Stereothematica
Welcome to Stereothematica, a podcast where two women geek out over music.
When Christina moved from LA to Texas, Christine suggested a weekly challenge to stay in touch: pick a song that fits a chosen theme. This game opened them to new perspectives on each other while deepening their own understanding of the music that shapes their lives. Each week Christina and Christine recreate the magic of their song exchange on a broader scale, deconstructing their thematic picks, providing personal anecdotes and historical insights, and sharing transformative tracks rarely spotlighted on the Billboard Hot 100.
Stereothematica
Every Day
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Do you listen to music everyday? Do you like it when a song mentions every day of the week? We do! At least some songs. Let's see if we can catch every single day in our song picks!
SONGS:
Cherrelle feat. Alexander O'Neal - "Saturday Love" (1985)
The Clash: Police On My Back (1980)
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:
Sublime's "What I Got" Inspired By This Beatles Song
R&B Songstress Cherrelle on Singing Sweetly About Cheating on Your Lover (SF Weekly)
Never on a Sunday - The Chordettes
Never on Sunday (IMDB)
Jimmy Jam on how Alexander O’Neal Fumbled the Bag… (YouTube)
Alexander O’Neal holds no grudges against Prince
The Equals: Police On My Back (1967)
Eddy Grant: Electric Avenue (1982)
Eddy Grant: I Don’t Wanna Dance (1982)
Eddy Grant: Romancing the Stone (1984)
Eddy Grant: Gimme Hope Jo’Anna (Nelson Mandela Concert, 1988)
Qué diá de la semana ha inspirado más hits? (Univision, 2016)
One Song Podcast London Calling w/Fred Armisen (2025)
Eddy Grant on Music is My Life Podcast (Berklee, 2020)
Police on My Back and the Postcolonial Experience (Stratton, 2026)
The Story of Subculture: The Rude Boy & Rude Girl (Underground, 2021)
Rude Boy Style Can’t Fail (NYT, 2015)
The Clash: Music That Matters (Fletcher, 2012)
“You Don’t Bring Flowers From There To Here” – Eddy Grant Speaks To EP About New Venture United DJs, Life, Music, and Politics (Pop Essentials, 2018)
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys: The Story of the Pioneering Interracial Rockband The Equals (Pitchfork, 2016)
Trump Loses Electric Avenue Song Legal Fight (BBC, 2024)
Other “Police On My Back” Covers discussed:
Amparanoia: La Semana (1997)
Asian Dub Foundation and Zebda: Police On My Back (2003)
Lethal Bizzle: Police On My Back (2007)
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I'm Christine. And I'm Christina. In 2024, I moved to Texas from LA. And to keep in touch, Christine and I started a weekly game where we each pick a song that fits a chosen theme.
SPEAKER_00This game deepened our understanding of each other and the songs that shape us, inspiring the podcast you're listening to now. Each week we share our pics, swap stories, and dig into tracks you might love. And a lot of the time have never heard of. Welcome to Stereothematica.
SPEAKER_02Your favorite atypical music podcast. Hey there, Christine.
SPEAKER_00Howdy.
SPEAKER_02I was curious about something. Oh. And thinking of things we do every day. Uh-huh. Do you listen to music every day?
SPEAKER_00Yes. I think so.
SPEAKER_02Definitive, yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, I don't listen to records every day. That's more of a special occasion. You know, we've talked about this. I need, I need like several hours to fully immerse myself in that experience. But music every day for sure.
SPEAKER_02I think yes, as well. I mean, it's definitely something when I'm in the car, I want to be listening to music, when I'm, you know, making dinner or whatnot, music. But I was wondering if this is something that is a daily activity for most people. Because have you ever met someone who's like, I don't really like music?
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. And it's a tricky one because I think they do.
SPEAKER_02I agree.
SPEAKER_00They're just not obsessive about music. But music, they they go to concerts, they enjoy hearing music, but I think they're just maybe not to the level that we enjoy music.
SPEAKER_02I think it might even be more subliminal than that. Think about, you know, I love jingles, but you're even if you're listening to news radio, you might hear a jingle, or most advertisements have some music playing in the background. I even told you recently how I made a video and I was like, oh, I couldn't figure out how to do a backing like sound song to it. Yeah. So I think music is present every day, unless you really are like maybe living in a very secluded, you know, place where you don't have access. I just think it really is. Like music is part of everyone's life, whether or not they're seeking it out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And even the the noises, the the natural environment. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02The birds, the winds, the chirping of the cicadas. Yes. Is that what you call it? A cicada chair? Yeah, I think so. Whatever. Well, this brings me to my theme in a roundabout way. Because I picked the theme every day, meaning, you know, I wanted, I told you this is a song that should have every day of the week mentioned in it.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_02And I picked this theme just because it felt fun and silly. And I think sometimes naming every day of the week in a song might seem tedious or even maybe a little elementary. Like, are we learning the days of the week? Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02No. But somehow some artists have made it feel fun and fresh. Yes. So I wanted to know, apart from the songs that we picked for this week, are there any other everyday songs that you thought of?
SPEAKER_00No, not everyday. I mean, the first one that came to mind when you pitched the theme was Eight Days a Week, which we all know there are not eight days a week. So, and actually in the Beatles song Eight Days a Week, they don't actually mention any day. Any day. They just talk about eight days a week.
SPEAKER_02Funny. Funny that you mentioned that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02They have a song where they mention six days of the week.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yes, I know that one. Lady Madonna. Yes, such a good song.
SPEAKER_02Why would they not say Saturday? That's like the best day.
SPEAKER_00That is weird. If I had picked that one, would you have accepted it? No.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_00Okay, good. That's good.
SPEAKER_02God, this is this feels good. I know what it's like to have power. Yeah. But you didn't pick it.
SPEAKER_00But honestly, I don't think there's a lot of songs with all seven days mentioned.
SPEAKER_02I think there's a few. Okay. So The Cure has Friday, I'm in love. Okay. That's a good one, in my opinion. It's funny because it's very poppy and it feels a little bit like almost Twee for the cure, who's a little dark, dark wave, you know. But that's a good one. And then there's the Beatles song. Lady Madonna is the Beatles song that says six of the seven days, which wouldn't count. But the thing that I realized when I was listening to that song today, I just realized that the same like melody and pacing is used in Sublime's what I got. We were just talking about Sublime with your hometown sound.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Did you pick up on that?
SPEAKER_00No, I definitely not.
SPEAKER_02Okay, go check it out. Actually, I should link to both of those. So let me uh remind myself.
SPEAKER_00I love it when that happens.
SPEAKER_02And then there's a very stupid song called Seven Days by Craig David. Do you know this one?
SPEAKER_00I don't know who that is.
SPEAKER_02He is a I think British singer. This came out probably in the early 2000s. And he's basically going, I met this girl on Monday. I took her for a drink on Tuesday. And then he talks about how they had sex every other day of the week except Sunday. That's a fun one. You move fast, dude. You move fast. Anyway. But yeah, I I was wondering because I obviously had a song in mind when I picked this because I was listening to my song pick when I thought of the theme. And this song, in my opinion, is a jam.
SPEAKER_01It is.
SPEAKER_02And yet, it still covers every day of the week, and they say them so many times. It's kind of ridiculous how many times they say it. It's a lot of fun. It is so fun. So let's take a quick listen to Saturday Love by Alexander O'Neill and Sherelle from the 1985 album High Priority. You will notice I didn't play any part of the epic opening where Sherelle and Alexander O'Neill see each other at the club. Because the opening of this song is one minute and 55 seconds of like just a skit, essentially.
SPEAKER_00It takes a while to get into.
SPEAKER_02It's just talking and yeah, it's an act. So talk about say less, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. Nice call back.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. But do I remember correctly? Did you think I was crazy for picking this song?
SPEAKER_00Not crazy. Just like it was it was funny that you picked it because I knew this song growing up. Like this would be a song on the radio that my brother and I would sing along to. It wasn't necessarily a song I love, but it was a fun one of those fun songs that you hear on the radio and it's like not go get the tape recorder, let's let's record this, but like let's be silly to it.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh. Oh, I can totally, even though this song came out in 85, I could have seen myself like grooving along to this at the grocery store, you know, when it when I was a little kid. And I don't even know how I discovered this song, which is to think about.
SPEAKER_00But it's kind of a deep cut for someone of your age.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it seems like something you might have heard at the club back in that time frame, right?
SPEAKER_00Yep, for sure.
SPEAKER_02Which I was not there. Yeah. And I'm guessing you weren't there either.
SPEAKER_00Not at that time.
SPEAKER_02Not at 85. Yeah. No. But I will have you know when I was prepping for our episode and playing this song, Andrew heard it and goes, I love that song. And I don't know if he was kidding or not, but I do love this song. So I will recommend for our listeners, if you go seek out the song, just go ahead and listen to the radio edit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Listen to the the full song in its entirety once, just because it is like almost seven minutes long. And I'm telling you, almost two minutes of that is them playing this little, oh, who is that? Mr. O'Neal. There's a lady asking for you, but is it's still a jam. So let me tell you a little bit about these musicians, or at least Sherelle, who was born Cheryl Ann Norton, and changed her name to Sherelle after a manager yelled, Cheryl, you're late again. I don't know if that's true or not, but I like that. No, I didn't make it up. I saw it on her Wikipedia page. But yes, her debut album was released in 1984 under the production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who we recently spoke about in our explicit episode, as they also produced many of Janet Jackson's number one hits. And while Saturday Love didn't make it to number one, it did reach number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the US RB chart. The song's not deep. I mean, it's you're hearing the the days of the week over and over, but it's basically talking about some ex-lovers seeing each other at the club and recounting how they met on Drumroll Please, a Saturday. I love it. It's so simple and obvious. And I mean, sometimes pop songs just are, which is really fun. But one thing I do like is they mention another song that names all the days of the week. And I'm curious if you caught it. Let me play it real quick.
SPEAKER_05Let's sing it.
SPEAKER_02Alright, so they say, and this is one of my favorite parts, which we've just played, when they say never on a Sunday. No.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it's now it's familiar, but just tell me. Okay. That I did not catch it.
SPEAKER_02Okay. And and I'm curious if you know, well, that to me it stood out because I was like, hmm, that sounds like something I've heard before. Not only is it a song from 1950 by the Cordettes, which of course I'm going to link to.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But it's also a movie. But the movie's actually called Never on Sunday.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_02And apparently it's a Greek rom-com about a free-spirited sex worker named Ilya and her American love interest, Homer.
SPEAKER_00That sounds like fun.
SPEAKER_02It does sound fun. I think I would love to watch that actually.
SPEAKER_00Wait, what year did that come out?
SPEAKER_021960.
SPEAKER_00Oh wow. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I have a feeling it might not be um very politically correct.
SPEAKER_00Probably not. And maybe not even that interesting.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because when I read it a little bit about this movie, it was like talking about how, oh Homer, he meets this. They quote, and this is not my, I use the word sex worker.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02They call the, I guess it's a character trope, uh, the happy hooker.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_02Which is kind of messed up. Yep. Anyway, but who knew you could have another day of the week Easter egg in a day of the week song? And that quorette song is pretty goofy. Do you did you ever see the uh SNL sketch where it's like the sisters who are singing like on the Bob Hope show, and then they've got Kristen Weed with the weird little hands.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02It kind of reminded me of that type of, you know, okay, okay. You know, that kind of thing. Anyway, well, back to my my song, since I'm going off on a tangent, since I haven't said much or anything really about Alexander O'Neill, I'd love to give a little bit uh of excellent music trivia about him. So after Mr. O'Neill moved to Minneapolis at age 20, he started a few bands, most notably Flight Time, and that's spelled with a Y in Flight and Time, which included Monty Moir, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis. Okay, a couple of very famous friends. Uh-huh. And then based on his success with Flight Time, he met with none other than Prince to discuss starting a band called You Guessed It.
SPEAKER_00Oh.
SPEAKER_02The Time.
SPEAKER_00That's amazing.
SPEAKER_02Isn't it crazy?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it is kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_02Guess what's crazier? What Mr. O'Neill had a disagreement with the purple one and was reprince? The Prince. Because he got into an argument with him and I think was being a little bit too egotistical. He was replaced as lead singer by Morris Day.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_02Can you imagine how differently his life would have been if he would have been the lead singer of the time?
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's that's a fun bit of trivia there.
SPEAKER_02It is a little fun, fun fact. But I also love Morris Day. So I mean, I'm really glad he's in the time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You've seen Purple Rain.
SPEAKER_00Yes, of course.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00And and I love the time.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. So the first time I saw Purple Rain was in the movie theater. Uh-huh. I was like in my 20s, but I was so happy and excited. Like, because I had never seen it before. I was like standing up and cheering.
SPEAKER_00Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_02I loved it. It was incredible. Anyway, speaking of Morris Day, and we're talking about days. Do you see? Does that work? Yeah. Can I get away with that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you yeah, you got that one.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02That'll be my ending note. So I appreciate you joining me on my wacky journey, Christine. And I can't wait to hear about your days of the week jam.
SPEAKER_00Okay, well, thank you for that. That was kind of a blast from the past for me. So I enjoyed re-listening to that a few times. When you proposed this, Eight Days of the Week was the one that came to my mind. I couldn't think of other ones right off the top. I did think of a lot of Monday songs. Yes. Monday, Monday, Manic Monday. Oh, that's a good one. The song you picked. Blue Monday. Yeah, Blue Monday, of course. I don't like Mondays. The one you just talked about.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, that's right. OMG.
SPEAKER_00So I'm like, oh, this is gonna be a hard one for me. Like, I really thought this would take the entire week for me to figure out. But then, like, all of a sudden, I felt the song. It just came to me.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's such a great feeling when like you have it's almost like a loop, and it's not exactly the lyrics that you want that you need to be confirmed, but you kind of like you you hear it in your mind, and then you you like try to play it out, and then you like it's it's a Eureka moment.
SPEAKER_02Oh I love that moment.
SPEAKER_00And I kind of think I I pretty quickly, like maybe an hour later, sent it to you after you proposed it.
SPEAKER_02Nice.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, I just I let go and and I got it. And no days of the week are in the title, but in a way, they are really the heart of the clashes police on my back. I was very proud when I shared this with you. Were you impressed?
SPEAKER_02I was super impressed. Were you thinking of that one? I wasn't. And when you said it, I was like, oh shit, that's a really good one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like, and I love this song, I love the clash, but I was like, holy crap, because I didn't even think of that one. I think I was like laser focused on my pick. But then I was trying to think of some of the other ones. Uh-huh. And speaking of your Eureka moment, I was trying to have that with a Beatles song, thinking it was a days of the week song, but it was actually just them counting. And I'm like, that's stupid. Anyway.
SPEAKER_00Well, do you remember what the song was?
SPEAKER_02No, give me a minute and I'll think of it.
SPEAKER_00Sure, sure, sure. But anyway, I had been listening to a lot of Clash when you pitched the theme. It was the one song episode on London Calling with Fred Armison that really reignited this flame I had for the clash. Did you listen to that episode? It was last year.
SPEAKER_02No, I haven't listened to it. I actually haven't listened to enough one sound.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll send this one to you. I mean, it's it's actually it's it's linked in our show notes. Wait, did I say one sound? I think you said one song.
SPEAKER_02Okay, sorry.
SPEAKER_00But I was so excited when I learned that Fred's favorite clash song was the same as mine, Train in Vain. Do you have a favorite clash song or or two that you wanna let me know?
SPEAKER_02I love Straight to Hell.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Even though it's so sad, like it's such that's one I think we talked about with chills when like maybe, but I that's one of my favorites. And then oh wait, Lost in the Supermarket, is that embarrassing? I love that one.
SPEAKER_00That's fun. Okay, yeah, no, I think that's a good one.
SPEAKER_02They're a good band.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, good. I kind of forgot about how big a fan I was. I was not like obviously when the band was together, I was a little too young for that. Although in 1982, when Combat Rock came out, like Rock the Caspa was on the radio a lot, and that's kind of when I was like having my musical awakening. They were one of the few somewhat contemporary bands in high school to break the Bob Dylan barrier.
SPEAKER_02Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think it was that social, like socially conscious, like they were writing about problems and justice, and they were really fun too. It was it was it was punk, but it was like I it was very like pleasant to listen to. It was enjoyable, it was almost like sometimes a little rockabilly, sometimes just like poppy punk, which I I hope I'm not being offensive by saying that. But it's like palatable punk. Palatable punk. That's that's a better word for it. Um but plot twist here, once again. We're not going to focus too much on the Clashes version today.
SPEAKER_02Interesting.
SPEAKER_00Even though that's the one we are going to be playing, and it is my favorite version. I want to talk a little bit about the writer of the song, Eddie Grant, who released it 13 years earlier in 1967 with his band, The Equals. And yes, we're talking about the Eddie Grant. Do you know who this is, Christina?
SPEAKER_02I don't think so.
SPEAKER_00Should I? Ah. Oh, good. No, this is wonderful. So I knew Eddie Grant because of his early 80s hits like Electric Avenue. Do you know that one?
SPEAKER_02I definitely know that one.
SPEAKER_00Okay, good, good. And I don't want to dance. Maybe. You you probably know it. I bet. And I won't sing it. Then in 1984, he did the track for a fun little Michael Douglas Kathleen Turner movie called Romancing the Stone. That one's not. Yeah, no. Okay. But I didn't know about the equals. And and I'm guessing you also did not know.
SPEAKER_02I don't think so. So that's not part of like who did Electric Avenue?
SPEAKER_00No, the the Equals were a band that he formed in London in 1965. His later work was a part of his solo career, basically. He he left the band um because of some health issues. But anyway, so so the equals they did form in 65 in London, and they were known as the first interracial rock group in the UK. Wow. And this is like a year before Sly and the Family Stone formed in the US. So it is pretty remarkable. Yeah, I'd say so. And Eddie Grant moved from Guyana to London at 12. He formed the Equals at around 16 with some school friends. Their biggest hit at the time was Baby Come Back in 1968. And you might be more familiar with the Pato Bonton cover from 1994 featuring a couple UB40 members, maybe.
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I will link that one too, and I I bet you've heard it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Now, y'all know we we love a scholarly article on stereothematica, and I was so happy when I found one about today's pick titled Police on My Back and the Post-colonial Experience. Nice.
SPEAKER_02I'm giving fingershots.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_00So the writer John Stratton talks about how the song evolved from Grant's original version about a Jamaican Rude Boy fleeing the police to an anthem about racialized policing, migration, and colonialism. Now I'm not gonna go into all that, but I will link the article for further learning. But real quick, Rude Boy, I feel like you've talked about this before, have you?
SPEAKER_02I don't know if I've talked about Rudeboys in particular. I'm familiar with the term and ska.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. No, it's sc was really more of like a cultural movement that started in Kingston, Jamaica after um independence from the UK in the early 60s. It's a political expression of working class defiance. But these young men and women wore these like sharp tailored suits and pork pie hats, and were getting into ska and reggae at the time. And the Stratton piece does get into a bit more detail, but I'll link to actually a couple of articles that talk about the Rudies. And like if you listen to any ska, like every band's got a song referring to a Rudy. I think even the Clash does.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say Rudy Can't Fail is another one. Exactly. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00So in the article, Stratton spans about 40 years of covers and recognizing that there are several out there, he focuses on the original and four others, including, of course, the clash's 1980 cover. So we are talking about it somewhat. He also talks about the Spanish band, Amparanoia's La Semana from 1997, which was really exciting for me to learn about because I love Amparo Sanchez's solo work. And I hadn't realized how political she was and how like influenced by the clash she was. And of course, La Semana, the week. So Yeah. And then in 2003, there was a cover from Zebda and Asian Dub Foundation. Both groups were products of post-colonial Britain and France, and were actually using like real police sirens in their song. And then finally in 2007, there's Lethal Bizzle's cover, which is more of a hip-hop reimagining, where he samples the Clashes version. And in Lethal's telling, the protagonist has actually committed a crime, car theft, but as a result of unemployment and economic marginalization. So in the Clash's version, you got Mick Jones's guitar. It's like this police siren sound, and it's a part of this emotional chaos of the song. And then his vocals make the narrator sound confused and frightened, especially when he sings, What Have I Done? Interestingly, in the Zebda version, they changed the lyrics from what have I done to what have you done, eliminating any sort of ambiguity. And the accusation is kind of directed back at the cops.
SPEAKER_02Nice.
SPEAKER_00So to get back to the quotidian of it all, the singing of each day of the week, while pretty catchy, especially in the clash version, and well, all the versions, it's it's kind of a fun, fun hook. It's really about that relentless pursuit and fear and all the trauma that comes along with being a black person in a systemically racist society. Like there's no escape. It's just every day. And when you think of a socially conscious activist punk band like The Clash singing about that in 1980, that's one thing. But when you go back to the origins with the equal singing about the daily plight in a very poppy and accessible way, it actually feels even more subversive than the more recent and overtly political versions. And when the equal song came out in 1967, the clashes, Nick Jones and Joe Strummer, were around 12 and 15. And it's kind of fun to imagine how that song may have made an impression on them and like just got them thinking about what they want to do with their lives.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00In the article, Stratton quotes Tony Fletcher's book, The Clash Music That Matters, which is about every clash song ever written. Wow. And in this, he quotes that the band loved the equal song and that it was a tour bus favorite. And they often played it to ease into their own recording sessions.
SPEAKER_02I love that.
SPEAKER_00And more importantly, Eddie Grant approved of it. In a pop essentials interview in 2018, he said it was one of his favorite covers of the song. Wow, cool. Yeah. And I realize I did not talk much about the clash today. There's so much to say about them. And I feel like since we both love them so much, maybe that's a special episode at one point. But all I could say for our listeners, just go listen to their music. This this songs on their fourth studio album, Sandinista, and another stellar, though not perfect album to listen to is London Calling.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm not really into their um reggae stuff. I I have a feeling you probably like it more. I have to like think about that before I answer.
SPEAKER_02So let me let me revisit and then I'll let you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, those are the ones that I like kind of skip over, but with the record, I do have London Calling on vinyl, and it's it's harder to skip. So you kind of just have to win endure. Um, but there's also a lot more to say about Eddie Grant, and I'll link to a podcast interview where he talks about the origins of the equals and his brushes with death. He was in a car crash with the band in like 1969, and that almost killed him. Oh no. His band members were mostly unscathed, and then like a couple years later, he had a heart attack. Totally healthy guy. Like I vegetarian, non-smoker, non-drinker, and and that kind of was the thing that made him stop touring with the band, go solo. And eventually in the 80s, he broke out, broke out in the US specifically with Electric Avenue, which actually I think hit number two with the hot 100 in 1983. But final fun fact Trump used Grant's biggest US hit, Electric Avenue, in a 2020 campaign video where a Trump train outruns a Biden hand cart. Of course, the fools didn't get permission to use the song, and Grant, appalled for so many reasons, sued the campaign for 300,000, which is very reasonable. Yeah. And after four years, they eventually settled out of court. So I guess you could say Eddie fought the law and he won. Or rather, Trump ignored it again and again and lost.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah. I like that final fun fact.
SPEAKER_00Yes, I know. So stupid. Anyway.
SPEAKER_02Also like the yin and yang of our songs, where mine is like lol seven days, and yours is like uh post-colonialism and racism. It's like goes to show we can cover a lot of ground with our selections.
SPEAKER_00No, that it's it's true. And honestly, getting into it, I mean, obviously it's the clash, so I knew it was political, but I didn't expect this little twist of going back to the equals. So um, so that kind of opened it up a little bit more for me.
SPEAKER_02Unexpectedly. I'm not gonna lie, I did forget to share one other cool thing, which was my song, Saturday. Yeah, Saturday Love, sorry, has been sampled over a hundred times. Oh, really? Even by my buddy Charlie XCX. So I'm gonna go. Yeah, you gotta link to that one. I'll link to that because that's gonna be a really cool thing to check out.
SPEAKER_00No, I I love finding all the samples and listening to those. I love how it's on who's sampled, they make it so easy. Yeah, like they go to directly to the part and then they have a comparison video. It's just it's perfect.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I love it. Well, thank you. That was thank you, Christine. I really uh appreciate you indulging me. And since we're winding down, do you mind if I just give a little bit of unsolicited advice?
SPEAKER_00I'm ready for it.
SPEAKER_02Have a hot dog. Summer's almost over. Well, hot dogs can certainly be consumed year-round. There's something magical about holding a scrumptious frankfurter in one hand and an ice cold beverage in the other while you're standing by a body of water.
SPEAKER_00Um, what? Wait, aren't you vegetarian?
SPEAKER_02Indeed, I am, Christine. Indeed I am. And the veggie dogs these days are far superior to the tofu dogs of yesterday. You can find all kinds of delicious vegan francs at the grocery store, at IKEA, and even at Dodger Stadium. I am a fair weather fan of the Astros, but I'm a veggie Dodger Dog devotee.
SPEAKER_00Oh man, I can't believe I'm still learning things about you, things that disgust me. Sorry.
SPEAKER_02Fear not. There's nothing disgusting about a veggie hot dog. There is something disgusting about denying yourself tubular meat squish between bread and absolutely smothered and mustard, though. Advice over. Christine, what will you be delighting us with for our next episode?
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