October 3, 2026 • 59 mins
Bobby, Eddie and Brandon tackle some of music’s biggest questions. Who wins in a showdown between Garth Brooks and George Strait? Which hugely successful artists do you respect but just don’t understand the appeal of? And what artist’s biggest hit gives people the WRONG idea of how good they really are? And More! Bobby then dives into some of the most questionable songs to ever reach No. 1, and makes his case for why they belong on the list. From novelty hits and songs that haven’t aged well to a few tracks he actually admits are still pretty catchy; Bobby breaks down what worked, what didn’t, and how some of these songs became massive hits in the first place. He also shares the surprising stories behind a few of them and counts down all the way to his pick for the worst No. 1 song of all time. Plus, Bobby's current power rankings of who can win Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey everybody, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're going to do a few existential music questions.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What sucks for you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is you don't know the question. Great, existential.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, so me, Eddie, and Brandon, all musicians at different levels.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Extreme different levels for the record.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I know like nine chords. Brandon is an accomplished songwriter.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I'm in the middle. You're in the middle. Yeah.
I'm the cream of the Oreo.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So we're going to do a few existential music questions,
and I can actually answer the question first to give
you guys time to think about it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, because I don't even know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, you don't understand existential, the word.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I mean, I do. I've heard it before.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But it's like, is that like thinking big about it? Like, yeah.
Like getting deep into it? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We can go very easy with question number one.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And we can do this as a group exercise. So
if we did Garth Brooks versus George Strait, 10 songs each,
one against the other, who would win? Now, I actually
have it mapped out. Would you like to hear the verses?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I would like to hear them.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So it's one versus one. Okay. And we'll give a
point each side.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And all I did was say, give me the 10
biggest Garth and the 10 biggest George, and it has
created the battles.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Number one, from George Strait, Amarillo by Morning, from Garth Brooks,
The Dance. Eddie.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is a close fight. It's like Rocky, where you
just want to do a draw, but I'm going to
go Amarillo by Morning. Okay, so Brandon? Oh, man, this
is tough.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
They're all going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Okay. For the record. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm just letting
you guys know now.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
They're all going to be so tough.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's going to be so tough.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The dance.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm going the dance too.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Wow. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So G1, G none.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, no.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
My system is flawed.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Garth and George. The two Gs. Which one was it?
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Garth won.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All right. Next up.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
All my exes live in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Gosh, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Friends in low places.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's so good. I'll go first.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I'm not always a tiebreaker. We'll just switch up.
I'm going to go all my exes live in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Wow. I didn't think you would do that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Friends in low places. All my exes all day. Yeah.
Why am I different than you two?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, you tell us.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know. Like, this is crazy. But this is personal.
Are we doing personal? Yeah. No, personal.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's our favorites. I mean, we're two white guys.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's what it is. Maybe it's race divided.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
All right. One to one.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Next up, George Strait, check yes or no.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Garth Brooks, unanswered prayers. Brandon, you'll go first this time.
Check yes or no. Unanswered prayers. Unanswered prayers.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No, I'm not going to give you five.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We're a team. No.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, Garth two, George one. Garth, the thunder rolls. George Strait,
the chair.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, I'm familiar with the song. Okay. Your first? Not
my favorite George Strait song, so give me Thunder Rolls. Wow. Brandon?
The chair. The chair. I feel like you guys are
doing it just to be different. I'm not, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You love the chair? I love them both.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The chair's probably top three George Strait song for me.
You know that wasn't his chair after all, right? Don't
spoil it, man.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We have a no-spoil rule here.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know he was lying.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Next up, number five. By the way, it's two to two.
George Strait, I Cross My Heart. I cross my heart.
From the movie Pure Country.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Garth Brooks, If Tomorrow Never Comes.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'm going to go Garth Brooks, If Tomorrow Never Comes.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
If Tomorrow Never Comes. If Tomorrow Never Comes. That is
my number one Garth Brooks song. Yeah, and I Cross
My Heart is great, but doesn't even come close. It's
dancing in the same ballpark. Not really, man.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But If Tomorrow Never Comes is my favorite Garth song.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Ocean Front Property from George Strait. I got some.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What do you think? What? I got some. Oh, yeah, yeah.
My friend who didn't speak English, he would say, ah,
play I got some. I got some. Because me and
my brother would play guitar. He'd be like, oh, play
the I got some.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I got some Ocean Front. Or Shameless. Ocean Front Property.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Or Shameless.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Garth with a 3-2 lead right now. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Brandon, you're up.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oceanfront Property.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So the problem here is, to me, can I just
walk you through my existential crisis?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is that Shameless has a cover.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, Billy Joel. Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oceanfront Property is not a cover, but George probably didn't
write it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
George didn't write motion songs.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Dean Dillon.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah. Dean Dillon, who Brandon wrote with. You wrote with
Dean Dillon?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Brandon and how advanced he is musically. He's ridden with
all these people. He then rented Dean Dillon's apartment.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Is that true too?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, he lived in his old house that he built.
That's crazy, dude. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm going to have to go shameless.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I got you. I'm going to go with I got you.
Oceanfront property.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Brandon.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Brandon. Oceanfront property.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Three to three.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It is tight here. Because this is really hard. With
four to go.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
From George, Love Without End, Amen.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's a good one. That's a great one.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Probably a top five.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I came home from school one day with a Shiner
in my eye. It's Love Without End, Amen. Or The River.
Not even close. Really?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Okay, you go first.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The River.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Brandon? Brandon? The river. The river. Not even close. The river.
The river is fantastic. Yeah, dude. It's so good. No
one dreams like. Oh, come on. Ever changing as it flows.
Next up. Name my son after that song.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Did you really?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't really know. Oh, okay. Brandon.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
His son Vessel. You didn't know his son Vessel?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh, cool. The Vessel. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Four to three. Eight, nine, and ten to go. So
Garth is taking the lead.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
From George, carrying your love with me, Garth, calling Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh. I'll go first here. Carrying your love with me.
I'm not a big calling Baton Rouge guy. And LSU
suck it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You're not?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, LSU suck it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, no, no. Take LSU out of it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I have reasons that I feel certain ways about songs.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah. Just take the song for what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Everybody's listening from Louisiana. I love you, but I'm an
Arkansas guy.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't like to hear that song. Because it means
they've scored or they've won.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah. You're crazy. So LSU has ruined that for you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
No, I still like it. I just don't love it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay. I'm going to go. Carrying your love with me
or calling Baton Rouge. That one's so hard. Like that
might be the hardest out of everything. Oh, I got
to go carrying your love with me from West Virginia
down to Tennessee. Because you walked that for charity for
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, we raised so much
money for charity. Brandon. Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What would you have picked? Also a cover.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Colin Batten-Roos. Yeah, it's a cover.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But that's a George. It's four to four. I didn't
expect it to be so close.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But four to four. What are their names? Like George
is the king of country music and then Garth is
the goat?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know if they really, like that's official that
people just call him the goat.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think that's just us. Is Garth not like the
prince of, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Like the king of pop. They're the I don't know
if Garth has a name.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Really? I feel like he needs a name. Goat works.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I'm sure people do call him that because he has
sold way more than any other American artist.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, the greatest of all time. Yeah, that's what Goat is.
I know, just in case people didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, next up. The Cowboy Rides Away, George Strait. You
like that one?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Love it. Sing that one. And knew the stakes were
high right from the start.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Or Garth Brooks, Rodeo.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh. Brandon, you go. Rodeo. Really?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
What do you have? I'm going to go with Cowboy
Rides Away.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm going to go Rodeo.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Come on. Is Garth back up?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Garth's up five to four.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Garth took the lead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And the final one. George needs this for the tie.
I can ask him for a tiebreaker.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
If it is tied. George Strait, Troubadour.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Garth Brooks, Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up.
That's a solid matchup. I like the matchup between the two.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's no contest.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Really?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
No contest. Brandon, you go first. Ain't Going Down Till
the Sun Comes Up. Oh, really? I go Troubadour. I'm
going Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So Garth wins six to four.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Hey, Garth, good job, buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Sorry, George.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Sorry, George. That was a good one, though.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Down to the final one.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's a fun game, huh?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's a lot of fun. That's a really good game.
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I got two other existential questions. These are a little more.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
That was just kind of fun. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Number one, which hugely successful artist do you respect but
you don't really understand the appeal of? And I can
give you a couple because I made a list.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Of two. Not really a list, but I picked two.
Number one is Kiss. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Because they don't have a bunch of hits. I know
a couple songs. I know I want to rock and
roll all night and party every day. I know Beth,
and only from that movie....
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Not stepbrothers but role models role models oh.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Wow okay yeah and I still like that song it's
a ballad and then I know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Another song music city Detroit Detroit Rock City yeah yeah
that's about it right I'm sure there are more I'm
not a massive fan of them I'd put Kiss on
that and I'm sure the spectacle of it was part
of the appeal the face paint yes the pyro it
shows and then not not really knowing who they were
(10:45):
right for a lot of years like who are these
guys The guys behind the paint. Because there was no
social media.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I do Kiss and then I do Fish.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's a good one. That's a great one.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Because I'm just not a jam band guy. To me,
I don't know any of their songs.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thank you. That's really good.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But I don't think you should know their songs to
enjoy them. The people that I know that love Fish
and go to multiple Fish shows, they're not preaching to
me what one song to listen to.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
They're preaching to me about an experience.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I'm experienced out.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'm good. Dude, I took a tour, because I took
my son to New York City, and we wanted to
do a tour of Madison Square Garden, and the tour
guide said that Phish played there. You may want to
double-check this, but they said that Phish holds a record for,
I don't know, playing the most consecutive nights, sold-out shows,
and they never played the same song twice.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
With them, though, I would believe they just made them
up as they went.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
They just made up new songs. It's only just one song, right?
Those would be my two favorites. Now, I did have
a head start.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Does anything come to your mind, Brandon?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, the first one I can think of, and this
may be controversial, Madonna.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think you're just too young.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No. Explain, because I'm kind of with you on that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You guys also aren't women.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I like the songs, but I mean, her? Yes,
that's what I'm saying. I don't really understand.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You speak.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I have a huge respect for Madonna, and the songs...
I mean, she's got massive hits, like, all day. But her,
she's an enigma to me. And brave and amazing, like,
with her fans and all that stuff. And I respect that.
(12:26):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think the thing to get about Madonna, a little
before me, too, is that if Sidney Sweeney sang songs,
I think that would be Madonna because she was pushing
every physical boundary. Like, she had hits, but she also
was like, I'm so famous, and I'm still going to
make this all about sex.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
At a time whenever it wasn't. She pushed the boundaries.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Every time, yeah. She totally did.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So Miss Me, a little before me, but if someone said,
why is Madonna successful? I would say, one, she wrote
great songs and was a good performer, but also, like,
she did a book of just sex. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Great book. The book's all about sex?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And it was, it may have been called a book
about sex, And not only that, I think she was
really for, like, women's liberation.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Absolutely. That's why women loved her. Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So that's probably why we miss what it is, because
we didn't need to be liberated.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay. I like her songs, though. She has jams.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But also, I'm not really Madonna.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Again, much respect. No, no respect. You buried it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Much respect. I get it. I get it. But just
not for me. And then... Oh, go.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What's your second one?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
No. No, Brandon, you're up.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Brandon, please.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Please.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm just going to piggyback off of your fish thing.
Grateful Dead. Yeah, they're the same to me. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Except one of them's dead.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And John Mayer's dead and company, so I didn't want
to insult them.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I think they're all dead now, right? Because Bob Weir's dead. Oh,
he died too. But I mean, so no disrespect. I
don't get it either. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I like Casey Jones, though, that song. Down on that
train high.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I do at least know a song.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Friend of the devil is a friend of mine. Dude,
they have jams. I love Grateful Dead. But, I mean,
do you want the obvious one for me?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Like, what are we doing? Man, they have great songs.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Nickelback. They have great songs. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, you can think that they're kind of DBs, but
they still have great songs.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
If you're an Applebee's... If you're an.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Applebee's, this should tell you right now, what are we doing?
What's wrong with Applebee's? Normal people go to Applebee's. The music.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
If you're in Applebee's and over the top, everybody's going
to be doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He's saying they're the Applebee's of music. That's not what
he's saying.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If you look around, if you're at Applebee's, when Remind
Me comes on, everybody's singing it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Everybody sing it! Dude, that reminds me of a bad
time in my life. That's probably why you hate them. No,
but they were part of the bad time in my life.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Alright, last question.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, I have one more. Go ahead. Prince. You're an idiot. No,
come on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I don't want to be judgmental, but you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't get it. You just haven't spent any time.
I like some of the songs.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My bad. You're a stupid idiot.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah. Yeah, you're the dumbest idiot. You guys, nothing? Like, what?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think me just throwing an opinion out there, because
I missed Prince being super famous, too, age-wise.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
But.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think if he didn't have all of these hit
songs or if he wasn't purple, he would just be
considered one of the top three guitarists of all time
in the history of music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, and that doesn't really translate to a big star.
But it shows you his music acumen. But, right, the
other stuff was the big star stuff. But you're like,
I don't get it. Like, what he was probably the
best at is not even what we know him for.
The guitar. Just music. Playing everything. Oh, yeah, he was, yes. Musically.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But he was sex, too.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, that was wild. Hey, everyone, comment stupid idiot below.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
What do you guys, chat, what do you think? How
stupid is he?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We have no chat. Some people will agree with me.
What do you not get? I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You don't think his songs are great? I don't get
why he was so big.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Like, I think some songs are really good. I think
it's almost like he was like an actor, right? He
was like, no, even like, you know, just his persona
on stage and very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It was him.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You think that's just the way he was?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, because you hear all the stories about how he
would record and how demanding he was. If it were
3 o'clock in the morning, he just calls band and
be like, you need to get over to my house
right now because I'm about to start recording. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And weird, totally weird, but it takes weird people to
make great stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It's true. He was just one that when you look
back at like all time greatest, he'd be on the
list and I'd be like, I don't know why he's
on the list.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, that's because you're stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Because I'm an idiot. Yeah, because you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Final question here as we do three existential questions. What
artist's biggest hit actually gives people the wrong idea about
how good they actually are?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And again, I'm just throwing it. You guys have had
some time to come up with a question and come
up with a couple answers. So what artist's biggest hit
gives people the wrong idea about who they are? Because
they're actually really good or really different. I have three
because I knew this would be a hard one to
think about. Number one is Bobby McFerrin. Oh, that's because
that dude hates that song.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Don't worry. Be happy.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And he shouldn't hate it. That's a great song. He
is like an art artist. He doesn't want to have
pop songs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
He doesn't like playing that song. Last I saw, he
doesn't play that song. And what else did he have?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'm not even sure if he's alive anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, the only other thing that I know he had
is the Cosby show theme where it's like, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's right. That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What you know, don't worry. Be happy is mouth stuff too, right?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But it's also lyrics. He's alive, by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He's alive? 76 years old.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Does he play Don't Worry, Be Happy?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Will you look that up?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Because the last I saw when I saw a special
on him, he hated that song, did not want to
play it, would not play it because it did not
represent who he was.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
But that's who I like.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And he also probably hates it because of Billy Bass, right?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Billy Bass probably made.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Him a lot of money. Billy Bass ruined it for him.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Billy Bass made him a lot of money. That fish
would go like this.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's a little song idol.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And then when it was done singing.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I love that thing. Take me to the river.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What do you see, Mike?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It looks like he stopped performing in 2023 as Parkinson's. Oh, man.
Best of luck to him. But anyway, that was a jam.
Another one is Fountains of Wayne. They had Stacy's mom.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And so.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
They just were not a novelty band. Like, that dude
was a really deep, insightful songwriter.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And so I think that song blew up, and it
painted them in a whole different light because everybody just
knew them from Stacy's mom. Yeah. The other one that
I would put over in our space is Leigh-Anne Womack
because she had a Hope You Dance, but she is
very deeply traditional when it comes to country music. And
I think people know her as this big pop country-ish anthem.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But Leigh-Anne Womack is as country as apple pie, man.
That's really not the rest of her music. Never Again
and Again, Last Call, those songs like that, I think
that is who she really is.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But people know her as.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I Hope You Dance. Oh, that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Did that give you enough time to think of?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, I thought of one, and this is just one
that I've recently, I'd say in the last 10 years,
kind of dove deep into his music and realized that
I had it all wrong from the very beginning because
I was the one that would listen to Your Body
is a Wonderland and be like, this is so cheesy.
That's a good one. Like, this is so bad. But
then you go deep dive into John Mayer, dude, and
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he is a great guitarist, an amazing songwriter. He's awesome. Like,
his music is awesome. is so freaking good that, like,
you were a big fan, and honestly, for years, I
never understood why you were such a big fan. Your
body's a wonderland, dude. Bubblegum tongue. What are you talking about?
It's all so good now. That's a good one. I
love it. That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Brandon, anything come to mind?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I'm still thinking over here. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Another one I thought about was Warren Zevon because I
think he got it. Werewolves of London but see I
don't know any of his other music like did he
have like the French Inhaler you familiar with that song
because I knew it but it's only because I went
through when I thought about him and I started listening
back through his library a little bit very complicated guy
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and complicated songwriter but really all I know him for
for the most part two things one David Letterman would
have him on to play with his band because David
Letterman was a massive fan and then Werewolves of London
which I love by the way yeah but yeah I
have another one for you, Brandon, if you're still thinking.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You want to give him one?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Jimmy Buffett. Ooh, can I have that one?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Because I don't like Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You don't like Jimmy Buffett?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Cheeseburger in Paradise, dumbest song ever.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
See?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I'm fine with Margaritaville, whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I just feel like there is so much more to
Jimmy Buffett than people think.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
That's my bubblegum tongue.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Those songs especially cheeseburger in paradise that's bubblegum tongue i'm
like i don't want to hear anything else this guy
does because i got bubblegum tongue and.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
A cheeseburger in paradise i know you've already hated on
it i know yeah i know but there's so much
more jimmy buffett when you explore the catalogs of his
the catalog of all his music and his songs or
some of the deeper cuts great songwriting dude he's he's
like and he was a songwriter from by experience like
all all mostly all his songs are experiences written on
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on paper things that he did and turned them into
songs which makes them so much better you should have.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Saved some ink with that cheeseburger because eat your cheeseburger
we're in a song about everything bro.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know because he was eating a cheeseburger vacation paradise
cheeseburger you gotta write a song right now.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
There's no need oh man i love him brandon last
shot anything come to mind.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah i mean kind of In your same vein, I guess,
Brian Adams. So people know him as film songs. Everything
I do, I do it for you. Like, oh, it's cheesy,
cheesy love songs. But the more you dive in to
Brian Adams' whole catalog and how great of a songwriter
he is, I mean, it's the same way you feel
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about Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's one where you can stream one song, and then
if it feeds you a lot of his other songs,
Like you start saying like, oh, I forgot about that one.
I love that one.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think I need to do that then because in
my head right now, look.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Into my eyes. Robin Hood? You will see. Which was awesome.
Robin Hood, Men of Thieves or Robin Hood?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Prince of Thieves. Prince of Thieves. Is that what it is? Yeah.
And then they did the spinoff. Men in Tights. That's
a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But I know he had, I got my first real
six string down at the five and dime.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Those are the only two I think I know.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh, thinking about you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Heaven, dude. Heaven. Straight from the heart. Straight from the heart, yeah.
Straight from the heart when you're too... No. No, not
that one.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
How does straight from the heart go?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Give it straight from the heart.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh, that's not what I was thinking. Oh, that's a
good one. I do like heaven, though. Baby, you're all
that I.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
They ended up covering that song way later. It was
a dance song, and then it was a... Like a
DJ did?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah. I should know the answer to that. What are
some other ones?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
DJ Sammy, that's it.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
There were some songs like Please Forgive Me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I don't know if you remember that song. Wake Up
the Neighbors. Brandon's his nephew. Uncle Brian. Run to You.
Run to You.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Oh, that's a jam. Have you ever really loved a woman?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's a good one. Oh, that's the Spanish guitar one?
Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, that's a good one. That's a good one. I
didn't even know that one. That's what I'm saying, man.
You just forget about those. I'm glad you said that
because I'm going to jump in to Bryan Adams today
then because I.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Didn't even know he had all these songs.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Check the playlist. Make sure you have a bunch of
songs underneath it. How about this? Cuts like a knot.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it feels so right. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Here, pull up his Bare Bones album. It's him on
acoustic and a piano, and he's singing. I think it's
recorded at the Ryman. It's all the hits, but... It's
just that simple thing and the crowd singing along with everything.
And you just realize, like, dude, every single song of
his is.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Just a smash. There you have it. Thank you, guys. Existentialism.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We can do more of this at some other point. Well,
you should just look up existentialism anyway because that is
a movement.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Henry David Thoreau. Did you do that on your phone? No. No,
I just remember that from school. Them talking about existentialists
and Henry David Thoreau and his book Walden Pond.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You couldn't even say existentialism... When we started this and
all of a sudden you're quoting Thoreau?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, I don't know, man. Random stuff comes to my head.
Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And we're back on The Bobbycast.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And now this is a thing I did for Netflix
where I was talking about the top worst 15 number
one songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So enjoy.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And we're also going to do me ranking the current
Dancing with the Stars contestants. So all that is kind
of contained in this episode. Appreciate you guys listening, and
here we go for some bad number ones. Worst number
one songs of all time on the Billboard Hot 100.
The ranking is subjective. I'm looking at different things because
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you might actually like the song. Sometimes I actually like
the song, but we're talking about songwriting, production, repetition, how
well the record holds up after its original popularity. And again,
some of these songs were deliberately made to be novelty
songs and some weren't.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And some of them are.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Major artists that really you never hear from this song
again after it went number one.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I also want to separate a song's quality from its.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We got two cameras going so I can edit that
if I mess up. Okay, go. I also want to
separate a song's quality from its commercial importance because a
record can change the industry or it can become part
of pop culture and and still be something that I
would put on a worst songs list.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So understand that I might actually like these songs.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And when I describe an artist as a one hit wonder,
do not message me going, they had this other hit.
They had this other song. I'm talking about on the
big chart, the Billboard Hot 100. They had one hit.
You may be in their fan club and know four
other songs. That does not mean they had three other hits.
Let's get started now at number 15.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Daniel Powder.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Cause you had a bad day, 2006.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This song spent five weeks at number one. This song
was the song they played on American Idol whenever you
went home. I actually really liked this song. Now, Daniel
Powder is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Recently, he went and sang
on Canada's Got Talent, and he sang this song, and
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they didn't realize it was him who was singing this song.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But this song was.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A monster because at the time, American Idol was a monster,
and it was a jam, but my criticism is that
it expresses emotion in a fairly general way.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
The chorus is memorable, but okay, you had a bad day.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Now what?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Who'd you kick?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Who'd you fight? Who'd you bite?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I want to know the rest.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Jam of a song, but I put it at number
15 in my worst number ones of all time. At
number 14, I have Rude Magic. Six weeks at number one. Now,
this is back in 2014. It's another Canadian band. And
so the front man of the group was already a
very experienced songwriter. He had written songs for Justin Bieber,
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Chris Brown. And it's kind of a relaxed reggae influence
type rhythm song. And mostly I don't like reggae and
I feel like Bob Marley's overrated. So that's why I
put it here. Like I understand my friends that like
the beach, like Bob Marley.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't like the beach. I don't like water.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So I'm not a big reggae guy. Musically, the song
is fine. It's easy to sing along with. At number 14,
worst number one songs of all time, that song. Number 13,
Right Said Fred, I'm Too Sexy. I bought this tape
back in the day. This was the only halfway decent
song on it. I loved, I'm too sexy for my shirt.
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Too sexy for my shirt. Too sexy, yeah, it hurts.
This song spent three weeks in number one. And as
a kid, when the line was, I'm too sexy for
my pussy. my pussy cat. When they didn't say the
cat part, I was like, oh God, that's crazy. But
they did. And then you're like, oh, pussy cat.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Said Fred, just a little history on these guys. They
were a British group that was built around two brothers,
Richard and Fred. Richard worked at a gym, kind of jacked.
Fred was kind of jacked. And that was really what
the song was. A producer and a DJ helped reshape
this song how it originally was into basically a dance
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record which it became and that we all heard it
but when this song came on he went what is
that and then it became kind of a pop culture
moment too sexy for my pussy my pussy cat man
if you're like 24 you don't even know how that
hit when he said too sexy for my pussy my
pussy cat okay that's number 13 and number 12 Vanilla Freakin' Ice,
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Ice Ice Baby. This song only spent one week at
number one.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Everybody. knows this song.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
A lot of people can rap this song that weren't
even alive when the song came out. It spent one
week at number one in 1990. It became the first
rap single to top the Billboard Hot 100. This song
made me want to shave the hair on the sides
of my head and have a flat top.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Everybody. Every nerdy white dude thought they could be Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now, what's funny to me, what I think about, is
the bass line from Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure.
And I remember when Ice Ice Baby came out, and
Vanilla Ice was like, no, no, no, no, that's not
the same song. Their song goes, and my song goes,
we're like, bro, that's the same song. In the end,
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I do think he paid them for using that, but
it was legit. I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Can do some of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I don't want to get in trouble by like the
podcast police, but everybody knows stop, collaborate, and listen.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Ice is back with my, ah, you got it right.
But nostalgic for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And then You could say that Vanilla Ice had other hits,
like Play That Funky Music, White Boy.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Not really a hit. But Ninja Rap on the Ninja
Turtles movie? Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I used to call the radio station and beg them
to play Ninja Rap from the Ninja Turtle movie. That's
number 12. Number 11, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, Ebony
and Ivory. 1982, seven weeks at number one.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
1982.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
McCartney wrote the song. George Martin produced it. So we're
talking Beatles here. And you think if you bring in
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder together, this is a massive collaboration.
Even before you heard the song, you're going, this might
be the best song ever in the history of songs.
Like sonically, this is as close to God as music
will ever be. The song uses the black and white
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keys of a piano as a metaphor for racial harmony.
And the intention, completely positive. The message, it's easy to understand.
It says, why can't we coexist together? as naturally as
the notes that make up music. It was just, I
think I wanted a little more from these two greats.
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The arrangement is smooth and it's good. It's very direct.
It feels a little corny. It does. It feels a
little corny, especially knowing what these two were capable of.
And I think that's what it is. I think the
expectations were just too big because it was Paul McCartney
and Stevie Wonder, because I do think it's a good
song and I do love the message behind it. And
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I don't think the recording really holds up. So I'm
going to put that at number 11, Ebony and Ivory.
I'm going to say again, I love the message. I
love the artists individually. Not a great number one song.
Number 10, Starland Vocal Band. Now, what's their only song?
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Afternoon Delight. If you watch Anchorman, you probably know it
from that if you don't remember it from 1976. I
was not alive in 1976, but I do know it
from Anchorman.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
And yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Little gentle pop song. It's daytime intimacy. It's like getting
it on at noon, but it feels so light and
polished that there's really no let's get it on intimacy.
It's one of those songs that You don't really know
it's a sad song because it's so fast. This song's
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supposed to be about getting it on in the daytime,
yet it just kind of feels goofy and overly sweet.
And that's probably why they use it in Anchorman. Starling
and Vocal Band won the Grammy for Best New Artist
in 1977. The other nominees for Best New Artist, fun fact,
included Boston, which they crushed.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Fun fact about that, Boston... No, crap, I lost my
place here.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Starland Vocal Band won the Grammy for Best New Artist
in 1977. Boston was also nominated there. So they didn't
quite work out as well as Boston did. Number nine,
the Chipmunks and David Seville, Christmas Don't Be Late.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Christmas don't be late.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That was a number one song. That song spent four
weeks at number one.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Christmas, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's a great Chipmunk song. I can't believe the Chipmunk
song went to number one. When I was putting together
the research to do this little half episode here, the
fact that I saw the Chipmunk song, Christmas Don't Be Late,
was a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100
blew my mind. The fact that it spent four weeks
at number one blew my mind twice, 1958 and 1959.
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David Saville was the performing name of this guy named Ross.
He created the Chipmunk's voices by manipulating tape speed And
he performed all the different characters himself. And so it's
funny because I think he recorded them like really slow
and then sped it up instead of talking like this
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and speeding it up because then it wouldn't match the
beat of the song. So I love the Chipmunks. I
just thought it was crazy they had a four-week number
one song.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
And number eight, the Macarena. And I felt like they
sold out when they put the English singing in it.
I like the original Macarena and everybody was doing the dance.
There's a really funny, I think it's a democratic national convention.
And it's like, this is totally the nineties. And you
see like Hillary Clinton as Bill's wife, not Hillary Clinton,
the person running for office, but doing the Macarena with
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all the people from the nineties.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
That's a pretty funny video.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Go look for it.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Nothing was more nineties, 1996.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
To be specific than Macarena by Los Del Rio and
And whenever they added the, let me tell you about
my boyfriend, his name is the Mamacarino, I felt like
they were selling out, selling out to the Americans.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
But I did like it, and I did know it,
and I still know the Macarena, which is hand, hand,
then go upside down, then go shoulder, then go head,
then go hip, and then rock your hips, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
And then go clap like that. Boom, number eight.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Number seven, LMFAO. Sexy and I Know It, 2012. This
song spent two weeks at number one. So this song
was kind of the jam when it came out, mostly
because I thought it was crazy that they had the
F word in their name because LMFAO was laughing my
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A off.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I was like, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Redfoo and Sky Blue, who were uncle and nephew, which
is also interesting. And their connection to music history is
pretty cool. Redfoo is the son of Barry Gordy, who
founded Motown, and Sky Blue is Gordy's grandson. So they
had already reached number one with Party Rock Anthem, so
they weren't one-hit wonders. They had a recognizable approach that.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Big hair.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Is kind of a jam, but it kind of sounded
like every other song that they had put out.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
That's why I didn't put the first one on there.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I thought the first one was.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Even better, but this one was just basically the sequel
to that first one. But yeah, I also always thought
it was crazy that It was an uncle and a nephew,
even though they were about the same age.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
One of them's trying to play professional tennis right now too,
which is crazy. And number six, we built this city.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
That is by Starship. Man, it does hit hard when
it starts. 1985, two weeks at number one. It spent
two weeks there. That group's history is part of this
discussion because Starship, well, they weren't the original band. They
developed out of Jefferson Starship which had developed out of
Jefferson Airplane.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Think about that. It's like the band period. They just
keep eating people up and kicking.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Them out.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That was Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship to Starship.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
They got brothers.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They're kicking them out. They're putting husbands in. It's the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Grace Slick connected those different periods. The lineups would change.
The musical direction changed. One of the song's writers was
Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's longtime lyricist.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
How about that for a fun fact?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
His original idea concerned the disappearance of live music clubs
and the difficulty of keeping that culture alive, and so
the song.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Is more of a background on what they're.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Actually talking about than just the chorus of fun. But yeah,
it's a good song. I like it. It comes on,
it hits hard. I never go pursue it, though. If
it doesn't come up on a playlist, I don't ever
hear it.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Word number.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Five, Ray Stevens, The Streak. Now I got to tell
you something. As a kid, I ate Ray Stevens for breakfast,
for lunch, and for dinner. I loved Ray Stevens songs.
Oh yes, they call him The Streak. 1974, this song
spent three weeks at number one. Talent show, I think
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in seventh, maybe eighth grade, we did this song and
ran out in all nude suit. It was in the
auditorium that we did a Bobbycast from a few weeks
ago with Arkansas Keith.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Same auditorium. And we got second place to Christy A.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Van Aubrey Mitchell doing Two of a Kind Working on
a Full House by Garth Brooks. And the only reason
they got it is because they were girls. And then
one of them, as they were sweeping, they smiled and
they had one of their teeth blacked out and the
crowd erupted. That's the only reason that we lost doing
the streak in the performance contest.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I'm going to put Ray Stevens, the streak there, because
I think people are just haters. Anytime I talk about
Ray Stevens, they're like, I don't know who that is,
but do I need to go through Ray Stevens songs
that rocked the Mississippi squirrel revival?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Now songs like Ahab, the Arab don't really translate into
today's culture. Let me tell you about Ahab, the Arab.
You know, at the time, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Can't do that now.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
He did have a song, though, called Everything is Beautiful
that was much more straight ahead. Everything is beautiful in
its own way. And he would, like, throw roses, and
you kept waiting for the joke, and there was no
joke with that one.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
That one was weird. There was nothing funny about it.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
But I got to put number five because I think
most people don't understand Ray Stevens, and they would go,
what the heck is that even about?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
But it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
It's just somebody streaking, running naked.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
And I bet you a bunch of people actually ran
naked in places because of that song, because they were
inspired by that song. He's in the Country Music Hall
of Fame, by the way, Ray Stevens, I believe, which
is pretty cool. Number four, D4L. That's the name of
the group. Can you think of the song? By D4L,
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it would be a number one song.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
If you guessed.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
shake that laffy taffy, oh, shake that laffy taffy, you
would be correct. D4L came out of Atlanta's, what they
called snap music scene, which used like real sparse beats,
snappy percussion, straightforward hooks.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I mean, there's minimal production.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It's just, it.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Just repeated itself over and over again. It was a
jam for about three weeks. But I don't think it's
what they should play at Guantanamo. They should play the
death metal and shake that Laffy Taffy. And I think
they'd be confessing everything. We'd have all of the world's
intelligence secrets if you just play that song over and
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over again. And then it goes, candy girl. Number three,
Paul Anka. With somebody named Odia Coates. Can't say I'm
a huge knower of Odia Coates, but you're having my baby.
Go stream that song. Three weeks at number one. The
song was intended as a celebration of pregnancy. He wrote
it for his wife and coach joined him on the recording.
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The main criticism was the lyrics because it was all
about what it meant to the dude.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, and the woman's love for him.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
He just made it about him when it really, it
wasn't supposed to be about that.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It reminds me once I told my wife, hey, I wrote.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
You this song.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I'm going to play it tonight because it was when
we were dating. And I was doing a bunch of stand-up,
and I'd take my guitar for like 12 minutes a show,
and I'd play a few songs. And maybe you've heard
my hits, Hobby Lobby, the Hobby Lobby Bobby song, Grandma's song.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
But I wrote another one. I said, I wrote this
for you.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
And then when I played the song, it was all
about me and the things that I felt.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
It wasn't really about her at all.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And I got off.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I said, did you like that? She was like, well,
it was all about you. Well, that's kind of what
this song is.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
It's a really soft arrangement and sentimental delivery, but it's
a dude talking about himself when he should be talking about, well,
her somewhat. Number two, Chuck Berry, My Ding-a-ling. My ding-a-ling,
my ding-a-ling. I love to play with my ding-a-ling. Man,
I thought this song was so funny as a kid. 1972,
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two weeks at number one. This guy had songs like
Johnny B.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Goode. Well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
And then he had My Dingaling. It's a novelty recording
for sure. It's also his highest American pop chart result.
This guy was really one of the greats. And this
is the one that goes number one. That's why I
put it at number two, because he should have more
than this song at number one. My Dingaling, that's his
only song. He's a great giver of American culture. And
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the only song we're gonna put at number one from
him is My Dingaling. Okay, and now, Number one, Rick
D's Disco Duck. The funny thing about this is that
he was like a radio DJ in Memphis, and he
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made this song. And his band, and I didn't know
this until I researched this, was actually Rick D's and
his cast of idiots.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Maybe you're familiar with my musical duo, the Raging Idiots.
No relation.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
But Disco Duck, he was a... like a radio personality,
but he was like a real DJ. And so what
makes this song stupid is that I can't do a
duck voice, but there's the duck in the actual song.
And it was a novelty song for sure. And I
don't think they ever thought it would do what it did,
which it went number one. So this is the one
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where the initial concept does most of the work and
then it just repeats. And then there's a duck in it.
There's the sound effect there. So that goes number one
for me. for the worst number one song of all time.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
That's my countdown. Wasn't a long episode. I just kind
of got in the weeds there.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
What started it was that Chuck Berry never had another
number one song other than my ding-a-ling, and I could
not believe it. Again, he is someone who brought us
so much American culture and music, and the only song
he had that went number one was my freaking ding-a-ling.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Shout out Ray Stevens. Shout out Rick Dees.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Met Rick Dees.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Really nice guy.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
And All these songs had paths to the top for sure.
Some benefited from television exposure. The Daniel Powder, Bad Day,
for sure. That song was what American Idol was that season.
Some were tied to dance crazes that everybody did. Democratic
National Convention, Hillary Clinton. I'm talking about, ooh, Macarena. Others
came from artists who had enormous weight and that probably
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got it to number one. Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney,
Stevie Wonder. Regardless, the chart success, it's a fact. their
place on the worst songs list, an opinion. So your
taste could be completely different. And also some of those
songs were awesome, but some of them were terrible. So
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that's it. Thank you very much. You can DM me, Mr.
Bobby Bones, and tell me what song you would put on.
So there was a lot. Shout out Daniel Powder.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Shout out Magic.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Shout out Right Said Fred, Vanilla Ice, Paul McCartney and
Stevie Wonder, Starling Vocal Band, The Chipmunks, The Freaking Chipmunks,
The Freaking Chipmunks, Los Del Rio, LMFAO, Starship. Remember, Jefferson Airplane,
Jefferson Starship, and then Starship. They just were killing people.
They just continue in the band. Ray Stevens, D4L, Paul Anka,
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Chuck Berry, and Rick Dees and his cast of idiots.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
The Bobbycast. We'll be right back. Welcome back to The Bobbycast.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Everybody, it's time for my power rankings for Dancing with
the Stars this week. There are 12 remaining contestants at
number 12, and that does not mean he'll go home
next because he has survived and survived.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
It is Guillermo.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
He got a 15 out of 30 last week. Look,
he's obviously the least capable dancer, but he's also one
of the most beloved. There will become a point when
even the most loved gets kicked off if they can't
keep the scores up. So, He may survive a couple
more weeks, but I can't see him lasting more than
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that just because he's only being kept around because people
love him. The rumors now were that Whitney wanted to
go home, and she can't believe she's lasted this long.
She's been talking about that, saying that's not the case. Obviously,
she's pregnant. It's fun to root them along, so let's
go Guillermo. But he's at number 12 on my power rankings.
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No chance to win. At number 11, Tyler Cameron from
The Bachelor. a 17 out of 30 last week. He's
a former college athlete, and he did a jive, and
usually athletes excel at the jive if they don't have
dance experience. The jive was the only thing that I
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could almost kind of do consistently. It's why we did
it multiple times during the show. He's got to be
cleaner with his execution. I'm surprised that he's not better
at this point because he is a... Very strong athlete.
Being handsome probably helps with the votes a little bit.
(48:14):
For sure, being The Bachelor helps with the votes a
little bit because anybody can get pushed through five or
six weeks if they're coming from that show. But at
number 11, Tyler Cameron, right above Guillermo. Chance to win
the show, zero. Next up, Sierra Miller. She got an
18 out of 30. She's at number 10 this week.
(48:36):
And she got three straight sixes for her cha-cha. You
would think the judges, though, would go, let's not do 666.
Let's do 676 or 766.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
We don't want the devil up here. But they gave
her three sixes.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
She has to break through soon or it's never going
to happen. So it's there. She just has not hit
it yet. Also, I don't feel like she has really
bonded with the audience yet. She hasn't had that real
personal moment either. Which if you go through this, there's
a lot of them that haven't had that yet or
even a semblance of it. And number nine is Connor Wood.
(49:16):
He got a 20 out of 30. He did the Foxtrot.
The Foxtrot, to me, a non-dancer who is ill-educated in this,
the Foxtrot's that interesting, pretty athletic, but also there's a
lot of ballroom in it that just being an athlete
can't get you through. And I thought he did pretty
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well at the Foxtrot. He had a rough week last week.
20 out of 30, not bad. His personality is starting
to show a little bit. I think people will like that.
I think his partnership with Riley can help him stay around.
She's very beloved. So to move into the contender group,
he's got to start putting together strong weeks consecutively. I
think he is starting to put together strong character performances.
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But right now it's still a bit tough because there
are 12 people, right? There's only so much space on
the show. It's hard to really cut through personally whenever
there are more than 10 people. So any sort of
land grab you can get right now is bonus, and
he's done that. At number eight, Julia Stiles. People are
really starting to like her. She had a good rebound
(50:25):
from last week. They did the salsa. Salsa's tough if
you're goofy like me. She's still dealing with the rib injury,
so shout out to her for fighting through. There is
potential there, not only for dance, But I think she's
putting it out there where people are starting to feel
like they can root for her and root alongside her.
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I trust her ability more than I trust that we're
going to get a good score. But at number eight,
Julia Stiles, her chance.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
To win about 8%.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
At number seven, and she has made a move up
over the last few weeks, is Tatiana Ali. She scored
a 21 out of 30. Her quick step was a breakthrough.
I think the judges, when I watched what they said,
they loved her footwork. They loved her energy. She's becoming
one of the better improvement stories of the season. And
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that matters tremendously. And I think the improvement, and I
think that we're starting to see more of her as
a person and a competitor.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
And there's also the nostalgia factor.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
That's interesting. She could climb quickly. She's going to have
to build pretty fast though. But I do have her
at number seven. With about a 13% chance of winning
the show. At number six, man, he just can't put
it together. He's not there yet. He's who I predicted.
One of the two I predicted that would win the
whole thing. At number six is Jackson Holson. He scored
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18 out of 30. So with him, it's just been
so much about potential. Potential, potential, potential. Because he is
very likable. He has a big personality. He's got to
dance at least a little bit to catch up. He
doesn't have to be one of the best five or
six dancers right now. He just has to show tremendous
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improvement week to week, or he's got to really be
vulnerable in his packages. Now, the thing about the packages
is you don't have control of what they use as
far as practice time. But there's some stuff where if
you do it, you know what's going to get used.
So you can't bunch your way to a mirror ball.
I think he still has a shot to win the show,
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but there has got to be some major dance improvement
And I just, I need him crying.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
I need him crying.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I need him hugging. I need him running to the audience.
I need him bringing his grandma to the show. If
he has an alive grandma, if not rent one, you
can get anything on Craigslist. Jackson Olsen, he can still
win the show, but a little bit of a fade
from last week. I'm going to put his chances at
winning the show at 22%. At number five in the
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power rankings, Jenna Dewan, pro dancer, and now they're holding
that against her a little bit, which they should. Everybody
should be held to wherever they came into the show.
And she came in very, very high. She scored a
21 out of 30. They did a samba. Like her
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samba was better than most other people's dances. But again,
she's held to a higher standard because she comes from
a dance background. With her, Because she has such an advantage,
she's going to have to have a crazy breakout moment.
And she hasn't had that. She's just been really good.
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But being really good was expected. So she has fallen
to number five overall in the power.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
Rankings this week.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
I give her a 31% chance to win the show.
And number four, Mara Higgins, a 22 out of 30
last week.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Pretty elegant. She did a quick step. She finished just
behind the two leaders.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
She's becoming very dependable.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
And for someone that I had no knowledge of whatsoever
in anything that she has done in the media, I'm
starting to like her.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Also, I really like Mark.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
And there's two, Mark and Daniela, that are so great
at choreographing these dances. And not just the dances, but
even the elements that give you the wow factor. And
so she is really climbed. I think she's a contender.
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I think she's a contender. She's a contender. At number four,
Maura Higgins. I'm going to put her winning percentage at
about 38%. Harry Shum Jr. is my number three dancer
this week in the power rankings. He scored a 24
out of 30.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Look, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
And so is Jenna Dewan. They're awesome at dance, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
You root for Harry.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
You kind of feel like he's the dude that lives
down the street. There's nothing about him that feels that intimidating,
and that's perfect on this show. He did a jive,
same thing as Tyler Cameron did. Obviously, it was great.
We're reminded he's one of the two best dancers out there.
He looked very connected with his partner, which was cool.
Speaker 3 (55:30):
His challenge.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
And I think he's starting to do this a bit
is make people care about him. We can all appreciate
the dancing, but do we care about them? And I
think he's starting to do that. So Harry Shum is
at number three overall, and I have him with a
really solid shot to make the finals right now.
Speaker 3 (55:53):
I'd put about 40% to one at all. At number two, Ezra.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
I love the dude.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
He didn't score tremendously high, but if you're so lovable
and also if you've scored really high the weeks before
having a one-off bad, that's okay. Actually, it kind of
helps the next week because whenever you show up and
you hit it hard and you get a high score,
the judges go, wow, you really improved so much. So again,
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he wasn't at the top of the leaderboard, but I'm
keeping him second because I'm looking at his whole season here.
He's shown a real ability to dance and He's also
shown that viewers can get emotionally invested in his journey.
And I was talking about Daniella earlier. Her and Mark,
they're the two that you got to watch for as
far as the pros, because as my grandma used to
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say about me, you can't polish a turd, but they
can polish really great dancers with really cool choreography and
added elements because these aren't turds. These are amazing athletes
and dancers.
Speaker 1 (56:59):
And I hate it.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
My grandma said about me. Uh, so Daniella, Strong path
to the final. He's in the finals. I don't see
any way that he's not in the finals. I think
he's got a really solid chance to win the thing.
I would say almost a coin flip, 48% chance to
win it all. And number one, super proud. One of
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the people I picked in the very beginning, one of
the two, Amber Glenn. She's my number one.
Speaker 3 (57:24):
That Foxtrot I was talking about earlier, it was smooth.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
It was controlled.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
It was tied for the highest score overall on Yacht
Rock Night, her and Harry. And overall, she's doing what
she was supposed to do. She's combining strong dancing and
she's improving constantly and consistently. She already looks good. And
I think there's even room for her to get better.
And don't forget the patriotic element. USA, USA. This is
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Dancing with the Stars America. So if they do a
theme and she's able to pull out America in any way.
Because the final dance usually you get to pick. It's freestyle.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
You get to do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
If she's set up perfectly and she gets to pull
out America and freaking eagles are flying in and somehow
Hulk Hogan shows up and if it's like they're eating
apple pie in the crowd, she's giving apple pies to
everybody and she has her gold medal, man, I think
that's the ticket. You just don't want to shoot your
load too early. You got to hold on. Don't America
it right now. But man, what a card that is
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to play later. Number one right now in the power
rankings is Amber Glynn, the ice skater, the gold medal winner,
and one of the top five best dancers, but one
of the top three most likable contestants.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
That's the power rankings for right now.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I'd put her win percentage at an even coin flip
of 50-50.
Speaker 1 (58:52):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (58:53):
That's the power rankings this week. Thank you for watching.
We got it. Let's keep going. Let's cut some people.
Because when they cut people, there's then more room for
the other contestants to actually shine and show who they
are as people, not just dancers. So maybe not next week.
maybe so, but you're going to see Guillermo go home.
Eventually you might even see people get outraged at first.
(59:14):
I can't believe Guillermo is still on the show. Um,
so lovable, no doubt about it. Tyler Cameron's only got
a couple to a few weeks left in him. The
only reason that he's still on right now is bachelor nation.
And after that, everybody else has a chance to last
for a while.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Um, It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
It's a really good season. Thank you for watching and
we'll see you guys next week.
Hey everybody, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're going to do a few existential music questions.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What sucks for you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is you don't know the question. Great, existential.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, so me, Eddie, and Brandon, all musicians at different levels.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Extreme different levels for the record.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I know like nine chords. Brandon is an accomplished songwriter.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I'm in the middle. You're in the middle. Yeah.
I'm the cream of the Oreo.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So we're going to do a few existential music questions,
and I can actually answer the question first to give
you guys time to think about it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, because I don't even know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, you don't understand existential, the word.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I mean, I do. I've heard it before.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But it's like, is that like thinking big about it? Like, yeah.
Like getting deep into it? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We can go very easy with question number one.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And we can do this as a group exercise. So
if we did Garth Brooks versus George Strait, 10 songs each,
one against the other, who would win? Now, I actually
have it mapped out. Would you like to hear the verses?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I would like to hear them.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So it's one versus one. Okay. And we'll give a
point each side.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And all I did was say, give me the 10
biggest Garth and the 10 biggest George, and it has
created the battles.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Number one, from George Strait, Amarillo by Morning, from Garth Brooks,
The Dance. Eddie.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is a close fight. It's like Rocky, where you
just want to do a draw, but I'm going to
go Amarillo by Morning. Okay, so Brandon? Oh, man, this
is tough.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
They're all going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Okay. For the record. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm just letting
you guys know now.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
They're all going to be so tough.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's going to be so tough.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The dance.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm going the dance too.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Wow. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So G1, G none.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, no.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
My system is flawed.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Garth and George. The two Gs. Which one was it?
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Garth won.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All right. Next up.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
All my exes live in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Gosh, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Friends in low places.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's so good. I'll go first.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I'm not always a tiebreaker. We'll just switch up.
I'm going to go all my exes live in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Wow. I didn't think you would do that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Friends in low places. All my exes all day. Yeah.
Why am I different than you two?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, you tell us.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know. Like, this is crazy. But this is personal.
Are we doing personal? Yeah. No, personal.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's our favorites. I mean, we're two white guys.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's what it is. Maybe it's race divided.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
All right. One to one.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Next up, George Strait, check yes or no.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Garth Brooks, unanswered prayers. Brandon, you'll go first this time.
Check yes or no. Unanswered prayers. Unanswered prayers.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No, I'm not going to give you five.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We're a team. No.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, Garth two, George one. Garth, the thunder rolls. George Strait,
the chair.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, I'm familiar with the song. Okay. Your first? Not
my favorite George Strait song, so give me Thunder Rolls. Wow. Brandon?
The chair. The chair. I feel like you guys are
doing it just to be different. I'm not, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You love the chair? I love them both.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The chair's probably top three George Strait song for me.
You know that wasn't his chair after all, right? Don't
spoil it, man.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We have a no-spoil rule here.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know he was lying.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Next up, number five. By the way, it's two to two.
George Strait, I Cross My Heart. I cross my heart.
From the movie Pure Country.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Garth Brooks, If Tomorrow Never Comes.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'm going to go Garth Brooks, If Tomorrow Never Comes.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
If Tomorrow Never Comes. If Tomorrow Never Comes. That is
my number one Garth Brooks song. Yeah, and I Cross
My Heart is great, but doesn't even come close. It's
dancing in the same ballpark. Not really, man.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But If Tomorrow Never Comes is my favorite Garth song.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Ocean Front Property from George Strait. I got some.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What do you think? What? I got some. Oh, yeah, yeah.
My friend who didn't speak English, he would say, ah,
play I got some. I got some. Because me and
my brother would play guitar. He'd be like, oh, play
the I got some.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I got some Ocean Front. Or Shameless. Ocean Front Property.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Or Shameless.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Garth with a 3-2 lead right now. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Brandon, you're up.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oceanfront Property.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So the problem here is, to me, can I just
walk you through my existential crisis?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is that Shameless has a cover.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, Billy Joel. Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oceanfront Property is not a cover, but George probably didn't
write it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
George didn't write motion songs.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Dean Dillon.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah. Dean Dillon, who Brandon wrote with. You wrote with
Dean Dillon?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Brandon and how advanced he is musically. He's ridden with
all these people. He then rented Dean Dillon's apartment.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Is that true too?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, he lived in his old house that he built.
That's crazy, dude. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm going to have to go shameless.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I got you. I'm going to go with I got you.
Oceanfront property.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Brandon.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Brandon. Oceanfront property.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Three to three.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It is tight here. Because this is really hard. With
four to go.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
From George, Love Without End, Amen.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's a good one. That's a great one.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Probably a top five.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I came home from school one day with a Shiner
in my eye. It's Love Without End, Amen. Or The River.
Not even close. Really?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Okay, you go first.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The River.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Brandon? Brandon? The river. The river. Not even close. The river.
The river is fantastic. Yeah, dude. It's so good. No
one dreams like. Oh, come on. Ever changing as it flows.
Next up. Name my son after that song.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Did you really?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't really know. Oh, okay. Brandon.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
His son Vessel. You didn't know his son Vessel?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh, cool. The Vessel. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Four to three. Eight, nine, and ten to go. So
Garth is taking the lead.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
From George, carrying your love with me, Garth, calling Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh. I'll go first here. Carrying your love with me.
I'm not a big calling Baton Rouge guy. And LSU
suck it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You're not?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, LSU suck it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, no, no. Take LSU out of it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I have reasons that I feel certain ways about songs.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah. Just take the song for what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Everybody's listening from Louisiana. I love you, but I'm an
Arkansas guy.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't like to hear that song. Because it means
they've scored or they've won.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah. You're crazy. So LSU has ruined that for you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
No, I still like it. I just don't love it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay. I'm going to go. Carrying your love with me
or calling Baton Rouge. That one's so hard. Like that
might be the hardest out of everything. Oh, I got
to go carrying your love with me from West Virginia
down to Tennessee. Because you walked that for charity for
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, we raised so much
money for charity. Brandon. Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What would you have picked? Also a cover.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Colin Batten-Roos. Yeah, it's a cover.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But that's a George. It's four to four. I didn't
expect it to be so close.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But four to four. What are their names? Like George
is the king of country music and then Garth is
the goat?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know if they really, like that's official that
people just call him the goat.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think that's just us. Is Garth not like the
prince of, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Like the king of pop. They're the I don't know
if Garth has a name.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Really? I feel like he needs a name. Goat works.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I'm sure people do call him that because he has
sold way more than any other American artist.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, the greatest of all time. Yeah, that's what Goat is.
I know, just in case people didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, next up. The Cowboy Rides Away, George Strait. You
like that one?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Love it. Sing that one. And knew the stakes were
high right from the start.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Or Garth Brooks, Rodeo.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh. Brandon, you go. Rodeo. Really?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
What do you have? I'm going to go with Cowboy
Rides Away.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm going to go Rodeo.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Come on. Is Garth back up?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Garth's up five to four.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Garth took the lead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And the final one. George needs this for the tie.
I can ask him for a tiebreaker.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
If it is tied. George Strait, Troubadour.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Garth Brooks, Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up.
That's a solid matchup. I like the matchup between the two.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's no contest.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Really?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
No contest. Brandon, you go first. Ain't Going Down Till
the Sun Comes Up. Oh, really? I go Troubadour. I'm
going Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So Garth wins six to four.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Hey, Garth, good job, buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Sorry, George.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Sorry, George. That was a good one, though.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Down to the final one.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's a fun game, huh?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's a lot of fun. That's a really good game.
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I got two other existential questions. These are a little more.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
That was just kind of fun. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Number one, which hugely successful artist do you respect but
you don't really understand the appeal of? And I can
give you a couple because I made a list.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Of two. Not really a list, but I picked two.
Number one is Kiss. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Because they don't have a bunch of hits. I know
a couple songs. I know I want to rock and
roll all night and party every day. I know Beth,
and only from that movie....
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Not stepbrothers but role models role models oh.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Wow okay yeah and I still like that song it's
a ballad and then I know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Another song music city Detroit Detroit Rock City yeah yeah
that's about it right I'm sure there are more I'm
not a massive fan of them I'd put Kiss on
that and I'm sure the spectacle of it was part
of the appeal the face paint yes the pyro it
shows and then not not really knowing who they were
(10:45):
right for a lot of years like who are these
guys The guys behind the paint. Because there was no
social media.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I do Kiss and then I do Fish.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's a good one. That's a great one.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Because I'm just not a jam band guy. To me,
I don't know any of their songs.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thank you. That's really good.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But I don't think you should know their songs to
enjoy them. The people that I know that love Fish
and go to multiple Fish shows, they're not preaching to
me what one song to listen to.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
They're preaching to me about an experience.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I'm experienced out.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'm good. Dude, I took a tour, because I took
my son to New York City, and we wanted to
do a tour of Madison Square Garden, and the tour
guide said that Phish played there. You may want to
double-check this, but they said that Phish holds a record for,
I don't know, playing the most consecutive nights, sold-out shows,
and they never played the same song twice.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
With them, though, I would believe they just made them
up as they went.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
They just made up new songs. It's only just one song, right?
Those would be my two favorites. Now, I did have
a head start.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Does anything come to your mind, Brandon?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, the first one I can think of, and this
may be controversial, Madonna.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think you're just too young.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No. Explain, because I'm kind of with you on that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You guys also aren't women.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I like the songs, but I mean, her? Yes,
that's what I'm saying. I don't really understand.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You speak.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I have a huge respect for Madonna, and the songs...
I mean, she's got massive hits, like, all day. But her,
she's an enigma to me. And brave and amazing, like,
with her fans and all that stuff. And I respect that.
(12:26):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think the thing to get about Madonna, a little
before me, too, is that if Sidney Sweeney sang songs,
I think that would be Madonna because she was pushing
every physical boundary. Like, she had hits, but she also
was like, I'm so famous, and I'm still going to
make this all about sex.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
At a time whenever it wasn't. She pushed the boundaries.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Every time, yeah. She totally did.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So Miss Me, a little before me, but if someone said,
why is Madonna successful? I would say, one, she wrote
great songs and was a good performer, but also, like,
she did a book of just sex. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Great book. The book's all about sex?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And it was, it may have been called a book
about sex, And not only that, I think she was
really for, like, women's liberation.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Absolutely. That's why women loved her. Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So that's probably why we miss what it is, because
we didn't need to be liberated.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay. I like her songs, though. She has jams.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But also, I'm not really Madonna.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Again, much respect. No, no respect. You buried it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Much respect. I get it. I get it. But just
not for me. And then... Oh, go.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What's your second one?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
No. No, Brandon, you're up.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Brandon, please.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Please.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm just going to piggyback off of your fish thing.
Grateful Dead. Yeah, they're the same to me. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Except one of them's dead.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And John Mayer's dead and company, so I didn't want
to insult them.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I think they're all dead now, right? Because Bob Weir's dead. Oh,
he died too. But I mean, so no disrespect. I
don't get it either. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I like Casey Jones, though, that song. Down on that
train high.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I do at least know a song.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Friend of the devil is a friend of mine. Dude,
they have jams. I love Grateful Dead. But, I mean,
do you want the obvious one for me?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Like, what are we doing? Man, they have great songs.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Nickelback. They have great songs. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, you can think that they're kind of DBs, but
they still have great songs.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
If you're an Applebee's... If you're an.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Applebee's, this should tell you right now, what are we doing?
What's wrong with Applebee's? Normal people go to Applebee's. The music.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
If you're in Applebee's and over the top, everybody's going
to be doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He's saying they're the Applebee's of music. That's not what
he's saying.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If you look around, if you're at Applebee's, when Remind
Me comes on, everybody's singing it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Everybody sing it! Dude, that reminds me of a bad
time in my life. That's probably why you hate them. No,
but they were part of the bad time in my life.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Alright, last question.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, I have one more. Go ahead. Prince. You're an idiot. No,
come on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I don't want to be judgmental, but you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't get it. You just haven't spent any time.
I like some of the songs.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My bad. You're a stupid idiot.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah. Yeah, you're the dumbest idiot. You guys, nothing? Like, what?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think me just throwing an opinion out there, because
I missed Prince being super famous, too, age-wise.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
But.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think if he didn't have all of these hit
songs or if he wasn't purple, he would just be
considered one of the top three guitarists of all time
in the history of music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, and that doesn't really translate to a big star.
But it shows you his music acumen. But, right, the
other stuff was the big star stuff. But you're like,
I don't get it. Like, what he was probably the
best at is not even what we know him for.
The guitar. Just music. Playing everything. Oh, yeah, he was, yes. Musically.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But he was sex, too.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, that was wild. Hey, everyone, comment stupid idiot below.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
What do you guys, chat, what do you think? How
stupid is he?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We have no chat. Some people will agree with me.
What do you not get? I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You don't think his songs are great? I don't get
why he was so big.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Like, I think some songs are really good. I think
it's almost like he was like an actor, right? He
was like, no, even like, you know, just his persona
on stage and very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It was him.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You think that's just the way he was?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, because you hear all the stories about how he
would record and how demanding he was. If it were
3 o'clock in the morning, he just calls band and
be like, you need to get over to my house
right now because I'm about to start recording. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And weird, totally weird, but it takes weird people to
make great stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It's true. He was just one that when you look
back at like all time greatest, he'd be on the
list and I'd be like, I don't know why he's
on the list.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, that's because you're stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Because I'm an idiot. Yeah, because you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Final question here as we do three existential questions. What
artist's biggest hit actually gives people the wrong idea about
how good they actually are?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And again, I'm just throwing it. You guys have had
some time to come up with a question and come
up with a couple answers. So what artist's biggest hit
gives people the wrong idea about who they are? Because
they're actually really good or really different. I have three
because I knew this would be a hard one to
think about. Number one is Bobby McFerrin. Oh, that's because
that dude hates that song.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Don't worry. Be happy.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And he shouldn't hate it. That's a great song. He
is like an art artist. He doesn't want to have
pop songs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
He doesn't like playing that song. Last I saw, he
doesn't play that song. And what else did he have?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'm not even sure if he's alive anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, the only other thing that I know he had
is the Cosby show theme where it's like, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's right. That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What you know, don't worry. Be happy is mouth stuff too, right?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But it's also lyrics. He's alive, by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He's alive? 76 years old.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Does he play Don't Worry, Be Happy?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Will you look that up?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Because the last I saw when I saw a special
on him, he hated that song, did not want to
play it, would not play it because it did not
represent who he was.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
But that's who I like.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And he also probably hates it because of Billy Bass, right?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Billy Bass probably made.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Him a lot of money. Billy Bass ruined it for him.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Billy Bass made him a lot of money. That fish
would go like this.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's a little song idol.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And then when it was done singing.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I love that thing. Take me to the river.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What do you see, Mike?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It looks like he stopped performing in 2023 as Parkinson's. Oh, man.
Best of luck to him. But anyway, that was a jam.
Another one is Fountains of Wayne. They had Stacy's mom.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And so.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
They just were not a novelty band. Like, that dude
was a really deep, insightful songwriter.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And so I think that song blew up, and it
painted them in a whole different light because everybody just
knew them from Stacy's mom. Yeah. The other one that
I would put over in our space is Leigh-Anne Womack
because she had a Hope You Dance, but she is
very deeply traditional when it comes to country music. And
I think people know her as this big pop country-ish anthem.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But Leigh-Anne Womack is as country as apple pie, man.
That's really not the rest of her music. Never Again
and Again, Last Call, those songs like that, I think
that is who she really is.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But people know her as.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I Hope You Dance. Oh, that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Did that give you enough time to think of?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, I thought of one, and this is just one
that I've recently, I'd say in the last 10 years,
kind of dove deep into his music and realized that
I had it all wrong from the very beginning because
I was the one that would listen to Your Body
is a Wonderland and be like, this is so cheesy.
That's a good one. Like, this is so bad. But
then you go deep dive into John Mayer, dude, and
(19:43):
he is a great guitarist, an amazing songwriter. He's awesome. Like,
his music is awesome. is so freaking good that, like,
you were a big fan, and honestly, for years, I
never understood why you were such a big fan. Your
body's a wonderland, dude. Bubblegum tongue. What are you talking about?
It's all so good now. That's a good one. I
love it. That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Brandon, anything come to mind?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I'm still thinking over here. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Another one I thought about was Warren Zevon because I
think he got it. Werewolves of London but see I
don't know any of his other music like did he
have like the French Inhaler you familiar with that song
because I knew it but it's only because I went
through when I thought about him and I started listening
back through his library a little bit very complicated guy
(20:27):
and complicated songwriter but really all I know him for
for the most part two things one David Letterman would
have him on to play with his band because David
Letterman was a massive fan and then Werewolves of London
which I love by the way yeah but yeah I
have another one for you, Brandon, if you're still thinking.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You want to give him one?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Jimmy Buffett. Ooh, can I have that one?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Because I don't like Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You don't like Jimmy Buffett?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Cheeseburger in Paradise, dumbest song ever.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
See?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I'm fine with Margaritaville, whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I just feel like there is so much more to
Jimmy Buffett than people think.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
That's my bubblegum tongue.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Those songs especially cheeseburger in paradise that's bubblegum tongue i'm
like i don't want to hear anything else this guy
does because i got bubblegum tongue and.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
A cheeseburger in paradise i know you've already hated on
it i know yeah i know but there's so much
more jimmy buffett when you explore the catalogs of his
the catalog of all his music and his songs or
some of the deeper cuts great songwriting dude he's he's
like and he was a songwriter from by experience like
all all mostly all his songs are experiences written on
(21:29):
on paper things that he did and turned them into
songs which makes them so much better you should have.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Saved some ink with that cheeseburger because eat your cheeseburger
we're in a song about everything bro.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know because he was eating a cheeseburger vacation paradise
cheeseburger you gotta write a song right now.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
There's no need oh man i love him brandon last
shot anything come to mind.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah i mean kind of In your same vein, I guess,
Brian Adams. So people know him as film songs. Everything
I do, I do it for you. Like, oh, it's cheesy,
cheesy love songs. But the more you dive in to
Brian Adams' whole catalog and how great of a songwriter
he is, I mean, it's the same way you feel
(22:09):
about Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's one where you can stream one song, and then
if it feeds you a lot of his other songs,
Like you start saying like, oh, I forgot about that one.
I love that one.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think I need to do that then because in
my head right now, look.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Into my eyes. Robin Hood? You will see. Which was awesome.
Robin Hood, Men of Thieves or Robin Hood?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Prince of Thieves. Prince of Thieves. Is that what it is? Yeah.
And then they did the spinoff. Men in Tights. That's
a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But I know he had, I got my first real
six string down at the five and dime.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Those are the only two I think I know.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh, thinking about you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Heaven, dude. Heaven. Straight from the heart. Straight from the heart, yeah.
Straight from the heart when you're too... No. No, not
that one.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
How does straight from the heart go?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Give it straight from the heart.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh, that's not what I was thinking. Oh, that's a
good one. I do like heaven, though. Baby, you're all
that I.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
They ended up covering that song way later. It was
a dance song, and then it was a... Like a
DJ did?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah. I should know the answer to that. What are
some other ones?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
DJ Sammy, that's it.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
There were some songs like Please Forgive Me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I don't know if you remember that song. Wake Up
the Neighbors. Brandon's his nephew. Uncle Brian. Run to You.
Run to You.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Oh, that's a jam. Have you ever really loved a woman?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's a good one. Oh, that's the Spanish guitar one?
Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, that's a good one. That's a good one. I
didn't even know that one. That's what I'm saying, man.
You just forget about those. I'm glad you said that
because I'm going to jump in to Bryan Adams today
then because I.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Didn't even know he had all these songs.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Check the playlist. Make sure you have a bunch of
songs underneath it. How about this? Cuts like a knot.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it feels so right. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Here, pull up his Bare Bones album. It's him on
acoustic and a piano, and he's singing. I think it's
recorded at the Ryman. It's all the hits, but... It's
just that simple thing and the crowd singing along with everything.
And you just realize, like, dude, every single song of
his is.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Just a smash. There you have it. Thank you, guys. Existentialism.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We can do more of this at some other point. Well,
you should just look up existentialism anyway because that is
a movement.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Henry David Thoreau. Did you do that on your phone? No. No,
I just remember that from school. Them talking about existentialists
and Henry David Thoreau and his book Walden Pond.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You couldn't even say existentialism... When we started this and
all of a sudden you're quoting Thoreau?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, I don't know, man. Random stuff comes to my head.
Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And we're back on The Bobbycast.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And now this is a thing I did for Netflix
where I was talking about the top worst 15 number
one songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So enjoy.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And we're also going to do me ranking the current
Dancing with the Stars contestants. So all that is kind
of contained in this episode. Appreciate you guys listening, and
here we go for some bad number ones. Worst number
one songs of all time on the Billboard Hot 100.
The ranking is subjective. I'm looking at different things because
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you might actually like the song. Sometimes I actually like
the song, but we're talking about songwriting, production, repetition, how
well the record holds up after its original popularity. And again,
some of these songs were deliberately made to be novelty
songs and some weren't.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And some of them are.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Major artists that really you never hear from this song
again after it went number one.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I also want to separate a song's quality from its.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We got two cameras going so I can edit that
if I mess up. Okay, go. I also want to
separate a song's quality from its commercial importance because a
record can change the industry or it can become part
of pop culture and and still be something that I
would put on a worst songs list.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So understand that I might actually like these songs.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And when I describe an artist as a one hit wonder,
do not message me going, they had this other hit.
They had this other song. I'm talking about on the
big chart, the Billboard Hot 100. They had one hit.
You may be in their fan club and know four
other songs. That does not mean they had three other hits.
Let's get started now at number 15.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Daniel Powder.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Cause you had a bad day, 2006.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This song spent five weeks at number one. This song
was the song they played on American Idol whenever you
went home. I actually really liked this song. Now, Daniel
Powder is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Recently, he went and sang
on Canada's Got Talent, and he sang this song, and
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they didn't realize it was him who was singing this song.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But this song was.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A monster because at the time, American Idol was a monster,
and it was a jam, but my criticism is that
it expresses emotion in a fairly general way.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
The chorus is memorable, but okay, you had a bad day.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Now what?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Who'd you kick?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Who'd you fight? Who'd you bite?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I want to know the rest.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Jam of a song, but I put it at number
15 in my worst number ones of all time. At
number 14, I have Rude Magic. Six weeks at number one. Now,
this is back in 2014. It's another Canadian band. And
so the front man of the group was already a
very experienced songwriter. He had written songs for Justin Bieber,
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Chris Brown. And it's kind of a relaxed reggae influence
type rhythm song. And mostly I don't like reggae and
I feel like Bob Marley's overrated. So that's why I
put it here. Like I understand my friends that like
the beach, like Bob Marley.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't like the beach. I don't like water.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So I'm not a big reggae guy. Musically, the song
is fine. It's easy to sing along with. At number 14,
worst number one songs of all time, that song. Number 13,
Right Said Fred, I'm Too Sexy. I bought this tape
back in the day. This was the only halfway decent
song on it. I loved, I'm too sexy for my shirt.
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Too sexy for my shirt. Too sexy, yeah, it hurts.
This song spent three weeks in number one. And as
a kid, when the line was, I'm too sexy for
my pussy. my pussy cat. When they didn't say the
cat part, I was like, oh God, that's crazy. But
they did. And then you're like, oh, pussy cat.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Said Fred, just a little history on these guys. They
were a British group that was built around two brothers,
Richard and Fred. Richard worked at a gym, kind of jacked.
Fred was kind of jacked. And that was really what
the song was. A producer and a DJ helped reshape
this song how it originally was into basically a dance
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record which it became and that we all heard it
but when this song came on he went what is
that and then it became kind of a pop culture
moment too sexy for my pussy my pussy cat man
if you're like 24 you don't even know how that
hit when he said too sexy for my pussy my
pussy cat okay that's number 13 and number 12 Vanilla Freakin' Ice,
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Ice Ice Baby. This song only spent one week at
number one.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Everybody. knows this song.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
A lot of people can rap this song that weren't
even alive when the song came out. It spent one
week at number one in 1990. It became the first
rap single to top the Billboard Hot 100. This song
made me want to shave the hair on the sides
of my head and have a flat top.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Everybody. Every nerdy white dude thought they could be Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now, what's funny to me, what I think about, is
the bass line from Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure.
And I remember when Ice Ice Baby came out, and
Vanilla Ice was like, no, no, no, no, that's not
the same song. Their song goes, and my song goes,
we're like, bro, that's the same song. In the end,
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I do think he paid them for using that, but
it was legit. I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Can do some of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I don't want to get in trouble by like the
podcast police, but everybody knows stop, collaborate, and listen.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Ice is back with my, ah, you got it right.
But nostalgic for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And then You could say that Vanilla Ice had other hits,
like Play That Funky Music, White Boy.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Not really a hit. But Ninja Rap on the Ninja
Turtles movie? Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I used to call the radio station and beg them
to play Ninja Rap from the Ninja Turtle movie. That's
number 12. Number 11, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, Ebony
and Ivory. 1982, seven weeks at number one.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
1982.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
McCartney wrote the song. George Martin produced it. So we're
talking Beatles here. And you think if you bring in
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder together, this is a massive collaboration.
Even before you heard the song, you're going, this might
be the best song ever in the history of songs.
Like sonically, this is as close to God as music
will ever be. The song uses the black and white
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keys of a piano as a metaphor for racial harmony.
And the intention, completely positive. The message, it's easy to understand.
It says, why can't we coexist together? as naturally as
the notes that make up music. It was just, I
think I wanted a little more from these two greats.
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The arrangement is smooth and it's good. It's very direct.
It feels a little corny. It does. It feels a
little corny, especially knowing what these two were capable of.
And I think that's what it is. I think the
expectations were just too big because it was Paul McCartney
and Stevie Wonder, because I do think it's a good
song and I do love the message behind it. And
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I don't think the recording really holds up. So I'm
going to put that at number 11, Ebony and Ivory.
I'm going to say again, I love the message. I
love the artists individually. Not a great number one song.
Number 10, Starland Vocal Band. Now, what's their only song?
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Afternoon Delight. If you watch Anchorman, you probably know it
from that if you don't remember it from 1976. I
was not alive in 1976, but I do know it
from Anchorman.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
And yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Little gentle pop song. It's daytime intimacy. It's like getting
it on at noon, but it feels so light and
polished that there's really no let's get it on intimacy.
It's one of those songs that You don't really know
it's a sad song because it's so fast. This song's
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supposed to be about getting it on in the daytime,
yet it just kind of feels goofy and overly sweet.
And that's probably why they use it in Anchorman. Starling
and Vocal Band won the Grammy for Best New Artist
in 1977. The other nominees for Best New Artist, fun fact,
included Boston, which they crushed.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Fun fact about that, Boston... No, crap, I lost my
place here.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Starland Vocal Band won the Grammy for Best New Artist
in 1977. Boston was also nominated there. So they didn't
quite work out as well as Boston did. Number nine,
the Chipmunks and David Seville, Christmas Don't Be Late.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Christmas don't be late.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That was a number one song. That song spent four
weeks at number one.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Christmas, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's a great Chipmunk song. I can't believe the Chipmunk
song went to number one. When I was putting together
the research to do this little half episode here, the
fact that I saw the Chipmunk song, Christmas Don't Be Late,
was a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100
blew my mind. The fact that it spent four weeks
at number one blew my mind twice, 1958 and 1959.
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David Saville was the performing name of this guy named Ross.
He created the Chipmunk's voices by manipulating tape speed And
he performed all the different characters himself. And so it's
funny because I think he recorded them like really slow
and then sped it up instead of talking like this
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and speeding it up because then it wouldn't match the
beat of the song. So I love the Chipmunks. I
just thought it was crazy they had a four-week number
one song.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
And number eight, the Macarena. And I felt like they
sold out when they put the English singing in it.
I like the original Macarena and everybody was doing the dance.
There's a really funny, I think it's a democratic national convention.
And it's like, this is totally the nineties. And you
see like Hillary Clinton as Bill's wife, not Hillary Clinton,
the person running for office, but doing the Macarena with
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all the people from the nineties.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
That's a pretty funny video.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Go look for it.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Nothing was more nineties, 1996.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
To be specific than Macarena by Los Del Rio and
And whenever they added the, let me tell you about
my boyfriend, his name is the Mamacarino, I felt like
they were selling out, selling out to the Americans.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
But I did like it, and I did know it,
and I still know the Macarena, which is hand, hand,
then go upside down, then go shoulder, then go head,
then go hip, and then rock your hips, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
And then go clap like that. Boom, number eight.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Number seven, LMFAO. Sexy and I Know It, 2012. This
song spent two weeks at number one. So this song
was kind of the jam when it came out, mostly
because I thought it was crazy that they had the
F word in their name because LMFAO was laughing my
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A off.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I was like, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Redfoo and Sky Blue, who were uncle and nephew, which
is also interesting. And their connection to music history is
pretty cool. Redfoo is the son of Barry Gordy, who
founded Motown, and Sky Blue is Gordy's grandson. So they
had already reached number one with Party Rock Anthem, so
they weren't one-hit wonders. They had a recognizable approach that.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Big hair.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Is kind of a jam, but it kind of sounded
like every other song that they had put out.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
That's why I didn't put the first one on there.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I thought the first one was.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Even better, but this one was just basically the sequel
to that first one. But yeah, I also always thought
it was crazy that It was an uncle and a nephew,
even though they were about the same age.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
One of them's trying to play professional tennis right now too,
which is crazy. And number six, we built this city.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
That is by Starship. Man, it does hit hard when
it starts. 1985, two weeks at number one. It spent
two weeks there. That group's history is part of this
discussion because Starship, well, they weren't the original band. They
developed out of Jefferson Starship which had developed out of
Jefferson Airplane.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Think about that. It's like the band period. They just
keep eating people up and kicking.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Them out.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That was Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship to Starship.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
They got brothers.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They're kicking them out. They're putting husbands in. It's the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Grace Slick connected those different periods. The lineups would change.
The musical direction changed. One of the song's writers was
Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's longtime lyricist.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
How about that for a fun fact?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
His original idea concerned the disappearance of live music clubs
and the difficulty of keeping that culture alive, and so
the song.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Is more of a background on what they're.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Actually talking about than just the chorus of fun. But yeah,
it's a good song. I like it. It comes on,
it hits hard. I never go pursue it, though. If
it doesn't come up on a playlist, I don't ever
hear it.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Word number.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Five, Ray Stevens, The Streak. Now I got to tell
you something. As a kid, I ate Ray Stevens for breakfast,
for lunch, and for dinner. I loved Ray Stevens songs.
Oh yes, they call him The Streak. 1974, this song
spent three weeks at number one. Talent show, I think
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in seventh, maybe eighth grade, we did this song and
ran out in all nude suit. It was in the
auditorium that we did a Bobbycast from a few weeks
ago with Arkansas Keith.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Same auditorium. And we got second place to Christy A.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Van Aubrey Mitchell doing Two of a Kind Working on
a Full House by Garth Brooks. And the only reason
they got it is because they were girls. And then
one of them, as they were sweeping, they smiled and
they had one of their teeth blacked out and the
crowd erupted. That's the only reason that we lost doing
the streak in the performance contest.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I'm going to put Ray Stevens, the streak there, because
I think people are just haters. Anytime I talk about
Ray Stevens, they're like, I don't know who that is,
but do I need to go through Ray Stevens songs
that rocked the Mississippi squirrel revival?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Now songs like Ahab, the Arab don't really translate into
today's culture. Let me tell you about Ahab, the Arab.
You know, at the time, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Can't do that now.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
He did have a song, though, called Everything is Beautiful
that was much more straight ahead. Everything is beautiful in
its own way. And he would, like, throw roses, and
you kept waiting for the joke, and there was no
joke with that one.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
That one was weird. There was nothing funny about it.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
But I got to put number five because I think
most people don't understand Ray Stevens, and they would go,
what the heck is that even about?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
But it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
It's just somebody streaking, running naked.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
And I bet you a bunch of people actually ran
naked in places because of that song, because they were
inspired by that song. He's in the Country Music Hall
of Fame, by the way, Ray Stevens, I believe, which
is pretty cool. Number four, D4L. That's the name of
the group. Can you think of the song? By D4L,
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it would be a number one song.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
If you guessed.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
shake that laffy taffy, oh, shake that laffy taffy, you
would be correct. D4L came out of Atlanta's, what they
called snap music scene, which used like real sparse beats,
snappy percussion, straightforward hooks.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I mean, there's minimal production.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It's just, it.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Just repeated itself over and over again. It was a
jam for about three weeks. But I don't think it's
what they should play at Guantanamo. They should play the
death metal and shake that Laffy Taffy. And I think
they'd be confessing everything. We'd have all of the world's
intelligence secrets if you just play that song over and
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over again. And then it goes, candy girl. Number three,
Paul Anka. With somebody named Odia Coates. Can't say I'm
a huge knower of Odia Coates, but you're having my baby.
Go stream that song. Three weeks at number one. The
song was intended as a celebration of pregnancy. He wrote
it for his wife and coach joined him on the recording.
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The main criticism was the lyrics because it was all
about what it meant to the dude.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, and the woman's love for him.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
He just made it about him when it really, it
wasn't supposed to be about that.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It reminds me once I told my wife, hey, I wrote.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
You this song.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I'm going to play it tonight because it was when
we were dating. And I was doing a bunch of stand-up,
and I'd take my guitar for like 12 minutes a show,
and I'd play a few songs. And maybe you've heard
my hits, Hobby Lobby, the Hobby Lobby Bobby song, Grandma's song.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
But I wrote another one. I said, I wrote this
for you.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
And then when I played the song, it was all
about me and the things that I felt.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
It wasn't really about her at all.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And I got off.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I said, did you like that? She was like, well,
it was all about you. Well, that's kind of what
this song is.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
It's a really soft arrangement and sentimental delivery, but it's
a dude talking about himself when he should be talking about, well,
her somewhat. Number two, Chuck Berry, My Ding-a-ling. My ding-a-ling,
my ding-a-ling. I love to play with my ding-a-ling. Man,
I thought this song was so funny as a kid. 1972,
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two weeks at number one. This guy had songs like
Johnny B.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Goode. Well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
And then he had My Dingaling. It's a novelty recording
for sure. It's also his highest American pop chart result.
This guy was really one of the greats. And this
is the one that goes number one. That's why I
put it at number two, because he should have more
than this song at number one. My Dingaling, that's his
only song. He's a great giver of American culture. And
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the only song we're gonna put at number one from
him is My Dingaling. Okay, and now, Number one, Rick
D's Disco Duck. The funny thing about this is that
he was like a radio DJ in Memphis, and he
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made this song. And his band, and I didn't know
this until I researched this, was actually Rick D's and
his cast of idiots.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Maybe you're familiar with my musical duo, the Raging Idiots.
No relation.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
But Disco Duck, he was a... like a radio personality,
but he was like a real DJ. And so what
makes this song stupid is that I can't do a
duck voice, but there's the duck in the actual song.
And it was a novelty song for sure. And I
don't think they ever thought it would do what it did,
which it went number one. So this is the one
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where the initial concept does most of the work and
then it just repeats. And then there's a duck in it.
There's the sound effect there. So that goes number one
for me. for the worst number one song of all time.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
That's my countdown. Wasn't a long episode. I just kind
of got in the weeds there.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
What started it was that Chuck Berry never had another
number one song other than my ding-a-ling, and I could
not believe it. Again, he is someone who brought us
so much American culture and music, and the only song
he had that went number one was my freaking ding-a-ling.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Shout out Ray Stevens. Shout out Rick Dees.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Met Rick Dees.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Really nice guy.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
And All these songs had paths to the top for sure.
Some benefited from television exposure. The Daniel Powder, Bad Day,
for sure. That song was what American Idol was that season.
Some were tied to dance crazes that everybody did. Democratic
National Convention, Hillary Clinton. I'm talking about, ooh, Macarena. Others
came from artists who had enormous weight and that probably
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got it to number one. Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney,
Stevie Wonder. Regardless, the chart success, it's a fact. their
place on the worst songs list, an opinion. So your
taste could be completely different. And also some of those
songs were awesome, but some of them were terrible. So
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that's it. Thank you very much. You can DM me, Mr.
Bobby Bones, and tell me what song you would put on.
So there was a lot. Shout out Daniel Powder.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Shout out Magic.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Shout out Right Said Fred, Vanilla Ice, Paul McCartney and
Stevie Wonder, Starling Vocal Band, The Chipmunks, The Freaking Chipmunks,
The Freaking Chipmunks, Los Del Rio, LMFAO, Starship. Remember, Jefferson Airplane,
Jefferson Starship, and then Starship. They just were killing people.
They just continue in the band. Ray Stevens, D4L, Paul Anka,
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Chuck Berry, and Rick Dees and his cast of idiots.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
The Bobbycast. We'll be right back. Welcome back to The Bobbycast.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Everybody, it's time for my power rankings for Dancing with
the Stars this week. There are 12 remaining contestants at
number 12, and that does not mean he'll go home
next because he has survived and survived.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
It is Guillermo.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
He got a 15 out of 30 last week. Look,
he's obviously the least capable dancer, but he's also one
of the most beloved. There will become a point when
even the most loved gets kicked off if they can't
keep the scores up. So, He may survive a couple
more weeks, but I can't see him lasting more than
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that just because he's only being kept around because people
love him. The rumors now were that Whitney wanted to
go home, and she can't believe she's lasted this long.
She's been talking about that, saying that's not the case. Obviously,
she's pregnant. It's fun to root them along, so let's
go Guillermo. But he's at number 12 on my power rankings.
(47:33):
No chance to win. At number 11, Tyler Cameron from
The Bachelor. a 17 out of 30 last week. He's
a former college athlete, and he did a jive, and
usually athletes excel at the jive if they don't have
dance experience. The jive was the only thing that I
(47:53):
could almost kind of do consistently. It's why we did
it multiple times during the show. He's got to be
cleaner with his execution. I'm surprised that he's not better
at this point because he is a... Very strong athlete.
Being handsome probably helps with the votes a little bit.
(48:14):
For sure, being The Bachelor helps with the votes a
little bit because anybody can get pushed through five or
six weeks if they're coming from that show. But at
number 11, Tyler Cameron, right above Guillermo. Chance to win
the show, zero. Next up, Sierra Miller. She got an
18 out of 30. She's at number 10 this week.
(48:36):
And she got three straight sixes for her cha-cha. You
would think the judges, though, would go, let's not do 666.
Let's do 676 or 766.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
We don't want the devil up here. But they gave
her three sixes.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
She has to break through soon or it's never going
to happen. So it's there. She just has not hit
it yet. Also, I don't feel like she has really
bonded with the audience yet. She hasn't had that real
personal moment either. Which if you go through this, there's
a lot of them that haven't had that yet or
even a semblance of it. And number nine is Connor Wood.
(49:16):
He got a 20 out of 30. He did the Foxtrot.
The Foxtrot, to me, a non-dancer who is ill-educated in this,
the Foxtrot's that interesting, pretty athletic, but also there's a
lot of ballroom in it that just being an athlete
can't get you through. And I thought he did pretty
(49:38):
well at the Foxtrot. He had a rough week last week.
20 out of 30, not bad. His personality is starting
to show a little bit. I think people will like that.
I think his partnership with Riley can help him stay around.
She's very beloved. So to move into the contender group,
he's got to start putting together strong weeks consecutively. I
think he is starting to put together strong character performances.
(50:04):
But right now it's still a bit tough because there
are 12 people, right? There's only so much space on
the show. It's hard to really cut through personally whenever
there are more than 10 people. So any sort of
land grab you can get right now is bonus, and
he's done that. At number eight, Julia Stiles. People are
really starting to like her. She had a good rebound
(50:25):
from last week. They did the salsa. Salsa's tough if
you're goofy like me. She's still dealing with the rib injury,
so shout out to her for fighting through. There is
potential there, not only for dance, But I think she's
putting it out there where people are starting to feel
like they can root for her and root alongside her.
(50:46):
I trust her ability more than I trust that we're
going to get a good score. But at number eight,
Julia Stiles, her chance.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
To win about 8%.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
At number seven, and she has made a move up
over the last few weeks, is Tatiana Ali. She scored
a 21 out of 30. Her quick step was a breakthrough.
I think the judges, when I watched what they said,
they loved her footwork. They loved her energy. She's becoming
one of the better improvement stories of the season. And
(51:16):
that matters tremendously. And I think the improvement, and I
think that we're starting to see more of her as
a person and a competitor.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
And there's also the nostalgia factor.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
That's interesting. She could climb quickly. She's going to have
to build pretty fast though. But I do have her
at number seven. With about a 13% chance of winning
the show. At number six, man, he just can't put
it together. He's not there yet. He's who I predicted.
One of the two I predicted that would win the
whole thing. At number six is Jackson Holson. He scored
(51:49):
18 out of 30. So with him, it's just been
so much about potential. Potential, potential, potential. Because he is
very likable. He has a big personality. He's got to
dance at least a little bit to catch up. He
doesn't have to be one of the best five or
six dancers right now. He just has to show tremendous
(52:10):
improvement week to week, or he's got to really be
vulnerable in his packages. Now, the thing about the packages
is you don't have control of what they use as
far as practice time. But there's some stuff where if
you do it, you know what's going to get used.
So you can't bunch your way to a mirror ball.
I think he still has a shot to win the show,
(52:32):
but there has got to be some major dance improvement
And I just, I need him crying.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
I need him crying.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I need him hugging. I need him running to the audience.
I need him bringing his grandma to the show. If
he has an alive grandma, if not rent one, you
can get anything on Craigslist. Jackson Olsen, he can still
win the show, but a little bit of a fade
from last week. I'm going to put his chances at
winning the show at 22%. At number five in the
(53:03):
power rankings, Jenna Dewan, pro dancer, and now they're holding
that against her a little bit, which they should. Everybody
should be held to wherever they came into the show.
And she came in very, very high. She scored a
21 out of 30. They did a samba. Like her
(53:23):
samba was better than most other people's dances. But again,
she's held to a higher standard because she comes from
a dance background. With her, Because she has such an advantage,
she's going to have to have a crazy breakout moment.
And she hasn't had that. She's just been really good.
(53:46):
But being really good was expected. So she has fallen
to number five overall in the power.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
Rankings this week.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
I give her a 31% chance to win the show.
And number four, Mara Higgins, a 22 out of 30
last week.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Pretty elegant. She did a quick step. She finished just
behind the two leaders.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
She's becoming very dependable.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
And for someone that I had no knowledge of whatsoever
in anything that she has done in the media, I'm
starting to like her.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Also, I really like Mark.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
And there's two, Mark and Daniela, that are so great
at choreographing these dances. And not just the dances, but
even the elements that give you the wow factor. And
so she is really climbed. I think she's a contender.
(54:43):
I think she's a contender. She's a contender. At number four,
Maura Higgins. I'm going to put her winning percentage at
about 38%. Harry Shum Jr. is my number three dancer
this week in the power rankings. He scored a 24
out of 30.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Look, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
And so is Jenna Dewan. They're awesome at dance, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
You root for Harry.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
You kind of feel like he's the dude that lives
down the street. There's nothing about him that feels that intimidating,
and that's perfect on this show. He did a jive,
same thing as Tyler Cameron did. Obviously, it was great.
We're reminded he's one of the two best dancers out there.
He looked very connected with his partner, which was cool.
Speaker 3 (55:30):
His challenge.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
And I think he's starting to do this a bit
is make people care about him. We can all appreciate
the dancing, but do we care about them? And I
think he's starting to do that. So Harry Shum is
at number three overall, and I have him with a
really solid shot to make the finals right now.
Speaker 3 (55:53):
I'd put about 40% to one at all. At number two, Ezra.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
I love the dude.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
He didn't score tremendously high, but if you're so lovable
and also if you've scored really high the weeks before
having a one-off bad, that's okay. Actually, it kind of
helps the next week because whenever you show up and
you hit it hard and you get a high score,
the judges go, wow, you really improved so much. So again,
(56:23):
he wasn't at the top of the leaderboard, but I'm
keeping him second because I'm looking at his whole season here.
He's shown a real ability to dance and He's also
shown that viewers can get emotionally invested in his journey.
And I was talking about Daniella earlier. Her and Mark,
they're the two that you got to watch for as
far as the pros, because as my grandma used to
(56:44):
say about me, you can't polish a turd, but they
can polish really great dancers with really cool choreography and
added elements because these aren't turds. These are amazing athletes
and dancers.
Speaker 1 (56:59):
And I hate it.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
My grandma said about me. Uh, so Daniella, Strong path
to the final. He's in the finals. I don't see
any way that he's not in the finals. I think
he's got a really solid chance to win the thing.
I would say almost a coin flip, 48% chance to
win it all. And number one, super proud. One of
(57:20):
the people I picked in the very beginning, one of
the two, Amber Glenn. She's my number one.
Speaker 3 (57:24):
That Foxtrot I was talking about earlier, it was smooth.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
It was controlled.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
It was tied for the highest score overall on Yacht
Rock Night, her and Harry. And overall, she's doing what
she was supposed to do. She's combining strong dancing and
she's improving constantly and consistently. She already looks good. And
I think there's even room for her to get better.
And don't forget the patriotic element. USA, USA. This is
(57:51):
Dancing with the Stars America. So if they do a
theme and she's able to pull out America in any way.
Because the final dance usually you get to pick. It's freestyle.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
You get to do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
If she's set up perfectly and she gets to pull
out America and freaking eagles are flying in and somehow
Hulk Hogan shows up and if it's like they're eating
apple pie in the crowd, she's giving apple pies to
everybody and she has her gold medal, man, I think
that's the ticket. You just don't want to shoot your
load too early. You got to hold on. Don't America
it right now. But man, what a card that is
(58:28):
to play later. Number one right now in the power
rankings is Amber Glynn, the ice skater, the gold medal winner,
and one of the top five best dancers, but one
of the top three most likable contestants.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
That's the power rankings for right now.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I'd put her win percentage at an even coin flip
of 50-50.
Speaker 1 (58:52):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (58:53):
That's the power rankings this week. Thank you for watching.
We got it. Let's keep going. Let's cut some people.
Because when they cut people, there's then more room for
the other contestants to actually shine and show who they
are as people, not just dancers. So maybe not next week.
maybe so, but you're going to see Guillermo go home.
Eventually you might even see people get outraged at first.
(59:14):
I can't believe Guillermo is still on the show. Um,
so lovable, no doubt about it. Tyler Cameron's only got
a couple to a few weeks left in him. The
only reason that he's still on right now is bachelor nation.
And after that, everybody else has a chance to last
for a while.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Um, It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
It's a really good season. Thank you for watching and
we'll see you guys next week.
Host
Bobby Bones
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