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Dive into ZZ Top's iconic 1983 album Eliminator with hosts Ryan and Jason on The Worst of the Best Podcast! We revisit the massive hits that defined MTV era rock, think killer guitar solos, synth grooves, and hilarious innuendo-filled lyrics, while sharing personal memories (like Dad's cassette and drawing that famous Eliminator car as kids). We play clips, discuss the synth evolution, Billy Gibbons' genius, and the unique production (drum machines and all). Then, we crown the "worst of the best" track on this 20-million-selling masterpiece. Perfect for ZZ Top fans, 80s rock lovers, or anyone curious about what made this album timeless.
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[Music] welcome to the worst of the best podcast you wanted the best well they didn't
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freaking make it so here's what you get from Canada
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Ryan and Jason [Applause]
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hey Jason how's it going I'm doing good Ryan nice to have you back in town and uh nice to be able to uh co-host another
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podcast with you yeah thanks everyone who has been hanging tight or sitting tight anxiously awaiting for their
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podcast to be updated with a new episode from the worst of the best podcast
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they're just sitting there I can't wait till Ryan Jason released a new episode please please please please be soon all
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two people all two people their mom and U might download when I check to make sure the recording worked okay I'm
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really excited to do another music episode our last episode was board games if you want to check that out it it actually did pretty well on our feed
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Believe It or Not Jason I guess there's more fans of board games than I anticipated there seems to be Resurgence in board games so I'm not completely
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surprised but uh I'm glad people were able to listen to that and enjoy it and
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hopefully we can do a few more podcasts now that you're in town for a little bit throughout some new shows for people
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absolutely well today I'm really excited we are covering and reviewing and then picking the worst song from the
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bestselling album of the one of the biggest rock band trios in Rock and Roll History zz's tops Eliminator Jason do
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you recall the first time you laid eyes on this album and heard it I don't
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specifically remember the very first time but I remember actually how much I enjoyed them the music and how cool
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their car was and their music videos always stuck out they always had a lot
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of fun and humor to go along with their music in fact I'm not a really big
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Journal writer I've done very few journal entries but I remember I believe it was grade four I did my favorite
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artists or or bands at the time and it was Van Halen mle crew and ZZ Top were
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my three favorite bands at the time that I wrote in my journal I believe was in probably 84 I
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was in grade four I think that may have even been 83 or 84 yeah the album came
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out in ' 83 so it may be 84 okay so it's probably 84 yeah so whatever grade that
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was so I always remember because that's probably the most useful journal entry I've ever created I also remember maybe
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I'm thinking grade four because for an art project I um tried to draw the car
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the Infamous car that they would drive in their music videos that have it's kind of iconic it's obviously on the
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front of their album Eliminator I'm a horrible artist so I did a poor rendition of this car so they've been in
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you know in my musical sphere as you know one might say um pretty much my
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whole life kind of near and dear I've got a special place for them and they're just cool guys yeah very cool speaking
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of the car J it's referred to as The Eliminator Coupe there was an early suggestion at the time when this album
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was being released and made that they take the title Top Fuel but they changed
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it to Eliminator instead I'm glad they did yeah the car you're speaking about Jason is a 1933 Ford Coupe now it's been
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kind of remade and remodeled and revamped to be that zzy top looking style I think they've taken bits and pieces and from other cars or designs
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it's not quite the car that came out of the factory they made it they made it
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redone or and I believe Gibbons has it in his house or somewhere near his house
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where apparently he does take it for a spin and or turns it on every now and then that it's a working vehicle to this
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day but it's if it's driven it's driven very ever so gingerly but it's my understanding it's still in Billy
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given's possession it's a for sure historical uh icon to rock and roll into
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the band the car cost Gibbons $50,000 it's worth more than that now
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yeah yeah was worth and apparently gibons does keep the car uh at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
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that's where it's displayed okay yeah makes sense but he does sometimes when he's in the area he does take it for
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spin is what he said okay good nice speaking of Gibbons at the time of this recording we might as well just say it
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because people could Google it anyways to verify it but the time this recording December 16th 2021 it's uh Mr gibbons's birthday
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he's turning a rip old age of sorry I shouldn't say old he's turning the ripe age of 72 right so yeah so it's ironic
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yeah it's kind of crazy that yeah he turned 72 today and is born in 1949 so when this album came out in
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83 he would have been 34 which is interesting because that is
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kind of oldish for a rock band to hit their Peak usually they're in their mid
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to late 20s when they really hit their stride I mean they were around obviously
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for years before this Alum a good decade if not a little bit more you know to be
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at the age of 33 and really hit their peak of musical stardom is interesting
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yeah this was their eighth studio album so they had already a long career of Studio albums touring and they were
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certainly popular but Eliminator put them in the stratosphere thanks a lot to MTV MTV was really the kind of the New
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Media you know now it's YouTube and whatnot but back then it was MTV and that was
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really hitting the airwaves and the way that they styled themselves and presented themselves on MTV would have
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helped push their popularity at the time and at the time if you can believe it
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zezy toop at the age of really early 30s if not you know 33 34 they were
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considered by the MTV crowd as an old fogy band well that's what I'm saying yeah I'm sure their big long beards
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didn't help but they've kind of hidden their what they actually look like behind their big beards and really they
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didn't age much between then and now beards ages them at a young age but then it keeps him at that same age for 40
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years yeah yeah and and just how cool they have remained they have remained
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true to their Roots they've remained true to their music and they have just
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been a cool group of guys from then until now sadly um Dusty has passed this
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past year a little bit of a teaser here stand by for our annual I believe our
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next one is going to be our sixth annual worst of the best celebrity deaths of the calendar year definitely uh Dusty
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Hill will be honored in that yearly tradition that we do on the show will he make the pick for worst celebrity death
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now remember the worst means which one affected us the worst and then which person is the worst on the list we
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definitely know that Dusty Hill will not be the second of that category but will he make the most heartbreaking celebrity
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death for Ryan Jason possibly Ruben he said he might he join us for that as well and just a little side note uh my
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son and I saw Z Top maybe about four years ago now I'm thankful that we're
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able to see all three of them before Dusty's passing and what an incredible
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evening I've seen many shows over the years so glad I was able to take zzy top
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off my bucket list it far exceeded my expectations of how cool of a night it
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was going to sadly because of Co their next couple shows that were coming through Vancouver
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have been postponed and postponed again weren't able to watch the three original band members you know anymore but
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whenever they do come through town again I'll definitely go and watch unfortunately never got to see the
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original Three I just between just timing of life and touring timings I
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just never got a chance to see them so it's great that you were able to do that people are chomping at the bit to hear
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our on review so to speak if you're a zezy top fan you've come to this episode
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because you want to hear our take on this album I believe it's their number one selling album the gist of our show
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basically is we take the best of someone's career whether they're an actor it could be a food item it could
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be whatever the topic is we take the top 10 or whatever you know the top of list or it's a musical artist it's a little
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bit easier we just take their top selling album whatever it is and then the gist of our show is that no matter
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how good something is or how well receive something is or whatever it is there's always something that's the
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worst of that best and I think uh zzy tops Eliminator if it's not one of their
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bestselling albums of all time speaking of it sold over 20 million copies worldwide which is it is definitely
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their number one song I would say so it's also fan favorite but I would be curious to those longtime zezy top fans
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when this album came out maybe how many of them scoffed at the change of sound cuz they did a you know their bluesy
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Boogie rock type sounds for seven previous albums they started to lean towards this or they leaned heavily into
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this recording of more synth New Wave friendly uh early 8s sound and this was
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a due and large part to Billy Gibson's love of bands like New Order and and what have you and depes mode so he he
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liked that sound so if you think about it he's done seven Studio albums and he's his early 30s and he still listens
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to music he's like I I kind of want to do something different on this album they Incorporated the synthesizers
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amazingly well it works perfectly with their sound I would argue is what helped
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them become more relevant you know it's kind of like when a band just switches it up enough that it helps them stay or
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propels them to be more relevant and prominent in the music is not overly used but it is integrated into the music
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extremely well and actually growing up I'd always wondered if the drummer was actually like a real drummer it always
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seemed like he was such a perfect timekeeper that I like that's got to be a drum machine it's interesting that you
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brought that up that actual point of the drum machine sound especially for this album I didn't know this until I did a
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little bit of research now Jason and I we should make it clear to those zzy talk fans that are listening to this
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episode in particular please don't add us with our lack of knowledge we're not an informational podcast we will you
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know we've gleaned a little bit here and there just throughout our Years of Living and listening to the music but we don't know the history of the band
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members we don't know in the studio kind of stuff that was going on we know a little bit we'll share what we do know
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for those casual zzy top listeners or just anyone that wants to learn a thing or two that we've gleaned it should be
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noted yes Jason that the recording of this album is quite unique Frank beard and Dusty Hills bass and drums were all
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but replaced by keyboard bass plane and drum machines for the recording of the album and the majority if not all the
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songw writing was done by Billy Gibson who's pretty much the he's the ring leader of the band yeah yeah he's the
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songwriter ring leader of the and he worked in collaboration with with the production engineer his name is Lynden
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Hudson so Lynden Hudson in his own right according to Billy Gibbons and other people a pretty accomplished songwriter
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composer or he was able to compose songs was him and Gibbons that actually created the sound songwriting and Hudson
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himself wrote completely what we hear on the album Thug that's his song He composed that song okay it was him and
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Gibbons in the studio that Frank built actually Frank built a studio studio in his I guess near his home or in his home
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where he wanted to have something where he could record and be safe away from drugs cuz they went into um to get
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reformed earlier in the 80s and stayed off the drugs and so Hudson was a guy
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that helped build the studio I believe but it was him Mr Hudson that collaborated on the album Tempo with
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Gibbons cuz he told Gibbons that popular songs at the time used 124 beats per
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minute so a lot of the songs on Eliminator were now this might sound like this is a bad thing but they
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actually mathematically determined a Hit album they said if we can get the Beats between 120 125 which they did on the
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album this would make an album more accessible to a larger popular audience
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which is exactly what it did the 20 million copies sold in conjunction with the music videos that you were mentioning J anytime you put on this
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album you have to turn it up and you tap your feet you balance your head you pump your fist like it is right off the bat
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catchy you want to maybe go do some a run or it's hard not to start the groove
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along with the music of this album and the combination of Billy Gibson's vision
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of where music was going at the time the combination of introducing that Vision
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with MTV and the producer and composer Hudson that they brought on it turned
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out to be what propelled them into the future and why they still remain as
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popular today they created a masterpiece of music and captured it that has
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allowed people for like another 40 years or 30 some odd years to enjoy them it
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prolonged their career well yeah absolutely it did exactly what they meant to do and so we'll tip our hat to
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the songs as we hear them so again to the first time listeners of this podcast what we do is we play a little bit of
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each song we don't play a lot one because if you want to hear the whole album or songs by all means go do so in your own time that's not why you're here
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but just maybe for the cas listener maybe people who don't know anything outside their four singles from this album gives you an idea of some things
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that Jason and I like yeah that's what it then we'll give our thoughts and at the end we'll pick independent of each other we don't know each other's answer
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in fact I'm not too sure what my answer is just yet what we think is the weakest or the worst song on the album and again just because you're the worst song does
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it mean it's a bad song and this is an album where it's going to be very hard out of its 11 Tracks to really kind of
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pick what I think is a song that I could go without ever hearing again if that makes sense okay so here we go the first
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song and it was actually their first single from the album is give me all you're loving and if there's an opening
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track that kind of kicks off what the album's going to sound like when you put this in or single where this band is going I believe zezy top fans at the
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time were probably like whoa what is this driveing rock song Here We Go
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[Music]
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the a shot cuz what you got is sweet you got
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to make it hard like a boomerang I need a repeat
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[Music] give me all you all you
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[Music]
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kiss what mean what an opening and I love that part goes yeah yeah yeah I got a have a
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shot it's absolutely fantastic and my understanding was is they actually this is like early computer days or analog
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days I'm not even sure how they did this he would record a riff and he would superimpose it and move it around so you
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wouldn't hear the sliding of the fingers on the Frets so it have that clean crisp sound so they would replicate the
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changing of this the guitar notes almost so you would to hear the sliding of the finger they wanted this crisp clean
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almost electronic sound they record every cord separate from each other yeah
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yeah wow tedious you can hear the synth is bang right in your face right away on this song they're not hiding the fact
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that they're bringing in synth no they've made it clear with their first song on the album their first single this is it's kind of a new wave sound to
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it it still has that classic zezy Top guitar and Boogie lugie type movement
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when you're going to a show or concert then when this is playing you're moving yeah there's a guitar lick or guitar
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portion of the song that I just love [Music]
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now I don't want to stop playing but boy Gibbons with his guitar sing guitar work
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in this album it's really just the Highlight it's it's amazing guitar sound there are a few guitars that have their
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own unique sound he has an amazing sound that will lasts for Generations or has
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so far right it's obvious of who is playing there's very few people who are as cool as he is he's a cool he's a cool
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guy yeah yeah he is you know like when you hear him in interviews actually saw him with Samy Hagar the other day
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interviewing him just still just a cool just a cool dude yeah speaking of
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influence and speaking of Van Halen it was actually this album that inspired Van Halen to use synthesizers on their
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album 1984 right yeah the single alone Jason sold 10 million copies that's
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awesome yeah and then the album sold 20 million copies so one of the girls in the video her name is Jenna kof or kof
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I'm not sure how to pronounce her name but she was it's a Playboy Miss November 1980 so if you watch these uh videos she
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starred an all four videos that featured lemonator car from this album hitting the MTV Music Video Channel with their
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young girls and teenage boys and their car and The Rock and Roll image I mean it just had all that combination it had
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everything it had everything it caught people's attention they played up their image like they just sold it perfectly
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they hit it perfectly lyrically Jason this song is a variation on the common for the band you know what that
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is sex let me guess there's so many in
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Windows in their lyrics is hilarious I love that give you all your love it all your hugs don't let up until you're
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through I come like the whole everything like everything I mean that it's hilarious I
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wonder if this theme will continue with the next song so we'll see all right well the next track on the album is got
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me under pressure the first song you know give me all your love and of course is that it's a good rockabilly Beats perm minut it whatever it's but then
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just when you think oh that was a moving grooving song Got Me Under Pressure kicks in it just oh it takes a yeah it
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goes It goes from there like yeah
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she likes where liti she likes French cuisine but she won't let me use my
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passion listen you got me on
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the got me on the is there not a cooler sounding bass
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whether it's a synth bass or or sure Oran yeah I love this song well and you bring
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up a good point about we know the album recording has we just have to accept that what we're hearing is a synth base
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and it's written but it's still music written by Gibbons and his production engineer Hudson oh for sure yeah I just
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love that sound that was incorporated into the song but I love how his girl
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that he's in the limousine with she likes she likes French cuisine she's kind of a high maintenance girl I think that's why she s situated you know like
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she likes French cuisine if you could believe it Jason got me under pressure and I never knew this was never released as a single yeah I find that odd don't
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you I don't know why considering what they did release for a single for one of their two of their songs I kind of find it surprising they didn't release not
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that they needed to with this album sales you know speak for themselves but I just I just find the Curious that they didn't release this one as a yeah how
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many singles I think four from this album Four yeah yeah I don't know you don't want to give away all your pearls
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sure that makes sense it's got to be that one song on the album I don't know I'll just throw this out like guns of Ro
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is Rocket Queen that's probably the best song on that album well easily yes right
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but not released as a single I'm happy that it wasn't which reminds me we need to do a Appetite for Destruction episode
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one day a good breakdown okay so here we can I just say I just want before we carry on yeah it's always nice to have
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that song Sometimes When songs are released as singles they're often the stronger songs on an album not always
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but often are or they have a wider broad range of you know attraction for a broad
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range of audiences to bring them into the album but it's always nice to have that one very strong song that isn't
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released as a single because sometimes a single is overplayed it could be overplayed and then you're tired of it
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overplayed and you get tired of it which you don't want to so it's nice to have a song on an album that is very strong yet
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for those who enjoy the album can enjoy without it having being overplayed in the general public that makes sense no
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it totally makes sense we'll speak speak to a little bit later but I call that term Single itis when uh right when a
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song is good under its own Merit it's a good song but because it got releases a single it becomes a beast of its own
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which then eats its own tail and it's not this you know you don't enjoy it as much as you could have Haden up and been
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on the airplan for so long yeah here we go so I I just love this next part as he continues to describe his girlfriend
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here oh yeah yeah it's hilarious these lyrics are hilarious
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she more [Music] like she the Mind young she like it in a
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fall don't like other women she like wh of
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chain she lies caining
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with she's about all I it's too much for my brain has got me
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under pressure it's got be on I just love she likes whips and
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chains well you know what it got me when I was when I was younger and I heard this it's like she likes cocaine I'm
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like what they just slip that in I don't know why I love that I just love this girl that she likes French cuisine she
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likes the museums she likes Pablo's dog at the Museum she doesn't like other women I love it she's like a total like
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you know be b word and high maintenance and crazy and love how he says she's about old that I can handle I love it
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back then you know to throw in the she likes cocaine like that's hardcore yeah
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that's really bad maybe that's why it was released as a single because even that content was too oh maybe yeah I
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mean yeah lyrically especially in 8384 you know it's a little bit edgy but
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I mean all their musical if you actually listen to their lyrics are all kind of hilariously inuendo is and and almost
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every tongue and cheek in every way I think it worth noting with these songs you hear a little bit of of course Billy's solo work that's the highlights
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of these albums [Music]
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you know you get spoiled if you just listen to this song like what we took for granted back in ' 83 and in years
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you know years later but just think about songs today being released this song is only 4 minutes long but you're
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getting this like guitar Soul it's bluzy rock you're not getting these solos
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anymore even just in general rock songs just the picking sound that bluesy Rock sound it's even though yeah and even
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though you can tell it's Billy plain every song is unique though yeah there
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was creative thought processing going on in every song in every solo you can tell
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it's him it's his style it's his sound yet they're all different they're
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actually creating and not just replicating sometimes I mean it is a
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little bit formula but not in the right in yourface formulas that are punched out today in modern music agreed all
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right so the second single from the album and the third track on the album of course was their very highly popular
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song and music video in conjunction a Sharp Dress Man it re-entered the charts
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Jason in 2020 when they did their documentary zezy top the little old band
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from Texas which I have not seen yet it's on Netflix and I shame on me for not seeing that documentary yet have you seen it I want say yes no it's okay I I
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just I I just haven't got around to it but I've heard it's an excellent documentary you're a fan of zeut toop it's something worth watching and I
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think I'm definitely going to be doing that soon my problem with watching stuff I'm not very good at watching lots of TV
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stuff so the guitar soul in this song Jason was chosen by Guitar World as
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number 43 of the 50 greatest guitar Souls of all time wow wow yeah let's
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check it out let's check it out okay
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I love that [Music]
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yeah new you and I don't know where I am going to
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[Music] I don't need
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why come crazy about
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me pretty standard song this song ironically has very little to do with sex it's just about looking sharp which
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would probably lead the whole idea to look sharp so you get the ladies but I love how he's got the top hat diamond
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ring goes on to say later they come running just as fast as they can cuz every girl's crazy about a Sharp Dress
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Man I mean It All Leads back you know you're looking cool you're
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looking fine or whatever and that is something I've never been good at i' I've never dressed very well I am a
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horrible dresser some people just wear clothes I find clothes just don't hang on me properly or I see you know
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catalogs of these male models or whatever like how how could they could pull off that shirt you know what I mean or that because you're not cuz they're a
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model in is is that how that works okay yeah typically all right let's here this solo that Guitar World loves so
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[Music]
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much just that way that sounds here you know what I mean yeah
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so I think I missed the solo there we go my
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[Music]
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apologies here's the solo I got the wrong time stamp earli here [Music]
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but you hear that kind that very bluesy SN Rock sound there in that solo oh yeah
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I almost wondering if he's using a slide on that it sounded slish didn't it yeah yeah the fuzz and Distortion or chor or
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whatever he uses as his effects are just perfect perfect mix of well talent and effects
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and all right so now the next song I think we turn it down a little bit we got you know we got these three bangers on in a row but the next song is what
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you would call know ballad it's a little bit of a ballad here folks let's check it out it's called they need you tonight
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not to be confused with in in excesses I need you tonight speaking of in excess
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I've been listening to them solid for like two weeks nice yeah which which album do you want to do because I've
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been banging and waned to do an album dude I I am sure talked how good they
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are and how they've kind of fell off my radar I was the biggest fan I was the
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biggest fan of them growing up and I was trying to get people on that train but I'm blown away yeah Michael Hutson was
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gone to soon do what you need to do if you're a fan of these bands now a lot of the music like The streaming music I use
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Amazon Prime it seems to be the most the easiest now most of the albums are
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coming out on Ultra HD right yeah and many of these are now remastered
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and it's night and day difference you can really crank the songs everything's very well defined anyway we don't want
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to get off truck tell you what man nxs loud and me playing it loud awesome well that makes me very happy now especially
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the base the baselines from that dude Gary beers it's phenomenal that's
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awesome side note we'll be doing H you pick an album J I was thinking about that actually I was listening to them before we did this podcast um awesome
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when I was getting ready and I was like man we got to do an ex album aw maybe just do their greatest hits album we'll
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talk yeah okay all [Music]
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right this is about his bluies you get slower but it's killer oh it's it's
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incredible guitar work so I mean this album's going to be hard to pick a song I'm I'm cuz you can't deny this
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[Music]
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it's 3:00 in the [Music] morning as the Rain Begin to Fall
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but I know what I'm needing but I don't have it
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on I'm needing someone like [Music]
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you [Music] do I
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love know that always cracks me up I've never heard anyone describe that way
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before the way he I want to do love just love it it just works perfectly that
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lyric with that kind of that sleazy you know greasy dirty Pub or bar in the
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Backwoods type of sound it just it fits perfectly and that's the lyric you say not make love to I don't think is gramar
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gramar correct which cracks me up I love it I love it definitely highight now
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let's hear a little bit more of the the solo work at the end of the song is just incredible that's what I yeah yeah yeah let's do that
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he
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yeah just such a good sound boy and it literally when I was uh listening to
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this album you know refreshing my my mind on what we're going to be talking about I thought that to myself this
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could have been made yesterday the production the the the quality of production it hasn't aged at all it
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could have been released yesterday and nobody would have said oh this sounds like the'80s right yeah the lyrics in
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the next song full disclosure not safe for work I was actually just reading it
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they hide they hide it pretty well I mean they hide it pretty well but I mean most people are going to understand what
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it is that they're talking about yeah Dusty Hill speaking of Dusty Hill he sings this song this is him singing it's one of my favorite songs of
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all time it is such a banger it is such incredible rocking I think it's hilarious how they
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write these lyrics where you know exactly what it is that they're talking about but they hide it in such a way
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that it's oh they're talking about a a card game yeah we're just playing a card game that's all they're doing that's all we're talking about all right here's the
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card game classic I got the six [Music]
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living room passing time talking trans sing wi I need something
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moreal new play I don't like to work this hard I think I have to
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cancel I it every time I'm about to lose my mind I got the six give me your n
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slow here on the CL like a rock I feeling so
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normal [ __ ] in my magazine all my cover up
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the I'm running every time I'm about to lose my mind I got the six give
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me right here that change right there
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I honestly don't want to stop playing it I I want cuz I want to play the next the next transition part is just but the way the guitar the guitar sound this the
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mini solo then Dusty Hill kicks up his vocals even more a little bit coming up can I just say how awesome he sings yeah
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I love it he's like really given her like I wish we could see the video footage of this if they recorded
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yeah there's got to be something behind the scenes I would love to see it he's belting it out he's belting these lyrics
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out there's like a desperation too in the way that he sings it to kind of go along with the lyrics well yeah cuz he's
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he's Hardy guys he's got he's really very frustrated the girl is not putting out
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what he's laying down and that's what he's saying here like come on man how much more do I got to tell you that uh I need a little bit pent up he's very pent
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up and I love how this next part how he just gets even more like the way he sings it and then it just yeah here we
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[Music] go look at this she won't let me c you
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there she so screaming me this is when it's time to blow I just
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heard the reach the C guess I'll have to SP my bucket I run it out of 10 I'm about to
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lose my I got the see give me your name
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oh man that scream with the solo it's just that's such a killer song I believe they do play that one at concerts I
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think I think they did they play that one of yours do you remember I don't recall actually do you remember what year you saw them CU we do a quick
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search right now J um well you can probably just Google it Google Vancouver it was at the pie here's Jason
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set list this is what Jason who was with you Ethan Ethan was with you they played 20 songs wow dude it was a killer show
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so we got got me under got me under pressure I'm just listen to the songs they did for this album uh give me all
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your Ling of course Sharp Dress Man legs and no they didn't play yeah okay so
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speaking of legs here is
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legs they're not talking about chicken legs no they're not talk about chicken legs so
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oh Reserve W lyrics yeah
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wonder I feeling would you
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get [Applause] you she my
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bab she my baby yes all
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right she's got
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if you can believe it Jason there's some feminists who criticized this
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song What don't they how dare these men sing about our
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beautiful legs is what they said guarantee they're not singing about their beautiful no no they got
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criticized for objectifying women although zezy top had been releasing songs with playful yet sexually charged
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lyrics for years for example their first hit was tush in 1975 oh their songs I know why are you
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criticizing this song back yeah lead back to one thing and one thing only I guess they never heard the song it got
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me under pressure or I got your six I mean they didn't understand the uh I got your six this is what inspired Billy
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Gibson to write the song it's going to probably be exactly what you think so he he said I quote I was driving in Los
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Angeles and there was this unusual downpour and there was a really pretty girl on the side of the road I passed
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her and then I thought well i' better pull over or at least turn around and offer a ride and by the time I got back
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she was gone and her legs were the first thing I noticed she had legs and she knew how to use them here you go I love
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it hilarious yeah if anybody knows these guys they're just fun oh they're so
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harmless yeah just rock and roll from a songwriting perspective this one does hit the mark as one that's instantly
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understood on a universal level which gave it a huge hit potential Craig Goldie who was a guitarist in the band
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Deo and later became a staff songwriter Warner Brothers said about the song she's got legs she knows how to use them
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the first two lines the story's done nobody's going what's the song about oh
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I love it okay I mean almost before you even hear a ZZ Top song you already know
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what it's about but anyway yeah I love it all right fun song Fun Song okay so this next song we talked about earlier
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in the episode It's called Thug we're now on oh I should have said are we on side two right now let me just see I
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think we were I think so yeah I think legs starts side two if I remember correctly I believe legs was the fourth
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single I find that surprising that we'll get to the song that was released before which I find kind of interesting but legs was actually the fourth and last
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single from the album the next song is thug we talked about this earlier in our recording the thug was written
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completely and holy composition and lyric Wise by Hudson he didn't get credit for it on the actual album and he
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had a bit of a falling out the band because of it he later sued and got royalties for it it's kind of too bad
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that they collaborated so much on this album to have one song kind of caus the rift that it did
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Thug you look like who you say you are scoot over let me drive new car roll
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down the glass and give me some [Music] lock all the doors I'm on
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L behind a wheel like this this song is very unique I mean
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it's Unique knowing a little bit more with the history of it I would have to assume that's Dusty slapping the Bas
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though picking the Bas like that I can't I can't imagine that's a bass synthesizer sound or I could be wrong no
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no no no okay I don't think it's Hudson plane we know that not every single part was eliminated from Eliminator regarding
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the bass and drums so this must be one of the few parts cuz uh Frank and Dusty they recorded their parts and then they
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went on and did their own thing so they actually recorded all their parts and then later on a lot of it was replaced
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with drum machine and and synthesizer Bas to give it that sound that we that driving sound but this must be a part of
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course where Dusty slapp in that base definitely a different vibe right like yeah but it's still a cool oh it's a
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cool song and I love I love the way he sings his vocals yeah it's a great s well it's a great song I mean there's no
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bad songs but this is a this is a song that grows on you the more you listen to it the way transition That Bass sound
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that kind of slow buildup where it's kind of almost creepy we're in the alleyway of some street cuz a thug right
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you know you got this like it's almost like a dangerous song it's like the guy that the girl's with is dangerous I think is a essentially what's going on
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here [Music]
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yeah great sound overall yeah all right the eighth song on the album This is actually their third single Jason and
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did you know this was a single TV dinners I didn't oh actually I do recall
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now that just as you say it came to my mind the music video I don't know if I've ever seen the music well I sure I
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have back when I was watching music I have a very vague thing of TV dinner
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maybe going bad or somebody opening up a fridge or sitting on a chair like kind
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of yeah unily eating you know what's funny you and I when we were kids if we
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were given a TV dinner it was like a treat it was like Christmas dinner it's
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like a Christmas which which is kind of terribly ironic because we ate really
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well growing up in many ways we had great chicken dinners and mashed potatoes and we'd have like good meals
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but the idea that a processed microwavable type or we didn't have it
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wasn't even microwavable then no it was ovens that's right well they were around microwaves were around Jason but back then microwaves
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were expensive two reasons why we didn't have a microwave grown up one because they're just they're not cheap they
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weren't cheap but two there was never any leftovers in our house are you kidding me we ate every last scrap was
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anything ever put in the fridge at supper time okay let's save this for tomorrow yeah no never it was gone the
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Four Brothers we would we were healthy uh healthy Hungry Boys all right here we go TV dinners
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there's nothing else to [Music] eat TV
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din they really can't be be and this is how he likes them right
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here I like I like
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understand I throw them in and wave them and I'm a brand new man oh
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yeah was that a reference I throw home in and wave them is that a reference to microwave no I think he throws them in
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the oven and then I think when he takes them out he has to wave them to cool them down maybe oh this whole song is literally about
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him talking about how he makes a TV dinner and uh he enjoys them and he he
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likes the blue sauce there I don't think there's any innuendo in the song I think this legitimately is about TV diners I
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could be wrong though yeah it is few people have had the inclination to sing the Praises of convenience food
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in such a literal fashion yeah J your memory about your the video without us looking it up uh
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sounds like legit here it's a video that shows a man alone in his Hightech live workspace during electrical storm
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reheating a TV dinner which forms a goblin and the Retro sci-fi looked departed from the previous of course uh
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video so this was kind of a Sci-Fi video type yeah yeah yeah it's probably in the same vein as a Dire Straits type video
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probably that error of yes yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah all right the next song
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on the album's dirty dog all right we're back to it boys and girls put away those TV dinners uh here we go
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[Music]
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hey baby what you going to do now that I left you and the with through all along
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you been running around but you ain't the only game in
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town I I you tell
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your but you me on another you me and this is why
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just I SC it so how come the feminist didn't get
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mad at this song it's is way worse than let me uh you didn't quite catch the lyrics There ladies and gentlemen uh
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he's mad at a girl for uh you know they broke up but it's not enough that they just kind of broke up he's like I dug
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your brush and your was fine I dug your jelly and your Mighty mind but you
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rubbed it on another guy your history and this is why you're just a dog a scurvy dog he's he's mad this is lover scorn
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here this is lover scorn sure yeah it speaks for itself hey baby well it's over now I'll take my ex and I'll take a
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bow your problems cured with a dollar bill and if it won't I know a flea caller will I love it all right the next
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song track 10 is if I could only flag her down
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I don't need her money I don't need it
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right I got enough connection I don't need
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a I just want to pleas it I just want to squeeze
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it I just want to crash it I just want to crash it
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if I could only if I could
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only now this song is definitely I wonder if it was even what was written first or near the beginning of the
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writing because it definitely has the least synth type sound on the album yeah yeah it's it's very very clearly a band
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recording yeah those are true bass true drums through and through this would
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have easily fit on their uh previous couple albums when they were kind of transiting a little bit to the sound but
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it might even be a track that they had in mind earlier that they now put on this album The Bluest yes song on the
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album for sure and I'm not taking that away or even sting that's going to be a worst pick necessarily or not I'm just
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saying it's definitely sticks out as the one that's least Eliminator sounding song on the album yeah I agree yeah the
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closer is bad girl are you
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ready let's do it one [Applause] [Music]
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time see the girl with the red she can do it all night long she's a
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bad girl she's a bad
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girl I know a girl that likes to she can do it in a minute she's a bad
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girl she's a bad girl ain't it a shame when a girl goes
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back it's enough to drop your m [Music]
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yesterday I was playing a CL but play me for class she's a bad
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[Music] girl his vocals on this are awesome yeah
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oh for sure is a nice fun way to close out the album yeah I like that they
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close it with a with another Banger so to speak this could easily been a single almost and not to make singles more than
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what they should be but this could have been a uh almost an opener in some ways you know like just obviously lyrically
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there's not much to it but that's what we expect from Easy talk but what you get is just a banging uh rocking track
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similar to if I could could only flag her down like these last two songs sound very just straight band very compared to
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the rest of the album scaled back a bit yeah it's not as chunky not a chunky sound or like too heavy on the too heavy
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on the synth or chunk sound or whatever you want to yeah however you want to call that I mean at the end of the day this album is you put this on and put on
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repeat or randomiz it or yeah whatever you want to do you're not going to be I'm actually not hitting the skip button
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anywhere right this is an album where it's fun to listen to and you're really
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treated to Billy's guitar solos and guitar work which for me I'm a huge guitar guy I love guitar sounds and I
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love guitar solos I love blues rock so it's kind of got all that stuff that I enjoy danceability to it as well but
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there is a song that if I had to say as the producer or record company hey you
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got you got to get rid of one track we want to make it an even 10 songs I guess I'd have to get rid of something do you have one in mine I do I'm kind of Torn
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Between Two and I have to decide like me too yeah I wonder if it's the same two
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to the first one that we would definitely get rid of definitely get rid of yeah and then we'll see
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okay this is tough actually it's pretty easy for me but okay I just between the two of them that's all I think at the
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end of the day I would get rid of ironically their most their most straightforward song TV dinners I'd get
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yeah it's not even it's not even a hard pick for me that would be the song that I would I think it was just throw away I
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just find it surprising they released it as a single I think to go along with the video like that dire stra they could be
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kind of clever and funny and you know and play on the merging media of MTV if
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I can recall my memory of the video itself they kind of played along with the imagery I guess it was more of a
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gimmicky type thing silliness a silly look at us being silly and fun it's just not a it's not a I mean no song is a bad
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song But at the end of the day it's definitely the weakest of the of all these songs it's the least driveability song it's the least tap ability Song and
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all that stuff we like from the other songs even the subject matter is kind of silly yeah and my second choice the one
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I struggle with with the one is the one that that none of the band members wrote was Thug that was oh that's not my
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second pick Okay the reason being is I think I'm I'm jaded a little bit because it wasn't written by the band it was
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composed by Hudson that doesn't take away from the fact they performed it very well or Billy's playing was really cool I like the way he sings it yeah
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that's what I mean they performed it very well yeah what was your runner up if I could flag her down that's fair I
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can see that it does seem like a kind of like oh we should throw in one more I think the last two songs honestly were
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throw in they didn't do the production on on those ones I think they were previously recorded by the band and they
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may have run out of steam and energy to do what they did with the rest of the album and there's like we can't have a
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nine or 10 song album okay well these ones are already in the bag right let's throw these at the end and back in the
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day we didn't have the ability to skip through a song so easily so if you're
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listening to a tape cassette you could literally fast forward through the last
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two songs on an album and then get to the side a again and not worry about
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having these songs in the middle of the album or something maybe I you know I think they just threw them on
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interesting yeah yeah just to fill the album out but but they're good songs to listen to though they sound a little bit
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different than the rest of the album for some reason they do yeah yeah there you go there's 1983 zzy tops Eliminator we
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love the album it's a great memor I wanted to mention if we didn't mention this I kind of hinted at it when I said what's your first memory my first memory
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when we were eight and 10 respective yeah eight and 10 Jason respectively I was eight you were 10 when this album
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came out so we were in no position financially I'm looking is actually released in March so I would have been
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technically nine going on 10 and I would have been technically seven going on eight right right good good point so
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yeah as they say I would have been in my eighth year all the same okay so but that being said the reason why we knew
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this album is our dad bought the album oh he had the cassette I listened to this on cassette as a kid on his uh
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stereo he had that silver stereo remember that silver stereo yeah oh yeah I remember yeah the three albums I played on heavy rotation during these uh
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mid 80s was zzy tops Eliminator Born in the USA and Princess Purple Rain and dad
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bought all those albums in his uh I guess he would have been it's just weird to think like back when he bought this
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album he's a little bit older than in his 30s yeah he would have been probably 36 or seven himself when he bought this
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album right I do recall having the cassette tape I have more memories of the music videos it was Dad that bought
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those albums it wasn't us we were too young yeah and you're right about Prince's uh Purple Rain I mean that was
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definitely my memory was from that cassette so shout out to her dad remember Billy Idol he had Billy Idol
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yeah that's right that's right that's awesome so shout out to her dad he you know like you I give him a Springsteen
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Billy Idol zezy to and Prince were introduced by my dad's small foray into
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music it's just fun to yeah yeah I don't think we give him enough credit for being the music guy that was cuz uh he
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was the musicer family and he used to have a huge LP collection yeah U yeah I remember Paul McCartney's uh album um
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Ram well and then also um wings or not the wings wings yes Wings Rolling Stones
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and uh the turtles yeah the turtles the turtles I think the animals as well yeah
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I think we get a lot of our love of music I think from our from our dad definitely my love of Bruce was from Dad so anyways all right well there you go
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thank you so much and remember in front of every Silver Line L there was a cloud and today it was TV dinners thank you so
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much guys thanks for listening till next time Gator Productions
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