Left of the Dial, Beetlejuice's Day-O, and Jeremiah was a Bullfrog E119

Grief has a soundtrack—and so does joy. We open with a heartfelt salute to Catherine O’Hara, tracing how a single scene, a laugh line, or a voice can linger long after the credits, then wander into the wild terrain where memory and music meet. From Beetlejuice’s dinner table possession to Home Alone’s enduring comfort, we reflect on how film and song become the waypoints we use to navigate time. That doorway leads us to a run of resonant passings and timeless cuts: Demond Wilson’s place in Sanford and Son and the instant-transport power of Quincy Jones’ Street Beater, the exuberant lift of Three Dog Night’s Joy to the World, and a trip through New York’s CBGB with Television’s Fred Smith, Marquee Moon, and the creative stubbornness that forged a landmark record.

We trace another kind of legacy through Lynn Blakey—muse behind Left of the Dial—and the thrill of literally finding a friend on college radio while touring dark highways. Her voice in Salt Collective’s recent release becomes proof that “new” music thrives when veterans share a room, a pen, and superior instincts. Along the way we spotlight the Pretenders’ crisp poetry, Dolly Parton’s ever-true 9 to 5, and Siouxsie and the Banshees turning the ash of Pompeii into a dance-floor revelation. These are touchstones that explain why a Pink Floyd joke can still land and why Mount Vesuvius can power a chorus.

Then the lens widens to the Blitzkrieg Bop at 50—a hook first shouted in downtown clubs that now rattles stadiums and commercial breaks—and ask how simple phrases become lifelong companions. It’s a tour through what lasts, why it lasts, and how it keeps finding us—left of the dial and right in the heart.

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Transcript

Opening And Dedications

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Hey everybody, this is Jim Bog, and you're listening to Music in My Shoes Podcasting Worldwide. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 119. I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Let's.

Catherine O’Hara’s Legacy And Stories

SPEAKER_01 0:38

I like that. So, Jimmy, there's actually been quite a few deaths that I'd like to talk about. I'd hate to start the show that way, but definitely you know, want to make sure that we acknowledge some of these people and some of the things that they've done. I'm gonna start off with Catherine O'Hara from uh Second City Television. She was the mom of Winona Rider in uh Beetlejuice.

unknown 1:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Remember Beetlejuice? Um she was the mom in Home Alone. I'm sure you remember that. We've talked about that plenty of times. And she was the voice of Sally, like the rag doll on The Nightmare Before Christmas. And that was one of my favorite characters in that movie. Uh that was a Tim Burton, just like uh Beetlejuice was.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yes. So she passed away January 30th, 2026. And Home Alone is one of those classic films. And to think, you know, she's not with us anymore, but 50 years from now, people will still be watching that, and they'll you know, they'll know it's the mom, you know? Yeah. I mean, that's what's really cool about film, about music, that you can live an eternity, and generations after generation can enjoy it long after you're gone.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

True. You know? Art endures, like I say.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

It does. So do you remember in Beetlejuice, like the dinner table scene where she starts singing that Harry Belafonte song, Deo? What is it, the banana boat song? We've talked about that before. And it's because she's possessed by the former woman that lived in the house, her and her husband are possessed by them, and they start doing it. I mean, that's just classic, and you don't expect that in that movie whatsoever. Yeah. And it is great. It is so much fun watching it, and that's another scene for me. Like, I'll always remember that. But back in 2024, I believe Catherine O'Hara went to a dating company show in Las Vegas at Sphere, and she went with Brian Cranston. You know who that is.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Breaking Bad.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Malcolm in the Middle. I don't know what else, but he's done a bunch of stuff. I can't think off the top of my head. So they were out there and they were filming Seth Rogan's directing a TV show, I think it's on Apple TV, called The Studio. And they were out there and they decided they were going to try mushrooms together for the first time, Brian Cranston and Catherine O'Hara, to go see Dead and Company. They thought it was the perfect mix. And I just think that's fantastic. You know, Bob Weir passed away not too long ago. I uh that's just a great story that just keeps popping up about them, and that, you know, in 2024 they got the opportunity to to do something that they normally didn't do. Yeah. And Seth Rogan was a part of it. Can you believe that?

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Well, it's a funny story because I've watched the studio. I'm thinking maybe you haven't. I have not. Um well not too much of a spoiler to say that there's a scene in that where Brian Cranston's character uh gets very high on a number of drugs. And Catherine O'Hara is also in that, so that you know they were they were working on that together. They kind of I don't think they were in that scene together, but yeah, it uh it was in the air at that time, you know, the talk about mushrooms and that sort of thing.

Life Imitating Art At Dead & Company

SPEAKER_01 4:23

So going to Den and Company became a thing of life imitating art. True. There you go. Hey Jimmy, do you remember that 1970s TV show Sanford and Son? Yeah, I guess you do. That was pretty good. I like that. Thanks. So Red Fox was in it, the comedian Red Fox. He was a junk dealer, Fred Sanford. And uh DeMon Wilson was his son, Lamont. And DeMon Wilson passed away on January 30th, 2026 as well. Not many other roles for him. That really was like the main thing he did. He kind of pulled away from the whole film industry, got very spiritual. But Sanford's son was really similar to All in the Family, with the main character struggling to keep up with the changing times back in the day. I haven't thought about that. If you think about it. Both really good shows, both real good shows to for life lessons, you know, at least for me when I was a kid watching them.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Now on All in the Family, you had sort of the back and forth between uh Carol O'Connor and uh Mike Stivik, you know, which was of course played by Rob Reiner.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Another person who passed away recently.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Yeah. And in Sanford and Son, you had between Fred and Lamont, but a lot of it was between Fred and Aunt Esther. Uh-huh. Yeah, that was some great zingers back and forth there.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Well, and also with Grady, his friend Grady.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Grady was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah. I mean, it was a really good show. And and I think, you know, when people hear what you just did, automatically that sound, that music, it takes you right to that show. You know? That's true. Again, that's the good thing about music.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Quincy Jones wrote that song.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yes, he did. Quincy Jones did. And it's fantastic. I actually have it on my phone. Um, it's the theme, it's the San Francison theme, the street beater. That's what it's called. Really? Yes. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's a good song. I like listening to it. So February 2nd, 2026, Chuck Nagron of Three Dog Night passed away. I mean, there's a bunch of people, you know, really a ton. He sang lead on some of their most popular songs because they had multiple people. I think they had three people that would sing, you know, lead at one time or another. But he did an old-fashioned love song. One.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

One is the loneliest number.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Yes, it is. And Joy to the World, which was released 55 years ago in February 1971. And it was Billboard's number one song for all of 1971. Cool. And did you know Jeremiah was a bullfrog? He was a good friend of mine. Mine too. When I was a kid, this song was always on the radio. And I know people are like, he says that all the time, but it's true. It really is true. I remember listening to this song. Everybody listened to it. It seemed like it didn't matter what age you were, you listened to it. I know that they didn't necessarily want to do it at first because they thought it was like a kid's novelty song, and that's not what they were into. You know, that wasn't Three Dog Night. But they ended up doing it, and it is a song that has just lasted forever. Joy to the world. Fred Smith, former bass player of the band Television, he died on February 5th, 2026. And he was actually the original bass player for Blondie, and he left in 1975 to replace Richard Hell, who had left television. He didn't really think Blondie was going anywhere, and he thought television was the best band around and thought that would be like a perfect fit for him. Television had become an important part of the New York music scene. You know, there were regulars at CBGB. They released Marquis Moon in 1977 that ranks at number 107 on the 2020 version of Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It's really funny, Jimmy. Are you familiar with the album?

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Oh yeah.

Sanford And Son, Theme Music, And Demond Wilson

SPEAKER_01 8:46

It is considered one of those big punk, post-punk albums, and I don't find that it's punk at all. Like it's so different from all these other things that are happening. It's a really good album. And I think a lot of times with people I've talked to, they have the wrong image of what television is as compared to what it truly was.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Aaron Ross Powell Well, I think post-punk really puts the emphasis on the post that it's these were people that came out of the punk scene, but the music was not necessarily punk anymore.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Trevor Burrus Correct. You know, they had started playing, I want to say, in 74 at CBGB. And you know, when Richard Hell was with them, I think it was a lot more punk. You know, they were doing uh blank generation at that time. They were doing a lot of stuff. He was jumping around, and that's kind of when him and and Tom Verlaine were just kind of like, all right, maybe we need to split and do some different things. But, you know, they waited, they wanted to get the right record contract. They could have put a record out much earlier. Uh 75 people were offering them contracts, but they just never found what they thought was perfect for them.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Um I think Brian uh Brian Eno wanted to produce them, and they just like, no man, that's not that doesn't go with what we do, you know? And so finally they recorded in in 76, in early 77, Marquis Moon came out. Good album for anyone who hasn't listened to it, check it out. And on February 6th, 2026, Lynn Blakey passed away. So, Jimmy, she toured with Let's Active for a short time. She was in Oh, Trace Chica's, and contributed to The Salt Collective. She was the inspiration behind the replacement's 1985 song, Left of the Dial.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

And we've talked about that song before, and you talked a ton about how it's an ode to college radio always being found on the left-hand side of the dial. And back then, you actually had a dial that you had to change on the stereo or your radio to get to the station. It wasn't like you pressed the button and it automatically came up. So it was really left of the dial. You would just change your, you know, dial down, down to whatever, you know, college radio station you were going to listen to.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

And Paul Westerberg said that uh, you know, he kind of fell for her and maybe not completely in love, but he was kind of obsessed in uh like she was amused, like she made him uh uh more creative, and he would write songs about her like this one. And they didn't see each other very much because he was touring with replacements and she was touring with whi whichever band she was in at the time. And uh so he says in Left of the Dial, if I don't see you for a long, long while, I'll try to find you, left of the dial. And there they tell a story where they were actually driving through, they can't remember exactly where, but they're listening to college radio, and there's an interview with her on, and he's like, Oh my gosh, I actually found her left of the dial.

Three Dog Night And Chart History

SPEAKER_01 12:01

That's a crazy story. I mean, being able to, you know, because that's all they listened to was left of the dial. So they were just looking for those college radio stations as they would go from state to state and, you know, driving and and doing stuff and always looking and to actually find her that one time. And um in the song, it also talks about sweet Georgia breezes, safe, cool, and warm. She had left Let's Active, and she only I I want to say Jimmy was 83 that she toured with them. She was like a touring member, and she left and she went to um OK, which was with Michael Stipe's sister, and it was an Athens band, and that's why he put the Georgia Breezes there to kind of give a little ode to the Athens scene at the time. Yeah. So I I think that's pretty cool. So Lynn's vocals are featured on the November 2025 release of the Salt Collective album, A Brief History of Blindness. I should have talked about this. I love this album. I listened to it a lot, and it's kind of cool because it's got like a core group that recorded most of it at Mitch Easter Studio in North Carolina. But then you have Mike Mills of REM, who sang on one song with Lynn, and it's called In the Shadow of the Moon, and it talks about the eclipse that was, you know, a couple of years ago or whatever. It's a really good song. Yeah, yeah. You know? Andy Partridge of XTC, he wrote two songs. Now he's not on the album, but he wrote two songs specifically for the album. It's got Chris Stamy of the DBs, Matthew Cause of Not a Surf, uh, Amy Man of Till Tuesday. Uh, just to name a few off the top of my head, it's just got a whole bunch of people. A guy from um Wilco, you know, a guitarist from Wilco, and it's just super cool when you listen to the album. And Lynn's voice is fantastic. It really, really is. Yeah. And it's too bad that she passed away because I would have definitely gone to a tour to see them play and and listen because it just is a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

I thought she was kind of a highlight of that album.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Yeah, I would definitely say so, you know, without a doubt. Um, you know, Mitch Easter, he does a good job on there. They actually had an EP that came out, I don't know, say it was five months earlier before the album, and it has some different songs on it. And Mitch Easter has a uh a great song about the lost and found on there. Uh Chris Staney has a song on there. It's just super cool. I I think they do a really cool job. Um, and if you think that you can't find good new music, you are wrong because the Salt Collective is definitely worth listening to.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Yeah.

Television, CBGB, And Fred Smith

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Let's revisit some more music in my shoes. So back on February 6, 1981, 45 years ago, the Pretenders released the song Message of Love. Now, the reason we're here as man and woman is to love each other, take care of each other. I've always liked those lyrics, and like when you're a kid, as I was when this song came out, I was 14, I believe. It's like, man, that's really cool words. Like, I love them. I just dig these. These are super cool, you know? When love walks in the room, everybody stand up. Oh, it's good, good, good, like Bridget Bardot. And I'm like, man, she can write some words. Like, who would ever think of putting that? You know, Love Walks in the room, stand up, it's good. It's like Bridget Bardot. I just love the song. And the the way the, you know, the drums, the guitar, it is just a really cool song. I love it. Their video for the song was just them playing in the studio. It was the 19th video played on MTV in August 1981. But we'll get more into that on a future episode of Music in My Shoes. The album, Pretenders 2, peaked at number 10 on Billboard 200, September 12, 1981. Dolly Parton, 9 to 5, peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, February 21st, 1981. Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living. Barely getting by, it's all taking and no giving. Those words could be true in 1961, 1981, 2021, 2026. Everybody seems to think that. And it's from that movie, Crazy Movie, 9-5.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Yeah, I wonder how it holds up. I really loved that movie when it came out, but I was like 12 years old.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

Yeah, I I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Um Dabney Coleman was seen in the street.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Dabney Coleman, um Lily Tomlin was in it, um, Jane Fonda was in it. And when I think of the movie, you know, I think of two things. But the first thing I always think about is when, you know, Dabney Coleman. Well, the first thing is the poisoning. They think that that they accidentally poisoned him. And they didn't. He had like slipped and I think he hit his head and was knocked out. And I think the Lily Tomlin character thinks she put rat poison in his coffee or something. If I remember correctly. It's been a long time. So they don't want him to say anything, and they like take him to his house, and so that he can't escape, they get like a um hang glider uh harness and the whole contraption, and they hook it to like a garage door opener, and it's the most bizarre thing. Like, how could even someone come up with that? And the movie is it's amazing because he's not in the office, and I guess they're writing memos on his behalf, and the productivity goes up like 20%, and the guy gets a promotion. It's great. You know, it's absolutely great, and they want to take him across the world or something to put in all of these things that he's put into the office that he hasn't been to. But the other thing I was thinking about is, you know, nine to five back in the day when I was a kid, that was like the normal working hours, you know? True. Nine to five, it was eight-hour day. That included lunch. If you had breaks, everything was included in an eight-hour day. And then I remember one day getting a job and it was eight and a half hours. You work eight hours and you have a half hour of lunch, and I was like, man, that's kind of crazy. I never heard of such a thing. And, you know, it just shows you how the times change, you know?

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Well, when I started at Turner Broadcasting in 1997, it was a nine to six work day, and you theoretically got an hour for lunch, but then it was like you didn't really get your full hour for lunch. Right. Yeah.

Lynn Blakey, Left Of The Dial, And Salt Collective

SPEAKER_01 19:31

I I get it. I I definitely get it, Jimmy. Susie and the Banshees, Cities and Dust, released as a single in the U.S. in early 1986, and it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Dance Chart. The song actually came out in 85. I remember hearing it in 85, but it didn't become like a big nationwide club thing until they re-released it in 1986. It's another one of those songs that I can't believe wasn't a WLIR screamer of the week. It is a great song. It's about the volcano, Mount Vesuvius, you know, when it erupted in the year 79 and destroyed Pompeii and like a bunch of other cities. So let me say that one more time. That was the year 79. 79. Right. Okay, not 1979. 79. So that is, you know, a really, really long time ago. Because this is 2026, you know. So what is that? Rough math 1950 years ago or 60 years ago? Something like that. Something like that. That's a really long time ago. Really, really long time ago. Wow. Hot and burning in your nostrils, burning down your gaping mouth, your molten bodies, blanket of cinders, caught in the throes, and oh oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

I never really listened to the lyrics.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

That is a song where if someone told me this is what's going to happen to you, I would be deathly afraid.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

But in reality, that is what happened when the volcano erupted. Woo! That was a bad one. That was a bad one, Jimmy. That was. I hope we don't see it again. I hope nothing like that that happened in 79 happens again. Multiple cities. Did I mention that? Multiple cities.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Oh, really? You always hear about Pompeii.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Right. It was multiple cities.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Well, man, I feel bad for these other cities.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

You only hear about Pompeii because Pink Floyd ended up going there and doing a that's I tried to say with a straight face, too. Oh, but speaking of straight face, Cage the Elephant, shake me down. Peaked at number 78 on Billboard Hot 100, January 29, 2011. It was number one on alternative airplay on February 12, 2011. Shake Me Down, not a lot of people left around. Who knows now? Softly laying on the ground, not a lot of people left around. It's off the album, Thank You, Happy Birthday. And I tell you what, you could use those words if you were singing about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius because there wasn't a lot of people left around and they were laying on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

This is true.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Hey Jimmy, I also dig Always Something, Aberdeen, Around My Head. I think it's a good album, and I know you're a big uh KG Elephant fan.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Yeah, they're so good live. You know, I don't really listen to their records as much as I should, but uh they're do not miss them if you ever get a chance to see them live. They are so fun.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Awesome. And you know what else is fun, Jimmy? Huh. Tick, tick, tick. It's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

So, you know, when we talked about my Spotify wrapped, I think I got a big laugh out of you for my number one artist, Bad Bunny. And you might have noticed that not only did he win Album of the Year and multiple Grammys for DTMF, Debi Terrar Mas Photos translation. I should have taken more photos, but he also had one of the biggest Super Bowl halftime shows in history. So they had uh more people watch the halftime show than the actual Super Bowl, and it was the second most popular Super Bowl on TV ever. Then within 24 hours, four billion people watched the performance on social media. Can you believe this? Four billion views.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

That's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Maybe not four billion people, but four billion times it was viewed within 24 hours. He's he is the most popular artist in the world. That album is very good. Put it on when you want some Caribbean vibes, it's a great record.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

So I will say that's not the music in my shoes. I will say that's why it's called Minute with Jimmy. That's why it's Minute with Jimmy. But I appreciate you bringing that to the forefront for all of us to know. Four billion views or listens or or whatever you said, that's impressive no matter no matter how how you look at it, it is. Um I did watch the Super Bowl halftime. Um and it was definitely very different. I you know, it's we talked last year. We talked about the best Super Bowl halftimes of all time, and you know, we talked about Paul McCartney and we talked about you two and you know, all the different things, you know, the different people that had been on, and you know. For me, you know, music is a a thing for me that it I have some sort of connection with or brings something out in me, and that's generally how I go with everything. That's that's it.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

I thought it was really cool that he had this world stage where he had all these people watching him that would never otherwise hear him. You know, music is so uh siloed off these days where somebody can be really popular with one age group and you just never hear it, you know, if you're not in that demographic. And this was a chance to really reach people he would never reach. And I think he did a great job of just showing his culture. It's like, here's what Puerto Rico's like, here's what's beautiful about it, here's what's fun about it, here's my music, here are my people, here's a little slice of life, you know. So it was different than any other Super Bowl halftime show, that it was more intimate with that they had everything was sort of inside that set that they built rather than on a big stage. But I thought it was very cool and unique.

Pretenders, MTV Beginnings, And Dolly’s 9 To 5

SPEAKER_01 26:05

You know, speaking of the Super Bowl, there was a commercial that had uh Blitzkrieg Bomb, and I don't remember what it was, but I remember it being part of one of the commercials. And that song came out 50 years ago, 1976. I think it might have hit the radio in January or February of 1976. And I was amazed, I like was really thinking about did they ever think, did the Ramones ever think that this song is going to be in a Super Bowl commercial 50 years later? Did they ever think that everybody would know that song? That's one of the songs that gets the attention of everybody because it's played at every sporting event like we've talked about before. Oh, right, yeah. And everybody knows that song. You might not know you know it, but you know it. If you go to a sporting event or if you watched it on TV, like and and there's how many commercials have had that?

SPEAKER_00 27:05

People know Hey Ho Let's Go. They might not know Blitzkrieg Bop, but they know the song.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Aaron Powell But yeah, you know, and you when you think about that 50 years ago, I I'm not sure that the Ramones were thinking, you know, 50 years ahead, you know?

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Aaron Ross Powell No, but I think that they always wanted to be popular. They just served up a type of music that the world wasn't ready for yet at that year.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Aaron Ross Powell No, no, I agree. But I think that the popularity was not going to be like, oh yeah, they're going to play our song at the Super Bowl. You know? You know what I'm saying? But yet, most people know that song. They might not know a whole lot of other Ramones. They know that song. So 50 years ago. So, real quick, you know, last episode we did uh a Music in My Shoes mailbag, and it took up the whole episode. It was pretty cool. It was a lot of fun, actually. So I actually have a couple of other music in my shoes mailbag.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

Music in my shoes mailbag.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

So, Jimmy, episode 107, 1970, Velvet Underground Loaded, to George Harrison, All Things Must Pass, to Derek and the Dominoes, to the Partridge Family, and that was the title. And on Facebook, I posted about the episode with pictures of the four albums. And Stephen in and so a bunch of people responded, you know, they would pick what their favorite one was. But Stephen in Iberia, Missouri, he states, why do you even put the Partridge family in there with three masterpieces? Oh. And no, that's fine. You know, everybody has a different musical taste. I'm okay. That's all right. You know, I enjoy the Partridge family. It's really funny how many people have come to me and have reached out to say, hey, I really like the Partridge family, also. Like, you know, they're pretty good. The musicians, we talked about this. The musicians, it's the wrecking crew. You know, it's like top-of-the-line people that were behind the music of the Partridge family. And you know, we all have different tastes. We don't all like everything. You're a huge bad bunny fan. That's not you know, that's not my cup of tea. You know, it's just it's the music is different, and some people like the Partridge family. We both do, and many others, and some people don't. But I just was like, you know, hey, at least you think the other three are masterpieces. That's great. You know? Episode 108, December 8th, John Lennon, Loss and Legacy and the Beatles Anthology. Death of John Lennon outside the Dakota building, Matt in Montana. It's hard to believe that I was in the fifth grade when Lennon got shot. Tommy in Hawaii says the most unexpected, saddest Monday night game ever. I just turned off the TV and listened to his music. You know?

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Yeah.

Cities In Dust And The Story Of Pompeii

SPEAKER_01 30:14

I can understand that. Episode 109, Van Halen vs. Guns N' Roses, and why ACDC Back and Black still rules, plus Elton John and the Jim Carroll band. Jimmy and I played War, which was a lot of fun. We need to do that again. And so if it comes up time that we need to do it, Jimmy, just let's let's do it. Okay. So Jerry and Akron, Ohio comments, I have all four of them except the Jim Carroll one. I have the book that he wrote called The Basketball Diaries. Alan in Rhode Island says, There is a reason Guns N' Roses was the best-selling album of all time for a long time. And Michael in Wayne, Michigan, Van Halen, have a nice day. I really like that one. That one made me laugh. Derek in Cleveland, Ohio. Wow, this is a hard one, but I would have to say Guns N' Roses. 40 most played classic rock songs of 2025, Joan Jet, Bad Reputation, and Been Caught Stealing. Welcome to the Jungle, Steve Miller the Joker, Joan Jet, Jane's Addiction. Those were the four pictures that I posted up on Facebook. Cassie in Idaho says Guns N' Roses. Les in Chicago and Kat in Oregon say Joan Jet and David in Massachusetts says Steve Miller. Hey, listen, we appreciate all of that. You know, all of the feedback. It's a lot of fun. Like I just said, we did a whole episode by one person reaching out to us with their, you know, favorite wax uh battles that we did. Yeah, wax wars. Wax wars, yes. So you can reach us at musicinmy shoes at gmail.com. Please like and follow the Music in My Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. That's it for this episode of Music in My Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade160 Studios, located right here in Atlanta, Georgia, and Vic Thrill for the podcast music. This is Jim Boj, 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. Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea. Joy to you and me. Jimmy, I would have dropped the mic, but it's on a stand and I can't believe it.