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Top 80s Hits: Halloween Themed Playlist · Children of the 80s

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Speaker 1: Join us today as we make a playlist of eighties
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Speaker 1: songs with the Halloween theme. A new episode of Children
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Speaker 1: of the Eighties is next. Hi, I'm Jim and I'm Lindsey.
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Speaker 2: And this is Children of the Eighties. So this is
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Speaker 2: episode two of our Halloween themed episodes. In case you
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Speaker 2: miss last week, on Friday the thirteenth, we talked about
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Speaker 2: urban legends and spooky stories we heard as kids and
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Speaker 2: how they affected us. So go check that out for
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Speaker 2: some nostalgia.
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Speaker 1: That was fun. I enjoyed that episode.
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Speaker 2: I did too. I thought it was a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Fun, even though it gave me the creeps over.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know bloody Mary.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: Well you're still afraid of bloody Mary? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Stop it?
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Speaker 2: Should I say it a third time?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: Please this house?
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Speaker 2: So did you get any feedback from last year?
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Speaker 1: Yes, I got feedback. People thought it was funny. Then
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Speaker 1: I'm still hung up on that.
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Speaker 2: At forty four, what the bloody Mary they is?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I just said it a third time and I don't
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Speaker 2: see a creepy lady in the mirror. Well prove it's an.
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Speaker 1: Urban life and we scowed over a little bit. You'll
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Speaker 1: be able to see me. I am the creepy lady
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Speaker 1: of this house. But yeah, I don't know. I cannot
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Speaker 1: believe that I'm the only adult that still gets totally
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Speaker 1: creeped out by that.
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Speaker 2: Well you should see candy and then no, that would
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Speaker 2: be even worse.
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Speaker 1: No, thank you. So what kind of feedback did you get?
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Speaker 2: So you and I have gone back and forth on
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Speaker 2: this over a few different episodes. Right, you always thought
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Speaker 2: it was an urban legend about people, you know, putting
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Speaker 2: razor blades and candy bars and that kind of stuff. Right,
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Speaker 2: We've gone back and forth. You don't believe it. I
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Speaker 2: tell you that it's happened, and you're like nope. So
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Speaker 2: you know Sean from Generation Rewind, Yes and Content of course,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's like one of our biggest promoters, right.
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Speaker 1: I know. I love Sean and I love his podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, after he listened to our episode, he messaged
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Speaker 2: me and he was like, dude, I just listened to
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Speaker 2: your episode, and I'm telling you, when I was like
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Speaker 2: six years old, six or seven years old, my mom
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Speaker 2: went to the store and got me a pack of
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Speaker 2: like Hostess donuts and I was opening I was opening
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Speaker 2: them up and breaking them through because that's when all
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Speaker 2: the razor blade stuff was going on and he found
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Speaker 2: a rusty razor blade.
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Speaker 1: Doty, Yes, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: I am not kidding you, No way, I don't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I have to hear that. First of all, I just
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Speaker 1: whacked the table, so you know that's gonna sound terrible. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I cannot. I have got to
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Speaker 1: hear that straight from Sean's mouth or it did not happen.
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Speaker 2: You will hear it from Sean's mouth because we are
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Speaker 2: his first guests on his new podcast called pod Tent,
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Speaker 2: where he likes to promote podcasts.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, and I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: So but I have a feeling that instead of him
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Speaker 2: interviewing us now you are going to be interviewing him
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Speaker 2: about the donut razor blade siesco.
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Speaker 1: I have a thousand questions, like what kind of store
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Speaker 1: did they buy the Hostess whatever at? What did his
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Speaker 1: mom do, what did he do? What? You know? What
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Speaker 1: did did they go back to the store, What did
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Speaker 1: the people at the store say?
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Speaker 2: Like, I believe his mom called Hostess and he said
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Speaker 2: that for the next six months, his kitchen looked like
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Speaker 2: a Hostess donut shop.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so Kid's dream coachry?
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Speaker 2: Right? Probably I wonder if he broke those open to
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Speaker 2: check from that, I would hope.
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Speaker 1: So, I wonder. I mean, I'm assuming the package looked sealed. Man,
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Speaker 1: I have so many questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking that maybe it might have happened at
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Speaker 2: the factory rather than somebody breaking.
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Speaker 1: Well, that doesn't make me feel any better.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it shouldn't. But I'm just saying I'm
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Speaker 2: sure the package was sealed. I mean, I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: we can ask Sean.
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Speaker 1: But so, my grandmother told me a story about when
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Speaker 1: my grandfather got home from World War Two and he
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Speaker 1: was just trying to find any job he could get.
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Speaker 1: He went to work at a bakery and he wore
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Speaker 1: a ring and it had like an insignia on it.
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Speaker 1: And he went to work one morning and the insignia
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Speaker 1: was on the ring and he came home that afternoon
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Speaker 1: and it was gone EO, and he doesn't no it happened.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 2: That'll ruin a good cherry Danish.
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Speaker 1: I know, right, So can you imagine?
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Speaker 2: No? I cannot. So was that all the feedback you
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Speaker 2: got was just people making fun of you about being
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Speaker 2: afraid of Bloody Mary.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm an easy target because I'm a I'm
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Speaker 1: a big chicken.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So, speaking of last week's episode, we did mention
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Speaker 2: Phil Collins on the last episode, and I think that's
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Speaker 2: a good segue them. Yes, your good friend Phil. So
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Speaker 2: this week is all about music.
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Speaker 1: So okay, So let's stay away from like the eighties
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Speaker 1: for a moment because I want to hear what do
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Speaker 1: you think when you think of a Halloween a good
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Speaker 1: Halloween theme song?
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Speaker 2: So decades other than the eighties.
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Speaker 1: So do you tell me about the eighties?
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Speaker 2: I have a list? Do you have a list? I
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Speaker 2: have a list of all I got a list. Okay,
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Speaker 2: So Monster mashes An, Don't You're the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult?
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's on my list too. Both of those are online.
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Speaker 2: What about a Superstition by Stevie One, Yes, no way?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: How about uh Werewolves of London by Warren.
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Speaker 1: Zevon, Yeah, because you know I love that song anyways.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm gonna throw a newer one because those
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Speaker 2: are all from like the seventies, right, Master Mash may
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Speaker 2: even be from I think.
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Speaker 1: Monster goes back to the early sixties.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw one out for you after the turn
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Speaker 2: of the century. What uh Dracula's Wedding by Outcast.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know that song. I've never even heard it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you love Outcasts, so now you got to go
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Speaker 2: listen to it.
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Speaker 1: My my Atlanta boys. Okay, what about zolmber Zoel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Cranberrier, Yes, that's your favorite.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. Highway to Hell ac DC Oh okay, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe is that a stretch?
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Speaker 2: Uh no, No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: So I've got I've got one for you that you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have never heard of. But you know me, My
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Speaker 1: heart's in country Marie Levau Bobby Bear nineteen seventy three.
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Speaker 1: I love that song.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that one.
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Speaker 1: I think you need.
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Speaker 2: I think you need to play a clip of that
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Speaker 2: even though it's not the eighties.
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Speaker 1: Oh listen, I would love to nothing will give me
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Speaker 1: a second, Let me pull it up.
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Speaker 4: She lives in a swamp and a hollow, loud wear
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Speaker 4: the water snake and a relegging dogs. You got a bad,
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Speaker 4: boneybody and strange and if she ever seen y'all messing
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Speaker 4: around that you go.
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Speaker 1: Out of the man done go. I mean, you know
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Speaker 1: they say Marie Leveau was a was a real person
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Speaker 1: back in the day in Louisiana.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought I reckon nice that name?
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Speaker 3: Did?
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Speaker 2: Was she into the voodoo?
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Speaker 1: She did the the doo, the v doo. But I
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Speaker 1: love that song. It's a fun song. Would you think
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Speaker 1: you like it?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean it's you know, not my thing, but.
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Speaker 1: I'll go with don't add it to the playlist.
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Speaker 2: It's Halloween, right, Some of these songs were played on
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Speaker 2: the radio around Halloween or maybe on Halloween when we
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Speaker 2: were kids. But I think over the last several years,
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Speaker 2: like things to things like Spotify and Pandora, halloween playlists
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Speaker 2: have become a thing. Right if you attended like a
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Speaker 2: Halloween party that had like particular playlist. So what do
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Speaker 2: you think about that?
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Speaker 1: Just to tell idea, I've I've always struggled with trying
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Speaker 1: to pull up like a Halloween theme playlist on say
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Speaker 1: like Pandora, because then it always wants to play like
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Speaker 1: the theme song from I don't know, I'm just kidding
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Speaker 1: Adam's Family, like Friday the Thirteenth, Part twenty six, and
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Speaker 1: it's some weird piano music or keyboard music and it's
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Speaker 1: you know, not not catchy, not really good, not you know,
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Speaker 1: like right.
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Speaker 2: So that's why I like Spotify or like Amazon Music
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Speaker 2: with Alexa, because you can create your own, your own
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Speaker 2: playlist and put in your own, you know, the exact
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Speaker 2: songs that you want, and it won't play, especially with Alexa,
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Speaker 2: it won't play anything but that hashtag.
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Speaker 1: This is not an ad.
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Speaker 2: It is not. But if they want to pay us,
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Speaker 2: we'll take it. So we're going to make a Halloween
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Speaker 2: playlist with songs from the nineteen eighties.
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Speaker 1: So are they going to be like creepy, scary, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to sleep tonight songs or are you going
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Speaker 1: to give me some leeway?
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you are afraid of these songs, then
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Speaker 2: I can't help you. But yeah, I mean there's there's
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Speaker 2: some that you know, you're like, yeah, I could see
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Speaker 2: where that's a little bit eerie. But then so some
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Speaker 2: of them just have you know, something that might go
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Speaker 2: with Halloween just in the name of the title, right,
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Speaker 2: it may not necessarily be a Halloween song. So think
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Speaker 2: about like Stevie Wonder Superstition, Right, that's not a song
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Speaker 2: about Halloween, but it's very appropriate yes for Halloween.
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Speaker 1: So and is this gonna be in any particular order
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Speaker 1: or are we just gonna love it back? Now?
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Speaker 2: I think we're just gonna love it back and forth.
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Speaker 2: I'm not you know.
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Speaker 1: Can I be Serena?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I know she's your favorite. So but if you're
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Speaker 2: gonna be Serena, then I'm gonna then I need the
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Speaker 2: advantage of serving first. So I'm gonna go first.
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Speaker 1: Perfect.
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Speaker 2: So this is going to be quite the eclectic list.
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Speaker 2: We have pop songs, we have some rock songs, we
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Speaker 2: have a little bit of rap and some new wave
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Speaker 2: and I might even toss in a hair band so for.
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Speaker 1: You, Okay, okay, this should be fun. All right, I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: Are we ready to get started?
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Speaker 1: I'm ready?
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Speaker 2: Do we have let's get started music?
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Speaker 1: Give me a minute.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So my first song that I'm putting on our
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Speaker 2: playlist is Maniac by Michael Sambello.
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Speaker 4: You guess cut us, give this get this post speaks,
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Speaker 4: that's what this.
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Speaker 1: N Halloween song.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's called Maniac.
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Speaker 1: She's a She's a dancing maniac.
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Speaker 2: She is a dancing maniac. But let me give you
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Speaker 2: some song facts. Okay, So this song is from nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty three. It's on the Flash Dads soundtrack. Obviously, it
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Speaker 2: was Grammy nominated for Record of the Year and Best
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Speaker 2: Pop Vocal Performance by a Male. It was also nominated
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Speaker 2: for Song of the Year. It was nominated for an
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Speaker 2: Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song. It hit
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Speaker 2: number one on the Billboard Charts in nineteen eighty three
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Speaker 2: and was there for two weeks. It was number one
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Speaker 2: in Canada too, in Australia, Spain and Switzerland, number ten
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Speaker 2: in the Netherlands and possibly the most eighties thing of all,
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Speaker 2: it hit number six in West Germany. Ooa see kids
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Speaker 2: back in the eighties and going all the way back
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Speaker 2: to the After World War Two, Germany was split into
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Speaker 2: two East Germany and West Germany. They've since combined, so
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Speaker 2: there is no more West Germany.
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Speaker 1: And go back and listen to our time capsule episode
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Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about that.
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Speaker 2: Exactly nice plug. So it finished on the nineteen eighty
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Speaker 2: three year in charts is number nine, so it's a
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Speaker 2: top ten song for the year in nineteen eighty three.
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Speaker 2: So this is why I think it's a Halloween song.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're I mean, you've got some explaining to
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Speaker 1: do so.
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Speaker 2: It was written by Dennis mccowsky and Michael Simbelo, who
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Speaker 2: was the singer. Obviously, the original idea for the song
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Speaker 2: came to Mkowski while he was watching a news report
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Speaker 2: on a serial killer, and the original lyrics were somewhat gruesome.
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Speaker 1: WHOA right, I want to know what serial killer?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I would like to know that too. And then
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Speaker 2: after you know that idea came to him. Both of
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Speaker 2: the gentlemen saw a movie named Maniac in nineteen eighty
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Speaker 2: that expanded on the lyrics, but the director of Flash
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Speaker 2: Dance loved the demo of the song and asked that
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Speaker 2: they changed the lyrics to be more adaptable to the movie.
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Speaker 2: And that's why we have them singing about you know
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Speaker 2: a lady from Pittsburgh dancing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well I'll give it to you on the
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Speaker 1: grounds of the serial killer. Okay, okay.
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Speaker 2: So do you have any personal feelings or stories about
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Speaker 2: song at all? I don't you don't.
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, see, I associate this song with flo
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Speaker 1: Flash Dance.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, yes, So the Flash Dance soundtrack is one of
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Speaker 2: the best soundtracks of the eighties.
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Speaker 1: Didn't we see that on Broadway?
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Speaker 2: We did see Flash Dance on on Broadway. I thought,
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Speaker 2: can you name some other songs from the Flash Dance?
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Speaker 1: Why are you doing this to me?
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Speaker 2: How about flash Dance? What a feeling?
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Speaker 1: Oh? There you go? What?
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Speaker 2: There you go? This Iron Kara? Who I claim? You
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Speaker 2: know how everybody calls Kenny L. Loggins the king of
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Speaker 2: the soundtrack, right, Iren Kara to me is the queen
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Speaker 2: of the soundtracks because she did Flash Dance, she did fame.
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Speaker 2: I think she may have done something and like breaking
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Speaker 2: and maybe something else. So I love the Flash to
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Speaker 2: Dance soundtrack. It's fantastic soundtrack. But of course I always
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Speaker 2: think of Tommy Boy when I hear this song. You
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Speaker 2: know when Yeah, after he falls in the mud and
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Speaker 2: Rob Low is spraying him with the with the hose
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Speaker 2: and waters flat everywhere, Chris Barley starts dancing, singing mediac.
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Speaker 1: So, okay, good choice choice to get us, I mean,
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Speaker 1: to get us started. You know what, I'll let you
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Speaker 1: have it good.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that you are being so kind. So what
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Speaker 2: is the first song that you have?
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Speaker 1: Okay? I was kind with you, so I expect you
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Speaker 1: to return the favor. Okay, Okay, Man Eater hauling oats.
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Speaker 6: She'll shut you up.
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Speaker 1: It was released in nineteen eighty two on their studio
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Speaker 1: album H two. Oh Now I am not a big
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Speaker 1: Haul of Oates fan.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, how dare you?
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Speaker 1: I know the look you're giving me. I just I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Can I just be quite honest for a moment, And
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Speaker 1: I know that you will get messages from all your buddies.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I know about Hall of Notes. Back in
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Speaker 1: the late eighties, possibly nineteen ninety, Danny Wood from New
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Speaker 1: Kids on the Block named Hall of Oates as his
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Speaker 1: favorite artist. That is about where it starts and ends
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Speaker 1: for me with Hall of Notes.
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Speaker 2: No, come on, you know this song? You know?
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Speaker 1: No, I do know this song. But I had to
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Speaker 1: I honestly, I had to do a little bit of
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Speaker 1: research because I know the song. I don't really know
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Speaker 1: much info about them. They're not going to be I'm
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Speaker 1: never putting them in the time capsule.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. They would go in the late seventies
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Speaker 2: and early eighties pop rock time capsule. I bet you
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Speaker 2: they had about thirty five top forty hits.
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Speaker 1: No, I know, I know that I'm not in the majority.
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Speaker 1: I get that. I'm so sorry. So the song reached
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Speaker 1: number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart right
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Speaker 1: before Christmas in nineteen eighty two. John Oates has since explained,
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Speaker 1: and this is some people disagree with this and that
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Speaker 1: he's maybe trying to I don't know, saye face, which
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Speaker 1: I don't really understand why, that the song is not
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Speaker 1: really about a woman, it's about the city of New York, okay,
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Speaker 1: And that they used it in context that the city
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Speaker 1: was female and the city was a woman because people
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Speaker 1: would be able to relate to that better.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense. But do you think he's trying
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Speaker 2: to rewrite history?
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Speaker 1: I do think he might. I think he might be,
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Speaker 1: But again I don't know. I mean, artists can can
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Speaker 1: get artsy fartsy like that. So who knows right.
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Speaker 2: Right in New York City would eat somebody out in.
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Speaker 1: The very possibly could Okay, So let me give you
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Speaker 1: just a little bit more information. Are you ready? So
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Speaker 1: in Canada it reached number four as a top single.
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Speaker 1: Belgium it reached number eight, Australia number four, Canada Adult
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Speaker 1: Contemporary number one, I mean it goes on and on
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Speaker 1: Ireland number eight. Spain it reached number one, okay, so
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Speaker 1: it did really well on the charts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was huge. I remember it. So
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Speaker 2: I've got a funny story about this.
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Speaker 1: Tell me.
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Speaker 2: You know my buddy Bob, of course, him and I
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Speaker 2: worked at the same place a couple of places ago.
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Speaker 2: Where we worked, there was a lady there who was
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Speaker 2: known as just the ultimate man hater. I guess maybe
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Speaker 2: something went wrong in her life. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: she was a man hater, and so anytime we would
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Speaker 2: see her coming, we would start humming this tune, and
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Speaker 2: instead of saying man eater, we would say, man hater.
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Speaker 1: That's funny, that's also kind of bad. I got something
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Speaker 1: else for you. I just realized we can't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: since you brought up West Germany, I need to counter
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Speaker 1: with my West Germany number fifteen where it peaked in
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Speaker 1: West Germany.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the West German They loved the haff Right,
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Speaker 2: so I don't know, they loved Hall and Oates, but
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Speaker 2: they loved David hassel So maybe if David Hasselhoff had
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Speaker 2: saying man eater, it might have happened.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a music career, yeah, a
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Speaker 1: little bit, nothing to probably write home about. But right,
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Speaker 1: those good looks, you don't have to be able to sing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, you can say that the haff is
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Speaker 2: good looking and I can't argue with you. But Darryl
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Speaker 2: Hall back in the late seventies and early eighties, there,
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Speaker 2: you know. I bet there's many a lady that would
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Speaker 2: argue with you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
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Speaker 2: And John Oates and his curly hair and his mustache.
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Speaker 1: Whoh, that's Stash all right.
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Speaker 2: So we've started off strong with Maniac and man Eater.
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Speaker 2: So my next song is going to be you know what,
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Speaker 2: why don't I just play it for you?
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Speaker 6: Okay?
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Speaker 2: So that is twilight Zoned by Golden Earring. Do you
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Speaker 2: ever hear that one?
21:21
Speaker 1: No? It's creepy.
21:23
Speaker 2: Well it is called twilight Zone.
21:25
Speaker 1: Well there you go. What happens at two am?
21:28
Speaker 2: So nothing good facts about the song, song facts, fun facts,
21:34
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it. Nineteen eighty two, it
21:38
Speaker 2: spent twenty seven weeks on the pop charts.
21:42
Speaker 1: Well that sounds impressive.
21:44
Speaker 2: That's more than half the year. So it hit number
21:48
Speaker 2: ten that's where it peaked. It was number one on
21:51
Speaker 2: the US mainstream rock charts. It was number one in
21:56
Speaker 2: the Netherlands and number five in Belgium. So over there
21:59
Speaker 2: in the low Country. He's in Europe. It was a
22:00
Speaker 2: big hit, so it ended up number nineteen on the
22:04
Speaker 2: Billboard Hot one hundred Year in Charts for nineteen eighty three,
22:08
Speaker 2: which you know, if you think it only it only
22:10
Speaker 2: got up to number ten, so obviously it was on
22:12
Speaker 2: for over half the year. That's why it was ranked
22:15
Speaker 2: so high for year in. But I did some a
22:19
Speaker 2: little bit of research about the song, so it was
22:22
Speaker 2: inspired by the band's guitarist who was reading the Born Identity.
22:26
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the Born Identity has to do
22:29
Speaker 2: with this song, but it pays tribute to obviously the
22:34
Speaker 2: Twilight Zone, the old TV show. It's the only top
22:38
Speaker 2: ten pop single in the US by Golden Earring, And well,
22:42
Speaker 2: I guess that's about all I have for the facts
22:45
Speaker 2: of the song. What do you think about that?
22:47
Speaker 1: I mean, considering I've never even heard of Golden Earring,
22:50
Speaker 1: I'm glad because otherwise that they hadn't had another Pops
22:54
Speaker 1: single that I had missed. Otherwise I would be like,
22:56
Speaker 1: where did I live my life? Under a rock?
23:00
Speaker 2: So I think the song rocks, you know, but I
23:02
Speaker 2: don't think i'd even list it probably in like my
23:05
Speaker 2: top five hundred.
23:06
Speaker 1: Oh whoa, whoa sorry golden ear ring.
23:10
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you think about it, there's you know,
23:13
Speaker 2: we could easily name five hundred songs better than that.
23:17
Speaker 2: So I like twilight Zone the TV show and twilight
23:22
Speaker 2: Zone the movie better than I like twilight Zone the song. Yeah.
23:27
Speaker 1: Correct. When I was growing up, twilight Zone always was
23:29
Speaker 1: on in the middle of the night if you were
23:31
Speaker 1: up sick in the night. Uh huh, yeah, so that's
23:33
Speaker 1: what I kind of associate twilight Zone with.
23:35
Speaker 2: I also like twilight Zone Tower of Terror MGM.
23:39
Speaker 1: Well you know, MGM, that's the Tower of Terror is.
23:42
Speaker 2: My favorite exactly. So I'm putting the twilight Zone on
23:47
Speaker 2: our Halloween playlist.
23:48
Speaker 1: Okay, I will allow it. Get a little rock, I
23:51
Speaker 1: will allow it's. Let's rock a little bit, you know what.
23:56
Speaker 1: I want to keep on rocking, okay. In fact, I
23:59
Speaker 1: want to take it up a notch and I want
24:03
Speaker 1: to like rock rock rock rock rock rock.
24:08
Speaker 2: Oh no, what are you going with?
24:10
Speaker 1: Uh huh?
24:11
Speaker 2: Why don't you play it?
24:13
Speaker 1: Okay? Instead of telling you let me play it? What
24:35
Speaker 1: do you think about my choice?
24:36
Speaker 2: Well? You you can't have Halloween without going with the
24:40
Speaker 2: os Man.
24:40
Speaker 1: Oh I know, right, So this was bark at the Moon. Obviously,
24:44
Speaker 1: Ozzy Osbourne came out in nineteen eighty three. This is
24:49
Speaker 1: gonna surprise you. Okay, are you ready? I'm ready, Okay,
24:53
Speaker 1: I actually really like Ozzie.
24:54
Speaker 2: Really, Yes, that does surprise me.
24:57
Speaker 1: I know it does. Now, I'm not going to just
24:58
Speaker 1: sit around at home listening to Ozzy Osbourne. But I
25:03
Speaker 1: think he's hugely talented and I respect him for that.
25:07
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's funny he's he's a lot like
25:12
Speaker 2: he's kind of the opposite of Bob Dylan. Right, you
25:15
Speaker 2: can't you can't understand a word he speaks, but when
25:18
Speaker 2: he sings, yes, it's crystal clear.
25:20
Speaker 1: It's clear as day, whereas.
25:22
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan you can't understand he already sings, but when
25:25
Speaker 2: he speaks, it's crystal clear.
25:26
Speaker 1: So bargat the Moon. It was the first single released
25:30
Speaker 1: from his nineteen eighty three album of the same name.
25:33
Speaker 1: Some would argue this is his most popular song. How
25:35
Speaker 1: do you feel about that?
25:37
Speaker 2: I always felt like Crazy Train was his most popular song.
25:40
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, you know, this is just like
25:46
Speaker 2: rocking at its hardest, right.
25:48
Speaker 1: So this was the first music video he ever did.
25:51
Speaker 2: Oh really, yes.
25:52
Speaker 1: Yes. The song peaked at number twenty one on the
25:55
Speaker 1: UK Singles Chart and number twelve on Billboard's Album Rock Tras.
26:01
Speaker 1: Ozzy is a big juckal and Hyde fan. Okay, so
26:05
Speaker 1: the video kind of tells that story to some extent,
26:09
Speaker 1: and so that's why they worked that in. It was
26:13
Speaker 1: a big deal, I guess, because this he has, you know,
26:16
Speaker 1: this crazy image biting the heads off bats and all
26:19
Speaker 1: this crazy stuff that he's doing, and this being you know,
26:23
Speaker 1: like his first video people had, people had like high expectations, so.
26:29
Speaker 2: Said that he bite the bat's head off on the video.
26:32
Speaker 1: No, not in the video. Did he really do that?
26:34
Speaker 1: Or was that an urban legend.
26:37
Speaker 2: I've heard people say it. I've never seen it. I
26:39
Speaker 2: don't want to see it if it is true, So
26:42
Speaker 2: we'll just leave it at that.
26:45
Speaker 1: The title of this song came from a joke that
26:49
Speaker 1: Ozzie used to tell where the punchline was eat poop
26:54
Speaker 1: and bark at the moon. So he had the you know,
26:59
Speaker 1: he had the like words were already like you know,
27:02
Speaker 1: working in his mind because of that joke. And then
27:07
Speaker 1: you know, I think like somebody else in his band
27:09
Speaker 1: came in and put the riff with it, and they
27:10
Speaker 1: it just went from there, but I thought you might
27:12
Speaker 1: enjoy that where the idea came from.
27:16
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
27:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what I know about this song, yeah, tell me,
27:22
Speaker 2: is that it is the final song to beat Guitar
27:27
Speaker 2: Hero two on the PlayStation. And I know that because
27:31
Speaker 2: I played Guitar Hero.
27:32
Speaker 1: Did you beat it?
27:33
Speaker 2: And I did beat it? But playing Bark at the
27:37
Speaker 2: Moon took me a while to beat it because it's
27:40
Speaker 2: just so fast, and yeah, it was tough. It's some
27:49
Speaker 2: somebody slaying on that guitar. And I always thought it
27:51
Speaker 2: was Randy Rhodes. But I heard that Randy Rhodes died
27:55
Speaker 2: right before this was released or you know, this was recorded,
27:59
Speaker 2: So it was not Randy.
28:01
Speaker 1: No, it was not. I feel like that the heavy
28:04
Speaker 1: metal bands tell me if I'm wrong. They they never
28:09
Speaker 1: got the credit that they probably deserved in being musically talented.
28:16
Speaker 2: They got it from the metal heads, for sure. Yeah,
28:18
Speaker 2: from the population in general.
28:20
Speaker 1: Problem probably not, because I mean, listen to the music,
28:24
Speaker 1: like this is a rock and song, like this is
28:26
Speaker 1: a really really good, well written song.
28:30
Speaker 2: And it's it's great for Halloween. I'm talking about Bark
28:33
Speaker 2: at the Moon and you think of were wolves and
28:35
Speaker 2: everything else. So yeah, I love it. Great call there,
28:41
Speaker 2: thank you. Okay, So my next song is a Halloween staple.
28:48
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, tell me.
28:50
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and play it for you now,
29:09
Speaker 2: So many is it? So what do you think about
29:13
Speaker 2: that one?
29:14
Speaker 1: That's a good one, right, So that's a good one.
29:16
Speaker 1: That's the first one that I know deserves to be here.
29:20
Speaker 2: So that is Somebody's watching me by Rockwell, so you
29:25
Speaker 2: ready for the deeps?
29:27
Speaker 1: Bring it on?
29:28
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty four hit number two on the Billboard Hot
29:32
Speaker 2: one hundred. I would have thought it would have been
29:34
Speaker 2: a number.
29:35
Speaker 1: One song, but yeah, what happened there?
29:38
Speaker 2: Well, it was at number two for two weeks or
29:40
Speaker 2: three weeks, and it was kept off by two of
29:43
Speaker 2: the biggest songs of nineteen eighty four, Jump by Van
29:46
Speaker 2: Halen and Footloose by the afore mentioned King of soundtracks,
29:52
Speaker 2: Kenny Loggins.
29:54
Speaker 1: And Footloose is your favorite movie?
29:56
Speaker 2: No, listen, We've discussed this. I don't watch movie about dancing.
30:00
Speaker 2: I don't watch Footloose. I don't watch Dirty Dancing. I
30:03
Speaker 2: don't watch Flash Dance. We're not doing songs.
30:08
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're going to review Footloose.
30:11
Speaker 2: We'll see. So it's number two here, but it was
30:15
Speaker 2: hit number one in Belgium, France, and Spain, number two
30:19
Speaker 2: in Canada, the Netherlands and West Germany.
30:23
Speaker 1: Again.
30:24
Speaker 2: It was also a top five song in Switzerland, Sweden,
30:26
Speaker 2: South Africa and New Zealand. It finished the nineteen eighty
30:30
Speaker 2: four Billboard Hot one hundred Year in charts at number
30:33
Speaker 2: twenty six, which is surprising to me. I would have
30:36
Speaker 2: thought it would have finished higher because the song was huge,
30:38
Speaker 2: But I think it was on the charts for a
30:40
Speaker 2: very short time. It just kind of skyrocketed up and
30:43
Speaker 2: then it fell like a falling star afterwards. The backing
30:49
Speaker 2: vocals were done obviously for those of you that don't know,
30:53
Speaker 2: but I think you should know by Michael Jackson. But
30:55
Speaker 2: here's something that I didn't know also, Germaine Jackson.
30:58
Speaker 1: I didn't know Rockwell and Michael Jackson were childhood friends.
31:02
Speaker 1: Did Rockwell purposely try to sound like Michael Jackson?
31:09
Speaker 2: No, I don't think he was trying to sound like
31:10
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson. I think he just got Michael Jackson to
31:12
Speaker 2: do his his backing vocals. So here's what happened. Rockwell
31:17
Speaker 2: brought the demo over to the Jacksons, not Michael's, but
31:21
Speaker 2: to the Jackson's house to play it and asked him
31:24
Speaker 2: if they liked it. Michael Jackson had him sing it
31:27
Speaker 2: several times and then asked Rockwell who was going to
31:30
Speaker 2: be singing the backing vocals. Rockwell didn't have anyone in mind,
31:34
Speaker 2: so he asked Michael if he would do it, and
31:35
Speaker 2: Michael said yes, and he brought in Germaine so they
31:39
Speaker 2: sang background vocals. Rockwell is the son of Motown record
31:47
Speaker 2: CEO Barry Gordy. I have never heard that before, so
31:51
Speaker 2: he secure He actually secured a deal at Motown without
31:54
Speaker 2: his father's knowledge. No way, Yes, And he was the
32:00
Speaker 2: name Rockwell because he believed that he rocked well.
32:05
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, insert I roll here.
32:08
Speaker 2: Right, I'm not making that up. That's not a dad joke.
32:12
Speaker 1: Did he ever go and do anything else though? Other
32:15
Speaker 1: than the song he had?
32:16
Speaker 2: He had? He had another song that was a minor hit.
32:22
Speaker 2: But yeah, so what do you think about this song?
32:24
Speaker 1: Oh? I love this song?
32:25
Speaker 2: So I really liked the song, but I mainly liked
32:28
Speaker 2: it because Michael Jackson was singing the background with vocals.
32:31
Speaker 1: I I always thought that Rockwell was trying to like
32:38
Speaker 1: be a Michael Jackson.
32:40
Speaker 2: Maybe he was.
32:41
Speaker 1: That didn't take away anything from the song for me,
32:44
Speaker 1: but I just thought, well, you know, he's just trying
32:48
Speaker 1: to mimic.
32:49
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. If it's Joe Blow
32:53
Speaker 2: doing the backing vocals, do you think the song ever
32:55
Speaker 2: hits big.
32:56
Speaker 1: No.
32:56
Speaker 2: I don't think it does either.
32:57
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
32:58
Speaker 2: I think it was propelled for it by the power
33:00
Speaker 2: of MJ.
33:01
Speaker 1: I think he probably should have involved Barry Gordy.
33:05
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the deal here, you know why he didn't.
33:10
Speaker 2: Wikipedia says that Barry Gordy was less than enthusiastic about
33:15
Speaker 2: his son's music until he heard the single with Michael's
33:19
Speaker 2: familiar voice doing background vocals, and then he was like,
33:22
Speaker 2: oh okay.
33:23
Speaker 1: So he didn't like you didn't like?
33:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, terrible. So you know, I like the song.
33:31
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the song. I like the video. The video
33:33
Speaker 2: is pretty cool, and I think the song speaks to,
33:37
Speaker 2: you know, all of our paranoia.
33:39
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely right, So that's my good choice. I
33:45
Speaker 1: like it. Third song, speaking of MJ, what do you Got?
33:53
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I know what you got?
33:54
Speaker 1: Now you don't know you don't know nothing. You don't
33:58
Speaker 1: know nothing.
34:02
Speaker 5: I used to.
34:16
Speaker 1: Say, I don't feel worthy honestly to cover the song,
34:37
Speaker 1: but I'm going to do my best.
34:38
Speaker 2: No, you go for it, you got it.
34:40
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my best obviously. Thriller Michael Jackson.
34:44
Speaker 1: It was released November nineteen eighty three in the UK
34:49
Speaker 1: in January twenty third, nineteen eighty four in the US.
34:52
Speaker 1: It was the seventh and final single from his sixth
34:56
Speaker 1: studio album, also titled Thriller. The music video was huge.
35:03
Speaker 1: It was a huge deal that premiered on MTV December second,
35:08
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. Do you remember the first time you
35:11
Speaker 1: saw the music video?
35:12
Speaker 2: We watched it on December second night.
35:14
Speaker 1: Did you seriously?
35:15
Speaker 2: I can tell you that for sure.
35:16
Speaker 1: Yes, Like did you know like kind of countdown like
35:19
Speaker 1: today's the day?
35:20
Speaker 2: Yes?
35:20
Speaker 1: And you remember absolutely? Okay? What what was your reaction?
35:25
Speaker 2: Blown away? It was a movie. So Michael Jackson was
35:30
Speaker 2: all about not just being the best, but getting the
35:34
Speaker 2: best the best at whatever he was doing. So for
35:37
Speaker 2: beat It, you know, he got Eddie van Halen to
35:40
Speaker 2: play the guitar to beat It right. His album I
35:44
Speaker 2: Think Dangerous when it came out in the early nineties.
35:46
Speaker 2: He got Slashed to play the guitar, right, so he
35:51
Speaker 2: was all about the best. So of course he got
35:53
Speaker 2: Vincent Price, you know the best you know horror guy,
35:58
Speaker 2: uh right, you know in the business. And of course
36:01
Speaker 2: he got John Landis to shoot his video. Yes, and
36:06
Speaker 2: this may be in your research, but he saw Michael
36:09
Speaker 2: saw American Werewolf in London that had these crazy special
36:12
Speaker 2: effects where they actually showed a guy transforming from a
36:16
Speaker 2: guy to a werewolf and was just blown away. And
36:20
Speaker 2: he calls John Landis and says, I want to do
36:24
Speaker 2: a video for thriller for a song that I've got
36:27
Speaker 2: coming up, and I want you to direct it. I
36:29
Speaker 2: want you to do all the makeup and everything like that.
36:31
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I absolutely remember the build up to that.
36:35
Speaker 2: We watched it, we recorded it on VHS. After that,
36:40
Speaker 2: they had a documentary called the Making of Thriller, Wow,
36:43
Speaker 2: and it was an hour an hour and a half long.
36:46
Speaker 2: We recorded that. I probably watched that thing one hundred
36:49
Speaker 2: and fifty to two hundred times as a kid.
36:51
Speaker 1: Was that the first time you saw Michael Jackson's red
36:56
Speaker 1: leather jacket? Was that video or had you already seen it?
37:00
Speaker 2: Somewhere else that's different than the beat It jacket, right,
37:03
Speaker 2: I think so, then that would have been the first time.
37:07
Speaker 1: Okay, So the music video was inducted into the National
37:11
Speaker 1: Film Registry. It's been named the greatest music video of
37:15
Speaker 1: all time. You know why various publications.
37:18
Speaker 2: Why because it is.
37:19
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm not arguing. I totally agree. It
37:23
Speaker 1: peaked the number four on Billboard Hot one hundred. It
37:28
Speaker 1: reached number one in Belgium, France, and Spain, and then
37:34
Speaker 1: it hit the top ten in many many other countries.
37:37
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I love Thriller, but it probably
37:43
Speaker 2: isn't a big song without the video. It's probably just
37:47
Speaker 2: another OK song on the Thriller album. Not as big
37:53
Speaker 2: as beat It, not as big as Billy Jean, you know,
37:57
Speaker 2: not as big as Pyt or any of that. But
38:03
Speaker 2: the video pushed it over the top. Now, obviously it
38:07
Speaker 2: still wasn't as big a hit as Billy jeanner Beat It.
38:11
Speaker 2: But when you say it was number four, yes, yeah,
38:16
Speaker 2: it's number four because of the video.
38:19
Speaker 1: Stayed at number four for two weeks. It finished as
38:23
Speaker 1: the seventy eighth single on Billboard's Hot one hundred for
38:27
Speaker 1: the year nineteen eighty four. Did you know that the
38:29
Speaker 1: song was originally titled Starlight?
38:32
Speaker 2: I did not.
38:34
Speaker 1: The chorus lyrics give me some Starlight, Starlight Sun. Quincy Jones, though,
38:40
Speaker 1: felt like the song should be the title track and
38:43
Speaker 1: that Starlight just wasn't cutting a title track.
38:46
Speaker 2: Jones was correct.
38:48
Speaker 1: They wanted something much more mysterious because they were wanting
38:52
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson to be mysterious. What they want him to
38:57
Speaker 1: be mysterios.
39:02
Speaker 2: Once again, Quincy was right.
39:04
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I'm sure probably ninety nine point nine percent
39:08
Speaker 1: of the time. Quincy Jones is right. So Thriller returns
39:12
Speaker 1: to the Billboard Hot one hundred chart almost every Halloween. Wow,
39:17
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? That blew my mind?
39:21
Speaker 2: Wow?
39:21
Speaker 1: So this gave Michael at least one top twenty hit
39:26
Speaker 1: across seven consecutive decades from nineteen sixty nine on the
39:30
Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred.
39:32
Speaker 2: That's crazy. It's gonna be hard to follow that one.
39:35
Speaker 1: I mean, we that might should have been the grand finale.
39:38
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna follow that one up with something completely different,
39:44
Speaker 2: not even a big hit at all. But why don't
39:47
Speaker 2: you go ahead and play this next song that I
39:51
Speaker 2: have queued up for you. So that song is called
40:10
Speaker 2: dead Man's Party, and it is by right the name.
40:14
Speaker 2: The name is appropriate right for Halloween. Dead Man's Party.
40:17
Speaker 2: It is by Oingo Boingo. So this song did not
40:21
Speaker 2: chart at all as big as Michael Jackson song was.
40:23
Speaker 2: This song did not chart at all. So it's on
40:25
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty five album called dead Man's Party. It
40:31
Speaker 2: was featured in the nineteen eighty six Rodney Dangerfield movie
40:35
Speaker 2: Back to School and the actual band performed it at
40:39
Speaker 2: the party at a party scene in the movie. So
40:44
Speaker 2: do you know who the front man was for that?
40:48
Speaker 2: Alf Close elf Danny Elfman.
40:52
Speaker 1: Oh no, I didn't know that.
40:54
Speaker 2: So you know all the all the scores of the
40:57
Speaker 2: Tim Burton movies. Right, we talked about him during the
40:59
Speaker 2: PA He's a big adventure part, that's right. He uh
41:02
Speaker 2: So sometimes he performs this song as the final encore
41:06
Speaker 2: at some of his Nightmare Before Christmas concerts.
41:10
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, okay.
41:13
Speaker 2: And other than you know, being one of the great
41:18
Speaker 2: you know, movie score writers of the last thirty forty years,
41:25
Speaker 2: That's about all I have on Danny Elfman, Oingo Boingo
41:28
Speaker 2: and the song dead Man's Part.
41:29
Speaker 1: I wonder what possessed him to be the front man
41:33
Speaker 1: for Oingo Boingo.
41:35
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's where he started, right, He was
41:38
Speaker 2: just a he was a musician, and then he got
41:41
Speaker 2: in and.
41:41
Speaker 1: Worked his way.
41:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
41:42
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay. This next song, I don't think that
41:48
Speaker 1: it gets more nineteen eighties than this song in this countdown?
41:55
Speaker 3: Okay you ready, I'm ready.
42:24
Speaker 1: I like that song.
42:25
Speaker 2: That's that's a I like that song too, and I
42:28
Speaker 2: got I got a story about that later on, but
42:30
Speaker 2: I'll like, oh good, I like you talk about it.
42:32
Speaker 1: So song came out in nineteen eighty two and hit
42:35
Speaker 1: number three on the US Billboard Hot one hundred chart
42:39
Speaker 1: hit number one on the US Billboard Hot Rock.
42:43
Speaker 2: Track hold On. I'm not sure that's a rock song,
42:46
Speaker 2: although that pretty good guitar rock. I don't think of
42:49
Speaker 2: Duran Duran as.
42:50
Speaker 1: A no I don't need rock group, but I know
42:52
Speaker 1: I don't either.
42:53
Speaker 2: That's probably a little bit more rocky than most of
42:55
Speaker 2: their stuff.
42:56
Speaker 1: It also hit number one in Canada and was a
42:58
Speaker 1: top five song in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa
43:05
Speaker 1: in the UK.
43:06
Speaker 2: So every place that speaks English.
43:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. Let me think about in the eighties,
43:13
Speaker 1: Like this is like just so so eighties.
43:17
Speaker 2: It is very in a good way.
43:18
Speaker 1: I mean that in a good way. Yes, it finished.
43:21
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty three is number seventeen on the year in
43:26
Speaker 1: Hot one hundred. So what you said you had a
43:30
Speaker 1: personal story.
43:31
Speaker 2: So yeah, So nineteen eighty two was about the year
43:36
Speaker 2: that I got to start listening to music on my own.
43:39
Speaker 2: Right prior to that, it was always whatever my parents
43:41
Speaker 2: were listening to in the car or whatever, you know,
43:45
Speaker 2: whoever was in the car with was about the only
43:47
Speaker 2: time that I got to hear music. So you know,
43:51
Speaker 2: the top, top top song you know, I was familiar with,
43:54
Speaker 2: but other than that, So nineteen eighty two I got
43:57
Speaker 2: to start listening to my own music. And I specific
44:00
Speaker 2: remember this song and that was probably you know, saw
44:04
Speaker 2: it on MTV the video on MTV as well, and
44:08
Speaker 2: I just thought this was like a fantastic song. My
44:13
Speaker 2: next door neighbor was a huge Duran. Duran fan, you know,
44:17
Speaker 2: I liked him, but I wasn't a huge fan, but
44:21
Speaker 2: this song was definitely to me, was like there their
44:25
Speaker 2: greatest you know, this to me was better than the
44:27
Speaker 2: Reflex and this is so this is my favorite probably
44:32
Speaker 2: Duran Duran song.
44:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I love it.
44:36
Speaker 2: That's a that's We've got some nineteen eighty two songs
44:39
Speaker 2: on here. I know you said Thriller, and I know
44:41
Speaker 2: you said it was kind of released on the radio
44:43
Speaker 2: in nineteen January of eighty four, but the video came
44:45
Speaker 2: out in eighty three.
44:47
Speaker 1: Yep.
44:48
Speaker 2: And and actually Thriller the album actually it was nineteen
44:52
Speaker 2: eighty two. It was just it was so big and
44:55
Speaker 2: so huge that it lasted from eighty two through eighty four,
45:00
Speaker 2: which is really kind of funny.
45:01
Speaker 1: But I mean that's crazy though, isn't it.
45:03
Speaker 2: But yeah, so we've mentioned, you know, Maniac eighty three,
45:07
Speaker 2: a man Eater, which I think you said was eighty two,
45:10
Speaker 2: and now Hungry Like the Wolf, which is also eighty two.
45:14
Speaker 2: So yeah, eighty two is when I kind of started
45:15
Speaker 2: hitting my stride and that's kind of my happy eighty
45:18
Speaker 2: two to eighty four is kind of my like my
45:20
Speaker 2: happy years of music. So that makes me happy that
45:24
Speaker 2: you put Hungry Like the Wolf on here. And the
45:25
Speaker 2: name's appropriate, Yes, it is so, and the wolf probably
45:30
Speaker 2: barks at the moon. Yeah, yeah, in the Twilight Zone.
45:37
Speaker 2: Maybe okay, could be a man.
45:39
Speaker 1: Eater, could be at a dead man's party.
45:44
Speaker 2: All right, So my next song, we're gonna do something
45:49
Speaker 2: totally different. So why don't you I'm gonna you know what,
45:55
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna play it for you out just one reason.
46:03
Speaker 4: The rock the house within the day time just brings
46:05
Speaker 4: wood clear.
46:06
Speaker 2: You wouldn't find a good freak. And it went, all right,
46:14
Speaker 2: what do you think about that one?
46:15
Speaker 1: I like it.
46:16
Speaker 2: It's the freaks come out at night.
46:18
Speaker 1: I don't.
46:18
Speaker 2: I don't know it by Houdini, like okay, So you
46:22
Speaker 2: might not know it because it didn't chart on the
46:24
Speaker 2: Billboard Pub Charts nineteen eighty four, so we got another
46:29
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four song, rock Well was also eighty four,
46:31
Speaker 2: and I think we got another nineteen eighty four song
46:33
Speaker 2: coming up. So it hit UK Singles chart, got all
46:37
Speaker 2: the way up to ninety seven on the UK Singles Chart,
46:42
Speaker 2: all all the way up. It was actually on the
46:45
Speaker 2: US Hot Black Singles Chart at forty three, which I
46:48
Speaker 2: didn't know was a chart.
46:49
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing.
46:51
Speaker 2: So it got up to forty three, and then it
46:52
Speaker 2: was on the US Hot Dance Club Play It got
46:55
Speaker 2: up to number twenty five, so it's big obviously, big
46:58
Speaker 2: kind of club sound, so it's a it's got a
47:00
Speaker 2: little bit of a funk sound and some hip hop obviously, right,
47:04
Speaker 2: And the song is actually about nightlife in New York City.
47:08
Speaker 2: So you talked about Hall of Oates earlier, right with
47:10
Speaker 2: man Eater being about New York City, and that may
47:13
Speaker 2: have been Revision is history, but this is not Revision's history.
47:17
Speaker 2: This song is about the night life of New York City.
47:21
Speaker 2: Some cool things about the video. The video has run
47:24
Speaker 2: DMC in it, and it also has future rapper Jermaine
47:28
Speaker 2: Duprie cool and he was a dancer for Hoodie at
47:33
Speaker 2: the time. So I remember hearing this song in like
47:38
Speaker 2: fourth or fifth grade and I liked it a lot.
47:42
Speaker 2: It was completely different than anything that was on the radio,
47:47
Speaker 2: and I thought it, you know, just had a cool sound.
47:49
Speaker 2: I've always kind of liked the funk sound, even from
47:52
Speaker 2: like the seventies, you know, bands like Parliament and Wild Cherry.
47:57
Speaker 2: I've always kind of liked that. So this was kind
47:59
Speaker 2: of to hear. And you know, I mean, they weren't wrong.
48:04
Speaker 2: The freaks do come out.
48:06
Speaker 1: They do come out after ten pm. I will say,
48:09
Speaker 1: have all the songs we've done so far, this one
48:12
Speaker 1: is the one that's gonna be stuck in my head.
48:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say it's very catchy, is it not?
48:15
Speaker 3: Yeah?
48:16
Speaker 1: It is. I like that.
48:17
Speaker 2: That's good.
48:20
Speaker 1: Okay. I think it deserves a place there. So I'm
48:22
Speaker 1: glad you've put it on our list.
48:24
Speaker 2: Okay, And I think I think I know what your
48:27
Speaker 2: next song is.
48:28
Speaker 1: You don't know?
48:29
Speaker 2: Also gonna be from the great year of nineteen.
48:32
Speaker 1: Years four, don't know? Hold on.
48:42
Speaker 3: Something strange?
48:46
Speaker 2: Who you're gonna call something? We don't.
48:54
Speaker 3: Who you gonna call?
49:00
Speaker 1: There you go? You did know? Like you've seen my
49:04
Speaker 1: notes Ghostbusters Ray Parker Junior and you're right nineteen eighty four.
49:11
Speaker 1: Obviously it was the theme to the movie Ghostbusters. Absolutely
49:16
Speaker 1: hit number one on the US Billboard Hot one hundred.
49:19
Speaker 1: Was there for three weeks. I kind of would have
49:23
Speaker 1: thought maybe longer, but I don't know. Also hit number
49:27
Speaker 1: one in Belgium, Canada, France, South Africa, and Spain.
49:33
Speaker 2: Wow.
49:33
Speaker 1: It was a top five hit get Ready Australia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
49:41
Speaker 1: New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany and the UK.
49:48
Speaker 1: It was number nine on the nineteen eighty four year
49:50
Speaker 1: end US Hot one hundred number three hundred eighty two
49:56
Speaker 1: on the All Time US Billboard Hot One.
49:59
Speaker 2: Wow Okay.
50:01
Speaker 1: It was nominated for an Academy Award this song, Wow Okay,
50:06
Speaker 1: but lost to Stevie Wonders. I just call to say,
50:11
Speaker 1: what you know, I love that song.
50:12
Speaker 2: I know you love that song. But I would choose Ghostbusters.
50:15
Speaker 1: Away, would you?
50:16
Speaker 2: I wow? But I know you love that song, so
50:19
Speaker 2: that would be offensive to you. So this song was huge.
50:21
Speaker 2: I mean, it was huge, top five and it looks
50:24
Speaker 2: like about a dozen countries or so.
50:26
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like it's all over.
50:29
Speaker 2: We've had more mentions of West Germany in this podcast
50:32
Speaker 2: and probably every other podcast combined that isn't based somewhere
50:35
Speaker 2: in Germany.
50:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there was some controversy.
50:41
Speaker 2: Oh, I've heard about this.
50:43
Speaker 1: But did you know this at the time or did you.
50:45
Speaker 2: I did not know this about I did not know
50:47
Speaker 2: this at the time. I actually mentioned my buddy Bob
50:49
Speaker 2: earlier in the podcast, but he probably should have been
50:52
Speaker 2: a writer for Rolling Stone. Nobody I know knows more
50:55
Speaker 2: about the history of music than he does. And he's
50:58
Speaker 2: the one that actually told me about the lawsuit.
51:02
Speaker 1: So the song sounds eerily familiar to I. Want a
51:08
Speaker 1: New Drug by Huey, Lewis and the News there. So
51:11
Speaker 1: there was a lawsuit of course that Huey filed against
51:14
Speaker 1: Ray Parker Junior. It was settled out of court with
51:18
Speaker 1: a confidentiality agreement so nobody could talk about it. But
51:22
Speaker 1: eventually Huey broke that agreement in two thousand and one.
51:27
Speaker 1: So then Ray turned around and sued him back and
51:33
Speaker 1: he got some money.
51:34
Speaker 2: Too, so also he got some of his money back there, I.
51:37
Speaker 1: Guess worked out for him there. So supposedly hue was
51:41
Speaker 1: approached to do the theme song for the movie and
51:43
Speaker 1: he turned them down. Ray was approached and obviously said yes.
51:46
Speaker 1: So the filmmakers may have planted the seed of Ray
51:51
Speaker 1: ripping off the song without Ray even like realizing it.
51:56
Speaker 2: So we can't really blame Ray, then, is what you're saying.
51:59
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we can. The filmmakers used I
52:01
Speaker 1: Want a New Drug as the temporary background music in
52:05
Speaker 1: many scenes, including a clip they sent to Parker for inspiration, So.
52:10
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, then you can't blame right.
52:13
Speaker 1: It seems like it might have all been a setup.
52:18
Speaker 1: So the Montreal screw job.
52:23
Speaker 2: Knife reference, I love that, So I got some personal
52:28
Speaker 2: stories about this song. Oh good, So the video was awesome.
52:31
Speaker 2: Do you remember the video at all? Yes, So it
52:34
Speaker 2: featured cameos by a bunch of stars, Chevy Chase, the
52:38
Speaker 2: f Wore I mentioned, Irene, Kara Quinz, soundtracks, John Candy,
52:43
Speaker 2: Melissa Gilbert, your buddy, Jeffrey Tambour from Arrested Development. Yes,
52:50
Speaker 2: George went, Norm from Cheers, Al Franken, Danny DeVito, Carly Simon,
52:56
Speaker 2: Peter Falk, and Terry garr Elle in the video.
53:00
Speaker 1: Terry gard Now that's a name we haven't heard, probably
53:04
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty nine.
53:06
Speaker 2: She was a dumb and dumber in the in the
53:09
Speaker 2: early nineties. Oh, that's a hoot. So I also remember,
53:15
Speaker 2: So this song was so big, right, Ray Parker became
53:18
Speaker 2: you know, he had he had another he had more
53:21
Speaker 2: hits than this, but this was his biggest break. So
53:23
Speaker 2: he became really popular. Would guest stars show up in
53:27
Speaker 2: a lot of places? So he guest starred on Give
53:29
Speaker 2: Me a Break one episode.
53:31
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
53:32
Speaker 2: I don't remember it, and I remember that, And I
53:35
Speaker 2: also remember, you know the ultimate dad joke where Nel
53:38
Speaker 2: Carter was like, I'm gonna go you know, I got
53:40
Speaker 2: to go in the other room make a phone call,
53:41
Speaker 2: and Ray Parker Junior was like, well, who are you
53:43
Speaker 2: gonna call? And of course the three girls yell Ghostbusters
53:47
Speaker 2: and the laugh track goes off and everything. But yeah,
53:50
Speaker 2: total dad joke there. So I mean, no, Carter didn't,
53:54
Speaker 2: you know, didn't want to go to her grave being
53:56
Speaker 2: known as to give me the break lady. I mean
53:58
Speaker 2: we discussed earlier.
53:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame her, but we couldn't have done
54:02
Speaker 1: this list and not included this song.
54:04
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not no. So you're you're You're getting all
54:07
Speaker 2: the big hits and I feel like I'm getting the underground.
54:10
Speaker 1: I know, how did that work out?
54:11
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. So speaking of underground,
54:15
Speaker 2: maybe not underground, but songs that weren't super popular. I'm
54:19
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and play this next song for you,
54:21
Speaker 2: which I bet you've never heard before.
54:25
Speaker 5: I bet you're right.
54:47
Speaker 2: Okay, So that is Teenage Frankenstein by Alice Cooper. So
54:51
Speaker 2: if you can't have a Halloween playlist without Ozzy Osbourne,
54:54
Speaker 2: you also can't have a Halloween playlist without Ozzy without
54:58
Speaker 2: Alice Cooper, Right, I agree?
55:00
Speaker 1: And again, this is all rock.
55:02
Speaker 2: It does rock. This song was recorded in nineteen eighty six,
55:07
Speaker 2: but not released until April of eighty seven. It failed
55:10
Speaker 2: to chart in the US, which might be why you
55:13
Speaker 2: hadn't heard it before. Okay, I'm in hit number eighty
55:16
Speaker 2: on the UK Singles Chart. So it was written to
55:19
Speaker 2: be featured as part of the soundtrack to Friday the Thirteenth,
55:23
Speaker 2: Part six. You know what the subtitle of that movie.
55:28
Speaker 1: Was, I actually don't I don't remember.
55:31
Speaker 2: Jason lives oh, because apparently you had been dead before.
55:36
Speaker 1: I was gonna say what was going on in one
55:39
Speaker 1: through five?
55:40
Speaker 2: Right? So yeah, so this was written specifically for that soundtrack.
55:48
Speaker 2: Teenage Frankenstein. But I've got a personal story, and you'll
55:52
Speaker 2: start to realize how gullible I was as oh as
55:55
Speaker 2: a kid. Okay, I was introduced to this song when
55:59
Speaker 2: I was about thirteen years old by my friend from Upstreet, Jeff.
56:07
Speaker 2: He was he was really into the metal. We kind
56:12
Speaker 2: of had some of the same musical tastes when we
56:14
Speaker 2: were younger, but as we got older, he started going
56:17
Speaker 2: turn into more of a metal head, while I kind
56:19
Speaker 2: of stayed like the glam metal hair band guy. Right,
56:22
Speaker 2: So Jeff, Jeff brings over like this just this demo
56:28
Speaker 2: like tape, right, and he puts it in. He goes, hey, man,
56:32
Speaker 2: I want you to hear this song that I wrote,
56:35
Speaker 2: you know, and I had my friend's band record it.
56:37
Speaker 2: But this is kind of how I feel about myself,
56:41
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, we're thirteen. You know, when you're
56:43
Speaker 2: thirteen you kind of feel weird, you feel awkward or whatever.
56:47
Speaker 2: And so I listened to it. It was teenage Frankenstein,
56:50
Speaker 2: and I thought, wow, this is really cool. I even
56:52
Speaker 2: went and got my dad and I'm like, dad, listen
56:54
Speaker 2: to this on Jeff. Yeah, And my dad was like, wow, Jeff,
56:57
Speaker 2: that's really good. Of course my dad wouldn't have heard
57:00
Speaker 2: Alice Cooper, right, I wouldn't have heard Alice Cooper if
57:02
Speaker 2: it would didn't hit the charts, right, and so you know,
57:06
Speaker 2: it never really hit the airwave, So really, how was
57:08
Speaker 2: I to know? And then I come to find out
57:11
Speaker 2: later on that it's Alice Cooper and I'm like, jeffy man, like.
57:14
Speaker 1: How how much longer down the road? How long did
57:18
Speaker 1: this thing go?
57:18
Speaker 2: Probably six months to a year?
57:21
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Oh?
57:23
Speaker 3: Man?
57:24
Speaker 2: Jim, I thought Jeff had written a great song about how.
57:29
Speaker 1: I really like Alice Cooper. Yes, So I think if
57:33
Speaker 1: you have a very like stagnan or stale memory thought
57:40
Speaker 1: or idea of who Alice Cooper is, do a Google
57:43
Speaker 1: search and might be surprised to find out truly who
57:47
Speaker 1: he is now as a person.
57:48
Speaker 2: You know, I've heard about the show that he puts
57:51
Speaker 2: on in concert. I've never been, but I heard he
57:54
Speaker 2: does the whole guillotine thing. Yeah, and just really puts
57:57
Speaker 2: on a cool show. So yeah, Alice Cooper is a
58:00
Speaker 2: He's a cool dude. I loved him in Wayne's World. Yes,
58:03
Speaker 2: there you go when he was dropping knowledge about the
58:06
Speaker 2: history of Milwaukee to Wayne and Garth.
58:08
Speaker 1: So I think we were a little too serious there
58:12
Speaker 1: for a minute. So I need to lighten it up
58:15
Speaker 1: a little bit some things to make them hard. See
58:39
Speaker 1: how fun is that?
58:41
Speaker 2: Yeah? So that's uh, that's like the perfect Halloween song
58:47
Speaker 2: because as a kid, I mean, what's Halloween for just
58:52
Speaker 2: to go out and get kids lots of candy.
58:55
Speaker 1: So this is the English new wave group Bow Wow Wow,
59:01
Speaker 1: which I feel ridiculous, say.
59:03
Speaker 2: I bet they bark at the moon too, right.
59:05
Speaker 1: They released I Want Candy nineteen eighty two. It was
59:09
Speaker 1: the first and only single from their album The Last
59:13
Speaker 1: of the Mohicans. The band was made up of members
59:18
Speaker 1: of Adam and the Ants, along with the thirteen year
59:22
Speaker 1: old lead singer Annabella Lwnn.
59:25
Speaker 2: She was only thirteen. Yeah wow.
59:28
Speaker 1: It was a top ten hit in their native UK.
59:31
Speaker 1: The song appeared on two VH one countdowns. It was
59:37
Speaker 1: number eighty six on VH one's one hundred Greatest Songs
59:43
Speaker 1: of the Eighties. Really, and it was number eight on
59:48
Speaker 1: VH one's one hundred Greatest one Hit Wonders of the Eighties.
59:53
Speaker 2: I can see that I might disagree with one hundred
59:56
Speaker 2: Greatest Songs of the eighties, but.
59:58
Speaker 1: Okay, so this song, this is it's a song that's
1:00:01
Speaker 1: been covered numerous times. It was originally done nineteen sixty five.
1:00:06
Speaker 1: It's been recorded by a total five different artist over
1:00:11
Speaker 1: the years, but this is probably arguably the most popular version.
1:00:15
Speaker 2: I would agree, Yeah, it's the only version I know.
1:00:21
Speaker 1: So there you go. Not a lot about that, because
1:00:24
Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, not a lot to tell.
1:00:26
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a great Halloween song because again,
1:00:28
Speaker 2: you want candy, right, there's nothing eerie or spooky about it.
1:00:32
Speaker 2: You know, kids just they want to dress up, but
1:00:35
Speaker 2: really what they want is they want to go out
1:00:37
Speaker 2: and get as much candy as they can.
1:00:39
Speaker 1: They just want candy.
1:00:40
Speaker 2: It's all we wanted, is kids. We weren't allowed to
1:00:42
Speaker 2: have it a whole lot. So Halloween was like the
1:00:45
Speaker 2: greatest and you would pretty much be snacking on candy
1:00:48
Speaker 2: until Thanksgiving.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, all right.
1:00:52
Speaker 2: So my next song we had mentioned earlier about Alice
1:00:58
Speaker 2: Cooper's song being for Friday the thirteenth, Part six, and
1:01:04
Speaker 2: this song that I am speaking of was also featured
1:01:09
Speaker 2: in a horror movie in the nineteen eighties, and it
1:01:12
Speaker 2: has also that appearance that I promised of a hair band.
1:01:19
Speaker 2: So playing on me, I am going to play for
1:01:22
Speaker 2: you dream Warriors by Dockin, so I don't want to dream.
1:01:48
Speaker 1: No more makes me lowd So this song.
1:01:52
Speaker 2: Was featured in Nightmare on Elm Street part three, subtitled
1:01:57
Speaker 2: Dream Warriors.
1:01:58
Speaker 1: Which I have a feeling that movie would make me so.
1:02:01
Speaker 2: It hit number twenty two on the US Hot and
1:02:04
Speaker 2: Mainstream Rock charts, but did not chart on the pop
1:02:07
Speaker 2: charts at all. It was released in nineteen eighty seven.
1:02:11
Speaker 2: Did you know that Patricia Arquette was in Nightmare and
1:02:14
Speaker 2: Old Street Part three? No, I didn't this was her
1:02:17
Speaker 2: first movie. So the video so we did talk. You know,
1:02:24
Speaker 2: we'll talk about the video in a second, but you
1:02:26
Speaker 2: know this was by Docking hairband. How he hits those
1:02:30
Speaker 2: high notes?
1:02:30
Speaker 1: I don't know, That's what I was wondering. Are we
1:02:33
Speaker 1: sure that that's a guy or is.
1:02:35
Speaker 2: That that is Dart saying no, this is not heart singing,
1:02:39
Speaker 2: although the hair link was probably about the same. Yes,
1:02:43
Speaker 2: So the video shows clips from the movie, and it
1:02:48
Speaker 2: also featured Patricia Arquette and Robert England. Of course, in
1:02:52
Speaker 2: the video there was a little bit of so the
1:02:57
Speaker 2: videos mostly just clips from the movie, right, but there's
1:03:00
Speaker 2: a little bit of original footage in the video, and
1:03:03
Speaker 2: it's Freddy Krueger trying to intimidate or terrify Patricia Arquette
1:03:08
Speaker 2: before she is rescued by Docin who drive Freddie off
1:03:13
Speaker 2: with the power of rock and roll. And so at
1:03:17
Speaker 2: the end of the video, Freddie wakes up in bed screaming,
1:03:21
Speaker 2: which reveals that the video was his dream and he exclaims,
1:03:24
Speaker 2: what a nightmare? Who were those guys?
1:03:28
Speaker 3: Cool? That?
1:03:29
Speaker 2: Right? So Dream Warriors probably my favorite Docin song, and
1:03:35
Speaker 2: I've actually seen docin Open up End concert for who
1:03:39
Speaker 2: did they open up for. I want to say it
1:03:41
Speaker 2: was Docin, Sebastian Bach and Poison whoa Docin did not
1:03:46
Speaker 2: play Dream Warriors. That was the only song that I
1:03:48
Speaker 2: really wanted.
1:03:49
Speaker 1: To hear them play, and then they didn't do it.
1:03:51
Speaker 2: And then they didn't do it. So what That's what
1:03:54
Speaker 2: happens when you get to the concert early before the
1:03:58
Speaker 2: main show.
1:03:59
Speaker 1: There you go, well, since we're talking Freddy Krueger.
1:04:02
Speaker 2: Let's just we're gonna finish it off.
1:04:04
Speaker 1: Let's just keep on with that theme. These burns are like.
1:04:10
Speaker 4: The waves and his name is French.
1:04:12
Speaker 1: Do you wear the.
1:04:16
Speaker 4: Outside?
1:04:17
Speaker 1: He's going on the week, but he can't be there's
1:04:21
Speaker 1: a Nightmare on My Street. Oh yeah, you can't have
1:04:28
Speaker 1: Halloween themed eighty songs and not have this one on
1:04:31
Speaker 1: there No, absolutely no Nightmare on My Street. DJ Jazzy
1:04:36
Speaker 1: Jeff in The Fresh Prince loved it, loved.
1:04:38
Speaker 2: It when it came out. So I love DJ Jazzy
1:04:40
Speaker 2: Jeff in the Fresh Prince period. But when they release
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Speaker 2: a song, I'm like, oh, that is awesome.
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Speaker 1: We are the only people in the US right now
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Speaker 1: talking about Will Smith and not in relation to his crazy,
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Speaker 1: insane wife. In the book she's just released.
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Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say the slap herd around
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Speaker 2: the world.
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Speaker 1: No, we've done moved past, gone crazier than that. So
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Speaker 1: this was on their second studio album, which I love
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Speaker 1: the name of this album, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper.
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Speaker 1: It became a crossover hit in the US, reaching number
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Speaker 1: fifteen on the Hot one hundred. So it was released
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Speaker 1: as a single in early nineteen eighty eight. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why that surprised me. I would have said ninety before.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I compiled. We compiled this list, right, It felt
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Speaker 1: a little later to me, but I would.
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Speaker 2: Have said eighty nine. But yeah, eighty eight.
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Speaker 1: They thought at the time that it was going to
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Speaker 1: be considered to be a part of the soundtrack for
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Speaker 1: A Nightmare on Elm Street four, but the producers of
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Speaker 1: the film decided against using it, probably.
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Speaker 2: Because it's too silly sounding for or a movie.
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Speaker 1: So Newline Cinemas, which held the copyright for A Nightmare
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Speaker 1: on Elm Street for the franchise, they ended up suing
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Speaker 1: DJ JZ Jeff and the Fresh Prince Record album or
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Speaker 1: record label for copyright infr infringement, forcing the label to
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Speaker 1: destroy the music video that they had done. But twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five years later, a copy of the video came
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Speaker 1: out online anonymously. It was posted, so it is out
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Speaker 1: there if you want to google it, you can't see it.
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Speaker 1: So both sides eventually settled out of court, but as
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Speaker 1: a result, the vinyl pressings of the album contained a
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Speaker 1: disclaimer sticker that says this song is not part of
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Speaker 1: the soundtrack and is not authorized, licensed, or affiliated with
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Speaker 1: the Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Speaker 2: Films, which is funny because the lyrics are clearly about
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Speaker 2: from Freddy Krueger, and in fact, if you listen to that,
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Speaker 2: they actually play the music, the creepy, eerie score music
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Speaker 2: from Nightmare on Elm Street in that only they do
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Speaker 2: it in a in a little bit of a you know,
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Speaker 2: a hip hop way or a modern music way rather
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Speaker 2: than the than the real creepy thing from But you know,
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Speaker 2: Will Smith says, you know, we went to see the movies,
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Speaker 2: and you know about this guy named fred You know,
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Speaker 2: he wears the same hat and sweater every single day
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Speaker 2: and even when it's hot outside and he wears it anyway, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, and he comes to me at night when
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Speaker 2: I'm asleep, you know, and I can't believe there's a
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Speaker 2: Nightmare on My Street. I mean, it's clearly Freddy Krueger.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why New Line Cinema had to see
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Speaker 2: him other than I guess the whole world is just
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Speaker 2: about let's get as much money as we can, because
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Speaker 2: I don't see how Will Smith did anything but help
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Speaker 2: promote their movies with that song.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, but it's such a like it's
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Speaker 1: more of like a spoof. And I think if you're
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Speaker 1: wanting to keep you know, the horror in the horror
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Speaker 1: film industry, you don't want to be associated with this
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Speaker 1: kind of silly twist.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I agree with you, except for the fact
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Speaker 2: that by Nightmare on Elm Street Part three, in Nightmare
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Speaker 2: on Elm Street Part four, which he was hoping to
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Speaker 2: get the soundtrack on, Freddie had become a spoof of himself.
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Speaker 1: You think, so, yes, he was.
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Speaker 2: He was like a jokester and a prankster in the
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Speaker 2: in the movie. I mean, it was, it became absurd.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give that to so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not down with Newline Cinema for that. Okay, Well,
1:09:02
Speaker 2: you know what pro I'm pro Jazz and the Prince.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I bet DJ Jazzy Jeff and
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Speaker 1: the Fresh Prints weren't down with it either, No, they weren't.
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Speaker 1: So Newline Cinema said they would cut down the amount
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Speaker 1: of money that DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
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Speaker 1: had to pay them if they would star in a movie,
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Speaker 1: and Newline Cinema not pay them for it, right, and
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Speaker 1: they said no.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't blame them because who knows how long
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Speaker 2: they would have been on that movie set.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm pro Jazz and pro Prints.
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Speaker 1: Well, poor Prince, somebody needs to rescue him. Maybe Freddy could.
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Speaker 2: Usually maybe what were you going to say? Usually usually
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Speaker 2: the Prince is the one rescuing people.
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Speaker 1: Oh not in the situation.
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Speaker 2: All right. So that's our playlist, fourteen songs. Like I
1:10:03
Speaker 2: said at the beginning, it's quite the eclectic mix.
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Speaker 1: It really was. It was fun though.
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Speaker 2: We got stuff for hip hop fans and just general
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Speaker 2: ladies fans and for rock fans. We got a little
1:10:14
Speaker 2: bit of everybody. So I hope you enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: I know, I hope you did.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
1:10:20
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1:10:23
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1:10:26
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