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E83 Tribute to Brian Wilson & Sly Stone; and The Smiths Live in '85
We pay tribute to two musical legends who recently left us - Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Sly and the Family Stone's Sly Stone - while celebrating their revolutionary contributions to music history.
• Brian Wilson, the creative genius behind the Beach Boys, died at age 82 on June 11, 2025
• Wilson's incredible harmonies and arrangements made songs like "In My Room" and "Don't Worry Baby" deeply relatable and timeless
• "Good Vibrations" demonstrates Wilson's production mastery, featuring different musicians recording sections over months
• Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone also passed in June, leaving behind the legacy of psychedelic soul and multiple hit songs
• A look back at The Smiths June 1985 concert at the Beacon Theater in NYC
• We explore our favorite cover songs, from Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails to The Fugees' version of "No Woman, No Cry" to Van Halen covering The KInks "You Really Got Me"
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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 83. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. Last episode I mentioned that while I was growing up, there was always music on in my house and, besides listening to the radio, we had an 8-track player, not one from 8-Track Johnny, but like a regular home 8-track player, yeah, and we would listen to the Beach Boys 8-track tapes on it.
Speaker 2:And Little Deuce Coup from 1963, shut Down, volume 2 from 1964. They seem to be on a lot. Okay, we just listened to it a whole lot and, you know, got into the. You know the Beach Boys and the beach sound and, at that time, the car sound that they were getting into. But the creative mind behind the Beach Boys, brian Wilson, died at 82 on June 11, 2025. And he was more than just a musician. He was a singer, he was a writer, he was a composer, a producer. I mean, he did so much.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I think was very in tune within his own head of how things should sound and how they should be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had it all mapped out in his head, even when other people didn't know what direction he was going.
Speaker 2:Right and really had no idea what he was doing at times. Yet in his head it all made sense and then when they would put the final product out, it was like, oh yeah, this does make sense, yeah. So you know some of the songs that I was listening to on those, those two eight tracks, the song little deuce coop, be true to your school, 409, shut down, fun, fun, fun. And they're allorry Baby, with lead vocals by Brian, and I just love the harmonies in this song and you know it's just incredible the sounds that they could make, the harmonies that they could do and what they brought to the world of music.
Speaker 1:And what they brought to the world of music. Yep, it's. You know. I really love their harmonies and all of his arrangements and he's just a creative genius and he'll be missed.
Speaker 2:He definitely will be missed. Well, it's been building up inside of me for oh, I don't know how long, I don't know why, but I keep thinking something's bound to go wrong. That's from Don't Worry Baby. Those lines are just super cool. And again, you know I say it often. I'm not going to sit here and say I, you know, don't say it, but it's things that we have felt. I felt it Generally, things I felt, you know don't say it, but it's things that we have felt, I felt it Generally, things I felt you've felt at some point in your life. Jimmy, I'm sure you know that, man, things are like looking up, it's got, but man, it's bound to go wrong, something's going to happen. And it's just a really good song Don't worry baby. And that that high, I guess falsetto. You would say how he sang that it just.
Speaker 2:You know, some people when they sing that way, it sounds like they're forcing it, but his was just so smooth, it really was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I know he has a lot, of you know, depth and body to his falsetto vocal.
Speaker 2:I couldn't have said that any better myself. I mean seriously, you're right. I guess that explains it the best. I got the Surfer Girl album on vinyl a couple of years later and I thought the songs Surfer Girl, catch a Wave and In my Room were incredible songs and they're all sung by Brian with Mike Love on Catch a Wave. And In my Room were incredible songs and they're all sung by Brian with Mike Love on Catch a Wave. But they just seem to be. Even though they were earlier songs, they still seem to be mature songs right, especially In my Room.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's kind of a sign of things to come from, like Pet Sounds and everything yeah, and it's another one of those songs that he's singing from his heart and it's something you know he's singing about being in his bedroom in Hawthorne, california, and it's something that I can relate to, I mean to me growing up, my bedroom was kind of like that kingdom, that palace, that sanctuary.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, great word. You know, there's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to in my room. In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears in my room. How can you not relate to that? I mean, that was just like wow, again, he wrote this. And when he wrote it, even though I wasn't born, he was saying man, this guy, jim, is really going to like the song and be able to relate to it.
Speaker 2:And I think that so many artists, that people like that, they can see things in the words and feel things from the music, even though it was not written for me, even though it was written before I was born. But I think that is true signs of a successful song, true signs of genius. And you know, that's how I feel about that song and many of the songs that the Beach Boys or other bands did. So the Beach Boys had more hits than we can mention. I mean, they really, really did. Wouldn't it be nice? Sloop John B, one of my favorite Beach Boys songs, I have the original 45. California Girls I Get Around Surfing USA, and then Good Vibrations, which is a masterpiece from 1966. But going back to what you said earlier, jimmy, they recorded this over months and months and bits and pieces, and nobody could figure out what was going on with this song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he would just say okay, now you guys sing these notes, and then you know they were going. Okay, that part sounded good, but how does this tie together with everything else?
Speaker 2:Yeah, multiple verses, bridges and choruses. And this is the thing that gets me on this song is that he has well-known drummers that are playing on this song, but they're only playing one bridge, or they're only playing this chorus, or they're only playing this chorus, or they're only playing this verse, I didn't realize. And then another drummer's playing this, oh, and then the stand-up bass is by this person on this part and it's on this part is another person, wow, and and the shakers, which I'm assuming is kind of like a maraca, would that be?
Speaker 1:yeah, it depends. I mean, they're all different kinds of shakers, can be like an egg, you know, like a little egg, oh yeah yeah, there's even different shakers.
Speaker 2:When you go and you look at this song and see who the musicians are on it, it's absolutely incredible. It's like this long and I know nobody there, but just imagine it's this long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's making his hands like really really long.
Speaker 2:It's incredible and you don't think about it when you listen to the song. You don't think oh, this is a different upright bass player. You don't think this is a different drummer. You don't think any of that.
Speaker 1:And you don't think this is a song that was recorded in bits and pieces over months, and you don't think about how it changes tempo and meter and instrumentation and everything multiple times because it just it works, because he had that genius to know that it was going to work in his head.
Speaker 2:Yes, 100 percent. And what we've talked about it before, what was that? Um instrument that I guess you put your hands over? The theremin yes, and explain that one more time well it is.
Speaker 1:Uh works with the magnetic field around like an antenna. So you move one hand closer to the bottom antenna and that changes the volume, and then the one at the top, I think, changes the pitch, and so you can play music with it.
Speaker 2:And that kind of gave it the psychedelic spacey sound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they used to use it a lot on creepy horror, creepy horror things in the 50s and 60s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it fit perfectly in this song. When you say that, you're right, it really did fit. So Brian had, you know, a mental breakdown in 1964, mental illness. He had drug issues and basically you know it stopped him from touring with the band. He just decided he was going to stay around and record and just everything that was in his head. Get that out. And you know it's unfortunate because as time went on it all got worse for him. You know and you can read on him and he talks about at one point he put his bathrobe on in the morning and he might not get out of bed the entire day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't he do some sort of press conference from bed or something like that? It seems like I've seen video of him in bed.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I definitely would believe it and that it just became a fight for him to be able to do most anything. And it's really a shame because this is someone that was a genius that heard everything in his head. But I think some of the things he might have heard in his head, from a personal standpoint, really caused him some havoc in his life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he probably had trouble getting out of his head and being just in the real world, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would agree with you. So Pet Sounds you mentioned Pet Sounds. It came out May 1966. The Beatles had released Rubber Soul in December 1965. And that inspired Brian to try and create the best rock and roll album of all time and that was Pet Sounds. And when Pet Sounds came out, everybody was talking about what a great album it was that inspired the Beatles to do Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Now, when you listen to them there's not a lot of similarities, but it is that I've got to do something better that made them work for it. I think on Sgt Pepper's the harmonies on some of the songs she's Leaving Home that comes up at the top of my head that you can say, man, I can imagine that being the Beach Boys singing.
Speaker 1:Right, and also the idea that it's an album that has a concept and you can follow the thread from beginning to end, unlike an album from 1964 that would just be a collection of singles, you know Right.
Speaker 2:And so it was the beginning of the album era really, whether they're in music or they're in Hollywood that have come across and, you know, put out their condolences to Brian Wilson and what he meant to them and what they thought of him as a musician. I just think that's super cool because there's been a lot of people out there that have said things about him and they're from all across different types of music that have said things about him and they're from all across different types of music. And you know, I think that when you can captivate people from all over, that says a lot about you. It says a lot about what you're able to do, because ultimately, music's a message. You know, no matter what song it is, no matter what it's about, it's some sort of message that you're trying to get across to people and he was able to do that with so many people.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's incredible. I mean, he really did so much and in a short period of time. You know a very short period of time. If you just look at the stuff that was accomplished, you know from 62 to 67, you know that's unbelievable. Did you ever get to see him not long ago? And you know he had his Beach Boys version and Mike Love has his version and I didn't, and I really wish that I had.
Speaker 1:I got to see him probably 10 years ago at the Fox Theater in Atlanta and it was a great show. Now, even then, brian was definitely not at the top of his game, you know. You could tell that he had a lot of great people around him and they would support him when he was singing, but he, he seemed like he was, you know, struggling physically and, uh, a little bit so. But it was a great show because they just had incredible musicians. And what I heard very recently about that is that there was a Beach Boys tribute band and Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, the original Beach Boy, said, oh well, why don't we just kind of make them our band? And so that's what they did.
Speaker 1:And they added, uh, al's son, matt, could sing the really high parts that brian couldn't sing as well anymore, and they uh folded all these people. So it was about, you know, 10 or 12 people in the in the band up on stage, but it really sounded great. And we were were sitting next to I took the whole family, we were sitting next to a couple that were probably teenagers in 1962, you know what I mean Right In the mid-60s. And when God Only Knows came on, they both grabbed each other's hands and looked at each other and a tear came to their you know their eyes and it was. It was really sweet because it was obviously their song.
Speaker 2:There you go, I like that. Yeah, that's cool, you know it is. If it means something to you, especially after all those years, you know, so be it. Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray. Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday. So, jimmy, we just talked about Brian Wilson, but we also just had Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, who died in June as well, and they were the first big racially combined mixed gender US band.
Speaker 2:If you think about it, that just wasn't something that was happening back in 1967. Right, and you know they created psychedelic soul. I think that as time went on it became kind of darker soul, but it was psychedelic when they first came out. You know they had dance to the music I Want to Take you Higher Everyday People, which I actually heard Joan Jett's version of Everyday People the other day.
Speaker 2:It just happened to randomly come on and I remember as a kid, as a young kid, being in different places you know, not just my parents, but you know wherever and I remember hearing dance to the music so often. I remember hearing everyday people so often, like they are part of my really young musical memories. One of my favorite all-time titled songs by any group is by sly and the Family Stone and it's called Thank you for Letting Me Be Mice Elf Again. Or, if you say it straight through and not that way, thank you for Letting Me Be Myself Again. And I just think that is so cool and I imagine Prince listened to that and saying I got to spell things differently, I got to be like Sly.
Speaker 1:I had no idea. They spelled it that way.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I'm not saying that happened. What I'm saying is I can imagine that happening. Okay, I think that is one of the coolest album excuse me, song titles of all time. And and especially, you know you're going back in in a time. I think it was 1969 when it came out. That's not what people did, you know. You just put what, what it was, you know. So it actually hit number oneary of 1970 on the billboard hot 100 chart and you know they performed at woodstock in 1969.
Speaker 1:it was definitely, you know, one of the highlights for for people they played at like three in the morning and it was still a legendary yes performing yeah, they did, you know, um, they.
Speaker 2:I have some of the songs on my phone that I listened to. You know it was just super cool. I know I like to use the word super cool, but it was, you know. But then Sly's drug use and erratic behavior just doomed the group Ultimately. Most of Sly's life was riddled with drugs and it wasn't until 2019 that he quit them for good, where he finally was told if you continue to do this, you're going to die. And he realized he wasn't going to beat it, but this was a battle for over 50 years for him. The fact that he was able to survive that long is unbelievable and, you know, kind of like Brian Wilson who we just talked about. I mean, sometimes these musical geniuses, these people that are able to do so much, they get caught up in so many bad things for them and and you don't get to see everything that they possibly could have done. It's sad, yeah, and it is, but I do hope he's somewhere dancing to the music. So, jimmy, june 17, 1985, the Smiths play the Beacon Theater in New York City and I wanted to go to the show.
Speaker 2:I was a big Smiths fan. I really liked them from the first time I heard them I was a big Smiths fan. I really liked them from the first time I heard them. This was a band that I liked, but I didn't really know anyone who felt the same way as I did. They might like a song or two, but that was kind of about it. And even though the Meet His Murder album came out, which ended up having a bunch of hits that people ended up liking, it only had come out a few months earlier and it wasn't something that everybody knew about at the time. So I was begging people. I was like, come on, you know, you know, I'll buy your ticket, you know. And people just kept turning me down, no, no, no. And people just kept turning me down, no, no, no. So I talked to a friend of mine who was not into the Smiths, didn't even know who they were, wasn't into that type of music whatsoever, was into just kind of like. You know we call it classic rock today, but then it was just rock.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And I said to him I'm like you know I'm bummed out. I want to go see this show. Nobody wants to go. He's like who is it? I'm like you're not going to go, it's the Smiths. And he's like, yeah, I don't know who they are. He's like where are they playing? I said the Beacon Theater. He says, oh, I'll go. And I'm like, wait a minute, that all of a sudden now he wants to go. He says my dad is a police officer and that's kind of like his area. He walks the beat around there. He says I'll just tell my dad to get us on the guest list. Oh, great.
Speaker 2:So I'm like, come on. I said you're going to get your dad to get us on the guest list to see a band that you don't even know who they are? He goes, yeah, it'll be fun. He goes and I'll drive. I'm like I'm in, I'm in If you're going to drive and get us into the show. This is a show for me. So June 17th 1985, we take his car, we drive in, you know, we park a couple of streets away and we're walking up and we go to the box office and he's like, yeah, I'm officer blah blah son, and they said hold on. Someone came and got us an usher and they took us up, you know, you know, up in the balcony and they said here you go, here are your seats. We had no tickets, we had nothing whatsoever. I didn't even want to go to the bathroom during the show because I'm afraid that if I get up and I cause back then, even though people were all over the place, they always seemed to ask for your ticket you know, and I'm like I can't.
Speaker 2:I got to sit right here, so got in. I mean, it worked. I couldn't believe it. It was great. Billy Bragg opens up the show. Oh, cool, yeah. And then the Smiths come out. They open up with William. It Was Really Nothing. Love the song. Next song's Nowhere Fast. One of my favorite Smith songs. I love the bass on it. They end up, you know, during the show they play how Soon Is Now. But how Soon Is Now, if I remember correctly, was just different. They couldn't get all of those sounds of when you're listening to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that was very complicated. You know, that was like a Brian Wilson type of a thing that Johnny Marr did, where he hooked up like eight different amplifiers that all had this tremolo effect on them and they had to be synchronized and it was like herding cats to make it happen, and so they had to keep recording, section by section by section, to make it sound the way it sounds yeah, and it did not come across that way in 1985 at the Beacon Theater Definitely sounded less layered, you know, it was just kind of more of a straightforward song than on the album.
Speaker 2:Shakespeare's Sister love that song. The Headmaster Ritual Mita's Murder, closed out the set and then the second song of the encore was this Charming man, which was one of my favorite songs and probably the second song. No, you know what? I think it was the first song that I heard by the Smiths. I think that was the first song they did a second encore. Please, please, please, let Me Get what I Want, followed by Miserable Lie. During both of the songs, fans are up on the stage. Now Morrissey's missing lines because he can't get to the microphone stand and like security's doing stuff, but they're not doing it quick enough.
Speaker 2:You know, and it's just like it's kind of like pandemonium going on the stage and he doesn't really like it. You can see that and it's funny because you know now, knowing Morrissey the way he is, he doesn't really like it. You can see that and it's funny because you know now, knowing Morrissey the way he is, he doesn't necessarily like to be touched, he doesn't want people hovering all around him. I think he put up with it in 1985 because you know that was the beginning of them and you know you don't want to get people mad and not want to buy your records. So the second song of the third encore, barbarism, begins at Home, one of my favorite Smith songs, great version. They just jammed to it and it was really cool to see a non-jam band jam to a song. Oh, and it was. You know. Again he missed lines because people came up on the stage. It just was cool. You know it probably went on.
Speaker 2:And about 10 feet tops in front of me I notice Andy Warhol is walking down. He's at the show. They had used some of his photos. I think it was for their first album that they had released, maybe some more for singles, I'm not 100% sure, but it was so, so cool. Like this is Andy Warhol. You know, like this is neat. It was the only time I've ever seen him in my life and I was that close to him and people, um, once we got down below, people were getting his autograph. I regret that I didn't. I was kind of like I'm, I'm super cool, I don't need his autograph.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't need it.
Speaker 2:I wish I got it, jimmy, I got to be honest. I have to be honest.
Speaker 1:You know how many autographs I have. I'm going to go with hint.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow, jimmy, you know what I am going to actually autograph something now, just because you have said that, I feel like it's my civic duty to do it, and the fact that all these years later that I am kind of bummed that I didn't get Andy Warhol's autograph. Yeah, I just put my name. Is that good enough? That's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that makes it easier for me to sell on eBay. No personal details.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you are funny, you are funny, you are funny. You know what I'll tell you. I'm going to say it one more time because I'm laughing so hard. You know what time it is, jimmy, what time? Music in my shoes, mailbag time.
Speaker 1:Music in my shoes mailbag.
Speaker 2:Yes, music in my shoes, mailbag time. Yes, music in my shoes, mailbag time. Regarding episode 81, the Goonies a psychedelic rolls and Wooly Bully, jennifer and Georgia emailed. I yelled at my phone when Jimmy said he hadn't seen the Goonies. Sir, you have homework. Okay, all right, accepted wow, I mean just right to the point. Calls you sir, and if you're being called sir, I think that you do have to answer it no, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely like taking heed there you go.
Speaker 2:I still can't believe you haven't seen. And just so you know, many people have asked me about it.
Speaker 1:Just so you know, somebody the other day was talking about the Goonies as if everybody knows it and I had to admit that I'd never seen it and they were like what? And yeah, it wasn't even a person that was like a kid in the 80s, it was a person that saw it in the 90s, when they were, you know, they're not as old as us.
Speaker 2:There you go. So you need to answer that challenge and we need to hear about it. All right, all right, I'll do it. It's on record here, I know. All right, we're looking forward to that, jimmy, we're looking forward to that Jimmy. So on the same episode we were discussing the band Gang of Four with Mike Mills of REM covering the Velvet Underground's Sweet Chain. I had gone to the Gang of Four show and, jimmy, you said the Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Chain was the best cover of the song.
Speaker 1:I said that Phish did the best cover of it.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, that got a listener to write in Jim and Jimmy, you started a conversation about cover songs. Got me thinking, Thought I'd give you my top ones and hear your thoughts. Cool Number four no Woman, no Cry, the Fugees cover of Bob Marley. I love it. I love the Fugees version. I love Bob Marley's version and Bob Marley's version. It's the live one that most people know. Most people don't know the studio. The live one was recorded 50 years ago in London in July 1975. Oh, Pretty cool.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:I like that. I like the Fugees, I do. I like Wyclef John a lot and just listening to that song and just, oh man, it's a good song. So I like the number four song. Number three Hard Luck Woman, garth Brooks cover of Kiss Jimmy. With you being the subject matter expert on Kiss, I'm going to defer to you on that song. I don't have anything to add at all.
Speaker 1:Well, I do. So I listened to a podcast. Uh, this podcast called rock on tours. That, uh, they do interviews with old rock stars and they had paul stanley on there from kiss and he talked about how he had written hard luck woman for rod stewart, but rod stewart didn't want to do it, so so Peter Criss did it in Kiss.
Speaker 2:Really? Yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, but I guess you figured I didn't know that. So Garth Brooks' version. Are you familiar with it?
Speaker 1:I may have heard it, but I don't think I am.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I haven't. I don't think I've heard either one to be honest. Sorry, but it's the truth. I've heard either one to be honest. Sorry, but it's the truth. Number two Valerie Amy Winehouse. Cover of the Zootons. I never heard the song by either one. What I did listen to it You're kidding me.
Speaker 1:I'm not kidding, you've never heard Amy Winehouse, valerie. No, that's worse than the Goonies.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. Yes, it is. When I saw Valerie in this email that he sent, I immediately thought of the Steve Winwood song. Never heard of the song before. Now I've listened to it. It's a Mark Ronson song I read, and that she is the singer. She's with him playing this. You know this song? Pretty good song. It's a pretty good song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of her signature song.
Speaker 2:No, that's not her signature song. Yeah, it's one of them. I would go with Rehab. Well, I was going to say rehab, but what's the other one? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Back to Black. I'm not an expert on Amy Winehouse, and even I know Valerie.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. I did not know the song, Okay, but I've heard it now, I've listened to it. So number one I will survive. The cake cover of Gloria Gaynor. I love this cover I have since the day one and it's one of those songs people either love or they hate. There's not a lot in the middle and I love how Kate kind of changed up the style of it and you know how, the acoustic guitar, the way that he plays it, and just singing it a different way. I love it. I love Gloria Gaynor's version too, but I think Kate did a great job with this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's fun because it's kind of feels tongue-in-cheek, but it's not necessarily. You know, it's just another version of it, but you've got this kind of straight-voiced you know male singing it, so it gives it a completely different feel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and with a cool you know solo in the middle of it. Just a great song, great. I love that as number one. So keep up the great work. Love the show sign Bigfoot Parts Unknown. Now Bigfoot Parts Unknown has written in before All right To Mailbag, so we definitely appreciate that. So I put together kind of a quick list here of some of the songs that I like that are covers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's not. You know, I can't tell you this is my top five. It's not. I put a quick list, I didn't think a whole lot about it. But Fish, the entire Velvet Underground loaded album. They recorded, they released it live. It's from October 31st 1998 in Las Vegas and that's what Sweet Jane is on. They do the whole album. It is fantastic. It truly is. You really got me the Van Halen version of the Kinks. You really got me the Van Halen version of the Kinks. I love the Kinks version. I love the Kinks live version. I love the Van Halen version. I just enjoy them.
Speaker 1:I think they're good. The Van Halen version was great because it was a vehicle for Eddie Van Halen to solo in the early days. It was on the first album, right? I?
Speaker 2:believe so.
Speaker 1:And so, yeah, it's just kind of a simple riff for him to do his thing over. But yeah, I mean I'm obviously partial to the Kinks version. It changed music forever.
Speaker 2:Yes, it did. All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was on my list.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Mr Tambourine man, the Birds covering Bob.
Speaker 1:Dylan, good one, yeah.
Speaker 2:What are some of your songs?
Speaker 1:So I have a song called Superman that was originally by the Click and you may know the cover version done by REM on Life's Rich Pageant.
Speaker 2:I did not know it was a cover.
Speaker 1:It was a cover and the Click was from. That version was from 1969, I believe late 60s Really, and it's a really unusual version. It's kind of got like all this reverb on it and, uh, it's, it's fun. But the rem version is is better. It's just kind of a better pop song the way rem does it, but it's weirder the other way for sure. Uh, louis louis was a song written by richard berry. He did with richard berry and the pharaohs and his version is fun to listen to because the rhythm is different than what we know it as the version that everybody knows better, I think, is the Kingsman, which I think is just a fantastic live recording. I mean, it just captures the reckless abandon of the Kingsmen and they were tight enough and loose enough and it just seemed like a party right.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Richard Berry had written that song. He was in a bar and talking to a bartender something about a sailing ship, and he said, oh my gosh, okay. And he'd heard this rhythm that, uh, some sort of a band from another country had played a rhythm and he, he wrote the rhythm down and like marks on this bar napkin, and he wrote down a few lyrics and then he went home and wrote Louie, louie and that's uh, you know, it's become one of the most covered songs in the world. But I think that the Kingsman version is the best.
Speaker 2:And I think that's another one of those songs. You just don't have any idea what they're saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can understand it a little bit better. On the Richard Berry version have you ever heard the Kinks version?
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hadn't heard it either and I looked it up recently. It's fun. Again, it has a different rhythm the way that Ray sings it than what you're accustomed to. And, yeah, it's fun. My last one I've got Tainted Love. Have you ever heard the original version? So we know the Soft Cell cover. I know it's a cover. I you ever heard the original version? So we know the soft sell cover.
Speaker 2:Right, I know it's a cover.
Speaker 1:I've never heard the original the original it was kind of a 70s, more of like a soul, uh, a little bit of disco in it. Uh, gloria jones was the singer and it's that soft cell completely reimagined it for what we know.
Speaker 2:You know they gave it that kind of stark, uh european feel that it has yeah, and I think, uh, was this mark ahman is um the singer of soft cell. His voice, just the sound of his voice, just gives it this crazy, dark, mysterious way of of performing the song Again. I've never heard the original. I knew it was a cover, I just never heard the original.
Speaker 1:So they just played the other night. Played on Saturday night at Chastain Park here in Atlanta. Soft Cell did. My friend Rob went, said it was good.
Speaker 2:Those are some pretty good songs there, Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a fun thing to do. Thank you, bigfoot. I have a couple more, oh you do, I do Hurt.
Speaker 2:Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails, and that's one of those songs that you got to watch the video at the same time. It just gives it this whole different meaning than when listening to Nine Inch Nails Rowboat. Johnny Cash covering Beck. This song is fantastic. It's almost like it was written for Johnny Cash. It is great. If you've not heard this song, you have to listen to it. Really, really good, I love it. Yeah, I don't know that one Changes. Charles Bradley covering Black Sabbath. Do you remember the Black Sabbath song Changes.
Speaker 1:I don't think I do.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it came out like in 1972. It came out, you know, kind of after the super hard rock period that they had. It's a really good song. This guy Charles Bradley covered it. Gives it a lot more soul to it. And I heard it. I was binge-watching Suits and all of a sudden I hear the song. I'm like wait a minute, that's the Black Sabbath song, but that's not Ozzy Osbourne singing. Yeah, and I looked it up and it was this guy, charles Bradley Awesome version. This is one that I thought that you would have said Jimmy Needles and Pins the Ramones covering the Searchers. I mean, I love that song. I think that song is fantastic. I listen to Needles and Pins a ton and when I listen to it I normally just listen to it again and then again, and then again.
Speaker 1:It's just like I Do you listen to the Ramones version or the Searchers version?
Speaker 2:The Ramones, definitely. It's like I binge listen, I just keep boom, let me hear it again, let me hear it again, let me hear it again. I just love it. And then my final is I Love Rock and Roll.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great one. I was going to put that on my list, but I didn't think we were going to put so many Jim.
Speaker 2:Well, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts came to mind, so I put it on the list.
Speaker 1:I love that song Covering the Arrows version. I don't think I've ever heard the Arrows version.
Speaker 2:I've not heard it either.
Speaker 1:My brother had that record. I think it came out in 1981, and I brought it for show and tell to school and played.
Speaker 2:I Love Rock and Roll on the little record player in our classroom. Oh my Lord, the fifth grade, nice, nice. So you can reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom with any questions or any challenges that you'd like to give Jimmy, because I do believe he needs to watch the Goonies. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages and share the podcast on your own social media.
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Speaker 1:With jimmy it's time for a minute with jimmy, with jimmy, with jimmy, so. So my daughter, lily, just sent me a, uh new single by the band super chunk that came out last week and it's called is it making you feel something? It's a three song single that they released and it has, uh, you know, really really cool if you have ever heard super chunk. It's it's a three-song single that they released and it has really really cool. If you have ever heard Super Chunk. It's a really great example of their sound.
Speaker 1:They've become a little bit more accessible and poppy. They started out as a real punk band. It's called Is it Making you Feel Something? It also has a song on it called Bruised Lung. That's a really great song and everybody dies. It sounds like maybe that would be a really dark record, but you know the songs have have a fun feel to them. I think everybody will like them. You got to check it out. It's the first three songs from an upcoming august lp that they have coming out and the name of that is songs in the key of yikes. So be on the lookout for that. Listen Songs in the Key of Yikes. So be on the lookout for that. Listen to those three songs Super chunk.
Speaker 2:I like it, jimmy, I like it. My name is Jimmy. Jimmy. I've had a lot of fun today talking about all different types of things, but unfortunately that's it for episode 83 of Music in my Shoes. Unfortunately, that's it for episode 83 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank you, jimmy. Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located right here in Atlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill for the podcast music. Now it's dark and I'm alone, but I won't be afraid in my room. 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.
