Best Female Singers of the 80s, Ranked

Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. As always, we got another great one for you today. We are gonna do our favorite female singers, some ladies from the 80s and beyond, if you will. But anyway, as we like to do here at Past Times at 80s high, is get going right out of the gate. However, Kevin, do you have shout-outs this week?

I certainly do. Today we have some new friends in Malmo, Sweden, on the banks of the Baltic, looking over at Copenhagen. Nice zucchini team, maybe we've got Albertsville, Alabama, a little southeast of Huntsville, but not too far from there. And then all the way around the planet in Banda Asse, which is the northern tip of Indonesia. Ooh.

Yeah. All right.

Hello, folks. It's Tuesday here. Is it is it is it the Paleolithic era there? What is the I get confused on the international timeline.

And Copenhagen. Is that a chew, right, brother?

Well, they're looking at Copenhagen.

That's right. It's just northwest of Skull and southeast of Happy Days.

Awesome. Awesome. Dongo, today you have the honors. And I did want to say one thing though before we get rolling here. Because as I stated before, it is our favorite female singers, yes. I did not say vocalists. And by that I mean some of mine here may not be the greatest vocalists on the planet, but they have meaning to me, and I'm sure you guys took your own route or a similar route. Exactly. It is singers. So you don't go.

Yes. So I I'm going way back, kinda like the OG, and uh it's gonna be Sister Rosetta Tharp. Yeah. Like I said, she was kind of the OG, and I like the fact that she was also a guitar player, and uh she was doing like gospel music. Uh I liked how they described it uh sacred versus secular, but she would do place uh sacred music in dark places like like nightclubs and things like that, and uh you know, blues and and she's been like her guitar playing was she was one of the first to use distortion like with her guitar playing, and uh yeah, and uh also she was influenced to a lot of the British guys like Clapton and those guys. Um but just amazing. Uh some of her you know more popular songs, strange things happen every day.

All we hear church people say we are in the Hollyways, there are strange things happening every day on that last red judgment day when they drive you all the way. There are strange things happening every day, every day. Every day, every day.

Her soulful voice, her stage presence, happy, smiling kind of thing. I think you know she's definitely the OG and kind of influenced a lot of a lot of ladies after her. So awesome.

The godmother of rock and roll.

Oh well, let's see. She was born in 1915, and I don't think she got going until late 30s, 40s. Gotcha. She she played for a while.

Awesome. So definitely the godmother there. Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Sweet. Awesome to you, Kev. Yeah, she was definitely one of those blues artists that when she played it kind of went through you. You've you felt the you felt the power when she played. She was changing.

Sister Rosetta Tharp.

Tharp?

Yeah. So her her maiden name was Nubin, and she married a gentleman named Thomas Thorpe, but she divorced him, but then changed her name to Tharp.

Okay, well, that's a pretty cool name, Tharp, you know.

I love that Donnie started off in the land of blues. That's that's awesome. I started a little different. I started with Angela Trimble. She was a hell of a singer. She was at the first rap song that ever charted. Her band also did Punk New Wave as well as reggae. Uh she later changed her name to Debbie Harry when she was adopted at four years old. She sang for Blondie, obviously. She was, amongst other things, a dancer, a Playboy bunny, one of two on my list. She was a waitress at Max's Kansas City, where Max's Kansas City was kind of the not the opposite, but the same time as CBGB's was happening and that whole punk movement. So starting there as a waitress and then becoming the lead singer of a band, um, very cool. And she was just oh, you remember back in the day? She was hot, right? Debbie Harry. Oh, yeah. I mean, much easier by that name. A romancer. Yeah. Um weird, though, a little history, is that you know, she was adopted out of Miami. The her adoptive parents took her to Jersey. She later went back and found her birth mother, who was a concert pianist that opted not to have a relationship with her. Oh my god. Which seems kind of weird. You know what I mean? If she was a junkie and she opted not to have a relationship, you'd be like, okay, that makes sense. But I think a concert pianist is a fairly accomplished professional individual, and she's like, nah, I don't know. Thanks. Just seems weird, but who knows? People are fucking weird. Yes, yes. They are. And there's no telling.

No telling. No telling. Awesome pick, Kev.

All right, brother. Okay. I mean, I really regret that I can't pick this one number one, but I'm going with probably the best singer of all time. That would be Yoko Ono. The way that she could shriek. Okay, that was a joke, okay? Obviously. All right, so.

Before you go on, Mark, I just gotta say this. Have you seen the video of her and John Lennon playing with Chuck Berry?

Yeah, I think so.

Is that when she just She just so John Lennon's playing with Chuck Barry and she just starts in with her wailing? And Chuck just goes, Michael. What is the point?

Did she actually in her head think that she was talented? Or oh my God. And like anyone else would want to hear it, you know?

Right. Right. People just people, the wrong people didn't give her good advice. Like they were just like, You're good. You're good. Yeah, you're good. Yes, man. Right, right, right, right.

Lennon is a musical genius, but I questioned every bit of it. Once he started making records with her, I was like, does that no? Does he hear her?

She must have been really good in bed. Something, yeah. That's all I could think of. I don't know.

Anyway, so I have uh from the Miami Sound Machine, Gloria Estevon.

Don't you bite it, do you bat it, do that, gonna be.

Some of her notable songs, uh Rhythm is gonna get you. Conga and one, two, three. Come on, say baby, say you love me.

But six, seven times.

Yeah. There's something about her voice that I really liked, you know, it's just reminding me of uh I probably told the story. Me, Big Al and David. Uh Al's dad gave him tickets to the Miami Sound Machine show at the Hampton Beach Casino back in the day. Back then it was just like tables like at a restaurant or a big club, if you will. And uh gave us three tickets. We had no interest in going, really, you know. We had the worst seat in the house, but you know what? They were fun. They were a lot of fun to listen to, and I I just different kind of show that we we never would have dreamt of. Drumped. We never would have dreamed of going to. Dreamt, whatever. But yeah. Exactly.

Yeah, I mean we discovered too much, you know? It was a little Latin flavor to it.

Yeah, it was definitely Latin. And uh it was a fun night, and it's a memory I'll never forget, and I'll always cherish two of my best friends, my brother and Big Al, who have sadly both left us.

So awesome pick, brother. Alright, so this is to me, and I will be brief on most of my list here because I'm not the music savant. However, I'm gonna go with Pinky's sister, Leather Tuscadero, and that would be Susie Quattro. I just I feel like, and this is obviously not the grandmother or godmother, but I feel like she was kind of the start of the rocking punky like type of of female stars that you know saw her. She was very influential. She was a lot of fun in my eyes, anyway. Many of her songs, I'm sure people out there don't know her, but Stumble In was always really good. The wild ones. That's the one that really clicked with me. But she's on fucking happy days, so how couldn't I love it? Right, right.

Over here, leather. There she is now.

She was like that first leathery, punky, guitar laden lady. Tough girl. Yeah, yeah. Tough girl that that brought it. I think her influence made her make this list in my eyes. Okay.

Absolutely. I was just gonna throw in there that it's funny that she gets most notable for stumbling in, which does not represent her musical style at all.

Our love is a lie. And so it begins. Foolishly laying our hearts on a table, stumbling in.

Ah, yeah, right? Exactly. It's a balody kind of thing, duet, and it's not representative of who Susie Quattro is, but not even close. I'm sure it doesn't hurt paying the bills for her.

Yeah exactly. There you go.

All right, you don't go. All right, yeah. So I kind of went all over the place. And like you said, AJ, not necessarily vocalists, but some are vocalists on my list. But I had to go with this one. I've used her in previous casts, I recall. Um she's the voice of my childhood, so it's Julie Andrews. Had to had to have her in there because of the sound of music. I love that movie. Mary Poppins, the Disney stuff she did. She started in in Broadway with my fair lady. Um, she just got an amazing voice and stage presence, and like I said, she's the voice of my childhood, so I had to had to have her.

I think that was your childhood. Yeah, right, right. Yeah. Did she give you a spoonful of sugar?

Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The medicine go down, medicine go down. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way.

No, wait, that wasn't that wasn't. Was that Mary Poppins? I'm sorry.

Yep. Yep. I mean, the the uh sound of music was like an every year must-watch thing for me and in my household, and and just I love I love her voice and those songs.

Awesome.

All right, Kevin, that's off to you. Well, AJ, you had the perfect lead-in for me because my number six pick actually fashioned her looks, her style, everything after Susie Quattro. That is, of course, Joan Jett. Oh, yeah. She the haircut, everything, the leather, all of that. She was uh Joan Marie Larkin was her given name. Anybody that questions her being rock and roll, at 13 years old, she took guitar lessons and quit because the guy was only teaching her folk music songs. She was like, I'm I'm out of here, I'm done. Then, of course, later on, not too much later on, I think at 16 years old, she joined up with uh Sandy West and started the Runaways. Mickey Steele was with them for a short time before she went with the band that will probably be mentioned later. I'll say a quick bangles. And um, they opened up for Cheap Trick, the Ramones, Van Halen, Tom Petty. 76, she's in England, and she hears the band The Arrows on their TV show doing I Love Rock and Roll. She then cut a demo of that with Paul Cook and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. It's out there on an album. Uh it was released in '93. It was it was recorded in like 79. It was God, I can't remember the album, but it's out there. You can you can find it.

I saw him dancing there by the record machine. I knew he must have been about 17. Playing my favorite song. I could tell it wouldn't be long for the news of me. Yeah me. And I could tell it wouldn't be long for the news of me. Yeah me. Sing it in the boom.

I'm in the triple baby. I'm in the boom. I'm in the trip baby.

Smile so uh she also produced the Germs single album, which is the their only album, with uh Crash Darby and Pat Schmir, who later ended up with Nirvana Pat Schmir. That's right. Well, yes, that's the play on the name. Bad name. Something stabies was was one of the commons. That's what I love about the punk scene, is there was so much of that crazy shit happening. But yeah, it's just I love that connection that that you know that that Joan Jett produced an album for a punk band that later on the guitarist was with Nirvana. It just like bizarre. Yeah, crazy shit. Yeah, she was bad. She had oh shit, hell of a hell of a crazy life. And then Kenny Laguna, that that, you know, was her producer from like day one. I just recently saw an interview with somebody that did some work with her, and he like keeps her in a closet. She doesn't have a life. They were recording something, and and Laguna left her at the studio, and he says, Let's go down. There's a food truck down at the end of the street, and she was like, Oh, I can't do that. She literally thought she couldn't go out in the street because this guy keeps her chained up or something. I don't know. So it's like a weird life. She lives with him and his wife and has like no life, which is pretty sad. Or at least that's what this person was saying. I have no evidence of that at all.

Wow. Very weird. Um, one thing I wanted to say real quick on that is I can't believe how many people out there don't realize that that song, I love rock and roll, is a cover. Right. Like, yeah. I mean, it's there's a lot of those where the artists that covered it are more famous for it than the original. And New York Groove's a perfect example. Right. Gotta tie it to kiss. Good one. You know, with ace.

So yeah, little Susie. Tesla's little Susie. Yeah. Incredible. Really? And a lot of that is like yeah, British, British releases that we never heard over here. And so these guys, these bands go and tour over in Europe and they hear these songs that that we don't really hear in the States, or if they did come to the States, they were very small.

Yeah.

So yeah, pretty cool.

Awesome. Very cool.

Awesome. All right, Brother Mark. All right, yeah. I'm going with Stevie Nicks. And naturally. Yeah. I I love her voice. It's very different. Yeah, obviously, from Fleetwood Mac, and she did solo stuff too. Yes, very sexy voice, I would have to agree. Born on May 26th of 1946. And um some of her songs are Rihannen, really cool song, Edge of 17. And then two songs I'd like to get into the lyrics just a little bit. Stand back in the middle of the room. I did not hear from you. It's alright, it's alright, you'll be standing in a line. Standing in a line. Then you have rooms on fire where baby, I'm just thinking that the rooms are all on fire every time that you walk in the room. Magic all around you when you if I do say so myself, I've known this feeling way more or much longer than I've known you. That's what it is. Okay, which tells me that the women has been ridden more than the green line. Okay? She gets around. Stop dragging her heart around. Yeah, I stopped. But I I I butchered the lyrics, okay. I didn't write them all down, but I every time I hear her on the radio, I really want to hear it. It it makes me kind of happy, her voice. It just There was no question she was coming up.

Absolutely such an amazing singer, and every time I hear her, I think of my dad's how does that woman sing like she's got a vibrator in her throat?

Yeah.

Oh, I know, I know. You know, just a very unique musical genius.

That's a great analogy, though. Yeah, it's he wasn't wrong. That's not where that goes, you know.

There's other ways to obtain vibrato.

Yeah.

All right. So that's six to me. I had to pick her because I love her for some reason.

Do you want to talk about some of those feelings?

I love you.

Obviously, you don't know me.

I love you so much.

Thank you. And I will take that as a feeling that you have of comfortability with me.

It's more than comfortability. I fucking love you.

Okay.

I'm just thinking about our life together. I feel like I'm walking on a cloud. My penis is tingling right now.

That is so off-putting. You're not feeling this? In no way, shape, or form do I feel any feelings of intimacy towards you in any way whatsoever.

And that's Nina. I mean, obviously, everyone knows ninety-nine luft balloons or red balloons. Just incredible. I know she's come up in the past as well. Yeah. But you keep me hanging on, another one of her big ones. And I actually had some uh A cassette of her back in the day. I think there were like two songs on it in English. The rest was German. Yeah. And I still loved it. You know, so I have no fucking clue what there's what she's saying, but I loved her voice. She was hot to me. I enjoyed it. Nice.

When you hear lyrics in German, like David used to play this song Unholy, and it was in German, it's like, oh my God, that sounds kind of evil. And of course, there's this band called Rammenstein, I think it forget it. It's irrevolent. Irrelevant.

Whatever. It ain't German to the conversation. Germain. Oh, listen, Emily Post. If you correct me one more time.

Okay, okay. That's what they're called. They're cool. Yeah. Yeah. And he sp sings in German. It's like, oh my God. Yeah. The one that starts with a whistle. Yeah. But anyway.

How about the the keyboard player on the fucking treadmill?

Yeah, right.

He's on a treadmill the whole time. Those guys are like are huge. I mean, they put kiss to shame when it comes to a stage show.

They own Romstein millions of dollars into their stage show and other bands rent it from them. It's so huge they rent out pieces of it to other bands. There's like it looks like they turn the whole stadium into like Mad Max basically. Towers of Fire. Yeah, exactly. It's bizarre. Um what I was gonna say though, AJ, that you brought up about I think it's Nana. Nina? Nana. Anyway. It's spelled. Imagine because like she sang the English version, she probably had no idea what she was saying. Somebody gave her their word. No, really. And it's like you think of you think of being a a singer, and you have to do international versions of the songs. And it must be so difficult to like have to sing something in yeah, right. I have I have a charting hit in in the US, and now I have to resing it in German, which I don't speak, and try to figure out where, you know, because I'm sure the words don't all translate to the to the melodies, right?

What's interesting is how do you make it sound good? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, German, you know, like um is very close to English, actually. Like obviously the languages are completely different, but it's I read somewhere or heard somewhere that German is very similar to English in in in its um how it was developed. Inflections and Latin languages, you know, like Italian, Spanish, French, you know, the Latin languages are very similar, you know. Um and German and English some loosely related somehow. Yeah. Right.

I'm really proud to be American, but I gotta tell you, as far as us speaking different languages, we really suck. I mean, I can't imagine any of us trying to reverse that and taking 99 red balloons and then trying to sink it in the German translation. I don't think we could do it.

Well, Lee Greenwood.

We put it into AI, maybe I but that doesn't count.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you think about it, it's like going from France to Spain is like us driving to New York or something. You know what I mean? That's true. Very good. All those languages are there, so you just kind of you know pick it up.

Off do you dungo. Okay, so this gal, very cool, um, very unique voice. I wouldn't say her voice is like, you know, amazing, but it's definitely unique and that makes it cool. And it's Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, aka Jefferson Starship, aka Starship. And of course, you know, one of her most famous songs is is White Rabbit, you know.

One makes you look and one too makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all.

Go ask when she's ten feet tall, and maybe you know, you know, it's just an amazing tune about you know, drugs, basically. Uh in concert. They were so but you know, uh Don't You Want Somebody to Love is another classic song from the earlies, uh 60s, 70s. Um, but we built the city was kind of like popular during the 80s, and she she changed with the times, and and her voice changed with the times, and she just had a really cool, unique voice and stage presence, and she's a unique individual. She's also an artist, which is kind of cool. Nice don't go. I like the last name Slick.

I always thought that Grace Jones should have been Grace Slick. Yeah, the one that that was in uh um Conan.

The destroyer. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I also liked better.

Yeah. I just thought, like, wow, she looks like a Grace Slick to me.

Was that because of her sweaty body? Possibly. She looks slick.

It's mine, and I'll clean it as fast as I want. All right, Kev, run with it. All right. Now, my number five. I've talked about her before. Bit of a crush for me. I'm talking about Dale Bozio from Missing Persons and also working with Frank Zappa, which is where she kind of got her start. I don't know, AJ, have you seen the Billy Corgan interview with her? I have not. Okay, so there's a just the most bizarre story. She had done some some voice work for Frank Zappa and was staying in a hotel because her cousin had asthma and had to go to the hospital. They checked into the hotel, like maybe not on the top floor, but they were a couple stories up. These guys were knocking on the door, showed a fake badge, came in, tried to attack them. She ended up falling out of the hotel window. Oh, geez. And was in a coma, woke up two weeks later on Zappa's couch, which I'm like, hospital, maybe? And new units sitting there playing harp. And she ends up going back and spending like a year or so in the hospital. She came from from Massachusetts, Medford, Massachusetts, to recover, and they didn't think she was gonna live. But she didn't. She ended up going back and doing work with Zappa again, met Terry Bozio, who ended up being her husband till like 86, and they started missing persons with Warren Cucarulo and the gang. Uh she she was the other Playboy bunny. I mentioned there was another one coming. But such a unique voice, and that's kind of what my picks are. I was I I picked like in in setting up, I I picked like 50 plus women that that singers that I loved. But I'm not a huge by nature, I don't love female vocalists. The ones that just they all sound the same, like the breathy singer songwriters in the 90s. It's like, how could you tell one from the other? Or the ones that do the you know all the inflections and the scales and whatever. I can't think of her name, but the the skanky blonde girl there that was big for a while. Yeah. Fill in whoever, and I don't have to be responsible for calling anybody out. Um but that's what I loved about Dale Bozio, is she's got such a unique, she's got that Boston accent even when she sings, and then she got those high-pitched squeaks in there in those songs, and it's just like wow. She was living in Ossipe. No way. Oh, no way. Right, like right down the road, and and AJ and I have talked about this. I'm not big into, you know, being a fan. Performers are people too, and they need their space and whatever. But I think I might have gone out and hung out at a coffee shop just to see if she covered it. She was just such an influence on me, and and and you know, my Zappa love and and and the bands that she was in and the people that she connected with. She's in pretty tough shape now. They did a GoFundMe for her last year. She had some some health issues, but still going strong and back in Medford Mass, and God bless her. Wherever you are, Jale, I love you.

Awesome. Yeah. I love that. That's personal, man. That's fucking great.

All right, Mark. All right. Well, I'm going with Jan Milson from the band Brain. Actually, Ann Wilson from the band Heart. Poor attempt at a Mark joke, okay? But um, I mean this this woman's voice is undeniable, probably certainly in the top ten most powerful rock voices. Just incredible. And um, I've always loved the song Magic Man.

Listen to the smile.

You know, there's rumors, or there used to be that it was about Charles Manson, which she denies. It's about a boyfriend of hers or whatever, Barracuda, crazy on you. I mean, it kind of goes right through you. That's how powerful her voice is.

So Oh, I love Barracuda. Yeah.

Yeah. Great. I mean, and it and her sister is a great guitar player and just incredible band. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she had the beauty. Absolutely amazing. And I'm sure she'll probably come up, so I'll probably just keep my my comments. Yeah, exactly. Yes, I'm gonna keep my trap shot, AJ.

Shut nip. Shut up on 78. No, shut up, shut up.

Shut up. Shut up! Oh my site me. You don't think I'm the kind that would keep labbin'. Some people never know what to stop. When I'm told to shut up, I shut up. Shut up, shutnip.

Shut up, rabbit. All right, so that's to me. And I'm gonna go with Patty Smith with a Y, which a lot of people know her as Patty Smythe, but according to Google and everyone else, it's pronounced Smith. So I'm going with her. I mean, who doesn't know the warrior? Uh, goodbye to you. I mean, it takes me back to the eighties. It takes me back to the roller rink, which was discussed recently. She was awesome. One thing that I did want to mention about her is that she actually was offered the lead singing spot in Van Halen. Interesting. What I find very funny about before Sammy, you mean? Yeah, I think around the same time. Yeah. Okay. That she denied it because they were all way too fucked up. You know, so can you imagine? I I don't know. I that's almost I mean, like with Sammy Hagar, he was coming in right after he was kind of taken off as a solo artist. He was. But with Patty, it's like I don't know, you you already kinda had some songs out there. That's a big deny, you know? No, I'm not gonna do it.

Imagine what that would have sounded like though.

Oh, right.

I think it might have been pretty cool. Yeah, right?

I'm sure it would have been. Fucking Eddie mixed with her and the harmonies of Michael Anthony, just holy cool.

Some of those songs wouldn't have sounded good coming out of a woman's mouth. Might have been a little bit reached down between my legs, tease this feet back. What's she talking about? Yeah.

I don't know. That sounded kind of good to me. Coming from a woman. Right.

But anyway, I'll leave it at that and go to you, Dongo. Okie doke. This is another one uh that I recall from my childhood. Um my mother used to play her albums quite often, and it's Karen Carpenter. Just an amazing, like indescribable voice. And it's may seem simple, like how she sings, like almost how jazzy kind of style, but yet it was very complex. And she did have a range, but she just had this like I don't even know how to describe it, as like a tenor, or you know, how you would put it into a classification, but it's so crystal clear, smooth, deep, warm voice.

What I got they used to call the blue.

Nothing is really wrong. Feeling like I don't belong, walking around, some kind of lonely cloud.

Rainy days, Mondays always get me down, died at 32 from complications associated with the anorexia, body dysmorphia stuff. Awful. Um she lived kind of a tragic, uh she must have had like um manic depressive as well. But and that I think came out in her her song, but she was also a drummer. She was she loved to play the drums, and she was very petite and and so she couldn't be seen, so that's why they kind of moved her out behind the mic. But she was a originally a drummer by trade. Really? Um yeah, an incredible drummer.

I think it was was it was it Bonzo or Keith Moon that they asked him, oh, what's it like to be the greatest drummer in the world? And he said, Ask Karen Carpenter. Oh, that's it. Seriously, was that better than me actually?

Yeah.

Incredible.

Yeah. So, you know, some of her songs like Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days Mondays, just you know, a beautiful, just beautiful voice.

Okay, Cab, that's to you. All right. Well, I'm kind of sticking in the same era here. I'm gonna go with Frida, who had a very brief solo career in the 80s. From Abba. But I from Abba. Frida. Yes. Oh, sorry. Yeah, from ABBA. Yeah. So and and people and you look at it, it's like, how can Frida be from ABBA? Because ABBA is all their names, but her name is actually Annie Frid Lingstadt. So the uh the nickname for Anna Frid is Frida. And she did have a fairly big hit um with something's going on.

I know it won't be long.

It won't be long before you gone. There's something going on.

And this was like 82. I love that song. Yeah, it's a great, great tune. And maybe from the drums, you can tell in the intro that it was produced by Phil Collins at the same time that he was killing it with Genesis. His solo albums were out, and he produced a great album with Annie, with Trita. Just I just love that song, and obviously her vocals. I mean, everybody, you can joke about ABBA just like people joke about the Carpenters. We're talking musicians here, songwriters. These people were genius. Like I said, you can you can laugh at Abba if you want, but but those the the writing of of Benny and Bjorn and the harmonies, the vocals that that Annie and and um Agna Agnatha that's tough to say. Because in the States you're Ag Agatha, but I guess in in the in the Nordic regions it's Agnetha. But I mean they just so such crazy harmonies and and I've said it before and I'll say it again. I always love the fact that the the cover band for ABBA is called Bjorn Again.

Bjorn again.

I mean, like you said, make fun of ABBA, but you go to any wedding across the United States and dancing queen is played, and people are fucking flooding the dance floor, dancing their ass off to that song, you know. Yeah, and it's from age to eighty, you know? Yeah, yeah.

You know, awesome. And I'm gonna jump in and say something too. Yeah, because they literally created their own building in I think in in the UK, and they're doing the avatar thing that KISS is planning to do because now basically one of the dudes from ABBA owns Pop House and KISS.

Oh god.

But they that thing has been sold out from day one. Like people and guess what? Kiss is gonna be sorely disappointed when they realize they're gonna sell it out for like two years until people are sick of it and no one's ever gonna go again. But ABBA just I mean, people are going to the thing, it's supposed to be fucking incredible, and it's not like the the Dio hologram where they just put a hologram on stage with a band. Like this is supposed to be like next level, like the spear shit. Right. So be awesome to check out.

Yeah. So cool. Yeah. I wish they would make one East Coast. That's all. I love Vegas and I get it, but it would be nice if there was one in like Atlantic City or something.

Yeah. Where it's not gonna cost us a fortune to go see.

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You've gone back in time. This is Pastime's at 80s high.

All right, Brother Mark, that's number four to you.

Okay, well, this is the only singer that I'm picking all day that's actually younger than me. Her name is Jewel. Jewel Kilcher, a kind of a folk singer. She was big in the 90s. She was born on May 23rd, 1974. Very unique voice where, you know, it I don't know how to really explain it. Um, if you listen to her songs, Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant for Me. Foolish Games, Pieces of You, Pieces of You is kind of haunting in a way where we're forced to reach into our own souls.

She's an ugly girl doesn't make you feel safe.

Ugly girl. Cause she's pieces of you.

Because I mean, who the hell are we to judge other people, kind of thing? And she's she was just uh soulful. I think is that a good way to put it in the case. You know, she's from Alaska, and that's a rough place to grow up, and she's hot.

She is saying Huh. Is it the mean streets of Anchorage? I know that's not what you meant, but that was the vision that came to the show.

It brings me back to a very special time in my life, the mid to late nineties. I you know, just a lot of good times. And uh it's a that's why we do it. Yeah. The the association kind of thing, but you know, very different type of uh musician that I would actually get into normally. So that's my number four. Four?

Cool. All right. Well, mine is an MTV staple, and I'm gonna go with Annie Lennox for the arithmetics. Nice. And we could not avoid her and talk about a girl with a friggin' man haircut that I always wanted to bang. I thought she was sexy, and just what great songwriting and great um uh execution in it. Just she was awesome. I mean, fuck. I mean, okay, okay, I guess I'll go through them. I mean, we know sweet dreams. Would I lie to you? Here comes the rain again, blah blah blah.

Sweet dreams are made of things. Who am I to disagree? Travel the world in the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.

Every hour you'd see one or two of her videos. She was a mainstay of the 80s for sure. Yeah.

And still No More I Love You's. Wow.

The vocal range. I mean, how would you classify the arrhythmic music?

I I new wave ish pop. New wave pop. Yeah.

That's perfect, I actually I think. Yeah.

Right? But it was just great. And I still love her. Absolutely.

She was. You were right. She was very sexy with the red dyed buttons.

I still prefer hair.

Well, yes. Yeah. Well, you know, it's a thing. But anyway, yeah, there's one video where they show her like looking in a mirror and she's got a big blonde wig on. I'm like, oh, that's that's there you go. There's your look right there. Try that. If not for you, then for for me. Exactly.

All right, Dongo. All right. So I slid into my background here in the background. Uh Tina Turner. Gotta have her got some pipes, you know. Tina could belt it out. Um I loved it. I loved her stuff with, you know, with Ike. Unfortunately, they weren't having the best of relationship at the time. But man, she could sing like Proud Mary is just a vocal masterpiece of how to really belt it out.

You come down to the river, you're gonna find some people. You don't have to roll it, you got to run it to people on the river.

Um amazing. You know, she's a great actress, too. You know, in the 80s, she was in the some of those acts, yeah beyond Thunderbolt and stuff. Um but some of her songs in the 80s, We Don't Need Another Hero and What's Love Got to Do with It, and all those kinds of songs were coming on in the 80s, very much like the rhythmics, you know. She was big in the 80s, but yeah, T.

Couldn't avoid her either. Yeah, yeah.

Love her rasp. Like I love a powerful, yeah, you know, raspy voice. Awesome.

Yeah, private dancer. That was actually written by Mark Knoffler from Um Dire Straits. Oh, cool.

Knoppler. Yep.

Knoffler. But you said you know, you said Proud Mary. What I always remember with Proud Mary is I don't know if it's the recorded version or live version, but she starts out, she says, Womo gimme. And then they go into the song, and I'm like, the fuck did she just say? I think she meant to say one more, give me one more, but it came out as Womo Gimme. Yeah. Wanna give me? Yeah. Woman.

It's probably the live version of that is amazing, so it's probably the live version.

Oh, so much energy. Yeah.

And she had some legs on. Oh, yeah. Pipes and pins. Wicked nice pins.

She had some nice pins, doll, doll face.

For some reason, it always brings me to Ace Ventura when he says, Hit me again, Ike, and put some stank on it.

Where would Tina Turner be right now if she'd rolled over and said, Hit me again, Ike, and put some stank on it? Rolling on the river, that's where she'd be. But she's beyond Thunderdome because she decided to send a message. Wake up, sisters! There's no such thing as a weaker sex.

Okay, Kevin.

That's a tree to you. All right. I I wanted to make this one number one. I can't remember how I decided not to, but I don't think that there's any men in rock and roll that are as rock and roll as Wendy O. Williams. Oh my god. I can't believe you took her. She is so the life that she lived, and it was tough, but this woman, everything, I mean, from she used to blow cars up. She blew a car up on on what was it, the tomorrow show. Um, she the video where she's like riding the bus off the cliff. I mean, she just so out loud, and she had that great, and again, we talked about that grittiness in her vocals was like unbelievable, just unreal. She she she did porn, she was in a porn with with Candy Connors, um, who ended up marrying Jack Birch and are the parents of Thora Birch, just a little side note there. Um, but Wendy O'Williams graduated from the Eastman School of Music. You know, you don't really think of punk singers as being any kind of classical training. She got arrested for nude sunbathing at 15. That was her first run in with the law of many. Um she did stand by me with Lemmy. was produced by Gene. Gotta tie it to Kiss. Did you say you have that album while?

Oh yeah. I mean, I don't have it now, but I owned the vinyl back in the day. I listened to it over and over. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I mean, I was just I was blown away because I knew her earlier stuff. Uh I was blown away. I mean, as soon as it started, I'm like, I I knew exactly who was playing. Right. You know, that's that's that's a kiss album with Wendy O'Williams singing. But just just an amazing creature. She was just unreal. Life out loud. Uh she ended up putting electrical tape over her nipples because she got tired of being arrested. She would go on stage with just shaving cream, covering up, you know, the spots. It was all about just being friggin' wild. And she was, again, I I put her antics up against any of the Keith Moon or any of the other guys that were insane. Bad. She just did crazy ass shit. So yeah, Wendy O. Williams came in as my third pick, although she was a big contender for number one just because she just lived her life out loud. She was just an incredible human being that just didn't hold anything back.

She was a wild woman, man. Absolutely. All right, Brother Mark, that is to you.

Okay, I'm glad nobody has picked this one because I really love the singer and the band. It's Chrissy Hine from the rock group The Pretenders. Nice. She just has kind of a sexy voice, just like a come hither kind of voice. Obviously, that comes really through in brass and pocket, back in the chain gang, and probably one of the best guitar songs in the history of this genre of music is Middle of the Road.

Come on now. In the middle of the road, yeah.

Incredible. Incredible song and incredible band. In fact, she's the only original member left in this this band. But uh, you know, uh uh almost like a oh god, you can all always hear the Fender Strat or the Fender telecaster in these songs, you know? It's just the clean, the clean sounds that the guitarists have, but it her voice is just yummy. Awesome.

Nice. Nice. I I knew she'd come up too, for sure. Yeah, I knew you'd have her. Great band, fantastic band, and just and they're like one of the biggest selling they have one of the biggest selling albums of all time, I think.

Yeah.

All right, number three to me, and I'm going with Pat Benatar. Someone I've spoken about before, but just another MTV staple. Her hits were endless. She was a huge asset to the ladies' rock and roll scene. Just hit me with your best shot. My god, uh, we belong, heartbreaker, love is a battlefield, invincible. My personal favorite is Hell is for Children. No bang, right there, AJ.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child. Because hell.

Hell is for children, and you know that the little life can become such a mess.

Such a moving song, and she was fucking amazing. Yeah, just she rocked. She knows and it was a lot of fun, man. I God, I miss these days. Right?

How many how many girls at Ridgemont dress up as three of them? There's three of them at the look. Cultivated the look of Pat Mennonitar.

Because she usually's kind of the OG for the rock girls, you know.

That girl looked just like Pat Benatar. I know.

Wait, there are three girls here at Ridgemont who have cultivated the Pat Benatar look.

Yeah. You know, she was bridging the punk scene into the rock, and you know, because there weren't a lot of rock singers for females. Yeah. No. And, you know, she was definitely one of the inner the forefront.

All fired up. Mm-hmm. That song does what it says and says what it does. You can't listen to that song and not get fired up. All fired up. Great, great tune.

And I should have said Neil Girardo.

Yes, because yes, they are married, and you have to give equal time to Neil when you mention Pat now. I can't blame him. He did, you know, he did a lot. But yeah, she was a classically trained opera singer as well.

Really? One of my d only issues with Pat Beneter, which has zero to do with her at all, Rock 101 had like these ten different bands on a loop and overplayed them all. Especially back then. In fact, you could go on there now and they still overplay them. And I feel bad because she's an incredible singer, an incredible musician. Believe me, she's not upset.

She's overplayed. She's getting royalties on that.

I understand that, but I'm just saying it kind of ruined it for me because it just all the time.

Absolutely. I listen to broadcast radio once every 20 years, and it's always the same songs in the same order as it was the last time I listened to them.

Exactly. Yeah. No kidding. One-on-one. I just I can't stand that state. Yeah. Plus in between they have like 15 commercials. Unbelievable. 99-1 the bone is what you listen to around here nowadays.

You got eight songs and 20 commercials, and it's the same eight songs and the same 20 commercials, and I'm done with it. Pretty much.

Yeah. And you don't get the deep cuts anymore because it's the fucking AI DJ there. Yeah, and with the scorpions.

I used to love the scorpions, but I uh they just played them constantly on a loop.

All right, Dongo, that's number two to you. Cool. Uh the singer, songwriter, like classic for the 90s, you know, like the 90s we kind of don't dive into that much, but that was an amazing decade as well. Um, you know, we were kind of like our mainstay in the 80s, but the 90s definitely had uh its share of some awesomeness, and it's Alanis Morissette. Yes. Um her album, Jagged Little Pill, is one of the top-selling albums. Like it that that was a huge selling album. And she just had cool songs. Like her songwriting was awesome. Like her voice is, you know, it's okay, it's good, but I mean her songwriting was amazing. And she just knew how to write a cool song with some neat lyrics and and uh how to you know belt them out and you know, it was rocking. Um you know, ironic. Uh you oughta know.

I want you to know that I'm happy for you. I wish nothing but the best for you both.

Hand in my pocket, like just cool tunes, you know. It was it was kind of signature 90s. And I I love her, I love her vibe. You know, she's a good actress, she's good in some in movies she's been in, and she actually produces a lot of shows now, too, which is kind of cool.

But wasn't she on You Can't Do That on Television? Wasn't that the didn't she start on a Canadian TV show?

Well, boy, the kids, my worst enemy, came in here today, the City Health Inspector.

That's too bad, Barthy. Did you give him a burger from across the street to get him off your back?

No, I did not. I gave him a Barth burger to get him off my back.

I guess we won't be hearing from him anymore.

Yeah, she is Canadian, I believe. Um what a great show that. Yeah. Barf. Yeah.

Remember the cook? His name was Barf. Yeah.

Yeah.

And sliming, that's where the sliming started with Nickelodeon. Neat. Have you guys all heard the stories or rumors? I don't know, but you ought to know who it's about. Oh God, the guy from Full House? Yeah, Dave Coulier.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Yeah. He said he was listening to it. He was driving down the road. He'd had a little little little affair with her.

Yep.

And he didn't really think it was that much, and apparently he didn't realize till he heard that song on the radio that it was that much to her. Yeah.

Another version of me. If she preferred it like me, would she go down on you in a theater?

At least that's what the lyrics were. But well, it's always fun to find out who the songs were about when they're personal.

Been there, done that.

As far as Atlanta set, if you heard her voice, you knew immediately it was Atlantis Morriset. Yeah. One of those voices, you know? And just we used to call them Angry Woman songs. But also, I do believe she had an appearance on Kirby or Enthusiasm.

What a great show. I love that show. Oh, amazing. Unbelievable. All right.

That's to you, Kev. All right. My number two, just because she's got that amazing gravelly voice. Lucinda Williams, who really never hit any huge level of notoriety. She's got a following and and she does well for herself. I absolutely love her. I think the thing that most people would know is she actually wrote the song that Mary Chapin Carpenter got best country song for in 94. She wrote Passionate Kisses. That's not my that's not my thing with her. I mean, it's good for her. Like I said, pays her bills, I'm sure. But she started her first album was in 79, and she did covers of Robert Johnson songs and Carter family songs, and just you know, old country and blues tunes, and she's just amazing. She had some success later on with songs like Dirt Road, uh Righteously was the one that just like, man.

You don't have to prove your man it to me constantly. I know you're the mechanics say, I love you righteously. Why you wanna diss me after the wave and kissing me? After those pretty kind we say, and the love we make today.

She's just like, she's got just so much feeling in in how she sings her songs. And again, it's about for me that I just don't have any interest in the sing songgy girls that sound like every other singer on the planet, and she is absolutely not that.

That's mostly a 21st century thing, Kevin. I mean, I think, in my view. I mean all the auto-screen all the way back. Well, probably. I mean, you got a lot of singers that seem to s female singers that sing through their nose, you know.

Well, why would you it definitely became a thing in in the late 20th, early 21st century, but even if you go back to the you know, like the early days, there's still a lot of them that just all sounded the same. There weren't many dusty springfields, there weren't many, you know, that it's had that different style. You know, they just were like, this is how a woman and it's probably not their fault. Probably whoever is producing the records is like, well, this is how women sing. So sing it like a woman.

I totally agree with you. And it just I mean have a unique voice. Have your own voice. I know it's like being a guitar player. Right. Have your own sound.

Right.

You could not be more right. It's such a weird thing, too, because sorry to agree with me. I was like, oh no, I have to know I can't.

Right, I understand what Mark's saying. He he's saying it's kind of tragic that they do they do say like sing this way because this is the way you're supposed to sing. Right. And that's wrong, you know.

That's the way they're trained from when they're young. But you don't go, well, Aussie and and Dio sound exactly the same.

No, you don't.

No, exactly. You know what I mean? It's there's such a distinction between male vocalists. Even on the lower levels, even though the even the guys that aren't Aussie or Dio, you know what I mean? It's like Ted Nugent doesn't sound like you know Jack Blades. You can tell who is although there's There's a couple times where Kerry Kegey and Jack Blades kind of overlap.

I mean you can see like in country music, like male country singers, there's a genre that they're all the all the same. And I think they were there's been things where they like overlay certain songs and they're like identical, you know, in tone, tempo, everything. They're just rehash songs.

Oh, and they have junk. They hug them blueprint, lyrically blueprinted songs. You have to mention girls, you have to mention booze, um, the honky tonk, Friday night. It's the same thing over and over in just different order.

Yeah. So that's that's that's one of the best um uh Goodman, uh, the guy that wrote with uh with John Prine. He said they wrote they wrote a country song in a hotel room one night, and he says, I thought it was the perfect country song, and he says, Nope, doesn't say anything about trains, mothers being drunk. So the next verse is I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison.

Last verse goes like this here. But before I could get to the station in the pick up, she got robbed over by a damn old train.

It's freaking hilarious. It's a great song, but what you were saying about country is like it's all that affectation of that country voice. And honestly, I think the AI shit, if you write an AI song, I think it's better than what they release for a lot of the country music today. I was something was playing at the gym one day, and I was just I was offended. It was a country song. I think the guy's name was Hardy or something like that. I was offended at how shitty the fucking song was. Like really just out of nowhere.

I'm like, yeah, this needs to be stopped. Yeah. How can they do this? Awesome, Kev. That's number two to you, then, brother.

All right. Well, uh I'm going with Amy Mann from Till Tuesday. I brought her up on many of the uh episodes, and absolutely love her voice. And uh to me, uh I like a pretty voice. I don't like the voice of your Tina Turner, sorry. You know, uh I just I like a beautiful feminine type voice, and uh she has that in spades, and she was from a I would say a punk band. I mean punkish new wave, once again, not as new wave as the arithmetics, but you had the song Voices Carrie.

So no one can't do it.

What about love and one of my favorites uh coming up close? And uh yeah, I mean, I don't really know what I mean. I think she became more of a solo artist after a while, but back in the mid-80s, she was to me, I could have fallen in love with her, you know. I mean, she's her voice made me want to love her, you know what I mean? I'm gonna be able to do that. And uh good songs and uh very passionate, you know. I've mentioned her many times. That's all.

Yeah. The Magnolia movie, that soundtrack that she did, it just goes right through you like a knife. She is just so amazing in that. I believe she was the the girlfriend that gave up her toe in the big Lebowski.

That wasn't her toe, dude. Whose toe was it, Walter? The fuck should I know? I do know, but nothing about it indicates.

And the nail polish, Walter.

Fine, dude. As if it's impossible to get some nail polish, apply it to someone else's toe.

Someone else. Where the fuck are they gonna get away?

I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways, dude. You don't want to know about it, believe me. Yeah, but Walter Hell, I can get you a toe by three o'clock this afternoon with nail polish.

Fucking you in church. She was in a rush video years ago. Yes, time stand still. Yeah, time stand still, right. Exactly. That was a weird video. Like I went out and they started being able to like cut and paste stuff, and it got really bizarre, but not to not to downplay the fact that you're absolutely I'm so glad you took her because I didn't think of her until you brought up I think when you brought up Jewel, I started to think about like nineties and and and I totally forgot her. So I'm so glad because she is amazing. Yeah.

Absolutely beautiful. Yeah. I went out and bought Voices Carrie after you mentioned her in the la one of the last cat previously. Oh, you did, yeah.

Um, I have a lot of influence on you, Pubeans, you know. If I say something you want to do it. I ain't asking you, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

Damn it. Damn it. Awesome. Nice. All right. Number two to me. And I'm going with somebody that is an 80s superstar. And I don't care what anyone thinks, because this would have so been against my will back in the day. Tiffany. Tiffany, yeah.

That's where I was going.

I know this has come up in so many of our past casts, and we hate to repeat ourselves, but this woman would be nowhere without Captain Lou Albano. And it's gonna be Cindy Lauper.

Cindy, tell all these people out here how I took you, Cindy, and found you in New York City and Queens, and how I made you superstar.

She's so unusual. She's so unusual. Once again, you couldn't avoid it. And at first she was just this kooky, kooky girl that would girls just want to have fun. But then you realize, like, this fucking chick is talented. This girl can this girl can nail it. And she did, I mean, time after time, like that song to me still fucking moves me when she sings it. Yeah, you know what I mean? And uh, but for me, it's good enough. I mean the goonies. It's the goonies. Exactly. It's the goonies. When they're riding their bikes to that song, it just pulls me back, and that is like the perfect emphasis of what this podcast is all about. When I'm fucking watching those guys ride their bikes down the street to this tune, it oh man, it just takes me back, and and I loved her, you know. I mean, she was incredible. I know.

I see moderate to verear plaxoriasis is clearing up, though.

Yeah, true colors is an amazing song. All right, number one to me, and and there were many that we have not mentioned that could be in this category, but I will uh go with a gal who I've been singing this whole week that I've been practicing this, and it's you're no good, you're no good, you're no good. Baby, you're no good.

You're no good, you're no good, baby, you're no good.

And it's Linda Ronstadt. I for whatever reason, like when I was young, I heard that name, and the name just sounded like like an old lady, but man, her voice was awesome. You know, she had an amazing voice, folk, folk rock, country rock. When will I be loved? Yeah, she actually dated George Lucas, too, you know. So tie it to Star Wars. She uh Star Wars. She dated George Lucas, yeah.

Which is kind of like George and Lil George. Wait, George Lucas, the writer. I'm not a Star Wars nerd, so I don't know.

He's the director and writer of Star Wars. Yeah.

Creator of Star Wars.

Dated Linda Bronstadt, yeah. Just cool chip, obscure movies. Very beautiful. Um, but had a had a great voice too, and some great songs. Yeah, she was amazing.

My my dad had like, I think it was her greatest hits on eight track. And so every time we were in the car, but like Blue Bayou. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's another one that just likes it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going back someday, and it just her voice just like shreds you.

Yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely shreds you. She's amazing.

Yeah.

Awesome.

So I had to put her in the number one spot. Oh boy.

All right, Cab, what do you got? I got a repeat. We made it this far without it, but I got a repeat. Thank God, because I don't know. Chrissy Hind. I got her the number one spot. Beautiful. This woman, I I just I love everything about her, but looking back at her history, she was like the forest fucking gump of music. It starts, she went to school at Kent State when they had the Kent State massacre. One of her friend's boyfriends was one of the four people that got killed. She was in a band called Um Satsun Matt, which is like Saturday, Sunday, Matinee, I guess, some kind of appreciation. Yeah. With Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo. Wow. Then she went to London and hooked up with Nick Kent, the writer for NME, the uh New Music Express. She worked at the shop called Sex with Vivian Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who created the Sex Pistols. She dated Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols. She was gonna marry, she was gonna marry Johnny Rotten to stay in the UK. My goodness. Just you know, one of those green card marriages, and then he he ducked out, and then so Sid Vicious was gonna marry her, but he had to go, but but the town hall was closed that day, and he had to go to court the next day, so it never happened. She worked in a band with John Moss from Culture Club, Tony James from Generation X. She toured a little bit, worked in a band with Mick Jones from The Clash. Uh good lord. Wow. Uh Masters of the Backside, which became the punk band The The Damned. And all this before she put the Pretenders together. I mean, she was just this is all before that? Yeah. This is all before the Pretenders. Yeah. They actually they have I I you know you never know how true how true it is, but there's a miniseries, I think it's on Prime, called The Pistols, and it's about the Sex Pistols, and a lot of the story is about her and Steve Jones' relationship because Steve Jones started as the singer of the Sex Pistols, but got too nervous every time they had a gig and did not get on stage. Um, so then he ended up being the guitarist, and that's where they got Johnny Rotten. But there's a lot of like her teaching him how to play guitar. I don't know how, again, you can never tell how true it is, but that relationship existed, and beyond all of that, you know, the we talk about the the fatigue because pretenders got played a lot in the 80s. And at that time, they were kind of in the background for me. It wasn't till later that I started listening to, like Mark said, the musicianship. I mean, these guys were fantastic, and she was absolutely amazing.

That's amazing how much she, you know, she lived a life like like so like touch so many, like you forced gump is a great way to put it. Like, yeah.

I looked at it like, boy, she used a lot of people to climb the ladder. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, it's just life. Like she just kind of happened to I know, but taking advantage of something here and there.

I I don't think it was that. I think that people understood her songwriting and her musical ability, but she just never fit in. It was kind of and they they talk a lot about how the punk movement didn't have sexism, but still when people were looking to finally get paid and be commercial, they were thinking about that. It was it was top of mind when they did it. And so I think that was like a lot of the opportunities they they wanted to be like talking about uh Patty Smytesmith, Smith Smythe, Smythmyth, Scandal, Scandal Patty, Scandal Patty.

Right.

Um talking about her with Van Halen, you know? I mean it's the same thing with with her. Uh her talent was always there. It just it she didn't find anything to fit until she had her own band. She had to create her own band to do what she wanted to do, and and she did it pretty damn well. Fucking right.

I think she rec recorded a song with Frank Sinatra and Cher as well.

Yes, yeah. Yes, she did a lot of collaborations down the road, too. Yep. But you know what's funny, Kevin?

You bring up. A couple of no names. What's that, Mark?

Yeah, no names. You bring up a lot of fatigue. I mean, well, a lot of overplaying. That is uh that is one band that I never got sick of hearing. The musicianship was too damn good for t to get sick of me.

I I didn't get I didn't get sick of them. I they just kind of, you know, being sometimes if you hear it, you know, five times a day, it falls falls into the background. I just did I didn't appreciate them for who they I liked them, but I didn't really appreciate them for who they are. I wasn't listening closely to what they were doing at that time because it was it w it wasn't like missing persons or you know, some of the other in your face kind of stuff.

Alright. No, so you're saying that it was you got into them after all that. Okay, yeah, you said that. I just revisited and found a new appreciation for them.

Nice, Kev.

Alright, Brother Mark, that's to you. Alright, well this one, this singer is just miles above, in my opinion. She had the voice of an absolute angel. You do recall the Carter family, Maybelle and uh June and Helen, and well, this was the third sister, Anita. And if you hear the song Ring of Fire, when you hear the Johnny Cash's version, you can hear, you know, the background singers are just heavenly. Well, that is from Anita Carter. And I just happened to Google like which singer had the best voice in the Carter family. And I June wrote Ring of Fire for Anita Carter, and I heard it, and the song has never done this to me. And it's only like a two-minute song, but I was in tears.

The taste of love is sweet when two fiery hearts meet. Oh, but the fire went wild. I fell into the burning ring of fire. I fell down, down, down, down into the deepest mire, and it burns, burns, burst, burns.

It was like listening to an angel in heaven above. What a beautiful voice. I mean, I guess June Carter, she said that she had to come up with a humor thing because she couldn't hold a candle to her sister. She had another song, uh, Voice of the Bayou, very, very haunting. Satan's Child, um, as the sparrow goes. Just I I can't I can't even describe it. You have to listen to it. It's heavenly. It brought me to tears. Literally, like instantly screaming. I didn't know there was a version. That's awesome. And uh she had to be number one. It wasn't even close. I mean, I felt bad picking anyone else. But that's a that's how beautiful her voice is. And uh so yeah, and then Johnny Cash recorded it and uh became a huge hit. So I have it queued up now. It's basically a uh a voice of an angel. I mean sure we get that in there.

Every time I hear the voice of an angel, I think of what was that? These eyes? Did it was a it was a funny movie like uh I can't remember the name of it.

You gotta know. I'm not just some guy. Brennan that is the voice of an angel. I can't even make eye contact with you right now. Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus.

I would say that her voice to me, the biggest word I could use is supernatural almost. Cool. Oh very cool.

I doubt it's AJ's pick, but kind of like Allison Krauss.

Valerie loves Alice Krause. That was my number one. I knew it, damn it. Felt pretty confident it wasn't AJ. All right. So that's number one to me, then, right? Correct. And I it's gonna be the most brief number one ever, but it's Ann Wilson. Discussed before, picked before on today's show, but holy FA did she rock. Still does. Yeah, yeah. And just the songs they did. Just Mark, you brought up Magic Man, which was definitely about Chuck Manson. It had to have been.

I mean, how else could you have who else can look right through you? I don't know anyone else.

You know, but I mean, I I always go to All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You, which I think is one of her greatest videos. The story it tells throughout the cast. But my God, Barracuda alone. But Barracuda just listen to that guitar riff. Oh, yeah. Opens that badass tune. The whole the band is kick ass. And of course, I can't leave out Nancy, but it's not a dual pick. But the whole band was just awesome. And her voice was just piercing to me, and the videos were always awesome. And and as we go back in time here on this show, you know, those videos were so fucking important. You know, I mean, just to to see the rain, to see the car, to see the hitchhiker jumping in, and you know, she banged a hitchhiker. You know? Like, hell, that's pretty fucked up. But it's just awesome. And I don't know. So that's my number one, boys, and I'll leave it down.

Nice. I knew that was gonna be your number one. Sorry, but I knew you were gonna take it to you prick. But that's okay. We don't like each other. We pretend to like each other on the show.

Awesome boys. And I don't know, did we mention before that Nancy was was also in kind of our namesake? Fast times. She was riding in the in the was it the Corvette next to him when he's got the pirate outfit on.

When he starts throwing it all out. Oh the trout dog.

Get a trout dog. Forget it. Do you have any fish here that isn't breaded? It's all prepared the same way. Forget it. Get a wingliff. Oh, what a clam wish. You ever hear the word blemish? You want me to eat something deep fried? Let's get out of here. Trout dog.

Alright, boys. Well, that was a lot of fun, I think. We got some ladies of the 80s before and beyond. And I know we've been wanting to do it for a while, so I thought it was a lot of fun. Yes, I. Yes, indeed, Brother Mark. Thank you.

Thank you, AJ. Thank you, Donnie. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, audience.

Yes, and dongo. Thanks, everybody. We'll see you next time. Yes, um. Kevin?

Yeah, thanks, man. Had a great time.

Awesome. What a fun show that was. Also, obviously, we cannot forget everyone out there for listening. God, thank you. That's what it's all about for us. I mean, we just love taking you back to the good old days, and the fact that you people are listening is so important to us and awesome. And we just hit it quite a milestone in downloads, and we're really excited about it. So please keep listening, hang out with us. It's so much friggin' fun for us. And we are out to wanna lie.