Remember when you first heard "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys and felt like you could conquer the world? Or perhaps it was the soulful chords of The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" that marked a momentous summer. We delve into how these tunes weave through the tapestry of our personal histories and the broader cultural zeitgeist, creating a shared rhythm to which we can all nod our heads. Whether it's recalling The Big Game party or musing over the unexpected ways music connects us across genres, we're exploring the soundtrack of our lives.
Yet, it's not just the past hits we're tuned into. With the season of love upon us, we've brought in a special guest from MTN Matchmaking, Maureen Tara Nelson, to serenade us with the sweet notes of romance. She shares the secrets to finding love, and for those already entwined, how to make your relationship resonate with meaning. As we reflect on Meatloaf's unforgettable ballads and the power of a well-chosen gift, it's clear that music and love share a duet in the heart. Whether you're wooing a new flame with thoughtful presents or reigniting an old spark, let our musical journey accompany your romantic escapades.
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Remember when you first heard "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys and felt like you could conquer the world? Or perhaps it was the soulful chords of The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" that marked a momentous summer. We delve into how these tunes weave through the tapestry of our personal histories and the broader cultural zeitgeist, creating a shared rhythm to which we can all nod our heads. Whether it's recalling The Big Game party or musing over the unexpected ways music connects us across genres, we're exploring the soundtrack of our lives.
Yet, it's not just the past hits we're tuned into. With the season of love upon us, we've brought in a special guest from MTN Matchmaking, Maureen Tara Nelson, to serenade us with the sweet notes of romance. She shares the secrets to finding love, and for those already entwined, how to make your relationship resonate with meaning. As we reflect on Meatloaf's unforgettable ballads and the power of a well-chosen gift, it's clear that music and love share a duet in the heart. Whether you're wooing a new flame with thoughtful presents or reigniting an old spark, let our musical journey accompany your romantic escapades.
Please Like and Follow our Facebook page Music In My Shoes.
You can contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail,com.
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Speaker 3:You've got the feeling it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge and you're listening to Music in my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off Episode 13. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So last night I'm at a grocery store and I see the display and it has paper plates and plastic cups with the football big game logo on it, because you can't talk about what? The big game, the end of the year, big professional football game.
Speaker 2:Oh, like when there's two teams left and they play each other in like a type of a bowl.
Speaker 3:Yes, okay, you can't call it what it really is. So they had these logos. And one thing that I have been doing since the 1980s is every year I'm not going to say every single year, but for the most part over the last 40 years when I see these, I buy some and then I'll have a Super Bowl party every seven years or so, not anything in a particular date, but then I bring out all of these past Super Bowl plates and cups and when I serve the food it's all on these past Super Bowl things. I think it's cool. I kind of like it. So I go to pay at the cash register.
Speaker 3:Cashier says to me are you excited about the Super Bowl? I said yeah, I am, I'm looking forward to it. She says who are you rooting for? I said I'd like to see the Kansas City Chiefs win. I think Patrick Mahomes is exciting, like watching them.
Speaker 3:My oldest daughter she went to Texas Tech. Patrick Mahomes was there while she was there. So I just thought this would be really good. So I said to her who are you rooting for? And she said the Kansas City Chiefs. I said how come? She says T-Swizzle. I said T-Swizzle. She says yeah, taylor Swift, I'm rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs because of Taylor Swift. If you think about how much the NFL has changed this year because of all of these people that are Taylor Swift fans, that now follow football that never did before and I hear about it, not just stuff that I read or hear on the news, but people that I know it's just amazing, it's absolutely amazing how she's been able to transform a whole group of people that can care less about football into football fans. Just crazy. That's my take on that. I just thought I would do that and I definitely wanted to say T-Swizzle.
Speaker 2:I know I learned something new and remembered something old.
Speaker 3:That you don't like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2:No, I like Taylor Swift. No, I didn't know that she was T-Swizzle.
Speaker 3:Yes, and, as we mentioned, we talked about her once before. I mean in all honesty, and I'll repeat this again, I do like that. She writes her own songs and plays intramins. I like that. You know it might not be the kind of music that I listen to, but I do appreciate when someone can do something like that. She's been doing it since a very early age. So the end of January 1984, a song, waterfront by Simple Minds was dropping off the UK Top 100 singles. But at the same time joining the Top 100 UK singles was I promised you, a miracle by Simple Minds. You're familiar with those songs, jimmy. Yes, so Waterfront is in my Top 100 songs of all time. I absolutely love that song and it's just such a different song. The bass begins at the beginning of it and then it just comes in His voice. Jim Kerr's voice is just unbelievable. What do you think?
Speaker 2:No, I think that's a good description. I mean, it's a cool song.
Speaker 3:I promise you a miracle. One of the first songs that I was listening to on WLIR. We've talked about them before in the past. That's just another really, really good song and I actually wish that I could kind of sing it right now. But on podcast you're not allowed to play music, you're not allowed to sing the music, you're not allowed to do anything, because then you are setting yourself up for a lawsuit. I think it's silly, but right now I wish that I could sing. I promised you a miracle. I would love to hear you sing it. See, at least one person would love to hear me sing it.
Speaker 3:But those are some good songs. If you've never heard Waterfront before, definitely give it a listen. 40 years it's hard to believe that that much time has gone by January 1994, 30 years ago, sabotage by the Beastie Boys comes out great song. Absolutely love that song. So they play on Saturday Night Live in 1999, which was the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live and they play the song. Maybe 15, 20 seconds into the song Elvis Costello comes on the stage and they kind of stop and then they go into an Elvis Costello song.
Speaker 2:Radio Radio Ha ha ha, you know what that's a reference to right.
Speaker 3:Yes. So for those of you who do not know what the reference is, if we go back to December 1977, the Sex Pistols were scheduled to play Saturday Night Live. I don't really know why they didn't make it, but they didn't make it and Elvis Costello was asked to perform, so he started with another song.
Speaker 2:It was less than zero.
Speaker 3:And he didn't want to do it. I think he said something about no sense in doing this or something to that effect.
Speaker 3:So he didn't want to do this song and he really wanted to do a song called Radio Radio. But they didn't want him to play that because it's not the best song about the radio industry and talks about you know kind of money grabbers and the way everything is and how it works. And they just didn't want to upset the apple cart. So he starts playing a song and boom, not too long into it and he's like no, I'm not gonna do this. And then goes right into Radio Radio. So it's kind of cool in 1999, how the Beastie Boys do Sabotage and then Elvis Costello joins them to do the Radio Radio. That's fun.
Speaker 2:So you know, I actually saw Elvis Costello last night.
Speaker 3:Did you really?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So my friend Jim different Jim, not me and not you had a kind of last minute ticket for me and I was very kind of him and went to the Coca-Cola Roxy up at the battery, you know, next to where the Braves play, and yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was different kind of show for Elvis from other ones that I've seen. He was doing a lot of blues stuff. He was doing a lot of kind of early 60s things.
Speaker 2:Like he said, he found this stack of records in a record store in Texas at some point and the name of the artist had been scratched out. But he looked up based on like the code from the record label on there and figured out that it was this kind of band that was around in 1962 in Texas and didn't really make it out of there, had a bunch of songs that weren't quite hits and he played three of them. So these are songs that nobody remembers and he just found them in a record store with the name scratched out and ends up playing them on his tour. They were fun, you know, it was kind of. They were kind of boogie woogie songs.
Speaker 3:So he shared that with you during the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's pretty interesting, it was yeah, and he played a lot of songs that I don't think the audience recognized because, again, things like that, how would you possibly know those songs? So out of the first 10 songs there were probably eight that I didn't know. But he put in Radio Radio and Mystery Dance. Those were really good. In the early set and watching the detectives he did this really kind of swampy, moody version of it that you know. I'd never heard him do that before and it was pretty cool. He had Charlie Sexton on guitar with him, so Charlie was doing some great stuff. Of course he had great players, really good horn section and let's see other good tunes pump it up. And what's so funny about Peace, love and understanding was his closer.
Speaker 2:So you're on Great song. That's a great song, such a great song.
Speaker 3:So I believe some of the attractions, the original Elvis Costello and the attractions I think some of those guys are still with them.
Speaker 2:I think they're now imposters. They're imposters now.
Speaker 3:I think Pete Thomas the drummer.
Speaker 2:Pete Thomas is still with them.
Speaker 3:And I believe Steve Neve from the Attractions is also in the band.
Speaker 2:Yep. Steve Neve on keyboards.
Speaker 3:And that's pretty cool that even though he has different incarnations of his bands Elvis Costello and whoever it might be but he still has a couple of people from the good old days when he first started there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he plays things from all of his eras and all you know whether it was an Elvis Costello album or an Elvis Costello and the Attractions album or an Elvis Costello and Bert Backerac you know he'll play things for many of his incarnations. Pretty cool.
Speaker 3:It is pretty cool. So I had mentioned my father-in-law had passed away recently and he had left albums for myself and for my daughters to go through and and pick out, ones that we wanted to keep and have for ourselves. So some of the albums were Talking Heads Fear of Music, the Guess who American Woman Led Zeppelin In Through the Outdoor, which had the original brown paper bag around the album cover. Do you remember that, jimmy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the brown paper bag.
Speaker 3:Yes, the brown paper bag, and it just said Led Zeppelin in through the outdoor, kind of stamped on it. I think it was in the left corner. If I remember correctly, t-rex, electric Aurea and then Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue. But then there were some real gems Rolling Stones, sticky Fingers, which was released in April of 71. It's famous for its picture of a pair of pants on the album cover that it actually has a working zipper. So Andy Warhol came up with this idea, but the problem was they didn't think through the whole process, unfortunately and I remember this as a kid seeing the album in record stores where the zipper now caused the records not to be flat and would actually damage the vinyl. So originally they had the working zipper, but then as they went through the process they started to not have a working zipper. It just looked like there was a zipper on it.
Speaker 2:I'm sure those working zipper ones are worth some money.
Speaker 3:I am in the possession of one now, and it's really cool to have it and look and be like man.
Speaker 3:I remember this and I remember all the talk about it. It's a great album. Also, it's got brown sugar. Wild horses Can't you hear me knocking? You got to move dead flowers.
Speaker 3:And if you go online not online if you stream it the Super Deluxe Edition has a show from the University of Leeds in 1971. That's a really, really good show. So if you get an opportunity to listen to that, it is pretty cool. So the Rolling Stones tongue and lips logo it's the first time it made its appearance on an album. On this album and it was designed for the newly formed Rolling Stones records, which started in 1971. Has to be one of the most recognized logos of all time anywhere in this world. You see that you automatically think the Rolling Stones and here in two years, here in 2024, as they're getting ready to go on tour. It's still a big part of what they're doing. Their last album, hackney Diamonds, is the logo just changed up a little bit for the times, but that is something that they still go with.
Speaker 3:Another album, mamas and Papas the Liver, came out in 1967. Great lead off song and dedicated to the one that I love. I love that song. I love that song from the first time I heard it. It starts off kind of low, kind of builds up volume. It kind of goes back and forth throughout the song where it's low and then the chorus is high, then it goes back low and then high, whereas a lot of songs that once they build up they kind of stay there but this kind of goes all over. So they also have a song, creaky Alley, that's on that album which is kind of cool.
Speaker 3:It's like an autobiographical song talking about where the band started, how they got to where they were in 1967. And along the way it mentions some different bands. It mentions the members John Sebastian, love and Spoonfall. It mentions Roger McGuinn from the Birds. It mentions Vary Maguire who did Eve of Destruction. It's a catchy little song. I really enjoy liking it. Vary Maguire, eve of Destruction. If you don't know that song, you should. Real good song Beach Boys Pet Sounds.
Speaker 3:So I have this original album of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds which came out in 1966, considered to be one of the most influential albums of all time, and it was Brian Wilson's attempt at doing the Beatles' Rubber Soul in Beach Boys' fashion. And then it directly affected the Beatles as they began recording Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It had this effect on them that they needed to I'm not going to say try and top the Beach Boys, but they needed to be as good and experiment as much as the Beach Boys did. On this album Some of the songs, wouldn't it Be Nice? Sloop John B, sloop John B.
Speaker 3:I had the 45 when I was a kid. I got it from my aunt who purchased the original one, and it's a traditional song, kind of like, with a Beach Boys flavor. I just would sit there, I wouldn't sit, I would stand thinking that I was, you know, brian Wilson with a guitar playing the song. And then I was my gloves singing the song. And you know, I just really, really love that song. Every time I hear it it brings me back to, you know, elementary school days, but also God Only Knows, and I just wasn't made for these times. Real good album. So the Beatles' famed first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was on February 9th 1964. Okay, so moment that was huge in music history. So the theater only had and I looked this up 728 seats. So only 728 people seated could be at the show, but on TV there were 73 million viewers watching their performance.
Speaker 2:That's incredible.
Speaker 3:For 1964, that is absolutely incredible. So they played five songs, including the leadoff, which was All my Loving, and so many people. They saw that and they decided they needed to be in a band because they heard all the girls screaming and saw their reactions and were like this is what I want to do, this is what I want to be. And I think that if I was alive at that time I definitely would have been that way, because I still was trying to air guitar and do all that stuff. You know, years later, after all this came out and once I was of age where I could actually think about doing that. So real quick, jimmy, have you seen the documentary Squaring the Circle?
Speaker 2:I have not.
Speaker 3:So I saw it over the weekend and this is a documentary. It's about hypnosis and how they started to make this great album cover art. And they started in 1968 with Saucer full of secrets for Pink Floyd and they knew Pink Floyd and that's how they got the opportunity. But they have done the album covers probably all the Pink Floyd album covers from that point on, including Dark Side of the Moon Wish you Were here. They've done Bad Company. I think they did most of the Led Zeppelin covers, paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run, I could go on and on. The last one they did was in 1982, was Led Zeppelin's Coda album Really cool documentary, if you like, seeing things about what I consider art.
Speaker 3:Album covers to me were art because they were big, you could look at them, you could study them, pull out the liner notes. Everything about it was just like so cool. And that's really what this whole documentary is about. It's about the two guys, and one was Storm Thorgensen and the other guy was Poe Powell, and Poe is still alive and he's interviewed throughout the whole process. It's really cool and, if you get a chance, storm.
Speaker 2:Thorgensen definitely sounds like a made up name from Anchorman.
Speaker 3:It does. So I'm glad that you brought that up, but it's actually one half of this group of people that started it and, yes, they had a bunch of people that worked for them, but they did some pretty cool things. So if you get a chance to see it, I definitely recommend it. So many albums we mentioned Nazareth earlier. They did stuff for Nazareth. They did stuff for Roy Harper. Do you know anything about Roy Harper? I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 3:So Roy Harper is huge over in Britain. He actually is the guy that sings have a cigar on the Pink Floyd album. Wish you were here, really. Yes, he's friends with them. He's in the studio and David Gilmore didn't like his vocals, roger Ward is didn't like his vocals and basically Roy Harper was like hey, let me give it a shot, and that is the vocals.
Speaker 2:By the way, which one's pink?
Speaker 3:That's a good question. We're all still trying to figure that out. Um, I could go on with all the albums that that they did and there's. If you watch it, you get a cool story about Dark Side of the Moon. What the process was for it. What was the process for Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy? What was the process for presence?
Speaker 2:For for making the album covers or the album yeah, for the actual album covers. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:The one about animals for Pink Floyd. It's really cool. There's so many cool stories, even if you don't necessarily like the bands, but just seeing the concept of the art that went into it and how they thought about it is really cool.
Speaker 2:I got to check it out.
Speaker 3:There are many songs that are about the different feelings of love. Howard Jones what Is Love? The Beatles All you Need Is Love Squeeze Is this Love Meatloaf? I Do Anything For Love but I Won't Do that. Nazareth Love Hurts. Joy Division, love Will Terrace Apart, and Jay Giles Band with Love Stinks, and that's just to name a few. And speaking of love, we have a very special guest with us today From MTN Matchmaking. We have Maureen Tara Nelson joining us. Welcome to the show. We appreciate you joining us here on Music in my Shoes and we kind of wanted to talk a little bit about love, things to do with Valentine's Day coming up, and who better than an executive matchmaker like yourself? So I know you've been doing it for over 20 years and for those who aren't really familiar with a matchmaker, you know real quick, talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 1:Oh well, when if someone's single and that is the key, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3:I just want that to be the key for everybody. Yes, you have to be single.
Speaker 1:People do call up and you know they try to hide it. And then there's always that question wait a minute, are you single? No, I'm married. So, yes, you have to be single and you should try all avenues when you're single. But if you try all avenues and they don't work, that's when you think, all right, I need a professional who knows about compatibility and will do a screening process and give me the exposure to other single people. So that's what matchmakers are and that's what they do every day.
Speaker 3:So I know that you've won Best of Long Island for a number of years, which is something to definitely be proud of. I know that you also reach out into New York City, but I believe now you're doing it nationally. Yes, so to be transparent to our listeners out there, I met Maureen on the first day of ninth grade a few years ago. Right, Maureen just a few years ago.
Speaker 1:So when she. I like that.
Speaker 3:She talks about a Zal Yelaine. There was a pool over there. There was a place that had a park. We would meet up there a bunch of people during the summertime. I'm going to be honest with you. During the colder months we would actually jump in the pool. There was no water. We would play hockey in this in-ground pool. That was for the town. So just up until recently, maureen was still living there on a Zal Yelaine. So let's move on. Tips on finding love for Valentine's Day. What are your tips?
Speaker 1:Okay, you need to always make sure that you tell all of your friends and families that you're looking for a committed relationship, not just. You know.
Speaker 1:If you leave that part out, you'll get a bunch of people on your list to go out with, but you'll be wasting your time with some of them also looking for a committed relationship, then you really need to start doing things on your own, which a lot of females feel uncomfortable going out to dinner or the movies by themselves because it's not really, you know, something that we grew up doing as the norm, right?
Speaker 1:But, it's really it's important that you give yourself as much exposure as possible, because everyone should be in love for Valentine's Day, and then there's always groups that you could join something that you're good at or something that you always wanted to do and just make sure that you give yourself every opportunity to find love and to find the right person and not to settle.
Speaker 3:That sounds good. It's easy to say, but in reality it would be a really good thing to do. So best gifts for Valentine's Day for new couples. So if there's new couples out there, what's the best gifts for them?
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of people don't know in the beginning, but depending upon how many months, if you know a girl likes a certain nail salon to give a gift certificate to, that really shows that you're listening to her and you care about making her happy. A simple piece of jewelry was a whore, you know. You can get anything from $30 to $100 in the beginning and that's really going to make a difference. Always chocolate in the beginning, because you can't go wrong, even if it's going out a week. Go to the grocery store and get a nice thing of chocolates. Flowers are a must, no matter what, and if you really want to impress the girl, really impress her, send the flowers to her job, because then she's going to have all of the friends at her job say, wow, that guy's amazing.
Speaker 3:I see that in the movies a lot, so you're saying that they should really do that for real.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes it just. If a girl is single and she's newly dating someone, typically they'll see oh, this girl always gets flowers delivered from her guy. He's great, so you want her to have that experience as well.
Speaker 3:I like it. I like it. So for the majority of people that are on music in my shoes, how to make Valentine's Day romantic for married couples.
Speaker 1:Very important because a lot of times when people are married, you kind of let go of the trying to impress each other or to make each other happy, Whereas in reality that's what single people are dying for. So you really need to nurture your relationship. So a great gift for anyone is a gift certificate for a spa day, and typically a spa that could do anything Something and think of things that she might want to do but she would never buy herself. For example, if all of her single friends are getting Botox and she's in her 60s or 50s and she just wants to look better, she might think I would never spend money on Botox for me. I'd rather spend money on my kids.
Speaker 1:So, get her the spa so she can buy whatever she wants, cook for her, because typically the woman is doing more. Or rather than just having her do anything, you try to do as the man, everything to make the woman happy, and cooking her a great dinner is magnificent. And when you're married, if you send flowers to your wife at work, because she is going to feel that love that she felt when she first met you and it's going to really make her so happy Because think of her being married and seeing for years all of her single colleagues and they're getting flowers delivered on Valentine's Day. And if you're married, a husband might not think I should get flowers and get them delivered to work, but that's what you should do at the most.
Speaker 1:That makes sense I mean, of course it's going to make her feel great.
Speaker 3:Well, that makes sense. Speaking of love, I believe that you are in love with Meatloaf. Meatloaf the singer, not Meatloaf the meal Just put it out there for everybody. So talk about you know we talked about Meatloaf back on episode three of Music in my Shoes. We talked about Bad at a Hell Album. So tell us you know a little bit about you know your infatuation with Meatloaf, and let the listeners know what it's all about.
Speaker 1:I just from the moment I first heard him, I just loved his voice and then I just love the presence that he always would give at concerts and he always caught a lot of slack from other people and people in the industry, and I don't think he ever really got that credits that he deserved for putting on such a great show and always giving 100% regardless of whatever.
Speaker 1:So I kind of loved his ethics too. But there was just something magnetizing about him that I fell in love with and I always loved him. And when he passed away that was a Friday when we had a Friday Facebook live and I was doing it with my brother and I was crying during the whole thing because I was so sad about Meatloaf.
Speaker 3:I think that was about two years ago. Yeah, yeah, I think it was about two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just something about him was just perfect, whereas people would say he was not good looking. Well, yeah, he is.
Speaker 3:Well, again, he'd do anything for love, but he won't do that. So what are your favorite songs by Meatloaf?
Speaker 1:Well, that one, of course, and I don't know if anyone else felt the same way. In the beginning, I was thinking, well, what, what won't he do? And then to find out that I was cheating. Okay, that's great, and you know, because it's kind of ambiguous too, the way he says it.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:I love that. Oh really, I love everything.
Speaker 3:So I know that you like Cher as well. You know we had some messages going back and forth. Joan Jett and the Black Hearts. I Love Rock and Roll.
Speaker 1:All 80s music Queen.
Speaker 3:We Will Rock you Under Pressure. Brian Adams, the Police, I you know, looked at your playlist and it definitely takes you back into the 1980s and it's it's good. I'm so excited by the Pointer Sisters, which I do like that song, I will be honest with you. So again, we have Maureen Tara Nelson with us and she's with MTN Matchmaking and we really appreciate you coming on the show and joining us giving some tips out for our listeners, and we just wanted to give out your website, mtnmatchmakingcom, and again, it is nationally, and so if you're looking for love and you want to connect with a matchmaker, mtn Matchmaking is the place for you to go. Thank, you.
Speaker 3:Hey, we really appreciate it. Maureen, thank you for joining us this afternoon and keep the matchmaking going and keep the music going.
Speaker 1:I will.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:Love you, valentine's Day.
Speaker 3:Thank you. That's it for episode 13 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank my guest, maureen Tara Nelson of MTNmatchmaking, as well as Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, georgia, and the Vic Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge, and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on our next episode. Until then, keep the music playing.