August 3, 2025 • 37 mins
We take a nostalgic journey through the MTV top videos of 1990, revealing fascinating behind-the-scenes stories and cultural impacts of songs that defined a generation.
• Iggy Pop's "Candy" featuring Kate Pearson after Chrissy Hynde was ghosted
• Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine" highlighting the deadly impact of asbestos mining in Australia
• Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" remixed by DNA and its connection to MP3 technology development
• Vanilla Ice and the "Under Pressure" sounding "Ice Ice Baby"
• Faith No More's "Epic" video controversy regarding the flopping fish
• 30 years after his death, Jerry Garcia's enduring legacy and the unique experience of seeing the Grateful Dead live
• The Cure's "In Between Days" spent just one week on Billboard despite its cultural impact
• MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" claiming the top spot on MTV's 1990 countdown
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 90.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Episode 90 already, jimmy 90.
(00:52):
90.
So it sounds like a good timeto talk about the MTV top videos
of 1990.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So there's a bunch.
I'm not going to go through thewhole list.
They have like a hundred ofthem'm not going to go through
the whole list.
They have like 100 of them,just going to go through.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
some Go through like 96 of them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, that's usually what I do after I say I'm not,
but I'm not going to do that,okay.
And then I'm going to mentionsome that we've talked about on
the show before.
I'm not going to really go intotoo much detail, kind of hit
some of the ones that we haven'ttalked about All right.
All right, so let's start withnumber 95, candy Iggy Pop with
(01:29):
Kate Pearson of the B-52s Mm-hmm.
I've always liked the song, butwithout Kate Pearson's voice it
just wouldn't be the same.
They sound really good together.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
They do.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I watched the video.
I listened to the song.
You know, I just was like youknow.
Let me kind of remember this alittle bit.
You know, does it sound the wayI remember it?
And it really truly does.
Kate Pearson's voice isfantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And the fact that they got her.
You know the B-52s, you knowthey were just making that big
comeback.
I mean, it was just perfecttiming and it's much better than
the shiny happy people that shedid with.
Uh, REM Right, you know reallygood song I.
You know, I like it so much.
I really truly believe withoutKate Pearson we would not be
(02:21):
talking about the song today.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Unless they got another great female singer, you
know, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know they actually did have another one in
mind.
They wanted Chrissy Hine of thePretenders.
Okay, that might have worked.
Actually sent to her.
Iggy Pop sent to her, but thenshe never heard anything back.
She didn't know if she didsomething wrong.
Next thing she knows KeithPearson's singing it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh wow, she got ghosted.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, and I don't know if you can be ghosted back in
1990, but she did.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, you know, she got hung up on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yes, which you can't get hung up on today.
Right, there you go.
I guess you can get hung up onyou, just push the button.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, they still call it hanging up.
You know why it's calledhanging up.
I mean you used to actuallyhang a phone on the wall like
the old, old-fashioned ones,before our time even.
Yes, you know with the littleearpiece You'd hang it up.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You would hang it up, and back then a lot of the
phones didn't start with anumber.
They started with two letters.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right, yeah, and there were still some people
using that when we were younger.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I remember yeah, there were in my town.
I remember someone give youtheir number and they'd be like
pe and I'm like what you know, Iknow, like I don't know what
that is there were, uh, therewere commercials talking about
getting local stations like wor.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When you had cable in atl, you'd also get WGN in
Chicago and they had Lincoln.
Carpeting was National 29,000.
And it was like NA9 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't even know how you remember National Carpeting
.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It was Lincoln Carpeting.
Thank you very much, but theirtelephone number was National
25,000 or something.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I couldn't even remember it 15 seconds later,
jimmy, and you remembered it allthese years.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, really Okay, when you're thinking Lincoln,
lincoln, better carpeting forless dial, national 25,000.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Honestly, I know nothing about this.
This was on a Chicago station.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, WGN.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And I remember WGN.
They had like the Chicago Cubsgames on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And they had good movies on the weekends.
If I remember correctly.
The fact that you remember thiscommercial is just cracking me
up, seriously, I couldn'tremember 15 seconds ago what you
said.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I remember a lot of stuff from commercials and TV
shows.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, that's good, I like that.
So Candy peaked at number 28.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
This could be a long show, Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It could be.
We haven't gotten very far.
It peaked at number 28 inFebruary of 1991 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
So let's move on, because Ithink we really need to.
Number 91, midnight Oil BlueSky Mine.
91, midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine.
One of my favorite Midnight Oilsongs, very cool guitar opens
(05:09):
it up with lead singer PeterGarrett on harmonica.
And it's not just, like youknow, just cheap harmonica.
He plays a really goodharmonica.
It's like this bluesy rockingthing and it's like man.
This sounds really cool.
So the song's inspired by theformer workers, and I'm not sure
(05:30):
if I'm pronouncing this right,but in australia, this town,
wittenoom, and there was anasbestos mine there and it was
open, I think, from like 1947 to1966.
They closed it because it wasnot, uh, profitable and there
were a lot of health concerns.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Imagine that you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, so they end up telling people you know, you got
to move out of the town andlittle by little people were
moving out.
2 000 people that either workedthere or lived in the town died
of asbestos related illnesses.
(06:12):
And this song brings to light Imean, it names the company, it
talks all about it.
It's, you know, uh, blueasbestos.
That's why it's called blue sky, mine and it's I think it's
like one of the few places inAustralia that you could
actually mine for it.
And it's like really cool ifyou research and you find out
(06:34):
what it's all about.
You know, a lot of times welisten to songs and all we know
is what we hear.
This song is just, it'sfantastic.
It truly truly is.
It was a WDRE radio shriek ofthe week in March, the second
week of March 1990.
Wdre took over for WLIR radio.
(06:55):
We talk about them a lot.
It peaked at number 47 onBillboard Hot 100 and was number
one on mainstream rock airplayin March of 90 as well.
Not too bad.
Yeah, number 81, dna featuringSuzanne Vega, tom's Diner.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You remember that song?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So it was released as a single in July 1990.
And it was a WDRE Shriek of theWeek the second week of August
1990, peaked at number five onthe Billboard Hot 100 in
December of 1990.
And when I first heard it I waslike I know this song, but I've
(07:38):
never heard it like this.
And it was actually released in1987 as an acapella version on
suzanne vegas solitude standingalbum yep and I remember I would
hear it someone at um the radiostation liked the song so much
they would play the acapellaversion at times and I had
(08:01):
remembered it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
yeah, it was cool.
It was kind of haunting becausethere's no music track, it was
just her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And she was singing it.
You know how sometimes peopledo acapella and they don't take
a break.
For, like she took a break,like there was going to be that
music that was in between, right, it's kind of you know, kind of
cool.
So it was actually co-producedby friend of the show, lenny K.
Oh, cool.
Yes, he actually co-produced herfirst two albums, so Vega wrote
(08:31):
the song after stopping atTom's restaurant in New York
City, a place that shefrequently went to, and Tom's
restaurant is also famous forbeing the outdoor scenes of
Monk's Cafe from the TV showSeinfeld.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All the same place.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Without getting anyone's permission, dna made a
dance remix of the song Okay,and after getting word of it,
vega and her record label.
They didn't want to go to court, they just decided they would
release it and name everybody aswriters.
It's kind of interestingbecause on the original Suzanne
(09:13):
Vega is the only writer, but onthe remix it has DNA, suzanne
Vega, lenny K and the otherproducer I can't remember off
the top of my head what his nameis.
So did you know that?
When they were and I don't knowall the technical stuff so
(09:34):
maybe I'm not saying it rightbut when they were trying to
figure out how to make the MP3,they used the acapella version
as what a song should be, tocreate it and the compression
and listening and everything,and she's considered the mother
of the MP3.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow, yes, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All on this one song that has connections to Lenny K,
friend of the show Seinfeld,with the Restaurant MP3s.
Everything this song has,everything.
It has something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Uh-huh, I'm going to nerd out on that and look that
up, because I'm very curious.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know, maybe you do that, Maybe next episode you
can talk a little bit about itfor us because, like again, I
read a bunch.
It didn't mean a whole lot tome, but I got the gist of, you
know of what they were trying tosay.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, you know the Fraunhofer compression that they
used.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, yeah so.
Number 80, the Rolling StonesRockin' a Hard Place.
Number 78, Michael Penn no Myth.
What if I were Romeo in blackjeans?
What if I was Heathcliff?
It's no myth, Maybe she's justlooking for someone to dance
with.
Released in November 1989, thefirst WDRE radio shriek of the
(10:58):
week in January 1990 and peakedat number 13 on Billboard in
March, and Penn won the MTVAward for Best New Artist off of
this song.
He had another song that wasn'tthe best at all, but just one
song, boom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know who his brother is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sean, yeah, yeah, mr Hond.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Isn't it our time?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yes, yes, yes, it is, and that pizza we're going to
take and I'm going to have someand give some to everybody else.
Hey, number 72, DigitalUnderground, the Humpty Dance
Peaking at number 11 onBillboard Hot 100, June of 90.
The Humpty Dance is your chanceto do the hump.
Do the Humpty Hump, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean, is that Shakespeare?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'll tell you Just be alert in Burger King bathroom,
okay.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Number 70, concrete Blonde Joey, we talked about
that in an earlier episode.
Number 67, the Black Croweshard to handle.
Number 64, technotronic pump upthe jam, pump up the jam, pump
it up.
While your feet are stompingand the jam is pumping, look
(12:17):
ahead, the crowd is jumping.
Released in August 89, peakedat number two on Billboard in
January of 90.
Awa a place to stay.
Get your Booty on the FloorTonight.
Make my Day, man.
There's some more Shakespearefor you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And a little Eastwood thrown in at the end.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I know, I never noticed that until I just said
that Number 58, Warrant CherryPie, peaked at number 10 in
November 90.
Video starred Bobby Brown, whowas also in Great White's Once
Bitten Twice Shy video, and sheended up marrying.
What was the name of?
Warren?
Janie Lane, Jamie Lane.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The lead singer.
She married him for not thatlong.
They got married and withoutthis video I wouldn't know who
Warrant is.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I still don't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You've never seen the video.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean, yeah, but I'm just saying like I don't, you
don't know who the lead singeris.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, I'm close, it's Jamie or Janie Lane, something
like that.
Okay, number 57, delight Grooveis in the Heart.
Number 52, billy Joel I Go toExtremes.
I really like his piano work inthis song.
Most of the song is kind of abasic, nothing exciting about it
, but kind of like his pianosolo and you know, as the song
(13:38):
gets further into it, reallycool piano work.
Number 48, depeche Mode Policyof Truth.
Number 47.
Oh, number 47.
Never heard the song so I'mgoing to have to defer to you
Jimmy.
Number 47, kiss with Forever.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, I don't think I know that one.
That's a late Kiss song, 1990?
.
Yes, oh, I'm a little suspectof what that song sounds like.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Sounds like it might be some kind of a pandering
ballad.
I know nothing.
I never heard of it until Ilooked this up.
I got to be honest with you.
All right, let's go to number45, tom Petty Free Fallin'.
Number 44, alana Miles.
Black Velvet.
I like this song.
Tribute to Elvis Presley.
I just found this song justkind of appealing.
It just starts.
It's kind of like a bluesycountry rock type thing.
(14:29):
It was kind of different thanwhat was happening at the time.
Black Velvet and that littleboy smile.
Black Velvet with that slowsouthern style.
A new religion that'll Bringyou to your Knees.
Black Velvet, if you PleaseAgain, I really do like this.
I did not have it on my phone,but I added it on my phone
(14:52):
because I should have had it onmy phone.
I like it All right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So it's another one of those songs I like how every
song in creation is available oneveryone's phone now, but you
talk very seriously about whichsongs you add to your phone.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I do.
It's on my playlist.
I have one big playlist, so Iyeah, I know it's available on
everyone.
Anyone can listen to it, butmost people don't.
It's actually on my.
I like to listen to shuffle.
I hit songs and I hit shuffle.
That's the way I usually listento music, unless I'm doing
(15:29):
something for the show I want torefresh on something.
Then I go specifically intosomething.
A lot of times I am justshuffle and whatever comes comes
.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
How many songs do you think you have on your shuffle?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't not many.
I have about 5,000.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's a lot, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't.
I do not have a lot.
I have you know what.
Do you call it?
The old iPod.
Yes, I have a small iPod thatI've got a ton of songs on and
then I have an external harddrive that I got like 25,000
songs on and you know, it justgets to the point With the phone
(16:08):
.
I really try and make it songsthat I want to listen to.
Like I don't have any fluff inthere, there's not anything that
I don't want to listen to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, you're not putting whole albums.
If you only like two songs onthe album, correct, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And if there's 12 songs on the album, I only like
10, I'm only putting the 10.
I'm not going to put the othertwo.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Not being nice.
No, just no.
Courtesy slots.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I will.
If it's a brand new album, I'llput the whole thing and then
listen to it and then deletefrom there.
That's what I do.
All right, so Black Velvet,number one on Billboard Hot 100,
march of 1990.
Number 39, snap the Power and Iknow these are a lot of the
(16:53):
songs that you were jamming outto back in the day, jimmy, I can
just see by the look on yourface.
There you go.
See, I'm snapping More proofthat pop was changing.
I have no idea what they'resaying in this song, other than
I've got the power and it'sgetting kind of hectic.
Other than that, still, 35years later, I don't know what
(17:18):
they say in the entire rest ofthe song.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I never knew yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That does not surprise me.
It peaked at number two onBillboard in August of 1990.
In 2022, rolling Stone named it188 on the 200 Greatest Dance
Songs of all time, and in 2024,billboard named it number 59 on
their 100 greatest jock jams ofall time.
(17:45):
Now I got to be honest with you, jock jams.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I haven't heard that term since the 90s.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I don't think what's a jock jam.
A jock jam is something thatwhen you go to a sporting event
that they play the song you knowOkay.
And that's definitely a songthat used to be played at like a
ton of football games.
Professional football games.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, I'll have to look it up.
I'm getting it confused withEverybody Dance Now.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, it is not that song, okay, all right.
All right, listen to it.
I'm sure you'll love it.
Either way, all right.
Number 37, in Excess Suicide,blonde 31, motley Crue Same Old
Situation.
Number 30, depeche Mode Enjoythe Silence.
Number 28, aerosmith the OtherSide.
(18:31):
We've talked about a bunch ofthese songs before.
Number 20, belle Viv Devoe,poison, and all I can remember
from that, that girl is poison.
I bet she was and it had thatdrum.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Number 19,.
Aerosmith what it Takes.
Number 16, the B-52s Rome.
Number 15, faith no More, epic.
I forgot that this song wasfrom 1990.
I like this song, always likedit Definitely.
The video, you know, made itmuch better watching the video.
(19:07):
It was just super cool.
You know, it's kind of like afunky metal song, like it's
tough to say what it is.
It's funky but at the same timeit's kind of got that like
harder metal whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, they were kind of pioneers of that metal funk.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, so you know, it reminds me With kind of rap on
top of it.
Yeah, it reminds me of some RedHot Chili Pepper songs actually
.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, that's.
True, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So reach number nine on Billboard Hot 100, September
of 1990.
And the video's kind of knowntowards the end end the fish
that's flopping on the groundout of the water and the piano
playing is at the end.
And then a lot of people wereasking you know what happened to
the fish?
And it became I think the songbecame bigger because so many
(19:55):
people wondered what happened tothe fish and, and there's all
different stories I don't knowwhat to believe.
But Bjork said she gave thefish to them, she was in San
Francisco and she said that washer fish.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But then Did they give it back?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think so.
I don't think she lived there,I think she lived somewhere far
away.
So she needed to find somebodyto take the fish.
But then I read another story Idon't know if it was the person
that did the video, I don'tremember but said oh, we used
multiple fish and no fish washurt while making this video.
So I don't know what the answeris.
(20:33):
Multiple stories, maybe somedaywe'll find out about it.
I think without the floppingfish the song is not as popular
as it was.
You want it all but you can'thave it.
It's in your face but you can'tgrab it Again.
Mtv top videos of 1990.
(20:54):
Number 10, motley Crue Don't GoAway Mad, just Go Away.
Peaked at number 19 in July onthe Billboard charts.
The song is almost like twoparts.
It's the first part.
It's kind of a ballad andtalking about whatever you know
with.
(21:14):
I don't even know what it'stalking about Until all of a
sudden it goes don't go away,man, just go away.
Like all the music, everythingchanges and it just becomes like
a more rocker song and now it'slike you know.
The beginning is like more thanhalf the song, but I like the
part where they say don't goaway, man, just go away.
I think that's classic.
(21:35):
There's been a few songs thathave actually been named.
That Number nine, Janet Jackson, escapade.
Number one in March.
Number eight Jon Bon Jovi,blaze of Glory.
Number one in September.
It was on Young Guns 2.
They wanted to use what wasthat song Wanted, dead or Alive?
That was the Bon Jovi song,right?
(21:57):
And he said, oh, let me justwrite another song.
And he wrote Blaze of Glory.
Number seven Vanilla Ice, ice,ice, baby.
The look on your face ispriceless, jimmy you know I'm a
defender of Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think he was kind of cool all right, stop,
collaborate and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We all know the song that sampled the bass from Queen
.
David Bowie, under pressure,sampled it and it's funny
because I have seen with my owneyes back in the day when the
song was out.
I've seen these news videos hedid with MTV or whatever it was
where he's trying to defend.
(22:38):
It's not the same bass line.
I know because there's onemissing note yes, one missing
note and you're like he can'treally believe this.
Does he really believe?
This Right, you know.
So hey, if there was a problem,yo I'll solve it.
Check out the hook while my DJrevolves it.
(22:59):
I mean, those are some classicwords right there.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It wasn't even my daughter lily, used to do ice
ice baby when she was like ayoung toddler she's like 18
months old or something reallyand she would go ice, ice baby
and she'd do this little dance.
It was the cutest thing you'veever seen oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Did you know it wasn't even the a side.
The a side was play that funkymusic and someone decided, hey,
let me just flip it over, let mesee what's on the other side.
Like, oh, this is much better.
And it ended up number one onbillboard in 1990.
You know we've talked aboutsongs that weren't meant to be
(23:41):
the you know the A-side and howfamous they ended up becoming.
So on February 10th 1991, on InLiving Color, do you remember
that TV show In?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Living Color.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Jim Carrey did a parody of the song called White
White Baby.
It is funny.
You got gotta check it out onyoutube and they actually, you
know he looks exactly likevanilla ice.
They have the hair and the wayit's cut, like he wears, you
know, like a face pic.
You know thing over his head,it's just funny.
(24:16):
It really really is.
Not so funny is Vanilla Ice'sdealings with Suge Knight.
Okay, so Suge had anacquaintance and the guy's name
was Mario and he said that hehelped write the song and that
he wasn't getting any royaltiesand his name wasn't listed.
(24:38):
And that he wasn't getting anyroyalties and his name wasn't
listed.
So Suge Knight started showingup all around Los Angeles while
Vanilla Ice was out there,Mm-hmm, and would show up with
big guys and, kind of you know,make him feel uncomfortable, To
the point where he goes toVanilla Ice's hotel 15 stories
(25:00):
up, roughs up his bodyguards andVanilla Ice and Suge Knight are
outside on the balcony.
Originally, Vanilla Ice saysthat Suge Knight held him by his
feet or was dangling him, butthen he changed his story and
just said that we were talking.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And that maybe Suge Knight said.
You know, it's kind of high uphere, it's a long way down, or
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know exactly, but that's a big, big
difference, that's a big storychange.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But it is a big story change.
I think one does that to makesure that they stay alive.
So what ended up happening?
There's no dispute about this.
Vanilla Ice ends up signingthere his rights to the song and
gives up $4 million.
Oh yes, that's not a disputeand that is how Death Row
(25:52):
Records got its start.
Whoa, number six, sineadO'Connor.
Nothing Compares to you.
Number four in April.
Number five Paula Abdul.
Opposites Attract.
This is the song where she'slike dancing with like a cartoon
cat or something, if I remembercorrectly.
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It was, yeah, like a coyote or a cat.
Maybe it was a cat, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know what?
I don't think it was a dog, soit could have been anything, but
this was kind of like the intechnology.
At the time they had that moviewho Framed Roger Rabbit, yeah.
So you know I wasn't a fan ofthe song, but it still peaked at
number one on Billboard inFebruary of 1990.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Number four Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith peaked at
number four in February.
Number three Madonna Vogue,number one in May of 90.
Hey, jimmy, should I compose?
There you go, I love it.
Number two Billy Idol.
Cradle of Love, number two onBillboard in August and out of
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all the songs he recorded, billyonly had one song chart higher
than Cradle of Love.
Blew my mind away.
I did not know this and it wasthe live version of Money Money
that came out in 1987.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, wow, anyway, number one song on the MTV Top
Videos of 1990.
Jimmy, can you guess?
No, your excitement isoverwhelming, jimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, yeah, I don't know where to go with that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
MC Hammer, you Can't.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Touch this.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh yeah, we talked about MC Hammer.
You know, a few episodes ago wetalked about MC Hammer.
A few episodes ago the HammerPants dance song, inspired by
Rick James Super Freak, peakedat number one on Billboard in
June 1990.
Stop Hammer time.
August 9th 1995, jerry Garcia,lead singer, guitarist for
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Grateful Dead, he passed awayand there's so many songs that I
can think of when I think ofJerry Garcia.
You know, althea Going Down theRoad Feeling Bad.
Touch of Gray.
Here Comes Sunshine.
Ripple, alabama, get Away,shakedown Street.
If I had the World To Give, Imean there's a ton of songs
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Mississippi, half Step UptownToodaloo I love the name of that
song and it's actually a greatsong.
Help on the Way, slipknot,franklin's Tower.
And it was just really, reallycool to have listened to the
Grateful Dead and to be able tosee them while Jerry Garcia was
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still alive.
And you know I've gone to manyDead Company shows, you know,
since, and it's fun to be thereand I love being there and I
love the songs.
But it is not the same and it's, you know, not trying to offend
John Mayer whatsoever it's notthe same as being at the, you
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know, a Grateful Dead show.
It's not the same as JerryGarcia on guitar.
I'm sure, yeah, and even in 1995, when Jerry probably shouldn't
have been on the road.
He was pretty frail at the time.
His guitar playing yeah, it'snot what it once was, but I
would take it today If I couldlisten to it.
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Today I would be there to gosee a show and enjoy it.
You know we had the JerryGarcia band, which was something
he did on the side to kind ofplay some music that he didn't
feel fit into the Grateful Deadmold, but he could play it and
enjoy it.
He would play with Melvin Sealsa lot and I think it was a good
(29:48):
relief for him.
And you know he would normallyplay smaller places.
But you know in what was it?
89?
I mean they played like theNassau Coliseum on Long Island.
They had Bob Weir open up withRob Wasserman and it's just
super cool.
Jerry Garcia is just so muchfun.
(30:09):
And I'm glad I've had theopportunity I think I've
mentioned it before where peoplehave asked me if I've actually
seen Jerry and that ultimatelymakes me feel really old.
But yes, you know, I have seenJerry Garcia in concert and been
to shows and I just think it'scool and and you know I love the
Grateful Dead, um, and I, and Iknow a lot of people don't, and
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that's okay.
Music's not a competition, youknow, um, but I'm glad that that
I got to see him.
But I'm glad that I got to seehim and I'm glad that when I can
put on a song on my phone or Istill belong to their CD of the
quarter club and I get CDs fromthe Grateful Dead, well, you
know, listening to it it justbrings me back and it's just
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super cool and definitely hardto believe he's been gone for 30
years already.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
Pat benatar, crimes of passioncame out august 5th 1980.
First single you better runpeaked at number 42 on billboard
in august of 80.
A straight-up rock and rollsong.
Really cool song, jimmy did youknow it's a cover that Robert
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Plant he had a band in the 60s,he actually sang this song no,
yes, wow.
And Peter Criss, on one of hissolo albums actually did this.
A bunch of people have done it.
It was the second song playedon MTV on August 1st 1981.
Amazing, yes, hit Me With yourBest Shot reached number nine on
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Billboard in December of 80 andTreat Me Right peaked at number
18 in March 1981.
Another rocker, good album.
I think it was released at theright time in 1980.
It was something I think peoplewere looking for and it's a
good album.
If you haven't listened to itor put the songs on your phone,
I recommend it.
The Cure In Between Days, wlir,screamer of the Week, second
(32:06):
week of August 1985.
It was only on the BillboardHot 100 for one week.
It came in at number 99 onFebruary 15th 1986, six months
after it was Screamer of theweek.
It's really hard to believethat this song was only in the
top 100 for one week.
(32:26):
I mean this song.
When I was growing up, while Iwas a fan of the Cure and liked
them and was listening to them,a lot of my friends this was the
introduction to the Cure forthem hearing In Between Days and
so many people were like peoplethat never heard of them before
knew them because this song wasbeing played and it's hard to
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believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It didn't do well on billboard I think that the like
wdre wlir kind of skewed yourimpression because living in
atlanta you would never hearthat on the radio.
My brother had the 12-inchsingle of that and that's how I
knew it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And so.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I introduced my friends to it by putting it on
mixtapes and stuff.
But yeah, it wasn't on theradio here, maybe on college
radio.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy how that can be Speaking
of crazy 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.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Minute with Jimmy.
So the other night on Saturdaynight, I went over to the
Variety Playhouse here inAtlanta and I saw a couple of
tribute bands.
I'm not a big tribute bandperson but I really love the
Clash and there are some localguys in Atlanta that have a band
called Clashinista and they doa really, really good job of
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honoring that Clash material 50minutes, I bet you.
They played 16 songs in 15minutes and just a great
sampling from all the differentClash albums.
And then next came onSmithsonian.
That's another local Atlantacover band tribute band that
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does Smith songs and they werereally good.
I'm not a huge Smiths fan butthey really got all the details
right.
The singer was very much aMorrissey sound alike and the
Johnny Marr guitar player hitall the right parts.
And I really appreciated thedrums and bass more than I ever
(34:35):
did just listening to the Smithsrecordings, watching these guys
play the stuff live, like it'sgot some pretty rocking bass and
drums in a lot of the songs.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That sounds very cool .
Did the guy playing Morrissey?
Did he say he was sick and wasgoing to cancel the show?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, no, they actually went on stage, so it
was very unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh man, that's true, I like that, that is good.
No, that's true, I like that,that is good.
No, that sounds like a goodtime.
So are both bands local or justthey are yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And they've both been around for a while.
Smithsonian has been around Iwould say at least 20 years,
because I saw them at a partylike 20 years ago, and
Clashinista, I think, think, hasbeen around for about 10 and
they were all well.
Some of the guys were in a bandcalled Starling Family that I
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knew that I'd played like atsome shows with and I heard them
cover a Clash song.
Back then I was like, wow,they're really good covering
that Clash song.
And then they ended up justsaying let's not do the original
band anymore, let's beClashinista and it's great.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
That sounds very cool .
You know Andy Rourke, theformer bass player for the
Smiths, no longer with us when Ifirst started listening to the
Smiths, that was one of thethings that hooked me.
You know, besides Johnny Marr alot of people say Johnny Marr's
guitar, and that was what gotthem.
But you know, andy Rourke, hisbass was just so cool and you
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know, again, I've mentioned thisbefore but that drove me to
listen to more and more of theSmiths, to go and let me find
out everything I possibly canabout them, because I really
enjoy it.
Mm-hmm, my name is Jimmy.
Well, if you enjoyed the show,you can reach us at
musicinmyshoes at gmailcom.
If you have anything you'd liketo say to us, we'd like to say
(36:26):
please like and follow the MusicIn my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 90 ofMusic In my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, georgia, and Vic
Thrill for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
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We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Yo man, let's get out of here.
Word to your mother.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 90.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Episode 90 already, jimmy 90.
(00:52):
90.
So it sounds like a good timeto talk about the MTV top videos
of 1990.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So there's a bunch.
I'm not going to go through thewhole list.
They have like a hundred ofthem'm not going to go through
the whole list.
They have like 100 of them,just going to go through.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
some Go through like 96 of them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, that's usually what I do after I say I'm not,
but I'm not going to do that,okay.
And then I'm going to mentionsome that we've talked about on
the show before.
I'm not going to really go intotoo much detail, kind of hit
some of the ones that we haven'ttalked about All right.
All right, so let's start withnumber 95, candy Iggy Pop with
(01:29):
Kate Pearson of the B-52s Mm-hmm.
I've always liked the song, butwithout Kate Pearson's voice it
just wouldn't be the same.
They sound really good together.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
They do.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I watched the video.
I listened to the song.
You know, I just was like youknow.
Let me kind of remember this alittle bit.
You know, does it sound the wayI remember it?
And it really truly does.
Kate Pearson's voice isfantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And the fact that they got her.
You know the B-52s, you knowthey were just making that big
comeback.
I mean, it was just perfecttiming and it's much better than
the shiny happy people that shedid with.
Uh, REM Right, you know reallygood song I.
You know, I like it so much.
I really truly believe withoutKate Pearson we would not be
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talking about the song today.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Unless they got another great female singer, you
know, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know they actually did have another one in
mind.
They wanted Chrissy Hine of thePretenders.
Okay, that might have worked.
Actually sent to her.
Iggy Pop sent to her, but thenshe never heard anything back.
She didn't know if she didsomething wrong.
Next thing she knows KeithPearson's singing it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh wow, she got ghosted.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, and I don't know if you can be ghosted back in
1990, but she did.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, you know, she got hung up on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yes, which you can't get hung up on today.
Right, there you go.
I guess you can get hung up onyou, just push the button.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, they still call it hanging up.
You know why it's calledhanging up.
I mean you used to actuallyhang a phone on the wall like
the old, old-fashioned ones,before our time even.
Yes, you know with the littleearpiece You'd hang it up.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You would hang it up, and back then a lot of the
phones didn't start with anumber.
They started with two letters.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right, yeah, and there were still some people
using that when we were younger.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I remember yeah, there were in my town.
I remember someone give youtheir number and they'd be like
pe and I'm like what you know, Iknow, like I don't know what
that is there were, uh, therewere commercials talking about
getting local stations like wor.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When you had cable in atl, you'd also get WGN in
Chicago and they had Lincoln.
Carpeting was National 29,000.
And it was like NA9 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't even know how you remember National Carpeting
.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It was Lincoln Carpeting.
Thank you very much, but theirtelephone number was National
25,000 or something.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I couldn't even remember it 15 seconds later,
jimmy, and you remembered it allthese years.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, really Okay, when you're thinking Lincoln,
lincoln, better carpeting forless dial, national 25,000.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Honestly, I know nothing about this.
This was on a Chicago station.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, WGN.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And I remember WGN.
They had like the Chicago Cubsgames on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And they had good movies on the weekends.
If I remember correctly.
The fact that you remember thiscommercial is just cracking me
up, seriously, I couldn'tremember 15 seconds ago what you
said.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I remember a lot of stuff from commercials and TV
shows.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, that's good, I like that.
So Candy peaked at number 28.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
This could be a long show, Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It could be.
We haven't gotten very far.
It peaked at number 28 inFebruary of 1991 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
So let's move on, because Ithink we really need to.
Number 91, midnight Oil BlueSky Mine.
91, midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine.
One of my favorite Midnight Oilsongs, very cool guitar opens
(05:09):
it up with lead singer PeterGarrett on harmonica.
And it's not just, like youknow, just cheap harmonica.
He plays a really goodharmonica.
It's like this bluesy rockingthing and it's like man.
This sounds really cool.
So the song's inspired by theformer workers, and I'm not sure
(05:30):
if I'm pronouncing this right,but in australia, this town,
wittenoom, and there was anasbestos mine there and it was
open, I think, from like 1947 to1966.
They closed it because it wasnot, uh, profitable and there
were a lot of health concerns.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Imagine that you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, so they end up telling people you know, you got
to move out of the town andlittle by little people were
moving out.
2 000 people that either workedthere or lived in the town died
of asbestos related illnesses.
(06:12):
And this song brings to light Imean, it names the company, it
talks all about it.
It's, you know, uh, blueasbestos.
That's why it's called blue sky, mine and it's I think it's
like one of the few places inAustralia that you could
actually mine for it.
And it's like really cool ifyou research and you find out
(06:34):
what it's all about.
You know, a lot of times welisten to songs and all we know
is what we hear.
This song is just, it'sfantastic.
It truly truly is.
It was a WDRE radio shriek ofthe week in March, the second
week of March 1990.
Wdre took over for WLIR radio.
(06:55):
We talk about them a lot.
It peaked at number 47 onBillboard Hot 100 and was number
one on mainstream rock airplayin March of 90 as well.
Not too bad.
Yeah, number 81, dna featuringSuzanne Vega, tom's Diner.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You remember that song?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So it was released as a single in July 1990.
And it was a WDRE Shriek of theWeek the second week of August
1990, peaked at number five onthe Billboard Hot 100 in
December of 1990.
And when I first heard it I waslike I know this song, but I've
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never heard it like this.
And it was actually released in1987 as an acapella version on
suzanne vegas solitude standingalbum yep and I remember I would
hear it someone at um the radiostation liked the song so much
they would play the acapellaversion at times and I had
(08:01):
remembered it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
yeah, it was cool.
It was kind of haunting becausethere's no music track, it was
just her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And she was singing it.
You know how sometimes peopledo acapella and they don't take
a break.
For, like she took a break,like there was going to be that
music that was in between, right, it's kind of you know, kind of
cool.
So it was actually co-producedby friend of the show, lenny K.
Oh, cool.
Yes, he actually co-produced herfirst two albums, so Vega wrote
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the song after stopping atTom's restaurant in New York
City, a place that shefrequently went to, and Tom's
restaurant is also famous forbeing the outdoor scenes of
Monk's Cafe from the TV showSeinfeld.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All the same place.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Without getting anyone's permission, dna made a
dance remix of the song Okay,and after getting word of it,
vega and her record label.
They didn't want to go to court, they just decided they would
release it and name everybody aswriters.
It's kind of interestingbecause on the original Suzanne
(09:13):
Vega is the only writer, but onthe remix it has DNA, suzanne
Vega, lenny K and the otherproducer I can't remember off
the top of my head what his nameis.
So did you know that?
When they were and I don't knowall the technical stuff so
(09:34):
maybe I'm not saying it rightbut when they were trying to
figure out how to make the MP3,they used the acapella version
as what a song should be, tocreate it and the compression
and listening and everything,and she's considered the mother
of the MP3.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow, yes, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All on this one song that has connections to Lenny K,
friend of the show Seinfeld,with the Restaurant MP3s.
Everything this song has,everything.
It has something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Uh-huh, I'm going to nerd out on that and look that
up, because I'm very curious.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know, maybe you do that, Maybe next episode you
can talk a little bit about itfor us because, like again, I
read a bunch.
It didn't mean a whole lot tome, but I got the gist of, you
know of what they were trying tosay.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, you know the Fraunhofer compression that they
used.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, yeah so.
Number 80, the Rolling StonesRockin' a Hard Place.
Number 78, Michael Penn no Myth.
What if I were Romeo in blackjeans?
What if I was Heathcliff?
It's no myth, Maybe she's justlooking for someone to dance
with.
Released in November 1989, thefirst WDRE radio shriek of the
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week in January 1990 and peakedat number 13 on Billboard in
March, and Penn won the MTVAward for Best New Artist off of
this song.
He had another song that wasn'tthe best at all, but just one
song, boom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know who his brother is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sean, yeah, yeah, mr Hond.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Isn't it our time?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yes, yes, yes, it is, and that pizza we're going to
take and I'm going to have someand give some to everybody else.
Hey, number 72, DigitalUnderground, the Humpty Dance
Peaking at number 11 onBillboard Hot 100, June of 90.
The Humpty Dance is your chanceto do the hump.
Do the Humpty Hump, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean, is that Shakespeare?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'll tell you Just be alert in Burger King bathroom,
okay.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Number 70, concrete Blonde Joey, we talked about
that in an earlier episode.
Number 67, the Black Croweshard to handle.
Number 64, technotronic pump upthe jam, pump up the jam, pump
it up.
While your feet are stompingand the jam is pumping, look
(12:17):
ahead, the crowd is jumping.
Released in August 89, peakedat number two on Billboard in
January of 90.
Awa a place to stay.
Get your Booty on the FloorTonight.
Make my Day, man.
There's some more Shakespearefor you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And a little Eastwood thrown in at the end.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I know, I never noticed that until I just said
that Number 58, Warrant CherryPie, peaked at number 10 in
November 90.
Video starred Bobby Brown, whowas also in Great White's Once
Bitten Twice Shy video, and sheended up marrying.
What was the name of?
Warren?
Janie Lane, Jamie Lane.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The lead singer.
She married him for not thatlong.
They got married and withoutthis video I wouldn't know who
Warrant is.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I still don't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You've never seen the video.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean, yeah, but I'm just saying like I don't, you
don't know who the lead singeris.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, I'm close, it's Jamie or Janie Lane, something
like that.
Okay, number 57, delight Grooveis in the Heart.
Number 52, billy Joel I Go toExtremes.
I really like his piano work inthis song.
Most of the song is kind of abasic, nothing exciting about it
, but kind of like his pianosolo and you know, as the song
(13:38):
gets further into it, reallycool piano work.
Number 48, depeche Mode Policyof Truth.
Number 47.
Oh, number 47.
Never heard the song so I'mgoing to have to defer to you
Jimmy.
Number 47, kiss with Forever.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, I don't think I know that one.
That's a late Kiss song, 1990?
.
Yes, oh, I'm a little suspectof what that song sounds like.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Sounds like it might be some kind of a pandering
ballad.
I know nothing.
I never heard of it until Ilooked this up.
I got to be honest with you.
All right, let's go to number45, tom Petty Free Fallin'.
Number 44, alana Miles.
Black Velvet.
I like this song.
Tribute to Elvis Presley.
I just found this song justkind of appealing.
It just starts.
It's kind of like a bluesycountry rock type thing.
(14:29):
It was kind of different thanwhat was happening at the time.
Black Velvet and that littleboy smile.
Black Velvet with that slowsouthern style.
A new religion that'll Bringyou to your Knees.
Black Velvet, if you PleaseAgain, I really do like this.
I did not have it on my phone,but I added it on my phone
(14:52):
because I should have had it onmy phone.
I like it All right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So it's another one of those songs I like how every
song in creation is available oneveryone's phone now, but you
talk very seriously about whichsongs you add to your phone.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I do.
It's on my playlist.
I have one big playlist, so Iyeah, I know it's available on
everyone.
Anyone can listen to it, butmost people don't.
It's actually on my.
I like to listen to shuffle.
I hit songs and I hit shuffle.
That's the way I usually listento music, unless I'm doing
(15:29):
something for the show I want torefresh on something.
Then I go specifically intosomething.
A lot of times I am justshuffle and whatever comes comes
.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
How many songs do you think you have on your shuffle?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't not many.
I have about 5,000.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's a lot, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't.
I do not have a lot.
I have you know what.
Do you call it?
The old iPod.
Yes, I have a small iPod thatI've got a ton of songs on and
then I have an external harddrive that I got like 25,000
songs on and you know, it justgets to the point With the phone
(16:08):
.
I really try and make it songsthat I want to listen to.
Like I don't have any fluff inthere, there's not anything that
I don't want to listen to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, you're not putting whole albums.
If you only like two songs onthe album, correct, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And if there's 12 songs on the album, I only like
10, I'm only putting the 10.
I'm not going to put the othertwo.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Not being nice.
No, just no.
Courtesy slots.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I will.
If it's a brand new album, I'llput the whole thing and then
listen to it and then deletefrom there.
That's what I do.
All right, so Black Velvet,number one on Billboard Hot 100,
march of 1990.
Number 39, snap the Power and Iknow these are a lot of the
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songs that you were jamming outto back in the day, jimmy, I can
just see by the look on yourface.
There you go.
See, I'm snapping More proofthat pop was changing.
I have no idea what they'resaying in this song, other than
I've got the power and it'sgetting kind of hectic.
Other than that, still, 35years later, I don't know what
(17:18):
they say in the entire rest ofthe song.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I never knew yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That does not surprise me.
It peaked at number two onBillboard in August of 1990.
In 2022, rolling Stone named it188 on the 200 Greatest Dance
Songs of all time, and in 2024,billboard named it number 59 on
their 100 greatest jock jams ofall time.
(17:45):
Now I got to be honest with you, jock jams.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I haven't heard that term since the 90s.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I don't think what's a jock jam.
A jock jam is something thatwhen you go to a sporting event
that they play the song you knowOkay.
And that's definitely a songthat used to be played at like a
ton of football games.
Professional football games.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, I'll have to look it up.
I'm getting it confused withEverybody Dance Now.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, it is not that song, okay, all right.
All right, listen to it.
I'm sure you'll love it.
Either way, all right.
Number 37, in Excess Suicide,blonde 31, motley Crue Same Old
Situation.
Number 30, depeche Mode Enjoythe Silence.
Number 28, aerosmith the OtherSide.
(18:31):
We've talked about a bunch ofthese songs before.
Number 20, belle Viv Devoe,poison, and all I can remember
from that, that girl is poison.
I bet she was and it had thatdrum.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Number 19,.
Aerosmith what it Takes.
Number 16, the B-52s Rome.
Number 15, faith no More, epic.
I forgot that this song wasfrom 1990.
I like this song, always likedit Definitely.
The video, you know, made itmuch better watching the video.
(19:07):
It was just super cool.
You know, it's kind of like afunky metal song, like it's
tough to say what it is.
It's funky but at the same timeit's kind of got that like
harder metal whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, they were kind of pioneers of that metal funk.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, so you know, it reminds me With kind of rap on
top of it.
Yeah, it reminds me of some RedHot Chili Pepper songs actually
.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, that's.
True, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So reach number nine on Billboard Hot 100, September
of 1990.
And the video's kind of knowntowards the end end the fish
that's flopping on the groundout of the water and the piano
playing is at the end.
And then a lot of people wereasking you know what happened to
the fish?
And it became I think the songbecame bigger because so many
(19:55):
people wondered what happened tothe fish and, and there's all
different stories I don't knowwhat to believe.
But Bjork said she gave thefish to them, she was in San
Francisco and she said that washer fish.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But then Did they give it back?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think so.
I don't think she lived there,I think she lived somewhere far
away.
So she needed to find somebodyto take the fish.
But then I read another story Idon't know if it was the person
that did the video, I don'tremember but said oh, we used
multiple fish and no fish washurt while making this video.
So I don't know what the answeris.
(20:33):
Multiple stories, maybe somedaywe'll find out about it.
I think without the floppingfish the song is not as popular
as it was.
You want it all but you can'thave it.
It's in your face but you can'tgrab it Again.
Mtv top videos of 1990.
(20:54):
Number 10, motley Crue Don't GoAway Mad, just Go Away.
Peaked at number 19 in July onthe Billboard charts.
The song is almost like twoparts.
It's the first part.
It's kind of a ballad andtalking about whatever you know
with.
(21:14):
I don't even know what it'stalking about Until all of a
sudden it goes don't go away,man, just go away.
Like all the music, everythingchanges and it just becomes like
a more rocker song and now it'slike you know.
The beginning is like more thanhalf the song, but I like the
part where they say don't goaway, man, just go away.
I think that's classic.
(21:35):
There's been a few songs thathave actually been named.
That Number nine, Janet Jackson, escapade.
Number one in March.
Number eight Jon Bon Jovi,blaze of Glory.
Number one in September.
It was on Young Guns 2.
They wanted to use what wasthat song Wanted, dead or Alive?
That was the Bon Jovi song,right?
(21:57):
And he said, oh, let me justwrite another song.
And he wrote Blaze of Glory.
Number seven Vanilla Ice, ice,ice, baby.
The look on your face ispriceless, jimmy you know I'm a
defender of Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think he was kind of cool all right, stop,
collaborate and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We all know the song that sampled the bass from Queen
.
David Bowie, under pressure,sampled it and it's funny
because I have seen with my owneyes back in the day when the
song was out.
I've seen these news videos hedid with MTV or whatever it was
where he's trying to defend.
(22:38):
It's not the same bass line.
I know because there's onemissing note yes, one missing
note and you're like he can'treally believe this.
Does he really believe?
This Right, you know.
So hey, if there was a problem,yo I'll solve it.
Check out the hook while my DJrevolves it.
(22:59):
I mean, those are some classicwords right there.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It wasn't even my daughter lily, used to do ice
ice baby when she was like ayoung toddler she's like 18
months old or something reallyand she would go ice, ice baby
and she'd do this little dance.
It was the cutest thing you'veever seen oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Did you know it wasn't even the a side.
The a side was play that funkymusic and someone decided, hey,
let me just flip it over, let mesee what's on the other side.
Like, oh, this is much better.
And it ended up number one onbillboard in 1990.
You know we've talked aboutsongs that weren't meant to be
(23:41):
the you know the A-side and howfamous they ended up becoming.
So on February 10th 1991, on InLiving Color, do you remember
that TV show In?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Living Color.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Jim Carrey did a parody of the song called White
White Baby.
It is funny.
You got gotta check it out onyoutube and they actually, you
know he looks exactly likevanilla ice.
They have the hair and the wayit's cut, like he wears, you
know, like a face pic.
You know thing over his head,it's just funny.
(24:16):
It really really is.
Not so funny is Vanilla Ice'sdealings with Suge Knight.
Okay, so Suge had anacquaintance and the guy's name
was Mario and he said that hehelped write the song and that
he wasn't getting any royaltiesand his name wasn't listed.
(24:38):
And that he wasn't getting anyroyalties and his name wasn't
listed.
So Suge Knight started showingup all around Los Angeles while
Vanilla Ice was out there,Mm-hmm, and would show up with
big guys and, kind of you know,make him feel uncomfortable, To
the point where he goes toVanilla Ice's hotel 15 stories
(25:00):
up, roughs up his bodyguards andVanilla Ice and Suge Knight are
outside on the balcony.
Originally, Vanilla Ice saysthat Suge Knight held him by his
feet or was dangling him, butthen he changed his story and
just said that we were talking.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And that maybe Suge Knight said.
You know, it's kind of high uphere, it's a long way down, or
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know exactly, but that's a big, big
difference, that's a big storychange.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But it is a big story change.
I think one does that to makesure that they stay alive.
So what ended up happening?
There's no dispute about this.
Vanilla Ice ends up signingthere his rights to the song and
gives up $4 million.
Oh yes, that's not a disputeand that is how Death Row
(25:52):
Records got its start.
Whoa, number six, sineadO'Connor.
Nothing Compares to you.
Number four in April.
Number five Paula Abdul.
Opposites Attract.
This is the song where she'slike dancing with like a cartoon
cat or something, if I remembercorrectly.
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It was, yeah, like a coyote or a cat.
Maybe it was a cat, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know what?
I don't think it was a dog, soit could have been anything, but
this was kind of like the intechnology.
At the time they had that moviewho Framed Roger Rabbit, yeah.
So you know I wasn't a fan ofthe song, but it still peaked at
number one on Billboard inFebruary of 1990.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Number four Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith peaked at
number four in February.
Number three Madonna Vogue,number one in May of 90.
Hey, jimmy, should I compose?
There you go, I love it.
Number two Billy Idol.
Cradle of Love, number two onBillboard in August and out of
(26:55):
all the songs he recorded, billyonly had one song chart higher
than Cradle of Love.
Blew my mind away.
I did not know this and it wasthe live version of Money Money
that came out in 1987.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, wow, anyway, number one song on the MTV Top
Videos of 1990.
Jimmy, can you guess?
No, your excitement isoverwhelming, jimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, yeah, I don't know where to go with that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
MC Hammer, you Can't.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Touch this.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh yeah, we talked about MC Hammer.
You know, a few episodes ago wetalked about MC Hammer.
A few episodes ago the HammerPants dance song, inspired by
Rick James Super Freak, peakedat number one on Billboard in
June 1990.
Stop Hammer time.
August 9th 1995, jerry Garcia,lead singer, guitarist for
(28:03):
Grateful Dead, he passed awayand there's so many songs that I
can think of when I think ofJerry Garcia.
You know, althea Going Down theRoad Feeling Bad.
Touch of Gray.
Here Comes Sunshine.
Ripple, alabama, get Away,shakedown Street.
If I had the World To Give, Imean there's a ton of songs
(28:25):
Mississippi, half Step UptownToodaloo I love the name of that
song and it's actually a greatsong.
Help on the Way, slipknot,franklin's Tower.
And it was just really, reallycool to have listened to the
Grateful Dead and to be able tosee them while Jerry Garcia was
(28:46):
still alive.
And you know I've gone to manyDead Company shows, you know,
since, and it's fun to be thereand I love being there and I
love the songs.
But it is not the same and it's, you know, not trying to offend
John Mayer whatsoever it's notthe same as being at the, you
(29:07):
know, a Grateful Dead show.
It's not the same as JerryGarcia on guitar.
I'm sure, yeah, and even in 1995, when Jerry probably shouldn't
have been on the road.
He was pretty frail at the time.
His guitar playing yeah, it'snot what it once was, but I
would take it today If I couldlisten to it.
(29:27):
Today I would be there to gosee a show and enjoy it.
You know we had the JerryGarcia band, which was something
he did on the side to kind ofplay some music that he didn't
feel fit into the Grateful Deadmold, but he could play it and
enjoy it.
He would play with Melvin Sealsa lot and I think it was a good
(29:48):
relief for him.
And you know he would normallyplay smaller places.
But you know in what was it?
89?
I mean they played like theNassau Coliseum on Long Island.
They had Bob Weir open up withRob Wasserman and it's just
super cool.
Jerry Garcia is just so muchfun.
(30:09):
And I'm glad I've had theopportunity I think I've
mentioned it before where peoplehave asked me if I've actually
seen Jerry and that ultimatelymakes me feel really old.
But yes, you know, I have seenJerry Garcia in concert and been
to shows and I just think it'scool and and you know I love the
Grateful Dead, um, and I, and Iknow a lot of people don't, and
(30:34):
that's okay.
Music's not a competition, youknow, um, but I'm glad that that
I got to see him.
But I'm glad that I got to seehim and I'm glad that when I can
put on a song on my phone or Istill belong to their CD of the
quarter club and I get CDs fromthe Grateful Dead, well, you
know, listening to it it justbrings me back and it's just
(30:57):
super cool and definitely hardto believe he's been gone for 30
years already.
Let's revisit some more musicin my shoes.
Pat benatar, crimes of passioncame out august 5th 1980.
First single you better runpeaked at number 42 on billboard
in august of 80.
A straight-up rock and rollsong.
Really cool song, jimmy did youknow it's a cover that Robert
(31:20):
Plant he had a band in the 60s,he actually sang this song no,
yes, wow.
And Peter Criss, on one of hissolo albums actually did this.
A bunch of people have done it.
It was the second song playedon MTV on August 1st 1981.
Amazing, yes, hit Me With yourBest Shot reached number nine on
(31:43):
Billboard in December of 80 andTreat Me Right peaked at number
18 in March 1981.
Another rocker, good album.
I think it was released at theright time in 1980.
It was something I think peoplewere looking for and it's a
good album.
If you haven't listened to itor put the songs on your phone,
I recommend it.
The Cure In Between Days, wlir,screamer of the Week, second
(32:06):
week of August 1985.
It was only on the BillboardHot 100 for one week.
It came in at number 99 onFebruary 15th 1986, six months
after it was Screamer of theweek.
It's really hard to believethat this song was only in the
top 100 for one week.
(32:26):
I mean this song.
When I was growing up, while Iwas a fan of the Cure and liked
them and was listening to them,a lot of my friends this was the
introduction to the Cure forthem hearing In Between Days and
so many people were like peoplethat never heard of them before
knew them because this song wasbeing played and it's hard to
(32:47):
believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It didn't do well on billboard I think that the like
wdre wlir kind of skewed yourimpression because living in
atlanta you would never hearthat on the radio.
My brother had the 12-inchsingle of that and that's how I
knew it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And so.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I introduced my friends to it by putting it on
mixtapes and stuff.
But yeah, it wasn't on theradio here, maybe on college
radio.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy how that can be Speaking
of crazy 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.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Minute with Jimmy.
So the other night on Saturdaynight, I went over to the
Variety Playhouse here inAtlanta and I saw a couple of
tribute bands.
I'm not a big tribute bandperson but I really love the
Clash and there are some localguys in Atlanta that have a band
called Clashinista and they doa really, really good job of
(33:51):
honoring that Clash material 50minutes, I bet you.
They played 16 songs in 15minutes and just a great
sampling from all the differentClash albums.
And then next came onSmithsonian.
That's another local Atlantacover band tribute band that
(34:12):
does Smith songs and they werereally good.
I'm not a huge Smiths fan butthey really got all the details
right.
The singer was very much aMorrissey sound alike and the
Johnny Marr guitar player hitall the right parts.
And I really appreciated thedrums and bass more than I ever
(34:35):
did just listening to the Smithsrecordings, watching these guys
play the stuff live, like it'sgot some pretty rocking bass and
drums in a lot of the songs.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That sounds very cool .
Did the guy playing Morrissey?
Did he say he was sick and wasgoing to cancel the show?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, no, they actually went on stage, so it
was very unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh man, that's true, I like that, that is good.
No, that's true, I like that,that is good.
No, that sounds like a goodtime.
So are both bands local or justthey are yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And they've both been around for a while.
Smithsonian has been around Iwould say at least 20 years,
because I saw them at a partylike 20 years ago, and
Clashinista, I think, think, hasbeen around for about 10 and
they were all well.
Some of the guys were in a bandcalled Starling Family that I
(35:27):
knew that I'd played like atsome shows with and I heard them
cover a Clash song.
Back then I was like, wow,they're really good covering
that Clash song.
And then they ended up justsaying let's not do the original
band anymore, let's beClashinista and it's great.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
That sounds very cool .
You know Andy Rourke, theformer bass player for the
Smiths, no longer with us when Ifirst started listening to the
Smiths, that was one of thethings that hooked me.
You know, besides Johnny Marr alot of people say Johnny Marr's
guitar, and that was what gotthem.
But you know, andy Rourke, hisbass was just so cool and you
(36:05):
know, again, I've mentioned thisbefore but that drove me to
listen to more and more of theSmiths, to go and let me find
out everything I possibly canabout them, because I really
enjoy it.
Mm-hmm, my name is Jimmy.
Well, if you enjoyed the show,you can reach us at
musicinmyshoes at gmailcom.
If you have anything you'd liketo say to us, we'd like to say
(36:26):
please like and follow the MusicIn my Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 90 ofMusic In my Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, georgia, and Vic
Thrill for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge, and I hopeyou learned something new or
remembered something old.
(36:47):
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Yo man, let's get out of here.
Word to your mother.
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