June 4, 2025 • 21 mins
ROCK955 Hosts Pat Capone, Marris, Michael, Klinger, Maria Palmer, Walt, Bossman JHOW, and intern Kady each pick the best song from 1983. We're talking kegs, band hero, the late 1900s, MTV, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's been a minute, but we are back with another
rock ninety five to five Top five, and I've got
a room full of people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
For this one, Top seven, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So it's like, yeah, I think there's seven people in
the room. Everybody's gonna have a song the year this time,
nineteen eighty three wasn't born yet.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Great year. I think Mikey was just coming out of
his all right, so we're gonna go, wow, that's true.
I have my first Vagino touched was that year.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Okay, wow, wow, these are facts.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You take it easy. Judy Mason is a saint. Yeah,
touch up. Then it changes, so we're gonna go around
the room.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Everybody's gonna pick a song from nineteen eighty three and
tell us why it was the important song for them.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All right, start that way. We're gonna start this way. Yeah,
let's do it. Let's change it up, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So we're going to go counterclockwise around the board, and
that starts with my man Pacapone Man the Killer at Nights,
go for it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What's what do you got? Nineteen eighty three?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Right, So nineteen eighty three, I was remembering when my
buddy Rich came over to the party basement. You know,
every neighborhood had that one basement where the mom would
let you party because she figured if they're here, they're safe.
And that was Charlie's house. And he had the biggest,
coolest sound system.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
He had sub offers.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He had those big wooden speakers hanging from his ceiling.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And wooden panel walls to match.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
He had wooden panel walls and for some reason, a
green thread that hung from the ceiling with a small
brass bell that nobody could explain low. And one day,
my buddy Rich came running into the bedroom where we're
all doing graphics bongs and drinking cheap warm beer, and
he goes, man, you guys got to hear this. And
it was a cassette tape that a friend of his
(01:57):
in California had sent him, and it was Metallica Kill
them All. And so when we popped that in we
had never Heardica.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Chap is going to say, everybody joined us, so now
we are.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
That was his prime time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I think that was his heyday. Sorry around.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
New to the podcast this time, there is video. You
definitely want to check that one out. So back to capone,
you had a right metallic.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Rich comes in, he's got a cassette tape. Now, the
cassette tape was, you know, like a t DK ninety.
You know how your buddies would always make a copy
of a copy, and this had been a copy of
somebody's copy right.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Right like it. You know.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
It was like the first viral band was Metallica. Before
social media, people made lots of cassettes and would send
them to their friends. And that's what we got in
all the all the song titles were handwritten on that
little J card on the inside, you know. And they
even tried to use a pen to make the Metallica
logo on it, which was bad.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right somewhere, Lars is seething, and.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
That was doors. We popped that into. Man, I'm telling you,
Charlie had the sound system like it would shake the earth.
He spent a lot of money on this round.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was that Sansui I think it was a.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Pioneer twelve eighty. It was like one hundred watch a channel. Oh,
it's massive. And he popped that cassette in. And usually
he had very nice albums, so yeah, the sound quality
usually is better at Charlie's. But man, we popped, We
popped that cassette in and hit the lights came on
and that was it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it changed that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I mean, that's a moment that you're not alone in
that moment. So many people had that right with that record.
I mean that look what happens now. They play stadiums
twice and we think, you.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Know, you'd be hanging at that, you know, at a
keg party outside you know, no more than three pumps
on the keg man and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We'd all be saying to each other.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
The thing about Metallica is you're never gonna hear that
on the radio.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And it was true at the time. Yeah, but now
you're gonna hear it a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Now here's nothing else matters.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Good one.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So we got Metallica. Let's move over to Maris from
the Morning Machpit.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What do you got?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So working backwards, of course, I heard a cover of
this song first from kill Switch Engage Holy Diver, and
that made me go, this sounds familiar, there's something to this.
So I had to go back and listen to Dio's
version and oh wow, there's that guitar solo that's right
at the end of the song, and it just takes
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you to a different place, and then doing research on
the music as we always do, see the video. I've
never seen a video that I'd never seen fit so
well with a song, and I was just like they
really knew what the hell they were doing for this one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So Holy Diver, Holy Diver.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So had you heard, like even subconsciously just in passing
the original before you heard kill Switch?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm pretty sure I did, because it was around. It
was just there was something too. It was like, I
know there's another version of this somewhere, right, so I
had to go find it. Yeah, it was a good one. Yeah,
all right, Katie, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
So I'm a little bit younger than so this was
twenty years before I was born.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
You just called it the late nineteen hundred.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I actually think I did at one point and Maria
was like, that is not uh, because I think I
called it the eighteen hundreds or nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't do that. Yeah, yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
But for me, so I growing up, I had I
didn't have I had guitar Hero, but I had band Hero.
Can't played that a lot because it was like the
top sixty pop songs. But then also it had some
rock on it, so I would my mom's tripod and
duct tape the mic to it, and then also played
the guitar so I could sing and play at the
same time. And a song that really stuck out to
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me was mister Robato by Sticks Nice.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Such a good song.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Yeah, that was one of my favorites as a kid,
and I think it also kind of sparked my infatuation
with like androids and android people. And also I'm I'm
the kind of person I like imagining stories with songs,
so that was like my thing was listening to that
song and thinking of like little little uh android people,
which is very real to today now, which is kind
of scary, but how.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I first started to learn Japanese.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yeah, that too, and now it's like one of my
like I'm like obsessed with Japan now too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So awesome, that's a good one. And local we love
uh Sticks being a local band.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And you're an overachiever there by putting the microphone on
the tripod could do both.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I get it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Multit all right, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, what do you
got with You.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Ain't seen nothing yet? You like six four six four. Yeah, hey,
I a job just joking. No, everybody says six three,
but you nailed I have six four yeah, really really tall,
thank you? Five seven. I used to be really weird
about being tall, but then people people were like, no.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
The reason the whole phrase came looking up to is
because kings and queens were tall, and they like. I
was like, I have enough with me. I'm just gonna
stand up tall. Then my parents raised me really strict,
and so my dad would go around the house humming
songs all the time that I was not allowed to
listen to, and he would go.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Hm hm hmmm, mmm mmmmm hmm.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
And I would always go, Dad, what's that? And he
would do nothing. Put it on the Christian music station.
I was like, cod Dad turns out shout at the devil.
My dad told me later in life too, oh man,
hope he doesn't hear this. He goes, uh, if I'm
being honest, he goes. My drug of choice was acid,
and I did a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of it, Like wow, Dad, Wow, It just took a
long time. But there's the street cred. He was like
some Motley crue.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
He would go around the house singing at that deaf
leopard everything else, just humming it and every time I'd
ask you, you don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
To be fair, Motley Crue is saying to shout at
the devil. That's a very anti devil message. Not bad.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I should have put that one in my head.
Maybe raising our voice at Lucifer. Yeah, so that's it
for me counting. That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Then again, another band where they were starting out and
look at them now.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Yeah, seriously, seriously, all right, Clinger, there's almost too many
records to choose from because zz Top comes in with Eliminator,
and I remember, and I do want to give honorable
mention to Ozzie, to Maiden. I almost went with Pyromania
def Leppard with Rock Rock Toll you Drop. But I'm
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going with Eliminator because at the time I was growing
up in the eighteen hundreds, I don't even know, like
there was MTV, but ABC was it was it ABC
that did Friday Night videos. Friday Night video of us
were alive then, yeah, and like, and I remember we
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had just gotten a Hatachi VCR the top loader, right,
and dude, this was so high fi at the time,
and the yeah, and so I remember staying up late
and Friday night videos and the video for Eliminator, or
seeing the video Zzy Top with Eliminator in the video,
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and I was like, this is so damn cool.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Now you look back at it, it's like, oh my god,
So what was what was cooler? The band, the car
or the guitars? Because I mean that's incredible.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
I mean, I gotta say the band and I and
I love that and I love working at Rock ninety
five five because we still get to play zz Top
and uh and what an incredible band back in nineteen
eighty three and to this day, I feel like, yeah,
obviously there's been some changes in that band, but so
damn good. And it was just because of the video
that I got turned on to the band and ultimately
an incredible record.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, that is a good one, and there's so many
hits off of that one. It was actually like zz
Top Mark two because they had their their Texas days
that really when they had the MTV era, an Eliminator
kind of broke them into an entirely new audience.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I feel like I was part of that new audience.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Many big fan of zz Top, Would you say that
you're a zz Bottom?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
My favorite response to anything she's ever said. What's also
funny is just looking over here and seeing Chap. I'll
have my moments total you come over here, Chap. Yeah,
actually I want you to go next.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't need cons Thanks for having me.
It's good to see everybody in one place. So the
yeah started strong. It was January. It was a band
called Journey. They released something called Separate Ways. Oh yeah,
and I know that turns you on Penis. Yes, he's
getting chuffed because when you when you hear the beginning
(11:03):
of it, the keyboards are just blazing.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They're just killing it.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
And I was in a band called Lipstick Viper that
opened up for a band similar to the band Journey
Is and it was my.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Journey, but not close.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
It was similar. They were called fo Gone And I
remember hearing this record like this is this is what
music should be. First of all, the components have their moments.
You listened to it is Yeah, the keyboards had a moment.
Then you got the drama has this thing. Neil Sean
of course is jerking his guitar off like hardcore, the
whole thing, and then it comes.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Together at the end. It's just an absolutely brilliant song,
don't you agree. But the video, yeah, the video nothing
was plugged in. Guy's rocking a keyboard. There's no chords
coming out of the keyboard. It was a regrettable moment.
I'm like, what's going on with that? Come on?
Speaker 9 (11:50):
But it wasn't as squishy as like you know, the
other records that they do, like Lloyd's et cetera. Okay,
it was a tough record. It is a tough song.
And actually my band, Stabbing Western, tried to cover it.
Band yeah, uh, and try to cover it once in
the studio.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We were going, let's try to take of this. And
it's a lot harder to do that song than you
would think, just to get everything right. So I have
mad respect for that song.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I agree, thank you. What was the name of the band?
Your band? Lipstick? I can't believe he was able to
remember that. I remember all of them. I remember all
of them. They're like fifty of them, all right, Maria.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And as we know, I've said many times, I grew
up in rural Maryland, so rock music really didn't come
into my life until later. With one exception, and it
was a band that was usually known for guitar but
they did something different on this song. They did a
lot of synth.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
We're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Van Halen's jump makes me want to run through a
wall every time I hear it.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It is the most motivating song of all time that
syntha d D duh dun d.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But but I'm inspired. I think we should play it
in church. What album was that from? Come on, well,
don't don't do this to me easy? Oh my god,
I'm getting uncomfortable on this is good. That was rude,
this happened, this is the tone. I'm so sick of
getting to turn it into a learning moment for everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
The album was nineteen eighty four, what what do you
where do you think the recall is going to come from?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I just totally that I didn't listen to rock music
at that age at all, and that was an outlier song.
And I'm going to have the album just done, so
there's tone probably recorded in so we'll give them that. Well,
we'll go with that, so all right, cool, great, finally
(13:52):
she's gone.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I always wanted how to get rid of it, and
just asked about an album, and she leaves perfect. By
the way, Joni, separate ways were called in nineteen eighty two,
and they actually played it on the road at Rosemont
and they said on Rosemont and back then it was
called Horizon. By the way, it wasn't cold, h whatever,
it's cold now the state of all.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They why is this thing so fall down?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Oh that's right, Oh you're back anyway, they said on stage, Hey,
we wrote this two weeks ago. We want to play
it for you. So Chicago is the reason Joney separate way.
So I just want to come back to me for
a quick second. So everyone else was talking for so long,
I got annoying. Anyway, four great record.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I do love that.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Record, and I do feel and I love to hate
that record. I think my favorite song off that record
is top Jimmy Dude. I love that, but it reminds
me that I feel like I feel like Eddie got
a brand new instrument and it was the keyboard and
they had to lace it through the entire world, and
I feel like they.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Came on a little strong with that. Well, the thing
was is that he actually was pianist first, aren't we all.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So growing up as a king, growing up as a kid.
He played that, so like for him to jump to
that and added jump, well done, two for one. So
so for him to actually be able to pull out
the synth and start playing that, it was like adding
(15:29):
a new element to Van Halen. Actually, David Lee Roth,
I didn't know this until recently. He said that on
Uh and the Cradle Rock from Women and Children First
nineteen eighty, that whole verse that's not a guitar, that's
an organ, a worlitzer.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
That is interesting because I did figure it was a
guitar because there are bands that are so that have
an incredible guitar player, and the guitar can be made
to sound like it's a keyboard. So that's interesting to
hear us the opposite, So it's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So when you go back and listen to it after
hearing David say that, I'm like, oh my god, you're right.
I always thought it was a just figured it was
a guitar because it was, you know, the third album.
They hadn't introduced keyboards to Van Halen yet. And but
then you go back, you'll listen to all right. So
we actually played keyboards first on and the Creater Wolf Rock.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So so now it's a good song. So now we've
decided that that was a good pick. Okay, cool coolly guys. Great.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Going back to nineteen eighty three, eight, nineteen eighty three,
I'm going to go with this band that had this
video on MTV, which I watched religiously at this time.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Would wake up, I'd have to go to school.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
But then I come back on a second. MTV is television, Katie.
It's called television. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And it wasn't portable. He didn't walk around with It
was like on a thing. MTV is still around, they
just don't play videos.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Oh no, no, no no, I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's fascinatingion MTV where we would watch music videos. It'd
be like watching the radio as we would do back
in the day, and we was that we would see
it was like watching the radio, It's like. And then
so this band would show up and it just kind
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of elevated my thinking of what a live show could
be and everything. Watching YouTube play Sunday, Bloody Sunday at
Red Rocks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That video just blew my mind. With the flags, it
was so great.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then to dive into that band in their history
and everything that would happen following two years later they
play live Aid and it changes everything. Two songs at
live Aid and they become a completely different band. But
it all for me, at least I know that it
was on the third record, but in nineteen eighty three
it comes to Sunday, Bloody Sunday. And I also want
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to give an honorable mention to New Order and Blue
Monday because that song, that track changed an entire different
genre forever.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So was that lowlife that was never actually on a record.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It was on Age of Consent, though there is a
song called the Beach, but Blue Monday was always just
a single. But those two records for at least alternative
leaning rock, blue Things out of the Water, and to me,
those are very important records from that year.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Our friends live in Colorado and two years we went
to go visit them, and I went to Red Rocks
just it was in the winter time, during the wintertime,
so they were doing yoga at Red Rocks. They didn't
do any shows, but I wanted to see it because
of the video and it was have you ever been
to Red Rocks, dude, I've never seen a show there,
but it was spect It was incredible only because I
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had been loving it from that round.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's so iconic, and so the first time I
got it. It's amazing, dude. The first time I got
to play there, and you see those two first time
I got to play there, those two jumps.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And a band lip service?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh boy?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Van Halen's Jump released December twenty one, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Perfect, We don't like your tone. Please stop attacking me.
Nice I I.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I have to be right.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All Wolt is now leaving the studio is very sensitive.
I give it to you Perfect. I want to say
I appreciate the honorable mention with Blue Monday.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I went to the Grand Cayman Islands when uh I
think I when I was thirteen or fourteen years old
and we rented this We rented this this condo and
people had owned it, so it wasn't like a hotel
or anything. And they all these cassette tapes. And I
was going through the cassette tapes and I saw a
tape called Lowlife, which was New Order's Low Life, and
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I was like, what is this? And so I put
it in and I was like, that was a trans
transformation for me. I went from rock, still loving rock,
but into alt and indie and stuff like that with
that one.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I took the cassette, I took it home. That
might be a good that might be a good topic
to do. Uh somewhere down the road. What were those
transfer transformational records? Because I think we probably all have
had those in our in our lives where we grew up,
we were listening to one sound, one genre, but then
we heard X record and it made it blew. Our
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minds were like, oh now I still love this, but
now I'm going to focus or how was it?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, just a thought for down keep it in there,
good stuff, man, great?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Great?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So but what an amazing year for music. I mean
we could keep going there with so many great records.
I mean, like to just have an honorable mention for
def Leppard's Pyromania record. I mean that was a huge
record in its own right. So many great records, so
many great years, and it's fun to battle.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It around, to have these conversations.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
That's why I love this doing those podcast record. My
man played drums with two arms.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Truth.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
But to think they came back with Hysteria what in
eighty seven? Yeah, and that was an even bigger record,
so we could just yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So thank you for your time, everybody, thanks for listening
to another Rock ninety five to five top five.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We'll try to do these a little bit more often.
We've taken about a year off, but we're what a
what a great crew, So check it out and thanks
for listening to Rock ninety five to five
It's been a minute, but we are back with another
rock ninety five to five Top five, and I've got
a room full of people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
For this one, Top seven, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So it's like, yeah, I think there's seven people in
the room. Everybody's gonna have a song the year this time,
nineteen eighty three wasn't born yet.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Great year. I think Mikey was just coming out of
his all right, so we're gonna go, wow, that's true.
I have my first Vagino touched was that year.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Okay, wow, wow, these are facts.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You take it easy. Judy Mason is a saint. Yeah,
touch up. Then it changes, so we're gonna go around
the room.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Everybody's gonna pick a song from nineteen eighty three and
tell us why it was the important song for them.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All right, start that way. We're gonna start this way. Yeah,
let's do it. Let's change it up, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So we're going to go counterclockwise around the board, and
that starts with my man Pacapone Man the Killer at Nights,
go for it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What's what do you got? Nineteen eighty three?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Right, So nineteen eighty three, I was remembering when my
buddy Rich came over to the party basement. You know,
every neighborhood had that one basement where the mom would
let you party because she figured if they're here, they're safe.
And that was Charlie's house. And he had the biggest,
coolest sound system.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
He had sub offers.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He had those big wooden speakers hanging from his ceiling.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And wooden panel walls to match.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
He had wooden panel walls and for some reason, a
green thread that hung from the ceiling with a small
brass bell that nobody could explain low. And one day,
my buddy Rich came running into the bedroom where we're
all doing graphics bongs and drinking cheap warm beer, and
he goes, man, you guys got to hear this. And
it was a cassette tape that a friend of his
(01:57):
in California had sent him, and it was Metallica Kill
them All. And so when we popped that in we
had never Heardica.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Chap is going to say, everybody joined us, so now
we are.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
That was his prime time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I think that was his heyday. Sorry around.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
New to the podcast this time, there is video. You
definitely want to check that one out. So back to capone,
you had a right metallic.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Rich comes in, he's got a cassette tape. Now, the
cassette tape was, you know, like a t DK ninety.
You know how your buddies would always make a copy
of a copy, and this had been a copy of
somebody's copy right.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Right like it. You know.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
It was like the first viral band was Metallica. Before
social media, people made lots of cassettes and would send
them to their friends. And that's what we got in
all the all the song titles were handwritten on that
little J card on the inside, you know. And they
even tried to use a pen to make the Metallica
logo on it, which was bad.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right somewhere, Lars is seething, and.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
That was doors. We popped that into. Man, I'm telling you,
Charlie had the sound system like it would shake the earth.
He spent a lot of money on this round.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was that Sansui I think it was a.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Pioneer twelve eighty. It was like one hundred watch a channel. Oh,
it's massive. And he popped that cassette in. And usually
he had very nice albums, so yeah, the sound quality
usually is better at Charlie's. But man, we popped, We
popped that cassette in and hit the lights came on
and that was it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it changed that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I mean, that's a moment that you're not alone in
that moment. So many people had that right with that record.
I mean that look what happens now. They play stadiums
twice and we think, you.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Know, you'd be hanging at that, you know, at a
keg party outside you know, no more than three pumps
on the keg man and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We'd all be saying to each other.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
The thing about Metallica is you're never gonna hear that
on the radio.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And it was true at the time. Yeah, but now
you're gonna hear it a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Now here's nothing else matters.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Good one.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So we got Metallica. Let's move over to Maris from
the Morning Machpit.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What do you got?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So working backwards, of course, I heard a cover of
this song first from kill Switch Engage Holy Diver, and
that made me go, this sounds familiar, there's something to this.
So I had to go back and listen to Dio's
version and oh wow, there's that guitar solo that's right
at the end of the song, and it just takes
(04:49):
you to a different place, and then doing research on
the music as we always do, see the video. I've
never seen a video that I'd never seen fit so
well with a song, and I was just like they
really knew what the hell they were doing for this one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So Holy Diver, Holy Diver.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So had you heard, like even subconsciously just in passing
the original before you heard kill Switch?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm pretty sure I did, because it was around. It
was just there was something too. It was like, I
know there's another version of this somewhere, right, so I
had to go find it. Yeah, it was a good one. Yeah,
all right, Katie, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
So I'm a little bit younger than so this was
twenty years before I was born.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
You just called it the late nineteen hundred.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I actually think I did at one point and Maria
was like, that is not uh, because I think I
called it the eighteen hundreds or nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't do that. Yeah, yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
But for me, so I growing up, I had I
didn't have I had guitar Hero, but I had band Hero.
Can't played that a lot because it was like the
top sixty pop songs. But then also it had some
rock on it, so I would my mom's tripod and
duct tape the mic to it, and then also played
the guitar so I could sing and play at the
same time. And a song that really stuck out to
(06:07):
me was mister Robato by Sticks Nice.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Such a good song.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Yeah, that was one of my favorites as a kid,
and I think it also kind of sparked my infatuation
with like androids and android people. And also I'm I'm
the kind of person I like imagining stories with songs,
so that was like my thing was listening to that
song and thinking of like little little uh android people,
which is very real to today now, which is kind
of scary, but how.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I first started to learn Japanese.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yeah, that too, and now it's like one of my
like I'm like obsessed with Japan now too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So awesome, that's a good one. And local we love
uh Sticks being a local band.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And you're an overachiever there by putting the microphone on
the tripod could do both.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I get it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Multit all right, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, what do you
got with You.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Ain't seen nothing yet? You like six four six four. Yeah, hey,
I a job just joking. No, everybody says six three,
but you nailed I have six four yeah, really really tall,
thank you? Five seven. I used to be really weird
about being tall, but then people people were like, no.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
The reason the whole phrase came looking up to is
because kings and queens were tall, and they like. I
was like, I have enough with me. I'm just gonna
stand up tall. Then my parents raised me really strict,
and so my dad would go around the house humming
songs all the time that I was not allowed to
listen to, and he would go.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Hm hm hmmm, mmm mmmmm hmm.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
And I would always go, Dad, what's that? And he
would do nothing. Put it on the Christian music station.
I was like, cod Dad turns out shout at the devil.
My dad told me later in life too, oh man,
hope he doesn't hear this. He goes, uh, if I'm
being honest, he goes. My drug of choice was acid,
and I did a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of it, Like wow, Dad, Wow, It just took a
long time. But there's the street cred. He was like
some Motley crue.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
He would go around the house singing at that deaf
leopard everything else, just humming it and every time I'd
ask you, you don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
To be fair, Motley Crue is saying to shout at
the devil. That's a very anti devil message. Not bad.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I should have put that one in my head.
Maybe raising our voice at Lucifer. Yeah, so that's it
for me counting. That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Then again, another band where they were starting out and
look at them now.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Yeah, seriously, seriously, all right, Clinger, there's almost too many
records to choose from because zz Top comes in with Eliminator,
and I remember, and I do want to give honorable
mention to Ozzie, to Maiden. I almost went with Pyromania
def Leppard with Rock Rock Toll you Drop. But I'm
(08:44):
going with Eliminator because at the time I was growing
up in the eighteen hundreds, I don't even know, like
there was MTV, but ABC was it was it ABC
that did Friday Night videos. Friday Night video of us
were alive then, yeah, and like, and I remember we
(09:07):
had just gotten a Hatachi VCR the top loader, right,
and dude, this was so high fi at the time,
and the yeah, and so I remember staying up late
and Friday night videos and the video for Eliminator, or
seeing the video Zzy Top with Eliminator in the video,
(09:27):
and I was like, this is so damn cool.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Now you look back at it, it's like, oh my god,
So what was what was cooler? The band, the car
or the guitars? Because I mean that's incredible.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
I mean, I gotta say the band and I and
I love that and I love working at Rock ninety
five five because we still get to play zz Top
and uh and what an incredible band back in nineteen
eighty three and to this day, I feel like, yeah,
obviously there's been some changes in that band, but so
damn good. And it was just because of the video
that I got turned on to the band and ultimately
an incredible record.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, that is a good one, and there's so many
hits off of that one. It was actually like zz
Top Mark two because they had their their Texas days
that really when they had the MTV era, an Eliminator
kind of broke them into an entirely new audience.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I feel like I was part of that new audience.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Many big fan of zz Top, Would you say that
you're a zz Bottom?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
My favorite response to anything she's ever said. What's also
funny is just looking over here and seeing Chap. I'll
have my moments total you come over here, Chap. Yeah,
actually I want you to go next.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't need cons Thanks for having me.
It's good to see everybody in one place. So the
yeah started strong. It was January. It was a band
called Journey. They released something called Separate Ways. Oh yeah,
and I know that turns you on Penis. Yes, he's
getting chuffed because when you when you hear the beginning
(11:03):
of it, the keyboards are just blazing.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They're just killing it.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
And I was in a band called Lipstick Viper that
opened up for a band similar to the band Journey
Is and it was my.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Journey, but not close.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
It was similar. They were called fo Gone And I
remember hearing this record like this is this is what
music should be. First of all, the components have their moments.
You listened to it is Yeah, the keyboards had a moment.
Then you got the drama has this thing. Neil Sean
of course is jerking his guitar off like hardcore, the
whole thing, and then it comes.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Together at the end. It's just an absolutely brilliant song,
don't you agree. But the video, yeah, the video nothing
was plugged in. Guy's rocking a keyboard. There's no chords
coming out of the keyboard. It was a regrettable moment.
I'm like, what's going on with that? Come on?
Speaker 9 (11:50):
But it wasn't as squishy as like you know, the
other records that they do, like Lloyd's et cetera. Okay,
it was a tough record. It is a tough song.
And actually my band, Stabbing Western, tried to cover it.
Band yeah, uh, and try to cover it once in
the studio.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We were going, let's try to take of this. And
it's a lot harder to do that song than you
would think, just to get everything right. So I have
mad respect for that song.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I agree, thank you. What was the name of the band?
Your band? Lipstick? I can't believe he was able to
remember that. I remember all of them. I remember all
of them. They're like fifty of them, all right, Maria.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And as we know, I've said many times, I grew
up in rural Maryland, so rock music really didn't come
into my life until later. With one exception, and it
was a band that was usually known for guitar but
they did something different on this song. They did a
lot of synth.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
We're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Van Halen's jump makes me want to run through a
wall every time I hear it.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It is the most motivating song of all time that
syntha d D duh dun d.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But but I'm inspired. I think we should play it
in church. What album was that from? Come on, well,
don't don't do this to me easy? Oh my god,
I'm getting uncomfortable on this is good. That was rude,
this happened, this is the tone. I'm so sick of
getting to turn it into a learning moment for everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
The album was nineteen eighty four, what what do you
where do you think the recall is going to come from?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I just totally that I didn't listen to rock music
at that age at all, and that was an outlier song.
And I'm going to have the album just done, so
there's tone probably recorded in so we'll give them that. Well,
we'll go with that, so all right, cool, great, finally
(13:52):
she's gone.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I always wanted how to get rid of it, and
just asked about an album, and she leaves perfect. By
the way, Joni, separate ways were called in nineteen eighty two,
and they actually played it on the road at Rosemont
and they said on Rosemont and back then it was
called Horizon. By the way, it wasn't cold, h whatever,
it's cold now the state of all.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They why is this thing so fall down?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Oh that's right, Oh you're back anyway, they said on stage, Hey,
we wrote this two weeks ago. We want to play
it for you. So Chicago is the reason Joney separate way.
So I just want to come back to me for
a quick second. So everyone else was talking for so long,
I got annoying. Anyway, four great record.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I do love that.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Record, and I do feel and I love to hate
that record. I think my favorite song off that record
is top Jimmy Dude. I love that, but it reminds
me that I feel like I feel like Eddie got
a brand new instrument and it was the keyboard and
they had to lace it through the entire world, and
I feel like they.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Came on a little strong with that. Well, the thing
was is that he actually was pianist first, aren't we all.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So growing up as a king, growing up as a kid.
He played that, so like for him to jump to
that and added jump, well done, two for one. So
so for him to actually be able to pull out
the synth and start playing that, it was like adding
(15:29):
a new element to Van Halen. Actually, David Lee Roth,
I didn't know this until recently. He said that on
Uh and the Cradle Rock from Women and Children First
nineteen eighty, that whole verse that's not a guitar, that's
an organ, a worlitzer.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
That is interesting because I did figure it was a
guitar because there are bands that are so that have
an incredible guitar player, and the guitar can be made
to sound like it's a keyboard. So that's interesting to
hear us the opposite, So it's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So when you go back and listen to it after
hearing David say that, I'm like, oh my god, you're right.
I always thought it was a just figured it was
a guitar because it was, you know, the third album.
They hadn't introduced keyboards to Van Halen yet. And but
then you go back, you'll listen to all right. So
we actually played keyboards first on and the Creater Wolf Rock.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So so now it's a good song. So now we've
decided that that was a good pick. Okay, cool coolly guys. Great.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Going back to nineteen eighty three, eight, nineteen eighty three,
I'm going to go with this band that had this
video on MTV, which I watched religiously at this time.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Would wake up, I'd have to go to school.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
But then I come back on a second. MTV is television, Katie.
It's called television. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And it wasn't portable. He didn't walk around with It
was like on a thing. MTV is still around, they
just don't play videos.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Oh no, no, no no, I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's fascinatingion MTV where we would watch music videos. It'd
be like watching the radio as we would do back
in the day, and we was that we would see
it was like watching the radio, It's like. And then
so this band would show up and it just kind
(17:23):
of elevated my thinking of what a live show could
be and everything. Watching YouTube play Sunday, Bloody Sunday at
Red Rocks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That video just blew my mind. With the flags, it
was so great.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then to dive into that band in their history
and everything that would happen following two years later they
play live Aid and it changes everything. Two songs at
live Aid and they become a completely different band. But
it all for me, at least I know that it
was on the third record, but in nineteen eighty three
it comes to Sunday, Bloody Sunday. And I also want
(18:00):
to give an honorable mention to New Order and Blue
Monday because that song, that track changed an entire different
genre forever.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So was that lowlife that was never actually on a record.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It was on Age of Consent, though there is a
song called the Beach, but Blue Monday was always just
a single. But those two records for at least alternative
leaning rock, blue Things out of the Water, and to me,
those are very important records from that year.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Our friends live in Colorado and two years we went
to go visit them, and I went to Red Rocks
just it was in the winter time, during the wintertime,
so they were doing yoga at Red Rocks. They didn't
do any shows, but I wanted to see it because
of the video and it was have you ever been
to Red Rocks, dude, I've never seen a show there,
but it was spect It was incredible only because I
(18:52):
had been loving it from that round.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's so iconic, and so the first time I
got it. It's amazing, dude. The first time I got
to play there, and you see those two first time
I got to play there, those two jumps.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And a band lip service?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh boy?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Van Halen's Jump released December twenty one, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Perfect, We don't like your tone. Please stop attacking me.
Nice I I.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I have to be right.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All Wolt is now leaving the studio is very sensitive.
I give it to you Perfect. I want to say
I appreciate the honorable mention with Blue Monday.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I went to the Grand Cayman Islands when uh I
think I when I was thirteen or fourteen years old
and we rented this We rented this this condo and
people had owned it, so it wasn't like a hotel
or anything. And they all these cassette tapes. And I
was going through the cassette tapes and I saw a
tape called Lowlife, which was New Order's Low Life, and
(20:19):
I was like, what is this? And so I put
it in and I was like, that was a trans
transformation for me. I went from rock, still loving rock,
but into alt and indie and stuff like that with
that one.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I took the cassette, I took it home. That
might be a good that might be a good topic
to do. Uh somewhere down the road. What were those
transfer transformational records? Because I think we probably all have
had those in our in our lives where we grew up,
we were listening to one sound, one genre, but then
we heard X record and it made it blew. Our
(20:51):
minds were like, oh now I still love this, but
now I'm going to focus or how was it?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, just a thought for down keep it in there,
good stuff, man, great?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Great?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So but what an amazing year for music. I mean
we could keep going there with so many great records.
I mean, like to just have an honorable mention for
def Leppard's Pyromania record. I mean that was a huge
record in its own right. So many great records, so
many great years, and it's fun to battle.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It around, to have these conversations.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
That's why I love this doing those podcast record. My
man played drums with two arms.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Truth.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
But to think they came back with Hysteria what in
eighty seven? Yeah, and that was an even bigger record,
so we could just yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So thank you for your time, everybody, thanks for listening
to another Rock ninety five to five top five.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We'll try to do these a little bit more often.
We've taken about a year off, but we're what a
what a great crew, So check it out and thanks
for listening to Rock ninety five to five
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