July 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Ozzy Osbourne's triumphant final performance and sudden passing just 17 days later highlights his remarkable journey from heavy metal pioneer to beloved cultural icon. We explore his legacy while reminiscing about forgotten musical gems that transport us back to specific moments in time.
• Ozzy's final concert "Back to the Beginning" in Birmingham featured major bands like Metallica and Guns N' Roses paying tribute
• Black Sabbath was a pioneer of heavy metal with classics like "Paranoid" and "Iron Man"
• Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 before launching a successful solo career
• The Osbournes reality show (2002-2005) introduced Ozzy to a new generation as a lovable family man
• 40th Anniversary of "Weird Science." So... What would you little maniacs like to do first?
• Martha and the Muffins' "Echo Beach" (1980) remains a beloved summer anthem despite limited commercial success
• New Order's "Perfect Kiss" peaked at #5 on Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in July 1985
• Smoking Popes' "Need You Around" gained popularity through the Clueless soundtrack
• Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl" is surprisingly their only song to make the Billboard Hot 100
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 89.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Four episodes ago we spoke aboutBlack Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne
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getting ready to perform theirfinal show with an event in
Birmingham, england, named Backto the Beginning, and it ended
up being a great tribute to Ozzyyou know, who had Parkinson's
disease.
He also had several spinalsurgeries because he had some
issues with his back.
Multiple bands played, you know, for the whole day Anthrax,
(01:19):
alice in Chains, pantera, slayer, guns N' Roses and Metallica
and they mixed in some BlackSabbath or Ozzy Osbourne songs
along with a few of their ownand basically it was, you know,
the first bands got the leastamount of time and you know, by
the time you got to Metallica,who came on right before Ozzy,
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you know they had the most time.
So Ozzy's sitting in a chair,you know, a throne, and you know
that was by design and I thinkthey did a really good job with
this by putting out there thatyou know Ozzy can't sing a lot
of songs.
Ozzy's going to be in a chair,he's not going to be walking
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around, and it kind of set theexpectations up for people to
know and I think by doing thatthis made it a total success.
I thought he sounded good, Ithought he did a really good job
under all the circumstances.
So as he played his Ozzy becausehe did Ozzy then he did Black
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Sabbath I don't know, mr Crowley, suicide Solution, not a song
about suicide being a solution,just for the record Uh-huh, my
Mom Coming Home and, of course,crazy Train With Black Sabbath,
war Pigs, nib, iron man and, ofcourse, paranoid.
(02:45):
Yes, so I thought it was atriumphant end to an illustrious
career.
I mean, I really am like, whatwould I say his career is?
And I think this it definitelyan illustrious career had its
ups, its downs and its craziness.
I mean I think that kind ofsums up, you know, the nickel
(03:06):
explanation of Ozzy.
And then, 17 days later, ozzydies at 76 years old and while
we all knew he was ill, I wasnot expecting this quick for him
to be gone.
It kind of took me by surprise,especially after watching these
(03:28):
videos and seeing him up there,and it just didn't correlate to
me that 17 days later he wouldbe gone.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's almost mind boggling.
Yeah, it's kind of surprising,yeah, it's almost mind-boggling.
So you know I texted MattHughes, who was our guest on the
episode that we were talkingabout, you know, getting ready
for the big Back to theBeginning show, and you know to
think that I was the one thattold him that Randy Rhoades, the
guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne,had died the day that it
(04:05):
happened, back in March of 1982,and that now we're texting the
night that Ozzy dies, you know,42 years later.
To me that's mind-boggling,Like I could never have imagined
(04:37):
that and I know I say thatoften on the show, but I can't
grasp things from a long timeago that here all these years
later, still connected with abunch of people that I knew and
grew up with, and to go throughthe text thing, kind of like we
did with the talk the night that, you know, I spoke to Matt
about Randy Rhoads dying, it'sjust like wow, like it really
really is, and at the otherpoint, it really illustrates how
quickly time goes by, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It goes very, very quickly.
So you know he was glad thatthey got to do the final show,
that that really was Ozzy'swishes and they pulled it off.
And again, I just think that itwas great.
I thought they did a great,great job.
Listen, you know you might wantto check out that episode with
Matt.
He talks about jamming withsome of the members of Black
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Sabbath along with a bunch ofother people, and that's episode
85, if you get an opportunityto yeah definitely so.
Black Sabbath formed in 1968.
They took the name BlackSabbath in 1969.
Ozzy Osbourne, tony Iommi,geezer Butler and Bill Ward the
original members I guess kind ofthe classic version of Black
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Sabbath.
Original members I guess kindof the classic version of Black
Sabbath and they really were atthe forefront of creating heavy
metal music.
I'm not saying they were thefirst to anything, you know
we've talked about that beforebut as far as creating it and
making it popular, theydefinitely were at the forefront
.
Paranoid Iron man, electric,funeral Into the Void I mean
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there's just a ton of songs thatwe could talk about.
When it comes to Black Sabbath,believe it or not, excessive
alcohol and drug use led to hisfiring from the band in 1979.
And his debut solo album,blizzard of Oz.
And his debut solo albumBlizzard of Oz was released in
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September 1980 over in the UKand March of 81 in the US and it
had the song Crazy Train, jimmy.
I'd say it's his most popularsong.
I'm not saying that it'speople's favorite song, but in I
think it's a lot of people'sfavorite song though.
It's a great song.
I mean a great song, I mean agreat song.
More people know that song.
(06:48):
You know Chipper Jones of theAtlanta Braves when he did his
walk-up song, you know when hewould come up it would be Crazy
Train.
You know it's something that'sknown.
I mean little kids know it, youknow.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's just, it's one of those musical riffs that you
hear the beginning of that songand you know like it sets a tone
, right, you know, oh yeahdefinitely.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It definitely sets a tone.
I agree with you a hundredpercent on that.
That's probably why they usethat song.
If you think about it?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, no, it's, uh, it sounds very intense.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So Flying High again, mr Crowley Shot in the Dark, I
don't know.
You know just a few of the Ozzysongs.
I mean he's got a ton.
My favorite Black Sabbath andI've mentioned this before is
Changes, which is probably themost unlike Black Sabbath song
that they do.
But I love the words and I justlike this different side of
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them.
I love that song.
We've talked about that beforeand I would have to say no More
Tears is my favorite Ozzy songand I remember the first time I
heard it in my car and I heardit on you know some rock station
here in Atlanta.
I was not expecting it to be asgood as it was at a time when,
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you know, like hard rock musicto me wasn't that good, and that
song came out and it blew meaway.
I just thought it was fantastic.
Love it.
So ups downs alcohol.
Fantastic.
Love it, so ups downs.
Alcohol.
Drugs, craziness, biting dovesand a bat urinating on the Alamo
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, a national historic landmark,and other controversies.
Okay, that is Ozzy.
I mean, he didn't even try andhide from it, it is what it is,
you know.
So in May of 1984, ozzy plays ashow in Jacksonville, florida,
and it made the local TV news.
City officials who quietlyviewed the show later labeled
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the concert and Ozzy Osbourneobscene scene.
They vowed to never again letthe controversial singer perform
here, saying he offers nosocial value to this city.
All right, yeah, 1984.
So Ozzy and Sharon Sharon beinghis wife end up with their own
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reality TV show with two oftheir children, kelly and Jack,
and their oldest daughter, amy,wanted no part of it.
I can understand why she had acareer that she was trying to do
and didn't want there to beconflicts with it.
So the Osbournes was on MTV2002 to 2005, and I only watched
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the first season.
I watched the whole thing everyweek or whenever it came out,
but I never watched anotherseason and I really don't even
know why.
To be honest, I liked it.
I thought it was good, Ithought it was funny.
Was something set up?
Yeah, I think all reality TVthere's something set up, but
some of it just was funny.
(10:00):
So the theme song was the PatBoone version of Crazy Train
kind of jazzy big band.
Pat Boone was their next doorneighbor when they had moved.
I think it was.
I don't know if it was BeverlyHills or Bel Air, I don't
remember exactly but he actuallyin the beginning was, was their
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next-door neighbor.
They ended up moving and PatBoone, you know, I saw yesterday
.
He talked about Ozzie and saidthat they got along well and he
thinks it's because he was theonly neighbor that didn't call
the police on the Osworns.
So they seemed to get you know,seemed to get along well.
It's a low bar yeah, a very lowbar.
(10:45):
So in my favorite episodeOzzy's about to go on tour and
the band and the stage crew,sharon and Ozzy, watch the
pyrotechnics that are going tobe used on the stage for the
tour and there's a cannon andthere's bubbles and you know
just all kinds of stuff and youcan kind of see Ozzy reacting.
(11:07):
You know some of it might betoo loud or you know, you just
can see that.
Look on his face and hisresponse to Sharon is bubbles.
Come on, sharon, I'm OzzyOsbourne, the Prince of Darkness
.
Now there's some F-bombsdropped in there, I'll be honest
with you.
And later he wants the touritinerary to see if he's playing
(11:30):
back-to-back shows, because hedoesn't want to do that at all.
And Sharon at first avoids himand avoids the question but
finally says there's a showtomorrow and then a show in
Albuquerque the next day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And Ozzy says I can't do it, it'll blow out my voice,
it's one day on, one day offand insists he's not doing it.
The next scene is he's on stageat an arena with the crowd
screaming and he says hello,albuquerque, how you doing?
You know Sharon always got thelast word in, but I loved that
(12:11):
episode.
It was just funny Because youcan understand.
You know Sharon always got thelast word in, but I loved that
episode.
It was just funny because youcan understand.
You know, at one point he'slike you know, if you could get
me to do nine straight days, youwould.
And she's like you've neverdone that in your life.
He's like, yeah, you'll find away to do it.
You know, like that's what Iliked about the show that you
know I don't think that was setup.
That was them actually talkingand I enjoyed that part.
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So in 2002, also when it firststarted shortly afterwards at
the White House CorrespondentsDinner, george W Bush, who was
president at the time, isspeaking.
Laura and I are honored to behere tonight.
Thanks for the invitation.
What a fantastic audience wehave tonight Washington power
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brokers, celebrities, hollywoodstars, ozzy Osbourne and the
crowd goes wild.
But he doesn't say OzzyOsbourne.
He says Ozzy Osbourne and youknow the crowd's going wild and
Ozzy Osbourne, and you know thecrowd's going wild and Ozzy's
smiling.
And then you know I've seen thevideo and I can't remember he
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either gets up on a chair or thetable, I can't tell and he is
like putting his arms up to thecrowd and he's blowing kisses.
And President Bush says, okay,ozzy, kind of a pause might have
been a mistake, meaning that itwas a hint, that Ozzy was
stealing the spotlight from him,you know, and it's just funny.
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So then he says the thing aboutOzzy is he's made a lot of big
hit recordings.
So you know, this is apresident that had someone write
something for him, because noone talks about Ozzy Osbourne
and goes the thing about Ozzy,he's had a lot of big hit
recordings.
You think you're talking aboutPat Boone at this point, you
know.
And he goes party with theanimals Sabbath, bloody Sabbath
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facing hell, black skies,bloodbath in paradise, and Bush,
facing Hell, black Skies,bloodbath in Paradise.
And Bush continues with Ozzymom loves your stuff.
Crowd goes wild.
Ozzy stands up again, blowsmore kisses, and you know those
are the things that make youlike Ozzy Osbourne, you know, I
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mean it's just funny stuff andhe knew how to ham it up.
You know he's a character Itried to think of like what,
what, what kind of word?
You know he's a character whenyou look at everything about him
, you know back in his alcoholand drug, you know days, you
know I remember in the 80sthinking the guy was a character
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.
They'd interview him and he wasjust squirt guns coming out to
the reporters or whatever.
He just kind of like acharacter.
So I've seen so many tributesto him, you know.
But this one that I read reallysays so much.
We at the Alamo are saddened tohear of the passing of
legendary musician Ozzy Osbourne.
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His relationship with the Alamowas initiated by a deeply
disrespectful incident in 1982.
This act profoundly andrightfully upset many who hold
the site sacred.
As I mentioned earlier, heurinated at the Alamo.
You said on the Alamo.
He did on the Alamo, likethat's, you know, and it's a
(15:39):
sacred place for a bunch ofpeople in.
Texas.
It's where, in San Antonio,texas, and that was fighting for
the independence of the stateof Texas, and I understand why
people would be upset.
I do Back to you know theirpost that they put out.
However, redemption andreconciliation eventually became
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part of his history as well.
In 1992, ozzie personallyapologized to then-Mayor Nelson
Wolf and expressed genuineremorse for his actions.
Decades later, in 2015, herevisited the Alamo grounds to
learn and appreciate the site'sprofound history, openly
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demonstrating humility andunderstanding.
At the Alamo, we honor historyin all its complexities.
Today, we acknowledge OzzyOsbourne's journey from regret
to reconciliation at thehistoric site and we extend our
condolences to his family,friends and fans around the
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world.
May he rest in peace.
And I think that's just amazing.
I think it is the best tributethat anyone could give,
considering it started with areally bad thing a long time ago
and they said so much yeah, nottoo bad for a guy that
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Jacksonville, Florida cityofficials once said he offered
no social value.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did they ever apologize to him for that?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I hope they're thinking about it now From my
heart and from my hand.
Why don't people understand myintentions?
Why Don't People Understand myIntentions?
Weird Science by Oingo Boingowas WLIR Screamer of the Week
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first week of August 1985, andpeaked at number 45 on Billboard
Hot 100 on October 12, 1985.
From the movie that wasreleased of Weird Science,
imagine that having a song WeirdScience from a movie named
Weird Science, so kind of in anutshell, a couple of nerdy high
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school guys, gary and Wyatt,with Gary being played by
Anthony Michael Hall.
They're not very popular.
While watching the movieFrankenstein, gary comes up with
(18:26):
the idea to make a girl, notlike from body parts in
Frankenstein, but by feedingpictures into a computer and
designing so that they can havewhat they think is.
They put in a picture of AlbertEinstein because they wanted
the brains and they put inBeethoven because they wanted
the musical ability, houdini.
I'm not really sure why theyput Houdini, but they put all
different kinds of things in.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
She could do magic.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Maybe, maybe, and of all people, david Lee Roth of
Van Halen.
They put him in.
I don't know, maybe to be theham of everything and of all
people, david Lee Roth of VanHalen.
They put him in, you know.
I don't know, maybe to be theham of everything, but you know
it was all connected to a Barbiedoll with wires and electrodes
and they tapped into agovernment facility for more
power.
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And then things are going crazyin the room where they have
this all going on.
And then, when everything calmsdown, lisa, played by Kelly
LeBrock, appears and says sowhat do you little maniacs like
to do?
First?
I love that line, jimmy.
I think that is so funny.
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Like that's the first word shespeaks in the entire movie.
So she knows she was created bythem and they kind of talk
about it.
Lisa was originally played by amodel who only lasted a couple
of days, didn't really doanything else in the business,
and they went back to KellyLeBrock, who was on a beach in
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France, and convinced her thatthey really wanted her for the
part after getting this person.
That didn't work out.
It's your typical teenage movieof trying to be popular.
Lisa decides to have a party atWyatt's house during a dance
scene Killing Jokes, 80s isplaying and I love that song 80s
(20:11):
.
It came out in 1984.
And it just is one of thosesongs that it's just rocking and
rolling.
It kind of gets you in the moodand stuff and it's kind of
funny.
When the song Come as you Areby Nirvana came out, I almost
was like I've heard this songbefore, I think I've heard it.
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And then all of a sudden I waslike, ah, someone mentioned to
me that listen the 80s and I waslike, oh, I get it, I do get it
, yeah me too.
So Bill Paxton's in the movieand he plays Wyatt's brother,
chet.
Robert Downey Jr he's one ofthe film's bullies in it.
And Jimmy, did you know that,robert Downey Jr, he's one of
the film's bullies in it.
And Jimmy, did you know thatRobert Downey Jr is considered
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one of the worst cast members ofSaturday Night Live?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, he didn't do very well on Saturday Night Live
.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
No, he was on one season, 1985, 1986.
He got on right after thismovie came out and he was with
Anthony Michael Hall.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He was on the show also Was Julia Louis-Dreyfus on
at the same time.
I believe she was she wasn't agood cast member either.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No, they struggled with live sketch comedy.
They could do where yourehearse your lines and doing a
movie, doing film, but livesketch comedy just wasn't their
thing.
A lot of people think that hewas the worst cast member and I
actually looked it up and a lotof people, a lot of different
polls, a lot of different thingsthey do think he is the
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all-time worst cast member.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
I know it's out of fashion anda trifle uncool, but I can't
help it.
I'm a romantic fool.
It's a habit of mine to watchthe sun go down On Echo Beach.
I watch the sun go down Marthaand the Muffins, echo Beach.
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I believe this song wasreleased in early 1980, but it's
a summer song and a beach song,so I thought it'd be perfect
for now.
I first heard it in 1982 onWLIR and I don't think many
people have ever heard this song.
I looked at your voice likeyou're trying to figure out what
song this is.
Yeah, I don't know if it wasplayed.
(22:28):
I think it was played in Canadaand then WLIR.
Okay, I don't know if it wasplayed.
I think it was played in Canadaand then WLIR.
I don't know if anybody elseever played it, but it's a super
catchy song.
You can find it on YouTube Seethe video.
I remember the video.
They must have played it on MTVat some point, because I do
remember the video.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
There was a scarcity of music videos at one point.
So I'm sure if they had a videoout in those early MTV days it
got played.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, that must be it .
I remember seeing it but Istill like it.
It's still catchy, I still likesinging the song and I'm sure
people out there have songs thatthey know from 40 years ago or
however long that they reallylike that not many other people
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have ever heard of them.
Do you have any songs like that, jimmy?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, so there was a 1977 song by a one-hit wonder
named Dean Friedman and I'mprobably using the word hit a
little bit liberally there, butI think it might have gone to
number 40 on the charts orsomething called Ariel, and look
it up, it's a fun song.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I've never heard it.
Yeah, yeah, you know what?
Jimmy Echo Beach didn't hit anycharts, it didn't hit anything.
I think it was only played,like I said, in Canada.
It did real well because theywere Canadian, right WLAR, they
played it.
I didn't hear much anywhereelse and I still know it and
I've already forgotten who yousaid sang it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dean Friedman.
Dean Friedman, I mean, how canyou forget that name?
It's got to be a stage name,right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Oh yeah, that's a stage name that you chose to
change, whatever your name was,to become dean freeman.
But I'm gonna check this songout and and let you know what I
think of ariel.
So echo beach.
You know, if we get back toecho beach from nine to five, I
have to spend my time at work.
My job is very boring.
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I'm an office.
The only thing that helps mepass the time away is knowing
I'll be back at Echo Beachsomeday.
Like I said, it's catchy.
And speaking of catchy, tick,tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
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Minute with Jimmy Minute withJimmy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So back in 1980, july 25th 1980, an album came out.
It ended up being the firstalbum I ever bought.
I was going into the sixthgrade when this album came out,
and one of the greatest albumsof all time.
Back in Black by ACDC Very nice, jimmy.
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So you know bon scott hadpassed away.
They had recorded the tracksfor this album and they had
named the songs, but they didn'thave any lyrics or vocals, and
so malcolm and angus young gavethe basic tracks to brian
johnson, the singer, and he hadnever written a song before.
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So he was a pretty establishedsinger musician, but he'd never
actually written his own stuff.
So the first song that he justsits down and writes is called
you Shook Me All Night Long.
The next song he writes is Backin Black.
The next song he writes isHell's Bells and the next one is
Shoot to Thrill.
He pretty much came out of thegate writing some pretty good
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songs.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's pretty impressive.
I mean, those are a good groupof songs.
The whole album is fantastic.
So let me ask you, jimmy, it'sthe first album that you bought.
What was that experience likefor you?
Because I'm assuming up to thatpoint you know you got albums
for um your birthday, christmasor whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I might've gotten K-Tel Rock 80 for Christmas that
year, like Christmas 79, maybe,or something, I don't know.
I don't know whether it cameafter or before that, um, but I
don't really count that.
You know, this is like an albumby a band, so I had never owned
an album.
My brother had a lot of greatrecords and that's what I would
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listen to and I'd buy singlesnow and then, but I'd never
bought my own album.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
For me.
I remember it took me foreverto pick which album I was going
to buy, because you know, Idon't remember.
You know some albums were $3.99, you know some were $4.99,
$5.00, whatever.
And I'm like I don't have a lotof money and it doesn't come
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easy.
I need to make the best choicethat I can make, and I would
just I'd spend hours thereliterally looking for something,
and I remember people alwayslike can I help you, can I help
you?
And I'm like, no, I'm going to,you know, find what I want.
I don't know what it is, butwhen I see it then I'll know it.
(27:30):
And that was, you know.
So for me, going out to buy andeven from when I first was a
young kid, buying them, it waslike an adventure.
It was this long period.
It wasn't like, oh yeah, I'mgoing to go buy this album and
I'll be home.
No, I didn't know really what Iwas going to go buy.
It just was like I got to findthe perfect thing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
This one.
I think I just loved so manysongs on it that I didn't want
to go buy a bunch of singles.
I knew that I really liked fouror five songs on it, so I was
just going to go ahead and buythe whole album, which then you
end up discovering a lot moresongs than than the singles
correct.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That was a good choice.
I like that, jimmy every songon that album is is solid it is
without a doubt, and it's one ofthe best-selling albums of all
time, and I think it's Angus'sbest guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I think think you Shook Me All Night Long.
As popular and kind of poppy orwhatever as that song might be,
I think that's my favoriteguitar solo he ever did.
He's done some incredibleguitar solos, but that song you
can sing that solo, you can hearit in your head, you know where
it's going, it gives you afeeling, it takes you through on
(28:46):
a journey.
It's a perfect guitar solo.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now we know why you bought the album.
It all makes sense now.
Yep, I like it, jimmy.
That was Minute with Jimmy,minute with Jimmy.
May 13th 1985, new Order'sPerfect Kiss peaked at number
five on Billboard Dance ClubSongs July 27th 1985.
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So five years and two daysafter Back in Black comes out,
new Order's Perfect Kiss isnumber five on Billboard's Dance
Club Songs.
And it's kind of funny.
As time goes on they add allthese different charts from what
they originally had, so youalmost can find almost any song
on some sort of chart, you know,but you know dance club songs.
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It kind of made sense because Iwas going to a place called Spit
, a dance club in Levittown, newYork, heard it many times there
, loved it, you know.
I knew from the start thisfriend of mine would fall apart,
pretending not to see his guilt.
I said let's go out and havesome fun, and that is part of
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the song and it's.
It's kind of funny because Ican't tell you how many times
where someone's like, yeah, Idon't really want to go out, or,
oh, my girlfriend broke up withme, or this has happened,
everything.
Like hey, let's go to spit,let's go out and have some fun,
like that was almost my answerto so many things, because it
just was the super cool place togo to and when you you were
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outside it was in this bigparking lot.
You could see the high schoolthat I went to.
You know, if you looked one way, you could see the division
deli where we would go and getfood and you know all kinds of
stuff over here.
And you looked over here andthen you know it was uh,
tri-county flea market that you,so you'd see all the stuff.
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But then you go inside it'slike a whole nother world, even
though you just crossed the door.
You know, and it was justreally, really cool, just a cool
place to be and to hear songslike that and so many songs, you
know, dancing, having fun withfriends and going there.
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For many years I enjoyed itDefinitely like the Perfect Kiss
by New Order.
Let's move up to July 1995.
Smoking Popeses Need you Around?
Love this song, absolutely lovethis song.
I loved it from the first timethat I heard it and they
re-released it.
It was an indie song.
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They re-released it on.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Capital Records.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Born to Quit and the Clueless soundtrack, which I
think the Clueless soundtrack isreally what got a lot of people
to actually like it, becausethey see the movie and they can
hear it in the movie and youknow drums, guitar chords.
If I could see into your heartthen what would I know just
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where to start?
Because I'm lost and I need tobe found.
Crazy as it sounds, I need youaround.
I just love it.
Like every verse is justfreaking cool in this song.
Love it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And it has a really heavy guitar kind of a music
track and the vocalist he almosthas a Morrissey kind of a sound
to him, you know, a reallyvelvety kind of tone to his
voice.
So it's an interestingcounterplay between the two.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, and the vocals to me are recorded kind of low,
much lower than what the musicis.
So it's, you know, as you'relistening, it's almost the
vocals are going against themusic and the music's going
against the vocals, but in a waythat it sounds really cool.
You know, I just love it.
I think it's a great song.
Peaked at number 35 onBillboard's Modern Rock tracks
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Stone Temple Pilots, sour Girl.
Peaked at number 78 onBillboard Hot 100, july 29th
2000.
And, believe it or not, this isthe only STP song to make the
Billboard Hot 100.
What?
Yes, Wow, is that not crazy?
That is, yeah, a song writtenabout singer Scott Weiland's
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first wife, and she turned away.
What was she looking at?
She was a sour girl the daythat she met me.
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a happy girl the daythat she left me.
And it makes sense when he saysit's about his first wife that
left him you know, the video had, along with the band, and then
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some Teletubby-looking things.
I'm not really sure what theywere, but it had Sarah Michelle
Gellar who was in Buffy theVampire Slayer I know what you
did last summer, what else shewas in, oh, cruel Intentions and
those are all kind of popularright around the time of this
video.
I have to say it's my favoriteStone Temple Pilots song.
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I like it.
Like I said, the video.
I'm not sure what the Teletubbythings are.
I don't know what they'recalled, but it's.
You know, it's definitely cool.
And speaking of cool, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
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That's it for Episode 89 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located righthere in Atlanta, georgia, and
Vic Thrill for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
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Until then, live life and keepthe music playing, sharon.
Thank you.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 89.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Four episodes ago we spoke aboutBlack Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne
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getting ready to perform theirfinal show with an event in
Birmingham, england, named Backto the Beginning, and it ended
up being a great tribute to Ozzyyou know, who had Parkinson's
disease.
He also had several spinalsurgeries because he had some
issues with his back.
Multiple bands played, you know, for the whole day Anthrax,
(01:19):
alice in Chains, pantera, slayer, guns N' Roses and Metallica
and they mixed in some BlackSabbath or Ozzy Osbourne songs
along with a few of their ownand basically it was, you know,
the first bands got the leastamount of time and you know, by
the time you got to Metallica,who came on right before Ozzy,
(01:40):
you know they had the most time.
So Ozzy's sitting in a chair,you know, a throne, and you know
that was by design and I thinkthey did a really good job with
this by putting out there thatyou know Ozzy can't sing a lot
of songs.
Ozzy's going to be in a chair,he's not going to be walking
(02:02):
around, and it kind of set theexpectations up for people to
know and I think by doing thatthis made it a total success.
I thought he sounded good, Ithought he did a really good job
under all the circumstances.
So as he played his Ozzy becausehe did Ozzy then he did Black
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Sabbath I don't know, mr Crowley, suicide Solution, not a song
about suicide being a solution,just for the record Uh-huh, my
Mom Coming Home and, of course,crazy Train With Black Sabbath,
war Pigs, nib, iron man and, ofcourse, paranoid.
(02:45):
Yes, so I thought it was atriumphant end to an illustrious
career.
I mean, I really am like, whatwould I say his career is?
And I think this it definitelyan illustrious career had its
ups, its downs and its craziness.
I mean I think that kind ofsums up, you know, the nickel
(03:06):
explanation of Ozzy.
And then, 17 days later, ozzydies at 76 years old and while
we all knew he was ill, I wasnot expecting this quick for him
to be gone.
It kind of took me by surprise,especially after watching these
(03:28):
videos and seeing him up there,and it just didn't correlate to
me that 17 days later he wouldbe gone.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's almost mind boggling.
Yeah, it's kind of surprising,yeah, it's almost mind-boggling.
So you know I texted MattHughes, who was our guest on the
episode that we were talkingabout, you know, getting ready
for the big Back to theBeginning show, and you know to
think that I was the one thattold him that Randy Rhoades, the
guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne,had died the day that it
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happened, back in March of 1982,and that now we're texting the
night that Ozzy dies, you know,42 years later.
To me that's mind-boggling,Like I could never have imagined
(04:37):
that and I know I say thatoften on the show, but I can't
grasp things from a long timeago that here all these years
later, still connected with abunch of people that I knew and
grew up with, and to go throughthe text thing, kind of like we
did with the talk the night that, you know, I spoke to Matt
about Randy Rhoads dying, it'sjust like wow, like it really
really is, and at the otherpoint, it really illustrates how
quickly time goes by, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It goes very, very quickly.
So you know he was glad thatthey got to do the final show,
that that really was Ozzy'swishes and they pulled it off.
And again, I just think that itwas great.
I thought they did a great,great job.
Listen, you know you might wantto check out that episode with
Matt.
He talks about jamming withsome of the members of Black
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Sabbath along with a bunch ofother people, and that's episode
85, if you get an opportunityto yeah definitely so.
Black Sabbath formed in 1968.
They took the name BlackSabbath in 1969.
Ozzy Osbourne, tony Iommi,geezer Butler and Bill Ward the
original members I guess kind ofthe classic version of Black
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Sabbath.
Original members I guess kindof the classic version of Black
Sabbath and they really were atthe forefront of creating heavy
metal music.
I'm not saying they were thefirst to anything, you know
we've talked about that beforebut as far as creating it and
making it popular, theydefinitely were at the forefront
.
Paranoid Iron man, electric,funeral Into the Void I mean
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there's just a ton of songs thatwe could talk about.
When it comes to Black Sabbath,believe it or not, excessive
alcohol and drug use led to hisfiring from the band in 1979.
And his debut solo album,blizzard of Oz.
And his debut solo albumBlizzard of Oz was released in
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September 1980 over in the UKand March of 81 in the US and it
had the song Crazy Train, jimmy.
I'd say it's his most popularsong.
I'm not saying that it'speople's favorite song, but in I
think it's a lot of people'sfavorite song though.
It's a great song.
I mean a great song, I mean agreat song.
More people know that song.
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You know Chipper Jones of theAtlanta Braves when he did his
walk-up song, you know when hewould come up it would be Crazy
Train.
You know it's something that'sknown.
I mean little kids know it, youknow.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's just, it's one of those musical riffs that you
hear the beginning of that songand you know like it sets a tone
, right, you know, oh yeahdefinitely.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It definitely sets a tone.
I agree with you a hundredpercent on that.
That's probably why they usethat song.
If you think about it?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, no, it's, uh, it sounds very intense.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So Flying High again, mr Crowley Shot in the Dark, I
don't know.
You know just a few of the Ozzysongs.
I mean he's got a ton.
My favorite Black Sabbath andI've mentioned this before is
Changes, which is probably themost unlike Black Sabbath song
that they do.
But I love the words and I justlike this different side of
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them.
I love that song.
We've talked about that beforeand I would have to say no More
Tears is my favorite Ozzy songand I remember the first time I
heard it in my car and I heardit on you know some rock station
here in Atlanta.
I was not expecting it to be asgood as it was at a time when,
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you know, like hard rock musicto me wasn't that good, and that
song came out and it blew meaway.
I just thought it was fantastic.
Love it.
So ups downs alcohol.
Fantastic.
Love it, so ups downs.
Alcohol.
Drugs, craziness, biting dovesand a bat urinating on the Alamo
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, a national historic landmark,and other controversies.
Okay, that is Ozzy.
I mean, he didn't even try andhide from it, it is what it is,
you know.
So in May of 1984, ozzy plays ashow in Jacksonville, florida,
and it made the local TV news.
City officials who quietlyviewed the show later labeled
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the concert and Ozzy Osbourneobscene scene.
They vowed to never again letthe controversial singer perform
here, saying he offers nosocial value to this city.
All right, yeah, 1984.
So Ozzy and Sharon Sharon beinghis wife end up with their own
(09:18):
reality TV show with two oftheir children, kelly and Jack,
and their oldest daughter, amy,wanted no part of it.
I can understand why she had acareer that she was trying to do
and didn't want there to beconflicts with it.
So the Osbournes was on MTV2002 to 2005, and I only watched
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the first season.
I watched the whole thing everyweek or whenever it came out,
but I never watched anotherseason and I really don't even
know why.
To be honest, I liked it.
I thought it was good, Ithought it was funny.
Was something set up?
Yeah, I think all reality TVthere's something set up, but
some of it just was funny.
(10:00):
So the theme song was the PatBoone version of Crazy Train
kind of jazzy big band.
Pat Boone was their next doorneighbor when they had moved.
I think it was.
I don't know if it was BeverlyHills or Bel Air, I don't
remember exactly but he actuallyin the beginning was, was their
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next-door neighbor.
They ended up moving and PatBoone, you know, I saw yesterday
.
He talked about Ozzie and saidthat they got along well and he
thinks it's because he was theonly neighbor that didn't call
the police on the Osworns.
So they seemed to get you know,seemed to get along well.
It's a low bar yeah, a very lowbar.
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So in my favorite episodeOzzy's about to go on tour and
the band and the stage crew,sharon and Ozzy, watch the
pyrotechnics that are going tobe used on the stage for the
tour and there's a cannon andthere's bubbles and you know
just all kinds of stuff and youcan kind of see Ozzy reacting.
(11:07):
You know some of it might betoo loud or you know, you just
can see that.
Look on his face and hisresponse to Sharon is bubbles.
Come on, sharon, I'm OzzyOsbourne, the Prince of Darkness
.
Now there's some F-bombsdropped in there, I'll be honest
with you.
And later he wants the touritinerary to see if he's playing
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back-to-back shows, because hedoesn't want to do that at all.
And Sharon at first avoids himand avoids the question but
finally says there's a showtomorrow and then a show in
Albuquerque the next day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And Ozzy says I can't do it, it'll blow out my voice,
it's one day on, one day offand insists he's not doing it.
The next scene is he's on stageat an arena with the crowd
screaming and he says hello,albuquerque, how you doing?
You know Sharon always got thelast word in, but I loved that
(12:11):
episode.
It was just funny Because youcan understand.
You know Sharon always got thelast word in, but I loved that
episode.
It was just funny because youcan understand.
You know, at one point he'slike you know, if you could get
me to do nine straight days, youwould.
And she's like you've neverdone that in your life.
He's like, yeah, you'll find away to do it.
You know, like that's what Iliked about the show that you
know I don't think that was setup.
That was them actually talkingand I enjoyed that part.
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So in 2002, also when it firststarted shortly afterwards at
the White House CorrespondentsDinner, george W Bush, who was
president at the time, isspeaking.
Laura and I are honored to behere tonight.
Thanks for the invitation.
What a fantastic audience wehave tonight Washington power
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brokers, celebrities, hollywoodstars, ozzy Osbourne and the
crowd goes wild.
But he doesn't say OzzyOsbourne.
He says Ozzy Osbourne and youknow the crowd's going wild and
Ozzy Osbourne, and you know thecrowd's going wild and Ozzy's
smiling.
And then you know I've seen thevideo and I can't remember he
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either gets up on a chair or thetable, I can't tell and he is
like putting his arms up to thecrowd and he's blowing kisses.
And President Bush says, okay,ozzy, kind of a pause might have
been a mistake, meaning that itwas a hint, that Ozzy was
stealing the spotlight from him,you know, and it's just funny.
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So then he says the thing aboutOzzy is he's made a lot of big
hit recordings.
So you know, this is apresident that had someone write
something for him, because noone talks about Ozzy Osbourne
and goes the thing about Ozzy,he's had a lot of big hit
recordings.
You think you're talking aboutPat Boone at this point, you
know.
And he goes party with theanimals Sabbath, bloody Sabbath
(14:06):
facing hell, black skies,bloodbath in paradise, and Bush,
facing Hell, black Skies,bloodbath in Paradise.
And Bush continues with Ozzymom loves your stuff.
Crowd goes wild.
Ozzy stands up again, blowsmore kisses, and you know those
are the things that make youlike Ozzy Osbourne, you know, I
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mean it's just funny stuff andhe knew how to ham it up.
You know he's a character Itried to think of like what,
what, what kind of word?
You know he's a character whenyou look at everything about him
, you know back in his alcoholand drug, you know days, you
know I remember in the 80sthinking the guy was a character
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.
They'd interview him and he wasjust squirt guns coming out to
the reporters or whatever.
He just kind of like acharacter.
So I've seen so many tributesto him, you know.
But this one that I read reallysays so much.
We at the Alamo are saddened tohear of the passing of
legendary musician Ozzy Osbourne.
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His relationship with the Alamowas initiated by a deeply
disrespectful incident in 1982.
This act profoundly andrightfully upset many who hold
the site sacred.
As I mentioned earlier, heurinated at the Alamo.
You said on the Alamo.
He did on the Alamo, likethat's, you know, and it's a
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sacred place for a bunch ofpeople in.
Texas.
It's where, in San Antonio,texas, and that was fighting for
the independence of the stateof Texas, and I understand why
people would be upset.
I do Back to you know theirpost that they put out.
However, redemption andreconciliation eventually became
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part of his history as well.
In 1992, ozzie personallyapologized to then-Mayor Nelson
Wolf and expressed genuineremorse for his actions.
Decades later, in 2015, herevisited the Alamo grounds to
learn and appreciate the site'sprofound history, openly
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demonstrating humility andunderstanding.
At the Alamo, we honor historyin all its complexities.
Today, we acknowledge OzzyOsbourne's journey from regret
to reconciliation at thehistoric site and we extend our
condolences to his family,friends and fans around the
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world.
May he rest in peace.
And I think that's just amazing.
I think it is the best tributethat anyone could give,
considering it started with areally bad thing a long time ago
and they said so much yeah, nottoo bad for a guy that
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Jacksonville, Florida cityofficials once said he offered
no social value.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did they ever apologize to him for that?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I hope they're thinking about it now From my
heart and from my hand.
Why don't people understand myintentions?
Why Don't People Understand myIntentions?
Weird Science by Oingo Boingowas WLIR Screamer of the Week
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first week of August 1985, andpeaked at number 45 on Billboard
Hot 100 on October 12, 1985.
From the movie that wasreleased of Weird Science,
imagine that having a song WeirdScience from a movie named
Weird Science, so kind of in anutshell, a couple of nerdy high
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school guys, gary and Wyatt,with Gary being played by
Anthony Michael Hall.
They're not very popular.
While watching the movieFrankenstein, gary comes up with
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the idea to make a girl, notlike from body parts in
Frankenstein, but by feedingpictures into a computer and
designing so that they can havewhat they think is.
They put in a picture of AlbertEinstein because they wanted
the brains and they put inBeethoven because they wanted
the musical ability, houdini.
I'm not really sure why theyput Houdini, but they put all
different kinds of things in.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
She could do magic.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Maybe, maybe, and of all people, david Lee Roth of
Van Halen.
They put him in.
I don't know, maybe to be theham of everything and of all
people, david Lee Roth of VanHalen.
They put him in, you know.
I don't know, maybe to be theham of everything, but you know
it was all connected to a Barbiedoll with wires and electrodes
and they tapped into agovernment facility for more
power.
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And then things are going crazyin the room where they have
this all going on.
And then, when everything calmsdown, lisa, played by Kelly
LeBrock, appears and says sowhat do you little maniacs like
to do?
First?
I love that line, jimmy.
I think that is so funny.
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Like that's the first word shespeaks in the entire movie.
So she knows she was created bythem and they kind of talk
about it.
Lisa was originally played by amodel who only lasted a couple
of days, didn't really doanything else in the business,
and they went back to KellyLeBrock, who was on a beach in
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France, and convinced her thatthey really wanted her for the
part after getting this person.
That didn't work out.
It's your typical teenage movieof trying to be popular.
Lisa decides to have a party atWyatt's house during a dance
scene Killing Jokes, 80s isplaying and I love that song 80s
(20:11):
.
It came out in 1984.
And it just is one of thosesongs that it's just rocking and
rolling.
It kind of gets you in the moodand stuff and it's kind of
funny.
When the song Come as you Areby Nirvana came out, I almost
was like I've heard this songbefore, I think I've heard it.
(20:32):
And then all of a sudden I waslike, ah, someone mentioned to
me that listen the 80s and I waslike, oh, I get it, I do get it
, yeah me too.
So Bill Paxton's in the movieand he plays Wyatt's brother,
chet.
Robert Downey Jr he's one ofthe film's bullies in it.
And Jimmy, did you know that,robert Downey Jr, he's one of
the film's bullies in it.
And Jimmy, did you know thatRobert Downey Jr is considered
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one of the worst cast members ofSaturday Night Live?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, he didn't do very well on Saturday Night Live
.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
No, he was on one season, 1985, 1986.
He got on right after thismovie came out and he was with
Anthony Michael Hall.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He was on the show also Was Julia Louis-Dreyfus on
at the same time.
I believe she was she wasn't agood cast member either.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No, they struggled with live sketch comedy.
They could do where yourehearse your lines and doing a
movie, doing film, but livesketch comedy just wasn't their
thing.
A lot of people think that hewas the worst cast member and I
actually looked it up and a lotof people, a lot of different
polls, a lot of different thingsthey do think he is the
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all-time worst cast member.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
I know it's out of fashion anda trifle uncool, but I can't
help it.
I'm a romantic fool.
It's a habit of mine to watchthe sun go down On Echo Beach.
I watch the sun go down Marthaand the Muffins, echo Beach.
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I believe this song wasreleased in early 1980, but it's
a summer song and a beach song,so I thought it'd be perfect
for now.
I first heard it in 1982 onWLIR and I don't think many
people have ever heard this song.
I looked at your voice likeyou're trying to figure out what
song this is.
Yeah, I don't know if it wasplayed.
(22:28):
I think it was played in Canadaand then WLIR.
Okay, I don't know if it wasplayed.
I think it was played in Canadaand then WLIR.
I don't know if anybody elseever played it, but it's a super
catchy song.
You can find it on YouTube Seethe video.
I remember the video.
They must have played it on MTVat some point, because I do
remember the video.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
There was a scarcity of music videos at one point.
So I'm sure if they had a videoout in those early MTV days it
got played.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, that must be it .
I remember seeing it but Istill like it.
It's still catchy, I still likesinging the song and I'm sure
people out there have songs thatthey know from 40 years ago or
however long that they reallylike that not many other people
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have ever heard of them.
Do you have any songs like that, jimmy?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, so there was a 1977 song by a one-hit wonder
named Dean Friedman and I'mprobably using the word hit a
little bit liberally there, butI think it might have gone to
number 40 on the charts orsomething called Ariel, and look
it up, it's a fun song.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I've never heard it.
Yeah, yeah, you know what?
Jimmy Echo Beach didn't hit anycharts, it didn't hit anything.
I think it was only played,like I said, in Canada.
It did real well because theywere Canadian, right WLAR, they
played it.
I didn't hear much anywhereelse and I still know it and
I've already forgotten who yousaid sang it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dean Friedman.
Dean Friedman, I mean, how canyou forget that name?
It's got to be a stage name,right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Oh yeah, that's a stage name that you chose to
change, whatever your name was,to become dean freeman.
But I'm gonna check this songout and and let you know what I
think of ariel.
So echo beach.
You know, if we get back toecho beach from nine to five, I
have to spend my time at work.
My job is very boring.
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I'm an office.
The only thing that helps mepass the time away is knowing
I'll be back at Echo Beachsomeday.
Like I said, it's catchy.
And speaking of catchy, tick,tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
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Minute with Jimmy Minute withJimmy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So back in 1980, july 25th 1980, an album came out.
It ended up being the firstalbum I ever bought.
I was going into the sixthgrade when this album came out,
and one of the greatest albumsof all time.
Back in Black by ACDC Very nice, jimmy.
(25:14):
So you know bon scott hadpassed away.
They had recorded the tracksfor this album and they had
named the songs, but they didn'thave any lyrics or vocals, and
so malcolm and angus young gavethe basic tracks to brian
johnson, the singer, and he hadnever written a song before.
(25:35):
So he was a pretty establishedsinger musician, but he'd never
actually written his own stuff.
So the first song that he justsits down and writes is called
you Shook Me All Night Long.
The next song he writes is Backin Black.
The next song he writes isHell's Bells and the next one is
Shoot to Thrill.
He pretty much came out of thegate writing some pretty good
(25:57):
songs.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's pretty impressive.
I mean, those are a good groupof songs.
The whole album is fantastic.
So let me ask you, jimmy, it'sthe first album that you bought.
What was that experience likefor you?
Because I'm assuming up to thatpoint you know you got albums
for um your birthday, christmasor whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I might've gotten K-Tel Rock 80 for Christmas that
year, like Christmas 79, maybe,or something, I don't know.
I don't know whether it cameafter or before that, um, but I
don't really count that.
You know, this is like an albumby a band, so I had never owned
an album.
My brother had a lot of greatrecords and that's what I would
(26:41):
listen to and I'd buy singlesnow and then, but I'd never
bought my own album.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
For me.
I remember it took me foreverto pick which album I was going
to buy, because you know, Idon't remember.
You know some albums were $3.99, you know some were $4.99,
$5.00, whatever.
And I'm like I don't have a lotof money and it doesn't come
(27:08):
easy.
I need to make the best choicethat I can make, and I would
just I'd spend hours thereliterally looking for something,
and I remember people alwayslike can I help you, can I help
you?
And I'm like, no, I'm going to,you know, find what I want.
I don't know what it is, butwhen I see it then I'll know it.
(27:30):
And that was, you know.
So for me, going out to buy andeven from when I first was a
young kid, buying them, it waslike an adventure.
It was this long period.
It wasn't like, oh yeah, I'mgoing to go buy this album and
I'll be home.
No, I didn't know really what Iwas going to go buy.
It just was like I got to findthe perfect thing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
This one.
I think I just loved so manysongs on it that I didn't want
to go buy a bunch of singles.
I knew that I really liked fouror five songs on it, so I was
just going to go ahead and buythe whole album, which then you
end up discovering a lot moresongs than than the singles
correct.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That was a good choice.
I like that, jimmy every songon that album is is solid it is
without a doubt, and it's one ofthe best-selling albums of all
time, and I think it's Angus'sbest guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I think think you Shook Me All Night Long.
As popular and kind of poppy orwhatever as that song might be,
I think that's my favoriteguitar solo he ever did.
He's done some incredibleguitar solos, but that song you
can sing that solo, you can hearit in your head, you know where
it's going, it gives you afeeling, it takes you through on
(28:46):
a journey.
It's a perfect guitar solo.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now we know why you bought the album.
It all makes sense now.
Yep, I like it, jimmy.
That was Minute with Jimmy,minute with Jimmy.
May 13th 1985, new Order'sPerfect Kiss peaked at number
five on Billboard Dance ClubSongs July 27th 1985.
(29:09):
So five years and two daysafter Back in Black comes out,
new Order's Perfect Kiss isnumber five on Billboard's Dance
Club Songs.
And it's kind of funny.
As time goes on they add allthese different charts from what
they originally had, so youalmost can find almost any song
on some sort of chart, you know,but you know dance club songs.
(29:32):
It kind of made sense because Iwas going to a place called Spit
, a dance club in Levittown, newYork, heard it many times there
, loved it, you know.
I knew from the start thisfriend of mine would fall apart,
pretending not to see his guilt.
I said let's go out and havesome fun, and that is part of
(29:52):
the song and it's.
It's kind of funny because Ican't tell you how many times
where someone's like, yeah, Idon't really want to go out, or,
oh, my girlfriend broke up withme, or this has happened,
everything.
Like hey, let's go to spit,let's go out and have some fun,
like that was almost my answerto so many things, because it
just was the super cool place togo to and when you you were
(30:16):
outside it was in this bigparking lot.
You could see the high schoolthat I went to.
You know, if you looked one way, you could see the division
deli where we would go and getfood and you know all kinds of
stuff over here.
And you looked over here andthen you know it was uh,
tri-county flea market that you,so you'd see all the stuff.
(30:36):
But then you go inside it'slike a whole nother world, even
though you just crossed the door.
You know, and it was justreally, really cool, just a cool
place to be and to hear songslike that and so many songs, you
know, dancing, having fun withfriends and going there.
(30:56):
For many years I enjoyed itDefinitely like the Perfect Kiss
by New Order.
Let's move up to July 1995.
Smoking Popeses Need you Around?
Love this song, absolutely lovethis song.
I loved it from the first timethat I heard it and they
re-released it.
It was an indie song.
(31:17):
They re-released it on.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Capital Records.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Born to Quit and the Clueless soundtrack, which I
think the Clueless soundtrack isreally what got a lot of people
to actually like it, becausethey see the movie and they can
hear it in the movie and youknow drums, guitar chords.
If I could see into your heartthen what would I know just
(31:43):
where to start?
Because I'm lost and I need tobe found.
Crazy as it sounds, I need youaround.
I just love it.
Like every verse is justfreaking cool in this song.
Love it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And it has a really heavy guitar kind of a music
track and the vocalist he almosthas a Morrissey kind of a sound
to him, you know, a reallyvelvety kind of tone to his
voice.
So it's an interestingcounterplay between the two.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, and the vocals to me are recorded kind of low,
much lower than what the musicis.
So it's, you know, as you'relistening, it's almost the
vocals are going against themusic and the music's going
against the vocals, but in a waythat it sounds really cool.
You know, I just love it.
I think it's a great song.
Peaked at number 35 onBillboard's Modern Rock tracks
(32:40):
Stone Temple Pilots, sour Girl.
Peaked at number 78 onBillboard Hot 100, july 29th
2000.
And, believe it or not, this isthe only STP song to make the
Billboard Hot 100.
What?
Yes, Wow, is that not crazy?
That is, yeah, a song writtenabout singer Scott Weiland's
(33:04):
first wife, and she turned away.
What was she looking at?
She was a sour girl the daythat she met me.
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a happy girl the daythat she left me.
And it makes sense when he saysit's about his first wife that
left him you know, the video had, along with the band, and then
(33:27):
some Teletubby-looking things.
I'm not really sure what theywere, but it had Sarah Michelle
Gellar who was in Buffy theVampire Slayer I know what you
did last summer, what else shewas in, oh, cruel Intentions and
those are all kind of popularright around the time of this
video.
I have to say it's my favoriteStone Temple Pilots song.
(33:50):
I like it.
Like I said, the video.
I'm not sure what the Teletubbythings are.
I don't know what they'recalled, but it's.
You know, it's definitely cool.
And speaking of cool, you canreach us at musicinmyshoes at
gmailcom.
Please like and follow theMusic in my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
Don't forget to spread the wordif you like the podcast.
(34:11):
That's it for Episode 89 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located righthere in Atlanta, georgia, and
Vic Thrill for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
(34:32):
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing, sharon.
Thank you.
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