Best Movie Musicals of All Time, Ranked

Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Got another fun one for you today, which hopefully I can say this without twisting my tongue, and that is scripted music themed movies. Alright. So, yeah, I mean it's gonna be a pretty wide angle, just pretty much no documentaries and certain other things, but we'll get to that when we get to it. Uh, I have all the boys here today. Hello, Donald. How are you doing? Good man, Kevin. Hello, and brother Mark.

How's it going, boys?

Good, brother. How are you? Doing great, Mark. Thanks for asking.

Oh, well, good. I mean, I care, you know. Absolutely. I'm doing pretty good.

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Your Honor, Your Honor.

Your offer, Your Honor. All right. So this one for me, I put it in last place for only one reason.

It's not last place, AJ. It's in the top seven.

All right, I saw. Well, anyway. I it's only at number seven because the movie sucks so terribly.

There's one of those on this list.

And that would be 1986's trick or treat. All right. Now, this is about Sammy Kerr, a musician that dies and comes back to, you know, create Evil. Eve. We got Gene Simmons in this, Ozzy Osborne, which of course, anything having to do with KISS back in the day, we couldn't wait to see. I had to take this. You guys know the importance of this to me, Kevin, as well, and Mark, I think, and maybe even you, Donnie. But this soundtrack who was done by Fastway.

Yeah, right.

Is one of the greatest movie soundtracks ever. I mean, you got heft on there after midnight, the title track. Phenomenal. I mean, I still listen to this album start to finish, you know, a few times a year anyway. I had to put it on my list. I put it down at seven.

So it's not just a great soundtrack. I mean, it's it's one of the better albums from that era, and it kind of got overlooked, I think we've talked about before, because the movie was so bad. It was it ruined a great album.

You know, that's one of those movies like Kiss did with Creatures of the Night when they released it like three, four years later without makeup. That's an album that Fast Way should have released, you know, with a different album cover and just with their their, you know, band name and see what went from there. Although the creatures thing didn't help Kiss any in any way.

No, it didn't, it didn't do any good for them.

But anyway, so do you don't great pick.

Cool. All right, so I'm starting off with a 1994 movie that didn't really do well in the box office, wasn't really popular, but it's kind of become a cult classic, but not not really. I mean, but it's entertaining, and I loved it. So it's called Airheads. Yes.

The candy, right?

Yeah, and it's a bunch of idiots that just take over, uh take over uh radio station to try to get their music played. And you know, it had Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, Steve Bushanemy.

It was a giant headshringer by the name of Sigmund Frust.

Love that Michael McShill Judd Nelson. I mean, it had a great cast.

Listen to that cast. I watched it just here's the cast.

Incredible. I mean, yeah, and it was funny. It was just, you know, good, mindless entertainment. Absolutely. Sometimes, Donnie, you know. Yeah, there's a there's a funny, funny ass scene in there. Uh Adam Sandler's like, Steve Bushheamus is like, what are you gonna say to him? And he's like, I'm gonna stab you. I'm gonna stab your heads off with what? With my dick!

All right, against the wall. Tough, tough. Seriously, move it. I'm not scared. Come on. I'm gonna stab your heads off with what? With what? With my dick! Yeah! And blood's gonna come out of your head! There's nothing you can do about it! Because I'm a madman!

That's gonna kind of hurt my throat.

Bishimi is incredible in anything he's in, man.

Oh, Sandler?

No, Steve Bishimi.

All of them, yeah.

Yeah, Bishemi's awesome.

Yeah, Bishemi is we all say it different. Yeah.

You're all a bunch of bunk Archie Bunkers then.

Marky Bunkers. What a great movie, though. I haven't seen that for a long time. I I it's definitely a revisit. Awesome.

Okay, Kev. All right. Are we going? We're live. We're happening. We're we're we are recording. All right. So my number seven was actually I was watching this movie when I kind of got the concept for what we've turned into this show. Because it seemed like a no-brainer, and maybe took a little more work than my original thought was. But I was, of course, watching Crossroads with Ralph Macchio.

The great Steve Vi, of course.

And the great Steve Vai, but I was thinking uh Gertz, Jamie Gertz.

Donnie's lady.

Yeah. Well, Donnie and I at least have professed our love for her, but yeah, he is well. Um, one of the one of the fun things about that is a lot of people mistake who was playing guitar where on that, and it was Stevie Vi. The answer is always Stevie Vi. There was nobody else. So that beautiful head cutting competition where they're going back and forth and and uh Steve Vi won.

Yeah, Steve Vibe. The Ralph Macchio stuff was Rai Cooter played. Well, that's right.

That's that's that's I apologize. You you are correct. I was thinking about something else, but yes, I was Ry Cooter with the slide and the telecaster, but Vi was absolutely amazing in that as well. And and for somebody with an ego like that at that time to go in knowing that he's playing the role of the guy that's not going to win. Right.

I still think he won.

Uh, yeah, it's kind of like Devil Went Down to Georgia. Exactly. You know, the devil's band was way better than Johnny. Yeah, I agree. I think everybody does. I think that's kind of universal. But yeah, just a great movie, a fun movie, uh, a little bit based on Robert Johnson's life, or at least the legend of Robert Johnson going down to the crossroads, selling his soul. Was it an allegory? Was it factual? Did most musicians kind of have to go? The the legend with Robert Johnson was he he was a mediocre player and he disappeared and then came back and was amazing, and had that one or two days where he recorded all of those music that are really the foundation of the blues. But the thing is, did he go and did he just practice real hard? No, he sold it. Did he sell his soul, or did he sell his soul to the devil? Or as they say in Crossroads Legba.

Yes, which is incredible concept, though.

Yeah, it was a great, great, fun movie. Yeah, absolutely.

As Don't come back up, as Donnie said once before, there's no way Ralph Macchio would have got Jamie Kurtz. No, no, no.

So a little pencil sidebar.

Uh oh, we got a sidebar. What do we do?

Yeah, well, it's like guitar players uh historically are like, oh, you know, we play guitar to get the chicks, but yet a lot of guitar players are like, I never get the chicks. But I just saw something today that had um uh My Body is a Wonderland, what's his name? Mayer? John Mayer, John Mayer, and it showed all his girlfriends, and he has a top 10. Like he's done very well for himself. Yeah, Rich guitar player, yeah, Jennifer Aniston, uh Minka Kelly.

Oh my god, I saw Angus Young the other day.

It's like he's got some he's done very well as a guitar player for the ladies.

Yeah, Angus Young is what he just turned 70, I think, because he was so young when he started. And I just saw a picture of him with this fucking supermodel with the biggest jugs in a bikini. Oh my god. And I'm pretty sure I don't know if it's his fiance or his wife, but you tell me that money doesn't matter or fame.

Yeah, then you're like Angus Young. Oh, C D I didn't hear that. I I thought we were still talking about John Mayer, but yes. It's probably because he's such a big strapping man. Yes, massive. What is he, eight feet tall?

Four feet. Oh, he does rock for sure. All right, brother. We are off to you. Brother.

Okay, well, I'm not usually into musicals, but I had to put this one on there at number seven at the at the bottom of the list, which is still a great movie. It's called Grease. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of it.

I think so. Yeah, I think I've heard of it.

It was a Broadway musical before a Broadway musical um before it became a movie, as we know. In 1978, it came out, and uh Randall Kleiser was the director, but obviously you had John Travolta and Olivia Newton John in this. And um she was very, you know, kind of goody too, shoes and everything, but it was a fun movie. This the the songs were just so much fun, and my favorite song on it was Grace Lightning, you know, that little piece of shit car they brought in.

Oh my god. Came out pretty nice with that clear hood grease on the case.

Yeah, and pure Americana, you know. That's what Greece is all about. Yeah, it's a classic.

Yeah, yes, I mean other than the fact that everyone in high school was 30.

That's what I was about to say. Thanks, AJ. Olivia Newton John was literally, I said, about I think she was like 30 at that point.

Yeah, she was the youngest looking one. Look at Rizzo.

There was a guy in that friggin' movie that looked like he was in his 40s. Nothing against being in your forties, but you're probably not in high school.

Right. Could come up again, so anyway, yeah, awesome.

So it was a fun movie and uh not into musicals, but I had to pick it.

I wouldn't even, I mean, I never I've seen the play a couple times, but we'll get into it later, maybe. We shall see. We shall see.

I just I can imagine that going through life, and then we're just all of a sudden we're you know, we're talking to a group at a restaurant or whatever, and all of a sudden we all break out in song and we sound like we're we're singing studio quality.

Incredible, wouldn't it? We did it with Fat Albert not long ago.

Yes, we did. Yes, we did.

This is true, but I agree with you, Mark. I've never been a fan of musicals per se, because it just doesn't happen in life. If people don't just break out into songs and read and rehearsed choreograph choreography, right? It's like, how did you guys even learn the moves? We just this just happened.

It's unbelievable.

Awesome.

So, anyway, so that was that.

All right, so number six off to me. This is 1998. Good old brought him up, Donnie brought him up with airheads, and this is Kevin. We brought it up with my saying there, and that is the wedding singer. Ah, yes, all right. I loved this movie. This I used to smoke a lot of pot back in that time frame, and just my ex-wife and I, Ricky, would watch this over and over and just laugh our asses off. There was, I mean, John Lovett's in it is a friggin' riot. Just and I don't know the actor that plays his best buddy there, the guy with the Michael Jackson jacket that drives the limo rolls. They were cones.

You hit two cones. Those could have been people, those could have been guests at her wedding. They were cones, they were cones.

They could have been people at the wedding.

They were cones, they were cones, but just such an incredible move movie, so hilarious. Uh, and then, of course, you got Billy Idol at the end on the plane with his soothing voice, Donald, which I know you love.

One of our first-class passengers would like to sing you a song inspired by one of our coach passengers. And since we let our first-class passengers do pretty much whatever they want, here he is. Yeah, how he does his voice.

And Drew Barrymore in that. I just that's like my dream girl to be able to meet someone who's just sweet. And I forget the dickhead's husband, the husband's name there, the fiance, but I know his last name was Gulia. Gulia because she was gonna become Julia Goulia. Julia Goulia.

Your name's gonna be Julia Glia. Exactly.

I know I've seen this one, but I just oh Mark, if you haven't seen the wedding, Matthew Glave is Glenn Gulia.

Yeah, Glenn. Yeah, he plays the perfect prick.

Yeah, yeah. You know, he was a dick.

Like they're out to a bar on a double date. Drew Barrymore's friend is trying to bang Adam Sandler, and she's getting a little buzzed up, and you can tell she's kind of digging Adam Sandler, and she pukes, and he just looks at Adam Sandler and goes, Told you she was gonna yak, you know, just such an asshole. And then he comes in with this gift at one point, and I'm not gonna go through the plot. Brings home like a DVD player or something, and he was buying her something very nice, and he's like, Please five at a time.

Fucking asshole. I mean, it's funny. I mean, not to bring up a different, I mean, get on this tangent, but DVD players are becoming obsolete because you just go on on your Roku or whatever to get a movie now.

Mark, they've been obsolete for 20 years.

All right, well my god, I'm really up to date then.

Clearly. I need that V VHF you have too. I have very excited about that. But anyway, what a great fucking movie. Just you gotta check it out, Mark. That you would you'll fall in love.

It's amazing. And it's gonna slide right into mine because my number six was the wedding scene. Ah, I have at it, yeah. And I love the part, it doesn't play well on listening, but you'd have to see it. But when the asshole husband to be is like taking the window seat, and he's just like he's looking out the window, like he's so happy. What a dick.

You know, he's such a dick. But doesn't he like smack her on the leg? See it, but he's like, yeah, never been on a plane before, wants to see the beauty, and doesn't he like smack her leg and ask him to order him a drink?

Yeah, yeah, and he's always like got his eyes on other girls and stuff like that. Yeah, he's a perfect dirtbag.

Wait a minute. And we all have kind of sort of, we're not dead, not a dirt bag like this guy, though, Mark. Yeah, he's a scumbag.

He just plays like the rich entitled uh spoiled fraternity brother kind of thing.

Yeah, well, Uncle Ray used to say, I may be married, but I'm not dead.

Well, yeah, we're all human. Wandering eyes, we're all human, you know. We're not shit.

No, I mean wandering eyes different.

But when you're about to get married and you're like legit, like this guy's like legit hitting on other girls kind of dirtbag of dirtbags.

What a great actor, though, to make you hate him like that, you know, right? Right? Yeah, uh awesome.

To you, Kev. Okay, I'm gonna go with Pink Floyd the Wall.

Hey!

Because it was just one of my absolute album was fantastic, and the movie itself was even though it got panned and it did not get that good a reception, I still think it was just iconic. It was just a great story. It was the imagery was was wild, incredible. Absolutely. I think part of the reason might be that it opened up against ET and an officer and a gentleman. Yeah, kind of they had stiff competition there, maybe. I don't know, maybe it wasn't everybody's cup of tea either, but that's one of those ones that every couple years I'll I'll pull that one out and watch it because it's it's enjoyable.

But yes, what a great pick. That went overlooked to me, Kev. I don't know friggin' how I overlooked it, but just shame on you. You want to talk about a movie to be eating mushrooms or a hallucin on. I trip on that straight. Yes. You need any help. Man, it's disturbing in a lot of places for me.

Yeah, yeah, when he busts up the hotel room and then just organizes everything.

It's like all right, that's number six to you, then, Mark.

All right. Well, this uh I this is called This is Spinal Tap. I said this a lot. 1994, um, directed by Rob Reiner. I didn't write down the party play, the interviewer.

No worries. It was the interviewer. That's perfect.

All right, well, he's the interviewer.

But I mean it was Meathead, yes.

Yes, Rob Reiner. And uh it was just a fun movie. It was it was different. I felt bad for all the drummers. We've talked about this movie a lot, and I do know, I mean, how does a drummer go up in spontaneous combustion? Most of the cases are not reported. But you know, they did play loud, as we know. It's it's kind of funny because uh Rob Reiner's character kept saying, Well, why didn't you just make 10 louder? These go to eleven. Yes. You know, a classic mask. If it's not loud enough, we just we just take it up one more notch to eleven. Yes. And uh I understand why he didn't say everything was folded. He said you have to fold everything.

You'd like bigger bread? Exactly. I don't understand how it's like. Well, no, then it's half the size. Not the bread. You can fold the meat. Yeah, but then it then it breaks up, it breaks up the mic. You put it on the bread like this, see? But then if you keep folding it, it keeps breaking. And then you'll everything has to be folded. There's look at this tiny bread. In the mirror.

And I love the part where they were doing that little Viking thing. It's a Viking thing, and they brought the dwarfs out, and they were so pissed because the dwarfs man.

Stonehenge.

Stonehenge.

Stonehenge. Stonehenge. Yes.

It's in danger of being trampled by a dwarf. Exactly.

And then the guy quits the band towards the end. Um, and he he comes back. You know, it ends pretty good. But yeah, I know you you guys, somebody you guys are gonna pick it. If you don't, I'm gonna look like an idiot.

Well, no, it was it was Marty DeBergie, by the way, was uh Meathead's character. Marty, Marty. He was filming, he was filming the documentary, but I always loved when um the bass player is going through the airport and they he keeps setting off the metal detector. Taking off all his studs and this and that and the other thing. Finally, he sheepishly pulls the cucumber wrapped in tinfoil out of his pants and hands it over.

And before that, before that, um he said, Who the the the guy with a blonde hair was well we all have a bunch of amadellos in our in our uh pants, so that would be intimidating to the female audience, and you know, they were cucumbers, okay.

David St.

Hubbins, yes, patron saint of footwear, yes, and uh the new trailer, which that's supposed to be released this year, the second spinal tap, same cast, only the teaser trailer is out right now, and it's just literally a quick skip of an amplifier with a knob, and they're turning it up to eleven.

No, not 11. 11.

Yes, exactly. All right, so that's five to me, correct? Yeah, all right. This is 1987. Good old Richie Vallens will be called La Bamba. This I just I this reminds me of our mummy Mark. Watched this with her so many times. Incredible movie, incredible, incredible story, just the way he came up and everything that happened afterwards, just you know, struggling with his brother, who had a lot of issues. It was just I know what that's like really a really, really heartfelt movie. And then, of course, we all know the ending where this was uh who was it? It was Buddy Hawley, was the Big Bopper, JP Richardson, yes, the big bopper. Yep, the big bopper. Richie actually won the seat on the plane with a coin toss from freezing cold. Do you know I'm sorry, do you know who he called? Which is gonna make me sound stupid now. No, not at all.

Most people don't know. It was Whelan Jennings.

Wait, well, I did not know Jennings.

A lot of people don't know that. I'm not trying to make you look stupid, it's just one of those things that's trapped in my brain and has to come out. It's kind of wild that everybody knows the coin toss story, but they don't know that it was Whelan Jennings.

Yeah, incredible. I mean, you know, Waylon Jennings made out in that one. Yeah, he was pissed. Absolutely.

But uh how do you know?

How do you know the song American Pie? Yeah, completely based on that the day the music died. It's an incredible story. It's a really good, heartfelt movie.

I started watching it last night, and I probably have seen it with you and mom. In the very beginning, he has a dream of two small planes flight in. Is that what exactly what happened?

No, not really. No, I think it was overloaded or something. I don't remember the actual story, like how it crashed, but I he definitely had a fear of flying that I know.

So I think it was just a foul night, bad, bad weather.

There was bad weather for sure. Was the issue, which is why they all wanted the flight so they get the hell out of there quick. And yeah, they were freezing their tits off on the tour bus. Yep, but Lou Diamond Phillips.

Yeah, yeah.

Great, great movie.

Big in the 80s, yeah. Eddie Cochran was played by Brian Setzer from Stray Cats, yeah. And uh Marshall Crenshaw played um Buddy Hawley in that one.

Yeah, imagine doing that tour. Like, how fun would that tour have been back then? You know, Johnny Cash was on one of them too, right? I think Johnny Cash was involved in one.

All right. Well, we speaking of Johnny Cash, if it wasn't for our time time period constraint, I mean you would have gone with Walk the Line. Yeah, no, no, but I'm I'm talking about that tour would have been a amazingly fun. Oh god, yeah, you know the Jerry Lewis and friggin' Johnny Cash and all this.

Yeah, Jerry Carter Lewis Simon.

Jerry Lee, yeah. Jerry Lee.

Yep. Awesome.

Yeah, those guys were. I mean, they forged the path.

They sure did. Absolutely.

Dung started rock and roll.

Dungo to you. All right, I'll lighten the mood a little bit. So this is a movie, it's a musical, and I love musicals. I'm a I'm a cheese head for it.

It's not cheesy, Donnie. Stop dissing yourself.

But like having young children and then having adult children, and then again having young children. I love the Little Mermaid. Ah, um, the original Little Mermaid, the cartoon. Yep. Like, I don't mind the new version. It's beautiful. The actress is amazing, she can sing amazing, but I didn't think that a movie that was made just 1989. I don't think that that needs to be remade right away, you know. Doesn't need to be remade at all. Right. No, yeah. Um, they can Disney can make an original thought, an original movie. No, they can't, they've fruited it.

Right, they've all had Lamont amazing, Donnie. They've all had a lot of people.

So no disrespect to the actors and actresses of the new version, but the original one in 1989, the animated Little Mermaid, was amazing. You know, it was great and it had great stuff. And I love the crab. I love the you know Sebastian batch eyes like these.

Now we got to make a plan to get that boy to kiss you. Tomorrow, when he takes you for that ride, you gotta look your best. You gotta butcher eyes like this. You gotta puck your lips like this.

And puckle your lips like this and kiss the girl. Da da da da da. Great songs. I mean, that's great.

Yeah, under the sea. I like that. And isn't it better? Down where it's weather. Take it from me.

Up under shirt, they were born day. Out in the sun is living with the under the sea.

Those are friggin' spectacular, those original songs.

I want to be here with the people.

Uh yeah, it's great songs. I love it. It's it's classic Disney, but um, damn right.

And you know what? I won't say anything more than this, but not only does no one have the original thought, but stop changing shit. Okay, and that's all I'm gonna say. That's it. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, all right. I think we all agree. That's to you then catch.

A million percent, EJ. A million percent.

Okay, so I'm going with a rock and roll fable. Um, this was a very troubled production, and it did not turn into what it was supposed to be, and they all blamed it on Michael Parr or Parra or whatever. What? Streets of Fire. And I just I love that movie. That's great. It might have something to do with Diane Lane, but I mean Willem Defoe is awesome in it. I liked Michael Parr or Par, however you pronounce his name.

I would say it's Parra. P with a P A with a little thingy up.

Stop giving your picks away, boys. Anyway, they they it was it was an amazing concept that they came up with. It was supposed to be a whole theory, a whole universe, so to speak, uh, of what they were in, and and they put great effort into it. And when it didn't turn into what it was supposed to be, they blamed him, and uh they said later that they really wanted Tom Cruise for the role, and they think that would have made the difference. And I'm thinking that movie would have sucked balls if Tom Cruise had started it. Now it could have been better, I get it. Maybe that dude wasn't a guy, but it wasn't Tom Cruise. I can tell you that. It certainly I just I cannot imagine how that movie.

My computer.

Exactly. Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't. I'd sit like I said, the movie wasn't what it was supposed to be. I still enjoyed it, and they could have only made things worse by putting Tom Cruise in it. But uh the other thing was it um uh it was going to be the the title track was gonna be Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town, but Brucey was being a little bit of a dick about it, so they went, eh, screw you, and they brought in Jim Steinman from um Meatloaf Fame to uh to write the uh Tonight is what it means to be young. Which was the title track, which was, you know, better than Bruce Springsteen, as far as I'm concerned, but not a great song.

I've yet to see that, Kevin, in its hole, which go ahead, say it. But anyway, it had your girl in it, Diane Lane.

Yeah, yes, absolutely, yeah, sexy, sexy Diane Lane. She's a smoke show classy, classy smoke show.

Oh, that's that's even better. Usually you only get half the package, you know?

Right. Yeah, the other one they looked at was Swayze, who I think might have been able to pull it off.

Yeah, definitely better than Tom Cruise in that one.

Definitely, and actually, and I forgot to mention that the four main principles, the directors, writers, and producers, came up with the idea while they were making 48 hours. Oh, no way.

Interesting.

They were literally filming 48 hours and getting such good feedback from I think it was Paramount that it was like, okay, let's do something else. And they had this idea, and and that's where it came from.

Some good ideas come out of bad ones, and vice versa.

All right, Mark.

All right, well, I mean, Wayne's World Party on party time.

Excellent. I don't okay.

I don't know. I alright. I hadn't seen it for a long time. I watched it the other day. It was a fun movie. I mean, it was so much fun, to be honest with you. I mean, you had Roblo in it, he's so gorgeous.

He's hilarious in it, too.

Oh no, he is. He plays the part perfectly. Just a dickhead, you know, trying to trying to just be a dickhead and I'm gonna use my looks because I'm so cool. And uh, you know, obviously Dana Carvey and Mike Myers. And okay, the singer. This is gonna be tough. AJ. Tia career?

I think that's pretty close. Pretty close.

I'd give it to you. Tia career. All right, great. Now we have cameos with Ed O'Neill from Mary with Children, his his best most remembered things.

What was he, Dickie's darnut? Yes, that's exactly what he was.

I didn't know swing every time. It was just hard. He was so freaking shy.

Oh yeah.

Oh my god, I I remember when Rob Well went to shake his hand, he he just looked at him like an abject bear. You know, he didn't shake his hand and it was a lot of fun. And um they had three endings. They had the one ending where the singer, and at first I I mean when I watched it originally, I didn't I thought she had an atrocious voice. Yes, listen to it the second time. It was not as bad as I thought, and she is a professional musician.

Shouldn't be. Go on.

Well, whatever. But she she wasn't she wasn't ugly.

We can't like Philippine or something, super hot. Cantonese Cantonese, that's it.

But anyway, they had three endings. The one is where you were amazing last night, you were incredible. And did you really think he she was gonna end up with you, Rob Lowe says? No, don't like that ending. And then they did a medium one, and then of course the third ending was perfect. The scooby- it was just fun. Oh, the scooby one was the middle one. Yes. I don't want to say it because they ripped Rob Lowe's face off, and it was uh, I don't remember, but the pesky kids, yes.

Yes, I would have got away with it too.

Well, that wraps it up. But there's one last thing. Let's just see who you really are, Mister Why, it's old man withers, the guy who runs the haunted amusement park.

And I would have got away with it too, if it hadn't been for you snooping kids.

If it wasn't for these pesky kids.

We're not gonna get in the cartoon episode, but they get in the way.

The sucking cut was quite funny too, when the guy comes in with the vacuum haircutter, and Wayne's like, Well, it certainly does suck. All right.

That was a legitimate product. It was. Oh, hell yeah. It was the vacuum.

Oh, you could buy it on TV for sure. For sure.

For sure. What time? You had to wait till 3 30 in the morning.

Yeah, perfect. I cannot think of the name of it. A vacuum cut, it was awful. Yeah, Mo. It was the perfect Mo Howie.

We had a good haircut, damn it. All right. But I was just thinking about oh, I'm sorry, Aja. I was gonna say that I it just struck me now that you know Mark was talking about Wayne's World, and you think of all the great movies and characters that we got from SNL back in that era and eras previous. And now their people are so talented now, they do Verizon ads.

I know, right? They're all they all fall off a cliff later on.

Yeah, movie franchises to hawking telephones.

Uh back to Rob Lowe, just because with Mark's gorgeous talk. Fucking, he's awesome. He is a great, cool human being. Yeah, I never said he wasn't out there. No, I know. I'm just saying uh I forget the show he did fairly recently. I mean, I say that, it's probably five years ago, but he did one with uh what's his name from the Wonder Years, Fred Savage.

They were brothers. And moly moly moly moly moly.

Yeah, Rob Low was like a famous actor that was out of work at the time, I think, and just it's fucking funny, you know, it didn't last long.

Like his you know, that was kind of his reclamation or whatever if I'm saying it right. But he was in the Austin Powers movies and it was amazing in those. Yeah, he's a good comedic actor, he's funny.

I'm just saying, yeah, just because you go, I mean, just because you're gorgeous doesn't mean you're a nice guy. Look at me. I've been watching my entire life and I've been nice to everybody. Yeah, so I'm proof. That means I wasn't putting anyone down.

I'm just saying he's kind of like Oh, I wasn't saying you were putting him down. I was just saying you were like, he's still gorgeous. He's a lot of good, great movies, too.

He's he is a good looking man, and he seems to not age at all or get even like younger and better looking as he gets scary, right?

Money can help with that, I'm sure.

But yeah, oh absolutely, but it didn't help Mickey Rourke or uh or poor Val Kilmer, man.

Yeah, that dude.

Or Madonna, who now looks like what did you say she looked like Mufasa terrible, terrible.

All right, so am I correct when I say I'm at number four? Four of you lovely because I'm quite happy that I get to pick this one first, or maybe last 1978, which several of my picks actually come from this year. All right, but this one is called Up in Smoke.

All right, interestingly.

And this well, Cheech and Chong are both, they meet up with each other, get to know each other, and they're going to do a band, you know, ballad, yes, battle of the bands in Mexico. I think they're heading funny, funny movie.

So hilarious.

I won't go through like parts of the movie, but they may be a couple. Like I just love when first when they're baked in the car and the cop pulls them over or walks up to them because they're already pulled over. And he's like, I license and registration. And she's just like, it's on the bumper.

Can I see your license, sir? What your license. Where's your license?

It's on the bumper, man, back there, man.

No, I mean your driver's license. License?

Isn't it on the bumper? Yeah. But my favorite line from that friggin' movie, other than uh Lardass, you know, which is uh Stacy Keats. Stacy Keats, like Hammer, right? It's hard hat. Hard hat. Okay, Lardass. But uh my one of my favorites ever is they go to see, I forget the guy's name now. It's a funny name, the character. And I think they're going to buy a bag of weed or something. He's like, you know, don't look at his neck. I wasn't looking at his neck, man. Yeah. And then the parrot kicks in.

I wasn't looking at his neck.

I wasn't looking at his neck. I wasn't looking at his neck, man.

I was gonna say, is that where the record came from? That's it.

Well, yes, actually, let me because they finish the the when they're at the battle of the bands, they do Earache My Eye, which is Banan, Banan, Bum, Bum, Bum. This is the one you and I always sing in the wrong spot, Donnie. But yes, they end with that. It's it's just a hilarious, hilarious movie, believe it or not, based on music, and I had to run with it. So it's a classic. Awesome pick, AJ. I like that sound.

And I was like, oh man.

The world's coming to an end. I don't give a care. Yeah. As long as I can have my limo and my orange hair.

I think just before the Battle of the Bands, when um Chong is in the van with the with the he's wingmanning for with the other girl.

Is this when it's on fire?

Yeah. No, no, it's not when it's on fire. I don't think yet. But she's telling him a story about her roommate sleeping with somebody, and he's got a leg cramp, so the van's bouncing up and down. People that are waiting outside of the battle, the bands are like, yeah, buddy, go and jump out of here. He's got a leg cramp. She had the most obnoxious voice, too. But it was just such a beautifully done, hilarious scene that they just don't, nobody does stuff that funny anymore.

No way, not even close.

And it plays every time you crack up.

And uh just talking about that scene, Kevin. I don't know if anyone remembers, and I'm not gonna be able to do this for you listeners out there. It's not gonna sound right, and you can't see us. But with the one girl that is when the cop, I think, is in uh what's the word I'm looking for, asking her questions. I don't know why the word interrogating, thank you very much, and all of a sudden she starts going these huge lips making the stupidest face you've ever seen over and over. And it's like it was spectacular. It's like there's no humor anymore, man.

And those movies blend into me. Like, I can't remember which one. Some of them weren't so good. And I think people because you know, there are times when individuals are in a a crisis from cannabis and they're in like a paranoia, and it's like I always pull that from the movies like mellow man.

Mello.

Smell okay.

I can't remember the hanging out of turning music on mellow happen to be was that the one where they're in the restaurant and Pee-wee Herman is the waiter and he's under the table with him doing the blow?

It's like I'm not sorry, I took the money.

But they're decent guys, right? Don, AJ, Cheech and Chonk, they're not bad guys.

No, they're great guys. Why the question, though? I'm curious.

Well, maybe just I mean, my whole life. I mean, you knew them your whole life. You should know them as well as us.

Yeah, I was baked during that during the thing, you know. How about Cheech doing this one?

We got black pussy, we got white pussy, we have Mexican pussy. That's uh what is it? Till from dusk till dawn. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, they are both awesome. And from what I hear, Cheech especially does like a lot of charity work, and you know, Tommy Chong stuck through his whole life being an advocate for weed, that's for sure. Yeah, he did time. Yeah, oh yeah, he did time for Chong's Bongs, something that they would be, you know, be able to open a store for today.

Right. Yeah, exactly.

So effed up. Yeah, uh awesome, Dongo.

So number four to you. Cool. Um, this one I you know, I hope I don't take it from anyone. Uh, maybe not, but because I'm steal away, Donald.

We are gonna get you through this eventually because you always worry about stealing, and that is your main goal. I know because I'm I'm an empath.

That's all you're so in tune with the rest of us.

So this is an iconic movie, and I gotta talk about it in a lot of different ways, and other than just music, but it is it does have a music, it's a musical. I guess it could be classified as a musical, and it's the Wizard of Oz. Oh, yes, yeah. So it it's like the OG for so many things, but it's also uh obviously written by someone who did psychedelic mushrooms, uh and no, but the that's a sidetrack. But what I wanted to talk about this movie so much is one, it was iconic for the time, being amazing for technicolor and advances in cinema at the time. Watching a lot of shows now, there's a lot of references to the Wizard of Oz that are that are kind of creepy in a way, like it's like um the silo has a reference to the Wizard of Oz, Wandla. There's like a list of movies that have like why is the Wizard of Oz somehow intertwined into the plots of movies, which is interesting, you know? It's had so many spin-offs, obviously, the remakes of like Wicked, which was in Broadway, um, which is amazing. Um, I don't like the movie version, but I do love the Broadway. Anita Mendez was probably the first actress, but there's been uh uh you know, over the years, it's been like 20 years a lot of Broadway actresses, but there's been some cartoons like comic books. It's interesting that m both Marvel and DC teamed up on a Wizard of Oz themed show called the the Marvelous Wizard of Oz.

Um, that I did not, yeah.

Yeah, it's just it's a story that just has legs that goes in so many directions. Keeps on that is amazing to me. Yeah, yeah, and it's creepy, and it's it's one of those, like I don't want to get too too weirded out, but it's like it talks about another dimension, another yeah, trippy exist.

And I'm gonna actually say three things here quickly, Donald, because everyone finds this the most shocking thing in my life, a co-worker. I've never seen The Wizard of Oz.

You can't be serious.

I swear to God, I've never seen The Wizard of Oz. Wow, yeah, that's true. I still see hundreds of references of that movie from things I know about it, you know. So even if you didn't watch the movie, there's things that you know about. And last but not least is did you know that at the end? Oh, go ahead, Don. I don't want to cut you off.

No, I was gonna say in tying into Kevin's Pink Floyd the Wall, there's a thing out there where if you start the Wizard of Oz at the sign of the Dark Side of the Moon, right? Oh, is that what it's dark side of the moon? Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah. It still yeah, still ties in, yeah. And then it then it lines up with the movie, you know, like stuff like that. It's pretty cool.

But the the last creepy thing I wanted to say about it, because you led down that creepy road, is that I guess at the end, maybe one of you guys knows about this in one of the scenes. Like, I don't know if it was one of the crew members or one of the actors that supposedly hung themselves in the background, like for real. And it was on camera and they had to try to clip it out and stuff. And I don't know if that one was debunked, but it might have been.

I believe it has been debunked.

It was allegedly one of the little people, or what is the word now? I'm sorry. I apologize. Is it midget? Little person in me, but whatever. Um, but one of the lollipop killed, uh, hung themselves and was hanging in the back. And I believe that has since been it has been debunked.

He's talking about the actual movie. Yes, the actual movie movie in the movie.

One of the things that I find most interesting that I've read about it is that is supposedly he's talking because it was the movie was 1939. I can't remember when the book was written, but it was supposed to be talking about going off the gold standard. It was supposed to be talking about our financial system when we went from gold back to interesting in a creepy way. Absolutely, because of the Wizard of Oz, OZ being ounce for gold, right? Right, and then Emerald City, and you put on the glasses and everything's green, green for cash, and the man behind the curtain because fiat money is not real, it's not attached to gold. Rain cash. Why what's that?

Yeah, rain cash, it's just it's just ripe, it's ripe for stuff like that. Absolutely.

And there's a lot of weird stuff too. Like, I guess for the movie, um the guy that's in the um in the caravan that Dorothy sees on the side of the road. I guess one of the one of the costumers went out and got a jacket from a thrift store for him to wear, and he reached the actor reached into the pocket and he found a receipt of something that was uh L. Frank Baum's the writer of the novel. Yes. So there's oh yeah, there's there's like this whole nexus of weird shit connected to the Wizard of Oz.

Yeah, so that's where I go down that rabbit hole for it was a deep one number four.

For a number four, even and that is number four to you, Kevin.

Number four. I'm gonna go with uh again, another one of my absolute favorites, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not only was it a great movie, and where we were kind of like globally introduced to F. Murray Abraham, because we didn't know too many people that had a single letter for their first name before. Um Amadeus. That's Amadeus Amadeus.

That was a scratch of mine. I'm glad you took it.

Yeah, but Amadeus? What a great movie, and I I just I loved it. I've always been a fan of of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Um, love his his music, but the thing that struck me the most was Saliari, who is uh F. Marie Abraham's character and and the storyteller. He as a child, all and this is kind of the synopsis of the movie, as a child, all he wanted to do was worship God by creating beautiful music, and he never got anywhere beyond mediocrity. I mean, he made it to court composer or whatever else, but he knew in his heart that his music just wasn't that good, and then all of a sudden, Mozart comes along and it's it's angelic. I mean, the music that he wrote was otherworldly, like Van Halen today, right? Like, you know what I mean, or or in the 80s or whatever else.

I was gonna say Van Halen was never angelic, but let's actually go.

Well, no, it was but his his skill, his talent was otherworldly. He was leaps and bounds above anybody that was that was in the same game as him. But I just always identified with that sadness of Salieri that because I always loved music so much, and I was not gifted any skill. Me neither. I mean, 40 some odd years, and I I know three chords. I mean, and I can't even put them together like like Angus Youngman and make a career out of it.

Donnie and Mark got that talent. Yeah, right.

Yeah, on my screen, the two upper people, not so much, but but a great movie. Tom Hulse was great.

Yeah.

Jeff Jones, who was the uh principal Paris Bueller's Day Off, and he was also in um what was the other really big one that he was in? Was um Devil's Advocate. Yes, Devil's Advocate. He was in that. So yeah, just great actors, just such a well-done movie and and awesome movie.

Awesome, got me in to Amadeus, like you know, in a different way for someone my age that didn't know that type of music, brought me kind of into that world a little bit, and I thought that was cool. But I did want to ask this if he was Mozart, was Chopin like Randy Rhodes, like who was who was the nemesis?

Sorry about a Randy, as we never get to see what he turned into.

Oh man, and it would have been a fucking amazing movie. I think so. Unreal. All right, Mark.

Well, I'm going to a movie called Bill and Ted's Pogus Journey. Yes, I think in 1991. You had Keanu Reeves was in this, and uh Alex Winter was Bill. Hilarious. Reeves was yep, and uh William Sadler was probably my favorite actor, I mean, character, but that was the Grim Reaper. Ran out of luck on this movie. I mean, they were in hell. They were in hell, you know, and they had to play a you know, a game. What was the first game? That was Battleship.

J7.

All right. You have sank my battleship.

Then they played Clue.

I believe Colonel Mustard did it in the study with the candlestick. Sorry, Jeff, you lose. It was Professor Plum. I said Plum.

The third game. Um it's it's um it's oh, Connect 4. And then I think it was Connect 4, and then they played Toister. And he became such a nice guy. So one of the reasons I loved this movie, other than it being so fun with all the robots, and just oh, by the way, um, so George Carlin was in this movie, and uh it it was just so much fun. But the reason I wore this soundtrack out, I wore it out in my Chevy S10. The radio broke, everything I was gonna be on it. This comes this truck. You know, the one with like 82 inches of play in the stick.

But it was the Duke's a hazard truck.

Go on, and I would play it over and over and over and over, and I could keep saying over.

Yeah, I keep going.

You know, he had Slaughter on it, he had Joe Saturiani, we had uh uh Mason O'Mar, Swinger. Yeah, every time they thought of anything, they even the robots, even the bad buses, yeah, and uh you know, King Zex, and of course they finished with uh God games Rock and Roll. Do you buy kiss?

I was wondering if you're gonna run with that one.

Well, because it was the end of the scene, and uh and did you know that um the Grim Reaper is on a world tour? Yes it was just it was a fun movie, and Keanu Reeves was not exactly a well-known, I don't believe, at that point.

Uh he was getting there, but no, definitely not. I think that's like two years before Point Break came out, which I think might have been his. He did like that fucking basketball diaries, like a few disturbing movies that were actually really good, but yeah, maybe I'm wrong in my my timeline, but what happened to Alex Winter?

Sorry, Kevin.

Um Alex Winter He was in uh uh The Lost Boys for sure, but yeah, I think that was before Billy.

I think he went more into the production side of things. I think he he he did have a uh uh like a sketch show for a short period on MTV that was kind of funny, but a little too quirky, maybe for most.

Right.

Um but I have seen that he was uh involved in a lot of um I don't know so much direction, but creation and and production. Okay. Love the guy. I thought he was awesome.

Oh no, that was a great movie. I mean, you know, great in a fun way. I mean, obviously nobody's gonna put it in a the uh movie Hudson.

Against the Godfather.

Yeah, exactly. But I enjoyed it. Is that only that's on the count, you know what I mean?

Damn right. This is what's important to you. Um are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? So just uh before I move on, I have to bring up the Chevy S10 because no lie, Donnie and I both drove this truck when Mark would be raking and we'd be dumping leaves. And it you know how the in the Dukes of Hazard, when you watch the Dukes of Hazard, and they're like doing this while they're going straight down the road. You had to do that. So if I if you wanted to turn one inch to the right, you would have to move the wheel almost a full turn before it caught. Clockwise. So you could be you could drive straight down the highway like this. There was so much freaking.

Did you ever hear the backfire on that damn thing?

Oh, yeah, it was brutal. But that's $29.95.

I bought pay for that damn thing.

That play in that steering wheel will go down in Mark White, Donnie, and AJ history and David, of course. Yeah, but it was hilarious.

I know. I wish I'd had a chance to drive it. What can I say?

Oh man, it was insane.

You know what I bought after I got rid of the truck? My Shiraco. Your Chiracko.

You destroyed it, not me.

Right.

Oh, oh yeah, absolutely.

Your Chiracko. Where you would like adjust the mirror and it'd be like doom, it would burst.

It wasn't there when I bought the $2,600. I paid half for that, then you paid for the S10. So I win.

Yeah, well, I didn't take over your pavements after that.

I was I think that was the second least safe vehicle in the world after the corner. Well, the Pinto maybe was in that mix too, but yeah.

What the the Chiracco?

Shiracos were were yes, we're very, very high up on the dangerous vehicle.

Well, me and AJ survived, or AJ and I, I guess.

You did. You did. So against all we are luckily we because we never crashed it. All right. So that's number three to me. Another one that I'm actually happy I get to to be the first one to say, which I am certain, yes, Mark, you have the right face. Because I know Donnie and Kevin are not gonna have this one. And this is my second one from 1978. Oh, and that would be Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Heart.

Your number three pick.

Mark, please retort. I want to hear what you have to say about this now. Yes, my number three pick. What might your issue be with it?

Uh well, it was a good it was a good movie, wasn't it? Exactly.

Yes, this is not the uh the greatest acting job you've ever seen out of anyone.

We've got to get out of here. Leave it to me, Starchild. I'll bend these beams with my mind.

Not yours. Ours.

But about the importance of what these movies mean to me. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. Now, what am I here? Seven? I think I'm seven years old in seven.

Uh seven. Yeah, that's right.

So staying up until eight or nine o'clock, whenever this was kicking on, my older brothers forcing me into this band. Like, I could not wait. And then it's at an amusement park, you know, and an incredible soundtrack. I mean, back then the soundtrack is very different. They re-released it years later with all songs from the four solo, the 78 solo albums, which is very fun as well. I I'd have to watch them in a row to see which I cared for better. But oh man, hopefully you remember this, Donnie. But it was such bad acting. I'll never forget when Gene is like going down an alleyway after beating up all the security, and he hits this roof and he throws his arm up through like a hot dog stands roof and slices it in two, and it's like two seconds before the people doing the prompts lift it up, so it's like boom, and then yeah, it was so bad. Yeah, uh Peter Chris didn't, you know, they didn't use Peter's voice. Paul's acting was atrocious. It was bad. Yeah.

Well, AJ, what was the best song on it, though?

Ace didn't have to say much, you know. Well, I'm gonna get there, Mark, if I can finish my pick, but we'll go from there. And since Mark brought it up, of course, well, my favorite song actually is I Stole Your Love when they open up and they come down those platforms. Just great live kiss footage. But at the end, of course, based off Hotter Than Hell, they do a song called Rip and Destroy. When the kiss robuts come out that Abner Devon Abner Devereaux, who was the mad scientist who lived not just underground, mind you, but he lived way underground. And you'll see the movie, you'll get it. Rip and destroy. So instead of uh, you know, she looked good, she looked hotter than hell, blah, blah, blah. It was what was it, Mark? Well, obviously. To listen good.

We take it all we can't stand.

You got the power to rip down these walls. It's in the palm of your hand. Okay, you can't even sing with me for God's sakes. Rip anyway. Rip and destroy. Yes.

You know the hour's getting late. Rip.

Rip and destroy.

All right.

That was very a pathetic display by us. But wouldn't it be incredible? We didn't have a metronome.

We had no metronome. Get over it.

We had no metronome. If we did, you would have been about five seconds off. But whatever. It was a delay. It was incredible, boys. It was just a great fun movie to me. And it was important to me, which is why it's on my list. So that is now number three to you, Donald.

Cool. I gotta go with one that I've used in the previous cast. I can't remember what cast it was. It's another musical. And this one is near and dear to my heart. Watch it every Christmas time. And it's called Scrooge. And it's the Albert Finney Scrooge rendition of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol. It's got classic songs like I Like Life. Life likes me.

Life and I fairly fully agree. Life is fine. Life is good. Especially mine, which is just as it should be. I like pouring the wine and why not? Life's a pleasure that I deny not.

Essentially agree. Yes. It also has for those who love the human human race as much as I do. It's good I hate people.

Yes. I loathe people. I hate people. I hate people. People are despicable creatures. Loathsome, inexplicable creatures. Good for nappy, pickable creatures.

I hate people. That sounds more.

Bonnie, you weren't serious, and you said you love the human race.

I do love humans, but not always there's there's some challenges.

The smaller the numbers, the smaller the numbers, the more I like them. The larger the numbers of people, the less I like them.

Just a great great musical. You know, it's a lot of good songs and yeah, incredible.

Incredible movie. And you called me out on that when we did. I can't remember if it was a hodgepodge or a Christmas episode. You probably that one. That's the one I meant. Although the Mr. Magoo one was really good too. Magoo, you've done it again. This is incredible. Road hug. Road hug. Awesome. So do you cap for a tree?

All right. I'm gonna mix it up. And this is kind of odd for me because the it's a 90s movie and it's about music, and I'm not a big fan of 90s music, but the soundtrack to singles actually has great songs on it. I mean, I am not an Allison Chains fan, but Wood is a good song. I mean, Pearl Jam, I do, I do like a lot of Pearl Jam, but this song breathed. But uh Chris Cornell doing seasons, Paul Westerberg with the two that he does, Dyslexic Heart. Um, and there's even, and I know we've been talking about the lead singer for a while now because he's got his own uh interview show, but I never ever liked Smashing Pumpkins. But the song Down from that LP is just phenomenal. Hugely touching song and and just fantastic. So that one kind of like it's just outside for me because no, not my music, but great.

I had thought about that one only for the soundtrack was amazing. Like that soundtrack was amazing for that for that movie. And I did watch the movie, the movie was okay, but the soundtrack was great.

Oh yeah, yeah, it was it was fun for the time. I mean, you got you. I mean, I liked I liked Dylan's Matt Dylan's character as uh uh the lead singer of Citizen Dick. He was he was the quintessential dim-witted right singer of the band. And isn't there at one point, I think there's a scene where he's sitting at the table and Pearl Jam is the band, and he's talking about letting them go or something like that. He was so clueless, right? Awesome. Um, but a decent movie and a great soundtrack.

I will say this Corgan, Billy Corgan, is probably I think there's only about nine ep eight or nine episodes out thus far. It's fantastic, in my opinion, could be one of the best interviewers I've ever fucking heard. Oh, interesting. And that's because he doesn't beat around the bush. Like, even like people like Gene Simmons and you know, he had Sharon Osborne. Uh, he did Carrot Top last week, which was phenomenal, who is amazing, by the way. I'm a huge carrot top fan now. Just he doesn't F around, you know, like when they dodge the question, he like says, No, no, I'm asking you, you know, what you think. Like cuts him off and he's like, Fuck you, you're not dodging it. And I love that about clips.

I guess I'll have to watch more because I've seen clips of different ones. The only the most that I've seen is him talking to um Wolfie. I did not just seem to like keep turning it back on himself, and it kind of put me off. Wolf did or K or Corgan? Corgan did.

Oh yeah, he doesn't seem like that at all. Like he's also Wolf was also like the youngest in the group, so yeah, everyone else has been around longer than Corgan.

So I think it's trying to pull shit out of pull stuff out of Gene Stimmons.

He's trying to say I haven't I've only seen clips of that interview, like I said, and I haven't seen all of the Wolfgang interview, but what I saw did not No, of course. That's okay, didn't do it for me. So I'll have to I'm not writing him off yet. I'll I'll look more into it.

But Billy Corgan is not unlike uh Resnick, Trent Resnick, in that he does most of the stuff in the Smashing Pumpkins, doesn't he? Am I wrong?

I mean, I thought what does that mean, though, about liking him?

No, well, no, I'm just saying they have rotating band members. A lot of rotating session people.

Like David Coverdale.

Just fire you so I don't have to pay you.

Right exactly. No, it's not like that at all. I'm just saying that they they run the band like with an iron fist, but they have different musicians coming in. And it's basically the pumpkins are him. Exactly. I run the show. There's a lot of bands. That was my point.

Awesome. So that was Kev. So that is to you, Brad Hare.

Alright, I'm going with a movie that came out in 1984. And it was an unfortunate situation where a man came in, and this was a perfectly fine town. Canton was friggin' outlawed in this town. The town was peaceful. Everyone was happy.

This is a high school boy you're talking about.

I'm talking about Kevin Bacon in Footload. Yes. And John Lithgrow was trying to say that.

Lift Galact that capital punishment is a well-known detergent to crime.

Lift Gal. There's a Marky Bunker boy. No, it isn't. Chris Penn in the movie. That would be uh uh oh god, why can't I think of his name?

Chris Penn is his name, you gotta correct. Sean Penn's brother.

Well, yeah, thank you. And uh he had Lori Singer in it, and uh you know, I'm not the big fan of her, but we'll let that go. But he's trying to take all the uh crap out of this. What happened to it? It was a major accident, blah, blah, blah. Joking aside, Kevin Bacon brought dancing back to this the town of Beaumont. Yes.

I'm just angered with you, Mark, and you will know why in five seconds. It's also my number, my number two. So I can just continue but you finish what you're saying. Go on.

I don't have anything else to say. I know it was a big movie for AJ.

Yes, it was, and that would be my number two, boys.

And I'm glad you liked it because Valerie was so excited that I wanted to watch it, and she wanted to watch uh La Bamba last night, but it just didn't have time.

Is a movie to me that here's a perfect example of no one being able to be original anymore because it's one of the ones they tried to remake that absolutely sucked. You know, how about these people trying to do that? Go back and find movies that could have been good but weren't quite good enough, and remake those. Don't take the friggin' classics before you know it. Right.

Sorry to interrupt you. Great point.

Yes, pretty soon you they're gonna be remaking the Breakfast Club. You know what I mean? It's just something that should not be it doesn't need to be remade, right? It's perfect, right? Right the way it is. But this movie to me, we've talked about it in the past. Um, just all the soundtrack to me, you know, let's hear it for the boy, the the title track, just the whole friggin' thing is just uh holding out for a hero, you know, just the whole friggin' soundtrack to me is incredible and is very important to me. And the movie hit me in, you know, once again at an incredibly young age. Yeah, all the girls loved Kevin Bacon or Kevin Ham, but just you know, it really meant the world to me. And I literally I won dance contests because of this movie, right? And just it overtook my life for a short time. And that to me is what makes these picks important to us when they just they move you, if you will. I will leave it at that, but fucking foot loose, great pick, Mark.

The soundtrack to a period in your life, yes, perfectly. And I just want to give kudos to the king of all movie soundtracks, Kenny Loggins.

Yes, absolutely, yeah, definitely, yeah, incredible. Yep, awesome, Dongo. So that is number two to you.

All right, so this one is another uh musical that is iconic, hugely important to me because like I've watched it with my children and they love it. I remember watching it as a child and loving it, and it's the sound of music. Um it's just an amazing, you know, uh a Rogers and Hampstein classic that has it's endearing, you know, the songs are beautiful and it's a little cheesy, but you know, I love it.

And Julie Andrews at Donnie's Julie Andrews.

Okay, you know, she's gone on to multiple movies and and shows, and she's an amazing singer. But I I can watch that with my kids, and they just they're enamored by it. And you know, they're fun songs, they're they're you know, simple and list off some of the songs from that.

Oh it was Darny's first pick that I hate, so I was I could never get into it.

Start from the very beginning, a very good place to start.

When you read, you begin with A B C. When you sing, you begin with Do Rey Me. Do Ray Me. Do Ray Me. The first three notes just happen to be Do Rey Me. Do Ray Me. Do, Ray Me Fasolati. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.

Oh, there you go. There you go. That's what about it was Adel Edelweiss?

Edelweiss. Edelweiss. All I can think of is that Amazon show we watched.

Yes.

Yes. Great version of that song.

Yeah. The Hills are live. Yes, that I know.

Robin did that, I think, Mark, in high school. I think she was part of that play. Oh, nice. Okay, Dongo. So we are then to Kevin for two. All right. Is it me?

Yep. Oh, you're a pause. My word. Pause about it. My word. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with it. I mean, there's so many that I tried to walk away from because I I thought I'd be spunk. Like limiting other selections, but my number two is we're gonna talk about buttered sausage. Oh, what is it?

No, I still don't even know what that's from. It's on the list.

Even after like honey or the hell you were talking about.

Sorry. Oh, that is Gary Busey in his later years. And I don't know, it's hard to tell whether he's completely lost his mind or if he's just messing with people. Uh, but Gary Busey, I mean, the Buddy Hawley story was one of the first music rock and roll biopics. It's like it where it all started, and it was just so well done and such an iconic movie at the time, and and fun, and an absolutely fun movie. Obviously, the end was a downer, um, because it and and it had the exact same ending as La Bamba.

Really? Oh god, the coin twist. Well, of course, it obviously I just didn't know if they played it out the exact same.

No, no, no, but it was uh like I said, it's a great movie, still, still very watchable, great cast of people that you probably would recognize but not know their names, but just just a the fun, great movie, and like I said, one of the original, one of the very first biopic films um back in the 70s. So that would be my number two. Cool.

Wow, perfect. Did I skip me, by the way, guys? No, you did not skip.

No, because you blended into Marsh Footloose.

Yes. Oh, that's right, that's right. Right. Awesome. So I was wondering where that came from, Kev. I thought it was like an SNL skit because all I've heard of it is what Donnie put in the last episode about the buttered sauce.

Recently, he was being interviewed with somebody, and he just like they asked him a question. I think he was kind of like bored or offended by whatever they asked him. So he just went off on this on the other hand. I like buttered sausage.

Let's talk about your cable Ace Awards.

Let's talk about buttered sausage. Talk about buttered sausage, where it comes from, what it does, why is it doing what it's doing? Get it out of my face. What about buttered buttered sausage?

It's not your jam. It's not your thing. You don't like it?

It's not my jam. I don't buy jam, I buy honey, and I kiss it on the lips.

Well, are we gonna talk about buttered sausage? What is it? Where does it come from?

Fucking whack, John. All I look at him, all I can hear him saying is get me two, Utah. Get me two from point break when he's nice asking for the meatball subs. And man, do those look good. Awesome. Okay, brother.

All right, I'm going with a movie. Um, I have a bone to pick with it, one little bone to to pick with it, but it's Detroit Rock City. Just a great music, up and down, and I really have a problem with uh Mrs. Bruce, played by Lisa Shea.

Incredible.

I mean, she it reminded me back when I was a kid, and AJU remember. Of course. And you know, our parents were convinced that rock and roll is the devil's music. And this movie started out pretty much like that. And Mrs. Bruce tore up four beautiful kiss tickets.

No, she lit them on fire, man.

No, you're right. She too she I mean, she smoked like a 18 packs a day. Lights it up on fire. Yeah. Lights it right up. But the theme was is basically trying to get kiss tickets. One of the guys, you know, he screws up, he goes down, he knows the answer to the question, goes to a payphone. This is back in the 70s. That's what it's based on. And he goes on and answers everything right. It was the the KISS members' real names. And what does he do? They gets to leave his name and number. And they're so excited. They go into this KISS show, they get there, they go to the radio station, like, huh? You never left your name. And then they go on through all these weird ways to get in. And it I'm not gonna get too much into it. I think AJ's gonna talk about it probably. It was a fun movie. The soundtrack was amazing. Rock and roll, all up and down the show, uh up and down the movie, and it was really fun.

Then Lizzie, I think, uh, yeah, it was an incredible soundtrack.

Yep.

Yes, it was, and uh, of course, uh the mom, though, was spectacular, you know. Jeremiah, I can still hear her just the the uh the kids were just so dumb, it was maddening, you know. But great soundtrack when they ladies' room with them going like the janitor that they called Elvis chasing him through, but great pick. All right, so Mark, you are incorrect as I am not taking that. We're moving to my number one here. It's already been taken, but I just don't think there's a way that I can not take Greece. 1978. This is I think my fourth pick, if not my third, from that year. But this movie was just incredible to me. It still is like if it pops on TV, I watch it until it's over. Great, great cast. Um, yeah, everything about it, it really takes you back to a time period, and for me to go back to the late 70s is just so important. But god, Danny Zuko and Sandy just picturing him being such an asshole when she first comes to the school and he didn't want to be trying to act all cool and it's maddening. It's like just shut the fuck up, man. She's hot, right? It's a great movie, and we already talked about how they're all like you know, 30 years old. I mean, what uh Kanicki there was from Taxi, right? Bobby from Taxi, I forget his name. It was amazing to me, and that's all I'll say about it. You kind of ran through it in the beginning, Mark. But I'm sorry, Abe.

Who out there?

No, don't be sorry. You picked it first. Just who out there force is first sometimes doesn't know this movie, you know. It's a clock.

I just I just wanted to throw in just a couple things that originally Danny's role was offered to Henry Winkler, yes, who did not want to get cast as a greaser, and then the thing that some people talk about or makes you think about is that movie came out in 78, and it was based 20 years earlier in 58, which means that if it came out today, it would be about 2005.

Right, exactly.

And nobody is waxing poetic about 2005, no, it's just so strange how I mean you the styles, the the the traditions, the yeah, you know what I mean?

There's such contrast between 70 and 10 yeah, it's a huge contrast between the 50s and the 70s, right? Huge, yeah.

But they both had they both had distinct styles and everything. But what do we have in the 2000s? Well, that's what I'm saying. I don't see anything. It's Kevin's grade.

Yeah, if you walked into 1978 dressed in the 50s style, you people would be shocked. If somebody walked past me today dressed in 2005 style. I would have no idea that there's a difference. No, exactly. Absolutely would not. Right. You have to go back to the 90s with like the Jenko pants and whatever clown clothes they wore back then.

Right? Yeah.

But a great movie. And I agree with you, AJ. I don't care what my friends say. If Olivia Newton John wanted to date me, I'm losing those guys.

Exactly. All right, boys. What do they say in Goodwill Hunting? I gotta see about a girl. What did you say to him?

Just slid my ticket across the table and I said, sorry guys, I gotta see about a girl.

Right. All right, that's one to you, Dungo.

All right. So I have to keep this on my list. It was my number one. Like Kevin, when he brought up this topic, it came there was the first movie that came to my mind, and it was Crossroads. Yep. Um I love that movie. Loved it. I knew it was your number one. Oh, yeah. It was I I loved it. The Joe Seneca, the actor, the character, I loved his character, you know, like everybody knows.

Muddy Waters invented electricity.

Right.

That was was it Willie Dixon? Was that the character you played?

Yeah, yeah. Awesome. Love that. Love that. The the the guitar fight in the in the ending was I love that. Amazing. Yeah. Head cut in the guitar. Everybody's going to be heads cut.

Then you can go. Who's next up there?

Who's coming on up?

Who's gonna get their head cut? How about you? Chicken boy.

Oh my lord. What shall I do?

Yeah.

Oh Willie Brown. Willie Brown. That's the one. Yeah, Willie Brown. Oh.

No, I just I love that. I love the crossroads. That was a great movie. Incredible. And yes, Jenny Gertz had nothing to do with Ralph Macchio. That's the only issue with that movie. Right. Like he didn't have anything to do with her. Nor should he have.

That's the fantasy part. But he did it. He got it.

And it's he is a famous guitar player.

That's the thing. You play the guitar, you get the girls. Why is he with her? You know. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Yeah. Yeah. It's because he could play the guitar. So anybody out there that's you know, listening, you know, practice.

Exactly.

Get the broads. I hate to quote John Cougar Mellon camp, but forget all about that macho shit. Yeah. Learn how to play guitar. Absolutely. I already got the bigger. All right, Kevin. It is I, and I cannot believe this was. I I was like, I didn't think this would be available. I think it I thought it would have been beaten to death. I almost forgot it. The Blues Brothers.

Yeah. We hated the movie. I'll let you go.

You hated the movie?

I still can't even watch it.

Oh my god, I'm signing off. Bye.

Yeah, I know. I don't have to lose my number. We have to it's mustard and ketchup, Kevin. You go.

Nope. If you don't put tarnished sauce on your fish sticks, we don't.

Well, they have some of the greatest musicians in that movie. It was all about, you know, the whole, we've talked about this before, the crusade that Aykroyd was on to revive the blues and to bring those guys, the dudes. I saw an interview with him, and they somebody offered them, it was like what cost them like $10,000 just to buy the rights to all the songs, the old blues songs that they used in the movie. And he was like, No, we're not gonna do that. And it brought all those people back, and those blues guys that didn't have anything lived out the last of their years in luxury because Akroyd being that kind, standing up for their shit. Yeah, and and not like you said, he could have easily bought all of the rights to all of it and left those guys out in the cold. Give them, you know, like they gave Robert Johnson a hooker and a bottle of whiskey. I mean that, and that's a true story with Robert Johnson. He's he really he didn't create the blues because it existed for many years, but he was the first one to sit down and do, I think it was two or three days of recording, which was the crossroads and and pretty much the the basis of blues, and that's what he got for the recording. He didn't he didn't get rich, he didn't get anything, he got a bottle of whiskey and a hooker. Right that was that was it, and and I think he was cool with that at the time. I didn't know what it was gonna turn into, but um just a great movie, so many great cameos in there from Frank Oz to John Candy, who plays the who plays the head of the and I just I love the scene when he sits down in the theater at the end and he's talking to the waitress, like orange whip? So he starts looking around all the other guys and said, Orange whip, orange whip?

Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip, orange whip, three orange whips, orange whip.

So I tend to do that when I'm out with a bunch of people who are orange orange whip? Orange whip? But just fantastic movie, great on every level. Carrie Fisher was awesome as the ex-wife or shunned shunned girlfriend with the bazooka and the flamethrower.

Audience, listen to these freaking nerds. I said Carrie Fisher was on Battlestar Device, and they all went silent.

They went silent.

I think this is Mark trying to give a bad mark joke right now.

It wasn't a bad mark joke, it was you nerds getting offended by me saying she wasn't on Star Wars.

I know it could have been exactly a bad mark joke. All right, I it could have been more I need to watch that, Kev, with um a musical mind point from it. And because what you just said about it puts it into perspective, yeah, where I'm just watching it from my point of view, is a bad comedy, not even thinking about the music.

Yeah, they they had a blues, they they were doing revolutionary blues right, right, and I need to watch it from that angle, but they were tying it in with comedy, and it it was it was a weird dynamic because they were really trying to like highlight the blues. That's my point. Exactly.

So I need to watch it from that angle. But it was a it was a thrill because you get to see John Lee Hooker, you get to see um right, but I'm just looking at Belushi and Aykroyd trying to wait for them to be able to do that.

But then on top of that, the guys that were in the band with them, every single one of them is a legend. Matt Guitar Murphy, Donald Duck Dunn, um Lou Marini, I mean, just all of them are just legends in their own right, and they were the band. And it's just funny thinking about, you know, that they were hugely successful, and they were playing a role of what pretty much every other musician that didn't make it was going through. You know, the guys get out of prison and we're putting the band back together, and they're riding around. Here they are, you know, late late in their careers, and they're riding around the back of a Cadillac with a you know, bunch of gear strapped to the hood, playing, playing at a at a honky tonk bar. Perspective can mean a lot. Bottles of glass thrown at them, you know, glass bottles thrown at them playing playing rawhide.

Okay, we gotta figure out something these people liking fast. Remember the key from Ramahide? What key? Hey, good country key. Ramahide and A.

Right, yeah. So I need to like look at it from that angle. I think that's important. Oh, absolutely. All right, Mark, you are finishing us up.

All right, well. Bring it home. Uh the sequel to Eddie and the Cruisers, it's called Eddie and the Cruisers. Eddie Lives. I've watched this movie probably 40 times, and I can recite it constantly. I've I have a double tape. I've watched the original movie once, and I've watched uh the second movie 40 times or whatever, and I can recite this damn movie, and you know, it was just a great movie. It's so much fun.

It's a great movie, Mark. Absolutely. Just yeah, go on though. I want to hear your your heart feel of the movie, not the not the scenes.

Well, I'll tell you what that my heart thinks about this movie. Every time I get in a musical slump, I put this movie on, and it makes me so happy. Yes, it makes me want to come right back into the music room and shred on my guitars.

Now that's what we want to hear right there. Right. You know?

It makes me so happy.

Dad loved both of them, the first and second. Dad actually watched Eddie Lip. Was that the one with Credence? Like he would always sing the songs from the movies, but didn't Credence have something to do with the first one?

Oh, I mean the the real band is no, no, the real band is John Cafferty and the Beaver Band.

John Fogarty, thank you. That's what I was looking for. Oh, I thought it was John the Beaver Brown band, is what I thought.

Yeah, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Yeah, him. John Fogarty is a lot of revival.

Yeah, see, if you'll let me finish, I would have come up with it, but you pencil night geeks, don't let me finish.

Awesome.

Awesome, boys. Well, we're gonna end this wrap-up here. Mark, I thank you.

Have a great night, AJ. That was fun.

Yes, indeed. And Kevin. Thank you, AJ. Yes, indeed, Donald. It's always a pleasure. Thank you. And thank you, audience, for listening. We'll get this out as soon as we can. And I am gonna wrap it up with a few things for you, and that is our website, past times at 80shigh.com. That is the number 80, and then s. Uh email pta 80h at gmail.com. And then, of course, our new Facebook page, which is starting to get underway. People are joining in, and that is past timers at 80shigh.com. Or I'm sorry, just past timers at 80s high, if you will. Yes. But anyway, boys, lots of fun. Can't wait to do the next one. And we're gonna go.