Bell-Bottoms and Ballroom Blitz: A Journey Back to 1975

Step into a world where bell-bottoms were the height of fashion, rock music blared from 8-track players, and not a single person worried about gluten. Mike and Tom, your guides through this time-warped musical landscape, transport you back to 1975 – a pivotal year that shaped not just music, but an entire generation's cultural identity.

The hosts share deeply personal connections to the year's biggest hits. Tom reveals how the Eagles' "Best of My Love" takes him back to childhood days learning to operate a combine harvester, while Mike recalls how Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" blew his 13-year-old mind with its revolutionary structure and theatrical power. Their different ages – Mike entering his teen years and Tom at just 8 – create a fascinating contrast in how they experienced these cultural touchstones.

As they methodically work through Billboard's Top 40 from 1975, each song unlocks memories and stories. From Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here," the music becomes a gateway to discussions about growing up, first crushes, lost friends, and family relationships. The hosts don't just play critic – they lay bare how these songs became emotional bookmarks in their lives, still resonating decades later.

Between musical explorations, Mike and Tom take a nostalgic detour into 1975's popular toys – the Pet Rock, Weebles that "wobbled but didn't fall down," and the Green Machine that rivaled the Big Wheel. Tom's confession about stealing (and later returning) a much-coveted "Squirmle" toy adds a touch of childhood mischief to the conversation.

Their regular characters Pip and Squeak provide comic relief with their bickering about a recent photo shoot, creating a perfect balance to the sometimes poignant musical memories. Join this journey through time where the memories might be fuzzy, but the emotions and music remain crystal clear. Next week, the adventure continues into 1976!

Transcript

Speaker 2 0:12

Ah yes, welcome back to the MT Alternative, the podcast that asks was it really better back then or were we just younger and mildly less achy? I'm your presenter, daniel, guiding you through another round of musical time travel, questionable fashion and emotionally repressed Gen X nostalgia. Today, mike and Tom dive headfirst into 1975, a year when bell-bottoms were wide, rock was loud and absolutely no one knew what gluten was. They'll be talking about the songs that lit up their youth and probably also the songs they made out to in the back of a pinto. Will they remember the music accurately? Unlikely, but will they feel things deeply and then deflect with humor? Absolutely, oh. And just when you thought the chaos couldn't get any smaller, pip and squeak return. Yes, the little dudes are back with high-pitched bickering, strong snack opinions and oddly detailed knowledge of eight tracks. So pour yourself a tab, adjust your lava lamp and prepare for a journey into 1975, where the memories are fuzzy and the sarcasm is thick. Let's get to it. Roll tape, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 1:40

Welcome back to the MT Alternative Podcast. Tom, what the hell is going on.

Speaker 4 1:46

Not a whole lot, mike. I hope you're having a great day. Hi Memorial Weekend, bud it is.

Speaker 3 1:52

It's awesome. It's awesome Great weather outside.

Speaker 4 1:56

Speaking of which.

Speaker 3 1:58

Which.

Speaker 4 1:58

Yes, I would like to thank all the families of everybody who made this weekend possible.

Speaker 3 2:05

Absolutely. Tom Can't forget them.

Speaker 4 2:07

Because of the families that are carrying on the traditions of the fallen people that made all this possible.

Speaker 3 2:15

You're right, People seem to forget it. Thank you. People are just looking at beginning of summer pretty much.

Speaker 4 2:21

Yeah, hot dogs, beer, blah, blah, blah. Why? Do we have this weekend, exactly, exactly, and we thank you.

Speaker 3 2:28

You know what's sad, though what's up that it is only a day really. Yeah, we have well, you know, politics aside again, yeah, Months for every other.

Speaker 4 2:38

Yeah, woo-hoo, anyway, hey so work Once again. I don't want to go there. Where do you want to go? I want to go home, yeah, hey, I have a song. You have a song From 1975, like we're doing later on. Oh, what is it that brings us back to work, that I'm going to give you all of the information about work and why this song blended in so well about work, okay, anyway, that's later on. Okay, cool.

Speaker 3 3:20

I can't wait.

Speaker 4 3:21

Yeah, I can't either.

Speaker 3 3:22

Obviously, I really don't know what the hell you're talking about, so this should be interesting. Wait, yeah, I can't either. Obviously, I really don't know what the hell you're talking about, so this should be interesting yeah.

Speaker 4 3:26

But, yeah, it'll all come through Excellent.

The Summer of 1975 Memories

Speaker 3 3:29

Well, hey, we are talking about 1975. 1975. That summer of 75, I was a wee lad of 13, coming into my teenage years.

Speaker 4 3:42

Sad.

Speaker 3 3:43

I'm old, that's sad.

Speaker 4 3:44

Coming into my third grade classroom with my painter's shirt on, because we had Art Day.

Speaker 3 3:53

What a young pup.

Speaker 4 3:54

I was eight years old. What a life. What a life Back in the 70s man.

Speaker 3 4:05

So we'll break this down. We're kind of going to stick to the. I guess the format we had last time Kind of went through the top 40, break them down, yep.

Speaker 4 4:16

Worked for me and they got some great songs this time.

Speaker 3 4:20

Was there anything else? I'm sure we have other stuff to talk about before we get to this.

Speaker 4 4:25

Well, there was a birthday party this weekend, corbin. Yes, my grandson, my grandson. I remember the last birthday party we had. We talked about how the thunderstorm and stuff that came through.

Speaker 3 4:40

We sat in this exact studio talking about it.

Speaker 4 4:43

Yes, we did. Things were a little different then. Yeah, things were a lot different then. But now I mean we Moving on up, yeah, To the east side. But he had a great birthday party we went to.

Speaker 3 4:56

Mexican restaurant.

Speaker 4 4:57

Yes, we went, I saw him.

Speaker 3 4:58

Josh showed me a picture with his little sombrero.

Speaker 4 5:01

Yeah, and he had his little drink that he grabbed.

Speaker 2 5:04

He walked right in.

Speaker 4 5:05

He knew right where it was.

Speaker 1 5:06

Grabbed his little drink.

Speaker 4 5:08

Yeah, he's something else, man, I can't believe he's already nine. Nine. I cannot believe he's already nine.

Speaker 3 5:16

Josh said the same thing. I said oh wait, josh, here's the thing that I can't believe.

Speaker 4 5:20

He was born the very first year I started where we're working.

Speaker 3 5:24

That he was born the very first year I started where we're working. That's sad. That's sad Not that he was born then, that you've been working there that long. Yeah, exactly because.

Speaker 4 5:31

I couldn't even get off, but this is how far I have become. Back when he was born, I had so many points already built up that I couldn't take off to be there for when he was born Tom.

Speaker 3 5:45

when I started six years ago, you were all pointed out almost all the time. Yeah, I got like a half a point now I remember thinking to myself this guy doesn't like to come to work, man.

Speaker 4 5:58

And I still don't want to come to work, but I do.

Speaker 3 6:00

But you do now, yeah, I do I like to think that I brought that out in you, yeah, or you do now, yeah, I do I like to think that I brought that out in you, yeah. Or you brought other things out in me. Well, what really happened? You want to be with your buddy, mike, at work.

Speaker 4 6:11

My son started working there. Well, that helps, and I can't show him it's okay to be out, because he will. He will be out, he will be out. Oh, he likes to be out out, he will be out. Oh, he likes to be out, anyway.

Speaker 3 6:24

But I thought he liked to work too. He does. He always wants to work the overtime.

Speaker 4 6:29

Yeah, he wants the money, but he don't want to work for it. He's a leftist.

Speaker 3 6:34

No, no, just kidding, no yeah, we know that's not true.

Speaker 4 6:37

Yeah, that's not true.

Speaker 3 6:38

He is not a leftist?

Speaker 4 6:40

He is not. He is a very good hard worker sometimes.

Speaker 3 6:47

So what else is Any other stories? What about that one you had, you're telling me today?

Speaker 4 6:51

Oh yeah. Well, when I was on my way over here, I thought well, memorial Day weekend I'm going to do something a little different. So I thought I'd get me a Michelada, which is a red beer to most people, and I like them.

Speaker 3 7:15

But anyway, I stopped over there and I was going to pay.

Speaker 4 7:16

I thought that was a Mexican beer, or whatever, no, that's Corona, but anyway we won't get too rich, but anyway Okay.

Speaker 3 7:23

I see a lot of Guatemalans and Mexicans buying that bud.

Speaker 4 7:26

Well, because it's good, it's good.

Speaker 3 7:29

Get yourself a V8. Drink it with your beer.

Speaker 4 7:33

Well, but this is already mixed up. Okay, continue. Anyway. So I go in there and I pay with the 20 and I said oh, wait a minute, I have a five. My wife gave me two fives this morning. She gave you an allowance. Yeah, the lady said well, that was nice of her. I didn't go into the story of how my wife ended up owing me that money.

Speaker 3 7:58

Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 4 7:59

Wait a minute. Nope, we're not going to go into that.

Speaker 3 8:01

She doesn't get a backstory, but everybody else gets a backstory. Who she? The lady at the counter. You didn't give her a backstory.

Speaker 4 8:12

No, because I don't know her life, so she was spared.

Top 40 Songs of 1975: Spots 40-31

Speaker 4 8:15

Okay, go on. So she said, well, I said I have a five. If you would rather me give you a five, five, or would you want to break a 20? And she looked at me like I was stupid and she's like I don't really care. I said, well, if you don't care, go ahead and just give me the change out of the 20 then, and I'll keep the five. I don't know where it is anyway. So we made a big deal about these two fives and I couldn't find them. And I'm looking, and I'm looking, so I pay for my beer and I go out to the car and I'm sitting there and I had been partaking. Okay, kind of yeah.

Speaker 3 8:56

I hear you.

Speaker 4 8:56

That's cool.

Speaker 3 8:59

So then the guy comes running out of the store. He probably already knows that, so he didn't have to explain it.

Speaker 4 9:02

So the guy comes running out of the store and I open the door, which he probably got this big old oof right in his face as I opened the door.

Speaker 3 9:10

Oh, he partaked also.

Speaker 4 9:11

Probably. So anyway he's like he's holding these two fives up in his hand. He's like I found these on the floor. Are these the fives you're looking for? Because I'm flipping through my wallet trying to find these two fives, but no, he came running out. The owner of the store. Well, it's a good thing you mentioned that you had the two fives, Exactly because he knew who they were and he's like they were on the floor over here. This is what you're. I said, man, that's awesome, that is awesome, that is awesome, that's an honest owner, honest owner.

Speaker 4 9:44

So it was the Indian guy. It was the Indian guy. Yeah, the beef jerky Indian dude, not the pow pow Indian, right right, yeah, okay, I think we all understand, all right. Well, I just wanted to.

Speaker 3 9:56

Because there's a difference. Now, well, you can say the Native American, but then again, that's a lot of people.

Speaker 4 10:06

Yeah, that's a lot of people. Yeah, that does include a lot of people. Anyways, anywho, back to reality, back to life, back to life, back to reality.

Speaker 3 10:17

Alright, our top 40 songs from Well, not ours. This is actually the chart list from 1975, which was a good one. Yep, there were some good ones. Get into those songs Now that a little closer to home.

Speaker 4 10:31

Yeah.

Speaker 3 10:31

You know, you're in no certain yet. Well, especially for me being a teenager, that now I'm starting to anyways.

Speaker 4 10:37

I was a, you know, just starting to get into life, and you know working, and I was eight. So here we go.

Speaker 3 10:46

I'm going to read the list. I'm going to start at the bottom, work our way to number one. So the first 10 that I'll lead off are 40 to 31. There you go we have. I'm Not In Love. 10cc Wildfire. Michael Murphy, Cats in a Cradle. Henry Chapin, Could it be magic? Barry Manilow, have you Never Been Mellow? Olivia Newton-John, Mandy, Barry Manilow, once again, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Nope, not the Beatles. Tom Elton John's version. We have Sister Golden Hair, America Please. Mr Postman, the Carpenters. And we have Magic from Pilot Magic.

Speaker 4 11:28

You like magic.

Speaker 3 11:30

Yeah, just not that time magic so much, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 11:35

Anyways, I have Magic Johnson.

Speaker 3 11:38

No, Magic Johnson's a great basketball player. I have a Magic.

Speaker 4 11:42

Johnson no, you don't, it disappears in my hand. Okay, that I believe.

Speaker 3 11:46

But anyways, we're going to spotlight a couple songs, like we did last week Right Songs that I really like out of this list and I guess have some more meaning to me because I listen to it a lot. Sister, golden Hair, america. Now we can make fun of that too, because as much as a good song, what the hell is Golden Hair?

Speaker 4 12:06

Surprise. You thought she was a burdette, I guess so.

Speaker 3 12:10

I don't understand, but I do like the song.

Speaker 4 12:15

Golden Hair Surprise.

Speaker 3 12:16

It's kind of like the Chocolate Surprise, yeah a little bit, but different yeah, a little different what they will say about America. They do have some great harmonizing yeah, a little different what they will say about America. They do have some great harmonizing, yeah, America. And another one we both liked on that was Wildfire. Oh yes, Michael Murphy, that was a great song.

Speaker 4 12:35

Well, it told a story.

Speaker 3 12:36

It did tell a story.

Speaker 4 12:37

It told a story that when you were young and eight years old, you felt sad for this girl when she cried wildfire. Yes, because the horse ran away in the storm.

Speaker 3 12:50

Why would it do that?

Speaker 4 12:51

Well, because it got scared. Okay, and the fire.

Speaker 3 12:56

But all kidding aside though, it is a good song.

Speaker 4 12:58

It was Well if you listen to the story as an eight-year-old. I mean you're panicking, because that's a lot of fire.

Speaker 3 13:06

At eight-year-old. At eight years old, I was not listening to lyrics. I'll admit that that was too deep for me at eight years old, oh, even at 13.

Speaker 4 13:16

Well, I was listening to lyrics.

Speaker 3 13:17

At 13, I started thinking of girls. So it's like man, the girls like this song.

Speaker 4 13:25

So see, our minds were in two different places. Why do the girls like this song? That's what I was thinking Because of the lyrics.

Speaker 3 13:30

Once again too deep for me. Yeah, I wasn't thinking with my head.

Speaker 4 13:35

Yeah, everything was too deep.

Speaker 3 13:37

Something else took over, anyway, but anyways that's why you date midgets.

Speaker 4 13:42

Here's one.

Speaker 3 13:43

Cats in a Cradle.

Speaker 4 13:44

With a silver spoon. What, yeah? Well, I got to tell you.

Speaker 3 14:00

That's your dad giving you a freaking yeah, he's trying to make you feel bad. I'd say what a way to start off this with dad in that geez, that'd be not being in your life, that's pretty sad I'm going for milk.

Speaker 4 14:09

I'll be back 10 years later.

Top 40 Songs: Spots 30-21

Speaker 3 14:11

I see where this is going with you there, buddy, and that song touched a little too close to home well all right, so let's move on from that to 30 to 21, oh, 30 to 21 there, oh, 30 to 21.

Speaker 4 14:25

There's more.

Speaker 3 14:26

There is more. There is more Number 30, we have Fire the Ohio Players, okay. 29,. Jackie Blue, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. 28,. Angie Baby, helen Reddy. 27, fight the Power, part 1, the Isley Brothers, part 1. 26, wasted Days and Wasted Nights, freddie Fender. 25, boogie on Reggae Woman, stevie Wonder. 24, love Won't Let Me Wait, major Harris. I don't even know what that one is. Yeah, that one's tough for me to remember. 23, why Can't we Be Friends? War 22,. Lady Marmalade LaBelle and 21,. The Hustle Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony.

Speaker 4 15:06

Which is not even a song, it's music.

Speaker 3 15:09

But it's a song. It just doesn't have real lyrics. What about Do the Hustle? What a wonder.

Speaker 4 15:18

I wonder how long it took him to write that song.

Speaker 3 15:21

Okay, it's not about that, it's. Where do I put these lyrics in the song See?

Speaker 4 15:26

Right in the song.

Speaker 3 15:27

See, it's all about placement, tom. You're missing the point. He had to listen to that time. Where am I going to put this? Do the hustle? See? You hear it now it sounds easy, but you know, poor guy back then was probably at the beginning and it just all fucked up.

Speaker 4 15:44

Woke up in his shag carpet with pot seeds all around him. He just didn't know.

Speaker 3 15:50

Well, what about wasted days and wasted nights?

Speaker 4 15:52

Oh, Freddy.

Speaker 3 15:53

Wasted days and wasted nights.

Speaker 4 15:55

Sounded like Freddy sang it in a helicopter With Squeak and Troy. I wonder if he got to sit in the seat or if he was in a lap.

Speaker 3 16:05

I'm sure Squeak still got thrown overboard.

Speaker 4 16:07

Anyway, I'm sure he didn't get the ride shotgun Freddie Fender.

Speaker 3 16:10

Freddie Fender Wasted days. He had a lot of hits back in the 70s. He had two in 75.

Speaker 4 16:16

He did. He had two in 75. We'll get to that one.

Speaker 3 16:23

Yeah, I'm just saying let's not. I'm saying he has a lot of songs Not making fun of Freddy at all.

Speaker 4 16:28

No, no, we're not Freddy.

Speaker 3 16:32

All right, what about Jackie Blue? Jackie Blue, ozark Mountain Daredevils, I'll say one thing. That's a very cool name.

Speaker 4 16:41

They had to think about that a while. Had to.

Speaker 3 16:45

I wonder if they were from the Ozarks.

Speaker 4 16:47

I wonder if they were from the mountains and I wonder if they were daredevils. See, these are things we ought to know.

Speaker 3 16:53

We should have dug deep into that.

Speaker 4 16:56

Anyway, that's another podcast.

Speaker 3 16:59

Fire. I kind of like fire from the Ohio Players, even though it's just fire.

Speaker 4 17:04

Earth, wind and fire. No, no Fire.

Speaker 3 17:06

Oh, fire From the Ohio Players oh the Ohio. Players, the group that brought us Rollercoaster. I love Rollercoaster, rollercoaster.

Speaker 2 17:16

Anyways.

Speaker 3 17:16

Anyways, that was your songs from 30 to 21.

Speaker 4 17:20

Yeah, they get better.

Speaker 3 17:24

Not bad. Some of them could be placed higher.

Top 40 Songs: Spots 20-11

Speaker 3 17:26

They could have placed higher, not placed at all In my opinion, but anyways, we're doing the top 40. This is what we're doing, alright, from number 20. Pick up the pieces. The Average White Band, 19. At 17, janice, Ian, 18. He Doesn't Love you Like I Love you, tony Orlando and Don 17,. Hey, won't you Play another? Somebody Does Somebody Wrong song? Bj Thomas 16, the Ballroom Blitz, sweet 15, blackwater, the Doobie Brothers 14, kung Fu Fighting, carl Douglas 13, loving you, minnie Riperton, 12, best of my Love, the Eagles and number 11, jive Talkin', the Bee Gees. All right, tom, pick up the pieces by a group called the Average White Band. Hmm, why are they average and why do they have to put white in there?

Speaker 4 18:20

Right, right. Well, we're not average.

Speaker 3 18:24

Well, that band is yeah right.

Speaker 4 18:25

Well, we're not average. Well, that band is?

Speaker 3 18:28

Yeah, maybe here's the thing. Have you seen the people in the band? Yeah, they're white, not all of them.

Speaker 4 18:33

I know, but the average ones are. That's why they're average. Oh, I get it. I get it now. See, we had to talk that through. That's all that was, we had to talk it out.

Speaker 3 18:44

Okay, gotcha Next, alright of course I love Ballroom Blitz. I'll be discussing that later in another segment. Ballroom Blitz is one of my favorites Ballroom Blitz. I noticed we got Squeaks Kung Fu fighting on here. Yeah, why is that? Squeaks, squeaks. Did that like three episodes ago?

Speaker 4 19:04

Yeah, he flipped out about everybody wouldn't go. Well, the song purely says everybody was A kung fu fighting. Well, to assume that some of us can kung fu fight, because I could get my ass whooped thinking that- Right Now.

Speaker 3 19:21

What about Best of my Love from the Eagles? That's a good song which brings me to a story. J from the Eagles, that's a good song which brings me to a story Jive Talkin'. That's actually, I think, jive Talkin'. That's actually before Saturday Night Fever, right? So pre-disco, yes, pre-disco, which is kind of leading up to that.

Speaker 4 19:35

Can we go backwards one?

Speaker 3 19:37

Best of my Love. Yeah, okay, eagles that kind of gives me a little story okay, as long as you weren't going to say a little uh, anyways, go ahead no, back when this song came out right, I was working.

Speaker 4 19:50

I was like eight, nine years old and I was working on a farm. My, my, we grew up out in the west, where everybody had farms nothing right, everybody had farms.

Speaker 4 20:03

But when I was eight, most kids were playing baseball and blah, blah, blah. I was on a combine and this song was on a cassette tape in this combine, when I was listening to it, when the hired hand was letting me learn how to do all the buttons and everything for the combine, this song was playing the Eagles Greatest Hits. That's how I remember the song and that's what brings me back to is, in that combine, learning how, to you know, put a handful of wheat in your mouth.

Speaker 3 20:42

So not when the song came out.

Speaker 4 20:44

No, no, no, but the song itself. That's where the song came out. No, no, no, but the song itself. That's where you remember the song, right, right.

Speaker 3 20:49

Later on, not 1975.

Speaker 4 20:51

I wasn't driving a combine at eight years old. Yeah, sorry, sorry, but this song, when I was eight years old, came out and it reminded me of the time I learned how to drive my first combine.

Speaker 3 21:05

I'll be honest, tom. Probably the Eagles Greatest Hits was the first time I really listened to the Eagles. Yeah, that was pretty good, it wasn't anything before I mean, I'm sure I've heard the songs, but it was that whole Eagles Greatest Hits.

Speaker 4 21:17

Well, because we all now, I remember hearing had the little skull on, yeah, but I remember hearing had the little skull on, yeah, but I remember Silver Thread and Golden Needles. Oh shit, I have no idea. No, wait a minute, it's a woman. The Eagles played for Linda Ronstadt.

Speaker 3 21:36

Linda.

Speaker 4 21:37

Ronstadt. Now I remember when I was little and listening to Linda Ronstadt in the back seat of, once again, my sister's car traveling here and there silver hair and golden needles and then I learned later on that her band went to their own and they were the Eagles, I think she inspired from the story. Yeah, she told them Because.

Speaker 3 22:00

I've read everything. You guys should start your own band.

Speaker 4 22:02

Yeah, you should.

Speaker 3 22:03

And then, unfortunately, you hear nowadays, well, of course, like phrase climb, but you hear how him and Don Henley are pricks in real life. Yeah, kind of sad to know that it is. Well, that's stories anyways. Yeah, music, but anyways alright. So we got that. Let's see Jive Talking like I said, another song like Blackwater. The said another song like Blackwater, the Doobie Brothers. I'm not going to lie, I thought that was always a weird song from Blackwater.

Top 10 Songs of 1975

Speaker 3 22:28

I mean the song itself, the music I like. Oh, blackwater, come on, man, it's as bad as I love that dirty water of Botanama anyways, moving on, all right. So 10 to 1, now we got number 10,. Thank God I'm a Country Boy, john Denver. Wow. Number 9,. One of these Nights, the Eagles, eagles again. 8, laughter in the Rain, neil Sadaka. 7, fame, david Bowie. 6, shining Star Earth, wind and Fire. 5, my Eyes Adored you, frankie Valli. Four, the Next Teardrop Falls, and that's Freddie.

Speaker 3 23:08

Fender again, philadelphia Freedom Elton John at number three, rhinestone Cowboy, glen Campbell at number two and at number one, love Will Keep Us Together, the Captain and Tennille, yeah, love. Now most of those songs. I've got to say a lot of songs. I've got to say a lot of them. I think I like pretty much all of them.

Speaker 4 23:24

Yeah, they were all classics.

Speaker 3 23:26

I guess that's a reason they're 1 to 10. Yeah, pretty much Basically, I guess favorites out of there that I would say would be Love Will Keep Us Together. That's a shit. I remember being my first girlfriend and she would play that yeah, 7th grade dude Right. We didn't last long.

Speaker 4 23:44

So love, don't keep us together yeah, the thank god I'm a country boy was my brother's favorite song.

Speaker 3 23:51

He'd play it over and over and over in the bedroom next to ours, right, so I could hear that all the time and laugh on the farm I can tell you a lot of these songs I remember, probably from then, but then has like famed no, because I got into rock more when I was a little older, Right right, right, right you know I'm like if I heard it it was like, yeah, but shining star, I'll be telling you right now, I'm blown away that it's that stood the test of time.

Speaker 3 24:19

That song 75, I'm like this is something, see, devon will get into that too.

Speaker 4 24:25

I guarantee it, because it's still a great song.

Speaker 3 24:27

If you hear what Devon listens to, it's funny. He's listening to Cameo.

Speaker 4 24:32

Kool-Aid Gang. He's got an old soul. Yes, he does. He was raised with one.

Speaker 3 24:40

Yes, so anyway, he's got good taste in music. Heck yeah, we won't hold it against you that your favorite artist is Michael Jackson. No, just kidding, but anyways, that's the top 40 of the year, top 40 of 1975. So what did you think? I thought they were great songs and, like I said again, 1 to 10. Most of those ring a bell and I actually enjoy all of them. Philadelphia Freedom Elton John Rhinestone Cowboy was a big song. Yeah, I've said you couldn't go by any radio station without hearing that song your basic radio stations.

Speaker 4 25:19

Top 40s KOMA, oklahoma City, 100,000 watts. America's Top 40s.

Speaker 3 25:25

K-O-M-A Oklahoma. City 100,000 watts, america's top 40. Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:29

I'm Casey Kasem, and here's your top 40. No, that's Chevy Chase, I know.

Pip and Squeak's Photo Shoot Drama

Speaker 3 25:35

But anyways, Tom, I think now's a good time to let the guys who think they're the stars now all of a sudden, oh my goodness, are we going to get a? Little into themselves. Oh no, but clean up the snacks, don't make a mess anyways. But folks, we'll be back right after this segment, yep, anyway, hey, what Great.

Speaker 1 25:57

What a great time I had today getting our picture taken. Yeah, man, I'm not a very good picture taker. No, you could have smiled a little bit. Smile, yeah, why? Show the people you enjoy being here. What people? The people that it was me and you, the people that are going to listen to us this is the first time they're going to see us. You don't make a very good first impression. Squeak, people listen to us. Yeah, you know. You could have put the beer down. No, wait, a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why would I put the beer down? Because we're taking it in one second. Squeak. All you had to do was put the beer down, get our picture taken, you know, and you could have cleaned up all the snacks.

Speaker 1 26:55

Do you realize what happened to Tokyo in one second? Yes, the bus. Yeah, well, are you? Do you think we're all gonna disappear? They did. Oh, not us. We're in the studio. Yeah, I'm gonna. This is our big moment, our big moment, yeah, our big moment Of what People are getting to see. Pip and Squeak. Oh, yeah, see Me too. Yeah, see Me too. Yeah, see, well, I'm a little upset. Okay, I don't want to bring it up, but you embarrassed me. How did I embarrass you? Okay, we had a great photo shoot that I dressed up for. That's what I want to talk to you about.

Speaker 1 27:47

My tie, my hat, my blazer, your socks, ah, squeak, I did that just for you, just for me. I knew you loved that look. Oh, so you pretended to be stupid, to impress me, not to impress you, to make you smile, not to impress you, to make you smile. Well, you sure made me look smarter. Yeah, you look really smart with that shirt halfway up your belly. Well, you know what? You just crawled out of a dumpster. Well, okay, maybe. Maybe Are you going to blame Troy for the turbulence? No, no, maybe. Maybe Are you going to blame Troy for the turbulence? No, no, no, no. Maybe I did come out of a dumpster. Well, I was a prom night dumpster baby. That's nothing to be proud of, sweet, it's not? No, well, at least we got invited to the prom. Who got invited to the prom? Who got invited to the prom? Our moms? We just didn't make it. We got to the dumpster and then that was it. That's a very sad story, squeak. Well, only, if you think about it, sad.

Speaker 1 29:06

Now I want to ask you Do you have anything nice to wear at all? Yeah, and you decided to wear some frumpy shorts and a too small of a t-shirt. Okay, first off, if I would have been told that there was going to be cameras, I would have slicked up. When people tell you, hey, we're going to get our picture taken, what do you think Someone's going to be there with their iPhone? No, I thought we were going to get dates. Dates, yeah. What do you mean dates for?

Speaker 1 29:41

That's usually what happens when I get my picture taken. Sir, can you drop your trousers and we will take a couple shots and put it out there. We're not doing those kind of pictures. Oh, that wasn't the kind, it wasn't. No, this was to show Mike and Tom. Give them a picture of us so they can show the people. So Mike and Tom are into porno? No, no, no, didn't say that either. Oh, no, no, once again, you're hearing what you want Squeak. You said they wanted to take a picture naked. No, no one said anything about being naked. You're hearing naked for some reason. Sorry, there's no porn, no porn at all. No porn, no porn, not here. Well, there's no porn. Yeah, you're right, there is no porn.

Speaker 1 30:31

So did you come in with Troy today? Yes, and, and what? Well, how did the ride go? It was a little choppy. Were you in the helicopter? Were you hanging from the helicopter? I don't hang from the helicopter, oh, again. Do you sit in his lap? No, no, again. I only sit in one person's lap and that's Santa Claus. That's right, okay, alright.

Speaker 1 31:01

So not Troy, not Troy. Yeah, me and him are just buddies. Butt buddies, nope, no, no, not butt buddies. Butt buddies, nope, no, no, not butt buddies. Well, what kind of buddies we're? Just acquaintances.

Speaker 1 31:16

Oh, and them big words you try to use every week? Oh, big words, acquaintances. I had to study that one a minute. Was it a spectacular drive-in? Yeah, it was pretty fun. Would you say it was spectacular? I would say you're trying to trip me up with these great big old frickin' words. No, it was tubalonica-ker. Oh, oh, yeah, tubalonica-ker, say that one. Yeah, tubulonica-ker, say that one. I don't even know what you're trying to say. Squeak, I'm trying to say it was tubonicular. Oh, tubular. No, why would you say you can't even say it. I don't want to say it because it's not even a damn word.

Speaker 1 32:07

Well, what about this? Spack, tickle, tickle, lure? Hey, can you be careful with that donut? You're getting cinnamon all over my jacket. Well, cinnamon, whatever. You want to say them big words again. Maybe you should wipe your hands.

Speaker 1 32:25

How about brown sugar? Brown sugar, ooh, no, no, no, no, no, that's what semen is Brown sugar? Oh, I know, but why are you getting it all over me? Well, well, if you wouldn't be so close when I ate my semen toast, you're leaning into me. Leaning. My coat is not a napkin. No, I didn't lean into anything, I just fell. Oh, we're not leaning, we're falling.

Speaker 1 33:02

You're falling, falling for who? Falling in love? Oh, okay, elvis, yeah, well, you've heard them guys talking about all that music. It brings me back to my music Falling in love. Your music is all over the place.

Speaker 1 33:21

Squeak, yeah, like Donny Osmond. Donny Osmond, why would you bring him up? Well, because that's what my kind of music is. Donny Osmond, you like Donny Osmond? Why would you bring him up? Well, because that's what my kind of music is. Donny Osmond, you like Donny and Marie, go away, little girl. Oh goodness gracious. Yeah, I'm not supposed to be alone with you. I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock and roll. Well, if you want to go there. But I like the young little girl, go away.

Speaker 1 33:53

Marie, marie Osmond, no, that's his sister. He ain't that way with her. Oh, I thought you liked her. Well, well, you know, there is that one time. Squeak, she wouldn't give you a second look. Well, maybe to laugh at you.

Speaker 1 34:11

That's why there was that one time At Bandcamp. No, no, no, no Bandcamp at all. Teen Magazine. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Mike and Tom have a rule. Anytime you say this one time.

Speaker 1 34:23

Oh well, okay, one time at Bandcamp. Yeah, I opened up Teen Magazine oh, okay, not the way I thought that was gonna go, but alright. And there was Marie Osmond In a centerfold. Only one time she had clothes on, yeah, but only one time. Well, what's the point of that? Well, because all the other times the pages were stuck together, couldn't get them open. I wonder why they were stuck together. Squeak, well, that was another, another story. That's a different situation. We'll save that for another time. You don't have to tell that story either. Okay, yeah, we'd appreciate it if you wouldn't.

Speaker 1 35:05

Fine, I think people have a visual already. A visual? Oh, I hope not, but you know what I mean. They get where you're going, buddy. They get where you're going. Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend? What do you think they'll do with that picture? Huh, they're probably going to paste it all over freaking the internet. You know what I heard? What? This is just a rumor. I heard they're gonna edit somebody out of the picture and put someone different looking in there. What do you mean? I guess there was someone in the picture that doesn't fit right with the image, so they're thinking about using a model. Okay, wait a minute. I didn't say it was you, no, no, I'm just sad because I wanted to be in the picture with you. And if they take you out and put a model in there, well, that's gonna piss me off. But what if they take?

Speaker 2 36:04

you out.

Speaker 1 36:05

Why would they take me out Just saying it's 50-50. No, no, no, yeah, it sure is Okay. Where'd you learn your math? 50-50. Let's look at the picture More like 20-80. Who's got the suit on looks proper and who's drinking a beer? Okay, maybe let's read. Okay, let's readjust the math. Okay, alright, readjust the math. Okay, all right, go ahead. Maybe it's 592. 592? Yeah, five your way and 92 mine. Well, guess the other three? They're dumber than shit. They don't know what they want to vote on. But I'm just saying, if we look at the picture as a whole, what looks off the whole? Yeah, the whole. Yeah, that's what looks off. What looks off on the picture? Yeah, that's what looks off.

Speaker 1 37:00

Maybe the frumpy guy with his t-shirt over his belly no, beer spilt all over. Listen, any boy that's standing around with a beer in his hand's gotta be the leader of the band. He looks miserable, miserable. He looks like he's pissed at the world. Looks like he just told the funniest damn joke in the world. Well, yeah, that would be that handsome guy, that thin one there With two different socks.

Speaker 1 37:28

Who's looking at the socks? You, Evidently You're the only one looking at the socks. Freak, that's the first thing I saw, at least I wear socks. Okay, let's see I'm Okay. They've been doing these music things, 1975.

Speaker 1 37:45

Oh Well, I was only 13 years old. Well, how old do you think I was only 13 years old? Well, how old do you think I was? Look at that Pip. How old's Pip Pip? Yeah, I don't know how old he is, probably 20, 30. So he should be able to pick out two same damn color socks.

Speaker 1 38:07

I, I, yeah, I don't believe in that. You made fun of my socks, so this is what you're gonna get all the time. Well, huh, and you know what? I was complimented on it from people saying Boy, that's pretty smart. Yeah, just who cares what socks, as long as he got socks? Yeah, my wife does that to me all the time. Look it, at least I have socks, okay, well, I'm not going to get jelly donut on my damn socks because I don't have none. Well, I'm not either, because I'm not eating a jelly donut. Well, that's your fault. You look in the picture and all this stuff is yours. No, not all of it. You like that damn chips? Okay, okay, I'll give you that. Well, I had a bag of chips. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're going to give them to me? Yeah, you can have them. Good, okay, fine, thank you. Okay, see, you can get along with me. Yeah, because you're taking my snacks. No, I'm not taking them. You gave them to me, oh, because I feel bad and, on that note, I'm out of here.

Speaker 4 39:21

Why are?

Speaker 1 39:21

you feeling bad about me? I'm gonna go report you to somebody I don't know who yet, but I'm gonna find somebody. Maybe I can get Troy to not take you in next time. The aviation department? Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll do. No, all right, squeak, I'll talk to you next time if I have to. All right.

Speaker 3 39:44

Bye. Well, I guess Squeak wasn't too happy with his little photo shoot.

Speaker 4 39:51

Okay, well, first off, is Squeak ever really happy?

Speaker 3 39:57

No, okay, there we go, there we go. I see he dressed up for the occasion. Yeah, of course, good old Squeak playing Pip for not telling him, which I think everybody pretty much told him.

Speaker 4 40:11

Yeah, yeah, well, and he's going to give him hell about them socks.

Speaker 3 40:17

That's all right. I think that's why Pip is doing it now.

Speaker 4 40:21

I think just a bugging Get under his skin. Yep, yep. But anyways, back to our 1975 journey of music.

1975 Toys and Nostalgia

Speaker 3 40:24

I think that's why Pip is doing it now. I think just a buggy Get under his skin, yep, yep. But anyways, back to our 1975 journey of music. Heck, yeah, you know what I wanted to talk about. Before we get into that, though. Okay, some of the toys that came out in 75. You brought this up before, tom, yeah.

Speaker 4 40:41

I remember toys. I think, it's a good little nostalgia trip to go down. Well, because you've got to figure in 1975 I was in third grade, I was in seventh, okay, I'm not sure what kind of toys you were into. What are you insinuating? But I'm wondering if see, I don't even know if 1975 was the year it came out, but I remember the toy I wanted the most in my mind right now was the Squirmle.

Speaker 3 41:14

I don't even know what the hell that is, don't you have one of those already.

Speaker 4 41:18

Well, it didn't have a string. Oh, okay, this Squirmle was a fuzzy little worm. I remember those stupid things With a fishing line tied to it. Yeah, because you couldn't see the stupid line. Yeah, so you could wrap it around your button on your shirt.

Speaker 2 41:37

Oh, good Lord.

Speaker 4 41:38

Run it through your fingers and it looked real and a squirmle. Everybody real and a squirmle. Everybody freaking wanted a squirmle.

Speaker 3 41:47

What happened to your squirmle? I stole it.

Speaker 4 41:50

What happened to it Out of the store. I had to take it back. My mom found out I stole it.

Speaker 3 41:57

They weren't even that expensive.

Speaker 4 41:59

I didn't have that kind of money.

Speaker 3 42:01

I was a kid what happened to mowing lawns At eight? Why not? That's good for you.

Speaker 4 42:07

I would have chopped my foot off. I didn't even know how to pull a string back then.

Speaker 3 42:14

Well, here's a couple of the top seven. I guess that were out at the time. Yeah, all right. Number one we have the Pet Rock.

Speaker 4 42:26

I do remember the Pet Rock and I still to this day, think that's the dumbest thing ever. Yep, my mom, she made me get rid of mine.

Speaker 3 42:31

I'm surprised your mom didn't just paint a rock and said hey, I bought you this.

Speaker 4 42:35

No, she made me get rid of it because it kept peeing on the carpet.

Speaker 3 42:40

You know it doesn't really pee right, it's a rock. It was a pet, yeah, but it was a rock.

Speaker 2 42:48

But if you gave it too much water?

Speaker 4 42:50

Oh, I am a highland I got you.

Speaker 3 42:56

Okay, here's one that I do remember, and my friend Sean had one. Of course, my mom didn't buy me one Evel Knievel's Stunt Cycle, yeah those were cool, and there's friend Sean had one.

Speaker 4 43:04

Of course my mom didn't buy me one, evel.

Speaker 3 43:05

Knievel Stunt Cycle. Oh yeah, those were cool and there's videos. Now on YouTube there's a guy that actually has one. He does all kinds of tricks with it.

Speaker 4 43:11

Yep, yep, it's pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 43:15

Check that guy out on YouTube Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle. Yeah, those were awesome. Alright, play People, later known as Playmobile, playmobile Playmobile, first introduced in the US in 75, small plastic figures with interchangeable accessories and vehicles Designed to spark imaginative play.

Speaker 4 43:37

Kind of sounds like I don't know what the hell that is Legos.

Speaker 3 43:40

See, at this age, Legos? Yeah, it kind of does sound like that. Okay, number four we have Big Jim's Sports Camper. Oh yeah, Camper vehicle.

Speaker 4 43:49

He was our coach, big Jim. Yeah, did he own a?

Speaker 3 43:53

camper.

Speaker 4 43:54

He owned a camera.

Speaker 3 43:56

See, this is a camper vehicle for the Big Jim Action Figure Line.

Speaker 4 43:59

Yeah, that was him he had like fishing rods and a fold-out grill.

Speaker 3 44:02

Hey, figure line. Yeah, that was him, like fishing rods and a fold-out grill.

Speaker 4 44:04

Hey, big Jim sounds alright. Yeah, it was fold-out alright, but there was no grill involved. No, no, and Big Jim had a camper.

Speaker 3 44:12

Oh, we're back to your coach.

Speaker 4 44:14

Yeah, let's just go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 44:16

Okay, let's go to Baby Alive. Yes, my sister had Baby Alive. You had a sister, that's all I know. I got two sisters. I had six. Yeah, we know, we know you're a family of 50. Yeah, what are you Mormons? Nope, all right. Number six Weebles, weebles, wobble, but they don't fall down.

Speaker 4 44:38

They did fall down? No, they don't. They bounce right back up, yeah down.

Speaker 3 44:41

No, they don't, they bounce right back up. Yeah, well, there you go Round bottomed figures that would always stand back up and push.

Speaker 4 44:50

See they don't get pushed around too easy. They had like little police and firemen and they had all of them.

Speaker 3 44:53

They all had the same kind of body.

Speaker 4 44:55

Yeah, and they all rode this little thing and they weebled and wobbled. Yeah, you turn it on and it was magnetic, but they never fell down.

Speaker 3 45:04

No, never Okay. Last but not least, the green machine.

Speaker 2 45:08

Wasn't that like a version of the?

Speaker 3 45:09

big wheel. Yeah.

Speaker 4 45:13

You had that gear shifter thing. The power slides. Yeah, that was awesome. My buddy had one. I tore the shit out of it.

Speaker 3 45:21

That was your first introduction to drifting. My buddy had one. I tore the shit out of it. That was your first introduction to drifting.

Speaker 4 45:24

No, my first introduction to tearing the kids across the street, shit up and going home and going to bed sleeping, well, while they cried Mommy, my shit's torn up. Well, you shouldn't have let the neighbor kid have it. You shouldn't have let Thomas play with your shit. Exactly, see. See, we get it. Why didn't they? Now it's all my fault, but sorry, there you go Well, at least you apologize.

Speaker 3 45:48

Now Might be like 50 years too late, but hey, whatever.

Speaker 4 45:54

I don't even know where they are.

Speaker 3 45:56

All right, so we're going to move back into our music now. Music, music.

Speaker 4 46:00

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 46:02

Music.

Speaker 4 46:03

Love music.

Speaker 3 46:05

What do you love about music?

Speaker 4 46:07

It's universal language, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 46:12

It is universal Alright. First song, tom, you and I both picked out. We both like Bohemian Rhapsody.

Spotlighting Bohemian Rhapsody

Speaker 4 46:19

Queen. Wow, I gotta tell you, the reason this song means a lot to me is this is the first song I actually remember hearing in a rock kind of environment. I didn't really know what rock was until this song started real slow. Everybody was used to it. Then it got built up and then all of a sudden bam. Yeah.

Speaker 3 46:54

Me at 13,. Of course, get into rock music more Right.

Speaker 4 46:58

This song blew me away, yeah this was a good song To me in my head and listen it does it sounds like a play Like.

Speaker 3 47:03

This was a good song To me in my head and listen it does it sounds like a play Like basically it's what it is, yeah, living out something, but then when that uh, it drops into that rock, it just also that hits hard and what also hits hard, and that was you haven't heard, you never heard anything like that back then. No, because, and here's why I think- One of the longest songs on the radio. So let me read a little background here.

Speaker 4 47:26

Yeah, let's hear what he said.

Speaker 3 47:28

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 75 on their album A Night at the Opera, is a groundbreaking and genre-defying rock epic. Written by Freddie Mercury, the song blends elements of ballad opera, hard rock and progressive rock into a six-minute masterpiece with no traditional chorus. The lyrics are mysterious and dramatic, telling the story of a young man who confesses to a murder and grapples with guilt, fate and existential dread. The song structure shifts dramatically from soft piano-led intro into a multi-layered operatic section full of surreal imagery and finally to a thunderous rock climax and somber outro. When it was released, many doubted its radio potential, which we just talked about. Right, it became a massive hit and is now considered one of the greatest and most innovative songs in rock history. Freddie Mercury's powerful vocals, brian May's soaring guitar solo and the band's solo experimentation made Bohemian Rhapsody a timeless classic. Right Alright.

Speaker 4 48:22

So what do you think made Bohemian Rhapsody a?

Speaker 3 48:23

timeless, classic, right, all right. So what do you think?

Speaker 4 48:27

Like Bohemian Rhapsody.

Speaker 3 48:29

Good song.

Speaker 4 48:30

Great song.

Speaker 3 48:31

Excellent song. What memories do you have of this song? First memories Doesn't mean when it first came out, when you first, first heard the song, when.

Speaker 4 48:41

I first, first, remembered the song. I had a girlfriend that had a Gremlin and I was in the back seat. So you had a real-life Wayne's World. Not really, it was a real-life Gremlin, but I didn't play hockey or anything.

Speaker 3 49:02

Did you sing Bohemian Rhapsody in the car?

Speaker 4 49:05

No, I didn't sing that in the car, but I just remember the car Like Galileo, galileo, galileo, galileo, figaro, yeah, manicapo.

Speaker 3 49:18

First time hearing this. I've got to admit I was kind of blown away. It was a little different. I remember going what the hell is this?

Speaker 4 49:24

Yeah, it was like slow and then all of a sudden it got rockin'.

Speaker 3 49:28

Rockin'. Wow yeah, and you're just thinking you had this stage show or something in your own head and I'm like, holy crap, very theatrical.

Speaker 4 49:37

Very, very much. So it took you back to like Bugs Bunny when you were at the opera.

Speaker 3 49:43

I think I keep bringing up the jukebox in school in junior high.

Speaker 4 49:49

I think this was also on that jukebox. It has to have been Dr Hook. It has to have been. This is a classic. This is one of the greatest songs of 1975, in my opinion.

Speaker 3 50:00

It is an awesome song, Tom, but I guess from there we'll go on to what about yours? I mean, that was both of ours. We both have some different ones. So what else do you have?

Speaker 4 50:12

I have, well, I've got. You know, went a country way.

Speaker 2 50:18

Right.

Speaker 4 50:20

And a lot of people who know me know that my country stuff is Ronnie Millsap. Hold that thought for a minute, and what?

Speaker 3 50:35

song.

Speaker 4 50:37

This one is Daydreams About Night Things, and I think what brings me to Ronnieonnie milsap is when I was young, I grew up in a small town everybody knows out in the midwest and I was walking one day and about four blocks away from where I lived there was a huge bus in front of the yard Right, and on the front of the bus it said Ronnie Millsap.

Speaker 4 51:11

Oh tour bus, tour bus Shit. So evidently his driver actually his driver had family there in Atwood and that's where I first saw the bus and as an eight-year-old kid I'm like wow, oh yeah, that's cool, yeah. And they let me come on and look in this bus and it was just amazing. So now I knew who Ronnie Millsap was. Oh, so you didn't then Not at that point.

Speaker 3 51:41

So that's what made you more of a fan.

Speaker 4 51:43

Yeah, yeah, that's how it usually goes.

Speaker 3 51:45

Yeah.

Speaker 4 51:46

And then, when I got married and had my own money and everything, every time Ronnie Millsap came out. As a matter of fact, my very first date with my wife, I took her to a Kenny.

Speaker 2 51:57

Rogers.

Speaker 4 51:58

Yep, Some other woman. We went to a Kenny Rogers, Ronnie Millsap and Oak Ridge Boys. Oh, okay. And Andy Andrews was a comedian and he opened up for all of them. Okay, alright, that was our very first date.

Speaker 3 52:15

I know who Ronnie Millsap is because we talked about one of my favorite songs. I've never heard this one. Yeah, Ronnie Millsap is a great singer, I'll admit it, not on my radar.

Speaker 4 52:28

I'm not saying the song sucks, I just never heard it. Right right, a lot of people don't know Ronnie does like he did a version of Collagia.

Speaker 3 52:36

Right.

Speaker 4 52:37

That was just awesome. It was a good song.

Speaker 3 52:40

What the hell is that?

Speaker 4 52:41

Collagia. Oh, okay, I it was a good song. What the?

Speaker 3 52:44

hell, is that Collage? Oh, okay, I do know that song, now that you attempt to sing it.

Speaker 4 52:48

Yeah, poor old Indian Head, indian Head, yeah yeah, he was an Indian Head outside of a store. Did you not ever hear the song? Listen to it no yeah.

Speaker 3 53:00

You know me with lyrics.

Speaker 4 53:01

Anyways, yeah, collage, he goes through this all the time with the lyrics Indian wooden head, and he had a. Across the road there was a lady Indian statue and yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 53:13

Is that what that song's all about? Yeah, oh shit.

Speaker 4 53:15

All right then.

Speaker 3 53:18

All right, so my next song Cool Is Sweet Ballroom Blitz.

Speaker 4 53:25

Sweet Ballroom.

Speaker 3 53:29

Blitz. Do you know the song Tom Ballroom Blitz? You do know the song, right yeah?

Speaker 4 53:35

That is the song, isn't it?

Speaker 3 53:36

I'm going to play a. This is going to be a different studio track than people used to listen to. Okay, I mean, everybody knows that intro.

Speaker 4 53:46

Yeah, Wayne's World.

Speaker 3 53:51

There you go, Anyways, growing up like we talked about a little, really last time, yep, once I heard this one.

Speaker 4 54:00

Yeah, this is a good one.

Speaker 3 54:01

But you know, it's that glam rock time in the 70s. I just like the sound of the band. To me this was like I said when I was really. To me this was heavy At that age. This is heavy. That's what I'm thinking. Even though you had Aerosmith out Zeppelin, I guess it was different. And a lot of people when I was listening to this were like, oh, kiss is better. Yeah, probably Kiss was better, but I was just a Right, I guess I wanted to be different.

Speaker 3 54:29

Yeah, that's what it was about, but I loved the suite I love and unfortunately pretty much all of them are dead now, except for one of them.

Speaker 4 54:37

Yeah.

Speaker 3 54:37

That's just the way it is. You know our idols, our rock idols, our music idols. You know, when we were younger, they were older. That's just the way it is, yep exactly you try to look for something different now. But now the suite was definitely and to this day, tom, I still have Desolation Boulevard CD in my truck.

Speaker 4 54:56

There you go, there you go.

Speaker 3 54:58

So what about your next one, Tom?

Mike and Tom's Favorite Songs of 1975

Speaker 4 55:00

My next one is going to be Pink Floyd. Ah, which one, tom. I Wish you Were here.

Speaker 3 55:08

Pink Floyd Wish you Were here. Yeah, that's Good song.

Speaker 4 55:11

Good album. Actually. I enjoy that song and I think what really makes it hit home with me is when I was eight and my dad I mean he wasn't around a lot when I was little, right but this song, when I first heard it, that's the first thing I thought of is I wish you were here. I wish you were here and that song, just the mellow music, just based me and it put me in a level of I don't know. It was just different, right For a situation I was in at that time and it just brings back some memories.

Speaker 3 55:58

Well, that sounds sad though, Tom. Well it is. I'm sorry to hear that's a crappy memory. It's not really a crappy memory.

Speaker 4 56:04

It's a great memory because later on in life my dad changed and became part. It was a lot different, but when I was little, yeah, I wish he was there and he eventually was, so it's like the song came true for me. So it was a great song. It's a whole lot of part of my childhood.

Speaker 3 56:27

Yeah, I guess I love that song. Oh, at least you have some good memories of it.

Speaker 4 56:32

Yeah, pink Floyd was great. I enjoyed all of their stuff. A lot of theirs. Not all, not all. Let me go back. I'm the old Pink Floyd.

Speaker 3 56:46

The newer stuff is okay. There wasn't much new, but I know what you mean.

Speaker 4 56:47

After, a certain time. There was a time.

Speaker 3 56:55

Yeah, good song. I love that song Kind of puts you in that state of mind, it does.

Speaker 4 57:02

Yeah. All right, yeah, that's a good song.

Speaker 3 57:06

My next one is we just talked about the band is Kiss yeah, rock and roll all night party every day.

Speaker 4 57:17

I remember that. Now I want to rock and roll until about nine and party at about noon.

Speaker 3 57:30

Yeah. So anyways, rock and roll all night. Party every day, another good song. Yeah, I know you were a big Kiss fan growing up. I was. I'm sure we both have memories from this. Oh yeah, I'm sure we both have memories from this. I mean, I think my first was Kiss Alive.

Speaker 4 57:47

Just seeing that album cover yeah, with all the blood and everything that was my first, then I went backwards and then Alive 2 well, that came up, but I went backwards now I had.

Speaker 3 57:59

What's this?

Speaker 4 57:59

Dressed to Kill. That was after, but you know, the first Kiss album Dressed to Kill.

Speaker 3 58:03

Oh, dressed to Kill, yeah, that was after, right, but you know the first Kiss album, then Dressed to Kill, but shit, we had Black Diamond on those older ones.

Speaker 4 58:11

Black Diamond.

Speaker 3 58:13

Kiss Strutter, but that was before but yeah. Kiss. I didn't get into them until basically, not this album but Kiss Alive. So that's my first Right. The next year, obviously probably 76 that we'll be talking about.

Speaker 4 58:27

Right, exactly, that's when I first heard this song Rock and roll all night 77 is probably when I kicked into Kiss real hard. But yeah, I can understand why you guys hit it early.

Speaker 3 58:41

They had some great stuff, like I said, friends in school were like oh, this is where it's at and.

Speaker 4 58:45

I was like oh yeah.

Speaker 3 58:47

Kiss was kick-ass back then. Yeah, yeah, what about you? Any more for you, or was that it? No, I got one more.

Speaker 4 58:54

You got one more. They say he is the gentle giant. Who would that be? Tom Don Williams Came out with a huge song that means quite a bit to me. What's the name it's called? You're my Best Friend and I had a best friend that died in a car accident about the same time this song came out. Tom, why are all?

Speaker 4 59:21

your songs kind of sad I don't know, but they just you know. That's what music does. It brings back memories and this is a good memory to me because I mean, we listened to this a lot, a lot, and he was my best friend. That sucks, but no, I mean, he no. But how old? Oh well, he was already grown, he was a police officer.

Speaker 3 59:45

Okay.

Speaker 4 59:46

And he died trying to save some kids from drowning, and that's just the way it was, I mean. But he was just an amazing guy, went to school with him and knew him growing up and this song really captivates what he was to me and Don Williams, one of the best country singers in the world other than Merle Haggard.

Speaker 3 1:00:11

I have to admit, I've never heard of him either, Tom.

Speaker 4 1:00:14

You've never heard of Don Williams, nope, nah, well, and that's the genre you grow up with and fortunately I had all that background.

Speaker 3 1:00:23

My parents probably played. It just didn't catch with me, right, because I heard more Waylon Jennings. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know Merle Haggard.

Speaker 4 1:00:30

Right which he is in there for Craig.

Speaker 3 1:00:35

So I probably just heard it and just assumed it was one of them.

Speaker 4 1:00:38

Right, right. So yeah, but this is one of the better songs in my time.

Speaker 3 1:00:45

Oh, it sounds like a very nice song.

Speaker 4 1:00:48

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:00:49

See, they don't write songs like this anymore. No, they don't.

Speaker 4 1:00:52

Well, it's about sexual and it's all about sex.

Speaker 3 1:00:56

Well, it doesn't matter. The songs themselves are different now.

Speaker 4 1:01:00

Everything is cookie cutter yeah yeah, it's just like the same thing. Or you get country, oh, no it's pop country.

Speaker 3 1:01:07

No, it's rap country.

Speaker 4 1:01:10

Or bluegrass rap yeah bluegrass, yeah the bluegrass rap.

Speaker 3 1:01:15

Get back to that.

Speaker 4 1:01:15

Yeah, what comes then? Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:01:18

Bluegrass rap.

Speaker 4 1:01:19

But yeah, those were my songs this week.

Speaker 3 1:01:22

I got one. I'm not going to go deep into it, yeah what's up?

Speaker 3 1:01:27

Led Zeppelin's Cashmere. Oh yeah, all right. So when that came out I was totally impressed, because the first time I heard it I was listening to the Beatles. I Am the Walrus, okay, and that's a freaky song in itself. Cuckoo, cuckoo, chew, exactly. So just to throw it out there, remember the, you know, it pans out, the song fades out. All of a sudden there's this transition. I go well, what's this? Well, it transitioned right into Cashmere, first time I ever heard it. And of course, back then, suck, you got a radio. You can't see who it is. You know, I had to figure it out after a while, I think maybe at the end of the song.

Speaker 4 1:02:02

The guy probably said it, so I do Right, right right.

Speaker 3 1:02:03

I just remember getting blown away by like, oh, that fit right into it. Here I am thinking is that a Beatles continuation? Nope, different singer Sounds like the guy from Led Zeppelin. Sure as shit. That's what it was.

Speaker 2 1:02:14

But I just wanted to add that in I believe that was off.

Speaker 3 1:02:16

Physical graffiti.

Speaker 4 1:02:19

But anyway, well, you know how you said it sounded weird and you know it was kind of scary. I remember listening to Tusk by Fleetwood Mac for the very first time. All I could see was a bunch of witches dancing around casting spells on me. I think I'm like ah turn it off, turn it off. So yeah, that was weird, that was weird.

Speaker 3 1:02:47

But that's our. That pretty much ends our musical journey, I think.

Speaker 4 1:02:52

Yeah, we had a journey today, 75. Yeah, 75.

Speaker 3 1:02:55

Great year Next year, I mean next year, next week or no, doing it by week, I keep forgetting. We'll be talking about 76. 76 is the next one. Now we're starting to get into not that I don't like the music we've talked about, there are some good memories but 76, now for me. I'm going to be at that age, I'll be 15. I mean 14. Yeah, so getting up to my age, where I'm in junior high, we're all going to wear a condom and everything.

Speaker 4 1:03:24

Make sure we're good Condoms. Well, you're 15.

Speaker 3 1:03:30

I'll be 14. We don't want anything on us, Anyway. Any last words.

Speaker 4 1:03:39

Man, I am so psyched about this music stuff.

Speaker 3 1:03:43

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Speaker 4 1:04:01

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Speaker 3 1:04:05

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Speaker 4 1:04:06

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Speaker 3 1:04:06

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Speaker 4 1:04:14

We have a new logo coming out and we finally, finally got the little guys To come in for a video shoot. And there we go, we have a picture of Pip and Squeak. Yes, so be sure We'll be displaying that. Check that out, yeah, but in the meantime, we always want to thank God for the gift of Gab.

Speaker 3 1:04:38

Everyone, we appreciate you listening. Take care, god bless Later. Everyone, we appreciate you listening. Take care, god bless Later.

Speaker 2 1:04:49

Well, folks, that's all the time we've got for today on the MT Alternative, the only podcast where tangents are mandatory and facts are loosely interpreted. Next week, mike and Tom will be diving into the year 1976. Yes, the year after Disco should have died, but before they figured out how to use hair product responsibly, thank you, and squeak will also be back, because apparently someone found the cage door open again. So prepare your ears for more squawking, squeaking and unsolicited opinions from creatures who barely have a grasp on human logic. Until then, I've been, daniel, your reluctant guide through this audio obstacle course. Stay curious, stay cynical and please, whatever you do, don't let Mike and Tom sing on air again. We only just paid off the last lawsuit. Good night or good luck, honestly, whichever applies. We'll see you next time you.