Noise Junkies - Summertime

It's coming. If it's not here already, summer he could perfection in the life cycle of the year. Everyone has a summer song, and I mean everyone. Vivaldi had a summer song. The music there speaks for itself.

But Gershwin thought it was the time when livin is easy, the days of soda and princils and beer. According to nat King cole Via Hans Karst, the love and spoonful wish the summer days could be like the nights for seals and cropt the summer breeze made them feel fine. The eighties had way too many and we'll get into those and summer jams, and hopefully we'll get into your summer songs, the ones that mean the most to you. But after all, Megan thee Stallions said it best realize bitch. No, she got it lit.

Hot girls summer, so you know she got it lit all right. Welcome to Nice Junkies. I'm your co host, Father Malone and joining me in sonic synchronicity all the way from the Sunshine Cab Company Night, Miss Walters, mister HP, Hello, mister father Malone, how are you hello, Heather? How are you hello? Hello?

That's our other co host The Best of Us really joining us via satellite powered by bird Fuel. It's Mondo. Heather's Heather drain Bird Gas is the best gas. Bird Gas. Yes, Yes, thank you.

It's It's always a pleasure to be with you guys. I know it's junkies. Recording is always a highlight of my week. Now, as I mentioned, we are doing Summer Tunes, it's our summer themed episode. Before we get to that, the question must be asked, what are you listening to?

Heather? Oh, my goodness, everything I've I'll go through like big periods where I just listened to a bunch of different songs. It's like I got total mixed tape brain. And there's two songs in particular there that I've been rotating a lot. And the first one's like a new discovery for me, and it's a song called Johnny Remember Me by John Layton.

This was a number one hit in the UK back in nineteen sixty one, and on the surface, it's a nice haunting song about a man missing a love, but it's got that Joe Meek production And if anybody listening, if you don't know who Joe Meeks, look him up. This guy was one of the most innovative producers and Joe. So much of Joe Meek's stuff sound like it's from another world. There's a spectralness to this song. It's so beautiful and just I love it.

Well, it's hard to believe. I know that I hear a shit in the sun, the Women, Blood and the Tree Wave. Also, John Layton was best known as an actor, though he was in Von Ryan's Express and The Great Escape. Yeah, it sounded familiar with that name. My god, I don't know dude, Dude's legit.

And of course, going from nineteen sixties Sad Melancholy ethereal Pop, I had to go to Belgium goth music from the late eighties, which from nineteen eighty nine to be specific, with Posy Noir and their song Pity for the Self, which is a great song about trying to battle depression, but it's got a great dance beat. People Bore the Self not so Yeah, let's put people of the Self and some great lyrics and wordplay. In particular, there's a line that says it always contains that sneaky snake like small tears on a slumbering ache. I love that like it's a literation. It's so good.

And on top of that, the song ends with a single temple from Andrea Zulovski's film Possession. Oh Yes, pretty good, Oh my god, I love Juloski Live for Zuloski Possessions brilliant like everything the band did, And if we think about it, only a goth band from Belgium that could incorporate a sample from Possession, So just seamless, it's it's a song. Once I listened to it, have to listen to it like twenty more times in a row. So good. But yeah, that's just a little taste into what I've been listening to.

What about you, HP, What's what have you been digging? So actually, what I'm listening to is a bit of a follow a loan to the previous episode where we were talking about genres and one of the acts that I brought up, and I think Father Malone had something to say as well is DJ Shadow And the thing that I've been listening to this week. The album listening to is an album called Come to the Party by a guy named Dennis olive Ary. This is from nineteen s It was reissued this year as part of I Think Record store day in May. It's sort of a concept album in the best sort of late sixties tradition.

It's divided up into the four side and in afterside. I'm not really sure what maybe is the party before the party and after the party. I'm not sure. I haven't really figured that out. But the reason for this particular album the tie in with DJ Shadow.

The song off this album, which is called I Cry in the Morning, is one of the main samples used in the DJ Shadow song six Days, which was off of two thousand and two is a private press. It's probably my favorite song off that album, and I always thought that that particular song is just that one bit of the sample fest that usually goes into a Shadow song, But to my surprise, I Cry in the Morning is basically the actual song is kind of what comprises the main chunk of this sample. Are you so? I was pleasantly surprised that I thought it was all DJ Shadows alchemy, But it turns out that this guy, Dennis Olivierry this song is just so good that's I guess it's part of DJ Shadows geniuses. He's able to find these obscure tracks and make them his own own and it's just wonderfully languid and melancholy hypnotic in an interesting way.

The rest of the album is actually very good as well. I'm still, like I said, I'm still trying to parse it and getting into some of the weird textures and sort of psychedelic bits, but a very pleasantly surprised, great album. You should definitely check it out. Well. I finally picked up the latest album by Miss Olivia Jean and I have been listening to it none stop.

This is her third studio album, her third solo album after fronting The Black Bells off of If anyone knows her mainly, they probably noticed she's married to Jack White, who produced her first band, the Black Bells, which is the sort of Gough garage band, and she was the lead in that and she wrote all the songs. And then she put out an album that was very close to the Black Bells and Twist and she out because you can not help doubt. She cried. And then her second album was self produced and she went in a lot of different directions and became a lot poppier. And this new album is the perfect fusion of her Black Belts era and the era immediately following it.

It is goddamn good. And she can play every goddamned instrument on the album and usually does. And I just adore her. I used to tour a lot in my previous job, and it would seem that every time I would go to a city, she had either just played there or was going to play the night after I left. I've been chasing Via Jean this entire time.

I'm going to see her live one day, but until then, go check out The Raving Ghost. It is so the song spider particularly. Oh. Also, on every one of her albums she puts on a cover song, and so on the last album she did John peychan Hoo, which was a killer version of that. In this one she did Orinoco Flow.

Holy God, you will never listen to the song again. The same way. So funaway sail away, but like really fast with an awesome guitar. Let's summertime. We're talking summertime, gang, We're talking summertime games.

When do you play when do you play games most summertime? Of course, this is a game, and we're playing it a summertime, But this is actually Heather's game, right Heather? It is, and I actually tailored this one for this episode though, Oh yeah, because anybody listening. We originally we're gonna do a little word association game for the last episode, but we got so into the topic that we ran out of time, which honestly awesome problem to have. But fall Malone, like myself, we're game people.

We like games. It's fine, but I tailored this one to have a summary theme to quote the computer from work games. Would you like to play a game, fellas? What's the difference? Yeah, the only winning move is not to play.

Let's hope that's not the case here. And this is simple. It's a simple word association. Don't even think about it. They don't even think about whatever comes to your mimes, spit it out.

So for starting with Eric von Zipper teeth again, Eric, Eric von Zipper unknown. Oh my god, HP, we're gonna for Christmas for getting you some beach to beach party movies. I love it. He was just an episode of a night Gallery I watch recently. Oh my god, I've seen that episode.

Because I saw it, I was like, it's Harvey fucking Lembeck's good. Oh it is so good. Okay. Number two Coconut Shrimp Forrest Gump marcar Ritaville. Yes, oh my god, that's actually the right answer.

I always thinking Jimmy Buffett. But by the malone's also not wrong because that's our version of the the appetizer. The best suits first gump is coconut shrimpry. That was your call. It's true.

Okay, this is a little bit of a deep cut, but you know I'm a deep cut girl. Chris Bell, I don't know who that is. Oh, he's got connections to big star, very underrated power pop musician who died young and the seventies. His song I Am the Cosmos is the perfect, most depressing summary song ever because I'm a happy little rain clown. The answer you just gave us.

Now what I'm associating with Chris Bell. Okay, copans, they're like random name Heather brought up in the word association game. Okay, burnt skin, delicious barbecue. Okay, I like birth. I was gonna go with whole Coogan, but that works.

I'm watching you. I'm watching the show Yellow Jackets and it's all about cannibals. So burning skin to seek was delicious to me right now? Yeah, Well, you know they call human long pick long pig delicious. Yeah, and people say anybody that's tasted human flesh goes mad because it's so good, Like it's the best tasting meme.

That makes me sound creepy. I'm a vegetarian for record. Wow, well that's a relief. Unless there's some people made of tofu, than you're in danger. I know people who would eat people, by the way, guys, people, I know people who agree.

Okay, hot pants James James Brown. Oh look that bot them alone. Come on, okay, summer. Oh that's good too, that's acceptable. Also looking for Dagmar's hot Pants, which is an exploitation movie from the early semies.

Ring Pops Jessica, my my, my wife. I'm sorry, that's say I proposed with a ring pop. That's the only thing I think. How you SEUs? That's so sweet.

I love that. I love ring pops too. Yeah. Blueberry, Oh, I like cherry, but blueberry is good too. Okay, Jeans Simmons, doll, I just think what a dick.

Both are acceptable, Both are correct answers. We were also taking the movie Loved All Superstar, where one of the Red Cross brother gets haunted by a flying Jean Simmons doll. Oh man, I have to see that. I love Red Cross US. Oh my god, I'm a huge Red Cross fan.

Oh my god. Okay, Ukulele, tiny tim precious. That's those are both tiny bubbles. I also said a big over here. You maybe think of the movie impressions.

No, it's far too depressing. I was like, Jesus, I don't think I saw that cut. Okay, flavor crystals weed this two work, crystal Light okay both. Yeah, I would rather have the weed Crystal lights cut that acidic. My family drank a lot of it when I was Wasn't it horrible?

Yeah? Because I believe, Because I believe in me, which is also a Jean Simmons lyric, it all goes back. Okay, seventies swingers. Wow, Sorry, can I just break in for one moment? Yeah?

That was a music from the Elder reference right there. That is guess it was thank you. I had a p plus you got that. That's so now it's so underrated. It really really is an underrated kiss album.

Oh yeah, we'll talk about that, I'm sure god, especially because it's got a lou Reed connection. Okay, seventies Swingers, I just think it's the Unfortunately. Right now, all I'm thinking about is John like Zambo y party, Yes, I almost key parties. John like zambo Okay. Yeah.

He was in the movie Summer of Sam I hate that. Oh yeah, oh, I hate that movie. And then they swing at one point, so it's an insult of swingers. I was looking for. Cost was a Plato's retreat.

Yeah yeah, yeah, well, well that's what that scene is based on in the movie. Now, there's so many other movies that reference Plato's retreat that are better, like like the movie the movie Plato's Retreat, the movie Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Colin the movie got a Colin it okay, amos yuppie ponytail, Bronson pinchow muffy I don't know, yeah, both are except I was looking for Don Henley disgusting ass ponytail he had. Oh he's the worst. I bet he smells like a singles bar. He's all.

It's all cigarette smoke, pink squirrels. Smells like leather. Oh no, leather. Costs can smell good, though, Yeah, I know, but there's got to be some good to him. No, there's no good to him.

There's none. He probably smells like bo like an act good drummer. He's a good drummer whatever, like a broken clocks like right once in a while, got he's got a sweet and honeyed voice. Now he doesn't you know his voice facing because I'm like, why was done? All right?

Now it's time for the main event or one of them, part one of two. We're talking about favorite summer songs, the least favorite summer songs. Now in this case, we're there. I mentioned there are one gazillion summer songs, like I had no idea that and Dora's box I opened by picking this topic and then you just I mean, there's something like three hundred songs just with summer in the title, never mind other songs completely about summer. We're not even talking about summer jams.

Jams that be songs that became popular during summer. Remember when every car window was open and all you could hear was all about that bass. Oh Jesus Christ, what a nightmare that was. Anyway, that's a summer jam. But we are going to start with favorite song about summer, and these are songs about summer.

Probably summer in the title doesn't necessarily have to be, but it's definitely a song about the season, We're going to start with you, mister HP. For every one of these songs I picked, there's probably eight or nine that could have easily made the cut. This was very, very challenging to pick up the song just one song. So my favorite song about summer is called Summer's Cauldron by XTC. It's off of eighty six's seminal Skylocking.

For most folks know it because it's the one with Dear God. This was This album was famously produced by Todd Rundgren and a desperate bid to break through to the US markets. He was picked to produce the record and it was a very contentious recording. He and Andy Partridge did not get along. Does anyone get along with Andy Partridge?

Or rather does Andy Partridge get along with anyone? He was absolutely Todd Rundgren. I mean, I've made no I may I make no bones about the fact that I love Todd Rundgren. He's one of my favorites and he was absolutely the right person to produce this because he was able to make the album very pastor had a very pastoral sound, which was something lacking in xdc's albums up to that point. Now, the song in particular that we're talking about.

Summer's Cauldron was written by Andy Partridge, and it kicks off with this wonderful sound of this buzzing of insects chirping and the sort of hum really puts you in the mind of a real hazy, hot summer day where you hear the insects kind of buzzing in the background, maybe the hissing of summer lawns as it were. I was actually surprised later to find out that the song isn't actually about summer. It's actually about the moments before childbirth, being comfortable in the womb and not wanting the moment to end. But you can apply that same reasoning to summertime. I mean, I think we all have fond memories of summer's past and future perhaps maybe have memories to come that these summer days just keep they seem to stretch on forever.

When you're a kid, especially on vaccasion from school, and nothing puts me in the mindset of those that sort of feel of the summer. There's just so much left to summer. I'm just having a great time. Then Summer's Cauldron by XDC sold right on excellent choice. That's such a cool pick.

Yeah, I love that. And Todd Rudgren is the man. Just for the record, thought is god, you guys talk about him a lot. I know nothing about Todd Rundgren at all. We can school with you, my child.

Oh yeah, there's a lot to learn, but we'll save that for a future episodes. Heather, Yes, I know you have a summer song. You know, I gotta I have a ton. I really had to whittle this down, like I'm an old Southern man on a front porch with a branch Whitland down Woodland net stick, And so my number one pick is, oddly enough called Whittland the Stick. Now I'm joking, Yeah, it's called I Picked the Summer Sun by Chris Stainey, which came out originally nineteen seventy seven.

Chris Stamy. I tend to favor I've noticed this about myself, like like power pop, seventies power pop in the summertime really just seemed so copacetic for me. This song in particular, it's it's basically it's literally pretty much just him and Alex Chilton of Chris Alex Chilton, who was in just to hit the box tops like he's done for that. But Alex Chilton as a solo artist is a brilliant producer, brilliant songwritter, brilliant. The Replacements literally wrote a song called Alex Chilton about Alex Chilton, so which Alex Chilton, I think said it was stupid.

I love Alex Bilton. I love that song though, but we're not talking about the Replacements. This Chris Stamy song is it's lovely, but it's got this sort of slight melancholy to it to turn up the light the wake that it's got to be. That's the way it is. Love only love, but it's the least some always cold in the summer, and just for me, like the summertime is always kind of like a depressing season for me.

And even as a kid, I mean I liked not being in school because you know, I wasn't I was kind of bull. I was kind of bully this kind that's a good sad. I mean, I turned out all right, but for the best part. But but there's always just there's a weird just lull about the summer and the summer sun just feels like there's this great repetition line of summer always cold in the summer Sun and I just I don't know, I think it's really beautiful. I think it's kind of sad.

I just find it very captivating. Also a little trivia if Chris Damy went on to be a pretty successful producer and worked with Pylon, Latigra and many more bands. And he was also a member of the DBS, which talked about underrated power pop. The DBS or a great group. And so yeah, that's my pick.

The Summer sung by Chris Stamy excellent choices in both Minds Better. I too had a really difficult time whittling these down. I also came up with whittling these down was my number one pick Great Minds Popular song. Yeah, you know, it's kind of undeniable. No mine is classic nineteen fifty eight Summertime Blues by mister Eddie Cochrane, co written manager Jerry Kapart Like on a pure sonic level, it's as rambunctious and ornery as any great rock and roll song should be could be.

All so, this is a rock and roll song. It's no longer country, it's no longer rhythm and blues, it's no longer rockabilly. This is a rock and roll song. As far as I'm concerned, and a very teenage rock and roll song, It's told from a teenage perspective. It's all the thing that's pissing him off during his summer vacation that he has to attend to.

He has to get a job in order to pay for a date for his girl, and he can't get his car. Because it's just an endless list of problems for the young man. But that's not why I continue to love this song. Because as teenage as an outlook as it might be, every obstacle the narrator's coming up against, he's going to be facing the rest of his life. As much as a teenage song as this is, it's a real working class song, a working class anthem.

Meanwhile, it is as propulsive and as exhilarating and as demonstrative of what summer ought to be. Just musically, it's just such a great tune and any conference delivery is so fucking fantast I'm a bootoras a bus, I'm a booto rivera ball about a working old summer, just to try to boot the ball. Hell a time to call my baby, try to get a date, Loda, Son, you gotta work lead sometimes for water. But I'm a good dude, but they ain't no cure for the summer term. Now, to say that the song has been covered a few times, it's an insult to understatements.

There have been several several dynamic versions. They've been look okay, The Who covered it twice. Basically, they covered it off of their album and they had a live version. I thought they were both tepid and not really all that interesting. Later, I think Joan Jett has got a real punky take to it, and that's really fun rotten.

Next, t Rex had a version in nineteen seventy, which I was unaware of before I started listening to these tracks, and I look, man, I love bowling as much as the next guy, but I was wildly disappointed from him banging on a guitar that sounded like it hadn't been tuned in three days and a bongo. It's his version of summertime blues. It was very disappointing for me. If you want to hear a like the noisiest, most excellent version of it, though, go to go listen to Blue Cheers version from nineteen sixty eight to San Francisco psychedelic Bandy Oh my god. They allow feedback to replace lyrics in portions.

It's wonderful. No cue for the Summertime. Alan Jackson had a country version that was very popular. I guess well, I didn't know the work told the ass I was sick. Now you can't use a carcor you didn't work a league.

Sometimes I wonder I'm gonna do because no cue for the Summertime Blue. You want to hear a really deconstructed version of it, deconstructed the Flying Lizards. Yes, that yeah, their cover I think it was seventy eight. I think their cover ever came out really fantastic. I wonder what I'm gonna do, But they ain't No cure for the Summer Time Blue.

Musically just sounds like summer to me, and when you dive into it, I think it's an interesting tune. And poor Eddie Cochrane, he was haunted by the deaths of his friends Richie Vallens and and Buddy Holly on that plane. And then one day, driving to a plane, his car got into an accident. He was thrown from it and he was killed. Which he had a premonition that he would die by plane.

It almost happened. Anyway, that's the way summer ends sometimes, folks. And that was my that was my favorite summer song on that happy note. No, that's I mean, it's iconic, that particular song. I I will agree to disagree about the Who's version of Live It Leads Summertime Blues.

I love their version. I don't. I think obviously the Eddie Cochran version is definitive. How could it not be? But I that's my favorite period of the Who, right on Live It Leads, Who's Next?

All of that. So yeah, I think It Leads is a massive improvement over the studio version. Oh yeah, no, no, no. I if I'm going to listen to their a cover of Summertime Blues, it's going to be the Live It Leads version. Yeah, no question.

Yeah, the studio version is. I agree, it's just tepid there, yeah, used to describe it. But I mean I love the whole album Live It Leads. I think it's fantastic, and I love there. It's a little more spare, I think because it's just the four piece, but it's fantastic.

But the song itself is how could somebody not choose that? It's perfect? I think if anyone but Eddie Cochrane. If I were to choose a singer, it would be Roger Daltrey for the vocals on it. But there's something so spare and mean and angry and the fun about the original instrumentation there, which I think Eddie Cochran played at least two of those instruments themselves.

So anyway, we just got the everyone's favorite part of the show, our least favorite song about summer. We're gonna start with the well groomed and flavorless HP. So this is actually the part that I was looking more forward to because it's fun to set bag on these songs. This one I could not resist. My least favorite summer song is Summer Nights by Van Halen.

Yeah, it's off of their sort of reintroduction to the world after David Lee Roth left. It's off with fifty one fifty Now both disclosure I am if it's not already obvious, I'm I'm fully on the rock side of the Roth versus Hagar debate. I think whatever edge they had as a band was completely lost when they picked up Sammy Hagar as their an new lead singer, and they never got it back. I have to admit though, like my initial thought on this, I thought this was the song. I don't know if you guys ever have seen any live footage of Inhalen around this time, around eighty six eighty seven.

I thought this was the song where when they perform it live, Eddie and Sammy and Michael Anthony kind of do this throw strut across the stage as they're singing the song. I was wrong about that. That is the best of both worlds. But anyway, the live footage of this song is equally cringey. It's just awful.

It's just the Sandy is like grabbing them and smiling and they're paling around on stage having a great old time. But the reason why this is my least favorite summer song, that's only part of it, is the I mean, the lyrics are just awful to me the song. Hearing this song conjures up images of shirtless dude bros In Oakley's high fiving at the Dairy Queen parking lot. You know, it's just I get chills just thinking of that image. The sample lyrics from the song I get a line, you got that pole, I'll put you down at the old fishing hole.

Thes are Biting Good Tonight. Yeah, so it just this represents everything. Like I said, these are this is a dude bros. Song. This is like guys, who are They're the ones who took fight for your right to party?

Seriously literally exactly. Just that awful song still gives me chills when I hear it. I love ban Halen, I love roth with Bean Halen, not so much the Hagar stuff in case it wasn't obvious, But that's what dreams are made of, Bros. Now now it's all and it's all Hagar. I just I with the exception of maybe the heavy metal song off of the Heavy Metal soundtrack, of course, I just can't stomach anything that that he the Hagar puts out there.

That tequila, yeah, terrible. He is cocon the Coconuts tramp has a lot of property he can spread across the ship. He is also Coconuts tramp. And for the d yeah, I do like the first Montrose album. That's about as far as I that's fair.

I think it took him a while, so it's cultivates. It's like any buffett esque of identity he created with Book Tequila and now he has Abos Tequila. It's terrible and actually, in fact, I in researching this, I found some footage live from like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. You know that motherfucker's still doing that stupid strut across the stage to best in both worlds. They're pushing seventy Oh yeah, I mean this is it's not I know some people would say Roth versus Hagar's a debate.

It's only debate if one party les losing that part. You know what, David Lee Roth seems like a gauntdamn nightmare of a human being. And I imagine being in the same room with him, just listening to him talking about himself all day long would drive you insane. But I would rather do that for like a full tour than do one night with Sammy Hagar. I'm just awful.

David Lee Ross a fascinating human being. I'm just saying he really is he. I think he for years he was like a volunteer e MT in New York. So can you imagine, like, do you have an accident and you're laid up, You're on the side of the road waiting for and the e MT shows up and it's Diamond Da. I would day I'm dead and I've assumed into heaven and this rock angel is, oh, it is hovered over me.

That was I am. I would not be the woman I am today with that David Lee Roth And that sounds like I lost my opportunity to him. I didn't. But when I was a little when I was a little girl, one of my very first role models my heroes, was David Lee Raw And thanks to Panama and of course the solo work very influential. I love Diamond Dave and yeah, those fucking Hagar lyrics.

I literally like when you get you eat something and your stomachs like immediately like nope, like it's rejecting, it gurgles a little bit. I just felt that now while I'm on the case baby, as if thinking about even when he forgets the words, he's got so much stought, Like that US Festival performance where they're doing Romeo's Delight and he goes all right, there goes, I forgot the fucking words, and he's got like the biggest grid on his face. It's all that whole performance. Ain't nobody drinking tea from whiskey bottles except for the clash Baby's And I love the clash, but I mean, come on, David Lee, Ross the man, I love him, and that those albums that's first, that six pack what they call the classic six pack with Roth of Van Halen.

I mean, it's great, hears. Yeah, they were a rock and roll for a good portion of the of its history Heaven. Oh yeah, but that's good music. Please tell us some bad music. Oh my god.

Well, actually I wish I would have gone first, because it's gonna be hard to bet hps Like, damn, Now, I don't. When you issued us this idea first Batom alone, you were like, it has to be with this part of the show. It has to be the song, not the version of it, the song itself. But I can't do that and apologize because when I think of summer songs, I think if ones that just make me die a little inside. It not in a fun way.

It steals and crofts summer Breeze. And the reason why I'm putting an asterisk is the typo negative cover of that. I love. Peter Steele's voice is like autumn to me. It's like a warm apple cider drink.

It just I just feel all warm inside and I love it. And it's just so heavy he's an alchemist, feels and Croft. It's so nutless. It's so I feel like I'm at the natural food store and I've been farted on by a hippie. Well, I'm trying to get nutritionally yeast like it's just which is delicious on popcorn.

By the way, I here's the thing, Like, I grew up with that song hearing it on the radio, So I'm not going to direct as much animosity towards it, but I can definitely see your point. It is a very lightweight song. It's it's it stinks of petruli and like just it's not it's very it's been evity balls the window. Everything makes me feel fund you want to come to a drum circle? No women allowed?

That literally dated a guy where it was like I was told I wasn't allowed to go to the drum circle because that was a woman. It's like this is for male bonding seals and Craft would have invited you to that drum circle. Absolutely, I'm going to now defend this song. I love that song. I would rather go to a type of negative strum circle.

Hey listen, I'm sure that I have not heard the typo negative. It's beautiful. I'm now definitely going to listen. I'll defend that that version and everything you said about the song is completely accurate. But I don't think it's a song that never in any way wanted balls.

Maybe Typo Negative provided them, but stealson cry they didn't need ball. This song is not about that. This is a song about blowing through the jasmine of your mind. Yeah. I know it makes me feel fine.

I don't feel fine. I don't feel fine. I feel agitated. I feel too much. It's too much.

It's like a weak cup of camabil tea for me. No, I don't, I don't. I'm a I'm a woman with needs. I need a strong cup of Cambia. I have heard the I've heard the Typo Negative cover of it.

I got excited because I'm a I grew up with the song. I love the song, and I'm always interested to hear a cool cover of a song. But I don't know. I just felt it was kind of trying a little too hard to be different and kind of edgy. I look, but I think at the time what I failed to realize is I think Typo Negative is more tongue in cheek than I gave them credit for at the time.

I mean this was college when I heard this, probably so I was not exactly looking for a rye sense of humor a band or a song. So maybe I'll go back and revisit it. But but yeah, no, it's it's a good call. Well, and especially because Peter Steele. I saw an interview where he talked about he heard that song a lot growing up as a kid in the seventies and like his sisters in particular, like he this comes from his big family women and his sisters would play that all the time.

And so I mean typebout I could have definitely had a sense of humor. Peters still had a great sense of humor. But there is kind of like a genuine love I think for it. But I just still think croft me, it's just the music in general. It's so bloodless.

It does nothing for me. I don't bind mellow. I don't mind mellow. I there's plenty. You don't have to defend your own point of view, Harry, No, no, no, I'm just trying to play myself.

I don't mind mellow, but I need something to have a pulse and for me to connect, I need a pulse. I need organs, I need blood. I'd probably sound like a cannibal. Again. Maybe I'm just hungry, hungry for human flesh, steals and crafts.

Yeah, relicious. Gross. No, that meat would be so rangy, gamy it. It'd be hairy like this hairy man leg I say next, I'm dying. I'm dying to hear your choice, Father Malone, what's your choice for the worst song about summer?

Kid rock? Robert Ritchie too ashamed, family members, He's neither kid, nor does he rock, And yet here we are, we're talking about the abomination that is all summer long from two thousand and me. Oh, okay, before we dive in, I am going to read some lyrics, so genius. You know. It was nineteen eighty nine.

My thoughts were short, My hair was long, caught somewhere between a boy and a man. She was seventeen, and she was far from in between. It was summertime in northern Michigan, flashing through the sandbar, talking by the campfire. It's the simple things in life, like when and where we didn't have internet. But man, I'll never forget the way the moonlight shined upon her hair.

Okay, he's describing himself in nineteen eighty nine. Here's a song he recorded in nineteen eighty nine. Oh the Mico was so low because I'm the kid with all the lingo, holy wet, because I don't sing, don't create a gymness fresh and your ingo. They off the ree box to go on the hot topic, a little hipot with some nick say, I'm not present. You're not a fucking redneck.

First of all, you weren't a hip hop person either. You just some spoiled, rich white kid from the fucking sub verbs like all of us. Anyway, let's okay, I'm putting kid rock aside for a second. So what did he do here? It's a mash up.

People say it's two songs, it's not. It's a dozen. It's mainly Werewolves of London by by Warren's Evan and Sweet Home Alabama by Leonard Skinner Wave off the box. But there's some night moves in there from Bob's Oh No Oh Yes. In fact, if you listen to the beginning of the song, the drum fill that leads us into this complete gross rape of of other better songs is the drum fill from the opening of smells like teen spirit.

It's it just goes on and on. Lord. Here's where kid Rock had to say about this. Even though a lot of critics go, oh, he just ripped off a song or whatever, I actually thought it was very creative. He's sang of his own work.

I was doing something that had never been done, because even though mashups had been done, nobody's ever taken two songs mash them up and written an original lyric and melody over the top of it. So why so we did it? And it seemed to work out pretty well. Sky High. I mentioned Forrest Gump at the beginning, Kid Rock is like the Forest Gump of all.

Actually, no, let me put it another way. All the criticisms about the movie Forrest Gump, right, the right wing kind of slant and the anti left wing bent, like all of those, that's that's Kid Rock, Like, that's him personified. And he just keeps popping up in all these genres that he has no business being in anything. Like he hangs out in a minute and waves and then he's like onto the next approximation of what he calls music. By the way, if you want a really good tank down of this song, There's a YouTube channel called what makes This Song Stink, which I encourage everyone to listen to.

He gets into the he gets into the nuts and bolts, so like he's a guitarist and he's breaking down why it's terrible musically, and he can explain it much more eloquently than I can. What makes me craziest about this song is that every time it would come on, and it came on a lot when it was first released, was that I thought it was the opening of a better song, part one of the two songs he had ripped off. And then it was just like a bait and switch and a slap in the face. And then you get the most puerile lyrics of all time. We were trying funny things.

Let me, we were smoking funny things. Oh what, he's just so good. Here's the lyric from a kid rock. By the way, Look like I know he's low hanging fruit. And I'm not saying anything that hadn't been said about this guy before, but here's a reminder.

He has a song off of that first album called The New York's Not My Home where he describes his experience in New York City in the village just Illan with a forty and a brown bag. This is redneck kid rock talking once again, everybody. He's in the village Illan with a forty in a brown back. I'm also fat fucking trance best walking in the day. Like now I'm tripping it.

I'm like, y oh god, I'm taking Oh what a nice guy for not like committing a hate crime. What does he want a fucking cookie? Fuck him? This guy but chugs his own ego and I have no patience for it. And I think you nailed it when you said right, because I literally remember the first time I heard this song, because it's like you never forget the first time you've ever seen like a gruesome crime photo in your life.

That's how I felt with the song, because I was at my day job at a shoot and a fleeteek playing the country station, and I was like My first thought was like because I wasn't paying all the attention, I'm like, wait, is that warrens of on? And then then all of a sudden I hear something else. I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, no, I mean when you're making me feel bad for Bob Seeger, you know what kind of moral place that puts me in. It's not a good one. I like Bob Seger wrote that song though, right as much as we don't like of that song or what is this man doing?

He's by the way, mashups hadn't been done like that before. Are you kidding? Bullshit? That's bullshit. That is bull bull bullshit.

To quote the President from Return of Captain Invincible, Rip Alan Arkin starting it out there because I left him and that's a great musical. Yeah, No, that's it's the fucking cajone is on this motherfucker. He's like the Trump of people because he's like, he's a good friend Donald Trump. Yeah, exactly, because he's not working class. He has no ties to the working class, but he will go for every fucking trope to lie to people that It's the thing.

A lot of people that are rednecks are basically working class people that have been screwed their whole life, but they've ever been given the intellectual curiosity or good schooling or whatever to question authority, and so they're just continually manipulated. This is what this guy is. It's reprehensible on so many levels, and I hope to god he gets haunted Amityville Style by Warren's Van and three fourths of Leonard skinnerd Yeah, it's is. This song is the flip side of my other choice. This is the anti working class song.

This is kid rockets just like parroting all these things for these things we brought up Jimmy Buffet, he's like trying to be that now for the younger generation. Does he have a bar? I'm sure he does. When I think of kid Rocket, I think of how cravenly he chases whatever musical trend will make him money and make him popular, because, as you said, he started out as a would be rapper and did that for a while, and then when he saw that the winds were shifting, he became more of in this case like a style himself, a bit of a Bob Seeger Heartland type of guy. And then the winds shift again and he became even more like a country type guy.

Kid rock is, Yeah, reprehensible the word that I would use. It's And for anyone who says that mashups and what he did was not done, I this is not exactly a good analogy, but I'm put in the mind of the song. I think it was called Come with Me by puff Daddy off of the Godzilla soundtrack, where he basically just took the song cash Mire, but I led Zeppelin. I just kind of wrapped over it. You know who did that better?

Schoolie d did a wholly original rap sampling kash Mire and then got sued. I led Zeppelin, And it's actually because it was used in Bad Lieutenant. It's a great effect, and they got sued by the band and they had to remove it, which is bullsit. See now I'm bad. I'm bad all over again.

But ultimately, like the thing is, yeah, it sucks, there's no question, But I will say on the flip side of things, like it's this doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it acceptable artistically or otherwise. But let's also not forget that I'm sure that Bob Seeger and Warren Zyvon or his estate, I'm sure they were paid handsomely for using those those samples. So it's not as if it's a it's a crime. He didn't steal it.

I'm sure he got permission. But no, we are talking about summertime. I see you want to hear a summertime silver lining On this particular song, kid Rock did not allow any of his music to be put on iTunes. So, but the charts at the time had become both sales and downloads. So there's a karaoke version of the song that charted higher then Kid Rock's actual song.

His song got to twenty nine on the chart in the top forty, but the hit Master's karaoke version made Did we want to go to some Love? Yeah, let's get Let's get some love going now now. The first song songs very specifically about the summertime season, but this time we're going to change it up a little bit. Summer jams could be found in this can degory, but really any song at all. These are songs that from your favorite songs that you associate with summer.

Now, as I said, this isn't really I don't think any of our seasons. I loved it when I was a child because it was freedom and note school, and I love summer until responsibility showed up and it showed a pretty quick so I've never been a fan of it. I've always been an autumn person. But there's got to be some good memories. HP take us till one and you raise a very good point.

I want to make this clear, Like this sort of summertime being this incredible experience, something to be savored and look forward to. I think you're right, fatherm Alone. I think it's something really more unique or more endemic to when you're a kid, right, Because when you're old and you're an adult and you're working, the summertime is just another season that you're working. You're still going into the office or going into wherever it is you're going to work. So for me, everything I talk about, whether it's good or bad memories, they all are taking place in or around school age, in this case, in high school.

This is a high school memory for me. And the song is it's not about summer, but it puts me in the mind of summer. And the song is called the song remains the same, of course by led Zeppelin. It's off the Houses of the Whole Evening. Every song off of any song off that album would probably qualify as a favorite summertime memory that's not about summer necessarily, but this particular album.

I think I've mentioned on previous occasions that I kind of I fell hard for led Zeppelin. Is most kids in my demographic did probably in or around high school, and I dove into this album probably the summer of either freshman or sophomore year of high school. I'm not sure which, but I do remember it had to be before I got my license, because I always listened to it in the car on my walkman on cassettes, which I guess you don't see too much anymore, although I think they're making a comeback, but that's another story. But this song, to me, I hear it like that. There's something about the long intro with the sort of cascading twelve string electric guitars that, of course Jimmy Page was known for, and the propulsion in that intro.

It just made me feel like, ah, school's over for a few months. Now, we have summertime, and it's just the whole summer's yawning before me. I won't have to go back to school for months. I can just savor the moment and savor the season. And there's to me, there's just a brightness and a lightness and a happiness around the song and the way it slows down for the first verse and then it once again, it just springboards itself back in the high gear and the song kind of builds and builds from there, and it's really almost orchestral in the way that it's produced, with all the overdubbing, multi tracking of all the instruments, and I just I hear that, and it just if there was an audio equivalent of the sort of magic hour in the summertime that's sort of hazy gold and look that everything took on at a certain time of day, just before dusk.

This song, to me is that in audio form. I love it. It's still even now, even though many years away from being in school and looking forward to quote unquote summer vacation, the song still to be in the mindset of that. It's a very special song to me. Hpu and I are of similar vintage.

We went to high school together, as a matter of fact, but I remember that we've been alive long enough that len Zeppelin were still a band while we walked the planet or crawled it in. And I always got the sense when I became aware of the band that the people who had been listening to older people, it always felt like you just missed it. They seemed like a temporary band when we were kids. Now they seemed like the oldest fossils in the world. But there was a time in our youth where they seemed like, oh they're still they could have just done it, and then we just if only they had held on for a little longer.

Yeah, I mean obvious they could have. I think they did the right thing and calling it quits, because I honestly like, depending on who you talk to, some people believe John Bonham was really the best member of that band, the best musician in the group that I'm not going to here to debate that, but you're right, when we were kids, it wasn't as if we were forty years removed from Led Zeppelin's hating. They weren't that old, So yeah, it was. They weren't even the Beatles, like the Beatles were like ancient history when we were kids. Oh yeah, which is funny because they weren't at all.

But Zeppelin seemed like we could have if we had more irresponsible parents been taken to a Zeppelin concert. Yeah. Sometimes the local TV station, Channel fifty six would show the song remains the same as the movie of the week or whatever, and they would always do they would do a stereo cybelcast on WBCN. Now, for those you younger than us listening to this podcast, stereo TV wasn't a thing when father Malone and I were in high school. So you had to turn on the TV, turn the volume down, turn on your high BI stereo.

That was broadcasting a radio station. It was a cybelcast of the audio of and it was a revelation for somebody like like myself or Bob and Malone who they wanted. We wanted that theatrical experience in the house, in the home, if you will, and the song remains the same when as one of those sort of touch points, I think they used to do that with A two thousand and one a Space Odyssey also like this was an experience for your home, and there was something mysterious and interesting and maybe a little bit forbidden about led Zeppelin in that movie, because I mean there's a lot of wacky stuff going on and the song remains the same. Not coincidentally, is it tomorrow best actor? Oh, he's been and as it turns out, he's the member with the most same power because he's performed with a bunch of I've seen him performing with everyone from Lenny Kravitz to the Cricket Vultures.

Really kind of kept himself current and drag you know who is a big fan of John Paul Jones, Prince Yeah, talked about him a lot, but I'm dying to hear Heather. So my pick, which, by the way, I think HP your description of that led Zeppelin song is one of the best I've ever heard. That was some really beautiful description, So thank you excellent work. But my pick is a song called Yellow Pills by a band out of Hollywood called twenty twenty. The song came out in nineteen seventy nine.

I first heard it off of Hino Records excellent compilation Di I Y. I think it was on the was it come out and play or shake some action? It was one of those two. I have both of them on cassette because that's how old they are. It's turning into an oldies program.

Yeah, I've got the Farm Report coming back if anybody wants to stick around. No, I too would listen on my headphones. And this song in particular, it captures to me, like does the excitement that one can have of the summertime. This also like slightly not quite hedonistic, but almost like dreamy oblivioness of just that you probably would kind of seek out if you're especially if you're kind of bored and you're needing to kind of escape grown. Yeah, i'd ever I believe the yellow pills in question are I think it's a reference to speed.

It could be wrong, yeah, but it's also there's like a wistfulness though lyrically that really appeals to me, because honestly, as I mentioned earlier, I was I don't know. When I think of the summers, I think of just being very lonely and constantly looking up at the sky and just being like, yeah, there's a whole world out there, and I'm stuck here. I'm like this little aunt, stuck on this tiny little hill and just this need, this absolutely need for expansion and excitement and just something kinetic and dreamy. And music, of course is like one of the greatest connectors, and the song I think kind of captures that feeling. I mean, one can escape.

Obviously, my escape is more through art, and here it's kind of more through through pills. But we've all got our methods. Add It's no judgment son here, but yeah, I just think it's a It's just a really perfect kind of perfect song, perfect pop song, and because pop should always sometimes the best pop is the pop that's a little tinged with something else doesn't have to be all a glitter. There can be a little bit of gravel underneath the glimmer. The phone line and I also want to say a little trivia is produced by Earl Manky, who, in addition to being an O G member of Sparks, which is that alone is pretty fucking cool.

I can't really get cooler right right, Oh my god, I love Sparks. Any number of Sparks songs really could have been on this list for me. But he also he'd go on to produce. He produced this song. He produced the Runaways three o'clock, which is a really great kind of Paisley pop band out of California in the eighties.

Really another editrated band Concrete Blonde, which his father Jane was their guitarist. So cool guy, and this is a cool song. I love it and it makes me think of summer dreamy, a little sad, a little oblivious, but always interesting. I woke up one summer thinking I was going to fuck off like the rest of my summers, and suddenly I was at a computer class every day, and then Spanish classes that my mother had signed me up for. So summers ended pretty quickly for me.

But that doesn't mean there wasn't things to enjoy about it. Now, around nineteen ninety May of nineteen ninety a little movie by Oliver Stone came up called The Doors, and The Doors was pretty much on my radar, on my stereo, on in my car cassette deck for the for that entire summer. And the one song that makes me think of so actually that there's a ton of doors songs. La Woman could be what I'm talking about right now, but the song is from nineteen seventies Morrison Hotel, and that is peace Frog, Blood in the Streets, in the town of Blood Stays the Roots, and Blood the terrible, bloody, fantastic La. It definitely reminds me of my and my late wife.

We listen to that song I don't know one billion times in Boston and then later on in California, which is a whole other experience listening to that song once you get to California. Obviously, Look Krieger wrote the music, and the music is fucking fantastic. It's funky and different than there are other stuff meanwhile, being just like goddamn ferocious, and look, Morrison just dropped in some old poems as lyrics, but what evocative imagery it's It's from his three different poems, Abortion Stories, Don's Highway and Newborn Awakening. And this is the song where you know where the stupid myth of him having an Indian jump into him because he witnessed as a child a car rank with Native American family scattered child's gradual action, that that line is in here, But god damn, it s evocative, just like the rest of it, all of the blood imagery and tying in all of the sort of horrible events going on at the end of the sixties, and somehow it seems fun.

That's rare. I actually have you to think Father Malone for getting me into this song. Oh yays, Honestly, I love the Doors. I've never actually taken the time to really listen to Morrison Hotel for some reason. Waiting for the Sun was always like the big one.

And also a side note, I wanted to form a band called Raven Xeric's Oregon and I tried pitching it to my friends Shannon and I was even like, we're going to do like the like a sticky fingers type cover. But it's like his stripe pants from the way. Anyways, she said, no, so that band never happened, but that this song is so beautiful and like I really, I feel really grateful I got to hear it because of you, So thank you. Oh that's entirely my pleasure. I want to share it with everybody.

Go ahead, HB. Yeah, So we've talked about our shared upbringings. Father Malone. I was right there with you seeing The Doors in the theater. It was there was a level of obsession that we both had for The Doors that Summer.

I know, we freaked out. The movie was like everything to us, and we dove hard into their catalog. But the funny thing is that the Doors that there's any number of songs that just have the word summer. As it turns out, there's Summer's Almost Gone, There's Indian Summer, which is also off a Morrison hotel. But this is a fantastic pick.

It's been always been one of my favorite Doors songs. Also, it's so, like you said, it's a bit of an outlier because it the instrumentation in the song itself is so out of character, let's say, and the blend of Krieger's funky guitar and everything else with Morrison's patented brand of poetry is just to me, it's magic, and I just think it's a wonderful pick and it actually brought me back to summertime a little bit listening to it again. So thank you for that. No, no, thank everybody for everything. HP.

I'm not going to kick it back to you, because there has to be a song that you associate with summer that you cannot stand. How's that for? Some of the on a segue, man, So this one is a kind of a weird one. I'm gonna just warn you in advance. This is going to require a bit of explanation.

My least favorite song that makes me think of summer is a song called Pearl of the Quarter by Steely Yan water Down and My Babies a Quarter. She's a chum like you never singing Bola Boola la. It's off of Capdown the extacy from nineteen seventy three. I'm an abashedly huge, huge Steely Dan fan, and I've always been, even going back to high school, big big Steely Dan fan. Most of their songs are usually about weirdos on the periphery.

This one is basically a love song, which is not really a good look for two glum, sarcastic dudes who met at Bard College in the sixties. The Pedal Steel and the Game and the song is played by Skunk Baxter, who was at one time a member of Steely Dan. And this might Father Malone knows I have a strong aversion to the Pedal Steel, and I think the song now You Do this song might have been the gesis of that, because you know, he and I went back and forth for a long time about this instruments. It's in the song. It's cloying and sentimental.

The song is basically about a guy who's loved and lost a woman from from Louisiana, hence the quarter, the French quarter. And I always I've always considered this song, even before the memory part, which I'll get to in a moment. This is really the turd in the punch bowl of maybe their entire catalog, So already I was biased against the song. With the song the reason why it makes me think of summer and why it's such a bummer. For some reason, it always takes me back to my first summer back home after graduating from college.

This was a point in my life where I was aimless to be honest, I had no solid plan of what to do next. I was bummed to have to move back home with my parents and my old house after having four years of independence school. It's not a it's certainly not a unique story. I'm sure everybody has gone through it in some way, shape or form. But for some reason, I think just because I was listening to a lot and I was in my car a lot because I just wanted to get out of the house a lot, and this was in rotation at that time, and it just makes me feel just just bummed out, feeling of now what do I do?

What? What's next in the life. I didn't really do what I wanted to do with school and my degree is basically worthless. What now that that's my pick? It's it's and like I said, to top it off, it's not even a very good song.

So yeah, I can't listen to him about thinking that it takes me back to that feeling of hopelessness after college. Boy, that's a bummer for summer. It is like, take us further. I don't think. I don't think I can.

I'm bummed now, Oh my god, I feel like I want to give you a hug HP time to give I'm sorry man for sure, and makes me feel like that anyway. By the way, Okay, that's another story, but I don't Okay, So here's my thing. I don't have a exact memory associated with this song as far as like a bad summer because to me, like the summers, my worst summer memories are just like this big expanse of just uh, just like sludge, just slow bit. But this song makes the dog days of summer exactly. I love dogs.

It should be essentially with the worst animal. Yeah, the hookworms of the hookworm days of this song makes me think of summer and it also makes me cringe. So this was my pick, and that is Moonlight feels right by the band's starbuck taking on a trip and dropped to tap the chest. Ain't nothing like the scatter the send you on your way? It feels right.

Have you ever been stuck? You ever been stuck in like a florescently lit space and hearing the most god awful obnoxious music. But it's not like when people think of buxious, they think of like a like industrial sound or something cool. Now, this song makes me think of somebody taking something that should be right, because I have a setting in my mind of okay, it's it's nighttime, it's summertime. That's nice, right, Maybe you're by a lake, the light's reflecting off the pool.

And now it is like a kid rock song. God damn it off. This is I blame Starbuck. They played at the seats for this bullshit. And you can still do all those things and not exactly no, exactly, thank you, thank you, but or the book, because here's the deal.

It's like you're almost having good time and then this creepy guy with a shitty mustache starts guys with creepy mustache with bad mustaches. I have full respect for a good stas, okay, but a guy with a good firm stash, it's not gonna be going moonlight that thing. It's like some fucking holiday in lounge scent like do like that. I'm cutting the whole song in here. Oh god, I think you should just cut me going like yeah, wait, okay, good, we got the it's my mash job.

Take that stuck on that kid, right, But you know this guy just goes like that. He's saying it like that, like oh, it's so mealy mouth. This is like we're hypnol in a song. It just feels like trigger warning. Sorry, whatever, but it feels we're wrong.

It feels wrong. It doesn't feel right. It feels like some It feels like some guy has just swiffered his nasty dreg card noir taint all over your nice evening. Like you're just trying to have a good time. You're by, like, and here's this guy skizing it up.

Be like, hey baby, or if you're or maybe it could be a gross woman. I'm not gonna be gender biased. Could be some nasty Maybe maybe she likes that body fantasy spray that Walmart has that smells kind of like an ex stripper. That's actually not a bad smell though, depending on the stripper, But anyway sends on the stripper, depends on the substrappers and whether or not they've been working all night. That's true.

If you got that day shift shrimp, that's a different smell. Like it depends you know, substrappers smell good. This is a fact. But my thing is, if a stripper is Starbuck, and Starbuck is a stripperd stripper ain't gonna smell good. It's gonna smell like like wine.

Coolers like spilled wine coolers. Yeah, like something called like mango delight. It's gonna felt like mango delight and our car noir and bug spray and bad weed like skunk weed, not good weed. It's gonna be like Jeff Scuck Baxter weed. It is the sex machine himself who went on to like be a part of George Bush's administration, which is that exactly evil.

It's great, it's a crazy story. It is su and his stash is terrible. But I don't like his stash. I don't like the Jeff scut but no Hucks. This mustache.

Now I'm not talking about the actual members of Starbucks, but I'm saying like, when you think of Starbucks, you think of a guy with that whispy, shitty mustache, kind of like Snoopy's cousin with just the little has. Yeah, it's just and it's like a baby, you know, and it's I just don't. I don't like it. It makes me feel bad. It makes me just hearing that song, it makes me feel unclean, and not in a fun way, not in a David Lee Roth like Dionysian way.

It makes me feel unclean like I have like I've I have been hit on by my friend's older brother and I'm twelve and he's twenty six. Jesus grace that bad. Yes. Now, first of all, full disclosure, I wore Drecarnamar in high school. And in high school, so so did my first boyfriend.

It's okay, we all bored, I guess. Speaking of high school, that's where my hatred for this song comes from. Now, this one could have actually been in our last category because it is a song about summer, and it is a song that every fucking DJ will put on a high loop right around mid August. It's cruel summer by an Arama, leaving me here on my own. It was just a reminder, hey, suckers, in a couple of weeks, maybe not even that long, you're going to be back in school.

So it's by the way, I like the song. I think it's a great song. I could listen to it right now. Nevertheless, the association, the stink of it, you're about to give up any meager amount of freedom you've managed to grab from this misbegotten season where once you had a great time. It's all coming to an end and you're going back.

I don't really have any more deep enouts other than that. But if when I thought of this that it just immediately popped into my head that memory because it was an annual event starting in nineteen what eighty six, eighty five that came out, So we're talking from eighty six, like enough, we know the summer's ending. We can look at a calendar. For fuck's sake. Don't taunt us with the sound of these ladies.

I see it. I always when I think of that song, I talk about a bummer. You know what I think of I think of poor Daniel LaRusso getting kicked off the soccer teams. He was roped into retaliating during a scrimmage, and I remember him walking dejectedly off the field. I actually think that's a fond memory.

Team. No, he's talking about the Karate Kid. Oh fuck that Yeah. No, I'm with you, one, Dent. I've never that that style of pop was never really my thing anyway to begin with, it wasn't up on the song.

I'm not inviting you to criticize the tune. No no no, I so it's I. So it's not as if that song would hold any fond memories for me to begin with, it's not something that puts me in the mind of a good any kind of good memory. Frankly, why Heather, I are you a banana fan? I wasn't made that fun.

I have no problem. I like him. I actually kind of prefer Oh what which one the one that formed Shakespeare's sister? We know, the one I could never name her. I can't name her either, But with Marc she formed up with Marcy Marcella Detroit, who I love, and she's on Elis Cooper's from the inside.

I want my last name to be Detroit. Not a great name. I don't think doctor doctor Detroit. God, I'm a doctor called the doctor. I'll take that name.

No, I don't have a problem with Ramma. What's weird, though, is the music video, and which is burned into my memory because they played it all the time when I was little, has almost like, uh, sort of like a Smokey and the Bandit feel towards in We're like this boss hog looking guy is oh those girls and the girls are throwing banana peels with this nice trucker. It's weird. I don't think it fits the song something other than literal lyrics, right right, No, No, that's they were creative. And yeah know I like Banana Rama, you know, very stylish, beautiful ladies.

Yeah, I would say it's like my favorite. I don't own any Baniana Rama, but yeah, the fine, Nope, I have nothing, nothing problem. And honestly I do like Ralph Macha. When I think I'm hating on the Macco, I just think I just the karate kid never did it for me and I'm dark. This is this was my I think.

I think williams Zavca's got the Manpower debut, you know, like he's one of those guys. It's like James Spader in the eighties, Like these guys played the assholes, but they were like so awesome and fantastic. They were like stylish assholes. Like you you don't you almost want to be like fuck that guy, but then you're like that I can I like them. In the case of James Spader, it's like I would, yeah, you want to have hate sex with that one, but which ties into my version of pretty and Pink, But I'll save that for another episode.

He used to hear pretty impink, he's so hot. Oh my god, you should those two should have ended up together. He was clear he's clearly in love with her. Well, see my version of pretty impink is she has she calls the police on Ducky and he and gets a restraining order on him. She breaks up with Blaine, has hot like total like rage sex with Spader, and then blows up the school like massacre at Central High style, and then as this as pretty impink, the song plays that if Friese frames on her giving the middle finger to the school when you were a kid, how did the hat end for you?

That was fine? I mean, you know I had a pretty mind as a little kid. Okay, it was it was once who got a little older? Gotcha? Well, I say that though my mom reminded me that she she never bought me, she only brought me one barbie because the one Barbie I had she found its head.

Yeah, deeper and deeper and darker down the breath. Oh, I can't help, but I gotta bet me I got a loving heart. Though I'm not criticizing her at all. You're the dark beating heart of the Noise Junkie Crew. Noise junkiees.

Oh, this is a perfect little segue. And then everybody, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna wrap it up. I guess I was supposed to have a game here, but I'm incredibly lazy. Your father alone is, and so I'm gonna ask HP, are you working on anything? Would you like to tell people to listen to or see those things?

I would love to so, I, along with my colleague Father Malone, we do the Night Mister Walters, a taxi podcast, a new episodes every couple of weeks. I'm every other Tuesday, every couple of weeks, every other Tuesday, Ladies and gentlemen, Yes, we have all so done a little bit of Wolf and Raisin, which is a band a check podcast. You can also you can also hear me on occasion on the Culture Cast once in a while. And also I'm very proud to have been involved with Father Malone's Dark Destination's audio drama podcast doing some music and the few other things. So check that out as well.

How about New Heather, Oh goodness that I loved Health Productive. I can I just say I love the show and I love having you two as like my Sonic brothers and arms so cool. Thank you both, Thank you, thank you. Oh well, one thing I an episode I recorded with Chris Stashue who we all love for a Bollywood Cinema Club. The first episode I recorded with Chris for the movie Don Gall is out, so you guys can check that out on weirding Way Media.

Also, if you go over to Vindeger's Syndrome, they have released a very excellent documentary made by Charlotte Gainsberg about her mother, who of course is the famous Jane Burkin. The movie called Jane by Charlotte and your Girl wrote a little essay for that release, so please check that out and and well, thank you, thank you, And it's a very fascinating documentary, and I think definitely for anybody that's big music heads like we are, I mean, of course Jane Burkin Sears Gainsberg. It's a great, very interesting documentary. So I do recommend it, even if I didn't do the essay for it, but I did, so check that out also, hopefully by the time this goes on air, which because this should go up on their website any day now.

I did an article about Herschel Gordon Lewis's Blood Fees classic The Godfather of Gore himself and speaking of cannibalism, laurand Ladies and gentlemen, and that'll be over on Ero Films website. Of course, for anything else go to my I have a link tree hollow, so just go to a link tree dot com forward slash Mondo Heather And as for me, everything that HP mentioned And if you want to hear any of my audio stuff I do, it's Weirdingwaymedia dot com. If you want to see any individual stuff for my old link tree, if follow Malone dot com will get you to all my nonsense. We want to thank you all for joining us here at Nooi's Junks. Enjoy your summer, ladies and gentlemen,