As you listen to episode 17 of Music in my Shoes, prepare to uncover the unexpected lineage of Blondie's "Hanging on the Telephone" and tap your feet to the disco-infused "Heart of Glass" that had even the rock purists grooving. We're not just dusting off old vinyl here; we're diving into the top-selling albums like Fleetwood Mac "Rumors," & AC/DC "Back in Black," and discussing how the music industry's landscape has been shaped by CD sales and the advent of streaming metrics. It's a nostalgic trip through America's musical treasure trove, filled with personal tales and revelations that tie us all to the songs we love.
Strap on your boots for a walk down memory lane with classics that still echo through the decades. Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" takes a melancholic turn with its backstory of friendship and loss, while Bad Company's "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" plays out like a rock star's daydream. These tunes aren't just catchy—they're a snapshot of an era's soul, capturing the emotional complexity that saw them rise to chart-topping fame. It's an exploration of musical narratives that bind us, stories that resonate with the weariness and hope of the '70s.
Capping off this melodic journey, I open up about the personal significance of "Oh Atlanta" and how it became a beacon during a pivotal move in 1990. Our Music in my Shoes Mailbag segment brings our listeners into the spotlight, showcasing their engagement and shared trivia from game shows to Cheap Trick. We honor Soundgarden's "Superunknown" with a nod to its 30th anniversary, stirring up memories and musical shifts that have defined our listening habits. And for the finale, we step back into the electrified air of a Billy Joel concert from '94, inviting you to relive those moments that make live music an unforgettable experience. So tune in, because episode 17 is a record you won't want to skip.
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As you listen to episode 17 of Music in my Shoes, prepare to uncover the unexpected lineage of Blondie's "Hanging on the Telephone" and tap your feet to the disco-infused "Heart of Glass" that had even the rock purists grooving. We're not just dusting off old vinyl here; we're diving into the top-selling albums like Fleetwood Mac "Rumors," & AC/DC "Back in Black," and discussing how the music industry's landscape has been shaped by CD sales and the advent of streaming metrics. It's a nostalgic trip through America's musical treasure trove, filled with personal tales and revelations that tie us all to the songs we love.
Strap on your boots for a walk down memory lane with classics that still echo through the decades. Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" takes a melancholic turn with its backstory of friendship and loss, while Bad Company's "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" plays out like a rock star's daydream. These tunes aren't just catchy—they're a snapshot of an era's soul, capturing the emotional complexity that saw them rise to chart-topping fame. It's an exploration of musical narratives that bind us, stories that resonate with the weariness and hope of the '70s.
Capping off this melodic journey, I open up about the personal significance of "Oh Atlanta" and how it became a beacon during a pivotal move in 1990. Our Music in my Shoes Mailbag segment brings our listeners into the spotlight, showcasing their engagement and shared trivia from game shows to Cheap Trick. We honor Soundgarden's "Superunknown" with a nod to its 30th anniversary, stirring up memories and musical shifts that have defined our listening habits. And for the finale, we step back into the electrified air of a Billy Joel concert from '94, inviting you to relive those moments that make live music an unforgettable experience. So tune in, because episode 17 is a record you won't want to skip.
Please Like and Follow our Facebook page Music In My Shoes. You can contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail,com.
Speaker 2:
Got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Bog, and you're listening to Music in my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off Episode 17. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So I learned something new the other day, did you? I did so. There was this band they would call the Nerves. Ever hear of them?
Speaker 1:
It sounds a little familiar, but I can't picture them.
Speaker 2:
Never heard of them before. So the Nerves they were around for like a minute. They put out an EP back in 1976 and one of the members was Peter Case, peter Case being from the Plim Souls that we talked about a few episodes ago when we talked about the movie Valley Girl. Well, they put this EP out. It didn't do too much. The band ended up breaking up and Jack Lee from the band got a copy of that EP, a cassette copy, to the band. Blondie Blondie listened, liked one of the songs and they recorded hanging on the telephone.
Speaker 1:
Oh wow, that was a Nerves song.
Speaker 2:
That was a Nerves song, so I listened to the Nerves song. I'd actually go to YouTube. I couldn't find it on the music service that I listened to. Don't want to give credit to anyone there, but I will to YouTube because I could find it there. I had to look it up on YouTube. I listened to it.
Speaker 2:
It is I'm not going to say note for note, but it's note for note Exactly the same as what you hear when you hear Blondie. The only difference is when Christine does the little guitar solo. That's really the only difference. It's sung like the same style of singing. The instruments are the same.
Speaker 2:
It just blew my mind that I did not know that because I absolutely love that song. For those of you that don't know, that's the opening song on the Parallel Lines album came out late 1978 and 40 years ago Blondie was really huge on the radio right about this time. Yeah, so if you get a chance, check out that song. Speaking of Blondie, 40 years ago, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing Heart of Glass on the radio. Alright, that was on all the time. It actually hit number one for one week here on the top 100 Billboard singles in the US. I've been listening to it to get ready for the show. That song is a really good song. I know it's got a lot of flavors of disco in it, but it's a really good song still. And the long version where the drumming at the end it's just sick. It's so good. I really do like it. Jimmy, your thoughts.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's a great song, it's a classic.
Speaker 2:
But you're right, it's kind of a roller skating disco song is what I remember it as, yeah, it takes you right back to those times, without a doubt. I didn't realize how much I would really enjoy listening to it again, and sure as heck I did. Let me tell you that I certainly did so, jimmy. The other day I looked up the top selling albums of all time in the US and I've been wanting to do this for a while and I had some guesses as to what some of them would be, but I was surprised by some of them. I have to be honest with you, I really was. So the top 12 have certification units of 20 million or more. So you say, what's the certification unit? Because I did and I looked it up on the RIAA to find out because I wanted to talk about it, but make sure I kind of knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 1:
Right.
Speaker 2:
So it's made up of sales, but it's also, as of 2013, it's made up of streaming. So, for every 1500 streams of an album, you get one certification unit and you have to keep up with the times and the technology and the way things are going. That's how they do it.
Speaker 1:
I think that's a little chintzy. 1500 If you bought a single back in the day, you wouldn't listen to it 1500 times.
Speaker 2:
That is correct, but I think the fact that the artist isn't getting a whole lot of money when they do the streaming not that that should be any part of the counting of it, but it is.
Speaker 1:
I think you get about a half a penny per stream as an artist maybe a little bit less. So that might be about for 1500 streams. Quick math maybe 7 bucks and that's probably about what a 7-inch record costs.
Speaker 2:
There you go. We resolved it and we didn't even know we were going to do that. So that is pretty good. Number 12 this is one of the ones I never would have guessed not my music that I listened to, but I would have thought that I would have had an idea that this would be up there. So one more time before we start the list. We're starting with the top 12 because all the top 12 hit 20 million certification units. That's why we're doing it. Number 12, come On Over by Shania Twain, came out in 1997 and it had that song, man, I Feel Like A Woman. I remember that song. I can't tell you much about it, but 20 million units, that boggles my mind.
Speaker 1:
That was the heyday of CDs. Though you know that was true, Everybody was still buying everything on CD.
Speaker 2:
True, very true. I'd agree with you on that. Never, never, though, would have I put Shania Twain on the top 12, the top 20. I don't think I would have put her on the top 100. And it's nothing against her, it's just what my thoughts were.
Speaker 1:
That song is like a virus. Man, I feel like a woman. We will start humming it in my house and somebody starts humming it and then all of a sudden, everybody's humming it and you can't get it out of your head. It is too infectious of a song.
Speaker 2:
So at my house it's police on my back by the clash.
Speaker 1:
I'm glad it's your house.
Speaker 2:
It is man. I feel like a woman. That is good. And the Guthrie family. I mean that in the greatest of ways, a family that can do things like that. Those families stay together.
Speaker 1:
They do, but we have a strict no man. I feel like a woman in our house now because it's just too infectious. That's good, I like that someday they'll come up with a cure.
Speaker 2:
And maybe, maybe it will be a song by the cure.
Speaker 1:
Who knows Well played.
Speaker 2:
So if we go down, the next two albums are at 21 million units each. Okay, cracked rear view hooting the blowfish. Now that had that song. Hold my hand, letter cry. Only want to be with you. I know those songs. I don't know any of the other songs. He was all right. You know Darius Rucker and the band. You know they're all right. Not anything that you know gets me excited or that I want to go see, but I can understand that, being up there, I know a lot of people like them.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean, it's songs that you could hear at the dentist's office, you know yes, back in 1994.
Speaker 2:
That was a big thing. Was hooting the blowfish at the dentist's office, right? Yes, so the other album at 21 million, rumors by Fleetwood.
Speaker 1:
Mack oh yeah, see, now yeah 1977.
Speaker 2:
So if you look at this with the songs dreams, don't stop, go your own way. The chain you make loving fun, goldust woman. Secondhand news that album is just killer.
Speaker 1:
It is unbelievable. I just revisited that last in the last year and it's shocking just how it's hit after hit.
Speaker 2:
It really is. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:
Not just hits, but like really great unique songs yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yes, and I agree with you. I mean, these are really good songs, without a doubt, without a doubt. So now we move up to three albums tied at number seven, a 23 million units each Pink Floyd the Wall, Garth Brooks, Double Live, Billy Joel. Greatest Hits, Volume one and two. So Pink Floyd the Wall, we're really going to go in depth with that in a future episode of Music. In my Shoes it's coming up, you know, it's anniversary later in the year when it was released.
Speaker 2:
But a few of the songs, Another Brick in the Wall Mother, hey you, Nobody Home Comfortably Numb. Some real classic rock and roll songs in there Garth Brooks, Double Live, 1998. It's Got Shameless, which was actually written by Billy Joel. The River Friends in Low Places. I love that song. I'm not going to sit here and tell you I don't. I do like that song and it's also, yeah, it's got the song the Dance, which was a huge hit for him back in the day.
Speaker 2:
Now, that album, it almost looks like. When I looked on my music streaming service it wasn't available and it looks like they have it out and they take it down and then they put part of a box set and they do all this stuff. So I was kind of wondering how that all you know catalogs into this whole top 12 of all time. How they do things with that, I'm not really sure. Billy Joel greatest sets, volume one and two, came out in 1985 and this, every song you can name on here, are fantastic. Okay, but we'll just name a few Piano man, New York State of Mind, Moving Out my Life, Big Shot so many more hits. And Jimmy, I know you're not the biggest Billy Joel fan.
Speaker 1:
No, those are all great songs.
Speaker 2:
They're. They're real good songs. They really really are.
Speaker 1:
It's more the 80s Billy Joel that I had a hard time with.
Speaker 2:
The Uptown Girl, christy Brinkley, type of Billy Joel.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah, and we didn't start the fire.
Speaker 2:
I got it. Yeah, I understand. I'm not gonna argue with you. I can understand that. Two albums tied at number five with 24 million units. The Beatles the Beatles White Album for most of you out there who know it by that name came out in 1968 and it's got what we spoke about in our last episode the original version of, while my Guitar Gently Weeps back in the USSR, blackbird Birthday, heltus Skelter and a ton of other songs out there that are just fantastic. We go down to the next one, led Zeppelin 4. Okay, we talked about this in episode two, talking about Stairway to Heaven, but it's also got Black Dog, rock and Roll.
Speaker 1:
When the levee breaks.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
It's got going to California.
Speaker 2:
I couldn't read my own handwriting there for a second.
Speaker 1:
I remember what's on that record.
Speaker 2:
So a great album. We've talked about that. Alright, are you ready? We're moving down to number four, number four, number four the top songs.
Speaker 1:
That was like my version of the thing on American Top 40 or whatever.
Speaker 2:
You don't want, jimmy, right now, go ahead, do it again.
Speaker 1:
Well, no, it's a one-time only, I'll do it on three.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I like that. Now you're making the decisions. I love it. Number four back in black ACDC 1980. 25 million units.
Speaker 1:
First record I ever bought.
Speaker 2:
Really.
Speaker 1:
First album.
Speaker 2:
Wow, that is. That's a great album to start off, you know. Hell's Bells back in black. You Shook Me All Night Long. Those Are the All the Big Hits, but every song on that album is a great song on that album.
Speaker 1:
Honey, what do you do for money?
Speaker 2:
Everything I mean you really can listen to that, and it doesn't matter where you start Hit, shuffle, whatever you want to do, every song is definitely a great song.
Speaker 1:
And just the story behind that album that they, bon Scott, died. They had already started tracking the record and they had to find a new singer that somehow filled those shoes, and it ended up being one of the greatest albums of all time.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I believe he died in February of 1980 and this album came out. I think it was November. No, it was not. It was July of 1980.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so it was only five months later.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it was just a few months that they put this all together. I agree with you, I don't know how they did it. Absolutely insane. I remember when Bon Scott died, talking with my friend, vinnie Giacalone, saying that's it for ACDC, they're done with. I mean, you know that's it, and who would know that the next album that would come out would be just this mega monster hit, unlike any other rock album? You had heard up to that point, right, and it's still here it is, it's 2024 and here we are still talking about it because it's number four.
Speaker 2:
Number three, hotel California by the Eagles came out December 1976 at 26 million units. All right, hotel California. New Kid in Town, life in the Fast Lane, victim of Love. It's a pretty good album, all right, that song, hotel California. You know everybody wanted to learn the air guitar. You know the lead guitar parts and do that, and I was one of them. I was a pretty good air guitarist. I don't know. We've talked about air guitar many times on the show, but I don't think I've ever said that I was really good at it Now.
Speaker 1:
does you take air guitar lessons, or were you self-taught? I was self-taught to be honest with you Impressive.
Speaker 2:
Thank you, I appreciate that, but it's a really really good song. It's a really good album and at 26 million units that tells you a lot right there. But even more than that. Number two Number two 34 million units. So there's a huge jump from three to two.
Speaker 2:
Thriller, michael Jackson yeah, all right, we talked about this on episode three of Music in my Shoes and it's got wannabe starting something. The girl is mine with Paul McCartney. Thriller, beat it. Billie Jean PYT again, you can name all the songs. I only named a few of them. But a great album it really really is. And are you ready? Number one their greatest tits, 1971 to 1975. Yes, eagles, 38 million units. February 1976. This came out, so before I go into it, I just want to recap the Eagles greatest tits February 1976 38 million. And number three Hotel California by the Eagles, december 1976 crazy, 26 million. Two of the top three are by the Eagles that were released within a short period, you know, ten months or so. Boggles my mind. I've used the word boggles a lot today because I am just boggled on this episode. I have to be honest with you.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, we should, after the show, play some boggle maybe that that actually is a good idea.
Speaker 2:
So take it easy. Witchy woman, lion eyes already gone one of these nights again. It's one of those albums you can just name every song it's. It's real good, real good stuff by them. So, jimmy Terry, jack, seasons and the Sun oh, I had that 45. Did you really? Yeah, I had the 45 as well. I actually lost it. I don't know what happened to it. At some point it went somewhere. But it hit number one on the Billboard Top 100 songs March 2nd 1974. Okay, worldwide hit. Did you know that David Foster was the one that played piano on that song?
Speaker 1:
No.
Speaker 2:
Yes, he played piano on it and I don't think I really realized how much piano was on it until I started to listen to it, thinking David Foster's on it, and then all of a sudden I really could hear it. But even more than that, what's fascinating is that this song was originally a Belgian song and people then, you know, would transcribe it to English and what they thought the word should be, and it kind of, you know, passed through a couple of people and Terry Jax was producing an album some songs on an album for the Beach Boys back in the summer of 1970. And he decided to let them do the song. So this is, you know, a few years before the song that we know and love came out, and if you listen to it it's kind of like what we talked about with the live version and the studio version of I Want you to Want Me Per my glove of the Beach Boys. He said it just didn't work for them. It was too wimpy.
Speaker 2:
And we talked about that with I Want you to Want Me. But I think what might have happened is that I think when Terry Jax tried to produce this, the Beach Boys did it faster and they did it much higher. They sang higher, the instruments were all higher. I think that Terry Jax realized this wasn't going to work and brought everything slow it down a little bit, make the instruments you know the notes, make them a little bit lower. And then the Beach Boys also tried to play the guitar like normal Beach Boys guitar let's just change it up a little bit.
Speaker 2:
And I think he learned from that and that's why he put it out. He changed the words even more because it was still very Belgian, like when the Beach Boys did it, and he ended up making some of the words because he had a childhood friend who had leukemia and he took some of that and made the song that we've all come to know Now. The song it's a sad song, but it's extremely upbeat, as you're listening to it and you want to sing. We had joy, we had fun. Yeah, but it's hard to die. Yes, very, very much so. But there's very few people that I think that can pull that off on something that's so sad and make it so fun that you want to just have a sing-along His one and only hit, he did it, he managed to do it.
Speaker 1:
The early 70s were a lot like that, though. You know, I think America was so tired from the 60s that everything was kind of melancholy and songs like that could be huge hits, you know.
Speaker 2:
You have a point there. I understand that. That definitely makes some sense. So let's move up five years, all right. If we go 45 years ago, march 1979, bad Company released their best selling single with rock and roll fantasy and, in my opinion, really their last good single that they had. Paul Rogers kind of tells a story of what it's like to be up on the stage in a band singing to a crowd and you just kind of feel it. You feel what he's talking about and you're like you want to be that guy, I want to be Paul Rogers, I want to be up in front of the crowd, I want that opportunity and that's really what I've always felt when I've listened to the song. For you, as a person who's been a musician and in a band, what are your thoughts on the song?
Speaker 1:
It's a good song. It's not my favorite Bad Company song, but I think you're right, it's probably their last really good song.
Speaker 2:
Yeah. I mean everybody's got to have a last really good song.
Speaker 1:
It's kind of their second song. That's about being a rock star at least just two. I can think of right Shooting Star.
Speaker 2:
Shooting Star yes.
Speaker 1:
But, that's a third person. They're talking about Johnny and this one. It's all part of my rock and roll fantasy, right.
Speaker 2:
It truly is, and it's the last song with that album, desolation Angels, that they have, I believe, the original band in it. So maybe Paul Rogers was kind of feeling let me sing about this because I'm not going to be with these cats much longer. Could be, I don't know. So from the same album there's a song that's near and dear to my heart and it's called oh Atlanta. Are you familiar with that song? So that song?
Speaker 2:
I had never heard that song until right before I was getting ready to move from New York to Atlanta and I moved here in 1990, but in 1989, a buddy of mine that I worked with, he was moving here too. We worked for the same company and he played. We had a company picnic and he did like this acoustic guitar, singing and sang all these songs, and one of the songs he did was oh Atlanta. It was the first time I heard it and I was like, oh man, once I knew I was moving down here, I'm gonna like this song and I've liked it ever since. That was how I got introduced to it, jimmy. Yes, do you know what time it is?
Speaker 1:
Music in my shoes. Mail bag.
Speaker 2:
Yes, it is music in my shoes. Mail bag time. I can't get enough of that. I enjoy listening to that Like a you know what.
Speaker 1:
I should have charged royalties on that.
Speaker 2:
Maybe, maybe we should do an extended remix of that, make it from that length, maybe we make it.
Speaker 1:
It's only five seconds long.
Speaker 2:
Maybe we make it 10 seconds.
Speaker 1:
Most songs are longer than that Really. Yeah, I mean traditionally, but we could start a new thing. Maybe that's how to get like a million plays on Spotify. Oh I said the name of the streaming service, that's okay, just make a song that's five seconds long and people you know that have it on repeat by accident.
Speaker 2:
There you go, it adds up. Hey, maybe we should end the show now and we should just kind of pay attention to that, because I love that idea. Thank you, you're welcome. So from Sue Ann. Sue Ann is actually the show checker and she listens to the show before it gets.
Speaker 1:
She's very thorough too. I appreciate Sue Ann's work.
Speaker 2:
Yes, she is. She does a real good job. She listens to the show to make sure that we didn't forget to edit something out. Believe it or not, this is not recorded live. We're not talking to you every time that you go to hit play. We record it once. Sue Ann listens to it. Make sure that we didn't miss something.
Speaker 1:
That would be exhausting if we had to actually jump in the booth every time someone hit play.
Speaker 2:
That kind of could be fun, though, you know.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, we'd be, you know, in the middle of dinner or something. Oh sorry, I gotta jump on the mic, I gotta go.
Speaker 2:
I've got to get you know into my telephone booth and, like Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, and boom, I'm gonna be at the studio. So now I can do this podcast. Yeah, so Sue Ann said that on Jeopardy on February 26th that they had a category the 70s, totally rocked and for $2,000,. The question was, I want you to want me to say Cheap Tricks, 1978 live album at this arena in Japan is a hard rock masterpiece, Budakon, Budakon. So we talked about that on episode 14, but also on February 14th on Jeopardy. Okay, there's more, not just one Jeopardy thing, there's two Jeopardy things here. All right, in category low tech, for $800,. The original cover for the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers came with a functioning one of these fasteners.
Speaker 1:
Zipper.
Speaker 2:
Zipper okay. So I think it's kind of cool that you know you'll see on Jeopardy or different things, some of the things we talk about it's coming up in other places. Listener Jackie on Long Island also commented she had the album Sticky Fingers but her ex ruined it. But the zipper still works.
Speaker 1:
Oh good.
Speaker 2:
Yes. So, jackie, we're very sorry that your ex ruined it. We are glad that you still have the original album. We appreciate all of your comments. We appreciate your emails, things that you put on Facebook Music in my Shoes Facebook page, music in my Shoes at gmailcom. Please keep them coming in. We love to hear from you and, who knows, maybe you'll get lucky enough. You will be on Music in my Shoes Mailbag.
Speaker 1:
Music in.
Speaker 2:
My Shoes Mailbag. So, jimmy, moving up a little bit in years, 30 years ago, march 8th 1994, soundgarden's super unknown album came out and I gotta be honest with you, I was more of a Nirvana fan than I was Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, but I do like this album. This was the album that I finally was like hey, I like some of these songs. I like you know what they're doing, it's got Lay Me Down. My Wave Fell On Black Days, black Hole Sun, which I think is you know, that is the song of Soundgarden. If you were going to say what one song defines them, yeah, spoon man, you know the day I tried to live. A bunch of songs that are good. I think I appreciate them a lot more today than what I did when it came out. So Spoon man adds a different flavor with the addition of artists, the Spoon man to the song. So he was a real person, local guy in Seattle. He would hang out at Pike's Place. Different places, pike's Place. Have you been there, jimmy?
Speaker 1:
No, I haven't been to Seattle.
Speaker 2:
Oh, it's actually a kind of a cool place because you know the fish market, they throw the fish and you think that you only see it on TV, but when you go there they actually really do it. It's kind of cool to be there and see what you think is supposed to happen actually happen. So they have this guy artist the Spoon man, on the song. Towards the end of the song he actually starts to play the spoons and it's really kind of cool with it. When I was a kid I remember getting a gift and it was two spoons back to back and the handles were encased in like a plastic thing so you could kind of play them like on your leg and stuff and the back of the spoons would kind of hit each other. It was kind of a cool thing. I mean, it was nothing exciting, but it was kind of cool to be able to do that. But this dude on this song can play the heck out of spoons and I enjoy listening to it for that.
Speaker 1:
You know who could play spoons? I think was Scatman Crothers. Remember him.
Speaker 2:
I do remember him. He was in the Shining, that's how I remember him mostly.
Speaker 1:
He was the voice of Hong Kong Fooie.
Speaker 2:
Oh, yes, he was.
Speaker 1:
And he was a guest on Love Boat one time and he played the spoons Really yeah.
Speaker 2:
I don't remember that, but while I was in Portland I actually went to the hotel that they filmed the outdoor scenes for the Shining and Scatman Crothers in the Shining. But the only reason that I'm mentioning it, when you pull up to it the outdoor scenes it is exactly what you think of when you think of the movie.
Speaker 2:
Now the indoor scenes were filmed somewhere else, not on site, but it looks exactly the way. I couldn't believe it. I was just kind of I was mind boggled. Does it have the maze? I went in the wintertime so the ice was insane Like the ice, you know, snow and ice and it just kept building over and over and over. It was just really crazy. I got to be honest with you.
Speaker 2:
So, jimmy, billy Joel released a single recently, on February 1st. Turn the Lights Back On it's first single in many, many years. He had an album in 1993, river of Dreams. He hasn't released any albums of new material since then. He's put out just a few songs, not many. I really like the song, okay, I really do. It reminds me of old school Billy Joel, you know, before becoming the superstar of the 80s that you kind of talked about when we talked earlier in the program. But the video is just insane. So the video they have him at a piano when he starts to sing the song present day Billy Joel, and then they kind of have him 1970s Billy Joel Singing the song. But the technology is so good you really think he's singing the song from the 70s. It looks better than when he's present day, billy Joel singing the song.
Speaker 1:
It's crazy. He's like 50 years younger.
Speaker 2:
I know, but he's not really singing it.
Speaker 2:
It's all AI, but it's kind of scary at the same time that you have the technology to do that. You could use AI and make videos of people and have them say or do whatever you want because you have the ability to do it Kind of freaked me out watching the video. Really like it, really like the song. And I actually did see him on that River of Dreams tour in 1994 and here at the Omni in Atlanta and what was cool about it is that he only played, like, say, the first six songs. He only played a few of the new songs from that album and then, after like song six or so, it was just all old songs. So it was really cool because you got to hear all the things that you wanted to hear. A lot of fun to me.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, good.
Speaker 2:
I enjoyed it. Your excitement is overwhelming.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, Billy Joel.
Speaker 2:
Oh, but if we talked about Pavement or the Ramones, hey, scatman Crothers, we got more out of you.
Speaker 1:
Scatman yes.
Speaker 2:
Well, let me say this that's it for the end of episode 17 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, Georgia, and to 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.