Episode 26: The biggest Rock Ballads of the decade!

On this episode, Greg, Jan and Chris discuss the big 80's rock music ballads. We discuss our favorites and throw out others that were deserving of attention. Did your favorite make the list? Listen and let us know! #80s #80smusic #nostalgia

Episode Transcript

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The Pixel People pod. I don't care what anybody says.
Lily and X had the best ballads of the 80s.
Oh, hey, Hello. Welcome to the Pixel People pod.

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This week. It's me, Greg.
Say hello, Jan. Hello, Jan.
I think we have the pod father again this week.
Is he there? Yes.
What's up? Of course.
Hello. Welcome to the House.
So this week's episode, I think we handed around to it last
week, but it's going to be on the 80s ballads, the hair metal
ballads, but it's really on rockballads.
We it's anything that we consider a ballad is going on

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this list. So it's kind of hard sometimes
to decide what could be a ballador not.
So I do remember that we had to,my junior year in high school,
Miss Lambert Schrontz, my English teacher, we had to bring
a song to class, a ballad. And I actually brought a Ray
Stevens song. So mine was I think.

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They called me the Streak. She was like, no, I can't
remember what it was, but it waslike a ballad has to tell a
story. That's what she was saying.
So it might have been the Shriners Convention song.
So. I'm shaking my head.
Well hey, I bet you I had the coolest song in there that day.
You had the most unique song in there.
Exactly. Yeah, Yeah, Everybody loved Ray
Stevens then. He was a thing back in the back

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in the day. Yes, he was.
So yeah, Also we mentioned this too.
I changed up something this week.
I'm recording in mono format instead of stereo format.
Yay, I finally gave somebody mono.
Hey, there you go. Yeah, so.
That you know of. So if you hear it sound a little
different this week, that's why I'm going to test it and see

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what it sounds like. I've been studying up and
apparently this is better for conversational podcasts.
You've never studied a day in your life.
This is true. I call BS.
Yeah, this is true. Because he's so smart, he
doesn't have to. Yeah.
We were talking the other day, Jan trotting school and all that
stuff, and I didn't. I floated through and Jan we
were saying something about whenI was at the time of Valley

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Community College from my computer stuff.
She's like I said, I forget whatthey're saying, but somebody I
was watching the middle and somebody on there was upset
because they got to be and I andI said, oh man, I'd have killed
it got to be. I said I squeaked by on season
DS just like what? Yeah, I didn't study.
I just. I saw a thing on on the one of
the news networks this week thatI think it's California's

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changing their grading system. Yeah.
And like a he's going to be like100 to like 84 to 100.
It's going to be like dude. And like a, D is let's.
Just make it easy and handle when.
He's the 20s to 40s is going to be a D.
Dude, it's it's already started.My nephew niece, I was talking
to them when they were in schooland a 6060 to 70 is.

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AD yeah, because now they do a 10 point grading system on
college. So, you know, I would have been,
I would have been ABAB level student if they'd had that in
there. So he's.
An outright A student and I'm proud of it.
Well. Guess what?
Now a lot of people are too A. Lot of people don't have to pay
for college, you know. I had to pay for it, remember?
What Homer Simpson said, you tried and you failed.
Lesson here is never try. Don't.

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Yeah. What's the quote from dodgeball
where Vince Vaughn's sitting there and he says basically if
you never set a goal for your life and you don't succeed it or
reach it, then you never failed?Something like that.
That's the kind of thing. Oh, I thought you were going for
if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
No, that's the terrible quote from that movie.

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That's the overused one. But it is a great quote though,
Sorry. All right.
Well, before we get into that, we have chance and all we use
here we. Go.

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Are we good? Lightly hit us with that news,
Jan. Lightly.
Yeah, Don't, don't hit us with it this week.
Just OK. Lightly tap.
February 23rd in 1980 Something Jan's Gnarly News February 23rd
in 1980 Crazy Little Thing called Love by Queen became the
number one song in the US which Freddie Mercury said the song

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came to him while he was taking a bath.
So he had a little thing I. Guess so.
That is a good song. It's always been one of my
favorite Queen songs, and DwightYoakam does a great cover of it
too. I like that song.
There's as a musician that that song, I like the acoustic guitar
in it, the way they play it and the little funky guitar solo

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that that he plays. Not Freddie Mercury.
It brought me plays in the song.It's always been one of my
favorites. Next time we listen to it, we're
listening a little funky little guitar solo.
It's good Next. February 23rd, 1981 The Stray
Cats uncaged their first album, Stray Cats.
Yeah, Jan. Read something interesting today
about that, about the albums. What was it, Jan?

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They were all scratched up. Yeah, every stray cat of them
you got was all scratched up. Real.
Do I get a hottie for that one, Chris?
I know. Chris, come on.
I just he's a tough crowd tonight.
I know. I just, I'm just, no, I'm good.
OK, Yeah. February 23rd, 1982 Lou Reed
turned 40. Do you know why that's

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important? Because it's Jerry's son.
He took a walk in a wild side. I don't know what.
That's also the day he released his Blue Mask album.
It was his 11th studio album. It's always.
That's a lot of albums it. Was a tragic day anytime Lee
Reed released the album. He released it on.
His 40th. Birthday though, kind of cool.
He released 11 albums. That's probably 11 too many.

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Well, he had one or two, but then he put out like that
Machine album. He's got that.
You ever saw that? It's like a double album and all
it is is industrial noise. And.
And you think that's bad? And then years later they're
like, he ain't going to collaborate with Metallica.
And that Lulu album he put out on Metallica is Metallica had to
be sitting back laughing when they were they they?

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Some things you just do for money.
Yeah, but this one, when I listen to this album and I've
listened to a lot of it. Have you heard any of that,
Chris? No.
Listen to a song or two tonight when this is over because
Metallica wasted some killer riffs on that album.
There's some great music on thatand it's just literally talking
over it. You know, it's like, and the

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podcast as you listen to it is it's just him talking over
Metallica riffing and it's horrible.
And it's like those those metal riffs.
They should recycle them and puta real album out with real
vocals over it. It's bad.
It's it's bad. That's all I can say.
I don't care if anybody listening gets mad at me.
I don't think they will. I think Lou Reed fans have
attack of fans. Nobody bought this album so.
I didn't even do an album together.

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That's how Lou I know about. Yes, it's called Lulu.
It was like 20 years ago and it is bad.
It's bad. Not the good, bad.
No, it's the bad, yeah. It's bad so.
February 23rd, 1983, The Ramonesdropped their seventh album,
Subterranean Jungle. It was the first time that Dee
Dee Ramone was featured on vocals with Time Bomb.

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Ramones, great band, I got to see him on their last tour.
I consider that one of my lucky concert experiences. 45 minutes
just in 1235, playing straight and getting done with it,
getting off stage. Right.
The way it should be. Yep.
February 23rd, 1983. Right?
Toto won album of the year for Toto 4 and Record of the year
for Rosanna at the Grammys. It's a huge album.

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They also won Producer of the Year.
Did that one have Africa on it as well?
Yeah, it was all it had them all.
It had all that was like their big album.
That was a great album. And I mean, they never topped
that. But you know, they're such a
wild band because it's just a whole bunch of studio musicians
that got together and we're like, let's start a band.
Yep. February 23rd, 1983 97 PBS

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stations across the country broadcast TV's first live open
heart surgery. How crazy is that and why did we
not watch that? 50% of the population.
Passed out. Yeah, vomiting the problem
still. It was, it was titled the
Operation and it was, yeah, Saint Joseph's Hospital.

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I'm OK, I dealt with enough of that.
Oh yeah, that's right, Chris. Yeah, I can't even watch this.
Somebody that I was telling my daughter or somebody at my house
telling maybe I told her to, I don't know, that there's a show
that comes on every week called The Pit.
Yeah, that's just a show, ain't it?
I love that show, but I almost tear up every week.
I have to get rid of. There's somebody having a heart

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attack on that show every week. So it's kind of PTSD, you know,
that kind of thing. So I I'm sure if I'd have had
all that then that came on there, it probably freaked me
out a little bit, so I'm OK. With that, yeah, you don't need
to say that. Trauma does crazy things to you.
Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Born February 23rd, 1983. Emily Blunt.
Yes Sir. Good job 1983.

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Great actress. She actually had a a stutter as
a child and she overcame it withthe help of a teacher who told
her to start acting. I know you can kill.
It in the movies, yeah, yeah. Of course we know her.
Who was this? Oh, I'm sorry, no, there was a
singer back in the 80s, a country singer.
Mel Tillis, Mel. Tillis.
Yeah, Stuttered like when he talked, but when he sang, he was

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perfect. Yeah, I had a.
Stutter as a kid up to like second grade or something like
that, and it just probably worked through it.
Yeah, but. We know, we know Emily from The
Devil Wears Prada, Edge of Tomorrow, Quiet Place, and the
sequel. What do you guys know where
from? Am I thinking of Hold On No, The

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Quiet Place? I know that those are that movie
for sure. I never saw.
I never saw The Devils Wears Prada at all.
You should. It's not bad.
The fall guy, she was really good in that movie Sicario.
Really good movie. She was in Oppenheimer, Yeah, I

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think she played Mary Poppins, didn't she?
They did a remake of Mary Poppins.
They. Did a remake of Mary Poppins.
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's right.
They did. No, I think you're right.
Yep, She, I think she was in like the Gulliver's travel there
was Jack Black. So she's done a lot there's.
Only one Mary Poppins, and that's Michael Rooker.
That's. Who?
Michael Rooker from? Who is that?

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The Walking Dead. Which one is he?
Merle. Oh, we, you know, got Guardians
Galaxy 2. He comes out I'm.
Because he's the man that's blue.
Yeah. See, I know these people.
Oh. OK.
Everybody goes. I'm Mary Poppins John when he
comes down. It's one of the best things in
the whole movie. The whole crowd went crazy in
the movie theater and did that. Gotcha.
Yeah, I didn't know the guy's name.

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Yeah. February 23rd, by the way.
I know him from Mallrats in Daysof Thunder.
Oh yeah, Rodney Rowdy or something like that.
Yeah, Roddy Burns. Yeah.
So February 23rd, 1985 Autographmade waves on the Billboard Hot
100 charts with Turn Up the Radio.
Yep, that's one of the songs. I.
Literally did turn up for years and years and now I laugh at it.

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I still like it but the only time when turning it down is
when I'm sleeping it off. Ain't that what he said?
It's a great line of the song but it makes me laugh now.
It's not so cheesy. That hit that hit single came
from their platinum selling album.
Sign in please. Their ballad turned down the
radios on my list. February. 20.

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No February 23rd, 1985 Ricky Skaggs released his 7th studio
album, Country Boy. It was he.
Was a talented man. That was his third number one
album of his career. OK, I've seen Ricky Skaggs twice
and he's awesome. Plays every instrument.

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One of the most talented guys you ever know.
But what a lot of people don't realize is he was like the
bluegrass God. And then to the bluegrass
community, he sold out. He went the country had all
those big country albums, all this radio play, and they
considered him turning his back on bluegrass.
And it took years. When his country career sort of

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slowed down, he went back to hisbluegrass stuff, but it took a
while for the bluegrass community and brace him back
because they look like you sold out.
You know you were the the chosen1 he.
Was just proving how good he wasacross the board.
Yeah, and you know, the same people that did that, then when
you see him, they'll play and hedoes Hwy. 40 Blues or something,
bluegrass style Ripper stomping along.

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Jansen loving it, you know. That was the 4th largest selling
country album of 1985. It it earned gold certification.
Yep. My dad had that record.
He had all his country albums and bluegrass.
Had two hit singles, Something in My Heart and the title track
Country Boy and it also includedWheelhouse which won a Grammy

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for Best Country Instrumental Performance award.
Probably can play in every instrument not too.
Probably. All right, this next one, I'm
sure you guys remember this. February 23rd, 1985, a game
between the Purdue Boilermakers and the Indiana Hoosiers
provided A defining moment in their rivalry. 5 minutes into

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the game, a scramble for a looseball resulted in a foul on
Indiana's player. So then Indiana coach Bobby
Knight, I know what's going on, is irate.
I know this game. Because he thought the call
should have been in for a jump ball.
And then second late seconds later, after Purdue inbounded,
there was a foul called on Darrell Thomas.

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So then Knight receives a technical foul and he throws a
chair from Indiana's bench across the floor toward the
basket. Yep, Yep, that's very famous
scene and I can. See it in my head, right?
Now. And.
He. He.
He then went on to get a second technical foul and was ejected

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from the game, which just got a standing ovation from the home
crowd. He was a complicated guy, he
was. Such a great coach, though he's.
A great coach, but he's kind of a jerk and you know.
Indiana won that game 72 to 63. They had a 20 and 9 season.
Yeah, they're the only the last undefeated college basketball

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team, the 76 Indiana team with him coaching them.
There's a team who is a crit Miami of Ohio right now that's
like 26 and O and they're thinking.
They Yeah, I don't. They're thinking they can make
it undefeated into the tournament, but they're going to
lose. But you know, nobody's ever
going to be undefeated the wholeseason in college basketball.
At least not Division One anyway.
I know when you play 30 some oddgames in a 32 games in a season,

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I think's what it takes to get to be undefeated through the
tournament. I think kind of where they're at
now. To get through the tournament,
it's it's 39 or 40 now, they've added.
Some yeah, there's it's not possible, but it's yeah, but
it's it's amazing feat, though. Yep.
February 23rd, 1985 was the final episode of It's Your Move

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on NBC. It starred Jason Bateman.
Did y'all watch? That one, No, never heard of it.
That sounds like so that sounds like a British show or
something. It's your move.
That's on. NBC starring Sir Bob Weatherly.
You know. Or Jason Bateman.
Well, I'm just saying if it's a British show, that's how it be.
February 23rd, 1985 Missing You,which was Diana Ross's tribute

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to the late Marvin Gaye who had been murdered by his father
earlier that year. Hit #1 on the R&B chart.
I thought was the John Wick songhe was going to talk about.
Not that missing you. This is Diana Ross's Missing
You. I remember when Marvin Gaye got
killed. I remember we were coming back
from a beach trip. It was a Sunday when it was
announced. I remember hearing on the radio
and freaking out because I lovedall his music back then.

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He was talented, got killed by his.
Dad. His dad killed him.
Yeah, that's what's the crazy part about it, that his dad took
him out like that. I mean, it's just I've never
felt any kind of way toward my children that I would even
consider that. I know you.
Got to have some mental issues. I'm pretty sure they're both
coked up as well. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, it was a whole lot of that.

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If not, it'll be in errors and corrections.
Yeah. He's only a little coked up.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say their drugs are bad.
He wasn't Michael Irving coked up.
Yeah, he wasn't Michael Irving coked up.
He was. Yeah, all right, moving on.
February 23rd, 1986, The Monkeysaired on MTV.
They aired 45 episodes in a 22 hour marathon.

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So within months, 58 episodes were then aired regularly
throughout the US on local stations.
I watched, yeah, maybe that was when I watched it on the.
I mean, I remember as a kid seenthe monkey shows.
But yeah. But I guess that was a replay.
I don't know. So the Monkeys went from playing
small clubs to stadiums that year, 1986.

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Well, they should be in the Rocker Hall of Fame.
They don't monkey around well. Did you watch the monkeys,
Chris? No.
They've got some good songs and they I'm.
I'm not, I'm not going to comment on it because I.
They were all musicians and but they got better at it and
started demanding to do their own music.
It's they're all, I mean, they were musicians, just one of
those phenomenons of the day. Released February 23rd, 1986.

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Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald's own My own when #1
for three weeks. Michael McDonald, the yacht Rock
God, Yeah. The voice of a generation.
You tell me if he's going to be playing anywhere in there, I'm
at Yeah, I'm going to be there. Oh, do you hear?
I guess he is going to be playing this summer with Santana

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and The Doobie Brothers. Yeah, I like to see the doobies,
but I don't know if I can stay for a whole like an hour and a
half Santana set. So who goes on 1st?
Doobie brothers might be worth going and sitting in the grass
to see them and then for a drink.
Yeah, February 23rd, 1987, JodieWatley's self-titled solo debut
album was released. What was it called?

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Let me think, maybe Jodie Watley?
Really. Nice.
I know a song by her. What?
Did you know any of the songs byher on that ring?
Yeah, let's see. I know that name.
And I know there's a song that Iknow about Jodie Watley.
Looking for a new love? Yeah, I'm looking.
For that hit #2 Don't You Want Me was #6 Some Kind of Lover

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went to #10 she also had Top 40 hits with Still a Thrill.
And most of all, she had three number one dance singles on that
album and one number one R&B single.
Huge album. She did a duet with George
Michael on that album. Chris, did you know that?
I did not. Maybe if I heard it I wouldn't

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know it. But yourself a fan.
I know, I know. Sorry.
She won a Grammy that year for Best new Artist.
Well, actually not that year. She won it the next year.
In 1988, she beat out cutting crew Terrence Trent Darby and
Swing Out Sister. Swing out sister.
Never heard of that one. I hadn't either.
The name of the song she did with George Michael was Learn to

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Say No, which I've never heard before.
That album sold 3,000,000 copiesin the US she needed.
She had her brother did for a dating.
She had a brother who's a wrestler.
Pistol Pez. You remember him?
No. Pistol, Pez, Watley.
What is so great about this is she Co wrote six of the 9 songs
that were. She actually wrote her own
music. Yeah, which is very rare in pop

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music. February 23rd, 1988, Biz Marquis
released his debut album Going Off.
Biz Marquis. Rest in peace, Biz.
I've already sung at the Jan. Earlier, yeah.
That's it, right? Yep.
He introduced the world through this album to his playful
rhymes, his beatboxing skills, and his humorous storytelling.

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Yeah, he was. He was not a gangster rapper.
He was a fun rapper. It was St.
Cred, but he was a fun rapper. No, the gangster rappers,
everybody like, respected the Biz.
But then like DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, they didn't
get like, you know, come on, that's cheesy.
But Biz Marquis, he's all right.It featured songs like Make the
Music With Your Mouth, Biz Vapors, and Nobody Beats the

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Biz. Yeah, the next album has, I
think. Oh yeah.
'Cause I think it was our senioryear when just a friend came
out. And there you have Jans gnarly
news. Oh gnarly.
Cool. So before we get to the the main
topic of this, I have a few corrections.
Hang on, it's time for errors and.

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Corrections because Greg screwedup again.
I did screw up, so these aren't big ones, but I need to correct
them because we're all about truth with this podcast.
And last week we were talking about the Christopher Cross, and
I said that he filled in on guitar for Deep Purple for a
show one time and that Richie Blackmore denies it.
I knew when I said it that mighthave been wrong, and it was

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wrong because it was John Lord, the keyboards from Deep Purple,
who denied that ever happened. But Richie Blackmore and the
rest of the band has said yes, it did happen.
And Richie Blackmore has said several times he thanked Chris
for filling in for him for that night.
So. Yeah, I thought your correction
is going to be that he didn't. And I'm like, well, I heard him
tell the story that he did, so Iget what your correction is.
Yeah. And then I also, this one bugged

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me all week when I heard it because I threw this out there,
but it's, I'm not kind of knew it, but I said Phil Collins
spent the 90s doing things for Disney, but he actually started
working with Disney in the late 90s, not the entire decade.
It was like the Tarzan movie was99.
He started working with him in like 97 writing music for it.
So it's the late 90s. If you would have, I don't think
that needed a correction becauseif you'd have said the 90s and

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he didn't start till 2001, I. Understand that this this
podcast is all about truth. Is that what it is?
Yes. We'll see tonight, after that,
after this. When I run for office one day, I
don't want people going through these podcasts and pulling out
my inaccuracies. I don't want people going to
pull up my inaccuracies and trying to hold them against me.
Well, that's your only inaccuracies there.

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Yeah, that's not fair, Jan. You know what my slogan's going
to be a chicken in every podcast.
If you know your political history, the old slogan, a
chicken in every pot. Well, it's going to be chicken
in every podcast. OK, that'll be from original
Michael's listening. He'll get that.
So anyway, this week we're doingthe power ballads or ballads of

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the 80s. When you say power ballads
anymore, it's ballads. We try to figure out how to do
this fairly. So here's the way it goes.
We all have 10 or maybe more, but we're going to discuss our
each of our top fives that we feel are the best of the 80s.
And I think the fun part's goingto come after that when we go
over the ones that didn't make our list, but we're like, you
know, honorable mentions becauseI think there's been bigger

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songs and honorable mentions andmaybe our top fives.
Can I just start out by saying my list started with 67 songs?
Yeah, Jan wowed us this week saying she's only whittled it
down to like 40 something. We're like, are you kidding?
Yeah, but when I did mine, I think 18 was my Max and I
whittled it down to 10. Chris, what'd you say?
What'd you I? Think it was at 17.

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Yeah, I think it's what I was atmy 17.
I got it down. That's what you started with 17,
yeah. Well.
The thing too is with this, whatwe're looking at there.
I'll give you an example to be with you.
I think it's the name of it by Mr. Big.
Yeah, I think. OK, I I I got it.
I understand that the song by extreme more than.

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Words. Those songs were at the tail end
of that 80s and that whole genreof that stuff.
So I'm thinking, oh, I got thosetwo down on my list.
And then when I went and looked at the dates, I'm like, Dang it,
did the albums come out in the 80s?
Nope, the albums come out in the90s.
So that's why I like those were two of the songs that would have
been in my top five for sure, because they're so they they

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they are the exact thing you think of when you think of this
kind of list. So they would have been tough.
That's my thing. That's sort of me.
Today I was coming home and listing one of my mixes on
Spotify and A2 Lemon by Megadeths on there and it's sort
of like they're ballad. And I was thinking to myself, oh
man, I didn't put Nothing Else Matters by Metallica on there

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because I love that song, but I can't.
That's the early 90s. So yeah, so I'm glad I didn't
put them on this. But so anyway, we're going to
start this start with Jam, then Chris and.
Really, I get to go first. How we're going to do it.
We're going to just, she's goingto give her 5th, the one number
50. We're going to give my number.
One first. No, we're going to do #5.
Because what if y'all still want#1 if y'all can't steal my #1

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Because it is my number one. We.
Know what you're #1? No, you don't.
I can about guess what you're number one's going to.
Be you're you'll guess wrong. Good.
Guess what do you think? What I think her number one's
going to be is Save Your Love byGreat White.
You are wrong. There you go.
OK. Well, we're going #5 this will
be the whole thing again. You got to move if if somebody

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steals your number one. OK, we.
But y'all, they're not still my number.
One, move your stuff up and pullone out of your humble mentions
up then. So this is hard work.
We're working with Mercury here,people.
I'm telling you. This is high science, Jim.
Give me that number 5. All right, and my number 5,
Tesla's love song. Yep, I can cross that off my

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not, it's not my top five, but it's in my honorable mentions,
so. I always say my top five.
No, it is not in the morning. Well, it is.
There you go. Just got my.
No, you said dwelling number one.
I'm not moving off my top five, he said.
Just #1. OK, well then.
I'll tell you where I had it. Do you want to know where I had
it on my list or not? I had it #2.

(25:37):
OK, well, yeah, I should've known you have a Tesla one that
was your. It was released in 1989.
It was on their Great Radio Controversy album.
This is a good song I. Mean we're getting that detail.
Sorry, no, we, me and you probably didn't, but Jen's our
researcher. She.
She's well, you could have had three songs from Tesla in this
easily. I have to to.

(25:58):
Be with you. And Paradise could have been
there as well. I wouldn't have had any one of
those. Way to knockout my number 9 song
which was Paradise Paradise. Oh, paradise was my #8 yeah,
Tesla was was just for the 80s. That era of music for me defined

(26:21):
it that they were my favorite. To me, they could do no.
Wrong. I would have put what you give
in like my top 10 ballads by Tesla.
But I I had to think and I what you give would have been there
for sure. But like I was like the two, I
could have put three, I could have put three.
There's in my top 10, but I'm just like, let me just put there
two big ones, but I listen. I could have rearranged them,

(26:45):
but love songs on another level of its own compared to the other
two. All right.
Well then, Chris, what's your #5then?
I bet you this isn't on either one of y'all's list.
If it is, I'll be surprised, I bet.
It is. I'm going to tell you how this
goes because I had one that I knew nobody had and I told Jen.
I said I've got one that you andChris would not have anywhere.

(27:05):
And Jen goes, well, I added one on the way home and she named it
like that gum it that was 1 I had.
So yeah, we'll see. This, this one didn't come from
a group that you would like likethe rock groups.
Like we're thinking of that, butthey're still a rock group for
the day. Yep.
Never tear us apart by INXS. Really love that song.

(27:25):
That is a great song. I couldn't take that song.
I'm not an INXS guy. I couldn't.
Tell you it was in my Top 40 forsure.
They had they had some like the Devil Inside was good from that
era and stuff. Yeah, I know that song but but.
Never tear us apart. Just to me, I it's like I was
thinking about my list and I wason a found a list on Apple music

(27:46):
of like power ballads or whatever.
And they put it on there and I'mlike that kind of pause
frustrating and thought about itand said, Oh my God, I forgot
how much I love that song. Then I listen to that song
probably five times this week. I love that song.
There are times when I'm in my car and I'm listening to Never
Tear Us Apart and I just keep listening to it over and over

(28:07):
and over, and before I realized it, I've listened to it.
For an hour, Comfortably Numb byPink Floyd, I just keep, really,
I just keep rewinding the guitar.
So Never Tear Us Apart is one ofthose songs for me.
I don't know that song. I guess I need to listen to it.
Was it a hit? Yes.
Maybe I know it. Maybe I know it.
I just don't know the name. I have played it for you before.
I think I might know. It Live 4. 1000 years.

(28:29):
Yeah, I know. Yeah, strings in it, don't it?
Yeah. Yeah.
Great song the. Emotion in his voice in that
song. Mine in A5 I'm probably pretty
sure Jan probably has in her Top40 but she don't have in her top
five fly high. Michelle by enough's enough's do
you have? That on your list, Jan.

(28:49):
It was in my Top 40. Yeah, in your Top 40.
It didn't make my list. They were a very underrated band
and that song, I just love that song.
I just keep. That's one I just listened to a
couple times. You know, I love that song.
And plus chips enough, the bassist, he's took over singing

(29:10):
duties now and he plays neon string, like different colored
neon string bass strings. And I always thought that looked
cool. So when I had to change the
strings on my bass that I play at church up at the neon string.
So I've got the enough enough look on bass.
How many different color neon strings you mean?
Yeah, each one's a different color.
Or. They're all the same one's blue,

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one's pink, one's orange, and one's neon green.
Well, I've never seen that before.
And I wish I'd put them on that thing when I was playing the
band because it would look really cool.
And plus there's the best playing strings I've ever had,
so. Are they his signature brand?
No, he just plays them. And then I found out I did it,
that you can actually buy sets with just those individual
colors. And I thought, oh, neon green
would look cool on this, but yeah.

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I think the multi killers are cool, yeah.
So anyway, that's my #5I love that song.
So gotcha, cool shout out to that's enough.
Not get them on the pod one day.They're they're down to the
level now. They're down to the level now.
Probably get them so. Are they playing Newton anytime
soon? I.
Bet you they do. I bet you they're at the
premiere eventually, one day, because that's the places they

(30:13):
play now. So anyway, Jen, what's your next
number 4? Yep.
All right #4 on my list when I see you smile.
Bad English. Yep, not on my list anywhere so.
Not on my list either. How you?
Go. That was their biggest hit.
Yeah, it was #1 in 1989. Bad.
English. Didn't they have they were super
group, right? Yeah.

(30:34):
I don't know. I'm pretty sure that's the band
that has a Jonathan Cain and Neil Shawn from Journey and and
doesn't, what's his name that sings, Yeah.
Michael Waite. John Waite.
Yeah. Yeah, it's John Waite.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Neil Shawn, they're a super group.
It's Part 2, parts journey. And yeah, they were like, did

(30:56):
that one album and just said that's it.
Yeah, that's a good song. I just didn't.
Yeah, It's just not my top, top.It's a good song, Yeah.
Didn't think about it, but that's a good song.
There's power in a smile. You really like that song?
That's right up there with it for you.
Yeah, cool. And I'm on top five.
Yeah, you know more about John Waite than I do.

(31:17):
Yeah, he was taking. One time they were in a band, he
was in a bank on the babies. I'm like what?
Never heard of that band in. Concert We saw him in concert
and. We did not.
I did. You did.
We didn't get that you were there.
I thought you were at that one with me, but.
Did you know him from the babies, Chris?
No, I I couldn't tell you, I'd say.
Jan knew the babies, but I'm like, who's the babies?

(31:38):
They had to dive deeper into these 80s albums.
Yeah, Jan. Jan goes way deeper into music
than I do. Like I go for the hits.
So All right, Chris, what's yourfor?
All right, my next song. I remember this song being
played on heavy rotation on MTV and it was in the summertime.
I'm pretty sure it was the summertime, but it would have

(31:58):
like a countdown of like great songs or whatever and this one
one all the way through one thatyear.
It was like, it's just such a phenomenon.
When it came out it was called IRemember You by Skid Row.
Yep, that. Yeah, I loved that song back in
the day. I turn it now.
I turn it now, but for differentreasons.
Yeah, I just, yeah. I cannot listen to that song

(32:19):
after I lost my daughter. I I got to understand that.
I'm sorry I didn't. No, it's fine.
I just, I cannot listen to it anymore.
Back in the days, yeah. Listen to it constantly.
I remember back sitting and watching MTV and because that
was something we had back in theday, Jan, when we were younger,
MTV, they played music videos. Tell Greg I.

(32:40):
Remember, I remember that we just they did like a whole
summer of like this countdown ofthese songs and they kept
winning and winning and winning and it was just such a
phenomenon that was like blown away by the that mean Sebastian
had like back in the day. He was his voice was phenomenal.
He it was just, it was. I played that song forever until

(33:00):
I started following him on Twitter and I was like, he's a
jerk and like kind of turned me off Skid Row's music.
But but I mean, yeah, his voice and that, yeah, that that whole
album was great. But now it's like, I just can't
do Skid Row. I just I'm kind of over him.
I can. Still do Skid Row.
Just not that song, yeah. You can go do their lead singer.
Yeah, Jam likes the Yeah, yeah, I'd be the new lead singer.

(33:23):
You know, Jam likes the deep cuts, Skid Row, and I'm like,
I've never heard that song. She, you know, all right, my
next one. I might step on some toes on
this because I got a feeling both of you all might have this.
Yeah, Chris probably don't. Home sweet home Mötley Crüe.
Yeah, that's how. It's not on your list, No.
Yeah, you can't knock this song if you don't like Mötley Crüe.
That song is great. It's.
It's not my it's not my top ten.Let me, let me.

(33:45):
OK, it's. In my.
Top 40 Yeah, when? If you want to know how I am
when this song comes on, go watch Hot Tub Time Machine.
Where the main guy, I forget hisname in the movie, pulls whips
in drunk in his car in his garage.
And then he's got a bottle of liquor and he's drinking and
this song's playing and he's airdrumming to it and he's using

(34:08):
his foot PED on. And he they think he's trying to
kill himself because he blacks out, but he's not.
He flings. It's hilarious because they take
him to the hospital and like they don't realize he was just
air drumming the Mötley Crüe andand had the garage door down.
It's so funny and that I love that movie.
That's a way under way underrated movie.
People go watch that. That's a good 80s throwback

(34:28):
movie. So.
But no, I like, I like, I mean, that song's a good song, don't
get me wrong. It's just not, I mean a.
Lot of Mötley Crüe people will tell you that was the downfall,
the band when that song came out.
But I'm sorry, that's the. I don't think it was.
No, but I can't the hardcore Mötley Crüe fans like they went
soft any there's a lot of fans of bands that say once the
ballad came out the other bands garbage well.

(34:51):
So I can't believe you can have girls, girls, girls as your
ballad for them. No, that'll be on the strip club
ballad. List.
Oh, so we can do that one too. All right, Jan, what's your next
one number? Three number three, Too Late for
Love by Def Leppard. Not on my list, but good song.
On their 1983 Pyromania album. Which we might have to do

(35:12):
sometime because people love them some Def Leppard.
The numbers did not lie. It reached #9.
By the way, a great song. By the way, a little off topic
here. Phil Collins episode doing very
well. People like them, some Phil
Collins. But Todd does.
I had a a Def Leppard song in mytop ten.
It was bringing on a heartbreak.But yeah, that one I like.

(35:35):
I like, I like that one better. But I love that song, Jan.
I mean, that's a great choice, but I just had to, I think that
sing along. More to bring it on a heartbreak
but I love both. The songs are good.
Yeah, I just had to bring it right.
Some ballads I was going. To say any Def Leppard song in
the top five would would work. Yeah, you can't go wrong, right?
You know there's not a wrong answer when you when you talk

(35:57):
about that, you know so all. Right, Chris, what's your
number? Three.
All right. I want to know what love he is
by foreigner. OK, that was in my top 10 but it
it didn't make my list so. Yeah, I mean, it's just such a
great song. You sing along with it.
It's just such a great and I'll tell you what really cemented it
for me. I mean, I've always loved the
song. But if you saw Rock of Ages, the

(36:18):
Broadway show and then saw the the movie adaptation with it,
they feature that song in there.And it's it's I mean, they
feature a lot of 80s songs in there, don't get me wrong, But
just something about that song and that movie just with it
seemed to be perfect the way they did it.
It just it's just one of those great songs and Foreigner's such
a a phenomenal group. You know that was in my top. 10

(36:39):
And it's because I put a lot of songs high if I sing along to
them in the car and I sing alongto that, you know?
Yeah, I sing along to this one. That's why I don't when nobody's
with me but do. You have those key memories in
your head and I can vividly in my head remember laying out in
our carport, in our swing by theswing in there on a Saturday
afternoon with my radio waiting to record that song to my tape.

(37:02):
I would record the songs I likedon Top 40 and I can remember
loving that song so much in the 80s and hitting record when it
came on. I got it, got a clean version of
it now so. Do you think?
Without the DJ talking over it, yeah.
Do you think the kids today would be as inventive as we
were, as as smart as we were to sit around and wait and then

(37:24):
like when it came on the radio to click record on a tape, they
didn't? They can't sit for two minutes
straight without having to do something they could not sit and
listen to. That's why 5-6 crappy songs.
You know, well, we went through to get these songs back before
cassette singles came out or before, you know, CDs and tape.
We, we record stuff, you know, it just was a different world

(37:47):
then. But that song, I just love that
song. I've always loved that song.
Oh yeah, me too. Great band too.
Yeah, all. Right, my #3 I got a feeling all
both of you have this on your list somewhere, but I don't know
being your top five, but my number 3 was Bon Jovi.
I'll be there for you. It was in my Top 40.
OK. Chris, was it in your list?
I had it down, but then when I narrowed my 17 down, I didn't

(38:11):
put it on there, but yeah. This is another one that not
only do I sing along with in thecar, but I sing the Richie
Sambora high harmony part. This is like my one of my top
five sing along songs in the car.
I love this song. I'm not a massive Bon Jovi fan,
I like the hits, but this one ismy #1 Bon Jovi song.

(38:32):
Well, it's a phenomenal song. I like that song a lot, but I
didn't narrow it down any. Song that has a key change in it
at some point and this one, you know, you get toward the end and
all sudden, let's take it up. Different key in which he
probably regrets now, except he Can't Sing it in the regular key
now. Yeah, so.
But yeah, that was my #3. So which brings us to jans #2.

(38:52):
All right, my #2 screaming in the night by Crocus.
Yep, Jam loves a song. A song I've got so much feeling
I. Didn't think you put that on
your list. I didn't think about it.
But yeah, that's that's one of her favorite songs Since me and
Jan started dating, I've always known.
Love that song. It was the second single from
their Headhunter album from 1983.

(39:13):
You know that song, Chris? No, it sounds real romantic
though. I.
Mean. Oh, listen, let me tell you what
this story is about. Is it a slow song?
Yeah. It is, it starts slow.
Yeah, It, I don't know. It's, it's, it's very powerful
to me. It's a tale of love and
vengeance. So this guy's captured and

(39:35):
tortured and tied up to a tree, and then he's rescued.
But then he discovers that his lover is dead with a dagger
through her heart, and he vows to avenge her death.
Do you know any crocus, Chris? No, I've heard of them.
I don't know any other. Songs start with the
Headhunters. This one and their Ballroom
Blitz cover is the only two songs that.

(39:58):
Yeah, I know the ballroom blitz.Yeah, there's only two crocus
songs I knew for I Met Jannon, but I've heard a lot of them
since then. I wonder why?
Yeah. The groups just sounds romantic
too. Hey, that guy, the guy that
sings for Crocus? When Brian Johnson went out with
his vocal problems like 10 yearsago and Axel Rose had a finish,
they should have called a guy from Crocus.
He sounds exactly like Bon Scott.

(40:20):
Oh, really? Matter of fact, he was up for, I
think he auditioned to replace him, but they went with Brian
Johnson, so. Yeah, it's probably a good
choice. All right, Chris, what is your
number? 2 So I told you earlier my
number 2 was love song by Tesla and I already talked about how
much I love Tesla so I'm gonna put another song in place of it.
I'm off my list and I'm trying to debate because I know it's

(40:42):
between 2:00 because I know the host is what is phenomenal love
with this group. So I know I could put that group
there, I don't think, and then Icould.
Be careful because. Then I could put this other song
in there. And so I'm going to go with go
ahead. One one of my 2 remaining ones
is by one of your favorite bands, so I'm just warning you.
Well, no, I'm just telling you Iwas I, I will tell you I'm

(41:05):
actually put this other one in there, OK?
It's called Is This Love by Whitesnake OK?
That was. I was going to put Love Walks In
by Van Halen, but I would say isthis Love by White Snake?
I started saying I was. In my 10 but it's not I have
another. One that's an.
Is this love by white snake? Is my #8.
Is an iconic song that was actually my #10 that's that

(41:30):
would have been my 10 so if I did on top ten but.
You know, Coverdale just announced his retirement last
month and has, like, did away with all his social media.
Like, he's really gone. He's like, I'm done.
He Can't Sing anymore. Matter of fact, his last tour
that he was going to do was Sammy.
Before COVID hit, they were going to bring this other guy in
to sing with him because his voice was so far gone.

(41:51):
But then after COVID and everything, he never toured
again. And he finally announced like a
couple months ago, I am done and.
I actually got to see him, Yeah,so.
So he's like, I love my fans, but I'm ready to go into
retirement and he shuttered his social media and he is gone.
You know what one group did thatback in the day?
R.E.M. said they weren't going to tour after the year 2000, and

(42:12):
they stuck with it. And they stuck to it.
Yeah, yeah. So it's, it's always impressive.
It's easier. It's.
Easier for cover. It'll say it though, because
he's like 78 and it's like, yeah, OK, They were like in
their 50s and he's like, that's it, so.
Yeah. All right, so that's a good one.
So here's my number, my #2 and Ihope I'm not ruining your number
one, Chris. OK, but it's Angel by Aerosmith.

(42:35):
You did not ruin my #1. OK, good.
Oh, because I love. Angel is in my top 10 though.
I love this song. It's.
Yeah. It's my favorite Aerosmith song
by far since like the 80s. I mean, I when it came out, I
love it. It's coming from the man who
turns Aerosmith every. Time I don't turn this song, I
don't turn this song. If this song comes on, I will

(42:56):
not turn it so. I love permanent vacation and I
Angel I love that song, but there's other songs that album I
love more. But like for me, like my number
one's coming up and it's by them.
Well, I. Think that part of the reason
this is my number #2 and why my favorite is this.
Another one that I harmonize with and sing in the car every

(43:16):
time I can. I think I could pull this off in
karaoke, and there's not many Aerosmith songs I could do
karaoke, but I could do this one.
It's the peak of their comeback.I mean, it's right when they
started that ascension back up from where they had gotten to.
It was just an amazing song. Which brings us to our all our
final ones, which then gets us to the good stuff to other ones.

(43:39):
But that's good. All right, Jan, this brings us
to your numero Uno. Numero Uno.
Yes, let's hear it. For me, it's all about emotion,
feeling and this song. I really would have thought it
would have been a great white song.
No, I mean I love. Save your love.
But I honestly, I wrote that on my pad jans #1I.

(44:00):
Really thought that would have been your number one.
So you're going to shock us here?
What is it? Well, for the record, Save Your
Love is my #12 Wow, yeah. It was my honorable mention.
Poor Jack. All.
Right, all right, so my number one is You're All I Need by
Mötley Crüe. Really from the Girls Girls
Girls album. I don't even.
Know that song? It's a third.

(44:21):
Single I have no clue how do you.
Not know this song, It was banned.
The video was banned on the MTV.This is dirty.
No, because it it conveys a guy killing his girlfriend.
Oh yeah, that's why you want to be your number one love song.
If you haven't noticed this, Jan, I just want to tell you,

(44:42):
you might learn something new onthis podcast with me.
I don't like Mötley Crüe so. She didn't have to.
She didn't have to do the podcast with you to learn that,
Chris. You told us.
Yeah, I. Don't.
I don't. I wouldn't know the song.
I know the few of their big hitsare just not my group.
But will you promise me something, Chris, when this
podcast ends tonight, will you please go listen to your All I
Need and listen to the lyrics? The honeymoon suite.

(45:05):
Please listen to the lyrics. Yeah, listen to the song Chris
Do Do Us A. Favor it is about what?
Is it called? You're all I need to go look at
the lyrics right now. The girls girls girls album.
It's it's it's dark. It's such a dark song.
But his voice in this song just draws you in and you just have
to listen to it. It's about obsession and

(45:28):
violence. And the video was actually shot
in black and white. And that.
Yeah, you didn't. See that coming?
It was banned. Great, great song.
That's going to get some emails and Collins on this one.
It's such a great power ballad though, I'm telling you.
Chris, that where are you going #1 now it's got to be an

(45:49):
Airsmith song. You're correct.
Let me see 80s. It had to be some obscure one
that I don't know. So no, it's a super popular
song. Janie's got a gun.
No, OK, it's off that album though.
OK, what is it? What it takes?
That's on an 80s album. That's on pump.
I guess it is. I don't know why I was thinking
that was that's a good song. That's a good song, that is.

(46:12):
An unbelievable song I can listen to.
I mean, I've listened to Pump probably 3-4 hundred times in my
lifetime at least. And that song, it is just
phenomenal. I love and and it beat out
Angel. It's my favorite one of their
songs from the 80s ballad wise of the 80s.
It's just such a great song. And then if you listen to the if

(46:34):
you listen to it on the album atthe end or the CD cassette,
whatever, at the end of it, there's about a minute pause and
there's like a little bluegrass play they play at the end of it,
which is kind of cool. But but no, it's just the video
shows them in the studio recording it and all.
It's just a great song. I love everything about that
song. Didn't think about that song,
but yeah, you're right, it's a great song.

(46:55):
Yep, that's my song. That's.
My one thought that was a 90s Aerosmith song though.
I. Have that, it was on my hump.
For the record, Pumped is the Aerosmith album that I listen to
the most. Really.
Pump. What is pump pump, pump?
Pump, Pump. It was a good day for me, I
remember. One of those perfect albums.
I love the album cover and yeah,trucks, it was awesome album

(47:18):
cover. That's what probably got me into
it, but. Yeah, there's a DVD you can get
called the Making a Pump. It's on, I guess you watch on
YouTube. I've got it somewhere, and it's
the making from what you did on MTV, like an hour and a half,
two hour special they did and itshowed from beginning to the end
and it's just great. It's just my favorite ballad of
the 80s. All right, well that brings me

(47:38):
to my #1, which luckily none of you had.
We surprisedly didn't step on each other's toes like I thought
we would. So my number one, I guarantee
you both of you guys have in your other songs, but my number
one is band, little band called Cinderella and it's called Don't
know what you got till Let's go.You're right, that's in my that
was in my top 17 for sure. Yep, that song is the epitome of

(48:00):
80s ballad. Has a rocking guitar solo in it.
Kiefer when first time I saw Cinderella live, they dropped a
baby grand piano from the ceiling and he opens up playing
that piano part and then just gets up and sings his heart out.
It's so awesome, just. Is that the song I was listening
to in the kitchen when you got home from?
Work today. Yeah.
When I come home from work today, I walk up the steps and

(48:22):
that song is playing. And I was like, that better not
be your number one or something because that's on mine.
So yeah, I love that song. I love Cinderella anyway.
Cinderella. God, if they had.
Just not if they come two years earlier, not had to put on the
big hair and all that stuff. They would be known as just a
great, you know. What surprises me?
Blues rock band what? With you, yeah, is you talk

(48:43):
about you call Aerosmith, the Timo Rolling Stones, Yeah, well,
they're. Team.
I know some people say, yeah, I know it could.
You can. I mean, he looks.
I mean, that's just because theyhit that look.
But no, I get it. Cinderella was talk on the Mount
Rushmore, a big hair band. Yeah, and they should be just on
the Mount Rushmore, great Blues rock bands.

(49:04):
But you know, it's like they hadto play the game to get signed
back then. You had to tease your hair.
You had to put on the. But Kiefer's just a beast
songwriter and musician. I mean, the guy I want.
I mean, when they play live, he plays saxophone.
He plays half the lead solos andshreds on the guitar and plays
piano and he's a talent. But anyway.
Isn't he the one his? He lets his wife play sometimes,

(49:25):
yeah. OK, he's had like 9 vocal
surgeries. I thought you were going to say
he's had like 9. Wow, no.
Because of the way he screams and sings, but you know, each
time he's come back and made it,made it out again.
But sometimes if you're listening some stuff, there's
some stuff where he sings just like in a low key, just singing
like to him. It's he's got a great regular
voice when he don't have to scream.

(49:46):
It's it's wild. But so that was our all three of
our top five. So let's go to the also Rams
now, yeah, and throw one of youralso rans out here.
OK, I won't forget you. Poison.
We got to put some poison. I didn't put any poison on my I
didn't put any poison in my top ten, although they are.

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Sort of the king. They are in.
What's the other one? There's they got a Rosa Storm
and something to believe in. They've got like, Oh yeah, they
are technically sort of like theballad kings of the 80s.
Maybe that's why we left them off, because it's almost a
guarantee that they're going to be run up there.
Every rose has a storn. It's probably if you had to put

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them out, Rushmore 80s hair ballad.
That's it. Oh, they're there too.
Yeah, Poison's up there too, Yeah.
But I didn't put anything on my list though, because it's just
like kind of everybody's going to put poison.
So I didn't do it. But we didn't.
Yeah. Chris yeah, I had every rose has
a storn on there, OK. Yeah.
I'll tell you a couple. Like one thing I had on there
that would be considered big hair band or whatever, but was

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another rock group that had a couple great ballads was
Journey. I had Faithfully by Journey on
my top 17. Yeah, they were in my Top 40.
Yeah, so, OK, well, let's go to one minute here.
My one of mine that nobody took was Slaughter.
Fly to the angels. That would have been my #1.
It's 90s. Oh, it is.
That's right. That's.
Why it was on my list? It would have been.

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On my list it was originally in my top 67 and I was like oh
can't use it. I forgot they just hit it like
right after telly into this, yeah.
Yeah, I looked it up and it was in my list, Yeah.
All right, well I'm throwing another one out there then.
This is my got vetoed on that docking alone again.
Let's see, I chose a docking song.
No, I'm Yeah. Oh, I did.
Slipping away from 85. Alone Again is such a great and

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great guitar solo. They had some Docking is a band
that I probably I know I saw people Chris we went to high
school with in the 80s with their metal jackets on.
And rocking with. Doc and they have a docking
patching there and I laughed at myself.
Like docking. Get out of here they are
probably. Laughed at me in high.
School docking is probably the number one band that over the

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last 30 years I've swung around to where I worship this band.
I love docking, I mean. You like the Bullet Boys now
too? Yeah, James got me in the Bullet
Boys, but it's been like the last 20 years I've really got
into docking. The last five I really got into
Bullet Boys, but docking I totally swung around on.
I love me some docking. You know, another one from the

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80s that had a lot of, had a lotof hits, had a couple ballads
like 17 that was a really great romantic.
Ballad when you were. Headed for a heartbreak?
Miles away. Miles away.
Yep. Yeah, yeah.
They were so great when we saw them another year, too.
That was two years ago when we saw them.
That's unreal, I know. Jan, what's another one you?

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Got there. Another one of mine is Love and
affection. Def Leppard.
Do I know that that's from hysteria?
Yeah, I know that one. Why didn't?
You. We just did that album.
Do I know that one? We just did that whole album,
yeah. What about RIP?
But you know, Ozzy and Lita had that's on my that.

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Was my next one. Close my eyes forever.
Yeah. Another one of those key
memories. I can still see it in my head.
I can always still smell it too.19 when this song was big on the
radio going into taking the delivery at Subbies, coming back
in, walking in, and that's playing on the radio going into

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subbies. I've taken a pizza delivery and
that song was just rocking on 95Seven with the radio we had in
there. I can.
Still hear it and see it that. Smell the bread.
Yeah, smell the pizza and everything.
That song's still going to be like, always be there for me
just for that moment. Yeah, I love that song.
Well, you know, Lita Ford's coming to me.

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I think that's who's coming. Yeah.
Did you see that Frank Hannah? Frank Hannah from Tesla's going
to be Yeah. They they took D Snyder off he.
Was. That was the original one that's
going. To do it almost, I think about
going because I can go see FrankHannah up close.
Yeah, I love. Yeah, but that's yeah.
But yeah, I mean, there's so many songs.
I mean I don't have 67 but. All right, Jan, throw another

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one of yours out. There all right, this could be
the night Lover boy. Can't believe y'all didn't pick
any lover boy from 1986. Don't think I know a ballad by
lover boy though. Does that one?
Is that a? Big You don't know, this could
be the night. Probably if I heard it.
I don't know lover boy other than turn me loose and working
for the weekend. Oh.
Goodness. What's the problem?

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It was like the worst song they did.
A lot of bands can tune down andstill sound great.
We saw Liver Boy, All three of us saw Liver Boy for Sammy the
other year and they sounded great.
They had tuned down, but Mike Reno still sounded great until
the final songs Working for the weekend, which I look forward to
the whole time. But it was tuned down so far.

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It sounded almost like real heavy metal and it did not work.
That song should not be tuned now.
This Could Be the Night was in the top 10 on the Billboard 100.
I'm sure I'd know it if I heard it so.
Another one that you that's amazing from the 80s that is
right up there for Greg is one of his favorite groups and this
song is so iconic from the 80s. Still loving you by the

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Scorpions. It's up there for you.
Scorpions got this on here. You got a real 1.
There he has four scorpions. No, not really.
I just remember that no, becauselike I don't, I'm not go through
my list, whatever I've kind of named off everything.
I just, I think back in this time back, it's just these songs

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because this was 80s, it's 40 years ago or so, you know, that
they'd stuck around and or in our mind that you could come up
with 67, you know, I could come up with 17 or whatever. 67 that
I still listen to. Yeah, it's not like I had to do
a ton of research. Like I didn't have to go through
and spend days looking for stuff.
These stuff just came back to your, back to you.

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I'm going to rattle off the lastones I had on my list right
here. Just run them off real fast,
then we'll let Jan run some hersoff.
I had a heart alone. How do I?
Get that was Yeah, I thought about that.
One, she don't like the 80s heart but I love that cheap
trick. The flame.
So I had that in my original. Warrant Heaven, which would
normally be my top five. I love that song so much, but I

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just I decided to go a little different.
I think I've moved it out to putFly High Michelle in.
I knew nobody would have enough's enough.
So I had Here I Go Again by Whitesnake, which you know, this
is the one that I had to tell Jen about everyday just to rile
her up carry by Europe. I know the movie.
I run. I wore that Europe cassette out.

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That song is just so nerve wracking.
And the last one, did we talk about this earlier?
Fester Pussycat. House of Pain.
It's on my almost made a. List that that one was close to
being on my top five for sure, because just that's a really.
Hey, it even included harmonica.Yeah.
Plus, it's really deep. He's a good songwriter.

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That was their most popular song.
Yeah, Yeah. From 1989.
Singing about his daddy. Wake me when it's over.
You know who that's good songs back in those days, and I don't
like the group at all, but they had a couple love songs.
Kiss had a couple decent love songs.
Forever. Forever was great, yeah, but I
know Jan had that on. She kind of gave me a sneak

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peek, her list of her day, just to glance over and I saw.
Her just so he could RIP it apart.
I saw for. I saw forever on there and I
didn't touch it, but that would have been in my list.
Yeah, I didn't make mine. Yeah, throw off a couple more.
Jams when It's Love by Van Halen.
Yeah, 1988 OU 812 album. I probably left all the Van
Halen off just because it would be too, you know, it's it's, you

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know, I'm going to put Van Halenso.
Also then, not Van Halen, but Sammy Hagar Give to live.
Yeah, 1987. Not I can't drive 55.
No, that's not a power ballot. It's.
A power song. And the last one I have listed,
and you guys probably have neverheard this song either, but it's

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up. There Amazing Grace.
Don't be afraid of the dark, Y&T.
No, I don't think I know that one.
I know mean street, but then summertime.
There's another one. So what about don't close your
eyes by kicks? Yep.
Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, yeah, I should have put
that on my list. I didn't think about it.
It was on my top. 20 That was onmy list but I'd taken it off

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kicks has I forgot about it. Kicks has like 5 great songs but
they're all great. I mean they have good songs but
then they have like 5 great ones.
They have more than 5. I'm saying great.
I'm not saying they're not bad. They're not.
That whole Blow My Fuse album, yeah.
Wonderful, yeah. Nothing bad on it.
True. But they're another one that
everybody thinks is a hair band and they started in like the mid

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70s. They're way older than everybody
else in the 80s. And it wasn't really like a big
hair band. They just someone got like the
Scorpions. They got grouped into it just by
having one hit and they got played on rock radio and all of
a sudden you're hair band and you're not kicks.
Not a hairpins got grouped into every.
Genre Scorpions started in the 60s and they people like, you
know, classic rock or hair band or you know.

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Here's what I want to. Do wherever you know.
I want to this list that I have these 17, 20 songs, whatever.
I'm gonna put those in a Spotifylist and we can attach it when
this podcast comes out so everybody can listen.
To my songs. Because there are a lot of them
you guys don't know. Well, we'll throw all of our top

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five in and then throw those other ones in.
We'll just make a big massive ballot playlist.
There you go. You know what'd be kind of fun?
You can make those where people can add to them.
I'm going to let leave it open for people, the listeners to
throw their favorites. In because they might put
something bad in it. No, they won't.
Yeah, they will. Well, I'm I'll leave that to.
You I'll contend for the audience.
There's no way to get new new podcast listeners.

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They'll put a song on there thatI don't agree with.
Don't be going and editing people now.
Again, don't be censoring people.
So if you take nothing else fromthis podcast this week, yes, go
listen to You're All I Need by Mötley Crüe and pay attention to
the lyrics. I will after I listen to Home
Sweet Home and play air drums with my gas pedal in my car.

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And recoup from having mono. I'm going to post that scene up
when we share this too, just forthat.
It's it's hilarious. Well, that'll do it for this
week's episode. It's a lot of fun on this one.
These are always fun to do so although.
Oh, let me add. Yeah, when I gave Greg a sneak
peek at my top, was it 40? Yeah.
The other day, as soon as he looked at the list, the first

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song on the list was poisoned byAlice Cooper.
And he immediately said that's not a power ballot.
You can't use that. That don't go on there.
Yeah, she didn't. Talk to me the rest of night.
That's. Probably why you said it, so I'd
shut up. So yeah, I looked it up on AI.
Yes, Alice Cooper's 1989 hit that poison is categorized as a

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power ballad, so there you go. I just never saw it as a power
ballad. It is.
It just rocks. It's just a rock and saw.
But I guess for Alice Cooper, you know, you know, Alice
Cooper's got stuff that I consider the battle to.
Dwight Fries is the best power ballad, but it's 70s, so can't
count that. All right.
Well, you win this round. Well, that'll do it for this

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week. Chris, got anything bad?
I don't. Shine on.