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E90 MTV Top Videos of 1990: U Can't Touch This
We take a nostalgic journey through the MTV top videos of 1990, revealing fascinating behind-the-scenes stories and cultural impacts of songs that defined a generation.
• Iggy Pop's "Candy" featuring Kate Pearson after Chrissy Hynde was ghosted
• Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine" highlighting the deadly impact of asbestos mining in Australia
• Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" remixed by DNA and its connection to MP3 technology development
• Vanilla Ice and the "Under Pressure" sounding "Ice Ice Baby"
• Faith No More's "Epic" video controversy regarding the flopping fish
• 30 years after his death, Jerry Garcia's enduring legacy and the unique experience of seeing the Grateful Dead live
• The Cure's "In Between Days" spent just one week on Billboard despite its cultural impact
• MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" claiming the top spot on MTV's 1990 countdown
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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 90. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. Episode 90 already, jimmy 90. 90. So it sounds like a good time to talk about the MTV top videos of 1990.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So there's a bunch. I'm not going to go through the whole list. They have like a hundred of them'm not going to go through the whole list. They have like 100 of them, just going to go through.
Speaker 1:some Go through like 96 of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's usually what I do after I say I'm not, but I'm not going to do that, okay. And then I'm going to mention some that we've talked about on the show before. I'm not going to really go into too much detail, kind of hit some of the ones that we haven't talked about All right. All right, so let's start with number 95, candy Iggy Pop with Kate Pearson of the B-52s Mm-hmm. I've always liked the song, but without Kate Pearson's voice it just wouldn't be the same. They sound really good together.
Speaker 1:They do.
Speaker 2:And I watched the video. I listened to the song. You know, I just was like you know. Let me kind of remember this a little bit. You know, does it sound the way I remember it? And it really truly does. Kate Pearson's voice is fantastic.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And the fact that they got her. You know the B-52s, you know they were just making that big comeback. I mean, it was just perfect timing and it's much better than the shiny happy people that she did with. Uh, REM Right, you know really good song I. You know, I like it so much. I really truly believe without Kate Pearson we would not be talking about the song today.
Speaker 1:Unless they got another great female singer, you know, but yeah.
Speaker 2:You know they actually did have another one in mind. They wanted Chrissy Hine of the Pretenders. Okay, that might have worked. Actually sent to her. Iggy Pop sent to her, but then she never heard anything back. She didn't know if she did something wrong. Next thing she knows Keith Pearson's singing it.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, she got ghosted.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I don't know if you can be ghosted back in 1990, but she did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, she got hung up on.
Speaker 2:Yes, which you can't get hung up on today. Right, there you go. I guess you can get hung up on you, just push the button.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they still call it hanging up. You know why it's called hanging up. I mean you used to actually hang a phone on the wall like the old, old-fashioned ones, before our time even. Yes, you know with the little earpiece You'd hang it up.
Speaker 2:You would hang it up, and back then a lot of the phones didn't start with a number. They started with two letters.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, and there were still some people using that when we were younger.
Speaker 2:I remember yeah, there were in my town. I remember someone give you their number and they'd be like pe and I'm like what you know, I know, like I don't know what that is there were, uh, there were commercials talking about getting local stations like wor.
Speaker 1:When you had cable in atl, you'd also get WGN in Chicago and they had Lincoln. Carpeting was National 29,000. And it was like NA9 or whatever.
Speaker 2:I don't even know how you remember National Carpeting.
Speaker 1:It was Lincoln Carpeting. Thank you very much, but their telephone number was National 25,000 or something.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even remember it 15 seconds later, jimmy, and you remembered it all these years.
Speaker 1:Oh, really Okay, when you're thinking Lincoln, lincoln, better carpeting for less dial, national 25,000.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I know nothing about this. This was on a Chicago station.
Speaker 1:Yeah, WGN.
Speaker 2:And I remember WGN. They had like the Chicago Cubs games on.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And they had good movies on the weekends. If I remember correctly. The fact that you remember this commercial is just cracking me up, seriously, I couldn't remember 15 seconds ago what you said.
Speaker 1:I remember a lot of stuff from commercials and TV shows.
Speaker 2:Well, that's good, I like that. So Candy peaked at number 28.
Speaker 1:This could be a long show, Jim.
Speaker 2:It could be. We haven't gotten very far. It peaked at number 28 in February of 1991 on the Billboard Hot 100. So let's move on, because I think we really need to. Number 91, midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine. 91, midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine. One of my favorite Midnight Oil songs, very cool guitar opens it up with lead singer Peter Garrett on harmonica. And it's not just, like you know, just cheap harmonica. He plays a really good harmonica. It's like this bluesy rocking thing and it's like man. This sounds really cool. So the song's inspired by the former workers, and I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing this right, but in australia, this town, wittenoom, and there was an asbestos mine there and it was open, I think, from like 1947 to 1966. They closed it because it was not, uh, profitable and there were a lot of health concerns.
Speaker 1:Imagine that you can imagine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they end up telling people you know, you got to move out of the town and little by little people were moving out. 2 000 people that either worked there or lived in the town died of asbestos related illnesses. And this song brings to light I mean, it names the company, it talks all about it. It's, you know, uh, blue asbestos. That's why it's called blue sky, mine and it's I think it's like one of the few places in Australia that you could actually mine for it. And it's like really cool if you research and you find out what it's all about. You know, a lot of times we listen to songs and all we know is what we hear. This song is just, it's fantastic. It truly truly is.
Speaker 2:It was a WDRE radio shriek of the week in March, the second week of March 1990. Wdre took over for WLIR radio. We talk about them a lot. It peaked at number 47 on Billboard Hot 100 and was number one on mainstream rock airplay in March of 90 as well. Not too bad. Yeah, number 81, dna featuring Suzanne Vega, tom's Diner.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:You remember that song?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was released as a single in July 1990. And it was a WDRE Shriek of the Week the second week of August 1990, peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in December of 1990. And when I first heard it I was like I know this song, but I've never heard it like this.
Speaker 2:And it was actually released in 1987 as an acapella version on suzanne vegas solitude standing album yep and I remember I would hear it someone at um the radio station liked the song so much they would play the acapella version at times and I had remembered it.
Speaker 1:yeah, it was cool. It was kind of haunting because there's no music track, it was just her, yeah.
Speaker 2:And she was singing it. You know how sometimes people do acapella and they don't take a break. For, like she took a break, like there was going to be that music that was in between, right, it's kind of you know, kind of cool. So it was actually co-produced by friend of the show, lenny K. Oh, cool.
Speaker 2:Yes, he actually co-produced her first two albums, so Vega wrote the song after stopping at Tom's restaurant in New York City, a place that she frequently went to, and Tom's restaurant is also famous for being the outdoor scenes of Monk's Cafe from the TV show Seinfeld.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:All the same place.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:Without getting anyone's permission, dna made a dance remix of the song Okay, and after getting word of it, vega and her record label. They didn't want to go to court, they just decided they would release it and name everybody as writers. It's kind of interesting because on the original Suzanne Vega is the only writer, but on the remix it has DNA, suzanne Vega, lenny K and the other producer I can't remember off the top of my head what his name is. So did you know that? When they were and I don't know all the technical stuff so maybe I'm not saying it right but when they were trying to figure out how to make the MP3, they used the acapella version as what a song should be, to create it and the compression and listening and everything, and she's considered the mother of the MP3.
Speaker 1:Wow, yes, that is so cool.
Speaker 2:All on this one song that has connections to Lenny K, friend of the show Seinfeld, with the Restaurant MP3s. Everything this song has, everything. It has something for everybody.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, I'm going to nerd out on that and look that up, because I'm very curious.
Speaker 2:You know, maybe you do that, Maybe next episode you can talk a little bit about it for us because, like again, I read a bunch. It didn't mean a whole lot to me, but I got the gist of, you know of what they were trying to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know the Fraunhofer compression that they used.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah so. Number 80, the Rolling Stones Rockin' a Hard Place. Number 78, Michael Penn no Myth. What if I were Romeo in black jeans? What if I was Heathcliff? It's no myth, Maybe she's just looking for someone to dance with. Released in November 1989, the first WDRE radio shriek of the week in January 1990 and peaked at number 13 on Billboard in March, and Penn won the MTV Award for Best New Artist off of this song. He had another song that wasn't the best at all, but just one song, boom.
Speaker 1:You know who his brother is.
Speaker 2:Sean, yeah, yeah, mr Hond.
Speaker 1:Isn't it our time?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes, it is, and that pizza we're going to take and I'm going to have some and give some to everybody else. Hey, number 72, Digital Underground, the Humpty Dance Peaking at number 11 on Billboard Hot 100, June of 90. The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump. Do the Humpty Hump, Jimmy.
Speaker 1:I mean, is that Shakespeare?
Speaker 2:I'll tell you Just be alert in Burger King bathroom, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Number 70, concrete Blonde Joey, we talked about that in an earlier episode. Number 67, the Black Crowes hard to handle. Number 64, technotronic pump up the jam, pump up the jam, pump it up. While your feet are stomping and the jam is pumping, look ahead, the crowd is jumping. Released in August 89, peaked at number two on Billboard in January of 90. Awa a place to stay. Get your Booty on the Floor Tonight. Make my Day, man. There's some more Shakespeare for you.
Speaker 1:And a little Eastwood thrown in at the end.
Speaker 2:I know, I never noticed that until I just said that Number 58, Warrant Cherry Pie, peaked at number 10 in November 90. Video starred Bobby Brown, who was also in Great White's Once Bitten Twice Shy video, and she ended up marrying. What was the name of? Warren? Janie Lane, Jamie Lane.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:The lead singer. She married him for not that long. They got married and without this video I wouldn't know who Warrant is.
Speaker 1:I still don't.
Speaker 2:You've never seen the video.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, but I'm just saying like I don't, you don't know who the lead singer is.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm close, it's Jamie or Janie Lane, something like that. Okay, number 57, delight Groove is in the Heart. Number 52, billy Joel I Go to Extremes. I really like his piano work in this song. Most of the song is kind of a basic, nothing exciting about it, but kind of like his piano solo and you know, as the song gets further into it, really cool piano work. Number 48, depeche Mode Policy of Truth. Number 47. Oh, number 47. Never heard the song so I'm going to have to defer to you Jimmy. Number 47, kiss with Forever.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't think I know that one. That's a late Kiss song, 1990?. Yes, oh, I'm a little suspect of what that song sounds like.
Speaker 2:Sounds like it might be some kind of a pandering ballad. I know nothing. I never heard of it until I looked this up. I got to be honest with you. All right, let's go to number 45, tom Petty Free Fallin'. Number 44, alana Miles. Black Velvet. I like this song. Tribute to Elvis Presley. I just found this song just kind of appealing. It just starts. It's kind of like a bluesy country rock type thing. It was kind of different than what was happening at the time. Black Velvet and that little boy smile. Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll Bring you to your Knees. Black Velvet, if you Please Again, I really do like this. I did not have it on my phone, but I added it on my phone because I should have had it on my phone. I like it All right.
Speaker 1:So it's another one of those songs I like how every song in creation is available on everyone's phone now, but you talk very seriously about which songs you add to your phone.
Speaker 2:I do. It's on my playlist. I have one big playlist, so I yeah, I know it's available on everyone. Anyone can listen to it, but most people don't. It's actually on my. I like to listen to shuffle. I hit songs and I hit shuffle. That's the way I usually listen to music, unless I'm doing something for the show I want to refresh on something. Then I go specifically into something. A lot of times I am just shuffle and whatever comes comes.
Speaker 1:How many songs do you think you have on your shuffle?
Speaker 2:I don't not many. I have about 5,000.
Speaker 1:That's a lot, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I do not have a lot. I have you know what. Do you call it? The old iPod. Yes, I have a small iPod that I've got a ton of songs on and then I have an external hard drive that I got like 25,000 songs on and you know, it just gets to the point With the phone. I really try and make it songs that I want to listen to. Like I don't have any fluff in there, there's not anything that I don't want to listen to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not putting whole albums. If you only like two songs on the album, correct, okay.
Speaker 2:And if there's 12 songs on the album, I only like 10, I'm only putting the 10. I'm not going to put the other two.
Speaker 1:Not being nice. No, just no. Courtesy slots.
Speaker 2:I will. If it's a brand new album, I'll put the whole thing and then listen to it and then delete from there. That's what I do. All right, so Black Velvet, number one on Billboard Hot 100, march of 1990. Number 39, snap the Power and I know these are a lot of the songs that you were jamming out to back in the day, jimmy, I can just see by the look on your face. There you go. See, I'm snapping More proof that pop was changing. I have no idea what they're saying in this song, other than I've got the power and it's getting kind of hectic. Other than that, still, 35 years later, I don't know what they say in the entire rest of the song.
Speaker 1:I never knew yeah.
Speaker 2:That does not surprise me. It peaked at number two on Billboard in August of 1990. In 2022, rolling Stone named it 188 on the 200 Greatest Dance Songs of all time, and in 2024, billboard named it number 59 on their 100 greatest jock jams of all time. Now I got to be honest with you, jock jams.
Speaker 1:I haven't heard that term since the 90s.
Speaker 2:I don't think what's a jock jam. A jock jam is something that when you go to a sporting event that they play the song you know Okay. And that's definitely a song that used to be played at like a ton of football games. Professional football games.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll have to look it up. I'm getting it confused with Everybody Dance Now.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is not that song, okay, all right. All right, listen to it. I'm sure you'll love it. Either way, all right. Number 37, in Excess Suicide, blonde 31, motley Crue Same Old Situation. Number 30, depeche Mode Enjoy the Silence. Number 28, aerosmith the Other Side. We've talked about a bunch of these songs before. Number 20, belle Viv Devoe, poison, and all I can remember from that, that girl is poison. I bet she was and it had that drum.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 2:Number 19,. Aerosmith what it Takes. Number 16, the B-52s Rome. Number 15, faith no More, epic. I forgot that this song was from 1990. I like this song, always liked it Definitely. The video, you know, made it much better watching the video. It was just super cool. You know, it's kind of like a funky metal song, like it's tough to say what it is. It's funky but at the same time it's kind of got that like harder metal whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were kind of pioneers of that metal funk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know, it reminds me With kind of rap on top of it. Yeah, it reminds me of some Red Hot Chili Pepper songs actually.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's. True, you know.
Speaker 2:So reach number nine on Billboard Hot 100, September of 1990. And the video's kind of known towards the end end the fish that's flopping on the ground out of the water and the piano playing is at the end. And then a lot of people were asking you know what happened to the fish? And it became I think the song became bigger because so many people wondered what happened to the fish and, and there's all different stories I don't know what to believe. But Bjork said she gave the fish to them, she was in San Francisco and she said that was her fish.
Speaker 1:But then Did they give it back?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I don't think she lived there, I think she lived somewhere far away. So she needed to find somebody to take the fish. But then I read another story I don't know if it was the person that did the video, I don't remember but said oh, we used multiple fish and no fish was hurt while making this video. So I don't know what the answer is. Multiple stories, maybe someday we'll find out about it. I think without the flopping fish the song is not as popular as it was. You want it all but you can't have it. It's in your face but you can't grab it Again. Mtv top videos of 1990.
Speaker 2:Number 10, motley Crue Don't Go Away Mad, just Go Away. Peaked at number 19 in July on the Billboard charts. The song is almost like two parts. It's the first part. It's kind of a ballad and talking about whatever you know with. I don't even know what it's talking about Until all of a sudden it goes don't go away, man, just go away. Like all the music, everything changes and it just becomes like a more rocker song and now it's like you know. The beginning is like more than half the song, but I like the part where they say don't go away, man, just go away. I think that's classic.
Speaker 2:There's been a few songs that have actually been named. That Number nine, Janet Jackson, escapade. Number one in March. Number eight Jon Bon Jovi, blaze of Glory. Number one in September. It was on Young Guns 2. They wanted to use what was that song Wanted, dead or Alive? That was the Bon Jovi song, right? And he said, oh, let me just write another song. And he wrote Blaze of Glory. Number seven Vanilla Ice, ice, ice, baby. The look on your face is priceless, jimmy you know I'm a defender of Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1:I think he was kind of cool all right, stop, collaborate and listen.
Speaker 2:We all know the song that sampled the bass from Queen. David Bowie, under pressure, sampled it and it's funny because I have seen with my own eyes back in the day when the song was out. I've seen these news videos he did with MTV or whatever it was where he's trying to defend. It's not the same bass line.
Speaker 2:I know because there's one missing note yes, one missing note and you're like he can't really believe this. Does he really believe? This Right, you know. So hey, if there was a problem, yo I'll solve it. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. I mean, those are some classic words right there.
Speaker 1:It wasn't even my daughter lily, used to do ice ice baby when she was like a young toddler she's like 18 months old or something really and she would go ice, ice baby and she'd do this little dance. It was the cutest thing you've ever seen oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Did you know it wasn't even the a side. The a side was play that funky music and someone decided, hey, let me just flip it over, let me see what's on the other side. Like, oh, this is much better. And it ended up number one on billboard in 1990. You know we've talked about songs that weren't meant to be the you know the A-side and how famous they ended up becoming. So on February 10th 1991, on In Living Color, do you remember that TV show In?
Speaker 1:Living Color.
Speaker 2:Jim Carrey did a parody of the song called White White Baby. It is funny. You got gotta check it out on youtube and they actually, you know he looks exactly like vanilla ice. They have the hair and the way it's cut, like he wears, you know, like a face pic. You know thing over his head, it's just funny.
Speaker 2:It really really is. Not so funny is Vanilla Ice's dealings with Suge Knight. Okay, so Suge had an acquaintance and the guy's name was Mario and he said that he helped write the song and that he wasn't getting any royalties and his name wasn't listed. And that he wasn't getting any royalties and his name wasn't listed. So Suge Knight started showing up all around Los Angeles while Vanilla Ice was out there, Mm-hmm, and would show up with big guys and, kind of you know, make him feel uncomfortable, To the point where he goes to Vanilla Ice's hotel 15 stories up, roughs up his bodyguards and Vanilla Ice and Suge Knight are outside on the balcony. Originally, Vanilla Ice says that Suge Knight held him by his feet or was dangling him, but then he changed his story and just said that we were talking.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And that maybe Suge Knight said. You know, it's kind of high up here, it's a long way down, or you know.
Speaker 1:I don't know exactly, but that's a big, big difference, that's a big story change.
Speaker 2:But it is a big story change. I think one does that to make sure that they stay alive. So what ended up happening? There's no dispute about this. Vanilla Ice ends up signing there his rights to the song and gives up $4 million. Oh yes, that's not a dispute and that is how Death Row Records got its start. Whoa, number six, sinead O'Connor. Nothing Compares to you. Number four in April. Number five Paula Abdul. Opposites Attract. This is the song where she's like dancing with like a cartoon cat or something, if I remember correctly. Is that right?
Speaker 1:It was, yeah, like a coyote or a cat. Maybe it was a cat, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what? I don't think it was a dog, so it could have been anything, but this was kind of like the in technology. At the time they had that movie who Framed Roger Rabbit, yeah. So you know I wasn't a fan of the song, but it still peaked at number one on Billboard in February of 1990.
Speaker 1:Ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Number four Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith peaked at number four in February. Number three Madonna Vogue, number one in May of 90. Hey, jimmy, should I compose? There you go, I love it. Number two Billy Idol. Cradle of Love, number two on Billboard in August and out of all the songs he recorded, billy only had one song chart higher than Cradle of Love. Blew my mind away. I did not know this and it was the live version of Money Money that came out in 1987.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1:It really is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, anyway, number one song on the MTV Top Videos of 1990. Jimmy, can you guess? No, your excitement is overwhelming, jimmy.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I don't know where to go with that.
Speaker 2:MC Hammer, you Can't.
Speaker 1:Touch this.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we talked about MC Hammer. You know, a few episodes ago we talked about MC Hammer. A few episodes ago the Hammer Pants dance song, inspired by Rick James Super Freak, peaked at number one on Billboard in June 1990. Stop Hammer time.
Speaker 2:August 9th 1995, jerry Garcia, lead singer, guitarist for Grateful Dead, he passed away and there's so many songs that I can think of when I think of Jerry Garcia. You know, althea Going Down the Road Feeling Bad. Touch of Gray. Here Comes Sunshine. Ripple, alabama, get Away, shakedown Street. If I had the World To Give, I mean there's a ton of songs Mississippi, half Step Uptown Toodaloo I love the name of that song and it's actually a great song. Help on the Way, slipknot, franklin's Tower. And it was just really, really cool to have listened to the Grateful Dead and to be able to see them while Jerry Garcia was still alive. And you know I've gone to many Dead Company shows, you know, since, and it's fun to be there and I love being there and I love the songs. But it is not the same and it's, you know, not trying to offend John Mayer whatsoever it's not the same as being at the, you know, a Grateful Dead show. It's not the same as Jerry Garcia on guitar.
Speaker 2:I'm sure, yeah, and even in 1995, when Jerry probably shouldn't have been on the road. He was pretty frail at the time. His guitar playing yeah, it's not what it once was, but I would take it today If I could listen to it. Today I would be there to go see a show and enjoy it. You know we had the Jerry Garcia band, which was something he did on the side to kind of play some music that he didn't feel fit into the Grateful Dead mold, but he could play it and enjoy it. He would play with Melvin Seals a lot and I think it was a good relief for him. And you know he would normally play smaller places. But you know in what was it? 89? I mean they played like the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. They had Bob Weir open up with Rob Wasserman and it's just super cool. Jerry Garcia is just so much fun. And I'm glad I've had the opportunity I think I've mentioned it before where people have asked me if I've actually seen Jerry and that ultimately makes me feel really old. But yes, you know, I have seen Jerry Garcia in concert and been to shows and I just think it's cool and and you know I love the Grateful Dead, um, and I, and I know a lot of people don't, and that's okay. Music's not a competition, you know, um, but I'm glad that that I got to see him. But I'm glad that I got to see him and I'm glad that when I can put on a song on my phone or I still belong to their CD of the quarter club and I get CDs from the Grateful Dead, well, you know, listening to it it just brings me back and it's just super cool and definitely hard to believe he's been gone for 30 years already. Let's revisit some more music in my shoes.
Speaker 2:Pat benatar, crimes of passion came out august 5th 1980. First single you better run peaked at number 42 on billboard in august of 80. A straight-up rock and roll song. Really cool song, jimmy did you know it's a cover that Robert Plant he had a band in the 60s, he actually sang this song no, yes, wow. And Peter Criss, on one of his solo albums actually did this. A bunch of people have done it. It was the second song played on MTV on August 1st 1981. Amazing, yes, hit Me With your Best Shot reached number nine on Billboard in December of 80 and Treat Me Right peaked at number 18 in March 1981. Another rocker, good album. I think it was released at the right time in 1980. It was something I think people were looking for and it's a good album. If you haven't listened to it or put the songs on your phone, I recommend it.
Speaker 2:The Cure In Between Days, wlir, screamer of the Week, second week of August 1985. It was only on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week. It came in at number 99 on February 15th 1986, six months after it was Screamer of the week. It's really hard to believe that this song was only in the top 100 for one week. I mean this song. When I was growing up, while I was a fan of the Cure and liked them and was listening to them, a lot of my friends this was the introduction to the Cure for them hearing In Between Days and so many people were like people that never heard of them before knew them because this song was being played and it's hard to believe it.
Speaker 1:It didn't do well on billboard I think that the like wdre wlir kind of skewed your impression because living in atlanta you would never hear that on the radio. My brother had the 12-inch single of that and that's how I knew it.
Speaker 2:And so.
Speaker 1:I introduced my friends to it by putting it on mixtapes and stuff. But yeah, it wasn't on the radio here, maybe on college radio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of crazy how that can be Speaking of crazy tick, tick, tick. 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. So the other night on Saturday night, I went over to the Variety Playhouse here in Atlanta and I saw a couple of tribute bands. I'm not a big tribute band person but I really love the Clash and there are some local guys in Atlanta that have a band called Clashinista and they do a really, really good job of honoring that Clash material 50 minutes, I bet you. They played 16 songs in 15 minutes and just a great sampling from all the different Clash albums. And then next came on Smithsonian. That's another local Atlanta cover band tribute band that does Smith songs and they were really good. I'm not a huge Smiths fan but they really got all the details right. The singer was very much a Morrissey sound alike and the Johnny Marr guitar player hit all the right parts. And I really appreciated the drums and bass more than I ever did just listening to the Smiths recordings, watching these guys play the stuff live, like it's got some pretty rocking bass and drums in a lot of the songs.
Speaker 2:That sounds very cool. Did the guy playing Morrissey? Did he say he was sick and was going to cancel the show?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they actually went on stage, so it was very unrealistic.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's true, I like that, that is good. No, that's true, I like that, that is good. No, that sounds like a good time. So are both bands local or just they are yeah.
Speaker 1:And they've both been around for a while. Smithsonian has been around I would say at least 20 years, because I saw them at a party like 20 years ago, and Clashinista, I think, think, has been around for about 10 and they were all well. Some of the guys were in a band called Starling Family that I knew that I'd played like at some shows with and I heard them cover a Clash song. Back then I was like, wow, they're really good covering that Clash song. And then they ended up just saying let's not do the original band anymore, let's be Clashinista and it's great.
Speaker 2:That sounds very cool. You know Andy Rourke, the former bass player for the Smiths, no longer with us when I first started listening to the Smiths, that was one of the things that hooked me. You know, besides Johnny Marr a lot of people say Johnny Marr's guitar, and that was what got them. But you know, andy Rourke, his bass was just so cool and you know, again, I've mentioned this before but that drove me to listen to more and more of the Smiths, to go and let me find out everything I possibly can about them, because I really enjoy it. Mm-hmm, my name is Jimmy. Well, if you enjoyed the show, you can reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. If you have anything you'd like to say to us, we'd like to say please like and follow the Music In my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for episode 90 of Music In my Shoes.
Speaker 2: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. Yo man, let's get out of here. Word to your mother.
