Noise Junkies - Summertime

School’s Out. Summertime. Those lazy hazy crazy days of summer. But there won’t be a Surfin’ Safari. This is Summer in the City. You might have the Summertime Blues from a Cruel Summer. Or maybe you’ve got That Summer Feeling, you know the one: it’s a Summer Breeze that leads straight to Hot Fun in the Summertime. So put on your itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini and meet us under the boardwalk. It’s summertime!

Hear all the music mentioned in its entirety here:
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JUNKIES
Father Malone: FatherMalone.com
HP: hpmusicplace.bandcamp.com
Heather Drain: https://www.mondoheather.com/

Episode Transcript

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It's coming. If it's not herealready, summer he could perfection in the
life cycle of the year. Everyonehas a summer song, and I mean
everyone. Vivaldi had a summer song. The music there speaks for itself.
But Gershwin thought it was the timewhen livin is easy, the days of
soda and princils and beer. Accordingto nat King cole Via Hans Karst,

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the love and spoonful wish the summerdays could be like the nights for seals
and cropt the summer breeze made themfeel fine. The eighties had way too
many and we'll get into those andsummer jams, and hopefully we'll get into
your summer songs, the ones thatmean the most to you. But after
all, Megan thee Stallions said itbest realize bitch. No, she got

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it lit. Hot girls summer,so you know she got it lit all
right. Welcome to Nice Junkies.I'm your co host, Father Malone and
joining me in sonic synchronicity all theway from the Sunshine Cab Company Night,
Miss Walters, mister HP, Hello, mister father Malone, how are you

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hello, Heather? How are youhello? Hello? That's our other co
host The Best of Us really joiningus via satellite powered by bird Fuel.
It's Mondo. Heather's Heather drain BirdGas is the best gas. Bird Gas.
Yes, Yes, thank you.It's It's always a pleasure to be

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with you guys. I know it'sjunkies. Recording is always a highlight of
my week. Now, as Imentioned, we are doing Summer Tunes,
it's our summer themed episode. Beforewe get to that, the question must
be asked, what are you listeningto? Heather? Oh, my goodness,
everything I've I'll go through like bigperiods where I just listened to a
bunch of different songs. It's likeI got total mixed tape brain. And

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there's two songs in particular there thatI've been rotating a lot. And the
first one's like a new discovery forme, and it's a song called Johnny
Remember Me by John Layton. Thiswas a number one hit in the UK
back in nineteen sixty one, andon the surface, it's a nice haunting
song about a man missing a love, but it's got that Joe Meek production

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And if anybody listening, if youdon't know who Joe Meeks, look him
up. This guy was one ofthe most innovative producers and Joe. So
much of Joe Meek's stuff sound likeit's from another world. There's a spectralness
to this song. It's so beautifuland just I love it. Well,

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it's hard to believe. I knowthat I hear a shit in the sun,
the Women, Blood and the TreeWave. Also, John Layton was
best known as an actor, thoughhe was in Von Ryan's Express and The
Great Escape. Yeah, it soundedfamiliar with that name. My god,

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I don't know dude, Dude's legit. And of course, going from nineteen
sixties Sad Melancholy ethereal Pop, Ihad to go to Belgium goth music from
the late eighties, which from nineteeneighty nine to be specific, with Posy
Noir and their song Pity for theSelf, which is a great song about
trying to battle depression, but it'sgot a great dance beat. People Bore

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the Self not so Yeah, let'sput people of the Self and some great
lyrics and wordplay. In particular,there's a line that says it always contains
that sneaky snake like small tears ona slumbering ache. I love that like
it's a literation. It's so good. And on top of that, the
song ends with a single temple fromAndrea Zulovski's film Possession. Oh Yes,

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pretty good, Oh my god,I love Juloski Live for Zuloski Possessions brilliant
like everything the band did, Andif we think about it, only a
goth band from Belgium that could incorporatea sample from Possession, So just seamless,
it's it's a song. Once Ilistened to it, have to listen

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to it like twenty more times ina row. So good. But yeah,
that's just a little taste into whatI've been listening to. What about
you, HP, What's what haveyou been digging? So actually, what
I'm listening to is a bit ofa follow a loan to the previous episode
where we were talking about genres andone of the acts that I brought up,
and I think Father Malone had somethingto say as well is DJ Shadow

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And the thing that I've been listeningto this week. The album listening to
is an album called Come to theParty by a guy named Dennis olive Ary.
This is from nineteen s It wasreissued this year as part of I
Think Record store day in May.It's sort of a concept album in the
best sort of late sixties tradition.It's divided up into the four side and

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in afterside. I'm not really surewhat maybe is the party before the party
and after the party. I'm notsure. I haven't really figured that out.
But the reason for this particular albumthe tie in with DJ Shadow.
The song off this album, whichis called I Cry in the Morning,

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is one of the main samples usedin the DJ Shadow song six Days,
which was off of two thousand andtwo is a private press. It's probably
my favorite song off that album,and I always thought that that particular song
is just that one bit of thesample fest that usually goes into a Shadow
song, But to my surprise,I Cry in the Morning is basically the

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actual song is kind of what comprisesthe main chunk of this sample. Are
you so? I was pleasantly surprisedthat I thought it was all DJ Shadows

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alchemy, But it turns out thatthis guy, Dennis Olivierry this song is
just so good that's I guess it'spart of DJ Shadows geniuses. He's able
to find these obscure tracks and makethem his own own and it's just wonderfully
languid and melancholy hypnotic in an interestingway. The rest of the album is

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actually very good as well. I'mstill, like I said, I'm still
trying to parse it and getting intosome of the weird textures and sort of
psychedelic bits, but a very pleasantlysurprised, great album. You should definitely
check it out. Well. Ifinally picked up the latest album by Miss
Olivia Jean and I have been listeningto it none stop. This is her

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third studio album, her third soloalbum after fronting The Black Bells off of
If anyone knows her mainly, theyprobably noticed she's married to Jack White,
who produced her first band, theBlack Bells, which is the sort of
Gough garage band, and she wasthe lead in that and she wrote all
the songs. And then she putout an album that was very close to

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the Black Bells and Twist and sheout because you can not help doubt.
She cried. And then her secondalbum was self produced and she went in
a lot of different directions and becamea lot poppier. And this new album

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is the perfect fusion of her BlackBelts era and the era immediately following it.
It is goddamn good. And shecan play every goddamned instrument on the
album and usually does. And Ijust adore her. I used to tour
a lot in my previous job,and it would seem that every time I
would go to a city, shehad either just played there or was going

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to play the night after I left. I've been chasing Via Jean this entire
time. I'm going to see herlive one day, but until then,
go check out The Raving Ghost.It is so the song spider particularly.
Oh. Also, on every oneof her albums she puts on a cover
song, and so on the lastalbum she did John peychan Hoo, which
was a killer version of that.In this one she did Orinoco Flow.

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Holy God, you will never listento the song again. The same way.

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So funaway sail away, but likereally fast with an awesome guitar.
Let's summertime. We're talking summertime,gang, We're talking summertime games. When
do you play when do you playgames most summertime? Of course, this
is a game, and we're playingit a summertime, But this is actually
Heather's game, right Heather? Itis, and I actually tailored this one

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for this episode though, Oh yeah, because anybody listening. We originally we're
gonna do a little word association gamefor the last episode, but we got
so into the topic that we ranout of time, which honestly awesome problem
to have. But fall Malone,like myself, we're game people. We
like games. It's fine, butI tailored this one to have a summary

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theme to quote the computer from workgames. Would you like to play a
game, fellas? What's the difference? Yeah, the only winning move is
not to play. Let's hope that'snot the case here. And this is
simple. It's a simple word association. Don't even think about it. They
don't even think about whatever comes toyour mimes, spit it out. So

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for starting with Eric von Zipper teethagain, Eric, Eric von Zipper unknown.
Oh my god, HP, we'regonna for Christmas for getting you some
beach to beach party movies. Ilove it. He was just an episode
of a night Gallery I watch recently. Oh my god, I've seen that
episode. Because I saw it,I was like, it's Harvey fucking Lembeck's

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good. Oh it is so good. Okay. Number two Coconut Shrimp Forrest
Gump marcar Ritaville. Yes, ohmy god, that's actually the right answer.
I always thinking Jimmy Buffett. Butby the malone's also not wrong because
that's our version of the the appetizer. The best suits first gump is coconut

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shrimpry. That was your call.It's true. Okay, this is a
little bit of a deep cut,but you know I'm a deep cut girl.
Chris Bell, I don't know whothat is. Oh, he's got
connections to big star, very underratedpower pop musician who died young and the
seventies. His song I Am theCosmos is the perfect, most depressing summary

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song ever because I'm a happy littlerain clown. The answer you just gave
us. Now what I'm associating withChris Bell. Okay, copans, they're
like random name Heather brought up inthe word association game. Okay, burnt
skin, delicious barbecue. Okay,I like birth. I was gonna go
with whole Coogan, but that works. I'm watching you. I'm watching the

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show Yellow Jackets and it's all aboutcannibals. So burning skin to seek was
delicious to me right now? Yeah, Well, you know they call human
long pick long pig delicious. Yeah, and people say anybody that's tasted human
flesh goes mad because it's so good, Like it's the best tasting meme.
That makes me sound creepy. I'ma vegetarian for record. Wow, well
that's a relief. Unless there's somepeople made of tofu, than you're in

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danger. I know people who wouldeat people, by the way, guys,
people, I know people who agree. Okay, hot pants James James
Brown. Oh look that bot themalone. Come on, okay, summer.

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Oh that's good too, that's acceptable. Also looking for Dagmar's hot Pants,
which is an exploitation movie from theearly semies. Ring Pops Jessica,
my my, my wife. I'msorry, that's say I proposed with a
ring pop. That's the only thingI think. How you SEUs? That's
so sweet. I love that.I love ring pops too. Yeah.

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Blueberry, Oh, I like cherry, but blueberry is good too. Okay,
Jeans Simmons, doll, I justthink what a dick. Both are
acceptable, Both are correct answers.We were also taking the movie Loved All
Superstar, where one of the RedCross brother gets haunted by a flying Jean

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Simmons doll. Oh man, Ihave to see that. I love Red
Cross US. Oh my god,I'm a huge Red Cross fan. Oh
my god. Okay, Ukulele,tiny tim precious. That's those are both
tiny bubbles. I also said abig over here. You maybe think of

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the movie impressions. No, it'sfar too depressing. I was like,
Jesus, I don't think I sawthat cut. Okay, flavor crystals weed
this two work, crystal Light okayboth. Yeah, I would rather have
the weed Crystal lights cut that acidic. My family drank a lot of it

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when I was Wasn't it horrible?Yeah? Because I believe, Because I
believe in me, which is alsoa Jean Simmons lyric, it all goes
back. Okay, seventies swingers.Wow, Sorry, can I just break
in for one moment? Yeah?That was a music from the Elder reference
right there. That is guess itwas thank you. I had a p

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plus you got that. That's sonow it's so underrated. It really really
is an underrated kiss album. Ohyeah, we'll talk about that, I'm
sure god, especially because it's gota lou Reed connection. Okay, seventies
Swingers, I just think it's theUnfortunately. Right now, all I'm thinking
about is John like Zambo y party, Yes, I almost key parties.

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John like zambo Okay. Yeah.He was in the movie Summer of Sam
I hate that. Oh yeah,oh, I hate that movie. And
then they swing at one point,so it's an insult of swingers. I
was looking for. Cost was aPlato's retreat. Yeah yeah, yeah,
well, well that's what that sceneis based on in the movie. Now,
there's so many other movies that referencePlato's retreat that are better, like

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like the movie the movie Plato's Retreat, the movie Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, Colin the movie got aColin it okay, amos yuppie ponytail,
Bronson pinchow muffy I don't know,yeah, both are except I was looking
for Don Henley disgusting ass ponytail hehad. Oh he's the worst. I

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bet he smells like a singles bar. He's all. It's all cigarette smoke,
pink squirrels. Smells like leather.Oh no, leather. Costs can
smell good, though, Yeah,I know, but there's got to be
some good to him. No,there's no good to him. There's none.
He probably smells like bo like anact good drummer. He's a good
drummer whatever, like a broken clockslike right once in a while, got

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he's got a sweet and honeyed voice. Now he doesn't you know his voice
facing because I'm like, why wasdone? All right? Now it's time
for the main event or one ofthem, part one of two. We're
talking about favorite summer songs, theleast favorite summer songs. Now in this
case, we're there. I mentionedthere are one gazillion summer songs, like

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I had no idea that and Dora'sbox I opened by picking this topic and
then you just I mean, there'ssomething like three hundred songs just with summer
in the title, never mind othersongs completely about summer. We're not even
talking about summer jams. Jams thatbe songs that became popular during summer.
Remember when every car window was openand all you could hear was all about

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that bass. Oh Jesus Christ,what a nightmare that was. Anyway,
that's a summer jam. But weare going to start with favorite song about
summer, and these are songs aboutsummer. Probably summer in the title doesn't
necessarily have to be, but it'sdefinitely a song about the season, We're
going to start with you, misterHP. For every one of these songs
I picked, there's probably eight ornine that could have easily made the cut.

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This was very, very challenging topick up the song just one song.
So my favorite song about summer iscalled Summer's Cauldron by XTC. It's
off of eighty six's seminal Skylocking.For most folks know it because it's the
one with Dear God. This wasThis album was famously produced by Todd Rundgren

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and a desperate bid to break throughto the US markets. He was picked
to produce the record and it wasa very contentious recording. He and Andy
Partridge did not get along. Doesanyone get along with Andy Partridge? Or
rather does Andy Partridge get along withanyone? He was absolutely Todd Rundgren.
I mean, I've made no Imay I make no bones about the fact

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that I love Todd Rundgren. He'sone of my favorites and he was absolutely
the right person to produce this becausehe was able to make the album very
pastor had a very pastoral sound,which was something lacking in xdc's albums up
to that point. Now, thesong in particular that we're talking about.
Summer's Cauldron was written by Andy Partridge, and it kicks off with this wonderful

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sound of this buzzing of insects chirpingand the sort of hum really puts you

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in the mind of a real hazy, hot summer day where you hear the
insects kind of buzzing in the background, maybe the hissing of summer lawns as
it were. I was actually surprisedlater to find out that the song isn't
actually about summer. It's actually aboutthe moments before childbirth, being comfortable in

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the womb and not wanting the momentto end. But you can apply that
same reasoning to summertime. I mean, I think we all have fond memories
of summer's past and future perhaps maybehave memories to come that these summer days
just keep they seem to stretch onforever. When you're a kid, especially
on vaccasion from school, and nothingputs me in the mindset of those that

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sort of feel of the summer.There's just so much left to summer.
I'm just having a great time.Then Summer's Cauldron by XDC sold right on

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excellent choice. That's such a coolpick. Yeah, I love that.
And Todd Rudgren is the man.Just for the record, thought is god,
you guys talk about him a lot. I know nothing about Todd Rundgren
at all. We can school withyou, my child. Oh yeah,
there's a lot to learn, butwe'll save that for a future episodes.
Heather, Yes, I know youhave a summer song. You know,

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I gotta I have a ton.I really had to whittle this down,
like I'm an old Southern man ona front porch with a branch Whitland down
Woodland net stick, And so mynumber one pick is, oddly enough called
Whittland the Stick. Now I'm joking, Yeah, it's called I Picked the
Summer Sun by Chris Stainey, whichcame out originally nineteen seventy seven. Chris

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Stamy. I tend to favor I'venoticed this about myself, like like power
pop, seventies power pop in thesummertime really just seemed so copacetic for me.
This song in particular, it's it'sbasically it's literally pretty much just him
and Alex Chilton of Chris Alex Chilton, who was in just to hit the
box tops like he's done for that. But Alex Chilton as a solo artist

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is a brilliant producer, brilliant songwritter, brilliant. The Replacements literally wrote a
song called Alex Chilton about Alex Chilton, so which Alex Chilton, I think
said it was stupid. I loveAlex Bilton. I love that song though,
but we're not talking about the Replacements. This Chris Stamy song is it's
lovely, but it's got this sortof slight melancholy to it to turn up

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the light the wake that it's gotto be. That's the way it is.
Love only love, but it's theleast some always cold in the summer,

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and just for me, like thesummertime is always kind of like a
depressing season for me. And evenas a kid, I mean I liked
not being in school because you know, I wasn't I was kind of bull.
I was kind of bully this kindthat's a good sad. I mean,
I turned out all right, butfor the best part. But but
there's always just there's a weird justlull about the summer and the summer sun

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just feels like there's this great repetitionline of summer always cold in the summer
Sun and I just I don't know, I think it's really beautiful. I
think it's kind of sad. Ijust find it very captivating. Also a
little trivia if Chris Damy went onto be a pretty successful producer and worked
with Pylon, Latigra and many morebands. And he was also a member

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of the DBS, which talked aboutunderrated power pop. The DBS or a
great group. And so yeah,that's my pick. The Summer sung by
Chris Stamy excellent choices in both MindsBetter. I too had a really difficult
time whittling these down. I alsocame up with whittling these down was my
number one pick Great Minds Popular song. Yeah, you know, it's kind

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of undeniable. No mine is classicnineteen fifty eight Summertime Blues by mister Eddie
Cochrane, co written manager Jerry KapartLike on a pure sonic level, it's
as rambunctious and ornery as any greatrock and roll song should be could be.

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All so, this is a rockand roll song. It's no longer
country, it's no longer rhythm andblues, it's no longer rockabilly. This
is a rock and roll song.As far as I'm concerned, and a
very teenage rock and roll song,It's told from a teenage perspective. It's
all the thing that's pissing him offduring his summer vacation that he has to
attend to. He has to geta job in order to pay for a
date for his girl, and hecan't get his car. Because it's just

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an endless list of problems for theyoung man. But that's not why I
continue to love this song. Becauseas teenage as an outlook as it might
be, every obstacle the narrator's comingup against, he's going to be facing
the rest of his life. Asmuch as a teenage song as this is,
it's a real working class song,a working class anthem. Meanwhile,

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it is as propulsive and as exhilaratingand as demonstrative of what summer ought to
be. Just musically, it's justsuch a great tune and any conference delivery
is so fucking fantast I'm a bootorasa bus, I'm a booto rivera ball

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about a working old summer, justto try to boot the ball. Hell
a time to call my baby,try to get a date, Loda,
Son, you gotta work lead sometimesfor water. But I'm a good dude,
but they ain't no cure for thesummer term. Now, to say
that the song has been covered afew times, it's an insult to understatements.

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There have been several several dynamic versions. They've been look okay, The
Who covered it twice. Basically,they covered it off of their album and
they had a live version. Ithought they were both tepid and not really
all that interesting. Later, Ithink Joan Jett has got a real punky

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take to it, and that's reallyfun rotten. Next, t Rex had
a version in nineteen seventy, whichI was unaware of before I started listening
to these tracks, and I look, man, I love bowling as much
as the next guy, but Iwas wildly disappointed from him banging on a

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guitar that sounded like it hadn't beentuned in three days and a bongo.
It's his version of summertime blues.It was very disappointing for me. If
you want to hear a like thenoisiest, most excellent version of it,
though, go to go listen toBlue Cheers version from nineteen sixty eight to

(26:41):
San Francisco psychedelic Bandy Oh my god. They allow feedback to replace lyrics in
portions. It's wonderful. No cuefor the Summertime. Alan Jackson had a

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country version that was very popular.I guess well, I didn't know the
work told the ass I was sick. Now you can't use a carcor you
didn't work a league. Sometimes Iwonder I'm gonna do because no cue for
the Summertime Blue. You want tohear a really deconstructed version of it,
deconstructed the Flying Lizards. Yes,that yeah, their cover I think it

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was seventy eight. I think theircover ever came out really fantastic. I
wonder what I'm gonna do, Butthey ain't No cure for the Summer Time
Blue. Musically just sounds like summerto me, and when you dive into
it, I think it's an interestingtune. And poor Eddie Cochrane, he

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was haunted by the deaths of hisfriends Richie Vallens and and Buddy Holly on
that plane. And then one day, driving to a plane, his car
got into an accident. He wasthrown from it and he was killed.
Which he had a premonition that hewould die by plane. It almost happened.
Anyway, that's the way summer endssometimes, folks. And that was
my that was my favorite summer songon that happy note. No, that's

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I mean, it's iconic, thatparticular song. I I will agree to
disagree about the Who's version of LiveIt Leads Summertime Blues. I love their
version. I don't. I thinkobviously the Eddie Cochran version is definitive.
How could it not be? ButI that's my favorite period of the Who,
right on Live It Leads, Who'sNext? All of that. So

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yeah, I think It Leads isa massive improvement over the studio version.
Oh yeah, no, no,no. I if I'm going to listen
to their a cover of Summertime Blues, it's going to be the Live It
Leads version. Yeah, no question. Yeah, the studio version is.
I agree, it's just tepid there, yeah, used to describe it.
But I mean I love the wholealbum Live It Leads. I think it's
fantastic, and I love there.It's a little more spare, I think

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because it's just the four piece,but it's fantastic. But the song itself
is how could somebody not choose that? It's perfect? I think if anyone
but Eddie Cochrane. If I wereto choose a singer, it would be
Roger Daltrey for the vocals on it. But there's something so spare and mean
and angry and the fun about theoriginal instrumentation there, which I think Eddie

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Cochran played at least two of thoseinstruments themselves. So anyway, we just
got the everyone's favorite part of theshow, our least favorite song about summer.
We're gonna start with the well groomedand flavorless HP. So this is
actually the part that I was lookingmore forward to because it's fun to set

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bag on these songs. This oneI could not resist. My least favorite
summer song is Summer Nights by VanHalen. Yeah, it's off of their
sort of reintroduction to the world afterDavid Lee Roth left. It's off with

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fifty one fifty Now both disclosure Iam if it's not already obvious, I'm
I'm fully on the rock side ofthe Roth versus Hagar debate. I think
whatever edge they had as a bandwas completely lost when they picked up Sammy
Hagar as their an new lead singer, and they never got it back.
I have to admit though, likemy initial thought on this, I thought

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this was the song. I don'tknow if you guys ever have seen any
live footage of Inhalen around this time, around eighty six eighty seven. I
thought this was the song where whenthey perform it live, Eddie and Sammy
and Michael Anthony kind of do thisthrow strut across the stage as they're singing
the song. I was wrong aboutthat. That is the best of both

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worlds. But anyway, the livefootage of this song is equally cringey.
It's just awful. It's just theSandy is like grabbing them and smiling and
they're paling around on stage having agreat old time. But the reason why
this is my least favorite summer song, that's only part of it, is
the I mean, the lyrics arejust awful to me the song. Hearing

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this song conjures up images of shirtlessdude bros In Oakley's high fiving at the
Dairy Queen parking lot. You know, it's just I get chills just thinking
of that image. The sample lyricsfrom the song I get a line,
you got that pole, I'll putyou down at the old fishing hole.

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Thes are Biting Good Tonight. Yeah, so it just this represents everything.
Like I said, these are thisis a dude bros. Song. This
is like guys, who are They'rethe ones who took fight for your right
to party? Seriously literally exactly.Just that awful song still gives me chills

(32:16):
when I hear it. I loveban Halen, I love roth with Bean
Halen, not so much the Hagarstuff in case it wasn't obvious, But
that's what dreams are made of,Bros. Now now it's all and it's
all Hagar. I just I withthe exception of maybe the heavy metal song
off of the Heavy Metal soundtrack,of course, I just can't stomach anything

(32:38):
that that he the Hagar puts outthere. That tequila, yeah, terrible.
He is cocon the Coconuts tramp hasa lot of property he can spread
across the ship. He is alsoCoconuts tramp. And for the d yeah,
I do like the first Montrose album. That's about as far as I
that's fair. I think it tookhim a while, so it's cultivates.

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It's like any buffett esque of identityhe created with Book Tequila and now he
has Abos Tequila. It's terrible andactually, in fact, I in researching
this, I found some footage livefrom like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty.
You know that motherfucker's still doing thatstupid strut across the stage to best in

(33:20):
both worlds. They're pushing seventy Ohyeah, I mean this is it's not
I know some people would say Rothversus Hagar's a debate. It's only debate
if one party les losing that part. You know what, David Lee Roth
seems like a gauntdamn nightmare of ahuman being. And I imagine being in
the same room with him, justlistening to him talking about himself all day

(33:44):
long would drive you insane. ButI would rather do that for like a
full tour than do one night withSammy Hagar. I'm just awful. David
Lee Ross a fascinating human being.I'm just saying he really is he.
I think he for years he waslike a volunteer e MT in New York.

(34:04):
So can you imagine, like,do you have an accident and you're
laid up, You're on the sideof the road waiting for and the e
MT shows up and it's Diamond Da. I would day I'm dead and I've
assumed into heaven and this rock angelis, oh, it is hovered over
me. That was I am.I would not be the woman I am
today with that David Lee Roth Andthat sounds like I lost my opportunity to

(34:24):
him. I didn't. But whenI was a little when I was a
little girl, one of my veryfirst role models my heroes, was David
Lee Raw And thanks to Panama andof course the solo work very influential.
I love Diamond Dave and yeah,those fucking Hagar lyrics. I literally like
when you get you eat something andyour stomachs like immediately like nope, like

(34:47):
it's rejecting, it gurgles a littlebit. I just felt that now while
I'm on the case baby, asif thinking about even when he forgets the
words, he's got so much stought, Like that US Festival performance where they're

(35:07):
doing Romeo's Delight and he goes allright, there goes, I forgot the
fucking words, and he's got likethe biggest grid on his face. It's
all that whole performance. Ain't nobodydrinking tea from whiskey bottles except for the
clash Baby's And I love the clash, but I mean, come on,
David Lee, Ross the man,I love him, and that those albums

(35:30):
that's first, that six pack whatthey call the classic six pack with Roth
of Van Halen. I mean,it's great, hears. Yeah, they
were a rock and roll for agood portion of the of its history Heaven.
Oh yeah, but that's good music. Please tell us some bad music.
Oh my god. Well, actuallyI wish I would have gone first,

(35:52):
because it's gonna be hard to bethps Like, damn, Now,
I don't. When you issued usthis idea first Batom alone, you were
like, it has to be withthis part of the show. It has
to be the song, not theversion of it, the song itself.
But I can't do that and apologizebecause when I think of summer songs,
I think if ones that just makeme die a little inside. It not

(36:15):
in a fun way. It stealsand crofts summer Breeze. And the reason
why I'm putting an asterisk is thetypo negative cover of that. I love.
Peter Steele's voice is like autumn tome. It's like a warm apple
cider drink. It just I justfeel all warm inside and I love it.
And it's just so heavy he's analchemist, feels and Croft. It's

(36:52):
so nutless. It's so I feellike I'm at the natural food store and
I've been farted on by a hippie. Well, I'm trying to get nutritionally
yeast like it's just which is deliciouson popcorn. By the way, I
here's the thing, Like, Igrew up with that song hearing it on
the radio, So I'm not goingto direct as much animosity towards it,
but I can definitely see your point. It is a very lightweight song.

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It's it's it stinks of petruli andlike just it's not it's very it's been
evity balls the window. Everything makesme feel fund you want to come to

(37:45):
a drum circle? No women allowed? That literally dated a guy where it
was like I was told I wasn'tallowed to go to the drum circle because
that was a woman. It's likethis is for male bonding seals and Craft
would have invited you to that drumcircle. Absolutely, I'm going to now
defend this song. I love thatsong. I would rather go to a
type of negative strum circle. Heylisten, I'm sure that I have not

(38:07):
heard the typo negative. It's beautiful. I'm now definitely going to listen.
I'll defend that that version and everythingyou said about the song is completely accurate.
But I don't think it's a songthat never in any way wanted balls.
Maybe Typo Negative provided them, butstealson cry they didn't need ball.
This song is not about that.This is a song about blowing through the

(38:29):
jasmine of your mind. Yeah.I know it makes me feel fine.
I don't feel fine. I don'tfeel fine. I feel agitated. I
feel too much. It's too much. It's like a weak cup of camabil
tea for me. No, Idon't, I don't. I'm a I'm
a woman with needs. I needa strong cup of Cambia. I have

(38:52):
heard the I've heard the Typo Negativecover of it. I got excited because
I'm a I grew up with thesong. I love the song, and
I'm always interested to hear a coolcover of a song. But I don't
know. I just felt it waskind of trying a little too hard to
be different and kind of edgy.I look, but I think at the
time what I failed to realize isI think Typo Negative is more tongue in

(39:15):
cheek than I gave them credit forat the time. I mean this was
college when I heard this, probablyso I was not exactly looking for a
rye sense of humor a band ora song. So maybe I'll go back
and revisit it. But but yeah, no, it's it's a good call.
Well, and especially because Peter Steele. I saw an interview where he
talked about he heard that song alot growing up as a kid in the

(39:37):
seventies and like his sisters in particular, like he this comes from his big
family women and his sisters would playthat all the time. And so I
mean typebout I could have definitely hada sense of humor. Peters still had
a great sense of humor. Butthere is kind of like a genuine love
I think for it. But Ijust still think croft me, it's just
the music in general. It's sobloodless. It does nothing for me.

(40:01):
I don't bind mellow. I don'tmind mellow. I there's plenty. You
don't have to defend your own pointof view, Harry, No, no,
no, I'm just trying to playmyself. I don't mind mellow,
but I need something to have apulse and for me to connect, I
need a pulse. I need organs, I need blood. I'd probably sound
like a cannibal. Again. MaybeI'm just hungry, hungry for human flesh,

(40:25):
steals and crafts. Yeah, relicious. Gross. No, that meat
would be so rangy, gamy it. It'd be hairy like this hairy man
leg I say next, I'm dying. I'm dying to hear your choice,
Father Malone, what's your choice forthe worst song about summer? Kid rock?

(40:46):
Robert Ritchie too ashamed, family members, He's neither kid, nor does
he rock, And yet here weare, we're talking about the abomination that
is all summer long from two thousandand me. Oh, okay, before
we dive in, I am goingto read some lyrics, so genius.
You know. It was nineteen eightynine. My thoughts were short, My

(41:08):
hair was long, caught somewhere betweena boy and a man. She was
seventeen, and she was far fromin between. It was summertime in northern
Michigan, flashing through the sandbar,talking by the campfire. It's the simple
things in life, like when andwhere we didn't have internet. But man,
I'll never forget the way the moonlightshined upon her hair. Okay,

(41:30):
he's describing himself in nineteen eighty nine. Here's a song he recorded in nineteen
eighty nine. Oh the Mico wasso low because I'm the kid with all
the lingo, holy wet, becauseI don't sing, don't create a gymness
fresh and your ingo. They offthe ree box to go on the hot
topic, a little hipot with somenick say, I'm not present. You're

(41:51):
not a fucking redneck. First ofall, you weren't a hip hop person
either. You just some spoiled,rich white kid from the fucking sub verbs
like all of us. Anyway,let's okay, I'm putting kid rock aside
for a second. So what didhe do here? It's a mash up.
People say it's two songs, it'snot. It's a dozen. It's
mainly Werewolves of London by by Warren'sEvan and Sweet Home Alabama by Leonard Skinner

(42:23):
Wave off the box. But there'ssome night moves in there from Bob's Oh
No Oh Yes. In fact,if you listen to the beginning of the
song, the drum fill that leadsus into this complete gross rape of of
other better songs is the drum fillfrom the opening of smells like teen spirit.

(42:49):
It's it just goes on and on. Lord. Here's where kid Rock
had to say about this. Eventhough a lot of critics go, oh,
he just ripped off a song orwhatever, I actually thought it was
very creative. He's sang of hisown work. I was doing something that
had never been done, because eventhough mashups had been done, nobody's ever
taken two songs mash them up andwritten an original lyric and melody over the

(43:12):
top of it. So why sowe did it? And it seemed to
work out pretty well. Sky High. I mentioned Forrest Gump at the beginning,
Kid Rock is like the Forest Gumpof all. Actually, no,
let me put it another way.All the criticisms about the movie Forrest Gump,
right, the right wing kind ofslant and the anti left wing bent,

(43:35):
like all of those, that's that'sKid Rock, Like, that's him
personified. And he just keeps poppingup in all these genres that he has
no business being in anything. Likehe hangs out in a minute and waves
and then he's like onto the nextapproximation of what he calls music. By
the way, if you want areally good tank down of this song,
There's a YouTube channel called what makesThis Song Stink, which I encourage everyone

(43:58):
to listen to. He gets intothe he gets into the nuts and bolts,
so like he's a guitarist and he'sbreaking down why it's terrible musically,
and he can explain it much moreeloquently than I can. What makes me
craziest about this song is that everytime it would come on, and it
came on a lot when it wasfirst released, was that I thought it
was the opening of a better song, part one of the two songs he

(44:21):
had ripped off. And then itwas just like a bait and switch and
a slap in the face. Andthen you get the most puerile lyrics of
all time. We were trying funnythings. Let me, we were smoking
funny things. Oh what, he'sjust so good. Here's the lyric from
a kid rock. By the way, Look like I know he's low hanging
fruit. And I'm not saying anythingthat hadn't been said about this guy before,

(44:42):
but here's a reminder. He hasa song off of that first album
called The New York's Not My Homewhere he describes his experience in New York
City in the village just Illan witha forty and a brown bag. This
is redneck kid rock talking once again, everybody. He's in the village Illan
with a forty in a brown back. I'm also fat fucking trance best walking

(45:08):
in the day. Like now I'mtripping it. I'm like, y oh
god, I'm taking Oh what anice guy for not like committing a hate
crime. What does he want afucking cookie? Fuck him? This guy
but chugs his own ego and Ihave no patience for it. And I

(45:30):
think you nailed it when you saidright, because I literally remember the first
time I heard this song, becauseit's like you never forget the first time
you've ever seen like a gruesome crimephoto in your life. That's how I
felt with the song, because Iwas at my day job at a shoot
and a fleeteek playing the country station, and I was like My first thought

(45:52):
was like because I wasn't paying allthe attention, I'm like, wait,
is that warrens of on? Andthen then all of a sudden I hear
something else. I'm like, ohno, no, no, no,
no, I mean when you're makingme feel bad for Bob Seeger, you
know what kind of moral place thatputs me in. It's not a good
one. I like Bob Seger wrotethat song though, right as much as
we don't like of that song orwhat is this man doing? He's by

(46:15):
the way, mashups hadn't been donelike that before. Are you kidding?
Bullshit? That's bullshit. That isbull bull bullshit. To quote the President
from Return of Captain Invincible, RipAlan Arkin starting it out there because I
left him and that's a great musical. Yeah, No, that's it's the
fucking cajone is on this motherfucker.He's like the Trump of people because he's

(46:37):
like, he's a good friend DonaldTrump. Yeah, exactly, because he's
not working class. He has noties to the working class, but he
will go for every fucking trope tolie to people that It's the thing.
A lot of people that are rednecksare basically working class people that have been
screwed their whole life, but they'veever been given the intellectual curiosity or good
schooling or whatever to question authority,and so they're just continually manipulated. This

(47:02):
is what this guy is. It'sreprehensible on so many levels, and I
hope to god he gets haunted AmityvilleStyle by Warren's Van and three fourths of
Leonard skinnerd Yeah, it's is.This song is the flip side of my
other choice. This is the antiworking class song. This is kid rockets

(47:23):
just like parroting all these things forthese things we brought up Jimmy Buffet,
he's like trying to be that nowfor the younger generation. Does he have
a bar? I'm sure he does. When I think of kid Rocket,
I think of how cravenly he chaseswhatever musical trend will make him money and
make him popular, because, asyou said, he started out as a
would be rapper and did that fora while, and then when he saw

(47:46):
that the winds were shifting, hebecame more of in this case like a
style himself, a bit of aBob Seeger Heartland type of guy. And
then the winds shift again and hebecame even more like a country type guy.
Kid rock is, Yeah, reprehensiblethe word that I would use.
It's And for anyone who says thatmashups and what he did was not done,

(48:09):
I this is not exactly a goodanalogy, but I'm put in the
mind of the song. I thinkit was called Come with Me by puff
Daddy off of the Godzilla soundtrack,where he basically just took the song cash
Mire, but I led Zeppelin.I just kind of wrapped over it.
You know who did that better?Schoolie d did a wholly original rap sampling

(48:29):
kash Mire and then got sued.I led Zeppelin, And it's actually because
it was used in Bad Lieutenant.It's a great effect, and they got
sued by the band and they hadto remove it, which is bullsit.
See now I'm bad. I'm badall over again. But ultimately, like
the thing is, yeah, itsucks, there's no question, But I

(48:51):
will say on the flip side ofthings, like it's this doesn't make it
right. It doesn't make it acceptableartistically or otherwise. But let's also not
forget that I'm sure that Bob Seegerand Warren Zyvon or his estate, I'm
sure they were paid handsomely for usingthose those samples. So it's not as
if it's a it's a crime.He didn't steal it. I'm sure he

(49:12):
got permission. But no, weare talking about summertime. I see you
want to hear a summertime silver liningOn this particular song, kid Rock did
not allow any of his music tobe put on iTunes. So, but
the charts at the time had becomeboth sales and downloads. So there's a
karaoke version of the song that chartedhigher then Kid Rock's actual song. His

(49:37):
song got to twenty nine on thechart in the top forty, but the
hit Master's karaoke version made Did wewant to go to some Love? Yeah,
let's get Let's get some love goingnow now. The first song songs
very specifically about the summertime season,but this time we're going to change it
up a little bit. Summer jamscould be found in this can degory,

(50:00):
but really any song at all.These are songs that from your favorite songs
that you associate with summer. Now, as I said, this isn't really
I don't think any of our seasons. I loved it when I was a
child because it was freedom and noteschool, and I love summer until responsibility
showed up and it showed a prettyquick so I've never been a fan of

(50:22):
it. I've always been an autumnperson. But there's got to be some
good memories. HP take us tillone and you raise a very good point.
I want to make this clear,Like this sort of summertime being this
incredible experience, something to be savoredand look forward to. I think you're
right, fatherm Alone. I thinkit's something really more unique or more endemic

(50:45):
to when you're a kid, right, Because when you're old and you're an
adult and you're working, the summertimeis just another season that you're working.
You're still going into the office orgoing into wherever it is you're going to
work. So for me, everythingI talk about, whether it's good or
bad memories, they all are takingplace in or around school age, in

(51:06):
this case, in high school.This is a high school memory for me.
And the song is it's not aboutsummer, but it puts me in
the mind of summer. And thesong is called the song remains the same,
of course by led Zeppelin. It'soff the Houses of the Whole Evening.

(51:43):
Every song off of any song offthat album would probably qualify as a
favorite summertime memory that's not about summernecessarily, but this particular album. I
think I've mentioned on previous occasions thatI kind of I fell hard for led
Zeppelin. Is most kids in mydemographic did probably in or around high school,

(52:04):
and I dove into this album probablythe summer of either freshman or sophomore
year of high school. I'm notsure which, but I do remember it
had to be before I got mylicense, because I always listened to it
in the car on my walkman oncassettes, which I guess you don't see
too much anymore, although I thinkthey're making a comeback, but that's another
story. But this song, tome, I hear it like that.

(52:28):
There's something about the long intro withthe sort of cascading twelve string electric guitars
that, of course Jimmy Page wasknown for, and the propulsion in that
intro. It just made me feellike, ah, school's over for a
few months. Now, we havesummertime, and it's just the whole summer's
yawning before me. I won't haveto go back to school for months.

(52:50):
I can just savor the moment andsavor the season. And there's to me,
there's just a brightness and a lightnessand a happiness around the song and

(53:13):
the way it slows down for thefirst verse and then it once again,
it just springboards itself back in thehigh gear and the song kind of builds
and builds from there, and it'sreally almost orchestral in the way that it's
produced, with all the overdubbing,multi tracking of all the instruments, and
I just I hear that, andit just if there was an audio equivalent

(53:36):
of the sort of magic hour inthe summertime that's sort of hazy gold and
look that everything took on at acertain time of day, just before dusk.
This song, to me is thatin audio form. I love it.
It's still even now, even thoughmany years away from being in school
and looking forward to quote unquote summervacation, the song still to be in

(54:00):
the mindset of that. It's avery special song to me. Hpu and
I are of similar vintage. Wewent to high school together, as a
matter of fact, but I rememberthat we've been alive long enough that len
Zeppelin were still a band while wewalked the planet or crawled it in.
And I always got the sense whenI became aware of the band that the
people who had been listening to olderpeople, it always felt like you just

(54:22):
missed it. They seemed like atemporary band when we were kids. Now
they seemed like the oldest fossils inthe world. But there was a time
in our youth where they seemed like, oh they're still they could have just
done it, and then we justif only they had held on for a
little longer. Yeah, I meanobvious they could have. I think they
did the right thing and calling itquits, because I honestly like, depending

(54:45):
on who you talk to, somepeople believe John Bonham was really the best
member of that band, the bestmusician in the group that I'm not going
to here to debate that, butyou're right, when we were kids,
it wasn't as if we were fortyyears removed from Led Zeppelin's hating. They
weren't that old, So yeah,it was. They weren't even the Beatles,

(55:06):
like the Beatles were like ancient historywhen we were kids. Oh yeah,
which is funny because they weren't atall. But Zeppelin seemed like we
could have if we had more irresponsibleparents been taken to a Zeppelin concert.
Yeah. Sometimes the local TV station, Channel fifty six would show the song

(55:27):
remains the same as the movie ofthe week or whatever, and they would
always do they would do a stereocybelcast on WBCN. Now, for those
you younger than us listening to thispodcast, stereo TV wasn't a thing when
father Malone and I were in highschool. So you had to turn on
the TV, turn the volume down, turn on your high BI stereo.

(55:51):
That was broadcasting a radio station.It was a cybelcast of the audio of
and it was a revelation for somebodylike like myself or Bob and Malone who
they wanted. We wanted that theatricalexperience in the house, in the home,
if you will, and the songremains the same when as one of

(56:12):
those sort of touch points, Ithink they used to do that with A
two thousand and one a Space Odysseyalso like this was an experience for your
home, and there was something mysteriousand interesting and maybe a little bit forbidden
about led Zeppelin in that movie,because I mean there's a lot of wacky
stuff going on and the song remainsthe same. Not coincidentally, is it
tomorrow best actor? Oh, he'sbeen and as it turns out, he's

(56:39):
the member with the most same powerbecause he's performed with a bunch of I've
seen him performing with everyone from LennyKravitz to the Cricket Vultures. Really kind
of kept himself current and drag youknow who is a big fan of John
Paul Jones, Prince Yeah, talkedabout him a lot, but I'm dying

(56:59):
to hear Heather. So my pick, which, by the way, I
think HP your description of that ledZeppelin song is one of the best I've
ever heard. That was some reallybeautiful description, So thank you excellent work.
But my pick is a song calledYellow Pills by a band out of

(57:19):
Hollywood called twenty twenty. The songcame out in nineteen seventy nine. I
first heard it off of Hino Recordsexcellent compilation Di I Y. I think
it was on the was it comeout and play or shake some action?
It was one of those two.I have both of them on cassette because
that's how old they are. It'sturning into an oldies program. Yeah,

(57:44):
I've got the Farm Report coming backif anybody wants to stick around. No,
I too would listen on my headphones. And this song in particular,
it captures to me, like doesthe excitement that one can have of the
summertime. This also like slightly notquite hedonistic, but almost like dreamy oblivioness

(58:06):
of just that you probably would kindof seek out if you're especially if you're
kind of bored and you're needing tokind of escape grown. Yeah, i'd

(58:29):
ever I believe the yellow pills inquestion are I think it's a reference to
speed. It could be wrong,yeah, but it's also there's like a
wistfulness though lyrically that really appeals tome, because honestly, as I mentioned
earlier, I was I don't know. When I think of the summers,
I think of just being very lonelyand constantly looking up at the sky and

(58:52):
just being like, yeah, there'sa whole world out there, and I'm
stuck here. I'm like this littleaunt, stuck on this tiny little hill
and just this need, this absolutelyneed for expansion and excitement and just something
kinetic and dreamy. And music,of course is like one of the greatest
connectors, and the song I thinkkind of captures that feeling. I mean,

(59:15):
one can escape. Obviously, myescape is more through art, and
here it's kind of more through throughpills. But we've all got our methods.
Add It's no judgment son here,but yeah, I just think it's
a It's just a really perfect kindof perfect song, perfect pop song,
and because pop should always sometimes thebest pop is the pop that's a little

(59:37):
tinged with something else doesn't have tobe all a glitter. There can be
a little bit of gravel underneath theglimmer. The phone line and I also

(01:00:05):
want to say a little trivia isproduced by Earl Manky, who, in
addition to being an O G memberof Sparks, which is that alone is
pretty fucking cool. I can't reallyget cooler right right, Oh my god,
I love Sparks. Any number ofSparks songs really could have been on
this list for me. But healso he'd go on to produce. He
produced this song. He produced theRunaways three o'clock, which is a really

(01:00:29):
great kind of Paisley pop band outof California in the eighties. Really another
editrated band Concrete Blonde, which hisfather Jane was their guitarist. So cool
guy, and this is a coolsong. I love it and it makes
me think of summer dreamy, alittle sad, a little oblivious, but

(01:00:50):
always interesting. I woke up onesummer thinking I was going to fuck off
like the rest of my summers,and suddenly I was at a computer class
every day, and then Spanish classesthat my mother had signed me up for.
So summers ended pretty quickly for me. But that doesn't mean there wasn't
things to enjoy about it. Now, around nineteen ninety May of nineteen ninety

(01:01:13):
a little movie by Oliver Stone cameup called The Doors, and The Doors
was pretty much on my radar,on my stereo, on in my car
cassette deck for the for that entiresummer. And the one song that makes
me think of so actually that there'sa ton of doors songs. La Woman
could be what I'm talking about rightnow, but the song is from nineteen
seventies Morrison Hotel, and that ispeace Frog, Blood in the Streets,

(01:01:37):
in the town of Blood Stays theRoots, and Blood the terrible, bloody,
fantastic La. It definitely reminds meof my and my late wife.
We listen to that song I don'tknow one billion times in Boston and then

(01:02:00):
later on in California, which isa whole other experience listening to that song
once you get to California. Obviously, Look Krieger wrote the music, and
the music is fucking fantastic. It'sfunky and different than there are other stuff
meanwhile, being just like goddamn ferocious, and look, Morrison just dropped in
some old poems as lyrics, butwhat evocative imagery it's It's from his three

(01:02:22):
different poems, Abortion Stories, Don'sHighway and Newborn Awakening. And this is
the song where you know where thestupid myth of him having an Indian jump
into him because he witnessed as achild a car rank with Native American family
scattered child's gradual action, that thatline is in here, But god damn,

(01:02:51):
it s evocative, just like therest of it, all of the
blood imagery and tying in all ofthe sort of horrible events going on at
the end of the sixties, andsomehow it seems fun. That's rare.
I actually have you to think FatherMalone for getting me into this song.
Oh yays, Honestly, I lovethe Doors. I've never actually taken the
time to really listen to Morrison Hotelfor some reason. Waiting for the Sun

(01:03:14):
was always like the big one.And also a side note, I wanted
to form a band called Raven Xeric'sOregon and I tried pitching it to my
friends Shannon and I was even like, we're going to do like the like
a sticky fingers type cover. Butit's like his stripe pants from the way.
Anyways, she said, no,so that band never happened, but

(01:03:35):
that this song is so beautiful andlike I really, I feel really grateful
I got to hear it because ofyou, So thank you. Oh that's
entirely my pleasure. I want toshare it with everybody. Go ahead,
HB. Yeah, So we've talkedabout our shared upbringings. Father Malone.
I was right there with you seeingThe Doors in the theater. It was

(01:03:57):
there was a level of obsession thatwe both had for The Doors that Summer.
I know, we freaked out.The movie was like everything to us,
and we dove hard into their catalog. But the funny thing is that
the Doors that there's any number ofsongs that just have the word summer.
As it turns out, there's Summer'sAlmost Gone, There's Indian Summer, which
is also off a Morrison hotel.But this is a fantastic pick. It's

(01:04:18):
been always been one of my favoriteDoors songs. Also, it's so,
like you said, it's a bitof an outlier because it the instrumentation in
the song itself is so out ofcharacter, let's say, and the blend
of Krieger's funky guitar and everything elsewith Morrison's patented brand of poetry is just

(01:04:40):
to me, it's magic, andI just think it's a wonderful pick and
it actually brought me back to summertimea little bit listening to it again.
So thank you for that. No, no, thank everybody for everything.
HP. I'm not going to kickit back to you, because there has
to be a song that you associatewith summer that you cannot stand. How's
that for? Some of the ona segue, man, So this one

(01:05:03):
is a kind of a weird one. I'm gonna just warn you in advance.
This is going to require a bitof explanation. My least favorite song
that makes me think of summer isa song called Pearl of the Quarter by
Steely Yan water Down and My Babiesa Quarter. She's a chum like you

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never singing Bola Boola la. It'soff of Capdown the extacy from nineteen seventy
three. I'm an abashedly huge,huge Steely Dan fan, and I've always
been, even going back to highschool, big big Steely Dan fan.
Most of their songs are usually aboutweirdos on the periphery. This one is

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basically a love song, which isnot really a good look for two glum,
sarcastic dudes who met at Bard Collegein the sixties. The Pedal Steel
and the Game and the song isplayed by Skunk Baxter, who was at
one time a member of Steely Dan. And this might Father Malone knows I
have a strong aversion to the PedalSteel, and I think the song now

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You Do this song might have beenthe gesis of that, because you know,
he and I went back and forthfor a long time about this instruments.
It's in the song. It's cloyingand sentimental. The song is basically
about a guy who's loved and losta woman from from Louisiana, hence the

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quarter, the French quarter. AndI always I've always considered this song,
even before the memory part, whichI'll get to in a moment. This
is really the turd in the punchbowl of maybe their entire catalog, So
already I was biased against the song. With the song the reason why it
makes me think of summer and whyit's such a bummer. For some reason,
it always takes me back to myfirst summer back home after graduating from

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college. This was a point inmy life where I was aimless to be
honest, I had no solid planof what to do next. I was
bummed to have to move back homewith my parents and my old house after
having four years of independence school.It's not a it's certainly not a unique
story. I'm sure everybody has gonethrough it in some way, shape or
form. But for some reason,I think just because I was listening to

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a lot and I was in mycar a lot because I just wanted to
get out of the house a lot, and this was in rotation at that
time, and it just makes mefeel just just bummed out, feeling of
now what do I do? What? What's next in the life. I
didn't really do what I wanted todo with school and my degree is basically

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worthless. What now that that's mypick? It's it's and like I said,
to top it off, it's noteven a very good song. So
yeah, I can't listen to himabout thinking that it takes me back to
that feeling of hopelessness after college.Boy, that's a bummer for summer.
It is like, take us further. I don't think. I don't think
I can. I'm bummed now,Oh my god, I feel like I

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want to give you a hug HPtime to give I'm sorry man for sure,
and makes me feel like that anyway. By the way, Okay,
that's another story, but I don'tOkay, So here's my thing. I
don't have a exact memory associated withthis song as far as like a bad

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summer because to me, like thesummers, my worst summer memories are just
like this big expanse of just uh, just like sludge, just slow bit.
But this song makes the dog daysof summer exactly. I love dogs.
It should be essentially with the worstanimal. Yeah, the hookworms of

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the hookworm days of this song makesme think of summer and it also makes
me cringe. So this was mypick, and that is Moonlight feels right
by the band's starbuck taking on atrip and dropped to tap the chest.
Ain't nothing like the scatter the sendyou on your way? It feels right.

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Have you ever been stuck? Youever been stuck in like a florescently
lit space and hearing the most godawful obnoxious music. But it's not like
when people think of buxious, theythink of like a like industrial sound or
something cool. Now, this songmakes me think of somebody taking something that

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should be right, because I havea setting in my mind of okay,
it's it's nighttime, it's summertime.That's nice, right, Maybe you're by
a lake, the light's reflecting offthe pool. And now it is like
a kid rock song. God damnit off. This is I blame Starbuck.
They played at the seats for thisbullshit. And you can still do
all those things and not exactly no, exactly, thank you, thank you,

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but or the book, because here'sthe deal. It's like you're almost
having good time and then this creepyguy with a shitty mustache starts guys with
creepy mustache with bad mustaches. Ihave full respect for a good stas,
okay, but a guy with agood firm stash, it's not gonna be

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going moonlight that thing. It's likesome fucking holiday in lounge scent like do
like that. I'm cutting the wholesong in here. Oh god, I
think you should just cut me goinglike yeah, wait, okay, good,
we got the it's my mash job. Take that stuck on that kid,

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right, But you know this guyjust goes like that. He's saying
it like that, like oh,it's so mealy mouth. This is like
we're hypnol in a song. Itjust feels like trigger warning. Sorry,
whatever, but it feels we're wrong. It feels wrong. It doesn't feel
right. It feels like some Itfeels like some guy has just swiffered his
nasty dreg card noir taint all overyour nice evening. Like you're just trying

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to have a good time. You'reby, like, and here's this guy
skizing it up. Be like,hey baby, or if you're or maybe
it could be a gross woman.I'm not gonna be gender biased. Could
be some nasty Maybe maybe she likesthat body fantasy spray that Walmart has that
smells kind of like an ex stripper. That's actually not a bad smell though,

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depending on the stripper, But anywaysends on the stripper, depends on
the substrappers and whether or not they'vebeen working all night. That's true.
If you got that day shift shrimp, that's a different smell. Like it
depends you know, substrappers smell good. This is a fact. But my
thing is, if a stripper isStarbuck, and Starbuck is a stripperd stripper
ain't gonna smell good. It's gonnasmell like like wine. Coolers like spilled

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wine coolers. Yeah, like somethingcalled like mango delight. It's gonna felt
like mango delight and our car noirand bug spray and bad weed like skunk
weed, not good weed. It'sgonna be like Jeff Scuck Baxter weed.
It is the sex machine himself whowent on to like be a part of

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George Bush's administration, which is thatexactly evil. It's great, it's a
crazy story. It is su andhis stash is terrible. But I don't
like his stash. I don't likethe Jeff scut but no Hucks. This
mustache. Now I'm not talking aboutthe actual members of Starbucks, but I'm
saying like, when you think ofStarbucks, you think of a guy with
that whispy, shitty mustache, kindof like Snoopy's cousin with just the little

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has. Yeah, it's just andit's like a baby, you know,
and it's I just don't. Idon't like it. It makes me feel
bad. It makes me just hearingthat song, it makes me feel unclean,
and not in a fun way,not in a David Lee Roth like
Dionysian way. It makes me feelunclean like I have like I've I have
been hit on by my friend's olderbrother and I'm twelve and he's twenty six.

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Jesus grace that bad. Yes.Now, first of all, full
disclosure, I wore Drecarnamar in highschool. And in high school, so
so did my first boyfriend. It'sokay, we all bored, I guess.
Speaking of high school, that's wheremy hatred for this song comes from.
Now, this one could have actuallybeen in our last category because it

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is a song about summer, andit is a song that every fucking DJ
will put on a high loop rightaround mid August. It's cruel summer by
an Arama, leaving me here onmy own. It was just a reminder,

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hey, suckers, in a coupleof weeks, maybe not even that
long, you're going to be backin school. So it's by the way,
I like the song. I thinkit's a great song. I could
listen to it right now. Nevertheless, the association, the stink of it,
you're about to give up any meageramount of freedom you've managed to grab

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from this misbegotten season where once youhad a great time. It's all coming
to an end and you're going back. I don't really have any more deep
enouts other than that. But ifwhen I thought of this that it just
immediately popped into my head that memorybecause it was an annual event starting in

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nineteen what eighty six, eighty fivethat came out, So we're talking from
eighty six, like enough, weknow the summer's ending. We can look
at a calendar. For fuck's sake. Don't taunt us with the sound of
these ladies. I see it.I always when I think of that song,
I talk about a bummer. Youknow what I think of I think
of poor Daniel LaRusso getting kicked offthe soccer teams. He was roped into

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retaliating during a scrimmage, and Iremember him walking dejectedly off the field.
I actually think that's a fond memory. Team. No, he's talking about
the Karate Kid. Oh fuck thatYeah. No, I'm with you,
one, Dent. I've never thatthat style of pop was never really my
thing anyway to begin with, itwasn't up on the song. I'm not

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inviting you to criticize the tune.No no no, I so it's I.
So it's not as if that songwould hold any fond memories for me
to begin with, it's not somethingthat puts me in the mind of a
good any kind of good memory.Frankly, why Heather, I are you
a banana fan? I wasn't madethat fun. I have no problem.

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I like him. I actually kindof prefer Oh what which one the one
that formed Shakespeare's sister? We know, the one I could never name her.
I can't name her either, Butwith Marc she formed up with Marcy
Marcella Detroit, who I love,and she's on Elis Cooper's from the inside.
I want my last name to beDetroit. Not a great name.

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I don't think doctor doctor Detroit.God, I'm a doctor called the doctor.
I'll take that name. No,I don't have a problem with Ramma.
What's weird, though, is themusic video, and which is burned
into my memory because they played itall the time when I was little,
has almost like, uh, sortof like a Smokey and the Bandit feel

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towards in We're like this boss hoglooking guy is oh those girls and the
girls are throwing banana peels with thisnice trucker. It's weird. I don't
think it fits the song something otherthan literal lyrics, right right, No,
No, that's they were creative.And yeah know I like Banana Rama,
you know, very stylish, beautifulladies. Yeah, I would say
it's like my favorite. I don'town any Baniana Rama, but yeah,

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the fine, Nope, I havenothing, nothing problem. And honestly I
do like Ralph Macha. When Ithink I'm hating on the Macco, I
just think I just the karate kidnever did it for me and I'm dark.
This is this was my I think. I think williams Zavca's got the
Manpower debut, you know, likehe's one of those guys. It's like
James Spader in the eighties, Likethese guys played the assholes, but they

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were like so awesome and fantastic.They were like stylish assholes. Like you
you don't you almost want to belike fuck that guy, but then you're
like that I can I like them. In the case of James Spader,
it's like I would, yeah,you want to have hate sex with that
one, but which ties into myversion of pretty and Pink, But I'll
save that for another episode. Heused to hear pretty impink, he's so
hot. Oh my god, youshould those two should have ended up together.

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He was clear he's clearly in lovewith her. Well, see my
version of pretty impink is she hasshe calls the police on Ducky and he
and gets a restraining order on him. She breaks up with Blaine, has
hot like total like rage sex withSpader, and then blows up the school
like massacre at Central High style,and then as this as pretty impink,

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the song plays that if Friese frameson her giving the middle finger to the
school when you were a kid,how did the hat end for you?
That was fine? I mean,you know I had a pretty mind as
a little kid. Okay, itwas it was once who got a little
older? Gotcha? Well, Isay that though my mom reminded me that
she she never bought me, sheonly brought me one barbie because the one

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Barbie I had she found its head. Yeah, deeper and deeper and darker
down the breath. Oh, Ican't help, but I gotta bet me
I got a loving heart. ThoughI'm not criticizing her at all. You're
the dark beating heart of the NoiseJunkie Crew. Noise junkiees. Oh,

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this is a perfect little segue.And then everybody, I'm gonna I'm gonna
I'm gonna wrap it up. Iguess I was supposed to have a game
here, but I'm incredibly lazy.Your father alone is, and so I'm
gonna ask HP, are you workingon anything? Would you like to tell
people to listen to or see thosethings? I would love to so,
I, along with my colleague FatherMalone, we do the Night Mister Walters,

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a taxi podcast, a new episodesevery couple of weeks. I'm every
other Tuesday, every couple of weeks, every other Tuesday, Ladies and gentlemen,
Yes, we have all so donea little bit of Wolf and Raisin,
which is a band a check podcast. You can also you can also
hear me on occasion on the CultureCast once in a while. And also

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I'm very proud to have been involvedwith Father Malone's Dark Destination's audio drama podcast
doing some music and the few otherthings. So check that out as well.
How about New Heather, Oh goodnessthat I loved Health Productive. I
can I just say I love theshow and I love having you two as
like my Sonic brothers and arms socool. Thank you both, Thank you,

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thank you. Oh well, onething I an episode I recorded with
Chris Stashue who we all love fora Bollywood Cinema Club. The first episode
I recorded with Chris for the movieDon Gall is out, so you guys
can check that out on weirding WayMedia. Also, if you go over
to Vindeger's Syndrome, they have releaseda very excellent documentary made by Charlotte Gainsberg

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about her mother, who of courseis the famous Jane Burkin. The movie
called Jane by Charlotte and your Girlwrote a little essay for that release,
so please check that out and andwell, thank you, thank you,
And it's a very fascinating documentary,and I think definitely for anybody that's big
music heads like we are, Imean, of course Jane Burkin Sears Gainsberg.

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It's a great, very interesting documentary. So I do recommend it,
even if I didn't do the essayfor it, but I did, so
check that out also, hopefully bythe time this goes on air, which
because this should go up on theirwebsite any day now. I did an
article about Herschel Gordon Lewis's Blood Feesclassic The Godfather of Gore himself and speaking

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of cannibalism, laurand Ladies and gentlemen, and that'll be over on Ero Films
website. Of course, for anythingelse go to my I have a link
tree hollow, so just go toa link tree dot com forward slash Mondo
Heather And as for me, everythingthat HP mentioned And if you want to
hear any of my audio stuff Ido, it's Weirdingwaymedia dot com. If

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you want to see any individual stufffor my old link tree, if follow
Malone dot com will get you toall my nonsense. We want to thank
you all for joining us here atNooi's Junks. Enjoy your summer, ladies
and gentlemen,