's like funny Scott. Now I don't know. There's no laugh emoji after that, so she might be going funny Scott.
Scott McLean:Are they pumpkin emojis?
:I don't know, I don't know.
Scott McLean:I think that was a funny Scott Like ha ha, no.
:I see emojis she put laughing Did she?
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, I don't see it.
:Yeah, they came through on my end. No, I think you're lying.
Scott McLean:No, I think you make, I think you, I see it, I see it. It says funny Scott. And then there's like four laughing emoji.
:I'm not seeing it on my screen. Oh, let me see, get a new computer, maybe I'm.
Scott McLean:No, I don't know. All right, well, I'll. I'll believe everybody but me. That's okay, all right. So whoever gets and you know where they were they uh, hits or shot. You know, they made the charts, and we usually are pretty good at saying that I win at the end of every. Well, this will be my first foray into 45 poker poker yeah, oh there, it is there now.
Scott McLean:As soon as she commented, I saw the fourth, it popped up. Now, here we go. That's not a good sign like it's gonna fuck up. It's coming. Okay, here we go. Mark, you go first with Atlantic Records, with the old pastel colors Right, that'd be good. Atlantic Records, the Tramps Okay, down at the disco. That's where the happy people go, happy people go.
:It's a midlines hit.
Scott McLean:You know what I'm missing? I'm missing my porn music. Yeah, what's wrong with that.
:While you put that on, I'm going to turn on my air conditioner. It's hot up here. You can do that.
Scott McLean:There, you go. A little down tempo, there you go.
:Of all the comments. I'm seeing them twice.
Scott McLean:I know Something's going to go wrong tonight, buddy. No, let's just roll with it. I'm going with it. However, this plays out. Let's see, all right, mark has the tramps. That's where the happy people go.
:Hey, perry, when I got up I didn't do what I did on the the roller show the other night. Right, my shirt was all the way down.
Scott McLean:It was embarrassing perry's, perry's first foyer, into yes, 45, polka. Let's see how he starts off. All right, it's a different kind of cover. It's slick. Right, it's a one off, it's a full cover. It's a full cover, wow, oh shit. Okay, all right, he starts off with good one from we'll go with A&M records. A&m records sticks. I want to make sure that's the 45. Yep, it is not sticks. Nope, this goes back to the 70s. It's billy preston.
:Nothing from nothing leaves nothing nothing leaves nothing, and then this is where you gotta have the whole land that beats the tramps that beats the tramps.
Scott McLean:Yes, it does. That was a hit, yeah right.
:Let's see what I pull. What's on?
Scott McLean:the flip side of that record. Let's see what I pull. What's on?
:the flip side of that, Scott.
Scott McLean:Oh it is. My Soul is a Witness. Never heard it. Yeah, all right, here we go. Here's an old Gotta love this A&M record sleeve. Gotta love these old sleeves. Oh, these old sleeves. Oh yeah, what do I see? A fork and a knife. Dinner plate. Yeah, it's the dinner plate. A and m getting a little funky. Uh-oh, gentlemen, I think I just took the lead you.
:Uh-oh, score. Yep steal his wheel stuck in the middle with you.
Scott McLean:Oh man, yeah, I think I just took the lead yeah, all right, mark's turn, see perry, I to pull two, and then Mark does the flop 45.
:That's what I'm good for is flop.
Scott McLean:He flops every episode Just saying Just saying All right, here we go. Hey, that's a hostile work environment.
:I don't like that it's not very nice.
Scott McLean:Call my HR. Yeah, yeah, that's Lou. All Call my HR. Yeah, yeah, that's Lou. All right, here you go, mark, from Capitol Records, the old green and black label. Wow yeah, capitol Records. It's kind of dark. They had the dark color like paper cover and Grand Funk had a few on that label. Yeah, uh-oh, this one might be a good one. Oh shit, mark mark comes up with wings. Let him in. Whoa, that's a good one. Somebody ring in the bell yeah, that's gonna be tough to beat.
Scott McLean:I think I'm in the lead. You are For now. For now, let's see what Perry has. I'm pulling out a 45. It is from 20th Century Records, okay, and well, you're not really going to be happy with this. Why? It's disco Leon Haywood, I know what love is, or I want to do something freaky to you. I am unfamiliar with both. That's probably a dance club. It was probably a club song, yeah. That had a little bit of play for a couple weeks on the radio type thing, I'm writing Perry Leon Freaky.
Scott McLean:That was a dead hand for me, right? Oh yeah, you started off strong with Billy Preston. Leon Haywood took you down, buddy. All right, I got to hang in here with this. This has to be a good one Come on.
:I know you got a mirror there. I don't you can see me. Yeah, the mirror's below the camera. Yeah, the mirror's below the camera.
Scott McLean:Come on, but my hand's right here.
:Yeah, you're looking at your hand in the mirror behind you, and what does that?
Scott McLean:prove If the mirror was on top and I could see like the names. No, because you can see what you're picking. I can't see, no he's not looking.
:I'm watching, even if I had a mirror I'm far away You're randomly grabbing a 45.
Scott McLean:Look, he's hungry for the win.
:Perry Mark is hungry for the win.
Scott McLean:I respect that Respect that he's almost like an ABC debate moderator.
:He'll keep me from playing guitar tonight, if I win.
Scott McLean:Hey, I'm quick on the click tonight, buddy Penalty box. All right, here we go. What do I got here From? Oh, this isn't good From Grunt. Records. Oh wait a minute. Uh-oh, what's the name of the record? Grunt? Uh-oh, it's from Grunt Records.
:Far out, far out records.
Scott McLean:Jefferson Airplane or something you got it, buddy. Yeah, you got it. And it is Jefferson Starship Miracles, ooh, big number, yeah, oh.
:Miracles Wow.
Scott McLean:That's a good one. That's Scott. You're kicking butt today, man, so this is Steeler's Wheel, so let's do a little take in. I got Jefferson Starship Miracles, steeler's Wheel stuck in the middle with you steal his will, and so let's go. Let's, let's do a little taking. I got jeffson stash at miracles, steal his will, stuck in the middle with you. Mark has let him in by wings and the tramps. I'm definitely in the lead.
:Yeah, you are.
Scott McLean:You've got two asian, though far yeah I need like I'd need another leon haywood that that Perry had to kill my hand.
:That's a jack and a dude, I'm not even going to read the song because it doesn't matter.
Scott McLean:And then Perry started off with nothing from nothing. Started off strong, but you know, All right, Mark, bring that flop card buddy.
:All right, bring it home, I'm first yes.
Scott McLean:And for the people watching we're coming up on. You make the call, which is always good Because the audience participates in this, and I know people do it in their cars too. They yell out the answer.
:Okay, roulette records Roulette records Morris Levy. Tommy Janes and the Shondells Sweet cherry wine or breakaway Sleavy Tommy Jane's and the Shondells Sweet cherry wine or breakaway oh, that hurt.
Scott McLean:You picked the one that really wasn't a big hit, exactly.
:I'm just going to write shit under Tommy Jane's.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I'll need something really bad to lose this hand. Perry's up, this is my hand here. Mark's looking in a mirror, mach's looking in a mirror.
:Come on, Marky Mark, Fuck you. Scott the Beatles.
Scott McLean:Nowhere.
:Man Never heard of them, the B-At-Ways.
Scott McLean:He's got Billy Preston and the Beatles. He's a real Nowon and the Beatles All right. Yeah, he's a real nowhere man Love it. Yeah, yeah, all right. Thank you, this is a tough one, thank you for that, perry.
:You know where these 45s come from. Remember the Westwood Diner, my ass.
Scott McLean:I've heard you say on this show that you got them from.
:Yeah, yep, yeah, scott, that you got them from. Yeah, scott, it's empty. That's the only way I'm going to lose this game.
Scott McLean:Scott's got a pair of aces.
:Yeah, I think Scott won tonight. For pre's records. These boots are made for walking.
Scott McLean:Oh, mark, there you go. Buddy, let's move this over this way. Yeah, thank you everybody. Thank you everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you once again. Once again, I am the winner of 45 poker cue the commercials. Enough of that that's a long one. That thing never makes it to the end, but yeah you gotta pull out a big piece of paper I'd like to thank yeah, I'd like to thank the 45s. I'd like to thank Patty Yossi for sending me patchouli and incense smelling 45s.
:That box looks better than your box Scott.
Scott McLean:Yeah, well, yeah, so there you go. That was a good hand, that was a good hand, that was actually good. That was Until the very end. There was no runaway. Oh, by the way, scott, I'm enjoying this little background music. You have you like that, right? Yeah, fills in those blanks. When Mark doesn't know what to say, I just do this, I do the smile, the smile, hum-na-hum-na'm not, I'm not.
:If you know who James May is, you'll know what I'm channeling, but you don't know who James May is.
Scott McLean:So, perry, you know you ever watch. You watch Seinfeld, right, of course? Yeah, so so you remember the episode where Elaine and George were hanging out and they really didn't know what to like, how to hang out with each other.
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Because Jerry wasn't there. Well, I'm Elaine and he's George. Well, you said you're Elaine. Elaine is a much better looking human being than George, get out of here well, george was. Larry David, really apparently so, perry, while you're not Lou, you're more like Kramer, filling in in the middle you're not Lou, you're more like Kramer filling in in the middle.
:You're not Jerry Right or the guy that played Kramer on the sitcom at the end of the show.
Scott McLean:Yeah, when they were doing the sitcom about the sitcom, and I did walk into the door, coming in too, by the way, and Patty said congrats, see, see how that goes. I get a congrats, got kicked, butt three aces.
:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:That was a good hand. Yep, take that Lou Colicchio, fucking hurricane cleaner oh yeah, getting bad.
:No, no, this is getting low.
Scott McLean:Nope, it's true I'll lose out there drinking wine and sweeping driveways. We're in here working hard and entertaining the masses. I think he said he was going to work. He says people are going to want their beer and wine. Business is going to be booming, yep.
:What got packed when the lockdown happened? The liquor stores you couldn't even get in. The one by me, it was packed.
Scott McLean:Did you see anything today that this fucking toilet paper thing is coming up again?
:Oh, it's so stupid. Was in shop right, the shelf is empty. Are you serious? Yeah, because of the the strike, but there's at least a month. Doing it on purpose? They're fucking doing it on purpose, I swear, to drive up the prices oh wait, what's on?
Scott McLean:what's on? Strike the longshoreman? Yeah, yeah, so see my wife go ahead.
:Mark now all of a sudden, like I know people panic, but the day that the news came out, shoprite's huge Like they have. You know you can't get. I'm lucky I got a big 20-pack, not because I was panicking, because I knew this shit was going to happen.
Scott McLean:So when the fake pandemic hit, right.
:Hey, hey, hey.
Scott McLean:You had fake COVID, classic too know I, I yeah, that was not fake, I can tell you that I know too that was not the pussy covid, as I said that was a real man's covid, that's the one I had classic.
Scott McLean:Yeah, that's classic yeah yeah, um, so know, there was this whole run on the toilet paper thing, right, and everybody BJ's and Costco and public supermarket down here and Winn-Dixie supermarket, walgreens, everything right, fucking run on toilet paper. So my buddy calls me and goes hey, I'm taking a ride to Restaurant Depot, you want to go? I taking a ride to Restaurant Depot, you want to go? I was like fucking, restaurant Depot, fucking brilliant, right. So I go there and you have to have a membership to get in there, right, which means you have to own a business to be able to go in there, since within the last year, they they've started coming down.
Scott McLean:If you don't, if you don't use your card within like eight months, they you have to sign up all over again, type thing, right, there's people holding their cards for years and they're not paying, right. So, yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's go. So we're going there and the place is fucking loaded with meats and fucking butter and milk and fucking. Then there's the toilet paper section and I bought this toilet paper industrial, fucking toilet paper for apartment, not apartment buildings, for fucking office buildings, like the public restroom, shit that has a roll of about 200 yards on one roll, right, shit, and I bought.
Scott McLean:I bought a case of that stuff, right, and you can't put it on your fucking toilet paper dispenser. That's not happening. So you got this fucking roll. But you know you, you get what you get and it's it's, and you need a special key to open it up. Yeah, I should have got one of those just because, because, you can buy those at.
Scott McLean:Restaurant Depot. I can drill it to the wall. I was a healthcare worker. I'm quite familiar with all that stuff. The thing is, the stuff is not it's low grade, it's newspaper, it's not the most comfortable fucking toilet, but you know what? I was giving that shit away. I'm like, hey, you want to roll? Yeah, this will last you through the pandemic you have to meet a bunch of the year yeah it'll be. This shit will take you a long way. You know what I did depot is the secret.
:So. So my wife worked at target, so she luckily she came home with a mega 24 pack. Put it on the floor. Yeah, I fucked up. I'm not gonna go into details what I did, but I caused a lot of water to leak out on the floor so I ruined half the pack, oh jesus. But she came home next day with another 24 pack.
Scott McLean:so it was okay. Dr vera, does the amazon thing? Like it gets delivered, like I get fucking paper towels, a case of paper towels and a case of toilet paper like every month and we have like it starts to pile up. I'm like baby, you can cut the subscription for about two months.
:I don't like subscriptions. You never use it all and it starts to build up.
Scott McLean:Well, I mean, look I, I have a whole closet full of good quality toilet paper.
:my friend Scott, McClain of Boca Raton, Florida.
Scott McLean:That's the Boca toilet paper.
:That's right, don't forget that we know where we're going if we can't get to it.
Scott McLean:Come on down to Boca. Buddy, Come on down to Boca. It's only 1,000 miles away, right, I'll get you your passport to get into Boca, right, because we do have people at the border checking.
:I'm going to run for mayor and I'm going to put a wall around Boca. You're not going to let me in.
Scott McLean:Well, you know you asked us. You are on the list. I'll be watched the whole time. I'm there. It's like being on a list with customs. Every time you come into the country, every time you travel, you're going to get put into secondary. Your name is on the list and people are like why is my name on the list? I'm like I can't tell you that we had these forms that we were given. We'd say contact this office in DC and they'll tell you everything, but you can't reveal why you're on that list, do you?
:remember the Do Not Fly list after 9-11? Yeah, feel sorry for me. Look at my name. I would get delayed. I'd just go four hours early Because it's a fake name.
Scott McLean:That's an AKA also known as Mark Smith.
:Yeah, I'd be showing my social security and everything.
Scott McLean:Let's get into. You Make the Call. We'll start with Perry. One hit wonder version of you Make the Call. So, Perry, the AI Dinovich, you Make the Call. Tainted Love or Take On Me by A-Ha. That answers this question. I'm going to go with A-Ha. A-ha. That answers his question. No, I'm going to go with A-Ha because it's an original song right Tainted Love is not a cover right, there's no wrong answers here there's no wrong answers, take On, I like that song. Right, I'm going to take on me by A-Ha.
:I think they're Norwegian or something.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, I have to go with Tainted Love because, although it's a remake, the version is. I was never so. This is me in Take On Me. I didn't really like the song when it came out. I thought it was. It just wasn't my thing. And the video got all this attention which makes me go the other way, right. But I never appreciated the song until I heard the acoustic version. And you understand the lyrics because go, go watch it on youtube if you, if you're listening, if you're watching take on me the acoustic version. He does it live. I think there's even like an orchestra with him. But but you get to really hear the lyrics. I never went and like checked the lyrics. Yeah, I had a newfound respect for that song and they do it fucking really good in that style, that kind of acoustic style. So, newfound respect for Take On Me, but I have to go with Tainted Love.
:Tainted Love as does.
Scott McLean:Pattyty, I can see.
:Yeah, mark I'm gonna say that acoustic thing, it's true, because for me it was boys of summer when I heard don henley sing it solo with acoustic. Yeah, it was just sad lyrics, right, it's sad, and you don't notice when the song's whizzing by. It's like a pop song, you know, yeah. So, um, I'm gonna go love them both. Uh, I'm gonna go with tainted love only because it sounds better loud in the car, right, it's you know they're both great songs.
Scott McLean:And there's one thing that that you didn't mention, mark, that maybe lou might have. I know jack would have said something tainted love because it's synthesizer. Well, I know you're a fan of synth pop. You're a fan of 80s synth pop. I am huge fan. Yeah, and it was always a bonus when you got the baby, baby, baby. No, you, sometimes you didn't get it on the radio. Yeah, you know you're always waiting, like is it gonna say it? And then nah, nah, yeah, uh, okay, uh, perry, you make the call now. These are one-hit wonders. Don't, don't judge the, the song itself, it's just these are one-hit wonders. You might not like them, but you know you have a choice. Uh, abstaining is not a choice in this game. Right, you have to pick one. It's what is the better? Two evil sometimes it's two evils sometimes.
Scott McLean:This might be the what is the better of two evils version of you Make the Call Perry. You Make the Call Ice ice baby, or you can't touch this. This is otherwise known as the battle of the baggy pants. Can I just stop Mc my claim for a moment? What was the other one? What was the other one after ice ice baby? You can't touch this mc hammer oh boy yeah um, what's the better of two? I'll take ice, ice, baby, okay and again there's no wrong there's no wrong answer.
Scott McLean:All it is is you get outvoted Like we outvoted you last.
:I saw yeah.
Scott McLean:And every once in a while, we're all on the same page.
:Baggy Pants Brigade.
Scott McLean:So I did like Ice Ice Baby, baby. When it's not the version, but when he came back and did that metal version of ice ice baby I thought that it was brilliant, first of all, that he did that right. Uh, I can't fucking. I liked both of them when they first came out. This is definitely a tough one. I have to pick one. I fucking got to go with Ice Ice Baby.
:I have to that hurt. Mark, I got to go with Okay.
Scott McLean:Okay, okay.
:I got to go with. Can't touch this, because you know why no ice tried to steal that from queen. He tried to. He didn't want to pay him. They had to sue him. Ah, fuck you of. In. Oh, ice, fuck yeah. Well, he owns bolt songs now. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he ended up doing okay for himself.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and you know what I did like like his reality show where they would buy these old mansions, these abandoned, foreclosed mansions down here in South Florida and he would come in and renovate them. He'd flip them. I haven't seen it, but I did hear about it. Dude, he's actually a good dude, he's engaging, but so is Hammer Hammer's a good guy. You know, you, he's actually a good dude, he's engaging, but so is Hammer Hammer's a good guy. You never really they tried to be bad, but you're not that guy. Only, hammer blew all of his money, but he blew all his money helping his friends.
:He was generous, he was very generous.
Scott McLean:Whereas Vanilla Ice got his shit stolen from him by Suge Knight. I heard that story. The infamous hanging him over the balcony got his shit stolen from him by Suge Knight. Yeah, I heard that story, the infamous hanging him over the balcony like American Gigolo. I believe it, man. I absolutely believe it. Yeah, did you see American Gigolo? Either one of you, yeah.
:I can't remember it.
Scott McLean:Not really. So long ago I can't remember. There was the black guy I forget his name. I I know his name too. He played julian's pimp, who was richard gear, right, yeah, um, I forget the guy's name. But he gets put over the balcony and, like richard gear they had a fight or something he's trying to hang on and the dude fucking falls out of his boots like oh well, no more pimp, yeah yeah, uh, okay, here we go.
Scott McLean:This is a good one. This is a good one. Uh, perry, you make the call, I will uh come on eileen, or? Or? This is a good fucking AI is coming up big lately, or 8, 6, 7, 5, 3 0 9. I'm a pop fan, so I'm going with 8, 6, 7, 5, 3 0 9. Yeah, by the way, that was one of my one hit wonders I was going to talk about later yeah, and we will, and we will yes, me too.
:I've had that too.
Scott McLean:I have to say it's on everybody's one hit one. Yeah it's, it's a, it's a great one hit one tommy two-tone and eight, eight, six, seven, five, three, oh, nine, jenny, I think it's called. Yeah, yep, backslash, jenny. Yeah got it, I got it. I gotta go with I. I always love this song and it's it's kind of a. If you listen to the lyrics, come on eileen, it's kind of dark like. If you listen to the lyrics, come on Eileen, it's kind of dark.
:Yeah, oh yeah, you got to listen to the lyrics on that.
Scott McLean:I've pointed this out in the past a couple times. It's like a Smith song, like Mark you just mentioned. What song was it that? Oh, boys of Summer, summer, dark lyrics. I call those Smith songs where it's a happy, like that was the brilliance of the Smiths. It's Johnny Maher and you know he could play those up-tempo, great guitar riffs and Morrissey's lyrics are like I want to bludgeon you in your bed.
Scott McLean:I want to kick your teeth in, like literally these are lines out of Morrissey's songs, and Morrissey's melodies too, yeah the way he croons it he just croons those melodies and it's like that was one of the brilliance of it.
Scott McLean:That's why I say the lyrics that Morrissey wrote are fucking intelligent, they're brilliant, they're sharp, they're very pointed in what he wants. To get that point across. Yeah, yep, so yeah I, I gotta go with. Come on eileen. I think it's always been one of my favorite one hit wonders. It's probably in my top three one hit wonders. So hello, jenny, can't take it away. There's no wrong answers great pop songs.
:Yeah, yep mark I'm going with come on eileen, because I thought you were going to go the other way.
Scott McLean:All right, good, it gets in my head the way he he goes.
:Come On Eileen, come On Eileen. He just says it in so many different rhythms. But, they're both. I mean, jenny was like growing up. I think I was like 13 when that came out. It's huge and it hit me huge. You know Early 80s. Early 80, early 80s. I like Dexys.
Scott McLean:Alright, here's another. Better of two evils, Perry. What's the better of two evils on these one-hit wonders? You make the call, Perry. Who let the dogs out? Or Macarena?
:Oh boy, that's worse than the last Ice, ice Baby you can't touch. This is even worse. Oh boy, oh boy. That's worse than the last Ice, ice Baby you Can't Touch. This is even worse.
Scott McLean:Oh boy, I'm going with who Let the Dogs Out? God damn, that might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
Scott McLean:Both of them might be. Now I'm going to go with Macarena because in the video, in the video there was a girl it's all these girls dancing, but there's this one girl in particular that just stood out to me and she has on these shiny shorts, tight shorts, and she's this petite, I like petite, I've always been a petite girl guy kind of. She's this petite, I like petite. Right, I've always been a petite girl guy kind of right, and she's got like the blue hair and she's the fucking prettiest thing and I would just kind of look at her and go that is a beautiful girl. So just because of that, just because of that and they show her like in blurbs, like in little blurbs but I got to go with Macarena just because of that, because who, who lets the dogs out, is the fucking stupidest song. It's just fucking in the claws. Nothing, it's just. To me was a no offense. Perry, I know you picked it.
:I don't like either of them.
Scott McLean:I gotta go Macarena because of the cute petite girl with the curly hair, the little afro thing going.
:And yeah, mark well, I do like the way these annoying hits, how they're assembled by a producer. I do listen right, and so I'm just going to say I hate them both. But Macarena, the arrangement on that to make a smash hit it's ingenious.
Scott McLean:It is.
:But the way the keyboard goes, you know.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, so I'll go with Macarena, but man All right, perry, you make the call and we go into the nineties. This is some 90 shit right here. Okay, uh, tub thumping by Chumbawamba I get knocked down and I get up again. You can never do that song, yep, or Len steal my sunshine. I'm going with tub Thumpin' man Chubba Wumba I get knocked down and I get up again.
:Pissin' the night away, I'm going Tub Thumpin'.
Scott McLean:All right, let me see. I'm going with there we go.
:Steve Miller band, high like an eagle.
Scott McLean:Great intro, the way it pops right in.
:That could be an intro for you, hey, matt.
Scott McLean:Hey, sam. Hey, have you talked to Mark lately? I haven't really talked to him, but he looks pretty down. I never heard that song. This is definitely getting copyrighted. Maybe we should cheer up. This is bringing back memories. Canadian band Len. I feel like I'm in Sam Goody.
:You feel like what I feel, like I'm in Sam Goody, walking around the long boxes, the CDs that were in the long boxes.
Scott McLean:So this song. Right, let me see, I'm going to find the break. Yeah, I want to find the break on this. I think it's coming up.
:I'm not doing any more work on this show because we're getting taken down. No, he's not going to get taken down.
Scott McLean:They'll do a copyright thing. Jimmy Iovine On a copyright strike yeah.
:Jimmy Iovine's going. Let's get him, let's get him. Let me see he's calling Don Henley right now.
Scott McLean:I got to find this. Of course, I won't be able to find it. So that background beat that.
:Jackson's.
Scott McLean:Nope. Nope Sounds like a Jackson song, let me see, let me turn this off for a second. That is from oh shit, a second that is from um, oh shit. Uh, I'm drawing a blank, I know it, I know it. Uh, let me see, hold on one second. I gotta look this up, because it'll drive me crazy. Uh samples, what's that? Look who just chimed in hey you guys, there he is there he is.
:Did you take?
Scott McLean:a shower, yet I'm trying to find this. Um, oh, I think it's this one. I think it's this one, let me see. Did you take a shower? Yet I'm trying to find this. Oh, I think it's this one. I think it's this one, let me see.
:So, perry, I saw a concert like 10 years ago. I'm trying to fill the dead air. It was this band called the Kinks and they came on an hour late and Dave called his brother the C-word, and the show was only an hour and Dave Davies had his back to the audience.
Scott McLean:There we go. It's from this one. It's from this song there's a sample from. There's a break in this song where they use a sample of this. You ever heard the song Not me. I think you have actually song where they use a sample of this. You ever heard the song? I may? I think you have actually. What is that song you're playing now?
:Hear that. You hear that beat in the background. Yeah, I know that song.
Scott McLean:That's Cisco's song. Right, there's a break. And they they took this rhythm from this song, lended yeah, and turned it into. They just looped it, right, yeah and then with permission, hopefully, yeah, right, well, I'm sure, andrea, now this song More, more, more. Andrea, true, the story behind this? She was a porn star, and if you listen to the words of More, more, more, it's about a porn shoot. There you go, steal my sunshine.
:Just that one little loop. Just that part right there real drum, real piano, real everything that's I like, oh look at, lou is fucking taunting us.
Scott McLean:Lou is taunting us. Oh, he's driving home from work sc the wet sprockets he's driving home from work.
:Scott, you gotta entertain him. He's driving, I am here entertain me.
Scott McLean:He stole big head todd the wet sprockets line. Oh, he's not gonna like that. Whoa, big head todd the wet sprocket is not gonna like todd likes lou, he'll be fine with it oh, you're stealing my tagline. You're starting to cross a line there.
:Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends all right, here we go, here we go.
Scott McLean:Uh, you never asked me about. All right, what do you want? What do you? What do you like? Which?
:one is it, I forget or steal my son.
Scott McLean:Oh, tub thumping, great song like class. No, it's not. Um. All right, perry, you make the. The call Mambo no 5 by Lou Bega or I'm Blue.
:What is that second thing? I'm Blue you never heard that song.
Scott McLean:I'll go with the second one, let me see. Let me see what's the name of the song Entertain me.
:Let me have a sample of the name of the song. Oh man, Entertain me. Let me have a sample of it.
Scott McLean:There we go. I think this is it right there. It's a little hard when he sings the songs you know, listen up.
:Here's the story about a little guy, oh, that song In a blue world, and all day and all night I love this song, I picked that.
Scott McLean:I love this song. Yeah, this is definitely getting copyrighted. No doubt about it. Sing it, buddy. I guess I know what you picked. See, I was right, I had the lyrics.
:I like it.
Scott McLean:It's a good song, although I do like Mamma no 5, but I gotta go with Blue Mark.
:Like a little Veronica in my life. I like a little Pamela in my life. I'm going with Lou Vega. That's Like a little Veronica in my life, I like a little Pamela in my life.
Scott McLean:I'm going with Lou Vega.
:I would like that too.
Scott McLean:That's a good song I actually like it yeah. Okay, here we go. Totally stupid, but you talk about stupid. You haven't seen stupid yet, buddy. We haven't touched stupid yet. Perry, you make the call? Yes?
:you make the call. Yes, I'm too sexy for my cat too sexy for my cat.
Scott McLean:Oh, that's where I'm at. Yeah, that's poor. Yeah, what is love, baby? Don't hurt me, wow, don't hurt me, no more. Well, I'm going to go with.
:I think it's Right Said Fred, the first one, yep, yeah, because that second one with that movie, with. Rock's Night at the Rocks yeah yeah, I can't.
Scott McLean:Nah, I'm going with number one. Right Said, fred. Okay, it's sexy for my shirt.
:You know what?
Scott McLean:I actually have to go with that too, because I love the beat. It's got a great beat to it. Yeah, the lyrics are fucking. It's stupid, right, but it's so ballsy, it's so over the top. Yeah, that I just I got to like it. I don't know if I listen to it because on the radio I don't have it in any of my downloads, but I have to go with.
:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't there one part of the song where he actually starts the thing and goes 2-6 or something?
Scott McLean:like that Well there's club versions.
:There's AM versions yeah, there's all different versions of that song. Yeah, and we're all in agreement on that one. That's why I picked it. Okay, there you go.
Scott McLean:Cool, and it just gets worse.
:By the way, the other song, what Is Love? I just smell cheap cologne in a club when I hear that, okay, here we go.
Scott McLean:Patty likes what is love? All right, perry, you make the call. One hit wonder edition. Yes, achy breaky heart or cotton eye, joe, both covers too, oh my God Both covers too, oh my. God Fucking A. Yeah, this is brutal.
:I know.
Scott McLean:The fact that we have to answer and commit to one of these songs is fucking brutal. Achy break, no, no, cotton Eye Joe. I got to go with Cotton Eye Joe too. It's a fucking horrible song. You know, they think they're clever. It's by a group called Rednecks, it's N-E-X right. You know, they think they're like they got some type of techno sound in there, but they're both cover songs, aren't they yeah?
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:And Billy Ray Cyrus just never liked that motherfucker. And his daughter don't like him either, as a matter of fact.
:Really she don't like him. If there's one thing that me and Perry totally agree on, it's fake country is the worst.
Scott McLean:Right, I posted a fucking great clip today of what's his name Junior, you know the country star um junior brown. No, no, no, his yeah. All my, for all my rowdy friends are coming over hank williams jr hank. Williams jr oh yeah, okay it's got fucking chris christopherson sitting next to him, willie nelson, and he makes up this song all my rowdy friends ain't so rowdy, no more, right. And he does it like acoust and he makes up this song All my Rowdy Friends Ain't so Rowdy, no More.
Scott McLean:And he does it acoustically. You can see he's riffing and it was fucking brilliant. That was country music. That's respectable. Now, I didn't love it, but I respected it. This shit that started in the 90s with fucking what's his name?
:The melodies are forgettable, it's just pop music with cowboy hats.
Scott McLean:It's right, it's country pop. It's plastic country pop. Yeah, it's it's. It's not real country music, but everybody fucking fell for it because that's what was fed to them you know what it sounds like you're absolutely right, yeah it sounds like a deaf leopard mutt lang album.
:Some of this new modern country. It's got those cheap melodies. I was listening to Willie today and I was listening to Chris Christopherson those outlaw country singers that are supposed to be so tough. They wrote some of the best ballads, heartfelt lyrics, you don't get that with new country. Some of those angels flying too close to the ground. That's a beautiful song but, like you said, it's what you're being fed. It's all the formula. Let's stick with it.
Scott McLean:That's what all the industry wants you to listen to. They all sound the same. You don't know who it is singing anymore. Yeah, all right. Next one this is interesting, perry, you make the call One Hit Wonder Edition, my Sharona or Flock of Seagulls. I Ran. They're both really great songs. They are. They are both good songs. I think I'm going with Flock of Seagulls on this one, alright, no wrong answer. I like synth pop too. No wrong answer. This is a tough one on a good note. My Sharona is a very unique song. Yes, it really is the beat, the whole, and then it has that whole break in the middle of it. It goes into like a whole nother song.
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Kind of Beatle, you know, in the style of the Beatles.
:Great break.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and the Beach Boys, how they can do that, and it's again like a whole other song. Then they break back into Mascherona and I think that's all production, of course, but I got to go with Mascherona just because I love Irene and it's power pop. Yeah, yep, and so technically, this might be part of the discussion it always is is flock of seagulls? Are they one hit wonders? They had a couple of shots, maybe. Yeah, but we'll talk about that. We'll see where that takes us in that and what really is a white hit wonder, uh, mark.
:Tough one. Uh, probably for the same reason you said Scott Tough one. Probably for the same reason you said Scott Maestro on is a very unique hit song, because in the middle they got that breakdown, yeah, and I'm a prog guy, so I like to hear the beat change.
Scott McLean:Okay.
:I ran man that sounds so good on a late night driving in the fog.
Scott McLean:I wouldn't say that in Israel, right now Too soon Too soon.
:No, we can play, maestro ronnie I ran too soon.
Scott McLean:Take my wife, please. Oh, we just lost listeners oh, there you go.
:I think we lost lou. Okay, uh, here we go. This is, this is an interesting one, they're all interesting.
Scott McLean:I think we lost Lou. Okay, here we go. This is an interesting one, they're all interesting. Yes, perry, you make the call. One Hit Wonders Walking on Sunshine, yeah, which? You know, can't deny it. It was a very pop-ish, really good. You know, I believe she passed away, didn't she? Breast cancer, I hope, katrina, I think she did. Wow, mark, look that up, if you would. Yeah, Katrina, and the Waves. I could be wrong.
:Are you telling me what to do?
Scott McLean:No, I'm being the host of the show. You can tell me what to do. It's okay, I can just look it up.
:And what was the other one?
Scott McLean:See Perry if I didn't say that he'd look it up anyways.
:But it's like he was doing it.
Scott McLean:He was probably looking it up as you said it. Just don't tell me what to do because I'm already doing it, type thing. That's what that was and what's the other one? After Katrina and the waves, I'm getting to that Walking Spirit in the Sky. Wow, yeah, and they're both one-hit wonders.
Scott McLean:Very much one-hit wonders. I got to tell you I'm going with Katrina and the Waves on this one. Love that frigging song. Okay, I love them both. By the way, yeah, yeah, again, no wrong answer. Katrina, you know Hurricane Katrina. Okay, sorry, it's really really hard to beat this intro. Yeah, norman Greenbaum. Yeah, one of the greatest intros in the history of music. Yeah, literally a one note note. You know the fucking intro and I, I've seen him interviewed. He's been trying to reproduce that guitar sound. Can't do it. He'll never be able to get that complete sound again like that. Yeah, but then, but then this happens, then that happens. I always found that to be not up to par with the intro, the intro has this heavy groove and I'm expecting this follow-through of just a heavy song.
Scott McLean:Then he goes light on that, a little gospel in a sense. Yeah but that intro is far from what the song is. The intro is its own. You know, it's like the Alan Parsons project Eye in the Sky the intro is its own, fucking song. You know the whole work up to the synthesized it's actually another song.
:technically it's another song.
Scott McLean:It is, but it always leads into Eye in the Sky right.
:I know what you're saying. I love it.
Scott McLean:So I always found that that was just never sat right with me. I like the song, but I do have to go with. I gotta go with Walking on Sunshine. It's more consistent, you get what you get right from the beginning to the end. It's upbeat, it's happy, yeah. So I gotta go with Walking on Sunshine.
:Did you find anything about Katrina? Okay, not only is Katrina alive, but Katrina, in a way, has won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest. Get the fuck out of here.
Scott McLean:You know what Scott.
:Penalty box. No, I asked for it.
Scott McLean:I asked for it oh wait, wait he did that to himself.
:I thought he was going to put you in the penalty box. So, perry, did you ever see La Traviate? That opera, it's got a great great climax. At the end, the violins come in. It's got a great great climax at the end, the violins come in.
Scott McLean:It's amazing we just raised his Just shut the fuck up. You shut the fuck up. No, you shut the fuck up. You shut the fuck up. No, no, you shut the fuck up. I saw you don't tell me to shut the fuck up. You shut the fuck up. See how I win that. See how I won that, Ferry See.
:You always win. I let you win, it's your show.
Scott McLean:Okay, where are we? Oh, here we go. Oh, now look at this. So, all right, we got a problem.
:Houston, we have a problem.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I'm here, entertain me. Big Head Todd the Wet Sprocket just came in with I am here, period, entertain me, period. Lou did one line of I am here, me right, so you may now start the show. Right for the record, big Head Todd the Witsprocket, who's chiming in on the chat of the live stream, one Louis Colicchio, who is not present on the show tonight, but he's pulling a Liam Gallagher and he's heckling us from the balcony while we're on the show. He's pulling a Liam.
:Gallagher, and he's heckling us from the balcony While we're on the show.
Scott McLean:he's heckling us from the balcony he stole your line. I don't know if you can see it, but right down at the bottom he stole your line. So this is a problem. I think you should deal with it appropriately. I'm steering clear of this. We'll be waiting for your response. Big Head Todd, head todd the wet sprocket all right.
:So if we're starting the show again, 45 poker, let's go.
Scott McLean:I'm not starting shit for big head todd no, rascals, dance all right next, here we go. Okay, mark, make the call. Walking on sunshine, a spirit in the sky my girl, stephanie miller, is walking on sunshine.
:For years on a radio show. It some happy songs are annoying. That is a really uplifting song and, like you said, like you and Perry said, doesn't let up to the whole show. Walking on sunshine, without a doubt, just great.
Scott McLean:Big Ed Todd, the way it's broken says. I have that line copyrighted.
:I think you should file a lawsuit, yeah.
Scott McLean:You should file a lawsuit. Go after Lou's car, I would say.
:if you're going to go after him, go after his car. Can't get to him now. Can't get to him.
Scott McLean:He might not have a car, we don't know yet that car might have got swept down the river.
:Oh, man, this is getting nasty.
Scott McLean:I'm just saying it's not that far-fetched. It's not that far-fetched. It's not that far-fetched. Listen to the intro when you get a chance. I did a shout-out to you. And Asheville and the hurricane and the whole thing. What was it? Hurricane, hurricane, hurricane. This one is. I don't know either one. I briefly know one of them, but I thought Blink-182 sang it. But it's not Okay, perry, you make the call Stacey's Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Fountains of Wayne, take down the Porsche Showdown because of the copyright infringement, that whole thing. Because of see Todd Big Head. Todd the White Spark is going to file a fucking complaint with Facebook. Because of Louis Colicchio Fucking asshole Lou. Or Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus. I don't know what was the first one. What was it? Fountains of Wayne? Yeah, stacy's Mom. I'm going with Fountains of Wayne, stacy's Mom, yeah, yeah, pop, pop music. I want to hear this song first. Let's see what this one is.
:I hate that name. I would think that was.
Scott McLean:Beck. They're trying to sound like Beck, right, and they're trying to steal that kind of Incubus. Oh, I remember that song Fucking horrible song and they're trying to steal that kind of incubus sound.
:Oh, I remember that song.
Scott McLean:Fucking horrible song, Horrible. Yeah, I'll go with. And for those that never heard it, Stacey's Mom, it's a pop song. Yeah, it's a good story. Though I did listen to it. It's a good story, right.
:Stacey's Mom has got it going on story though, and I did listen to it. It's a good story. Right, sounds like the 90s, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, south cali sounds like south california. Well, they're from new jersey, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, stacy, can I come over?
Scott McLean:I remember this song the high school kids perving after the hot mom we all had a friend, that we you know, I look back now.
Scott McLean:I look back now right back in the day when I was in it, when I was a player, right, and I really kind of kicked myself in the ass for not getting older. You start kind of kicked myself in the ass for not because I I getting older, you start kind of looking at things differently and I have an extremely newfound respect for older women, right. I guess it's just kind of the way we progress and it's nothing like I. I think my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. I I'm not saying anything other than that, but you see it like a good looking older woman and you're like, damn, why didn't I try to hit that shit when I was fucking 24? Yeah, why did I look like, why didn't I pay attention to that Like idiot?
:Idiot.
Scott McLean:Yeah, no, I got to go with the fucking young knuckleheads that, yeah, should have been going after a 40 year old. There were plenty of teachers there was. It was fine, I mean, and I'm like, what the fuck? Why did I? Why did I not pay attention to that? What was you know why? Because my prefrontal lobe took a little extra to touch to me. It took a little extra for me. So when I was in seventh grade, stacy's mom was always right in front of us.
:Well, when I was in seventh grade I had a crush in Perry Knows the School on my homeroom teacher and to me she was an older woman and I happened to find my yearbook and I look back she was probably like 23 or 24. But when you're in seventh grade that's an older woman, you know, and she still was cute.
Scott McLean:I was like wow, in my high school, miss Poulos I thought Miss Poulos was a little hottie, she was. And then we had the music teacher, miss Beaver, that was her name. No, no, no it was Miss Beaver.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and then she was a hottie too. But teachers is one thing. Like you go over somebody's house and like you look at their mom and like I, my friends didn't really have moms, like that didn't really have. Like somebody that you're like looking at, you're like yo, dude, why they had either. Yet when you're over your house you just bunker moms. I mean, he just had you know, I guess you never really look at it.
:He did Bunker Moms there was a couple.
Scott McLean:There was a couple. Yeah, see, patty, remember Miss Beaver? Yeah, yeah, miss Beaver was a hottie, miss Poulos, in the high school, she was really. Then there was this one teacher, miss Napoli, and like she sat behind the desk. And Napoli, and like she sat behind the desk and she was pretty Italian woman, right, like you can see, she's Italian, dark black, you know very black hair and you know, and she's not, like she's not unattractive, until she stood up and her ass was like as wide as the fucking door frame. It's like how does that, how do you put that? It's like sitting down. What are those things called the fucking half horse, half human, minipede or something like that.
:Senators or whatever.
Scott McLean:Senators yeah, she was one of those.
:She had this fucking regular size from the torso.
Scott McLean:It was like normal size, because people sit too much. That happens, patty, just put a thing up there. I see a blank. Oh, there it is All your laugh emojis. Yeah, I'm just saying, I'm just saying she stood up. I was like, yeah, so much for that, so much for Miss Napoli. Yeah, but how old were you then? Right, I was in what they used to call junior high. It should have always been junior high. This middle school shit. Fucking. Gen Xers and millennials came their parents came up with the middle school.
Scott McLean:Middle school, this high school, this junior high school. That's all there is to it.
:I think they just call it middle school because they started separating all the schools, Because in my area junior high was actually connected to the elementary school.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and in my town ninth grade was still junior high was actually connected to the elementary school. Yeah, and I, in my town ninth grade was still junior high, it wasn't high school. Oh see, now my school, it was in the town I live now.
:My kids in eighth grade were going to high school.
Scott McLean:My high school is five years yeah, this is my school where I grew up. It's split, it's like middle school, whatever, junior high, and then the other half of the school is the high school. Yeah, anyway, okay, uh, did we come up with an answer? Stacy's mom yeah, we all agree yeah, yep, uh, this, this is an easy one, I think, gentlemen. Uh, perry, you make the call, one hit wonders rico, suave, or science, or Science, without a doubt.
:Blinded me with science. That's a blow away. That's a landslide. Howard Jones created that himself.
Scott McLean:Yeah, he blinded me with science over Rico Suave. It's like Trump over fucking Kamala. It's fucking that easy.
:You're poking the bear, Scott. You're poking the bear, Scott. You're poking the bear and this bear's.
Scott McLean:I see you drinking. All right, all right, relax, relax.
:By the way, I'm having my winos for rhinos.
Scott McLean:There you go.
:I went to a petting zoo and they gave out wine. We were walking around drunk feeding animals. What's the worst that could happen? Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, I got splattered on by a ghost let me give you.
Scott McLean:Let me give you a piece of advice don't ever get a fucking giant rhino tattooed on your back that is a fucking rite of passage, I will tell you it is a rite of you. Saw my tattoo right, not on your back, no, you never saw.
:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it's, and I got a.
Scott McLean:I got big shoulders broad and it's a big fucking. That shit was a rite of passage. Wait a minute. You have a tattoo on your back that says rhino. No, it is a rhino, oh, oh yeah, it is a rhino.
:It's a fucking you know now what rite of passage was it when you joined all the pain the fucking pain that you go through because your back is isn't desensitized like your arms yeah your back doesn't get touched.
Scott McLean:Your back doesn't have that. It's everything all your nerve endings like and everything dude he was. He'd stick in one spot, like around my shoulder blade and I'd feel fucking burn in my toes. Yeah, like the nerves that he they would have to just to kind of detail and get in there and fill it in, and it was probably 12 hours over three sessions. When did you get it?
Scott McLean:when you joined the military no no, I got it afterwards, I got it when I moved to hollywood. Um, I got it probably in like 2000, I think, maybe 1999, maybe. Yeah, that fucker hurt. It was a rite of passage, believe me. That was three sessions, four hours each. And look at me, apparently that's where all your I'm staying out of this one.
Scott McLean:oh, oh sissy. This is the guy who won't even get a tattoo because it hurts. I won't either. I don't like it. It's a needle and it hurts. I'm big head Todd, the wet sprocket and I'm telling you right now tattoos just hurt. Why would anybody do that? It's needles and ink in your skin. Plus, he's a redhead, so he's white as a fucking cheetah paper.
:so god I have. If you put a tattoo on him, it's like a neon sign.
Scott McLean:What perry? I have no ink either. That's all right. Just don't ever get a tattoo of a rhino on your back. Everything else you're okay, trust me. Okay, like bon jovi, little superman, like yeah you're, you're really tough, johnny.
:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:What do we got? Okay, perry, you make the call. Video killed the radio star. Yep, or modern English. I melt with you. Ooh, I'm going with modern English. I love that. Hook that chorus. I'll stop the world. And yeah, I'm going with modern English. I love that. Hook that chorus. I'll stop the world. And yeah, I'm going with modern English. Okay, yeah, all right, and I'm going to my fridge right now. I'll be right back. Yeah, yeah, no problem, just, yeah, just put yourself on.
:I'll put you in the. We don't want to hear you in the bathroom. We don't want to hear you in the bathroom, we don't want to hear you in the bathroom.
Scott McLean:See, you have to travel to go to the bathroom, right.
:Mark, I got to go, and then I come back. I'm out of breath because I'm overweight.
Scott McLean:I'm like Todd Big Head Todd the way it sparkles says I have one on my back and I never cried to anybody about my sissy nerve endings, so you lied about it. He doesn't have shit on his back. Don't listen to him. Here's mr bodybuilder. Bodybuilders don't put ink on themselves really no, you're not, you're kind of you're.
Scott McLean:You got muscles, though, fucking. But I'm not a boy, this dude is. He was like a fucking redhead arnold schwarzenegger when I met him. I'm just naturally big. I don't lift weights, I'm just genetically fucking blessed in that sense, but this dude was like a fucking redheaded Arnold.
:Yeah, and you know what Redheads?
Scott McLean:they're unpredictable. Redheads are fucking unpredictable. Ginger snaps they got that. Yeah, they got this. They're a different type of person, right, not saying anything. He doesn't want to know because he's a different type of dude.
:Well, you, you know anyone with scottish, you know, I found out I'm not irish, isn't? It I. I found out that I'm not irish. This year I found out I'm 70 scottish and that probably explains me. I had a terrible temper for years, just like knocked down yeah, but todd never.
Scott McLean:Todd was always. Uh, he was always kind of even-keeled, he was even-tempered, he was quirky. He probably still is. Also, he's more Irish, I think he's English Sockman is. English, I think.
:Yeah, yeah, the whole island is all.
Scott McLean:We're all like but, Todd was that guy I always said this Me and Todd never had a fight. It would have been. It would have been a fucking bloodbath one way or another.
:He's the dude that I always said you know I'll fight you, motherfucking, and I you know, and I always said I'll win. You have to say that right that's called mutual.
Scott McLean:Get get his hands on me once he gets his hands on you.
:Yeah, he's, he's, he's strong well, that's called mutual assured destruction.
Scott McLean:So neither of you want to get over there. It's definitely going to be damaged, I mean buildings would come down.
:It'd be like those great fight movies where buildings, walls are falling down.
Scott McLean:We're both going to the emergency room for something that probably would have been the case.
:From what you tell me, I think Todd may have the upper hand there. No, I don't know. I was a fighter, though.
Scott McLean:Todd was a bouncer, I was a fighter, like. I got in like street fights, bar fights. Todd was an intimidating-looking guy and he could handle himself. There's no doubt and he can correct me if I'm wrong I know he's got some skills, because that's why he always had my back right. There was always—we're total opposites. We were fucking—he's this red-headed, fucking muscle head from LA, right, and I'm just this fucking Irish guy with a big mouth from Boston, right.
:There's no reason why we should ever have gotten along A big-mouth Irish guy from Boston. You're very unique, scott. It covers a lot, I know.
Scott McLean:Because we have a lot of big-mouth Irish guys from Jersey too.
:Yeah, yeah, I'm one of them.
Scott McLean:That narrows it down. We were best friends right off the bat. It was never we'd never have even. It just wasn't even. We just never got mad at each other. There was really in all our time we never like, we never had an argument we never had. It was one of those friendships. It's like another level friendship, like we were just connected. We bonded as soon as we met.
Scott McLean:As the story goes, he was just shocked that I never saw him. Until the day I saw him, we were in Law Enforcement Academy and we were buying book bags for our fucking binders that we needed. And we were out by this van and they were selling them for like I don't know five bucks a piece or something back in 87, which is like I don't know 15 bucks today, right, and uh, he didn't have any money and I stand the next one. I said I'll, I'll get it for you. And he looks like, really, yeah, you need five bucks, I'll buy it for you. Just, you know, pay me back.
Scott McLean:And and we were fucking best friends ever since. Cool, like it was just that's the way we met. Yeah, I just you know, I'll give you five bucks, because that's the kind of guy I am, you know, like if you'll pay me back, I'll get that motherfucking money. Just don't make me put a vig on that shit. Well, I guess he paid you back. He did, yeah, he paid me back like the next day, you know, and then we were fucking best friends after that. He's the one that got me to the Philippines. It was because of him I ended up. Ah yeah.
:And that became your adopted country.
Scott McLean:Yeah, alright, I dig it. We gotta get back to this, did you answer? It's my answer. I gotta go with. I'd melt with you, I have to. Yeah, although I don't like that they did like a 1992 remake of it.
:It was kind of psychedelic and yeah yeah you know the whole thing.
Scott McLean:I thought that was a bad move they would. They were just trying to capitalize, remixing and everything yeah modern english was like they, that was their one hit. And then they were yeah, I had to redo it just just like the police redid, what was it? Don't Stand so Close To Me. Don't Stand so Close To Me, like 92 or something right, which I actually do like that version.
:I do.
Scott McLean:I liked it. I liked it, Mark. What's your?
:answer. I'll tell you. You guys know my musical likes, so who do you think I like better Video killed the radio song Jeff Downs. It's a good song.
Scott McLean:If there's any connection to yes or something Mark's going with yes. So give us the six degrees of separation between the Buggles and yes.
:I can't right now. You got to let me plan these things, but I will say something. There's a connection, though. Right, those, yes, the Buggles, jeff downs and um trevor horn joined yes, trevor horn sang for yes, that was an old, faded tour, but then yes broke up. When yes got back together did 90215. Yeah, um, john anderson came back in the band, but trevor horn was asked to produce it, so he produced it.
:trevor Horn became a huge. He did Frankie Goes Hollywood. He's a huge producer and Jeff Downs, of course, went on to do Asia. And then for a few years Asia and yes were touring and Jeff Downs would play in both bands.
Scott McLean:Look, at that Mark fucking comes through.
:But you know what? I hate the lyrics because it pisses me off. Because it pisses me off because it's like it's announcing the mtv age. But it was just a factual song video killed, the radio came out before mtv.
Scott McLean:Yeah, and the video came out before mtv that's almost like they were.
:They were saying let's get video going, you know, and they were they they, they saw.
Scott McLean:Whoever wrote the lyrics saw something coming yeah, yeah are oh, here we go. What I'll stop the world and melt with you. I thought it was video kill the radio.
:What the fuck? You know what If I could?
Scott McLean:put him in the penalty box, he'd get a fucking five-minute major I can see you guys. Forty years ago, you and him, together in a bar in the Philippines.
:Oh, that wasn't good.
Scott McLean:Yeah, if me and him were together. Somebody was getting punched in the face, because usually me doing the punching and him keeping everybody else away or holding the guy. Well. So there was this time where my girlfriend who I ended up marrying was my first wife. She got look it up, it's true. Okay, well, we'll believe you If he said look it up, I guess the internet doesn. So some fucking ugly American decided he was going to throw a balut at my wife who was my girlfriend at the time, and a balut is an egg.
Scott McLean:I know exactly what it is I was a healthcare worker. There's a belief that a balut makes you.
:Yeah, it's very salty.
Scott McLean:It's good. So he hits her with it, but she doesn't tell me and I go to see her and she's like's like, I'm like, why did you change your shirt? And she went and somebody said somebody did something, they threw something at her and I was like, oh, oh, okay. And like my wife was like she was the general manager of like 13 bars in a restaurant, like she was like in the executive thing and she would walk around and check on shit and she was the liaison between that company and the base. So she was respectable, let's put it that way. And so somebody told me where the guy went into. The kid went into. So I tell Todd and I said let's go. And we tracked this dude down and fucking todd, todd stood behind me and I proceeded to bounce this kid's head off a fucking brick wall, like twice I bat you, look back, I'm like I could have killed the dude. You could have killed him, dude. Yeah, I fucked him up. I'll tell you that you want to throw eggs at women, huh, you think?
Scott McLean:you're a tough guy, I'm a tough guy. It's a duck egg or something isn't it?
:Yeah, yeah, I was like.
Scott McLean:I'm a tough guy. He's a tough guy and I point behind me You're a pussy. He's like what? And his girlfriend's side said his head off the wall and he starts to do something like bounce his head off the wall again because he was sitting up against the wall. So use what's around you.
:Maybe I don't want to go to Boca Raton.
Scott McLean:Needless to say, he never did that again. And I mean, todd just walked out of there. Nobody hit the field, nobody stepped in, not again. And I, me and todd just walked out of there. Nobody hit the feed, nobody stepped in, not even the fucking security guards, not even the uh shore police, or that wasn't happening, wasn't happening. Nope, nope.
Scott McLean:Although there was another time at a bar where I got in a fight and it was chaos, total chaos, and I kind of started it and town patrol was coming and I could ill afford to get in trouble again because I already had an article 15, ill afford to get in trouble again because I already had an article 15 and if I got in trouble again I was gonna get kicked out right. So this bar was upstairs, it was called the barking fish great name of a bar, right, and todd just grabs, he goes come on, let's go, you got to get out of here. And he we're going down the stairs and town patrol's coming up the stairs. Unfortunately, todd knew these guys and, like in a movie, I fucking slide in and I'm behind him, I'm hiding on the stairway behind todd. It's this, it's this cement stairway going upstairs, probably 20 steps going up there and todd's like oh, there's a big fight up there, you better get up there. And they fucking run right past us and me and todd just fucking walked. See you later, we're out of here.
:We calmly walked, falling to the crowd and we're just gone. Yeah, it was like a movie, it was.
Scott McLean:The place was fucking crazy. I got a hundred of those stories, so I would guess you guys were at clark airbase. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Okay, cool, we had a good time. All right, let's get back to the show.
:Well, listen. Ai overview, todd's right. The lyrics of Modern English, as I met with you, are about a couple making love while an atomic bomb is dropped. The song's lyrics are a commentary on the existential discomfort of the Cold War era, when people were worried about a nuclear war and losing contact with their loved ones, All right. I changed my answer?
Scott McLean:That's too fucking mushy.
:Video-computated. That's my pick.
Scott McLean:It's fucking simple. There's not fucking trying to be some sort of like blah, blah, blah, right, all right, I won't, I like it, I'm not with you. Anyway, they're both good, they're both great. And, mark, did you pick or you picked video? Okay, google, here you go, perry, google Black Betty, oh Black Betty, oh Black Betty, by Ram Jam, or Play that Funky Music by Wild. Cherry, I never liked that Ram Jam Black Betty thing.
:I wasn't even done asking the question.
Scott McLean:I jumped.
:As soon as I said, Play that Funky, he goes.
Scott McLean:Nah, play that Funky Music. Play that Funky Music. Play that Funky Music. As soon as I said play that funky he goes.
:No, play that funky music.
Scott McLean:Play that funky music. Yeah, yeah, play that funky music. Yeah, I got to go play that funky music. That was, you know, I didn't mind Ram Jam, I didn't mind Black Betty, but play that funky music, it's just a better song.
:I'm in with that.
Scott McLean:It's more.
:I was into the funk anyways, when I was a kid. So, mark, I mean I'm into funk too, but I am sick to death of that song.
Scott McLean:So I'm going with ram jam all right hard rock song yeah okay, cool, but uh, here we go. This is, uh, the dance club 90s. Well, 80s verse 90s. This is an 80s verse 90s dance club hits. Okay, uh, right up our alley. Yeah, well, it was mine, I was into that music, so yeah, um hold on one second.
:I'm totally outvoted. Patty agreed with you guys yeah play that funky music.
Scott McLean:Uh, funky town, this is for perry. Funky town by lips. Won't you take me to?
:Love the guitar now.
Scott McLean:Or D-Lite Groove is in the High. Whoa, good pitch. I'm going with D-Lite. Groove is in the High. Yeah, I'm going with D-Lite. I got to go with DJ Dimitri and the Japanese guy DJ, I forget his name. He's a fucking great DJ though. Yeah, buddy 1991,. Thank you very much. Big club hit, big club hit.
:Yeah, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it Big club hit, big club hit yeah.
Scott McLean:Plus, in that video the singer's name is Lady Miss Kier. Fucking hot. Oh yeah, hot that girl was hot.
:Kind of reminded me of what's her name Shirley Manson in a weird way, kind of yeah, yeah. Little of reminded me of what's her name Shirley Manson in a weird way, kind of yeah, yeah.
Scott McLean:Little Annie Lennox thing maybe, but Lady Miscuit hot, she was easy to look at, so I got to go Groovers in the Hot. It's just a great club song. It's fun, it's upbeat, yep, you know club song it's fun.
Scott McLean:It's upbeat, you know, and it was DJ Dimitri, and the other one, I forget, the DJ like Yakazama or something like that. They went on to kind of be pretty big DJs in the industry, those guys, and she lived off that one song, which hey, okay, perry, which one? You said Grooves in the Hot. I said Grooves in the Hot, Mark.
:You got Q-Tip on the rap, you got Bootsy Collins, you got Mikhail.
Scott McLean:Parker.
:You can't go wrong with this shit. It's definitely yeah, Grooves in the Hot Big.
Scott McLean:Let me guess Bootsy Collins is wearing glasses shaped like stars.
:Oh, stars, yeah, and the boots.
Scott McLean:Yeah, absolutely, yep, absolutely. What do you got, mark?
:I told you it's real light with all those guys. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Scott McLean:Ooh, this might be the hardest one of the night, gentlemen. Uh-oh, this one might be the hardest one of the night. Yeah, all right, perry, I'm glad you're going first. You make the call, buddy, I'm gonna make it. Sinead o'connor, nothing compares to you. Yep. Or the verve. Bittersweet symphony, wow, uh, now I'm going with the verve. Mark, just grit his teeth. Yeah, I'm going with Bittersweet Symphony, the Verve. Yeah, why? It's just, I like the complexity of the song yeah, yeah. Scott, nothing compares, nothing compares.
Scott McLean:I know where you're going. You're going where Patty's going. Right, I got to go with my girl. I was a Sinead O'Connor fan from her first album I always said her debut album the Lion and the Cobra, one of the greatest debut albums ever. If you've never listened to it I've said this a hundred times. If I've said it more, go listen to that album. There is not a bad song on that album the Lion and the Cobra, sinead O'Connor.
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:And this was her second album and fucking monster, monster hit. I mean, I don't know, that could be one of the greatest one-hit wonders ever. That's got to be in the top five. And I love the Verve, I love Bittersweet Symphony. I love a lot of their stuff. If you want to listen to a great album, listen to the Verve. And the album is four. I don't know if you guys ever listened to that. Listen to it. It's a great, fucking album, great album, but I got it. Nothing compares to you. It's just a monster song. And I heard prince's version the other day.
Scott McLean:it's horrible because, I've, because I've heard sene right yeah a real singer. Sing the song, yeah, and hold on one second. Hold on one second and Chris Cornell's version. Chris Cornell's version of Nothing Compares to. You Acoustic go listen to that again, greatest singer of his generation. Absolutely go listen to his version of Nothing Compares to you Acoustic it's fucking amazing, it's amazing. So that's my answer. Version of Nothing Compares to you acoustic it's fucking amazing, it's amazing. So that's my answer. I hate the choice. Yeah. There's no wrong answer, though. No, there isn't, mark.
:While Bittersweet Symphony to me comes on like a classic who song, it's got swagger. The video has the swagger with the guy walking through the crowd. That's what I felt. I some reason I thought of the who when I heard it. It's a statement and I love it, but nothing compares to you in that song, even though it's a cover. She, her pain, is encapsulated in those lyrics. I've never heard such a big hit move me so much. It was a huge hit. Yeah, and everything I love about Sined in her vocal inflections was in that.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, the lead singer of the verse, richard Ashcroft. Yeah, fucking talented, talented dude, but they got stifled because of that whole Rolling Stones thing. No, the Rolling Stones cut them loose on that.
:It took years.
Scott McLean:It took literally years. They were rolling, they were on a fucking, they were shooting, and then it just they put their thumb on them, on purpose almost.
:My son-in-law told me the band also fucked him royally. They left him or I don't know. He just got, he was on his own he did good on his own.
Scott McLean:He's a.
:He's a still a good singer and he toured with liam gallagher and my son-in-law saw him in central park for free. Yeah, free show with those two, wow, yeah.
Scott McLean:And you know, richard askrov, he is the verb. I mean, there's no yeah like who knows anybody else in the band. I still find it interesting though that, like you said, scott, it's like you know as far as the american public is concerned.
:You were talking about shanae's, uh o'connor's first album.
Scott McLean:Not a bad song, no, but she's considered a one-hit wonder with that song. Nothing compares to you although she had a small hit with mandika yeah, I remember that.
:Yeah, yeah, um.
Scott McLean:But it was an mt.
:More of an mtv hit than a top 40.
Scott McLean:Yeah, it was on. Yeah, it wasn't. It was on the radio occasionally but it wasn't.
:Uh, yeah and that great song lay your hands on me wasn't a hit, but that was a great song, yeah it was yeah and uh.
Scott McLean:Who was the uh? Who was the rapper?
:I have the vinyl behind me and I can't remember her name MC Lyte. There you go. I have the 12-inch.
Scott McLean:MC Lyte. Okay, here you go, perry, you make the call. This is 90s version. Closing Time by Semisonic yeah, or Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry, I'm not sure how that one goes.
:Can you make?
Scott McLean:me a sample of that.
:It's kind of like a driving acoustic play. Save tonight. Let me see, because I'm familiar with closing time.
Scott McLean:Good lyrics on closing time. Yeah, let me see, here we go. Oh, that's the song you're talking about. Yeah, I like that song. I'm going with that one. Oh, yeah, I'm in Dude, that's my choice, right there. Yeah, no, you made your choice, no changing.
:No, you didn't make a choice.
Scott McLean:No, no, no, no no, I swear I heard him say the other one. I've changed my mind because I said I haven't heard the other song, but now I have. I just didn't know that that was the song.
:No penalty box Perry Perry, he cheats, all right, he cheats. Penalty box he's got the card corners bent.
Scott McLean:Come on, I swear I heard him say the other one, because he didn't know His first show, you put him in the penalty box Yep, I spent nobody. No, he didn't pick, I spent nobody, he did not pick.
:Oh man, he's back. Oh my God.
Scott McLean:Yeah, but.
:Rearrange me, yeah, but there you go, yeah but oh, get out of there, mark. I'm always on the bottom.
Scott McLean:No, you're not. You're always up in the top right-hand corner. That's what she said.
:Okay, cool, well, anyway, I chose the first one, but I really liked that second song, See he did choose the first one. I did.
Scott McLean:I did Because he didn't know the other stuff. Mark penalty box.
:See.
Scott McLean:Mark lying to me, mark trying to get in good with you. While Lou's away, he wants to move up the ranks of Music.
:Relish you see how he did that.
Scott McLean:But he failed miserably. He's pounding out of the bottle of wine. He just has a bottle of wine and he's oh, he's got. I thought it was a box of wine. Oh you go ahead, took the opportunity to pound it down.
:The Yellowtail does not make boxes, they only serve in bottles my choice is closing time.
Scott McLean:I love the lyrics. They're clever. You know you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. You know somebody's ending is another. What is it? Somebody's beginning is another person's ending we've all been there.
:It's good, because I've been at many bars where it was fucking the there.
Scott McLean:Yep, yeah, yeah, it's good, because I've been at many bars where it was fucking the lights come on and it's yep. Who are you going with? Who are you with?
:I've been there a lot of times. That scene in the office when they were saying closing time makes me hate that song as much as any counting you know what you know what song from the fucking office makes me I hate.
Scott McLean:Life is a highway. Remember they went on the road trip and they played that, oh, man, I was half asleep when that episode was on.
:I kept waking up and I'm like, why do I hear it again? So you like Eagle Eye Cherry?
Scott McLean:I don't like it. Closing Time does remind me of a.
:Counting Crows song and it just irks me. I don't know, maybe I should listen to the lyrics.
Scott McLean:I'm throwing this one out. It Maybe I should listen to the lyrics. I'm throwing this one out. I'm throwing this one out. It's Barbie Girl by Aqua, or the Ketchup Song, I don't know.
:By.
Scott McLean:Lost Ketchup. Make them both go away, please.
:Yeah, we're not even going to do that. All right, now this one. Can I take a pick?
Scott McLean:Go ahead pick.
:Barbie.
Scott McLean:Girl, man, barbie Girl. All right, I guess an alpha male. Yeah, mark, you actually have that voice on your thing. I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world. Hi Barbie, hi Barbie, here you go.
:Perry.
Scott McLean:Excuse me Proud to say I've never seen the movie Barbie.
:No, I will not. I saw it, I saw it.
Scott McLean:I loved it too.
:Thanks for being a man, perry, thank you for being a man, a man with a wkrp shirt, that's right. That's right. Remember turkeys don't fly. Greatest episode ever.
Scott McLean:Um, all right, here you go. Perry, this is a tough one because one of these is in my top five greatest one hit wonder favorite songs ever. Cool, how Bizarre. By OMC yeah.
:Or.
Scott McLean:No Rain by Blind Melon. Oh dude.
:In other words, that was the.
Scott McLean:Bumblebee song. Bumblebee Girl song the Bumblebee Girl. I lovebee Girl song the Bumblebee Girl. I love that song. That's a great video. Fine Melon, no Rain is one of my.
:I love that. That's it. Sorry, dude, I'm sorry to ramble on and on.
Scott McLean:No, it's a great song. I am not arguing with you.
:I love that, and this is what I'll tell you, what I love about that song.
Scott McLean:Shannon Hoon. Too bad he died early. That song sounds like it came out in 1972.
:Right.
Scott McLean:It's one of those sounding songs. It sounds like it came out 25 years before it actually did. Did you know Shannon Hoon sang with Axl Rose on one of the songs, I think on the second album? There's a video where they're on top of a water tower or something, Is that?
:Don't Cry. I think it's Don't Cry. I think it's Don't Cry yeah.
Scott McLean:Shannon Hoon is the other singer in that. Yeah, love that song. That's what I'm going with and I remember that video.
:It's a great song With Bumblebee B-Girl, with the B-Girl.
Scott McLean:Yeah, the bee girl. Yeah, yep, yep, and then she finds all her other bumblebees. You know all it's and it's a great. You know what's going on. They don't ever there's, no. You just know what's going on with that video.
:It was very well done and they did the video when she finds the other bees. Yeah, it synced with the music, perfect yeah, yeah, 93 blind melon, yeah, it's on my list yeah, but I have to say I fucking love this song.
Scott McLean:I love this. There's a documentary on them. This guy is like and the video is fucking cool and he's is fucking cool Losing down the freeway in the hot, hot sun and he's with that's his sister, that's his sister and his brother in the backseat of the car and yeah, I fucking love this song. No wrong answers, right?
:No, it's so fucking it's such a happy song. Yeah, right, right, it's just a fucking happy song. Feel good song, yeah, with the mexican sounding acoustic in the background.
Scott McLean:Yeah the whole thing and there I think they were tonguing um, it's just a fun song and that dude dude kind of caught a bad rap. I forget his name, he's a legend on that island. There's a whole little documentary about that group and he caught a disease that attacked his immune system and the media made it sound like he had AIDS. So he kind of got stuck with that like he died of AIDS, which today it doesn't happen, first of all, very rarely. Yeah, but in the 90s it was still that residual from the 80s and that kind of stigma of you oh, there's that right and uh, I just thought that that that was that sucked, that he kind of got that that rap and they had to defend it.
:They had this family, had the defenders and no, that's not the case but, on the other hand, why would you like if someone did die of aids? I didn't look at them any less well, it's portrayed in the media like they made it wasn't the fact that people were like, oh it's, the media took it and tried to make them look irresponsible.
Scott McLean:He died of AIDS, but that's not the case, like it's not the case, right? So I just thought that. But that song is one of my. I fucking love that song. Something about it just is always happy. It's just upbeat and it's smooth, like you see the video. He's fucking smooth. I think OMC stood for the original millionaires club, like that's what it stood for. So that's my choice. How Bizarre. What about you, mark?
:Well, how Bizarre. Is a perfect example, scott, of how rock and pop music were influenced by rap, because that was in the 90s when you started to have singers. They weren't rapping but they were talking more to the beat. You know Beck. Well, beck tried to rap but yeah, but no, I got to go with Blind Melon. That appeals to me directly. I mean, see it blind melon. That's that appeals to me directly. I mean I love them both, but blind melon is. I still hear that song. I still tear up when I think about it. All right, yeah, and I like, and little miss sunshine is one of my best favorite movies and I always connected that you ever see that with alan arkin.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I did a little heroin yeah, I try it's good it's good, all right, this is the final one. This is the final one. This is the final one. I don't know if we're going to get to. We can talk about it next week. We can get to a couple of 45s right, we can do a couple of our favorite top 100s.
:Yeah, we'll talk about that.
Scott McLean:All right, so I got. This is the final one, number 20. Perry, yes, you make the call. 90s edition. Take a picture by filter. Yeah, take a picture by filter. Yeah, in case people god, thank you for that, because I can't say I'm familiar with the uh I forgot about that song. It's a great fucking song, acoustic, acoustic okay right, I like that, yep or awake on the airplane, wake on my airplane.
Scott McLean:For people that want to know this is take a picture by filter great song, right, yes, great song. For people that want to know this is Take a Picture by Filter Great song, right, yes, great song. Or this is a true one-hit wonder, but I really like this song too. Let's see, here we go. Harvey Danger, flagpole sitter.
:Wow. Oh dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, it's B. Yeah, it's B.
Scott McLean:You like Harvey Danger Absolutely. I love that friggin' song. Love it.
:It's a great song.
Scott McLean:Everybody listen if you want to hear it. It's called Flagpole Sitter. What a melody.
:What a melody man, I love melody. Yeah, that is it. Melody what a melody man, I love melody. Yeah, that is it.
Scott McLean:I'm not sick, but I'm not well. I love that. I love that, you love it. Yeah, I'm going with B Yep. Only stupid people are breathing.
:Yeah, that's true I love that song, I love that song, I love that song. What do you mean by that, scott? Just saying I'm definitely getting it, you're poking me, you're poking me, I hear it coming, it's coming. This is definitely it. I got to go.
Scott McLean:I love that song but I love Filter. I like Nice Shot. I just think that they're a good band. Filter is actually the lead singer. He was that guy that fired the whole band and hired a new band and kept the name Filter and just kept carrying on with Filter. Okay so it's his band.
:It was his band.
Scott McLean:Yeah, it was his, so I just like take a picture. It's really, but I love Flagpole City too. As a matter of fact, I'm going to add these two to my, to my finely manicured playlist.
:Cool, you know I started a Milk Crate's homework playlist. Have you seen it? I don't know.
Scott McLean:I got a lot of fucking playlists.
:What I'm doing is when you mention songs that I should hear. I just put it on the milk crates playlist oh, okay, so it's like, yeah, I gotta listen to, so I write stuff down while you talk, you know gotcha.
Scott McLean:So all right, I say take a picture now, mark the final one love filter.
:I do, I like, I like him as a whole, but harvey danger, what?
Scott McLean:a song and it gets in your mind and it's like a worm. That was in that movie. That was in that movie where the teacher, the kids, got fucking in the school School of Rock. No, no, they got crazy. There was something that infected them and they just became.
:Oh, I know what you mean. It's been used in a couple of movies, but yeah, it's a great song. Yeah, Is it Apt Pupil? No, that's not that.
Scott McLean:No, no no, that's more of the Nazi. Yeah, I forget the name of it, but not American Pie. No, no, let's see, I got to know this now. Let me see. Uh, mr kata. Mr kata, I'm taking a bathroom hall pass, I'll be right back. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, uh, here we go. I don't even know how to look that up. Let's see which song, the first one or the second one, the second one? Yeah, that'll be a tough query to get out there. How would you word it to find out? Yeah, yeah, let me see Writing inspiration.
Scott McLean:My favorite credits in any movie is the last ones, because the last ones are the songwriters and the music that was used in the movie Disturbing Behavior. That's the name of the movie. Yeah, disturbing Behavior, 1998. I seem to remember hearing about that movie. I may have even seen it. Yeah, now, that movie. I may have even seen it. Yeah, that's that. Now that movie has another one hit wonder that I I, another one I absolutely like. It's got to be in my top 10 by the flies. How does that one go? Got you where I want you. This was, this is. This is the music video. Was the movie for this song? Got you where I want you. This is the music video. It was the movie for this song. What's the point of this? You never heard?
Scott McLean:this song I have. Yeah, yeah, that's a great one-hit wonder right there. A lot of times I don't know the name of the song or the band, but I know, I hear them in movies. Yeah, the Flies. Yep, they had this thing, the Flies, where they would like the lead singer sang into two microphones. It was kind of their sound type thing, cool. But I don't know what ever happened to them, but this was their big hit and it was off that mark. The name of the movie was disturbing behavior yes 1998.
Scott McLean:Yeah, yeah, all right, so that that that was good. That was a good one that took up the whole show. But so, perry, tell me why you think what makes a one-hit wonder? What? What is it?
:well that makes a one-hit wonder got well, it depends on when it was. When I was a kid it was a radio, it was the radio, the am radio to me and, of course, go.
Scott McLean:What do you mean? Go a little deeper, like, go a little beyond that, like what makes it that fucking good that it just can never be recreated? The bands can never hit that level. What is it about? A one-hit wonder that gets into the pop culture bloodline? I don't know, it's got to be the melody or the hook.
:You know the chorus is usually the big hook, that's, you know, going to reel you in, but everybody's got a hit in them too.
Scott McLean:So in other words, you know like say you know, first one on my list is the Flying Machine Right.
:Who's?
Scott McLean:that? What did they say they had? They had one hit. It was smile, a little smile for me oh wow, rosemary. Yeah, rosemary, yeah, they'll never, they never crack the top 40 again, but yet it's the melody, or it. You know, it might be the age I was when I heard it's the melody, or it might be the age I was when I heard it on the radio. You know what I mean so you say one hit wonders by that kind of rationale.
Scott McLean:One hit wonders it's an age thing, it's a. Like an age thing, it's a it attracts to a certain demographic. It depends on the person I spoke to. Melody pulls me in. It attracts to a certain demographic. It depends on the person I spoke with. Melody pulls me in. Melody pulls me in, so that's probably what it is. For me is Melody, and being eight years old or whatever, I was you know when that song came out.
:Yeah, Mark, you know when a season ends in a sport like baseball and you think the number one team is gonna go all the way, but then you got that one team, it's their moment. They just happen to be big that moment, and I think one hit wonders. They have that magical moment because we've all heard songs that could be hits and they just weren't. I'll give you a brief example. The years after led zeppelin disbanded, people were dying to hear Led Zeppelin, right. So this band comes along. Remember this song.
Scott McLean:Yeah, I think it's a zebra warning.
:Yeah, well, that was the number one. Hit Zebra warning. That was for you Perry, that was for you Ze. One hit Zebra warning, that was for you Perry.
Scott McLean:That was for you. Zebra warning, zebra warning.
:Anyway, 1983, people still wanted to hear Zeppelin, that kind of rock, you know. And so Zebra come along. What killed them is and you also got to look at what makes a one-hit wonder, what makes them have that hit, but also what causes them to be a one hit wonder. I think with this group it was their first album. They had a massive hit. It's hard to top that and you most don't do that. So they don't that?
Scott McLean:that's what makes the song not not around it.
:America was like rock fans were hungry for that kind of music. There was no one sounding like robert plant. Here comes randy jackson, zebra. They were a zeppelin cover band too. They were known for that and I think that they just hit it at the right time. Had that come out in 89, it probably wouldn't have been a number one hit, because that kind of music wasn't big, you know. So they started, they kind of like continued a trend, people that were dying for that 70s style hard rock. They luckily had a hit with it in the 80s. You know, some bands with their one hit wonder they start a new trend but then they can't like equal that like. So yeah, you get bands like, um, let's say focus, remember hocus pocus. Sure, that was very unique and I think that's the reason it became a hit, because it was unique. They weren't going to do that again and have a hit.
Scott McLean:You know that was just too unique you't going to do that again and have a hit. That was just too unique. Well, that motherfucker Al Stewart did it.
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Did he?
:have only one hit. He mimicked fucking, you're a Cat with Time Passenger. Yeah, it's a lot of luck because we know that there's a million singles out there. Perry and Lou have turned me on to all these singles that weren't hits, but they're great songs. It's just the luck of the draw. There's also songs.
Scott McLean:You know the business was depending on the area you're talking about. There's song pluggers, there are people that push these songs. Let's get it to the DJ.
:You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true.
Scott McLean:I gotta say, because one hit, one does come in all shapes and sizes Like women.
:What is the?
Scott McLean:fiber of the song that makes it a pop culture Kind of not. Some are phenomenon, something like the. You know my Sharona was a phenomenon of a song like it was just and then you have like play that funky music which really wasn't. It was a good, it was a fun song and it was right. You know, uh, it was a good club song but it's like it can almost be considered novelty after a certain point. But what is like? Okay, so some have a good hook, some have a good beat, some have like good.
:Jackie Jackie Blue. Right, jack Jackie Blue was a song with a great hook. It was guaranteed to be a hit, and that was, you know, by Ozark Mountain Daredevils, but the one one hit, like Warren Zevon had one big hit Werewolves in London. What caused that to be? I've always been kind of like it's a great song. What caused it to be so big like?
Scott McLean:well that no. So now that I could, I could probably comment on that. I will comment on that. So werewolves in london was number one. It was a a catchy song, yeah, because it was about a werewolf right. So right there, and the lyrics are very clear. There's no distorting the lyrics, right, right he. He brings you into a whole story about this werewolf right and how he met the werewolf, and he'll rip your lungs out, yeah, and he referenced what werewolves do to people.
Scott McLean:And right, yeah, london. And so he puts you in london. So that is the reason that song was so catchy because you could relate to it, because we all grew up watching the werewolf movies, right. So that's why that was a big hit and everybody loved it. And plus he put a great song behind it, a great melody, a great beat, great up tempo, infectious. And the way he sings, his tone, his style and how he emphasizes. You know he drops those things in there.
Scott McLean:And you know, I heard the live version and it says and he changed it, it was pretty funny. He said you know, I'd like to meet as Taylor. Right, I'd like to meet as Taylor. And when he sang it live, he said, and he's looking for James Taylor Right right, which I thought was fucking brilliant, right Thought that was brilliant. So that song Dancing in the Moonlight another great fucking little catch right at the beginning, absolutely yeah, right at the beginning. It catches you and it brings you into something you're talking about thin lizzy, right?
:no, no, no, starland vault, uh, king harvest, king harvest, yeah, yeah it brings you into this happy fucking mood, right, yeah, everybody.
Scott McLean:It brings everybody into it like there's songs that that are great songs, that are happy songs do you know what I mean?
:everybody likes them. Yeah, dude. You know what I mean? Lee michaels, that was a party song. Yeah, you know you heard that you were partying. You were shaking, but not everybody liked it though, but yeah, but you know. These are the songs that this is why they became.
Scott McLean:Dancing in the moonlight was not a demographic, I mean adults. Adults like that song, kids like that song, right? Yeah, you know, it's just the way it was designed and it's never one-hit wonders, I don't know. Okay, there are some that are contrived, like Mickey, right?
:Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, Right right.
Scott McLean:All right, now I'm going to attribute that to the videos, the songs that became one hit. One is because of the video mtv.
:Right, yeah, right yeah, so that's a cover song, by the way, too excuse me, yeah, that's cover song.
Scott McLean:Okay, who sang it originally? A british group? Okay, yeah, uh, I think A British group. Okay, yeah, I think you could almost eliminate MTV or make it its own category, because, like I said, the Go-Go's would not have been popular if it wasn't for MTV. I've heard you state that many times on your show.
:It's true.
Scott McLean:It's absolutely fucking true, correct. The Go-Go's were a phenomenon. Their music was just a platform for them as a band. In fact, I I remember seeing on your show you and jack and gina shock came on. She was talking to you and she said fuck you scott did jack arrange that? No, that was actually. He had that. He had that video. That was a video he had that made for her to talk to me like he. She sent me a message like it was funny as fuck.
Scott McLean:but the bottom line is like the night the lights went out in Georgia. That is a story. She brings you Vicky Lawrence, brings you right into the story. This, this is amazing. I was just going to say that, yeah, and then my next sentence was going to be that song. Yeah, it's a story song, you're pulled into the story.
Scott McLean:Yes, and she sings it well because Vicki Lawrence had a really good voice. Yeah, yep, but then you get like Pilot. Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's magic right now. That is not really a good fucking song. It was good for the time. I don't think it aged well because daddy was a cop. Is that the one?
:no, no, no, magic is oh oh, oh, it's magic, right, yeah? Now to me personally. That song is age.
Scott McLean:Well, I like it it's it hasn't it's, it's okay, but you don't hear it like. It doesn't get played that much anymore.
:I don't think, yeah, time life, uh thing on, yeah, yeah but I don't know something about these.
Scott McLean:One hit wonders, and I and I again, I'm eliminating the mtv era of one hit wonders because there's a contributing factor to that and a lot of them go pre-mtv there's a lot of shitty songs that had cool videos that went to number one we have no I.
:I would say this how many times did we see a song on mtv and assume it was the number one song because it was all over mtv? But if you actually look at billboard it didn't chart Because MTV was a separate universe.
Scott McLean:A lot of Billy Idol songs didn't chart.
:Yeah.
Scott McLean:Eyes Without a Face, didn't I mean? It might have made it to the top 40, but it didn't make it to the top 10. Now, when I was a kid too, there was this song Rebel Yell did In the year 2525. I've heard that song a thousand times 's that, that's like Zeger and Evans, we had the 45, but it's like, yeah, okay, I heard it a thousand times. I think I've heard it enough. And there are those one hit wonders that you get sick of hearing.
:Right seasons in the sun like 99 Luftballons, right, nina?
Scott McLean:you can attribute to that she was German, they were a. German band they came over here, uh, they, they conquered for a year and then, you know, went back to germany. Whatever right, still a great song, great beat. You know, it's all. They're always catchy in a way. But there's also those fun songs like you were talking about before, like remember that one mungo jerry in the summertime I'll tell you a song that's stupider than that song.
Scott McLean:That's a stupid song really if you think about it. The safety dance Men Without Hats is a fucking stupid song. But I like the melody on that song. With all due respect to Jack's wife Deb. She's one of her favorite songs ever.
:You can dance if you want to.
Scott McLean:Leave the world to all. Do it just caught people's attention. It's so fucking lowbrow. Though If you separate the MTV video from just listening to the song, you get a different perspective on it. Without the video, the video actually made it worse. That's my point.
:They're dressed like.
Scott McLean:Jethro Tull running through a field I don't know.
:One of the greatest rock songs ever written right was black okay patty, what was it?
Scott McLean:what was it perry? No, I'm reading patty's. Uh, what was the greatest song? You just said something black hole, sun great song yeah right, but I couldn't stand the video. I couldn't stand it so when I heard it. Disturbing when I heard it on FM radio. I'm like this is crazy, that's what I mean. Sometimes the video turns it off the video made it bad, but hearing it on FM radio I'm like this is a fantastic fantastic song. Patty says I love songs because of their lyrics. Lyrics are very important to a lot of people.
:I agree, and I have this eternal argument with Tom Tom Spallone. He says lyrics don't matter, I don't care about it. No, they do To him, they don't.
Scott McLean:Some people they do exactly Music. Now, music is interpretive.
:Correct.
Scott McLean:See, there's no really wrong answer. It's what that particular person hears and that's why some people like heavy metal, some people like death metal, but worth without Melody. Or Lou Reed. So, yeah, yeah, exactly the talker. You broke my heart and you made me cry, oh my lord, although I do like that song. But I love you, suzanne.
:You know why?
Scott McLean:Because it's catchy. It's catchy. Was that his biggest hit?
:No Walk on the Wild Side. No, his biggest hit was probably Walk on the Wild. Side. Yeah, Walk on the Wild Side. He got away with a couple of words in there I hate that song with a passion God.
Scott McLean:I hate it.
:Oh, by the way, mocky.
Scott McLean:Mock and the Funky Bunch did a slight remake of that.
:Really Bunch did a.
Scott McLean:They did like a slight remake of that Really, yeah, except they changed it. It's actually pretty. It's not bad. I give them credit. It's not a bad song. So look it up. Mocky Mock and the Funky Bunch.
:That's my bud, mocky Mark.
Scott McLean:Yeah, my bud, yeah, let me see, let me see. And then Mark, and then, uh, mark, in a gala to feed a mom. That was a one hit, right yeah, you're right and it's a 16 minute one.
:Hit wonder. I'm sure there was an.
Scott McLean:AM version boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Wow, my uh, somebody told me one time Boom boom, boom, boom, boom boom.
:Wow, my Spotify is like. Somebody told me one time that Deep Purple were a one-hit wonder and they might be right because their stuff they were popular, but as far as top 10 hits they might be, Well, yeah, but.
Scott McLean:I don't know, to me a one-hit was like. So here you go, his Marky Mark.
:I remember that. That's the remix right. See, it's better with Marky Mark. Oh, that's Marky Mark Smith. And the. Funky Bug this was. I don't know if this aged well.
Scott McLean:Is that Mark?
:Wahlberg.
Scott McLean:That didn't age well, was that Mark?
:Wahlberg. That was Mark Wahlberg. Yeah, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah, that didn't age well, was that Mark Wahlberg? That was Mark Wahlberg. Yeah, you've got to be kidding me.
Scott McLean:Yeah, that didn't age well.
:That's my inner Marky Mark, yeah.
Scott McLean:This is the song.
:Yeah, you feel it, baby.
Scott McLean:This is the one-hit wonder right there, look at Mark doing the white boy dance. Who is this? And who's the singer in the background? Who's the lady singer? What's her name? Donnie Wahlberg.
:No no.
Scott McLean:That was good, she's coming up right here. Gloria Gaynor no, she's coming up no, she sang on a lot of songs in the 90s. Chaka Khan no Coming up.
:No, she sang on a lot of songs in the 90s. Chaka Khan no, that's a delight girl, isn't it? No?
Scott McLean:Her name is. She also did for the C&C Music Factory. She was a singer for Black Box A lot of 90s songs. But, she's a big girl.
:Her name is Martha Walsh. I hope she got compensated.
Scott McLean:Oh she did in the end she went after them all. Black Box took her voice and big dance songs by them in the 90s, early 90s. They took her voice and they gave it to this beautiful black woman for the videos and this. This girl lip-synced it and they never gave Martha Walsh any breath, any credit. Now Martha Walsh went on to be one half of the weather girls, it's raining yeah yeah, so remember uh, uh and and uh.
Scott McLean:Wilson was a victim of this videos were not, uh, very nice to big girls. Yeah, yeah, they weren't really nice to big girls back then and wilson was beautiful. No matter what, she's just a beautiful woman yeah, well, again she, she got shit on big time. But yeah, gentlemen, we're two hours into this and, perry, I'm just getting started. I come on. I think, perry, you'll be back next week. Uh, we can pick this up, um again we can.
Scott McLean:We can continue because we, we both, all three of us have a large list of one hit wonders. But let's let's do this so. So try to go a little deeper into what you think really makes a one-hit wonder. Like I'm not, saying get all philosophical on it. Yeah, there's so many different reasons. Save that for next week, yeah, and then we can kind of pick it up, and then we'll start rifling through because I have top. I have, uh, the top 20 of my top 20, one hit wonders from the 70s, 80ss and 90s.
:So I got a lot of them. Yeah, well, cool, we could do a roundtable one after another. Yeah, like we always do.
Scott McLean:It's kind of like, okay, give us a song and we break it down, maybe we just move past it, but there was plenty to talk about one-hit wonders, yeah, and this is an episode. So I'm redoing old episodes, like Jack and I did an episode on this, but it was one hour and it was like, okay, that's an episode where we left a lot of shit on the table Because we didn't know what we were doing.
:It's also okay to revisit a theme with other people.
Scott McLean:Absolutely, absolutely, if I could just say.
:Quoting Patty, oh wow, it was great, it was.
Scott McLean:oh wow, I had a blast being here tonight. Well, come on Anytime you want, buddy.
:You know, you got an open invitation.
Scott McLean:You're the fucking catalyst to this. Well, you and I are kindred spirits. Absolutely my friend.
:Absolutely my friend. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Scott's kindred spirits are loose. Scott's kindred Spirits with Lou, scott's Kindred Spirits with Perry. You know what that means. You know bye, fucking guy. Fucking Perry Fucking oh shit my mic's on.
Scott McLean:Todd Big Head. Todd the Wet Sprocket said good night gentlemen. He said great show guys. Thanks for all the info and laughs.
:You know what I meant about Kindred spirits. I know, don't listen to, mark, you guys are.
Scott McLean:At this point, two hours into the show, and he's been pounding that wine, Don't? It's just? You know, I have three glasses. Come on, okay. And then I saw you chugging while I put you in the bag.
:I had a blast. I had a blast.
Scott McLean:It's called a tongue. You got the link now you can just drop in.
:You'll be on next week, right? Because we're going to list our top.
Scott McLean:Yeah, if you can do it next week, perry, good, then we'll continue this. Let's make Lou sweat a little bit, because this is an audition maybe.
:You want to make me sweat? Get Lou on and kick me off. This could be fun.
Scott McLean:I was just going to say, or. You and I are contingent spirits, more so, because I'm retired also.
:There you go. I see Moxie going down the rung.
Scott McLean:Moxie going down the rung.
:And there's an issue with this. There's an issue with hair.
Scott McLean:That is not an issue, pal. Yeah, all right. Well, listen, gentlemen, as I always say, thank you for your time, and I do mean this to you too, perry. Thank you for your time, thank you for your knowledge, but, most of all, always thank you for your friendships. That means more to me than the music.
:I appreciate you guys. I got you.
Scott McLean:This is like Mark said. This is absolute therapy for me also to do this. One man, one Mic Foundation is all about podcasting and how therapeutic it is, along with the storytelling part of it. And if you're interested and you've listened this long, go check out my foundation, the One man, one Mic Foundation. It's great At onemanonemicfoundationorg and see what we're doing over there. I've already reached veterans in Utah, maryland. I got a guy in Wisconsin and a guy just north of me in Ocala that are taking the course. I got the VA last Friday. The head of the mental health department of the West Palm Beach VA, which is a big VA, wants to do a memorandum of understanding which is basically a contract between my foundation and the VA. That's how interested they are in it and everything's going the right way. And, yeah, go check out the website, see what we're all about I have and I will again Absolutely Thank you.
Scott McLean:I appreciate that and, as I always say at this point in the show, I'm doing this show for you, to quote my favorite artist Morrissey the pleasure, the privilege is mine and we will be back next Thursday. Perry will be sitting in again for Lou and even if Lou is back, Perry's coming back to at least finish this show.
:At least Perry. Good seeing you, bro, Good seeing you All right.
Scott McLean:All right, everybody. See you next week.