Remember the first time you heard "Can't Buy Me Love"? We kick off our latest episode of "Music In My Shoes" by celebrating the incredible reach of our podcast, now enjoyed in 35 countries and over 400 cities. We reminisce about the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night," comparing its UK and US versions, and we share a quirky personal story about displaying the album cover in the bathroom. We also take a nostalgic look at the 1987 film "Can't Buy Me Love," starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson, and its unique use of the iconic Beatles' track.
But that's just the beginning. We explore an amusing high school transformation movie, with the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" taking center stage, and we delve into the significance of other Beatles classics like "And I Love Her" and "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You." The episode takes a fun twist as we talk about George Strait breaking a concert attendance record and share a hilarious anecdote involving Flavor Flav and Martha Stewart at a Dead & Company show. We honor the late Bill Walton, the world's tallest deadhead, and his extraordinary connection to the Grateful Dead.
As we wrap up the episode, we journey through music history, starting with a review of two recent Rolling Stones shows that I went to see. Yes Mick, Keith, and Ron can still rock it! We discuss Roger Daltrey's thoughts on the predictability of modern concerts and our own habits of checking setlists. We groove to Donna Summer's timeless hits, including "Hot Stuff" and "I Feel Love," and celebrate her influence in the late '70s and early '80s. Then, we dive into Hüsker Dü's unique sound, focusing on drummer Grant Hart and standout tracks from "Zen Arcade." To conclude, I encourage everyone to keep the music playing. Tune in for a trip down memory lane and some unforgettable musical moments!
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Remember the first time you heard "Can't Buy Me Love"? We kick off our latest episode of "Music In My Shoes" by celebrating the incredible reach of our podcast, now enjoyed in 35 countries and over 400 cities. We reminisce about the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night," comparing its UK and US versions, and we share a quirky personal story about displaying the album cover in the bathroom. We also take a nostalgic look at the 1987 film "Can't Buy Me Love," starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson, and its unique use of the iconic Beatles' track.
But that's just the beginning. We explore an amusing high school transformation movie, with the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" taking center stage, and we delve into the significance of other Beatles classics like "And I Love Her" and "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You." The episode takes a fun twist as we talk about George Strait breaking a concert attendance record and share a hilarious anecdote involving Flavor Flav and Martha Stewart at a Dead & Company show. We honor the late Bill Walton, the world's tallest deadhead, and his extraordinary connection to the Grateful Dead.
As we wrap up the episode, we journey through music history, starting with a review of two recent Rolling Stones shows that I went to see. Yes Mick, Keith, and Ron can still rock it! We discuss Roger Daltrey's thoughts on the predictability of modern concerts and our own habits of checking setlists. We groove to Donna Summer's timeless hits, including "Hot Stuff" and "I Feel Love," and celebrate her influence in the late '70s and early '80s. Then, we dive into Hüsker Dü's unique sound, focusing on drummer Grant Hart and standout tracks from "Zen Arcade." To conclude, I encourage everyone to keep the music playing. Tune in for a trip down memory lane and some unforgettable musical moments!
Please Like and Follow our Facebook page Music In My Shoes. You can contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail.com.
Speaker 2:
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 1:
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge and you're listening to Music In my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 33. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. Last week we added another country, jimmy, to make it 35 countries that have tuned in at one point or another to Music in my Shoes.
Speaker 2:
I had no idea it was this high. I thought there was like four 35. 35.
Speaker 1:
Yes and over 400 cities across the globe. I'll tell you six continents. That makes me kind of impressed, yeah, that we can do something like that. So, top five countries, because I know you're saying yourself hey, I only thought there was four, but since, since we have 35, what are the top five? I'm going to tell you that right now. Thank you, number one, the US. Number two, germany, including a lot of listeners in Frankfurt and Munich. Thank you Number three, canada. Number four, philippines and number five, japan. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to listen to us. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 1:
So, jimmy, 60 years ago, the Beatles, a Hard Day's Night, june 26, 1964. Music from the film which came out in August of 64. And you know, you got to remember they were still putting out a UK version and a US version of the albums. We've, you know, kind of talked about that before, and the US albums had less songs so they could put out more records. That was the whole basis. They thought the Beatles wouldn't last too long and they wanted to get as much money as they could. They wanted to get as much money as they could. The UK album is blue and it's got like 20 small pictures of the Beatles on it. It's kind of you know like if you look at a negative that size.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Okay and it's just these headshots. It's on the cover, the US, it's red with just the photo of each Beatles. So there's only four pictures, but it's kind of from the close, to the bottom of their nose all the way up, so definitely different. So I have a basement. I have a bathroom there. I actually have a 1964 US Beatles Hard Day's Night that I got from my aunt, that I actually sliced the back cover off from the front cover and put them in two frames and when you go into the bathroom and you're washing your hands you can look to your left and there you can see A Hard Day's Night, part of the Beatles' bathroom at my house.
Speaker 2:
Very cool.
Speaker 1:
Thank you. So Can't Buy Me Love, first song, first single come off the album released in March of 1964. I think it's a fantastic song. I mean it's one of those early Beatles songs that just really made me enjoy listening to them. Paul's singing it. He does a great job. You know. His voice is all over and I don't mean that in a negative way, I just mean at some points he's able to sing so loud, almost in a scream, but it sounds so melodic and other times, you know, then he brings his voice down and sings through the song. Really really good job.
Speaker 1:
But it kind of makes me remember the 1987 movie Can't Buy Me Love starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson. Yes, yes, and I think he played a guy named Ronald the Ronster, yes, and her name was Cindy. Movie begins with Patrick on a riding lawnmower and the Beatles' Can't Buy Me Love plays as he's mowing a lawn. And I don't remember, you know, up until that time I don't remember seeing like a Beatles song opening up a movie. That just wasn't the norm and I thought it was so super cool. And not to give the movie away, but basically, Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2:
Yes, if you haven't seen it yet, guys. We're ruining it for you.
Speaker 1:
Yes, this 1987 movie, if you have not seen it. He basically pays, you know, amanda Cindy, whatever her name is in the movie. He pays her a thousand bucks to be his girlfriend so he can hang out with the cool kids.
Speaker 2:
Which was a lot of money in 1987. I mean, a thousand dollars is still a lot of money, but that was like life-changing money.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I think $1,000 is still a lot of money, but that was like life-changing money. Yeah, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong I think it was because Amanda or Cindy got wine on her mother's dress and had to buy a new dress.
Speaker 2:
Okay, this is all ringing bells now.
Speaker 1:
yeah, so in 2024, a $1,000 dress to me is like over the top, yeah, 1987?. Yeah the dress, really A thousand bucks.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you could easily. You could buy a car for $1,000, 1987.
Speaker 1:
And I know if I'm wrong. I know the listeners will let me know what the real deal is, but that's my recollection of it. So the movie's a classic.
Speaker 2:
I really do like the movie and to break it down without any more spoilers, it's boy rides lawnmower alone, Boy gets girl Boy loses girl, Girl gives boy another chance and they ride off into the sunset on the lawnmower with the song Can't Buy Me Love playing again into the credits.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I mean, I don't think you gave enough away honestly Really. You gave enough away honestly really. Yeah, I mean the. The whole fun of the movie is that he goes from being the, the total nerd, to being the coolest guy in school because he's got her as his girlfriend. So everybody suddenly notices him and he's got this kind of new personality. And then he becomes, you know, kind of not such a nice kid anymore because he's so popular. And then he becomes, you know, kind of not such a nice kid anymore because he's so popular. And then he spoils it with the girl. Right, that's what I remember.
Speaker 1:
I think that you're correct. So he becomes like a young McDreamy, if we could say that at that point. Yeah, foreshadowing, he was about 21 years old, I think, when the movie came out. So he probably, you know, filmed it he was 20 or 21. So he definitely was a young, young kid. When the movie starts with that lawnmower scene, he definitely looks pretty nerdy as compared to the way he looks at the end of the movie. And, like you say, you know different things happen throughout the movie and you know he goes from a dud to a stud and you know he, you know, overindulges in the whole make-believe land.
Speaker 2:
I believe that I might be pulling this one out of nowhere, but I believe someone told him he went from totally geek to totally chic. I think you're right.
Speaker 1:
I do think you're right on that one. That is great. And it's funny sometimes when we sit here we don't talk about this beforehand. So we are talking, you know, live to each other about this and bringing different things up. And you're right, I do remember that line from the movie. So you know it's a pretty good movie. But if we get back to what we're really talking about is the song Can't Buy Me Love, first single off of A Hard Day's Night. Yeah, okay, the song A Hard Day's Night, with one of the most known opening chords of any song, was released in July 64. And then third single, and I Love Her, was also released in July.
Speaker 1:
So on Beatles Anthology 1, and I Love Her, they have Take Two, which is actually a regular rock and roll song. It's the four of them playing. It's not slow, it doesn't have that guitar acoustic feel, it's like a regular rock song and it's rocking away. It's actually pretty cool. If you get a chance to listen to that, take a gander, you might enjoy it. I'll check it out.
Speaker 1:
Other highlights I'm Happy Just to Dance With you, sung by George Harrison, one of my all-time favorite Beatles songs. Really really like it. You know it's a basic, silly love song not by Paul McCartney, but it's a good song. I really do like it. And then I Should have Known Better. I have the 45. I have a great story about it, but that will be on a future episode of Music in my Shoes, but you'll definitely love that one. On the US version to fill the album they had instrumentals of songs from the movie that were done by the orchestra for the film and they did not do that on the UK version. They just put some songs that were not in the movie just to make it longer and put out an album the way that you should do. So that was pretty cool. Moving along, a 47-year-old concert attendance record was broken on June 15th 2024. Country artist George Strait played to 110,905 paid ticket fans in College Station, texas Again, paid ticket fans Tickets that were paid for.
Speaker 2:
I get it, not a concert like Woodstock, where they just storm the place.
Speaker 1:
All right, this is actual paid tickets, where they just stormed the place. Oh, okay, right, all right, this is actual paid tickets. The previous record was 107,019 paid ticket fans, september 3rd 1977, by the Grateful Dead at Raceway Park in Englishtown, new Jersey. The fact that it took 47 years to break that record, I'm just surprised. I'm really surprised. Yeah, that record. I'm just surprised. I'm really surprised. Yeah, you know, that's just crazy. I really expected that somewhere along the line and it took George Strait at, you know, texas A&M Stadium for it to actually happen.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's a really weird one.
Speaker 1:
It is Speaking of the Grateful Dead. The offshoot band Dead Company, in the midst of a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, had two people at their June 6th show. That you probably wouldn't have guessed. This is from Flavor Flav's Instagram. Yes, flavor Flav, the guy that's in the rap group Public Enemy.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I believe you're adding an R. It's Flava, flav.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I do that. Sometimes I apologize, I struggle.
Speaker 2:
His mother gave him a name and we should respect that. You're right.
Speaker 1:
You're right. So on his Instagram he puts Yo Snoopadelic. At Snoop Dogg, I ran into your girl. At Martha Stewart yeah, boy, can't believe. Saw Dead Co in concert, wow, and that John Mayer can really play guitar and that visuals of going into the sky. All that with a picture of him in a Grateful Dead t-shirt with his arm around Martha Stewart, and all I can say is wow. You know, like that's not something that you would expect at any time, did he?
Speaker 2:
have the clock on his neck. He did have the clock on.
Speaker 1:
He. You know that's definitely a big thing for him and I don't know if you know, but Red Lobster is going through some financial difficulties and he's now doing commercials for them and he went to like one restaurant and bought everything on the menu and is trying to do whatever he can to personally save Red Lobster. So that's great. My hat's off to him.
Speaker 1:
On a sad note, the world's tallest deadhead, bill Walton, passed away on May 27th. The former college and pro basketball legend went to over 850 Grateful Dead shows. Dead Company paid tribute to him at their May 30th Sphere show during the song Fire on the Mountain, with a photo montage of Bill and the band and Bill and the crowd enjoying the show. Now I know that this is a sad thing, but I watched the video and when Bill's with the band it's great for everybody. But when Bill was in the crowd Bill, you know, I don't know seven feet tall and he would always have his hands kind of like up, like he was reaching for the sky, and in all of those pictures when you see the person behind him, they're not happy that Bill Walton is standing right in front of them.
Speaker 2:
Well, we're both fairly tall people and we know how people get when you stand in front of them.
Speaker 1:
Yes, and someone that is that big. He actually did the liner notes for two of the Grateful Dead albums two live albums that had come out and wrote about it when they had played at Pauley Pavilion where he went to school at UCLA and really, really enjoyed the Grateful Dead Really. You know, when I think of a, I guess when you think of celebrities enjoying something, most of the time it's sports. You know Spike Lee with the New York Knicks and Jack Nicholson with the LA Lakers, and you know we could go through a ton of people. But there's really only one person that I can think of that is that way with music and it's Bill Walton, and his first show with the Grateful Dead was in 1967. I mean, he has been there since just about the beginning of the band and has always loved them. I mean this guy actually in his backyard had this big giant teepee and he rarely ever took showers indoors. Out at his home he had a shower that was set up outside. He just wanted to be one with nature. So anything, you know, we got to do what we want to do and we got to enjoy what we want to. But here's to 850 shows for Bill Walton I had the chance to see the Rolling Stones twice recently May 26th, the second show of a two-night stand at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, and June 7th at Mercedes-Benz Stadium here in Atlanta.
Speaker 1:
I went to the MetLife show with my brother, brian, and friends, chris and Paul. We were at the parking lot at 3 pm with just a few cars ahead of us waiting for the gates to open. I don't think I've ever done that before for a show Like we're right there. We're those guys that can see the gate. We're just waiting for it to open so we can get in and we can tailgate. We tailgated for about five and a half hours grilling food and maybe had an adult beverage or two. We listened to music. We caught up with what's going on in each other's lives. You know I live here in Georgia, brian and Paul live in New York, chris lives in New Jersey. We had a great time. It really was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:
As of this recording, all shows begin with the song Start Me Up, get Off my Cloud, do, do, do, do Do. Heartbreaker, wild Horses and you Can't Always Get what you Want were some of the songs played before Keith Richards sang Tell Me Straight from the latest Hackney Diamonds album and then Little T&A from 1981's Tattoo you. In addition, to Tell Me Straight, mick Jagger sang three more songs from the Hackney Diamonds album, angry, which is a cool video, and I don't remember if we talked about the Angry video before Jimmy, but the Angry video is kind of like going through LA like a car, kind of like going through the streets of LA and all the billboards are billboards of the Rolling Stones at different parts of their career. But they make it seem like they're singing the song angry or they're playing it. So it's really cool that it just kind of, you know, starts at one point and just keeps getting you know through each phase of the Rolling Stones, and they played that while they sang it. So it was really cool watching it and listening and it was fun, a lot of fun. Whole Wide World and Sweet Sounds of Heaven were the other songs from the new album that they played. And then they get to the heart of the show Midnight Rambler, gimme Shelter, paint it Black, jumpin' Jack Flash, and the encore finale was Satisfaction, atlanta, no tailgating. I ran into my friend, jim and his family in the stadium, spent maybe 20 minutes with them and of the 19 songs that they played. Six were different from the MetLife show, including. They played it's Only Rock and Roll. Let's Spend the Night Together. Sweet Virginia, dead Flowers and Mess it Up.
Speaker 1:
From the new album, keith sang the same two songs, but then the big surprise was when he sang a third song and you knew something like he finished up the second song but he didn't like immediately walk back from the stage and he's like, hey, the band's gonna kill me if I don't play this song or something to that effect, I don't remember exactly. And then he starts playing the song happy, which everybody has been wondering when he was going to play that on this tour. So not only does he play it, but he sings three songs in a row for the first time all tour, which now has been the norm. They've done that every show since Definitely made a ton of people in the crowd happy, including my friend Jim, who really wanted to hear it because it was his birthday and that's what he was hoping for.
Speaker 1:
And there it happened. Cool, now I um use my phone. You know I took a video. I was sitting on the other end of the stadium but I was, you know, straight dead on to see and I took a video of the whole song happy. I put it on the music in my shoes Facebook page and I'm not sure how, but as of earlier today, there have been 7.7 thousand views of this video that I have put up, and I only say that because I have no idea how that could happen. You know it must have you know analytics. A ton of people shared it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And I looked at a lot of people that liked it. They live in all these different countries all over the world. It's really, really cool that it happened. I wish it was a better video. I mean it's nothing exciting, but I think it's cool still to have that many people that are interested in what you're putting out there.
Speaker 1:
Both shows were good. I'd have to give the edge, though, to the Atlanta show. Between them sounding more in the groove, like they were really ready to play, like you know, gotten some of the jitters out after doing x amount of shows and the song choices, I like those songs better than the first show I saw them. I definitely would say that the Atlanta show was better, but the tailgating at MetLife is memories forever. Those are things that I'll be talking about with my buddies forever. Some of the fun, some of the things we talked about. I mean we had a Blackstone griddle, we had chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage, peppers, mushrooms. I mean we had all kinds of stuff. We just had a blast. You know no doubt about it Interesting.
Speaker 1:
I was reading Ultimate Classic Rock recently and they had an article on the Rolling Stones and I found this almost hard to believe. Heart of Stone, do you remember that song? Of course, yeah. I mean that song was on Hot Rocks when I was a kid. You know the big greatest hits for the Rolling Stones. Everybody would get the record Hot Rocks. I think it was like the second song on there. They've only played that song eight times in concert since 1965 when it came out Four of them in 1965 and then four times in 2002 and never played it other than that when I was a kid. You know before, you know before some girls, heart of Stone was one of the big songs for them. To me and I can't believe they've only played it eight times. And then the song have you Seen your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows Song came out in 1966. They've only played it seven times. That song was a top ten song in both the US and the UK. Just amazed that they haven't played it anymore.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I also read about Roger Daltrey. I don't know if you saw this. So Roger Daltrey of the who spoke with Billboard recently, had this to say there's no surprises left with concerts these days because everybody wants to see the set list. I'm sick of it these days, because everybody wants to see the set list, I'm sick of it. He put an expletive in between. I'm in sick, just for the record. The internet's ruined the live shows for me. Who wants to know what's coming next? People forget about surprises. I can't stand it. Jimmy, your thoughts about going online and looking up set lists before you go to a show? I do it. I do too, yeah.
Speaker 2:
In fact, I get like kind of nerdy about it. I'll look up set lists from multiple nights and I'll figure out the ones they do every night and the songs that they pepper in and I'm like okay, yeah, I know I'm expecting these 10 and then, like these other 20, they're probably going to do five of them.
Speaker 1:
I agree, I do the same thing. I kind of look at it the way you do and then in my head I get percentages of well, if they've played this, the percentage of them playing this tonight is going to be this, so that helps me. Whether or not I'm going to be disappointed or not going to be disappointed or not. I find it, you know just crazy that I do it, but I do do it. Only one show did I not look, and we talked about it when I saw Bob Weir in December. He played five nights at the Capitol Theater. I went to the last night. It took everything for me not to look at the set list. It was the one time I decided I wanted to be fully surprised when I went to that show. But other than that, I'm with you. I don't think it spoils anything. I just think it's part of what people do today.
Speaker 2:
And, as we learned from Kevin Kinney, if you look up driving a crying set list, it doesn't matter, because he makes them up on the fly.
Speaker 1:
And you're correct about that. You're not going to get anywhere doing that. Yeah, summer of 1979, all over the radio was a summer of Donna Summer. Her Bad Girls album reached number one on the Billboard 200 albums in June of 79. Two singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Hot Stuff with the guitar solo played by Do you know who? The guitar solo was played by Jimmy Eddie.
Speaker 2:
Van Halen.
Speaker 1:
No, that was Beat it.
Speaker 2:
Well, hey, he could play more than one guitar solo.
Speaker 1:
No, it was Skunk Baxter who played with both Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. He did the guitar solo in that. All right, yeah. The other song to reach number one was Bad Girls, which was a song dedicated to the oldest profession in the world. And then reaching number two on the charts was Dim All the Lights.
Speaker 1:
During summer 1977, donna Summer had a number 6 Billboard Hot 100 hit with I Feel Love. Wanting the song to sound like it's futuristic, a Moog synthesizer was used to create all the sounds, minus Donna Summer's voice and the kick drum, which was done by Keith Forsey, who ended up being co-writer on the song Don't you Forget About Me that Simple Minds put out in 1985. Wow, but that's for another episode. There as well. I totally think I Feel Love inspired so many bands and electronic artists Certainly owe a lot to this disco song. For sure, listen to the song and you'll fully understand what I'm talking about when you listen to it. Summer of 78, last Dance from the Thank God it's Friday film soundtrack was her big song. So summers for Donna Summer were definitely hot for her.
Speaker 2:
I remember her music always being on in the summertime.
Speaker 1:
It was. It was always on in the summer, I don't know why, but it was, and I think all of my high school dances. I think Last Dance was the last song that they played of the night. So you knew, hey, the dance is ending. This is it.
Speaker 2:
It's a good one to play. You know, at the end of a party you're wanting people to go, like hey, thanks for coming Play the last dance.
Speaker 1:
That's it. You know, at that point you're getting up and you're leaving. It's over. You know what? Jimmy Toot, toot, hey, beep, beep.
Speaker 2:
Wow, yeah, that was sorry. Yeah, that was me on the xylophone there.
Speaker 1:
Was then. Yep, yeah, I just thought on the xylophone there Was it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I just thought I'd throw it in.
Speaker 1:
I thought that you put on a Moog synthesizer there.
Speaker 2:
Well, yeah, everything was live except the kick drum. And Donna Summer is standing next to me waiting for her vocal take.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, that was pretty good, I like that. Thank you, that was good, I saw.
Speaker 2:
Donna Summer one time. So I was watching this TV show and I don't remember what it was called. It was in like the late 90s. They would have live performers on Back, when people wouldn't lip sync and they didn't have a lot of technology to auto tune them and stuff. And Kenny Rogers was on this one time and he sang Islands in the Stream by himself without Dolly Parton, which is a bizarre song to choose, and it wasn't very good.
Speaker 1:
Weezer wasn't there either.
Speaker 2:
No, and so I'm like all right, this show just doesn't sound very good. Maybe I'll give Kenny a break. The next week the same show has Donna Summer on. She blew the doors off the place. She sounded like a million bucks and I thought, okay, well, that's a feather in the cap of Donna Summer. She really sounds great, just on a crummy show with a microphone.
Speaker 1:
And that's one thing. I know that Giorgio Moroder he was one of the producers of all those Donna Summer songs and he talked about how she could just sing, no matter where she was, it didn't matter, she just could project her voice and come through, and kind of like what you're talking about right there.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that must have been it.
Speaker 1:
The Cars Candio actually came out in June of 1979 as well. Three singles off the album let's Go from June of 79. Great song, Super catchy song, it's All I Can Do. In September 79. And Double Life in December of 1979. So it's their second album. You know their first record gets all the credit, but I think this is a really good album as well. I really enjoy the second album, Summer 1980. I know this came out in summer of 79, but I'm still listening to this album. Summer of 1980.
Speaker 2:
I got the 8-track from 8-track Johnny oh yeah, we haven't been talking about 8-track Johnny in a while. Yes, 8-track.
Speaker 1:
Johnny, I would listen to this. And I got this pair of headphones that I borrowed from my friend Don. They were the best headphones ever. They were, you know, back in the 80s, early 80s, like they were big. It was almost like they were professional recording and I would always put my hands on. I'm like I'm listening to the songs and I put my hands on there like I was singing, like I was actually recording it. That's the kind of vibe that I would get with everything. But it was really cool. I mean, I would listen to it and that's when I really got to experience stereo, doing all kinds of things you know in your head, with songs, with those headphones that were so good and the Cars were a great band to be able to do that.
Speaker 1:
Other good songs Candio, lust for Kicks got a lot on my head, and my favorite song on the album, which is the last song, dangerous Type. So really good album. I know we've talked about Heartbeat City before, we've talked about the first album, but Candio definitely is a great album there. So if you get a chance, you know, give that a listen. You know, jimmy, I think we need a minute with you. How about a minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2:
Minute with Jimmy minute with Jimmy and timer starts. So I'm talking today about Zen Arcade, the album from Husker Du that came out in July 1984. So Husker Du had put out a few records before this. They were all so hard and so fast that they were completely inaccessible to the casual music fan, right, but they had good songwriting in them, but they were just like, so covered in noise it was hard for most people to get. Zen Arcade was the first record they did that. They really slowed it down just enough and pulled back on some of the noise enough that you could really hear the songs and the greatness of them.
Speaker 2:
They had written all these songs on tour. They were so tight. They came in the studio and the greatness of them. They had written all these songs on tour. They were so tight. They came in the studio and recorded the entire thing live. One song started too fast and that was it. They did the rest of them completely one take and it's a great record. It's like kind of a concept album. That's a story that goes from start to finish that carries a thread about a boy coming of age leaving home. That's A Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:
Well, thank you, Jimmy, Real quick any songs that you recommend off that album.
Speaker 2:
Yeah. So they had a song on there that was a real departure for them, called Never Talking to you Again. That was an acoustic song, so that was like whoa who's doing an acoustic song, and it was Grant Hart, the drummer, that sang that one. He sang a good number of the songs and I really loved the song Whatever. And Chartered Trips was the first song that I really got turned on to with Husker Du. It was just their unique sound really blew me away.
Speaker 1:
Well, awesome, the name of the album again Zen.
Speaker 2:
Arcade. Well, awesome the name of the album again Zen Arcade.
Speaker 1:
There you go Winning with Jimmy, winning with Jimmy, winning with Jimmy. And that's it for episode 33 from Arcade 160 Studios here in Atlanta, Georgia. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, who's our show producer, and Vic Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge, and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on our next episode. Until then, live life and keep the music playing you.