February 2, 2025 • 66 mins
Bienvenido! Benvenuto! Willkommen! In any language, great music always hits the right way! This week on The Perfect Album Side Podcast, we explore the most iconic foreign-language songs—the ones that speak differently but sound exactly right.
Ever wondered why a song you don’t understand gets stuck in your head like that one embarrassing high school memory? We dive into the global hits that took over the world, from unexpected origins to accidental karaoke disasters. Along the way, we argue over viral sensations, question some musical life choices, and probably mispronounce a few things.
Tune in for laughs, surprises, and proof that great music needs no translation!
One idea. Six songs. Infinite possibilities...
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Windham (00:00):
Welcome to episode 75, bitches.
Welcome to the perfect albumside.
One idea, six songs, infinitepossibilities.
Steve (00:26):
Este es el podcast perfecto para acompañar un album
.
Mi nombre es Steve y su nombrees Wyndham.
Bienvenidos al programa todos.
Boy, we're really Welcome.
Oh, I understood.
I understood, did you?
catch all that.
It was in a foreign language,that was a foreign language.
You got it, you got it.
I think people that haven catchall that it was in a foreign
language, that was a foreignlanguage, you got it, you got it
.
I think people that haven'theard our podcast in a while and
(00:49):
that's just about everyone,because there hasn't been a
deluxe podcast in a while aregoing to think they hit the SAP
button on their TV.
They did not, they did not,they did not.
You're so bilingual.
Sí, sí, sí.
Hablo español.
You say all the complicatedwords.
Hablo español un poco.
(01:10):
Sí¿ Cómo estás Habla inglés.
Yes, you speak Spanish.
This is the Perfect Album Sidepodcast.
My name is Steve, his name isWyndham.
It's no coincidence I startedoff in a foreign language.
Tell me why?
Because today's deluxe episodeof the Perfect Album Side
podcast is going to be aboutforeign language songs Stone
(01:34):
Cold.
I see what you did there.
Windham (01:37):
Well, I wasn't hiding it.
It was pretty clear what I didthere.
It was pretty obvious Este esel podcast perfecto para
acompañar un álbum.
Steve (01:46):
Well, when you started I thought you were just kind of
kidding around, Like I didn'tknow that was the official start
to the podcast recording.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's how we do it now en español, baby.
Steve (01:54):
Well, and you better be ready, like at any moment you
could kick this thing off.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
At any moment I could switch languages.
It is good to see you.
I have not seen your face inquite a long time.
For people that just picked upour podcast and they're working
their way through the episodes.
Steve (02:08):
no time has elapsed, but in the real world I haven't seen
your face in many, many a moon,literally In many a moon.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry aboutthat.
A lot of people would thinkthat's a reward of some sorts.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, we have a meeting.
But, yeah, it's great to seeyou.
Uh, well, it's good.
Wait what?
Nothing, let's not talk aboutthe meeting.
No, um, I am glad to see youagain and I'm glad to be back
recording a perfect album side.
I am excited about today'stopic.
Uh, we are doing the perfectalbum sides.
Perfect album side of songsrecorded in a foreign language.
(02:43):
That means non-English.
For those of you that don'tknow what foreign language means
.
Steve (02:50):
That's exactly what it means.
Now there's a couple things I'mgoing to be honest about.
When it comes to my deluxeperfect album side Is that not
all of my songs are whollynon-English W-H-O-L-L-Y.
Some of my songs may have alittle bit of English in there,
but there are some veryrecognizable songs with some
very recognizable awards that docarry a little bit of foreign
(03:14):
language.
So get ready.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
As always, we didn't set up any rules, but we said
let's build the perfect albumside of the six most iconic
foreign language songs.
Maybe the whole song is in adifferent language, maybe just
part of the six most iconicforeign language songs.
Maybe the whole song is in adifferent language, maybe just
part of the song is in adifferent language, but these
should be our arguments for whatare the six most iconic uh
songs recorded in a foreignlanguage.
I'll tell you.
Steve (03:35):
I'll tell you, I got multiple decades, I got multiple
languages on my perfect albumsuh, same, oh yeah, I do a lot of
romance languages, oh oh, butI'll tell you this what's
interesting we are listened to?
This podcast is stone cold.
Listened to across the globe,am I?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
right, absolutely, and I thought about that.
The term foreign language it'sforeign to those of us in the
united States of America orthose that speak English, but
some of these, we got listenersall over the world and literally
almost every country in theworld and it won't be foreign
language to them, they'll justcall it language, I think.
Steve (04:19):
Is this supposed to be foreign?
I understand what they'resaying.
Yeah, that's what somecountries are going to say.
Some of our listeners are goingto be wondering what's going on
.
Are they being punked?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think I've got, uh, one, two, three or four
languages and, yeah, multipledecades, maybe four or five
different decades.
Now there were several songsthat came out in the in the 50s,
uh, that were big hits, um,that were foreign language songs
.
I didn't go back to, you know,pre-1955.
(04:53):
Uh, we, that's not really whatwe do here.
You know we're more 60s, 70s,80s, 90s, 2000s.
But uh, there are, there were afew big hits that will probably
be left off the perfect album,aside from the early 50s, I
think yeah, I don't, uh, I'mjust kind of doing a quick scan.
Steve (05:08):
Uh, mine are.
I don't go back that far, uh,to the 50s now, not far from it.
I just don't go back that farand we'll see what.
You'll see what I mean heremoment.
I can't wait I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Let's let's talk about Over Under.
I've put a lot of thought intothis and I think that I've said
this a lot on this podcast, butI think the odds of having a
tremendous amount of overlap isvery, very high.
I think this will be theclosest we've been to.
Ending the podcast once and forall will be on this episode
there's only 12 15 songs thathave been big hits, at least in
(05:45):
the united states.
That were foreign languagesongs, because it wasn't like we
had a huge pool of songs tochoose from uh, no, we don't.
Steve (05:53):
Um, do you want to?
Do you want to remind ourlisteners as to what that means?
Like what's at stake?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
well, we've always said that if we ever went six
for six, that we would, uh, asyou said, take off the
headphones, uh, bid each otheradieu.
A nod of the head, a wink ofthe cap, a tip of the cap, wink
of the nod, whatever, somethinglike that.
We'd end the podcast.
Neck of the nape, if we go sixfor six, we end the podcast.
It'll be the final episode.
I will say this much Welcome toepisode 75 of the Perfect Album
(06:21):
Side podcast, the DiamondJubilee.
Is that what this is?
Diamond?
I think so.
Diamond Jubilee.
Steve (06:27):
I didn't get you anything Well except a really good
Perfect Album Side podcast songs.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I actually did get you something, so now you're
going to feel really bad.
I always do yeah Story of mylife Well anyway, just if you
get a gift in the mail, justfeel free to ignore it then
Really Well, yeah, you just sentme something.
It's the 75th episode.
It's the Diamond Jubilee.
Of course I sent you a present.
Why did you not?
Steve (06:52):
I'll admit I don't know, because I'm an asshole.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Wow, I mean, we don't do a podcast for a while and
you just fall off of thegift-giving ways that you once
had.
This is uncomfortable.
I don't even know you anymore.
This is terribly, terriblyuncomfortable.
I say we get to the music.
I say we don't, actuallybecause there's something that I
think we were going to talkabout.
You sent me a link on ourcellular devices the iPhones as
(07:18):
the people call them, and it wasa really cool thing about
Aerosmith and Sweet Emotion inparticular and the recording of
that song, which I thought wascool.
Maybe you could talk about.
Steve (07:30):
Yeah, so I saw this.
This was an interview from nottoo long ago that Howard Stern
was doing with Aerosmith's leadsinger Steven.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Tyler, steven Tyler.
I know we've been off for alittle while, but his name's
Steven Tyler.
Steve (07:48):
Yeah, I know, I know.
And what he confessed was inthe song Sweet Emotion.
The beginning of this song hasan instrument.
That, steve, it's a vibraslap,vibraslap.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's a percussionist's favorite thing,
that instrument.
Yeah, everybody's heard it.
Steve (08:06):
And what Steven Tyler confesses is that the vibra slap
, which is really prominent inthe intro to this song, it
breaks, they broke it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I would assume Joey Kramer broke it.
He's the drummer.
He's probably the percussionist.
Steve (08:21):
Oh, I think Steven Tyler broke it actually.
He was coked up, that'll happen.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, I'm not judging , but in whatever state he was
in, he broke the vibraslap andthey left it in.
Yeah, you sent that to me and Iwent back and listened to it
and clear as day there's thevibraslap and then you can hear
it kind of malfunctioning and Ithink that, steven Tyler, you
can hear him kind of upset aboutit.
If you listen, really reallytyler, you can hear him kind of
uh upset about it.
Steve (08:45):
If you, if you listen really really closely, you can
hear him say, oh shit, and theyjust left it in.
That's.
Uh, I'm gonna play it, let's.
Oh great, it's in the first 25seconds.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Can we do that?
Yeah, let's make it happen allright, here we go.
Right there, that's awesome.
(09:27):
So he plays the vibraslap threetimes successfully and on the
fourth one it breaks and theyleft it in the song.
Steve (09:33):
Yeah, I'm going to play it one more time.
You can hear it distinctivelybreak.
Here we go Stone Cold.
Oh did I?
I didn't go back far enough,it's like amateur hour.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sorry, right there, there it is.
Yeah, I think you spoke over itway to ruin it again.
Oh gosh, that's all right.
Should we re I think that wepreviously did an episode of the
Perfect Albums Live podcastwhere we focused on musical
mistakes and we had some fromthe Beatles and the police, but
(10:11):
this one did not make the cut.
I think it would have beenhashtag past topic alert.
I don't remember the name ofthat episode, but we did one on
musical mistakes, I believe.
Steve (10:21):
I believe it might have been called exactly that Musical
mistakes.
I would have loved to put thatin there because you hear it and
you don't hear it as a mistake.
We talked about Roxanne by thepolice when sting sits on the
piano keys and starts to laugh.
Well, I don't.
I don't hear that as a mistake.
To me it's just a part of thesong.
And now I've heard this andI'll never unhear this from
(10:44):
sweet emotion, I thinknickelback was a musical mistake
yes, okay, and you've heardthat and you can't unhear.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yes, yeah, uh, let's get to the perfect album side of
foreign language songs.
Are you ready?
Yes, sir let me.
Steve (11:02):
I was born ready.
Oh my god, I was born to boogieand I was born ready.
Oh my God, I was born to boogieand I was born ready.
Windham (11:19):
Is the first song I thought of La Bamba.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, before we get started, we didn't talk about
Over Under.
We talked about the high chancefor overlap.
I would say that the Over Underis three and a half and I'm
taking the Over.
Steve (11:42):
Oh gosh, that does not bode well for the future and it
doesn't bode well for episode 76.
I'm going to also take the overand go ahead and chalk this one
up.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay, yeah, I mean La Bamba.
Of course it had to be on bothof our perfdom sides, please.
Originally recorded in 1958 byRichie Valens.
The version that we'relistening to, of course, by Los
Lobos from June of 1987.
I thought it was interesting.
I didn't realize this song wasa B-side to the other big hit
(12:19):
from that time which I can'tremember right.
This second, donna, oh, donna.
Yep, la Bamba was the B-side tothat one, originally from the
state of Veracruz to our Mexicanfriends to the south, also
known as La Bamba, best knownfrom the 1958 adaption by
Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit onthe US charts.
Ritchie Valens' version wasnumber 345 on Rolling Stone
(12:43):
magazine's list of the 500greatest songs of all time.
It is the only song on thatlist not written or sung in
english.
What do you got to say about it?
Steve (12:52):
uh, this song is absolutely 1000 on my perfect
album side.
I the most obvious songs or thesongs that come to me most
immediately for a topic I alwaysput towards the top of my
perfect album side.
I assume you do same.
Yes, this is number one.
Um, I love this song.
Uh, this song went number one.
(13:12):
You said it.
Uh, only the fourth at the timeholy non-english song ever to
be hit, ever to hit number one.
I don't think we should try toname the others.
Uh, just well, like I said atthe beginning, at the beginning,
beginning of the episode.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
this was the fourth song to hit number one.
I don't think we should try toname the others, just call that
a hunch At the beginning of theepisode.
This was the fourth song to hitnumber one that was not sung in
English on the Billboard Hot100.
The other three were likepre-1952, like in the very
beginning of the Billboardcharts, I mean, and nobody knows
them.
Steve (13:38):
Nobody knows them.
Well, there have been a couplemore since.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
There have.
But I'm saying at the time yeah, this was the.
Steve (13:44):
I had never heard of the other ones, to be honest with
you that that got mentioned.
But uh, this song was also 1988mtv mtv video music award for
best video, which I think is abig deal.
Um, I like this song and I'lltell you why I I think it's a
catchy song.
This was a good tune back inthe 80s.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's got that center field john fogarty feel to it or
maybe yeah, or maybe centerfield has a labamba feel to it
well, labamba became labambacame before, uh, john fogarty
center field, uh, but yeah, theopening guitar if I I I hear
what you're saying there uh,richie valen's recording of the
(14:21):
song was inducted into the latinHall of Fame as well as the
straight-up Grammy Hall of Fame.
So, for all of those reasons,it was on my perfect album side,
it was on your perfect albumside.
Hence it is on the perfectalbum side.
Of course, la Bamba was goingto make the perfect album side
Of course it was.
Steve (14:39):
But one more thing, stone Cold.
What do you got?
This song is forever cementedin rock lore, and you know why
we've said all the reasons Ijust listed.
Well, all those reasons, pluswe've talked about this before
what?
If one thing happens to yoursong, it must mean you've done
(15:01):
something right, do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
where I'm going now.
Well, I I know that if, if, ifweird al yankovic comes calling,
you've done something right.
Do you know where I'm going Now?
Well, I know that if Weird AlYankovic comes calling, you've
done something right.
I had no idea about what you'reabout to say.
Steve (15:13):
He came calling to Los Lobos about La Bamba because he
had a song dialed up calledLasagna.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Weird Al Yankovic, you know, I think I did, and
that's how you know folks.
Steve (15:28):
That's how big a tune this was.
Weird Al wanted to parody it,and he did just that with his
song Lasagna, but I'm with you,stone Cold.
This song is absolutelyunignorable when it comes to
foreign language songs that areiconic.
I'm on board, made my perfectalbum set too.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Made mine as well.
That was my song to start.
You get the next.
You have the con, my man.
Oh, I've got the con you do.
Do you remember how to work thecon?
It's been a minute, there yougo.
Oh, you're All you.
Steve (16:01):
You are a whiz with food additives.
Stone Cold.
The second song, I guess, to befair, on my album side, goes a
little something like this it'sa different language, so we're
going to hit two for two onlanguage.
Windham (16:35):
Here we go.
Thank you, and that.
Something like that comes fromsomething like that.
Steve (17:14):
Stone Cold.
I'd like for you to meet Nainaand 99 Luft Balloons Beautiful,
that's 1983.
Stone Stunkhole Off the albumNaina, and this is the German
version.
I mean, and I'm not even I knowwe want some anticipation in
(17:34):
this podcast, but I know this ison your perfect album, this is
the number two song on myperfect album side we are two
for two.
Windham (17:41):
We are really dangerous .
Speaker 3 (17:43):
This 75 might've been as far as we go, my man.
Steve (17:46):
That's right.
Well, we made it that far.
I love this song whether it'sin English or German, but I
actually like this song a littlebit better in German, Released
in 1983.
It's honestly their only hit.
Their English version, whichcame after this, wasn't even as
big a hit as this one was.
Version which came after thiswasn't even as big a hit as this
(18:08):
one was.
Um, I didn't know that the bandI thought that I thought this
was just her I did too.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I did too.
Like until last week I thoughtnana.
Nana was the female.
Windham (18:18):
The name of the band is nana the name of the band is
nana no singer's name is nanaand the out of the album is nana
.
Steve (18:23):
I, the lead singer's name is Naina and the album is Naina
, but her real name is GabrielleSusanna Kerner.
So is mine.
You're better known as StoneCold.
She's better known as NainaCool band name and we talked
about bands, songs, albums namedafter the same thing.
Big Country got really close.
(18:43):
Wang Chung got really close.
This one's pretty close, but itafter the same thing.
Big Country got really close.
Wang Chung got really close.
This one's pretty close, butit's not an album, it's just
singer album and band, which iskind of crazy.
It's off their debut album.
Certainly they can come up withanother name, apparently not
Second release from that record.
The tempo starts to pick up alittle bit, as we're hearing now
(19:05):
.
It reached number two on theBillboard Stone Cold.
Now, talking about uniqueinstruments, juergen Demmel
plays bass for Naina, but healso plays an instrument on this
record called the Chapman StickNice and it's a stick
instrument that has 10 to 12strings and it actually,
speaking of center field by JohnFogarty it looks like a
(19:25):
baseball bat Tells the story of99 red balloons that were in the
sky and mistaken for UFOs,causing military chaos, and the
two groups came after each other, everything was destroyed and
then, at the end of the song,the singer is walking through
the ruins and finds a single redballoon.
(19:46):
It's a.
It's a.
But the band was never, thennever, pleased with the english
version that came out.
And I will say this too stonecold, march 26th 1980, march 26
2006, excuse me, hurricane,hurricane, katrina.
Fundraiser on VH1 Classic, aviewer donated $36,000 to play
(20:08):
this video for one straight hourand that wish was granted to
the tune of 36 Large Stone Cold.
It's on your perfect album site.
I know you're going to talkabout it.
It is 99 Laugh Balloons.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
A couple things.
It was $37,000, and I reallylike this song, so I wanted to
donate to charity.
Steve (20:27):
Damn it, can't you?
Let me have the moment.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
In the US the English-language version of this
song because they have theversion that we just heard,
which is in German, and thenthey re-recorded one that is
written in English and she talksabout Captain Kirk and getting
the war machine going and allthese things.
That one never chartered in theUnited States but the German
version did, which I thought waskind of interesting.
(20:51):
Only the German versionchartered here.
As you mentioned from theoutset, nena, the lead singer,
not the band, but also the othermembers of the band they were
not real pleased with having torecord an English version and
they thought all the way upuntil recently that they never
should have done it.
They should have kept it withthe German only version, and you
know I tend to agree with them.
You mentioned that it reachednumber two on the Billboard Hot
(21:13):
100.
Do you know the song that keptit out of the number one spot?
I'll give you a hint it was inthe spring of 1984.
Okay, 1984.
That is correct.
You are correct, sir.
Jump by Van Halen.
You nailed it.
(21:33):
Damn I feel like I just earnedmy way back into the chair.
It's not the best in thebusiness, for nothing, kids.
Steve (21:41):
If you had said 83, I would have pulled something off
of Thriller, but you said 84.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, it was released in Europe in 1983.
It wasn't until the spring of84 where it came out in the
United States, and Van Halen andthe boys kept it out of the
number one spot.
Steve (21:58):
Of course they did.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It was on your perfect album side.
It was on my perfect album side.
Hence it is on the perfectalbum side.
We're two for two, right out ofthe gate, and I'd be willing to
bet most of the money in mywallet that this next song is
also on yours.
Let me share this.
Steve (22:14):
Oh my gosh, If this is, we are so screwed.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'd be willing to bet it is.
Here we go, maybe.
(22:51):
Let me just start by saying howmuch I love this song.
I have since the first time Iheard it, this song.
It makes me happy every time Ihear it.
It's fantastic.
Steve (23:02):
How good is that guitar lick at the beginning.
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I don't know who did that, but I'd like to find out.
Wouldn't it be cool if it wasJimmy?
Steve (23:12):
Page Timothy B.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Schmidt.
Yeah, it could be.
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco, mayof 1985, recorded by Austrian
musician Falco for his thirdalbum entitled Falco III.
The single was made availablefor physical sale in 1985
throughout Europe through A&M.
To date, it is the only Germanlanguage song to peak at number
(23:36):
one, Number one hit on theBillboard Hot 100.
It did so March 29, 1986.
It's on my Perfect Album side.
I'd be willing to bet it's onyours too.
But let's hear it, is it on?
Steve (23:50):
Your Perfect Album side.
It is 1000% on my Perfect Albumside, of course it is, and that
was never in question, Never inquestion.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It topped the singles charts on both sides of the
Atlantic.
It was Falco's only number onehit in the US.
His only number one hit in theUnited Kingdom, despite his
popularity in Austria and muchof Europe.
Only number one hit over there.
I could go on for days abouthow great this song is, but I
guess I'll let you talk for aminute.
Steve (24:17):
Yeah, I mean, you're saying all the great things
about it.
I love this song a lot.
Now this song hit Billboardnumber one.
Okay, is the only song, onlyGerman-speaking song, to hit
number one on the billboard, butit's also the only number one
German song to be on thebillboard and a chart that we
(24:37):
don't talk about enough the cashbox charts.
Now, what's crazy?
The last song we talked about,the last song that we talked
about, that was in German onthis podcast song that we talked
about, that was in German onthis podcast 99 Luftballons also
hit the cash box number one,but it only hit number two on
the billboard Because of VanHalen.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
we talked about that.
Steve (24:58):
Because of Van Halen, Ranked 87 on VH1's greatest
songs of the 1980.
Now here's something I didn'tknow.
Talk to me.
A lot of 80s tunes have been onour PAS.
You've heard the song, or letme start this way You've heard
the band After the Fire?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They have a song called Dar Kamisar.
You have told me about this andthe Perfect Album Side
listeners on episode eight.
For some reason, go ahead.
Steve (25:30):
I didn't know that dark commissar, which was made a huge
hit by the band after the fire,was originally written and
performed same exact song byfalco, also in german.
So I I had no idea he'sresponsible for two major, major
hits of the 1980s.
(25:51):
But he really only gets the thecredit for for rock me amadeus,
because after the fire tookover dark commissar and uh and
and made it, uh, made it a bighit according to his estate, he
has sold 20 million albums and40 million singles.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of
all time.
Steve (26:13):
That is insane.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I wouldn't have told you that, and if I remember
correctly from one of ourprevious episodes, you talked
about Falco and his untimelydeath.
He was literally hit by a bus.
Steve (26:25):
Literally hit by a bus.
That's a shitty way to goDidn't get to enjoy the
continued success and what hemeant to the 1980s.
But amazing song, I love it.
Uh, I now in the in the longerversion.
You and I both spotlighted thegerman version, but in the
longer version there is anenglish speaking part where they
(26:47):
actually chronicle the life ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, there's about nine different versions of this
song that are out there.
They released, you know, a 12inch, a seven inch that you know
.
They released all kinds of.
You know an English version, aGerman version, they just
there's a lot of differentversions out there.
So, yeah, this is the one thatI like the most, though.
Steve (27:06):
Me too, me too.
Now, we did talk about parodies.
On the last german song wetalked about um, excuse me, we
talked about la bambaspanish-speaking song.
Uh, that was parodied by willweird al with lasagna.
I have to say, the simpsonsparodied this song and it was
called rock me, dr zeus.
After the um, uh, after the uhmovie, the chareston Hestie
(27:30):
movie.
Okay, there you go, there's alittle something for you, stone.
Cold that the normal tour guidewon't tell you We've got a
German-language song, rock MeAmadeus.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Prior to that German-language song, 99
Luftballons, which went tonumber two in the US, rock Me
Amadeus was the last number onewith lyrics mostly in German.
The Los Lobos version of LaBamba, sung in Spanish, hit
number one in 1987.
But it wasn't until 2020 that asong sung in a language other
than Spanish or English toppedthe chart, and we might talk
(28:01):
about that one later, maybe.
Steve (28:04):
Oh, very interesting Maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Perfect way to end Rock Me Amadeus.
It made my perfect album side,it made your perfect album side,
hence it makes the perfectalbum side.
We are three for three.
I think this is where we startto hopefully separate, if this
isn't going to be the lastversion of the Perfect Album
Side podcast.
I believe you have the con, myman man.
(28:29):
Let me stop here and I'll letyou go oh, that is.
Steve (28:34):
That's so glorious.
Yes, I do have the con andwe're gonna kick things off.
This is where I venture alittle bit from where we've been
so far.
Let's hear it um, but there'san interesting kick to this.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh boy, yes, what the hell are you doing?
I?
Windham (29:31):
don't know.
Steve (29:34):
I was trying to turn down the volume.
Have we done this before StoneCold this?
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is a very familiar 1980shit called Gloria.
Yes, you, of course, arefamiliar with the Laura Branigan
(29:56):
version.
Who isn't?
Who isn't?
Laura Branigan covered thissong by Umberto Tazzi.
Yes, this is the real Gloria.
This is not a cover.
This is not some guy whodecided to cover a well-known
number two hit by Laura Branigan.
(30:17):
This guy wrote it and I foundthat to be fascinating.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Tell me his name again.
Steve (30:22):
Umberto.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Tazzi.
Umberto Tazzi records this song.
It's Italian, is it not?
Steve (30:29):
It's Italian, it's Italian is it not, it's Italian,
it's okay Italian, totallyItalian 1979.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Laura Branigan hears the song and decides to record a
different version in 1983,82-ish, 82.
82.
Okay.
Steve (30:44):
Okay, it's the exact same song.
Yeah, and I found thisfascinating because I never
would have told you that Gloriawasn't written by Laura Branigan
.
And if I heard this song, Iwould have said man, this guy's
doing a cheap knockoff, not true?
No, he's not.
Branigan is the one knockingoff, calling.
Windham (31:00):
Gloria so good.
Steve (31:03):
Also.
This version is also found.
This version is found on thesoundtrack to Wolf of Wall
Street.
I just watched that movie lastweek.
Well then, you've heard UmbertoTapas' version of this song.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I love that movie and I love this song, both versions
of it.
Steve (31:20):
Now the other thing I'll tell you if you ever see a
picture, especially on the coverof this album of Gloria, which
is the album coveroria, which isthe album cover, which is the
album this is on, he looks justlike paul mccartney.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So italian born singer umberto what's his last
name?
Tazzi tazzi, who looks justlike paul mccartney, records
gloria in 1979, and laurabrannigan picks it up three
years later and has the biggesthit ever with it that that's
exactly what went down fantastic.
Steve (31:52):
I think she was vacationing in tuscany, as
people do.
As people do, I think she heardtazzi's version and said I got
an idea how about we rip offthis guy's song and make
millions well, she, she did, andmy hat's off to her.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
uh, this song is equally catchy, even if it's in
Italian.
I'll say that I can't stopbouncing around with this song.
Steve (32:16):
No, it's really really good.
There's your bridge right there.
Yeah, can you hear the basssliding down the neck?
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Now the ending to this song isactually pretty cool.
It's really the only part ofthis song that will differ from
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what Brannigan had done in 1982.
They start to pick it up alittle bit, get a little excited
.
If we can wait around for that,maybe we don't have time, but
go check this out.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Umberto Tazzi, umberto Tazzi, umberto Tazzi,
with Gloria from the albumentitled Gloria from 1979.
You haven't asked me thequestion yet and I'm dying to
answer it.
Steve (33:02):
Well, I'm telling you we might as well cut it off.
See the ending right here.
Yeah, we might as well hang upthe headphones if you tell me
this is on your perfect album.
Windham (33:11):
Let's hear it.
Steve (33:13):
Stone Cold.
Tell me and all the listenersaround the world, especially on
the Italian Riviera, is thissong on your perfect album?
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Okay.
Steve (33:26):
I was like you've sold some songs to me on this where
it was on your perfect albumside and you played along.
But there's no way you wouldpurposely not get his name right
so often and just say that ohyeah, it's on my perfect album
side.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
No, no, I mean, look, it's a great song and I had
forgotten that that was a cover.
I didn't know.
You knew?
Did Laura Branigan make hisname again One more time?
Umberto tazzi, umbert.
Did she make him a rich man?
I should be italian, come on,yes, you should be italian, not,
not from from the southeastunited states, but italian, of
(34:01):
course.
Um, did she make him a veryrich man?
Steve (34:06):
uh, yes, he, he was very successful with his music across
europe.
Okay, um, france, spain.
He was a hit.
Okay, this wasn't.
This wasn't his only, his onlyshot.
He, he had a lot of songs thatwent number one across europe.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Uh, this song did very well in europe, but, uh, to
our listeners abroad, acrossthe pond, in europe, in Italy,
reach out to us.
I'd like to hear more aboutyour thoughts on Umberto Tazzi
and Wyndham's pick for thePerfect Album side.
It is not on my Perfect Albumside.
Windham (34:39):
It is on yours, it is not on mine.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
We will see if it makes the final cut.
Are you ready to hand over thecon to me?
I have handed it over, oh mygosh, umberto Tazzi.
Steve (34:51):
I may say that the rest of the episode.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
This is the next song .
So if that's not cool, go aheadand hang up.
Umberto Tazzi.
This is the next song on myPerfect Dumb Side.
Windham (35:06):
Aye Fonzie D-Y.
Oh, oh, no, oh, no, oh, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
(35:32):
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee from 2017
.
Despacito translated slowly, asong by Puerto Rican singer Luis
Fonsi, originally written in2015.
In 2016, he sent the song toPuerto Rican rapper and singer,
(35:57):
daddy Yankee to give it a quoteurban injection and then
released it as the lead singlefrom Fonsi's 2017 studio album
entitled Vida, released January2017.
If you don't know this song,you've probably been living
under a rock for the last eightyears.
There is no bigger foreignlanguage song that's been
(36:18):
released in the last 15, 20years than Despacito.
That's my statement.
I stand by it.
A remix version came out laterin 2017, starring Justin Bieber.
Starring Bieber.
Featuring Justin Bieber.
That helped improve the chartperformance of this song in
general.
It received Latin Grammy Awardsfor Record of the Year, song of
(36:42):
the Year, best Urban FusionPerformance, best Short Music
Video.
At the 18th Latin Grammy Awards.
It has also been ranked amongthe best Latin songs of all time
and best songs of 2017, whichrefer to it as one of the most
successful Spanish languagetracks in pop music history.
Wyndham Pridgen, is this songon your perfect album side?
Steve (37:06):
I'm going to give this podcast a little bit of urban
injection of my own and say itis not.
Oh, thank goodness, thankgoodness.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
OK.
The song topped the charts in47 countries, that's seven
countries, 47 countries.
It reached the top 10 and sixothers in the United States.
It became the first songprimarily in Spanish to top the
Billboard Hot 100 since Well,I'm not going to name that one
(37:35):
because we might talk about thatone later, but the first song
since 1996 in Spanish.
It spent 16 weeks atop theBillboard Hot 100, as well as
becoming the longest runningnumber one on the Hot Latin
Songs chart, with 56 weeks.
For more than a year it sat atnumber one on Latin.
(37:55):
That's unbelievable.
Steve (37:57):
How many weeks?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
56 weeks, for more than a year, this is the number
one song on the Latin charts.
Here's something even moreimpressive than that it was the
most viewed YouTube video of alltime, from 2017 to 2020.
And it became the first videoon YouTube to reach the
(38:26):
milestones of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and8 billion views.
Insane, with a B 8 billionviews, it is currently the
second most viewed video ever onYouTube, behind Baby Shark.
Steve (38:38):
Oh my gosh, make me barf.
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
This is the second most viewed video of all time on
YouTube.
That alone, whether it's onyour perfect album site or not.
At the end, that stat is thereason it will be on the perfect
album site.
Steve (38:57):
I didn't know we did that , but okay, it's in the company
of I mean, that's how we do itnow.
Welcome to episode 75, bitches.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Bitches, stone Cold is in control.
I mean, it's in the samesentence as Baby Shark.
Need I say more?
Need I say more Really?
Steve (39:15):
But such an amazing song like that getting knocked off
the top of the YouTube list byBaby Shark, I mean eh, I
listened to the song and then Iread the lyrics translated into
English Woo, Sexy, sexy, sexy,oh sexy.
You don't want to share those.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
No, these are not for the kiddos.
Steve (39:35):
Perfect album side after dark.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh my god, that's our new calling.
Wow, despacito.
It made my perfect album sideLouis Fonsi, daddy Yankee and a
little bit of Justin Bieber inthere competing with Baby Shark.
That was on my Perfect Albumside.
It was not on your PerfectAlbum side.
We'll see at the end if it endsup on the Perfect Album side.
That's what I got.
What do you got my man?
Steve (39:59):
Oh, I've got this right here.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Whoops, whoops if you hit the play button, it will
then commence playing normally.
That's what I found.
I did hit the play button.
Steve (40:19):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
It's like the little triangle kind of points off to
the right play button.
Steve (40:23):
It's internationally known.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah.
Steve (40:25):
I know.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Could you just hit it then?
Windham (40:34):
I love it.
There it is.
Steve (41:10):
Are you laughing at my?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
dancing.
Yes, yeah, I'm getting into itFinger symbols.
Steve (41:16):
This is speaking of living under a rock.
This is Oye Como Va by Santana,off the 1971 album Stone Cold
Abraxas, Maybe their most famoussong.
I'm a big, big Santana fan, sothis song, having an opportunity
to be on the PAS, pleases megreatly.
(41:37):
It's got multiple guitar solos.
It's got an organ solo.
Hello.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yes.
Steve (41:42):
I've got an organ solo.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Speaking of After Dark, after Dark, yeah.
Steve (41:48):
The organ solo is played on a Hammond B3 stone called.
The greatest of all organs bythe way, the greatest of second
greatest.
Am I right?
Come on, come on.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Keep it clean this thing.
Hammond V3, is like thegreatest organ in the world.
Steve (42:02):
Yeah, of course, Super famous, Originally now Stone
Cold.
This was a hit for anotherLatino artist by the name of
Tito Puente.
Yes, this was a Tito Puentesong.
He made it famous with hispercussions and originally
Puente was outraged that hissong was covered by this rocker.
Windham (42:24):
Outraged.
Steve (42:25):
Outraged, I tell you, formal and very, very strongly
worded letters followed.
But, as the legend goes, hisstance started to soften when he
got his first royalty check asthe money started to flow in, he
was a little less angry.
A little less angry, but I'lltell you this I've listened to
both versions and the TitoPuente version is really, really
(42:47):
in your face, I've got to tellyou.
It is loud and it's really good.
I like this version better, butit's really good.
Very heavy, very prominentpercussion.
Of course the Santana version,as you can tell, is very bass
heavy.
This is a great record.
Abraxas got one of my favoriteSantana songs.
(43:08):
Hope you're feeling better, butalways a tip of the hat to
Santana.
There's not a lot of lyrics toremember and memorize in this
song, Stone Cold, but I'll tellyou this they're all in Spanish,
baby.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Si, senor Si senor.
Steve (43:20):
I don't know if I want to go down the path of what he's
saying.
I'll stay away from that.
But this is a great tune, veryfamous, makes my perfect album
sound.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Are you even going to ask the question?
Do we have to do this?
Steve (43:38):
every time.
Now I'm just recoiling becauseI'm about to say, and you did.
Now I will say this you didmake a couple of comments about
Tito Puente, not everyone wouldknow that so is this song.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Only people that are huge Tito Puente fans would know
that I had never heard of Titobefore this.
Windham (43:56):
Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
No, this song is not on my perfect album side Didn't
cross my radar, probably becausethere are so few lyrics in
there.
It just didn't even occur to me, Although I did think about
putting tequila as one of mine,because that's the only word in
the song and that would havebeen brilliant, but I didn't do
it.
And also not English, and alsogreat song what did this?
What did this song do chartwise, besides make Tito a lot of
money?
Steve (44:17):
Top five hit, One of the biggest, one of the biggest hits
they had in 1971 in their realand really their whole catalog.
Of course, Santana went on tojump in with match box 20.
They had their big hit and thatwas the biggest hit in the
history of the world.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yes, that's, that's.
That should be one of our ournext podcast.
Biggest hits in the history ofthe world and that matchbox 20
santana song is probably top two.
I mean ever.
It's like candle, candle in thewind and that song and maybe a
couple others, that's it andmaybe I want to sex you up by
color rebat maybe, oh my god,the boys from oklahoma city.
how could you forget Fantasticchoice?
(44:57):
It did not make my perfectalbum aside, but I absolutely
understand why it made yours.
What year was that again?
1971.
Oh see, that's way before I wasborn.
I mean, you were a grownbearded man by then.
But I get it.
I get it, aren't you like 35?
Steve (45:13):
days away from turning 50 ?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
The fact that you know that and you know haven't
sent me a present yet, it'sshocking.
Steve (45:19):
But all right.
Well, I have to now.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Anyway, you sent me one oh, that's what you think,
maybe coming back.
All right, uh, good, goodselection.
Let me get to my next one.
Uh, hold, please press thisbutton, I can't, let me.
Let me just say one thingbefore this one gets started.
(45:42):
We've said this over and overand over again on the Perfect
Album Side podcast, but I feelit necessary to repeat it now.
It is not the Perfect AlbumSide of Steve and Wyndham's
favorite songs.
It is not, but it is theperfect album side of songs that
we feel are the most iconic forthat category, and this is the
(46:05):
best example of that I couldcome up with.
All right, well, apparentlyI've grabbed the English
(46:39):
language version of the songMacarena, but it's the song
Macarena, released by theBayside Boys mix 1995.
Spanish pop duo Los Del Riooriginally recorded it for their
1993 album A Mi Gusta.
The remix by the Bayside Boyscame out a couple years later,
went to number, initially peakedat number 45, then skyrocketed
(47:01):
to hit number one for 14 weeksin the fall of 1996.
Its resurgence came to us via adance craze Hashtag.
Past topic alert this song hasbeen on the Perfect Album side
before with famous dance crazesongs.
This one on the Perfect Albumside before with famous dance
craze songs.
This one made the Perfect Albumside back then and it makes my
(47:21):
Perfect Album side for foreignlanguage songs now A huge hit.
1996, 97.
The song that got the groupranked the number one greatest
one-hit wonder of all time byVH1.
Let me say that again thenumber one, greatest one-hit
wonder of all time by VH1.
(47:43):
They said that in 2002.
In 2012, it was ranked numberseven on Billboard's all-time
top 100.
Billboard had said here are thetop 100 songs of all time and
this one is number seven.
It's shocking to me in so manyways this song makes me upset.
Upset is the word I'm using.
Steve (48:05):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I mean I don't understand allthe accolades for this song.
I mean it's not awful.
I mean you know I've heard muchworse songs, but I'm just like
Number one hit 16 weeks, I getit and it's number one
everywhere and it's all over theplace.
But I don't understand what thebig infatuation was with this
(48:28):
song.
I never caught on to it.
I guess I couldn't do the dance.
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
You should have worked on that.
The reworked Macarena, theBayside Boys mix that we're
listening to now again spent 14weeks number one on the Hot 100
singles chart, becoming one ofthe longest runs ever on that
chart.
I don't have anything else tosay about this one.
It's not my favorite song, butit is in a foreign language and
it's one of the biggest hits ofall time.
(48:54):
Had to make my perfect albumside, it totally is.
Steve (48:59):
Did you say?
In 2023, Billboard ranked thisamongst its top 500 best pop
songs of all time?
I did not say that and it camein at number 500.
So I'm on to something Likethat's a good, that's the song's
not terrible.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
I just don't get what you mean Now wait, just now,
wait, now, wait, now wait, wait,wait just a minute.
How do you know that?
Steve (49:19):
oh, I don't know it because of the reason you think
I know it, okay, okay this songis?
You won't ask me, so I guess Ihave to say it like I always
have to.
I'm always the only one thatsays it.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
This song is not on my perfect album side okay, okay
, the macarena has made theperfect album side.
I think for the third time, andthat is very upsetting to me
and probably Wyndham, but it didmake my perfect album side for
foreign language hits.
The song stayed in the Hot 100chart for 60 weeks the longest
(49:49):
reign among number one songs,only surpassed 15 years later by
Adele's Rolling in the Deep Forthe most number of weeks on the
chart 60 weeks in the Huff 100.
That's good company.
That's five years, kids.
Five years, no, 60 weeks.
I'm not strong at math.
I was thinking months.
(50:09):
Disregard that we're going tocut this part out of the podcast
.
Steve (50:12):
I'm embarrassed about my math skills?
No, we're not.
Not if I'm a bitch.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
I was told there'd be no math 60 weeks, 320 days,
does that sound right?
10 months?
Steve (50:23):
60 weeks.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah, 60 times 7?
.
Steve (50:26):
Yeah, it's a year and two months.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
Okay, what's the next song on your perfect album side
so I can get out of this mathnightmare that I'm in.
Windham (50:36):
Well, so I can get out of this math nightmare that I'm
in.
Well, I know you just played asong in English.
Steve (50:38):
My song is a little bit.
I know the Spanish version isthe popular one, but this song
is a little bit in English.
But it also, if you'll pass thecon, if you don't mind, good
sir, this song has got a littlebit of a language we haven't
touched on yet today Signlanguage.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Because that would have been awesome if you didn't
get a sign language song on yourperfect album side.
Steve (51:00):
You're missing it's just, it's just silence.
Yes, uh, yes, it's not signlanguage, it's another language
and I'm going to play it for youright now.
Windham (51:18):
Michel, my belle.
These are words that gotogether well, my Michel, michel
, my belle, son de beau, be mybeau.
Très bien ensemble, très bienensemble.
(51:41):
I love you.
I love you.
Steve (51:44):
I love you, stone Cold.
This is Michelle off the albumRubber Soul by the band the
Beatles.
The who, the Beatles, theBeatles, the who, the Beatles,
the Beatles.
And this song did not hitnumber one in America, but if
you heard the that part, rightthere is in French, guess where
(52:12):
it did hit number one FranceBoom, rubber Soul, rubber Soul
is really good.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
This where it did hit number one France Boom, rubber
Soul.
Steve (52:18):
Rubber Soul is really good.
This is an amazing record.
All that Norwegian Wood on here, this song it pairs well.
I actually think this is a goodcompliment to Norwegian Wood,
but written by McCartney and anice Chianti, written by
McCartney and Lennon.
It didn't chart in America butit won Song of the Year in the
1967 Grammys.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
That makes no sense.
Makes no sense to me.
Windham (52:44):
A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
For those of you that are playing bingo I didn't
think Norwegian Wood would showup on this podcast.
But here we are, norwegian Wood.
I didn't think this song wouldshow up on the Perfect Domestide
podcast.
Yes, there is French in it, butI think this is an English
language song.
But I get your point.
Don't roll your eyes at me.
I saw that.
Steve (53:06):
Don't shove your pants at me, mister.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Shove your Norwegian wood over this way.
Steve (53:15):
This song is not on my Perfect Album Side side.
I understand you made thatabundantly clear.
Uh, cartney used to hang aroundwith a bunch of french hippies,
almost, and they got him uhkind of fired up.
He used to play songs atparties and they were like you
should write a song, and he did.
He did this, he wrote this andhe put that French term in there
(53:39):
because he needed something torhyme with Michelle, which ended
up to be my bell, and then hewrote the lyrics.
These are words that gotogether so well.
And then after that he decidedto lead into the French
translation.
That was very impressive, Ishould be French.
That was very impressive, Ishould be French.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
That was incredible.
I should be.
French yeah you should beFrench and Italian.
Yeah, you definitely have aEuropean vibe about you.
Steve (54:05):
I think it's the beard, oh totally.
I'm very, oh yeah, I'm veryEuropean.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Well, so were the.
Windham (54:11):
Beatles.
Steve (54:12):
So were the Beatles.
They wrote a song for thecountry right underneath I'll
tell you what came to mind,george Martin.
I just had the nugget of thecentury go ahead.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
I apologize, go ahead please no, it's not George
Martin.
Steve (54:27):
The producer plays piano on this song, but you can't
really hear it.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Go Stone Cold that was the nugget of the century.
George Martin plays piano thatyou can't hear nugget of the
century.
Perhaps you don't remember thatwhole jimmy page joe cocker
thing from 74 episodes ago, butokay, nugget of the century, as
you said.
Uh, here's what I noticed iswhen paul mccartney started
singing uh, and I don't rememberthe exact lyric, but he talks
about michelle, and he said mymichelle, and I was like, oh
(54:52):
wait, a Did guns and roses getthe idea for the song my
Michelle?
From this song there are hugeBeatles fans.
Paul McCartney says my Michellein this song and then they
write a whole song called myMichelle.
Very different topics, I'm sure.
Steve (55:06):
Very different, I don't think that particular guns and
roses image.
Uh, it translated well to theBeatles' Rubber Soul album.
But Michelle, rubber Soul 1967,excuse me, 65, stone Cold, it's
got that French line in it thateverybody likes to try and say
these are words that go togetherwell.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
That makes my perfect downside For all of our
listeners.
Can you repeat that line againthese?
Steve (55:33):
are words that go together.
Well, no, the part in frenchdude.
Oh, you're right, foreignlanguage song that was really,
really good.
Speaker 3 (55:44):
I'm sure that none of our french listeners will be
upset with the way you did that.
Steve (55:47):
I know I'm probably gonna get hate mail.
Yeah, we're gonna get someletters uh, we're gonna have fun
with it.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
Hey, it's the 75th episode man, it's the Diamond
Jubilee, it's Urban Injection.
Windham (56:03):
Here is the last song on my Perfect Album side Oppa,
(56:39):
gangnam Style, gangnam.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
Style.
I can't believe I'm sayingthese words, but Gangnam Style
has been nominated again on thePerfect Album of the Side.
This is not the first time it'sbeen on the show and it
probably won't be the lastthat's a good tune, man.
It's catchy and the dance movesare fantastic.
Gangnam Style single by Psy,released on his sixth album,
(57:03):
first single, sixth album, 2012.
The term Gangnam Style refersto the nouveau riche lifestyle
associated with the Gangnamregion of Seoul.
In July, on July 15th 2012,gangnam Style was released on
Psy's YouTube channel and itjust went crazy viral, mainly
(57:27):
because of just the absurdity ofthe video and the song in
general, but it just goes offthe charts.
It subsequently won the BestVideo at the MTV European Video
Music Awards of that year.
Became.
The first video to reach abillion views on YouTube.
Now we talked about the firstone to hit 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
(57:49):
million was Despacito.
This was the first video everon YouTube to reach a billion
views.
The song's music video was themost viewed video on youtube to
reach a billion views.
Uh, the song's music video wasthe most viewed video on youtube
.
Uh, for 2012.
Uh, it surpassed baby by justinbieber featuring ludacris.
Uh, look, like I said on thelast song not my favorite song,
but I mean it's.
(58:10):
There are very few foreignlanguage hits that are bigger
songs than this one.
Wyndham, is it on your PerfectAlbum side?
Steve (58:17):
No, my Perfect Album side has been completed, thank you.
Okay, but I think this song isawesome.
Speaker 3 (58:23):
How many languages have we uncovered today on the
Perfect Album side podcast?
Spanish Check Italian, checkFrench, check German, twice
Check Korean.
Four.
Five French check German, twicecheck Korean five.
Five languages and we may haveone from sign language later,
we'll figure that out but fivedifferent languages across, I
(58:43):
think, five different decades60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s.
Yeah, five languages, fivedecades.
That's a pretty impressivecollection for the Perfect Album
Side podcast.
I don't have a lot of positivethings to say about this song
other than it was a huge hit anda crazy dance tune, uh, and a
big, big video on youtube not myfavorite, but had to make my
(59:04):
perfect album side.
What say you about it?
Steve (59:05):
yeah, I I I go completely opposite macarena on this one.
I actually like this song.
I think it's got great beat.
I think it's got some bottom toit.
You know I like that and I Ialso saw something recently on
might have been instagram of howthe singer's name is it
pronounced?
Sigh, sigh, sigh comes into hisconcerts.
(59:25):
Have you seen this?
No, they have a cameraunderneath the stage and he is
on um.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
He's on a springboard oh, he shoots about like john
bon Jovi style from the layerhands on the video, but even
higher into the career I haveseen that yeah, and everything
changes right, because he jumpsup and then they show the, they
show the, the top of stageversion, and it's just.
I mean it must be 400 000people out there, it's about a
half a million people, uh, andhe shoots up out of the stage
and the place goes batshit crazy.
Steve (59:54):
It is unbelievable.
Maybe we'll post that link onthe socials later today.
It's really cool and it reallymakes me appreciate.
I mean, this guy was superpopular.
I like the song, I don't mindit, and I think the Korean
version actually is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Well, that was the Korean version.
Is there another version?
Steve (01:00:14):
It doesn't isn't there?
Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
there's not an English version.
I don't know, I don't know.
To me it's a foreign languagesong.
Now, how does he say?
Steve (01:00:18):
it in Korean.
I mean, this is the treatment Igot with my Beatles song.
Can you say the Korean part?
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Not without offending a lot of the world.
Steve (01:00:26):
So I'm not going to do that Error in the side of
caution.
I dig it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Yeah, and lawyers, and you know we're on episode 75
.
I don't want to be canceled atthis point.
Steve (01:00:36):
Correct, correct.
Well, considering we willofficially be around for episode
76, that would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
We're going to get to that momentarily here at the
end.
I do want to talk to you realquick.
We've reached the end.
I've given you my perfectdownside, you've given me yours.
I have shared my parchment withyou.
I'm hoping that you will sharethe parchment with me so that we
can compare and contrast andrule songs in and out of the
perfect album side.
Are you ready to get in the lab, as you like to say, oh put on
the lab coat and let's put thegoggles on.
(01:01:04):
The perfect album side.
Are you ready?
Yes, okay.
Well, we have often said, ifit's on my perfect album side
and it's on your perfect albumside, it is on the perfect album
side.
We had an over under today ofthree and a half.
I said it would be the over, itwas the under because we had
three songs that overlapped LaBamba by Los Lobos and Richie
(01:01:27):
Valens.
Depending on which version.
I think we played the Los Lobosversion.
La Bamba in Espanol, 99.
Luftballons by N in espanol, 99love balloons by nana, made
mine, made yours, made z ingerman in german.
Rock me amadeus falco fromfalco 3, 1986 in german, in
(01:01:50):
german.
So right now, we got spanish,we got german, we got german.
Now we gotta figure it out.
Now we got three slots to fill.
I would ask you to look at mineand include one, and then I
will include one of yours andwe'll be off.
Steve (01:02:03):
And running my man.
Okay, I'm.
I mean, I'm gonna get this oneout of the way because I was
threatened with torture if itdidn't get chosen despacito
despacito was absolutely goingto make the perfect album side.
Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Currently, we have two in espanol, we have two in
german and we have two spots togo.
As I look at your list, uh,it's oye, come va by.
Santana absolutely makes theperfect album side.
Windham (01:02:34):
Uh, not because not because your other ones are bad.
Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
it's just that one to me makes the perfect album side
.
Not because your other ones arebad, it's just that one to me
makes the most sense.
It's completely an Espanol anda huge hit I mean a top five hit
in 1976, 1971.
Steve (01:02:47):
I'm a little surprised you didn't go.
Gloria by Umberto Betsy.
Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Well, the night is young, my friends.
It might still make the perfectalbum side.
If we have what one slot left,and I think you should advocate
for one of your own, I'lladvocate for one of mine and
we'll fight to the death.
For you, it's either Michelleby the Beatles or Gloria by
Umberto Tazzi, and for me, it'seither Macarena or Gangnam Style
(01:03:13):
.
If I'm going to push for one ofmine, Gangnam Style absolutely
First one to reach a billionviews on YouTube, it's
completely in Korean, whereasthe Macarena is a little bit of
English, a little bit of Spanish.
And Gangnam Style you like thatsong, so I'm going to float
Gangnam Style as betweenMacarena and Gangnam Style,
that's what I'd be voting for.
What say you about Michelle andGloria?
Steve (01:03:37):
Yeah, I mean I'm going to say Gloria by Umberto Tazzi
Because I'm still overwhelmed bythe fact that this was the
original and I love those kindof things on this podcast.
You know that, the little smallthings that you don't think
about.
But the funny thing is, Ialways thought this would have
been the cover.
It wasn't.
That's why I'm going withGloria by Umberto Tazzi, but I
(01:04:00):
got to tell you this I don'tknow if it competes with my guy
Cy, and I'm just going to behonest.
I may concede this one, getGloria some airtime, but I might
concede to Gangnam Style.
I'm not sure I can compete withthat.
Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Did you have any honorable mentions before we
named the final song on thePerfect Album Side podcast?
Steve (01:04:22):
I do not.
I stand with the six I put outthere.
Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Life Goes On by K-pop band BTS from 2020.
Wow, had that one been around alittle bit longer, it would
have beaten out Macarena for me.
Life Goes On by BTS is a huge,huge hit for K-pop sensations,
bts, so that one almost beat outMacarena for me, but it had not
(01:04:49):
yet stood the test of time.
It's only been around for threeor four or five, four years now
.
So we're down to Gloria byUmberto Tazzi versus Gangnam
Style by Psy.
It sounds like you wanted toconcede to Psy and I'm going to
accept your concedence.
Concession, concession, thankyou.
(01:05:10):
I couldn't think of that word.
That being said, I'm so happythat Umberto Tazzi got some
airtime today.
Well-deserving, one of thecatchiest'm so happy that, uh,
umberto Tazzi got some.
Got some airtime today.
Uh, well-deserving, one of thecatchiest songs of all time,
gloria.
But the perfect album side offoreign language tunes, at least
foreign to those of us in theUnited States of America.
Uh, la Bamba by Los Lobos andRitchie Valens.
(01:05:32):
99 Luft Balloons by Naina RockMe Amadeus by Falco Despacito,
by Luis Fonzi and Daddy Yankee.
Oye Como Va by Santana and,last but not least, gangnam
Style by Psy.
I think I may have pulled likea muscle in my rib area.
(01:05:55):
That's how excited I was aboutthis episode.
Steve (01:05:57):
Well, you know what fixes that Urban injection.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Oh my God, Bohemian wood or Norwegian wood.
Good, perfect album.
Simon man.
Okay, I'll see you later.
Steve (01:06:16):
This has been the Perfect Album Side.
Windham (01:06:19):
See you next time.
Welcome to episode 75, bitches.
Welcome to the perfect albumside.
One idea, six songs, infinitepossibilities.
Steve (00:26):
Este es el podcast perfecto para acompañar un album
.
Mi nombre es Steve y su nombrees Wyndham.
Bienvenidos al programa todos.
Boy, we're really Welcome.
Oh, I understood.
I understood, did you?
catch all that.
It was in a foreign language,that was a foreign language.
You got it, you got it.
I think people that haven catchall that it was in a foreign
language, that was a foreignlanguage, you got it, you got it
.
I think people that haven'theard our podcast in a while and
(00:49):
that's just about everyone,because there hasn't been a
deluxe podcast in a while aregoing to think they hit the SAP
button on their TV.
They did not, they did not,they did not.
You're so bilingual.
Sí, sí, sí.
Hablo español.
You say all the complicatedwords.
Hablo español un poco.
(01:10):
Sí¿ Cómo estás Habla inglés.
Yes, you speak Spanish.
This is the Perfect Album Sidepodcast.
My name is Steve, his name isWyndham.
It's no coincidence I startedoff in a foreign language.
Tell me why?
Because today's deluxe episodeof the Perfect Album Side
podcast is going to be aboutforeign language songs Stone
(01:34):
Cold.
I see what you did there.
Windham (01:37):
Well, I wasn't hiding it.
It was pretty clear what I didthere.
It was pretty obvious Este esel podcast perfecto para
acompañar un álbum.
Steve (01:46):
Well, when you started I thought you were just kind of
kidding around, Like I didn'tknow that was the official start
to the podcast recording.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's how we do it now en español, baby.
Steve (01:54):
Well, and you better be ready, like at any moment you
could kick this thing off.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
At any moment I could switch languages.
It is good to see you.
I have not seen your face inquite a long time.
For people that just picked upour podcast and they're working
their way through the episodes.
Steve (02:08):
no time has elapsed, but in the real world I haven't seen
your face in many, many a moon,literally In many a moon.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry aboutthat.
A lot of people would thinkthat's a reward of some sorts.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, we have a meeting.
But, yeah, it's great to seeyou.
Uh, well, it's good.
Wait what?
Nothing, let's not talk aboutthe meeting.
No, um, I am glad to see youagain and I'm glad to be back
recording a perfect album side.
I am excited about today'stopic.
Uh, we are doing the perfectalbum sides.
Perfect album side of songsrecorded in a foreign language.
(02:43):
That means non-English.
For those of you that don'tknow what foreign language means
.
Steve (02:50):
That's exactly what it means.
Now there's a couple things I'mgoing to be honest about.
When it comes to my deluxeperfect album side Is that not
all of my songs are whollynon-English W-H-O-L-L-Y.
Some of my songs may have alittle bit of English in there,
but there are some veryrecognizable songs with some
very recognizable awards that docarry a little bit of foreign
(03:14):
language.
So get ready.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
As always, we didn't set up any rules, but we said
let's build the perfect albumside of the six most iconic
foreign language songs.
Maybe the whole song is in adifferent language, maybe just
part of the six most iconicforeign language songs.
Maybe the whole song is in adifferent language, maybe just
part of the song is in adifferent language, but these
should be our arguments for whatare the six most iconic uh
songs recorded in a foreignlanguage.
I'll tell you.
Steve (03:35):
I'll tell you, I got multiple decades, I got multiple
languages on my perfect albumsuh, same, oh yeah, I do a lot of
romance languages, oh oh, butI'll tell you this what's
interesting we are listened to?
This podcast is stone cold.
Listened to across the globe,am I?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
right, absolutely, and I thought about that.
The term foreign language it'sforeign to those of us in the
united States of America orthose that speak English, but
some of these, we got listenersall over the world and literally
almost every country in theworld and it won't be foreign
language to them, they'll justcall it language, I think.
Steve (04:19):
Is this supposed to be foreign?
I understand what they'resaying.
Yeah, that's what somecountries are going to say.
Some of our listeners are goingto be wondering what's going on
.
Are they being punked?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think I've got, uh, one, two, three or four
languages and, yeah, multipledecades, maybe four or five
different decades.
Now there were several songsthat came out in the in the 50s,
uh, that were big hits, um,that were foreign language songs
.
I didn't go back to, you know,pre-1955.
(04:53):
Uh, we, that's not really whatwe do here.
You know we're more 60s, 70s,80s, 90s, 2000s.
But uh, there are, there were afew big hits that will probably
be left off the perfect album,aside from the early 50s, I
think yeah, I don't, uh, I'mjust kind of doing a quick scan.
Steve (05:08):
Uh, mine are.
I don't go back that far, uh,to the 50s now, not far from it.
I just don't go back that farand we'll see what.
You'll see what I mean heremoment.
I can't wait I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Let's let's talk about Over Under.
I've put a lot of thought intothis and I think that I've said
this a lot on this podcast, butI think the odds of having a
tremendous amount of overlap isvery, very high.
I think this will be theclosest we've been to.
Ending the podcast once and forall will be on this episode
there's only 12 15 songs thathave been big hits, at least in
(05:45):
the united states.
That were foreign languagesongs, because it wasn't like we
had a huge pool of songs tochoose from uh, no, we don't.
Steve (05:53):
Um, do you want to?
Do you want to remind ourlisteners as to what that means?
Like what's at stake?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
well, we've always said that if we ever went six
for six, that we would, uh, asyou said, take off the
headphones, uh, bid each otheradieu.
A nod of the head, a wink ofthe cap, a tip of the cap, wink
of the nod, whatever, somethinglike that.
We'd end the podcast.
Neck of the nape, if we go sixfor six, we end the podcast.
It'll be the final episode.
I will say this much Welcome toepisode 75 of the Perfect Album
(06:21):
Side podcast, the DiamondJubilee.
Is that what this is?
Diamond?
I think so.
Diamond Jubilee.
Steve (06:27):
I didn't get you anything Well except a really good
Perfect Album Side podcast songs.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I actually did get you something, so now you're
going to feel really bad.
I always do yeah Story of mylife Well anyway, just if you
get a gift in the mail, justfeel free to ignore it then
Really Well, yeah, you just sentme something.
It's the 75th episode.
It's the Diamond Jubilee.
Of course I sent you a present.
Why did you not?
Steve (06:52):
I'll admit I don't know, because I'm an asshole.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Wow, I mean, we don't do a podcast for a while and
you just fall off of thegift-giving ways that you once
had.
This is uncomfortable.
I don't even know you anymore.
This is terribly, terriblyuncomfortable.
I say we get to the music.
I say we don't, actuallybecause there's something that I
think we were going to talkabout.
You sent me a link on ourcellular devices the iPhones as
(07:18):
the people call them, and it wasa really cool thing about
Aerosmith and Sweet Emotion inparticular and the recording of
that song, which I thought wascool.
Maybe you could talk about.
Steve (07:30):
Yeah, so I saw this.
This was an interview from nottoo long ago that Howard Stern
was doing with Aerosmith's leadsinger Steven.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Tyler, steven Tyler.
I know we've been off for alittle while, but his name's
Steven Tyler.
Steve (07:48):
Yeah, I know, I know.
And what he confessed was inthe song Sweet Emotion.
The beginning of this song hasan instrument.
That, steve, it's a vibraslap,vibraslap.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's a percussionist's favorite thing,
that instrument.
Yeah, everybody's heard it.
Steve (08:06):
And what Steven Tyler confesses is that the vibra slap
, which is really prominent inthe intro to this song, it
breaks, they broke it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I would assume Joey Kramer broke it.
He's the drummer.
He's probably the percussionist.
Steve (08:21):
Oh, I think Steven Tyler broke it actually.
He was coked up, that'll happen.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, I'm not judging , but in whatever state he was
in, he broke the vibraslap andthey left it in.
Yeah, you sent that to me and Iwent back and listened to it
and clear as day there's thevibraslap and then you can hear
it kind of malfunctioning and Ithink that, steven Tyler, you
can hear him kind of upset aboutit.
If you listen, really reallytyler, you can hear him kind of
uh upset about it.
Steve (08:45):
If you, if you listen really really closely, you can
hear him say, oh shit, and theyjust left it in.
That's.
Uh, I'm gonna play it, let's.
Oh great, it's in the first 25seconds.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Can we do that?
Yeah, let's make it happen allright, here we go.
Right there, that's awesome.
(09:27):
So he plays the vibraslap threetimes successfully and on the
fourth one it breaks and theyleft it in the song.
Steve (09:33):
Yeah, I'm going to play it one more time.
You can hear it distinctivelybreak.
Here we go Stone Cold.
Oh did I?
I didn't go back far enough,it's like amateur hour.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sorry, right there, there it is.
Yeah, I think you spoke over itway to ruin it again.
Oh gosh, that's all right.
Should we re I think that wepreviously did an episode of the
Perfect Albums Live podcastwhere we focused on musical
mistakes and we had some fromthe Beatles and the police, but
(10:11):
this one did not make the cut.
I think it would have beenhashtag past topic alert.
I don't remember the name ofthat episode, but we did one on
musical mistakes, I believe.
Steve (10:21):
I believe it might have been called exactly that Musical
mistakes.
I would have loved to put thatin there because you hear it and
you don't hear it as a mistake.
We talked about Roxanne by thepolice when sting sits on the
piano keys and starts to laugh.
Well, I don't.
I don't hear that as a mistake.
To me it's just a part of thesong.
And now I've heard this andI'll never unhear this from
(10:44):
sweet emotion, I thinknickelback was a musical mistake
yes, okay, and you've heardthat and you can't unhear.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yes, yeah, uh, let's get to the perfect album side of
foreign language songs.
Are you ready?
Yes, sir let me.
Steve (11:02):
I was born ready.
Oh my god, I was born to boogieand I was born ready.
Oh my God, I was born to boogieand I was born ready.
Windham (11:19):
Is the first song I thought of La Bamba.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, before we get started, we didn't talk about
Over Under.
We talked about the high chancefor overlap.
I would say that the Over Underis three and a half and I'm
taking the Over.
Steve (11:42):
Oh gosh, that does not bode well for the future and it
doesn't bode well for episode 76.
I'm going to also take the overand go ahead and chalk this one
up.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay, yeah, I mean La Bamba.
Of course it had to be on bothof our perfdom sides, please.
Originally recorded in 1958 byRichie Valens.
The version that we'relistening to, of course, by Los
Lobos from June of 1987.
I thought it was interesting.
I didn't realize this song wasa B-side to the other big hit
(12:19):
from that time which I can'tremember right.
This second, donna, oh, donna.
Yep, la Bamba was the B-side tothat one, originally from the
state of Veracruz to our Mexicanfriends to the south, also
known as La Bamba, best knownfrom the 1958 adaption by
Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit onthe US charts.
Ritchie Valens' version wasnumber 345 on Rolling Stone
(12:43):
magazine's list of the 500greatest songs of all time.
It is the only song on thatlist not written or sung in
english.
What do you got to say about it?
Steve (12:52):
uh, this song is absolutely 1000 on my perfect
album side.
I the most obvious songs or thesongs that come to me most
immediately for a topic I alwaysput towards the top of my
perfect album side.
I assume you do same.
Yes, this is number one.
Um, I love this song.
Uh, this song went number one.
(13:12):
You said it.
Uh, only the fourth at the timeholy non-english song ever to
be hit, ever to hit number one.
I don't think we should try toname the others.
Uh, just well, like I said atthe beginning, at the beginning,
beginning of the episode.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
this was the fourth song to hit number one.
I don't think we should try toname the others, just call that
a hunch At the beginning of theepisode.
This was the fourth song to hitnumber one that was not sung in
English on the Billboard Hot100.
The other three were likepre-1952, like in the very
beginning of the Billboardcharts, I mean, and nobody knows
them.
Steve (13:38):
Nobody knows them.
Well, there have been a couplemore since.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
There have.
But I'm saying at the time yeah, this was the.
Steve (13:44):
I had never heard of the other ones, to be honest with
you that that got mentioned.
But uh, this song was also 1988mtv mtv video music award for
best video, which I think is abig deal.
Um, I like this song and I'lltell you why I I think it's a
catchy song.
This was a good tune back inthe 80s.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's got that center field john fogarty feel to it or
maybe yeah, or maybe centerfield has a labamba feel to it
well, labamba became labambacame before, uh, john fogarty
center field, uh, but yeah, theopening guitar if I I I hear
what you're saying there uh,richie valen's recording of the
(14:21):
song was inducted into the latinHall of Fame as well as the
straight-up Grammy Hall of Fame.
So, for all of those reasons,it was on my perfect album side,
it was on your perfect albumside.
Hence it is on the perfectalbum side.
Of course, la Bamba was goingto make the perfect album side
Of course it was.
Steve (14:39):
But one more thing, stone Cold.
What do you got?
This song is forever cementedin rock lore, and you know why
we've said all the reasons Ijust listed.
Well, all those reasons, pluswe've talked about this before
what?
If one thing happens to yoursong, it must mean you've done
(15:01):
something right, do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
where I'm going now.
Well, I I know that if, if, ifweird al yankovic comes calling,
you've done something right.
Do you know where I'm going Now?
Well, I know that if Weird AlYankovic comes calling, you've
done something right.
I had no idea about what you'reabout to say.
Steve (15:13):
He came calling to Los Lobos about La Bamba because he
had a song dialed up calledLasagna.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Weird Al Yankovic, you know, I think I did, and
that's how you know folks.
Steve (15:28):
That's how big a tune this was.
Weird Al wanted to parody it,and he did just that with his
song Lasagna, but I'm with you,stone Cold.
This song is absolutelyunignorable when it comes to
foreign language songs that areiconic.
I'm on board, made my perfectalbum set too.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Made mine as well.
That was my song to start.
You get the next.
You have the con, my man.
Oh, I've got the con you do.
Do you remember how to work thecon?
It's been a minute, there yougo.
Oh, you're All you.
Steve (16:01):
You are a whiz with food additives.
Stone Cold.
The second song, I guess, to befair, on my album side, goes a
little something like this it'sa different language, so we're
going to hit two for two onlanguage.
Windham (16:35):
Here we go.
Thank you, and that.
Something like that comes fromsomething like that.
Steve (17:14):
Stone Cold.
I'd like for you to meet Nainaand 99 Luft Balloons Beautiful,
that's 1983.
Stone Stunkhole Off the albumNaina, and this is the German
version.
I mean, and I'm not even I knowwe want some anticipation in
(17:34):
this podcast, but I know this ison your perfect album, this is
the number two song on myperfect album side we are two
for two.
Windham (17:41):
We are really dangerous .
Speaker 3 (17:43):
This 75 might've been as far as we go, my man.
Steve (17:46):
That's right.
Well, we made it that far.
I love this song whether it'sin English or German, but I
actually like this song a littlebit better in German, Released
in 1983.
It's honestly their only hit.
Their English version, whichcame after this, wasn't even as
big a hit as this one was.
Version which came after thiswasn't even as big a hit as this
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one was.
Um, I didn't know that the bandI thought that I thought this
was just her I did too.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I did too.
Like until last week I thoughtnana.
Nana was the female.
Windham (18:18):
The name of the band is nana the name of the band is
nana no singer's name is nanaand the out of the album is nana
.
Steve (18:23):
I, the lead singer's name is Naina and the album is Naina
, but her real name is GabrielleSusanna Kerner.
So is mine.
You're better known as StoneCold.
She's better known as NainaCool band name and we talked
about bands, songs, albums namedafter the same thing.
Big Country got really close.
(18:43):
Wang Chung got really close.
This one's pretty close, but itafter the same thing.
Big Country got really close.
Wang Chung got really close.
This one's pretty close, butit's not an album, it's just
singer album and band, which iskind of crazy.
It's off their debut album.
Certainly they can come up withanother name, apparently not
Second release from that record.
The tempo starts to pick up alittle bit, as we're hearing now
(19:05):
.
It reached number two on theBillboard Stone Cold.
Now, talking about uniqueinstruments, juergen Demmel
plays bass for Naina, but healso plays an instrument on this
record called the Chapman StickNice and it's a stick
instrument that has 10 to 12strings and it actually,
speaking of center field by JohnFogarty it looks like a
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baseball bat Tells the story of99 red balloons that were in the
sky and mistaken for UFOs,causing military chaos, and the
two groups came after each other, everything was destroyed and
then, at the end of the song,the singer is walking through
the ruins and finds a single redballoon.
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It's a.
It's a.
But the band was never, thennever, pleased with the english
version that came out.
And I will say this too stonecold, march 26th 1980, march 26
2006, excuse me, hurricane,hurricane, katrina.
Fundraiser on VH1 Classic, aviewer donated $36,000 to play
(20:08):
this video for one straight hourand that wish was granted to
the tune of 36 Large Stone Cold.
It's on your perfect album site.
I know you're going to talkabout it.
It is 99 Laugh Balloons.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
A couple things.
It was $37,000, and I reallylike this song, so I wanted to
donate to charity.
Steve (20:27):
Damn it, can't you?
Let me have the moment.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
In the US the English-language version of this
song because they have theversion that we just heard,
which is in German, and thenthey re-recorded one that is
written in English and she talksabout Captain Kirk and getting
the war machine going and allthese things.
That one never chartered in theUnited States but the German
version did, which I thought waskind of interesting.
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Only the German versionchartered here.
As you mentioned from theoutset, nena, the lead singer,
not the band, but also the othermembers of the band they were
not real pleased with having torecord an English version and
they thought all the way upuntil recently that they never
should have done it.
They should have kept it withthe German only version, and you
know I tend to agree with them.
You mentioned that it reachednumber two on the Billboard Hot
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100.
Do you know the song that keptit out of the number one spot?
I'll give you a hint it was inthe spring of 1984.
Okay, 1984.
That is correct.
You are correct, sir.
Jump by Van Halen.
You nailed it.
(21:33):
Damn I feel like I just earnedmy way back into the chair.
It's not the best in thebusiness, for nothing, kids.
Steve (21:41):
If you had said 83, I would have pulled something off
of Thriller, but you said 84.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, it was released in Europe in 1983.
It wasn't until the spring of84 where it came out in the
United States, and Van Halen andthe boys kept it out of the
number one spot.
Steve (21:58):
Of course they did.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It was on your perfect album side.
It was on my perfect album side.
Hence it is on the perfectalbum side.
We're two for two, right out ofthe gate, and I'd be willing to
bet most of the money in mywallet that this next song is
also on yours.
Let me share this.
Steve (22:14):
Oh my gosh, If this is, we are so screwed.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'd be willing to bet it is.
Here we go, maybe.
(22:51):
Let me just start by saying howmuch I love this song.
I have since the first time Iheard it, this song.
It makes me happy every time Ihear it.
It's fantastic.
Steve (23:02):
How good is that guitar lick at the beginning.
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I don't know who did that, but I'd like to find out.
Wouldn't it be cool if it wasJimmy?
Steve (23:12):
Page Timothy B.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Schmidt.
Yeah, it could be.
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco, mayof 1985, recorded by Austrian
musician Falco for his thirdalbum entitled Falco III.
The single was made availablefor physical sale in 1985
throughout Europe through A&M.
To date, it is the only Germanlanguage song to peak at number
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one, Number one hit on theBillboard Hot 100.
It did so March 29, 1986.
It's on my Perfect Album side.
I'd be willing to bet it's onyours too.
But let's hear it, is it on?
Steve (23:50):
Your Perfect Album side.
It is 1000% on my Perfect Albumside, of course it is, and that
was never in question, Never inquestion.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It topped the singles charts on both sides of the
Atlantic.
It was Falco's only number onehit in the US.
His only number one hit in theUnited Kingdom, despite his
popularity in Austria and muchof Europe.
Only number one hit over there.
I could go on for days abouthow great this song is, but I
guess I'll let you talk for aminute.
Steve (24:17):
Yeah, I mean, you're saying all the great things
about it.
I love this song a lot.
Now this song hit Billboardnumber one.
Okay, is the only song, onlyGerman-speaking song, to hit
number one on the billboard, butit's also the only number one
German song to be on thebillboard and a chart that we
(24:37):
don't talk about enough the cashbox charts.
Now, what's crazy?
The last song we talked about,the last song that we talked
about, that was in German onthis podcast song that we talked
about, that was in German onthis podcast 99 Luftballons also
hit the cash box number one,but it only hit number two on
the billboard Because of VanHalen.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
we talked about that.
Steve (24:58):
Because of Van Halen, Ranked 87 on VH1's greatest
songs of the 1980.
Now here's something I didn'tknow.
Talk to me.
A lot of 80s tunes have been onour PAS.
You've heard the song, or letme start this way You've heard
the band After the Fire?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They have a song called Dar Kamisar.
You have told me about this andthe Perfect Album Side
listeners on episode eight.
For some reason, go ahead.
Steve (25:30):
I didn't know that dark commissar, which was made a huge
hit by the band after the fire,was originally written and
performed same exact song byfalco, also in german.
So I I had no idea he'sresponsible for two major, major
hits of the 1980s.
(25:51):
But he really only gets the thecredit for for rock me amadeus,
because after the fire tookover dark commissar and uh and
and made it, uh, made it a bighit according to his estate, he
has sold 20 million albums and40 million singles.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of
all time.
Steve (26:13):
That is insane.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I wouldn't have told you that, and if I remember
correctly from one of ourprevious episodes, you talked
about Falco and his untimelydeath.
He was literally hit by a bus.
Steve (26:25):
Literally hit by a bus.
That's a shitty way to goDidn't get to enjoy the
continued success and what hemeant to the 1980s.
But amazing song, I love it.
Uh, I now in the in the longerversion.
You and I both spotlighted thegerman version, but in the
longer version there is anenglish speaking part where they
(26:47):
actually chronicle the life ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, there's about nine different versions of this
song that are out there.
They released, you know, a 12inch, a seven inch that you know
.
They released all kinds of.
You know an English version, aGerman version, they just
there's a lot of differentversions out there.
So, yeah, this is the one thatI like the most, though.
Steve (27:06):
Me too, me too.
Now, we did talk about parodies.
On the last german song wetalked about um, excuse me, we
talked about la bambaspanish-speaking song.
Uh, that was parodied by willweird al with lasagna.
I have to say, the simpsonsparodied this song and it was
called rock me, dr zeus.
After the um, uh, after the uhmovie, the chareston Hestie
(27:30):
movie.
Okay, there you go, there's alittle something for you, stone.
Cold that the normal tour guidewon't tell you We've got a
German-language song, rock MeAmadeus.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Prior to that German-language song, 99
Luftballons, which went tonumber two in the US, rock Me
Amadeus was the last number onewith lyrics mostly in German.
The Los Lobos version of LaBamba, sung in Spanish, hit
number one in 1987.
But it wasn't until 2020 that asong sung in a language other
than Spanish or English toppedthe chart, and we might talk
(28:01):
about that one later, maybe.
Steve (28:04):
Oh, very interesting Maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Perfect way to end Rock Me Amadeus.
It made my perfect album side,it made your perfect album side,
hence it makes the perfectalbum side.
We are three for three.
I think this is where we startto hopefully separate, if this
isn't going to be the lastversion of the Perfect Album
Side podcast.
I believe you have the con, myman man.
(28:29):
Let me stop here and I'll letyou go oh, that is.
Steve (28:34):
That's so glorious.
Yes, I do have the con andwe're gonna kick things off.
This is where I venture alittle bit from where we've been
so far.
Let's hear it um, but there'san interesting kick to this.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh boy, yes, what the hell are you doing?
I?
Windham (29:31):
don't know.
Steve (29:34):
I was trying to turn down the volume.
Have we done this before StoneCold this?
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is a very familiar 1980shit called Gloria.
Yes, you, of course, arefamiliar with the Laura Branigan
(29:56):
version.
Who isn't?
Who isn't?
Laura Branigan covered thissong by Umberto Tazzi.
Yes, this is the real Gloria.
This is not a cover.
This is not some guy whodecided to cover a well-known
number two hit by Laura Branigan.
(30:17):
This guy wrote it and I foundthat to be fascinating.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Tell me his name again.
Steve (30:22):
Umberto.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Tazzi.
Umberto Tazzi records this song.
It's Italian, is it not?
Steve (30:29):
It's Italian, it's Italian is it not, it's Italian,
it's okay Italian, totallyItalian 1979.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Laura Branigan hears the song and decides to record a
different version in 1983,82-ish, 82.
82.
Okay.
Steve (30:44):
Okay, it's the exact same song.
Yeah, and I found thisfascinating because I never
would have told you that Gloriawasn't written by Laura Branigan
.
And if I heard this song, Iwould have said man, this guy's
doing a cheap knockoff, not true?
No, he's not.
Branigan is the one knockingoff, calling.
Windham (31:00):
Gloria so good.
Steve (31:03):
Also.
This version is also found.
This version is found on thesoundtrack to Wolf of Wall
Street.
I just watched that movie lastweek.
Well then, you've heard UmbertoTapas' version of this song.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I love that movie and I love this song, both versions
of it.
Steve (31:20):
Now the other thing I'll tell you if you ever see a
picture, especially on the coverof this album of Gloria, which
is the album coveroria, which isthe album cover, which is the
album this is on, he looks justlike paul mccartney.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So italian born singer umberto what's his last
name?
Tazzi tazzi, who looks justlike paul mccartney, records
gloria in 1979, and laurabrannigan picks it up three
years later and has the biggesthit ever with it that that's
exactly what went down fantastic.
Steve (31:52):
I think she was vacationing in tuscany, as
people do.
As people do, I think she heardtazzi's version and said I got
an idea how about we rip offthis guy's song and make
millions well, she, she did, andmy hat's off to her.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
uh, this song is equally catchy, even if it's in
Italian.
I'll say that I can't stopbouncing around with this song.
Steve (32:16):
No, it's really really good.
There's your bridge right there.
Yeah, can you hear the basssliding down the neck?
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Now the ending to this song isactually pretty cool.
It's really the only part ofthis song that will differ from
(32:38):
what Brannigan had done in 1982.
They start to pick it up alittle bit, get a little excited
.
If we can wait around for that,maybe we don't have time, but
go check this out.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Umberto Tazzi, umberto Tazzi, umberto Tazzi,
with Gloria from the albumentitled Gloria from 1979.
You haven't asked me thequestion yet and I'm dying to
answer it.
Steve (33:02):
Well, I'm telling you we might as well cut it off.
See the ending right here.
Yeah, we might as well hang upthe headphones if you tell me
this is on your perfect album.
Windham (33:11):
Let's hear it.
Steve (33:13):
Stone Cold.
Tell me and all the listenersaround the world, especially on
the Italian Riviera, is thissong on your perfect album?
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Okay.
Steve (33:26):
I was like you've sold some songs to me on this where
it was on your perfect albumside and you played along.
But there's no way you wouldpurposely not get his name right
so often and just say that ohyeah, it's on my perfect album
side.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
No, no, I mean, look, it's a great song and I had
forgotten that that was a cover.
I didn't know.
You knew?
Did Laura Branigan make hisname again One more time?
Umberto tazzi, umbert.
Did she make him a rich man?
I should be italian, come on,yes, you should be italian, not,
not from from the southeastunited states, but italian, of
(34:01):
course.
Um, did she make him a veryrich man?
Steve (34:06):
uh, yes, he, he was very successful with his music across
europe.
Okay, um, france, spain.
He was a hit.
Okay, this wasn't.
This wasn't his only, his onlyshot.
He, he had a lot of songs thatwent number one across europe.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Uh, this song did very well in europe, but, uh, to
our listeners abroad, acrossthe pond, in europe, in Italy,
reach out to us.
I'd like to hear more aboutyour thoughts on Umberto Tazzi
and Wyndham's pick for thePerfect Album side.
It is not on my Perfect Albumside.
Windham (34:39):
It is on yours, it is not on mine.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
We will see if it makes the final cut.
Are you ready to hand over thecon to me?
I have handed it over, oh mygosh, umberto Tazzi.
Steve (34:51):
I may say that the rest of the episode.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
This is the next song .
So if that's not cool, go aheadand hang up.
Umberto Tazzi.
This is the next song on myPerfect Dumb Side.
Windham (35:06):
Aye Fonzie D-Y.
Oh, oh, no, oh, no, oh, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
(35:32):
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee from 2017
.
Despacito translated slowly, asong by Puerto Rican singer Luis
Fonsi, originally written in2015.
In 2016, he sent the song toPuerto Rican rapper and singer,
(35:57):
daddy Yankee to give it a quoteurban injection and then
released it as the lead singlefrom Fonsi's 2017 studio album
entitled Vida, released January2017.
If you don't know this song,you've probably been living
under a rock for the last eightyears.
There is no bigger foreignlanguage song that's been
(36:18):
released in the last 15, 20years than Despacito.
That's my statement.
I stand by it.
A remix version came out laterin 2017, starring Justin Bieber.
Starring Bieber.
Featuring Justin Bieber.
That helped improve the chartperformance of this song in
general.
It received Latin Grammy Awardsfor Record of the Year, song of
(36:42):
the Year, best Urban FusionPerformance, best Short Music
Video.
At the 18th Latin Grammy Awards.
It has also been ranked amongthe best Latin songs of all time
and best songs of 2017, whichrefer to it as one of the most
successful Spanish languagetracks in pop music history.
Wyndham Pridgen, is this songon your perfect album side?
Steve (37:06):
I'm going to give this podcast a little bit of urban
injection of my own and say itis not.
Oh, thank goodness, thankgoodness.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
OK.
The song topped the charts in47 countries, that's seven
countries, 47 countries.
It reached the top 10 and sixothers in the United States.
It became the first songprimarily in Spanish to top the
Billboard Hot 100 since Well,I'm not going to name that one
(37:35):
because we might talk about thatone later, but the first song
since 1996 in Spanish.
It spent 16 weeks atop theBillboard Hot 100, as well as
becoming the longest runningnumber one on the Hot Latin
Songs chart, with 56 weeks.
For more than a year it sat atnumber one on Latin.
(37:55):
That's unbelievable.
Steve (37:57):
How many weeks?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
56 weeks, for more than a year, this is the number
one song on the Latin charts.
Here's something even moreimpressive than that it was the
most viewed YouTube video of alltime, from 2017 to 2020.
And it became the first videoon YouTube to reach the
(38:26):
milestones of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and8 billion views.
Insane, with a B 8 billionviews, it is currently the
second most viewed video ever onYouTube, behind Baby Shark.
Steve (38:38):
Oh my gosh, make me barf.
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
This is the second most viewed video of all time on
YouTube.
That alone, whether it's onyour perfect album site or not.
At the end, that stat is thereason it will be on the perfect
album site.
Steve (38:57):
I didn't know we did that , but okay, it's in the company
of I mean, that's how we do itnow.
Welcome to episode 75, bitches.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Bitches, stone Cold is in control.
I mean, it's in the samesentence as Baby Shark.
Need I say more?
Need I say more Really?
Steve (39:15):
But such an amazing song like that getting knocked off
the top of the YouTube list byBaby Shark, I mean eh, I
listened to the song and then Iread the lyrics translated into
English Woo, Sexy, sexy, sexy,oh sexy.
You don't want to share those.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
No, these are not for the kiddos.
Steve (39:35):
Perfect album side after dark.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh my god, that's our new calling.
Wow, despacito.
It made my perfect album sideLouis Fonsi, daddy Yankee and a
little bit of Justin Bieber inthere competing with Baby Shark.
That was on my Perfect Albumside.
It was not on your PerfectAlbum side.
We'll see at the end if it endsup on the Perfect Album side.
That's what I got.
What do you got my man?
Steve (39:59):
Oh, I've got this right here.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Whoops, whoops if you hit the play button, it will
then commence playing normally.
That's what I found.
I did hit the play button.
Steve (40:19):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
It's like the little triangle kind of points off to
the right play button.
Steve (40:23):
It's internationally known.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah.
Steve (40:25):
I know.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Could you just hit it then?
Windham (40:34):
I love it.
There it is.
Steve (41:10):
Are you laughing at my?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
dancing.
Yes, yeah, I'm getting into itFinger symbols.
Steve (41:16):
This is speaking of living under a rock.
This is Oye Como Va by Santana,off the 1971 album Stone Cold
Abraxas, Maybe their most famoussong.
I'm a big, big Santana fan, sothis song, having an opportunity
to be on the PAS, pleases megreatly.
(41:37):
It's got multiple guitar solos.
It's got an organ solo.
Hello.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yes.
Steve (41:42):
I've got an organ solo.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Speaking of After Dark, after Dark, yeah.
Steve (41:48):
The organ solo is played on a Hammond B3 stone called.
The greatest of all organs bythe way, the greatest of second
greatest.
Am I right?
Come on, come on.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Keep it clean this thing.
Hammond V3, is like thegreatest organ in the world.
Steve (42:02):
Yeah, of course, Super famous, Originally now Stone
Cold.
This was a hit for anotherLatino artist by the name of
Tito Puente.
Yes, this was a Tito Puentesong.
He made it famous with hispercussions and originally
Puente was outraged that hissong was covered by this rocker.
Windham (42:24):
Outraged.
Steve (42:25):
Outraged, I tell you, formal and very, very strongly
worded letters followed.
But, as the legend goes, hisstance started to soften when he
got his first royalty check asthe money started to flow in, he
was a little less angry.
A little less angry, but I'lltell you this I've listened to
both versions and the TitoPuente version is really, really
(42:47):
in your face, I've got to tellyou.
It is loud and it's really good.
I like this version better, butit's really good.
Very heavy, very prominentpercussion.
Of course the Santana version,as you can tell, is very bass
heavy.
This is a great record.
Abraxas got one of my favoriteSantana songs.
(43:08):
Hope you're feeling better, butalways a tip of the hat to
Santana.
There's not a lot of lyrics toremember and memorize in this
song, Stone Cold, but I'll tellyou this they're all in Spanish,
baby.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Si, senor Si senor.
Steve (43:20):
I don't know if I want to go down the path of what he's
saying.
I'll stay away from that.
But this is a great tune, veryfamous, makes my perfect album
sound.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Are you even going to ask the question?
Do we have to do this?
Steve (43:38):
every time.
Now I'm just recoiling becauseI'm about to say, and you did.
Now I will say this you didmake a couple of comments about
Tito Puente, not everyone wouldknow that so is this song.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Only people that are huge Tito Puente fans would know
that I had never heard of Titobefore this.
Windham (43:56):
Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
No, this song is not on my perfect album side Didn't
cross my radar, probably becausethere are so few lyrics in
there.
It just didn't even occur to me, Although I did think about
putting tequila as one of mine,because that's the only word in
the song and that would havebeen brilliant, but I didn't do
it.
And also not English, and alsogreat song what did this?
What did this song do chartwise, besides make Tito a lot of
money?
Steve (44:17):
Top five hit, One of the biggest, one of the biggest hits
they had in 1971 in their realand really their whole catalog.
Of course, Santana went on tojump in with match box 20.
They had their big hit and thatwas the biggest hit in the
history of the world.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yes, that's, that's.
That should be one of our ournext podcast.
Biggest hits in the history ofthe world and that matchbox 20
santana song is probably top two.
I mean ever.
It's like candle, candle in thewind and that song and maybe a
couple others, that's it andmaybe I want to sex you up by
color rebat maybe, oh my god,the boys from oklahoma city.
how could you forget Fantasticchoice?
(44:57):
It did not make my perfectalbum aside, but I absolutely
understand why it made yours.
What year was that again?
1971.
Oh see, that's way before I wasborn.
I mean, you were a grownbearded man by then.
But I get it.
I get it, aren't you like 35?
Steve (45:13):
days away from turning 50 ?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
The fact that you know that and you know haven't
sent me a present yet, it'sshocking.
Steve (45:19):
But all right.
Well, I have to now.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Anyway, you sent me one oh, that's what you think,
maybe coming back.
All right, uh, good, goodselection.
Let me get to my next one.
Uh, hold, please press thisbutton, I can't, let me.
Let me just say one thingbefore this one gets started.
(45:42):
We've said this over and overand over again on the Perfect
Album Side podcast, but I feelit necessary to repeat it now.
It is not the Perfect AlbumSide of Steve and Wyndham's
favorite songs.
It is not, but it is theperfect album side of songs that
we feel are the most iconic forthat category, and this is the
(46:05):
best example of that I couldcome up with.
All right, well, apparentlyI've grabbed the English
(46:39):
language version of the songMacarena, but it's the song
Macarena, released by theBayside Boys mix 1995.
Spanish pop duo Los Del Riooriginally recorded it for their
1993 album A Mi Gusta.
The remix by the Bayside Boyscame out a couple years later,
went to number, initially peakedat number 45, then skyrocketed
(47:01):
to hit number one for 14 weeksin the fall of 1996.
Its resurgence came to us via adance craze Hashtag.
Past topic alert this song hasbeen on the Perfect Album side
before with famous dance crazesongs.
This one on the Perfect Albumside before with famous dance
craze songs.
This one made the Perfect Albumside back then and it makes my
(47:21):
Perfect Album side for foreignlanguage songs now A huge hit.
1996, 97.
The song that got the groupranked the number one greatest
one-hit wonder of all time byVH1.
Let me say that again thenumber one, greatest one-hit
wonder of all time by VH1.
(47:43):
They said that in 2002.
In 2012, it was ranked numberseven on Billboard's all-time
top 100.
Billboard had said here are thetop 100 songs of all time and
this one is number seven.
It's shocking to me in so manyways this song makes me upset.
Upset is the word I'm using.
Steve (48:05):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I mean I don't understand allthe accolades for this song.
I mean it's not awful.
I mean you know I've heard muchworse songs, but I'm just like
Number one hit 16 weeks, I getit and it's number one
everywhere and it's all over theplace.
But I don't understand what thebig infatuation was with this
(48:28):
song.
I never caught on to it.
I guess I couldn't do the dance.
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
You should have worked on that.
The reworked Macarena, theBayside Boys mix that we're
listening to now again spent 14weeks number one on the Hot 100
singles chart, becoming one ofthe longest runs ever on that
chart.
I don't have anything else tosay about this one.
It's not my favorite song, butit is in a foreign language and
it's one of the biggest hits ofall time.
(48:54):
Had to make my perfect albumside, it totally is.
Steve (48:59):
Did you say?
In 2023, Billboard ranked thisamongst its top 500 best pop
songs of all time?
I did not say that and it camein at number 500.
So I'm on to something Likethat's a good, that's the song's
not terrible.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
I just don't get what you mean Now wait, just now,
wait, now, wait, now wait, wait,wait just a minute.
How do you know that?
Steve (49:19):
oh, I don't know it because of the reason you think
I know it, okay, okay this songis?
You won't ask me, so I guess Ihave to say it like I always
have to.
I'm always the only one thatsays it.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
This song is not on my perfect album side okay, okay
, the macarena has made theperfect album side.
I think for the third time, andthat is very upsetting to me
and probably Wyndham, but it didmake my perfect album side for
foreign language hits.
The song stayed in the Hot 100chart for 60 weeks the longest
(49:49):
reign among number one songs,only surpassed 15 years later by
Adele's Rolling in the Deep Forthe most number of weeks on the
chart 60 weeks in the Huff 100.
That's good company.
That's five years, kids.
Five years, no, 60 weeks.
I'm not strong at math.
I was thinking months.
(50:09):
Disregard that we're going tocut this part out of the podcast
.
Steve (50:12):
I'm embarrassed about my math skills?
No, we're not.
Not if I'm a bitch.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
I was told there'd be no math 60 weeks, 320 days,
does that sound right?
10 months?
Steve (50:23):
60 weeks.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah, 60 times 7?
.
Steve (50:26):
Yeah, it's a year and two months.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
Okay, what's the next song on your perfect album side
so I can get out of this mathnightmare that I'm in.
Windham (50:36):
Well, so I can get out of this math nightmare that I'm
in.
Well, I know you just played asong in English.
Steve (50:38):
My song is a little bit.
I know the Spanish version isthe popular one, but this song
is a little bit in English.
But it also, if you'll pass thecon, if you don't mind, good
sir, this song has got a littlebit of a language we haven't
touched on yet today Signlanguage.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Because that would have been awesome if you didn't
get a sign language song on yourperfect album side.
Steve (51:00):
You're missing it's just, it's just silence.
Yes, uh, yes, it's not signlanguage, it's another language
and I'm going to play it for youright now.
Windham (51:18):
Michel, my belle.
These are words that gotogether well, my Michel, michel
, my belle, son de beau, be mybeau.
Très bien ensemble, très bienensemble.
(51:41):
I love you.
I love you.
Steve (51:44):
I love you, stone Cold.
This is Michelle off the albumRubber Soul by the band the
Beatles.
The who, the Beatles, theBeatles, the who, the Beatles,
the Beatles.
And this song did not hitnumber one in America, but if
you heard the that part, rightthere is in French, guess where
(52:12):
it did hit number one FranceBoom, rubber Soul, rubber Soul
is really good.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
This where it did hit number one France Boom, rubber
Soul.
Steve (52:18):
Rubber Soul is really good.
This is an amazing record.
All that Norwegian Wood on here, this song it pairs well.
I actually think this is a goodcompliment to Norwegian Wood,
but written by McCartney and anice Chianti, written by
McCartney and Lennon.
It didn't chart in America butit won Song of the Year in the
1967 Grammys.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
That makes no sense.
Makes no sense to me.
Windham (52:44):
A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
For those of you that are playing bingo I didn't
think Norwegian Wood would showup on this podcast.
But here we are, norwegian Wood.
I didn't think this song wouldshow up on the Perfect Domestide
podcast.
Yes, there is French in it, butI think this is an English
language song.
But I get your point.
Don't roll your eyes at me.
I saw that.
Steve (53:06):
Don't shove your pants at me, mister.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Shove your Norwegian wood over this way.
Steve (53:15):
This song is not on my Perfect Album Side side.
I understand you made thatabundantly clear.
Uh, cartney used to hang aroundwith a bunch of french hippies,
almost, and they got him uhkind of fired up.
He used to play songs atparties and they were like you
should write a song, and he did.
He did this, he wrote this andhe put that French term in there
(53:39):
because he needed something torhyme with Michelle, which ended
up to be my bell, and then hewrote the lyrics.
These are words that gotogether so well.
And then after that he decidedto lead into the French
translation.
That was very impressive, Ishould be French.
That was very impressive, Ishould be French.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
That was incredible.
I should be.
French yeah you should beFrench and Italian.
Yeah, you definitely have aEuropean vibe about you.
Steve (54:05):
I think it's the beard, oh totally.
I'm very, oh yeah, I'm veryEuropean.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Well, so were the.
Windham (54:11):
Beatles.
Steve (54:12):
So were the Beatles.
They wrote a song for thecountry right underneath I'll
tell you what came to mind,george Martin.
I just had the nugget of thecentury go ahead.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
I apologize, go ahead please no, it's not George
Martin.
Steve (54:27):
The producer plays piano on this song, but you can't
really hear it.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Go Stone Cold that was the nugget of the century.
George Martin plays piano thatyou can't hear nugget of the
century.
Perhaps you don't remember thatwhole jimmy page joe cocker
thing from 74 episodes ago, butokay, nugget of the century, as
you said.
Uh, here's what I noticed iswhen paul mccartney started
singing uh, and I don't rememberthe exact lyric, but he talks
about michelle, and he said mymichelle, and I was like, oh
(54:52):
wait, a Did guns and roses getthe idea for the song my
Michelle?
From this song there are hugeBeatles fans.
Paul McCartney says my Michellein this song and then they
write a whole song called myMichelle.
Very different topics, I'm sure.
Steve (55:06):
Very different, I don't think that particular guns and
roses image.
Uh, it translated well to theBeatles' Rubber Soul album.
But Michelle, rubber Soul 1967,excuse me, 65, stone Cold, it's
got that French line in it thateverybody likes to try and say
these are words that go togetherwell.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
That makes my perfect downside For all of our
listeners.
Can you repeat that line againthese?
Steve (55:33):
are words that go together.
Well, no, the part in frenchdude.
Oh, you're right, foreignlanguage song that was really,
really good.
Speaker 3 (55:44):
I'm sure that none of our french listeners will be
upset with the way you did that.
Steve (55:47):
I know I'm probably gonna get hate mail.
Yeah, we're gonna get someletters uh, we're gonna have fun
with it.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
Hey, it's the 75th episode man, it's the Diamond
Jubilee, it's Urban Injection.
Windham (56:03):
Here is the last song on my Perfect Album side Oppa,
(56:39):
gangnam Style, gangnam.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
Style.
I can't believe I'm sayingthese words, but Gangnam Style
has been nominated again on thePerfect Album of the Side.
This is not the first time it'sbeen on the show and it
probably won't be the lastthat's a good tune, man.
It's catchy and the dance movesare fantastic.
Gangnam Style single by Psy,released on his sixth album,
(57:03):
first single, sixth album, 2012.
The term Gangnam Style refersto the nouveau riche lifestyle
associated with the Gangnamregion of Seoul.
In July, on July 15th 2012,gangnam Style was released on
Psy's YouTube channel and itjust went crazy viral, mainly
(57:27):
because of just the absurdity ofthe video and the song in
general, but it just goes offthe charts.
It subsequently won the BestVideo at the MTV European Video
Music Awards of that year.
Became.
The first video to reach abillion views on YouTube.
Now we talked about the firstone to hit 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
(57:49):
million was Despacito.
This was the first video everon YouTube to reach a billion
views.
The song's music video was themost viewed video on youtube to
reach a billion views.
Uh, the song's music video wasthe most viewed video on youtube
.
Uh, for 2012.
Uh, it surpassed baby by justinbieber featuring ludacris.
Uh, look, like I said on thelast song not my favorite song,
but I mean it's.
(58:10):
There are very few foreignlanguage hits that are bigger
songs than this one.
Wyndham, is it on your PerfectAlbum side?
Steve (58:17):
No, my Perfect Album side has been completed, thank you.
Okay, but I think this song isawesome.
Speaker 3 (58:23):
How many languages have we uncovered today on the
Perfect Album side podcast?
Spanish Check Italian, checkFrench, check German, twice
Check Korean.
Four.
Five French check German, twicecheck Korean five.
Five languages and we may haveone from sign language later,
we'll figure that out but fivedifferent languages across, I
(58:43):
think, five different decades60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s.
Yeah, five languages, fivedecades.
That's a pretty impressivecollection for the Perfect Album
Side podcast.
I don't have a lot of positivethings to say about this song
other than it was a huge hit anda crazy dance tune, uh, and a
big, big video on youtube not myfavorite, but had to make my
(59:04):
perfect album side.
What say you about it?
Steve (59:05):
yeah, I I I go completely opposite macarena on this one.
I actually like this song.
I think it's got great beat.
I think it's got some bottom toit.
You know I like that and I Ialso saw something recently on
might have been instagram of howthe singer's name is it
pronounced?
Sigh, sigh, sigh comes into hisconcerts.
(59:25):
Have you seen this?
No, they have a cameraunderneath the stage and he is
on um.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
He's on a springboard oh, he shoots about like john
bon Jovi style from the layerhands on the video, but even
higher into the career I haveseen that yeah, and everything
changes right, because he jumpsup and then they show the, they
show the, the top of stageversion, and it's just.
I mean it must be 400 000people out there, it's about a
half a million people, uh, andhe shoots up out of the stage
and the place goes batshit crazy.
Steve (59:54):
It is unbelievable.
Maybe we'll post that link onthe socials later today.
It's really cool and it reallymakes me appreciate.
I mean, this guy was superpopular.
I like the song, I don't mindit, and I think the Korean
version actually is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Well, that was the Korean version.
Is there another version?
Steve (01:00:14):
It doesn't isn't there?
Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
there's not an English version.
I don't know, I don't know.
To me it's a foreign languagesong.
Now, how does he say?
Steve (01:00:18):
it in Korean.
I mean, this is the treatment Igot with my Beatles song.
Can you say the Korean part?
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Not without offending a lot of the world.
Steve (01:00:26):
So I'm not going to do that Error in the side of
caution.
I dig it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Yeah, and lawyers, and you know we're on episode 75
.
I don't want to be canceled atthis point.
Steve (01:00:36):
Correct, correct.
Well, considering we willofficially be around for episode
76, that would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
We're going to get to that momentarily here at the
end.
I do want to talk to you realquick.
We've reached the end.
I've given you my perfectdownside, you've given me yours.
I have shared my parchment withyou.
I'm hoping that you will sharethe parchment with me so that we
can compare and contrast andrule songs in and out of the
perfect album side.
Are you ready to get in the lab, as you like to say, oh put on
the lab coat and let's put thegoggles on.
(01:01:04):
The perfect album side.
Are you ready?
Yes, okay.
Well, we have often said, ifit's on my perfect album side
and it's on your perfect albumside, it is on the perfect album
side.
We had an over under today ofthree and a half.
I said it would be the over, itwas the under because we had
three songs that overlapped LaBamba by Los Lobos and Richie
(01:01:27):
Valens.
Depending on which version.
I think we played the Los Lobosversion.
La Bamba in Espanol, 99.
Luftballons by N in espanol, 99love balloons by nana, made
mine, made yours, made z ingerman in german.
Rock me amadeus falco fromfalco 3, 1986 in german, in
(01:01:50):
german.
So right now, we got spanish,we got german, we got german.
Now we gotta figure it out.
Now we got three slots to fill.
I would ask you to look at mineand include one, and then I
will include one of yours andwe'll be off.
Steve (01:02:03):
And running my man.
Okay, I'm.
I mean, I'm gonna get this oneout of the way because I was
threatened with torture if itdidn't get chosen despacito
despacito was absolutely goingto make the perfect album side.
Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Currently, we have two in espanol, we have two in
german and we have two spots togo.
As I look at your list, uh,it's oye, come va by.
Santana absolutely makes theperfect album side.
Windham (01:02:34):
Uh, not because not because your other ones are bad.
Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
it's just that one to me makes the perfect album side
.
Not because your other ones arebad, it's just that one to me
makes the most sense.
It's completely an Espanol anda huge hit I mean a top five hit
in 1976, 1971.
Steve (01:02:47):
I'm a little surprised you didn't go.
Gloria by Umberto Betsy.
Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Well, the night is young, my friends.
It might still make the perfectalbum side.
If we have what one slot left,and I think you should advocate
for one of your own, I'lladvocate for one of mine and
we'll fight to the death.
For you, it's either Michelleby the Beatles or Gloria by
Umberto Tazzi, and for me, it'seither Macarena or Gangnam Style
(01:03:13):
.
If I'm going to push for one ofmine, Gangnam Style absolutely
First one to reach a billionviews on YouTube, it's
completely in Korean, whereasthe Macarena is a little bit of
English, a little bit of Spanish.
And Gangnam Style you like thatsong, so I'm going to float
Gangnam Style as betweenMacarena and Gangnam Style,
that's what I'd be voting for.
What say you about Michelle andGloria?
Steve (01:03:37):
Yeah, I mean I'm going to say Gloria by Umberto Tazzi
Because I'm still overwhelmed bythe fact that this was the
original and I love those kindof things on this podcast.
You know that, the little smallthings that you don't think
about.
But the funny thing is, Ialways thought this would have
been the cover.
It wasn't.
That's why I'm going withGloria by Umberto Tazzi, but I
(01:04:00):
got to tell you this I don'tknow if it competes with my guy
Cy, and I'm just going to behonest.
I may concede this one, getGloria some airtime, but I might
concede to Gangnam Style.
I'm not sure I can compete withthat.
Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Did you have any honorable mentions before we
named the final song on thePerfect Album Side podcast?
Steve (01:04:22):
I do not.
I stand with the six I put outthere.
Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Life Goes On by K-pop band BTS from 2020.
Wow, had that one been around alittle bit longer, it would
have beaten out Macarena for me.
Life Goes On by BTS is a huge,huge hit for K-pop sensations,
bts, so that one almost beat outMacarena for me, but it had not
(01:04:49):
yet stood the test of time.
It's only been around for threeor four or five, four years now
.
So we're down to Gloria byUmberto Tazzi versus Gangnam
Style by Psy.
It sounds like you wanted toconcede to Psy and I'm going to
accept your concedence.
Concession, concession, thankyou.
(01:05:10):
I couldn't think of that word.
That being said, I'm so happythat Umberto Tazzi got some
airtime today.
Well-deserving, one of thecatchiest'm so happy that, uh,
umberto Tazzi got some.
Got some airtime today.
Uh, well-deserving, one of thecatchiest songs of all time,
gloria.
But the perfect album side offoreign language tunes, at least
foreign to those of us in theUnited States of America.
Uh, la Bamba by Los Lobos andRitchie Valens.
(01:05:32):
99 Luft Balloons by Naina RockMe Amadeus by Falco Despacito,
by Luis Fonzi and Daddy Yankee.
Oye Como Va by Santana and,last but not least, gangnam
Style by Psy.
I think I may have pulled likea muscle in my rib area.
(01:05:55):
That's how excited I was aboutthis episode.
Steve (01:05:57):
Well, you know what fixes that Urban injection.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Oh my God, Bohemian wood or Norwegian wood.
Good, perfect album.
Simon man.
Okay, I'll see you later.
Steve (01:06:16):
This has been the Perfect Album Side.
Windham (01:06:19):
See you next time.
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