Grab your corsages and dust off those vinyl records! I'm Jim Bois, taking you on a wild ride from the unforgettable prom night of '84 to the vibrant pulse of Shaky Knees Music Festival of 2024. Well, it's those moments where the past winks at the present that truly define the soundtrack of our lives.
Strap in for a nostalgia-infused journey through a music festival that's as much about memories as it is about melodies. Feel the relentless energy of The Offspring under the midday sun and join the collective anticipation as Weezer teases us with plans to perform the Blue Album in its entirety. As we gear up for the Athens Rock Lobsters hockey team debut, we're not just fans; we're part of a legacy that swings from the rink to the record players, celebrating creativity and resilience through every beat.
As your storyteller and fellow music aficionado, I'm inviting you to sway to the sounds of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and get lost in the new wave grooves of Elvis Costello and The Cure. From the raw punk of The Rizzillos to the haunting echoes of Echo and the Bunnymen, we're cranking up the stories on a symphony of eras. And before I sign off, a heartfelt thank you to you, our listeners, for allowing us to be part of your journey. So, go ahead, lace up your dancing shoes, and let's step to the rhythm of musical history together.
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Grab your corsages and dust off those vinyl records! I'm Jim Bois, taking you on a wild ride from the unforgettable prom night of '84 to the vibrant pulse of Shaky Knees Music Festival of 2024. Well, it's those moments where the past winks at the present that truly define the soundtrack of our lives.
Strap in for a nostalgia-infused journey through a music festival that's as much about memories as it is about melodies. Feel the relentless energy of The Offspring under the midday sun and join the collective anticipation as Weezer teases us with plans to perform the Blue Album in its entirety. As we gear up for the Athens Rock Lobsters hockey team debut, we're not just fans; we're part of a legacy that swings from the rink to the record players, celebrating creativity and resilience through every beat.
As your storyteller and fellow music aficionado, I'm inviting you to sway to the sounds of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and get lost in the new wave grooves of Elvis Costello and The Cure. From the raw punk of The Rizzillos to the haunting echoes of Echo and the Bunnymen, we're cranking up the stories on a symphony of eras. And before I sign off, a heartfelt thank you to you, our listeners, for allowing us to be part of your journey. So, go ahead, lace up your dancing shoes, and let's step to the rhythm of musical history together.
Please Like and Follow our Facebook page Music In My Shoes.
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He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2:He's got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're listening to Music In my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 28. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, jimmy, back on May 10th 1984, that was my senior prom 40 years ago. Oh, congrats. I don't know if congratulations is the word, but 40 years. So we had a theme song, and the theme song for the actual prom was the Phil Collins. Against All Odds. Take a Look at Me Now. Oh, yeah, and I remember we had it was at you know a country club and they, like, made you know glasses you know drinking glasses and you know, had the Division Avenue class of 84 prom. Take a Look at Me Now. And you and had the Division Avenue class of 84 prom. Take a look at me now. It was this big deal. You get the tuxedos and the girls get the dresses and everything was all exciting. Did you go to your prom?
Speaker 1:I did. Yeah, I went with my wife. Well, we weren't married then, but we ended up getting married.
Speaker 2:Well, that's very exciting. Yeah, that is pretty cool, I like that. So for mine, we would rent limousines to go to this thing and it was like a waste of money. It really ended up when you come down to it, you get this limousine, it takes you there and then it takes you away. And it was money not well spent, no, not well spent, no. So my buddies came up with this idea why don't we rent a conversion van and go to the prom in the conversion van? We could get it for a few days for the same price that we could get it for three or four hours of a limo.
Speaker 2:All right, and I wasn't sure this is what I wanted to do. What did the girls think of this? They didn't know at this time, while we're talking about it. Yeah, so they, you know, and I was thinking about that. We finally, they finally convinced me because my one friend, his name's Pat Walsh. He drew this picture of a conversion van and it said Boge to the prom and had me in the van like driving, and he put a lot of work into it. I said, all right, I'll do it, we'll go. That sold you. Huh, it sold me. I still have the picture. I have the drawing that he did. I still have it. I can access it pretty quickly. To be honest with you, you should frame it. I probably should because I've had it this long. I probably should because I've had it this long. So it was Pat Walsh, my buddy, paul Gansey.
Speaker 2:We rent this conversion van and what I did is I made some cassettes you know prom cassettes that we would listen to. That would be our music while we're in the van. I got this Billy Idol poster that I got taped it up on the ceiling of the van, you know, trying to make it as much fun as I possibly could. And then what we did is we got because you're going to say you need drivers and yes, we do need drivers we got older brothers and sisters of Pat and Paul that would take turns being the ones who would drive us. So we went, you know, to the prom. It was great, I'll tell you. When we pulled up outside the country club, they had like one of those semicircle things and all the limousines are pulling up. And then we just pull up with the van and the driver, pat's brother, comes over. He's in a suit and he opens the side of the van for us so we could come out. It was so stupid, stupid, but it's funny.
Speaker 1:And looking at you know, everyone's just looking at us like whoa I'm picturing more like spicoli and his buddies getting out of the van in fast times a little bit like that, but not all the way like that.
Speaker 2:All right, there was no smoke coming out when when door opened up. But we were having fun, it was a good time really was. And everybody was like, oh my God, like who would think to get a conversion van? Well, thank you to Pat and Paul, we did that. So after the prom, if that wasn't enough, then you go back to the school and they have this post-prom party in the gym, I guess to keep you out of trouble. That was the thought behind it and the theme to that was, against all odds, o-z referencing the Wizard of Oz, and to this day I don't know why, I still don't get it. I'm not really sure about why it was like that. They did a fantastic job decorating the gym. You could not tell it was a gym Like. You walked in and you're like what the heck Like? How did they get it to look like this? But it was pretty cool and maybe, maybe I just might frame that picture that Pat Walsh drew in 1984 that convinced me to go in on that conversion van. Yeah. So what can I say? So we go up a little bit in time. First weekend of May in 2024. All right, we've moved up 40 years.
Speaker 2:I went to the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta on day two. It was a three-day festival and I went to the back of my closet trying to figure out what I'm going to wear and I put on this number 33, number 33 Dustin Bufflin shirt that I'm actually sporting right now, and it's an Atlanta Thrashers hockey t-shirt. It's from their last season when they played Atlanta. They were in the NHL. Their last season here was 2010-2011. And throughout the day, no less than 30 people came up to me to say they liked the shirt, whether it was because it said the Thrashers or because it was Dustin Bufflin. I was absolutely amazed at how many people would stop me. I was there with mutual friends. They could not believe how many people were stopping me to talk about the shirt. It was like a piece of history. I wasn't expecting it, but the coolest thing was I ran into two groups of canadians okay, yeah, two groups. They flew down just for the festival because they thought it was a really cool festival, had a lot of good bands over the three days.
Speaker 1:I feel really bad for not going now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one came from Toronto and the other came from Winnipeg. Winnipeg is where the Atlanta Threshers moved to. They became the Winnipeg Jets. The other was Toronto. They flew down and they said they were behind me and they saw the Bufflin shirt. They worked their way through the crowd so that they could come talk to me and I thought that was just super cool. Had some great conversations. If you're listening today, thank you again. I know you're going to be listening after we talk so much about music in my shoes, but it's just so insane how a shirt can make it so that you are talking to a bunch of people that you weren't expecting to.
Speaker 1:Did Dustin continue to play in Winnipeg?
Speaker 2:Yes, had a great career there. He actually started out with the Chicago Blackhawks, got traded to the Atlanta Thrashers but was only here a year before they moved Great career up in Winnipeg and then decided he had enough and he retired in the prime of his career after a number of years up there. All right, a really really good player. Years up there All right A really really good player. So I'm sporting the number 33 Bufflin shirt today because I haven't worn it too much in all of these years, thought it would be the thing to do.
Speaker 2:So a few of the bands that I actually saw first one was a band called Bad Nerves and the lead singer is a combination, in my opinion, of the lead singer from Jet and the lead singer from the Dickies. Like if you kind of take those two and put them together, that's kind of the way that his voice sounds, but it also has like a Ramones and a Clash influence. It was really a lot of fun to watch. I haven't seen a band that I guess youthful and that full of energy and that full. The lead singer really really was a showman. I haven't seen that in like a long time. You know how you see a band and you kind of grow up with them. They kind of get out of that. They're just there to play the songs and do their thing.
Speaker 2:This guy was really good. He really really was good. They're on tour this summer in Europe but they are coming back to the US in the fall of 2024, and their new album is Still Nervous. His voice, I guess his voice is really good. Live, the band is really good. Live. It's tough to capture some of that on studio, but it's still really good. Like what? What they did live. I seriously recommend going to see this because it is just fun and you don't feel your age when you see it. You might feel your age if you start going crowd surfing, like many people were at the show, but people your age, yes. The next day on the Shaky Knees Facebook thing there was a guy. He said he was 57 and he was crowd surfing for the first time and he figured he might as well. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's pretty cool, but it's been a while since I've heard a band like this that can really exc, know, really excite you and just be full of energy and just give everything to have a good show. They didn't care how many people there. They had a good sized crowd that knew a lot of the words, that were really digging them and there was a bunch of people like me who never heard of them before, that were like this is cool. You know, one of the things I go to festivals for and I haven't been to a festival in a really long time but one of the reasons I go is hoping that there's one band I walk away with that I never heard of, that I start to dig and you know, can you know, find out about them and experience, you know what they're all about. This was the band for me, definitely a shake in the east.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing them when they play with the hives this fall in atlanta that will definitely be a good show and it's in a small place, good place to see them. I think that you're definitely going to enjoy it. I'd like to go. I'm going to see if I can make that work right now. I'm actually going to see the hives with the foo fighters um in the summer, so I'm going to take a look. Maybe I'll go and see if I can do that fall show as well, cool.
Speaker 2:So another band that played was the Offspring. We talked about them a few episodes ago. It was a good show. You know they played all their hits. You know when you do these festivals it's a short amount of time on stage so you don't have as much time as normal. You know they played in the middle of the day, so it's daylight. I think the sun was beating right down on the stage on them. I'm sure they weren't comfortable, but it was good. I enjoyed it. They seemed to enjoy it. They sounded good. I was surprised you know, 30 years later I've been saying that a lot lately of bands seeing them and how well they sound still all these years later. You know, back in the day bands didn't sound so good many years later, but they really sounded good. It was fun. I really enjoyed seeing them.
Speaker 2:And then the closer of the show was Weezer put on a great show, played five songs from the Blue Album. I know that they're getting ready to go on tour and play the entire Blue Album. My name is Jonas Buddy Holly. Come Undone Say it Ain't. So that's some of the Blue Album stuff. They did Islands in the Sun, beverly Hills. I think everybody in the whole place was singing the song. It was pretty cool. The age group was really all over the place. Yeah, you know, it was people my age, you know, all the way down to people in their young 20s.
Speaker 1:Somehow, or teenagers, I mean people, just for whatever reason. Generation after generation loves Weezer.
Speaker 2:I can see why. I mean they just seem to be like the everyman's alternative rock band that sings about stuff that we kind of like and their songs are very catchy, whether it's Beverly Hills or Buddy Holly or Come Undone. I mean we've talked about Weezer before, come Undone that song comes on, by the way, just wanted to say that Iezer before Come.
Speaker 1:Undone. That song comes on, by the way. Just wanted to say I believe the song is called Undone.
Speaker 2:Is it really? Yeah, come Undone. I think it's a song by Duran Duran. Now that I think about it, undone, the sweater song, isn't that what it is? Yeah, I keep saying Come Undone. It's okay, we get the point here. It's okay, we get the point here. You are correct about that. But I think it's catchy.
Speaker 2:I remember when it first came out, and even when you didn't want to like it, you're like what is this? You found yourself singing along with the song and here I couldn't wait for them to start playing the song. I had my phone out ready to start the video, you know, it's just funny how things work like that, you know. So what I thought was and he starts talking about they're going on tour with Smashing Pumpkins this summer in I don't know if it was the UK or Europe somewhere, and talks about how they were talking and I guess they were trying to play a Smashing Pumpkins song, and he says, hey, next we're going to play a song Billy Corgan wrote. And then he says oh no, he only half wrote it. And they go into whole celebrity skin and I found that very interesting that in a public venue that they would call out Courtney Love, saying you know, this might be your song. You might say that you do it, but they were talking about Billy Corgan writing the song. It was very interesting, yeah, very, very interesting. So it definitely was a good time. I think I might go back to another festival, you know, in the future. Like I said, it's been a long time since I've been to one, but I enjoyed it Great.
Speaker 2:Yes, I recently read about the naming of a new hockey team that will play in the Federal Prospects Hockey League. No, I've never heard of it either. I have to be honest with you, I do follow hockey, but I've never heard of that before. But what makes this newsworthy is that the team will play in Athens, georgia, and their name is the Athens Rock Lobsters. Yes, it's named after the 1979 song Rock Lobster by the B-52s, who got their start in Athens, and according to Ryan Dennis of the Athens Banner Herald, that's a really cool newspaper name, by the way, the Athens Banner Herald, I like that name.
Speaker 2:Over 8,000 people voted for the team name and Rock Lobsters won by only 560 votes 565 votes. Coming in second was the name the Classic City Panic, a nod to another famous Athens band, widespread Panic. Yeah, 565 votes separated the two. I think it's pretty cool when a music podcast can talk about a sports team name and the music that inspired it. I can't wait to get myself a Rock Lobster shirt. That'll be cool, and if it was Classic City Panic, I'd get the Classic City Panic shirt. You know, I would definitely do that.
Speaker 1:They could have like tie-dye jerseys and everything.
Speaker 2:They could. I think that would be awesome. Rock Lobsters hit the ice at the Classic Center in Athens in the fall of 2024. Hey, Jimmy, do you know what time it is Music in my?
Speaker 1:shoes, mailbag.
Speaker 2:Yes, music in my shoes. Mailbag time, Jimmy. It feels like it's been quite some time since we've done it. It has, and I've missed the song.
Speaker 1:Oh well, good, yeah, I can send you like an MP3 you can just listen to on your phone if you want.
Speaker 2:You know I might be tempted to do that, so don't send it, because I'll listen to it all the time.
Speaker 1:Very kind of you.
Speaker 2:So from Jennifer in Snellville, Georgia. I really enjoyed listening to the interview with Cannon on episode 24 and loved hearing a story of something good coming from the pandemic, Enjoying the show more and more every episode. Keep up the great work. So if we go back she's talking about, we talked to Cannon Rogers who had played Pedal Steel for Cracker a couple of shows and when we asked him when he learned how to play the pedal steel he talked about during the pandemic. That was the time that he started to take that time and really learn it and figure out the craft of the whole thing. You know you would talk to him about the left hand and how different it is and she picked up that that's something that came. That came from the pandemic. I think that's pretty cool that she noticed that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so also on that episode, canon and I spoke about bob dylan, live 1975, the rolling thunder review and canon said that was one of his top five live albums. David in illinois says I have this and while it's very good, Live 1966 is my favorite. And I got back to David and I said Live 66 is good but I really like the Live 75, only because Bob is experimenting in a fun way. He's got David Bowie's old guitarist, Mick Ronson, on it, he's got some different folks that join him throughout the tour and it just makes it a fun album, just very different from all the other things that he did. Please like and follow us on the Music In my Shoes Facebook page or contact us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom, and there should be a new feature, when you play the show on your favorite streaming platform, to send us a one-way text. Try it out, Let us know.
Speaker 1:Music In my Shoes Mailbag.
Speaker 2:Let's revisit some music from the past. Alright, I'm going to start off with May 14th, 1969. 55 years ago Neil Young and Crazy Horse released their first album together called Everybody Knows this Is Nowhere. Down by the River was the first single off that Great song. Cinnamon Girl was released as a single. It didn't come out until almost a year later. It came out in April of 1970, and that's a really long time between singles off the same album and especially when Neil Young was at a point between Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Neil Young's solo releasing a bunch of different things. So I always found that kind of interesting Down by the River.
Speaker 2:The Indigo Girls do a cover of it that is absolutely killer. If you ever get a chance, it's a live version that they do Really, really, really good. I'd say it came out I don't know 96, 97, maybe somewhere around there. I don't remember the exact year. It could have been 95. I don't remember the exact year. It could have been 95. I don't know. But the album also includes Cowgirl in the Sand. It's about a 10-minute song where you really get a good feel of Neil Young and Crazy Horse and the different directions that Neil would go in songs that you know that was to come in the future for his playing on rock and roll records and ultimately the title track.
Speaker 2:Everybody Knows this Is Nowhere, it's a little pop ditty. I love this song Absolutely, think this song is a fantastic song that I think a lot of people don't know the songs, but if you get a chance, definitely check it out. I will. Elvis Costello Accidents Will Happen. The song came out May 4th 1979. Probably my favorite Elvis Costello song. I would say. Yeah, it's about an encounter with a taxi driver in Tucson, arizona, kind of a song of self-reflection. And what makes it interesting is there's no guitars in this song and I never noticed that until I actually read about it, that there's no guitars. I think when you listen to it you think there's guitars in it. You know obviously there's no solos or anything like that, but it sounds like a song with guitars and it's not. It's keyboards, synthes, know drums, but there's no guitars at all. Very, very strange that I never picked up on that in all the years that I was listening to it.
Speaker 1:He has some versions too Like. I think there's a live version where it's just him on piano, maybe there's. There's one that I've heard that's more just like a like a sparse piano version.
Speaker 2:If we're talking about the same thing. In 1978, he played at Hollywood High Hollywood High actually would have concerts at this high school and he played there. They opened up with Accidents Will Happen, and it was just him and Steve Neve, like you said, on piano playing and it's a little bit different than what ended up being the song on the record. The music and the words are inspired by several different songs. You know Burt Bacharach I forget who else, but it comes from a bunch of different things that he openly admits that he took stuff from them to make this song. Again, definitely hands down. My favorite Elvis Costello song Again, definitely hands down. My favorite Elvis Costello song. If we stay in 1979, the Cure Three Imaginary Boys.
Speaker 2:Their debut album was released, but not here in the US. Okay, their first album did not come out here. It wasn't until Boys Don't Cry came out in 1980 in the US as their first album. But Three Imaginary Boys had 1015 Saturday Night Fire in Cairo and the song Three Imaginary Boys Really good debut album by Robert Smith, who just turned 20, and he recorded it when he was 19 years old. And to think what it's like. And he recorded it when he was 19 years old and to think what it's like. It's just crazy what was in his mind even all those years back. You know it is. You know what, jimmy, what it's been a while. Let's do Minute with Jimmy. Oh, it's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:It's time for Minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. All right, timer starts. So we're talking today about the Rizzillos. They're a Scottish punk new wave band and in 1979, april 79, they've released their live record, mission Accomplished. But the Beat Goes On and it has all the same songs as their debut album.
Speaker 1:Can't stand the rozillos, maybe a couple other ones too, but uh, they were just this lesser known in america, really, really fun band. So they were new wave in that sense that they weren't about like nihilism, like some punk rock was, but they were. They weren't like, uh, synth oriented, you know, they were like a guitar band and they just brought the energy, brought the fun. They had songs like somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight and no, which is about, you know, your mom telling you you can't do stuff and you hang around, hang out with the kids on the wrong side of town and that sort of thing. They were just fun. And Top of the Pops was their big hit in England and of course you know they never really had a hit in America. And that's a minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 2:I have to be honest, I could not tell you a single song by them. I've heard of the name but I know nothing and I feel like I just learned something new and I hope everyone listening has learned something new. I'm not the one and see what it's all about, because I know you would not talk about it on your Minute, jimmy, unless it was something that was pretty cool. Minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. All right, I'm not sure we can top that, but we're going to try. We're going to go to May 4th 1984, echo and the Bunnymen release in Ocean Rain. We spoke about the lead-off single, the Killing Moon, on episode 15, and it's one of my all-time favorite songs and I wanted to compare it because I heard another song the other day.
Speaker 2:The Smiths' how Soon Is Now and back in the day that used to be one of my favorite songs, but it's not anymore. I don't know if it's been overplayed too much. I don't know if everybody knows it. I don't know if when you say the Smiths, that's the first thing people think of. I don't know what the answer is, but I haven't changed with the Killing Moon. It's still one of my favorite songs. I haven't veered from that whatsoever, but I don't have a lot of people talking about Echo and the Bunnymen and I don't hear it a lot on the radio satellite radio now and I think that might have something to do with it you know, yeah, yeah, things get overplayed.
Speaker 2:So A-ha, the band that does Take On Me. We all remember that song, right, of course. So they did MTV Unplugged in 2017 and they performed the Killing Moon and with backup vocals was Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, and instead of the guitar being the featured instrument, it's the piano that they make the featured instrument, and it's really cool. It really is a good version. I like it a lot. I really do. And then another band near and dear to Jimmy's heart Pavement on the 1997 BBC sessions. They did. I think it's a good version. I think it is a Pavement indie rock version of the song, but it's really good. I need to look that up.
Speaker 1:Have you not heard it before? I may have back then, but I need to hear it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good, it really is. I've heard the Pavement version before. I never heard the A-ha until recently and it's kind of cool to see these other versions that are good. You know, sometimes people put stuff out and it's not that good and you're like why did I waste my time? But these are really good. So if you get a chance, check them out.
Speaker 2:They also have two more singles from the album, silver and 7C. 7c is a really good song, good sing-along song. I can imagine over in the UK with their buddies they're arm-in-arm singing it, enjoying it and I wouldn't blame them. But it also has Crystal Days, my Kingdom. It's a really good album to listen through from beginning to end.
Speaker 2:Interesting the LP and when we say LP we mean record. All right, lp and cassette came out in May of 1984. The CD came out in August of 84. So it was a long time in between. Well, not long, I guess three months between cassette, lp and CD. We're going to move up to 1989. And again, the Cure Disintegration makes it to our revisiting the past. All right.
Speaker 2:To me this album is the album that exposed the Cure to a whole new generation of younger fans. It peaked at number 12 on Billboard 200 album chart and whereas the previous album, kiss Me, kiss Me, kiss Me was cute and cuddly, loved it saw the tour very cute and cuddly, that album, double album, this album it's kind of much darker, closer to when the cure began definitely goes back in time a little bit. So lullaby was the first single off the album but it was not released as the first single in america. And you know this song here is. You know this song here is. You know singing it kind of like in a whisper, you know, and then gets a little bit louder and you know talking about on candy stripe legs the Spider-Man comes. I like the song, I think it's a really good song.
Speaker 2:Fascination Street actually the first single here in North America came out in April of 89. It was number one on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. Like they started coming out. We talked about this before they started coming out with all these different charts that you can't keep up, like what. You know, when did that start? When? Who was on that? You know, I would like it if they could kind of keep the charts the same, but they didn't. So it was 46 on the Billboard Hot 100, which we've talked a lot about, number one on the Billboard Alternative Airplay. But Fascination Street's about a night in New Orleans on Bourbon Street. So if you can imagine singing out on Bourbon Street instead of Fascination Street, so keeping up with many songs having long intros, this one comes in at two minutes and 22 seconds before they actually start to sing, which is, you know, a thing for the cure. They always like to have long intros. So love songs on here. I think everybody knows this. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in October of 89. Gnosis had peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in October of 89.
Speaker 2:That's a song. Whenever I'm Alone With you, you Make Me Feel I Am Home Again. 311 covered the song and it came out in 2004 by 311, which means 20 years ago. It came out and it was a 15-year-old song when they recorded it. Now it's 20 years later to make 35 years. That's how quick time goes, ladies and gentlemen, just like that. And then Pictures of you came out.
Speaker 2:March of 90. Great song about love in a Robert Smith kind of way, and that's my favorite song on the album Love and Rockets. We're going to stay in 1989. May of 89. Self-titled Love and Rockets Two most popular songs from it. So Alive, no Big Deal. So Alive was their most popular song in America and it reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. And it came in number 51 on the 1989 end of year Billboard Hot 100 songs for the entire year. I mean that's pretty impressive when you think of all the songs that make the Billboard 100. That's so Alive made it number 51 for the year. Pretty awesome, jimmy. One more time I'm going to stay in 1989. Public Image Limited. The number nine album came out. All right. Songs included Happy. All right, the previous album was named Happy, but the song Happy didn't come out till two years later on the Nine album, which reminds me of the Doors releasing the song Waiting for the Sun on Morrison Hotel in 1970, two years after the Waiting for the Sun album came out. Very interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like Generation X had a song called Kiss Me Deadly on their first record and then they had an album later called Kiss Me Deadly that didn't have the song Kiss Me Deadly on it.
Speaker 2:It's interesting that people do that stuff. Very interesting Disappointed is on this album. I think that's an awesome song. I think it's a very unusual song for Public Image Limited, for Johnny Rotten, john Lydon, whatever you want to call them, but I think it's a great song. Talks about you know that's what friends are for and talking about friends, and it's really good. It's kind of long, has some female backup singers Just not what you would expect from Public Image Limited, but it's a really good song. Same Old Story. Another good song Armada. To me, this is their last really good album before they started putting out some other stuff in the 90s. So before we go, jimmy, I just wanted to ask you have you had an opportunity to listen to the Libertines album? We talked about it a couple episodes ago and we just wanted to see if you had a chance.
Speaker 1:I am completely obsessed with the Libertines'. All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade.
Speaker 2:Are you?
Speaker 1:Yes, it is amazing.
Speaker 2:I think so too. I'm glad to hear that you think the same.
Speaker 1:I love every song on it. I'm particularly fond of oh Shoot, yes, but I like them all. It's just a great record. You can listen to it, start to finish and then start it over.
Speaker 2:I agree with you and I do. I do listen to it start to finish. It definitely is a really, really good album. I still think to me it's the best album of 1919.
Speaker 2:It's the best album of 1924. It's the best album of 2024 so far. It is a really good complete album and I think that you know the way they recorded it. We talked about it where they were in their own studios and kind of, you know, kept to themselves inside the Albion rooms. You know, staying there and being able to do it and not have a lot of outside influence. It definitely shows on the album.
Speaker 1:And I guess you know there's been some tension with the band over the years and apparently they all got along and they all shared songwriting credit on every song.
Speaker 2:Yes, they made a decision that they were going to do that that everybody was going to be equal when it comes to that. For those of you who don't know, that's kind of how people get paid and it's also what kind of tears bands apart. When certain people say that they should get a bigger share and this person shouldn't have their name on it, and in these days where there's not a lot of money made in the recording industry, it really is a big deal. So you're right. I mean hats off to them for doing it, and I think it shows. The whole album I can't say it enough is just fantastic, and I'm glad that you think the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wish I knew which songs were which guy singing them. I don't know well enough now.
Speaker 2:It can be tough telling the difference between Carl and Pete. It definitely can be, but at the same time it's kind of cool sometimes that I can't tell the difference between them. You know, like they're interchangeable almost, but it's enjoyable.
Speaker 1:Somebody pulled up a live acoustic thing that they did where they played the songs from that record. I don't know if it was all just from this most recent record or other stuff, but I need to check that out because, among other things, I'll be able to see who sings them.
Speaker 2:True, very true. I'll check that out as well. I'm glad that you liked it yeah, love it Something that you learned newly. Learned on Music in my Shoes.
Speaker 1:And it goes all the way back to episode one.
Speaker 2:And it goes all the way back to episode one, when we talked about the single Run Run Run. Well, that's it for episode 28 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios and, newly, the Libertines fan 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, live life and keep the music playing. Thank you.