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E95 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks of September 1995 and Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
We dive into a musical time capsule exploring the Billboard Modern Rock tracks from September 16th, 1995, highlighting the songs that defined a generation and soundtracked a wedding day.
• Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself" featuring Television's Richard Lloyd on lead guitar
• Hole's "Softer, Softest" with Kurt Cobain on backing vocals, recorded in Marietta, Georgia
• Toadies' "Possum Kingdom" with its distinctive guitar opening and haunting lyrics
• Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" featuring Dave Navarro and Flea as session musicians
• The story behind Tripping Daisy reluctantly releasing "I Got a Girl" as a single
• Silverchair claiming the #1 spot with "Tomorrow"
• The significance of 99X radio in Atlanta bringing alternative music to mainstream audiences
• Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album celebrating its 50th anniversary
• The story behind the burning man on the "Wish You Were Here" album cover
• The Replacements' "Tim" album marking its 40th anniversary
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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 95. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, jimmy, keeping in track kind of what I've done recently episode 95, I'm going to highlight songs from the Billboard Modern Rock tracks from September 16th 1995.
Speaker 1:Oh, really, yes, yeah, do you know what that is?
Speaker 2:September 16th 1995?.
Speaker 1:That's the day I got married.
Speaker 2:I had no idea, Jimmy. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, we're coming up on 30 years.
Speaker 2:Well, we're going to talk about the songs that were popular in Modern Rock on your wedding day. All right, I didn't even know that. This is my gift to you and your wife.
Speaker 1:30 years later, you're so thoughtful.
Speaker 2:That's the way that I am. That's the way I am. So one thing I wanted to start off with at this point I was living down here in Atlanta about five years and there was a radio station that had been like a top 40 station and they converted to modern alternative type rock 99X.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what was it called Power 99.
Speaker 2:Power 99, and they switched. I think it was about 1992 or so. Yep, and all of these songs that I'm going to talk about are songs that I heard on 99X First and that they were primarily 99X songs. There's some songs that you know we'll talk about, that hit Billboard Hot 100 number ones and so forth, but the majority of these songs really are, you know, 99X. And when I look back 30 years ago and what they were playing, this is it. You know, this is really what it all comes down to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like you've said, you know you had some really great radio stations in Long Island and New York City area as early as you know, the late seventies.
Speaker 1:We really only had as far as alternative music or whatever you might've called it, you know, in the eighties eighties alternative it was college rock and that was only on album 88, or if you were in Athens, they had WUOG there but, um, it didn't have a whole lot of range, so you couldn't pick up the Athens station in Atlanta, and when 99 X came on the air it was a breath of fresh air Like, oh wow, it's actually some music that I want to listen to that's on commercial radio and we'd never had that in Atlanta.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you hit the nail on the head. When I moved here in 1990, between that time I moved here and 99X came on the radio, I had friends making me cassettes of WDRE up in New York and sending me, or you know whatever type of music they could send me from different stations.
Speaker 1:Like a care package.
Speaker 2:A care package that I could listen to to keep up to date with things that were happening. So let's get started. Let's get right into it. Number 39, matthew Sweet Sick of Myself. A good guitar-driven song. Do you know who played lead guitar?
Speaker 1:No, I always assumed it was Matthew Sweet.
Speaker 2:Matthew Sweet actually didn't play lead guitar. In most of the songs he usually had someone that was playing. But Richard Lloyd of the band Television, influential in punk and they played at CBGB's back in the day and I just think it's cool because it's a real cool lead guitar part. I mean Television most people haven't heard of. Really, if you think about it, most people probably haven't heard of Richard Lloyd until I'm talking about him now. But so influential and that band you know Tom Verlaine, richard Hell, you know he went on to Richard Hell and the Voidoids and the drummer from the Ramones was in Richard Hell and the Voidoids. They had Blank Generation, I mean. So this band television really, you know, not only did they do stuff as themselves but once they broke apart and they went in their own ways, really influential on so much music.
Speaker 2:So it's really cool to see Richard Lloyd with Matthew Sweet because I love Sick of Myself, I love the guitar Especially. It just never seems to end. We've talked about that before and it's just cool, I like it, I like it a lot. Can't forget about matthew sweet. You know he had a stroke in october of 2024. He's still trying to recover from it. So you know we keep him in our thoughts here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wish him the best we do.
Speaker 2:Number 38 you two withhold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me. Talked about that song not that long ago. 38, u2 with Hold Me, thrill Me, kiss Me, kill Me. Talked about that song not that long ago. Number 37, softer, softest. Now, this is a whole song and it's off the 1994 album Live Through this and it's actually one of the songs that Kurt Cobain helps do the chorus and it's towards the end of the song and he sings along. He only did it with two songs. This is one of them and it was actually recorded right here in Marietta, georgia, back in the day. I forget what the name of the studio was.
Speaker 1:Southern.
Speaker 2:Tracks probably no, something Triclops I think it was Triclops. Yeah, Triclops, that's where the album was recorded, but Triclops, I think it was Triclops, yeah, triclops, that's where the album was recorded. But this is a cool song. It is the beginning, most of it's kind of soft kind of ballady, which I know Courtney love and hold. That doesn't sound like something you would expect, but then it just kind of gets rocking towards the end and it's a good song, and Kurt had been gone for a year and a half at that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had to think about my math there. But yes, you are correct and it's funny because you know we've talked about this before where an album comes out and we'll talk about different songs that made the charts at different times. This album came out in April of 1994. We're now talking about September 1995, like you mentioned, a year and a half later and it has a song as number 37 on the Modern Rock tracks. Yeah, Number 36, Hum, with the song Stars. I hadn't heard this song in years, Maybe even a couple of decades, if I can be honest with you.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to picture it.
Speaker 2:So I'm driving the other day with a mutual friend and the song comes on and I forgot, like it begins with a guitar and then it kind of stops and you're like wait, did the song just end, or is there more? And then it kind of stops and you're like wait, did the song just end, or is there more? And then it starts again and then it gets a little louder and then it kind of stops again. You're like what? And I forgot all about this song and it was ironic. Then the next day as I'm looking up the modern rock tracks, I'm like oh wow, that's so funny, you know, because you know we've talked about hearing songs on my way here or leaving here and that whatever we're talking about on the show just seems to pop up. So it was just really really bizarre for that. So it's got these several beginnings. It actually was played on Beavis and Butthead and they're watching music videos and as they're watching it they start changing the channel because they think the song is over, kind of like what I was just talking about. It's a pretty good song, you know, I don't know how to describe it or anything, but it's a grungy, you know. Like I said, it kind of starts off with this slow thing and then it gets into it.
Speaker 2:Most well-known song by Hum, Number 32, Collective Soul, the song December. Why drink the water from my hand? Contagious as you think I am, Just tilt my sun towards your domain. Your cup runneth over again. I just think those words are so cool. Start off this song. It's one of my favorite collective soul songs. It made it to number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 95 also, so it was on two different charts. Why follow me to to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am and I think those lines that just so cool that you know through your life, when people are kind of doubting you and you're lost and this and everything, but they're still following you, you know yeah, and I just think that that was really cool.
Speaker 2:Number 31, blues Traveler with Runaround, most well-known blues traveler song. It peaked earlier at number eight on August 5th on the Billboard Hot 100. But you, why? You want to give me a runaround? Is it a surefire way to speed things up when all it does is slow me down? Man, I love those words, jimmy, I love them. Number 30, live all over you. Number 28, sponge Molly 16 Candles, a song named after Molly Ringwald, one of the stars of the movie 16 Candles.
Speaker 1:Yep Saw that movie a lot of times, did you really I did, because it came out when I was in like the ninth grade and we would just go to that Dollar Movie Theater and see it all summer long. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I liked the Dollar Movie Theater when I was younger.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Definitely gave us something to do. One of the movies I saw was Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Gave us something to do. One of the movies I saw was Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Speaker 1:I saw that a ton of times at the Dollar Theater.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:And Porky's was the other one that I saw a ton at the Dollar Theater. Fast Times and 16 Candles hold up pretty well. I don't know if Porky's does.
Speaker 2:It's the truth, though. It reached number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1995. I have no idea how it did it. It's you know it's a decent song, but I don't know how it would appeal to that many of the masses to make it to number 55 on the countdown. Don't Ask why. 16 Candles Down the Drain, Number 26, Dave Matthews Band, Ants Marching. It seemed like when that song came out, everybody that was in college, or everybody that was in high school, absolutely loved Dave Matthews, loved that song, and would play that thing nonstop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wasn't a fan, but yeah.
Speaker 2:I had a feeling you were going to say that I was trying to lead up to that. That was my guess.
Speaker 1:The big reveal.
Speaker 2:The big reveal here 25. Toadies with Possum Kingdom that's a good one, the opening guitars are just fantastic. And then make up your mind, decide to walk with me around the lake tonight, around the lake tonight, by my side, wow.
Speaker 1:That's a fun song.
Speaker 2:I think this is probably in my top 200 favorite songs of all time. All right, I really do. I think it totally stands the test of time. It is just fantastic, everything about it the guitars, the bass, the drums, the singing, the words. I mean every part of the song I absolutely love. Number 24, tripping Daisy. I Got a Girl, a song about the lead singer's girl at the time and they didn't want to release the song as a single. The record company was insisting on it their biggest song ever and if they didn't release it most of us would have no idea who Tripping Daisy is. And basically the song is kind of like I got a girl and then says something about her. I got a girl, says something about her. I got a girl, says it's all about his girl. He ended up marrying her. He has four kids with her, you know. But after they broke up the band Trippin' Daisy, the lead singer started Polyphonic Spree. Number 19, the ska punk sound of Rancid with Time Bomb Good one.
Speaker 2:I forgot about this song. I played it and I was like I just totally forgot about it. This is a good song. It is. It really is Number 18, a Girl Like you by Edwin Collins. I've never known a girl like you before. Now, just like in a song from Days of Yore, here you come knocking on my door. Well, I've never met a girl like you before. His voice reminds me of Peter Murphy from Bauhaus, very similar to me, as he's singing Anytime that someone can put in a popular song, days of Yore. You've got me hooked right there. And this was in the movie Empire Records, oh yeah, which the soundtrack, which actually that movie is hitting 30 years Now that I think about it. I think it came out in September of 95.
Speaker 2:Well, that would make sense 30 in 95, sure, but definitely I do think of that song. As you know, peter Murphy-ish More when he was in Bauhaus than when he was solo. Number 16, weezer Say it Ain't so. Number 14, natalie.
Speaker 1:Mertz, can you skip over that, like it's not a good song or something.
Speaker 2:No, it's a very good song. Let's talk about that song, Jimmy.
Speaker 1:I think it's a classic. It's like if you play that song right now for a bunch of college kids, they all sing along. Everybody still knows it, loves it. It's just like it's an anthem.
Speaker 2:Like father.
Speaker 1:Stepfather.
Speaker 2:There you go, jimmy. Number 14, natalie Merchant, formerly of 10,000 Maniacs Carnival. Kind of a slow song but it was all right. Number 13,. This is a Call by the Foo Fighters. We talked about that recently. Number 11, alanis Morissette Hand in my Pocket. I like that song. I got to be honest. I kind of like Alanis Morissette, that first album that was popular. I know it was I think her third album that she had out, but that first popular album I like Hand in my Pocket. It's just like you know.
Speaker 1:The Jagged Little Pill. Was that what it was?
Speaker 2:Yes, that was it, Number 8,. This song had former Jane's Addiction and then in 1995, the current Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist, dave Navarro, flee the bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ben Montench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on organ. This song number eight you Oughta Know, by Alanis Morissette, and to have that star power on that song. That is a funky bass line it is really cool to listen to.
Speaker 1:I never knew all those guys played on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a really cool song to listen to, just the way that they're playing and if you think about it, that's a song like you. If you listen to the bass, you can just be dancing to it. I know it's a spurn lover song, I know it's about a bad breakup and that's not normally the type of songs that you would be stepping your feet to and moving around. But the bass and the guitar and the drums and everything. The drummer I can't think of his name, but he just toured with ACDC not too long ago and he's the drummer for the Dirty Knobs.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So that's the band that was started by Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the guitarist, and so he's in that band. So he's done a bunch of stuff, but I love a song from the heart. We've talked about this for two years now, okay, but this takes it further, as a song sung while a dagger is in the heart, and every time you speak her name does she know how? You told me you'd hold me until you died, till you died, but you're still alive.
Speaker 1:Wow, I mean, those are some pretty yeah, epic words, some big words in it it's got some bite to it.
Speaker 2:If you've never heard this song, you need to check it out. A real funky bass line. I just love it. I really, really, really love it. Now, this song, she won't say who it's about and there's been rumors it's about Dave, I think his last name Coulier, the guy from Full House. She dated him. She dated Matt LeBlanc, she dated some former hockey players. I think she dated her producer from some of her albums. But she won't say who it is and I guess it really remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me. You, you, you ought to know. I don't even think I can go on now.
Speaker 1:That was, that was intense.
Speaker 2:It was pretty intense. Anyway, if you've never heard that song, I'm not sure where you've been. Really. Let's move on though. Number seven the Presidents of the United States' Lump, it's a corny little song but you know, if it comes on I would listen to it. It's not something that I would listen to all the time.
Speaker 1:I liked their cover of Video Killed the Radio Star better than Lump their big hit.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure I've heard that song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2:Didn't they have a song like Dune Buggy or something I'm?
Speaker 1:not sure.
Speaker 2:I think something like that. I remember that song. I'll have to listen. I've never heard that one before. Number six Goo Goo Dolls Name a song that reached number five on Billboard in January 1996. Number five Gin Blossoms Till I Hear it From you, another song from the Empire Records soundtrack. Number three Green Day, jar Jar, jason Andrew Relva from the Angus soundtrack, about a friend of one of the band members who died and kind of paying tribute to him. It's a good song. It's not your typical Green Day. You know it's Green Day when you hear it, but it's not the typical Green Day type of song. I've always liked it. I think it's good. Number two Bush Come Down and number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Track September 16th 1995, the day that Jimmy and Cher said I do. And 30 years later they still do, we still do Silverchair Tomorrow.
Speaker 2:So I guess I should have spoken about this today, on this episode, instead of talking about silver chair tomorrow last episode.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:But you know what? There's no bathroom and there is no sink, but hopefully there is at your home, jimmy, because I don't think you'd be married for 30 years if there wasn't.
Speaker 1:No, we do. We have indoor plumbing now.
Speaker 2:Hey, good to hear that. I like that.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I've mentioned John Sebastian of the Loving Spoonful when he performed at Woodstock in 1969 and recently when he played the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. In 1975, he wrote a song Welcome Back for the TV show Welcome Back, cotter. That debuted on September 9th 1975. Song ended up hitting number one on Billboard in May of 1976. Now, jimmy, you might be a little bit younger than me, but this song was played all the time back then.
Speaker 1:Oh, I remember it very well, do you? And I loved the show Welcome Back Cotter, really, in fact, I have a little inside information you might not know. Oh, so they had put this show together, gabe Kaplan.
Speaker 2:Wait. So let me just tell you what Jimmy did. Jimmy was struggling talking and he took his glasses off and all of a sudden he's in form. I've never seen that before, jimmy.
Speaker 1:It's a Walter Cronkite move.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry to disturb you. Please continue.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, gabe Kaplan was a stand-up comedian and he had pitched this show. That was like, oh, I want to be the teacher with all these kids. They call the sweat hogs that are the poorly behaved, the kids that make D's and F's and stuff and I'm the guy that's trying to get them to learn and all the hijinks that goes on. And so he was like I don't want to be named Gabe Kaplan in the show. So he had another K last name, cotter. So, like my name is going to be Gabe Cotter and the show is going to be called Cotter.
Speaker 1:So they greenlit the show, they did the opening, you know, uh, credits and everything visual, only because they didn't have a theme song and they had this thing that says Cotter on it. You know, know, they had a logo that was the words cotter, I think maybe it had a circle around it or you know something. But it was all ready to go and like a week or two before the premiere, john sebastian turns in this amazing song welcome back. And they're like we want to use this for the theme to the show, but it doesn't say anything about cotter, it doesn't really. You know, we need to tie it together. And so they changed the name of the show to welcome back cotter and if you look at the logo for the show, the welcome back is sort of scrawled over the top and the cotter is in different, a different font, because they literally added it like right before the premiere and changed the name of the show to Welcome Back Cotter.
Speaker 2:And it all worked out. Yeah, it all worked out. I watched the show All the time. It had Vinnie Barbarino, also known as John Travolta, and that's kind of where he made his name and ended up, you know, becoming a big superstar. But you know, you mentioned the Sweat Hogs. Besides Barbarino, you had Arnold Horschak, Freddie Washington, Freddie Boom.
Speaker 1:Boom Washington.
Speaker 2:Hi there yeah.
Speaker 1:That's how, like the 70s were people. His being canceled in May of 1979.
Speaker 2:It was definitely a 70s show. For sure it was fun. I forget who played Gabe's wife, Marcia somebody.
Speaker 1:Marcia.
Speaker 2:Crossman, maybe it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it was just Cross.
Speaker 2:Oh, marcia Cross, Okay, I thought she did a really good job playing the wife. They had the guy that was the principal, mr Woodman. Mr Woodman, that is.
Speaker 1:That guy was great.
Speaker 2:Yes, he did not like the Sweathogs.
Speaker 1:No At all, and Gabe see, the story is that Gabe had been a Sweathog himself Right, and he came back to Brooklyn to the school that was Buchanan High School and I think the idea kind of it was lost on me as a kid. But like Buchanan was not a president that you would have named a school after, he wasn't a very good president, so they came up with that.
Speaker 2:You know, I got to be honest, jimmy, so that everybody knows at home you have no idea what I'm going to talk about. I come in, I start talking and then you add what you can, what you know, or if you have questions or whatever. Right, this might be one of the things that you have absolutely floored me with knowing so much about.
Speaker 1:I know a lot about. Welcome Back, Cotter.
Speaker 2:I didn't think you were going to know anything. I didn't. Well, thanks, and you have been a plethora of knowledge of the sweat hogs.
Speaker 1:And then you know, he would tell an uncle joke at the end of every episode.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:A corny joke about one of his fake uncles.
Speaker 2:I did forget about that, but you know what I didn't forget. I did not forget that. I want to revisit some more music in my shoes Pink Floyd, wish you Were here. The album came out September 12, 1975. I think this album is absolutely fantastic and coming out right after Dark Side of the Moon, people struggle a lot. The band struggled they admitted that they couldn't come up with new songs at first to be able to put out a new album. This album is absolutely fantastic, great to listen to.
Speaker 2:A lot of it has to do with Sid Barrett, who had been with the band and they kicked him out in 1968 due to mental breakdown and doing too much acid. We talked a little bit about it on episode 25, and that episode 25 was Remember when you Were Young, which is a line from Shine On you, crazy Diamond, which is the first song on Wish you Were here. And if you remember, what I was saying is that Sid Barrett shows up while they're recording this album and it was in June of 1975. And he was overweight, he didn't have eyebrows, he had barely had barely any hair. You know it was very short, not the Sid that they had known. You know, the free, loving 1960s Sid Barrett, and they didn't know who he was at first. Oh wow, and I apologize, I know we we talked, you know, into the about this in in oh wow, about him. A lot of the lines are about him. It's about in general as well, about kind of losing reality and wanting to go into isolation. You know isolating yourself from so many things and you know it's just crazy. The song is Shine on your Crazy Time, and here I'm like it's crazy that this guy came in and was listening to this song and had absolutely no idea they're talking about him and that he could not put it together whatsoever.
Speaker 2:The song Wish you Were here, another song about Sid Barrett, and I think this album is great.
Speaker 2:I think that they're this concept. You know they had the concept of Dark Side of the Moon, but this concept of you know isolation and things you might have believed in you don't believe in anymore. And the world changes and everything changes and all this stuff, the machine and it's, you know, have a cigar songs that talk about being so pumped up and so excited for something and then you find out that, you know, music's just a business and it's all about greed, it's all about money, it's all about all of these things and you finally have made it where you're famous and you're somewhat rich, and it just the whole thing comes back and just like boom right into your face and I think they did a great job of conveying that, all of that and the missing of sid from the band in this album and I'm not sure if anyone that I can think of and on any form of an album that was so successful like this that anyone's been able to replicate that. You know, I mean it's just a really cool thing when you peel back the layers of the album.
Speaker 2:Now. They only released one single have a Cigar, oh.
Speaker 2:Roy Harper sang the lead, not even in the band, okay I didn't realize that roger waters could not get the vocal down because he had been singing shine on you, crazy diamond. You know his voice kind of I'm not. I want to say he lost his voice but maybe it got, you know, raspy or or whatever. And roy harper was in the same EMI place that they were recording and David Gilmour, the guitarist, played some guitar on the album. It's like, hey, why don't you come down and he sings and they're like, yeah, let's go with it. Now Roger Waters regrets it. He's like I should have sang the song. I shouldn't have had somebody else singing my song.
Speaker 1:Couldn't he wait like a couple of days for his voice to recover? I?
Speaker 2:don't know. You know how sometimes you're just like whatever you know and you just like you give in for whatever reason on things and then it comes back that you regret it. I think that might have been the reasoning behind it. That's a song where they, you know, they're kind of talking about the music business and they're like, oh, by the way, which one's pink? You know that they think pink is a guy.
Speaker 2:I actually had a Pink Floyd shirt that said on the back it was a black shirt and in pink. On the back it said oh, by the way, which one's pink. And people would ask me about it and I would tell them and I kid you not, I would say more than 50% of the people this is in the 80s, this is not recently. This is the 80s More than 50% of the people did not realize there was no person named Pink Floyd. 50% of the people did not realize there was no person named Pink Floyd. Now, I don't know if it's because of the movie the Wall, where they had, you know, person named Pink, but I would wear that shirt and I can't tell you how many comments I would get on it.
Speaker 1:And there's no Jethro Tull right.
Speaker 2:There is no Jethro Tull.
Speaker 1:No, or it's named after, like a guy you know, a historical character, right.
Speaker 2:No one in the band named that no Leonard Skinner guy in the band. I think he might have been like an old teacher or something of that nature. But it really is a good album. You know it starts off with Shine On you, crazy Diamond, parts one through five. Welcome to the Machine. You know that I talked about have a Cigar. We just talked about that. Wish you Were here. And then it ends with Shine on you, crazy Diamond, parts six through nine. It is a great album to listen just straight through. It's just really, really neat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely one of those to listen straight through wish you were here with david gilmore on lead vocals.
Speaker 2:You know roger warders did most of them and I think roger warders, if you listen, to shine on your crazy diamond you needed roger warders voice. He's got that unique voice to do shine on your Crazy Diamond. But David Gilmour, on Wish you Were here, it's unbelievable, it is just fantastic. As he's singing that song, I think of it as another one of those. It comes from the heart songs. So, jimmy, the cover of the album. Do you remember the cover of the album? There was one man standing and one man standing across from him. He was on fire. On fire, right, all right, and that had to kind of do. One man standing and one man standing across from him.
Speaker 2:He was on fire on fire, right, all right, and that had to kind of do with the business of getting burned in, the business, the royalties and the whole nine yards again talking about shaking hands shaking hands and if you take a look on the inside of the album, it had, um, like robotic mechanical arms at shaking hands and there's a lot of imagery.
Speaker 2:If you look at the different things that they came up with for the wish you were here album, whether it's you know, the stickers, I think it came with like some stickers, maybe a poster or something just different type of things, but when they took this picture they actually did it at um, uh, not Brothers, it wasn't Warner Brothers then it was I think it was Burbank Studios is what they called it and if you look you can see it's definitely on a soundstage area. You know the outside of the soundstage and they set one guy on fire and they did it, you know, 14 times, took pictures and there was no problem. 15th time they do it, the wind blows and actually singes his mustache. But that guy, ronnie Rondell Jr, just passed away on August 12th of 2025. So you know he is going to be remembered forever for that album and the fact that back then in 1975, you had to set someone on fire. For that you didn't have AI.
Speaker 2:You didn't have the tools that you have today to be able to not just today, the tools that you had 10 years ago or whatever. If you wanted someone on fire, they got set on fire. I like it. Yeah, and it was also done by Hypnosis. We talked about Hypnosis once before as a company that did album covers and we talked about some of the early Pink Floyd albums that they had done, and here they were part of the Wish you Were here.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 2:But if you have not listened to the album Wish you Were here in a long time, listen to it. You will definitely enjoy it as much as you did. If you've never listened to it, listen to the whole thing straight through and you'll be glad you did.
Speaker 1:And start it on the third roar of the lion in the Wizard of Oz. No, Jimmy, that's Dark Side of the Moon.
Speaker 2:Dark Side of the Moon. Please, nobody do that and waste your time. But you know what? We're not going to waste our time because 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. It's time for Minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy, minute with Jimmy. The Replacements Tim came out 40 years ago this month. It is one of my favorite Replacements albums and I'm not a fan of the new remixing that they did. I love the old mix that was done by Tommy Erdely, who was the original drummer for the Ramones and he produced this album. A lot of people criticize the production on it. I think it's just it's perfect because it kind of gives it an alternative sound. It makes it not sound like it's, you know, a Brian Adams record or something from 1985. I'd let you know that it was definitely a different kind of music that cuts like a knife, jimmy and I love every song on this.
Speaker 1:Uh, you know great ones like hold my life, kiss me on the bus, waitress in the sky, swinging party, bastards of young. I mean, come on this record. Left of the dial little mascara, here comes a. So yeah, do you like this album?
Speaker 2:I love this album, jimmy, and I normally am like you when they do the remixing and they do all that. I'm not really into that, but I do like when they remix this album. I do like some of the versions.
Speaker 1:We talked about it, I believe, on episode one. Was it episode one I think it was very early and I was like, should I say how much I don't like the new thing? And I wasn't really sure what to say.
Speaker 2:You didn't know what you could get away with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wasn't sure if you wanted me to be totally negative at that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, whatever. Yeah, that's probably a good point. We probably wouldn't be at episode 95. Yeah, you know, that's probably a good point. We probably wouldn't be at episode 95. No, but I do. I normally don't, I really normally don't like it, but I like some of these. I'm not saying I like them better, but I think Left of the Dial, paul Westerberg wrote that about one of the females from the band let's Active that he was interested in and that the only place that you could hear let's Active was college radio, which was Left of the Dial. And you know kind of you know sweet Southern breezes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, You're trying to find. You know you're always going across the country. Maybe you run into each other every once in a while, but I'm really almost 100% positive that that's what that song is about.
Speaker 1:That's good to know, very cool.
Speaker 2:Bastards of Young has one of the greatest guitar openings of ever. Yeah, and then that growl or whatever you want to call it scream?
Speaker 2:scream, like it just makes you like, wow, you know. And then he starts to sing and you know, talking about the ladder of success, and I mean it's just like man, like I feel like I'm one of the bastards of young now, just from you know singing the song, you know, and it's hard to believe it's 40 years old. You know, it really is. It just seems like yesterday that that song came out. Kiss Me on the Bus. I mean that is. I think it's a great little pop ditty. I do. I just enjoy that song.
Speaker 1:It is Fun song.
Speaker 2:A fun song to listen to. I think that was a very good Minute with Jimmy Minute with Jimmy Filter. Hey man, nice Shot peaked at number 76 on Billboard Hot 100, august 12, 1995. An industrial song, kind of Nine Inch Nails sounding. Richard Patrick was a former member of Nine Inch Nails so it's not surprising that it was sounding like them. I wish I would have met you Now it's a little late what you could have taught me. I could have saved some face.
Speaker 2:This song has to do with I'm going to say it's 1987, jimmy but there was a guy in Pennsylvania. He was a politician. I don't know if he was a county politician, I honestly don't remember but he took his own life live during a press conference and this song comes from that. There's actually a few songs out there that talk about that incident. Now, maybe not talk about it but kind of reference it, or that was the inspiration for the song. Hey man, nice Shot by Filter is one of them. Gangster's Paradise Coolio, featuring LV, peaked at number one on Billboard Hot 100 September 9th 1995 from the movie Dangerous Minds. You ever see that movie?
Speaker 1:I didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't either, but I know the song. I actually sent someone a text yesterday and I said I know people think Coolio is dead, but I just saw him in the Arby's parking lot and this guy had that hair.
Speaker 2:you know it looked just like Coolio's hair and I did a double take. I was like and I'm like, no, he's dead, it can't be him, but it looked just like him. We've reached that point. If you want to reach out to us, you can at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music In my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for episode 95 of Music In my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located right here in Atlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill for the 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. A poem.
