Best 70s Rock Songs (1970–1974): Our Ultimate Mixtape

What it was a nighting mare No it also true It on the Donbo walking slow The Honoura on Drew the Jong Better on New the Jong Better on New The Jong Hey y'all welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High, the cast that takes you back. Got another fun one for you today. We're gonna do another one of the popular mixed tape series, and we're gonna do a 1970s mixed tape today, but just the first half of the decade. We're gonna do um 1970 through 1974, and we'll continue on later down the road from there. Of course, as always, the boys are here. Kevin. Hello, Sam. Hello, you fagging ISO. Donald. Eight was uh naughty, you sneaky bastard, and brother Mark. What's up, boys? Hello, brother. All right, we always get started out of the gate, but Kevin does his shout outs.

Shackapee, Minnesota, Reidsville, Ohio, Grand Prairie, Alberta, and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. As they say in the cooking shows, wash your sister sauce.

All the work in towns, Rust Belt, yeah.

And Alberta, which I think is coming to a country near us soon.

I hope so. Yeah, I hope they become American. They would like to be here. We can send or and okay, it won't go there. Or Minnesota. You know how that goes, but hey.

It's like playing risk. I'll trade you.

Well, awesome. So when we do our mixtape series, it is, you know, a two-sided five songs on each side cassette or album. And Mark, you have the honors, so run with it.

Yes, I do. And I'm gonna start off from 1970 from their album Fire and Water. It's the band free. It's called All Right Now. It's one of my favorite guitar riffs of all time. Fire and Water, yeah, that was an album that um the song Fire and Water was also on, and Ace Freely and Paul Stanley got together and did an example of that, and it was really cool.

Gotta tie it to kiss.

I've always loved this song since I was a kid, and it's iconic, it's classic.

Yes, great tune. All right, that's to me then. I'm going to uh September 10th, 1974. And once again, here is our Uncle Ted. Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. The album is Tooth Fang and Claw. And the song we've spoken about in the past, but I couldn't leave it out. And it's Great White Buffalo. Um just it's it's kind of an epic. It's pretty, it's a pretty long song. It is an epic. Just the the meaning of it, just everything about it, you know, the Indians and the white man moving in and taking their land and killing off the buffalo. It's really heartfelt. I won't go too into depth on it because we've done it in some other casts, but I'll leave it at that and go to you, Dongo.

Cool. So the 19 early 1970s is so amazing and dynamic. There, there's so many different types of rock out there. And I'm gonna touch on all of them. You guys are probably gonna get mad at me on a couple of them, but I I tried to keep it in the rails of rock. Might have skirted them a little bit, but so for my first one is uh the name of the song is Vehicle from Ides of March. And it's you'd have to hear it, and when you hear it, you'll recognize it.

But it's da da da da da da with a friend of a stranger in the back of the back and I went to hop inside my car. Just got the bag. I'm gonna free up the boat. I love ya.

On the internet says rock is the genre.

That's all that matters. So on the internet it's true. Yeah.

So I'd march gets confused for oh Jesus. Blood, sweat, and tears. Yes, they get very uh very similar, you know, with the horn section, the singer. Sounds like Chicago, too. Jim Peterick. Peterick, I believe. Uh, he was a writer of the song. And he also wrote uh he co-wrote Eye of the Tiger with Survivor, which is kind of cool. Yeah, and he's written for like 38 Special, and he's got a pretty impressive resume for song writing. But he wrote the song Vehicle about a woman who basically used him for his vehicles. So that's how he does the analogy of he's just a vehicle to her. So yeah, bye to cool tune.

Because I love you, love you, love you.

Awesome, Dongo.

Yeah, yeah, he's got that power voice for sure.

Yeah, before I go to you, Kev, I did want to say something I left out in the beginning of this, and that this is an uh half of a decade of rock songs for this mixtape. And I forgot to say that. So anyway. Awesome, Kevin. Song number one to you.

All right. Well, much to what Donald was saying, um, this is like you know, you had you had your rockabilly and your Elvis, and then the Beatles came in. But this 7074 era is like where all of the offshoots started coming from that still are rock and roll, but you could see the directions. So every one of my picks is going to be tied to some kind of, and I didn't get all of them, there are many other ones, but in the 10 I have, they all have some kind of evolvement into another phase or genre of rock and roll. And the other thing is that they are all absolutely based in the blues. The format of the song is the blues because the blues really is where it all started. You know, everything else is a variation on that. So I started with real basic. I feel this is the beginning of what really hard rock became or or somewhere towards the essence of it, and it's won't get fooled again by the who. Um, such an amazing song, as true today as it was back then, and Daltries Scream when it comes back from the interlude. I put that up against most of anybody. He just belts it out.

That's one of the greatest rock screams ever.

Absolutely, without a doubt. I mean, I think maybe overshadowed by Halford down the road later with some of his stuff. But at that time, yeah, that was that was a blood curdling hair on the back of your neck standing up scream. So that was off Who's Next in 71? So it qualifies.

Nice. Damn straight. All right, now here's the first one. Gotta tie it to Kiss. That scream is when the curtain drops in the KISS concert and they crank the music. That's like when the crowd gets all pumped because they play that tune right before that happens.

And they just played it in concert. Yep. It's such a timing thing, too, because it's like you know, it's like the timing of it is so it comes in on like the uh, you know, just the shy before the the downbeat.

You know, it's like a little and honestly, it's it's funny to go back and listen to that song with fresh ears because FM radio just beat the living tar out of it. I know, you know, we just get so used to it, and you forget the reason it got there, even though radio killed it. The reason it got there is because it's an awesome fucking song.

Yeah, incredible, freaking incredible tune. Awesome.

Uh song two to you, then, Mark. All right. Well, this is one of those songs that I would bring to the island if I only had 10 songs or whatever, you know, from any year, genre, whatever. But uh, it's Misty Mountain Hot by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin that came out in 1971. It's very monotone in that it's the same friggin' riff all the way through. But I mean, this is one of the best Robert Plant vocals of all time, in my opinion. And it's a very spiritual song in some ways, if you listen to the lyrics. I I've loved the song since I've heard it, and you know, it's the only thing that ever bothered me is when they did the song live, uh Plant never, ever, in my viewing, has ever tried to reach those uh soprano notes, if you will, you know? So, but it's just an incredible song, it's just powerful. It gets me hot and bothered every single time I hear it. You know?

Awesome. I'd rather stab myself in the ear.

What, than to listen to that song? A lot of people, Big Al used to hate that song. It's amazing you hate that song.

No, hey, everybody's got everybody's got their own.

I know there's just something about that tune.

I think we talked about it before, and it was the the practice, the practice for Live Aid or whatever they had Jason uh Bonham's kid playing, and they just had to keep doing it over and over and over again. That that must be the nightmare of practicing music is doing that song 50 times in a row. Oh, right.

Oh, because of the same rip all the way through the show uh the song, yeah. But I I'm sorry, just hey, you like what you like. I'm not as good.

That's right. I do not apologize, Kevin. That is my song, it is my album, my mixed tape.

Absolutely. I don't expect you to apologize, just stay on the back.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you know, then I might come after you. He'll stay on the other side of the island. Exactly.

Turn down that misty mountain, damn it.

I can hear it on my side of the island. You're not alone, Kevin. Keep off my beach. Get off my lawn.

Get off my lawn. Did you hear me? I said, get off my lawn now. Get off my lawn.

Yeah.

Awesome. Awesome. It was Jason Bonham, right, that played at that live aid, right? Meaning John Bonham's kid. Right. Yes. Gotcha. Yes.

Yeah. I think Keith Moon and John Bonham died in the same year, didn't they? Wasn't it 79? Yeah, I'd have to.

I think it was a foot race from the beginning between the two of them. Probably about who was gonna go first, sadly.

But all right, song number two to me. Uh, let's see. This is from 1972, their self-titled debut album. It's by the Eagles, and I went with Witchy Woman. I don't know what it is. It's Witch A. It's Witch A Woman, yes.

Sparks fly from a finger tips, echoed voices in the night. She's a restless spirit on an endless flight.

See how high she flies.

But this is one of the ones I always loved, and just there's a little bit something witchy about it.

If you're gonna do something, do it well and leave something witchy.

Anyway, to you, Dungo, cool. So this is another one where I kind of shoehorn in. Uh, in the genre section, it says soul, rhythm and blues, funk, and psychedelic soul. But we did say funk applied.

Yes, funk is rock.

And this one does have a rock feel to it. That it was done by multiple artists, but the version that I like the most is Edwin Starr's version of war. War! Dun dun dun. What are we fighting for? Dun dun dun. Absolutely nothing.

Sticking y'all. What is it?

I'm fired in it.

I love the song of the song film. I love the part of you know, the 70s being a protest, you know, Vietnam War. It was in the 1970s when the song when he did the version of the song. I think the Temptations did uh a version of it. Uh it's been covered quite a bit, but it's a good tune.

Awesome tune.

Yeah. Good message.

And like you said, Kev Seinfeld.

Tol Tolstoy. War. The original version wasn't War and Peace. It was War. What is it good for?

One wonders if War and Peace would have been as highly acclaimed as it was had it been published under its original title, War, What Is It Good For? Yeah, Mr. Lippmann it was his mistress who insisted that he call it War and Peace. Elaine. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Well, say it again. That's a song. They took it from Tolstoy.

No.

And she and then he threw Elaine's phone out the window. What is that noise?

Uh awesome. All right, Kev. All right, so my next step is, I believe, kind of some of the roots of new wave, maybe a little bit of psychedelic, and that will be 72 off the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie's moon age daydream.

I'm a space in the vater. Keep your mouth shut.

It's a rockin' song. I mean, we don't think about Bowie songs as being like, you know, straightforward rock. But if you listen to what Mick Ronson's doing on that song, I mean there's embellishment, but his guitar work and that all that I think there was, I don't know, four or more albums that Mick Ronson did with and tours that he did with David Bowie. And that guy is definitely underrated as far as guitarists go.

Awesome, man. All right. I I had a feeling some Bowie might come up.

David Bowie, yeah, very talented. I mean, just such an iconic uh musician and character and just person. Oh, absolutely.

All right, brother, song number three.

Okay, well, here we go with the first repeat. I have my list. I don't usually uh stray away from it. Well, I'm going with Great White Buffalo from Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. It says on the album two Ted Nugent Amboy Dukes. It's two fang and claw. Great white buffalo. And it is different than the live version. It's spiritual. Again, with that word, but this is spiritual in a good way, other than Misty Mountain Hops seem to be a little dark. But Ted Nugent is a huge advocate of Native Americans. You know, the white man came over and just pillaged and everything. I'm not saying any race is perfect or anything like that, but just a great song. It just means so much to me. And again, I know I've talked about this before, but please, audience, Great White Buffalo from Germany in 1977, Derek St. Holmes actually played the first part of the solo to Great White Buffalo. And then Uncle Ted came on and just, I mean, guttural guitar solo. And uh just yeah, you talked about it, AJ. I think it means a lot to you, also.

So that that's the one I was I knew we'd both have, but anyway, awesome pick and song three to me, and this is from 1970, and this I mean basically is a greatest hits album in itself, but it's Credence Clear Water Revival, and the album is Cosmo's Factory, but I went with the song Up Around the Bend.

There's a place of the head and I'm going. Just as fast as my pin. Come away, come away if you're going. Come on, the rising wind. We're going up around the bin.

Uh, just a classic. I love the song. I still crank it if I hear it come on the radio. And I mean, I won't go too into depth. I'm not gonna say any other songs on the album, but Judas Priest is it just a greatest hits album in itself. But alright.

Yeah, they got everything right except for the album cover.

Okay, but no, time out. You said it was CCR, but is it Judas Priest?

You donkey. It was a uh good mark joke, everyone.

All right, donkey. I haven't been actually bunkered in a long time. I don't, I must be right back. I did one last week.

I was gonna say you got bunkered last week. I did for Annette Denning.

Annette is she related to Annette Benning? Not at all. Damn it!

Okay, dongo. All right, so this song, I think I might have picked it in the past, but it's uh I picture cruising down the highway um like dusk time, nice warm summer night. You maybe you got a convertible and you got the wind blowing through your hair, and you're playing Ventura Highway from America. Ventura Highway, and the mood is gone.

Ventura Highway in the sun shine, where the days are longer, the nights are stronger than mood shine. You're gonna go.

I know. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

So it's I love that. I just love the harmonies, I love the the vibe of the song. It is a little soft, softer side of rock, but hey, it's rocky. I think they're cool. Yeah, they're awesome.

Absolutely. It's a great country, too. Where the night's us indeed.

All right, Kevin.

I'm I'm just running that song through my head right now because I I do I do love it so much more than a Again, the fatigue of horse with no name. They played it so much, and I'm thinking, but just fucking name the horse. You've got nothing to do. You're riding through the desert. Maybe don't write a song. Maybe come up with a name for the poor animal.

Yeah, no kidding, huh? It must be pretty obscure or something.

I don't know. Right. So Donnie's talking roots of yacht rock. I'm going the other direction with some of the foundations of what heavy metal became. And that would be a song that I love off an album of the same name that came out in 74. That's Judith's Priest, as we just mentioned. Rock a Rola. Rock and Rolla Woman for a Rockarola man. Nice.

You knew that I would be there. Absolutely. It's such an unknown, I mean, you know, to a lot of casual fans, you know, it's not but it's awesome.

Yeah, those first three or four Judas Priest albums are way different than what they became and what we love. And I like I said, I went back early on and listened to them and I absolutely love them. They're more, they're more like a funky Led Zeppelin kind of thing happening there. There's there's much more going on than just the straightforward metal that they became. Absolutely. Definitely sad wings of destiny, rock and roll, rock and roll, sin after sin, stay in class, all very much worth worth listening to.

Hell yes. Incredible tunes. Great pick. All right, brother Mark, we're off to song four.

Okay, well, this band is a band that to me kind of epitomizes early 70s music, early 70s rock music. Um The Guess Who? Yes. No, I'm asking you, can you guess the band I'm picking?

Is Bertram Cummings part of the band?

I I well I don't know.

But uh Sal Bachman, part of the from 1970s, American Woman.

It's No Sugar Tonight. And there's also a uh, you know, a second title called The New Mother Nature or New Mother Nature. It's just so catchy, you know. No, no sugar tonight in my coffee. No sugar tonight.

No sugar to stand beside me, no sugar to run with me.

But yeah, it's just it it exudes early 70s, and it's just a fun, fun song. You know, they have a couple other yeah, and some other great tunes from back in those days. They were kind of a hit machine. Um, not sure whatever happened to them, how long they were around, but uh fantastic tune.

Awesome tune, great.

They split up and became Bachman Turner Overdrive, and then I can't remember where so they splintered into two different sections.

Oh, they didn't know.

Also, yeah, great bands. And the funny thing is, I just recently read the story of American Woman, the song American Woman is so Bertram Cummings, the lead singer, was off out back, like smoking a butt or something like that, and lost track of time. And so the band took the stage as they were supposed to, and he wasn't there, so they just started riffing, and he started playing the riffer American Woman. Cummings came in and just started making the song up on the spot. When they finished, they had no idea what the words were because he just spit them out. Luckily, some kid in the front row was taping. Oh my god.

That song might come up too, I would think. I mean, oh man. That's another great tune. So we'll find out if somebody some of you threw or any of us, you know.

Awesome. And I think I might have texted you guys previously this week. I can't remember if I did, but while researching this this you know subject, I think I I feel like I must have seen 20 different guess who albums. Like they released a lot through these years.

Well, they were hit makers. I mean, that was that was their goal or musicians first, and not a lot of times the producers might even write them songs for the band, and we'll get into that later about another band, but so awesome. Great pick.

All right, number four to me. This is February 18th, 1974, and you all know I had to have at least one here. Gotta tie it to KISS. This is my favorite band of all time, and it's Kiss. And this is their debut album, self-titled. And I'm going with a deep cut that I friggin' love. And it's called Let Me Know. And it's just such a fun song. It's an early uh rite called Sunday Driver that Paul Stanley started. Yes, and it's just a real fun song, it's a dual vocal, and I love it, man. If anyone is not a big Kiss fan, just give this one a listen. Let me know.

How did you ever walk up? So your call!

It's a lot of fun. I like the barbershop quartet a little bit here and air on that song. It's awesome.

All right, dongo. Cool. Just like uh Ventura Highway was written in 1972. This song was also written in 1972, and I noticed I have three songs from 1972, and they're all kind of a little on the mellow side, which I think is indicative of me. I like to be mellow, mellow man.

Anyone who wants to get mellow, turn around and get the fuck out of here, alright.

I think I say I know that ain't nobody out there came to be mellow tonight, now did you? I'll say I'll say if I I say there ain't nobody. I'll say there ain't nobody, not out there that even wants to be a little bit mellow now, is there? Everybody wants to get mellow, you can turn around and get the fuck out of here.

I knew that was coming. But I like uh this is from Looking Glass and it's Brandy, you're a fine, you're just a fine blue.

Donnie is singing machine today. Oh, I love it.

He's on fire, I said I like the I like the groove.

It's nice, nice little groove.

Yes, and a good story.

Yeah.

I thought you were rolling into a sad story, Kev.

She's a fine girl, she'd be a good wife. Unfortunately, he's married to the to the sea, so much you can do about that.

Yeah, awesome.

Okay, Kev. All right. Uh, my number four is moving into um Donnie's territory here a little bit. Um, definitely a rock song, definitely based in blues from a band that is kind of known as the godfather of yacht rock, but if you mention it to them, they will hang up on you. I'm talking about pretzel logic from Steely Dan. Nice. Nice. I've never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time.

I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time. I have never met Napoleon. But I plan to find the time. Yes, I do.

His lonely is there. Those days are gone forever. Over a long time ago.

Oh yeah.

Just a great, a great song, and like I said, it's just the ultimate studio musicians playing the blues, and you just can't beat it. Awesome.

What a great song title, too. Right? I love Stevie DM. Yeah. Awesome talk. All right, brother Mark, you're wrapping up side one at number five. Well, you're starting to wrap up number five.

On side one is from Hotter Than Hell, 1974 by Kiss. My song is Strange Ways.

Strange Ways.

Nice. And it's uh Peter Chris singing lead vocals. It was written by Ace Raleigh. They're my two favorite members of the original band. They didn't do a lot of writing. This is a uh really unique kiss song. And um David sang it. Yep. Uh didn't David sang it in uh Doctor St. What was the name of that band?

Doctor Strange Ways.

Doctor Strange Ways. Yeah. But Ace's solo on this is just filthy and just crazy, you know? I've always loved Peter Chris's vocals. He he's got an amazing voice. Damn right he does. It's just a raw, raw, filthy song. It's not a fast song or anything, but it's a very it's a strange way to write a song, you know what I mean?

It's a heavy, heavy song.

Heavy, but not fast.

Meaning the riff. Yeah, it's heavy. Heavy doesn't mean fast. Damn right.

Exactly. Yeah, it's not speed metal, but great tune. Awesome tune.

All right. Where are we? I'm five. Wrap up my side one. November 1972 by Billy Joel. The album is Piano Man, and this song just to me is a favorite, and it's the ballad of Billy the Kid.

From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia. And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time, East and West of the Rio Grande.

I love this song. Nice. Um just you know, and ironically, I'm a I'm a Western guy who loves Billy the Kid and stories like that, and just ending it with, you know, a guy from Oyster Bay, Long Island.

From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island. Wrote a boy with a six-pack in his hand, and his daring life of crime been him a legend in his time, east and west of the real grand.

It's kind of a deep cut off the album in my eyes. I mean, I don't hear it that often um unless I look it up and play it. But I just wasn't going with piano man. But anyway, a little bit.

Doesn't that guy from Giuseppe's do that one?

Oh god, he used to. All the time. Everyone does that song.

I know it. Every time I hear that song, I think of him.

Giovanni Varano, the last American Romeo.

Yeah.

Oh, he was Romeo for sure.

We lost him um over a decade ago, I think. Now it's been a long time, hasn't it? He was a good dude. Yeah, he was a good dude. He was a character for sure.

What was it? What was it Pat used to say? Giovanni never gets full tired of chewing.

That's right. You guys said he just before.

He would order 43 different Andres.

What a guy, though.

He was when when you got him going though, remember those nights every once in a while we'd have a blizzard and the place would be you know half empty, and we could get him going, and he was absolutely like magnetic when he was on. The problem was he'd been doing it so long, most nights he just phoned it in by the time I got there anyway. But those nights when we got him going and he'd do the monster mash and he'd do all the songs, and he was an amazing, amazing musician, amazing performer. He just was tired.

Yeah, I think his vocals were not you know the greatest. But a couple I I gotta I apologize to ramble, but I must tell a story. Um, a couple. First, he would sing in the white room with black cousins. He would have uh a couple when he was allowed to drink before he had a heart issue, he would drink like a few bottles of Banfi Chianti a night, and he would fill the wine glass to the rim and shoot it. Just a quick shot, faster than you could drink a one and a half ounce shot. But the last thing I wanted to say is Julie went on vacation, that's my boss, and I come walking down the stairs, and there's a table out in the hallway, and he has like 17 boxes of Chinese food out there eaten in the hallway outside of an Italian restaurant, and he's wearing his moose shirt instead of his tuxedo because Julie's away, and he waves me. I want some Chinese food, AJ. I'm like, Giovanni, you can't be eating this out here like this. And you can't wear that shirt. Uh, it was awesome though. He was awesome.

I think the first time they went on vacation that I was there, he'd sit at that little table. It's a high boy now, but it used to be just a little table beside the bar. And and I would come out and get him every night, and I'd get him his order. And so they're on vacation, and he gets a chicken parm with I think probably extra pasta or something like that, salad, bread, a couple loaves of the bread, everything. So he fires through all of that, and I walk over and he goes, I think I'll have a baked headache now. And I kind of laugh and went, No. And he went so he he had I think he ordered three entrees that night and a dessert. And and it just he just packed it like Andre the Giant drinking beer. Oh yeah, and just disappeared. It disappeared.

God love him. He was a large large man. Yeah.

But could be humorous and definitely was a great performer.

Oh, great performer. I'll tell some more stories off air later. But anyway, well I'll shut up now and off to you, Dongo.

Cool. In the words of Eddie Murphy, everybody knows Stevie Wonder's a musical genius.

You the motherfucker I'd be doing Stevie Wonder. That shit ain't funny, motherfucker. Don't you never let me see you do that shit again. I'll fuck you up. Stevie Wonder's a musical genius.

And I love in 1973 the funky, awesome riff of du do diddle-de-do did-do-do diddle-di for higher ground from Stevie Wonder. People keep on.

Keep on rolling.

Keep on turning.

So it was covered by uh Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Oh, that was Stevie Wonder. I wasn't even aware of that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stevie's version definitely has some, you know, some organ uh with a real funky twang to it. It's just is that the fender road?

Is that what that is?

I think so, yeah.

Just such a great sound because Ray Charles used one too, and it just gets you right in the yeah, yeah, yeah.

Such a great riff. Mm-hmm. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that one moves you for sure. Damn straight.

He's a musical genius, man. I got all his albums. I got Fulfini. Fuck it. You know the good one.

Ha ha, very funny, motherfucker.

Stevie.

Stevie can't drive because he can't see. Motherfucker. All it makes I all I can think of now is I am black and you are white. You are blind as a bat.

And I have sights.

I am dark, and you are lying. Blind as a bat. Just living in perfect with a talking salt and pepper.

Episcopo, right? With murky. Awesome. Awesome pick on. All right, Kevin. You're wrapping up side one.

Side one is gonna end with now everybody else that I've mentioned, I've I've tied them to a musical direction. The only musical direction I could say with this one is Zappa. Because he started as Zappa, he ended his Zappa, and he was always Zappa. And others have tried to go down that road, but they don't get there. And so I picked Cosmic Debris off one of his most accessible albums to non-Zappa fans, and that would be Apostrophe from 74. And I just have to say this line because it's it's my favorite. The song Cosmic Debris is about some guy trying to sell him, like read his tarot cards or something like that, trying to predict his future and whatever else. So he turns it around on him and and he goes through how he's got the guy hypnotized and whatever. And it ends with, as long as he was, I decided to tell him his future then. As long as he was hanging around, I said the price of meat has just gone up and your lady has just gone down.

I had that supper hypnotized, we couldn't even make a sound. I proceeded to tell him the future there. As long as he was hanging around.

Which is why I love Zappa. Yeah. He had some great humor in there.

He certainly took his own direction, that's for sure. Yeah. Yes, he did. Awesome. All right, brother Mark. We're moving on to side two, song number six, if you will.

Okay, from their 1971 album, Distant Light, this is the Hollies long, cool woman in a black dress. This song I'm for so many years, and I think a lot of people probably get it mixed up and they think it's CCR. I always did, but it it's the Hollies. The riff is it's it's would you call it bluesy? I mean it's kind of bluesy. It's a song that I remember when I was a little kid, too.

So I'm surprised it was a video back then.

Well, no, it I don't I wouldn't call it a video. It's probably one of those persons that or that came on and just did like put on their own stuff, but oh my god, the chick was hotter than hell. So and you know, she was like a really long, cool woman in a you know, she was wearing a black dress too. So you guys familiar with said song?

Absolutely excellent song, yeah, it's iconic, and it's funny because the Hollies being English, right?

That was uh they were English, definitely Graham Nash, right?

From Crosby Stills and Nash. But that to me, that intro, that that crunchy guitar in the intro sounded more Detroit to me. More like old not Motown, but like, you know, in that MC5 Bob Seeger early Ted Nugent. Uh Ted Nugent, thank you. That's the name I was trying to think of. We didn't ever mention him all. I mean, it had that kind of like gutsy kind of feel to it, uh with those nice harmonies.

Great song. Bam, boom, bam. Okay.

Okay, sorry.

I mean, I never even really listened to the lyrics, I just love the guitar.

Well, it was a long cool woman in the black dress. Yes, and she was hotter than hell. I think that's the basic gist of the song. Yes, it's yeah, I okay.

Well, I like woman. I'm like all Stanley have to tell you I like woman. Dear God.

All right, here we go. Song six to me. And this is 1970, their second album. And this is Black Sabbath, Paranoid. That's the album. I'm going with Electric Funeral. Uh-huh. Okay. This song to me, I mean, this song is also in my mind's eye, a um a greatest hits album, but I could have gone with many off of it. But this song just has uh, I mean, it's dark. It's really dark, heavy, heavy like guitar sound in it.

Robot Mind of Robot Band to a red, planting black melting sun, baby bottles up on time, dumb, funny, bow, bow, belty fire, like electric build fire.

And the lyrics, you know, when you're a kid, I just remember listening to this um you know, when I was in my early teens, and you know, it's I was back then, you know, the Cold War, we're all horrified of nuclear war, and to listen to the words in this song, and it's just it's awesome to me. You know, it's a it was a great, great dark song that takes me back to a certain place in my life, and I loved it. Yeah, they did a few dark songs. Quite a few. And I I wanted to say this as well, uh, because Kevin, I feel that Judas Priest is not very far behind Sabbath at all as one of the first few metal bands. Like, I think it's Sabbath, then I definitely go to Priest right after them. Like, you know, they they should have their names brought up a lot more when it comes to the beginning of heavy metal.

Yeah, well, I think Sabbath found their footing first. I think that was the so it wasn't until like British Steel in 80 that that Jewish priests really like figured out exactly who they were and what their sound was. But you know, it's funny you talk about listening to that. I remember probably 11, 12 years old and putting on Black Sabbath albums and scaring the crap out of myself. Jump up, turn the lights back on. Well, because there's some there's some stuff on those albums that's like yeah definitely freaks out as a kid.

Yeah, damn straight.

All right, dongo, you're starting your side too off. All right, another 1972, and I've been on this band's kick for a month or so, and it's Chicago, Saturday in the park.

Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 4th of July Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 4th of July, but it's that's big waiting such a long time.

Love these guys. I've just been on a kick for them for some reason. I love the the introduction and the incorporation of horns with rock. I I think it's a a good marriage of instruments.

That's a great two.

Yeah, yeah.

Amazing band. I saw them last year, but if when they asked Jimi Hendrix who the greatest guitar player was, he said Terry Kath. Yeah. And if you listen to, and it's you don't really pick up on it, but like I've said it before, it's 25 or 6 to 4. Yeah, if you can either find the separated tracks or just listen to it and tune out the horns for a minute and listen to what Terry Kath is doing on uh on that telecaster, it blows your fucking mind. I mean, he is just he was like, I don't know why. And and before he killed himself, he was gonna quit Chicago and start a four-piece blues band. That's what he wanted to do, and I think we really lost out on that because his something about the way he played just very moving and and amazing, and he somehow chose to hide all that behind like the best horn section.

Yeah, and that's the thing, it's a trade-off because when you do have the horns, it does kind of drown out the the guitars, are the ones that kind of get drowned out for sure.

But yeah, awesome. I gotta tell you, when someone says the band Chicago, for some reason, my mind always goes to I can't remember the name of the movie, but Larry David um did a movie that he starred in, and I remember his wife blew Chicago.

How many did she blow? What's the difference? I think there's a big difference. You know, if you blow one guy, okay, I get it. People blow people, it happens. But what? We're not talking about Simon and Garfunkel here. This is Chicago! That's a big band.

Good song. Awesome song. Do you like this band? I love these guys. Really? They're amazing. How much do you love them? I have four of the albums. Really? Yeah. Huh. Did you go to the concert here 20 years ago? I did. Me and my cousin Pam went.

And how was it? You had fun?

Oh, it's a great show. They put on a great show.

Really?

Yeah.

And did you by any chance blow them afterwards? This photo shoot. Oh, excuse me. I'm not enough. I just have one quick question. I'm sorry to bother. One question. When you guys were here um 20 years ago, you remember getting blown by a woman named Wendy? Sorry to be so blunt 20 years ago. 20 years ago. And this is what she looked like?

It's a long time.

Yeah. I do remember her. You do, Billy? Yes. I don't know.

Oh yeah. That was me. Yes, I remember her. She was a lot of fun. I think it was you. Oh, yeah. You and you.

Yeah.

Two? Yeah.

Definitely. Oh, yeah.

Okay. I was with another judge. Roberta Stumpo?

Yeah. Oh Roberta Stumpo Stumpo.

Thanks for clearing that up. Appreciate it.

Oh, whatever. Roberta Stumpo.

The band. And come to find out. They're like, which one? All of them.

I do remember that.

I remember that. Was that the was that the car one that he did? I can't remember. The electric car?

Yes, I well, he had an I think he had an electric car in it, but it gets stuck like in a road. Is that what you're talking about?

No, I thought that wasn't there one where he he like invented an electric uh an electric an electric car.

It might be. And he lived on an island or something. Uh God, it's killing me now. I gotta look it up, but yeah, because he hasn't acted in a lot of movies. No, not at all.

But this one There was Whatever Works, which was great. That was a Woody Allen one where he lived in the city and and just it was a very Woody Allen type movie.

Um it's called Clear History, I think.

Yeah, Clear History, that was the one. Exactly.

Yeah, that was he was uh like a hippie at first, and yeah.

Disgraced former marketing executive plot's revenge against his former boss who made billions from the electric car company they started together.

Yeah, exactly.

That one, we've proven we were both right.

Yes, we were, and it's a great movie, and he's just as annoying as ever. Awesome.

All right, Kevin, where do you? All right, so a lot of the songs that I've talked about uh being blues-based in the beginning of eras. This one is the end of an era. This was the Beatles' last album, Let It Be, 1970, and it's a song Get Back because it's such a great, masterful song. Again, like the Who's Won't Get Fooled again. You kind of get anaestillized to it because you hear it so much and you don't stop to think about, especially the ones we heard when we were real young. You don't stop to think of the construction of the song or listen to what the guitar player's doing or how intense the what McCartney's bass was. And get back is just a fantastic song.

Jojo was a man who thought he was an owner, but it knew it couldn't be last. Jojo lifted Arizona, awesome caliph on the grass.

Get back, get back, get back to where you wants me low.

Get back to where you wants me low. Get back, Jojo.

And it's it's one of the best ever.

Awesome. Do you remember where they performed that song live, Kevin? On the rooftop? Yeah, twice. They played started with it and then they played it again.

Yes, yeah. Well, if you watch that, what was the one that Peter Jackson did where he took all the footage? Because that was originally supposed to be a movie. Was what they were making was a movie of the making of that album, and then everything just kind of fell apart, but there was hours and hours of footage, and I think it's on Disney now, but it's a great documentary because it shows how I think Lennon was late. It was the Yoko era, and Lennon was late, and McCartney's just sitting there and he likes just you know, noodling, and he came up with that riff, and so you get to watch get back created from just a a a bored Paul McCartney dubbing around with the bass until it becomes a completed song, and it's it's really weird. You're watching it, and the lyrics as they're writing them aren't the lyrics that you know. So you're sitting there and you're thinking about the lyrics of the song, but they're still singing the first words that they because McCartney used to do that. He'd throw a word in just to make it rhyme and then go back and fix it later sometimes. But you're listening to him sing different words to the song, and he's like, and your mind's going, No, he's singing it wrong. He doesn't somebody tell him the words. Well, at that exact moment in time, the words hadn't been there yet. They were looking for something, some lyric or something. They kept trying different things, and you know where it is. I remember that part. I think I do remember that. Yeah, it was very cool, very cool to see. Geniuses at work.

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Awesome. All right, Brother Mark, we are to song number seven.

Okay, well, we just talked about this band being very dark. Um, this is from their 1971 album called Master of Reality. It is Black Sabbath, and the song is an actually a Christian rock song. It's after forever. Yes. He's singing about God's the only way to love and things of that nature.

And you haven't thought about your soul, can he be saved? Or perhaps you think that when you are dead, you stay grave. It's got to say God within your head, or is it part of you? It's got to say you got to read in the book when you were in school.

You know, it it's just it's something very surprising. I I do believe that Geezer Butler came up with those lyrics. Am I am I accurate?

Geezer Butler came up with most of their lyrics.

Okay, yeah. But I there's a great version, I do believe it was from 1999 when Ozzy was actually um performing with the band and they do it live. The crowd is going absolutely nuts. You don't see many women in the audience. And I don't know if that was a Black Sabbath thing, you know, probably. Did Rush open for them? Perhaps. But just rocking. The opening riff is very kind of happy sounding. I mean, it's really heavy, and then it gets heavy, and it it but it's it's a very heavy song. But it just has absolute Christian lean-ins on it all over the place. Sure. And uh not something you expect on a Sabbath, really, right? No, not at all. But an absolutely wonderful song, and I encourage you out there in the audience to listen to this one. You probably most of you have heard it already, but but check out that uh that live version.

All right, number seven to me. Uh do I go with it or don't I? Let's see. Ah, F it. 1972. America. A horse with no name. Kevin's already tooled on it. We don't know the horse. We had to go with it, AJ. But I love the song. Um, I love the band, and they're so not normally up my alley. I don't know a ton of their stuff. I don't follow them. I didn't, I never followed them, but but they had some friggin' incredible songs. I mean, off this album alone, I think there were so many hits, but but that's the one that stuck out to me. And I don't change the station when it comes on.

Up in through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert, you can remember your name because there ain't no one but to give you no day.

So, what's the fucking horse's name? I think you need to get a banner right next to KISS, the America. Right? It would look good right behind you there. Put a horse on it.

What's a horse's name? I'm like, oh, I do have a few audibles. Do I go with it?

But I'm sticking with my gun. Damn it. I love it because I wouldn't have guessed you taking that. Right. And I figured I was safe to bring it up because Donnie is the only one that I think would take it, and he'd already brought up Ventura Highway. So I I apologize. I thought I was safe. You have surprised me once again, AJ. Yes, indeed.

All right, Dongo7U. All right. As you can see, I don't really dive into the deep cuts very much, but this is my mixtape, so it's stuff that I love. And I exactly run with I love the cheese, you know. I love the popular tune, so I can't I can't help it. So if you're like me out there, you like the stuff that's played over and over again. You don't get tired of repeats, but this song is to me like it's just a happy, uplifting, like powerful, good song that you just get happy and kind of want to dance to when you hear it. But it's uh Joy to the World by Three Dog Knight.

Jeremiah was the book!

It's just a fun song. It's cool. Gets it tapping your foot and jumping around and happy. I like great song.

There was a place in Littleton called Jeremiah's. I mean, when I was a kid, like eight years old, and that's when the song was huge.

And every time I said that, I I every time I saw it, I I bet that's all they play up there is Jeremiah was a bullfrog, you know.

And Jeremiah's and the sign actually had a bullfrog on it. So I think the hippies, I I always assume hippies hung out there, and we all had a connotation of what a hippie looked like back in those days, you know, a big beard, long hair, you know.

Yeah.

But they all sang Jeremiah.

I just wonder what what what did that mean? What why was he drinking wine with a bullfrog?

I don't it's still there was probably some hallucinogens involved. Yeah, maybe so. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, 70s here. Yeah, psychedelics. Yeah, yeah.

Exactly. Does anybody know what a three-dog night is? I don't. I believe it's a Norwegian term. And in the cold winters, they would have the dog sleep at the end of the bed. And if it was really cold, they'd get two of the dogs in the house and have them sleep at the foot of the bed. And if it was really fucking cold, it was a three-dog night.

Oh, wow. So, Kevin, I figured if anyone knew it, it would be you.

Useless knowledge. I have tons of it. For some reason, yeah.

Brought my head to the bullfrog that wouldn't sing on Bugs Bunny.

Oh, my very hello, my ribbon.

Michigan J. Frog. Yes, sir.

Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my rag on yeah. Baby, my heart's on fire. If you refuse me, honey, you lose me, then you'll be left alone, old baby. And tell me I'm your own.

Awesome. Okay, Kevin. All right. So from here on out, I'm gonna warn you all that these are long cuts. Everything from here. These are the songs that I just that would that get a groove so much that you don't want it to end, even if the song's like 10, 12 minutes long. And so this one is it's the Southern Rock branch of rock and roll, and the legendary Fillmore East in 1971 whipping post by the Allman Brothers. I mean, it just starts up with that bass line, and you're just like, oh boy, here we go. We're rocking and rolling for I don't know how long it is, seven to nine minutes or something like that. It's just it's fantastic.

That's where I always get confused. Just because a song is long does not make it um progressive, right? I don't even know what progressive means. Doesn't progressive mean more changing? Because I I hear a lot of people say that song's a progressive song, and I'm like, just because it's long doesn't mean it's progressive.

Right. I think a lot of the prog rock guys were very much into like purposefully not doing the three-minute, 30-second cuts to be. But I think I don't know, in my mind, prog rock was about people that could probably be in a jazz band on the on the beginning of the week and then play in a prog rock band. People that like exactly, you know what I mean? Most of like McCartney doesn't know how to read music. Right. I don't either. I doubt you would find anybody in a prog rock band that doesn't know how to read or write music.

Right. They're like time changes. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

I have some time, I have some progressive rock songs because I have many with time changes. Okay, I guess I'm pretty progressive. Yeah.

Awesome pick. All right, brother Mark, number eight to you.

Well, she's a woman of the world, and God she knows it.

She might go my room, honey.

Yeah, and this is Aerosmith from 1974's Get Your Wings. It is a song, I believe, written about Joe Perry's girlfriend by Steven Tyler. You know, they were called the Toxic Twins, and I think that this chick that he was singing about was kind of a pain in the ass, perhaps, and uh it but uh just it's a long song. I guess it's progressive, AJ, and uh in disguise, but yeah, it it just to me it's one of his best vocals of all time.

Would you like to name said song?

I already sang it. Woman of the world. Okay, yeah, woman of the world, and uh turns her head every time she shows it or whatever, yeah. And the riffs are incredible, the guitar solos just you know, I I was there was another song on the I mean the early Aerosmith is all I do with Aerosmith. I I've made this point so many times at nauseum, but and I had picked this song, I do believe, in a very early episode when we did Aerosmith as my number one Aerosmith song. And this is when Steven Tyler could sing, and my favorite part of this song, even though I'm a guitar player, is Steven Tyler's uh vocal. Nice, it's just edgy, it's edgy, it's it's uh non-1980s polished Steven Tyler. I like his raw voice.

See, I'm different with you. I differ with you there, Mark. I like them right up until their last album. It was called Done with Mirrors. Yes, yeah, exactly. Some shitty pop band took over after that.

Yeah, they were wearing masks, they were wearing Aerosmith masks. Right.

They put out 800 albums that sound exactly the same, exactly, and made a boatload of money, and God bless them. I can't fault them for that. Right, but I'm not buying it.

Crap like that.

I love the song Angels. I know you do. I hate it. Yeah, but you're a big fan of honkin' on Bobo, right?

That album did you misery. I will say though, about Steven Tyler, that I disagree with you, Mark, because I feel like he still has a great voice. Well, he did until he had his vocal cord issue like a year ago. Right. But you're talking about his vocal delivery, not his actual voice. Because he didn't fall off a cliff like Paul Stanley. He can still belt it out.

Oh no, he could belt it out, but it just his voice changed. Yeah, the choices.

Yeah, the choices, exactly.

One of them sounded street wise, the next one sounded like he was, I don't know, living in some kind of someplace in what is it, upper West Manhattan, or what is it up there? No idea. Oh god, you know what I mean. The upper west side or somewhere posh. Very posh, yes. It sounded like he he was singing from friggin' uh a really blue-collar town in New Hampshire, then he became something different. A snob.

Now he looks like somebody's drunk aunt. Right.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, the Hamptons, like he was from the Hamptons or something like that, he became so yes.

I wonder if you stayed at George Gostanza's place.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you gotta see the baby.

That is one ugly baby.

Oh, he was on an episode of uh was it two and a half men he was on? He was practicing his vocal cords, and uh Charlie Sheen was really getting annoyed with it.

What is that? Steven Tyler rented the house next door. Yo, dude, some of us are trying to do crap.

Can you lay off the harmonica playing? Hey, a lot of people pay to see me play harmonica. They pay to hear you sing, they tolerate the harmonica. Sorry, I don't measure up to your musical standards, you lame ass jingle writer. Harmonica, not your other man. No, no, no, no, it's low. Um it's okay, Alan. Hey, uh thanks for the gift. You're welcome. So no hard feelings. You wouldn't have hard feelings.

Good one. Okay, well, good luck with the tour. Thanks a lot, man. Who's the sponsor? Madame Music.

Nothing.

Um, I just want to say I'm a huge fan. Um, I lost my virginity to you.

Really? Well, you know, there's a lot of the companies I don't remember.

They kind of had a you know a falling out.

Oh, yeah.

Yep. Awesome. Well, I'm going to my number eight, and I'm gonna stick with the same band. All right, but this is from 73, it's their self-titled debut album, Aerosmith. And this song is called Make It.

No doubt here's what we are p chaps and just done so fast and five.

I love this song. I just sorry. Yeah, it's just a great tune to me, and the del the delivery of this one, like you said, Mark, just that like blue-collar, kick-ass, raw, bluesy voice that you know, it's a fucking great tune. That's that.

That whole album is they're probably their big the bluesiest album of all time. Yeah. Was their first album.

Yep. Funny that they it wasn't a big album for them, really, but of course, later when they released another song that I won't bring up, but you know. Anywho, to you, Donald.

All right. Mark already named a song off of this album, and Kevin told the story, and I was I was gonna go to an Audible, but I gotta keep it, and it's American Woman from the Get.

Oh, I'm so happy you picked that. Yeah, EJM.

Donnie, I'm so happy you picked it, Donnie. Had to. It's it's like iconic 1970, like it's iconic sound of that error. I love his voice. I love the oo.

America Womba.

Stay away from me. American Womba.

I don't want to see your body. Ballsy, but it's also kind of trippy, you know, it's just a cool tune. And learning that story, I read about that story as well, like where you just ad-lib the ad-lib the lyrics, and you know, that that was cool, you know. I was like, and sometimes that's your best stuff when it just comes off the cuff like that, you know, because it's more uh uh natural.

Good thing that kid recorded it.

Yeah, because then people were saying, is it misogynistic? And it's like, no, actually, it's like kind of ad admiration of American girls, yeah. And uh yeah, because they were from Canada, I believe, right? Yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry, Don.

That's ironic, isn't it? No, it's cool. No, you you can spin a story better than I can.

Uh I just didn't think that that would be just the vastness of what's out there to choose from.

Oh my god, we can probably do five, you know, I could do part five of this one.

Oh, easily. Sure.

Let's, you know, just from this decade, you know, this branch of from 70 to 74, there's like I'm picking some funky stuff, some soft rock stuff, some heavy metal kind of stuff. You know, there's so much. It's awesome.

Yeah, yeah. One of the greatest times ever. And what's funny is even though many of us, I mean, all of us were really young at that time or not here, but those songs are so meaningful to us because they never died, kind of like the 80s and ear some of the early 90s. It's just it's the stuff we're gonna hear forever when all the shit that comes out now is gonna be gone almost near immediate.

Yeah, right. Are are there radio stations that play only songs from 2010? Right, exactly everywhere. Yeah, classics play one song over and over. Yeah, right, right, yeah, and now Jesus Jones, right here, right now.

And with AI now, people can spin up lyrics so easily now. You know, you can say, Write me a song about this, and AI spits it out. You don't have to look in a you know, a good songwriter might reach to a can't say it, thesaurus or a thesaurus. Thesaurus. Right, right. A good songwriter might say, like, I want to convey this, I'm gonna look in the thesaurus and try to pick up a good word. Now you just Google it and you you got it in two seconds, you know.

But right, yeah, I just say Tyrannosaurus. But yeah, I mean, there's one dude that just made like his like fourth million from an AI song that he created, and I just find it to be such fucking bullshit. That's not the Puerto Rico song, is it? I don't know what it what it is, brother. I just fucking hate it. Like if someone's not creative, I mean I can type in all kinds of meaningful shit if they're gonna write it for me. Hell yeah, probably.

You can do that on Garage Band. You go when I Google stuff to learn how to you know play my guitar on it, um they'll say, Do you do you wanna create songs using say no? Uh no, obviously I don't know. I'm just I I'm not even on the my Mac at that point. I'm just on my phone trying to learn things. I've been so damn tired this week that I haven't been able to actually put it in application. But point being, is you yeah, it's so easy to to write songs without even using your friggin' brain. That's what I use creativity at all. And it's so friggin' annoying. It's mad.

KJ, I will make a deal with you. Yes, if I can get the four million dollars from an AI song, I promise you my follow-up album will be all strictly from the heart. And to get that four million.

I will co-write. I promise I'll never use AI again. Yeah, I will co-write.

Okay, that's to you then, Kev. All right, we're going into the art kind of punk side of rock. A well, it was done by a band and the lead singer of the band later, um, uh Velvet Underground's uh Sweet Jane, but the live version of uh Lou Reed's rock and roll animal is just so fantastic. It just it teases for like, I don't know, the first two minutes, it teases the main rip, which is a very catchy rip, and it just keeps going around and around and around until finally comes back to the point where they just finally get to that main rip, and you're like, You just explode because it's it's just awesome. And it's a great song. I don't think I've ever heard a version of the song that I didn't love from that loud and in your face rock and roll animal one to the cowboy junkies doing it in the 90s, yeah. Very mellow and slow. It's just a great, great song, and and I love it dearly.

Nice, and he was very influential on so many people, too. Oh, yeah. Lulu, Louie, Louie, great fit. All right, I believe that brings you, Mark, to number nine.

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine.

So so yeah, um, Donnie mentioned uh American woman not being misogynistic. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, when you sing, Well, it's Friday night and I need a fight. If she don't spread, I'm gonna bust her head.

Well, it's Friday night, I need a fight.

Don't spread, I'm gonna bust a little bit on the majestic side, you know, and this chicks band head and all that. But it's by the band The Sweet, it also known as Sweet, from their 1974 album Fanny Adams, uh Sweet Fanny Adams. And I had mentioned um the fact that some bands had their hits written for them and then they performed them. In fact, Sweet, the Sweet used to have session, the producers that would have session musicians to go in and then sweet would perform them live. Well, they they didn't like that, and they finally said, screw this. And anyway, um this song is it's just uh it's one of their heavier songs. They started getting heavier. They do have some synth in it, synth synthesizer, and it's really it's cute, I guess. I I don't know how you would say it, but the song itself is really rocking and it's just friggin' fun. It's a great song. David had it on one of the mixtapes that I used to listen to when I went to the state. Yes, I brought that up before.

It is so misogynistic, but I love it. It's on I guess a misogynist.

And now it's on another mixtape.

Well, no, no, well, yes, my mixtape. Some of the s yes, uh actually, yeah, Great White Buffalo was on it too.

And uh believe it or not, I'm I'm not sure. Could you tell me the name of said song? Sweet FA. Sweet FA? Sweet F.

You perfectly fake it. AJ, why are you getting so frustrated? EFF A Y?

Because you finally said the name of the song or E F F E or E F F E? Or is it a J?

The album is it Hefe? That's what I was gonna say.

No, the album is Sweet Fanny Adams, and the song is Sweet FA. Okay. Awesome.

Cool. Sweet was, and I I promise I won't mention any other song names in case they're the rest of it. So I've already written an asshole twice on this. Uh, but I will say that Sweet, I just love that band because they were one hit wonders like five, six times. Right. Exactly. And you wouldn't think one song was the same band as the other one. But like you said, if they're having the songs written and they're just going out and performing them, that might be a little different.

Well, you had Fox on the run. Uh, but I didn't. Kevin just say he's not gonna name any songs twice.

So I guess it's Mark's turn to walk on somebody.

Well, it's okay. Well, I'm I'm not sure if you guys are gonna pick any, but uh That's what I mean. So, yeah, I I mean, yeah, it's it's sweet FA.

All right. Number nine to me.

Correct.

This is 1973, and I'm gonna need help saying the name of this album, but it's Z Top. Trey Sombres. Tray Sombres! Okay, right. And this song is what got me in to Z Top, and yes, I will say the name of it in a moment, but I don't know what it is about this band. I don't know if it was an image thing where I thought they were just love for their image. I never listened to them, I just saw the pretty girls and the videos, and I never loved them. But then I heard Waiting for the Bus this friggin' song. I watched it live one night on YouTube, and just to see them coming out, I don't know that I've ever seen a fucking tighter band. Like they're very they were just unbelievable and so fun. And the lyrics just we're talking about Steven Tyler blue collar and just the blue-collar lyrics of these guys, you know, with my brown bag lunch and my take home page. Oh my god, everyone out there, just go look at this this up on uh YouTube, look waiting for the bus live, and it made me love this band, and now I, you know, try to listen to them often.

Funny thing is, AJ, I'm sorry to cut in, but the funny thing is Mark was just talking about how um sweet producers wrote the songs and they went out and performed it. Z Z Top exists because the zombies had a hit and broke up, and the producers put out two different bands that had nothing to do with the band The Zombies to tour the US, one on the East Coast, one on the West Coast. And I think the West Coast one was um Billy Gibbons and and Dusty Rhodes, and they ended up turning into Z Z Top after being a fake zombies band.

Dusty Rhodes, the wrestler?

Yeah, I was gonna say Hill, yes, Dusty Hill. Okay, sorry.

Dusty Rhodes. That's awesome. American dream. And what's funny is I've always found this funny is that the drummer is Frank Beard, and the only one without the beard.

They didn't have a beard. That's what I tried to say. And I um one of them didn't even have a beard at the beginning. Was it Gibbons?

Oh, none of them did at the very beginning. There's some pictures of them out there with bald faces, and it's kind of scary.

It is kind of scary, but they love it because when they go to the grocery store, right? Yeah, they're not bothered.

Oh, they're I think Gibbons said back in the day, he says, Well, we we got the beards because we wanted to save people from looking at our faces, and then you see the old pictures of them without beards, and you're like, Oh, he wasn't being humble. He was beards.

Oh god, he was he was on Bones. You guys remember that? Uh Billy Gibbons was on the TV show Bones. He was uh he was the father of oh gosh, the one that went out with the red curly hair guy there. But yeah, he was on like he would be playing on the street corner, you know? It was funny, yeah.

Incredible musicians.

Yes, yep. Worst beating I ever took at a concert, just being in the crowd for all the metal shows I went to, Z Top, I got crushed.

Really? Crushed, yeah.

Yeah, fans out of control, yeah.

And that's another fun thing if when I was watching that said video, is just to watch like some of that crowd was like 16, 18, 20. Like there was a young crew there, and just so happy and into it because it's fun shit.

Yeah, you know, all right, dongo number nine to you, number nine to me. And this one was off an album that you've already mentioned, AJ. Probably one of the greatest, you know, debut in in you know, the first heavy metal album, and it's paranoid from Black Sabbath. Um, any guitar player that's ever donned a guitar has played this song, you know. It's it's I I was looking at the video and it the video has been viewed like 450 million times, you know, half a billion times. And that's just one video that if you add up all the other videos, the amount of people that have reached out to look at these videos is is amazing. Oh, absolutely, yeah, but just such a cool so simple, but when you watch Ozzy doing it, it's he's just he's amazing, you know.

That's the one song I can play and sing at the same time. Yeah, yeah, right.

Finish with my woman could help me with my mind. It's just a driving song, it's simple, you know, there's nothing fancy to it, but it just shows you that you don't have to be a technical genius, you don't have to be progressive to make a song that kicks ass and endures time, you know. Like it's just in your face, like rock and roll, heavy metal. Like, here it is, let's do it.

A lot of songwriters and musicians talk about how they just kind of they feel like they channel music, like their biggest songs. They don't I just sat down and three minutes later, there it was. You hear that story quite a bit. And songs like Paranoid and and like Smoke on the Water, you just feel like they already existed. You you know what I mean? You can I can't obviously our age they came up before we were born, but you think about those songs, and you're like, that existed, whatever that is, it existed in the world, and somebody just brought it through them.

Yeah, it just and I was gonna say smoke on the water. I didn't want to say it because I don't want to. No, I'm not bust, but that was like you put smoke on the water and paranoid, they're both like just your simplest rock rhythm, you know. Yeah, right. Anyone can like you trying to teach me uh Iron Man, AJ, or not Iron Man, the Kiss Song. Gotta tie it to Kiss.

War Machine War Machine, yeah.

Right? Iron Arrow, Iron Arrow, the only song, the only song I can play.

So what's funny is Kevin, when you talked about that, was that because of how quickly they wrote it? Because didn't they have to fill up like two or something two minutes extra on the album? And they wrote it in like a few hours, I think.

Oh no, I wasn't I wasn't speaking to that. I was speaking in general about you hear a lot of interviews with with m musicians talking about how they just chant the songs, the great songs just seem to come to them. Right. They're just sitting there and and it's and they you struggle with, you know, okay, I gotta write a song. And then that divine inspiration comes, and it's like the that riff is is like like you said, when you're doing it like like you did it. I mean, it's like that's something that's part of part of the human existence. Yeah, and Black Sabbath just made that into a song. It's like it's it's part of the universe or something. I don't know. It's if if they hadn't done it, somebody else wouldn't all right, right, right.

It was Mindaminky typing Shakespeare.

But didn't you want to give Ozzy a hug after the end of that song? I mean, oh my god, that poor guy. He's just I don't know what to do to help him.

But I mean that was 1970, and you hear that song, your head just automatically starts headbanging, you know. It's like the natural reaction to that song is the head headbang. Of course. Incredible.

Isn't there a car horn in there too? Because one of them worked. It didn't Ozzie work at like a car horn factory or something like that.

Yeah. Where do you work? A car horn factory. What do you make?

Car horn right down the street from where I only lost his fingertips.

Right? Uh oh shit. Yeah. Another incredible reason for their sound. But I think the moral of the story there is don't try to write a hit, is how you get a hit. Yeah.

And don't like I I'm guilty of this. Like when I was trying to write songs, I'd be like, oh, people are gonna make fun of that. People are gonna think that's stupid. It's like, no, just write it. If it's if it's simple and technically easy, who cares? Right. If people like it, they like it. Who cares? You don't have to be Mozart and write, you know.

Yeah, and those are like many of the hits out there are like that. Like people said, you know, that's one of the biggest questions you hear from an interviewer interviewing a musician. Is did you have any idea that this song was gonna be this massive? And it's always no, you know what I mean? It's yeah, great.

Well, one other thing. Um, you a song doesn't have to be difficult to play to be a massive hit.

That's exactly what Donnie said about pairing.

Exactly. That's what I gathered he was saying. Yeah, it's so true.

So true. With my grand total sum of zero hit songs, I would say keep it vague, keep it simple and keep it vague, right? Because that's what it is. You see a lot of people that that do songs that people love, and they get asked about it and they don't want to answer it because everybody's got their own interpretation. If you're vague in your lyrics, then the listener can make it personal to them, yeah, and and interpret it to what fits in their life, right? Their experiences. If you get too too specific about it, then you know you're only playing to one audience.

Right. Like smells like teen spirit. Explain that song.

I have no idea what he's saying. Exactly. He said something about a jalapeno. I don't I don't know.

I don't love the Pearl Jam song. I don't know. Like you can put whatever words you want.

Well, there's there's a YouTube video where he like literally somebody wrote out the words that it sounds like he's singing, like on a wizard on a whale. I want to leave, I want to leave Benegins, and there's a picture of the Benigans restaurant or whatever else. You it'll it'll bring tears to your eyes if you look up that video.

Like the Dr. Feel Good one with Vince Neal. That's hilarious. Martha Stewart. I'll send it to you later, Mark. It's hilarious. It is okay. Yeah. All right, Kevin wrapping up number nine.

All right. Now, this is just pure blues, and it's just a funky, funky jam from just a sweaty club band that just played so hard talking about Jay Giles, give it to me off blood shot 73. And I mean, I just love the way it starts. You get that funky rhythm going, and then and and Peter Wolf comes in and I don't play with the knobs.

You so slick, but don't give it tricky.

And it just gets right into it, and you just can't you gotta be, you know, like Donnie said it a hundred a hundred podcasts ago, that if that doesn't get your head bopping, you ain't alive. That's just I mean, funky. Funky.

It's funky. It's being touched. He's my favorite hunky with dude. Oh, great pick, Kev. All right. I believe, Brother Mark, you are finishing your album up with number 10.

Yeah, well, number 10 is uh uh it's a repeat. I have to keep this one. It is such a rebellious rock song. Kevin already picked it, it won't get fooled again. This is a song that I have never gotten sick of either. I do get sick of many, many tunes. But this one is rebellious, you know, the lyrics. Meet the new boss, same as EO Boss. You know, how how do you get more rebellious than that? And uh you know, this this was actually on a mixtape that I remember when I was a page at the state house that David had made. Right. And and I just there's something about it, you know, uh Townsend's doing that little thing where he's turning the volume on and off. Yeah. And uh yeah, and Kiss did it to uh towards the end of their shows back in the 80s.

Oh yeah, you're talking the song. Yeah. Yeah. And Lick It Up tour, I think they did it, didn't they?

Was it like I thought it was uh Maybe Animalize?

Animalize, I think. But Asylum. I think it was Asylum, they did it.

It was one of those tours. I don't know. I mean Yeah, this isn't our preacher's audience, although there could be some crossover. But uh yeah, just very rebellious and anti-establishment, and I will never get sick of this. I love this song, and I thought it was the perfect song to end the record with. Because I think that the early 70s was quite a rebellious time in rock and roll, and uh that's how I'm finishing my tape, man.

Awesome. Great tape. You know, I was thinking about this two boys and an audience. Um, but there's a lot of people out there that, and yes, it would involve a bit more work for us, but there's a lot of people out there that create Spotify playlists like for this stuff. So we could have Mark's mixtape on Spotify, you know what I mean? Uh all our mixtapes out there, and that'd be cool. We what it is, I think they they you can create a podcast site on there and then a normal thing on there, and it'd be fun to start releasing some of our mixtapes. Yeah, that would be our decades.

I sell a million records.

Awesome. All right, number 10 to me to wrap it up, and I gotta be honest with everyone, I did not have the tenth song because I had so many I wanted to choose from that I thought I'd just leave it till now. I'm just gonna pick one. I'm gonna go with No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper. I that's probably one of my favorite songs of his. I love it. And it's just it's funny as hell to me sometimes, you know. I mean, he punches the preacher in the n-or the preacher punches him in the nose. He punches him, yeah. Exactly. And it's a great tune. It's a classic to me. There were so many, I mean, well, I won't say names because I don't know what people have, but that's a great fucking Alice Cooper song.

Yeah, and he got clawed in the eye by his cat. I mean, you know, dog bit him in the leg, you know.

Precisely often overlooked at how great his early music was.

Absolutely.

He really had some great songs.

He brought it. He did. Incredible.

Sure, sure.

Right, Dongo, number 10. Cool. My number 10 is one of my favorite rock songs of all time. And going back to the cast we had last week when AJ said about stripes, like the first half of the movie is amazing, the second half of the movie kind of sucks. Well, this song kind of falls in that category too, where the first part of the song and the middle part of the song are amazing. The ending I could kind of do without, but that's okay. But in 1971, and this kind of goes along with Kevin and Mark's uh The Who is my favorite rock song, is Baba O'Reilly from Who. I love this song. I love the intro, just that you know, the drumming and the song and the keyboard, and when the drums kick in. It's just, I love it. I have the melody. I love the the bridge. I just don't like the ending, that's all. You know, it kind of gets into a long it, you know, they could they could have shut it down maybe a minute early, but yeah, other than that, I think it's a beautiful song, it's an awesome song. It just it's a classic rock song, it's an incredible song, Darty.

And my my my favorite line in that is just I put my back into my living. You know, yeah, it just makes you feel like you're in that fucking field.

You know what I mean? It's yeah, yeah, yeah. And for years, you know, when I was a young kid, I thought the song's name was Teenage Wasteland. Everyone did, yeah. Right. And that was because they had a concert at the Isle of Wight, and they there was a bunch of trash left over, and that's kind of where that line came from. Right. It was originally written for like a rock opera that he was gonna do like Tommy, but Uh Pete Townsend wrote it was like a rock opera, but then it ended up on the album.

Yeah, that's a song I can't get sick of either.

No, I love it. And I love watching people cover it. Like there was a young lady that did it on uh there was a it kind of like the voice, but it was like Who Wants to be a Rock Star or something like that. And it was a uh a young lady who fucking nailed it.

The very first performer is only 22 years old. Now that makes her the youngest in our competition. She's gonna be singing the Who Classics, Blah Black O'Reilly.

Please give it up, Jordan's proof of I don't think the people give me.

I love people covering that song and see how they do it. If they do it straight up or if they put in a little twist, but nice.

Yeah. Awesome. I would like hoping one of the three of you can answer this question because as you said, Donald, the teenage wasteland, I remember one of the first times I met Dan, you know, an old friend from Giuseppe's who's been there as long as me. And I was talking about that song, and he went, You mean Baba O'Reilly? And can one of you please tell me why it's called that?

That was the gentleman. The gentleman in the rock opera written about is a farmer named Baba O'Reilly. Gotcha. It was it was for a Life House project, was the name of it. Lifehouse. An opera. Yeah.

Which is weird because they did Tommy, they did quadrife. Those were both. I guess as successful as rock operas get. Right. Weird the lifehouse one, and there's a lot of stuff that came out of that too from Townsend. The Life House that never got into that whole concept that he had.

Awesome. Don't Kevin, you are wrapping up the mixed team.

Alright, I'm a little sad now because I'm gonna talk about some other stuff and it's not walking on anybody, which is that my way today.

It's alright, we excel at it.

So Donnie was talking about the ending of Baba O'Reilly, which to me is the same as Hotel California. Yeah, yeah. I love Hotel California, but at the end of it, I'm like, fucking stop. Wrap it up, boys. Right? You need the guy offstage going, come on, let's let's okay, finish it. Finish it. Because they just go on forever and it would have been perfect if they hadn't stopped it. And it made me think of what's I can't think of the song. What's the song on Paranoid? Black Sabbath, where they just sped it up. At least they finally went, you know what, that might be too long. So we'll just zip it up. So I wish they'd done that in Barbara O'Reilly and Hotel California. I just when I think about Hotel California, I think about um uh Felder and uh Joe Walsh and whatever just trading the rips back and forth and just like okay, where do we stop? I don't know. Let's do another bot. Let's do another one. I'm getting the last word. I'm getting the last word. Oh you're gonna but amazing solos that they trade off anyway. Oh yeah. So anyway, none of that has anything to do with my number one pick or my tenth song, which is a song that just breaks my mind. Oh my god. Just go ahead. No, I thought it was a Hotel California. No, no, no, no. I was just relating that to what Donnie was talking about Bobber O'Reilly, whereas some producers should have just been end it. Right. Let's just run the tape back a few seconds and end it. But this one is definitely a long one, but I feel like every second of it counts. And it's off the iconic 1971 Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones. It's called Can't You Hear Me Knocking? Um, the story is that Mick Taylor just did they were all playing the song and it was just kind of fading out, and Mick Taylor just kept playing this amazing guitar part, and people like setting their instruments down and walking off, and he just kept going, and they're like, Oh, oh, we're not done. And so Wyman picked the bass back up and and and keep put the telecaster back on, and they went. It is just such I it's it's one of those songs that I can't not not only couldn't ever skip it, I can't not turn the volume up to 11 when that song's on. It's just such a great riff. The guitar solos are some of the best that have ever existed. Uh Mick Taylor was just so perfect at that time. And I just absolutely, that song breaks my mind. It's so awesome. Awesome. Mick Taylor, how long did he stay in the band? Not long at all. Not not nearly as long as he should have. Did he replace Brian Jones? I think he came in after Jones. It might have, I can't remember if there's somebody in between, but it was it was Jones, then him, then then Ronnie would, and a lot of people thought that Ronnie was the safe choice. Um then I think it played out that he was, but I mean, how can you not if you have a choice of guitarists that's gonna like be on stage with with Keith Richards, I mean, just aesthetics-wise, just looks-wise, it's gotta be Ronnie.

Right.

Because they both look like shriveled-up prunes that have laid out in the sun for far too long.

Yeah.

They both they both sweat heroin.

They both they're both cockroach- I always said cockroaches, but yeah, exactly.

That was a nuclear holocaust. Keith Richards walks up, I saw a bright light. I thought we were on.

I know.

I love that picture of him of Keith Richards giving Willie Nelson his first guitar. It's like a three-year-old. Awesome, boys.

Yeah, right? Yeah, right. He's amazing. Yeah, he plays in C some weird guitar tune.

Anyway. Incredible, boys. Yeah, he does drop D, doesn't he?

Drop C. Is it drop C? Drop C. No, he does drop C. Yeah.

Cool. Awesome, boys. That was a lot of fun. I feel bad I bounced in with this like four times, and then we just kept going. But man, what a great episode. I love these mixtape series. Yeah. Lots of fun. I gotta tell everyone out there, thank you so much for listening. We cannot appreciate it more. Downloads are blowing up. Just uh check out the pastimers at 80s high site on Facebook. We're starting to interact there quite a lot, and all the socials. I'll throw that in the middle lab later. But Brother Mark, thank you.

Oh, you're welcome, AJ. That was fantastic. Yes, I'm indeed I'm done. Eight.

Thanks a lot, everybody.

Yes, and Kevin, thank you. Thank you, AJ. Thank you, listeners. Yes, thank you all so much out there. We love it. And we are out of the way.