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E67 Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Hop into the car with me as I recount a hilarious ride with my daughter and her friend, where our clashing music choices led to unexpected moments of joy.
Prepare for a star-studded flashback as we recount the SNL 50 Homecoming Concert, where the unexpected twist of Jimmy Fallon launching the night with a Blues Brothers-style act set the tone for the evening. As the stage lights flickered, Eddie Vedder delivered heartfelt tributes through the tunes of Tom Petty and Pearl Jam, while the B-52s, transported us back to the '80s with "Love Shack." And just when you think the night couldn't get more magical, Devo, David Byrne, Post Nirvana, and Jack White made us all fans again.
Our journey wouldn't be complete without delving into tales of classic music that shaped generations. Led Zeppelin's ambitious "Physical Graffiti" offer tales of musical genius and legacy. We reminisce about Tom Petty's chart triumphs, The Smiths', and Tears for Fears 'Songs from the Big Chair' album. With a nod to the power of timeless lyrics, we celebrate the enduring beauty of music, inviting listeners to share their thoughts and memories with us.
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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 67. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, jimmy, the other night I drove my youngest daughter and her friend to downtown Alpharetta, an area here in Georgia that has a bunch of eat, drink and be merry establishments. I don't know if you've ever been there before.
Speaker 1:You know, I haven't been there since they've renovated it, which has probably been a long time ago, but my parents used to live in Alpharetta back in the early nineties and so I knew it as this sleepy little area with like literally a five and dime kind of a variety store, a post office and not much else.
Speaker 2:It's really cool. Now they have a great record shop there, oh cool. So not just this eat, drink and be merry stuff, but it's pretty cool. I mean, they got different kinds of shops you can walk around. It's not just for the night, you can go on the weekends. During the day I go for the record shop. But anyway, back to my story. Yeah, you know, it really is pretty cool. So we're driving there and I guess the songs I was playing you know I had my phone connected and listening to music weren't hype enough for them. Okay, they're getting excited to go out, you know, and they're wanting to, you know, get in the mood and the songs I was playing was just not doing it. So the cure Friday I'm in love comes on.
Speaker 2:And now, yeah, there's some excitement, all right. My daughter's like, yeah, this is great, until she realizes it's the live version, and then it's I don't even want to hear this. Oh really, do you know people like that when they hear the live version of a song, all of a sudden it's like I'm not interested at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I can be that way with certain live versions. Certain songs the live version's better and certain most songs, you know the studio version's a little better.
Speaker 2:You're right, but I like this. I love friday. I am in love the live version. I'm listening to it. So we went from this high. No, we started with a low, we got to a high and then, really quickly, we went back to a low.
Speaker 2:But then, a couple of songs later, breaking the law by judas priest comes on and all is good, all of a sudden kind of cracked me up that now this is like yeah, now I'm getting in the mood to go out and I'm like, wait a minute, this is not the song you really should be listening to. You know, I just cracked up, it was just kind of funny and so you, the laughter dies down and I turn down a street, I'm going to drop them off and my daughter says Chris Griswold must be here and it doesn't really register which. At this point I see a station wagon that looks just like the Griswold family truckster parked on the street. And then I mentioned it's Clark Griswold, not Chris Griswold.
Speaker 1:I was thinking maybe this was from you know, european vacation. They met cousin Chris or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we end up having some laughs over that, you know, first it's laughing about breaking the law, then it's laughing about the family truckster and I got home and I, immediately, as soon as I got home, I looked up what the car looked like, cause I was like, let me see, and it was like dead on, it didn't have the double. You remember they had that.
Speaker 2:Like the double headlights all those headlights, but everything else was dead on. Like this person came out and said not only am I going to drive to downtown Alpharetta to eat, drink and be merry, I'm going in the Griswold family truckster.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, hopefully they're just eating and being merry if they drove.
Speaker 2:I'm hoping so. Yeah, because I was merry. Just looking at it. Yeah, so there was married, just looking at it. Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 1:And did you go to the record store after you-?
Speaker 2:I did not. It was later at night so I did not, but I have bought stuff there before and it's a pretty cool place.
Speaker 1:Do you buy vinyl or CDs or what?
Speaker 2:Vinyl.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I listen to more CDs, but I buy vinyl. You know, honestly, the CDs. I have my whole CD collection, so I don't buy anything new, except I do belong to the Grateful Dead CD of the quarter. I get a subscription. I get it as a Christmas gift that my children pay for oh cool, a Christmas gift that my children pay for, oh cool. And about every three months they send a CD and it's at least a double CD. Sometimes it's a triple CD, sometimes it's a triple with a bonus, you know, because the Grateful Dead would have pretty long shows and that's what it is.
Speaker 1:It's like a show. Oh, so you get one whole show.
Speaker 2:Yes, and the bonus might be parts of another show or so.
Speaker 2:So that's the only new CDs I get. But if I'm going to a record store I'm looking for two things One, vinyl. Two, I'm looking for posters. That are things that I remember that I haven't seen in a while, that I might want, Yep. So that's the other thing I kind of keep my eye on when I'm out there. Got it, so I get home and I had started watching a show before I took them. I continued once I got home and it was the SNL 50 Homecoming concert.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was on Peacock and I was probably one of the dozen people that was watching it. The Roots were the house band and I thought the Roots did an excellent job. They actually took the whole week off from the Tonight Show and Paul Schaefer and the world's most dangerous band sat in on the Tonight Show for a whole week.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2:And Letterman actually showed up at one episode saying Paul, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great and it was kind of funny, you know. But the Roots really did a good job. They played with a bunch of different bands and they were on top of their game. I mean they really were good. Good, I like them a lot, I really do so. Opens up with soul man jimmy fallon comes out and it was cute, you know, kind of get the show started. That was, you know, one of the big first songs was he doing like a blues brothers?
Speaker 1:he was doing a blues, but no ak.
Speaker 2:But no, ackroyd. No, ackroyd was not there. So they had a bunch of dancers with them that were dressed up looking all Blues Brother-ishy and so forth. Okay, miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard, they came out. They did Crazy Little Thing called Love, and I'm not saying that the song was good or anything, but what really made me realize that I'm getting older is that Hannah Montana is grown and has tattoos all over. And it's definitely, you know. Those moments make me realize that I'm getting older, just like when my kids have a birthday.
Speaker 1:Well, our kids are close to the same age. I think my daughter's first concert was the Best of Both Worlds Tour, which was Miley Cyrus. It was Hannah Montana the first half and then Miley Cyrus the second half, and so she opened for herself in character and then as herself. Now she wasn't all tattooed yet, but it was her saying okay, I'm leaving the Disney Channel persona behind and doing my own thing. And within a few years from that she was doing Wrecking Ball and all that stuff. That was very different from the Disney Channel.
Speaker 2:Very different from the Hannah Montana days. But that really kind of struck me, seeing that it was like, wow, I'm getting older because Hannah Montana is not Hannah Montana days. But that really kind of struck me Like seeing that it was like, wow, I'm getting older because Hannah Montana's not Hannah Montana anymore. Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam does the Waiting by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Roots again are backing up and then goes into the Pearl Jam song Corduroy, and I thought it was really good. In between he was, you know, kind of mentioning cast members who had passed and I just thought it was a cool vibe the way that he did the whole thing and it, you know, I'm sure he practiced it, I'm sure he knew in his head, but it came off as very natural, like very believable, likevable, like this, wasn't, you know, like do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:like yeah, not too staged, and yeah that's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it that it was pretty cool b-52s love shack with fred armisen, a cast member, back in the day playing drums and it was pretty cool Like everybody stood up on their feet, everybody knew the words and was singing along and you know it was cool to see it. The B-52s you know are older than me and you can tell that they're a little bit older. They don't move the way that they once did in the 70s and everything, just like I don't do any of the things I was able to do in the 70s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they were like college age or in their 20s, in the mid-70s, so they're a good bit older than you and I.
Speaker 2:They are, but they could still sing and it was great. People loved it. Now, I'm not mentioning everybody that was on, because what I will say, half of the show I had no interest in whatsoever. Okay, so I'm just kind of highlighting some of the things that I liked Backstreet Boys and I know you're like wait a minute. You just said you're highlighting what you liked. It was really cool to see so many celebrities because they kept going into the crowd and showing them. They all knew the words to. I want it that way. The whole place was singing it. Not that I'm a big fan of the song at all, but I think that if you start this I did, I was at my house, you know, a couple days ago and I just start to sing the song and then my kids would like all of a sudden like join in, like everybody seems to know that song.
Speaker 1:I don't know the words to that song.
Speaker 2:I know I want it that way and tell me why that's about?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:That's what you know, yeah so, but everybody there, like Paul Rudd they showed Paul Rudd a million times. He, he knew the words to every song. He was dancing nonstop. He was sitting right by Maya Rudolph he might have even actually been next to her and they were just singing away. But everybody, it didn't matter what celebrity, because the whole place was packed with celebrities, everybody knew it and I just thought it was cool, kind of seeing that whole vibe of people, celebrities just being themselves and just kind of having fun. And even if it's the Backstreet Boys, that's good enough. Backstreet was back.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, all right. What else you got?
Speaker 2:I can't believe I said that. So we're going to go from the Backstreet Boys, we're going to go into Devo.
Speaker 1:Oh good.
Speaker 2:So Devo. They did Uncontrollable Urge and it was Devo being Devo and 50 plus years after that song came out, it was just so much fun to watch Fred Armisen again on drums, and I wasn't sure at first because they had the yellow suits on that they wore in the 1978 Saturday Night Live performance Right and the same sort of sunglasses, square sunglasses.
Speaker 2:And I wasn't sure and I kept looking, I'm like, I think it is, I think it's him, and they kept putting the camera on him, like they wouldn't be putting the camera on just any drummer. It's got to be him. And sure enough, it turned out to be him. So get this. Did you know mark mothersbaugh? All right, he wrote the song. He earns a million dollars in royalties annually not off uncontrollable urge but just off of uncontrollable urge.
Speaker 2:That's impossible. It's not because it's the theme song to the MTV show Ridiculousness. Oh okay, and all of the reruns make it so that he gets a million dollars a year.
Speaker 1:Ridiculousness. Like I don't watch MTV, but if I'm ever scrolling, you know, through channels, it seems like it's always on MTV.
Speaker 2:Hence why Mark Mothersbaugh gets a million dollars every year from one song. I've never seen it. I don't even know what it's about. What is the quick premise of the show?
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's always on. I think it's like YouTube videos and stuff, I think.
Speaker 2:But he doesn't sing the theme song Someone else does, but because he wrote it. That's where the money is, and it's a million dollars a year. Nothing else that they do. He just gets a million bucks a year.
Speaker 1:The other guys in Devo are like can you buy me a cheeseburger, mark? And he's like yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:There you go, without a doubt. So in 78, I mentioned they were on Saturday Night Live they did Satisfaction, but in Devo style. Yeah, I love their version of Satisfaction. The ironic part was is that I want to say it was October 14th 1978, they played the week before. I think it was October 7th. The Rolling Stones actually were on Saturday Night Live and here it's the week after and they're doing a cover. So Snoop D-O-double-G did Gin and Juice. I can't get enough of Snoop. We've talked about Snoop a ton of times on the show.
Speaker 2:He's just fun to watch. It was good until he brought Jelly Roll out, and then it just kind of went downhill from there. Oh, really, I'm not a big Jelly Roll fan at all and it was good, and then it wasn't so good.
Speaker 1:Do you not think he's a good singer, or what are you? What's the problem with Jelly Roll?
Speaker 2:No, to all above.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I think he's a good singer.
Speaker 2:I don't at all, but that's all right, because music is not a competition. Obviously, snoop wanted to bring him out. I guess, or Lauren told him to do it, but Jelly Roll was on the show earlier and did his own couple of songs. He did a tribute to Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1:And you didn't like that either.
Speaker 2:No, johnny Cash is rolling over in his grave. Okay, all right, I didn't. And it's not a competition, not at all.
Speaker 1:Apparently it is for Johnny Cash.
Speaker 2:No, it's not.
Speaker 1:Why would he roll over then?
Speaker 2:Because Beethoven did also Boom.
Speaker 1:That was better than the last one. That's good.
Speaker 2:There you go. So David Byrne of the Talking Heads, arcade Fire and St Vincent did David Bowie's Heroes and it was pretty good. I'm not a St Vincent fan, I'm not either, but that song they did good. But then RK-Fire went on to do like two more songs and I couldn't understand why they got so much time of this three-hour and 20-minute concert. I definitely would have reeled it back a little bit.
Speaker 1:Nirvana with Post Malone, and just want everybody to know, jim just pointed at his shirt. He's wearing a Nirvana shirt with a funny face on it, you know, like a smiley face with the tongue sticking out. So just so you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought I would wear it just because Nirvana played with Post Malone Vocals and guitar did smells like teen spirit. I still enjoy seeing Dave Grohl, chris Novoselic, pat Smear. I enjoy it, I look forward to it. It just brings me back. I enjoyed Nirvana when they were out and you know they have different singers. I think St Vincent actually sang with them for um. They did like an LA fire, um charity thing or whatever.
Speaker 1:And that was one of my least favorite singers that they had up.
Speaker 2:I didn't see it, so I'm going to try and check it out.
Speaker 1:The best singer in that event was Dave Grohl's daughter, Violet Grohl. Oh nice, she did all apologies and it was very good.
Speaker 2:I'd like to check it out. I have not seen it, so I don't want to stay too much longer on just this one topic. But David Byrne later joined Robin Robin with a Y who I had no idea who she was, on a song called Dancing on my Own, a 2010 song, and they both wore the Talking Heads big suits.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:And I got to tell, tell you them, singing together and they put together like a dance routine that they, like they must have come up with, was actually pretty cool. I don't think they took themselves too seriously. It's just like hey, robin, yes, david, what do you want to do here? How about we just go back to back and then we spin around and we put our hands up in the air and do the hokey pokey? I really thought it was kind of cool. It came off where I was like I want to watch this again. I think that was probably one of the best performances of the entire night.
Speaker 1:Wow, all right, I want to see that. I don't know who Robin is.
Speaker 2:Some pop star. I don't know her, never heard of her, but I enjoyed it. I thought that they did pretty cool and, you know, david Byrne gave it a coolness, but Robin also gave it a coolness of not taking it seriously, as probably she normally does when she sings the song. So, cher, I think she turned back time because she's 78, didn't look like it whatsoever and performed in a sheer bodysuit.
Speaker 2:Yeah okay, it was crazy, it was absolutely insane. 60 years ago, in 1965, sonny and Cher had a number one song with I Got you Babe, and I don't think anyone could have imagined her rocking the stage like that in 2025. No one 60 years ago was thinking that at all. No. Final performer Jack White doing Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World. As the song is ending, he's playing the music to Seven Nation Army and finishes singing Rockin' in the Free World and then goes right into Seven Nation Army. It was so cool. It really was super energy. The way Jack White plays guitar very cool, a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:The roots again, I think they did a fantastic job of being the backup band for many of the performers and you know my hat's off to them. I mean, that's got to be difficult with all these different people and different types of music that you don't know and having to put up with some of the performers. Yeah, I think they did a great job. And Jimmy, that's my highlights of Saturday Night Live 50, the homecoming concert Jimmy, I've done enough talking so far, so, on that note, according to my watch, it's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute. Minute with jimmy. Minute with jimmy. Minute with jimmy. It's time for a minute with jimmy.
Speaker 1:minute with jimmy so I was listening to uh, my spotify release radar. You ever do that no okay.
Speaker 1:So if you go down to like made for you on spotify well, you're an Apple Music person. They probably have a similar thing and they have a thing called Release Radar. That's the artists that you like that have new things out, and Bob Mould had a new record out. He's the singer from Husker, du and Sugar and he's a solo artist. So I play this song called Neanderthal that he just put out and it's fantastic. It is like the high energy, unexpected changes that I love from Bob and it's part of a two song double single, another song called here we Go Crazy. It's a little poppier, a little more accessible, but a good song as well. But I really like the neanderthal song. Uh, like I said, unexpected. When you think it's going to go four counts, it only goes three. It goes to the next part. It's just kind of always keeping you guessing.
Speaker 2:So check it out I definitely will, and I think that fits in perfectly with the show. I don't remember uh how long ago, but when, when Seth Meyers' show was going off TV, bob Mould came and he played it Makes no Sense At All and Fred Armisen was playing with them, and that's kind of cool how it all ties in when you had no idea what we were going to talk about. So I'll definitely check that out, because I like sugar more than I like Husker Du, but I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely Neanderthal has a sugar vibe to it.
Speaker 2:Very cool. Yeah, my name is Jimmy, so from 2025 that Jimmy just talked about, let's go back to 1965. Now let's go back to 1965. One of the first songs written by Sid Barrett, who founded Pink Floyd, was a song called Bob Dylan Blues, and now it wasn't recorded until February 26, 1970. He writes it, he doesn't record it till five years later and it was during the sessions for his second solo album that came out November of 1970, but they didn't release it on there, it didn't make the cut and it wasn't until 2001 this song comes out. It's actually a pretty cool song, so I really enjoy stuff like that, where someone writes a song, they don't record it till five years later, it doesn't get released, and then all of a sudden, you know I guess it was probably 31 years later they release it and I say to myself, why didn't you? Because this would have been one of the better songs on that album. Don't know, you never know, you never know. Bob Dylan Blues, february 24th 1975, know, bob Dylan Blues, february 24th 1975,.
Speaker 2:Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti comes out. This is the Led Zeppelin album that I believe less would have been more A double album that I think could have been a great one record album and I know a lot of people are going to totally disagree with me on that. People love this album and it's just my opinion. But of the 15 songs that are on this album, seven were outtakes from previous albums, including Houses of the Holy from previous albums, including Houses of the Holy, a song they didn't think fit on their 1973 album of the same name, houses of the Holy. They're like, yeah, this isn't good enough, you know it doesn't fit, let's just put it on the next album, right? But this album has songs that they recorded for Led Zeppelin III, that they recorded for Led Zeppelin III for the next album, led Zeppelin IV, zoso, whatever people want to call it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Led Zeppelin IV.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know other favorites of mine In my Time of Dying Trampled Underfoot Cashmere. Everybody knows that song. Yeah, of course. Ten years gone, in 2021, rolling Stone magazine named Kashmir number 148 on its top 500 greatest songs of all time. And in 2020, rolling Stone named Physical Graffiti number 144 on the 500 greatest albums of all time. And I think every other Led Zeppelin album is better than Physical Graffiti. Yeah, but I like some of those songs. I mean, I really like Trampled Underfoot. I really like Houses of the Holy In my Time of Dying. I like those songs a lot. I think it could have been a great one-record album. Jimmy, this is interesting. 45 years ago you would hear on the radio Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Don't Do Me Like that. It reached number 10 on Billboard Hot 100 in February of 1980. Billboard Hot 100 in February of 1980. Their song Refugee. That peaked at number 15 in March of 1980. So 45 years ago. Right now we're hearing both of those songs on the radio.
Speaker 2:I remember that time yeah 40 years ago they released Don't Come Around here no More. That peaked at number 13, may of 1985. That was released February 1985. All right, 35 years ago Tom Petty, free Fallen, reached number one on Billboard, january 27th 1990. And 30 years ago he peaked at number 13 in February 1995 with you Don't Know how it Feels. Oh yeah, I guess this time of the year was very good for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I mean a lot of songs released, a lot of songs that were peaking. I just thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 2:February 1985, the Smiths' Meet His Murder comes out. Manchester England Band picks it up a notch for its second album. Johnny Marr's guitar and Andy Rourke's bass, alongside Morrissey's vocals and Mike Joyce's drums, are worth a listen. I find sometimes I just listen to the words, or sometimes I'm just listening to the guitar, sometimes I'm just listening to the bass. Do you ever do that with songs where you're just focused in on one certain part of it?
Speaker 1:Not so much. I'm probably guilty of not listening to the words enough. Usually I'm more just listening to the music and the way all the instruments interact and the way the vocal melody interacts, but I'm less thinking about the words usually all I hear is the bass.
Speaker 2:Like that's my focus, and you know I'm not saying I don't hear the rest, but to me it's like I almost can amplify in my mind the different parts of it. I think they just have fantastic chemistry between them. It's a great album to listen to the instruments, regardless. If you're listening to the words, like the words, don't like the words. You know whether it's the headmaster ritual, russ Holm, ruffians, what she said, nowhere fast or barbarism begins at home, are just cool to listen to. For 1985, jangly guitar and outstanding bass. That's not REM. Yeah, you know, it's really, really cool music. The last minute 50 of Barbarism is just the instruments. And man, what a funky bass it is. It just gives the song such a different feel as it's ending than the rest of the song. The title song, meat is Murder. Murder is not cheerier kind. Morrissey's a vegetarian. My youngest daughter is a vegetarian, but back then in 1985 I didn't know any vegetarians.
Speaker 1:I didn't understand and like I just didn't isn't it funny that that was a big deal back then. Like he doesn't eat meat? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:It was a big deal again, my daughter is a vegetarian, doesn't eat meat. Yeah, it was. It was a big deal. Again, my daughter is a vegetarian. I'm not making fun of her or anything. I'm just saying 40 years ago things were much different the way that people looked at things. I mean 40 years ago would you think that you would buy bottled water?
Speaker 1:40 years ago we didn't have bottled water water.
Speaker 2:I can't remember when it really came on this no, we weren't drinking bottled water really 40 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah I don't know when I was working in new york on tv commercials and stuff and like doing production and I would have to buy bottled water for the set. I remember doing that in 1993 and I can't really remember how recent bottled water was a thing. So sometime around the last 40 years but was that like what?
Speaker 2:was it avion, or wasn't it like designer names?
Speaker 1:avion and avion's gross. It's not good bottled water I've never had milky, really yeah, it's weird because it has extra uh minerals in it and so it just doesn't taste right really yeah, that's what I think. Hey, bottled water is a competition I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why we don't do a podcast on bottled water no, that's a whole nother podcast whole nother thing, whole nother thing.
Speaker 2:Us version added how Soon Is Now to this album. I thought that, yeah, it was not on the UK version, all right, it was only on the US. And I think it was to capitalize on the popularity in US clubs where I was going, where I was hanging out, Spittin' Levittown, you know Malibu and Lido Beach, you know both in New York York they were playing how Soon Is Now and and plenty of other clubs across the US. But I think that they decided let's capitalize on this whole thing and put it on there and it they thought it was going to be a big hit. But it really wasn't a big hit, even though it's the most well-known Smith song. So I still find it hard to believe it never, not any song from this album made a WLIR Screamer of the Week. That's surprising. It's really surprising because there are just some really good songs. But you know what, Jimmy? Really good songs, but you know what Jimmy? Tears for Fears. February 25th 1985, the same month as the Smiths. Okay, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:They released songs from the big chair. What a great album. This is Eight songs. You know, can you imagine an album it's just eight songs? Yeah, eight songs that are sequenced in such a way you want to listen to the entire album all the way through. They did such a great job. It's almost not that they all run into each other, but they almost all run into each other. Like it's really cool the way they did it. I had the album and the cassette and I got a lot of play in it on the 71 Buick Skylark. That cassette was in all the time. I mean, it was just such a great, great album. Shout WLIR, screamer of the Week, first week of February 1985. And it wasn't until August 85 that it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Isn't that crazy. Like six months later it goes from best song on LIR to number one in America.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that's when I remember it. You know, living in Atlanta, I remember it that fall more so than February there you go.
Speaker 2:The guitar solo in Shout is so cool. You know, shout is very I don't want to say monotonous, that's not the right word, that's a negative thing. But you know, I don't know what you would say, but you know it's like. You know it's like this, but that guitar solo just is, it opens the whole thing up, does that?
Speaker 1:make sense it does. It's a cool song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really like the song Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Lir Scream Over the Week the first week of March 1985, reached number one on Billboard in June of 85. I'm pretty sure anyone who has heard a song from the 80s knows the song Everybody Wants to Rule the World, great sing-along pop song I think you know real good. Over the years I've read in multiple publications that Joe Strummer of the Clash said Tears for Fears lifted the title from the song Charlie Don't Surf. It came out in 1980. The very first verse begins with everybody wants to rule the world. Oh, joe said. He saw Tears for Fears band member Roland Arzabal in a restaurant and said you owe me a fiver. And supposedly he pulled out a five pound note and gave it to Joe.
Speaker 1:Okay, payment for services rendered.
Speaker 2:Yes, now, is that true? I don't know, but it is definitely something that's been going around for many years. Second week of April 85, head over heels screamer of the week. Second week of April 85, head Over Heels Screamer of the Week, peaking at number three on Billboard in November 1985. I love the opening piano part Gives it a grand feeling. It's a grand piano that's being played. I just think it's super cool, really like it. Mother's Talk was also released as a single but stalled at number 27 the following year, in May of 1986. That's how long this album was out and playing. The four remaining songs are all good in their own right the Working Hour, I Believe, broken and Listen All for freedom and for pleasure.
Speaker 1:Nothing lasts forever everybody wants to rule the world. Oh man, you just like took it to the next level there on your spoken word poetry well, thank you, jimmy.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that. Welcome listen if any of you want to comment on my spoken word poetry. Well, thank you, jimmy, I appreciate that Listen. If any of you want to comment on my spoken word poetry, feel free by contacting us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for episode 67 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 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.
