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E80 Billboard Hits of June 1980: Take Me to Funkytown
We take a nostalgic journey through the Billboard Hot 100 chart from June 7, 1980, and explore musical milestones of that year including Frank Sinatra's comeback and Peter Gabriel's innovative album "Melt."
• Examination of Billboard Hot 100 hits from June 7, 1980
• Discussion of Frank Sinatra's "Theme from New York, New York" which became his signature song despite being recorded in 1980
• Analysis of Christopher Cross's popularity and Michael McDonald's distinctive backing vocals on "Ride Like the Wind"
• Exploration of the Mount St. Helens eruption and photographer Robert Landsberg's heroic final act
• Recap of the Virginia Highland Porch Fest featuring Jimmy Guthrie's performance with the Concord Grapes
• Minute with Jimmy segment featuring Tommy Stinson from The Replacements
• Deep dive into Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" and other significant releases from May 1980
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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 80. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new, new or remember something old. So, Jimmy, I wanted to start the show with looking back at the Billboard Hot 100 songs from June 7th 1980. Episode 80, June 1980.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was wondering when you were going to pick up on the whole episode and year colliding with each other and here we are, 80. We're doing it.
Speaker 2:We did it with 75. It actually was by accident. That did not happen on purpose.
Speaker 1:I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just kind of happened that I decided to do episode 75 with.
Speaker 2:April of 75, billboard Hot 100. So I thought it was pretty cool. A lot of people reached out and said that they thought that was cool. So I thought it was pretty cool. A lot of people, you know, reached out and said that they thought that was cool. So here we are, we're doing it again. So we're going to start off with well, first of all, I don't want to go through the whole list, and I know every time I say that means I am going to go through the whole list, but I'm going to jump around, we'll go all over, but I'm going to jump around, we'll go all over, but we're going to start Not the whole 100.
Speaker 2:No, we're going to start with number 51 from June 7th 1980, and that was Alice Cooper clones we're all single. Peaked at number 40 on Billboard Hot 100, july 5th of 1980. I'm a clone, I know I'm'm fine. I'm one and more on the way. That's a great way to start us all all right. This was new wave alice cooper right you know away from his rock.
Speaker 2:You know that, you know we got to know all about. But I like this song and I thought this was a good song and then the Smashing Pumpkins did a fantastic cover of it. It was the B-side of the re-release of Bullet with Butterfly Wings in 1996. And we could go on about that. That's a whole nother story, but we're not because we're on June 7th 1980. Number 50, to anybody. There is something about this song. The music starts off. It's almost a little sultry sounding. It's a good song, it really is. Peaked at number one August 2nd 1980. The amazing thing about it, it's from the Xanadu soundtrack.
Speaker 2:Oh, really A film that did not do well whatsoever. It was a flop, if I remember correctly. Do you remember Xanadu?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd forgotten it was a film, but I remember the Olivia Newton-John song there you go, and Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra.
Speaker 2:they did, I think, almost all the music for it.
Speaker 1:I don't really remember.
Speaker 2:I don't think I remember any of the ELO songs, to be honest. But you know I remember this song and it's a good song. It's still a good song, you know. It's a slow kind of you know, I don't know adult contemporary song. I like it. So we've mentioned Blondie's Atomic before. It was number 47 on the list, but at number 42, All Night Long by Joe Walsh. We get up early and we work all day. We put our time in because we like to stay up all night long. I mean great way to open a song, great lines. A lot of people can relate to. That peaked at number 19, july 26th of 80. I like joe walsh, I like his solo stuff. I like, you know, when he got into the eagles and the eagles liked him so much they would play his solo stuff in concert yeah, they still do yeah, and that's not something a lot of bands will do.
Speaker 2:You know, they kind of try and keep it separate, right, because we play your solo stuff, then we have to play my solo stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they never played Don Henley's solo stuff or Glenn Frey's solo stuff.
Speaker 2:But they would play Joe Walsh's. Yeah, and Joe Walsh, I mean I love his guitar work is. And Joe Walsh, I mean I love his guitar work, I love his singing, I love his lyrics, I mean it's just so cool. He has so many great songs. All Night Long is definitely one of them. Number 38, jay Giles' band Love Stinks. We've talked about that before. Good song holds the test of time. It was on a couple of weeks ago in my house and one of my kids was singing it. So you know I always like that. Things like that, you know, excite me from the standpoint of. This is something that I was listening to 45 years ago and here they are just singing away with it, you know. Number 35, theme from New York, new York, and I think everybody knows the song Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And it was from 1977. I think there was like a I don't know if it was a movie or a musical Liza Minnelli was in and she initially sang the song and I was real familiar with it I lived in New York at the time. You would hear it. But then Frank decided to record it and it really was the beginning of his comeback in 1980. Now we're talking about Frank Sinatra, who had been singing songs since the beginning of time, but he really had a comeback In the 70s. He kind of faded away. He did a bunch of covers of songs that didn't really do well. And in 1980, he records this and all of a sudden, you know he's playing the places all over, you know the world. Again he's on top, you know.
Speaker 1:He didn't do New York. New York till 1980?
Speaker 2:1980.
Speaker 1:I never knew that. I thought he did it, you know, back in the 60s or something.
Speaker 2:No, he did not. It wasn't until 1980. And you know, when you think about it, start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York, new York, yeah. Or music in my shoes. I want to be a part of that too. So I'd say it's Frank Sinatra's signature song and it's funny, that's what I think. It came out in 1980. It's probably his last big hit that he had. You thought it was a song from a long time ago. So obviously you think it's a big song. Oh yeah, and it wasn't until 1980.
Speaker 1:His song, oh yeah, and it wasn't until 1980.
Speaker 2:His other signature song, though. What would you say? I would say either Fly Me to the Moon or Come Fly With Me, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:That would be like to me his next best songs. What about you? I feel like Fly Me to the Moon's a little more across the board. Tony Bennett does a version right, but the one that I think stuck with Frank is my Way.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that totally, you know, and I like that. I guess I like these three songs more. So that's what I think of initially. I really do I listen to. I don't listen to the theme from New York a lot, you know. That's just not a song that I play a lot, but I do play. The other two, come Fly With Me and Fly Me to the Moon, are regulars, both the studio version and the live at the Sands.
Speaker 2:I listen to those a lot and enjoy those. Number 29, another Brick in the Wall. Part two, former number one song, a song that we talked about, you know, a bunch of episodes ago, number 27. Tell me if you remember this one the Manhattans singing Shining Star. The song peaked at number five on July 19th 1980. Do you remember it? Yes, honey, you are my shining star, don you go away? Yeah, oh, baby. At number 26, a song we spoke about on our last episode, the clash train in vain. Stand by me again. I think you had said like it's a song that sounds just like it itself and there's no other song that sounds like it at all. Right, and I mean what a good song and that it actually you know, when you think about it these years later, that it was on billboard hot 100 and this particular week it was number 26 yeah, I remember being excited that I heard it on KC's Top 40.
Speaker 2:There you go, and so did the rest of America.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, they heard it. I don't know if they were excited, but I was excited.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they were excited. I'm sure so. Number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from June 7th 1980, is Ride Like the Wind, christopher Cross, oh yeah 1980 is Ride.
Speaker 2:Like the Wind. Christopher Cross, oh yeah, His debut single with Michael McDonald of Doobie Brothers fame on backing vocals. It peaked at number two in April of 80. And Christopher Cross just seemed to be everywhere in 1980, 1981, maybe even into 1982, winning all kinds of awards. I mean, he was just like he was the in thing. Do you remember that? Yeah, what did you think of him?
Speaker 1:You know I'm not a huge Christopher Cross fan but he's just not my cup of tea. You know I don't like that kind of soft rock, yacht rock stuff very much. But you know he was good at what he did.
Speaker 2:It's funny that you say that, because I looked it up. I wanted to see what they listed him as. They did list them as yacht rock when I looked it up. It's funny. But do you remember michael mcdonald? He would do the backing. So christopher cross sings the whole song and you know I'm gonna ride like the wind, and then chris.
Speaker 2:Uh, michael mcdonald would be like ride like the wind, like yeah here we go such a long way yeah, that's it, that's what he would do, and this little raspy voice and everything, and um, yeah, I like Christopher Cross. Some of the stuff I do, I, I like it. I really like the theme from Arthur. Um, I like that movie with Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli, who we just mentioned a few minutes ago. I like that movie. So you know, everything's not everybody's cup of tea.
Speaker 1:No, exactly.
Speaker 2:Not at all. Could be my Pepsi, who knows. So if that wasn't your cup of tea, I'm sure number 19, lost in Love by Air Supply, is definitely not your cup of tea.
Speaker 1:No, but at that time it was like a slow couple skate song at the skating rink. So it's like okay yeah, that serves, its purpose.
Speaker 2:Lost in love and I don't know much. Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? Yeah, it's gorgeous. It is, jimmy. I agree with you.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure I use that word a whole lot. What has this show?
Speaker 2:become Jim. You know what? I didn't pick these songs. These songs are what the Billboard chart was Okay okay.
Speaker 2:So we're just going through them. It had been high as number three in May and here we were number 19 on June 8th 1980. Number 14, another song we've talked about, the Pretenders Brass in Pocket. Pretenders Brass in Pocket. Number 13, robbie Dupree Steal Away. Number 11, billy Joel. It's still rock and roll to me. I love this song. I know we talked about Glass Houses a few episodes ago. I really didn't talk a lot about this song. But this song to me is just super cool. It kind of talks about, you know, whether it's rock and roll or you're calling it New Wave or you're calling it this, you know everything that was happening in 1980 when this came out. You know it kind of all is the same in the end. You know it's just some cool music to listen to and you can call it different things and you know you can put it on the cover of this magazine as this and this magazine as that, but it's still rock and roll to me. Yeah, you know, I like it.
Speaker 1:I like it too.
Speaker 2:Number nine Cars by Gary Newman. Oh yeah, here in my car I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors. It's the only way to live In cars.
Speaker 2:I never really thought about it, but like that's kind of sad if he was living in his car. So what it was is, I believe, is he was in his car and something was going on outside his car and he just locked the doors and he just felt safe, like it was like something that really happened. And you know it's, the only way to live is lock the doors and you're okay. You know, um, you know the synthesizers give it that like futuristic sound again. This is 1980, so it's so cool. Like you know, like man, I, I gotta just keep listening. You know I gotta hit rewind or I gotta pick the record uh, needle up and bring it back to the front so I can, you know, start it again, because the beginning was just really cool, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it has that sort of fade in on that synth chord and then the drum hits.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, really cool. Still like the song. Still like the song Number seven Against the Wind, bob Seger. I'm not a huge Bob Seger fan, but I do really like the song a lot. It's a good song, you know. It's one of those things that you know. For me, even not being a big fan and not listening a whole lot and knowing what the whole song was about, at times I felt like I was against the wind. You know Like we all still running against the wind.
Speaker 2:You know Like we can all kind of relate to that Yep Number six, the Rose by Bette Midler. Oh yeah, I forgot about this song. I loved this song when it came out and I haven't listened to it in a long time. I'll be honest, but did you ever see the the movie the rose.
Speaker 2:I don't think I did so it's loosely based on Janis Joplin. Bette Midler plays her in the movie and you know just kind of similarities to the way that Janis's life went. So you know it's kind of sad, but at the same it made you want to watch it because it was loosely based on Janis Joplin. Not sure I would have watched it if it hadn't been for that, you know. So number five Blondie, call Me sliding down the chart after being at number one. Number two coming up live at Glasgow Paul McCartney and Wings. And this is the B-side. So do you know the story behind this song? No, I'm going to share it with you, that's what we're here for.
Speaker 2:That's what we're here for. So, if you remember, we had an episode where we talked about Paul McCartney getting busted in Tokyo. Oh right, yeah, and they canceled his tour and he was going to come to America. They canceled that before it happened. They didn't put tickets on sale, they just canceled it. And he decided I'm going to work on my McCartney 2 album and record everything. I'm saying me like it's me, but I don't mean it that way. He decided that he's going to record every instrument and he's going to do all this stuff and he's going to release it 10 years after the first McCartney album. So he has it already, he releases it and the first single is coming up and it's the one with him playing all of the different instruments. On the B side they put the live version. And do you remember the video? The video has, I don't know, 30 different Paul McCartneys in it and a few Lindas.
Speaker 2:And a few Lindas and it's the different phases of his career, different Beatles and solo and just different people and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the first music video I really remember seeing and thinking, wow, that's like a music little movie they made just for this song. They played it on American Bandstand and I was just blown away that, like he didn't play live, he made this video about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and not just made the video, put a lot of work into it, you know, to make this happen. So the song comes out and they start playing the A side, which was him, and you know I had the 45. And I was like man, it just was. So it was just like overproduced or too polished or it was just too much. It just didn't sound like it was Paul McCartney. Then you flip it over and you put the B side on, paul McCartney and Wings had played the song I think it was the December of 79, if I'm not mistaken and it was fantastic and it was what you expect when you hear Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2:So, while the rest of the world, the original A-side was what went number one and was the hit across the world, in America it was the live version and initially they would put that it was the A-side and then finally they decided to change it that the hit was actually the live version. That's not what they did initially, but the live was so good, so good and for me, having paul mccartney who had been busted earlier in the year, this was kind of cool to have him have a good song, something that everybody seemed to like, and people like the video, even though it was the version of him doing it solo. They liked the video and that kind of superseded the music, like did on a lot of MTV bands, if you think about it, you know.
Speaker 2:So but yeah, it was definitely cool and it's still a good song to listen to. So the number one song on Billboard Hot 100, 45 years ago, on June 7th 1980, gotta Make a Move to A town. That's right for me. Oh yeah, that was number one for a while. Town to keep me moving, keep me grooving with some energy.
Speaker 1:Funky town. Yeah, I mean I've talked about it, talked about it, talked about it, talked about it. I mean I've talked about it, talked about it talked about it.
Speaker 2:Talked about it, yes, talked about moving. There you go, gotta move on, Gotta move on. But we're not ready to move on yet. That song was number one May 31st until June 21st of 1980. You're right, it was number one for a long time, right. And then, you know, it was building its way up and then it was building its way down. It was on Billboard forever. But what a great song. I mean it's still a good song, like if you go to a party and someone puts that on, you know everybody's tapping their foot, moving around a little bit. You know enjoying it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, it's an instant good time.
Speaker 2:So Pseudo Echo released a cover that made it to number six on Billboard July 18th of 1987, which I was listening to, wdre up in New York at the time and it was a song that they just would play a lot. But it was a cool version, more rock and had a guitar, a little guitar solo in the middle and so forth. Good version, gotta, move on. Gotta, move on. Won't you take me to Funky Town? So, staying in the year 1980, robert Landsberg was photographing Mount St Helens in Washington State when at 8.32 am, an earthquake triggered an eruption. So it blows off part of the top of Mount St Helens and it actually removed the height, removed the height and the height used to be, I think it was like 9,000 something feet, and now it was 8,000 or it was 8,000. Now it was I don't remember exactly but I know it was 1300 feet of the elevation came off. Whoa, yeah, I mean something really crazy. So it destroyed everything for 230 square miles around and this was just huge back then it was. They kept talking about it was going to happen and, if I remember correctly, like a big bubble was starting to form at the top and everything, and the earthquake that happened that day. That's what made the whole thing go. You know, right, that happened that day. That's what made the whole thing go. You know, the original earthquake, which I think was a few months earlier, is what started that bubble on the outside, and then this earthquake is what made it erupt.
Speaker 2:So as the plume of smoke and ash approached Landsberg, he jumps in his car. But he keeps taking pictures of everything that's happening. And then he takes his camera and the film, puts it in his backpack and lays his body on it in the car because he knows he can't survive. I mean, I think the ash and the you know all of that I mean it gets to like a thousand degrees, like something crazy that you can't survive any of that. You can't breathe it, you can't do anything. You know, ten days later he was found in his car and his car is buried. I saw pictures of it. His car was buried up to the doors, over the hood, over the trunk. And they got to get this film and they were able to develop and it was kind of grainy, it wasn't in perfect shape. I mean it went through a lot. The heat was still.
Speaker 1:I'm amazed anything came out at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean this story, and it's not just him. There were other photographers that the same thing happened to that took pictures. I've seen some of the different pictures in National Geographic, different magazines over the years the fact that someone would want to give up their life so that they can. I guess they're not giving their life up. They know that they can't survive. It is really what it comes down to, and that they continue to take pictures to the last possible moment and do whatever it is that they can to make sure that they preserve. It is super cool. You know that really is that we're talking about it 45 years later. My hat's off to them. Really cool story.
Speaker 1:Really cool story.
Speaker 2:It's sad, but they will live on forever because they were doing something that they loved, and when you talk about Mount St Helens 55 years from now, you can still talk about those guys. So, speaking of wanting to talk about some people and speaking of something that was hot, virginia Highland Porch Fest was this past weekend. Yes, the Concord Grapes, which our own Jimmy Guthrie is a part of, played, and so why don't you kind of set up what the Porch Fest is all about?
Speaker 1:It's a really fun event. So it's in my neighborhood, Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta, and they hook up people that want to have a party on their porch and have a band play and a band that wants to play and they just connect people. So if you want your porch to be a party, you fill out form online and you know if you're a band, you fill out another and then you find out if you got matched up and then it's kind of up to you to handle the rest. So they don't have a main stage with you know pa system and sound people and lighting and they they do have an area with arts and crafts vendors and, uh, you know, food and drink vendors and that sort of thing. But for the most part it's really grassroots that the bands themselves and it can range anywhere from a child playing the violin to you know acoustic duo like mine, to a full rock band to a marching band.
Speaker 1:So you get a lot of different things. And we played at the same house that we've played at for our fifth year running over at the Kohler's house and it was a blast. Yeah, we had a lot of fun, played a bunch of covers. I played one original Space Giants song called 45s that I wrote.
Speaker 2:So that's still a cover, because it was the Concord Grapes doing Space Giants.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:So, and it was good, I mean, I had a blast, I had a really good time. I didn't know what to expect. It far exceeded what in my mind. It was going to be like so many, so many people there going to see all these different bands, and you talked about the vendors and and you know they had art, you know tents with. You know that people had all this art and all this stuff and it was located pretty close to right where you were playing that you could do all this stuff or buy stuff and it was so many things wrapped into one right, yeah, and the crowd is huge, like there are so many people there yeah, when I was done watching you and then we were moving on, it was like almost impossible to move on that street.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was insane yeah, we went after we were done packing up to go see a friend's band and it took us 20, 25 minutes to get two blocks was my favorite song of all the songs and you know, I was telling some people about it and they're like, why do you think it was your favorite?
Speaker 2:and I'm like it could be, because I just didn't expect it and it was that you guys did a really good cover of it and that I was like man, this is gonna be tough to beat, you know apparently we didn't. But I'm glad we started out with a bang yeah, well, the guy your partner and I don't remember.
Speaker 1:Tim.
Speaker 2:Tim. I think he was like if you had the Velvet Underground on your bingo card. I didn't, you know, I definitely didn't. But you guys did a great job with that. You know, you did 8-6-7-5-3-0-9. You did the Wait by the Band Mm-hmm. The Cure song.
Speaker 1:In Between Days In Between Days.
Speaker 2:So you played one song that I guess was for the younger generation, because you know you've been there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I played Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2:No idea what song that was. I'm like, I have no idea what this is, yet all of the younger people that were there all seemed to know it. Yeah, they all know it.
Speaker 1:So I looked up the stats on that song because Tim Lang and my bandmate was kind of saying the same thing. He'd never heard it and I've really only heard it through my kids. But I looked up the stats and so the most popular Beatles song on Spotify granted you could look across other platforms, but I bet the numbers would be similar is here Comes the Sun, Really, and I think it was around 1.5 billion plays. Espresso has 2.2 billion Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how old is this song, honestly? I mean, I don't know the song. One year, really, it came.
Speaker 1:How old is this song, Honestly? I mean, I don't know the song One year Really. It came out like April 2024.
Speaker 2:Wow. The only thing I know about her is we talked about her when we talked about the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live and she played with Paul Simon. Never heard of her before that day and I never heard of her until today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the experience of a lot of people over 40, I think but you had your son sing a song.
Speaker 2:He sang the Strokes. I thought he did a wonderful job.
Speaker 1:He did. Yeah, he's a great singer.
Speaker 2:When you hear people are going to have their kids, you're like, oh, what's this going to be like? But he did a really good job and it was almost effortless for him it just seemed like he just had the microphone and he's just like this is what I do and I sing, and I was like, wow, this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean we rehearsed it twice in the kitchen, just you know, not really trying that hard and I was like, yeah, you nailed it, Both times were good. And then he got up and he nailed it.
Speaker 2:He did, without a doubt. My hat's off to him. Oh wait a minute. According to my watch, it's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy, all right. So I wanted to talk about the show that I saw just the other night. Tommy Stinson.
Speaker 1:He's the original bass player from the Replacements. In fact, when the Replacements first album came out he was not even 16 years old and he has been playing music his whole life. He's like this great troubadour of rock and roll. He didn't really get to write songs in the replacements and a lot of people probably don't know that he has so many great original songs. So he has his rock band that I'm a massive fan of Bash and Pop, and then he also has solo stuff that he's done kind of with and without full bands, and so the other night he was playing solo acoustic. But he also had a woman named Carla Rose that opened the show. She played acoustic guitar and then she accompanied him on several songs on violin and it was just amazing. He he had a great set list and he was awesome with the audience and you just really felt like it was something special. So where was the show, jimmy? It was in Roswell, georgia, at a place called From the Earth Brewing.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:And I was really surprised. When I walked in, I thought, okay, well, there's going to be some music room in the back or something. No, it's just right. When you walk in, on the left there are a bunch of tables with people eating and then there's a stage right behind it and that's where he played. You know, there were some people that weren't there for the show, that were just finishing their dinner and, you know, got up and left part way through.
Speaker 2:But who is this guy playing?
Speaker 1:There were a lot of people kind of around our age and you know some, maybe a little older, that you could tell they were big Tommy fans from you know way back.
Speaker 2:Well, good, that's pretty awesome. I still miss the replacements.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you catch the reunion that they did in 2014?
Speaker 2:I did not.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was so good, it was great. And when I saw them at Riot Fest in Chicago I think it was the Riot Fest one when they did this no, it was when I saw them the second time on that tour at Shaky Knees in Atlanta, billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day played with them the whole show, really Like they didn't make a big deal out of it. I think they announced it, you know, three quarters of the way through. Oh, thanks to Billy Joe Armstrong for playing with us, but he was their backup guitarist the whole show.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, do you know what band played right before them when they broke up in Chicago? No Material issue. Oh, a little bit of trivia there. Yeah, friends of the show, friends of the show, I like it. That was A Good Minute with Jimmy. All right, let's revisit some more music from the past. Let's start up Peter Gabriel. So the Peter Gabriel album. He named a few of them. I don't know, it was three, maybe four albums. He named them Peter Gabriel, but each one kind of had its own name. This one was called Melt. That came out May 30th of 1980. And it was an album cover by Hypnosis. We had talked about them. They did a ton of stuff. That kind of started with Pink Floyd back in the late 60s and they ended up doing this album. And do you remember the album cover where his face kind of looks melted on one side? What they did is they just kept taking pictures of him with a Polaroid camera and they would take different things and, you know, make it so that it developed unclear, you know.
Speaker 2:Like they would take different instruments, just different stuff, and just do it until they got the cover that they wanted. That's how they did it with the Polaroid picture.
Speaker 1:That's old school.
Speaker 2:That is old school. So Games Without Frontiers to me it's a great album. But games without frontiers to me is the best song and it seemed to get a lot of radio airplay, at least where I was, on all kinds of different stations, you know whether it was modern rock or new rock or classic like it. Just a lot of people were playing it because it was Peter Gabriel. He'd been in Genesis so he really was getting to play.
Speaker 2:It had kind of a new wave bent to it yeah which it did, but it peaked at only number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, september 20th of 1980. It just didn't get with the masses. Really cool sounding song, percussion, you know with the masses. You know Really cool sounding song Percussion, drum machine, guitar, kate Bush, backing vocals, whistling, a lot of whistling in the song. This is probably the number one whistling song that I know and like. Definitely it's a top 200 favorite song for me. Definitely in my top 200.
Speaker 1:Do you have this list secretly written down somewhere, or do you just keep it in your head?
Speaker 2:It's in my head.
Speaker 1:It's in my head, it's impressive, because sometimes you say 300, sometimes 200. Yeah, you know where they are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely a top 200, without a doubt, and this is one of the songs that I had borrowed 8-track, johnny's 8-track player. It also is Emerson that we've talked about before on the show and you know it had radio also, and I remember being at a friend's house and I had heard this song multiple times. And this one time I got to my friend's house and I'm like, hey, everybody just be quiet, the song just begins. We gotta listen to the whole thing. You gotta listen to. You have to listen to this song. You know and this is me, I'm 13 and being like when the song ended by like was that not the most amazing song? And and they didn't really get it. You know, they didn't really get it at all.
Speaker 1:There was a song you talked about last week I think that similar thing that you said the friends didn't get it but you thought it was really emotional.
Speaker 2:It happens all the time to me, I think. But that's why I have music in my shoes. Yeah, we're music, people we are, we are. If looks could kill, they probably will. In games without frontiers, war without tears. Hey, let's move to May 30th 1980. Again the same day. Suzy and the Banshees, christine. Okay, that song comes out the same day that they released Peter Gabriel's Melt album, a really good song, not well-known by Suzy and the Banshees. Absolutely love it, and it's inspired by the book the Three Faces of Eve and it's about Christine Sizemore, who had 22 different personalities and going to her therapist and a book came out. A movie came out in 1957 starring Joanne Woodward, and then in 1980, susie and the Banshees sang about it and it was kind of cool. She tries not to shatter kaleidoscope style Personality changes behind her red smile. Every new problem brings a stranger inside, helplessly falling. One more new disguise Christine Falco, rock me, amadeus. Do you remember this one? Yes, this does not seem like it's your cup of tea.
Speaker 1:Not really. I mean, hey, you know, it was kind of fun.
Speaker 2:I liked this song. I liked it, I liked the video. They all dressed up, you know, in the Amadeus-type outfits, and so forth.
Speaker 1:Wasn't there a movie out at that time called Amadeus?
Speaker 2:There was a movie out. I don't know if it was before after I out, I don't know if it was before after. I really don't remember. I don't know if he wrote this because the movie was out and wanted to get a quick boost. I have no idea. It was the screamer of the week the fifth week of May 1985 on WLIR. They were so far ahead of everybody because it didn't enter the Billboard Hot 100 until nine months later and peaked at number one. This was a number one song, march 29th 1986, fifth week of May 85. It is the screamer of the week on WLIR. Yeah, wow, yes, hey.
Speaker 2:Listen if you want to reach out to us and ask us about the Billboard 100 that we listened to. If you want to talk about Amadeus, if you want to know about the Virginia Highland Porch Fest, reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages and share the podcast on your own social media. That's it for Episode 80 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, gotta move on, gotta move on, gotta move on. Live life and keep the music playing, thank you.
