August 28, 2025 • 44 mins
This week on The Vinyl Curriculum, we’re flipping the script—Logan takes the reins and picks the music. From hidden gems to tracks that have shaped his own taste, this episode is a personal playlist full of stories, surprises, and the kind of variety you’ve come to expect from the show. Tune in for fresh takes, fun facts, and a deeper dive into the songs that make up Logan’s soundtrack.
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(00:01):
Every record tells a story. Independent labels.
I think a lot of interesting songs came out of that.
And every generation has a soundtrack.
The only hip you have in your body is made of titanium.
This is the final curriculum with Logan.
Apparently I don't know very much about anything.
Somebody calls her Tay Tay. Hey, it's Logan.
(00:23):
Just a quick heads up before we get into it.
This episode was originally recorded live on WLRA radio
where we are able to play all the songs that we talked about.
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we can't include
the music here on the podcast. So anytime you hear this sound,
that means we're skipping over asong that we originally played
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on air. But don't worry, Jim's put
together a playlist with all thetracks from the episode so you
can still follow along. Just check the link in the show
notes. All right, now on to the
episode. Happy Monday everyone, it's the
gym this time we're switching things up a little bit.
I'm going to be the one grading songs and Logan's going to be
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the one giving the song selection.
So I'm going to do a little bit more talking than Logan.
Oh, Logan, how you doing? Oh, I'm doing fantastic.
How are you doing? I'm great.
I'm a little anxious. You're anxious?
I've been listening to what you're.
Yeah. I just, I, I mean, I'm just
curious about Taylor. Which Taylor Swift song are you
going to play? Well, back, back the bus up
(01:26):
here. So you did a great job with that
intro. By the way, congratulations.
That was your first, first intro.
Yeah, got to give you props for that.
But this week should be a lot offun.
I had a lot of fun making the playlist.
No Taylor Swift songs this week,but I know, I know, I know.
(01:46):
It comes as a shock to everyone.Stop the presses.
I know, but we're going to have some fun today and listen to
some of my music. I want to call it in honor of
Taylor Swift Logan's version. OK.
But you know, I got to. It was fun to get into, do some
different things. Yeah, we're just, we're doing
different things. So what else did you do?
(02:07):
I got to make all the graphics all by myself.
So I I busted up my our very artistic skills.
So thank you for allowing me to do that.
I don't know. What did you think of my
graphical abilities? I don't even know if people
would even notice there anythingdifferent than what you did and
what I did. I know.
I really don't. They are, they are so incredibly
not similar it's not even funny.They they are similar.
(02:30):
Well, phenomenal. OK.
All right. Well, I appreciate the effort.
I'll give you an A for effort. I, I thank you.
Thank you for that. So let me just do a recap of
what we're going to be doing. So Logan's going to be
presenting some songs. I'm going to be grading them.
We, you know, we don't know whathe listens to.
So this is going to be interesting for everyone.
(02:53):
We will turn this into a podcast.
This is live right now. We'll turn into a podcast, which
will drop on Thursdays. But Logan, what you want to just
go ahead and get us started? I mean just get this.
Well, again, good job with the intro.
Got to give you props for that. But yeah, so I, I kind of went
through my most listened to songs on Apple Music and that's
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how I chose which songs we included today.
I've been told by multiple people, yourself included, that
we have quite the variety of it,and I think it accurately
represents the width of my musical appreciation.
We'll say I have a very wide range of things that I like.
Everything over here from Mozarton the left to some a little bit
(03:38):
of young gravy, which is what we're going to hear first.
I'm trying to pick a song like you do, to start off with a bang
and, you know, do something a little different.
And so believe me, this is goingto be a little different than
what you're used to. So there's a song called say,
Lovey by Young Gravy himself. And he was that's featuring.
(04:00):
I like, do you know, do you havewho it's featuring by in front
of you or no? Bono, dollar sign and Rich.
Brian, BB No Money is how you say that.
It took someone explaining that to me, so I'm not.
I'm not too upset that you didn't know that.
But BB, No Money and Rich Brian are featured on that song.
So I've got a couple fun facts for you today.
(04:23):
Or not fun facts, but I tried todo my best to research as you
do. Jim comes very prepared each
week. By the way, for those listening.
I definitely do not. I Am Very Jim is definitely the
prepared 1. So I appreciate all of the work
that you do. But this song came out in 2022
as part of the Marvelous album, and it did not chart.
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And the lyric video was releasedlater that year.
So this was, this isn't his mostpopular song by any means, but
that's kind of what we get to onthis show.
We get to the the good stuff, the good B signs that nobody
really knows. So.
This is risky. The first song is not even a
chart success. It's a bold move.
Let's see how. Well, well, well, well.
(05:09):
It's it's all about what I like.I, as we've established, I
don't, I don't care what the critics say.
I don't care what anybody else says but myself.
So this is let's take a listen, OK?
Shall we? Please.
(05:37):
Sailor V. Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, you know, that was upbeat.It's catchy.
Yeah, wait. Well, OK, little did you know,
or I guess you did know this because we talked about it
before on the show. Young Gravy was playing.
Young Gravy was playing Lollapalooza a couple years ago
in Chicago, one of the biggest music festivals in the country.
(05:59):
And just last month he was headlining at the Louis Joliet
Mall parking lot. So.
That is a sad commentary. Was he in jail or something?
No, no, no, no, he, I don't, I don't know his full story, but
he was also playing the young Gravy after show.
And when I was working for the radio station I got invited to
go do that. That was at the House of Blues
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after it. So it was like the after show
kind of thing. Two very similar venues, House
of Blues and the Joliet. And then I believe it was the
hot sauce fest. But he is really tall.
He's like 680. That's why you like him.
Another fun fact. That's why you like him.
But he's gravy trained. Baby, so here's this is how I
want to do things. Unlike you, I don't just
randomly pull out numbers about whether I'm in a good mood or
(06:42):
not. I've been thinking about why do
I like songs and why do I not like songs?
So if I like a song, it's usually either got a catchy
melody, like some kind of hook. It's got great vocals or great
music as part of it. It's or sometimes it's, if it's
like unique, like no one's ever done it before.
Sometimes it's the lyrics. If the lyrics are relatable and
(07:02):
speak to me, or maybe if there'ssome nostalgia lore kind of
thing, you know, you act like that doesn't belong to you.
That does. It affects me because I'm being
honest. So having said that, Say La Vie
by Young Gravy was catchy. He's got a good voice.
I give it an A minus and I wouldhave given it an A, but he
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spells his name Young YUNG and Ijust can't.
So it would have been an A, but it's going to be a minus because
that's ridiculous. OK, so see I'm see where to turn
off and you and I and I can backup why I said that.
Well, I can back up why I say things too, and this is.
Yeah, it's like, because I can'tdance to it.
Yeah, but no, that was a good start.
(07:48):
OK, I'm not. I'm not as worried now.
I was, I was concerned on after the first song.
That's why I felt like I had to pick, you know, the top tier of
song. Now the next song I think goes
hand in hand with Selavi. It's a little Johnny Cash
action. There's no tie into those two
(08:14):
songs. I'm just saying, right?
Now well you know he you know there really isn't.
But this one is from 1996 so theprevious one was 20/22/1996.
Goes back to no before I was born. 19 What?
It says November 5th, 1996. No.
(08:35):
OK, well. That's what happened everywhere
was 1996. That's what it says.
I don't. Know I thought that was older
number. 26 in the country #170 on the top Billboard 200 charts.
I thought this song was old as the hills.
Well, it's possible. This is, I think, I mean, it's a
(08:56):
Rick Rubin's American series. It was a cover song.
So I think, I don't think JohnnyCash was the person who wrote
this song necessarily, but. Well, we'll look into this, but
let's hear it. I know this song.
OK, I know this song. I've been Everywhere by Johnny
Cash. Let's take a listen, OK?
(09:16):
I was toting my pack along the dusty Winnemucca Rd. when along
came a semi with a high end canvas covered load.
I've been everywhere. He didn't say Romeoville.
He did not. No, he, I don't think he said
anywhere Illinois. He didn't say Tupelo.
(09:36):
He did not, no. No.
Did he say something Tupelo? I mean, in Mississippi, in
Illinois, I don't know. I don't know.
I say I saw it was written in 59, so other people sang it.
But yeah, I would have never thought.
I thought I'd known that song all my life.
Well. You do have a very, very long
life, so. And I'm thankful for it.
(09:58):
I might need to lower my rate onthat one again.
I think it's catchy. I think it's unique.
I put nostalgic because I thought it was.
I've known it all my life, but obviously I had to scratch that
one out. But I give that an A because I.
Thought I'd like this All right,well, you may have I mean, have
you heard like other versions ofthat song or you did you think
you were Johnny Cash's version I.
(10:19):
Thought it was him, said Kris Kristofferson.
Did a rebated version in 73 but I don't know.
I learned something new today Logan.
Well, other than young Gravy. And now I know about this.
We're yeah, we're off and running on Logan's version today
on the vinyl curriculum. Next one I think is not very
related either. This is a, we're going, we're
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jumping all around in timeline like last year, last week, you
had a very nicely organized timeline of this the 70s, you
know, and it was like we went through as, as we evolved
through the 70s. That we that's what happened
when you plan ahead. We have none of that today.
We're we're all over the place. We are.
That might come and bite you toward the end.
We'll see. This is This is from the Star is
(11:08):
Born soundtrack. Yes, the now third version of
the star is born. Yes so this I just recently saw
this movie someone over the summer said I should watch it
and I did and I just absolutely fell in love with this song.
This isn't even this is Bradley Cooper who sings this one this
that he's not even like a singernormally Bradley Cooper is like
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the full package by the way. He's can act, got the good
looks, can sing all three thingsthat I don't have.
But I think he really hit something here with this song
called Black Eyes. Have you heard?
Have you seen the movie? I saw the movie.
What do you think of the movie? I liked it.
OK, I don't know. I liked it and I think we can
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take a listen and then I've got some more fun facts for you.
Refresh my memory. Oh yeah.
Let's take a listen. Well, I guess he's by the
wayside. I think so.
(12:14):
I heard that. What were you saying last week
about repetition? Yeah, you're not wrong there.
No. You just want to make sure you
knew where he was. It's, it's, it's good to know
where others are, Jim. I needed a more description what
wayside. Well, by the wayside.
So he actually recorded that. They recorded that live during a
(12:34):
Willie Nelson concert in one take.
So you hear the crowd in the background.
That was recorded live in one take.
That's impressive. Again, Bradley Cooper is the
full package, ladies and gentlemen.
I love it. Well, going back to my list of
what makes me like a song, I he's got a good voice,
especially for an actor, right? The song was OK, but it kind of
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sounds like other rock songs, you know, I wouldn't skip it if
I was listen to it on the in theradio and if I'm in a concert or
if I was watching the movie, I would probably enjoy it better
because you're watching them, you know, in perform and
everything. So I won't give it AB plus.
OK, that's respectable as it wasa hard.
Jump from Johnny Cash's Everywhere to this, though.
(13:20):
You think that was a bigger jumpfrom Gravy train from De la Vie
to Johnny Cash? I'm sore from so much jumping
I've done in three songs. Well, with this is a nice leg.
Workout no. We're going to learn.
We're going to no. Next time, if you do this again,
we're going to have a plan. This is a plan.
Because I remember I'm I'm stillthe teacher of this class.
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We need to make sure we have some sort of a pathway to help
people get from one to the otherand not have to jump.
I see so high. Well, I feel like that was
lacking on the part of the instructor for the assignment
description not being very descriptive.
Well, note taken is baloney, butOK.
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Yeah, well speaking, let me bring something up real quick.
We had some comments this past week about the funky 70s.
Did we know? Yes, we did OK on social media.
And a friend of mine, Meg, happybirthday, today is her birthday.
Oh, happy birthday. She called me while I was eating
(14:24):
my breakfast and was railing about your complaints about some
of the early songs that we played last week and how you
were talking about beats per minute.
And she said actually you were incorrect, that the one that you
said was slower was actually faster than the one that you
said you like because it was upbeat.
So she's a music teacher. So I just want you to know that
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you were corrected from that. And then I also heard from
Suzanne who was furious that yougave.
Oh boy, I can't think of her name now, Chaka Khan's song such
AC Plus. She said she remembers singing
that in 8th grade on the basketball bus as they would go
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singing at the top of their lungs.
And when she thought a funky, she said you have to at least
play that song. And I said it's on there.
And then she heard you give it AC Plus and had to let me know
that how upset she was. So Pete, you are people aren't
listening. Unfortunately, they're not happy
with you. Well, you know, I, I think when
people TuneIn, they expect to hear my honest opinion.
(15:29):
And that was my honest opinion. And Shaka Khan was not very
funky. Yeah, and another thing that
makes it in quote. If he only knew how many times
I've looked up the definition ofimpartial because she doesn't
agree. Like I don't agree with your
takes. Well, you know, to each their
own, I guess. Yeah, but I appreciate that.
(15:50):
I appreciate the feedback. Thank.
You for the feedback I'm. Glad that that somebody's
actually listening and. And we got a, we got a nice
feedback from a guy named Ivan who's local and he thought he,
he didn't say anything tacky about you.
So I feel like I need to at least say that because.
So wait, somebody actually agreed with what I.
(16:10):
Had to say Oh no he didn't agreewith anything.
He just said great job I started, let me pull it up.
I started listening. It was very impressed and
interested. You and Logan have a great
chemistry and the knowledge of the subject is interesting.
I can't wait to hear. More well, I appreciate that and
I appreciate that people appreciate the appreciation.
All right, that was too many appreciations, I think.
(16:32):
All right. Well, thank you for the
feedback. Let's I think we got to jump
right into the next one here. This, this was a classic during
the Kaparowski radio show back in college, my college days when
I was originally on the airwaves.
This was a staple from my dad. This is a song by a guy named
Aaron Lewis who sang this song called Country Boy.
(16:54):
This was released back, John. Denver Take Me Home to a place
where I belong. Something like that.
I mean it. You might.
It might be along the same line.Let's take a listen to Mr. Aaron
Lewis grew up. Little George Jones action in
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there. Kinda it was it was George Jones
and Charlie Daniels on the were featured on this album.
This was his first country album.
Aaron Lewis's and You Know. I recognize his voice.
Aaron Lewis's. Yes, and he was.
I had to look it up. He was in a group called Stained
I think. Yeah, I think that sounds.
About right, it was not country.At all.
(17:39):
No. So I like his voice.
What do you think? Though he's got a he's.
It's very soothing. And also, there's a lot of
country on this playlist that I've created.
And I realized that after the fact, as you know, used to not
be a big country guy, but apparently I am now based on my
top list of two songs. But what do you think?
Country Boy I, I, I liked his voice a lot.
(18:02):
The song was OK at first 'cause it was the first half of it I
really liked 'cause it was like he was coming back to his true
self. It sounds like he is probably
talking about his time when he was with the, his, the, the band
he was with and how I, I got to go back to my roots.
But then it started getting little too, too much for me.
(18:24):
And then Charlie Daniels comes in and does this thing about
you, you know, you're not going to take it away from me.
And you know, I don't know, it'sjust too much.
I give it AB. But if it was, if it had ended.
And then also, I love George Jones.
I really do. But oh, he sounds old and I know
he's passed away now, but it kind of when he came in, I'm
like, oh, George Jones. I'm like, oh, I'm sad because he
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was kind of, it wasn't the old George Jones.
It was. Whenever this was, yeah, this
was this says it came out in 2010.
This was from the town line EP and I don't know what EP means.
It's extended play. So it's like like if you let's
say you're a new artist and you don't have enough to do an
album, you'll do like an EP and it'd be like it's less songs.
(19:10):
And I noticed, yeah. Because when I, I went to, you
know how I told you, if I like something, I'll go back and I'll
listen to other stuff. Right?
Get like Air Air on this one. I liked the other songs way
better than I like this song. Really.
But then there are several versions of this song on that
EP. Then I listen to his next album
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and it's like, no. It's all.
It's all. Redneck yeehaw country and I
don't do that. Yeehaw country, as I like to
say. But I really like it.
His voice sounds really good on a in this country kind of thing.
I like it. It's just song choices later on.
Well, Speaking of yeehaw country, we've got another one
(19:51):
for you. This is by a group called Little
Big Town. This was their first top ten
hit. As a matter of fact, it was
Grammy nominated a song called Boondocks that was from the Road
to Hear album that was released in May of 2005 and.
You know, it's sticking with thecountry theme.
(20:11):
I think that we have kind of some sub themes developing
throughout this playlist and this kind of fits right into
that. So you want to just take a
listen? Yeah, All right, Let's take a
listen. Were you raised in the
(20:38):
boondocks? I don't think so.
There's a place down in Seneca called The Boondocks.
I think it's in Seneca. It's on the river that we go.
It's like a restaurant bar kind of thing when we're on the boat.
I don't. I didn't grow up in the
boondocks, but I live by them. Yeah, I know where to, how to
get to them. Yeehaw.
Yeah. And yeah, I'm not a country guy.
(20:59):
Yeah, I, you know, this is a relatively new development for
me with this country music. I don't know what it is, no.
I like country music. I don't.
I'm not a country guy, like living in the country.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want a neighbor, so if someone
is attacking me and I scream, I want a neighbor to hear it.
You see, you don't want like wild turkeys running around in
your backyard. That wouldn't bother me.
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I don't want to be by myself at a house and there's nobody for 2
miles. And then if Jason comes out of
the Creek, I want someone to hear me.
Well, there's woods down there too.
Cher. All right, all right.
So catchy, great vocals. They have such great harmony.
I like the song. It's unique.
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I mean, I knew it. I give it an A however I'm about
tired of them because if you ever watch any country shows
their own everything, they always have the.
Little Big Town. I don't know if I see like this.
Is this also fits into my music tastes?
Because I don't think I could name another song by this group.
(22:01):
Well, there's another one on theplaylist of them that you did.
Oh well, OK, yeah, I guess you're right.
You're my favorite song of this is called Bring It On Home, but
it's slow so of course you won'tlike it, but it's absolutely
amazing. Yeah, OK, it's all.
I didn't even realize that. Wow, look at you're teaching me
things and I'm supposed to be teaching you.
That shows you how little preparation you put into this,
(22:22):
the fact that you have two people in the same group.
This which was by way against the law.
Remember we said we weren't going to do that.
Well, they sound different though.
See, I wouldn't have even guessed that they were part of
the same group. We should have played a game.
You are. So that's bad.
We should have played this game.That's bad.
OK. But yeah, that was a good song.
Well a little boondocks action the next one.
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I feel like this group gets a lot of unnecessary hate.
I don't know if you feel this like you.
Well in my opinion yes. But Nickelback for some reason
is like a joke. And I don't get the joke.
Like the younger people like it.The band is like a joke.
(23:07):
I don't know why. Like people, you like
Nickelback, you know, and they kind of laugh at you.
I don't know why. I wonder why?
I don't know but in what context?
I, I see, I don't know, I don't understand the hate.
I don't, I don't get it. You know, 'cause I'm like, this
is, it fits right into a lot of these other songs.
This next one. How old were you when this came
out? Like, were you a kid?
Is that why? And then people outgrew it and
(23:29):
you didn't. I mean, I was 6 when this came
out. Six, maybe 7.
This was 2005. All the right reasons.
Was the album a song called Rockstar by Nickelback.
Let's hear it. And yeah, this, you know.
Let me see if I'm gonna make funof you.
It charted in the US and the UK,so I mean, it wasn't just me who
(23:50):
liked it, but I don't know. Well, let's take a listen to the
little Nickelback here on the vinyl curriculum.
Andrew was standing in line. The clubs will never get in.
It's like the bottom of the ninth and I'm never going to
win. Do.
You want to be a rock star? Logan I do that think that's one
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of my deep down dreams is I wantto be a rock star.
I also wanted to join the circuswhen I was younger, which.
I know, Rider unicycle. Be a magician.
You told me all this. Stuff I know that might be more
fitting, though, than being a rock star.
As much as I would like to be like Bradley Cooper and
Rock'n'roll on stage, you don't think it's going to work?
I don't. I don't know.
I heard you singing about two minutes ago, and I don't think
(24:33):
it's going to work either. But let me tell you, I told you
why I would like songs. Let me tell you why I don't like
songs. OK.
So if it's lack of originality, like, you know, if it's annoying
or bad vocals, obviously sometimes if the lyrics are
unrelatable, like I just can't, you know, it doesn't make sense
to me. Or if it's repetitive, like we
(24:55):
talked about Rihanna. Or sometimes if a song gives me
like an I associate with something negative.
So I don't relate to this song at all because I don't want to
be a rock star. But it's still a good song and
I'm giving it AB plus. I'm giving it AB plus because I
love when they say tell me what you want or.
(25:15):
Tell me what you want. Been there, done that.
And it reminds me of Adam Sandberg on Saturday Night Live.
Do you know who he is? And he's got that Lonely Island
group where they sing the songs and they do that A.
Lot. I'm on a boat, yeah.
So it I think that I just love that and I wonder you think
Nickelback? Reminds you of Lonely Island.
No, but the way he goes in and sinks it, I think Lonely Island
(25:37):
might have taken some this song 'cause this is way before Lonely
Island and put that in some of their, you know, that blank in a
box song with just, you know, I think anyway.
So I give it AB Plus I liked it.I don't think I, you know, if I
was in a concert, I'd be singingalong or it's not going to be on
my high rotation playlist or whatever.
(26:01):
But it's not a bad. Thing you're not going to wear
out the record. I'm not going to or the
cassette. When it used to squeak, I told
you you'd listen to a cassette too many times, it would start
squeaking. You had to buy another one.
Yeah, it was a well. Money making thing for the music
industry. It did shark number six in the
US #2 in the UK it was the biggest UK single of 2008.
(26:22):
So British people love this song.
Well, you need to do some research and find out why people
are after them. I don't know, are they crappy
people like? Or no, I don't.
I think it's just kind of like like a meme almost.
I've heard of them. It's not like I heard anything
negative. As a 60 year old I've never
heard anything negative about them.
So it must be you younger, you younger folk.
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OK, I'm telling you right now, the next one scares me because
it's called 4 by 4. It is, but remember.
How I told you I'm not a countrykind of guy.
That sounds very country. Well, it is country.
It was back in the country version of Hardy.
Now he's kind of Hard Rock and Ikind of fell off liking him.
And when he's into like this really like hardcore heavy rock
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kind of stuff, which is a littletoo heavy for me because I tend
to like harder rock. But this is a song called 4 by 4
by Hardy, came out back in 2018.This old boy EP extended play.
Learned that earlier. Hardy like the restaurant.
This old boy Hardy, like, yeah, like Hardy's tacos, isn't it
tacos? Hardy's no.
(27:28):
Burgers or whatever. No, this is Hardy's, you know?
I don't know. This was part of his debut EP
with Big Loud Records. Great name for a record company.
I think this was one of my this was kind of the song that kicked
it off for me starting to like country music.
(27:48):
Does that make sense? So like before this song, I
really didn't like it too much. But you know, let's take a
listen. Little hearty action on the
vinyl curriculum. So you got a truck here?
Let's even. Got a hitch?
(28:10):
OK, I think we've all agreed we've heard enough of that.
I like that song. That is a terrible song.
That's the worst song ever. And I can tell you a myriad of
reasons why I dislike it. But there is a lyric in here.
Let me just read this lyric. It gets her Pretty Little red
dirt flip flop feet in the door.Yeah, that is atrocious.
(28:31):
That is redneck rock right there.
A redneck country. I don't know what that is.
It's terrible. It's something.
I do not relate to that in any way and the fact he says 4 by 4
is foe. That's what the foe by foe is
foe. Is for but he says 4 by 4 is
foe. Stop it.
(28:53):
C -, C minus and out. Because I'm a Christian man, I
would have given an F, but I don't want to be.
My gosh. C minus.
Logan I didn't want to be the first one to do an F Boo Boo.
I did not want to be That's that's terrible.
And I will if I I would skip that song so fast if it came on
the radio. Well, and I'm glad he moved on
(29:15):
because this is his rock stuff about this kind of or is it
like, what does he talk about? I I don't even he just talks
about a whole I don't even listen to the rock, so I
wouldn't even know what he talksabout, you know, so sorry,
Hardy. That's all right, let's move on.
Another Little Big Town. You were right.
I my inexperience at creating playlist, I didn't even notice
(29:39):
this was the same artist. Sad.
It really is a Little Big Town again, a song called Wine, Beer
and Whiskey. And I actually heard this song
first time. It was a walkout song of the
baseball team. I was watching a baseball game.
This was a walkout song and I thought, that's a weird but
actually perfect walk out song for when you're coming up to
bat. Wine.
(29:59):
Beer. And whiskey.
It's interesting because you told me we can't talk about
alcohol, and now this title has three different types of alcohol
in the name. It's, it's just a song.
It's just a song. It debuted at #59 in the Country
Airplay and #100 on the Hot 100 and, and fun fact, it was
written in 30 minutes. And I'm sure you will have
something to say about that after.
(30:21):
This I don't know. All right, a Little Big Town
here on the vinyl curriculum. They can't have that effect on
(30:46):
you. Yeah, it is great.
I mean, can you picture someone playing baseball, like walking
up, getting ready there, you know, couple practice swings.
They've got the doughnut on the bat.
I can see myself dancing to thatin a bar more than I can see
somebody come up in a walk up. But you have to wear your cowboy
boots. Did I tell you that my daughter,
(31:06):
when she played high school softball, wanted her song?
She wanted her walk up song to be My Humps by the Black Eyed
Peas. I just got a great openings like
this music part before they start singing, but everybody
would know anyway. That's not what she did.
OK, I like that one. That's an AI like that I've
(31:28):
heard that before. I oh.
You have yeah of. Course.
What do the I mean? Do you listen to a good variety
of music? Much more diverse than I do for
sure. Yeah, no, I've heard that song.
It's not on my like things, but it's fun and it's unique and
it's got horns in there. It's, it reminded me Fleetwood
Mac had a album called Tusk and they had like the like.
(31:48):
An elephant Tusk. University of Southern
California marching band the Trojans came in and played in
it. Oh yeah, you kind of reminded me
of. That that's cool.
Yeah, I'll give that an A. All right, that's respectable.
I like that a lot. Next one is another staple of
the radio show that I did in college, a song called Renegades
(32:10):
of Funk by Rage Against the Machine, so it should be another
interesting one. This is very another Stark left.
Hand, here we go again. From the country music that
we've been hearing. And that's kind of the end of
the country, I think, for the show today.
Yep. But yeah, a little Rage Against
(32:33):
the Machine action. You want to just take a listen,
jump right into it. Let's hear it.
Let's hear it matter how hard you try.
You can't stop us now. That's a different kind of funk,
Logan. A little bit, not like last
week, but it wasn't, it was funky, but it wasn't disco, no.
(32:54):
Where was this done? When, when did it come out?
Let me see. I got to try and find it.
It was a cover song actually of of a song that was done back in
the 60s by a a group called Africa Bombata and the Soul
Sonic Force. That rolls right off the time.
You know, that was, that was, that does.
(33:17):
So I got to try and find this. I don't know why this wasn't on
my list, but. It looks like it's 2000.
That sounds about right, yeah. I liked it again after the
initial shock of going from wine, beer and whiskey by Little
Big Town into Electro funk or whatever this is called, and
(33:37):
once my palate got cleansed, I like it.
I give it a minus. OK, it was too.
I think I have heard that I was too well, but I think I had
heard that. I do like this the ending part
too. It's kind of like a it shifts
gears a little bit towards the end is what we're getting to in
the song right now. And maybe we can like we'll hear
a little bit of it in the background, but it it's I like
(33:59):
songs that kind of do that they kind of like change tone.
Like it's not halfway through, but it's like towards the end.
There's a little Nas X song thatI that I used to listen to that
did that and you know, I went. House well, you don't listen to
Spotify. No, Spotify does the recap at
the end. Yeah, one year the recap, my
(34:19):
number one artist was little NasX and I've never listened to him
ever. So I someone I don't know.
Hijacked your Spotify? It was crazy.
It was like, is this a joke? Yeah.
All right. Yeah, it was good a minus.
A minus for Rage Against the Machine here on the Vinyl
Curriculum 2 more. What?
Two more, two more, two more. Anymore a Little Big Town.
(34:42):
No more a Little Big Town, though this one is a little bit
more popular, I'd say, than that.
By a group called the Beastie Boys.
Now we're going to some boy bandaction.
I've heard of you. Boy band.
Boy band? Yeah, not really boy band.
I don't know why I. Thought that I don't either.
(35:03):
Song called Girls. This came out in 1986, the
staple of the 80s. I remember it.
You do. I was in college.
OK. Do you remember hearing the song
for the first time? I remember hearing the album.
OK song called Girls. The album was licensed to three.
(35:24):
Licensed to three. Stop it.
Licensed to I'll. I'll.
I thought you were making a jokeand I looked at you and you were
serious. Oh.
That's fine. I remember, I remember thinking,
I'm like, oh, maybe it's just licensed too and it was the
third one, but licensed to illy people.
Right, right in. And tell Logan to do some better
(35:46):
preparation, this is. Ridiculous.
That's not That has nothing to do with preparing.
That just is me being you. Not very smart.
OK, All right. This is Girls by the Beastie
Boys. Jack and Mike D to my dismay.
(36:07):
Yeah, that would have skipped. I would have skipped, skipped.
Skipped. Really.
Yes. I hate that song.
Why? It's so repetitive.
It's so repetitive. It's sexist.
I mean, yeah. So let's go back to my list if
things. Where's my list if things have
unrelatable lyrics or negative association, when it starts
(36:29):
talking about things like that? And it's just, I think the first
time I heard it, I'm like, oh, that's fun.
But that's got brass monkeys on it.
Brass monkeys. Yeah.
And it's got you got to fight. Yeah.
So I mean, that's those are the hits on that I didn't like.
This sticks to the theme, which I have not sticked throughout
the episode, but this is one of the B side, you know, this is a
(36:50):
lesser known Yeah, on that albumanyway.
Yeah, license to ill. I don't.
Yeah, Thank you. I'm glad you know that though,
because I'd hate for you to say that where someone would hear it
and say. Like on a radio show slash
podcast. That would be embarrassing.
Yeah, it would. Luckily, we're just not that.
And I've really, I really truly thought that's what it was
licensed to three. That's actually kind of sad.
(37:12):
No, but the I give the Beastie Boys credit and there was
actually a documentary on them that was done that was really,
they were kind of groundbreakingin a couple of different ways.
So it was a good documentary, but I I can listen to them.
Unlimited amounts. Unlimited or unlimited amounts?
I see. Unlimited amount, yes.
(37:33):
It's a little too much. And then that song, once you
hear it once or twice, I don't ever have to hear it again
'cause I could practically sing it.
Yeah, yeah. It's, I give that AC minus
Logan's C minus. If you had played Brass Monkeys,
or if you had played Sabotage, which is on another album, I
would probably give it an A Well, it's just a bad choice on
(37:54):
your part. I think your grading is
reflecting my song choice. It's just all over the map.
Well, that too. But so this next one, the last
one for the hour, I know we're all very upset about it.
I am too. This is by a group called Living
(38:14):
Colour and. I was also in right out of
college on this one. Yeah, so this one I would.
It goes back to the radio show days.
This was every show I ended withthis song because of what it
says right at the beginning, which we'll hear in a second.
It was on the Vivid album that came out in 1988, ten years
(38:37):
before I was born. Thank you.
You're welcome. And it was at a top 20 album on
Billboard 200 by February of 1989.
So pretty iconic song. This is Cult of Personality is
the song we're talking about. They just re released it
actually a couple years ago. Because I don't know if you know
(38:58):
this, but popular Chicagoland WWE Superstar CM Punk uses this
as his entrance music. I did not know that, Logan.
Well, did I. Care, Logan.
No, no, you know I don't do that.
Well, that's male soap opera is what all that mess is.
Well, it's part of the lore, as you like to say, of living
(39:21):
color. So let's take a listen and then
you'll get your grade and then I'll get to grade your grading.
Yeah. All right then Living color on
the vinyl curriculum and during the few moments that we have.
Left you. Want to talk?
Right down to earth, in a language that everybody here can
easily understand. Wow, I wish I could have heard
(39:51):
Logan's version of that song coming from his mouth.
Yeah. I could start, I could sing for
you if you want. I don't want that.
I'll tell you what that song wason MTVA lot Heavy rotation.
It was. It won the MTV one of their
music award for best new artists.
Yeah, when it came out. They like that a lot.
And. #13 that's I'm surprised itwasn't higher than that. #30
(40:15):
Yeah. And it also won a Grammy Award
for best Hard Rock performance, so it is very good.
I, I feel like it's better live almost.
It's one of those songs where ifyou hear it live, I've never
heard it live, but I'm imaginingif I did hear it live I'd like
it better. If I'm not mistaken, that video
(40:36):
was them performing it live, like him running off the stage.
And all that. Yes, yes.
I'll give it an AI like it I've always like.
I haven't heard that in a long time, so.
Yes, Jim, very appropriate way to end Logan's version today on
the Vinyl Curriculum episode #10Can you believe we've done 10
episodes? Already.
Yeah, the first song you played today was our hundredth song.
(40:59):
Really. Yep.
Wow, look at that. Now this is living color.
Not to be confused with In Living Color.
Right. The show, which had loved the
Wayman brothers and all that JimCarrey it was.
Jo was a dancer. Yep, that used to be one of my
favorites. And I had for a while, I had
thought they were called in Living Color, but then I think I
(41:20):
was just confusing it with the TV show.
So I I learned in my preparationfor this show, in my preparation
for this show, that they were just called Living Color.
Yeah. All right.
So Speaking of preparation, oh boy, in my initial grade, now
(41:43):
this is a teacher in me coming out my initial grade would have
been an A minus and it really because I like most of the songs
you played and so it would have been an A minus.
However, as a teacher, it's almost like you turned in your
essay and you had all these typos.
You can't expect someone to listen such a wide range.
(42:05):
It's just gives everybody a headache.
So well, your final grade is going to be AB minus.
No, there's no, there's no redos.
No, there's no redos. I was, I was.
There is no redos but justification I feel like is an
order. I was given free reign to put my
favorite songs into a playlist. There was no, no one said.
(42:25):
It had to be your favorite song.That is what you.
Said your assignment was to do aplaylist for me to listen to.
I thought you would do modern stuff that I didn't know.
Half of these were around in school.
The I see I took the assignment as.
This is how I interpreted the very poor, poorly written
instructions from the instructor.
I don't think you listen to new music.
(42:47):
I I don't listen to a lot of newmusic and I told you that I'm
not a big rap guy, you know, like new rap stuff.
Young Gravy is the exception there.
I played a bunch of good songs. Remember when we did the When
Logan Was Alive thing? There's a lot of modern songs
that were great. Yeah, I think for my grade, for
(43:09):
you, I think. Can't wait.
I I thought you were pretty fairto be honest.
The the C minuses though were were kind of a a gut punch.
But I explained why I have a reason.
It's not just because that's what I felt, but that's specific
of why. You don't have to agree with it,
(43:30):
but it was specific of why. I think we're going to give you
just a solid BA, solid B. The C minuses really, I mean,
because you go from B plus to like C minus, there's no nothing
in between C minus and B plus. So because they were really like
there. Was there were two really bad
songs? There was.
Plenty more options in between those two.
(43:52):
There were. Plenty more options of songs to
play than that, if you're very right.
Because that was something, so I, what I, One thing I did not
say though, is if the, you know,the podcast drop on Thursdays
that we have a web page, it's vinyl curriculum.carrd.cocard.co
(44:12):
with two Rs. And then you can, that's where
you can get all the links, show notes, links to the playlist, if
you want to hear all these songsin their entirety.
And then we also have a phone number on there, 815-733-8517.
You can leave us a voicemail or you can text us your thoughts.
We're also on social media. We now have a Facebook and an
Instagram page for vinyl curriculum.
(44:34):
Just look it up. We want to hear back from you.
Yes, and great job with the outro too.
So much it's probably a third ofwhat you would say it is.
That's all right. I love it.
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Vinyl Curriculum,
and we'll catch you on the next one.
Bye.
Every record tells a story. Independent labels.
I think a lot of interesting songs came out of that.
And every generation has a soundtrack.
The only hip you have in your body is made of titanium.
This is the final curriculum with Logan.
Apparently I don't know very much about anything.
Somebody calls her Tay Tay. Hey, it's Logan.
(00:23):
Just a quick heads up before we get into it.
This episode was originally recorded live on WLRA radio
where we are able to play all the songs that we talked about.
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we can't include
the music here on the podcast. So anytime you hear this sound,
that means we're skipping over asong that we originally played
(00:44):
on air. But don't worry, Jim's put
together a playlist with all thetracks from the episode so you
can still follow along. Just check the link in the show
notes. All right, now on to the
episode. Happy Monday everyone, it's the
gym this time we're switching things up a little bit.
I'm going to be the one grading songs and Logan's going to be
(01:06):
the one giving the song selection.
So I'm going to do a little bit more talking than Logan.
Oh, Logan, how you doing? Oh, I'm doing fantastic.
How are you doing? I'm great.
I'm a little anxious. You're anxious?
I've been listening to what you're.
Yeah. I just, I, I mean, I'm just
curious about Taylor. Which Taylor Swift song are you
going to play? Well, back, back the bus up
(01:26):
here. So you did a great job with that
intro. By the way, congratulations.
That was your first, first intro.
Yeah, got to give you props for that.
But this week should be a lot offun.
I had a lot of fun making the playlist.
No Taylor Swift songs this week,but I know, I know, I know.
(01:46):
It comes as a shock to everyone.Stop the presses.
I know, but we're going to have some fun today and listen to
some of my music. I want to call it in honor of
Taylor Swift Logan's version. OK.
But you know, I got to. It was fun to get into, do some
different things. Yeah, we're just, we're doing
different things. So what else did you do?
(02:07):
I got to make all the graphics all by myself.
So I I busted up my our very artistic skills.
So thank you for allowing me to do that.
I don't know. What did you think of my
graphical abilities? I don't even know if people
would even notice there anythingdifferent than what you did and
what I did. I know.
I really don't. They are, they are so incredibly
not similar it's not even funny.They they are similar.
(02:30):
Well, phenomenal. OK.
All right. Well, I appreciate the effort.
I'll give you an A for effort. I, I thank you.
Thank you for that. So let me just do a recap of
what we're going to be doing. So Logan's going to be
presenting some songs. I'm going to be grading them.
We, you know, we don't know whathe listens to.
So this is going to be interesting for everyone.
(02:53):
We will turn this into a podcast.
This is live right now. We'll turn into a podcast, which
will drop on Thursdays. But Logan, what you want to just
go ahead and get us started? I mean just get this.
Well, again, good job with the intro.
Got to give you props for that. But yeah, so I, I kind of went
through my most listened to songs on Apple Music and that's
(03:16):
how I chose which songs we included today.
I've been told by multiple people, yourself included, that
we have quite the variety of it,and I think it accurately
represents the width of my musical appreciation.
We'll say I have a very wide range of things that I like.
Everything over here from Mozarton the left to some a little bit
(03:38):
of young gravy, which is what we're going to hear first.
I'm trying to pick a song like you do, to start off with a bang
and, you know, do something a little different.
And so believe me, this is goingto be a little different than
what you're used to. So there's a song called say,
Lovey by Young Gravy himself. And he was that's featuring.
(04:00):
I like, do you know, do you havewho it's featuring by in front
of you or no? Bono, dollar sign and Rich.
Brian, BB No Money is how you say that.
It took someone explaining that to me, so I'm not.
I'm not too upset that you didn't know that.
But BB, No Money and Rich Brian are featured on that song.
So I've got a couple fun facts for you today.
(04:23):
Or not fun facts, but I tried todo my best to research as you
do. Jim comes very prepared each
week. By the way, for those listening.
I definitely do not. I Am Very Jim is definitely the
prepared 1. So I appreciate all of the work
that you do. But this song came out in 2022
as part of the Marvelous album, and it did not chart.
(04:48):
And the lyric video was releasedlater that year.
So this was, this isn't his mostpopular song by any means, but
that's kind of what we get to onthis show.
We get to the the good stuff, the good B signs that nobody
really knows. So.
This is risky. The first song is not even a
chart success. It's a bold move.
Let's see how. Well, well, well, well.
(05:09):
It's it's all about what I like.I, as we've established, I
don't, I don't care what the critics say.
I don't care what anybody else says but myself.
So this is let's take a listen, OK?
Shall we? Please.
(05:37):
Sailor V. Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, you know, that was upbeat.It's catchy.
Yeah, wait. Well, OK, little did you know,
or I guess you did know this because we talked about it
before on the show. Young Gravy was playing.
Young Gravy was playing Lollapalooza a couple years ago
in Chicago, one of the biggest music festivals in the country.
(05:59):
And just last month he was headlining at the Louis Joliet
Mall parking lot. So.
That is a sad commentary. Was he in jail or something?
No, no, no, no, he, I don't, I don't know his full story, but
he was also playing the young Gravy after show.
And when I was working for the radio station I got invited to
go do that. That was at the House of Blues
(06:20):
after it. So it was like the after show
kind of thing. Two very similar venues, House
of Blues and the Joliet. And then I believe it was the
hot sauce fest. But he is really tall.
He's like 680. That's why you like him.
Another fun fact. That's why you like him.
But he's gravy trained. Baby, so here's this is how I
want to do things. Unlike you, I don't just
randomly pull out numbers about whether I'm in a good mood or
(06:42):
not. I've been thinking about why do
I like songs and why do I not like songs?
So if I like a song, it's usually either got a catchy
melody, like some kind of hook. It's got great vocals or great
music as part of it. It's or sometimes it's, if it's
like unique, like no one's ever done it before.
Sometimes it's the lyrics. If the lyrics are relatable and
(07:02):
speak to me, or maybe if there'ssome nostalgia lore kind of
thing, you know, you act like that doesn't belong to you.
That does. It affects me because I'm being
honest. So having said that, Say La Vie
by Young Gravy was catchy. He's got a good voice.
I give it an A minus and I wouldhave given it an A, but he
(07:25):
spells his name Young YUNG and Ijust can't.
So it would have been an A, but it's going to be a minus because
that's ridiculous. OK, so see I'm see where to turn
off and you and I and I can backup why I said that.
Well, I can back up why I say things too, and this is.
Yeah, it's like, because I can'tdance to it.
Yeah, but no, that was a good start.
(07:48):
OK, I'm not. I'm not as worried now.
I was, I was concerned on after the first song.
That's why I felt like I had to pick, you know, the top tier of
song. Now the next song I think goes
hand in hand with Selavi. It's a little Johnny Cash
action. There's no tie into those two
(08:14):
songs. I'm just saying, right?
Now well you know he you know there really isn't.
But this one is from 1996 so theprevious one was 20/22/1996.
Goes back to no before I was born. 19 What?
It says November 5th, 1996. No.
(08:35):
OK, well. That's what happened everywhere
was 1996. That's what it says.
I don't. Know I thought that was older
number. 26 in the country #170 on the top Billboard 200 charts.
I thought this song was old as the hills.
Well, it's possible. This is, I think, I mean, it's a
(08:56):
Rick Rubin's American series. It was a cover song.
So I think, I don't think JohnnyCash was the person who wrote
this song necessarily, but. Well, we'll look into this, but
let's hear it. I know this song.
OK, I know this song. I've been Everywhere by Johnny
Cash. Let's take a listen, OK?
(09:16):
I was toting my pack along the dusty Winnemucca Rd. when along
came a semi with a high end canvas covered load.
I've been everywhere. He didn't say Romeoville.
He did not. No, he, I don't think he said
anywhere Illinois. He didn't say Tupelo.
(09:36):
He did not, no. No.
Did he say something Tupelo? I mean, in Mississippi, in
Illinois, I don't know. I don't know.
I say I saw it was written in 59, so other people sang it.
But yeah, I would have never thought.
I thought I'd known that song all my life.
Well. You do have a very, very long
life, so. And I'm thankful for it.
(09:58):
I might need to lower my rate onthat one again.
I think it's catchy. I think it's unique.
I put nostalgic because I thought it was.
I've known it all my life, but obviously I had to scratch that
one out. But I give that an A because I.
Thought I'd like this All right,well, you may have I mean, have
you heard like other versions ofthat song or you did you think
you were Johnny Cash's version I.
(10:19):
Thought it was him, said Kris Kristofferson.
Did a rebated version in 73 but I don't know.
I learned something new today Logan.
Well, other than young Gravy. And now I know about this.
We're yeah, we're off and running on Logan's version today
on the vinyl curriculum. Next one I think is not very
related either. This is a, we're going, we're
(10:42):
jumping all around in timeline like last year, last week, you
had a very nicely organized timeline of this the 70s, you
know, and it was like we went through as, as we evolved
through the 70s. That we that's what happened
when you plan ahead. We have none of that today.
We're we're all over the place. We are.
That might come and bite you toward the end.
We'll see. This is This is from the Star is
(11:08):
Born soundtrack. Yes, the now third version of
the star is born. Yes so this I just recently saw
this movie someone over the summer said I should watch it
and I did and I just absolutely fell in love with this song.
This isn't even this is Bradley Cooper who sings this one this
that he's not even like a singernormally Bradley Cooper is like
(11:31):
the full package by the way. He's can act, got the good
looks, can sing all three thingsthat I don't have.
But I think he really hit something here with this song
called Black Eyes. Have you heard?
Have you seen the movie? I saw the movie.
What do you think of the movie? I liked it.
OK, I don't know. I liked it and I think we can
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take a listen and then I've got some more fun facts for you.
Refresh my memory. Oh yeah.
Let's take a listen. Well, I guess he's by the
wayside. I think so.
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I heard that. What were you saying last week
about repetition? Yeah, you're not wrong there.
No. You just want to make sure you
knew where he was. It's, it's, it's good to know
where others are, Jim. I needed a more description what
wayside. Well, by the wayside.
So he actually recorded that. They recorded that live during a
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Willie Nelson concert in one take.
So you hear the crowd in the background.
That was recorded live in one take.
That's impressive. Again, Bradley Cooper is the
full package, ladies and gentlemen.
I love it. Well, going back to my list of
what makes me like a song, I he's got a good voice,
especially for an actor, right? The song was OK, but it kind of
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sounds like other rock songs, you know, I wouldn't skip it if
I was listen to it on the in theradio and if I'm in a concert or
if I was watching the movie, I would probably enjoy it better
because you're watching them, you know, in perform and
everything. So I won't give it AB plus.
OK, that's respectable as it wasa hard.
Jump from Johnny Cash's Everywhere to this, though.
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You think that was a bigger jumpfrom Gravy train from De la Vie
to Johnny Cash? I'm sore from so much jumping
I've done in three songs. Well, with this is a nice leg.
Workout no. We're going to learn.
We're going to no. Next time, if you do this again,
we're going to have a plan. This is a plan.
Because I remember I'm I'm stillthe teacher of this class.
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We need to make sure we have some sort of a pathway to help
people get from one to the otherand not have to jump.
I see so high. Well, I feel like that was
lacking on the part of the instructor for the assignment
description not being very descriptive.
Well, note taken is baloney, butOK.
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Yeah, well speaking, let me bring something up real quick.
We had some comments this past week about the funky 70s.
Did we know? Yes, we did OK on social media.
And a friend of mine, Meg, happybirthday, today is her birthday.
Oh, happy birthday. She called me while I was eating
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my breakfast and was railing about your complaints about some
of the early songs that we played last week and how you
were talking about beats per minute.
And she said actually you were incorrect, that the one that you
said was slower was actually faster than the one that you
said you like because it was upbeat.
So she's a music teacher. So I just want you to know that
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you were corrected from that. And then I also heard from
Suzanne who was furious that yougave.
Oh boy, I can't think of her name now, Chaka Khan's song such
AC Plus. She said she remembers singing
that in 8th grade on the basketball bus as they would go
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singing at the top of their lungs.
And when she thought a funky, she said you have to at least
play that song. And I said it's on there.
And then she heard you give it AC Plus and had to let me know
that how upset she was. So Pete, you are people aren't
listening. Unfortunately, they're not happy
with you. Well, you know, I, I think when
people TuneIn, they expect to hear my honest opinion.
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And that was my honest opinion. And Shaka Khan was not very
funky. Yeah, and another thing that
makes it in quote. If he only knew how many times
I've looked up the definition ofimpartial because she doesn't
agree. Like I don't agree with your
takes. Well, you know, to each their
own, I guess. Yeah, but I appreciate that.
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I appreciate the feedback. Thank.
You for the feedback I'm. Glad that that somebody's
actually listening and. And we got a, we got a nice
feedback from a guy named Ivan who's local and he thought he,
he didn't say anything tacky about you.
So I feel like I need to at least say that because.
So wait, somebody actually agreed with what I.
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Had to say Oh no he didn't agreewith anything.
He just said great job I started, let me pull it up.
I started listening. It was very impressed and
interested. You and Logan have a great
chemistry and the knowledge of the subject is interesting.
I can't wait to hear. More well, I appreciate that and
I appreciate that people appreciate the appreciation.
All right, that was too many appreciations, I think.
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All right. Well, thank you for the
feedback. Let's I think we got to jump
right into the next one here. This, this was a classic during
the Kaparowski radio show back in college, my college days when
I was originally on the airwaves.
This was a staple from my dad. This is a song by a guy named
Aaron Lewis who sang this song called Country Boy.
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This was released back, John. Denver Take Me Home to a place
where I belong. Something like that.
I mean it. You might.
It might be along the same line.Let's take a listen to Mr. Aaron
Lewis grew up. Little George Jones action in
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there. Kinda it was it was George Jones
and Charlie Daniels on the were featured on this album.
This was his first country album.
Aaron Lewis's and You Know. I recognize his voice.
Aaron Lewis's. Yes, and he was.
I had to look it up. He was in a group called Stained
I think. Yeah, I think that sounds.
About right, it was not country.At all.
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No. So I like his voice.
What do you think? Though he's got a he's.
It's very soothing. And also, there's a lot of
country on this playlist that I've created.
And I realized that after the fact, as you know, used to not
be a big country guy, but apparently I am now based on my
top list of two songs. But what do you think?
Country Boy I, I, I liked his voice a lot.
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The song was OK at first 'cause it was the first half of it I
really liked 'cause it was like he was coming back to his true
self. It sounds like he is probably
talking about his time when he was with the, his, the, the band
he was with and how I, I got to go back to my roots.
But then it started getting little too, too much for me.
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And then Charlie Daniels comes in and does this thing about
you, you know, you're not going to take it away from me.
And you know, I don't know, it'sjust too much.
I give it AB. But if it was, if it had ended.
And then also, I love George Jones.
I really do. But oh, he sounds old and I know
he's passed away now, but it kind of when he came in, I'm
like, oh, George Jones. I'm like, oh, I'm sad because he
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was kind of, it wasn't the old George Jones.
It was. Whenever this was, yeah, this
was this says it came out in 2010.
This was from the town line EP and I don't know what EP means.
It's extended play. So it's like like if you let's
say you're a new artist and you don't have enough to do an
album, you'll do like an EP and it'd be like it's less songs.
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And I noticed, yeah. Because when I, I went to, you
know how I told you, if I like something, I'll go back and I'll
listen to other stuff. Right?
Get like Air Air on this one. I liked the other songs way
better than I like this song. Really.
But then there are several versions of this song on that
EP. Then I listen to his next album
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and it's like, no. It's all.
It's all. Redneck yeehaw country and I
don't do that. Yeehaw country, as I like to
say. But I really like it.
His voice sounds really good on a in this country kind of thing.
I like it. It's just song choices later on.
Well, Speaking of yeehaw country, we've got another one
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for you. This is by a group called Little
Big Town. This was their first top ten
hit. As a matter of fact, it was
Grammy nominated a song called Boondocks that was from the Road
to Hear album that was released in May of 2005 and.
You know, it's sticking with thecountry theme.
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I think that we have kind of some sub themes developing
throughout this playlist and this kind of fits right into
that. So you want to just take a
listen? Yeah, All right, Let's take a
listen. Were you raised in the
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boondocks? I don't think so.
There's a place down in Seneca called The Boondocks.
I think it's in Seneca. It's on the river that we go.
It's like a restaurant bar kind of thing when we're on the boat.
I don't. I didn't grow up in the
boondocks, but I live by them. Yeah, I know where to, how to
get to them. Yeehaw.
Yeah. And yeah, I'm not a country guy.
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Yeah, I, you know, this is a relatively new development for
me with this country music. I don't know what it is, no.
I like country music. I don't.
I'm not a country guy, like living in the country.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want a neighbor, so if someone
is attacking me and I scream, I want a neighbor to hear it.
You see, you don't want like wild turkeys running around in
your backyard. That wouldn't bother me.
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I don't want to be by myself at a house and there's nobody for 2
miles. And then if Jason comes out of
the Creek, I want someone to hear me.
Well, there's woods down there too.
Cher. All right, all right.
So catchy, great vocals. They have such great harmony.
I like the song. It's unique.
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I mean, I knew it. I give it an A however I'm about
tired of them because if you ever watch any country shows
their own everything, they always have the.
Little Big Town. I don't know if I see like this.
Is this also fits into my music tastes?
Because I don't think I could name another song by this group.
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Well, there's another one on theplaylist of them that you did.
Oh well, OK, yeah, I guess you're right.
You're my favorite song of this is called Bring It On Home, but
it's slow so of course you won'tlike it, but it's absolutely
amazing. Yeah, OK, it's all.
I didn't even realize that. Wow, look at you're teaching me
things and I'm supposed to be teaching you.
That shows you how little preparation you put into this,
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the fact that you have two people in the same group.
This which was by way against the law.
Remember we said we weren't going to do that.
Well, they sound different though.
See, I wouldn't have even guessed that they were part of
the same group. We should have played a game.
You are. So that's bad.
We should have played this game.That's bad.
OK. But yeah, that was a good song.
Well a little boondocks action the next one.
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I feel like this group gets a lot of unnecessary hate.
I don't know if you feel this like you.
Well in my opinion yes. But Nickelback for some reason
is like a joke. And I don't get the joke.
Like the younger people like it.The band is like a joke.
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I don't know why. Like people, you like
Nickelback, you know, and they kind of laugh at you.
I don't know why. I wonder why?
I don't know but in what context?
I, I see, I don't know, I don't understand the hate.
I don't, I don't get it. You know, 'cause I'm like, this
is, it fits right into a lot of these other songs.
This next one. How old were you when this came
out? Like, were you a kid?
Is that why? And then people outgrew it and
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you didn't. I mean, I was 6 when this came
out. Six, maybe 7.
This was 2005. All the right reasons.
Was the album a song called Rockstar by Nickelback.
Let's hear it. And yeah, this, you know.
Let me see if I'm gonna make funof you.
It charted in the US and the UK,so I mean, it wasn't just me who
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liked it, but I don't know. Well, let's take a listen to the
little Nickelback here on the vinyl curriculum.
Andrew was standing in line. The clubs will never get in.
It's like the bottom of the ninth and I'm never going to
win. Do.
You want to be a rock star? Logan I do that think that's one
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of my deep down dreams is I wantto be a rock star.
I also wanted to join the circuswhen I was younger, which.
I know, Rider unicycle. Be a magician.
You told me all this. Stuff I know that might be more
fitting, though, than being a rock star.
As much as I would like to be like Bradley Cooper and
Rock'n'roll on stage, you don't think it's going to work?
I don't. I don't know.
I heard you singing about two minutes ago, and I don't think
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it's going to work either. But let me tell you, I told you
why I would like songs. Let me tell you why I don't like
songs. OK.
So if it's lack of originality, like, you know, if it's annoying
or bad vocals, obviously sometimes if the lyrics are
unrelatable, like I just can't, you know, it doesn't make sense
to me. Or if it's repetitive, like we
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talked about Rihanna. Or sometimes if a song gives me
like an I associate with something negative.
So I don't relate to this song at all because I don't want to
be a rock star. But it's still a good song and
I'm giving it AB plus. I'm giving it AB plus because I
love when they say tell me what you want or.
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Tell me what you want. Been there, done that.
And it reminds me of Adam Sandberg on Saturday Night Live.
Do you know who he is? And he's got that Lonely Island
group where they sing the songs and they do that A.
Lot. I'm on a boat, yeah.
So it I think that I just love that and I wonder you think
Nickelback? Reminds you of Lonely Island.
No, but the way he goes in and sinks it, I think Lonely Island
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might have taken some this song 'cause this is way before Lonely
Island and put that in some of their, you know, that blank in a
box song with just, you know, I think anyway.
So I give it AB Plus I liked it.I don't think I, you know, if I
was in a concert, I'd be singingalong or it's not going to be on
my high rotation playlist or whatever.
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But it's not a bad. Thing you're not going to wear
out the record. I'm not going to or the
cassette. When it used to squeak, I told
you you'd listen to a cassette too many times, it would start
squeaking. You had to buy another one.
Yeah, it was a well. Money making thing for the music
industry. It did shark number six in the
US #2 in the UK it was the biggest UK single of 2008.
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So British people love this song.
Well, you need to do some research and find out why people
are after them. I don't know, are they crappy
people like? Or no, I don't.
I think it's just kind of like like a meme almost.
I've heard of them. It's not like I heard anything
negative. As a 60 year old I've never
heard anything negative about them.
So it must be you younger, you younger folk.
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OK, I'm telling you right now, the next one scares me because
it's called 4 by 4. It is, but remember.
How I told you I'm not a countrykind of guy.
That sounds very country. Well, it is country.
It was back in the country version of Hardy.
Now he's kind of Hard Rock and Ikind of fell off liking him.
And when he's into like this really like hardcore heavy rock
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kind of stuff, which is a littletoo heavy for me because I tend
to like harder rock. But this is a song called 4 by 4
by Hardy, came out back in 2018.This old boy EP extended play.
Learned that earlier. Hardy like the restaurant.
This old boy Hardy, like, yeah, like Hardy's tacos, isn't it
tacos? Hardy's no.
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Burgers or whatever. No, this is Hardy's, you know?
I don't know. This was part of his debut EP
with Big Loud Records. Great name for a record company.
I think this was one of my this was kind of the song that kicked
it off for me starting to like country music.
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Does that make sense? So like before this song, I
really didn't like it too much. But you know, let's take a
listen. Little hearty action on the
vinyl curriculum. So you got a truck here?
Let's even. Got a hitch?
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OK, I think we've all agreed we've heard enough of that.
I like that song. That is a terrible song.
That's the worst song ever. And I can tell you a myriad of
reasons why I dislike it. But there is a lyric in here.
Let me just read this lyric. It gets her Pretty Little red
dirt flip flop feet in the door.Yeah, that is atrocious.
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That is redneck rock right there.
A redneck country. I don't know what that is.
It's terrible. It's something.
I do not relate to that in any way and the fact he says 4 by 4
is foe. That's what the foe by foe is
foe. Is for but he says 4 by 4 is
foe. Stop it.
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C -, C minus and out. Because I'm a Christian man, I
would have given an F, but I don't want to be.
My gosh. C minus.
Logan I didn't want to be the first one to do an F Boo Boo.
I did not want to be That's that's terrible.
And I will if I I would skip that song so fast if it came on
the radio. Well, and I'm glad he moved on
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because this is his rock stuff about this kind of or is it
like, what does he talk about? I I don't even he just talks
about a whole I don't even listen to the rock, so I
wouldn't even know what he talksabout, you know, so sorry,
Hardy. That's all right, let's move on.
Another Little Big Town. You were right.
I my inexperience at creating playlist, I didn't even notice
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this was the same artist. Sad.
It really is a Little Big Town again, a song called Wine, Beer
and Whiskey. And I actually heard this song
first time. It was a walkout song of the
baseball team. I was watching a baseball game.
This was a walkout song and I thought, that's a weird but
actually perfect walk out song for when you're coming up to
bat. Wine.
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Beer. And whiskey.
It's interesting because you told me we can't talk about
alcohol, and now this title has three different types of alcohol
in the name. It's, it's just a song.
It's just a song. It debuted at #59 in the Country
Airplay and #100 on the Hot 100 and, and fun fact, it was
written in 30 minutes. And I'm sure you will have
something to say about that after.
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This I don't know. All right, a Little Big Town
here on the vinyl curriculum. They can't have that effect on
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you. Yeah, it is great.
I mean, can you picture someone playing baseball, like walking
up, getting ready there, you know, couple practice swings.
They've got the doughnut on the bat.
I can see myself dancing to thatin a bar more than I can see
somebody come up in a walk up. But you have to wear your cowboy
boots. Did I tell you that my daughter,
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when she played high school softball, wanted her song?
She wanted her walk up song to be My Humps by the Black Eyed
Peas. I just got a great openings like
this music part before they start singing, but everybody
would know anyway. That's not what she did.
OK, I like that one. That's an AI like that I've
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heard that before. I oh.
You have yeah of. Course.
What do the I mean? Do you listen to a good variety
of music? Much more diverse than I do for
sure. Yeah, no, I've heard that song.
It's not on my like things, but it's fun and it's unique and
it's got horns in there. It's, it reminded me Fleetwood
Mac had a album called Tusk and they had like the like.
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An elephant Tusk. University of Southern
California marching band the Trojans came in and played in
it. Oh yeah, you kind of reminded me
of. That that's cool.
Yeah, I'll give that an A. All right, that's respectable.
I like that a lot. Next one is another staple of
the radio show that I did in college, a song called Renegades
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of Funk by Rage Against the Machine, so it should be another
interesting one. This is very another Stark left.
Hand, here we go again. From the country music that
we've been hearing. And that's kind of the end of
the country, I think, for the show today.
Yep. But yeah, a little Rage Against
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the Machine action. You want to just take a listen,
jump right into it. Let's hear it.
Let's hear it matter how hard you try.
You can't stop us now. That's a different kind of funk,
Logan. A little bit, not like last
week, but it wasn't, it was funky, but it wasn't disco, no.
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Where was this done? When, when did it come out?
Let me see. I got to try and find it.
It was a cover song actually of of a song that was done back in
the 60s by a a group called Africa Bombata and the Soul
Sonic Force. That rolls right off the time.
You know, that was, that was, that does.
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So I got to try and find this. I don't know why this wasn't on
my list, but. It looks like it's 2000.
That sounds about right, yeah. I liked it again after the
initial shock of going from wine, beer and whiskey by Little
Big Town into Electro funk or whatever this is called, and
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once my palate got cleansed, I like it.
I give it a minus. OK, it was too.
I think I have heard that I was too well, but I think I had
heard that. I do like this the ending part
too. It's kind of like a it shifts
gears a little bit towards the end is what we're getting to in
the song right now. And maybe we can like we'll hear
a little bit of it in the background, but it it's I like
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songs that kind of do that they kind of like change tone.
Like it's not halfway through, but it's like towards the end.
There's a little Nas X song thatI that I used to listen to that
did that and you know, I went. House well, you don't listen to
Spotify. No, Spotify does the recap at
the end. Yeah, one year the recap, my
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number one artist was little NasX and I've never listened to him
ever. So I someone I don't know.
Hijacked your Spotify? It was crazy.
It was like, is this a joke? Yeah.
All right. Yeah, it was good a minus.
A minus for Rage Against the Machine here on the Vinyl
Curriculum 2 more. What?
Two more, two more, two more. Anymore a Little Big Town.
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No more a Little Big Town, though this one is a little bit
more popular, I'd say, than that.
By a group called the Beastie Boys.
Now we're going to some boy bandaction.
I've heard of you. Boy band.
Boy band? Yeah, not really boy band.
I don't know why I. Thought that I don't either.
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Song called Girls. This came out in 1986, the
staple of the 80s. I remember it.
You do. I was in college.
OK. Do you remember hearing the song
for the first time? I remember hearing the album.
OK song called Girls. The album was licensed to three.
(35:24):
Licensed to three. Stop it.
Licensed to I'll. I'll.
I thought you were making a jokeand I looked at you and you were
serious. Oh.
That's fine. I remember, I remember thinking,
I'm like, oh, maybe it's just licensed too and it was the
third one, but licensed to illy people.
Right, right in. And tell Logan to do some better
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preparation, this is. Ridiculous.
That's not That has nothing to do with preparing.
That just is me being you. Not very smart.
OK, All right. This is Girls by the Beastie
Boys. Jack and Mike D to my dismay.
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Yeah, that would have skipped. I would have skipped, skipped.
Skipped. Really.
Yes. I hate that song.
Why? It's so repetitive.
It's so repetitive. It's sexist.
I mean, yeah. So let's go back to my list if
things. Where's my list if things have
unrelatable lyrics or negative association, when it starts
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talking about things like that? And it's just, I think the first
time I heard it, I'm like, oh, that's fun.
But that's got brass monkeys on it.
Brass monkeys. Yeah.
And it's got you got to fight. Yeah.
So I mean, that's those are the hits on that I didn't like.
This sticks to the theme, which I have not sticked throughout
the episode, but this is one of the B side, you know, this is a
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lesser known Yeah, on that albumanyway.
Yeah, license to ill. I don't.
Yeah, Thank you. I'm glad you know that though,
because I'd hate for you to say that where someone would hear it
and say. Like on a radio show slash
podcast. That would be embarrassing.
Yeah, it would. Luckily, we're just not that.
And I've really, I really truly thought that's what it was
licensed to three. That's actually kind of sad.
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No, but the I give the Beastie Boys credit and there was
actually a documentary on them that was done that was really,
they were kind of groundbreakingin a couple of different ways.
So it was a good documentary, but I I can listen to them.
Unlimited amounts. Unlimited or unlimited amounts?
I see. Unlimited amount, yes.
(37:33):
It's a little too much. And then that song, once you
hear it once or twice, I don't ever have to hear it again
'cause I could practically sing it.
Yeah, yeah. It's, I give that AC minus
Logan's C minus. If you had played Brass Monkeys,
or if you had played Sabotage, which is on another album, I
would probably give it an A Well, it's just a bad choice on
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your part. I think your grading is
reflecting my song choice. It's just all over the map.
Well, that too. But so this next one, the last
one for the hour, I know we're all very upset about it.
I am too. This is by a group called Living
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Colour and. I was also in right out of
college on this one. Yeah, so this one I would.
It goes back to the radio show days.
This was every show I ended withthis song because of what it
says right at the beginning, which we'll hear in a second.
It was on the Vivid album that came out in 1988, ten years
(38:37):
before I was born. Thank you.
You're welcome. And it was at a top 20 album on
Billboard 200 by February of 1989.
So pretty iconic song. This is Cult of Personality is
the song we're talking about. They just re released it
actually a couple years ago. Because I don't know if you know
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this, but popular Chicagoland WWE Superstar CM Punk uses this
as his entrance music. I did not know that, Logan.
Well, did I. Care, Logan.
No, no, you know I don't do that.
Well, that's male soap opera is what all that mess is.
Well, it's part of the lore, as you like to say, of living
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color. So let's take a listen and then
you'll get your grade and then I'll get to grade your grading.
Yeah. All right then Living color on
the vinyl curriculum and during the few moments that we have.
Left you. Want to talk?
Right down to earth, in a language that everybody here can
easily understand. Wow, I wish I could have heard
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Logan's version of that song coming from his mouth.
Yeah. I could start, I could sing for
you if you want. I don't want that.
I'll tell you what that song wason MTVA lot Heavy rotation.
It was. It won the MTV one of their
music award for best new artists.
Yeah, when it came out. They like that a lot.
And. #13 that's I'm surprised itwasn't higher than that. #30
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Yeah. And it also won a Grammy Award
for best Hard Rock performance, so it is very good.
I, I feel like it's better live almost.
It's one of those songs where ifyou hear it live, I've never
heard it live, but I'm imaginingif I did hear it live I'd like
it better. If I'm not mistaken, that video
(40:36):
was them performing it live, like him running off the stage.
And all that. Yes, yes.
I'll give it an AI like it I've always like.
I haven't heard that in a long time, so.
Yes, Jim, very appropriate way to end Logan's version today on
the Vinyl Curriculum episode #10Can you believe we've done 10
episodes? Already.
Yeah, the first song you played today was our hundredth song.
(40:59):
Really. Yep.
Wow, look at that. Now this is living color.
Not to be confused with In Living Color.
Right. The show, which had loved the
Wayman brothers and all that JimCarrey it was.
Jo was a dancer. Yep, that used to be one of my
favorites. And I had for a while, I had
thought they were called in Living Color, but then I think I
(41:20):
was just confusing it with the TV show.
So I I learned in my preparationfor this show, in my preparation
for this show, that they were just called Living Color.
Yeah. All right.
So Speaking of preparation, oh boy, in my initial grade, now
(41:43):
this is a teacher in me coming out my initial grade would have
been an A minus and it really because I like most of the songs
you played and so it would have been an A minus.
However, as a teacher, it's almost like you turned in your
essay and you had all these typos.
You can't expect someone to listen such a wide range.
(42:05):
It's just gives everybody a headache.
So well, your final grade is going to be AB minus.
No, there's no, there's no redos.
No, there's no redos. I was, I was.
There is no redos but justification I feel like is an
order. I was given free reign to put my
favorite songs into a playlist. There was no, no one said.
(42:25):
It had to be your favorite song.That is what you.
Said your assignment was to do aplaylist for me to listen to.
I thought you would do modern stuff that I didn't know.
Half of these were around in school.
The I see I took the assignment as.
This is how I interpreted the very poor, poorly written
instructions from the instructor.
I don't think you listen to new music.
(42:47):
I I don't listen to a lot of newmusic and I told you that I'm
not a big rap guy, you know, like new rap stuff.
Young Gravy is the exception there.
I played a bunch of good songs. Remember when we did the When
Logan Was Alive thing? There's a lot of modern songs
that were great. Yeah, I think for my grade, for
(43:09):
you, I think. Can't wait.
I I thought you were pretty fairto be honest.
The the C minuses though were were kind of a a gut punch.
But I explained why I have a reason.
It's not just because that's what I felt, but that's specific
of why. You don't have to agree with it,
(43:30):
but it was specific of why. I think we're going to give you
just a solid BA, solid B. The C minuses really, I mean,
because you go from B plus to like C minus, there's no nothing
in between C minus and B plus. So because they were really like
there. Was there were two really bad
songs? There was.
Plenty more options in between those two.
(43:52):
There were. Plenty more options of songs to
play than that, if you're very right.
Because that was something, so I, what I, One thing I did not
say though, is if the, you know,the podcast drop on Thursdays
that we have a web page, it's vinyl curriculum.carrd.cocard.co
(44:12):
with two Rs. And then you can, that's where
you can get all the links, show notes, links to the playlist, if
you want to hear all these songsin their entirety.
And then we also have a phone number on there, 815-733-8517.
You can leave us a voicemail or you can text us your thoughts.
We're also on social media. We now have a Facebook and an
Instagram page for vinyl curriculum.
(44:34):
Just look it up. We want to hear back from you.
Yes, and great job with the outro too.
So much it's probably a third ofwhat you would say it is.
That's all right. I love it.
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Vinyl Curriculum,
and we'll catch you on the next one.
Bye.
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